Exhibition catalogues and specific collections Books
University of Pennsylvania Press Out of Sight
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£33.25
Harvard University, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Pedro Reyes
Book SynopsisMexico-based artist, architect, and cultural agent Pedro Reyes turns existing social problems into opportunities for effecting tangible change through collective imagination. Ad Usum: To Be Used is a full-color illustrated survey of Reyes's projects including images, interviews, and critical essays by leading scholars in diverse fields.Trade ReviewA handsome career-long survey accompanied by scholarly responses to the work. -- Jeremy D. Goodwin * Boston Globe *
£35.66
Harvard University Press James Loeb Collector and Connoisseur
Book SynopsisThe second James Loeb Biennial Conference focused on his multifaceted engagement with the material culture of the ancient world as a scholar, connoisseur, collector, and curator. The resulting essays also reflect on Loeb’s contemporary significance, as his collections continue to be curated and studied in today’s rapidly evolving arts environment.
£24.65
Harvard Department of the Classics Sculpture and Coins
Book SynopsisBased on a Harvard Art Museums symposium on the acquisition of Margarete Bieber’s coin collection, Sculpture and Coins addresses the relation between large statuary and miniature art in the private and public domain. Scholars from various disciplines explain the importance of coins for identifying and analyzing Greek and Roman portraiture.
£24.65
Princeton University Press Pleasure and Piety
Book Synopsis"The exhibition is organized by the Centraal Museum Utrecht; the National Gallery of Art, Washington; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation."--Title page verso.Trade Review"Handsomely produced... The catalogue's generously scaled illustrations provide the visual delight that alone will surely attract new audiences to Wtewael's work."--Lisa Rosenthal, Renaissance QuarterlyTable of Contentsxv Directors' Foreword xvi Acknowledgments xix Lenders to the Exhibition xx Introduction: A Surprising and Diverse Life: Joachim Wtewael (1566 - 1638), Liesbeth M. Helmus 1 Desire and Devotion in Wtewael's Art, Anne W. Lowenthal 17 Love and Passion: Wtewael's Personal Statement, Liesbeth M. Helmus 25 Hastening to See Christ: Religious Painting in an Age of Conflict, James Clifton 37 Wtewael's Historical Reputation, Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. 49 Wtewael as Draftsman, Stijn Alsteens 61 Catalog 194 Essay Notes 201 Bibliography 207 Index 210 Photography Credits
£51.00
Princeton University Press Photography Reinvented
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£37.80
Princeton University Press Americas National Gallery of Art
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This lavish volume presents a lively tour of the great museum founded by Andrew W. Mellon, taking in its history, architecture, and collections."--Apollo MagazineTable of Contentsxv Continuity and Transformation: The National Gallery of Art at Seventy-Five Earl A. Powell III The First Fifty Years 3 Andrew W. Mellon: Founder and Benefactor 33 A Building of Admirable Grace 53 David Finley and His Cohort 61 First Donors: Kress to Dale 77 The National Gallery's War Record 89 Ailsa and Paul: A New Mellon Era 101 John Walker: Last of the Old Guard 107 J. Carter Brown Launches the East Building Framing the Future 161 The Powell Era 167 The Physical Museum 181 Mission Expanded 203 Corcoran Connection 215 Growing the Collection 231 The Collection Selected acquisitions since 1937 307 Exhibitions Special exhibitions since 1973 350 A Visual Timeline 351 Benefactors, Trustees and Directors, Trustees' Council 356 Acknowledgments and Selected References 360 Index 368 Image Credits
£63.75
Princeton University Press The Double
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An extraordinary selection of over 120 works reveals the splits, juxtapositions, reflections, and multiplications deployed by modern and contemporary artists to explore sameness and difference, the original and the copy, the self and the other."---Rachel Vogel, CAA.Reviews"An elegant exhibition catalogue. . . . The Double remind[s] us vividly that virtually all art is inherently a self-reflection of its maker and a mirror of the times in which it was made."---Donald Brackett, Critics at Large
£46.75
Marquand Books Inc Glass
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£63.31
McGill-Queen's University Press Obsession
Book SynopsisUne étude révélatrice portant sur une collection tombée dans l’oubli et le plus remarquable collectionneur du Mille carré doré de Montréal.
£55.80
Cornell University Press Treasures from Olana
Book Synopsis"The wide variety of selections from Frederic Edwin Church's collection of his own paintings shows the master in all phases of his career, in sketches and finished paintings, depicting the breadth of his subjects and the high technical skills that...Trade Review"Church boasted, 'Almost an hour south of Albany is the Center of the World—I own it.' The word 'Olana' is one that Mr. and Mrs. Church found applied to a 'fortress or treasury-storehouse in ancient Persia.' According to Kevin J. Avery's description in his excellent and entertaining catalog text, it feels like a fortress from outside and is a musty treasury within, evoking 'nothing so much as a silent film set, minus a turbaned Douglas Fairbanks Sr. bounding down the stairs.'." -- John Updike, New York Review of Books, 23 March 2006"Next to visiting Olana in person, browsing through Treasures from Olana is as fine a visit to Frederic Edwin Church's home on the upper Hudson River that you might hope for. Full of facts and images, this little book is a treasure you will periodically want to dip into at your leisure." -- Raymond J. Steiner, Art Times, October 2005
£19.94
Stanford University Press Transformative Beauty
Book SynopsisThis book uses the histories of the city art museums in Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester to reveal, examine, and follow the consequences of the underlying logic of the Victorian art museum movement: the attempt to contain the moral and physical ugliness of industrial capitalism through the experience of beauty.Trade Review"In this compelling book, Amy Woodson-Boulton tells several stories about cultural institutions in Victorian England's industrial cities . . . Woodson-Boulton asks pertinent questions and ferrets out archival information to integrate municipal identity and development, class stratification, art criticism, and changing tastes with museum development . . . Thanks to Woodson-Boulton's excellent book, scholars have a good cultural history foundation for these and other questions." -- Julie F. Codell * Journal of Victorian Culture *"This is a splendid study of museum building in the great provincial cites of England: Manchester, Birmingham, and Liverpool. It is striking how different each city was. Woodson-Boulton provides illuminating insights into the relationship of culture and power, set within intriguging stories. The author enters deeply into the minds of the Victorians, making clear how they operated in a different universe from that of the 21st century. Yet at the same time, she provides much illumination for the burgeoning field of museum studies." -- Peter Stansky * Stanford University *"Transformative Beauty lays bare the paradoxes and ambiguities that characterized the sociopolitical meaning of art in the Victorian age . . . In venturing to elucidate what art and museums came to represent, Transformative Beauty is informative and provides an interesting read. For students of the Victorian city there is much to gain. For historians the work helps bridge the gap between the genres of social history and visual cultural studies." -- Ian Morley * American Historical Review *"Art museums were among the most prominent and yet enigmatic new institutions of Victorian towns, and in this book Amy Woodson-Boulton manages to make them considerably less enigmatic, exploring and evaluating their logic, and showing how widely that logic was followed or resisted. Moreover, this is a book which takes both the institutions and their constituent art seriously, and manages the difficult task of synthesizing different types of analysis in order to understand what art museums actually did . . . The book is beautifully written in clean and accessible prose, with a wealth of detail and depth of research. It is nicely illustrated and an attractive volume altogether." -- Kate Hill * Museum & Society *"Few subjects seem more outdated, less 'modern', so distant from today's questions on museum studies, than the topic so masterfully examined in this book. At the same time, though, few books manage better than this work to highlight the great relevance of their subject for contemporary historians, estheticians, city planners, and museum-goers. In this robustly scholarly and committed study, Amy Woodson-Colton examines the role and place of art museums and more generally the museum movement in the three major 'regional' centers of late 19th-century industrial Britain." -- Jan Baetens * Leonardo: Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences & Technology *"The wealth of original archival research has created a reliable history of these museums, providing context for not only museological and social studies, but also indicating a further network of meanings for the reception of Pre-Raphaelite art and Victorian painting in general." -- Alisa Boyd * Journal of the Pre-Raphaelite Studies *"This book provides an important new view of the development of art galleries in three industrial cities: Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool. Woodson-Boulton uses the nineteenth-century debates about the purposes of art to examine closely the reformers' belief that art museums could help counteract the moral and aesthetic problems of industrial society. This book will add significantly to the literature on museums, art, culture, and urban development." -- Anne Rodrick * Wofford College *"Woodson-Boulton's study deftly illuminates the national history of artistic theory and social reform within three distinctive local frameworks . . . [T]he study has much to offer to traditional political and economic historians of Britain in its demonstration of the deeper cultural ramifications of the intensified imperial and economic competition that defined Britain's place as a global power during the final decades of the nineteenth century. This study ought to find a welcome home on the bookshelves of scholars of Victorian art history, museums, and urban culture, as well as those of the social and political history of the late nineteenth-century Britain in general." -- Christopher Ferguson * Victorian Studies *"Rather than treat each civic history independently, Woodson-Boulton has organized the book into a series of comparative analyses of key moments and issues shared across all three institutions. The result is both a richly detailed account of each museum and an important larger argument about the Victorian understanding of art as an amelioration of the conditions of industrial capitalism, particularly the alienating effects of wage labor and urbanization . . . Her careful attention to local politics, personalities, and histories is a major strength of the work, and she moves fluidly between descriptions of local nuances and discussions of larger patterns . . . Woodson-Boulton's book is an important contribution to the fields of history, museum studies, and art history. It advances current scholarly conversations about the exhibition culture of Britain more broadly, offering a long overdue look at provincial institutions to counterbalance the priority given to London in many such studies." -- Pamela Fletcher * Journal of British Studies (post-1800) *
£52.70
University of Oklahoma Press Art and Advertising in Buffalo Bills Wild West
Book SynopsisThe unique posters that branded Buffalo Bill's Wild West as the true Wild West experience attracted patrons from around to the traveling show. Michelle Delaney showcases these posters in colour, many of which have never before been reproduced, pairing them with new research into previously inaccessible manuscript and photograph collections.Trade ReviewIn 'Art and Advertising in Buffalo Bill's Wild West', Michelle Delaney showcases these numerous posters in full color, many of which have never before been reproduced, pairing them with new research into previously inaccessible manuscript and photograph collections. Her study also includes Cody's correspondence with his staff, revealing the showman's friendships with notable American and European artists and his show's complex, modern publicity model. Beautifully designed, 'Art and Advertising in Buffalo Bill's Wild West' presents a new perspective on the art, innovation, and advertising acumen that created the international frontier experience of Buffalo Bill's Wild West."" - Midwest Book Review, Wisconsin Book Watch
£35.06
Ohio University Press The Cincinnati Wing
Book SynopsisOn May 10, 2003, the Cincinnati Art Museum will celebrate the opening of the Cincinnati Wing: eighteen thousand square feet of handsomely renovated gallery space devoted to the museum’s renowned collections of painting, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, and metalwork by Cincinnati artists.Trade Review“The objects created since the city's founding in 1788…demonstrate the pivotal role that the city has played in the history of American art.”“The objects created since the city’s founding in 1788…demonstrate the pivotal role that the city has played in the history of American art.”
£52.70
Ohio University Press Bessie Potter Vonnoh Sculptor of Women
Book SynopsisIn the Gilded Age, when most sculptors aspired to produce monuxadments, Bessie Potter Vonnoh (1872–1955) made significant contributions to small bronze sculpture and garden statuary designed for the embellishment of the home. Her work commanded admiration for her fluid and suggestive modeling, graceful lines, and sculptural form.Trade Review“This much-anticipated project promises to introduce a new generation to Vonnoh’s significant place in the history of American sculpture.” * Fine Art Connoisseur *“Aronson’s study of (Bessie Potter Vonnoh) is admirable and her treatment is thoroughly unfussy. Those of us who strive to break the canonical mold with our scholarship would be wise to look to both the author and the sculptor for quiet inspiration.” * Ohioana Quarterly *“This indispensable resource on the American artist Bessie Potter Vonnoh (1872-1955) served as the catalogue for a traveling retrospective exhibition of her sculpture. Vonnoh’s work—although well-received in her day—has been underrepresented in exhibitions and scholarly literature.” * Woman’s Art Journal *A “meticulously stitched together history...well bound and annotated, and amply illustrated, mostly with sculptures but including some photos of the artist and her dwellings.” * Maine Antiques Digest *“This full-scale, well-researched and -documented volume helps to reestablish Bessie Potter Vonnoh as an important sculptor of the early 20th century.” * The Bloomsbury Review *
£21.59
University of Pittsburgh Press Instill and Inspire The John and Vivian Hewitt Collection of AfricanAmerican Art
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£54.62
Fordham University Press The Color of the Moon
Book SynopsisON MY MODERN MET'S TOP TEN LIST OF BEST CREATIVE BOOKS TO CELEBRATE THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF MOON LANDINGThe moon-its face, color, and power-threads through the tapestry of American landscape painting, holding timeless allure for artists and beloved by viewers of paintings everywhere. The Hudson River Museum has organized The Color of the Moon: Lunar Painting in American Art-the first major museum examination of the moon in American visual arts from the nineteenth through the twentieth centuries for a 2019 exhibition. This timely presentation also celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission when, in 1969, American astronauts first stepped onto the surface of the moon. From the romantic silvery moonscapes of nineteenth-century artists to the abstractions by artists of the twentieth century who explored the moon, the perfect orb, and tapped into its spiritual possibilities, this celestial body, closest to Earth, remains constant in our sky, though our relationship to it a
£13.99
Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Seeing Race Before Race Visual Culture and the
Book SynopsisExplores the deployment of racial thinking and racial formations in the visual culture of the pre-modern world. The capacious visual archive studied in this volume includes a trove of materials such as annotated or illuminated manuscripts, Renaissance costume books and travel books, maps and cartographic volumes produced by Europeans as well as Indigenous peoples, mass-printed pamphlets, jewelry, decorative arts, religious iconography, paintings from around the world, ceremonial objects, festival books, and play texts intended for live performance. Contributors explore the deployment of what coeditor Noémie Ndiaye calls the racial matrix and its interconnected paradigms across the medieval and early modern chronological divide and across vast transnational and multilingual geographies. This volume uses items from the Fall 2023 exhibition Seeing Race Before Racea collaboration between RaceB4Race and the Newberry Libraryas a starting point for an ambitious theoretical conversationTrade Review"A seminal and ground-breaking volume, Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World will prove to be of immense interest to students of Art History, Philosophy, and Race Relations. While also available for students, academia, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subjects covered, Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World is an exceptionally impressive and unreservedly recommended addition to professional, community, college, and university library Art History and Philosophy Criticism collections, and supplemental Cultural History curriculum studies lists." * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsForeword- by Ayanna Thompson and Daniel GreeneIntroduction- by Lia Markey and Noémie NdiayePart 1: FIGURINGEssay 1. Manuscripts and Printed Books: Book History and Race. By Brandi K. Adams and Carissa M. Harris.Essay 2. Fashioning Racial Materiality in Nicolas de Nicolay’s Representations of Jews. By M. Lindsay Kaplan and Dana E. Katz.Note From the Field 1. “Touching each book”: Demystifying Special Collections in Community. By Analú María López.Exhibition Catalog: “Seeing Race Before Race.” Part 1: Figuring. Entries 1-14. Part 2: MAPPINGEssay 3. Geographies of Race: Constructions of Constantinople/Istanbul in the Western European Imaginary. By Roland Betancourt and Ambereen Dadabhoy.Essay 4. Race, Empire, and Cartography. By Ricardo Padrón and Risa Puleo.Note From the Field 2. Displaying Black Art in the Medieval Galleries at The Met Museum. By Andrea Myers Achi.Exhibition Catalog: “Seeing Race Before Race.” Part 2: Mapping. Entries 15-26. Part 3: PERFORMINGEssay 5. Back Bending Labor, Savage Dances, Pious Stances: Race in Motion between Africa and the Americas. By Elena FitzPatrick Sifford and Cécile Fromont.Note From the Field 3. Bringing Premodern Critical Race Consciousness to Shakespeare’s Globe. By Farah Karim-Cooper. Exhibition Catalog: “Seeing Race Before Race.” Part 3: Performing. Entries 27-42. Interview. On Early Modern Critical Race Studies and Critical Indigenous Studies. By Kim F. Hall, Scott Manning Stevens, and L. Lehua Yim.GlossaryBibliography AcknowledgmentsList of ContributorsIndex
£38.00
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S. Hunters Carvers and Collectors
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£18.86
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection Dumbarton Oaks
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£18.86
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection American Art at Dumbarton Oaks
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£16.16
Getty Trust Publications Greek Funerary Sculpture Catalogue of the
Book SynopsisA discussion of 59 Greek funerary monuments at the J. Paul Getty Museum. The title considers their relationships to the art and society of the period. It should be suitable for scholars and students of antiquities, and museum and art libraries.
£61.75
Getty Trust Publications Italian Ceramics Catalogue of the J.Paul Getty
Book SynopsisIn 1984 the Getty Museum acquired a collection of Italian Renaissance majolica, or tin-glazed earthenware. This volume catalogues this collection of 45 objects spanning 400 years, including a pair of 18th-century candlesticks representing mythological scenes and a tabletop with hunting scenes.
£67.50
Getty Trust Publications Representing the Passions Histories Bodies
Book SynopsisThrough a series of texts and images, this work explores how extreme sensations such as wonder, misery, ecstasy and rage have been portrayed at different times in Western culture. It covers multiple fields of creative endeavour and intellectual inquiry - from Descartes's writings to the Internet.
£30.00
Getty Trust Publications Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum
Book SynopsisA catalogue of the sculptures on display in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Each entry features a full bibliography and is written for both experts and the general reading public. The introduction offers an overview of sculpture from the archaic period to the end of antiquity.
£999.99
Getty Trust Publications Photographer of Genius at the Getty
Book SynopsisCelebrating twenty years of collecting photographs at the Getty Museum Photographers of Genius at the Getty spolights the genius of thirty- eight seminal photographers selected from the hundreds of artists represented in the collection.
£28.50
Getty Trust Publications The Fran and Ray Stark Collection of 20th Century
Book SynopsisTakes readers on a visual tour of the J Paul Getty Museum's sculpture gardens and installations, which feature twenty-eight works by such artists as: Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Fernand Leger, Roy Lichtenstein, Rene Magritte, Aristide Maillol, Joan Miro, Henry Moore, Isami Noguchi, and others.
£42.75
Yale University Press Jean De Julienne
Book SynopsisJean de Jullienne (16861766) was one of the leading French amateurs and collectors of the eighteenth century. He played an important role as editor and dealer, most famously of Watteau's œuvre, and held an influential position in the French art administration of his time, as director of the Gobelins factory until 1729. Jullienne's collection epitomizes the most advanced taste of Parisian private collectors of the period. His strong interest in contemporary French art, Netherlandish painting, in sketches, pastels and drawings were all typical or even trendsetting for a new generation of rich Parisian collectors with only loose ties to the French court. The two sales of his collection were major events for the European art market. The watercolor views of his collection in the inventory from 1756, a unique document for the period, are here published in their entirety for the first time. This exhibition catalog will present masterworks from Jullienne's collection, including Rubens, Rembrandt, Watteau, Wouwermans, Netscher, Bourdon, Vanloo, Greuze and Vernet. These are drawn from the Wallace Collection as well as museums in London, Edinburgh, Valenciennes, Berlin and from several important British private collections.
£23.75
Houghton Library,U.S. The Philip Hofer Collection in the Houghton
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£26.96
Houghton Library,U.S. The Merrymount Press
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£26.96
Houghton Library,U.S. The Practice of Letters
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£18.86
Seattle Art Museum Calder In Motion
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£47.20
Seattle Art Museum Frisson
Book SynopsisShowcases the extraordinary work of notable American and European postwar artistsSeattle art collectors Richard E. Lang and Jane Lang Davis were frequent visitors to New York City in the 1970s and early 1980s when they collaboratively built their collection, filling their home with singular works of art. Their shared legacy and passion for engaging thoughtfully, deeply, and personally with artand the frisson of excitement that arises with such a connectionare celebrated and echoed in this special exhibition catalogue. Spanning 1945 through 1976, the paintings, drawings, and sculptures in Frisson serve as significant examples of mature works and pivotal moments of artistic development from some of the most influential American and European artists of the postwar period, including Francis Bacon, Lee Krasner, Clyfford Still, Philip Guston, Joan Mitchell, David Smith, and others. Together they represent an inimitable archive of innovation and a cross-pollination of leading artistic positio
£48.48
Rutgers University Press The Arc of Abstraction
Book SynopsisWhere do we begin to talk about abstract art? From the point of view of the collection included in this book, the arc of abstraction is very broad, sweeping and multivalent. The essays included here take an open view of the story of abstraction, reflecting the variation and diversity of American art included in the holdings of the Newark Museum.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Foreword Ulysses Grant Dietz Acknowledgments The Arc of Abstraction Tricia Laughlin Bloom Dove, O’Keeffe, Stella, Russell, Calder: On Nature and Abstraction Donald Kuspit COLOR Experiencing Color Field Art Gabriel Dawe FOUND OBJECTS Edward Steichen’s Carpet Tacks Jalena Louise Jampolsky BEFORE ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM The American Abstract Artists Group Marela Zacarias THE GESTURE Norman Lewis’s Untitled, 1953 Tarin Fuller MUSIC The Music of Abstraction William L. Coleman MATERIAL EXPRESSIONS Simply Beautiful: Barbara Chase-Riboud’s Monument to Malcolm X, II Souleo THE BIOMORPH Signs of Life in Abstract Art Edited by Tricia Laughlin Bloom BEYOND MINIMALISM About Lifeless, Deathless, Endless—Ad Reinhardt Kay WalkingStick
£24.69
The University of Chicago Press The Tragic Muse
Book SynopsisArt is often appreciated for its ability to delight our eyes and refresh our minds. But it can also serve as a powerful vehicle for exploring darker emotions, such as fear, sadness, and grief. This title examines the richly varied representation of tragedy in the European artistic tradition over the course of two centuries.
£22.50
The University of Chicago Press Echoes of the Past The Buddhist Cave Temples of
Book SynopsisThe exhibition Echoes of the Past draws upon the findings of a multiyear research project headed by Katherine R. Tsiang at the University of Chicago's Center for the Arts of East Asia. This exhibition catalog features entries with full-color illustrations of the works in the exhibition.
£34.00
The University of Chicago Press Feast
Book SynopsisExplores the role of the meal in contemporary art. This title offers the survey of the artist-orchestrated meal: since the 1930s, the act of sharing food and drink has been used to advance aesthetic goals and foster critical engagement with the culture of the moment.
£34.00
The University of Chicago Press Theme and Variations The Multiple Sorceries of
Book SynopsisIn the late nineteenth century, French printmaker Félix Buhot effected a kind of sorcery on his etching plates, making each impression into a unique work of art simply by varying the inking technique and the inks and papers used. With his evocative, atmospheric scenes of stormy piers and urban streetscapes, he dissolved classic distinctions between figure and ground in ways that challenge the limits of the etching medium. Accompanying an exhibition of the same name, Theme and Variations: The Multiple Sorceries of Félix Buhot features an introduction from curator Anne Leonard and interpretive texts on each set of prints in the exhibition by University of Chicago students. Joining examples from the Hearn Family Trust and Charles Hack with works in the Smart Museum's collection, it offers a glimpse of Buhot's extraordinary, evolving artistic process over multiple states and variations of the same print.
£14.87
Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago The Allure of Matter Material Art from China
Book Synopsis"This publication was produced by the Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, on the occasion of the exhibition The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China, curated by Wu Hung with Orianna Cacchione."
£32.30
Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Allison Smith
Book SynopsisFocusing on the handmade and performative aspects of history and material culture, this title re-stages, refigures, and replays the role of traditional crafts in large-scale installations that reconsider the construction of collective memory and identity.
£14.41
Duke University Museum of Art,U.S. The Record
Book SynopsisMuseum catalogue for the first museum exhibition to explore the culture of vinyl records in the history of contemporary artTrade Review“The Record traces the indelible mark vinyl made on the music industry and the people who listen, from white youths crossing into black neighbourhoods in the passt to the obsessed retro collectors of today. Long live vinyl.” * Globe and Mail *“A fun book to go through and, if your collection extends to vinyl pop, jazz or classical LPs you’ll love this even more.” -- Steve Ramm * In the Groove *Table of ContentsForeword / Kimerly Rorschach 9 Curator's Acknowledgments / Trevor Schoonmaker 11 The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl / Trevor Schoonmaker 14 Record Timeline / Trevor Schoonmaker 48 Guided by Grooves: How Records Changed Music / Piotr Orlov 62 Beware of Gramomania: The Pleasures and Pathologies of Record Collecting / Mark Katz 68 Home of the Blues, House of Sounds: The Record Store / Charles McGovern 78 Just for the Record: Vinyl Rules / Carlo McCormick 86 Digging in the Crates / Mark Anthony Neal 96 El Disco Es Cultura / Josh Kun 106 The Record in Jamaica / Vivien Goldman 116 Needle to the Groove: Snippets from an Omnidirectional History / Jeff Chang 124 Do-It-Yourself / Barbara London 138 New Feeling / Jennifer Kabat 142 N. C. Noise / Mac McCaughan 154 Blazing Hip-Hop and R&B / Dave Tompkins 158 Yesterday and Today / Luc Sante 158 Cover to Cover 168 Exhibition Checklist and Artists' Statements 184 Artists' Biographies 202 Extended Playlist / Trevor Schoonmaker 212 Selected Bibliography 215 Timeline Reproduction Credits 216
£33.25
Duke University Museum of Art,U.S. Southern Accent
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[T]he work in this wonderful catalog comes from many perspectives, often grappling with the subtexts of race, religion, class, and loss. Curators and exhibition organizers Lash and Schoonmaker have assembled a marvelous group of artists, writers, curators, pundits, and musicians to address the question of Southern identity and the Southern experience, creating a grand pastiche of visual art, writing, and music. Covering touchstones such as Andy Warhol's appropriations of civil rights documentation and the classic lightning rod of polemic imagery, the Confederate battle flag, there is plenty of grist for controversy and a deep emotional well to plumb. A powerful collection and compelling guide to an outstanding exhibition. Well done." -- Dan McClure * Library Journal *“Southern Accent is an important contribution to existing scholarship. Not only a bellwether for new approaches to thinking about the region within the context of contemporary art, it also provides a framework for considering it through the experiences of its most accomplished voices. Southern Accent therefore stands as a testament to this particular place at a very specific moment in time.” -- Jennifer Jankauskas * Panorama *Table of ContentsDirectors' Foreword / 12 Curators' Acknowledgments 14 What Do We Envision When We Talk about the South? / Miranda Lash 19 Southern Accent: The Sound of Seeing / Trevor Schoonmaker 55 South / Natasha Trethewey 77 Latinos and the North Carolina Landscape / Diego Camposeco 83 Riding the Soul Food Rickshaw / John T. Edge 87 Accents Inside My Head / Carter Foster 91 KEW ACM ALT / Kara Walker and Ari Marcopoulos 95 On Things Unseen / Tom Rankin 101 Porch and Drawl / Richard J. Powell 107 Southern Mountain Time / Jeff Whetstone 121 Womanish / Brittney Cooper 127 "Humming This Song Trying to Remember the Way Another One Goes": Intermedia Conversations in a Southern Vernacular / Brendan Greaves 137 Down Home on the Moon / Mark Anthony Neal 157 I Reckon / Harrison Haynes 165 The Three Great Alabama Icons / Patterson Hood 171 Soul Food / Fahamu Pecou 177 No Lonesome Road / Catherine Opie 183 Honky-Tonks and Hospices / Dario Robleto 187 Medicine / Mel Chin 191 The Fast-Talking, Knife-Throwing, Trouble-Making Motorcycle Legend and Naturalist, Jim Roche, Makes Some Damn Good Work / Bradley Sumrall 197 Field Bling / Ada Limón 203 Southern Accent Music Library / Brendan Greaves, Harrison Haynes, and Trevor Schoonmaker 205 Chronology of Southern Art and Scholarship / Andrew Hibbard 213 The First Southern Rim Experience / William Fagaly 221 Southern Accent Reading List / Miranda Lash 225 Exhibition Checklist 231 Reproduction Credits 260 Curator Biographies 268 Lenders to the Exhibition 269 Board Members 270 Museum Staff 271
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Duke University Museum of Art,U.S. Pop Am233rica 19651975
Book SynopsisThis bilingual, fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University's exhibition Pop América, 1965–1975, which presents a vision of Pop art across the Americas as a whole.Trade Review"An academic book that doubles as a coffee table tome! A guide to accompany a traveling exhibit of Latin American pop art, this book comes with plenty of colorful images, as well as essays that trace the art movement’s origins across Latin America." -- Alejandra Oliva * Remezcla *"The contributors to [Pop América] provide sharp analysis and thought-provoking insight into the artistic practices of those included in the exhibition. . . . The catalog, along with other recent publications on Latin American contemporary art, contribute to a more inclusive discourse about art history, and should be considered a valuable resource to any library supporting research in the fields of art history, art, and design." -- Melanie Emerson * ARLIS/NA Reviews *“Focusing on one particularly eventful decade, the exhibition Pop América 1965–75 and the exhibition catalog essays explore multivalent implementation of the sprawling phenomenon of Pop during this period. A consummately contemporary art movement, Pop used visual vocabularies, techniques, and technologies drawn from advertising and publicity, and served as a repudiation of the abstraction(s) that had dominated the international art world in previous decades.” -- Alison Fraunhar * The Americas *Table of ContentsDirectors' Foreword 6 Curator's Acknowledgments 8 Contesting Freedom / Esther Gabara 10 Plates: Welcome to América 28 Pop Goes Conceptual: Visual Language in América / Camila Maroja 42 Plates: Consuming América 58 Revolutionary Currents: Pop Design Between Cuba, Mexico, and California / Jennifer Josten 72 Plates: Fashioning América 88 Plates: Liberating América 108 Printed Matters / Roberto Tejada 124 Plates: Mediating América 138 Pop Writing in América: Between Art Criticism and Theory / Natalia de la Rosa 158 Defilement, Defacement, and Disfiguration / Sergio Delgado Moya 172 Plates: Facing América 186 The Art of Provocation / Rodrigo Alonso 196 Robert Indiana's Study for Viva Hemisfair / Lyle W. Williams 198 Notes on Pop Art in Mexico / Pilar García 200 Contributor Biographies 202 Exhibition Checklist 206 Lenders to the Exhibition 214 Museum Staff and Board Members 215
£29.45
Duke University Museum of Art,U.S. Spirit in the Land
Book SynopsisSpirit in the Land accompanies the art exhibition of the same name at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University that uniquely examines today’s urgent ecological concerns and projects a hopeful path for our future.
£21.59
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Printers Eye Ukiyoe from the Grabhorn Collection
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£27.00
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Flower Power The Meaning of Flowers in Asian Art
Book SynopsisIn 1967, the phrase flower power transformed the commonplace flower into a Buddhist-inspired symbol of peace. In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of San Francisco''s Summer of Love, this art and design book showcases the expressive powers of flowers in Asian arts and cultures. Beginning in ancient times, a language of flowers, where certain blooms suggest specific themes, was communicated in art throughout Asia. Here forty artworks, all drawn from the Asian Art Museum''s renowned collection, focus on six celebrated flowers—lotus, plum blossom, cherry blossom, chrysanthemum, tulip, and rose—and the messages they convey.
£17.95
Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago Varda Caivano The Density of the Actions
Book SynopsisThis catalogue was published on the occasion of Varda Caivano's exhibition The Density of the Actions, February 22April 19, 2015 at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. The book features texts by Barry Schwabsky, Paula van den Bosch, Terry R. Myers, Peter St John, Georges Perec, and Solveig Øvstebø, as well as 43 color and 6 black and white images of Caivano's paintings and the Renaissance Society installation.
£30.40
Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago Unthought Environments
Book SynopsisUnthought Environments brings together art influenced by the forces that are integral to our daily lives, yet are easily forgotten or overlooked, such as the ancient elements of air, fire, water, and earth; weather systems; geopolitics; and the hidden physical components of our virtual world. Informed by media studies, ecology, and philosophy, these multi-media artworks explore the elemental sphere as it intersects with the human-made. This exhibition catalog brings together images from the exhibition alongside texts that engage directly with the works as well as the larger issues that drive them. Essays by Karsten Lund, John Durham Peters, Keller Easterling, Ina Blom, Marissa Lee Benedict, Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen, and Peter Fend are included, as well as a conversation with Lund, Nicholas Mangan, Robin Watkins, and Nina Canell.
£30.00
