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Oxford University Press Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Great Britain Fascicule 24 Oxford Ashmolean Museum Fascicule 4
Book SynopsisThis illustrated catalogue publishes the important collection of Greek Geometric and Orientalizing pottery in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. More than 200 vases and fragments are described and illustrated in detailed photographs and profile drawings. There is abundant illustration of the geometric forms of ornament from which the period takes its name, including fine examples of meticulous brushwork. The figured pieces include many elements of standard Late Geometric repertoire - male and female mourners at a bier; files of warriors with shield, helmet, and spear; processing two-horse chariots with their drivers; horses, deer, hounds, a fox, and birds of different types. The introduction gives a history of the collection and discusses the changing attitudes to pottery from the ''Greek Dark Ages''.
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Oxford University Press The Medieval Stained Glass of Lancashire
Book SynopsisThis is a catalogue of the pre-Gothic Revival stained glass found at 57 sites in Lancashire. Many of these are churches, but there are also domestic halls, museums, and schools. Highlights include important glazing dating from the 14th and 15th centuries at Cartmel Priory; a major window of c.1500 depicting the legend of St Helen at Ashton-under-Lyne; a sixteenth-century Seven Sacraments window at Cartmel Fell; fine imported 15th- and 16th-century continental panels at Chorley; and above all the magnificent but hitherto virtually unknown collection belonging to the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.The introduction discusses many aspects of the stained glass of both Lancashire and the neighbouring county of Cheshire: documentary sources, donors and heraldry, condition, iconography, as well as examining the style and techniques used by the glass-painters. The county''s indigenous surviving glass mostly dates from the 16th century and while it is predominantly heraldic, several sites demonTrade Review[A] substantial and comprehensively illustrated volume...A mine of information and a pleasure to use. * Lawrence Butler, Northern History. *
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Oxford University Press Corpus of AngloSaxon Stone Sculpture Volume IX
Book SynopsisThis volume provides a full analytical catalogue of all known pre-Norman sculpture from this region. As little documentary evidence survives from the area, the sculpture is vital to understanding the early development of the Church, the shifting relationships between communities, and the ways in which political affiliations gave access to a variety of cultural centers across England, Ireland, mainland Europe and Scandinavia. Among the significant carvings are the crosses at Sandbach with their elaborate figural sculpture and the delicate carvings from Halton and Hornby in the Lune valley. Much of the work is of the 10th- and 11th-century Viking period, and shows an intriguing mixture of Scandinavian-derived motifs alongside Christian iconography.Introductory chapters set the material within its historical, topographical and art-historical context.Trade ReviewThis is an impeccably researched and produced volume which makes an important contribution to our understanding of the ecclesiastical and socio-economic history of the north-west. * Grenville Astill, Journal of Ecclesiastical History *a gold mine of information and analysis... Bailey's volume is an erudite, essential reference work, and successful because it inspires more questions and research directions about the material. * Meggen M. Gondek, English Historical Review *this volume offers a very welcome addition to the CASSS series and early medieval stone sculpture studies as a whole ... the volume will encourage greater scholarly debate about the region's sculpture. The quality of the descriptive information and accompanying photographs ensures the assemblage is wholly accessible for the first time and Bailey's meticulous biographical research will enable those of us who wish to set monuments within their landscape context, the opportunity to do so on a regional and national scale. * Joanne Kirton, Early Medieval Europe *
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Oxford University Press The Medieval Stained Glass of Cheshire
Book SynopsisThis is a catalogue of the pre-Gothic Revival stained glass found at 50 sites in Cheshire. Many of these are churches, but there are also domestic residences and other buildings.Highlights include an important 14th-century regional workshop, probably based in Chester, whose output survives at 9 sites in the county; 16th-century armorials and donors; a fascinating window of 1581 at High Legh which demonstrates the Elizabethan religious settlement; a unique window commemorating the English Civil War; and a plethora of 17th-century quarries depicting a wide range of subjects such as English monarchs, classical sibyls, military drill and menial occupations. The county''s outstanding collections of foreign panels are also catalogued.The stained glass of the neighbouring county of Lancashire appears in CVMA, Great Britain, Summary Catalogue 8, The Medieval Stained Glass of Lancashire. The introduction discusses many aspects of the stained glass of both counties: documentary sources, donors a
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Oxford University Press Proceedings of the British Academy Volume 166 Biographical Memoirs of Fellows IX
Book SynopsisSixteen obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy: Brian Barry; Michael Baxandall; Robert Black; Henry Chadwick; Nicolas Coldstream; Howard Colvin; Mary Douglas; Robin Du Boulay; Alan Everitt; Robert Latham; Geoffrey Lewis; Laurence Picken; Thomas Puttfarken; Karen Spärck Jones; Christopher Stead; Denis Twitchett.Table of ContentsBrian Michael Barry 1936-2009 ; Michael David Kighley Baxandall 1933-2008 ; Robert Denis Collison Black 1922-2008 ; Henry Chadwick 1920-2008 ; John Nicolas Coldstream 1927-2008 ; Howard Montagu Colvin 1919-2007 ; Margaret Mary Douglas 1921-2007 ; Francis Robin Houssemayne Du Boulay 1920-2008 ; Alan Milner Everitt 1926-2008 ; Robert Clifford Latham 1912-1995 ; Geoffrey Lewis Lewis 1920-2008 ; Laurence Ernest Rowland Picken 1909-2007 ; Thomas Monrad Puttfarken 1943-2006 ; Karen Ida Boalth Sparck Jones 1935-2007 ; George Christopher Stead 1913-2008 ; Denis Crispin Twitchett 1925-2006
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OUP/British Academy The Music Room in Early Modern France and Italy
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary book investigates spaces for music-making in Early Modern France and Italy. Spaces specifically designed for music began to appear in private dwellings. While elite music-making became more specialised through the employment of paid musicians, music printing allowed new compositions to be diffused down the social scale.Trade ReviewThis is an excellent and much-needed book. * Early Music, *Table of Contents1. THE VISUAL DIMENSION ; 2. THE SPATIAL DIMENSION ; 3. THE AURAL DIMENSION ; 4. THE INTELLECTUAL DIMENSION ; 5. COURTLY CONTEXTS ; 6. THE DEVELOPMENT OF PURPOSE-BUILT SPACES FOR MUSIC
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Oxford University Press The Medieval Stained Glass of Merton College
Book SynopsisThis is the first full study of the important medieval stained glass of Merton College, Oxford. The scheme in the chapel is exceptionally well preserved; with the nave of York Minster, it represents the largest surviving set of early fourteenth-century windows in Britain. Research for this volume in the rich college archives has provided a new date for them, and identified the glazier, whose business is considered locally. Outstanding early fifteenth-century panels from the transepts are attributed to the workshop of Thomas Glazier, who had worked for William of Wykeham, Chancellor of England. Seven windows in the Old Library contain the earliest glazing to survive from any English library. The glass will therefore be of interest to many students of English medieval art and architecture. A general introduction also explores the potential of the monument for study within a university context. Merton was a model for the self-governing graduate college of the later middle ages in England.
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Oxford University Press Corpus of AngloSaxon Stone Sculpture XII Nottinghamshire
Book SynopsisCarved and decorated stone-work is a rare survival from the period before the Norman Conquest. In Nottinghamshire it survives as large crosses and as small fragments - to be found in churches, in public spaces and in museum collections. This is the first book to provide an authoritative listing, description and illustration of all examples of this type of decorated stone sculpture in Nottinghamshire. Each example is illustrated in a substantial catalogue containing high quality photographs, maps and interpretative drawings. In the introductory chapters the authors explore the geological and historical background of the sculptures and provide an overview of the types of style and ornament.The new information revealed by the systematic study of these major survivals of Anglo-Saxon art and archaeology demonstrates the major contribution that this category of material can make to an obscure and under-investigated period in Midlands history. Nottinghamshire emerges with a distinctive identiTrade Reviewthis volume maintains all that is excellent about previous CASSS volumes, while demonstrating that, despite a formulaic methodology, new approaches and, consequently, new insights can be generated within the current scope of this long- running project. * Joanne Kirton, Medieval Archaeology *Table of ContentsChristopher F. Higgins: Foreword 1: Earlier Research 2: Regional Geology 3: Historical Background to the Sculpture 4: Style and Ornament 5: Introduction to the Monument Groupings 6: Architectural Sculpture 7: Conclusions - Sculpture and History 8: Overlap and the Continuing Tradition Catalogue: Nottinghamshire
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Oxford University Press The First World War
Book SynopsisThe First World War at once extends and marks a departure from established understandings of the literature and culture of the First World War. In a series of compelling readings, scholars who have shaped the field rethink the intersections between war, literature, culture, and modernity across an international range of writers.Their attention ranges from combatant poets Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, David Jones, and Robert Service to intrepid nurse-memoirists Enid Bagnold and Mary Borden, to civilian intellectuals as diverse as H. G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, Anna Akhmatova, and Rabindranath Tagore. At the same time, there is engagement with the visual arts, including the film The Battle of the Somme, the sculpture, lithographs and woodcuts of Käthe Kollwitz and the interwar imaginative engagement with zeppelins. What results is both a daring expansion of the canon and a reframing of the terms of the debate.Silence, sacrifice, the unfathomable, maximal intensTrade ReviewAll eleven essays and the introduction are well written and deploy a variety of approaches to the vast topic proposed in the volume's title; each essay, moreover, demonstrates a thorough knowledge of its particular subfield. The volume itself is handsome and, unlike many essay collections, includes an index. The authors and editors deserve praise for selecting essays that expand on the cannon of war literature beyond the well-known combatant-poets and for moving beyond the literary to include film and the plastic arts...There is a great deal of merit in this very fine contribution to the field of First World War literary studies. * Susan McCready, University of South Alabama, H-War *This is a scholarly book which includes several intriguing black and white photos and artwork. All bibliographic references are included in the copious footnotes on each page, and an index concludes the text. A fascinating study for those interested in uncovering some overlooked aspects of the Great War through the eyes of modernism. * David F. Beer, Roads to the Great War *Table of ContentsList of figures Notes on contributors Preface and acknowledgements Santanu Das & Kate McLoughlin: Introduction Part One: Unfathomable 1: Kate McLoughlin: Three War Veterans Who Don't Tell War Stories 2: Hope Wolf: Scaling War: Poetic Calibration and Mythic Measures in David Jones's In Parenthesis 3: Vincent Sherry: Imbalances: Mass Death and the Economy of 'Sacrifice' in the Great War Part Two: Scoping the War 4: Sarah Cole: Civilians Writing the War: Metaphor, Proximity, Action 5: Laura Marcus: First World War Film and the Face of Death 6: Christine Froula: The Zeppelin in the Sky of the Mind 7: Mark Rawlinson: Dissent and the Literature of the First World War: Wyndham Lewis and Henry Williamson Part Three: 'Cosmopolitan Sympathies'? 8: Jahan Ramazani: 'Cosmopolitan Sympathies': Poetry of the First Global War 9: Margaret Higonnet: Maternal Cosmopoetics: Käthe Kollwitz and European Women Poets of the First World War 10: Claire Buck: Encountering War, Encountering Others 11: Santanu Das: Entangled Emotions: Race, Encounters and Anti-Colonial Cosmopolitanism Index
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Oxford University Press The Stained Glass of Herkenrode Abbey
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Oxford University Press Silver
Book SynopsisSilver transformed and convulsed the early modern world. Silver, even more than gold, occupied a deeply charged intersection of forces and dynamics philosophical, religious, material, telluric, economic, colonialist, social, cultural, and courtly that traversed and profoundly altered the world. Silver from the so-called ''New World'' bankrolled and justified the Spanish monarchy in its landgrab, wars, and empire building in both the Americas and in Europe. The great mountain of fabulously rich silver, Cerro Ricco in Potosí, relentlessly exploited by the Spanish invaders from 1545, irrevocably changed power relations, empires, and entire social and environmental ecologies across the globe. Accelerating global commerce and the growth of capitalism, trade in silver intensified the accumulation of capital and uneven trade balances, and enhanced the wealth of northern Europe at the expense of the Global South, particularly of Latin America. This wealth helped jump start the Industrial RevTable of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Glossary Introduction: Forging Silver ConnectionsHELEN HILLS: Part I: Silver: Mining, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonialism 1: ALLISON MARGARET BIGELOW: Gold, Silver, Power, and Abuse: 'The Incorporation and Erasure of Indigenous Knowledges in Spanish Colonial Metalwork' 2: THOMAS B. F. CUMMINS: The Atocha's Silver ca.1622: Ingots, Aquillas, and the Intersection of Values 3: MAGGIE BOLTON: Flowing Silver and Ephemeral Cities: Working the Ruins of Colonial Silver Mines Part II: Silver and the Moon 4: SPIKE BUCKLOW: Silver, the Lunar Metal 5: TIM INGOLD: How the World Shines Silver in the Moonlight Part III: Silver Profits: Trade, Trust, and Trickery 6: SERGIUS KODERA: Between Early Modern Technology and Moral Agenda: Silver Counterfeiting and Assaying in Sixteenth-century Europe 7: KRIS LANE: Mutant Money: The Globe-trotting Career of Seventeenth-century Silver Cash Part IV: Exquisite Effects 8: AVINOAM SHALEM: Fidda (Silver): On the Active Life of Matter 9: ELENA PHIPPS: Weaving Silver: Brilliance and Sheen in Colonial Andean Textiles 10: RICHARD CHECKETTS: Adam van Vianen and Ghosts of Silver in the Late-Renaissance World Index
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Oxford University Press Corpus of AngloSaxon Stone Sculpture XIV
Book SynopsisCorpus of Anglo-Saxon Sculpture, XIV, Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire surveys the counties of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire with a substantial catalogue of all known pre-Conquest stone sculpture, illustrated by high-quality photographs, maps, and interpretive drawings. A series of introductory chapters explore such topics as the history of previous scholarship, the geological and historical background, plus a detailed analysis of the new information afforded by these major survivals of Anglo-Saxon art and archaeology. Stocker and Everson conclude that the great majority of stone sculpture from these two counties belongs to the final century of Anglo-Saxon England, during which period they were rapidly expanding ecclesiastical societies, and deeply influenced by the great monasteries of Peterborough and Ely. The quantity of eleventh-century material permits an analysis of the impact of the Norman conquest on aspects of social, ecclesiastical, and cultural life, which is a runninTable of Contents1: Earlier Research 2: Richard Ellison and Mark Barron: Regional Geology 3: Historical Background to the Sculpture 4: Style and Ornament 5: Introduction to the Monument Groupings 6: Architectural Sculpture 7: Conclusions 8: The Continuing Tradition Catalogue: Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Bibliography Photgraphic acknowledgements Illustrations 1-481 Index
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Oxford University Press Art Feminism and Community
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The University of Chicago Press The Architecture of Michelangelo
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The University of Chicago Press Systems We Have Loved
Book SynopsisExamining the ways in which artists shared the structuralist devotion to systems of many sorts, this title shows that even as structuralism encouraged the advent of conceptual art, it also raised intractable problems that artists were forced to confront.Trade Review"Simply put, Systems We Have Loved is a gorgeous discussion of art, ideas, and their intercourse. But it is the tangible patience, care, and aptness of Eve Meltzer's own language that bring about the book's specific and considerable accomplishment: here is a successful and nuanced reawakening of the fervent optimism that, surprisingly, engendered some of the 'coolest' art produced under the rubric of conceptualism." (Darby English, University of Chicago)"
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University of Chicago Press The Afterlife of Piet Mondrian
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The University of Chicago Press Untwisting the Serpent Modernism in Music
Book SynopsisFrom its dissonant musics to its surrealist spectacles, Modernist art often seems to give more frustration than pleasure to its audience. In this text Daniel Albright shows that this perception arises partly because we usually consider each art form in isolation, rather than collaboration.
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The University of Chicago Press Wicked Intelligence Visual Art and the Science
Book SynopsisIn late seventeenth-century London, the most provocative images were produced not by artists, but by scientists. This book reveals that these natural philosophers shaped Restoration London's emergent artistic cultures by forging collaborations with court painters, penning art theory, and designing triumphs of baroque architecture.Trade Review"No study in recent years on the arts in early modern Britain is as intelligent and inventive as Wicked Intelligence. Always attuned to the elusiveness of objects and their capacity to stimulate unexpected thoughts, Matthew C. Hunter follows Latourian hybrids as they circulate through Restoration experimental culture and brilliantly articulates the material intelligence at work in the Royal Society. Hunter's writing is compelling and witty, and this book exemplifies the very wicked intelligence that he traces through Restoration experimental philosophy." -Michael Gaudio, University of Minnesota"
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The University of Chicago Press Bertrand Russell
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The University of Chicago Press Artists Advertising and the Borders of Art
Book SynopsisExplores in detail the world of commercial art, its illustrators, publishers, art directors, photographers and painters. This study examines the historical implications of 20th-century artists in commerce, and reveals how they ultimately facilitated the consolidation of high culture in the USA.
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The University of Chicago Press A Social History of Modern Art V 1 Art in an Age
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The University of Chicago Press What Did the Romans Know An Inquiry into Science
Book SynopsisThis study explores three of Bernini's baroque chapels to show how he achieved his effects. It examines the ways in which the artist integrated the architecture, painting and sculpture into a coherent space for devotion, and shows how this accomplishment was understood by religious practitioners.Table of ContentsForeword Hubert Damisch Introduction 1: The Fonseca Chapel 2: The Albertoni Chapel 3: The Altar of Sant' Andrea al Quirinale Conclusion: Flights of Love Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Communities of Style Portable Luxury Arts
Book SynopsisExamines the production and circulation of portable luxury goods throughout the Levant in the early Iron Age (1200-600 BCE). In particular, this book focuses on how societies in flux came together around the material effects of art and style, and their role in collective memory.
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The University of Chicago Press Commercial Visions
Book SynopsisIllustrating that product marketing, patent litigation, and even ghostwriting pervaded natural history and medicine - the big sciences of the early modern era, this book argues that the growth of global trade during the Dutch Golden Age gave rise to an entrepreneurial network of transnational science.Trade Review"Money and science have long been connected. Scientific activity needs to be paid for, but at times it can also turn into a nice little earner. As science became more materialistic, one of the most important tools for investigation became the ability to picture phenomena. In excavating how that happened in the early stages of the Scientific Revolution, in one of the most commercialized regions of Europe, Margocsy's book makes a major contribution to the histories of science and of art." (Harold J. Cook, Brown University)"
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The University of Chicago Press Anthropology at War World War I and the Science
Book SynopsisDrawing on Freudian theories of sexuality and Kant's conception of the beautiful, French art historian Hubert Damisch considers artists as diverse as Raphael, Picasso, Watteau and Manet to demonstrate that beauty has always been connected to ideas of sexual difference and pleasure.
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The University of Chicago Press George Inness and the Science of Landscape
Book SynopsisGeorge Inness (1825-94) is considered one of America's greatest landscape painters. A complicated artist and thinker, he painted stunning, evocative views of the American countryside. This title demonstrates how the artistic, spiritual, and scientific aspects of Inness' art found expression in his landscapes.Trade Review"Rachael Ziady DeLue undertakes the Herculean task of plumbing the depths of a highly complex and multifaceted mind to uncover many of the whys surrounding this often misunderstood artist.... Chapter by chapter, DeLue peels back the layers of a very complex man, revealing Inness's tireless pursuit of the perfect landscape model through which God could be revealed." - Kraig Binkowski, Art Documentation"
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The University of Chicago Press Benton Pollock and the Politics of Modernism From
Book SynopsisIn this acclaimed revisionist study, Erika Doss chronicles an historic cultural change in American art from the dominance of regionalism in the 1930s to abstract expressionism in the 1940s. She centers her study on Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock, Benton's foremost student in the early thirties, charting Pollock's early imitation of Benton's style before his radical move to abstraction. By situating painting within the evolving sociopolitical and cultural context of the Depression and the Cold War, Doss explains the reasons for this change and casts light on its significance for contemporary culture. A welcome addition to the growing body of literature that deals with the art and culture of the depression and cold war eras. It is a pioneering work that makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of a puzzling conundrum of American artthe shift from regionalism to abstract expressionism.M. Sue Kendall, Winterthur PortfolioAn important scholarly contribution. . . . This b
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The University of Chicago Press The Visible Word Experimental Typography and
Book SynopsisEarly in this century, Futurist and Dada artists developed brilliantly innovative uses of typography that blurred the boundaries between visual art and literature. In this text, Johanna Drucker shows how later art criticism has distorted our understanding of such works.
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The University of Chicago Press In Search of a Lost AvantGarde An Anthropologist
Book SynopsisFrom fund-raising and owner loans to museum-artist relations to the immense effort involved in safely shipping sixty works from twenty-seven lenders in fourteen cities and five countries, this book illustrates the inner workings of one of Chicago's premier cultural institutions.Trade Review"An important, lucid, and miraculously easy-reading contribution to the ethnography of art." (Sarah Thornton, author of Seven Days in the Art World)"
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The University of Chicago Press History of the Surrealist Movement
Book SynopsisWith its unprecedented depth and range, this massive new history of Surrealism from veteran French philosopher and art critic Durozoi will be the one-volume standard for years to come. . . . The book discusses expertly the main surrealist artists like Jean Arp, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Salvador Dalí and Joan Miró, but also treats with considerable understanding the surrealist writing by Louis Aragon, Paul Eluard, Robert Desnos, Julien Graçq and, of course, the so-called 'Pope of Surrealism,' André Breton. . . . This book should turn up in all serious collections on 20th century art.Publishers Weekly, starred reviewFrom Dada to the Automatists, and from Max Ernst to André Breton, Gérard Durozoi here provides the most comprehensive history of the Surrealist movement. Tracing the movement from its origins in the 1920s to its decline in the 1950s and 1960s, Durozoi tells the history of Surrealism through its activities, publications, and reviews, demonstrating its close ties to some of the most explosive political, as well as creative, debates of the twentieth century. Drawing on a staggering amount of documentary and visual evidenceincluding 1,000 photosDurozoi illuminates all the intellectual and artistic facets of the movement, from literature and philosophy to painting, photography, and film, thus making History of the Surrealist Movement its definitive encyclopedia.
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The University of Chicago Press Pope.L
Book SynopsisWorking in range of media from ketchup to baloney to correction fluid, with a special emphasis on performativity and writing, this book pokes fun at and interrogates American society's pretenses, the bankruptcy of contemporary mores, and the resulting repercussions for a civil society.
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The University of Chicago Press A Guide to Mexican Art From Its Beginnings to the
Book SynopsisA Guide to Mexican Art, a survey of more than twenty centuries of art, has a double purpose. It provides an ample version of one of the great national arts by a leading art historian, and it serves simultaneously as a practical guide to the art's outstanding masterpieces. The Guide will thus be of value to specialists and students of Latin American art and to sightseers as an introduction and guide to the art and architecture of Mexico. To facilitate its use for the latter purpose, Professor Fernández has based his exposition on the sensitive analysis of works to be found almost exclusive in museums and public buildings accessible to the tourist. The book was originally published in Spanish in 1958 and revised in 1961. This English translation, from the second edition has been brought up to date by the author and translator.
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The University of Chicago Press Shakespeare Dwelling Designs for the Theater of
Book SynopsisGreat halls and hovels, dove-houses and sheepcotes, mountain cells and seaside sheltersthese are some of the spaces in which Shakespearean characters gather to dwell, and to test their connections with one another and their worlds. Julia Reinhard Lupton enters Shakespeare's dwelling places in search of insights into the most fundamental human problems. Focusing on five works (Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Pericles, Cymbeline, and The Winter's Tale), Lupton remakes the concept of dwelling by drawing on a variety of sources, including modern design theory, Renaissance treatises on husbandry and housekeeping, and the philosophies of Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. The resulting synthesis not only offers a new entry point into the contemporary study of environments; it also shows how Shakespeare's works help us continue to make sense of our primal creaturely need for shelter.
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The University of Chicago Press A Roger Fry Reader
Book SynopsisRepresenting 40 years of work with modern French art and formalistic theory, these essays cover a broad spectrum of topics, from Fry's influential promotion of post-Impressionism to art education, museums, architecture, decorative art, literature and dance.
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The University of Chicago Press Practicing New Historicism
Book SynopsisThis work focuses on five aspects of new historicism: recurrent use of anecdotes, preoccupation with the nature of representations, fascination with the history of the body, sharp focus on neglected details, and skeptical analysis of ideology.
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The University of Chicago Press Practicing New Historicism
Book SynopsisThis work focuses on five aspects of new historicism: recurrent use of anecdotes, preoccupation with the nature of representations, fascination with the history of the body, sharp focus on neglected details, and skeptical analysis of ideology.
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The University of Chicago Press Renaissance Characters
Book SynopsisA synthesis of the work of international scholars, this is an account of the people who animated a decisive period in the genesis of the modern mind - the Renaissance. Confining its attention to the "great" Renaissance which originated in Italy, the book treats a broad spectrum of figures.
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The University of Chicago Press Sexuality and Form
Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging study of sexuality, aesthetics, and epistemology covers everything from the aesthetics of war to the works of Caravaggio, Michelangelo, Christopher Marlowe, and Francis Bacon, synthesizing queer theory and psycholanalysis.Trade Review"Hammill's ability to connect the dots of various disciplines to make a big cultural picture is nothing short of brilliant.... Original, daring, disturbing, polemical and persuasive. It stands head and shoulders above almost all, if not all, books on sex and violence (and outsiderness and cultural impact)." - Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance "Breathtaking, substantial, and original.... Hammill's use of humanist, Biblical, and psychoanalytic paradigms and micro-histories to intervene in current cultural studies of homosexuality and 'sexed thinking' is much needed. Readers will leave this book convinced that the flesh cannot be thought of outside a psychoanalytic register." - Julia Lupton, author of Afterlives of the Saints
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The University of Chicago Press The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism
Book SynopsisIn this bold interdisciplinary work, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that asceticism has played a major role in shaping Western ideas of the body, writing, ethics, and aesthetics. He suggests that we consider the ascetic as the 'cultural' element in culture, and presents a close analysis of works by Athanasius, Augustine, Matthias, Grünewald, Nietzsche, Foucault, and other thinkers as proof of the extent of asceticism's resources. Harpham demonstrates the usefulness of his findings by deriving from asceticism a discourse of resistance, a code of interpretation ultimately more generous and humane than those currently available to us.
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The University of Chicago Press The Artist in American Society The Formative
Book SynopsisWhat was the place of the artist in a new society? How would he thrive where monarchy, aristocracy, and an established churchthose traditional patrons of painting, sculpture, and architecturewere repudiated so vigorously? Neil Harris examines the relationships between American cultural values and American society during the formative years of American art and explores how conceptions of the artist's social role changed during those years.
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The University of Chicago Press Sculpture Some Observations on Shape Form from Pygmalions Creative Dream Some Observations on Shape and Form from Pygmalions Creative Dream ... Village resources for communities of faith
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The University of Chicago Press Sculpture Some Observations on Shape and Form
Book SynopsisHerder combines rationalist and empiricist thought with a wide range of sources - from the classics to Norse legend, Shakespeare to the Bible - to illuminate the ways we experience sculpture.Trade Review"Herder on sculpture: "The eye that gathers impressions is no longer the eye that sees a depiction on a surface; it becomes a hand, the ray of light becomes a finger, and the imagination becomes a form of immediate touching.
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The University of Chicago Press Making TheoryConstructing Art On the Authority of
Book SynopsisThis text examines and critiques the norms, assumptions, historical conditions and institutions that have framed the development and uses of art theory. It looks at the work of major figures in the avant-garde movement, such as John Cage, Jean-Francois Lyotard and Andy Warhol.
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The University of Chicago Press Theory of Form
Book SynopsisA pragmatist conception of artistic form, through a study of the painter Gerhard Richter. In this study of the practice of contemporary painter Gerhard Richter, Florian Klinger proposes a fundamental change in the way we think about art today. In reaction to the exhaustion of the modernist-postmodernist paradigm's negotiation of the essence of art, he takes Richter to pursue a pragmatist model that understands artistic form as action. Here form is no longer conceived according to what it saysas a vehicle of expression, representation, or realization of something other than itselfbut strictly according to what it does. Through its doing, Klinger argues, artistic form is not only more real but also more shared than non-artistic reality, and thus enables interaction under conditions where it would otherwise not be possible. It is a human practice aimed at testing and transforming the limits of shared reality, urgently needed in situations where such reality breaks down or turns precarious. Drawing on pragmatist thought, philosophical aesthetics, and art history, Klinger's account of Richter's practice offers a highly distinctive conceptual alternative for contemporary art in general. Trade Review“In this extraordinarily illuminating book, Klinger builds on a painstaking consideration of Richter’s artistic practice to derive a pragmatist theory of artistic form and of form’s ultimate purpose. In addition to its exciting philosophical and art historical interventions, Klinger’s analysis delineates a practical ethics of art-making that deserves to be read by anyone interested in the theory and practice of art in today’s crisis of world-sharing.” -- Whitney Davis, University of California at Berkeley “Theory of Form is a twofold triumph: it presents the most original study of Richter’s aesthetics in recent years, and it is also a groundbreaking contribution to theorizing contemporary art. Remarkably linking form to reaction, judgment, and transformation, it is essential reading for anyone interested in art’s capacity to profoundly touch us and to partake in shaping our world.” -- Amir Eshel, author of Poetic Thinking Today“Klinger’s Theory of Form combines astute philosophical thought with a fascinating close analysis of Richter’s practice, yielding a new understanding of historical time and contemporaneity. It raises the theory of form to another level – indeed, it makes one see how form in art ought to be thought today.” -- Rahel Villinger, author of Kant und die Imagination der Tiere (Kant and the Imagination of Animals)Table of ContentsI Response to a Contemporary Challenge II Morphological Question: Form as Reaction III Poetological Question: Form as Judgment IV Eschatological Question: Form as Transformation V Form as Paradigm? Acknowledgments Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Warhols Working Class
Book SynopsisThis book explores Andy Warhol's creative engagement with social class. During the 1960s, as neoliberalism perpetuated the idea that fixed classes were a mirage and status an individual achievement, Warhol's work appropriated images, techniques, and technologies that have long been described as generically American or middle class. Drawing on archival and theoretical research into Warhol's contemporary cultural milieu, Grudin demonstrates that these features of Warhol's work were in fact closely associated with the American working class. The emergent technologies which Warhol conspicuously employed to make his work home projectors, tape recorders, film and still cameras were advertised directly to the working class as new opportunities for cultural participation. What's more, some of Warhol's most iconic subjects Campbell's soup, Brillo pads, Coca-Cola were similarly targeted, since working-class Americans, under threat from a variety of directions, were thought to desire the security and confidence offered by national brands. Having propelled himself from an impoverished childhood in Pittsburgh to the heights of Madison Avenue, Warhol knew both sides of this equation: the intense appeal that popular culture held for working-class audiences and the ways in which the advertising industry hoped to harness this appeal in the face of growing middle-class skepticism regarding manipulative marketing. Warhol was fascinated by these promises of egalitarian individualism and mobility, which could be profound and deceptive, generative and paralyzing, charged with strange forms of desire. By tracing its intersections with various forms of popular culture, including film, music, and television, Grudin shows us how Warhol's work disseminated these promises, while also providing us with a record of their intricate tensions and transformations.
£33.25
The University of Chicago Press Spiral Jetta A Road Trip through the Land Art of
Book SynopsisErin Hogan hit the road in her Volkswagen Jetta and headed west from Chicago in search of the monuments of American land art. Her journey took her through the states of Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. It also took her through the states of anxiety, drunkenness, and heat exhaustion. This title presents a chronicle of this journey.Trade Review"The reader emerges enlightened and even delighted.... Casually scrutinizing the artistic works... while gamely playing up her fish-out-of-water status, Hogan delivers an ingeniously engaging travelogue-cum-art history." - Atlantic "Smart and unexpectedly hilarious." - Kevin Nance, Chicago Sun-Times "One of the funniest and most entertaining road trips to be published in quite some time." - June Sawyers, Chicago Tribune "Hogan ruminates on how the work affects our sense of time, space, size, and scale. She is at her best when she reexamines the precepts of modernism in the changing light of New Mexico, and shows how the human body is meant to be a participant in these grand constructions." - New Yorker "I was never quite sure what Hogan was looking for when she set out... or indeed whether she found it. But I loved the ride. In Spiral Jetta, an unshamedly honest, slyly uproarious, ever-probing book, art doesn't magically have the power to change lives, but it can, perhaps no less powerfully, change ways of seeing." - Tom Vanderbilt, New York Times Book Review"
£17.66
The University of Chicago Press New Yorks New Edge
Book SynopsisThe story of New York's west side no longer stars the Sharks and the Jets. Instead it's a story of urban transformation, cultural shifts, and an expanding contemporary art scene. The Chelsea Gallery District has become New York's most dominant neighborhood for contemporary art, and the streets of the west side are filled with gallery owners, art collectors, and tourists. Developments like the High Line, historical preservation projects like the Gansevoort Market, the Chelsea galleries, and plans for megaprojects like the Hudson Yards Development have redefined what is now being called the Far West Side of Manhattan. David Halle and Elisabeth Tiso offer a deep analysis of the transforming district inNew York's New Edge, and the result is a new understanding of how we perceive and interpret culture and the city in New York's gallery district. From individual interviews with gallery owners to the behind-the-scenes politics of preservation initiatives and megaprojects, the book provides an in-depth account of the developments, obstacles, successes, and failures of the area and the factors that have contributed to them.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Aesthetics and the Theory of Criticism Selected
Book SynopsisThese sixteen essays by Arnold Isenberg bring wide-ranging connoiseurship, intricate analysis, and epigrammatic literacy to bear on a number of glib and fuzzy oppositions between form and content, description and interpretation, perception and meaning, technique and substance, and belief and expression, articulating provocative strategies for illuminating the canon of the arts and the organ of criticism. . . . Any thoughtful lover of the arts could read this book with profit and inspiration.Choice
£30.00
