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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The volume exemplifies respectful and relational engagement with Indigenous art and advocates for more accountable scholarship and practices." * New Books Network *"The many stories and essays in Unsettling Native Art Histories provided me with valuable new teachings and perspectives. I recommend it highly to people of diverse interests in the fields of art, anthropology, history, ethnology, and contemporary Indigenous issues." * The Ormsby Review *"[A]n enjoyable source to learn about emerging research and writers in its field... For humanities scholars attuned to material culture, museum practitioners, and Indigenous art enthusiasts more broadly, the book is generous in ideas and exemplars to better understand ancestral and current arts holistically and to set new directions for engagement at museums and galleries." * Journal of Folklore Research *"Exemplifying the Indigenous methodologies of respect, reciprocity, and relationality, this book is a model for art historians, curators, and other scholars who want to develop more ethical relationships with the communities whose belongings they store, care for, and study, and is highly recommended for anyone who wants to learn from stories of Indigenous lives enriched by renewed relationships with their ancestral belongings." * Western Historical Quarterly *"[A] valuable contribution to the growing body of scholarship working to center Indigenous voices in Northwest Coast art studies... This volume will certainly become a classic and is an excellent learning tool and essential library addition for anyone interested in Indigenous studies, museum practice, or Northwest Coast art history." * First American Art Magazine *"Given that the apprehension of Northwest Coast Native art is an ever-evolving process, these essays provide readers with an urgently required snapshot of dynamiccontemporary strategies." * American Indian Culture & Research Journal *"Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast questions the very notion of art and problematizes colonial approaches to Indigenous art. Editors Bunn-Marcuse and Jonaitis are particularly interested in how overturning Western ideals can unsettle colonial museum practices." * Transforming Anthropology *"An incredible volume of Northwest Coast scholarship, art-historical analysis, Indigenous knowledge, and a confluence of literary power linked together through intergenerational visioning, Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast signals a change in how Indigenous art is contextualized both academically and institutionally." * Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse PART I. Cultural Heritage Protection: Questions of Rights and Authorityr>A Bear in the Cedar, by Duane Niatum Chapter 1. The Seward Shame Pole: A Tlingit Countermonument to the Alaska Purchase Emily L. Moore Chapter 2. The Social Life of Stones: Haida hlg̱as7agaa/argillite and the Making of Inalienable Commodities Kaitlin McCormick Chapter 3. Morse Code for Creation: Jim Schoppert's Painterly Language for a Postmodern Revival Christopher Green Chapter 4. From "Artifakes" to "Surrogates": The Replication of Northwest Coast Carving by Non-Natives Janet Catherine Berlo and Aldona Jonaitis PART II. Women's Work: Stories, Art, and Power >One Square Inch, by Lily Hope Chapter 5. Stl'inll ~ Those with Clever Hands: Presenting Female Indigenous Art and Scholarship Jisgang Nika Collison Chapter 6. Copper Seaweed and Woven Octopus Bags: Shgen George and the Art of Resilience Megan A. Smetzer Chapter 7. Ellen Neel and Carving on the Coast: Three Decades of Change and Renewal Lou-ann Ika'wega Neel PART III. Changing Museums>Let Indigenous Reign, by Ishmael Hope Chapter 8. In the Spirit of Reconciliation: Rethinking Collections and the Act of Engagement at the Museum of Vancouver Sharon Fortney Chapter 9. The Museum Disappeared: Northwest Coast Art and the Object of Display Karen Duffek, Peter Morin, and Karen Benbassat Ali Chapter 10. From Behind-the-Scenes to the Front of the House: Here & Now: Native Artists Inspired at the Burke Museum Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse Chapter 11. Woosh.Jee.Een, Pulling Together: Repatriation's Healing Tide Lucy Fowler Williams, with contributions by Robert Starbard PART IV. Beyond Art>Thoughts on Formline, by Iljuuwaas Tyson Brown Chapter 12. Soft Robes of Thundering Power: Mountain Goat Fiber Textiles of the Northwest Coast Evelyn Vanderhoop Chapter 13. Sayach'apis and the Naani (Grizzly Bear) Crest Denise Nicole Green Chapter 14. Tlingit Art Ishmael Hope Conclusion. Fifty Years Studying Northwest Coast Art: A Personal View Aldona Jonaitis Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisChikubushima, an island north of the ancient capital of Kyoto, attracted the attention of Japan's rulers in the Momoyama period (1568-1615). This study illustrates how private belief and political ambition influenced artistic production at the intersection of institutional Buddhism and Shinto during political, social, and aesthetic changes.Trade Review"Chikubushima is absorbing, at times gripping: it speaks to the wonder provoked by the divine in Momoyama and efforts to draw upon numinous power through the wonder of the sacred arts..It will keep us thinking hard about the arts and warrior power, sacred sites, and when a flower is not merely a flower." * Monumenta Nipponica *"Like the Momoyama-era building that it studies, this elegant, compelling monograph should become an enduring monument..Through Watsky's meticulous work, Momoyama architecture and 'decorative arts' acquire dimension and texture that cast new light on the material production of the entire epoch." * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Note to Readers Preface: Considering Chikubushima Acknowledgments Introduction: The Sacred and Momoyama Japan 1. Chikubushima, from Its Origins to the Ascendancy of Hideyoshi 2. Hideyoshi and the Sacred: Manipulating Convention 3. Encoding the Sacred 4. The Material of the Sacred 5. After Hideyoshi: Hideyori's Enlistment of the Sacred 6. Hideyori and Chikubushima's New Ensemble Epilogue: Chikubishima in Post-Toyotomi Japan Notes Appendix Bibliography Illustration Credits Index

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Book SynopsisExplorations of contemporary art have focused on issues of identity and race for some time. Few, however, have sought to investigate these themes by juxtaposing historical and contemporary frameworks. This book examines an especially charged icon - the black female body.Trade Review"Rather than recycling the colonial approach to power and subjectivity, which defines the self through the ridicule of the other, Black Womanhood provides various textual, visual, and personal tactics that can contribute to re-imagining a more humane way forward." * Woman's Art Journal *"Twenty years ago, Barbara Kruger coined her now-infamous slogan, 'your body is a battleground,' in a campaign to increase awareness of how women's bodies are marketed as commodities. Visually stunning and intellectually provocative, Black Womanhood resurrects that dialogue and complicates an embattled body in which blackness is a catalyst, surface, symbol, subject, and object that, while transformative on many levels, continues to appear alarmingly vulnerable to exploitation and stereotyping." * caa.reviews *"A serious academic endeavor, suitable for scholars and the general public alike." * Book News *"This collection of essays is as richly insightful as it is beautifully produced. . . . The originality of the images and interpretations make this catalogue essential to understanding how fully clothed the unclothed body truly is." * Publisher's Weekly *Table of ContentsLenders to the Exhibition Foreword / Brian P. Kennedy Acknowledgments / Barbara Thompson Introduction / Barbara Thompson Part One | Iconic Ideologies of Womanhood: African Cultural Perspectives 1. The African Female Body in the Cultural Imagination / Barbara Thompson 2. African Women's Body Images in Postcolonial Discourse and Resistance to Neo-Crusaders / Ifi Amadiume 3. Les Parisiens d'Afrique: Mangbetu Women as Works of Art / Enid Schildkrout Plates Part Two | Colonizing Black Women: The Western Imaginary 4. The Black Female Body, the Postcard, and the Archives / Christraud Geary 5. The Body of a Myth: Embodying the Black Mammy Figure in Visual Culture / Kimberly Wallace-Sanders Plates Part Three | Meaning and Identity: Personal Journeys into Black Womanhood 6. Picturing the New Negro Woman / Deborah Willis 7. The Women Who Posed: Maudelle Bass and Florence Allen / Carla Williams 8. Housing and Homing the Black Female Body in France: Clixthe Beyala and the Legacy of Sarah Baartman and Josephine Backer / Ayo Abiétou Coly 9. Decolonizing Black Bodies: Personal Journeys in the Contemporary Voice / Barbara Thompson Plates Artists Contributors Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPresents an examination of the life and work of Mine Okubo (1912-2001), a Nisei artist, writer, and social activist who repeatedly defied conventional role expectations for women and for Japanese Americans over her seventy-year career.Trade Review"Whereas the social and historical value of this [Citizen 13660] body of work is well established, the critical re-readings gathered in Mine Okubo: Following Her Own Road aim to interrogate and to expand the ways in which Citizen 13660 has come to be understood more than sixty years after its postwar publication…. Whether a reader agrees wholly or in part with the particulars of the seven central essays, what remains incontestable is the value of such projects in eliciting new and sometimes provocative thoughts on the small but steadily growing body of discourse on Asian American art and visual culture." * Journal of American Ethnic History *"It's hard not to like Mine Okubo as we come to know her though this first book-length study of her life and work: feisty, eccentric, and deeply committed to her art. A slim, beautifully produced volume, Mine Okubo: Following Her Own Road is both a tribute to the artist, who died in 2001, and an important step in remedying the dearth of scholarship on her work . . . . this collection offers less the 'definitive version' of her life and work, and more an incitement to re-view it in new ways that throw its power and charm into relief." * Rain Taxi *"Robinson and Creef have produced a fine and wonderful tribute to the life and work of Mine Okubo. . . . There is something for everyone in this remarkably compact but dense volume. . . . The editors have produced a very 'smart' and beautiful retrospective of her life, giving us a sense of Okubo's rightful place in Japanese American history, as well as the larger canvas of American history." * Nichi Bei Times *Table of ContentsPreface / Greg Robinson and Elena Tajima Creef Color Plates Following Her Own Road: The Achievement of Mine Okubo / Elena Tajima Creef Part I: An Artistic and Literary Portfolio A Selection of Drawings and Paintings / Mine Okubo 1. Riverside / Mine Okubo and Fay Chiang 2. An Artist's Credo: A Personal Statement / Mine Okubo 3. An Evacuee's Hopes - and Memories / Mine Okubo 4. Statement Before the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Citizens / Mine Okubo 5. Letters from Mine Okubo to Isamu Noguchi 6. Letters from Mine Okubo to Dr. Roy W. Leeper Part II: Scholarly Essays 7. Gestures of Noncompliance: Resisting, Inventing, and Enduring in Citizen 13660 / Vivian Fumiko Chin 8. Mine Okubo's War: Citizen 13660's Attack on Government Propaganda / Heather Fryer 9. To Keep a Record of Life: Mine Okubo's Autographic Manga and Wartime History / Kimberley L. Phillips 10. Mine Okubo's Citizen 13660 and Her Trek Artwork: Space, Movement, Image, Text, and Their Sites of Production / Lynne Horiuchi 11. Mine Okubo's Illustrations for Trek Magazine: Sites of Resistance / Laura Card 12. Paradoxes of Citizenship: Re-Viewing the Japanese American Internment in Mine Okubo's Citizen 13660 / Stella Oh 13. Birth of a Citizen: Mine Okubo and the Politics of Symbolism / Greg Robinson Part III: Reminiscences and Tributes 14. Holding Center: Tanforan Race Track, Spring 1942 / James Masao Matsui 15. A Remembering / Sohei Hohri 16. A Tribute to Mine Okubo / Greg Robinson 17. A Memory of Genius / Shirley Geok-lin Lim A Partial Chronology of Mine Okubo's Life and Work Selected Bibliography Contributors Illustration Credits Index

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Book SynopsisFeatures the cultural side of Chinese imperial rule and of the court as a patron of scholars and the arts. This book offers glimpses of the magnificence of the collections Emperor Huizong (1082-1135) formed and the disparate fates of the objects after they were seized as booty by the Jurchen invaders in 1127.Trade Review"Ebrey's groundbreaking book . . . considers Huizong's contribution to visual culture of the Northern Song dynasty and beyond. This is a magisterial undertaking. . . . This is a much needed and timely work . . . [and] a major accomplishment in scholarship on the Northern Song dynasty." -- Roslyn Lee Hammers * China Review International *"Ebrey's depiction of how the court appropriated literati collecting practices during Huizong's reign succeeds in presenting imperial collecting as a positive instrument for cultivating political power." -- Foong Ping * Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies *"The collections of the late Northern Song emperor Huizong (r. 1100-1125) were unprecedented in scale and comprehensiveness. Accumulating Culture is a highly readable, handsomely illustrated account of Huizong's quarter century of collecting, which culminated in the compilation of three catalogues that became standards for centuries thereafter." * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Preface A Note on Dates, Measurements, and Other Conventions Chronology Introduction 1. Early Song Precedents 2. Strains in Emperor-Literati Relations during the Reform Era 3. Collecting As a Scholarly Passion during the Northern Song Period 4. Huizong As a Collector 5. Managing the Collections at the Palace Library 6. Collecting and Cataloguing Antiquities 7. Collecting and Cataloguing Calligraphy 8. Collecting and Cataloguing Paintings 9. The Fate of Huizong's Collections Reflections Appendix 1: Authorship and Editions of the Catalogues Appendix 2: Paintings and Calligraphies with Huizong's Collector Seals Appendix 3: Major Extant Pre-Song Calligraphies Listed in the Xuanhe Calligraphy Catalogue Notes Bibliography Glossary-Index

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Book SynopsisFocuses on short-story small scrolls (ko-e), one of the most complex but visually appealing forms of early Japanese painting. This book offers an examination of Tosa Mitsunobu's extensive and underappreciated body of artistic achievements.Trade Review"McCormick has demonstrated tremendous originality in interpreting the background to each individual work, and her writing brims with the spirit of an author breaking new territory. . . . a remarkable vision of Muromachi culture . . ." -- Masahiko Aizawa * Monumenta Nipponica *"I found her combination of visual and literary analysis to be brilliant, bringing the various scrolls alive and resonant in the way the stories alone were not . . . This book would be a valuable additional to the libraries of all concerned with Japanese literary and visual arts." -- Donald F. McCallum * Journal of Japanese Studies *"… it is very welcome that Melissa McCormick has developed a full monograph to an early member of the bloodline-cum-atelier of the Tosa School…. Few works of Japanese art have been subjected to such close readings in English, and this … set of studies deserves to be widely used." * Art Bulletin *"This book, beautifully designed and illustrated, is indispensable for any student or scholar of Japanese art, literature, and culture. Summing up: Essential." * Choice *Table of ContentsNote to Readers Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION: THE SMALL SCROLL AND JAPANESE PICTORIAL NARRATIVE 1 A BRIEF HISTORY OF SMALL SCROLLS Fourteenth-Century Examples Large Scrolls and Short Narratives A Theory of the Short-Story Small Scroll Short-Story Small Scrolls in the Fifteenth Century The Visual Language of Short-Story Small Scrolls Small Scrolls as "Picture Books" for Children Smallness in Late Medieval Culture 2 THE CULTURAL MILIEU OF SANJONISHI SANETAKA AND TOSA MITSUNOBU The Reception of Miracles of the Kasuga Deity Mitsunobu, Painting Bureau Director Poetry Gatherings and Artistic Projects Buddhist Icons, Mortuary Portraits, and the Court Artist Mitsunobu, Sanetaka, and the Collaborative Process Clouds of Mt. Koya: A Small Scroll by Mitsunobu and Sanetaka 3 A WAKEFUL SLEEP: PAINTING THE DREAM TALE A Muromachi Period Dream Tale Reworking the Courtly Romance in Text and Image Visualizing a Karmic Bond The Female Protagonist and the Romantic Ideal A Wakeful Sleep and Aristocratic Marriage 4 THE JIZO HALL: A PICTORIAL REBIRTH The Scroll and the Story Combinatory Logic The Shadow Protagonist An Imperial Painting 5 BREAKING THE INKSTONE: AN ACOLYTE TALE FOR A YOUNG SHOGUN The Pictorial Language of Breaking the Inkstone Breaking the Inkstone as an Acolyte Tale Yoshizumi and Hosokawa Masamoto Masamoto, Mountains, and Magic Breaking the Inkstone and Bonds between Men Epilogue Appendix: Translations Notes Bibliography Illustration Credits Index

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Book SynopsisIn the 1890s, the Danish lieutenant Ole Olufsen set out to lead two expeditions to Tsarist Central Asia. The participants spent more than a year travelling on horseback in the pamirs and adjacent valleys bordering Afghanistan, China, and British India. This title presents a study of these Danish expeditions.Table of ContentsVolume One Editor's Preface Danish Nomad Research - An Overview Author's Acknowledgements A Sketch of the Research Process Introduction I. Written Sources and Beyond II. The Danish Setting in the 1890s III. Travelling on a Museum Assignment IV. Collecting Objects V. The Museum Life of the Objects VI. Kyrgyz Nomad's in the Pamirs VII. Agropastoralists in Vakhan Catalogue Volume Two VIII. Turkmen Nomads in Merv IX. The Khanate of Khiva X. The Emirate of Bukhara and the Russian-Controlled Part of Turkestan XI. Representation of Central Asia Conclusion Appendix I. List of Museum Register Numbers Appendix II. Technical Terms and Materials Russian Summary Bibliography Unpublished Documents Index Photo Credits

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Book SynopsisBioart, art that uses either living materials (such as bacteria or transgenic organisms) or more traditional materials to comment on, or even transform, biotechnological practice. This book offers a theoretical account of the art form, situating it in the contexts of art history, laboratory practice, and media theory.Trade Review"In this concise, clearly written work, Mitchell explores bioengineered life as an artistic medium creating flows between the sciences and the humanities. Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Living Art 1. Defining Bioart: Representation and Vitality 2. The Three Eras of Vitalist Bioart 3. Bioart and the Folding of Social Space 4. Affect, Framing, and Mediacy 5. The Strange Vitality of Media 6. Bioart and the "Newness" of Media Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisIlluminates the role of icons and relics in Buddhist writing and practiceTrade Review"Brinker, a renowned specialist in East Asian Buddhism, its art, and texts, marshals a range of sources, including extraordinary eyewitness accounts. The result is to make these familiar case-studies compelling. Summing Up: Recommended." * Choice *"Through the combination of art-historical studies with philological, archaeological and historical anthropological research, Brinker’s work gives a valuable impetus for further investigation in the field of Buddhist art of Central Asia, China and Japan and at the same time opens up new dimensions and a wider geographic and historical scope for interdisciplinary research in Buddhist studies." -- Christian Jahoda * Social Anthropology *

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Book SynopsisA history of a past phenomenon - racial art - which has ramifications for the presentTrade Review"Beautifully written, thoughtful, important . . . Francis's book illustrates the dangers of this scholarly approach [racial art] by highlighting that Johnson, Kuniyoshi, and Weber were not marginal artists in the formation of American modernism but significant figures in its definition and development. Highly recommended." * Choice *"A very interesting, academic book." -- Andrea Kirsh * The Art Blog *"There is a theoretical framework to this study, that grows out of the author’s interest in both multiculturalism and race theory, and she does a masterful job in exploring the work of the three artists through a variety of lenses." -- David M. Sokol * Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations 1. Introduction 2. The Meaning of Modernism 3. Making Race in American Religious Painting 4. Type/Face/Mask: Racial Portraiture 5. The Race of Landscape 6. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSheds light on changing Asian American culturesTrade Review"It is a very fine example of the Fine Art of Race Talk." -- Brett Russell Coleman * Magic Mulatto *"Kina and Dariotis’s volume offers an evolving and rich archive of marginalized but must-be-seen art production which scholars in Asian American Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Art History can synthesize in multiple exciting ways." -- Susette Min * Amerasia Journal *"The project makes visible underrepresented histories with Asian-American studies, mixed-race studies and contemporary art. The exhibition and accompanying book . . . map out and contextualize the lives and works of these artists." -- Jessica Davis * City Living Seattle *"A fascinating book on mixed-race identity and visual art." -- Shawn Wong * International Examiner *Table of ContentsForeword by Kent A. Ono Preface Acknowledgments Part One | Introduction 1. Miscegenating Discourses: Critical Contexts for Mixed Race Asian American Art and Identity / Laura Kina and Wei Ming Dariotis Part Two | "War Babies": U.S. Wars in Asia and Mixed Asians Philippine-American War and World War II: Postcolonial and Mestizo Identity 2. Skin Stories, Wars, and Remembering: The Philippine-American War / Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr. 3. Eating Your Heart Out: An Interview with Lori Kay 4. Somewhere Tropical: An Interview with Gina Osterloh 5. Wading to Shore: An Interview with Jenifer Wofford World War II | Mixed Race Japanese Americans 6. The Celtic Samurai: Storytelling a Transnational-Transracial Family Life / Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu 7. Yonsei Hapa Uchinanchu: An Interview with Laura Kina 8. 9/11 Manzanar Mashup: An Interview with Chris Naka 9. Gravity Always Wins: An Interview with Laurel Nakadate Korean War | Korean Transracial Adoptees 10. Producing Missing Persons: Korean Adoptee Artists Imagining (Im)Possible Lives / Eleana J. Kim 11. Crossfading the Gendered History of Militarism in Korea: An Interview with Jane Jin Kaisen Vietnam War | Vietnamese Amerasians 12. Lost in Their "Fathers' Land": War, Migration, and Vietnamese Amerasians / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials 13. In Love in a Faraway Place: An Interview with Serene Ford Part Three | Hawai'i: Mixed Race and the "Discourse of Aloha" 14. Six Queens: Miss Ka Palapala and Interracial Beauty in Territorial Hawai'i / Lori Pierce 15. Remixing Metaphors: Negotiating Multiracial Positions in Contemporary Native Hawaiian Art / Margo Machida 16. Hawaiian Cover-ups: An Interview with Adrienne Pao 17. I've Always Wanted Your Nose, Dad: An Interview with Samia Mirza Part Four | "Love Children": Domestic Racial Hierarchies, Antimiscegenation Laws, and Revolutions Eurasians and "Hapas": Mixed White Asians 18. Both Buffer and Cosmopolitan: Eurasians, Colonialism, and the New "Benevolent" Globalization / Wei Ming Dariotis 19. Cosmopolitan Views: An Interview with Li-lan 20. 100% Hapa: An Interview with Kip Fulbeck 21. Archiving Ephemera: An Interview with Amanda Ross-Ho Mixed Bloods | Mixed Asian Native Americans 22. Reappearing Home: Mixed Asian Native North Americans / Wei Ming Dariotis 23. Walking in "Chindian" Shoes: An Interview with Louie Gong 24. Hello, Half-breed!: An Interview with Debra Yepa-Pappan Blasians | Mixed Black Asians 25. What Used to Be a Footnote: Claiming Black Roots in Asian American-Asian Caribbean Historical Memory / Wendy Thompson Taiwo 26. Jamaican Hybridity within the "Bowels of Babylon": An Interview with Albert Chong 27. Automythography: An Interview with Mequitta Ahuja Mestizaje | Mixed Latino Asians 28. Revisiting Border Door and UnEarthing Los Anthropolocos' White-Fying Project / Richard A. Lou 29. Journey of a "Chicanese": An Interview with Richard A. Lou 30. Artificial Gems: An Interview with Cristina Lei Rodriguez Part Five | Conclusion Revolutions: The Biracial Baby Boom and the Loving Day and Marriage Equality Movements 31. The Biracial Baby Boom and the Multiracial Millennium / Camilla Fojas 32. Loving Days: Images of Marriage Equality Then and Now / Stuart Gaffney and Ken Tanabe Notes About the Authors Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In the Spirit of the Ancestors is a beautifully illustrated book that celebrates the strength and diversity of Northwest Coast cultural expressions. . . . [T]his is an engaging addition to the scholarship addressing contemporary Northwest Coast art and will be of interest to scholars, artists, and the general public." -- Megan A. Smetzer * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *"The essays are replete with colour illustrations of the objects discussed and studied, and the last fifty pages offer a portfolio of near full-page images of additional pieces. The editors are to be congratulated for including the voices of the Indigenous creators and giving the same coverage to textiles and basketry that historically has been given to sculpture, engraving, and graphic work." -- Alan Hoover * BC Studies *Table of ContentsForeword: Bill Holm Acknowledgments Introduction Robin: K. Wright 1. Coast Salish Design: An Anticipated Southern Analysis / Shaun Peterson 2. Behind the "Screens": A Collection, the Collectors, and the Art / Margaret B. Blackman 3. The Naaxiin: Robe of Sacred Honor / Evelyn Vanderhoop 4. Wearing Identity: The Strength of Expression through Personal Adornment / Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse 5. Intertwining: Learning for the Future from Our Past / Lisa Telford 6. Notes on Masks / Joe David 7. Northwest Coast Box Drums / Robin K. Wright 8. Acts of Propatriation: Two Kaats' House Posts by Nathan and Stephen Jackson / Emily Moore Portfolio Works Cited Index Contributors

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Book SynopsisThe Odyssey of China's Imperial Art Treasures traces the three-thousand-year history of the emperor's imperial collection, from the Bronze Age to the present. The tortuous story of these treasures involves a succession of dynasties, invasion and conquest, and civil war, resulting in valiant attempts to rescue and preserve the collection. Throughout history, different Chinese regimes used the imperial collection to bolster their own political legitimacy, domestically and internationally. The narrative follows the gradual formation of the Peking Palace Museum in 1925, then its hasty fragmentation as large parts of the collection were moved perilously over long distances to escape wartime destruction, and finally its formal division into what are today two Palace Museums-one in Beijing, the other in Taipei. Enlivened by the personalities of those who cared for the collection, this textured account of the imperial treasures highlights magnificent artworks and their arduous transit throTrade Review"A master narrative of the political life of art objects in China, from early Shang-dynasty bronze vessels to the remnant collections of the last Qing emperor now belonging to the National Palace Museum in Taiwan and the Palace Museum in Beijing. . . . The study is the first to present an extended account in English of the travails of creating, compiling, and protecting a national patrimony in tumultuous twentieth-century China." * CAA Reviews *"The story is enriched with the personalities and events that shaped the collections over the centuries, and the details of the study provide an informative background for specialists, students, and connoisseurs. This is a fascinating, enlightening study of a little-known subject. Highly recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword: The Saga of China's Imperial Collections, by Thomas Lawton Prologue 1. China's Imperial Art Treasures from Early Times to the Twelfth Century 2. Imperial Treasures under the Ming and Qing Dynasties 3. From Private to Public Treasures: The Early Republican Era, 1911-1930 4. The Treasures through Times of War, 1931-1947 5. Relocating and Rebuilding the Palace Museum on Taiwan 6. The Gugong in Beijing: National Treasure and Political Object 7. Epilogue: The Politics of China's Imperial Art Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewUncovers remarkable and unsuspected depths in the works of such figures as Aristophanes and Plato. This is the most compelling and sophisticated study available of any single Athenian ritual and the most challenging to received notions about the wider role of religion in city-state society." - Richard P. Martin, Standford University“[This] study of the Adonia as offering cultural critiques played out in specific texts is a major innovation. . . . A model for new readings of other seemingly marginal rites.”—Journal of Hellenic Studies

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Book SynopsisWith interdisciplinary analysis of literature, painting, and film, Faster, Higher, Stronger, Comrades! traces how physical fitness had an even broader impact on culture and ideology in the Soviet Union than previously realized.Trade ReviewThis is a lively and engaging study that explores the impact ofsports on the cultural world of both pre- and postrevolutionary Russia. The numerous analyses of works from the worlds of literature, film, cinema, and photographyare both fresh and insightful." - Barry Scherr, Dartmouth College"An exciting, thoughtful volume, with a wide-ranging purview, impressively thorough research, original perspective, eloquently bold collocation of pertinent texts, and many fascinating aperçus. This eminently readable study is a must for Slavists and lovers of sport." - Helena Goscilo, The Ohio State University

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Book SynopsisJoseph Farington (1747-1821) was a professional topographical artist and lived most of his life in London. Through his extensive involvement in the affairs of the Royal Academy, his wide circle of friends, and his membership in several clubs and societies, he touched the life of his time at many points. This diary, which he kept from 1793 until his death, provides a meticulous record of his actions and observations and is an invaluable source for the history of English art and artists. It also constitutes an absorbing record of this period's social, political, and literary developments. This second pair of volumes covers the period in which Farington's influence within the Royal Academy was at its height and he earned the title of dictator of the Royal Academy.' These years where characterized by artistic controversy over such matters as the eligibility of architects for membership, the expulsion of James Barry from his position as Professor of Painting and then from the Academy itself, and the alleged destructiveness of James Wyatt's restoration of Durham Cathedral. Farington immersed himself in these and other artistic matters ranging from the campaign for the establishment of a national gallery to his budding friendships with the young Turner and the young Constable.

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Book SynopsisJoseph Farington (1747-1821) was a professional topographical artist who lived most of his life in London. Through his extensive involvement in the affairs of the Royal Academy, his wide circle of friends, and his membership in several clubs and societies, he touched the life of his times at many points. His diary, now for the first time being published in full, is an invaluable source for the history of English art and artists. In this third pair of volumes, the chief interest is provided by Farington's account of his visit to Paris, in company with Fuseli, during the Peace of Amiens in 1802. West, Opie, Flaxman, Hoppner, and Turner were among the other English artists who visited Paris at the same time, as did Charles James Fox and his followers. Farington provides much material on French art and artists, notably on David and his pupils, and on the works of art looted from other parts of Europe, especially from Italy, which were on view in the Louvre. There are vivid descriptions of Napoleon and of the atmosphere of Paris during the Consulate. During these years Farington also undertook tours of the Lake District, Scotland, and the Wye valley. He portrays in detail the pre-Regency society of these years, ranging from the small change of gossip and social life to the serious matters of art and politics.

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Book SynopsisThese seventh and eighth volumes of Farrington's diary chronicle a period of troubled time for the Royal Academy and record political events such as the battle of Trafalgar and the death of Pitt and Fox.

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Book SynopsisThe ninth and tenth volumes of the diary cover the years from January 1808 up to December 1810. Among the public events that preoccupy Joseph Farington are the wars in Europe and South America and the spectacular scandal that erupted in 1809 over Duke of York's association with Mary Anne Clark. This period finds Farington embarking on extended toursone to the north of England and two to the West Countrymaking sketches to illustrate the survey of Britain, Britannica Depicta, compiled by his friends Samuel and Daniel Lysons. Farington's association with this and other projects for the publishers Cadell and Davies involves him in negotiations with many engravers, among them Joseph Landseer, James Heath, and Samuel Middiman. Within the Royal Academy (to which Landseer is pressing that a number of engravers be admitted) feelings run high over the lecture by John Soane criticizing the architecture of Covent Garden Theatre, which was the work of Robert Smirke, the son of Farington's oldest friends. At the end of 1810 Farington is occupied with assessing Robert Smirke's prospects at the coming election of academicians. In common with many others in the diarist's wide circle of acquaintances, Thomas Lawrence and John Constable continue to seek Farington's advice on professional and practical affairs. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.

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Book SynopsisThese eleventh and twelfth volumes of Farington's famous diaries gives his accounts of Academy exhibitions from 1811 to 1813 and discuss the political events of the time. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for studies in British art.

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Book SynopsisJoseph Farington (1747-1821), a respectable though not outstanding painter, was active in the social, cultural, and professional art world of his time. His voluminous diaries enrich our perception of this lively and productive age. Volumes XIII and XIV of the diaries take Farington past his seventieth birthday but show that his keen interest in public and artistic affairs remained undiminished. He rejoices at the end of the long war with France, deplores the conduct of Lord Byron, approves the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, and speculates about the probable authorship of the attack on prominent connoisseurs in the catalogue raisonné of the British Institution exhibition. In private life, Farington survives a financial disaster, and campaigns tirelessly to secure the promotion of a nephew to the rank of Post Captain in the Royal Navy.

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Book SynopsisThe author of this book sets out to investigate two fundamental issues: how was the remote past of Britain imagined in the 18th and 19th centuries and what part did visual arts play in the process?Table of ContentsThe domain of prehistory; the past and its meanings; Northern heroes and national identity; the bards of Britain; the Druids; ancestors and others - the origins of England; the image of the Briton; the megalithic landscape; garden design and the prehistoric past.

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Book SynopsisThis is a study of the 18th-century sculptor Louis Francois Roubiliac. His most important work takes the form of monuments seen in Westminster Abbey and in churches throughout the country. The book examines his style in the light of the social and religious conditions of his time.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first volume in the series Studies in British Art and examines the development of the London art world - its institutions and individual artists - over the past two centuries in an attempt to explain the marginal position of British modern art.

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Book SynopsisThese essays show how unpredictable attitudes to classical art turn out to be in Britain during the period 1550-1650. They aim to show how British artists, patrons and builders made informed choices from the classical vocabulary while working within systems distinct from those of classicism.

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Book SynopsisIn this exploration of the era of the Grand Tour, contributors from the fields of history, art history, literary history and theory, science history and anthropology investigate the experiences of travellers and their ways of understanding and representing their encounter with the foreign.

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Book SynopsisIn the 18th century, the Russian Empress Catherine the Great and some of her courtiers developed a taste for British art, and collected some spectacular items. This study tells the story of the acquisition of these treasures and of the cultural relations between Russia and Britain at that time.

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Book SynopsisDiego Velasquez (1599-1660) spent his formative years in Seville, learning his craft and producing his early masterpieces. This work explores the importance of Seville for Velasquez, examining Sevillian culture, Catholic theology, and picaresque literature.

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Book SynopsisA collection of 18 essays by architectural historian, Howard Colvin. They cover such topics as the idea of a Court Style in mediaeval English architecture, the south front of Wilton House, and the infiltration of the Georgian Office of Works by an architectural pressure group.

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Book SynopsisAn overview of the sculptures of the Parthenon, presenting interpretations of the ancient temple's sculptural creation. It focuses on the meanings of the sculptures in the light of classical Athenian knowledge and society, and considers what they reveal about the Greek sense of democracy.

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Book SynopsisA study of John Raphael Smith's career in printmaking. It investigates how he conducted his engraving and publishing business, and what his prints, drawings and paintings reveal about the culture and morality of the society that viewed them. It includes a catalogue raisonne.

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Book SynopsisA survey of the range of craft disciplines and key practitioners from the pre-World War I years to the 1990s. It shows how the crafts movement emerged in response to generalized anxiety about the production, commodification and consumption of objects in an industrialised society.

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Book SynopsisThis is a survey of China's wealth of art, architecture and artefacts from prehistoric times to the 20th century. It discusses in detail a wide range of art forms and techniques from porcelain and pottery to secular painting and sculpture.Trade Review"William Watson's sumptuous new book presents a comprehensive account of the arts of China to the end of the Tang dynasty. The book combines fine scholarship with reproductions of the latest archaeological finds, images of objects in Western museums, and good maps and diagrams...This is a richly illustrated and thoughtful history that will reward the reader new to Chinese art as well as the more seasoned devotee." Candace J. Lewis, New Asia Review "The reader will find nearly four hundred of the objects and monuments that narrate the history of Chinese art, and one will also learn more about Chinese ceramics and metalwork than is available in most comparable surveys. Moreover, one will learn all of this through beautifully written prose." Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, China Review International "This is a rich book...Keen readers should not neglect the footnotes, which often contain useful information and interesting analysis. The glossary and bibliography are set in both western and Chinese scripts, which makes life much easier for students." Wang Tao, Art Newspaper Winner of a Choice 1996 Outstanding Academic Book Award

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Book SynopsisHow should Germany commemorate the mass murder of Jews once committed in its name? James E. Young - the only foreigner and Jew to serve on the German commission to select a design for a national Holocaust memorial - tells the inside story of this controversial project.Trade Review"The brilliance of James Young's theoretical insights is matched by his outstanding knowledge of the vast array of representations of the Shoah and by his artistic and literary sensitivity. At Memory's Edge will become an influential book." Saul Friedlander "Young's book needs no extra boost, and yet this recent debate over the meaning of German nationalism gives his subject another dimension of topicality, proving again how accurately discussions of art can pinpoint all that's buried just beneath the surface of everyday life." Robert Leiter, New York Times Book Review "A beautifully written and illustrated book that tells us something profound about the featured artistic projects and their contexts." Natasha Lehrer, Jewish Quarterly "This book provides for further study of the nature and meanings of memory, and on the way contemporary artists contribute to the broad and growing discussion of what memory is." Jay Winter, Art Bulletin

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Book SynopsisAn examination of Irish Gothic art from the years 1169 to 1550. It looks at what survives of Gothic art in Ireland and discusses such wide-ranging topics as the historiography of the style, its metalwork, iconography and forms.Trade Review"Colum Hourihane sheds a whole new light on the subject of Gothic art in Ireland. His book is an eye-opener, and he has a knack of presenting material in a new and interesting way." Peter Harbison, Royal Irish Academy

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Book SynopsisThis collection of writings by specialists from many disciplines explores a range of topics relating to English painter George Romney (1734-1802). The contributors address not only Romney's personality and artistic practice, but also key themes in his work and aspects of its cultural context.

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Book SynopsisThe fourth and final part of a four-volume set of art criticism by Richard Cork, written over a 30-year period. It offers a chronicle of a turbulent period as well as an overview and survey of British art and its reception at this time. This particular work addresses the art of the year 2000.

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Book SynopsisA study of David Octavius Hill (1802-70), pioneer photographer, painter and lithographer. It analyzes his photographic partnership with Robert Adamson, offering an understanding of its remarkable success, and explains the purpose and intelligence of this work in the context of Hill's life.

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Book SynopsisPrevious studies of this subject have been largely confined to the importance of Romanticism and Impressionism; this book covers the entire field and offers an encyclopaedic account of all aspects of the British reception of French art in the nineteenth century.

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Book SynopsisFollowing in the methodological footsteps of his prize-winning Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Painter in Society, Richard Wendorf's new book on British art in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is an experiment in cultural history, combining the analysis of specific artistic objects with an exploration of the cultural conditions in which they were created. Themes include an investigation of what happens when a painter dies, the role of writing around and within visual objects, and the nature of evidence in art history. Extended interpretations of some of the most iconic images in British art, including Constable's Cenotaph, Raeburn's Skating Minister, Stubbs's Haymakers and Reapers, and Rossetti's Prosperpine, Venus Verticordia, and Blessed Damosel, are part of a broader investigation of the ways in which we practice art history today. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

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Book SynopsisStuart Davis (1892-1964) made a mark on the art world early in his career, first with his Ashcan works and then with his highly personal version of Cubism. This is a chronology of Davis' life, as well as a discussion of the compositional relationship between certain works spanning his oeuvre.

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Book SynopsisFeatures an account of art, design, and architecture in the Central Europe of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during its last decades. The author integrates political and cultural developments, comparing the situation in eight cities, highlighting the contrasts, rivalries, parallels, and interconnections across this region.

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