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University of Hawai'i Press Legacies of the Drunken Master
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University of Hawai'i Press Imperial Islands
Book SynopsisReimagines the history and cultural politics of art, architecture, and visual experience in the US insular context. The authors propose a new direction of visual culture and spatial experience through nuanced terrains for writing, envisioning, and revising US-American, Caribbean, and Pacific histories.
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University of Hawai'i Press Minority Stages
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University of Hawai'i Press Making Waves
Book SynopsisPositions music as at once ritual and entertainment, esoteric and exoteric, tradition and creativity, within the cultural geographies of Hawaiâi, Asia, and the Pacific. In doing so, the contributors situate music at the very core of global human endeavours.
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University of Hawai'i Press Shipped but Not Sold
Book SynopsisIn the early decades of the eighteenth century, Yemen hosted a bustling community of merchants who sailed to the southern Arabian Peninsula from the east and the west. In Shipped but Not Sold, Nancy Um opens the chests these merchants transported to and from Yemen and examines the cargo holds of their boats to reveal the goods held within.
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University of Hawai'i Press Tattoo Traditions of Asia
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Cornell University (Ceas) Countless Sands
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University of Hawaii Press An Ocean of Wonder
Book SynopsisFeatures the fantastic as present-day Indigenous Pacific world-building that looks to the past in creating alternative futures, and in so doing reimagines relationships between peoples, environments, deities, nonhuman relatives, history, dreams, and storytelling.
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University of Missouri Press George Caleb Bingham Volume 1
Book SynopsisPaul Nagel tells the full story of George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879), one of America's greatest 19th-century painters. While Nagel assesses Bingham's artistic achievements, he also portrays another and very important part of the artist's career - his service as a statesman and political leader in Missouri.
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MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico The Monuments of Piedras Negras an Ancient Maya
Book SynopsisPatronized by royalty between the sixth and eighth centuries, the monuments of Guatemala's ancient Maya city of Piedras Negras were carved by sculptors with remarkable skills and virtuosity. This title discusses the known monuments of the city sequentially by reigns.
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Unm Press Voces del Pueblo
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Maps of Medieval Thought
Book SynopsisMappa mundi texts and images present a panorama of the medieval world-view, c.1300; the Hereford map studied in close detail.Filled with information and lore, mappae mundi present an encyclopaedic panorama of the conceptual "landscape" of the middle ages. Previously objects of study for cartographers and geographers, the value of medieval maps to scholars in other fields is now recognised and this book, written from an art historical perspective, illuminates the medieval view of the world represented in a group of maps of c.1300. Naomi Kline's detailed examination of the literary, visual, oral and textual evidence of the Hereford mappa mundi and others like it, such as the Psalter Maps, the '"Sawley Map", and the Ebstorf Map, places them within the larger context of medieval art and intellectual history. The mappa mundi in Hereford cathedral is at the heart of this study: it has more than one thousand texts and images of geographical subjects, monuments, animals, plants, peoples, biblical sites and incidents, legendary material, historical information and much more; distinctions between "real" and "fantastic" are fluid; time and space are telescoped, presenting past, present, and future. Naomi Kline provides, for the first time, a full and detailed analysis of the images and texts of the Hereford map which, thus deciphered, allow comparison with related mappae mundi as well as with other texts and images. NAOMI REED KLINE is Professor of Art History at Plymouth State College.Trade ReviewFascinating for anyone interested in mediæval thought and a must for those with an interest in the fabulous lands and creatures of the Middle Ages. * FORTEAN TIMES *An ambitious and generally highly satisfactory attempt to 'look' at the map from every angle. * CHURCH TIMES *Enjoyable and readable... As well as historians of cartography, the work is intended for medievalists and art historians, who should find much to stimulate and interest them. * LIBRARY *Sets out to determine how the great map was perceived by contemporaries.. This required a very wide range of scholarly knowledge in related fields, and Kline's erudition in that respect is impressive. This book portrays that [medieval] mindset, like a rich tapestry, with depth and colour. * HISTORY *Table of ContentsPart I The Circle as a Conceptual Device The Cosmological Wheel Part II The Hereford Map as a Conceptual Device The Frame as time, The Medieval Audience Part III The Hereford Map and its Worlds The World of Animals, The World of Strange and Monstrous Races, The World of Alexander, The World of the Bible and the Crusades Part IV The Hereford Map in Cartographic Context A Comparison of Frameworks
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Seagull Books London Ltd Accounts and Drawings from Underground
Book SynopsisWith fifteen stunning new color drawings by Kentridge and an additional coda, this revised edition of Accounts and Drawings from Underground continues its remarkable documentation of the stories of migrant laborers and the flows of capital and desire, providing us with a palpable sense of a vanished world.Table of Contents1. 'Drawings' by William Kentridge 2. 'Accounts' by Rosalind C. Morris 3. 'Jonah and the whale at Blyvooreizicht' by Rosalind C. Morris 4. 'Coda: Half Life in Ruins' by Rosalind C. Morris
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Liverpool University Press Working with AngloSaxon Manuscripts
Book SynopsisBringing together advice and information from a group of eminent scholars, this title aims to develop in the reader an informed and realistic approach to the mechanisms for accessing and handling manuscripts in what may be limited time. It is suitable for students and fledgling researchers in Anglo-Saxon history and literature.Trade ReviewA clear, reliable, practical and beautifully illustrated introduction to the subject. The book envisions an audience that ranges from advanced undergraduates all the way to established scholars and even graphic artists, and while the undergraduates have the most to gain from the book, there is something here that everyone can learn from. A common aim of all these chapters is to survey what for many will be recognisable territory, but every chapter embodies original research, and it is inescapably clear that the contributors to this volume have spent a lot of time with manuscripts. The book as a whole contains 115 well-chosen illustrations, many in colour, including a generous number of full-page reproductions from a wide range of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. The quality of discussion and analysis in every single chapter is uniformly quite high, but it’s the illustrations that will ensure this book’s success as a teaching tool. This is a brilliantly conceived book, and just as brilliantly executed, and it should be required reading for all students of Anglo-Saxon England. The four pages of ‘Further reading’ at the end of the volume are a useful next step for students who have no prior experience with manuscript study. This is a valuable and well-produced book, and I plan to use it the next time I teach a seminar on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. Thomas N. Hall, Review of English Studies 61.252At a time when the history of the book is flourishing as an academic subject, this collection of introductory papers should find a ready market. The book is generously designed, its pages handsomely laid out, with good use made of wide margins. Each of the eight main chapters has its own introductory page and is equipped with apposite and well-explained illustrations, many in color, and minimalist and non intimidating footnotes. Gale Owen-Crocker is to be congratulated for putting together an interdisciplinary overview that should appeal to teachers and their students in medieval studies more generally.Speculum, Vol. 86, No. 1Working with Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts, edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker, provides a set of beautifully illustrated discussions of key topics which will be of immense use to those starting out in the field.Years Work in English StudiesOffers students, teachers, and scholars a valuable research tool. L. Chardonnens, English Studies, Volume 93, No 4Table of Contents 1. Introduction (Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture at the University of Manchester, UK and Director of the AHRC-funded project 'The Lexis of Cloth and Clothing in Britain c. 700-1450' and Maria Carmela Cesario, Lecturer in Medieval English Language and Literature at Brasenose College, University of Oxford, UK); 2. The construction and writing of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts (Alexander Rumble, Reader in Palaeography and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies at the University of Manchester, UK) 3. Manuscript sources of Old English prose (Donald Scragg, Emeritus Professor of Anglo-Saxon Studies at the University of Manchester, UK 4. Manuscript sources of Old English poetry (Elaine Treharne, Professor of Medieval Literature at Florida State University, USA and Co-Director of the AHRC-funded project 'The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060-1220') 5. A survey of Latin manuscripts (Gernot Wieland, Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Canada) 6. Reading between (and beyond) the lines: glosses and notes in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts (Timothy Graham, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Medieval Studies, University of New Mexico, USA) 7. Manuscript art (Catherine Karkov, Professor of Art History at the University of Leeds, UK) 8. From manuscript to computer (Stuart Lee, Acting Director of University Computing Services and a teaching member of the English Faculty at the University of Oxford, UK and Daniel O'Donnell, Associate Professor of English, Chair of the Text Encoding Initiative and Director of the Digital Medievalist Project, University of Lethbridge, Canada) Glossary Index of Manuscripts Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti The
Book SynopsisMajor edition revealing key ideas and events in the lives and work of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood and Victorian literary circles: 5,800 letters (including 2,000 previously unpublished letters) to 330 recipients.The best of these letters, flowing rapidly from his pen, radiate charisma and enthusiasm, warmth and care for his friends, and a total engagement with art and literature. BURLINGTON MAGAZINE [Julian Treuherz] 1835-1854: This nine-volume edition will represent the definitive collection of extant Rossetti correspondence, an outstanding primary witness to the range of ideas and opinions that shaped Rossetti's art and poetry. The largest collection ofRossetti's letters ever to be published, it features all known surviving letters, a total of almost 5,800 to over 330 recipients, and includes 2,000 previously unpublished letters by Rossetti and selected letters to him. In addition to this, about 100 drawings taken from within letter texts are also reproduced. In its entirety the collection will give an invaluable and unparalleled insight into Rossetti's character and art, and will form a rich resource for students and scholars studying all aspects of his life and work. The correspondence has been transcribed from collections in sixty-four manuscript repositories, containing Rossetti's letters to his companions in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Hunt and Stephens; friends such as Boyce and Bell Scott; his early patrons, Ellen Heaton and James Leathart; and his publisher friend, Alexander Macmillan. An additional twenty-two printed sources have also been accessed. Index; extensive annotations.WILLIAM E. FREDEMAN (1928-1999) was professor of English at the University of British Columbia from 1956-1991. His many books, articles and reviews on the Pre-Raphaelites and their followersinclude his important Pre-Raphaelitism: A Bibliocritical Study. He died in 1999 with this edition almost completed. An editorial committee chaired by Betty Fredeman has been formed to see it through the press.Trade ReviewThe best of these letters, flowing rapidly from his pen, radiate charisma and enthusiasm, warmth and care for his friends, and a total engagement with art and literature. -- Julian Treuherz * BURLINGTON MAGAZINE *The young Rossetti emerges as a distinctly more rubust and unpredictable figure than fans of the later Rossetti might expect... Rossetti is by turns earnest, skittish, stiffly formal and exuberantly scatalogical. * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *Impressive volumes...edited with excellent attention to detail... Invaluable and fascinating reading. * REVIEW OF THE PRS *An exemplary model of scholarship.... Brings us closer to the Pre-Raphaelites than anyone in the twenty-first century could otherwise ever imagine.... May stand as [an] exemplary monument of modern editorial scholarship. * JOURNAL OF PRE-RAPHAELITE STUDIES *These handsome volumes are to be warmly welcomed by all of us interested in the Pre-Raphaelites and the Morris circle. * WILLIAM MORRIS SOCIETY JOURNAL *Fredeman's knowledge of the period and careful editing separates Rossetti from what he calls the `bleak, reclusive, somnolent stereotype' portrayed by many of his biographers. * ANITIQUARIES JOURNAL *
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti 3
Book SynopsisFollowing the death of Elizabeth Siddal in 1862 and his settling in Chelsea, Rossetti entered on a period of his life -- charted in volume 3 -- that was marked by renewed activity as a painter and increased financial prosperity.The years 1868-1870 covered by volume 4 culminate in his return to writing poetry and the publication in June 1870 of his long-anticipated and widely-read Poems. However, despite the satisfaction that he could take from his standing as a painter and from the fact that he was about to establish himself as a poet, 1868-1870 were troubled years for Rossetti. Problems with his eyesight led him to give up painting for long periods, and to fear that, like his father before him, he would end his days blind. He consulted Sir William Bowman and other leading ophthalmologists, who eased his mind sufficiently for him to return to his easel. This was also the time when he declared his lovefor Jane Morris, the wife of his long-time friend and admirer William Morris. In his long, moving letters to Janey we come face to face with the satisfactions and frustrations of their relationship. The letters to Janey provide acontext for understanding the many paintings and drawings from this period for which she was the model, and for gauging the biographical origins of the sonnets, written at this time for the sequence, The House of Life, an early version of which was included in Poems.Probably the most rewarding letters in the volume concern the preparation of Poems. The letters deal at length with Rossetti's decision to have his poems typeset for distribution to friends,the exhumation of Elizabeth Siddal's coffin to recover the manuscript of his poems, his obsessive care over the physical appearance of the volume, especially the binding , and his efforts at "working the oracle," William Bell Scott's description of his methodically lining up sympathetic reviewers.As with all of Rossetti's correspondence, the letters in volume 4 are replete with pointed and sometimes humorous commentary on an array of people and events,ranging from Edward Burne-Jones's affair with "the Greek damzel," Mary Zambaco, and Frederick Sandys's appropriation of subjects from his pictures, to his unease over Swinburne's uncontrollable drunkenness, and his ominous hatredof Robert Buchanan, the author of the "Fleshly School" attack on his poetry in the Contemporary Review of October 1871, which became a major cause of the disastrous events of the years 1871-1872.Trade ReviewFredeman's magnificently edited, annotated, appendixed and indexed edition, which is also beautifully produced, is testimony to an immensely impressive editorial labour of love. [...] * . *Fredeman has reproduced, sourced and annotated every known letter by Rossetti, and provided appendices in which one seems to be reading the story of a whole generation.[...] * . *This is a magnificent work of scholarship, long overdue and to be warmly welcomed. In it, the story of these turbulent years in Rossetti's life is told again, not by a biographer recharging a well-known legend, but by an editor scrupulously sifting and reassessing small pieces of evidence. * TLS *
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John Libbey & Co The Mouse and the Myth
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Seeing Race Before Race Visual Culture and the
Book SynopsisExplores the deployment of racial thinking and racial formations in the visual culture of the pre-modern world. The capacious visual archive studied in this volume includes a trove of materials such as annotated or illuminated manuscripts, Renaissance costume books and travel books, maps and cartographic volumes produced by Europeans as well as Indigenous peoples, mass-printed pamphlets, jewelry, decorative arts, religious iconography, paintings from around the world, ceremonial objects, festival books, and play texts intended for live performance. Contributors explore the deployment of what coeditor Noémie Ndiaye calls the racial matrix and its interconnected paradigms across the medieval and early modern chronological divide and across vast transnational and multilingual geographies. This volume uses items from the Fall 2023 exhibition Seeing Race Before Racea collaboration between RaceB4Race and the Newberry Libraryas a starting point for an ambitious theoretical conversationTrade Review"A seminal and ground-breaking volume, Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World will prove to be of immense interest to students of Art History, Philosophy, and Race Relations. While also available for students, academia, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subjects covered, Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World is an exceptionally impressive and unreservedly recommended addition to professional, community, college, and university library Art History and Philosophy Criticism collections, and supplemental Cultural History curriculum studies lists." * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsForeword- by Ayanna Thompson and Daniel GreeneIntroduction- by Lia Markey and Noémie NdiayePart 1: FIGURINGEssay 1. Manuscripts and Printed Books: Book History and Race. By Brandi K. Adams and Carissa M. Harris.Essay 2. Fashioning Racial Materiality in Nicolas de Nicolay’s Representations of Jews. By M. Lindsay Kaplan and Dana E. Katz.Note From the Field 1. “Touching each book”: Demystifying Special Collections in Community. By Analú María López.Exhibition Catalog: “Seeing Race Before Race.” Part 1: Figuring. Entries 1-14. Part 2: MAPPINGEssay 3. Geographies of Race: Constructions of Constantinople/Istanbul in the Western European Imaginary. By Roland Betancourt and Ambereen Dadabhoy.Essay 4. Race, Empire, and Cartography. By Ricardo Padrón and Risa Puleo.Note From the Field 2. Displaying Black Art in the Medieval Galleries at The Met Museum. By Andrea Myers Achi.Exhibition Catalog: “Seeing Race Before Race.” Part 2: Mapping. Entries 15-26. Part 3: PERFORMINGEssay 5. Back Bending Labor, Savage Dances, Pious Stances: Race in Motion between Africa and the Americas. By Elena FitzPatrick Sifford and Cécile Fromont.Note From the Field 3. Bringing Premodern Critical Race Consciousness to Shakespeare’s Globe. By Farah Karim-Cooper. Exhibition Catalog: “Seeing Race Before Race.” Part 3: Performing. Entries 27-42. Interview. On Early Modern Critical Race Studies and Critical Indigenous Studies. By Kim F. Hall, Scott Manning Stevens, and L. Lehua Yim.GlossaryBibliography AcknowledgmentsList of ContributorsIndex
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Museum of Modern Art Mário Pedrosa
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John Wiley & Sons Pathways to a Southern Coast
Book SynopsisJim Harrison is well known for his distinctive paintings of landscapes and seascapes. Throughout his career, he has painted many rural scenes of small-town America, but he has never forgotten that it was his love for the Southern coast that launched his career. This title voices the beauty and nostalgia inherent in Harrison's visions of the coast.
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John Wiley & Sons Architects of Charleston
Book SynopsisThrough extensive use of the Charleston city archives, private papers and letters, primary writings, and secondary sources. Beatrice St. Julien Ravenel provides a detailed examination of the lives and accomplishments of the historic city's builders, engineers, and architects. Architects of Charleston spans the period from Colonial times to the end of the antebellum era.
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Kent State University Press Oberlin Architecture College and Town
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MP-KST Kent State Uni Showplace of America Clevelands Euclid Avenue
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MP-KST Kent State Uni Resplendent Faith Liturgical Treasuries of the
Book SynopsisA compendium of the typical objects found within medieval church treasuries and includes a discussion of their form and function and their significance in the medieval religious service. It is suitable for art historians, those interested in the history of religion and liturgical practices, and nonspecialists who appreciate medieval art.
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Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S. Kiva Mural Decorations at Awatovi and Kawaikaa
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Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S. The Swarts Ruin
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Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S. Hunters Carvers and Collectors
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Washington State University Press Montana Modernists
Book SynopsisThe first book devoted to the topic, Montana Modernists presents stunning artwork and illuminates a little-known art movement. Divided into three sections, Corriel’s exploration concentrates on place, teaching/artistic lineage, and community.Trade Review"This book is singular, a milestone. It illuminates a precinct of western American art history that has been neglected by scholars up until now."—Gordon McConnell, artist, writer, and Montana Governor's Arts Award recipient "Montana Modernists presents important biographical histories of six Montana artists for the first time in one book, and provides valuable context for understanding how modernism evolved in Montana from the influences of artists like Cezanne to the movements of Dada, cubism, abstract expressionism, and the Bauhaus."—Steven Jackson, former curator of Art and Photography at the Museum of the RockiesTable of Contents PREFACE 1. INTRODUCTION 2. SECTION ONE: PLACE A Sense of Place: Isabelle Johnson and Bill Stockton Bill and Isabelle: Working the Land Through Their Art Bill Stockton's Portrayal of Place 3. SECTION TWO: TEACHING/ARTISTIC LINEAGE Growing Artists Educational Lineage Experiencing Art in the Classroom Frances and Jessie: Changing Perceptions The Human Gaze Making It Personal Frances Senska: From Her Roots and Back Again Making Precedes Matching From Bricks to Ceramic Arts: Archie Bray and Other Characters 4. SECTION THREE: COMMUNITY Patronage, Art Movements, and the G. I. Bill The Democratization of Art Community: Strength in Numbers Politics and the Politics of Art Bob and Gennie Robert DeWeese: Responsibility is the Ability to Respond Gennie DeWeese: I Paint What I See 5. CONCLUSION Redefining Western Art in Montana BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Texas Christian University Press The Art of Texas
Book SynopsisAppreciation for Texas art has undergone a genuine renaissance, with collectors, museums, and the public paying more attention to it than ever before. The Art of Texas: 250 Years tells this story, beginning with key Spanish colonial paintings related to Texas and moving through two and a half centuries of art in Texas.
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Cornell University Press This Meager Nature
Book SynopsisThis work traces the construction of Russia's cultural landscape, showing how 19th-century representations of nature reflected and shaped Russians' ideas about themselves and their nation. It should appeal to those who are interested in landscape history and in Russian art and culture.Trade ReviewAn elegant, stimulating and compelling work. * Slavic and East European Journal *Superbly researched, well written, and incisive. * The Historian *[Ely] deftly succeeds in bringing the Russian landscape, as it existed in the imaginations of travel writers, poets, and painters, into a bold new perspective. * Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Preface and Acknowlegments Introduction: Russia, Landscape, and National Identity 1. Arcadia on the Steppe 2. The Search for a Picturesque Russia 3. Landscapes of Nationality and Nostalgia 4. Outer Gloom and Inner Glory 5. To Paint the Russian Landscape 6. A Portrait of the Motherland Conclusion: A Russian Sense of Place Notes Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press Russian Art and the West
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the lively artistic dialogue that took place between Russia and the Westin particular with the United States, Britain, and Francefrom the 1860s to the Khrushchev Thaw. Offering stimulating new readings of cross-cultural exchange, it illuminates Russia''s compelling, and sometimes combative, relation with western art in this period of profound cultural transformation.Russian Art and the West breaks new ground in the range of its material and its chronological span. Attending both to vanguard tendencies and to the official artistic institutions and practices of the tsarist and Soviet eras, it casts light on seminal developments little studied in western scholarship, while also providing new contexts for, and fresh insights into, the avant-garde of the early twentieth century.The book''s eleven essays by leading experts on Russian art and design explore painting, architecture, and the decorative arts, considering not only the objects but also thTrade ReviewA richly textured account. This book would be valuable for its information and bibliographic aspects alone... but its underlying purpose is more ambitious. * Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas *Written in accessible style by scholars of Russian and Soviet art, this book will find a broad readership among art historians, students, and those interested in Russian and Soviet cultural history, painting, architecture, and decorative arts. * The Russian Review *A strong collection of historical scholarship. Essential reading for anyone interested in the still relatively small subfield of Anglophone Russian art history. * Canadian Journal of History *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations 1. Rosalind P. Blakesley and Susan E. Reid A Long Engagement: Russian Art and the "West" 2. Rosalind P. Blakesley Promoting a Pan-European Art: Aleksei Bogoliubov as Artistic Mediator between East and West 3. Elizabeth K. Valkenier Opening up to Europe: The Peredvizhniki and the Miriskusniki Respond to the West 4. Karen Kettering Decoration and Disconnection: The Russkii stil' and Russian Decorative Arts at Nineteenth-Century American World's Fairs 5. Charlotte Douglas The Art of Pure Design: The Move to Abstraction in Russian and English Art and Textiles 6. Jane Sharp Beyond Orientalism: Russian and Soviet Modernism on the Periphery of Empire 7. John McCannon Mother of the World: Eurasian Imagery and Conceptions of Feminine Divinity in the Works of Nikolai Roerich 8. Sona S. Hoisington Soviet Schizophrenia and the American Skyscraper 9. Catherine Cooke (with Susan E. Reid) Modernity and Realism: Architectural Relations in the Cold War 10. Alison Hilton Holiday on the Kolkhoz: Socialist Realism's Dialogue with Impressionism 11. Susan E. Reid Toward a New (Socialist) Realism: The Re-engagement with Western Modernism in the Khrushchev Thaw Notes on Contributors Index
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Cornell University Press Rome Is Love Spelled Backward
Book SynopsisA guide to the art, architecture and timeless human passion of Rome. It focuses on famous and forgotten monuments, and the artists and patrons who brought them into being. For Judith Testa, the ancient wordplay on "Roma" and "amor" holds the key to unravelling some fascinating cultural puzzles.Trade ReviewWith a text both scholarly and entertaining, Testa has produced a guide useful for the serious student and passionate sightseer. The text is characterized by both lucidity and a sincere love of the subject matter, and this makes the book a pleasure to read and also a wonderful guide for travelers to Rome. * Choice *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction Part 1: Ancient Rome 1 The Roman Forum 2 The Ara Pacis Augustae 3 The Colosseum 4 When Rome Ruled the World 5 The Pantheon 6 Castel Sant' Angelo 7 The Baths of Caracalla and of Diocletian 8 The Walls of Mighty Rome 9 Rome's Indispensable Aqueducts Part 2: Early Christian and Medieval Rome 10 The Christian Catacombs 11 The Jewish Catacombs 12 St. John Lateran 13 S. Maria Maggiore 14 S. Prassede 15 S. Clemente Part 3: Late Medieval and Renaissance Rome 16 S. Maria sopra Minerva 17 Pope Julius II 18 Raphael in Rome: The Vatican Frescoes 19 Raphael in Rome: The Villa Farnesina 20 Leo X and Clement VII 21 Pope Paul III and His Art Patronage 22 St. Peter's 23 The Sistine Chapel 24 Michelangelo's Last Judgment 25 The Rome of St. Ignatius Loyola 26 Pope Sixtus and His Urban Planning Part 4: Baroque Rome 27 Caravaggio 28 Caravaggio Up Close 29 Gianlorenzo Bernini 30 Bernini at St. Peter's 31 The Architecture of Francesco Borromini 32 The Trevi Fountain Part 5: Modern Rome 33 The Quartiere Copped\u00e8 34 Mussolini's "Third Rome" 35 The Shrines of Rome's Modern Martyrs Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
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Cornell University Press Antosha and Levitasha
Book SynopsisThrough meticulous scholarship and fine writerly craft, Gregory offers a riveting story of two creative geniuses at work.? Slavonic and East European JournalAccessible and engaging, Antosha and Levitasha will appeal to scholars and general readers interested in art history, late nineteenth-century Russian culture, and biographies.Antosha and Levitasha is the first book in English devoted to the complex relationship between Anton Chekhov and Isaac Levitan, one of Russia''s greatest landscape painters. Outside of Russia, a general lack of familiarity with Levitan''s life and art has undermined an appreciation of the cultural significance of his friendship with Chekhov. Serge Gregory''s highly readable study attempts to fill that gap for Western readers by examining a friendship that may have vacillated between periods of affection and animosity, but always reflected an unwavering shared aesthetic.In Russia, where entiTrade ReviewThis meticulously researched and readable book is a chronological account of the contacts, friendship, common pursuits, rivalries, and professional work of Anton Chekhov and Isaac Levitan-two pivotal figures in Russian literature and art.... The book gives us abundant information about various aspects of the two artists' friendship and the backgrounds to their compositions. * The Russian Review *There is rich material in this study. Gregory was right to unpick this relationship. From the point of view of Chekhov studies, Levitan is too often neglected. From the point of view of Levitan studies, this is an artist whose position astride the two most significant movements in Russian painting of the late nineteenth century, 'The Itinerants' and the World of Art, is ripe for investigation and appreciation. * Slavonic and East European Review *Very compelling... The book is laid out wonderfully, and Gregory's chronological tags never fail to reinforce understanding of when we are. Gregory's focus throughout is masterful. * Inside Higher Ed *The breadth of Antosha and Levitasha is astonishing, and the biographical details brought to light by Gregory's meticulous research will prove invaluable for scholars of both Levitan and Chekhov, and their respective artistic productions. As a whole, Serge Gregory's Antosha and Levitasha stands as a rich testimony of their relationship and late nineteenth-century Russia. * H-Net Reviews *Through meticulous scholarship and fine writerly craft, Gregory offers a riveting story of two creative geniuses at work. * Slavonic and East European Journal *
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Cornell University Press The Futurist Files
Book SynopsisFuturism was Russia's first avant-garde movement. Gatecrashing the Russian public sphere in the early twentieth century, the movement called for the destruction of everything old, so that the past could not hinder the creation of a new, modern society. Over the next two decades, the protagonists of Russian Futurism pursued their goal of...Trade ReviewElegantly argued and meticulously documented, Glisic's book makes a substantial contribution to our knowledge of Russian Futurism. * International Yearbook of Futurism Studies *
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Cornell University Press This Meager Nature
Book SynopsisBoundless Russia, humble yet full of hidden grandeursuch visions of the motherland became crucial markers of Russian national identity. This Meager Nature is the first full-length study to trace the cultural construction of Russia''s landscape during the nineteenth century, showing how artistic and literary representations of nature reflected and shaped Russians'' ideas about themselves and their nation.In the early 1800s, Russians commonly accepted the European judgment that their land lacked aesthetic value. That view changed with the outpouring of literary and artistic creativity that followed the century''s political upheavals. Artists such as Aleksei Savrasov, Fedor Vasil''ev, Ivan Shishkin, and Nikolai Nekrasov turned to their native land and revealed the power of grey skies, vast open fields, and simple birch forests.Russians came to embrace their land''s modest beauty, which represented strength and hidden depths. The historical creation of Russia''s senTrade ReviewAn elegant, stimulating and compelling work. * Slavic and East European Journal *Superbly researched, well written, and incisive. * The Historian *[Ely] deftly succeeds in bringing the Russian landscape, as it existed in the imaginations of travel writers, poets, and painters, into a bold new perspective. * Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Preface and Acknowlegments Introduction: Russia, Landscape, and National Identity 1. Arcadia on the Steppe 2. The Search for a Picturesque Russia 3. Landscapes of Nationality and Nostalgia 4. Outer Gloom and Inner Glory 5. To Paint the Russian Landscape 6. A Portrait of the Motherland Conclusion: A Russian Sense of Place Notes Bibliography Index
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Yale University Press Martine Syms Neural Swamp
Book SynopsisNew commissioned work by an important American contemporary artist using a multidisciplinary approach to examine issues of race and identity
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Cornell University Press Studies in Southeast Asian Art
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East European Monographs Hungarian Art and Sciences 18482000
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