History of art Books

Book SynopsisA beautifully illustrated in-depth study of the most important North American work by the best-known Mexican muralist, Diego Rivera.

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Book SynopsisA window onto the lives of the Romantic poets through the re-creation of one legendary night in 1817.

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Book SynopsisA dazzling look at the artists working on the frontiers of science.Trade Review"[An] encyclopedic survey… Dr. Miller’s grasp of the scene is impressive." -- Jascha Hoffman - New York Times Book Review"[Arthur I. Miller] deftly demonstrates in this survey of what he calls "artsci" [that] both artists and scientists…have probed the porous borders between art and science, creating aesthetic objects that incorporate scientific ideas… Miller eloquently chronicles the story of artsci in brief vignettes of the lives and works of the individuals working at the intersections of these disciplines." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Arthur I. Miller understands the intersection of art and science better than anyone writing today. In Colliding Worlds, he brilliantly helps us expand our definitions of art and science while encouraging us to appreciate how both involve an intuitive feel for the beauty of the unseen." -- Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs"Arthur I. Miller explores what happens when the brainwaves, objectivity and logic of science spark off the inspiration, subjectivity and wildness of art, and vice versa. After tracing out the contacts between these spheres of endeavor, Miller goes even further, suggesting that the boundaries between them are breaking down: science is redefining contemporary art to seed a third culture." -- Roger Highfield, director of external affairs, Science Museum, London"Arthur I. Miller’s Colliding Worlds answers the age-old question of whether art and science can find common ground with a resounding YES! From the foundations of Cubism to bacterial radios, fluorescent rabbits, and musical hyper-instruments, Miller’s easygoing, anecdotal, and wide-ranging narrative shows how artists exploit cutting-edge advances in science and technology to alter dramatically the palette of artistic invention." -- Mark Pagel, author of Wired for Culture"Arthur I. Miller has the rare intellectual range to address the ways modern scientific discoveries have nourished the creativity of artists—and that’s what he’s done in this fine book." -- Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and author of From Here to Infinity"Illuminating… [A] philosophically rich study of creativity and aesthetics." -- Grace Labatt - Santa Fe New Mexican

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Book SynopsisLuminous and revealing, a daughter's memoir of the art world and a larger-than-life father.Trade Review"A beautiful, compelling memoir, a testament to art, to love, to life and all its losses and joys." -- Frederic Tuten, author of Self Portraits "Reading Gabrielle Selz's telling of the exhilarating twentieth-century decades when American art remade itself is like sitting to one side at a New York opening with someone who knows every story inside out. No one has died and all the living are here, too: Max Beckmann, Karel Appel, Carolee Schneeman, Alberto Giacometti, Mark Rothko and so many others whirl past, as at the center, the writer's complicated parents, the visionary and philandering MoMA curator Peter Selz and the beautiful writer Thalia Cheronis, hold our attention. Informed by the author's tenderness and longing, Unstill Life has the vitality of witness and the intimacy of memoir at its best." -- Honor Moore, author of The Bishop's Daughter "This intimate look at the art world's movers and shakers is from the perspective of the younger daughter of Peter Selz, a major curator and museum director... It's an exuberant tale of artists from Rothko to Christo that makes the reader marvel that neither the daughter nor her mother ever rejected the rascal who both animated and complicated their lives." -- Gail Levin, biographer of Edward Hopper, Judy Chicago, and Lee Krasner "Life inspires art inspires life-all of which inspire Gabrielle Selz's sparkling memoir of her brilliant but chaotic family. In Unstill Life, the art and people ricochet off each other, wreaking havoc but also encouraging everyone to live more intense, artistic lives." -- Charlotte Rogan, author of The Lifeboat "For a first book it's impressive; actually for a second or third book it would still be a contender, with lean engaging prose, an alertness for detail, and her consummate storytelling. One of the season's surprises." -- James Croak "A poignant, poetic, vivid picture of a New York populated by debaucherous dreamers, Selz's memoir is personal, brave, and touches not only on the complicated and intricate love her parents had for each other and their children, but also an epic time in American art history." -- Royal Young "Selz's reminiscences of coming of age amidst an explosion of creativity and social change are clear-eyed, sympathetic-and sometimes heartbreaking." "[A] page-turner [with a] unique point of view... Beautifully told and compelling." -- John Seed "Candid and captivating... Unstill Life personalizes the modern art world and makes it feel immediate, not a painting on a museum wall." -- Francis Dinkelspiel "[A] candid daughter-father memoir... [Selz's] evocation of her father's long life explores the bittersweet intersection of modern art and modern family, and the collateral damage of the sexual revolution." -- David D'Arcy

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Book SynopsisThis bold new history recovers the American Revolution, as seen through the eyes of Boston-born painter John Singleton Copley.Trade Review"Jane Kamensky has not only crafted a stunning biography but also a truly singular account of The American Revolution. A Revolution in Color masterfully unravels any easy distinctions between patriots and loyalists." -- Amanda Foreman"... I commend Kamensky's skill as a writer. Even if you had little interest in such a man as Copley, this is a deeply enjoyable book." -- David Aaronovitch, Book of the Week - The Times"... lively and insightful book... Kamensky has produced an exemplary historical biography... A Revolution in Color is a thumping good read and makes a significant contribution to our appreciation of the often misunderstood and underappreciated Copley." -- Loyd Grossman - The Burlington Magazine

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Book SynopsisThis bold new history recovers the American Revolution, as seen through the eyes of Boston-born painter John Singleton Copley.Trade Review"... I commend Kamensky's skill as a writer. Even if you had little interest in such a man as Copley, this is a deeply enjoyable book." -- David Aaronovitch, Book of the Week - The Times"Jane Kamensky’s brilliant new biography... a spirited and at times heartbreaking narrative of [Copley’s] life and the tumultuous world he inhabited." -- Literary Review"...intriguing... richly layered biography..." -- Times Literary Supplement"Jane Kamensky has not only crafted a stunning biography but also a truly singular account of The American Revolution. A Revolution in Color masterfully unravels any easy distinctions between patriots and loyalists." -- Amanda Foreman"... lively and insightful book... Kamensky has produced an exemplary historical biography... A Revolution in Color is a thumping good read and makes a significant contribution to our appreciation of the often misunderstood and underappreciated Copley." -- Loyd Grossman - The Burlington Magazine"... very readable account of the life and times of John Singleton Copley." -- The Art Newspaper"Copley was in London when resistance escalated into war. This profile brings his world alive, exploring the difficult relationships between liberty and slavery, family duty and personal ambition." -- What We're Reading - The Independent

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Book SynopsisThe sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips and graphic novels and their century-long hold on the American imagination.Trade Review"With encyclopedic knowledge, Jeremy Dauber brilliantly excavates the story of this art form—warts and all—from its origins right up to the twenty-first century, and strikes cartoon gold. For anyone curious about a medium that’s influenced and embedded itself in every part of our culture, American Comics is an essential guidebook. If you are already a connoisseur of comics, be prepared to be enlightened anew." -- Peter Kuper, award-winning cartoonist and author of Kafkaesque and Heart of Darkness"Until now one could only dream of an engaging, analytic history encompassing the entire medium. That sounds like a job for Superman, but Jeremy Dauber has gotten there first…His perceptive, critical overview is enlivened by a jaunty style that bops from the political cartoons of Thomas Nast in the 1860s to the demise of an equally influential gadfly, Mad magazine, in 2018." -- Michael Saler - Wall Street Journal"[Dauber is] a spry, humorous storyteller… [he] suggests that the story of American comics is ‘right in the middle of its run.’ If so, this is a very readable map of where it has been." -- Teddy Jamieson - The Herald

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Book SynopsisA sweeping look at the lives and work of two important English Romantic painters.

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Book SynopsisThe first book in several decades to focus on the muralist, an esteemed exemplar and advocate of the classical tradition.Trade Review"….. a heroic force for good on America’s walls….an important, overdue volume….a triumph." -- Traditional Building"[A] succinct overview of Blashfield’s work, illustrated by dozens of color photographs of murals from courthouses, capitols and colleges." -- Milwaukee Express"Over 100 large color photographs many taken expressly for this publication and extensive new scholarship combine with an exhaustive list of known murals, a detailed chronology, and a bibliography to make this work valuable either as an introduction to the artist or for the reader already aware of this great American muralist." -- Style 1900"An impressive work of impeccable scholarship and a strongly recommended addition to personal, academic, and library American Art History collections." -- Midwest Book Review"[T]he richly illustrated study provides much in the way of new material on the artist and his milieu." -- Art History

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Book SynopsisFrom the reviews of the first edition of Architecture of New York City. It should provide joy to anyone even vaguely interested in this city and its artifacts.. It is very likely to turn them into enthusiasts. --New York Times Book Review .weaves the little-known stories of 80 buildings and landmarks into a colorful tapestry of New York''s whirlwind history.. This richly illustrated guide can be read from beginning to end with great pleasure. --Publishers Weekly .Reynolds takes a new look at the older glories of New York. The architecture is freshly seen and is clearly researched. Reynolds'' splendid photographs present highly original views of familiar (and not so familiar) important structures and sites. --Adolph Placzek, former president of the Society of Architectural Historians The history of New York City is a rich pageant of culture, commerce, social change, and human drama stretching back five hundred years. And when we know where to look for it, it is all there for us to see, Table of ContentsSeventeenth Century: Dutch Beginnings. Eighteenth Century: Georgian Architecture and a Revolution. The Federal Style. Nineteenth Century: Greek Revival. Temples of Commerce and Houses of Industry. Churches: From Temple Fronts to Statue Columns. Cast-Iron Buildings, Their Legacy, and the Palazzo Style. The Tallest Building in the World, 1913-30: The WoolworthBuilding. Fashionable Dwellings. Theaters. The New York Port Comes of Age. Art Deco Skyscrapers. Rockefeller Center: Innovation in Urban Planning. Graves, Gardens, and Parks. The Picturesque Point of View: Fonthill Castle, Firehouses, and theSeventh Regiment Armory. ``O Harp and Altar'': The Brooklyn Bridge. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisMost historic buildings are owned by private citizens who have little or no background in building preservation or its allied fields.

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Book SynopsisThe definitive, one-stop reference to the history of landscape architecture-now expanded and revised This revised edition of Landscapes in History features for the first time new information-rarely available elsewhere in the literature-on landscape architecture in India, China, Southeast Asia, and Japan.Trade Review"valuable as a reference work...but it deserves to be read as a good one-volume history of world landscapes" (Landscape History, Vol.20, 2000)Table of ContentsPart One European and Asian Landscapes 1 Part Two The North American Landscape 381 References 771 Index 827

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Book SynopsisConsiders how performance, plays, and history affect the collective memory of a society and national identity, on and off stageTrade ReviewThis important study not only sheds significant new light on the modern German stage, but has implications for the relationship between theatre and contemporary society around the world." —Marvin Carlson, CUNY Graduate Center"Cornish skillfully examines the neo-documentary style of groups like Rimini Protokoll and the "hybridized" post-migrant theater. More than 60 pages of notes, bibliography, and index lend the book authority...Highly recommended." —Choice Reviews"Cornish offers exemplary readings of important, recent productions. The book makes a significant contribution to German studies, where theater tends to get short shrift; and to theater studies, where scholars have been both intrigued and baffled by German directors' irreverent approach to classical texts and nationalist myth-making." —German Studies Review"Performing Unification is written clearly, is attentive to its reader...and avoids obscuring its findings in jargon. It provides a stimulating and accessible way into an otherwise dense and difficult topic and will reward the reader wishing to extend Cornish's findings. This study will be useful not just for researchers with an interest in theatre's relationship to history and memory but also for those looking for perspectives on aesthetic developments in German theatre in the last thirty years." —Modern Drama"Matt Cornish has written a very good investigation into history and nation on the German stage after 1989 ... He arrives at some fascinating conclusions." —The German Quarterly

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Book SynopsisSet against the backdrop of interwar Paris, this book uncovers previously marginalized archives to reveal the artistic strategies employed by Chinese artists and writers in the early twentieth-century transnational imaginary and to explain why Paris played a central role in the global reception of modern Chinese literature and art.Trade ReviewParis and the Art of Transposition is a must-have reference for anyone working in the fields of France and China, regardless of the medium of the objects one studies. Chau’s writing is clear and accessible, while intelligent and sophisticated." - Michelle Bloom, University of California, Riverside"The scholarship of Paris and the Art of Transposition is excellent and the research highly original. The theme of “transposition” makes this book interesting methodologically and provides a new perspective to look at art and literature of this period." - Kuiyi Shen, University of California, San DiegoTable of Contents List of Illustrations Timeline of Historical Periods Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Chang Yu and the Pose Chapter 3: Fu Lei the Critic Chapter 4: Li Jinfa and the Muse Chapter 5: Xu Xu and the Artist’s Studio Chapter 6: Speculating Pan Yuliang Conclusion: Challenging the Universality of Paris Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis first-of-its-kind book brings together writing by artists and scholars to survey the field of Puerto Rican experimental dance across four decades. Originally published as Habitar lo Imposible, the translation features essays, artist statements, and interviews plus more than 100 photos of productions, programs, posters, and scores.Trade ReviewInhabiting the Impossible enters into current conversations about the connections between corporealities, choreography, dance, geopolitics, identity construction and ideas of nation, race, gender, class and sexuality, political agency and artistic practices--and the circulation of these concepts in the Americas. The book will interest scholars, students, practitioners and those interested in Latin American cultural theory, aesthetics, political studies, anthropology, or gender and sexuality studies." - Anamaria Tamayo-Duque, Universidad de Antioquia"This history of experimental dance in Puerto Rico also serves as a model for understanding the aesthetic impacts of dance within particular cultural and political contexts. Further, it foregrounds the voices of artists as it narrates the importance of dance as a mode of cultural manifestation, whether on the street, in living rooms and kitchens, within ritual sites, in abandoned, repurposed spaces, or on concert stages." - Jennifer Monson, University of IllinoisTable of Contents Preface to the English Edition Susan Homar and nibia pastrana santiago Introduction: Inhabiting Dance in Puerto RicoPart I. Histories, Bodies, and Alterities Susan Homar Clear the Way, We’re Coming Through! Forging a New Dance Field in Puerto Rico Adriana Garriga-LÓpez Insurrectionary Bodies: Performance at the Borderlands of Governability and Regeneration nibia pastrana santiago against erasure, in favor of strangeness, and remember: this choreography is not a Caribbean myth, others came before itPart II. Considerations about, from, and with Dance Alma ConcepciÓn SuÁrez The Legacy of Gilda Navarra and the Taller de Histriones Teresa PeÑa JordÁn Transforming the Gaze: Moving Beyond Boundaries with Poetry, Testimony, and Dance Translated by Sarah Yates Gibson Nelson Rivera Puerto Rico: Four Encounters Linking Dance, Music, and the Visual ArtsPart III. Decolonial Tasks: Improvisations, Performances, and Events Lydia PlatÓn LÁzaro The Possible from the Unknown: Transformations in the Present-Present of Improvisation Arnaldo RodrÍguez BaguÉ Curating the Foro Permanente de Performance, FPP RamÓn H. Rivera-Servera Moving Queer Feminist Movements in the Commons … or How Puerto Rico Dances its Decolonial DesiresPart IV. To Inhabit, to Write, to Move Alicia DÍaz ConcepciÓn Oscar Mestey Villamil Ñequi GonzÁlez MartÍnez teresa hernÁndez JesÚs Miranda Santiago (Pito) Awilda RodrÍguez Lora Jeanne d’Arc Casas Panouze Javier Cardona Otero NoemÍ Segarra RamÍrez Karen Langevin Pepe Álvarez ColÓnPart V. MAPA: Originary Cartographies--Interviews Alejandra Martorell Mapping Puerto Rico: Coordinates of Five Explorers of Dance as Performance Interviews with: Petra Bravo (HernÁndez) MeriÁn Soto Myrna Renaud Awilda Sterling-Duprey Viveca VÁzquez Sonia DaubÓn Aquino Guide to Informational and Bibliographic Resources on Experimental Dance in Puerto Rico Notes on Collaborators

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Book SynopsisExamines how surveillance technologies, when placed within the frames of theatre and performance, can be used to critique and critically reimagine the politics of surveillance in everyday life. In this way, the rapid proliferation of surveillance technology can be repurposed through performance to become technologies of ethical witnessing, critique, and action.Trade Review“. . . a timely, valuable contribution to the ongoing discourse not only intheatre and performance studies, but more broadly in media and culturalstudies and in considerations of digital technology in culture.” - Sarah Bay-Cheng, Bowdoin College

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA rich and rewarding book. Reactivations reminds us how to think about performance in a manner that is direct and pragmatic, while still ambitious and fully embedded in both conceptual and historical knowledge of our subject."" - Matthew Reason, York St. John University""Philip Auslander is one of the most penetrating observers and interpreters of performance. He addresses the subtle substance and still radical and difficult form of performance in elegantly articulated, original insights, thought-provoking perspectives, and respectful debates. Reactivations is Auslander at his best."" - Kristine Stiles, Duke University

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Book SynopsisTaking up the work of prominent theater and performance artists, Beyond Text reveals the audacity and beauty of avant-garde performance in print. Jennifer Buckley shows how live performance and print aesthetically revived one another during a period in which both were supposed be in a state of terminal cultural decline.Trade ReviewBy delineating the numerous relationships print can assume to performance, Beyond Text opens up new ways of looking at, thinking about, and appreciating familiar performance works and artists as well as some less familiar ones." - Philip Auslander, Georgia Institute of Technology"Well researched, clearly written, engaged in current debates, and compelling in its argumentation, Beyond Text makes an important and overdue contribution to the fields of theatre, literary, performance and cultural studies. It will also speak to art historians and design scholars and anyone interested in the history of the book as a cultural artifact." - James M. Harding, University of Maryland

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Book SynopsisSet against the backdrop of interwar Paris, this book uncovers previously marginalized archives to reveal the artistic strategies employed by Chinese artists and writers in the early twentieth-century transnational imaginary and to explain why Paris played a central role in the global reception of modern Chinese literature and art.Trade ReviewParis and the Art of Transposition is a must-have reference for anyone working in the fields of France and China, regardless of the medium of the objects one studies. Chau’s writing is clear and accessible, while intelligent and sophisticated." - Michelle Bloom, University of California, Riverside"The scholarship of Paris and the Art of Transposition is excellent and the research highly original. The theme of “transposition” makes this book interesting methodologically and provides a new perspective to look at art and literature of this period." - Kuiyi Shen, University of California, San DiegoTable of Contents List of Illustrations Timeline of Historical Periods Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Chang Yu and the Pose Chapter 3: Fu Lei the Critic Chapter 4: Li Jinfa and the Muse Chapter 5: Xu Xu and the Artist’s Studio Chapter 6: Speculating Pan Yuliang Conclusion: Challenging the Universality of Paris Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis first-of-its-kind book brings together writing by artists and scholars to survey the field of Puerto Rican experimental dance across four decades. Originally published as Habitar lo Imposible, the translation features essays, artist statements, and interviews plus more than 100 photos of productions, programs, posters, and scores.Trade ReviewInhabiting the Impossible enters into current conversations about the connections between corporealities, choreography, dance, geopolitics, identity construction and ideas of nation, race, gender, class and sexuality, political agency and artistic practices--and the circulation of these concepts in the Americas. The book will interest scholars, students, practitioners and those interested in Latin American cultural theory, aesthetics, political studies, anthropology, or gender and sexuality studies." - Anamaria Tamayo-Duque, Universidad de Antioquia"This history of experimental dance in Puerto Rico also serves as a model for understanding the aesthetic impacts of dance within particular cultural and political contexts. Further, it foregrounds the voices of artists as it narrates the importance of dance as a mode of cultural manifestation, whether on the street, in living rooms and kitchens, within ritual sites, in abandoned, repurposed spaces, or on concert stages." - Jennifer Monson, University of IllinoisTable of Contents Preface to the English Edition Susan Homar and nibia pastrana santiago Introduction: Inhabiting Dance in Puerto RicoPart I. Histories, Bodies, and Alterities Susan Homar Clear the Way, We’re Coming Through! Forging a New Dance Field in Puerto Rico Adriana Garriga-LÓpez Insurrectionary Bodies: Performance at the Borderlands of Governability and Regeneration nibia pastrana santiago against erasure, in favor of strangeness, and remember: this choreography is not a Caribbean myth, others came before itPart II. Considerations about, from, and with Dance Alma ConcepciÓn SuÁrez The Legacy of Gilda Navarra and the Taller de Histriones Teresa PeÑa JordÁn Transforming the Gaze: Moving Beyond Boundaries with Poetry, Testimony, and Dance Translated by Sarah Yates Gibson Nelson Rivera Puerto Rico: Four Encounters Linking Dance, Music, and the Visual ArtsPart III. Decolonial Tasks: Improvisations, Performances, and Events Lydia PlatÓn LÁzaro The Possible from the Unknown: Transformations in the Present-Present of Improvisation Arnaldo RodrÍguez BaguÉ Curating the Foro Permanente de Performance, FPP RamÓn H. Rivera-Servera Moving Queer Feminist Movements in the Commons … or How Puerto Rico Dances its Decolonial DesiresPart IV. To Inhabit, to Write, to Move Alicia DÍaz ConcepciÓn Oscar Mestey Villamil Ñequi GonzÁlez MartÍnez teresa hernÁndez JesÚs Miranda Santiago (Pito) Awilda RodrÍguez Lora Jeanne d’Arc Casas Panouze Javier Cardona Otero NoemÍ Segarra RamÍrez Karen Langevin Pepe Álvarez ColÓnPart V. MAPA: Originary Cartographies--Interviews Alejandra Martorell Mapping Puerto Rico: Coordinates of Five Explorers of Dance as Performance Interviews with: Petra Bravo (HernÁndez) MeriÁn Soto Myrna Renaud Awilda Sterling-Duprey Viveca VÁzquez Sonia DaubÓn Aquino Guide to Informational and Bibliographic Resources on Experimental Dance in Puerto Rico Notes on Collaborators

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Book SynopsisOffers the first sustained look at the creative interactions between artists and musicians of the 1960s, looking at four pairs of creators who used process-oriented ideas and techniques in their music and art: Dan Flavin and La Monte Young; Sol LeWitt and Milton Babbitt; Richard Serra and Steve Reich; and Bruce Nauman and Meredith Monk.

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Book SynopsisOffers a new, in-depth look at the economic forces and institutional actors that have shaped the outlines of postwar art history, with a particular focus on American art, 1960-1990. Working through four case studies, Michael Maizels illuminates how a set of dealers and patrons conditioned the iconic developments of this period.Table of Contents Debts of Gratitude Opening Bell Chapter 1: Taxing the System: Leo Castelli Makes a Market Chapter 2: Marketplace of Ideas: Virginia Dwan, Patron of the Impossible Chapter 3: Circuits of Exchange: Howard Wise & Distributing Media Chapter 4: Selling Speculation: Mary Boone & the Roaring '80s Postscript: Theaster Gates Builds Community Bibliography

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Book SynopsisA study of one of the most pivotal movements in the art of the 1957. This title seemed like an eccentric manifestation far removed from what was then considered the mainstream of modern art.

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Book SynopsisDuring his reign and following his death, the physiognomy of Alexander the Great was one of the most famous in history, adorning numerous works of art. This study demonstrates how the various portraits transmit not so much a likeness of Alexander as a set of cliches that symbolized the ruler.

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Book SynopsisHuelsenbeck's memoirs bring to life the concerns--intellectual, artistic, and political--of the individuals involved in the Dada movement and document the controversies within the movement and in response to it.Table of ContentsForeword to the Paperback Edition by Rudolf E. Kuenzli The New Man-Armed with the Weapons of Doubt and Defiance: Introduction by Hans J. Kleinschmidt The Dada Drummer Jean Arp Tristan Tzara Hans Richter A Knight in Connecticut Marcel Duchamp George Grosz August Stramm Joaquin Torres-Garda Jean Tinguely Postscript to Dada The Case of Dada Dada Dada and Existentialism Psychoanalytical Notes on Modern Art On Inspiration About My Poetry New York Modern Art and Totalitarian Regimes The Agony of the Artist A Few of the Artist's Problems On Leaving America for Good Plates Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPresents the development and aesthetic theories of the symbolist movement in art and literature. This book traces symbolism and its roots from artist to artist and critic to critic from the 1860s to the early twentieth century.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction PROLOGUE: BAUDELAIRE, DELACROIX, AND THE PREMISES OF SYMBOLIST AESTHETICS Charles Baudelaire Correspondences (c.1852-56?) ROMANTIC SYMBOLISTS Dante Gabriel Rossetti Hand and Soul (I850) On His Beata Beatrix (I87I) Edward Burne-]ones Letters to His Family (I854) Walter Pater Poems by William Morris (I868) Fernand Khnop if Memories of Burne-Jones (I898) Theophile Gautier An Early Appraisal ofPuvis de Chavannes (I86I) Jules Lafargue Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (I886) Loris-Karl Huysmans Gustave Moreau (I889) Emile Hennequin Fine Arts: Odilon Redon (I882) Odilon Redon Excerpts from To Oneseif(I898-I909) Andre Mellerio Odilon Redon (I894) Emile Verhaeren A Symbolist Painter: Fernand Khnopff (I887) James McNeill Whistler The Ten O'Clock Lecture (I885) William Ritter Bocklin's Villas by the Sea (I895) Auguste Rodin Conversations with Paul Gsell (I9II) 2 DECORATIVE ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE Owen jones Gleanings from the Great Exhibition (1851) William Morris The Decorative Arts in Modern Life (I877) Arthur H. Mackmurdo The Spiritual in Art (I884) Gustave Eiffel In Defense of the Tower (I887) Paul Gauguin At the Universal Exhibition (I889) Louis H. Sullivan Ornament in Architecture (I892) Henry van de Velde A Clean Sweep for the Future of Art (I894) 3 LITERARY SYMBOLISM Paul Bourget Baudelaire and the Decadent Movement (I88I) Paul Verlaine The Art ofPoetry (I874) Arthur Rimbaud The Unsettling of All the Senses (I87I) Jules Huret Interview with Stephane Mallarme (I89I) Maurice Maeterlinck Small Talk-the Theater (I89o) Teodor de Wyzewa Notes on Wagnerian Painting (I886) jean Moreas A Literary Manifesto-Symbolism (I886) 4 THE POST-IMPRESSIONISTS Felix Feneon Neo-Impressionism (I887) Georges Seurat Aesthetic and Technical Note (I890) Charles Henry Introduction to a Scientific Aesthetics (1885) Gustave Kahn Seurat (I89I) Paul Signac Anarchist Sympathies (I894) Edouard Dujardin Cloisonism (I888) Emile Verhaeren Ensor's Vision (I908) Paul Gauguin Letters to Emile Schuffenecker (I885, I888) G.-Albert Aurier Symbolism in Painting: Paul Gauguin (I89I) Paul Gauguin Letter to Andre Fontainas (I899) Vincent van Gogh Letters on The Night Cafe (I888) G.-Albert Aurier The Lonely Ones-Vincent van Gogh (I890) ]oris-Karl Huysmans Cezanne (I888) Paul Cezanne Excerpts from His Letters (I904, I906) Paul Serusier Nabi Principles (I889) Maurice Denis The Nabis in I890 Edvard Munch The "Saint-Cloud" Manifesto (I889-90?) Ferdinand Hodler The Mission of the Artist (1897) 5 THE ARTISTS OF THE SOUL Roger Marx The Salons of 1895 ]osephin Feladan Materialism in Art (I88I) In Search of the Holy Grail (I888) Armand Point Florence, Botticelli, La Primavera (I896) Octave Mirbeau The Artists of the Soul (I896) EPILOGUE: FORMALIST CRITICISM AND HARBINGERS OF SURREALISM Roger Fry Post Impressionism (1911) The French Post-Impressionists (1912) Clive Bell Cezanne's Pure Form (1914) Remy de Gourmont The Funeral of Style (1902) The Dissociation ofldeas (1900) Alfred ]arry Barnum (1902) Guillaume Apollinaire The New Spirit and the Poets (1917-18) Notes Index

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Book SynopsisWith the emergence of Abstract Expressionism after World War II, the attention of the international art world turned from Paris to New York. In this book, Dore Ashton captures the vitality of the cultural milieu in which the New York School artists worked and argued from the 1930s to the 1950s.Table of ContentsAuthor's note List of Illustrations Introduction Greenwich Village—and Depression z 'Hell, it's not just about painting!' 3 Artists and the New Deal 4 A Farrago of Theories 5 Studio Talk 6 The advent of Surrealism 7 Voices from Europe 8 Myth and Metamorphosis 9 American culture or mass culture? io Abstract Expressionism II Artists and Dealers 12 Existentialism 13 The Eighth-street Club 14 'Instantaneous tradition' 15 The end of an era Afterword References Index

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Book SynopsisA collection of the essays of art critic and poet Peter Schjeldahl, which explores his thoughts on individual contemporary artists, their work, events and ethics in the art world and new, creative directions.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction, by Robert Storr The Hydrogen Jukebox: Terror, Narcissism, and Art Rothko and Belief Edvard Munch: The Missing Master I Missed Punk A Book by Larry Rivers Warhol and Class Content Dubuffet, 1980 First Voice Column Clement Greenberg Exxon Exhibition at the Guggenheim Julian Schnabel and Susan Rothenberg Arshile Gorky L.A. Demystified! Art and Life in the Eternal Present Affairs of the Heat Disney Animators Realism Again H. C. Westermann Only Connect: Bruce Nauman "Les Drippings" in Paris: The Jackson Pollock Retrospective Cindy Sherman David Salle Why New French Art Is Lousy Willem de Kooning Robert Smithson's Writings Documenta 7 Howard Finster Clemente to Marden to Kiefer Leon Golub Decade of Wonders The Grant Wood Revival On Art and Artists: Peter Schjeldahl Edouard Manet Balthus In Defense of Artistic Fashion Minimalism Philip Guston Eric Fischl Ed Ruscha: Traffic and Laughter To Pico The Daemon and Sigmar Polke Adrian Saxe and the Smart Pot The Immigrant Strain Welcome to Helgaland A Visit to the Salon of Autumn 1986 Our Kiefer Hopperesque Mike Kelley Paintings by Aborigines Jeff Koons Courbet De K.ooning Alone Treason of Clerks Velazquez Baselitz and Kippenberger Bibliography of Peter Schjeldahl's Writings on Art Index

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Book SynopsisCombines the methods of anthropology and cultural history to examine the civic culture of Barcelona between 1888 and 1939 and shows how artists like Picasso, Miro, Casals and anarchists, and other political activists shaped and were influenced by the artistic and political culture of Barcelona.Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction: The Symbolic Landscape 1. Resistance and Ritual, 1888-1896 2. Popular Art and Rituals 3. Community Celebrations and Communal Strikes,1902 4. Women Out of Control 5. Female Consciousness and Community Struggle,1910-1918 6. Democratic Promises in 1917 7. Urban Disorder and Cultural Resistance,1919-1930 8. Cultural Reactions to the Spanish Republic and the Civil War in Barcelona Epilogue: Cultural Resistance in the Aftermath APPENDIX Map 1. Landmarks in Downtown Barcelona, 1808-1937 Map 2. Processions, Parades, and Demonstrations, 1808-1902 Map 3. Demonstrations and Funeral Processions, 1905-1920 NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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Book SynopsisA study of early 20th-century literary and artistic culture. The text focuses on the turbulent later years of the 1920s and 1930s, tracking the dissolution of modernism in the interwar years.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments PART ONE: THEORIZING LATE MODERNISM 1. Introduction: The Problem of Late Modernism 2. The End of Modernism: Rationalization, Spectacle, and Laughter PART TWO: READING LATE MODERNISM 3. The Self Condemned: Wyndham Lewis 4· Beyond Rescue: Djuna Barnes 5· Improved Out of All Knowledge: Samuel Beckett EPILOGUE 6. More or Less Silent: Mina Loy's Novel Inset Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis work compares paintings by Edward Hopper with photographs of the subjects of paintings done in New York, Maine, Gloucester, Cape Cod, Charleston, Mexico and Paris. It demonstrates how Hopper made art of everyday scenes and how he sometimes made intentional changes from what he observed.Table of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition Hopper's Places New York and Environs Maine Gloucester Cape Cod Gettysburg Charleston Western United States Mexico Paris Credits Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisFeaturing a highly provocative series of interviews conducted in early 1969 with some of the most dynamic, daring, and innovative artists of the tumultous 1960s. The nine individuals - eight artists and one art dealer - are now known as major contributors to Conceptual art.Trade Review"A key document of the late 1960s avant-garde." -James Meyer, Emory University "[This book is] a reminder that the project of Conceptual art and its 'artists' reasons for refusing the object of art were far from monolithic. The differences that emerge in the interviews are spoken in voices that are still fresh and particular, but each voice and position is tied to the moment of the late 1960s, from stoned mysticism to philosophical idealism, from political optimism to materialist critique." - Howard Singerman, author of Art Subjects "Reading the interviews gathered by Patricia Norvell more than thirty years ago is like opening one of the time capsules Stephen Kaltenbach made at around the same time and discusses here. It makes one feel nostalgic for these uncompromising times - so much has changed, so fast!... This is a precious document that casts a fresh light on the early history of Conceptual art." -Yve-Alain Bois, Harvard University "The contemporary interviews collected in this volume shift the ground on which conceptualism in the United States should be understood. The middle months of 1969 were a time of artistic and social unease when artists were anxious to test - and occasionally to declaim, as the interviews demonstrate - ideas in conversation with a sympathetic interlocutor. Patricia Norvell proves to have been an ideal listener." -John O'Brian, University of British Columbia"Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface by Patricia Norvell Introduction by Alexander Alberro Introduction to Eleven Interviews by Patricia Norvell Note on the Interviews Dennis Oppenheim, March 29, 1969 Seth Siegelaub, April 17, 1969 Robert Morris, May 16, 1969 Stephen Kaltenbach, May 24, 1969 Robert Barry, May 30, 1969 Lawrence Weiner, June 3, 1969 Sol LeWitt, June12, 1969 Robert Smithson, June 20, 1969 Douglas Huebler, July 25, 1969 Index

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Book SynopsisThis work gathers together texts by contemporaries of Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) - including artists, critics and writers - that illuminate the painter's philosophy of art, particularly in his later years.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction by Richard Shiff Documents Gustave Geffroy: Excerpt from Claude Monet, His Life, His Times, His Works Ambroise Vollard: Excerpt from Paul Cezanne Leo Larguier: Excerpt from Sunday with Paul Cezanne Jules Borely: 'Cezanne at Aix' (L'Art Vivant) Emile Bernard: Letter to His Mother (5 February 1904) Paul Cezanne: Letters to Emile Bernard (April to June, 1904) Emile Bernard: 'Paul Cezanne' (L'Occident) Paul Cezanne: Letters to Emile Bernard (July 1904 to September 1906) Emile Bernard: 'Memories of Paul Cezanne' (Mercure de France) Francis Jourdain: Excerpt from Cezanne R. P. Riviere and J. F. Schnerb: 'The Studio of Cezanne' (La Grande Revue) Maurice Denis: Excerpt from the Journal Karl Ernst Osthaus: 'A Visit to Paul Cezanne' (Das Feuer) Paul Cezanne: My Confessions Interpretations Joachim Gasquet: 'What He Said to Me' (excerpt from Cezanne) Emile Bernard: 'A Conversation with Cezanne' (Mercure de France) Maurice Denis: 'Cezanne' (excerpt from Theories) Lawrence Gowing: 'The Logic of Organized Sensations' Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTaking as case studies two paintings of circa 1621-22 attributed to Artemisia, this text examines the ways that identity, gender and market pressures interact both in the artist's work and in the criticism and conoisseurship that have surrounded it.Trade Review"In her new book, Garrard has taken two bold steps that challenge much received opinion in the 'discipline' of art history. Analyzing two of Gentileschi's least violent but most moving images, Garrard argues that the painter's personality is discernible no less in the subjects and their interpretation than in the 'style' of the works; consideration of both aspects is essential to understanding the meaning of these extraordinary pictures and her authorship. Perhaps even more important. Garrard makes crystal clear that Artemisia Gentileschi, far from a 'good woman painter,' was one of the major visual thinkers of her time." -Irving Lavin, coauthor with Marilyn Aronberg Lavin of La Liturgia d'Amore: Immagini dal Canto dei Cantici nell'arte di Cimabue, Michelangelo, e Rembrandt (Modena, 2000) "Linda Nochlin once famously asked: 'Why are there no great woman artists?' Challenged by that question, Mary Garrard has been brilliantly establishing the greatness of the Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Now Garrard's findings culminate in a great book - one with all the acerbic panache of one of Artemisia's pictures." -George Hersey, author of Architecture and Geometry in the Age of the Baroque "By revealing a great woman painter's ways of expressing uniqueness while negotiating expectations, Mary Garrard helps each of us with the subtleties of remaining authentic while living in the world. Artemisia Gentileschi around 1622 is art history to live by." -Gloria Steinem"Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Connoisseurship in a New Key Gender and the Social Construction of Artistic Identity Gender and the Personal Formation of Artistic Identity PART ONE: A New Magdalen A Tale of Two Pictures Artemisia and Mary Magdalene The Example of Caravaggio The Example of Michelangelo Artemisia as the Allegory of Painting The Magdalen as Melancholy The Reappropriation of Gendered Melancholy PART TWO: The Burghley House Susanna A Problem Picture Susanna in the Garden of Love Susanna as Social Scapegoat The Picture: Technical Analysis and Documentation Collaboration or Unauthorized Alteration? Artemisia and Susanna, Public and Audience Conclusion: The Shaping of a Complex Identity Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisCharles Willson Peale (1741-1827) produced an unparalleled body of work, including the iconic The Artist in His Museum. He was a revolutionary soldier, a radical activist, an impresario of moving pictures, a natural historian, an inventor, and the proprietor of one of the first modern museums. This book presents his autobiography.Trade Review"A masterly portrait, and an interpretive tour de force." - Charles C. Eldredge, author of Tales from the Easel "This is an invaluable critical study of Charles Willson Peale - clear, erudite, and imaginative. Ward shows what went wrong as well as right in Peale's lifelong attempts at self-fashioning, giving us a richer picture than ever before of this restless American figure." - Alexander Nemerov, author of The Body of Raphaelle Peale; "One of the hallmarks of public life after the Revolution was the desire of notable Americans to fashion their own enduring reputations. This exquisite book lucidly and compellingly investigates how Charles Willson Peale expressed and controlled his image. David C. Ward takes us on a remarkable journey through the labyrinth of a major artist's evolving self-consciousness during the early Republic." - Paul Staiti, Mount Holyoke College"Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface. Charles Willson Peale: This New Man Part I "Why Not Act the Man?" 1. Forgeries: Charles Willson Peale and His Father 2. "This Faint Spark of Genius": Fortune, Patronage, and Peale's Rise as an Artist 3. "Application Will Overcome the Greatest Difficulties": Work, Career, and Identity in Peale's Art and Life Part II "I Scrutinize the Actions of Men" 4. A Good War and a Troubled Peace: Charles Willson Peale's Search for Order, 1776-94 5. "The Medicinal Office of the Mind": The Peale Museum's Mission of Reform, 1793-1810 6. "The Hygiene of the Self": Work, Writing, and the Enlightened Body Part III "It Would Seem a Second Creation" 7. The Struggle against Dispersal: Work, Family, and Order in Peale's Family Portraits 8. "I Bring Forth into Public View": Peale's SecularApotheosis in The Artist in His Museum Notes Index

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