History of art Books
Johns Hopkins University Press Laocoon
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1766, the Laocoon has been called the first extended attempt in modern times to define the distinctive spheres of art and poetry.Table of ContentsForeword to The Johns Hopkins EditionTranslator's IntroductionNote on the TextPrefaceChapter's 1-29Appendix NotesBiographical Notes
£29.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Addiction and Art
Book SynopsisStunning and occasionally unsettling, this unique portfolio reveals addiction art as a powerful complement to addiction science.Trade ReviewAddiction and Art is an excellent beginning to creating better awareness and understanding of those struggling to recover from addiction. The book should become required reading for drug abuse awareness programs throughout the country. -- Robyn Oxborrow San Francisco Chronicle 2010 An innovative way to complement the science and research of addiction. addictionblog.org 2010 Addiction and Art is a strange book but, if one of the functions of art is to make us think, then such strangeness works. Wiley Online Library 2010 An important book; recommended for all collections. Library Journal 2011Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Cultivating the Visual Arts to Stimulate Insights into Addiction and Recovery2. How the Visual Arts Capture the Complexity of Addiction3. Art Complements Science: A Collection of Addiction Art and Artists' StatementsEpilogueAppendix A: Addiction Art Advisory BoardAppendix B: "Call to Artists": Method of Gathering Art for This CollectionNotesIndex of Contributing Artists
£25.20
University of Toronto Press The Bloomsbury Group
Book SynopsisBloomsbury, wrote E.M. Forster in 1929, 'is the only genuine movement in English civilization.' By this time the group's influence had been extended from fiction, biography, economics, and painting through literary, social, and art criticism to publishing and journalism. Partly as a result of its influence, Bloomsbury has been widely misunderstood as a cultural, social, and even sexual phenomenon by both its friends and its detractors. As S.P. Rosenbaum observes in the foreword to this revised and expanded edition, Bloomsbury cannot be reduced to a creed or argued away because of its complexity. 'What Bloomsbury stood for is what they were and what they did,' he writes, 'That is why a collection of descriptions of the Bloomsbury's lives and works may be the only wholly satisfactory way of defining the Bloomsbury Group.'The first section of the volume, Bloomsbury on Bloomsbury, contains the basic memoirs and discussions of the Group itself by the original members, VirTrade Review'This is the most affordable and useful collection on Bloomsbury currently available, a welcome addition to anyone's library.' English Literature in Transition 1880-1920
£35.10
University of Toronto Press Stewards of the Nations Art Contested Cultural
Book SynopsisStewards of the Nation's Art examines the internal tensions between Britain's four main public art galleries' administrative directors, the aristocrats dominating the boards of trustees, and those in the Treasury who controlled the funds as well as board appointments.Trade Review'This book provides a compelling example of the interdisciplinary value of museum studies and of the museum's importance as a place at which culture, history, and society intersect... Poole's book contributes to debates about the making of the British upper class and to the way in which its gendered identity was negotiated at London's museums.' -- Gordon J. Fyfe American Historical Review: April 2011 'Anyone who loves the great London galleries will find this dissection of their behind-the-scenes controversies both entertaining and enlightening.' -- Nancy W. Ellenberger Canadian Journal of History, vol 47: 2012
£49.30
University of Nebraska Press Imagining the Unimaginable
Book SynopsisAs World War I shaped and molded European culture to an unprecedented degree, it also had a profound influence on the politics and aesthetics of early-twentieth-century Russian culture. In this provocative and fascinating work, Aaron J. Cohen shows how World War I changed Russian culture and especially Russian art. A wartime public culture destabilized conventional patterns in cultural politics and aesthetics and fostered a new artistic world by integrating the iconoclastic avant-garde into the art establishment and mass culture. This new wartime culture helped give birth to nonobjective abstraction (including Kazimir Malevich's famous Black Square), which revolutionized modern aesthetics. Of the new institutions, new public behaviors, and new cultural forms that emerged from this artistic engagement with war, some continued, others were reinterpreted, and still others were destroyed during the revolutionary period. Imagining the Unimaginable<Trade Review"This book offers the reader a well-researched and nuanced analysis of the politics and aesthetics of a period and place whose significance is underappreciated."—Andrew M. Nedd, Russian Review"In recent years, works by Hubertus F. Jahn, Peter Gatrell, Peter Holquist, Eric Lohr, Joshua A. Sanborn, Melissa K. Stockdale, and others have expanded our knowledge of World War I's impact in Russia. . . . Cohen's new book adds an important dimension to this historiography, demonstrating that wartime cultural mobilization was more pervasive and more complex than previously understood."—Stephen M. Norris, American Historical Review"This is a carefully framed piece of research that raises important questions about the extent to which the political, economic and cultural conditions of wartime affected the course of modern Russian art."—Rosalind P. Blakesley, Revolutionary Russia"This is a daring book that deftly balances between history and cultural studies. Aaron Cohen mixes the public debates in contemporary newspapers and journals with an analysis of the visual art that this world produced. This leads to a satisfying and intellectually engaging read."—Aaron B. Retish, Europe-Asia Studies"[Cohen's] focused argument that Russian avant-garde painters found their public and forged a closer link to the government in the crucible of the Great War makes an original and important contribution both to art history and to the history of the mobilization for war."—Eric Lohr, Slavic ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations 000 Acknowledgments 000 Introduction 000 1. The Wars against Tradition: The Culture of the Art Profession in Russia, 1863-1914 2. In the Storm: Reshaping the Public and the Art World, 1914-1915 3. Love in the Time of Cholera: Russian Art and the Real War, 1915-1916 4. Masters of the Material World: World War I, the Avant-Garde, and the Origins of Non-Objective Art 5. The Revolver and the Brush: The Political Mobilization of Russian Artists through War and Revolution, 1916-1917 Conclusion Appendix Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£33.25
University of Nebraska Press Beyond Madness
Book SynopsisFeaturing the life and works of Ralph Blakelock, this book situates him in the context of American art. Taking Blakelock's art on its merits, it stands as a testament to the indefatigable spirit of art scholarship as well as a tribute to the artist and his enduring passion for the creative process.Table of ContentsImage quality disclaimerList of illustrationsForewordPrefaceThe Artist in His TimeThe Artist in His WorkThe Artist’s MethodSome Final ThoughtsNebraska Blakelock InventoryEndnotesAppendicesBibliographyIndex
£52.20
University of Nebraska Press Surrealist Ghostliness
Book SynopsisIn this study of surrealism and ghostliness, Katharine Conley provides a new, unifying theory of surrealist art and thought based on history and the paradigm of puns and anamorphosis. In Surrealist Ghostliness, Conley discusses surrealism as a movement haunted by the experience of World War I and the repressed ghost of spiritualism.Trade Review"Conley's study offers a new theorization of surrealism that unifies its diverse and multiple iterations and recasts its chronological limits."—Effie Rentzou, SubStance"[Surrealist Ghostliness] is an important addition to the literature on surrealism and modern art, very well written and an extremely interesting and engaging read."—Rob Harle, Leonardo Journal"Conley offers a richly argued discussion, speculative and articulate, that usefully contributes to our reading of the 'long Surrealism'."—Robert Radford, Burlington MagazineTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Cinematic Whirl of Man Ray's Ghostly Objects2. Claude Cahun's Exploration of the Autobiographical Human3. The Ethnographic Automatism of Brassaï and Dalí's Involuntary Sculptures4. The Ghostliness in Lee Miller's Egyptian Landscapes5. Dorothea Tanning's Gothic Ghostliness6. Francesca Woodman's Ghostly Interior Maps7. Pierre Alechinsky's Ghostly Palimpsests8. Susan Hiller's Freudian GhostsConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
£45.00
University of Nebraska Press Fabulous Harlequin
Book SynopsisFor four decades the internationally renowned French artist ORLAN has interrogated every defining aspect of being human - gender, ethnicity, religion, beauty, physiognomy, and even physiology itself - through an endlessly mutating oeuvre that defies categorization. Fabulous Harlequin showcases photographs of ORLAN's projects along with critical essays on ORLAN's work.Table of ContentsTOCContentsORLAN in America: Preface and Acknowledgments 000[1] Libre Parole 000 ORLAN[2] On Secularism: Preface to The Troubadour of Knowledge 000 Michel Serres[3] Fashioning Hybridity 000 Rhonda Garelick[4] ORLAN and the Critique of Multiculturalism 000 Jorge Daniel Veneciano[5] ORLAN and the Terms of Work 000 Homi K. Bhabha and Jorge Daniel Veneciano[6] Transgression/Transfiguration: A Conversation 000 ORLAN and Paul Virilio[7] ORLAN, Subject Omitted: Attire as Epidermis, Epidermis as Attire 000 Isabel Tejeda[8] ORLAN, Forerunner of Tendencies 000 Lan Vu[9] In the Name of ORLAN: Artist as Text 000 Jorge Daniel Veneciano[10] Four Questions to ORLAN 000[11] Four Questions to davidelfin 000[12] Murcia Installation (plates) 000[13] ORLAN Biography 000[14] ORLAN Chronology 000[15] ORLAN Bibliography 000[16] davidelfin Chronology 000[17] Contributors 000
£31.50
University of Nebraska Press In Suns Likeness and Power 2volume set
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£175.95
University of Nebraska Press A Totem Pole History
Book SynopsisJoseph Hillaire (Lummi, 1894-1967) is recognized as one of the great Coast Salish artists, carvers, and tradition-bearers of the twentieth century. In A Totem Pole History, his daughter Pauline Hillaire, who is herself a well-known cultural historian and conservator, tells the story of her father’s life and the traditional and contemporary Lummi narratives that influenced his work.Trade Review"This book operates just like a totem pole—each essay is a face and each face has many meanings, and together, they combine to tell a tale." —Portland Book Review"A must read for anyone who wants to understand totem poles using a Lummi perspective.""—N. J. Parezo, ChoiceTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsList of MapsA Note on Lummi TermsNomination of Pauline Hillaire for the National Heritage FellowshipTaqwš?blu Vi HilbertA Call to CarversScälla, Pauline HillaireIntroductionGregory P. FieldsScälla, Of the Killer Whale: A Brief BiographyRebecca ChamberlainPart One: Joe Hillaire1. CarvingPauline Hillaire 2. Power of the Bear: Memories of My Father, Joe HillairePauline Hillaire3. Kwul-kwul’tw, Spirit of the War Club: Religious Man, Renaissance ManGregory P. FieldsPart Two: Coast Salish Art and Carving4. Straits Salish SculptureBill Holm5. Joseph Raymond Hillaire: Lummi Artist-DiplomatBarbara Brotherton6. Coast Salish Carving: Our Work Is Our IdentityFelix Solomon7. I Look to the Old People: Reflections on Joe Hillaire and CarvingScott Kadach’ aak’u Jensen8. A Thin Red Line: Pigments and Paint Technology of the Northwest CoastMelonie Ancheta9. Maintaining Integrity: Totem Pole Conservation and the Restoration of the Centennial History PoleAndrew Todd10. Archetypes from Cedar: Myth and Coast Salish Story PolesGregory P. Fields11. Artists Were the First Historians: Spiritual Significance of Coast Salish CarvingCHiXapkaid (Michael Pavel)Part Three: Totem Poles of Joe Hillaire12. Bellingham Centennial History Pole Pauline Hillaire13. Schelangen Story PolePauline Hillaire14. Kobe-Seattle Sister Cities Friendship PolePauline Hillaire15. Land in the Sky Story PolePauline Hillaire16. Man in Transition Story PolePauline Hillaire17. T’Kope Kwiskwis Lodge Entrance PolePauline Hillaire18. Bronson Story PoleFrom the Archives of Pauline Hillaire19. Halibut Fisherman Story Pole 1Pauline Hillaire20. Halibut Fisherman Story Pole 2Pauline Hillaire21. Double-Headed Wolf Totem PolePauline HillairePart Four: Lummi Oral History and Tradition22. Some Place-Names from Lummi HistoryFrom the Archives of Pauline Hillaire23. CanoesPauline Hillaire24. Longhouses of Long AgoPauline Hillaire25. A Wedding in Lummi HistoryPlans for a Play by Joseph HillaireFrom the Archives of Pauline Hillaire26. How the Lummi Came to Their Present AbodeTold by Joseph HillaireFrom the Archives of Pauline Hillaire27. The Lummi at Treaty-Making Time A Play by Joseph Hillaire Performed by the Setting Sun DancersFrom the Archives of Pauline Hillaire28. Tsats-mun-tonA Legend Told by Pauline Hillaire29. Four Generations of Medicine MenA Legend Told by Pauline Hillaire30. The Mink Family and the Raccoon FamilyA Folktale Told by Pauline Hillaire31. Stommish: Revival of the Water FestivalPauline Hillaire32. Signs of the SeasonsPauline HillaireAppendixBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex
£28.80
University of Nebraska Press War Paintings of the Tsuu Tina Nation
Book SynopsisDuring much of the nineteenth century, paintings functioned as the Plains Indians' equivalent to written records. The majority of their paintings documented warfare, focusing on specific war deeds. These pictorial narrativesappearing on hide robes, war shirts, tipi liners, and tipi coverswere maintained by the several dozen Plains Indians tribes, and they continue to expand historical knowledge of a people and place in transition.War Paintings of the Tsuu T'ina Nation is a study of several important war paintings and artifact collections of the Tsuu T'ina (Sarcee) that provides insight into the changing relations between the Tsuu T'ina, other plains tribes, and non-Native communities during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Arni Brownstone has meticulously created renderings of the paintings that invite readers to explore them more fully. All known Tsuu T'ina paintings are considered in the study, as are several important collections of Tsuu T'ina artifacts, Trade Review"Arni Brownstone's study of Tsuu T’ina (Sarcee) war paintings is a valuable addition to scholarship on the artistic traditions of the peoples of the North American Plains."—Alison K. Brown, Museum Anthropology Review"War Paintings of the Tsuu T’ina Nation is one of those books that anyone interested in the history of the Indigenous people of the Great Plains hopes comes along, perhaps without even knowing it."—Rob Alexander, Rocky Mountain Outlook“Brownstone’s meticulous study makes available a unique set of little-known hide paintings and offers valuable insights into one of the less studied indigenous societies of the Great Plains. A must for every library on Native North American art and culture.”—Janet Catherine Berlo, professor of visual and cultural studies at the University of Rochester and author of Spirit Beings and Sun Dancers: Black Hawk's Vision of the Lakota World Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsHistorical BackgroundPlains Indian WarfareWar Exploit PaintingHistory of the Five Tsuu T’ina PaintingsDiscussion of the Five PaintingsPictographic TranslationsLater Tsuu T’ina PaintingsTsuu T’ina Material Culture CollectionsNotesReferencesIndex
£25.19
University of Nebraska Press The Art of Football
Book SynopsisOffers a singular look at early college football art and illustrations. This collection contains more than two hundred images, many rare or previously unpublished, from a variety of sources, including artists Winslow Homer, Edward Penfield, J.C. Leyendecker, Frederic Remington, Charles Dana Gibson, George Bellows, and many others.Trade Review"A gorgeous and thoughtful overview of the visual record of the early years of the game."—John Maxymuk, Library Journal starred review"Michael Oriard returns to the themes of culture and media interpretations of football with this lavishly illustrated book that focuses on the early years of football art in the media."—Katie Taylor, Journal of Sport History"This is a handsome and imaginative book that will satisfy both readers of football and observers of popular art, and it further cements Oriard's reputation as a most thoughtful and creative interpreter of American football."—Rich Loosbrock, Sport in American History“A gem of a book that traces the sport’s aesthetic side all the way back to its emergence from the primordial ooze 150 years ago. . . . Where NFL Films and ESPN now stand, there were Homer, Bellows, and Remington. Leave it to a typically cerebral old offensive lineman to appreciate the difference.”—John Schulian, editor of Football: Great Writing about the National Sport “The Art of Football takes us deep into the sport’s golden age. Michael Oriard brings us these marvelous images of the early sport, when the amateur game dominated and some of America’s greatest artists took up pen and brush to capture the rough play on the gridiron. Equally important, he presents and discusses dozens and dozens of wonderful images that make early football come alive. That’s the key word: this is lively history.”—Elliott J. Gorn, author of The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America Table of ContentsList of Plates List of Figures Introduction 1. Harper’s Weekly and the Beginnings of American Football Art 2. The Gibson Girl, the Yellow Kid, and the Art of the Football Cartoon 3. Edward Penfield, J. C. Leyendecker, and Football Poster Art 4. Howard Giles, George Bellows, and the Illustrated Football Story Notes Bibliography Index
£27.90
Ohio University Press Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement
Book SynopsisThe story of the American Quilt Trail, featuring the colorful patterns of quilt squares painted large on barns throughout North America, is the story of one of the fastest-growing grassroots public arts movements in the United States and Canada. In Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement Suzi Parron takes us to twenty-five states as well as Canada to visit the people and places that have put this movement on America's tourist and folk art map.Through dozens of interviews with barn quilt artists, committee members, and barn owners, Parron documents a journey that began in 2001 with the founder of the movement, Donna Sue Groves. Groves's desire to honor her mother with a quilt square painted on their barn became a group effort that eventually grew into a county-wide project. Today, quilt squares form a long imaginary clothesline, appearing on more than three thousand barns scattered along one hundred and twenty driving trails.With more than eighty full-color photTrade Review“Barn quilts are America, Mom, and apple pie. If a long, long driving trip is not in your near future to view all these wonderful, creative, sometimes-eccentric works of art, pick up this book. It’s current events and living history, educational, fun, and—most of all—inspiring.” * Seminole Sampler *“Parron’s striking photographs and narrative of her journey on the Quilt Trail bring out the personal and community meaning behind quilts…. The book does justice to its subject, through the charm of its photographs and the many interesting stories behind this public art movement.” * Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine *“Parron's book covers the decade-long history of barn quilt trails and how the fever spread from Adams County, Ohio into 27 states. Since publication, Parron has followed its progress and states that feature the quilt trail has now reached 45 states. As the book unfolds, Parron relates human stories and anecdotes that help readers realize that the barn quilts are so much more than pieces of wood, paint and pretty patterns.” * Acreage Life Magazine *“(W)hat we have here is a larger, older, and all-encompassing American story about how we make claims to places, how we maintain community, and how we uphold shared values…. To tell this story, as Parron and Groves have so thoughtfully done, is to illuminate the extraordinary beauty that often comes from…community and nation-building tasks.” * Northwest Ohio History *“(Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement) is everything that a lover of traditional folk culture could desire. … The reader meets dozens of local heroines (and heroes) who organized the Trails in their communities.” * The Barn Journal *“Parron and Groves have documented these trails with full-color photographs that show how imaginative many artists have become, incorporating butterflies, horses, flags, and other natural and man-made designs within the more abstract geometries of traditional barn quilts. The text profiles many of the artists whose work dazzlingly enlivens America’s farm country.” * Booklist *“A great book to use as a reference to plan a trip or to simply learn more about the (barn quilt) movement and take in the beauty of some of the creations that grace county roads and highways throughout North America.” * The Budget *“Bravo to Suzi Parron and Donna Sue Groves for bringing to light the colorful and rich history of the barn quilt movement. It’s a tale of heart, hope, and deep rural roots…roots that started in Adams County but spread quickly across the land. Parron’s deep research and Donna Sue’s love of the subject provide a unique chapter in America’s art history. Happily, a country road is no longer the same.”“Barn quilts are a perfect fit with our area; they are an excellent companion to the other ag-tourism opportunities in Green County. This has been a great project because it ties the entire county together with an artistic rural theme, promotes county-wide pride, and gets our visitors to all the communities for a true adventure in exploring the roads less traveled along the way.”“The barn quilt project is one of the most successful and satisfying projects we’ve ever been involved with and we’re excited that this book documents the spread of this creative idea across our nation and beyond.”
£22.79
Ohio University Press Following the Barn Quilt Trail
Book SynopsisThe follow-up to 2012’s Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement brings readers along with Suzi Parron, her new husband, Glen, their dog Gracie, and their converted van Ruby as they leave the stationary life behind.Trade Review“Barn quilts are rural gifts, a bright spot along America's highways and byways. As a quilter myself, the simple sight of a barn quilt has often made my heart smile. We recognize the blocks, they speak to us without words. This book captures everything I love about barn quilts with beautiful photos and captivating details. Where will you spy your next barn quilt?” * Quiltville.com *“Following the Barn Quilt Trail is an engaging coast-to-coast tour in honor of our quilt history. This colorful book is the perfect sequel to Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement, as, with Suzi, Glen, Gracie, and Ruby as our navigators, we learn the family stories and connections to the communities of each quilt block. Well done.”“Following the Barn Quilt Trail weaves an enchanting narrative of the places, people, and history behind the growing number of barn quilts dotting the countryside—providing us all with a more meaningful, and more colorful, way to reconnect with our rural heritage. The photos and stories illustrate the affection, creativity, and dedication behind each block, ensuring that you will never look at one—let alone a whole trail—the same way again.”“To see a quilt block on a barn is a thrill, but most of us don’t get that opportunity very often. Suzi Parron takes us on a journey where we not only get to see the blocks in their beautiful settings, but learn the stories behind them. Following the Barn Quilt Trail is entertaining and the photography is beautiful.”“Anyone who appreciates quilts, quilt blocks or barn quilts … would love Parron’s new book.” * Greensburg Daily News *
£22.79
Stanford University Press Up in Flames
Book SynopsisUp in Flames is the first comprehensive study of the traditional Chinese craft of paper sculpture: the construction in bamboo and paper of human figures, figures of gods, buildings, and other objectsall intended to be ritually burned. The book documents this ancient craft as it exists today in Taiwan. The fascinating fundamentals of the craft, the tools and materials, as well as the techniques used to construct houses and human figures, never investigated before, are described and illustrated in detail. The written material is augmented by many color photographs showing the objects and the men and women who make them.Although the tradition of burning objects as a part of religious ceremonies is still strong, the traditional paper and bamboo objects are being more and more often replaced by plastic components and whole preprinted cardboard counterparts. The resulting changes in the personal, business, and especially the creative and artistic side of the craft are theref
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Stanford University Press The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany
Book SynopsisThe Cult of Art in Nazi Germany presents a new interpretation of National Socialism, arguing that art in the Third Reich was not simply an instrument of the regime, but actually became a source of the racist politics upon which its ideology was founded. Through the myth of the Aryan race, a race pronounced superior because it alone creates culture, Nazism asserted art as the sole raison d''être of a regime defined by Hitler as the dictatorship of genius. Michaud shows the important link between the religious nature of Nazi art and the political movement, revealing that in Nazi Germany art was considered to be less a witness of history than a force capable of producing future, the actor capable of accelerating the coming of a reality immanent to art itself.Trade Review"The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany is a provocative attempt to analyze systematically an essential characteristic of the National Socialist state, namely, the unification of art and ritual in what the author sees as 'the Nazi myth.'"—History of Religions"...this is an intriguing book that will undoubtedly fascinate many who are interested in theories about images and their potential power."—Journal of Modern History"[T]his well-researched and nicely illustrated book analyzes the place of art within National Socialist ideology and culture....anyone with an interest in Nazism or art history, including non-specialists, stands to benefit from reading this book."—Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d'histoire"A good book for anyone interested in getting into the "why" of the Nazi movement."—The NYMAS Review"A highly original work offering a wealth of new material and a radically new perspective. It could be said that this book is a highly convincing documentation of Walter Benjamin's famous statement that fascism is the aestheticisation of politics. Michaud's analysis is provocative and disquieting because it relentlessly reveals the deep interrelation of a long aesthetic and artistic tradition of the 'creative artist' and central motifs of Christianity."—Rainer Nägele, Johns Hopkins University"Closely argued and intellectually dazzling, this study is essential reading, not only for historians of twentieth-century art, but for anyone interested in the visual culture of modernity."—Brigid Doherty, Princeton UniversityTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Positions iii Acknowledgments iii @toc2:1. Artist and Dictator 000 @toc3:Authority Founded on Art The Art of Life @toc2:2. The Artist-Fuhrer: A Savior 000 @toc3:A Government of Artists Suggestion and Incorporation Propaganda and anticipation Wagnerian Rehearsals November 9: The Erlebnis in Painting @toc2:3. Exhibiting the Genius 000 @toc3:The Visibility of the Aryan Genius: A National Christianity Awakening into the Myth Producing the Genius The Processions The Temple @toc2:4. Reproducing the Genius 000 @toc3:Schultze-Naumberg and the Race's Self-Reproduction Engendering Through Images Walter Darre: Breeding According to Type Prodigies and Monsters Accelerators Gottfried Benn and the Endogenous image The Images Underlying Words: Purification @toc2:5. Images of Nazi Time: Accelerations and Immobilizations 000 @toc3:Images and Anticipation Accelerations Artists, Workers, and Soldiers: Total Mobilization A Pure Present @toc4:Notes 000 Glossary of Nazi Terms 000 Bibliography 000 Index of Names 000 Photo sections follow pages 00, 000, and 000 Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: National socialism and art, Art, German 20th century, Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 Influence
£91.80
Stanford University Press The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany
Book SynopsisThe Cult of Art in Nazi Germany presents a new interpretation of National Socialism, arguing that art in the Third Reich was not simply an instrument of the regime, but actually became a source of the racist politics upon which its ideology was founded. Through the myth of the Aryan race, a race pronounced superior because it alone creates culture, Nazism asserted art as the sole raison d''être of a regime defined by Hitler as the dictatorship of genius. Michaud shows the important link between the religious nature of Nazi art and the political movement, revealing that in Nazi Germany art was considered to be less a witness of history than a force capable of producing future, the actor capable of accelerating the coming of a reality immanent to art itself.Trade Review"The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany is a provocative attempt to analyze systematically an essential characteristic of the National Socialist state, namely, the unification of art and ritual in what the author sees as 'the Nazi myth.'"—History of Religions"...this is an intriguing book that will undoubtedly fascinate many who are interested in theories about images and their potential power."—Journal of Modern History"[T]his well-researched and nicely illustrated book analyzes the place of art within National Socialist ideology and culture....anyone with an interest in Nazism or art history, including non-specialists, stands to benefit from reading this book."—Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d'histoire"A good book for anyone interested in getting into the "why" of the Nazi movement."—The NYMAS Review"A highly original work offering a wealth of new material and a radically new perspective. It could be said that this book is a highly convincing documentation of Walter Benjamin's famous statement that fascism is the aestheticisation of politics. Michaud's analysis is provocative and disquieting because it relentlessly reveals the deep interrelation of a long aesthetic and artistic tradition of the 'creative artist' and central motifs of Christianity."—Rainer Nägele, Johns Hopkins University"Closely argued and intellectually dazzling, this study is essential reading, not only for historians of twentieth-century art, but for anyone interested in the visual culture of modernity."—Brigid Doherty, Princeton UniversityTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Positions iii Acknowledgments iii @toc2:1. Artist and Dictator 000 @toc3:Authority Founded on Art The Art of Life @toc2:2. The Artist-Fuhrer: A Savior 000 @toc3:A Government of Artists Suggestion and Incorporation Propaganda and anticipation Wagnerian Rehearsals November 9: The Erlebnis in Painting @toc2:3. Exhibiting the Genius 000 @toc3:The Visibility of the Aryan Genius: A National Christianity Awakening into the Myth Producing the Genius The Processions The Temple @toc2:4. Reproducing the Genius 000 @toc3:Schultze-Naumberg and the Race's Self-Reproduction Engendering Through Images Walter Darre: Breeding According to Type Prodigies and Monsters Accelerators Gottfried Benn and the Endogenous image The Images Underlying Words: Purification @toc2:5. Images of Nazi Time: Accelerations and Immobilizations 000 @toc3:Images and Anticipation Accelerations Artists, Workers, and Soldiers: Total Mobilization A Pure Present @toc4:Notes 000 Glossary of Nazi Terms 000 Bibliography 000 Index of Names 000 Photo sections follow pages 00, 000, and 000 Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: National socialism and art, Art, German 20th century, Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 Influence
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Stanford University Press Asian American Art
Book SynopsisA study of the lives and artistic production of artists of Asian Ancestry active in the United States before 1970. It recovers the impressive artistic production of numerous Asian Americans, and offers informed interpretations of a long-neglected art history.Trade Review"...a must-read for specialists in American ethnic history.... It will surely remain a classic work in Asian American studies and—it is to be hoped—in American art history."—Greg Robinson, l'Université du Québec Montréal, Journal of American Ethnic History"Here are artists and work that have long been lost, forgotten, and in some cases deliberately hidden. I was impressed by the comprehensive, thoughtful, insightful, and sometimes provocative approach taken in the essays, but to see the art itself! We see the breadth and range of experience, styles, and obstacles both artistic and personal. What is western? What is eastern? How did citizenship, internment, or discrimination affect these artists? Asian American Art faces these questions and beyond."—Lisa See, author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Peony in Love"I congratulate the team that has devoted years of work to this remarkable recovery of Asian American art making. Every library in the country should have this art history book on its reference shelves for its names, its biographies, its reproductions, and its fresh and inspirational stories of courage and dedication."—Wanda M. Corn, Professor Emerita, Stanford University"A dazzling collection of images and essays which recuperates a century of Asian American artistic production, Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 provides us, at long last, with a comprehensive and foundational work. More than a convenient ìbridge,î the hundreds of images reproduced here explode the static and tired categories of ìWesternî and ìEasternî art. Beyond introducing the art and the artists in depth and in context, the essays in this volume stand as a brilliant exploration into the historical meaning of Asian American art. This book challenges the reader to re-visualize American art and re-imagine American culture."—Robert G. Lee, Brown University"Ground breaking" and "historic" are terms often overused and overstated for the works they purport to describe. Both, however, are appropriate for this outstanding volume, which introduces readers to the breadth and depth of Asian American fine artists. This single work will spur enormous growth in the many fields it directly impacts, including American Studies, Art History, Asian American Studies, and American History. Another overused term: "A must read." In this case, understated. —Franklin Odo, Director, Smithsonian Institution Asian Pacific American Program"To my knowledge, there are few books about Asian American visual art before 1970. Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 brings this art into view, letting readers consider it from various perspectives. This valuable collection will surely stimulate discussion and new research and writing. It brings together many of the scholars best qualified to discuss Asian American art history."—Elaine Kim, Professor Asian American Studies, University of California, Berkeley"In an organized and heartfelt way, it recognizes art that once 'commanded little respect from any quarter of mainstream American,' as more than simply 'Oriental.'" —Nichi Bei Times
£30.40
Stanford University Press Crescent Moon over the Rational
Book SynopsisWatson investigates the responses of of key twentieth-century philosophers to the work of artist Paul Klee and reveals how the art and philosophy mutually illuminate each other through these encounters.Trade Review"This is a great book. It provides a new understanding of familiar, but not really well known, material by showing not only how Klee's influence on many figures is 'philosophically significant,' but also how the philosophical interpretations of Klee have laid out an intertwined history or tradition. Each page of this book demonstrates Watson's long engagement with phenomenology, the Frankfurt School, and art theory. He is trying to transform the very concept of phenomenology, and he does this quite successfully." -- Leonard Lawlor * Penn State University *"Watson's "Crescent Moon Over the Rational" is an impressive book, contributing a great deal to the discussion of art and aesthetics in the 20th century. It presents the work of Paul Klee in an innovative and persuasive configuration: each chapter develops a tapestry of quotations and situates Klee and his interlocutors in the context of a broader philosophical and aesthetic reflection on art, rationality, and the sensuous in modernity." -- Krzysztof Ziarek * SUNY Buffalo *
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Stanford University Press Romantic Paris
Book SynopsisRomantic Paris is a survey of Parisian art and culture during the first half of the nineteenth century, when the experiments of Romantic artists and writers directly challenged the norms of tradition and when dramatic changes in the habits and spaces of everyday life shaped the social foundations of an urban modernity.Trade Review"This is an expansive book, yet written with the verve and subtlety of a much more modest one. It belongs in the library of anyone who is interested in the architectural and urban development of modern Paris, in the aesthetic contortions of early and mid-nineteenth century France, or in the everyday life of the post-Revolutionary Parisian . . . The daunting result of a massive amount of research and original criticism, Romantic Paris should not intimidate, but should enthrall the intelligent and curious reader." -- Ronald C. Rosbottom * French Review *"Michael Marrinan here delineates early nineteenth-century Paris, organizing, explaining, scrutinizing the details. Many efforts have been made to do this, but Marrinan's is remarkable for its clarity and effectiveness in bringing forward the little things which are, in fact, so big. They are the confusion, the richness of Paris and why one keeps going back. This is a remarkable work of synthesis, first in selection and organization, then in elucidation, and thirdly, in making fragments so different fit together so tellingly." -- David Van Zanten * Northwestern University *"This is a richly illustrated history of the visual and cultural life of Paris in the first half of the 19th-century. Informed by the theoretical construct of 'social space' as defined by scholar Henri Lefebvre in 1974, it aims to explore how Paris was reshaped and re-created by both the political and the economic changes of the time. Although not a guidebook, it strongly evokes the geography and emotional vibrancy of Paris when it was 'poised on the threshold of modernity.'" -- Library Journal"This is a voracious book. It moves at a rapid pace, and in the process, succeeds in sweeping up all the diverse and colourful aspects of Parisian visual culture in the first half of the nineteenth century. Marrinan writes with tremendous brio, sharing his enthusiasm for this unique cityscape. His coverage of topics is remarkably wide but never at the expense of his judgement as a historian, which remains invariably sound." -- Stephen Bann * Bristol University *"G. K. Chesterton once said that art should be 'centric' to society, not on the edges. In this portrait of Paris in the first half of the nineteenth century, Marrinan (art history, Stanford University) puts the art of the city at the center of the whirlwind of post- revolutionary France. He demonstrates how the art (including architecture and literature) both affected and reflected the period that saw the rise and fall of Napoleon, attempts at a republican government, abortive revolutions and the temporary restoration of the monarchy. With great skill, he weaves the changes in public taste and temperament into the art, showing how they influenced each other. For those who love Paris, art, history, or all of them together, this book is a wonderful intellectual treat." -- Book News"Well structured and throughly comprehensible work, as well as surprisingly inspiring read and one open to many legitimate interpretations . . . Marrinan's work is interesting, and offers something to the specialist as well as the common reader." -- Giulia Savio * Canadian Journal of History *"Marrinan (Stanford) delivers a challenging but engaging multidisciplinary examination of Paris inspired by Henri Lefebvre's 1974 La production de l'espace . . . Recommended." -- CHOICE"Marrinan's book is an original take on Romantic Paris, bringing together diverse aspects into a larger picture, evoking memory and history. His individual case studies are each interesting, and contribute to an expanded understanding of visual culture in Paris and its cultural landscape, 1800-1850." -- Judith Wechsler * Tufts University, Sehepunkte *"The publication of Michael Marrinan's Romantic Paris: Histories of a Cultural Landscape, 1800-1850, will one day, I predict, be regarded as something of a watershed event in the historiography of early nineteenth-century French art and culture. The first serious, sophisticated overview of its subject to appear in many years, it has the breadth of a traditional textbook combined with the interpretive depth and methodological ambition of more specialized studies. Operating productively on several levels simultaneously, Marrinan's text has something to offer everyone, from undergraduates discovering the allures of Paris for the very first time to seasoned dix-neuviémistes whose sustained concentration on isolated aspects of post-Revolutionary French history and culture may have caused them to lose sight of the larger picture to which their objects of study belong." -- Andrew Carrington Shelton * The Ohio State University, H-France Review *"[Romantic Paris] is an impressive addition to the genre of books on nineteenth-century Paris, particularly welcome in terms of urban history in so far as it covers the pre-Haussmann period, usually cast into the shade by the momentous and drastic initiatives of the Second Empire . . . This is a compendious, enthusiastic and engaging study, which one could with confidence put into the hands of students of nineteenth-century French art." -- Richard Wrigley * Burlington Magazine *
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Stanford University Press The Premise of Fidelity
Book SynopsisThe Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth century Japan uncovers the social and epistemological roles of the term shashin within the scientific community before the term came to mean photography.Trade Review"The Premise of Fidelity analyzes a field that has barely been considered in Western-language materials before, but the text does not, on this account, restrict itself to an introductory treatment. Rather, it leads the reader at once into serious and important topics relating to truth and the ability of scholars to grasp, and then to represent, this. Its particularizing features lie in the author considering an area in which results are crucial, namely medicine, and a time when the stabilizing pillars of Japanese intellectual life were starting to shake, through contact with Europe." -- Timon Screech, Professor of the History of Art, SOAS * University of London *"A major contribution to visual and intellectual studies of nineteenth-century Japan." -- Luke Gartlan, Lecturer in the History of Photography * University of St. Andrews *"There are many optical wonders in Maki Fukuoka's new book . . . This fundamentally trans-disciplinary book offers much of interest to historians of East Asia, of science, and of art: histories of public exhibitions, of natural history, of photography, of anatomical dissection, of translation and typography, and much more can be found within the pages of The Premise of Fidelity." -- Carla Nappi * New Books in East Asian Studies *"[The Premise of Fidelity] contributes substantially to our understanding both why and how the Japanese adopted from Europeans several new approaches to perceiving and comprehending the natural world . . . [The book] deserves a careful read by anybody interested in the broad range of disciplines it traverses, and it provides a model for transdisciplinary studies to come. It is a book that promises a long-term impact based on it's originality of vision, and thorough archival research [...]" -- William Johnston * Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies *"This well-researched book creatively weaves together material from a number of fields, including intellectual history, science (particularly medicine and botany), and visual studies. Fukuoka successfully situates this rich material within a broader social and cultural history while also engaging in a narrowly focused and detailed analysis of specific texts and visual objects. By untangling the complex nuances inherent in shashin, her study ultimately positions the early history of Japanese photography within its own sociocultural nexus as a development of specific local cultural practices pertaining to visual representation, rather than perpetuating the idea of photography as a form of visuality imposed of Japan by the West. This is a seminal work that will be of great interest to a wide range of scholars." -- Karen M. Fraser * Monumenta Nipponica *"Fukuoka has done a great work in synthesizing a variety of sources to convincingly argue for a more nuanced and multivalent understanding of 'shashin' among the late Edo intelligentsia. She has successfully put forward a case, especially in the last chapter, that rescues the term from being merely another cultural import within a unidirectional process of modernization and technological transfer. This piece of scholarship is according highly commended for developing a more sophisticated understanding of pre-Meiji intellectual culture." -- Alistair Swale * Journal of Japanese Studies *"This book is a must for anyone interested in the intellectual and conceptual roots of the photographic pratice in Japan. It is so well written that I read it like a thriller—the complex plot is revealed in every chapter as Fukuoka follows, step by step, the different characters and their deeds as their actions influenced the conceptual future of photography as a medium in Japan." -- Ayelet Zohar * Trans Asia Photography Review *"This highly original work opens a window into the world of early Japanese botanical drawings, ink-rubbings, woodblock prints, and modern photography to show the dynamic connections between art, science, and medicine in nineteenth-century Japan." -- Ann Jannetta, Professor Emerita of Japanese History * University of Pittsburgh *"This book makes a major contribution to the history of art, science, and medicine in Japan by examining botanical illustration in the nineteenth century. It helps us understand how Japanese scholars at the time explored the relationship between seeing and knowing nature . . . This sophisticated study will be essential reading for historians who wish to go beyond simplistic narratives regarding the introduction of Western art, science, and medicine in Japan." -- Morris Low * American Historical Review *"The Premise of Fidelity is thoroughly researched and written clearly and eloquently. It will prove an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Japanese art history, Japanese intellectual history, medical history, and the visual culture of the Edo and Meiji periods, history of photography, and transnational studies. Given the recent growth in appreciation of interdisciplinary research and visual culture, Fukuoka has written a pioneering book." -- Asato Ikeda * CAA Reviews *
£45.00
Stanford University Press The Missing Pages
Book SynopsisIn 2010, the world''s wealthiest art institution, the J. Paul Getty Museum, found itself confronted by a century-old genocide. The Armenian Church was suing for the return of eight pages from the Zeytun Gospels, a manuscript illuminated by the greatest medieval Armenian artist, Toros Roslin. Protected for centuries in a remote church, the holy manuscript had followed the waves of displaced people exterminated during the Armenian genocide. Passed from hand to hand, caught in the confusion and brutality of the First World War, it was cleaved in two. Decades later, the manuscript found its way to the Republic of Armenia, while its missing eight pages came to the Getty.The Missing Pages is the biography of a manuscript that is at once art, sacred object, and cultural heritage. Its tale mirrors the story of its scattered community as Armenians have struggled to redefine themselves after genocide and in the absence of a homeland. Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh follows in the maTrade Review"In this compelling and original work, Heghnar Watenpaugh traces the dramatic and epic journey of a sacred work of art. The Missing Pages brings together an understanding of the deeper layers of culture and history with the ethical issues surrounding art, identity, and ownership."—Peter Balakian, author of The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response"Heghnar Watenpaugh is a superb scholar and rare sleuth. But what makes The Missing Pages truly remarkable is her gift of storytelling. This is a book with the soul of language—moving, affirming, illuminating."—Mark Arax, author of The Dreamt Land: Chasing Dust and Water Across California"Heghnar Watenpaugh writes with colorful prose and deep historical texture. The Missing Pages adds much to how we understand the written word in medieval Armenia, as well as the tragic events surrounding the Genocide itself."—Eric Bogosian, author of Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide"In the fracturing of the Zeytun Gospels, Heghnar Watenpaugh captures the everlasting violence of genocide as it shears and slices into human lives across time and place. Written with both erudition and passion, The Missing Pages is a labor of love and a must-read for anyone concerned with the human right to art."—Fatma Müge Göçek, author of Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence against the Armenians, 1789-2009"The Missing Pages is a well-told tale of the history of the Armenian people. Heghnar Watenpaugh takes us on a wondrous and terrifically engrossing journey of this sacred religious object and priceless work of art."—Michael Bazyler, author of Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America's Courts"In The Missing Pages, Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh tells the gripping story of the Zeytun Gospels, a 'survivor object' that bears the traces of centuries of Armenian history and culture. Moving across eras and national borders, Watenpaugh's powerful narrative offers a unique perspective on the fate of cultural heritage in the face of genocide and denial. An essential book for all who are concerned with art, human rights, and post-traumatic resilience."—Michael Rothberg, author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization"[Watenpaugh's] book alerts us to the urgent moral and political questions still to be addressed even in the rarefied world of the museum and the library: she forces us to attend to the human agonies, cultural calamities, and moral ambiguities that lie behind many apparently tranquil museum exhibits."—Eamon Duffy, The New York Review of Books"[A] gripping, and at times unsettling, history of what is known as the Zeytun Gospels, a lavishly illuminated Armenian book that miraculously survived centuries of war, conquest and dispossession.In addition to supplying an important account of a celebrated object, Ms. Watenpaugh has written an impassioned polemic. She invites us to consider how the 'power of curation,' as well as the publicity and wealth attendant upon modern museum culture, can transform an object of specific liturgical use into a highly valued work of art, and what that might mean for all involved."—Ernest Hilbert, The Wall Street Journal"The Missing Pages is a work that only Watenpaugh could write with her mastery of Arabic, Turkish, and especially Western Armenian....[She] is certain to attract the attention of scholars outside her field promising to usher forth a conversation about the relationship between cultural heritage and human rights."—Elyse Semerdjian, Critical Inquiry"The Missing Pages... takes up issues of both more recent and long-standing art historical concern and, insofar as it is a narrative that unfolds between legal charges and settlement, as a whole adds real substance and nuance to debates on provenance and repatriation."—Lisa Mahoney, Manuscript Studies"The history of the [Zeytun Gospels] manuscript, which spans the better part of a millennium, represents a compelling example of why provenance research can also serve the cause of historical justice... [Watenpaugh] further discusses the need for museums to come to terms with the complicated and often controversial trajectories by which the objects they enshrine as art made their ways to their institutional homes, and how they also therefore speak with very human voices not only of terrible tragedy but also of the inseparable links between memory and material relics."—Jeffrey F. Hamburger, West 86th"It is hoped that The Missing Pages will contribute to and inform the ongoing debate over survivor objects and the positionality of the contemporary scholar with regard to contested pasts."—Sergio La Porta, The American Historical Review"Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh has achieved the nearly impossible in this book. The volume is the fruit of extensive and profound scholarship, covering a variety of historical periods and geographical milieux... But the scholarship and historical expertise are worn lightly; and the author has succeeded in presenting the rather entangled history of a manuscript with clarity and passion. The result is accessible, highly readable, and may be enjoyed by the general reader as well as those with more specialised interests."—Haig Utidjian, Clavibus UnitisTable of Contents1. Survivor Objects. Artifacts of Genocide 2. Hromkla. The God-Protected Castle of Priests and Artists 3. Zeytun. The Lost World of Ottoman Armenians 4. Marash. The Holy Book Bears Witness 5. Aleppo. Survivors Reclaim Their Heritage 6. New York. The Zeytun Gospels Enters Art History 7. Yerevan. Toros Roslin, Artist of the Armenian Nation 8. Los Angeles. The Contest over Art
£31.50
Stanford University Press Dada Presentism
Book SynopsisRather than exploring the Dada movement from the usual perspective of its strategies of shock and opposition, this book gives us a new picture of Dada art and writings as a lucid reflection on history and the role of art therein.Trade Review"With the potential to nudge Dada studies in another direction altogether, this book prizes apart the philosophical and political dimensions of time and history precisely at the moment where they come radically into question. Offering a rich perspective from which to assess not only Dada, but also other modernist enterprises, it is a brisk, revivifying breath of fresh air."—Sabine Kriebel, University College, Cork"Elegantly written, thorough, and unlike any other study of Dada, this essay manages to succinctly point out the uniqueness and importance of the movement. It will become a key text in twentieth-century history of art."—Rudolf Kuenzli, The University of Iowa"Maria Stavrinaki's lively and subtle investigation recaptures the radicalism of the Dada movement: its championing of the present and presentism at a time when Europe was in utter disarray, buffeted between regret for the past and appeals to a revolutionary future. This incisive book further serves as a useful incitement to thought, for behind the presentism of the 1920s lies that of our societies today."—François Hartog, author of Regimes of Historicity"A remarkable meditation on the meta-historical significance of Dada."—Maria Gough, Harvard University"According to a wise old saying, 'inside every fat book there is a thin article struggling to get out'. Its truth is confirmed by this remarkable and authoritative essay"—Richard Sheppard , Journal of European Studies"Stavrinaki presents a rather lucid reflection on Dada history and the role of art within it via the Berlin-based Dadaists' acute historical consciousness and their early modern experience of time...Insofar as the deliberate obtuseness of 'the present' is the whole point of the book, I was delighted to have uncovered some germane connective material here applicable to our present, our own now."—Joseph Nechvatal, HyperallergicTable of ContentsI: Posthistory and Prehistory II: The Present as Reproducible Time III: Art's Efficacy or Dada's Use-Value IV: The Moment of Decision: The Future-from-Now V: The Paradigm of Immaculate Conception: Between Fiction and History
£66.60
MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Thomas Moran
Book SynopsisThis illustrated catalogue of Thomas Moran's field sketches includes an essay tracing the artist's 70-year career, a chronological, stylistic and geographical survey of his fieldwork, and an illustrated checklist of his 1080 sketches in public collections.
£999.99
MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma A Strange Mixture The Art and Politics of
Book SynopsisArt historian Sascha T. Scott examines the ways in which non-Pueblo and Pueblo artists advocated for American Indian cultures by confronting some of the cultural, legal, and political issues of the day.Trade Reviewthe broader approach Scott has developed - inspired visual analysis based on an acute understanding of Pueblo politics - could be a model for the field, raising the bar of scholarship to a level that has not been reached in most previous publications.""- Caa.reviews, William Truettner, Smithsonian American Art Museum
£999.99
MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Building Yanhuitlan Art Politics and Religion in
Book SynopsisThrough years of fieldwork in Oaxaca, Mexico, art historian and archaeologist Alessia Frassani formulated a compelling question: How did Mesoamerican society maintain its distinctive cultural heritage? In Building Yanhuitlan, she focuses on an imposing structure - a sixteenth-century Dominican monastery complex in the village of Yanhuitlan.Trade ReviewSolidly researched and expertly written, Building Yanhuitlan covers the dramatic confrontation of Spanish and native Mixtec culture and the resulting synthesis of these two powerful traditions. The quantity and quality of historical resources employed here are unprecedented for the Mixteca, Oaxaca, or any other area of central New Spain or Mexico."" - Ronald Spores, coauthor of The Mixtecs of Oaxaca: Ancient Times to the Present
£34.16
University of Oklahoma Press Albert Bierstadt Witness to a Changing West
Book SynopsisAs one of America's most prominent nineteenth-century painters, Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) is justly renowned for his majestic paintings of the western landscape. This splendid colour volume highlights his achievements in chronicling a rapidly changing American West.
£999.99
Louisiana State University Press Terra Cognita
Book SynopsisTwenty-seven years in the making, Terra Cognita chronicles the author’s continual travels - and problematic (if still, at times, ecstatic) encounters - in the ‘bel paese’. Across nine richly evocative essays, Chad Davidson investigates the seemingly never-ending fascination that travellers have with Italy.
£20.85
Louisiana State University Press Frank Lloyd Wright and Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary volume of literary and cultural scholarship that examines the link between two pivotal intellectual and artistic figures. The book probes the degree to which the transcendentalist author influenced the architect’s campaign against dominant strains of American thought.Trade ReviewPart intellectual biography and part history of American architecture, Ayad Rahmani's book is a rich and engaging exploration of Frank Lloyd Wright's philosophical scaffolding. Rahmani demonstrates, in particular, the centrality of Ralph Waldo Emerson's contributions to Wright's worldview and his architectural theories and craft." - Scott Slovic, University Distinguished Professor of Environmental Humanities, University of Idaho
£36.51
Louisiana State University Press Empty Pedestals
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John Wiley & Sons Teaching Contemporary Art With Young People
Book SynopsisA practical resource to help educators teach about current art and integrate its philosophy and methods into the K-12 classroom. The authors provide a framework that looks at art through the lens of nine themes, highlighting the conceptual aspects of art and connecting disparate forms of expression.
£26.59
Northwestern University Press The Diary and Letter of Kaethe Kollwitz
Book SynopsisOne of the great German Expressionist artists, Kaethe Kollwitz wrote little of herself. But her diary, kept from 1900 to her death in 1945, and her brief essays and letters express, as well as explain, much of the spirit, wisdom, and internal struggle which was eventually transmuted into her art.Trade ReviewAn unforgettable experience." —New York Times Book Review"A valuable and readable work." —Los Angeles Times Book Review"[Kollwitz's] diary and letters . . . provide a dramatic record of German history during the turbulent time that encompassed World War I, the November Revolution, the Weimar Republic and the appearance of Nazism. To these, Kollwitz grants a compassionate, critical, and insightful vision, recording her own witnessing of historical events, her own experience of the everyday in a testimony which is generally recognized as one of the greatest autobiographical German texts of the century. . . . As human documents they have few equals; as historical documents, they are fundamental." —Reinhold Heller
£23.96
Northwestern University Press Modernism Dada Postmodernism AvantGarde
Book SynopsisWith a combination of classic and new essays and perspective on the theoretical avant-garde/modernism debate in the United States, Sheppard's volume provides an insight into scholarly discourse on this debated subject.
£29.71
Northwestern University Press The Letters and Journals
Book SynopsisRecognized today as one of the great modernist painters, Paula Modersohn-Becker was also a gifted writer, and her large body of letters and journals represent the story of her life. This volume presents the journals and every extant letter, each carefully annotated.
£26.36
Northwestern University Press The Wall of Respect
Book SynopsisOffers the first in-depth, illustrated history of a lost Chicago monument. The Wall of Respect was a revolutionary mural created by fourteen members of the Organization of Black American Culture in 1967. This book gathers historic essays, poetry, and previously unpublished primary documents from the movement's founders that provide a visual guide to the work's creation and evolution.
£27.96
Northwestern University Press Eardrums
Book SynopsisThe first book-length study to explore the relationship between acoustical modernity and German modernism, charting a literary and cultural history written in and around the eardrum. The result is a book that outlines an entirely new approach to the study of literature as as the interaction of text and sonic practice, voice and noise.
£84.15
Northwestern University Press Renaissance Invention
Book SynopsisThe first full-length study of the Nova Reperta (New Discoveries), a renowned series of prints designed by Johannes Stradanus during the late 1580s in Florence. The book seeks to understand why certain inventions or novelties were represented in the series and how that presentation reflected their adoption in the sixteenth century.Trade ReviewLia Markey has assembled an excellent team of scholars to guide us through a close, careful, and well contextualized reading of Johannes Stradanus's series of prints from the late 1580s known as the Nova Reperta, some of the most evocative and emblematic images of the early modern era." - Paula Findlen, author of Empires of Knowledge: Scientific Networks in the Early Modern WorldTable of Contents Acknowledgements Preface Essays Introduction: Inventing the Nova Reperta Lia Markey 1.Philips Galle's Nova Reperta: A Case Study in Print Prices and Distribution Karen L. Bowen 2. Stradanus's Print Shop and the Practice of Printing in Sixteenth-century Antwerp Dirk Imhof 3. Diligent Labor in Stradanus's Engraving Shop Madeleine C. Viljoen 4. Mathematical Instruments in the Nova Reperta James Clifton 5. Invented Processes and Hands-On Knowledge: Stradanus's Distillation and Magnetic Compass Olivia Dill 6. A New World Disease and Therapy: Stradano's Guaiacum Engraving Alessandra Foscati and Lia Markey 7.The Global Reception of Stradanus and the Political Uses of the Nova Reperta DÁniel MargÓcsy 8. Practical Knowledge in Early Modern Europe Pamela H. Smith Conversations Navigation Jim Akerman, Pedro Raposo, JB Shank Warfare David Cressy, Jennifer Nelson, Suzanne Karr Schmidt Printing Jill Gage, Martin Antonetti Transformation Rebecca Zorach, Luca MolÀ, Matthew James Crawford Machines Jessica Keating, Deborah Howard, Niall Atkinson Visuality Christine GÖttler, Claudia Swan, Sven DuprÉ Catalogue 58 entries on materials from the Newberry's collection Bibliography Index
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University of Pennsylvania Press Garden and Grove
Book Synopsis"This is a major work and, I think, Hunt's best... Once picked up, the book cannot be put down, for it is an exciting exegesis of the continuing Italian influence upon English garden art."-Country LifeTrade Review"This is a major work and, I think, Hunt's best. . . . Once picked up, the book cannot be put down, for it is an exciting exegesis of the continuing Italian influence upon English garden art." * Country Life *Table of ContentsThe Franklin Jasper Walls Lectures List of Illustrations Preface to the 1996 Edition Preface Introduction PART ONE. ITALY THE GARDEN OF THE WORLD 1 The Garden on the Grand Tour 2 Classical Ground and Classical Gardens 3 Villa and Vigna 4 Ovid in the Garden 5 Garden and Theatre 6 Cabinets of Curiosity 7 Variety 8 Art and Nature PART TWO. ENGLAND THE WORLD OF THE GARDEN 9 'My Patterne For A Countrey Seat' 10 'The Way of Italian Gardens' 11 'Palladian' Gardening Notes Index
£25.19
University of Pennsylvania Press Early Modern Visual Culture Representation Race
Book SynopsisA collection of 10 original essays that explore the social context in which paintings, statues, textiles, maps, and other artifacts were produced and consumed in Renaissance England.Trade Review"As a picture of what currently might be most profitably studied in the visual culture of early modern England, and of how to conduct scholarship in the field, the volume is exemplary. . . . [It] treats a culture for which there is considerable scholarly interest, but from angles which have been woefully ignored up until now." * Joseph Koerner, Harvard University *Table of ContentsIntroduction —Clark Hulse and Peter Erickson 1. Imaginary Conquests: European Material Technologies and the Colonial Mirror Stage —Steven Mullaney 2. Mapping the Global Body —Valerie Traub 3. Second-World Prosthetics: Supplying Deficiencies of Nature in Renaissance Italy —Harry Berger, Jr. 4. Reading Painting: Holbein, Cromwell, Wyatt —Clark Hulse 5. Art for the Sake of Dynasty: The Black Emperor in the Drake Jewel and Elizabethan Imperial Imagery —Karen C. C. Dalton 6. Staging Women's Relations to Textiles in Shakespeare's Othello and Cymbeline —Susan Frye 7. Idols of the Gallery: Becoming a Connoisseur in Renaissance England —Stephen Orgel 8. Madagascar on My Mind: The Earl of Arundel and the Arts of Colonization —Ernest B. Gilman 9. "God for Harry, England, and Saint George": British National Identity and the Emergence of White Self-Fashioning —Peter Erickson 10. Object into Object? Some Thoughts on the Presence of Black Women in Early Modern Europe —Kim F. Hall Epilogue —Peter Erickson Contributors: Harry Berger Jr. (University of California, Santa Cruz) has recently published three books: Revisionary Play: Studies in the Spenserian Dynamic, Imaginary Audition: Shakespeare on Stage and Page, and Making Trifles of Terrors: Redistributing Complicities in Shakespeare. His new book is Fictions of the Pose: Rembrandt Against the Italian Renaissance. Karen C. C. Dalton (Harvard University) is coauthor of Winslow Homer's Images of Blacks: The Civil War and Reconstruction Years and editor of the final three volumes of The Image of the Black in Western Art, covering the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Peter Erickson (Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute) is author of Patriarchal Structures in Shakespeare's Drama and Rewriting Shakespeare, Rewriting Ourselves, and coeditor of Shakespeare's "Rough Magic": Renaissance Essays in Honor of C. L. Barber. Susan Frye (University of Wyoming) has written Elizabeth I: The Competition for Representation and coedited Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women's Alliances in Early Modern England. Ernest B. Gilman (New York University) is author of Iconoclasm and Poetry in the English Reformation: Down Went Dagon and The Curious Perspective: Literary and Pictorial Wit in the Seventeenth Century. Kim F. Hall (Georgetown University) has written Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England as well as essays on teaching the subject of race in Shakespeare's plays. Clark Hulse (University of Illinois at Chicago), is author of The Rule of Art: Literature and Painting in the Renaissance and Metamorphic Verse: The Elizabethan Minor Epic. He is currently working on a study of Holbein and the age of Henry VIII. Steven Mullaney (University of Michigan) has written The Place of the Stage: License, Play, and Power in Renaissance England. He is at work on two books, Mourning and Misogyny: Reformation of Affect and Ideology in Shakespeare's England, and Emotions and Its Discontents. Stephen Orgel (Stanford University) has recently published Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England and Oxford editions of The Tempest and The Winter's Tale. Valerie Traub (University of Michigan) is author of Desire and Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakspearean Drama and coeditor of Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects.
£999.99
University of Pennsylvania Press Art in a Season of Revolution
Book SynopsisFocusing on the rich heritage of art-making in the eighteenth century, this lushly illustrated book positions both well-known painters and unknown artisans within the framework of their economic lives, their families, and the geographies through which they moved as they created notable careers and memorable objects. In considering both painting and decorative arts simultaneously, Art in a Season of Revolution departs from standard practice and resituates painters as artisans. Moreover, it gives equal play to the lives of the makers and the lives of the objects, to studying both within the interdependent social and economic webs linking local and distant populations of workers, theorists, suppliers, and patrons throughout the mercantile Atlantic.Emphasizing maritime settlements such as Salem, Newport, and Boston and viewing them within the larger framework of the Atlantic world, Margaretta Lovell considers the ways eighteenth-century New England experience was conditionTrade Review"Lovell delights, astonishes, and challenges us with her insightful new readings of early American paintings and material culture objects." * Journal of the Early Republic *"Art in a Season of Revolution brings to brilliant culmination Lovell's nearly two decades of scholarship on portraits and decorative arts in eighteenth-century British North America. In my judgment, nobody rivals her ability to combine close attention to a work of art with deep research into the contexts of its production, cultural meanings, and reception." * Robert A. Gross, University of Connecticut *"It's a wonderful book-which I read with great pleasure. Indeed it opened all kinds of worlds to me and it will to my students as well. . . . Throughout these chapters, the readings of pictures and what they signify are convincing and done with style." * Lawrence W. Levine, George Mason University *"Lovell's book is as rich, subtle, and detailed as the portraits she examines. Lavishly illustrated, it is essential reading for historians of this period and indeed anyone with an interest in 'the visual turn.'" * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Artist, the Artisan, the Patron, and the Product Ch. 1. Painters and Their Customers Ch. 2. The Picture in the Painting Ch. 3. The Empirical Eye: Copley's Women and the Case of the Blue Dress Ch. 4. The remembering Eye: Copley's Men and the Case of Joshua Henshaw Ch. 5. The Family: Painterly and Social Constructions Ch. 6. The Drawing in the Painting Ch. 7. Money, Art, Family, and the Cabinetmakers of Newport
£27.90
University of Pennsylvania Press Zoot Suit
Book SynopsisFocusing on the most notorious fashion of the 1940s, Zoot Suit traces its enigmatic career during World War II and after, as it spread from Harlem across the United States and around the world. In so doing, this book offers a new perspective on youth culture and the politics of style.Trade Review"Refreshingly skeptical of the intellectual habit of reducing all cultural expression to the political." * Wall Street Journal *"Peiss is a creative and brilliant scholar and her book is a much-welcomed addition to the body of scholarship dedicated to unlocking the riddle of the zoot." * American Historical Review *"Thorough, well-researched, and illuminating." * PopMatters *"An important and valuable book. The breadth of research upon which it is based and Peiss's determination to question conventional assumptions considerably enrich our understanding of the zoot." * Journal of American Studies *"Kathy Peiss brilliantly unravels the many meanings of the zoot suit while sustaining the aesthetic pleasure of its creation in the complex cultural fabric of American life. Zoot Suit is a cultural history laced with the eye of ethnography, showing how an original African American sartorial style carried substantial symbolic power into the lives of Mexican American pachucos suaves, Jewish tailor trumpeters, and all who would wear 'the Drape' as a statement of hipness." * Nick Spitzer, producer and host of American Routes *"Zoot Suit is a sophisticated, independent minded, and valuable book; there should be more work like it in the field. Peiss's principled attention to evidence, her nuanced argument, and her willingness to question conventional assumptions about the meaning of popular forms all go a long way toward re-grounding American Studies in the lived world." * Carlo Rotella, author of Good With Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Making the Suit Zoot 2 Going to Extremes 3 Into the Public Eye 4 From Rags to Riot 5 Reading the Riddle 6 Zooting Around the World Aftermath Notes Index Acknowledgments
£999.99
University of Pennsylvania Press Thinking Through Material Culture
Book SynopsisThinking Through Material Culture provides a new theoretical framework for understanding the pivotal role of material culture in human cognition, perception and action.Trade Review"The book is extremely well researched, drawing on the cognitive sciences, psychology, sociology, art history, philosophy, the neurosciences, semiotics, semiology, and, of course, archaeology and anthropology. . . . A path-breaking book." * Current Anthropology *Table of ContentsIntroduction: thinking through material culture 2. Animacy, agency, and personhood 3. Cognition, perception, and action 4. The dynamics of networks 5. Networks of meaning: a sociosemiotics of material culture 6. Thinking through: meaning in modern material culture 7. Archaeological case study: drinking vessels in Minoan Crete 8. Conclusions
£45.00
MT - University of Pennsylvania Press Vaux and Versailles
Book SynopsisVersailles has long been the consummate symbol of Louis XIV's distinct political and aesthetic influence, the epicenter of French national identity and classical style. Before Versailles, however, Vaux was, the country's artistic capital. This work shows how the connection between Vaux and Versailles is at the heart of classical style.Trade Review"Seductively elegant. . . . Its form carries the virtue of expanding the scope of studies of classical France. Seventeenth-century French studies need the kind of approach and method that [Vaux and Versailles] embodies." * Tom Conley, Harvard University *
£52.20
University of Pennsylvania Press Historical Style
Book SynopsisHistorical Style connects the birth of eighteenth-century British consumer society to the rise of historical self-consciousness. Prior to the eighteenth century, British style was slow to change and followed the cultural and economic imperatives of monarchical regimes. By the 1750s, however, a growing fashion press extolled, in writing and illustration, the new phenomenon of periodized fashion trends. As fashion fads came in and out of style, and as fashion texts circulated and obsolesced, Britons were forced to confront the material persistence of out-of-date fashions. Timothy Campbell argues that these fashion texts and objects shaped British perception of time and history by producing new curiosity about the very recent past, as well as a new self-consciousness about the means by which the past could be understood.In a panoptic sweep, Historical Style brings together art history, philosophy, and literary history to portray an era increasingly aware of itself. Trade Review"Our ideas of history are dependent upon lived temporalities shaped by commercial and material forces, and I have never seen this truth so solidly, aptly, and compellingly explicated as in Timothy Campbell's book." * Erin Mackie, Syracuse University *"Original, witty, and very well-researched, Historical Style deftly argues that eighteenth-century British culture became self-consciously periodized through the new phenomenon of fashion trends." * Cynthia Wall, University of Virginia *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction. Fashions Past PART I. THE DRESS OF THE YEAR Chapter 1. Modern Fashion and Comparative Contemporaneity Chapter 2. Portrait Historicism and the Dress of the Times PART II. THE FICTIONS OF SERIAL HISTORY Chapter 3. Hume, Historical Succession, and the Dress of Rousseau Chapter 4. Historical Novelty and Serial Form Chapter 5. Walter Scott's Fashion Systems Chapter 6. William Godwin and the Objects of Historical Fiction Coda Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£56.10
University of Pennsylvania Press Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic
Book SynopsisIn the sixteenth-century Atlantic world, nature and culture swirled in people''s minds to produce fantastic images. In the South of France, a cloister''s painted wooden panels greeted parishioners with vivid depictions of unicorns, dragons, and centaurs, while Mayans in the Yucatan created openings to buildings that resembled a fierce animal''s jaws, known to archaeologists as serpent-column portals.In Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic, historian Peter C. Mancall reveals how Europeans and Native Americans thought about a natural world undergoing rapid change in the century following the historic voyages of Christopher Columbus. Through innovative use of oral history and folklore maintained for centuries by Native Americans, as well as original use of spectacular manuscript atlases, paintings that depict on-the-spot European representations of nature, and texts that circulated imperfectly across the ocean, he reveals how the encounter between the old world Trade Review"In Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic, Peter Mancall offers a brief, elegant account of the environmental understandings of both the Europeans who came to settle and exploit the resources of North America and the Caribbean, and the native groups who were already doing those things. . . . The book features illustrations large enough to reward examination, underlining their role as integral components of the argument." * Times Literary Supplement *"How to research indigenous culture in pre-modern America is a perennial challenge, given the nature of that society and the records that historians conventionally use. Mancall makes the case for visual material, oral history and legend as recorded in antiquarian sources in order to break the hold of the Western historical tradition. . . . Like some of the maps that it studies, Mancall's book charts the possibilities of what those new encounters with Atlantic history might be." * English Historical Review *"Mancall draws mainly from the Anglophone scientific tradition, in which knowledge about Spanish and Portuguese documents of the sixteenth century is still quite exceptional. His book reads like a companion, accessible to an audience beyond specialized scholars . . . Mancall suggests with this well-documented and wonderfully illustrated study that Europeans and indigenous Americans started from similar points of view in the past-which implies that, from a global perspective, the culture of the Enlightenment did more to broaden the distance than to advocate for a better understanding of their mutual specifics." * Isis *"In recent years an active research topic on the early modern era has been the intersection of human beings and the natural world. From all sides have come significant works investigating the science of describing natural history and the invention of exoticism and the endemic or the indigenous. Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic explores the natural world as conceived in the sixteenth-century Atlantic basin. With footings in both history and anthropology, Peter C. Mancall is well positioned to plumb the topic . . . [and the book] delights as it enlightens at every turn." * Journal of Southern History *"[A] graceful and sumptuously illustrated collection of essays exploring the cultural impact of encounters with American habitats and inhabitants on early modern European ideas about nature . . . [T]he book draws on a rich corpus of images and the author's deep familiarity with European visual culture to consider how the nature of the New World sometimes echoed and sometimes challenged European knowledge about the environment and even the nature of that knowledge itself." * Envorinmental History *"Through a wide-ranging series of case studies, this book weaves a compelling narrative of visual, cultural, and ecological exchange in the early modern Atlantic world . . . The use of oral history and folklore helps to develop a broad perspective on early encounters in the Atlantic basin, expanding upon previous scholarly explorations of the subject that do not always pay such close attention to these types of sources." * Winterthur Portfolio *"Brilliantly illustrated and written with flashes of wit and humor, Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic traces the shift in people's thinking about nature from the medieval to the modern period. Peter C. Mancall brings his encyclopedic knowledge of the primary and secondary sources to bear on monsters, insects, tropical forests, and indigenous peoples and shows that a new fascination with the material spectacle of the New World contributed to secular explanations of natural phenomena." * Donald Worster, author of Shrinking the Earth: The Rise and Decline of American Abundance *"Peter C. Mancall's Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic introduces the reader to a wondrous variety of ways that individuals, both individually and collectively, attempted to view and conceptualize the early modern Atlantic ecological world, from insects to maps and from imagined monsters to actual peoples. Abundantly illustrated, it is a tour de force of creative synthesis, engagingly drawing us into an era marked by a complex meeting of beliefs and ideas, and setting the stage for the intellectual traditions that would follow in its wake." * Joanne Pillsbury, The Metropolitan Museum of Art *"In this compact, learned, and beautifully illustrated book, Mancall probes a wide array of written, oral and art historical sources on the real and imagined flora and fauna of the Americas in the sixteenth century, examining everything from monsters to mosquitoes. He shows in exquisite detail how the integration of the Atlantic world unsettled sensibilities toward nature." * J. R. McNeill, author of Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1640-1914 *Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1. The Boundaries of Nature Chapter 2. A New Ecology Chapter 3. The Landscape of History Postscript. The Theater of Insects Note on Sources Notes Index Acknowledgments
£25.19
University of Pennsylvania Press The Art of Allusion
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sonja Drimmer's book is a remarkable work of discovery and synthesis, the product of original archival work conducted over a decade. Her scholarship combines the techniques of the art historian (visual analysis and comparison, careful observation) and the literary scholar (she analyses the Middle English adeptly) . . . [T]his book will be timeless . . . [R]ead it, for the ideas, for the thrill of exploring archives with such an able guide, and also for the pleasure of the language." * English Historical Review *"Written with verve and energy, Sonja Drimmer's new book is an excellent contribution to a vital, discipline-wide conversation about the importance of visual images in late medieval manuscripts . . . Drimmer's training in visual traditions is matched by her commitment to engaging both the literature of late medieval England and its scholarship. Our disciplines need practitioners who assiduously strive not to theorize the primacy of either words or images. Drimmer is to be congratulated for bringing her discipline's insights and methods right into the core of late medieval literary production in a book that will generate ideas for scholars working in a wide range of fields." * Studies in the Age of Chaucer *"[B]eautiful . . . In elegant prose, Sonja Drimmer treats such phenomena as authorial portraits, illuminators' engagements with the text, and the re-use of a single volume over time, leaving no doubt about the sophistication of medieval limners and the scholarly imperative to attend carefully to their work . . . This astounding book demonstrates, in large part because of the efforts of their illuminators, chief among whom is Drimmer herself, that these manuscripts of Gower and Lydgate ought now to make up a new English canon." * Speculum *"This is a complex and intellectually stimulating book, restless with ideas and extending its reach into more corners of manuscript studies than most scholars would feel qualified to take on in one effort . . . Drimmer's book is commendably courageous in taking seriously a division of English medieval art that has been broadly neglected, and highly refreshing in its push back against the dominant assumptions that art-and particularly illumnination-was historically and contextually conditioned . . . [F]rom any angle the book surely represents an important advance on existing ideas, and where the history fifteenth-century illumination is concerned, it may well prove to be a game-changer." * Journal of the Early Book Society *"In her provocative and stimulating The Art of Allusion, Sonja Drimmer argues for the significance of manuscript illuminators as dynamic participants in the spread and interpretation of the vernacular English literature in the fifteenth century. Specifically, Drimmer offers the first book-length study to consider the 'emergence of England's literary canon as a visual and linguistic event' . . . This lively and engaging study is beautifully produced and illustrated. Drimmer's style is accessible and thoughtful . . . Drimmer is to be highly commended for this fresh appraisal of the work of the fifteenth-century illuminators." * Journal of British Studies *"Sonja Drimmer’s ingenious Art of Allusion proposes a valuable new way to think about art and literature in late medieval England...[A] welcome and inspiring new framework for thinking about the development of vernacular authorship in fifteenth-century England. Future work on the subject will need to account for the visual thinking of artists, as well as the textual reflections of authors themselves." * Journal of English and Germanic Philology *"Eloquently written, richly illustrated, and beautifully produced, The Art of Allusion recognizes, for the first time in monograph form, the role of illuminators in the construction of the English canon...It is a magisterial performance: Sonja Drimmer’s prose is extraordinary, possessing an urgency that propels the reader forward into extremely difficult material. Her primary research is extensive, and she collates it into a truly compelling archive. She reads medieval illuminations fearlessly. " * Studies in Iconography *"Sonja Drimmer's The Art of Allusion is a welcome addition to the field of late-medieval English manuscript studies. Ambitious, well-organized, cogently argued, it both energizes and revises earlier scholarly approaches to its subject . . . Her book is a thorough art historical study that manages a feat of noteworthy interdisciplinarity through its marriage with textual studies." * The Medieval Review *"An excellent book, truly groundbreaking in approach, and an important contribution to the understanding of late medieval English literary manuscripts, their production, and their illustration." * Richard K. Emmerson, Florida State University *"The Art of Allusion is full of new and fascinating insights. Sonja Drimmer convincingly argues that the work of illustration both responds and contributes to the entry and circulation of new ideas about English vernacular literary authorship, political history, and book production itself in the fifteenth century." * Alexandra Gillespie, University of Toronto *Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I. ILLUMINATORS Chapter 1. The Illuminators of London PART II. AUTHORS Chapter 2. Chaucer's Manicule Chapter 3. Gower in Humilitatio Chapter 4. Lydgate ex Voto PART III. HISTORIES Chapter 5. History in the Making: Lydgate's Troy Book Chapter 6. History's Hall of Mirrors: Gower's Confessio Amantis Epilogue. Chaucer's Missing Histories Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments Color plates
£52.70
University of Pennsylvania Press Art Wars The Politics of Taste in
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Rachel Klein's compelling, beautifully written, and insightful study adds importantly to our understanding of the complex historical relationship between art, nation-building, and the rise of individual-oriented consumer culture in nineteenth-century America. A smart, nuanced work that is also highly engaging and readable, Art Wars shows us that ideas of art and democracy have long been intertwined." * Alice Fahs, University of California, Irvine *"Art Wars provides a welcome addition to cultural and intellectual histories of New York in the nineteenth century by bringing together the history of antebellum art institutions like the American Art-Union and museums like the Metropolitan that came into being in the 1870s. Rachel Klein links these institutional stories to larger political and cultural transformations that accompanied the rise of industrial capitalism that so dramatically changed a city like New York. Art Wars will be a very important addition to the history of art institutions and the historiography of taste in the United States as well as to the intellectual and cultural histories of cities in the nineteenth century." * Jeffrey Trask, Things American: Art Museums and Civic Culture in the Progressive Era *Table of ContentsIntroduction. The Importance of Taste: Intellectual Roots 1 Chapter 1. Paintings in Public Life: The Rise of the American Art-Union Chapter 2. The Limits of Cultural Stewardship: The Fall of the American Art-Union Chapter 3. Art and Industry: Debates of the 1850s Chapter 4. The Art of Decoration and the Transformation of Stewardship: The Making of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Chapter 5. Metropolitan Museum on Trial: Antiquities, Expertise and the Problem of Race Chapter 6. The Battle for Sundays at the Museum Epilogue. Edith Wharton's Museum Notes Index Acknowledgments
£45.00
University of Pennsylvania Press Religion in the Art of Archaic and Classical
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book addresses an elusive aspect of ancient Greek religion, the 'experiences and impressions of religion,' as presented through the many images depicting religious rituals and in the surviving objects associated with worship...Smith has made a compelling case for the value of artistic imagery in conveying the experience of Greek worship. The density of evidence presented here succeeds in itself to demonstrate that these depictions and dedicated objects not only addressed the divine recipients of the rituals and offerings but also conveyed to the human audience a message of successful engagement with the divine that sustained these ritual practices for generations. " * Religious Studies Review *"Smith’s synthesis will be a useful resource for undergraduate classes and newcomers to the topic of Greek religious art...Greek terms are always defined, and the prose is straightforward, with the result that the book will be accessible to most lay readers. Text-based scholars with little experience using Greek visual culture will find much to like in the book, given that it provides a primer in common religious artifacts and iconography, the role of composition, and how artists’ choices might be constrained by medium. As a basic survey of religious subject matter and ritual artifacts, Smith’s book provides a wide-ranging introduction to the iconography and artifacts of Greek religion." * American Journal of Archaeology *"There are many books that serve as introductions to Greek art, and others to Greek religion, but there are none comparable to this. Tyler Jo Smith's work fills a real gap by focusing simultaneously on the visualization of religion and on what art can tell us about religious experience." * Jan Bremmer, University of Groningen *Table of ContentsContents Preface List of Abbreviations Chapter 1. Why Greek Art and Religion? Chapter 2. Gods and Goddesses Chapter 3. Sanctuary, Festival, and Cult Chapter 4. Devotion, Offerings, and Dedications Chapter 5. Life and Afterlife Chapter 6. The Religion of Greek Art Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£62.90
