History of art Books
Edinburgh University Press The Art of Minorities
Book SynopsisAgainst the backdrop of the revolutionary upheavals that have shaken the region in recent years, the contributors to this volume interrogate a range of case studies from across the region - examining how museums engage inclusion, diversity and the politics of minority identities.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Art Allegory and the Rise of ShiIsm in Iran
Book SynopsisTransforming our understanding of Persian art, this impressive interdisciplinary book decodes some of the world's most exquisite medieval paintings.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Archaeology of Empire in Achaemenid Egypt
Book SynopsisThis study provides a clear overview of the archaeological evidence for Achaemenid Egypt, including temples, tombs, irrigation works, statues, stelae, seals and coins.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press The PreRaphaelites and Orientalism
Book SynopsisThe Pre-Raphaelites and Orientalism: Language and Cognition in Remediations of the East redefines the task of interpreting the East in the late nineteenth century.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Readies for Bob Browns Machine
Book SynopsisThis new edition of Bob Brown's groundbreaking collection of modernist writing experiments has been out of print since 1931, when Brown's Roving Eye Press originally published it.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Modernism and Still Life
Book SynopsisThis book takes an original approach to still life in modern literature and the visual arts by examining the potential for movement and transformation in the idea of stillness and the ordinary.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Lyotard and Politics
Book SynopsisStuart Sim explores how Lyotard's brand of pragmatism can provide a focus for political theory and action in our cultural climate, especially in light of the dramatic resurgence of right-wing extremism.
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Lyotard and Politics
Book SynopsisStuart Sim explores how Lyotard's brand of pragmatism can provide a focus for political theory and action in our cultural climate, especially in light of the dramatic resurgence of right-wing extremism.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press The Wonders of Creation and the Singularities of
Book SynopsisA beautifully illustrated study of Al-Qazwini's 14th-century illustrated Arabic copy of a cosmographic encyclopedia entitled The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existing Things, and the first-ever translations of the text into English.
£47.50
Edinburgh University Press Material Poetics in Hemispheric America
Book SynopsisThis book examines poets and artists in the Americas during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries to show how they worked to make language into material objects and material objects into language.
£35.15
Edinburgh University Press Studies in Islamic Painting Epigraphy and
Book SynopsisThis lavishly illustrated volume features 19 articles by Bernard O'Kane on a wealth of topics in medieval Islamic art, from the Siyah Qalam album paintings and Arab and Persian illustrated manuscripts, to Egyptian and Iranian decorative arts, and to epigraphic developments in Persian and Arabic.
£117.00
Edinburgh University Press Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Book SynopsisAn edited collection of interdisciplinary essays on the work of Elizabeth Robins Pennell, American-born, London-based journalist, author, and aesthete who published (or co-published) over twenty books and a thousand periodical articles between the early 1880s and 1930.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Writing the Sphinx
Book SynopsisUnearths a rich tradition of creative flexibility, collaboration and mutual influence between literary culture and Egyptology The first monograph study to bring literature into conversation with Egyptological culture Incorporates a number of archival primary sources which have, until now, escaped critical attention Analyses canonical literature alongside works by lesser-known authors Combines literary criticism with book history, the history of science, and reception studies This book explores literary and Egyptological cultures from the closing decades of the nineteenth century to the opening decades of the twentieth, culminating in the aftermath of the high-profile discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922. Analysing the works of Egyptologists including Howard Carter, Arthur Weigall and E. A. Wallis Budge alongside those of their literary contemporaries such as H. Rider Haggard, Marie Corelli and Oscar Wild
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press NeoAvantGardes
Book SynopsisA systematic transnational investigation of post-war literary experiments in Europe and the Americas.Trade Review"Neo-Avant-Gardes provides nuanced critical perspectives on the resurgent avant-gardes active in Europe and elsewhere globally during the long 1960s". With particular focus on literary intermedia and experimental writing, the authors set out new directions in the theory and history of the neo-avant-gardes, beyond previous dismissals and defenses."" -Tyrus Miller, University of California, Irvine
£28.49
Edinburgh University Press Images at the Crossroads
Book SynopsisNew studies on the interaction of various media in ancient Greek art.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Inscriptions of the Medieval Islamic World
Book SynopsisShowcases the best recent research on epigraphy across the medieval Islamic worldTrade Review"Inscriptions of the Medieval Islamic World explores the importance of epigraphic languages stretching from Spain to the Crimea between the 7th and 16th century CE. This landmark volume offers fresh interdisciplinary insights on the significance of the written word, prompting renewed attention on one the Islamic world's most pivotal art forms." -Christiane Gruber, University of Michigan
£112.50
Edinburgh University Press The New Vienna School of Art History
Book SynopsisAn account of the theory and practice of practitioners of the so-called second or younger Viennese school, associated with Hans Sedlmayr and Otto P cht, demonstrating the strong dependence of these writers on the work of Gestalt psychology.
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press The Awakening of Islamic Pop Music
Book SynopsisExamines how the making, marketing and performance of new Islamic music genres relate to Islamic discourse and thought, through a case study of Awakening, an Islamic media company formed in London.Trade Review"[...] an excellent example of how popular culture can be taken seriously in the study of contemporary religion [...] opens a rich understanding of a diverse field without diminishing the actors and arguments by forcing them into neat categories easily labelled as liberal or traditional." -Ruth Illman, bo Akademi & Uppsala Universit
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press The Art of Defiance
Book SynopsisExamines how the arts popularised militant resistance to the monarchy in 1970s Iran
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Craftworkers in Nineteenth Century Scotland
Book SynopsisExplores how artisans and hand skills evolved against a background of technical and commercial modernisation in ScotlandTrade Review"I have learned more from this fine study than any number of other recent books on modern ?Scottish history. It is undeniably pioneering, skillfully undermining a number of old orthodoxies about Scotland's craftworkers, and will stand as the standard work on the subject for many years to come. " -Professor Emeritus Sir Tom Devine, University of Edinburgh
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press A History of Herat
Book SynopsisShows how and why an ancient city destroyed and then rebuilt by Mongols became the 'Pearl' of the Iranian east
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Manuscript Tradition of the Islamic West
Book SynopsisExplores the aesthetic dimensions, cultural significance and ideological power of Maghrib? manuscripts
£103.50
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC History of Furniture
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents: Early Histories: -- Prehistory -- Ancient Civilizations -- Classical Civilizations From Ancient to Renaissance -- Early Christian -- The Year 1100 Around the World -- Gothic A World of Renaissance -- Pre-Columbian Urban Civilizations -- China -- Renaissance Styles Reacting to Styles: 17th and 18th Centuries -- Baroque -- Rococo English Occurrences: Up to the 18th Century -- The English System in England -- The English System in the Colonies through the 18th century, early 19th Century The Seeds of Modernism: The 19th Century -- Neoclassical -- Revivals Reactions -- Art Nouveau: Early International Styles -- Africa and Asia -- The Aesthetic Movements Modernism -- Bauhaus and Modernism -- Alternative to Modernism -- Modernism Continue -- Modernism to Postmodernism to Deconstruction
£104.50
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sea Currents in NineteenthCentury Art Science and
Book SynopsisKathleen Davidson is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Art History at the University of Sydney, Australia.Molly Duggins is a lecturer in the Department of Art History and Theory at the National Art School, Sydney, Australia.Trade ReviewSea Currents expands our thinking about human interactions with the oceans, linking developments in museums, consumerism, exploration, and colonialism with artistic and scientific culture, in an engaging discussion of how the ocean world was commodified by and for diverse communities. * Peter H. Hoffenberg, Professor of History, University of Hawai’i at Manoa; co-editor of Oceania and the Victorian Imagination (2013) *The sea’s leavings – whalebone, spermaceti, isinglass, mother-of-pearl, coral, seaweed – fascinate and allure. Exploring how nineteenth-century oceanic commodities were desired, extracted, displayed, and sold around the world, this volume provides a fascinating portrait of the Victorian sea and its global meanings. * Steve Mentz, Professor of English, St. John’s University, USA; author of Ocean (2020) and A Cultural History of the Early Modern Sea (2021) *Sea Currents moves beyond sublime seascapes and shipwrecks to uncover marine object and display histories and the myriad ways they infiltrated everyday life. From rich and strange to domesticated, here the sea not only exceeds the frame but blows it apart. * Pandora Syperek, co-editor, ‘Curating the Sea’, Journal of Curatorial Studies, 2020, and Oceans (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art, 2023) *Sea Currents forwards an important intervention for historians to consider the oceans beyond their conventional treatment as surfaces or metaphors...In light of this lacuna in historiography, Sea Currents offers an elaborate collection of histories that recognizes both the material and metaphorical seas. * H-Net *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Commodifying the Ocean World in the Long Nineteenth Century, Kathleen Davidson and Molly Duggins (The University of Sydney, Australia; National Art School, Sydney, Australia) Part One: Wave – Circulating Marine Products 2. Ambergris in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Medicine, Perfume and Natural History, Georgina Cole (National Art School, Sydney, Australia) 3. Imperial Coral: The Transformation of a Natural Material to a Qing Imperial Treasure, Pippa Lacey (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK) 4. Echoes of Empire: The Painted Museums of Leroy de Barde, Jessica Priebe (the National Art School, Sydney, Australia) 5. ‘Native Manufactures’: Sailors’ Valentines and the Caribbean Curio Trade, Molly Duggins (the National Art School, Sydney, Australia) Part Two: Shore – Coastal Economies and Ecologies 6. Reading the Wrack Line on the French Atlantic Shore, Maura Coughlin (Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island, USA) 7. An Intense Curiosity: Marine Research Stations and Marine Specimens in the Late Nineteenth Century, Jude Philp (Macleay Museum, The University of Sydney, Australia) 8. The Tears of Pearls: Archaic Labour, Fisheries and Waste in Ceylon and Beyond, Natasha Eaton (UCL, UK) 9. Culture Keeping and Money Making: Aboriginal Women's Shellwork from the South Coast of New South Wales, Priya Vaughan (the National Art School, Sydney, Australia) Part Three: Seabed – Materializing Submarine Environments 10. Their 'Colours are Brilliant, but Fugitive’: Coral Concerns from Imperial Expeditions and the British Museum to the Royal Academy and Drury Lane, Kathleen Davidson (The University of Sydney, Australia) 11. Aquariums Under the Rising Sun: A Cultural History of Early Public Aquariums in Japan, 1882-1903, Yuichi Mizoi (Kansai University, Japan) 12. Merging the University Museum and Volksbildung: The Curatorial Strategies of Berlin’s Museum für Meereskunde in 1900, Stefanie Lenk (The University of Göttingen, Germany) Part Four: Oceanic Objects – Museum Case Studies 13. ‘An Imitation of Seaweed’: Nature and Design in a Late Eighteenth-Century Printed Cotton, Ann Christie (Independent Researcher) 14. Fashioning Whale Bone: Scrimshaw and the Nineteenth-Century Tradition of the Decorative Busk, Martha Cattell (Curator and Independent Researcher) 15. The Ornamental Glass Window of the Maison des Océans in Paris: A Celebration of Evolution, Jacqueline Goy (The Oceanographic Institute, Monaco) and Robert Calcagno (Government Advisor, Ministry of the Equipment, Environment and Urban Planning, Monaco) 16. Trade Connections: The Acquisition of Blaschka Models of Marine Invertebrates by Museums in Australia and New Zealand, Jan Brazier, Curator of History, Macleay Collections, Chau Chak Wing Museum (The University of Sydney, Australia) Bibliography Index
£85.50
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The New York Market for French Art in the Gilded
Book SynopsisDr. Leanne Zalewski has published articles on art collections, participated in numerous conferences on early Gilded Age art collecting, and received support for her research from the Getty Research Institute, Huntington Library, Center for the History of Collecting in America at the Frick Art Collection, and the American Association of University Professors.Trade ReviewThis book is the definitive account of the passionate love affair between the opulent collectors of America’s ‘gilded age’ and the dazzling art made by 19th-century French academic painters. Richly textured, thoroughly researched, lavishly documented and vividly written; it is a real treat for readers. * Jan Dirk Baetens, Assistant Professor of 19th-Century Art History, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands *Leanne Zalewski's thoroughly researched book surveys relations among wealthy American collectors of French Academic art and international art dealers in the period between Paris's 1867 Universal Exposition and Chicago's 1893 Columbian Exposition. Analyzing auction catalogs, media, markets, private collections, and dealers' stock books, Zalewski presents a fascinating, innovative contribution to studies of art collecting and the art market. * Julie Codell, Professor of Art History, Arizona State University, USA *The famed ‘Gilded Age Picture Rush’ spurred the creation of renowned American private and public collections. Examining this pivotal moment, Zalewski provides a thoughtful and theoretically significant contribution to the History of the American Art Market. * Agnès Penot, PhD, Independent Researcher, USA *With impeccable research that evokes the temper of the times, Leanne Zalewski has produced an essential study on what she has coined as ‘the Gilded Age Picture Rush’, a cultural moment when American collectors were finding their way in the international art market and defining their roles as cultural leaders. In doing so, she offers a wealth of detail through specific examples that illuminate marketing, dealing, and exhibition practices, while never losing sight of the overarching theme of the book which promotes the view that American collectors embraced a uniquely philanthropic approach to their collecting, aiming to have their collections benefit the general public through the institutionalization of art collections for the benefit of many. This is a much needed and significant contribution to the literature on the history of collecting in the United States. * Inge Reist, Director Emerita of the Center for the History of Collecting, The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library, USA *Zalewski’s engaging narrative of America’s cultural coming of age after the Civil War comprises a cast of privileged collectors, astute dealers, salon artists and diverse publications — some well known today, most less so — who transformed American taste from the provincial to the worldly. The 'Gilded Age picture rush' introduced contemporary French academic art as a standard for artistic excellence, starting from the Paris Exposition of 1867. Ironically, that important chapter in French art began to lose its critical favor by Chicago’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, a judgment that is only now being redressed. Zalewski describes in fascinating detail an important, if often overlooked, period in American art history. * J. David Farmer, Director of Exhibitions, Dahesh Museum of Art, USA *In her richly detailed study, Zalewski demonstrates that a turn towards French academic and Barbizon school painting exemplified the ‘Gilded Age picture rush’ from 1867 to 1893, in a welcome contribution to the scholarship of collecting, art markets, and the institutionalization of artistic culture in the United States in the later 19th century. * Catherine B. Scallen, Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emerita in the Humanities, Case Western Reserve University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Editor's Introduction Acknowledgments Preface Foreword 1. Introduction 2. Paris’s Guiding Light: The Universal Exposition of 1867 3. “Paris is for Sale” and Americans are Buying 3. Purchasing Ideologies: Seven New York Collections 5. Marketing the Collections: Loans, Periodicals, Books, and Prints 6. From Private Collection to Public Good: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 7. Conclusion: The World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 Bibliography Index
£76.50
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Appropriating Antiquity for Modern Chinese
Book SynopsisChia-Ling Yang is Professor of History of Art and Personal Chair of Chinese Art at The University of Edinburgh, UK. She received her PhD in Chinese Art from SOAS, University of London, UK. She has worked with the V&A and the British Museum on a range of exhibition projects.Trade ReviewAppropriating Antiquity for Modern Chinese Art is full of new information and important discussions that should have been properly investigated a long time ago. The author takes the readers on a journey into the rich world of jinshi painting which is set within a complicated international network as well as an intricate historical context. It is a must-read for those of us who study the art and history of China at the turn of the 20th century. * Nicole Chiang, Senior Curator, Hong Kong Palace Museum, Hong Kong *Appropriating Antiquity examines a wealth of new materials, showing how the fervent study of inscriptions on bronze and stone led to a re-evaluation of the history of Chinese calligraphy that also impacted on 19th and early 20th-century Chinese painting. * Roderick Whitfield, Percival David Professor, Emeritus, SOAS, University of London, UK *Appropriating Antiquity for Modern Chinese Painting is an outstanding achievement in elucidating the transmediality and transcultural aspects of antiquarianism. Chia-Ling Yang, with her solid research and penetrating analysis of primary sources, brings to life key figures whose high-minded goals carried them through periods of turmoil. * Aida Yuen Wong, Nathan Cummings and Robert B. and Beatrice C. Mayer Professor of Fine Arts and Professor in East Asian Studies, Brandeis University, USA *By exploring the phenomenon of epigraphic studies at the end of the Qing dynasty and its impact on the visual arts, Yang Chia-ling offers a transdisciplinary cultural history that refocuses our vision of Chinese modernity on the relationship of the Chinese elites to the written sign and to its origins. * Eric Lefebvre, Director, Cernuschi museum, Paris, France *A formidable effort of research, Appropriating Antiquity is an essential contribution for the understanding of Chinese art and culture, as it clearly exposes the mechanisms through which Evidential Learning influenced scholarly artistic practice and production in the 19th century. By examining many primary sources, it offers a clear picture of the cultural context of scholarly circles and reveals the inner feelings of the intellectuals. * Sabrina Rasteli, University of Venice, Italy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Plates List of Figures Part One: .Introduction: Jinshi in Modern Context Part Two: From Evidential Learning to Antiquarian Art 2.1 Jinshixue and Cultural Landscape in the Lower Yangtze River 2.2 Illustrated Records of Investigating Steles 2.3 The Stele School and Re-evaluation of Bafenshu 2.4 A Revival of Pre-Tang Scripts and its Impact on Art Part Three: Rubbing into Painting: Transmedia Appropriation of New Scholarly Painting 3.1 New Look of Collectors’ Accumulated Antiquities 3.2 Dashou and Composite Rubbing 3.3 Intertextual and Transmedia Approaches 3.4 From Evidential Learning to Festive Offering 3.5 Prelude to Jinshi Art Part Four: From Deification to Quotidian: Jinshiqi and the Four Accomplishments 4.1 Dimension of Mobility in Wartime 4.2 Life of Jinshi Objects after the Taiping Rebellions 4.3 Antiquarian Approaches to Seal Carving 4.4 New Brush Mode Derived from Northern Wei Calligraphy 4.5 Jinshi Characteristics in Painting 4.6 Archaeological Elements in Commercial Art and Popular Culture Part Five: Nature as Culture: Historicizing of Antiquity and Translated Modernity 5.1 Evidential Learning and the Culture of Investigating Nature: From Bogu to Bowu 5.2 Tradition of Miscellaneous Painting 5.3 Illustrations of Local Resources 5.4 Natural History Paintings Made in China 5.5 Historification of Translated Modernity 5.6 Translating Bowu into National Essence Part Six: Cultural Orthodoxy in the New Nation: A Political Use of Jinshi 6.1 Another Role of Jinshi Society: Shanghai Tijinguan Epigraphy, Calligraphy and Painting Society (1911–26) 6.2 Defining Literati Painting Through Jinshi: Society of the Virtuous (1912–42) 6.3 Reclaiming Cultural Identity: Society of Cang Jie Study (1916–c. 1941) 6.4 Jinshi Society as Museum or Art Market? 6.5 Political Use of Jinshi: Re-writing History with Archaic Models Conclusion: Multiplicity and Modernity Notes Select Bibliography Index
£90.25
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Death of the Artist
Book SynopsisThere exists a series of contemporary artists who continually defy the traditional role of the artist/author, including Art & Language, Guerrilla Girls, Bob and Roberta Smith, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd and Lucky PDF. In Death of the Artist, Nicola McCartney explores their work and uses previously unpublished interviews to provoke a vital and nuanced discussion about contemporary artistic authorship. How do emerging artists navigate intellectual property or work collectively and share the recognition? How might a pseudonym aid ''artivism''? Most strikingly, she demonstrates how an alternative identity can challenge the art market and is symptomatic of greater cultural and political rebellion. As such, this book exposes the art world''s financially incentivised infrastructures, but also examines how they might be reshaped from within. In an age of cuts to arts funding and forced self-promotion, this offers an important analysis of the pressing need for the artistic community to construTrade ReviewThis book is a fine contribution to the study of modern art and artists and will help us to understand the practice and significance of alternative identities, pseudonyms and collective identity. * Art Daily *‘Nicola McCartney is part of a new generation of thinkers about art. Art now is more playful and indiscreet than it has ever been but it also aspires to talk to a political world that is both frightening but also where there is a possibility to reach new audiences. The idea of the artist in this new space is changing. In this book McCartney charts the careers of artists who question the role of the artist and who seek to subvert the notion that art is produced only by artists. McCartney asks: who do these artists think they are?’ -- Bob and Roberta Smith‘Nicola McCartney gets it: anonymous groups subvert the Western convention of the artist as a lone genius (usually a white male).’ -- Guerrilla Girls‘Nicola McCartney offers us a fresh and incisive analysis of moments in modern and contemporary art in which pseudonyms, anonymity, and collective identities are put to use. In doing so, McCartney interrogates the foundations of traditional art history and the art market. Death of the Artist is an important and exciting new contribution to our understanding of art's political efficacy.’ -- Joanne Morra, Reader in Art History and Theory, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts LondonTable of ContentsList of Figures Preface Introduction 1. Parodies of the Self: Surrealism and Ambivalent Authorship in ‘Rrose Selavy’ and ‘Claude Cahun’ 2. Collective Practice: Art & Language and LuckyPDF Interview: Socio-Art & The Art of Interaction: James Early of LuckyPDF Interviewed by Nicola McCartney on 9 May 2013 3. Anonymity and Feminism: Guerrilla Girls Interview: Feminist Avengers: Guerrilla Girls Interviewed by Nicola McCartney on 14 August 2013 4. Pseudonyms: Bob and Roberta Smith Interview: Art Mythologies: Bob and Roberta Smith Interviewed by Nicola McCartney on 18 February 2013 5. Performance and Collaboration: ‘No, I’m Spartacus’. . . Chetwynd! Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£999.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Interior Design
Book SynopsisThis seminal text demystifies the terminology around being an interior designer today, providing definitions of processes, techniques, features, and even some historical terms that a designer must know. The dictionary now includes coverage of sustainability, smart materials, new technologies, and processes. Coverage of non-Western cultures is expanded and provides insights into their influence in a global marketplace. This comprehensive reference covers multiple aspects of interior design and architecture, addressing structural and decorative features of interiors and their furnishings, business practices, green design, universal design, commercial and residential interiors, new workplace design, and institutional and hospitality facilities. The fourth edition also includes vocabulary and image flashcards via STUDIO for on-the-go studying.
£66.94
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Enchanted Ground
Book SynopsisEnchanted Ground is about the challenge to modernist criticism by Surrealist writersâmainly Andrà Breton but also Louis Aragon, Pierre Mabille, Renà Magritte, Charles Estienne, Renà Huyghe and othersâwho viewed the same artists in terms of magic, occultism, precognition, alchemy and esotericism generally. It introduces the history of the ways in which those artists who came after ImpressionismâPaul CÃzanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Goghâbecame canonical in the 20th century through the broad approaches we now call modernist or formalist (by critics and curators such as Alfred H. Barr, Roger Fry, Robert Goldwater, Clement Greenberg, John Rewald and Robert L. Herbert), and then unpacks chapter-by-chapter, for the first time in a single volume, the Surrealist positions on the same artists. To this end, it contributes to new strains of scholarship on Surrealism that exceed the usual bounds of the 1920s and 1930s and that examine the fascination withinTrade ReviewParkinson’s extensive knowledge of the field allows him to navigate with ease between continents, following the various developments and reception of modern art in the twentieth century. His ability to modify the length of his focus from detailed textual analysis to wider comparative geographical and art historical contexts makes this book one of the most astute on the movement to date. * French History *Enchanted Ground [...] is a work that further confirms Parkinson's reputation as one of the most original of today's writers on Surrealism. * The Burlington Magazine *Gavin Parkinson had the novel idea to reconsider the canonical figures of late nineteenth century French painting as they appear within the discourse of Surrealism: Cézanne or Gauguin through Breton or Dalí. His gambit pays off brilliantly. He ferrets out a shadow history of French modernism, tracking long-lost interpretive metaphors that shift from positive to negative and back again. The surrealist alternative to traditional criticism generates an unfamiliar constellation of cultural significance. From out of its obscurity, Parkinson reveals the “mythic, poetic or magic resonance” of the practice otherwise known as modernism. * Richard Shiff, Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art and Director of Center for the Study of Modernism, University of Texas at Austin, USA *Gauguin, Cézanne, Seurat—those canonical modernists we thought we knew—are reinvested with myth, magic and poetry in this lively and polemical account of their 'Surrealisation' in the mid-20th century. Parkinson pulls no punches in voting for the Surrealists as the most perceptive interpreters of this alternative cast of 19th-century precursors. * Linda Goddard, Senior Lecturer and Director of Postgraduate Studies, University of St. Andrews, UK *Enchanted Ground highlights Parkinson’s skill in asking unexpected questions of modern art, matched with astute answers; and in taking Surrealism seriously, as a source of vivid and relevant ideas rather than just an art movement. This book’s great strength lies in shining a searchlight at its material, not simply to look at Surrealism, but look with it and through it, alert to the refractions that illuminate adjacent histories in fresh ways. Enchanted Ground is on high alert to details, anomalies and the overlooked, using them to unpick received wisdom about Surrealism, modernism and art history itself. * Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Professor of Visual Culture, Norwich University of the Arts, UK *Gavin Parkinson’s text is a timely reminder that there are other ways of seeing the founding fathers of modernist painting than through the lens of Greenberg’s formalism. He explores the posthumous critical fortunes of Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh and Seurat in the writings of the doyen of Surrealism, André Breton. Part intricate historiography, gathering together writings that have hitherto been overlooked because dispersed and difficult of access, Enchanted Ground brings us familiar art from an unfamiliar, indeed magical, Surrealist perspective. This is an arresting, ambitious and important book. * Belinda Thomson, Honorary Professor of Art History, University of Edinburgh, UK *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Art After Impressionism After Surrealism 1. Greengrocer, Bricklayer or Seer? Psychoanalyzing Paul Cézanne 2. Painting as Propaganda and Prophecy: René Magritte and Pierre-Auguste Renoir 3. Method and Poetry: Georges Seurat’s Surrealist Dialectic 4. Between Dog and Wolf: Georges Seurat, Brassaï and the City of Light 5. Civilization, Realism, Abstraction: Paul Gauguin and Surrealism, 1948-53 6. Dialectic of Brittany: From Myth to Folklore in Paul Gauguin and Surrealism Epilogue: Disenchanted Ground, or Vincent van Gogh, Antonin Artaud and Magic in 1947 Conclusion: On André Breton Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
£26.99
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The Bloomsbury Handbook of Music and Art
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together prominent scholars, artists, composers, and directors to present the latest interdisciplinary ideas and projects in the fields of art history, musicology and multi-media practice. Organized around ways of perceiving, experiencing and creating, the book outlines the state of the field through cutting-edge research case studies. For example, how does art-music practice / thinking communicate activist activities? How do socio-economic and environmental problems affect access to heritage? How do contemporary practitioners interpret past works and what global concerns stimulate new works? In each instance, examples of cross or inter-media works are not thought of in isolation but in a global historical context that shows our cultural existence to be complex, conflicted and entwined. For the first time cross-disciplinary collaborations in ethnomusicology-anthropology, ecomusicology-ecoart-ecomuseology and digital humanities for art history, musicology and practiceTrade ReviewThis wonderfully diverse and stimulating collection of interdisciplinary essays demonstrates beautifully how contemporary humanities needs more complex polyphony. Launched predominantly from consideration of music and art interrelations, a new turn in humanities scholarship is being undertaken here by both established and emerging researchers. Drawing on geography, ecology, museology, ethics and anti-colonial approaches (among many others), the relevance of this collection to all of us working in the humanities can hardly be overstated. * Simon Shaw-Miller, Emeritus Chair of Art History, University of Bristol, UK, and author of Improvision: Orphic Art in the Age of Jazz (2022) *The editors of this exciting volume have worked a miraculous transformation on the nascent historiography of the autonomous and conjoined arts of music and visual cultures. Drawing together contributions from the notable, the new and a diversity of intersectional scholarly views, musical and visual landscapes emerge as unbounded spaces of performance and provocation. Liveness inhabits every carefully curated section, revealing a poetic of aesthetics and activism, always future-facing and deserving of immediate attention. * Diane V. Silverthorne, art historian, Vienna 1900 scholar and editor of Music, Art and Performance from Liszt to Riot Grrrl (Bloomsbury, 2018) *This latest addition to the cross-disciplinary field of art and music studies breaks new ground in its multi-faceted range of approaches and methodologies, diversity of voices and relevance. Essays by scholars and practitioners, case studies and interviews engage with current issues including climate change, queer studies, race relations and museum practice that invite new disciplines into the discourse. * Dr. Corrinne Chong, Assistant Curator, The Barnes Foundation *The broad topics of this interdisciplinary volume aim to break down disciplinary and conceptual silos. By reconciling perspectives of the ear and the eye with other senses, scholars and practitioners put human creative endeavors in environmental, philosophical, sensorial and social contexts. These varied forms of scholarly and social activism, artivism and increasing access for diverse publics all lead to an agenda for change: both for individuals, artistically and conceptually, and for the myriad collective ways that humans dwell on the planet. * Aaron S. Allen, Director, Environment & Sustainability Program and Associate Professor of Musicology, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA, and co-editor of Sounds, Ecologies, Musics (2023) *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Contributors Introduction Charlotte de Mille, The Courtauld Institute, UK, and Sarah Mahler Kraaz, Ripon College, USA Section One: Ways of Perceiving Section Introduction Charlotte de Mille, The Courtauld Institute, UK 1. Art, music and theology in the Lutheran church Margit Thøfner, Open University, UK 2. 'When silence speaks’: Sibelius, Music, Landscape Daniel Grimley, University of Oxford, UK 3. Patience between the Arts(From a Mountain of Monumental Waste) Lydia Goehr, Columbia University, USA, and Daniel Herwitz, University of Michigan, USA Section Two: Activism Section Introduction Sarah Mahler Kraaz, Ripon College, USA 4. Madame Campan’s Portraits or, Self-portrait of a feminist musicologist Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden, University of North Texas, USA 5. Racist and Ethnic Stereotypes in the Arts Travis Nygard, Ripon College, USA 6. Feminism Ann-Marie Hanlon, University of Galway, Ireland 7. Queerness in American Music Education: A Panoptic View Josh Palkki, Arizona State University, USA Section Three: Access: Socio-Economic / Environment and Sustainability Section Introduction Charlotte de Mille, The Courtauld Institute, UK 8. Whose museum? Applications in interdisciplinary thinking Mark O’Neill, Glasgow University, UK 9. Access and Engagement: Classical music in the pandemic and beyond Sarah Mahler Kraaz, Ripon College, USA 10. Toward Social Sustainability: Ethics and Community Engagement in Heritage Management Annalisa Bolin, Linnaeus University, Sweden, and David Nkusi, Rwanda Cultural Heritage Academy 11. Safeguarding the intangible: communities, cultures and ecomuseum practices Peter Davis, Newcastle University, UK 12. Ecotones and Climate Change in Contemporary Eco Art Mark Cheetham, University of Toronto, Canada 13. Western Art Music and the Aestheticization of Climate Change: The Case of John Luther Adams’s Become Ocean Tyler Kinnear, Independent Scholar, USA Section Four: Intersecting Cultures Section Introduction: Juliana M. Pistorius, University College London, UK 14. Globalisation: Voluspa Jarpa’s Altered Views and The Hegemonic Museum Mark Rectanus, Iowa State University, USA 15. Cultural Sound Mapping in Bern: Sound-Based Ethnomusicological Research in the 21st Century Britta Sweers, University of Bern, Switzerland 16. Unconventionally confrontational: Radicalized Asian affects, diasporic aesthetics, and the revival of Cambodian (American) rock music Runchao Liu, University of Denver, USA 17. Anti-Colonial Activism and the Canadian Opera Company, 2017-2022 Rena Roussin, University of Toronto, Canada 18. Musical Instruments and “Migration”: A Reinvestigation of the Lutes in the Shosoin Collection Ingrid M. Furniss, Lafayette College, USA Section Five: Intersecting Practice Section Introduction Sarah Mahler Kraaz, Ripon College, USA 19. Landscape/Music James Weeks, University of Durham, UK 20. Colour, Music and Synaesthesia Deborah Pritchard, composer and University of Oxford, UK 21. William Kentridge, Provisionality in process Interview by Sarah Mahler Kraaz, Ripon College, USA 22. Peter Sellars, St. Matthew Passion, opera Interview by Sarah Mahler Kraaz, Ripon College, USA 23. Hooligan Art Community in Conversation with Dr Charlotte De Mille, The Courtauld Institute of Art, November 2022 Charlotte de Mille, The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK 24. Curating Glyndebourne Nerissa Taysom, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, East Sussex, UK 25. Curating Music at the Courtauld Charlotte de Mille, The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK Appendix 1: Digital Resources Michelle Urberg, musicologist and librarian Index
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Bloomsbury Academic The Bloomsbury Handbook of Music and Art
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together prominent scholars, artists, composers, and directors to present the latest interdisciplinary ideas and projects in the fields of art history, musicology and multi-media practice. Organized around ways of perceiving, experiencing and creating, the book outlines the state of the field through cutting-edge research case studies. For example, how does art-music practice / thinking communicate activist activities? How do socio-economic and environmental problems affect access to heritage? How do contemporary practitioners interpret past works and what global concerns stimulate new works? In each instance, examples of cross or inter-media works are not thought of in isolation but in a global historical context that shows our cultural existence to be complex, conflicted and entwined. For the first time cross-disciplinary collaborations in ethnomusicology-anthropology, ecomusicology-ecoart-ecomuseology and digital humanities for art history, musicology and practice are prioritized in one volume.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC EighteenthCentury Art Worlds
Book SynopsisWhile the connected, international character of today's art economy is well known, the 18th century too had global systems of artistic production and consumption. Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds is the first book to create a global map of the art world of the 18th century.Fourteen case studies from distinguished experts explore both cross-cultural connections and local specificities of art production and consumption in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The result is an account of a series of interconnected and asymmetrical art worlds that were well developed in the 18th century.Capturing the full material diversity of 18th-century art, this book considers painting and sculpture alongside numerous prints and decorative objects. Analyzing the role of place in the history of 18th-century art, it bridges the disciplines of art history and cultural geography, and draws attention away from any one place as a privileged art-historical site, while highlighting places such as Manila,Trade ReviewThis wide-ranging collection of essays is a significant and welcome contribution to an art history which takes the interplay of local and the global as central concerns. It provides new case studies and invites new ways of thinking; together these help us to engage with art outside the frameworks of nations or of 'cultures', and to move forward the conversation around a deeper and richer understanding of this key period. * Craig Clunas, Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, University of Oxford, UK *Ambitious in scope and innovative in approach, this volume is an invaluable contribution to scholarship of the eighteenth century. Fourteen essays by leading scholars demonstrate how the “art worlds” of the period took shape through exchange and circulation, via the mobility of people and things, and in places as varied as markets and mosques. Readers will encounter a fascinating array of material objects, from French commodes and Mughal cups to holy water fonts in California missions. Lively and insightful, Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds offers a model for understanding the complex interrelations of the local and the global. * Wendy Bellion, Professor and Sewell Biggs Chair in American Art, University of Delaware, USA *A sophisticated exploration of art-making and its circulation, Eighteenth Century Art Worlds invites new thinking about trade and pleasure, taste and empire. This fascinating collection of essays—on artworks and people who traveled through East Asia, the Spanish Americas, the Swahili Coast, and European capitals—fundamentally shifts the conversation on the geography of art. For those who care about the foreign and the global in early modernity this is important reading. * Dana Leibsohn, Alice Pratt Brown Professor of Art, Smith College, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements 1. Mapping Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds Stacey Sloboda (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA) and Michael Yonan (University of Missouri, USA) 2. Flowering Stone: The Aesthetics and Politics of Islamic Jades at the Qing Court Kristina Kleutghen (Washington University, USA) 3. The Market for ‘Western’ Paintings in Eighteenth-Century East Asia: A View from the Liulichang Market in Beijing Michele Matteini (New York University, USA) 4. Floating Pictures: The European Dimension to Japanese Art During the Eighteenth Century Timon Screech (SOAS, University of London, UK) 5. A Chinese Canton? Painting the Local in Export Art Yeewan Koon (University of Hong Kong) 6. Pedro Cambón’s Asian Objects: A Transpacific Approach to Eighteenth- Century California J. M. Mancini (Maynooth University, Ireland) 7. Making it Ours: Religious Art in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Spanish American Newspapers Kelly Donahue-Wallace (University of North Texas, USA) 8. Tortoiseshell and the Edge of Empire: Artistic Materials and Imperial Politics in Spain and France Mari-Tere Álvarez (J. Paul Getty Museum, USA) and Charlene Villaseñor Black (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) 9. Other Antiquities: Ancients, Moderns, and the Challenge of China in Eighteenth-Century France Kristel Smentek (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) 10. Drifting through the Louvre: A Local Guide to the French Academy Hannah Williams (Queen Mary University, UK) 11. The Art World of the European Grand Tour Carole Paul (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) 12. The Imaginative Geographies of Angelo Soliman Michael Yonan (University of Missouri, USA) 13. Toward an Itinerant Art History: The Swahili Coast of Eastern Africa Prita Meier (New York University, USA) 14. St. Martin’s Lane in London, Philadelphia, and Vizagapatam Stacey Sloboda (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA) List of Contributors Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Latin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture
Book SynopsisLatin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture, 1852-1932 examines an understudied visual language used to portray Latin Americans in mid-19th to early 20th-century Parisian popular visual media. It charts how the term Latinize was introduced to connect Franceâs early 19th-century endeavors to create Latin Americaâan expansion of the French empire into the Latin-language speaking Spanish and Portuguese Americasâto its perception of the people who lived there. Elites who traveled to Paris from their newly independent nations in the 1840s were denigrated in visual media, rather than depicted as equals in a developing global economy. Darkened skin, brushed onto images of Latin Americans of European descent, mitigated their ability to claim the privileges of their ancestral heritage; whitened skin, among other codes, imposed on depictions of Black Latin Americans denied their Blackness and rendered them relatively assimilatable compared to colonial Africans, Black people from the Caribbean, Trade ReviewLyneise E. Williams makes an insightful contribution to the limited art historical scholarship on the representation of Black Latin Americans in Parisian visual media. * Early Popular Visual Culture *Lyneise E. Williams uses the city of Paris to analyze the evolution of the Western representation of Afro-Latinos, who became more and more present in the French landscape at the end of the 19th century because of the colonies in African and the Caribbean, among others. The author analyzes how this presence was received and studies the influence of the latter on the vision that Westerners had of foreigners, returning to the figures of Alfonso Teofilo Brown, Pedro Figari and Rafael Padilla. The complex subjects of race and representation are addressed here by the through an approach that is both historical and contemporary, making it possible to understand the discrimination observed in Parisian visual culture, in art, but also in the business world, with communication tools loaded with socially accepted racism. * Critique d’art *Latin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture, 1852-1932 is intellectually ambitious, providing a clear, readable, and well-researched view of a subject almost completely missing from the art historical literature on Parisian modernism: the representation of Black Latin Americans. This book thus crucially adds to a vital literature within modernism studies that considers the relationship of French culture—roughly the center of the art world in the modernist period—to colonized Africa and the African Diaspora. Williams takes up complex subjects of race and racial categories with elegance and clarity, and her acute discussions of particular works anchor these more general discussions in visual immediacy. Starting with a highly engaging consideration of representations of Latinized Blackness, she establishes a clear baseline of assumptions about this hybrid group—and Latin Americans in general—in French popular culture and modernist art. -- Patricia Leighten, Professor Emerita, Duke University, USATable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction The Term “Latin American” Why Paris? Much More Than Primitivism Reduced to Latin Americans Parisian Figurations of Blackness from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century Overview of the Study Chapter 1: Playing Up Blackness and Indianness; Downplaying Europeanness Editing Francisco Laso: Racializing Spanish and Portuguese Americans Performing Rastaquerismo Justified by Anthropology: Quatrefages, Hamy, and the Casta Paintings Latin American Self-Representation The Shifting Rastaquouère Maintaining Anthropological Interpretations in the Early Twentieth Century Conclusion Chapter 2: Chocolat the Clown: Not Just Black Chocolat and Footit: Partners in Contrast The Auguste Chocolat The Give and Take of Chocolat and Footit Chocolat and Footit at the Nouveau Cirque Chocolat as Brand Image Beneath the Surface Chocolat as Mixed Animal Chocolat the Contaminant Impure Chocolat(e) Chocolat, That Special Ingredient: The Racially Mixed Object of Desire Complicating Notions of Minstrelsy Lip Interventions Representations Through Clothing Sexualizing Black Dandies Assimilating the Latin Beyond the Circus Chocolat, Object of Gay Desire Chocolat and the Elite and the Virile Conclusion Chapter 3: Alfonso Teofilo Brown: Agency and Impositions of Blackness and Europeanness Sport and the Imagined Ideal Male Body Black Boxers in Turn-of-the-Century France Gangly Brown The Purity and Hybridity of Gangly Brown Brown the Gentleman Images of Black Difference Brown the Philanthropist Conclusion Chapter 4: Figari’s Blacks: Negotiating French and Southern Cone Blackness Figari and Paris Contested Whiteness and the Black Body Conceptualizing Regional Identity Through the Anthropological Gaze Candombe as Framing Device Gender and Race in Candombe Objects as Markers Figari as “Naïf” Painter Increasing Latin American Presence in Paris Perceptions of Black Uruguayans Figari’s Evolution in Paris Contradictions and Contrasts between Figari’s Paintings and Written Work Conclusion Coda Select Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art
Book SynopsisSanne Krogh Groth is Associate Professor of Musicology at Lund University, Sweden. She is Office Director of the Sound Environment Centre, Lund University, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the online journal Seismograf. She is author of the book Politics and Aesthetics in Electronic Music (2014) and is currently conducting field-based research on experimental music and de-colonial aesthetics in Indonesia. Holger Schulze is Professor of Musicology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Principal Investigator at the Sound Studies Lab. He is the author of numerous books including Sound as Popular Culture (2016), The Sonic Persona (Bloomsbury, 2018), and Sound Works (Bloomsbury, 2019).Trade Review[This book] deserves a wide and engaged readership, for this is an important collection of curated essays that drives the debates around sound art into new territories. Its focus on sound as an operative force that might hold power to account makes it that rare thing, a most timely textbook. * The Wire *Sanne Krogh Groth and Holger Schulze have edited a volume of almost 600 pages that consists of very interesting texts that explain how social perspectives and art historical theory can fruitfully be applied to sound art and yield insights not easily developed through the traditional focus on sound and space. The book makes a very good case for why it is necessary to expand the reading and understanding of sound art’s many sub-genres in order to grasp the contemporary developments, in particular socially engaged works with political intentionality. * Jøran Rudi in Organised Sound, December 2020 *An innovative, comprehensive and timely volume that I cannot recommend enough. * SoundEffects *A welcome and important book that greatly enriches the scope of the sound art domain and should be of considerable interest to both theorists and practitioners. * Journal of Sonic Studies *Table of ContentsSound Art. The First 100 Years of an Aggressively Expanding Art Form (Sanne Krogh Groth, Lund University, Sweden, and Holger Schulze, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Part I After the Apocalypse. The Desert of the Real as Sound Art 1. The Sonic Aftermath. The Anthropocene and Interdisciplinarity after the Apocalypse (Anette Vandsø, Aarhus University, Denmark) 2. Composing Sociality. Toward an Aesthetics of Transition Design (Jeremy Woodruff, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey) 3. Dealing with Disaster. Notes toward a Decolonizing, Aesthetico-Relational Sound Art (Pedro J. S. Vieira de Oliveira, Sound Artist and Independent Scholar, Germany) 4. Vocalizing Dystopian and Utopian Impulses. The End of Eating Everything (Stina Marie Hasse Jørgensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Part II Journeys Across the Grid. Postcolonial Transformations as Sound Art 5. “Diam!” (Be Quiet!). Noisy Sound Art from the Global South (Sanne Krogh Groth, Lund University, Sweden) 6. Curating Potential. Migration and Sonic Artistic Practices in Berlin (Juliana Hodkinson, Royal Academy of Music, Denmark, in Conversation with Elke Moltrecht, Academy of the Art of the World, Germany, and Julia Gerlach, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) 7. Four Artistic Journeys i. Pockets of Communities (Holger Schulze, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in Conversation with Emeka Ogboh, Columbia’s Institute for Ideas and Imagination, France) ii. Cairo Baby-Doll. Some Remarks on a Cairo Sound Art Scene (Søren Møller Sørensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) iii. When I Close My Eyes Everything Is So Damn Pretty (Can’t Do the Thing You Want, Can’t Do the Thing You Want, Can’t Do the Thing You Want) (Samson Young, Composer and Artist, Hong Kong) iv. Sound in Covert Places. Indonesian Sound Art Development through Bandung Perspectives (Bob Edrian, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia) 8. Sound Art in East and Southeast Asia. Historical and Political Considerations (Cedrik Fermont, Musician and Independent Scholar, Berlin, Germany, and Dimitri della Faille, University of Quebec, Canada) Part III Come Closer ... Intimate Encounters as Sound Art 9. Kiss, Lick, Suck. Micro-Orality of Intimate Intensities (Brandon LaBelle, University of Bergen, Norway) 10. Gender, Intimacy, and Voices in Sound Art. Encouragements, Self-portraits, and Shadow Walks (Cathy Lane, University of the Arts, London, UK) 11. Sonic Intimacies. The Sensory Status of Intimate Encounters in 3-D Sound Art (Sabine Feisst and Garth Paine, Arizona State University, USA) 12. Intruders Touching You. Intimate Encounters in Audio (Holger Schulze, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Part IV De-Institutionalize! Institutional Critique as Sound Art 13. Inquiring into the Hack. New Sonic and Institutional Practices by Paulina Oliveros, Pussy Riot, and Goodiepal (Sharon Stewart, Utrecht University, the Netherlands) 14. Outside and Around Institutions. Two Artistic Positions i. Working in the Sounding Field (Annea Lockwood, Vassar College, USA) ii. Conversations and Utopias (Holger Schulze, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in Conversation with Mendi Obadike, Pratt Institute, USA, and Keith Obadike, William Patterson University, USA) 15. Audiogrammi of a Collective Intelligence. The Composers-Researchers of S2FM, SMET, NPS, and Other Mavericks (Laura Zattra, Francesco Venezze Conservatory of Music, Italy) 16. Sounding in Paths, Hearing through Cracks. Sonic Art Practices and Urban Institutions (Elen Flügge, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland) Part V The Sonic Imagination. Sonic Thinking as Sound Art 17. The Sonic Fiction of Sound Art. A Background to the Theory-Fiction of Sound (Macon Holt, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) 18. Women Sonic Thinkers. The Histories of Seeing, Touching, and Embodying Sound (Sandra Kazlauskaite, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) 19. "Specific Dissonances." A Geopolitics of Frequency (Alastair Cameron, Independent Scholar, UK, and Eleni Ikoniadou, Royal College of Art, UK) 20. A Universe in a Grain of Sound. The Production of Time and Fiction in Machinic Sound Art (Tobias Ewé, University of British Columbia, Canada) Part VI Making Sound. Building Media Instruments as Sound Art 21. The Instrument as Theater. Instrumental Reworkings in Contemporary Sound Art (Sanne Krogh Groth, Lund University, Sweden, and Ulrik Schmidt, Roskilde University, Denmark) 22. From Turntable to Neural Net. Sound Art, Technoscience, Craft, and the Instrument (Chris Salter and Alexandre Saunier, Concordia University, Canada) 23. The Instrument as Medium. Phonographic Work (Rolf Großmann, Leuphana University of Lünenberg, Germany) 24. How to Build an Instrument? Three Artistic Positions--Articles and Interviews i. Membrane. Materialities and Intensities of Sound (Carla J. Maier, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, in Conversation with Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri, Cornell University, USA) ii. Pickups and Strings. On Experimental Preparation and Magnetic Amplification (Yuri Landman, Academy for Pop Culture, the Netherlands) iii. Mechanics. From Physicality over Symbolism through Malfunction and Back Again (Morten Riis, The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, Denmark) Notes References Contributors Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc One Hundred Years of Surrealist Poetry
Book SynopsisGiven that the Surrealists were initially met with widespread incomprehension, mercilessly ridiculed, and treated as madmen, it is remarkable that more than one hundred years on we still feel the vitality and continued popularity of the movement today. As Willard Bohn demonstrates, Surrealism was not just a French phenomenon but one that eventually encompassed much of the world. Concentrating on the movement's theory and practice, this extraordinarily broad-ranging book documents the spread of Surrealism throughout the western hemisphere and examines keys texts, critical responses, and significant writers. The latter include three extraordinarily talented individuals who were eventually awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (Andre Breton, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz). Like their Surrealist colleagues, they strove to free human beings from their unconscious chains so that they could realize their true potential. One Hundred Years of Surrealist Poetry explores not only the birthTrade ReviewOne Hundred Years of Surrealist Poetry is at once an anthology and a beautifully accessible handbook, providing guidance, insights and information on essential aspects of surrealist theory and practise. From automatic writing and objective chance to mad love and black humour, the topics explored are exemplified by astonishing poems and oneiric prose from French, Hispanic and Portuguese writers, all translated by Willard Bohn with characteristic flair and empathy. * Peter Read, Professor Emeritus of Modern French Literature and Visual Arts, University of Kent, UK and author of Picasso and Apollinaire The Persistence of Memory (2008) *With his characteristic clarity, as well as formidable aesthetic and linguistic breadth, Bohn has produced a major work for serious students and scholars of Surrealism. Using important examples from many different cultural and theoretical sources, he offers new, wide-ranging perspectives on the origins and later history of the movement throughout the world. He also presents close readings of several key texts, many of which incorporate, and often surpass, analyses published by some of the most influential critics (Riffaterre, Bonnet, Balakian, Jenny, Caws, Murat ) who have worked on these often mysterious, enigmatic works. I highly recommend it, therefore, to anyone working in comparative literature, art history, even film studies, thanks to his explanations of surrealist images in a variety of art forms. * Stamos Metzidakis, Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. André Breton and Automatic Writing 2. Revisiting the Surrealist Image 3. Paul Eluard and Surrealist Love 4. Surrealism and the Poetic Act 5. José María Hinojosa and Early Spanish Surrealism 6. Federico García Lorca 7. J. V. Foix and Catalan Surrealism 8. Portuguese Experiments with Surrealism 9. Octavio Paz 10. South American Surrealists Coda Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
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De Gruyter Critical Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Art
Book SynopsisCritical Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Art concentrates on the visual, material, and built aspects of the Ancient Near East from the fourth millennium BCE to the Hellenistic period.Table of ContentsTable of Contents List of ContributorsList of IllustrationsEditors' NoteMap 1. Map 2. Introduction I. Defining the Field 2. Archaeology and Politics in Iraq - Lamia al-Gailani Werr3. Forgeries of Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts and Cultures - Oscar Muscarella4. Beyond the East-West Dichotomy in Syrian and Levantine Wall Paintings - Constance von Rüden5. Orientalism and Orientalization in the Iron Age Mediterranean - Ann C. Gunter II. Technologies and Practices of Artistic Production 6. The Historiography of the Concept of "Workshop" in Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology: Descriptive Models and Theoretical Approaches (Anthropology vs. Art History) - Silvana Di Paolo7. The Impact of the "Portable": Integrating "Minor Arts" into the Ancient Near Eastern Canon - Allison Karmel Thomason8. The Influence of the Physical Medium on the Decoration of a Work of Art: A Case Study of the "Phoenician" Bowls - Francesca Onnis9. Impressions of the Contest Scene: Glyptic Imagery and Sealing Practice in the Akkadian Period - Yelena Rakic10. Histories of Cypriot Art through Seal Carving - Joanna S. Smith III. Text and Image 11. Relating Image and Word in Ancient Mesopotamia - Cory D. Crawford12. Pictorial Mythology and Narrative in the Ancient Near East - Karen Sonik13. Art's Role in the Origins of Writing: The Seal-Carver, the Scribe, and the Earliest Lexical Texts - Jennifer C. Ross14. Posthumous Images and the Memory of the Akkadian Kings - Melissa Eppihimer15. Styles of Pictorial Narratives in Assurbanipal's Reliefs - Chikako E. Watanabe IV. Social Identities 16. Sexuality, Reproduction and Gender in Terracotta Plaques from the Late Third-Early Second Millennia BCE - Sarah B. Graff17. Images and Conceptions of Ideal Feminine Beauty in Neo-Assyrian Royal Contexts, c. 883-627 BCE - Amy Rebecca Gansell18. Uniforms and Non-Conformists: Tensions and Trends in Early Dynastic Fashion - Aubrey Baadsgaard19. Terracotta Figurines and Social Identities in Hellenistic Babylonia - Stephanie Langin-Hooper20. The Impressed Image: Glyptic Studies as Art and Social History - Mark B. Garrison21. Culture on Display: Representations of Ethnicity in the Art of the Late Assyrian State - Brian A. Brown V. Religion, Ritual and Politics 22. Human, Divine or Both? The Uruk Vase and the Problem of Ambiguity in Early Mesopotamian Visual Arts - Claudia E. Suter23. A Silent Message: Godlike Kings in Mesopotamian Art - Tallay Ornan24. When the Subject is the Object: Relational Ontologies, the Partible Person and Images of Naram-Sin - Anne Porter25. Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Violence: Warfare in Neo-Assyrian Art - Paul Collins26. The Tell Asmar Hoard and Rituals of Early Dynastic Sculpture - Jean M. Evans VI. Making and Defining Space 27. A Feast for the Eyes: Depiction and Performance of Ritual within the Sacred Space of Middle Bronze Age Ebla - Alice A. Petty28. The Art of Building a Late Assyrian Royal Palace - David Kertai29. The Assyrian Landscape as Ritual - Ann Shafer30. Aesthetics of the Natural Environment in the Arts of the Ancient Near East: The Elamite Rock-Cut Sanctuary of Kurangun - Javier Álvarez-Mon31. Art of the Achaemenid Empire, and Art in the Achaemenid Empire - Henry P. Colburn
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Dark Horse Comics,U.S. The Legend Of Korra: Art Of The Animated Series -
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Dark Horse Comics,U.S. Marvel Rivals The Poster Collection
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Workman Publishing So. Many. Stickers. 1000Piece Puzzle
Book SynopsisSticker love meets jigsaw puzzle!So. Many. Stickers. 1,000-Piece Puzzle is so much more than a puzzle! The colorful, fresh artwork was created from your favorite sticker designsand it comes with stickers to match! Inside you'll find 100 full-color stickers plus directions for how to make your very own symmetrical sticker art. 1,000 interlocking pieces Full-color sticker sheet Mini poster (9 3/8 x 6 3/4) for reference or framing Completed puzzle size: 26 3/8 x 18 7/8
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Andrews McMeel Publishing Posh: Perpetual Desk Pad Undated Weekly Calendar
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Manchester University Press Killing Men & Dying Women: Imagining Difference
Book SynopsisWhat did it mean for painter Lee Krasner to be an artist and a woman if, in the culture of 1950s New York, to be an artist was to be Jackson Pollock and to be a woman was to be Marilyn Monroe? With this question, Griselda Pollock begins a transdisciplinary journey across the gendered aesthetics and the politics of difference in New York abstract, gestural painting. Revisiting recent exhibitions of Abstract Expressionism that either marginalised the artist-women in the movement or focused solely on the excluded women, as well as exhibitions of women in abstraction, Pollock reveals how theories of embodiment, the gesture, hysteria and subjectivity can deepen our understanding of this moment in the history of painting co-created by women and men. Providing close readings of key paintings by Lee Krasner and re-thinking her own historic examination of images of Jackson Pollock and Helen Frankenthaler at work, Pollock builds a cultural bridge between the New York artist-women and their other, Marilyn Monroe, a creative actor whose physically anguished but sexually appropriated star body is presented as pathos formula of life energy.Monroe emerges as a haunting presence within this moment of New York modernism, eroding the policed boundaries between high and popular culture and explaining what we gain by re-thinking art with the richness of feminist thought.Trade Review‘With theoretic acuity, Griselda Pollock revisits New York Abstract Expressionism to propose a feminist reading of the Jewish-American artist Lee Krasner that is as astonishing as it is compelling. Seeking to discover inscriptions of feminine sexual difference, these psychoanalytically inspired essays revolve around a conceptual triangulation, in which Krasner’s position as a painter-woman in abstract art is conceived as a third position, interrogating and reworking two competing components of her creative energy – with Jackson Pollock as an iconisation of her identity as an artist and Marilyn Monroe as an iconisation of her identity as a woman. The triptych that emerges is utterly riveting.’ Elisabeth Bronfen, Professor of English and American Studies, University of Zurich‘Killing Men & Dying Women represents an exciting new development for Griselda Pollock’s work. She deconstructs the misogyny of 1950s America as well as an art establishment that critically ignored and institutionally marginalised the women artists of Abstract Expressionism. Making an unflinching use of feminist psychoanalytic theory, she argues for a more significant maternal relation in the human psyche’s development than traditional psychoanalysis allows. This perspective brings into visibility occluded modes of feeling and understanding that women’s art, fragilely, preserves. The image and the story of Marilyn Monroe is woven into the texture of the argument, upsetting the decade’s transcendent image of “woman” and revealing the patriarchal insecurities it represented.’Laura Mulvey, Professor of Film Studies, Birkbeck, University of London‘A book that reveals art history as a concerted and difficult and passionate business – a contest, a battle, in short, a lived experience.’Alexander Nemerov, Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities, Stanford University -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Prophecy, 19562 Five essays on sexuality (and art)3 What did Greenberg not say, or dare to think?4 Is the gesture male?5 Is the artist hysterical?6 Massacred women do not make me laugh, nor do the agonies of Marilyn Monroe’s body7 Dancing space: Prophecy to Sun Woman I8 Three memories: Rosenberg and MonroeAppendix: Sexual differenceIndex
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Hodder & Stoughton The Diver and The Lover: A novel of love and the
Book Synopsis'The lives of the characters get entangled in this powerful read' WOMAN'S OWN'A pacy, gripping tale of secrets, love and betrayal in 1950s Catalonia, written with skill and colour. It gave me enormous pleasure to read such a satisfying novel.' SANTA MONTEFIORE 'If you're in desperate need of a far-Flung getaway, indulge in this slice of escapist fiction' HEAT'Being transported to a Spanish summer in 1951... I feel the cool of the shadows under the trees and hear the sea as it glistens in the rippling heat. I think you might like it too!' FERN BRITTON'As colourful, rich and mesmerising as one of Dali's paintings, this absorbing, poignant rollercoaster of a read is utterly satisfying and will stay with you long after you've put it down.' PATRICIA SCANLAN 'a tale of intrigue, love, politics and scandal. Mixing fact and fiction The Diver and The Lover keeps up the pace and excitement to the very end.' JOAN BAKEWELL'This tale intrigued me and captured my imagination in equal measure. I loved being whisked back to the 1950s and felt the heat of the Spanish sun as I fell in love with the sisters' unique relationship. Be prepared to be taken on a dramatic journey confronting pain, tragedy and passion along the way ' SARA COX'We'll never look at one of the world's best known paintings in the same way again. [Jeremy Vine] has managed to weave truth and fiction together to bring us a most unexpected love story.' FIONA BRUCE'A touching love story set in General Franco's postwar Spain is hallmark Vine - fresh, well-researchedand packed with female protagonists.' - COUNTRYSIDE MAGSoaked in sunlight, love and the mysteries surrounding a famous artist The Diver and the Lover is a novel inspired by true events.It is 1951 and sisters Ginny and Meredith have travelled from England to Spain in search of distraction and respite. The two wars have wreaked loss and deprivation upon the family and the spectre of Meredith's troubled childhood continues to haunt them. Their journey to the rugged peninsula of Catalonia promises hope and renewal. While there they discover the artist Salvador Dali is staying in nearby Port Lligat. Meredith is fascinated by modern art and longs to meet the famous surrealist. Dali is embarking on an ambitious new work, but his headstrong male model has refused to pose. A replacement is found, a young American waiter with whom Ginny has struck up a tentative acquaintance. The lives of the characters become entangled as family secrets, ego and the dangerous politics of Franco's Spain threaten to undo the fragile bonds that have been forged. A powerful story of love, sacrifice and the lengths we will go to for who - or what - we love.
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Rowman & Littlefield Immigration in the Visual Art of Nicario Jiménez
Book SynopsisArt meets today’s political debate over immigration in this beautifully illustrated exploration of Nicario Jiménez Quispe’s retablos. This beautifully illustrated full-color book offers a unique depiction of the current immigration debate through the lens of renowned Peruvian artist Nicario Jiménez Quispe, a recent immigrant to the United States. An internationally recognized maker of retablos, Jiménez has begun creating work that powerfully encapsulates the struggles, possibilities, and tragedies of immigration from the Global South to North America. A decorative box with figures in the interior, a retablo traditionally was used to pay homage to certain saints in Peru. In Spain, they were used as portable altars for itinerant priests who carried them to perform mass in remote areas. In the Andes, the retablo became a sort of magical-religious box designed to increase fertility among animals that served as a means of exchange in a cash-free, rural environment. The authors, leading historians of Latin America, contextualize Jiménez’s compelling art, to offer creative new insights on the bitter immigration disputes that are dividing our nation.Trade ReviewThe authors of this insightful book offer an original entry into the current immigration debate through the eyes and work of the renowned Peruvian artist/sculptor Nicario Jiménez Quispe. The images of Jiménez’s retablos offer an innovative way of capturing the suffering of the displaced. This book is an inimitable contribution to the debate. -- Frank O. Mora, Florida International UniversityThe Peruvian-born artist Nicario Jiménez is internationally recognized for his extraordinary, highly detailed retablos that address personal, traditional, religious, social, historical, and political events. This volume celebrates the art form by focusing on Jiménez’s immigration retablos; from the harrowing scenes along the Mexican-US border to an emphasis on the accomplishments of immigrants once settled in the United States. Jiménez’s art reminds viewers of the humanity of the demonized individuals escaping violence back home in hopes of securing a better future for themselves and their families. -- Marina Pacini, Chief Curator of the Memphis Brooks Museum of ArtThe authors of this compelling work use Nicario Jiménez’s art as visual testimonies of migration policies in the Trump era. Jiménez himself has been in continuous movement, locating himself in Ayacucho, Lima, and the rest of the world. Through his retablos, he vividly portrays what migration, uprooting, and displacement mean to the person who leaves and arrives to a new place of residency—he shows the violence conveyed, the lived experiences, the hope. -- María Eugenia Ulfe, Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword: Continuity and Change in a Traditional Art Form, by Annette B. Fromm ix 1 By Way of Introduction 2 The Retablo: Testimony, Tradition, and the Case for Fine Art in Popular Culture 3 A Corporal and Artistic Migration: The Peruvian Years 4 Art Questions Politics: An American Challenge 5 Promise and Hope: The Other Side of Immigration Conclusion: Beyond the Wall Selected Bibliography Index About the Authors
£35.00
Rowman & Littlefield The Art of Looking at Art
Book SynopsisA readable guide to the art of looking at art.There’s an art to viewing art. A sizable portion of the population regards art with varying degrees of reverence, bewilderment, suspicion, contempt, and intimidation. Most people aren’t sure what to do when standing before a work of art, besides gaze at it for what they hope is an acceptable amount of time, and even those who visit galleries and museums regularly aren’t always as well versed as they wish they could be. This book will help remedy that situation and answer many of the most frequently asked questions pertaining to the matter of art in general: When was the first art made? Who decides which art is “for the ages”? What is art’s purpose? How do paintings get to be worth tens of millions of dollars? Where do artists get their ideas? The Art of Viewing Art addresses these and countless more of the issues surrounding this frequently misunderstood microcosm, in a highly informative, yet conversational tone. History, fascinating and altogether human backstories, and information pertaining to every conceivable aspect of visual art are interwoven in twelve concise chapters, providing all the information the average person needs to comfortably approach, analyze, and appreciate art. Readers with a background in art will learn a few new things as well. This beautiful full-color book includes 45 full-page reproductions. Table of ContentsTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter One—Ten Reasons to Appreciate ArtChapter Two—the First 95% of Art History—Prehistoric ArtChapter Three—From Artisan to Artist—How Art Became About Self-Expression (It Wasn’t Always)—The Most Recent 5% of Art HistoryChapter Four—“the Place of the Muses”—a Brief History of the MuseumChapter Five—Art vs. Life—How Art and Life Influence One AnotherChapter Six— Art Is Where You Find It—Where Artists Find InspirationChapter Seven—This Is Your Brain on Art—the Human Brain and the Creative ProcessChapter Eight—The 13 or So Traits of Creative People (According to Me)Chapter Nine—Self-Expression for Sale—Art and the MarketplaceChapter Ten—“We the People” As Patron of the Arts—Government’s Role in the ArtsChapter Eleven—Listening to Art, Even When It Isn’t Speaking to You—Understanding “Difficult” ArtChapter Twelve— What to Look for When You Look at Art—Art AppreciationAppendix A: Finding Art to Look AtAppendix B: Prehistoric TimelineAppendix C: Timeline of Art MovementsSelected BibliographyIndex
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Rowman & Littlefield The Measure of Man: Liberty, Virtue, and Beauty
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