History of art Books
The University of Chicago Press Abstraction in Reverse
Book SynopsisDuring the mid-twentieth century, Latin American artists working in several different cities radically altered the nature of modern art. Reimagining the relationship of art to its public, these artists granted the spectator a greater role than ever before in the realization of the artwork. The first book to explore this phenomenon on an international scale, Abstraction in Reverse traces the movement as it evolved across South America and parts of Europe. Alexander Alberro demonstrates that artists such as Tomas Maldonado, Jesus Soto, Julio Le Parc, and Lygia Clark, in breaking with the core tenets of the form of abstract art known as Concrete art, redefined the role of both the artist and the spectator. Instead of manufacturing autonomous artworks prior to the act of viewing, these artists presented a range of projects that required the spectator in order to be complete. Importantly, as Alberro shows, these artists set aside regionalist art in favor of a modernist approach that transcended the traditions of any nation-state. Along the way, the artists fundamentally altered the concept of the subject and of how art should address its audience, a revolutionary development with parallels in the greater art world.
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The University of Chicago Press Aspects
Book SynopsisStretching lengths of yarn across interior spaces, American artist Fred Sandback (1943 2003) created expansive works that underscore the physical presence of the viewer. This book, the first major study of Sandback, explores the full range of his art, which not only disrupts traditional conceptions of material presence, but also stages an ethics of interaction between object and observer. Drawing on Sandback's substantial archive, Edward A. Vazquez demonstrates that the artist's work with all its physical slightness and attentiveness to place, as well as its relationship to minimal and conceptual art of the 1960s creates a link between viewers and space that is best understood as sculptural even as it almost surpasses physical form. At the same time, the economy of Sandback's site-determined practice draws viewers' focus to their connection to space and others sharing it. As Vazquez shows, Sandback's art aims for nothing less than a total recalibration of the senses, as the spectator is caught on neither one side nor the other of an object or space, but powerfully within it.
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The University of Chicago Press In Search of a Lost AvantGarde
Book SynopsisIn 2008, anthropologist Matti Bunzl was given rare access to observe the curatorial department of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. For five months, he sat with the institution's staff, witnessing firsthand what truly goes on behind the scenes at a contemporary art museum. From 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, Matti Bunzl's In Search of a Lost Avant-Garde illustrates the inner workings of one of Chicago's premier cultural institutions. Bunzl's ethnography is designed to show how a commitment to the avant-garde can come into conflict with an imperative for growth, leading to the abandonment of the new and difficult in favor of the entertaining and profitable. Jeff Koons, whose massive retrospective debuted during Bunzl's research, occupies a central place in his book and exposes the anxieties caused by such seemingly pornographic work
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The University of Chicago Press The Moment of SelfPortraiture in German
Book SynopsisIn this study, Joseph Koerner establishes the character of Renaissance art in Germany and examines how artists such as Albrecht Durer and Hans Baldung Grien reflected in their masterworks the changing status of the self in 16th-century Germany.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Prologue 1: Prosopopoeia 2: Self and Epoch 3: Organa of History Pt. 1: The Project of Self-Portraiture: Albrecht Durer 4: The Artist as Christ 5: Not Made by Human Hands 6: Figures of Omnivoyance 7: The Divine Hand 8: The Hairy, Bearded Painter 9: Representative Man 10: The Law of Authorship 11: Bas-de-Page Pt. 2: The Mortification of the Image: Hans Baldung Grien 12: Durer Disfigured 13: Death and Experience 14: Death as Hermeneutic 15: The Crisis of Interpretation 16: Homo Interpres in Bivio: Cranach and Luther 17: The Death of the Artist Notes Photographic Credits Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Escape From a SeventeenthCentury Drawing
Book SynopsisCharles Le Brun's drawing manual on human emotions has been used for centuries by artists and students as a model for depicting facial expressions. In David Schutter's work, Le Brun's manual is set to a different direction--a series of abstract drawings recalling vestiges of the human face animated by emotion. But Schutter's drawings are neither copies nor portraiture. Rather, they are reflections on how Lebrun's renderings were made. Collected here, Schutter's work recreates not the subject matter but the very values of Lebrun's drawings--light, gesture, scale, and handling of materials. The cross-hatching in the original was used to make classical tone and volume, in Schutter's hand the technique makes for unstable impressions of strained neck and deeply furrowed brow, or for drawing marks and scribbles unto themselves. As such, these drawings end up denying a neat closure--unlike their academic source material--and render unsettling states of mind that require repeated viewing. AccTable of ContentsThe Escape / David Schutter L LB dc 1–45 / David Schutter Memory as Initiation: David Schutter’s Critique of Expression / Barry Schwabsky Schutter’s Seeing Ways / Dieter Roelstraete Selected Drawings from L’expression des passions / Charles Le Brun
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The University of Chicago Press Michelangelos Painting
Book SynopsisMichelangelo's Paintings is the second volume in a series that presents Steinberg's writings, selected and edited by his longtime associate Sheila Schwartz.
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The University of Chicago Press Enchanted Islands Picturing the Allure of
Book SynopsisA final book from the late scholar, this one on the idea of the island in the imagination of eighteenth-century France.
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The University of Chicago Press To Destroy Painting
Book SynopsisThis text, first published in France in 1977, presents cultural critic Louis Marin's theories about the aims of painting in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. It explores a number of notions implied by theories of painting and offers insight into the aims and effects of visual representaion.
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The University of Chicago Press Like Andy Warhol
Book SynopsisScholarly considerations of Andy Warhol abound, including very fine catalogues raisonne, notable biographies, and essays in various exhibition catalogues and anthologies. But nowhere is there an in-depth scholarly examination of Warhol's oeuvre as a whole until now. Jonathan Flatley's Like Andy Warhol is a revelatory look at the artist's likeness-producing practices, not only reflected in his famous Campbell's soup cans and Marilyn Monroe silkscreens, but across Warhol's whole range of interests including movies, drag queens, boredom, and his sprawling collections. Flatley shows us that Warhol's art is an illustration of the artist's own talent for liking. He argues that there is in Warhol's productions a utopian impulse, an attempt to imagine new, queer forms of emotional attachment and affiliation, and to transform the world into a place where these forms find a new home. Like Andy Warhol is not just the best full-length critical study of Warhol in print, it is also an instant classi
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The University of Chicago Press Authoritarianism Three Inquiries in Critical
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The University of Chicago Press The Art of Return
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University of Chicago Press The Language of Images
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The University of Chicago Press The Subject of Elizabeth Authority Gender and
Book SynopsisAs a woman wielding public authority, Elizabeth I embodied a paradox at the very center of sixteenth-century patriarchal English society. This title illuminates the ways in which the Queen and her subjects variously exploited or obfuscated this contradiction. It is suitable for historians, literary scholars, and art historians of the period.
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The University of Chicago Press Ancestral Connections Art and an Aboriginal
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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 Merce Cunningham
Book SynopsisOne of the most influential choreographers of the twentieth century, Merce Cunningham is known for introducing chance to dance. Far too often, however, accounts of Cunningham's work have neglected its full scope, focusing on his collaborations with the visionary composer John Cage or insisting that randomness was the singular goal of his choreography. In this book, the first dedicated to the complete arc of Cunningham's career, Carrie Noland brings new insight to this transformative artist's philosophy and career, providing a fresh perspective on his artistic process while exploring aspects of his choreographic practice never studied before. Examining a rich and previously unseen archive that includes photographs, film footage, and unpublished writing by Cunningham, Noland counters prior understandings of Cunningham's influential embrace of the unintended, demonstrating that Cunningham in fact set limits on the role chance played in his dances. Drawing on Cunningham's written and peTrade Review"What a terrific addition to the library! Noland is . . . taking the received understanding of Cunningham, and working against its fetish terms of chance, indeterminacy, nonnarrative, and so forth, to probe instead for Cunningham's interest in human connections and particularities. The effect of moving through Noland's text is of an unfolding of multiple issues and optics, many of them fundamentally biographical, all in turn shaping the kinesthetics of Cunningham's expertise as dancer and as choreographer. Rather than presenting the evanescent medium of dance as a linear compositional project, Noland shows it as constellational-recursive, dialogic, felt, meant, and, most importantly, thought."--Judith Rodenbeck, author of Radical Prototypes: Allan Kaprow and the Invention of Happenings "Merce Cunningham: After the Arbitrary is a rigorously argued, extremely persuasive, and highly topical book. While Cunningham's work is famous for being almost tortuously difficult, Noland successfully reads it through the arbitrary and the human, the abstract and the motivated, the structural and the personal. She has done so, moreover, with a fluid voice that moves easily between the register of observation and the metacritical. It is at once historical, theoretical, and formalist, making it a model of scholarship in any humanist field. Noland moves deliberately, examining not only a sequence of Cunningham's dances but their interlocking relationships with other choreographies, both contemporaneous and otherwise."--Rachel Haidu, author of The Absence of Work: Marcel Broodthaers 1964-1976
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The University of Chicago Press Merce Cunningham
Book SynopsisTrade Review"What a terrific addition to the library! Noland is . . . taking the received understanding of Cunningham, and working against its fetish terms of chance, indeterminacy, nonnarrative, and so forth, to probe instead for Cunningham's interest in human connections and particularities. The effect of moving through Noland's text is of an unfolding of multiple issues and optics, many of them fundamentally biographical, all in turn shaping the kinesthetics of Cunningham's expertise as dancer and as choreographer. Rather than presenting the evanescent medium of dance as a linear compositional project, Noland shows it as constellational-recursive, dialogic, felt, meant, and, most importantly, thought."--Judith Rodenbeck, author of Radical Prototypes: Allan Kaprow and the Invention of Happenings "Merce Cunningham: After the Arbitrary is a rigorously argued, extremely persuasive, and highly topical book. While Cunningham's work is famous for being almost tortuously difficult, Noland successfully reads it through the arbitrary and the human, the abstract and the motivated, the structural and the personal. She has done so, moreover, with a fluid voice that moves easily between the register of observation and the metacritical. It is at once historical, theoretical, and formalist, making it a model of scholarship in any humanist field. Noland moves deliberately, examining not only a sequence of Cunningham's dances but their interlocking relationships with other choreographies, both contemporaneous and otherwise."--Rachel Haidu, author of The Absence of Work: Marcel Broodthaers 1964-1976
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The University of Chicago Press Womens Culture American Philanthropy and Art
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The University of Chicago Press Learning From Madness
Book SynopsisThroughout the history of European modernism, philosophers and artists have been fascinated by madness. Something different happened in Brazil, however, with the art of the insane that flourished within the modernist movements there. From the 1920s to the 1960s, the direction and creation of art by the mentally ill was actively encouraged by prominent figures in both medicine and art criticism, which led to a much wider appreciation among the curators of major institutions of modern art in Brazil, where pieces are included in important exhibitions and collections. Kaira M. Cabañas shows that at the center of this advocacy stood such significant proponents as psychiatrists Osório César and Nise da Silveira, who championed treatments that included painting and drawing studios; and the art critic Mário Pedrosa, who penned Gestaltist theses on aesthetic response. Cabañas examines the lasting influence of this unique era of Brazilian modernism, and how the afterlife of this outsider art continues to raise important questions. How do we respect the experiences of the mad as their work is viewed through the lens of global art? Why is this art reappearing now that definitions of global contemporary art are being contested?Learning from Madness offers an invigorating series of case studies that track the parallels between psychiatric patients' work in Western Europe and its reception by influential artists there, to an analogous but altogether distinct situation in Brazil.
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The University of Chicago Press Law and the Image
Book SynopsisA discussion of the diverse relationships between law and the artistic image. Topics addressed in the book include the history of the relationship between art and law, the ways in which the visual is made subject to the force of the law, and the relations between law, the image and identity.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Law and the Image The Authority of Art and the
Book SynopsisA discussion of the diverse relationships between law and the artistic image. Topics addressed in the book include the history of the relationship between art and law, the ways in which the visual is made subject to the force of the law, and the relations between law, the image and identity.
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The University of Chicago Press The Jewish Decadence Jews and the Aesthetics of
Book SynopsisTrade Review"It is chock-full of exciting and provocative ideas, but it is also just plain fun — something akin to Freedman leading the reader by the hand on a tour of a cultural landscape that he knows like the back of his hand." * Los Angeles Review of Books *"This is a profoundly important book in Jewish Studies, as well as among the cultural and literary criticism of its artistic subject." * Religion and the Arts *"Erudite, gossipy, nuanced, funny, and moving. . . Freedman serves as collector culling materials from a wide array of sources, arranging them into an often dizzying but unfailingly interesting and almost always entirely persuasive account that supports his thesis, each time from a different direction." * Victorian Studies *"Overall, The Jewish Decadence is a richly rewarding read, blending deep knowledge, provocative insight and unsparing honesty to the role Jews have played in fin-de-siècle culture of Europe and the USA. Barely a page goes by with an insight into cultural production and consumption and unexpected links between creators, places and ideas. This book will be of value to anyone wishing to under early Modernism and Jewish contribution to vanguard art." -- alexanderadamsart: Reviews of art, culture and literature"Freedman’s argument, that Jewish novelists, poets, actors, and philosophers reworked the discourse of decadence, which often linked Jewishness to decline, to their own ends in order to generate a Jewish response to the conditions of modernity, is compelling. More importantly, it offers a model of how work on afterlives and transnational circulation can avoid the trap of thinking in terms of unidirectional influence and attend to the agency and creativity of those influenced." * Journal of British Studies *Bringing his capacious cultural expertise and scholarly rigor to a wide-ranging exploration of the association between Jews and decline and degeneracy, Jonathan Freedman performs an erudite, original, and wonderfully chutzpadik act of reclamation. -- Alisa Solomon, Columbia University“This book takes us on an extraordinary journey through what the author calls ‘something like modernity,’ as it is to be found in dance, literature, song, painting, theatre, film, and history. Decadence turns out to mean what it seems to mean, and an almost unimaginable range of other things as well. Its richness, as well as its constant entanglement in ideas of Jewishness, would have caused any other writer either to simplify or get lost, but Freedman wittily and resolutely does neither. His book is ‘example-drunk,’ as he says, but it doesn’t stumble. It celebrates complication and reflection and masquerade, and we find ourselves wishing the show—the one he is evoking and the one to be seen in the fabulous evocation itself—would never end.” -- Michael Wood, Princeton University“Freedman reconceives of Jews as architects rather than victims of modernity. Although Jews were often demonized as sexual and artistic deviants, they also entered into dialogue with their detractors by contesting or reshaping the prejudices of the day. Most important, Jews played a central role in European culture as artists, critics, sponsors, networkers, and entrepreneurs; throughout the book, Freedman spots Jews where none have been discerned before, testifying to their ubiquity among the avant-garde.” -- Maud Ellman, University of Chicago"A book that transforms our experiences of familiar works and encourages us to carry on the work of Jewish cultural studies, following the example of one of its most gifted practitioners." * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsPreface, by Daniel Hack and Amy Hungerford Introduction: “Our Two-Step Is the Modern Decadence!” 1 Qu’est-ce que c’est la décadence? And What Does It Have to Do with Jews? 2 Oscar Wilde among the Jews 3 Salomania and the Remaking of the Jewish Female Body from Sarah Bernhardt to Betty Boop 4 Coming Out of the Jewish Closet with Marcel Proust 5 Pessimism, Jewish Style: Jews Reading Schopenhauer from Freud to Bellow 6 Walter Benjamin’s Paris, Capital of Jewish Aesthetic Modernity 7 Dybbuks, Vampires, and Other Fin-de-Siècle Jewish Phantasms Conclusion: The Deca-danse; or, The Afterlife of the Jewish DecadentNotes Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Futurist Moment AvantGarde Avant Guerre and
Book SynopsisThis examination of the flourishing of Futurist aesthetics in European art and literature of the twentieth century, offers considerations of futurist work from Russia to Italy.
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The University of Chicago Press The Subject of Crusade Lyric Romance and
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The University of Chicago Press The Subject of Crusade Lyric Romance and
Book SynopsisIn the Middle Ages, religious crusaders took up arms, prayed, bade farewell to their families, and marched off to fight in holy wars. These Christian soldiers also created accounts of their lives in lyric poetry, putting words to the experience of personal sacrifice and the pious struggle associated with holy war. The crusaders affirmed their commitment to fighting to claim a distant land while revealing their feelings as they left behind their loved ones, homes, and earthly duties. Their poems and related visual works offer us insight into the crusaders' lives and values at the boundaries of earthly and spiritual duties, body and soul, holy devotion and courtly love. In The Subject of Crusade, Marisa Galvez offers a nuanced view of holy war and crusade poetry, reading these lyric works withina wider conversation with religion and culture. Arguing for an interdisciplinary treatment of crusade lyric, she shows how such poems are crucial for understanding the crusades as a complex cultural and historical phenomenon. Placing them in conversation with chronicles, knightly handbooks, artworks, and confessional and pastoral texts, she identifies a particular crusade idiom that emerged out of the conflict between pious and earthly duties. Galvez fashions an expanded understanding of the creative works made by crusaders to reveal their experiences, desires, ideologies, and reasons for taking up the cross.
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The University of Chicago Press Believing and Seeing
Book SynopsisArgues that preoccupation with vision as a key to religious knowledge profoundly affected a broad range of late medieval works. This title explores key religious buildings throughout Europe to reveal how their grand designs supported this profusion of images that made visible the signs of scripture.Trade Review"Readers will be rewarded by Recht's brilliant analysis of Gothic architectural polychromy, stained glass, and stone sculpture, and should find the unity of Recht's 'vision' of the Gothic ultimately convincing." - Choice "Recht's book is especially at its most engaging when it opens up the treatment of images to suggest that ways of seeing, believing, and making constitute all together 'l'art des cathedrales.'" - Art Bulletin "An ambitious, broad-ranging study of the role and function of the image within the medieval church. This volume is of fundamental importance to the study of medieval art, and should become part of the intellectual apparatus of all who concern themselves with the religious image." - Times Higher Education"
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The University of Chicago Press Localism and the Ancient Greek CityState
Book SynopsisTrade Review"By incorporating some of the key turns in the field of ancient history over the last thirty years--spatial, temporal, global, and local, as well as the move towards network based explanations--Beck has produced an important history that reads quite differently from the narrative familiar to many. He emphasizes the local not merely as a category of analysis but as a source of conflicting, resistant, alternative modes of discourse that added immeasurably to the richness of archaic and classical culture."--Jeremy McInerney, author of Ancient Greece: A New History "In creating a compelling case for the importance of the local, Beck provides a much-needed corrective to a scholarly orthodoxy that has underestimated the importance of place. Throughout, Beck displays a dazzling virtuosity with regard to his command of the scholarship and his ability to mesh literary sources--many of them drawn from relatively obscure and fragmentary authors--with numismatics, visual imagery, pottery styles, landscape archaeology, and archaeological field survey. It will certainly add a fresh new voice to the ongoing debate about connectivity."--Jonathan Hall, author of Artifact and Artifice: Classical Archaeology and the Ancient HistorianTable of ContentsMap List of Illustrations Preface Chapter One: Localism and the Local in Ancient Greece Chapter Two: Attachment to the Land Chapter Three: Senses and Sensation Chapter Four: The Gods in Place Chapter Five: Big Politics, through the Local Lens Chapter Six: Toward a Local History of Ancient Greece Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Scenes from Deep Time
Book SynopsisInformed by fossil discoveries, scientists and artists collaborated during the years before Darwin's "Origin of Species" was published to produce images of a prehistoric world based on sources other than the Bible. This book explores the implications of reconstructing a past humans have never seen.
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The University of Chicago Press Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Book SynopsisExplores how knowledge was obtained and demonstrated in Europe when standard methods of inquiry took shape across several fields of intellectual pursuit. This book looks at production and consumption of knowledge as a social process. It focuses on how various methods came to interact with practices of craftspeople to create new ways of knowing.
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The University of Chicago Press Making the Modern Industry Art and Design in
Book SynopsisIn this ambitious book, Terry Smith chronicles the modernist revolution in American art and design between the world warsfrom its origins in the new industrial age of mass production, automation, and corporate culture to its powerful and transforming effects on the way Americans came to see themselves and their world. From Ford Motor's first assembly line in 1913 to the New York World's Fair of 1939, Smith traces the evolution of visual imagery in the first half of America's century of progress.
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The University of Chicago Press Objects in Air
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In Objects in Air, Christian offers a compelling and innovative investigation of the history and theory of the physical and represented space that fills, permeates, or surrounds two- and three-dimensional works of art." * Choice *"Objects in Air is a book deserving of praise. Christian brings tremendous nuance to her analysis of the texts at hand." * German Studies Review *“In this thoroughly original book, Christian traces discourses on the external spaces and atmospheres that surround works of art. She thereby elucidates the artwork’s ec-stasis—its reaching out into its environment—as an aesthetic category in its own right. A stylistic and intellectual pleasure to read, Objects in Air adds significantly to our understanding of early twentieth-century aesthetic thought.” -- Lucia Ruprecht, author of Gestural Imaginaries: Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century“Objects in Air is an important and finely conceptualized study of turn-of-the-century writing about the aesthetics of visual phenomena and the conceptualizing of art history. It brings to light a new understanding of the artwork as making its impact, not as a self-contained bounded object, but by way of expanding outward beyond itself in space and time. The carefully honed historical analysis of thinking about the work of art in its spatial and temporal milieus stands as a study in aesthetic theory in its own right, timely and engagingly readable.” -- Alex Potts, author of Experiments in Modern Realism: World Making, Politics and the Everyday in Postwar European and American Art“This book takes the reader on a journey with surprising views on art and modernism. Focusing on the aerial dimensions, the in-between, and the environmental space of works of art, Christian provides an exciting reframing of the aesthetic and kinesthetic dimensions of art and art theory. She turns our attention to what might be the dance within objects of art: movement, breath, and unboundedness of form.” -- Gabriele Brandstetter, author of Poetics of Dance: Body, Image, and Space in the Historical Avant-GardesTable of ContentsIntroduction. Artworks and Their Modalities of Egress: The Air within and without Artworks Politics of Extravagation Mesologies of Form Medium and Milieu, or the Material Spaces of Air World Loss, Sitelessness, and the Artwork’s Environments Aurai and Aura (Form and Space) Empathetic Artworks, Extensive Subjects 1. Aer, Aurae, Venti: Warburg’s Aerial Forms and Historical Milieus Anima Fiorentina Inspiration Stimmung/Atmosphere Milieu as Air Ambiant The Accessories’ Milieu Botticelli’s Milieu The Physiology of Influence Disciplinary Milieus 2. Luftraum: Riegl’s Vitalist Mesology of Form Horror vacui Umgebung Indehiscent Forms Cubic Space (“Air-Filled Empty Space”) Air Space Respiración External Unity Kunstwollen 3. Saturated Forms: Rilke’s and Rodin’s Sculpture of Environment Reticence and Radiance Aesthetico-Biological Endeavors “Archaic Torso of Apollo” Aesthetic Metabolisms Absorbed Milieus Gravid Forms Forms Striving for Incompletion Temporal Ecstasis 4. The “Kinesphere” and the Body’s Other Spatial Envelopes in Rudolf Laban’s Theory of Dance Choreutics Spatiomaterial Radiance Psychophysiologically Saturated Space Anima, Air, Atmosphere: Laban and Kandinsky Luftkur, Plein Air Dance’s Biological and Architectural Lifeworlds Coda. Space as Form Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Largesse Paper Parti Pris Reunion Des Musees
Book SynopsisIn his exhibition and accompanying essay for the Taking Sides programme at the Louvre, Jean Starobinski explores the theme of largesse in its broadest sense.
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The University of Chicago Press Concerning Consequences Studies in Art
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The University of Chicago Press William Kentridge
Book SynopsisSouth African artist William Kentridge's drawings, films, books, installations, and collaborations with opera and theater companies have established him as a world-class star in contemporary art, media, and theater. In 2010, and again in 2013, he staged Dmitri Shostakovich's The Nose at the Metropolitan Opera; after the premiere, the New York Times noted that Kentridge, who directed this production, helped design the sets and created the videos that animate the staging, received the heartiest bravos. In this book, Jane Taylor, Kentridge's friend and frequent collaborator, invites us to take an extraordinary behind-the-scenes look at his work for the show. Kentridge has long been admired for his unconventional use of conventional media to produce art that is stunning, evocative, and narratively powerful and how he works is as important as what he creates. This book is more than just a simple record of The Nose. The opera serves as a springboard into a bracing conversation about how Kentridge's methods serve his unique mode of expression as a narrative and political artist. Taylor draws on his etchings, sculptures, and drawings to render visible the communication that occurs between his mind and hand as he thinks through the activity of making. Beautifully illustrated in color, William Kentridge offers striking insights about one of the most innovative artists of our present moment.
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The University of Chicago Press The Picture in Question Mark Tansey and the Ends
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the possibilities of representation after modernism, this study charts the logic and continuity of Mark Tansey's painting by considering the philosophical ideas behind his art. The book examines how Tansey uses structuralist and poststructuralist thought to create paintings.
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The University of Chicago Press NotForgetting
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Deutsche’s writing brilliantly reveals the complexities and tensions of a period that no one categorical designation can fully encompass. Her deep, sustained relationships with many of the artists she writes about make this collection invaluable to writers and artists as a model for balancing affective engagement with rigorous critical fairness and independence.” -- Ann Reynolds, University of Texas at Austin“Not-Forgetting’s urgent topic is the ‘shared project’ of feminism, radical democracy, and war resistance. Deutsche brilliantly illuminates the role of art in shaping that project through an innovative matrix of psychoanalysis, feminism, poststructuralism, and critical theory. This is an intellectually original, timely, and compelling book.” -- Mignon Nixon, University College LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Psychoanalytic Feminism 1 Not-Forgetting: Mary Kelly’s Love Songs (2006) 2 Inadequacy: Silvia Kolbowski’s History of Conceptual Art (2004) 3 Darkness: The Emergence of James Welling (2002) 4 Breaking Ground: Barbara Kruger’s Spatial Practice (1999) 5 Louise Lawler’s Rude Museum (2006) Part Two: Radical Democracy 6 Christopher D’Arcangelo’s Elliptical Interruptions (2020) 7 The Art of Not Being Governed Quite So Much: Hans Haacke’s Polls (2007) 8 Art from Guantánamo Bay (2020) 9 Reasonable Urbanism (1999) Part Three: War Resistance 10 Un-War: An Aesthetic Sketch (2014) 11 Museum of Innocence (2014) 12 “We don’t need another hero”: War and Public Memory (2017) 13 Louise Lawler’s Play Technique (2017) 14 Mary Kelly’s Attunement (2017/2020) 15 Martha Rosler’s Unrest (2018) Acknowledgments Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Vincents Arles
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Seidel acts as a guide to the places immortalized by Van Gogh in this Provençal city." -- Martin Bailey * The Art Newspaper *"Vincent van Gogh’s 15-month stay in Arles, France, is where he created some of his most iconic paintings, including Cafe Terrace at Night and his Sunflowers series. Art history professor Seidel explores the French town as it was in the late 19th century, when Van Gogh and other artists moved there in search of inspiration, as well as what it’s like today as a visitor." * Book Riot, "Most Anticipated Travel Books of 2023" *"In a fascinating blend of travel, history, and art, Seidel tours the culturally rich town of Arles in southern France and incorporates stories and letters from legendary artist Vincent Van Gogh's life to shed light on the key sites." * The Bookseller (UK) *“Vincent’s Arles takes us step by step on a fascinating journey around Arles as it was in Vincent’s time and how it is today. Offering many surprises and fresh reflections, Seidel’s authoritative and intimate voice delves meticulously into history, myth, and legend. We explore the city’s Roman heritage, tombs, and churches that enchanted van Gogh, sacred places that have been a crossroads of pilgrimages for centuries. Vincent, a voracious reader, would have loved these pages.” -- Mariella Guzzoni, author of "Vincent’s Books"“It is a circumstance that would become crucial to the history of modern art that Vincent van Gogh often found himself living in places of profound natural beauty, in places with impressive architectural or even archaeological histories, or both, and that so many of his greatest paintings were set in these gorgeous places. Now Seidel takes us on an intimate journey, beautifully written, through one such place, helping us to see Arles as van Gogh himself saw it, and therefore revealing how he reimagined the places he lived for artistic impact.” -- Steven Naifeh, Pulitzer Prize–winning coauthor of "Van Gogh: The Life""Like a medieval pilgrimage to a shrine celebrating the dead, this book is a journey through time more than space. Van Gogh's encounter with the portal of the church of Saint Trophime in Arles generates a riveting reflection on the matter of experience. What produces an event? What lies behind a painting? What comes into view? Seidel takes us from what van Gogh saw to the mist of images stored in his mind to stories of which he was unaware but that shaped every street on which he laid his eyes. The result is a gentle, most beautiful contemplation of the magical entanglements of history." -- Emanuele Lugli, author of "Knots, or the Violence of Desire in Renaissance Florence"Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Poets of the Place The Art of Colors and the Art of Words The Road to Remembrance “A Little Rome of Gaul” The Portal and Its Past Seeing Stories Crossroads of the Mediterranean Pilgrimage Facts and Fictions Journey’s End Afterwords Index
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The University of Chicago Press Nonliterary Fiction Art of the Americas under
Book SynopsisExplores a new form of fiction that emerged in late-twentieth-century visual art across the Americas. With Non-literary Fiction, Esther Gabara examines how contemporary art produced across the Americas has reacted to the rising tide of neoliberal regimes, focusing on the crucial role of fiction in daily politics. Gabara argues that these fictions depart from familiar literary narrative structures and emerge in the new mediums and practices that have revolutionized contemporary art. Each chapter details how fiction is created through visual art formsin performance and body art, posters, mail art, found objects, and installations. For Gabara, these fictions comprise a type of art that asks viewers to collaborate in the creation of the work and helps them to withstand the brutal restrictions imposed by dominant neoliberal regimes. During repressive regimes of the 1960s and 1970s and free trade agreements of the 1990s, artists and critics consistently said no to economic privatization, political deregulation, and reactionary social logic as they rejected inherited notions of visual, literary, and political representation. Through close analyses of artworks and writings by leading figures of these two generations, including Indigenous thinkers, Gabara shows how negation allows for the creation of fiction outside textual forms of literature. Trade Review"Gabara’s thoughtful intervention will be of interest to scholars in the visual arts, cultural, literary and media studies. It demonstrates the contemporaneity and contributions of Amerindian thought to canonical artistic practices, shedding light on how the latter may or may not allegorically negate neoliberal transformations, by way of collaborative inventions or non-literary fictions that blur the distinction between the literary and the visual." * Visual Studies *"Gabara takes us into an erudite exploration to answer what seems to be a simple, straightforward question: what is fiction in art? How are works of art fictions? The answer unfolds in five chapters, an introduction, and an epilogue in which the author composes a theory of visual fiction, devoid of the narrative conventions that typically dominate discussions on the matter from both literary and art historical perspectives." * Hispanic Review *“Gabara’s powerful critical lens is as broad as the Americas and as precise as a single performance or found object. Non-literary Fiction is a major contribution to our understanding of how art refutes the neoliberal Thatcherism ‘There is no alternative.’ Gabara’s extraordinary study shows there is always an alternative.” -- Diana Taylor, New York University“Gabara presents a compellingly hemispheric case for non-literary fiction, negation, and Amerindian thought as central to a distinctive turn in artistic practice since the late 1950s. This tour de force is a must-read for anyone interested in new critical terms for studying how artistic form and thought have engaged the violence of a prevailing social order.” -- Chon Noriega, Distinguished Professor, UCLATable of ContentsList of Figures Negating: An Introduction Chapter One. Line: Making Fiction in Word and Image Chapter Two. Motif: Recurrent Images of Walking Chapter Three. Gesture: Signals in Motion Chapter Four. Corpus: Telling Bodies, Living and Dead Chapter Five. Color: Taken In by Realism Epilogue: A Refuge Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£84.00
The University of Chicago Press Rome as a Guide to the Good Life A Philosophical
Book SynopsisTrade Review“A delightful and immersive guide to the city of Rome and the philosophical tradition it embodies concerning the good life, or as we would say today, the meaning of life. Travelers seeking ancient wisdom among the city’s famous buildings and works of art could ask for no better companion.” * Donald Robertson, author of 'How to Think Like a Roman Emperor' *“I have been a Roman for over half a century, but I’ll be sure to use Samuelson’s Guide the next time I visit my native city. I will look at it quite differently!” * Massimo Pigliucci, author of 'How to Be a Stoic' *“Rome as a Guide to the Good Life immerses us in glorious works of art and architecture. But in Rome, every aspect of life, from Raphael to food to gesticulation, is an art. Rather than guiding us through the labyrinth of the city’s streets, Samuelson guides us through the labyrinth of life, more daunting than any streetscape.” * Ingrid D. Rowland, author of 'Giordano Bruno' and 'The Collector of Lives' *“In this elegantly written book, Samuelson takes us by the elbow and leads us to his favorite places and works of art in the Eternal City, spinning stories about their history, pointing out their beauties and contradictions, and reflecting on their philosophical meanings. Whether you travel to Rome with this book as your guide, or read it from the comfort of an armchair, Samuelson teaches us ancient lessons that can enrich our modern lives.” * Lori Erickson, author of 'Holy Rover,' 'Near the Exit,' and 'The Soul of the Family Tree' *"A stimulating, thoroughly readable mix. . . For the seasoned Romanist as well as a first-time visitor, this is an excellent vade mecum for our times. All will read it with profit and enlightenment: it will certainly accompany my next trip." -- Sir Michael Fallon * Classics for All *"A breezy and eclectic tour of the Eternal City in which [Samuelson] introduces readers to both physical and philosophical delights.” * WORLD *"The book stands out in its dual appreciation for Rome as a locus for the sweet life and the life of the mind. . . . The author’s wit, enthusiasm, and willingness to turn his head and squint his eyes while looking at what seemingly has been picked over by centuries of cicerones makes reading Rome as a Guide like being on the most engaging of walking tours." * ClassicalEd Review *"As he leads us through the city, Samuelson introduces the largest philosophical questions and shares what the legacy of Roman culture has to teach us by way of answer. The result is an erudite guide to the city’s heritage that offers eloquent instruction on how to conduct ourselves and make meaning in the face of life’s enduring uncertainties.” -- James Mustich * In the Company of Books newsletter *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Philosophy as a Guide to la Dolce Vita I Build Not Thereon 1 Die on Your Journey: The Question of Rosa Bathurst’s Tombstone 2 Build on Tragedy: The Humility of Caravaggio’s David with the Head of Goliath 3 Put Down Roots in the Uprooted: The Piety of Bernini’s Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius II Remember Death 4 Be Not for Yourself Alone: Cicero in the Ruins of the Forum 5 Take the View from Above: Marcus Aurelius in the Saddle III Reap the Day 6 Conquer Your Fear: Lucretius versus the Roman Triumph 7 Dare to Be Wise: Horace’s View of the City IV Love and Do What You Will 8 Hold Humanity Sacred: Seneca or Augustine versus the Colosseum 9 Crash through the Floor: The Mysteries of the Basilica of San Clemente 10 Make a Golden Ass of Yourself: The Metamorphoses in Agostino Chiti’s Villa V Make a Palace of Your Memory 11 Be the Conversation: The Philosophy of Raphael’s School of Athens 12 Unlock the Soul in Your Soul: Giordano Bruno in the Campo de’ Fiori Conclusion: What Resists Time Is What’s Ever Flowing Acknowledgments Appendix: Rome by Way of the Winged Eye Notes Index
£76.00
University of Chicago Press Criticism Without Authority
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£87.40
The University of Chicago Press Between the Black Box and the White Cube
Book SynopsisToday, the moving image is ubiquitous in global contemporary art. This book tells the story of the postwar expanded cinema. It travels back to the 1950s and 1960s when the rise of television caused movie theaters to lose their monopoly over the moving image, leading cinema to be installed directly alongside other forms of modern art.
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The University of Chicago Press Between the Black Box and the White Cube
Book SynopsisToday, the moving image is ubiquitous in global contemporary art. This book tells the story of the postwar expanded cinema. It travels back to the 1950s and 1960s when the rise of television caused movie theaters to lose their monopoly over the moving image, leading cinema to be installed directly alongside other forms of modern art.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press The End of Expressionism Art and the November
Book SynopsisWeinstein explores the attitudes and organizations of artists and architects in Berlin, Munich, and Dresden in response to the tumultuous events associated with the end of WWI and the (failed) Revolution. She traces the initial excitement and zeal and then the disillusionment as utopian dreams were dimmed by social, political, and military realities as well as by inherent contradiction within the arts movements itself. The accompanying b&w illustrations, fascinating in themselves, directly depict textual themes.Booknews
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The University of Chicago Press The Making of Paul Klees Career 19141920
Book SynopsisPaul Kleeone of the preeminent artists of the twentieth centurywas associated with all of the major movements of the first half of the century: expressionism, cubism, surrealism, and abstraction. In this economic and political history, O. K. Werckmeister traces Klee's career as a professional artist, concentrating on the years 1914-20 in which Klee rose from obscurity to recognition in the visual culture of the incipient Weimar Republic. Werckmeister reveals the degree to which Klee, who has been traditionally portrayed as aloof from politics and the vicissitudes of the art market, was subject to and interacted with material conditions. Drawing on rich documentary evidencerecords of Klee's sales, reviews of his exhibitions, the artist's published writings about his art, unpublished correspondence, as well as contemporary criticismWerckmeister follows Klee's transformation from an idiosyncratic abstract individualist to a metaphysical storyteller to mystical sage. Werckmeister argues th
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The University of Chicago Press Influences Art Optics and Astrology in the
Book SynopsisToday few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology. Fewer still would know that physically absorbing planetary rays was once considered to have medical and psychological effects. This book reveals how Renaissance artworks were designed to be not only beautiful but also - perhaps even primarily - functional.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Tekstura Russian Essays on Visual Culture
Book SynopsisAssembles 13 key essays in art history and cultural theory by Russian-language writers. The essays erase boundaries between high and low, official and dissident, avant-garde and socialist realism. Everything visual is deemed worthy of analysis, from painting to architecture.
£26.00
McGill-Queen's University Press Jean Paul Riopelle Et Le Mouvement Automatiste
Book SynopsisJean Paul Riopelle est surtout connu pour les célèbres toiles abstraites de sa maturité artistique. Toutefois, François Marc Gagnon amorce cette histoire fascinante avec les premières peintures et l''adhésion précoce à l''objectivité, avant de sonder la participation de l''artiste à l''automatisme et l''incidence durable de ce mouvement sur son œuvre. Gagnon retrace les premières étapes du cheminement de Riopelle depuis le style figuratif traditionnel enseigné par Henri Bisson, son premier professeur, jusqu''au virage subjectif inspiré par une exposition itinérante d''art hollandais et, en particulier, des toiles de Vincent Van Gogh, ainsi qu''aux expériences automatistes dans un atelier d''une ruelle de Montréal où le peintre travaille en compagnie de Marcel Barbeau et de Jean Paul Mousseau. Dès 1946, Riopelle est un émissaire de l''automatisme à Paris, où il organise la première exposition collective consacrée à ce style. L''auteur montre que malgré la perception d''un désintéressemeTrade Review« François-Marc Gagnon met à profit sa riche connaissance de l'histoire de l'art, de l'art québécois et de l'automatisme montréalais, et procède à une analyse systématique et rigoureuse de la notion de "hasard" dans l'acte de peindre de l'artiste. Jean Paul Riopelle et le mouvement automatiste représente une des trop rares études spécialisées qui examinent l'ensemble des moyens graphiques et chromatiques utilisés par le peintre. » Gilles Lapointe, Université du Québec à Montréal
£36.05
McGill-Queen's University Press Desire Change
Book SynopsisIn the resistance to the violence of gender-based oppression, vibrant but often ignored worlds have emerged, full of nuance, humour, and beauty. Correcting an absence of writing about contemporary feminist work by Canadian artists, Desire Change considers the resurgence of feminist art, thought, and practice in the past decade by examining artworks that respond to themes of diversity and desire.Essays by historians, artists, and curators present an overview of a range of artistic practices including performance, installation, video, textiles, and photography. Contributors address the desire for change through three central frames: how feminist art has significantly contributed to the complex understanding of gender as it intersects with sexuality and race; the necessary critique of patriarchy and institutions as they relate to colonization within the Canadian nation-state; and the ways in which contemporary critiques are formed and expressed.Heavily illustrated Trade Review“While there is a growing body of work on third-wave feminism, some of which deals with art practice in its various manifestations, this book provides an up-to-date introduction to the topic in the Canadian context. The Canadian perspective is especially valuable in the area of indigenous art, which reflects on a brutal history with its own important nuances.” Diana Nemiroff, University of Ottawa and author of Land, Spirit, Power: First Nations at the National Gallery of Canada"In a year of so much taking stock of Canada, Desire Change stands out in its depiction of the country in 2017. The reason is in the book's multiplicity and historicity, hinted at in the double meaning of Desire Change. While Desire Change focuses on 21st-century work, it frames these essays within the context of a longer history of feminist art-making, exclusions and debate. Whatever else feminism is, it is embodied, local, and therefore multitudinous. A flattened, singular narrative of Canada is a Canada unrecognizable. It's this book's embrace of complex, messy reality that makes it a truthful depiction of the Canadian contemporary." The Globe and Mail“The collective nature of the publication succeeds in taking stock of contemporary feminist cultural production in a pluralistic and intersectional way, bringing together essays that discuss critical artists deeply invested in the production of political thought.” Canadian Art
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