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Authorhouse UK Introduction to the Contemporary Art in Arab Land
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Wipf & Stock Publishers Theology of Wagners Ring Cycle I The Genesis and Development of the Tetralogy and the Appropriation of Sources Artists Philosophers and Theologians
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Xlibris Photography
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Color Cambodian Art 4 World Culture Coloring Series
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Against Ambience and Other Essays
Book SynopsisSeth Kim-Cohen is Assistant Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA.Trade ReviewAs an entreaty to sound artists and gallerists to think discursively about the artistic production of ambience, Kim-Cohen’s Against Ambience is a necessary and timely intervention. It should be read by anyone with a serious investment in the creation or presentation of ‘sound art’ or ‘environmental’ art installations. As aesthetic theory, the essay is at once discursively productive, cognitively stimulating, well organized, linguistically playful without indulgence, and frequently razor-sharp in its dissection of concepts ... The art world could use more ethical appeals such as Kim-Cohen’s, and his clarion call in Against Ambience justly deserves amplification. * Twentieth-Century Music *This fantastic new collection of essays confirms that Seth Kim-Cohen writes about sound and unsound, sense and nonsense, like no one else. Kim-Cohen polarizes—not just his readers, but his subjects and, inevitably, himself. The Big One-Thing is always cracked in two. Easy magic can’t get a break. But make no mistake. Kim-Cohen is a lover of intensities: litany becomes a hard bright joy, pleasure heaves its darkness into view. That love of intensity— faith, really—is what lets him break down the ‘superjoke’ of rock ’n roll without spoiling its punchline. An astonishing feat. We could all take a page. * Seth Brodsky, Assistant Professor of Music and the Humanities, The University of Chicago, USA *Against Ambience and Other Essays is like one of those bombs the anarchists dreamed of back at the birth of modernism: exploding whole worlds with a single throw. In their case, some wood panelling was splintered, tuxedoes were spoiled, and a few (usually the wrong) people injured. But Kim-Cohen here, once again, pulls off the more utopian dream—and with aplomb. * Craig Dworkin, Professor of English at the University of Utah, USA *[Against Ambience and Other Essays is] a polemical air horn that might just wake celebrants of ambient art from their nostalgic dream of decontextualized sensory immersion. * Lytle Shaw, Professor of English, New York University, USA *Table of ContentsPreface Against Ambience Shallow Listenings: Sounds, Silences, Scenes, & Sites Nothing That Is Not There And The Nothing That Is: Doug Aitken’s Sonic Pavilion I Have Something To Say, But I’m Not Saying It That Jabbering Which Thinks It Sees: Robert Morris Sites His Sources Sound Today (Is No Longer A Function Of The Ear) or, Why Do I So Dislike Glee? The Conceptual Garage: Rock and Roll, Expanded No Depth: A Call for Shallow Listening Burden Bangs Joy Rock and Roll Lecture No. 1 Anxious, Dismal, Giddy, Aggressive: Seth Kim-Cohen Interviewed by Mark Peter Wright for Ear Room Index
£21.53
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Art and Commerce in Late Imperial Russia
Book SynopsisAndrey Shabanov's seminal reinterpretation of the Peredvizhniki is a comprehensive study that examines in-depth for the first time the organizational structure, self-representation, exhibitions, and critical reception of this 19th-century artistic partnership. Shabanov advances a more pragmatic reading of the Peredvizhniki, artists seeking professional and creative freedom in authoritarian Tsarist Russia. He likewise demonstrates and challenges how and why the group eventually came to be defined as a critically-minded Realist art movement. Unprecedentedly rich in new primary visual and textual sources, the book also connects afresh the Russian and Western art worlds of the period. A must-read for anyone interested in Russian art and culture, 19th-century European art, and also the history of art exhibitions, art movements, and the art market.Trade Review[Where] Shabanov has most succeeded is to demonstrate the diversity of works in the Peredvizhniki exhibitions. This diversity includes such aspects as the types of paintings exhibited as well as the social breadth of models represented in portraiture. * H-Shera *This groundbreaking work greatly advances our understanding of Russian realist painting, the professionalization of artists, and wider processes of cultural identity formation in the nineteenth century. In recovering the original ethos and agenda of the Peredvizhniki, Shabanov provides a vital revisionist account which uncovers the pragmatic and commercial nature of this well-known but long misunderstood artistic group. * Rosalind P. Blakesley, Professor of Russian and European Art, University of Cambridge, UK *In his masterful investigation Andrey Shabanov offers an alternative history of Russian Realist art. Confronting and undermining the stereotypes which have long afflicted studies of the peredvizhniki (owing in small degree to the highly tendentious social interpretations by Soviet scholars), Shabanov places artists such as Kramskoi, Perov, and Repin in the practical context of the “art market” of photographic reproduction, advertising, incorporation, and mass distribution. By providing new and often archival information on the pragmatic, promotional, and commercial aspects of the peredvizhniki, Shabanov furnishes us with a luminous and lucid account of one of Russia’s primary artistic attainments. * John Bowlt, Professor Emeritus, Slavic Languages and Literatures, the USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Conventions Introduction Part One: The Peredvizhniki Represent Themselves Chapter 1. Commercial institutionalization, 1870–1871 Chapter 2. Selling the exhibition, 1871–1897 Chapter 3. Self-fashioning in group photographs, 1886–1897 Chapter 4. Revealing the art manifesto, 1888 Part Two: The Peredvizhniki in the Eyes of the Critics Chapter 5. Inaugural success: the first show, 1871 Chapter 6. Split with the Academy: the fifth exhibition, 1876 Chapter 7. Critical point: the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth shows, 1883–1885 Chapter 8. Self-Defence: the Partnership’s anniversary reports, 1888, 1897 Conclusion: The Peredvizhniki in a broader European context Appendices 1. Charter of the Partnership for Touring Art Exhibitions, 1870 2. The Partnership’s fifteenth-anniversary report, 1888 3. The Partnership’s twenty-fifth-anniversary report, 1897 4. A list of the touring art exhibitions and statistics, 1871–1923 Selected bibliography Index
£120.00
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Art vs. TV
Book SynopsisWhile highlighting the prevailing role of television in Western societies, Art vs. TV maps and condenses a comprehensive history of the relationships of art and television. With a particular focus on the link between reality and representation, Francesco Spampinato analyzes video art works, installations, performances, interventions and television programs made by contemporary artists as forms of resistance to and appropriation and parody of mainstream television. The artists discussed belong to different generations: those that emerged in the 1960s in association with art movements such as Pop Art, Fluxus and Happening; and those appearing on the scene in the 1980s, whose work aimed at deconstructing media representation in line with postmodernist theories; to those arriving in the 2000s, an era in which, through reality shows and the Internet, anybody could potentially become a media personality; and finally those active in the 2010s, whose work reflects on how old media like Trade ReviewWhat is and does a work of art? Art can only work framed in a context where it can be seen. Traditionally, that is the museum, gallery, sometimes public space. The space, the curator, then the viewer, become co-makers. With the advent of television, art is set to work in the private sphere. This changes the work of art profoundly. This pioneering study of the relationship between art and television includes reflections on resistance, political tensions, and other ways in which art descends from its isolating pedestal and participates fully in the lives of people. Francesco Spampinato lucidly and patiently lays out what that cultural change entails for what we consider “art” to be and do. * Mieke Bal, Professor Emerita in Literary Theory, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands *In this exhaustive, scholarly yet entertaining book, Francesco Spampinato traces several decades of relations between art and television. Contemporary artworks dealing with the TV function as a space in which to break down the barriers between high and low culture, explore identity or question power structures. In our current times of on-demand platforms, remembering that age in which television was the center of any home appears, not as an exercise in nostalgia, but as a way to reflect on where we come from and where we are now. Contemporary art here becomes the guiding thread from which to look at ourselves in the mirror of that black screen that will give rise to many others. * Julia Ramírez-Blanco, Lecturer in Art History, University of Barcelona, Spain *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Historical and Theoretical Frameworks 2. TV as a Mirror: Manipulations, Interruptions, and Re-presentations 3. Breaking News: Television Between Art and Activism 4. Artists as Media Stars 5. Disentertainment: Music Videos, Kid Shows, Humor, and Soap Operas 6. Art in the Age of Prosumers: Reality TV and the Internet Acknowledgements Works Cited Bibliography Index
£28.99
De Gruyter Reassessing Alabaster Sculpture in Medieval England
Book SynopsisAn innovative and fresh set of approaches to the material and subject matter of medieval English alabaster sculptures.Table of ContentsIllustrations Introduction by Jessica Brantley and Stephen Perkinson 1. The Origins of English Alabaster Carving: A Reappraisal by Kim Woods 2. From Stone to Statue: The Geology and Art of English Alabaster Panels by Anne F. Harris 3. The Making of “Mynding Signes”: Copying, Convention, and Creativity in Late Medieval English Alabasters by Stephen Perkinson 4. Looking at the Word: The Verbal Cultures of Late Medieval English Alabasters by Jessica Brantley 5. English Saints in Alabaster and Aureate Verse by Catherine Sanok 6. Pilgrimage and Politics: The Alabaster Heads of Saint John the Baptist by Suzanne Verderber 7. The Bourgeois Bedroom in Alabaster Adorations of the Kings by Sarah Stanbury 8. The Present of Future Things: Medieval Media and the Signs of the End of the World by Shannon Gayk 9. “A Softer Glory”: An Afterword on Alabaster and the New Aesthetics by Paul Binski Index
£97.38
Open Road Media Sonia Delaunay
Book SynopsisSonia Delaunay, wife of painter Robert Delaunay, and co-founder of the Orphist school in 1910, was the center of a brilliant circle in Paris. Madsen offers a rich and compelling look at this fascinating and influential woman, the first living female artist to have a retrospective show at the Louvre.
£13.29
Open Road Media I Like What I Know
Book SynopsisPublished in 1959, this book is what Vincent Price called his “visual autobiography” — the story of his life through his 48th year as seen through the lens of his greatest passion, the visual arts. Peppered with lively stories about both his art collecting and advocacy as well as his career as an actor, I Like What I Know is written in an approachable and entertaining style, capturing what has drawn fans to Vincent Price throughout his distinguished 65-year-career and in the two decades since his death in 1993.
£13.25
Dark Horse Comics,U.S. The Art of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
Book SynopsisAn oversized, full-color hardcover art book collecting concept art and creator commentary from the next chapter in Cal Kestis’ thrilling saga.Cal and his friends continue to evade the Empire’s clutches in the dark times following Order 66, but just as a hidden hope reveals itself, new dangers emerge and threaten to destroy everything that the young Jedi has fought to preserve.Explore the creation of the newest Star Wars Jedi adventure with a tome that intimately chronicles the game’s development—from visionary design to inspirational artwork to stunning final renders. With heroes and villains both familiar and new, breathtaking locales, and incredible ships and weapons, The Art of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor offers a unique look at the inner workings of a galaxy far, far away.
£35.15
Dark Horse Comics The Art of Star Wars Outlaws
£36.11
Xlibris Corp A Players Almanac
£47.99
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Bernini in Rome: Gian Lorenzo Bernini and the Baroque in Rome
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SMK Books His Masterpiece
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Createspace Secrets in Plain Sight: Leonardo Da Vinci
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform En la hora de los peces
£10.82
Independently Published Pastel Etudes
£14.11
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Massafra Sotterranea
£31.20
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Stitched and Beautiful: A journey of self-discovery and self-acceptance.
£12.49
Xlibris Kente Cloth: History and Culture
£37.91
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Sit Your Ass Down and Color: Swear Word Adult Coloring Book: 31 Illustrations Using the Word Ass
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Sit the F*ck Down and Color: Swear Word Adult Coloring Book: 31 Illustrations Using the Word F*ck
£12.19
Image Comics Jim Aparos DC Classics Artists Edition
£118.35
Image Comics The Art of Invincible Season Two
Book SynopsisThe Art of Invincible Season Two features exclusive character, background, and vehicle designs along with key art and more! This volume takes fans behind the scenes and includes interviews with key creatives, including INVINCIBLE creators Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker.
£31.99
Rowman & Littlefield Becoming Escher
Book SynopsisIn a nineteenth century Chinese lacquer box, Joris Escher finds two drawings of his great-uncle, the world-famous graphic artist M.C. Escher. The sheets haven't seen the light in more than 90 years. He believes that these early studies may be the missing link in the development of Escher as an artist and starts a voyage of discovery to the origins of the fascinations of his great-uncle. Who was his Uncle Mauk? How did he become Escher? How did he, precisely he, begin walking down a path on which no one had preceded him and no one would ever follow?The reader is a witness - through the eyes of the artist of Escher's life-metamorphosis in four successive parts; his youth (Becoming Mauk), his art education as a young adult (Becoming a graphic artists), his happiest years in Italy (Becoming an artist) and finally, already in his late thirties, the transformation that leads to his spatial experiments (Becoming Escher). The transformation of the artist has been written in the form of a novel; but nonetheless always parting from the known facts of primary sources (letters, diaries, family albums).The mentioned parts about Escher's artistic development are woven together by the chapters that are called Ripples', in which Joris Escher finds additional ways to bridge the gap of time between the reader and M.C. Escher. Joris learns to make woodcuts, thus he understands with his hands what his great-uncle did. He studies Mauk's way of observing reality by finding and drawing on the spots in Italy and Spain where the artist made his drawings and finally he visits Escher's eldest son in Canada. The Ripples' could be considered literary non-fiction. So in Becoming Escher non-fiction literature and literary non-fiction are locking into each other, as art and mathematics in Escher's oeuvre.
£999.99
Rowman & Littlefield Reflections on Art and Culture
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Basic Books Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice
£16.00
Basic Books The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval
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PublicAffairs,U.S. Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of
Book SynopsisBefore Damien Hirst stuffed a shark, before Basquiat picked up a spray can, before Andy Warhol started The Factory, a pile of unwanted Jackson Pollocks changed everything. From them emerged the first major modern art dealer. It was 1947, and the art world would never be the same. From the early days on 57th Street, to the rise of SoHo in the 60s, to the emergence of Chelsea as the hotbed of art galleries, we see the meteoric rise and the devastating falls of the most renowned dealers: Larry Gagosian, David Zwirner, Arne Glimcher, and Iwan Wirth. With unparalleled access, the longtime Vanity Fairreporter tells us the story of contemporary art through the people who coddled, supported, and funded the likes of Jeff Koons, and Cy Twombly.It's a story of backstabbing, betrayals, fruitful partnerships, genius, and ever larger sums of money. The world of contemporary art is inextricable from the wild wealth and naked financial opportunism that surrounds it.
£999.99
Author Solutions Inc Paradigm of Information Design in China 20092019
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Geometrix One: An Adult Coloring Book
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Stitched and Beautiful/ Beauté en Courtepointe: A journey of self-discovery and self-acceptance./ Un voyage à la découverte et l'acceptation de soi.
£12.99
eBooks2go, Inc Exquisite Embroideries of Kutch
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eBooks2go, Inc Exquisite Embroideries of Kutch
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Authorhouse The Pillars of Wisdom: Dinka
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Oxford University Press Inc Xoana and the Origins Of Greek Sculpture
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Markus Wiener Publishing Inc The Lure of Antiquity and the Cult of the Machine: The Kunstkammer and the Evolution of Nature, Art and Technology
Book SynopsisThe ""Kunstkammer"" was a display of art and oddities amassed by wealthy Europeans during the 16th to 18th centuries. This text explores the relations between art, science and scholarship in early modern Europe, advancing the view that the baroque Kunstkammer is the nucleus of modern cyberspace.
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Kodansha America, Inc Unknown Craftsman The: A Japanese Insight Into
Book Synopsiscraftsman working in a set tradition for a lifetime? What is the value of handwork? Why should even the roughly lacquered rice bowl of a Japanese farmer be thought beautiful? The late Soetsu Yanagi was the first to fully explore the traditional Japanese appreciation for objects born, not made.' Mr. Yanagi sees folk art as a manifestation of the essential world from which art, philosophy, and religion arise and in which the barriers between them disappear. The implications of the author's ideas are both far-reaching and practical. Soetsu Yanagi is often'Trade Review"Yanagi pinpoints qualities of 'true' beauty with an authority that hardly allows us to differ. As does Solzhenitsyn, he feels that beauty is a real entity and not different from truth." —Craft Horizons"This book is a quiet manifesto for the preservation and enhancement of crafts." —Washington Post
£26.25
Regent College Publishing,US Art Needs No Justification
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Metropolitan Classics Selected Poetry of Mukaghali
£28.80
Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Rosary Cantoral: Ritual and Social Design in a Chantbook from Early Renaissance Toledo
Book SynopsisUnlocks the secrets behind the images and music of an important Spanish musical manuscript compiled for a brotherhood of suspected heretics ca. 1500. The Rosary Cantoral is a rare and beautifully decorated manuscript of Latin plainchant for the Catholic Mass compiled in Toledo, Spain, around the year 1500. In an engaging and richly interdisciplinary essay, Lorenzo Candelaria approaches the Rosary Cantoral as a cultural artifact, unlocking the secrets behind its images and music to reveal the social history and rituals of an elite brotherhood dedicated to the rosary and aspects of the religious communityit served: the Dominicans of San Pedro Mártir de Toledo. The Rosary Cantoral: Ritual and Social Design in a Chantbook from Early Renaissance Toledo presents a model for realizing the fuller significance of illuminatedmusic manuscripts as cultural artifacts and offers unprecedented insights into the social and devotional life of Toledo, Spain, around the turn of the sixteenth century. After solving the mystery of the Rosary Cantoral's origins,subsequent essays probe the meaning and cultural significance of the manuscript's iconography (including a border decoration after Albrecht Dürer), its rare Spanish chants for the Mass, and two striking musical works for multiplevoices (one by Josquin Desprez and another on "L'homme armé"). Ultimately, this book focuses on the extraordinary circumstances that engendered the compilation of the Rosary Cantoral around 1500: a system of patronage between a brotherhood of suspected heretics and a religious house that was a key supporter of the Inquisition in Toledo. Lorenzo Candelaria (University of Texas at Austin) is co-author of American Music: A Panorama.Trade ReviewWinner of the American Musicological Society's Robert M. Stevenson Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Iberian Music, 2009 * . *Scholars such as [Candelaria], informed, analytical and well-balanced, deserve to reach as large a number of the interested academic world as possible. BIBLIOTHEQUE D'HUMANISME ET RENAISSANCE [Leonard R. N. Ashley] [An] impressive piece of historical detection...which successfully straddles the concerns of liturgy, polyphony, and manuscript illumination. [It] will stand as an intriguing contribution to a much-overlooked field. -- Iain Fenlon * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *The scope of the book. . . makes this valuable reading for scholars in a wide variety of disciplines, while its lucid and clear writing style makes it accessible to anyone interested in Spanish cultural history, liturgy, or medieval and early-modern studies. -- James Boyce O.Carm. * SPECULUM *The author is to be applauded for shining a much-needed spotlight on the vast corpus of similar Spanish and New World cantorales that until very recently have been regarded as 'of very little interest. -- Michael Noone * MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NOTES *Few [interdisciplinary] studies have been more compelling. . . . [Candelaria] is equally at home when dealing with the finer points of art history or the sometimes murky nature of the antiquities market. . . . [He] crafts a story that rivals good detective fiction. It even has a surprise at the end that involves the dark halls of the Spanish Inqusition. -- Michael B. O'Connor * RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY *The book is in many ways a detective story which identifies the MS's provenance and function by fascinating and devious approaches: I won't try to summarise it and spoil the story. . . .This study throws light not only on this particular MS but on the usage of the Rosary in Spanish politics and history. And there is a moral for art historians studying MSS with music and vice-versa: see beyond your own discipline. -- Clifford Bartlett * EARLY MUSIC REVIEW *. . . one of the most attractive and intriguing books on Spanish music history to reach the market in recent years. . . . It is thoroughly to be recommended. -- Bernadette Nelson * EARLY MUSIC *Table of ContentsIntroduction The Mystery of the Rosary Cantoral San Pedro Mártir de Toledo "El Cavaller de Colunya": A Legend of the Rosary The Emblem of the Five Wounds Hercules and Albrecht Dürer's Das Meerwunder Roses for the Blessed Virgin: The Music The Confraternity of Toledo and Its Patronage Epilogue Appendices Notes Bibliography Index
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