History of art Books
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press Ricardo Valverde
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsChapter 1: Portrait of the ArtistChapter 2: Street PhotographyChapter 3: PortraitureChapter 4: Documenting CommunityChapter 5: Coda: Experimental Work
£21.59
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press Judith F. Baca
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This publication fills a gap in the critical literature by considering Baca's prominent place in the history of Latinx, feminist, and public art as well as the broader narrative of art history." —CHOICE
£45.00
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press The Artist as Eyewitness
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£21.00
Ohio University Press Afrofuturisms
Book SynopsisAs a philosophical, literary, and visual aesthetic, Afrofuturism has been predominately defined through Anglophone, diasporic expressions. In Afrofuturisms Isaac Vincent Joslin reorients and expands this critical discourse toward colonial and postcolonial Francophone literature and film originating from continental Africa.Trade Review“A sophisticated and compelling investigation of Afrofuturism as an alternative discourse for imagining (and potentially building) a fairer world. Isaac Vincent Joslin offers incisive theoretical observations and deep explorations of numerous African francophone texts, amounting to a valuable contribution to global literary and cinematic scholarship.” -- Vlad Dima, author of The Beautiful Skin: Football, Fantasy, and Cinematic Bodies in Africa“A remarkable contribution to African literary and cultural studies.” -- Alexie Tcheuyap, author of Postnationalist African Cinemas“Written in an accessible and elegant style, [this] book is a veritable tour de force. In this highly original, innovative, and thought-provoking exploration of speculative, futurist science fiction in the Francophone tradition, Isaac Vincent Joslin demonstrates the unprecedented nature of the interconnected crises facing global society in a time of tremendous uncertainty.” -- Keith Moser, author of Contemporary French Environmental Thought in the Post-COVID-19 Era“A refreshing scrutiny of African cultural productions, Isaac Vincent Joslin’s book raises key questions concerning the politics of aesthetics. The study explores both male and female authors, as well as both literature and cinema, which is what makes the project strong and fascinating. Because it proposes groundbreaking perspectives on ‘humanities and the future of Africa,’ this is a work for the pedagogy of African literatures and the indispensable discussion of humanism and futurism in African contexts.” -- Hervé Tchumkam, Southern Methodist UniversityA seminal and groundbreaking study [and] a unique and highly recommended addition to personal, professional, community, and academic library collections. * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Africanfuturism, Development, and Humanities 1. Afrofuturist Ecolinguistics: Redefining the “Science” of Science Fiction 2. Birthing the Future: Métissage and Cultural Hybridity in Francophone African Women’s Writing 3. Child Soldiers: Reinscribing the Human in a Culture of Perpetual War 4. Alienation, Estrangement, and Dreams of Departure: Emigration and the Politics of Global Inequality in (and out of) Francophone Africa 5. “We Don’t Need No Education” Alternative Pedagogies and Epistemologies in Bassek Ba Kobhio’s Sango Malo (1990) and Le Silence de la forêt (2003) 6. Paradis Artificiels: The Lottery of Global Economies in Djibril Diop Mambety’s Le Franc, Imunga Ivanga’s Dôlè, and Fadika Kramo-Lanciné’s Wariko 7. Arguing against the Shame of the State: Sony Labou Tansi’s Ecocritical Womanism and Gaiacene Planetarity Conclusion: Toward an Afrofuturist Ecohumanist Philosophy of Experience Notes References Index
£56.10
Ohio University Press Afrofuturisms
Book SynopsisAn exploration of Francophone African literary imaginations and expressions through the lens of Afrofuturism Generally attributed to the Western imagination, science fiction is a literary genre that has expressed projected technological progress since the Industrial Revolution. However, certain fantastical elements in African literary expressions lend themselves to science fiction interpretations, both utopian and dystopian. When the concept of science is divorced from its Western, rationalist, materialist, positivist underpinnings, science fiction represents a broad imaginative space that supersedes the limits of this world. Whether it be on the moon, under the sea, or elsewhere within the imaginative universe, Afrofuturist readings of select films, novels, short stories, plays, and poems reveal a similarly emancipatory African future that is firmly rooted in its own cultural mythologies, cosmologies, and philosophies.Isaac Joslin identifies the contours and modaTrade Review“A sophisticated and compelling investigation of Afrofuturism as an alternative discourse for imagining (and potentially building) a fairer world. Isaac Vincent Joslin offers incisive theoretical observations and deep explorations of numerous African francophone texts, amounting to a valuable contribution to global literary and cinematic scholarship.” -- Vlad Dima, author of The Beautiful Skin: Football, Fantasy, and Cinematic Bodies in Africa“A remarkable contribution to African literary and cultural studies.” -- Alexie Tcheuyap, author of Postnationalist African Cinemas“Written in an accessible and elegant style, [this] book is a veritable tour de force. In this highly original, innovative, and thought-provoking exploration of speculative, futurist science fiction in the Francophone tradition, Isaac Vincent Joslin demonstrates the unprecedented nature of the interconnected crises facing global society in a time of tremendous uncertainty.” -- Keith Moser, author of Contemporary French Environmental Thought in the Post-COVID-19 Era“A refreshing scrutiny of African cultural productions, Isaac Vincent Joslin’s book raises key questions concerning the politics of aesthetics. The study explores both male and female authors, as well as both literature and cinema, which is what makes the project strong and fascinating. Because it proposes groundbreaking perspectives on ‘humanities and the future of Africa,’ this is a work for the pedagogy of African literatures and the indispensable discussion of humanism and futurism in African contexts.” -- Hervé Tchumkam, Southern Methodist UniversityA seminal and groundbreaking study [and] a unique and highly recommended addition to personal, professional, community, and academic library collections. * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Africanfuturism, Development, and Humanities 1. Afrofuturist Ecolinguistics: Redefining the “Science” of Science Fiction 2. Birthing the Future: Métissage and Cultural Hybridity in Francophone African Women’s Writing 3. Child Soldiers: Reinscribing the Human in a Culture of Perpetual War 4. Alienation, Estrangement, and Dreams of Departure: Emigration and the Politics of Global Inequality in (and out of) Francophone Africa 5. “We Don’t Need No Education” Alternative Pedagogies and Epistemologies in Bassek Ba Kobhio’s Sango Malo (1990) and Le Silence de la forêt (2003) 6. Paradis Artificiels: The Lottery of Global Economies in Djibril Diop Mambety’s Le Franc, Imunga Ivanga’s Dôlè, and Fadika Kramo-Lanciné’s Wariko 7. Arguing against the Shame of the State: Sony Labou Tansi’s Ecocritical Womanism and Gaiacene Planetarity Conclusion: Toward an Afrofuturist Ecohumanist Philosophy of Experience Notes References Index
£26.09
Yale University Press Jean De Julienne
Book SynopsisJean de Jullienne (16861766) was one of the leading French amateurs and collectors of the eighteenth century. He played an important role as editor and dealer, most famously of Watteau's œuvre, and held an influential position in the French art administration of his time, as director of the Gobelins factory until 1729. Jullienne's collection epitomizes the most advanced taste of Parisian private collectors of the period. His strong interest in contemporary French art, Netherlandish painting, in sketches, pastels and drawings were all typical or even trendsetting for a new generation of rich Parisian collectors with only loose ties to the French court. The two sales of his collection were major events for the European art market. The watercolor views of his collection in the inventory from 1756, a unique document for the period, are here published in their entirety for the first time. This exhibition catalog will present masterworks from Jullienne's collection, including Rubens, Rembrandt, Watteau, Wouwermans, Netscher, Bourdon, Vanloo, Greuze and Vernet. These are drawn from the Wallace Collection as well as museums in London, Edinburgh, Valenciennes, Berlin and from several important British private collections.
£23.75
University of Minnesota Press Selected Works
Book SynopsisA richly illustrated guide to the highlights of this world-renowned collection. In 1883 fourteen men and eleven women incorporated the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts to advance the knowledge and love of art. Their dream of establishing a public museum was realized three decades later, when the Minneapolis Institute of Arts opened its doors in 1915, housed in a building designed by McKim, Mead, and White. Since that time, the permanent collection of the museum has grown to one hundred thousand objects and includes representative masterpieces from every continent and age. This beautifully produced handbook, abounding with full-color illustrations, pictures key objects in the Institute's collection and provides basic information about their artists and cultures. Selected Works is organized chronologically by broad historical periods-the ancient world, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the baroque period, and the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries-and includes sections dev
£17.09
Denver Art Museum Xu Beihong Pioneer of Modern Chinese Painting
Book SynopsisAccompanies the first comprehensive exhibition of artwork by Xu Beihong shown outside Asia
£37.05
Tacoma Art Museum What Is a Trade
Book SynopsisContains essays that examine the changing definition of global trade and its impact on all nations and cultures.Table of ContentsDirector's Foreword and Acknowledgments / Stephanie A. Stebich, Tacoma Art Museum The Life of Don / Greg Bell, Curator and Collection Coordinator, 4Culture Collaborations: A Northwest Artist among South Indian Signboard Painters / Samuel K. Parker, University of Washington, Tacoma Donald Fels and Signboard Painters of South India / Commentary by Donald Fels Re-Visioning the Art of Collaboration: Questions for Donald Fels / Rock Hushka, Tacoma Art Museum Works in the Exhibition Tacoma Art Museum Board of Trustees 2007-2008 Tacoma Art Museum Staff
£22.67
Costano Books Indian Baskets of Northern California and Oregon
Book SynopsisIndian Baskets of Northern California and Oregon is a richly illustrated, detailed study of the Native American basketry of this fascinating region. The book is the result of decades of research by Ralph Shanks who is a careful scholar and delightful author.The book covers the basketry of the Yurok, Hupa, Karuk, Wiyot, Tolowa, Wintu, Yana, Atsugewi, and other California cultures. It also details the baskets of Oregon peoples including the Klamath, Kalapuya, Wasco, Coos, Tillamook, Tututni, and others.The book features nearly 200 previously unpublished color photographs of baskets of Northern California and Oregon from museums and private collections in the United States and Europe.
£29.45
Terra Foundation for the Arts,U.S. Picturing
Book SynopsisThe history of American art is a history of objects, but it is also a history of ideas about how we create and consume these objects. As Picturing convincingly shows, the critical tradition in American art has given rise to profound thinking about the nature and capacity of images and formed responses to some of most pressing problems of picturing: What is an image, and why make one? What do images do? The first volume in a new series on critical concerns in the history of American art, Picturing brings together essays by a distinguished international group of scholars who discuss the creation and consumption of images from the early modern period through the end of the twentieth century. Some of the contributions focus on art critical texts, like Gertrude Stein's portrait of Cézanne, while others have as their point of departure particular artworks, from a portrait of Benjamin Franklin to Eadweard Muybridge's nineteenth-century photographs of the California Coast. Works that addresse
£19.00
Terra Foundation for the Arts,U.S. Conversations with the Collection A Terra
Book SynopsisThe Terra Foundation for American Art uses its impressive collection of American art spanning a two-hundred-year period to fulfill its mission. Since the Foundation's establishment in 1978, it has sought to share the collection's extraordinary pieces by renowned American artists like Mary Cassatt, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Edward Hopper with an international audience, encouraging the study of American art around the world. Conversations with the Collection helps to realize the Foundation's mission of serving as a museum without walls, bringing art and scholarship to a global audience. The handbook entries and scholars' responses to the artworks that comprise these Conversations provide fascinating insight not only into the collection and its holdings, but also into the Foundation's history of making these works accessible to art historians and art lovers beyond the United States. The texts achieve a range of objectives, describing the significance of individual pieces in the collection, mo
£19.00
Terra Foundation for the Arts,U.S. Creative Chicago An Interview Marathon
Book SynopsisOn September 29, 2018, before a live audience at Navy Pier in Chicago, international curator Hans Ulrich Obrist conducted his first US Marathon interview session as part of Art Design Chicago, a yearlong celebration of Chicago's art and design legacy initiated by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Obrist, who has undertaken a life-long project of interviewing cultural figures, spoke with more than twenty of Chicago's most innovative and influential artists, designers, architects, writers, and other creatives. In their interviews, this diverse group of creatives provided insights into their artistic processes, influences, and ideas about and hopes for their shared city of Chicago. Among the participants were social-practice artist/developer Theaster Gates, architect Jeanne Gang, writer Eve Ewing, Hairy Who artists Art Green and Suellen Rocca, performance/installation artist Shani Crowe, and the city's cultural historian Tim Samuelson. Creative Chicago: An Interview Marathon serves aTrade Review"Obrist's Interview Marathons allow those who converge within the multiple intersections of creativity to offer a first-person account of what motivates and inspires their work and process, demystifying an often hazy and mushy notion."--Lee Ann Norman "New City "
£15.00
Seattle Art Museum Writing Modern Chinese Art
Book SynopsisThe complexity and confusion of styles and intentions are true characters of modern Chinese art. This book explores the developments of Chinese art in the previous century, applying theories to question and reinterpret concepts that are normally taken for granted. It demonstrates how modern Chinese art history has been - and can be - written.Table of ContentsDirector's Foreword Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction: Modernization, Periodization, Canonization in Twentieth-Century Chinese Painting / Jerome Silbergeld Part I: Becoming Modern Chapter 1. When Was Modern Chinese Art?: A Short History of Chinese Modernism / Ralph Croizier Chapter 2. Fundamental Changes in the Study of Chinese Painting: 1796-1948 / Qingli Wan Part II: Becoming Chinese Chapter 3. Concept to Context: The Theoretical Transformation of Ink Painting into China's National Art in the 1920s and 1930s / Kuiyi Shen Chapter 4. Art under Mao, "Cai Guoqiang's Maksimov Collection," and China's Twentieth Century / Julia Andrews Chapter 5. Rediscovering China in Japan: Fu Baoshi's Ink Painting / Tamaki Maeda Chapter 6. "Two Wangs" in New York: Tradition and Modernization in the Diaspora / Arnold Chang Part III: Becoming Art Chapter 7. What Is a Masterpiece?: Historiographical Anxieties and Classifications of Painting in Modern China / Aida Yuen Wong Chapter 8. How Good Are Modern Chinese Landscapes?: Genre, Evaluation, and Works by the "Two Stones" / Josh Yiu Chapter 9. The History and Collecting of Twentieth-Century Chinese Art: Michael Sullivan's Pioneering Survey / Zaixin Hong Appendix: Exhibition Materials Text panels and labels for the exhibition "Of Nature and Friendship: Modern Chinese Painting from the Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection"
£18.99
Seattle Art Museum Modernism in the Pacific Northwest
Book SynopsisFew regions of the country produced such a distinctive group of artists with such a particular view on the modern world as did the Pacific Northwest in the 1930s and 1940s. This book presents an overview drawn from SAM's unparalleled collection of the key figures of this generation.Table of ContentsDirector's Foreword / Kimerly Rorschach, Illsley Ball Nordstrom Director and CEO Acknowledgments / Patricia Junker, Ann M. Barwick Curator of American Art Introduction 1. Artist-Prophets of Their Times 2. Where East Meets West and the Ancient Informs the New 3. And Women Made Them Famous Afterword Plates Biographies / Lucinda Wilson Selected Bibliography
£999.99
Seattle Art Museum Frisson
Book SynopsisShowcases the extraordinary work of notable American and European postwar artistsSeattle art collectors Richard E. Lang and Jane Lang Davis were frequent visitors to New York City in the 1970s and early 1980s when they collaboratively built their collection, filling their home with singular works of art. Their shared legacy and passion for engaging thoughtfully, deeply, and personally with artand the frisson of excitement that arises with such a connectionare celebrated and echoed in this special exhibition catalogue. Spanning 1945 through 1976, the paintings, drawings, and sculptures in Frisson serve as significant examples of mature works and pivotal moments of artistic development from some of the most influential American and European artists of the postwar period, including Francis Bacon, Lee Krasner, Clyfford Still, Philip Guston, Joan Mitchell, David Smith, and others. Together they represent an inimitable archive of innovation and a cross-pollination of leading artistic positio
£48.48
Newark Museum,U.S. Arts of Global Africa
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£42.75
The University of Chicago Press Pious Journeys Christian Devotional Art and
Book SynopsisIn their protracted search for divinity, Western European Christians follwed many paths to personal connection with the eternal, including the acquisition of art, objects and artifacts. The essays in this work consider the role these objects and images played in these spiritual journeys.
£16.50
The University of Chicago Press Exhibiting Experimental Art in China
Book SynopsisThis text raises questions about artistic freedom and censorship. Wu Hung uses the Chinese government's cancellation of the exhibition It's Me, Beijing 1998, to anchor his analysis of the challenges face by contemporary Chinese artisits and curators.
£41.18
The University of Chicago Press A WellFashioned Image
Book SynopsisThis richly illustrated catalogue, the fourth in a series sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, features essays on the subject of costume and a substantial bibliography on the topic of costumes in art and an exhibition checklist.
£16.50
The University of Chicago Press The Tragic Muse
Book SynopsisArt is often appreciated for its ability to delight our eyes and refresh our minds. But it can also serve as a powerful vehicle for exploring darker emotions, such as fear, sadness, and grief. This title examines the richly varied representation of tragedy in the European artistic tradition over the course of two centuries.
£22.50
The University of Chicago Press The Time Is Now
Book SynopsisExhibition catalog that covers African American art on Chicago’s south side in the 1960s and ’70s.
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Theme and Variations The Multiple Sorceries of
Book SynopsisIn the late nineteenth century, French printmaker Félix Buhot effected a kind of sorcery on his etching plates, making each impression into a unique work of art simply by varying the inking technique and the inks and papers used. With his evocative, atmospheric scenes of stormy piers and urban streetscapes, he dissolved classic distinctions between figure and ground in ways that challenge the limits of the etching medium. Accompanying an exhibition of the same name, Theme and Variations: The Multiple Sorceries of Félix Buhot features an introduction from curator Anne Leonard and interpretive texts on each set of prints in the exhibition by University of Chicago students. Joining examples from the Hearn Family Trust and Charles Hack with works in the Smart Museum's collection, it offers a glimpse of Buhot's extraordinary, evolving artistic process over multiple states and variations of the same print.
£14.87
The University of Chicago Press Claudia Wieser
Book SynopsisClaudia Wieser's artistic practice draws from history, architecture, and design, often playing with time and space. Influenced by artists who embraced spirituality--such as Hilma af Klint, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee--she considers abstraction and physiological experience in her installations. The Berlin-based artist's practice includes hand-painted ceramics, carved wooden sculptures, tiled mirrored works, drawings, and site-specific wallpaper with images mined from her vast archive. Claudia Wieser: Generations highlights her first solo exhibition in the United States held at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and the Smart Museum of Art. Alongside images of her work, this publication features essays by curators Rachel Adams and Jennifer Carty and three interviews conducted by Maggie Taft, Igor Siddiqui, and Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy.
£21.85
Harvard University Press Form Modernism and History
Book SynopsisAssembled in honor of Eduard F. Sekler, this collection is a fitting tribute to a man who has been instrumental in restoring history to a prominent place in contemporary architecture. In 22 essays, distinguished scholars and designers combine the insights of history, theory, and practice to reveal the evolution of design thought and methods.
£39.56
Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Sharon Lockhart Lunch Break III
Book SynopsisKnown for collaborating with remote or marginal communities such as blue-collar workers of the twenty-first century, as she did in Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break I, the artist also blurs the line between photography, video art, and documentary. This title examines the work of acclaimed video artist and photographer Sharon Lockhart.
£22.50
San Diego Museum of Art Dreams and Diversions
Book SynopsisCelebrates Japanese woodblock prints with a collection of ten original essays by an international team of scholarsTrade Review"The variety of themes effectively explains the origins of ukiyo-e and the development of woodblock print culture . . . Lavishly illustrated, this book is crucial for all scholars, students, and connoisseurs of Japanese culture. Summing up: Highly recommended." * Choice *"Dreams and Diversions makes a fresh, and rigorously informed, beautifully presented, and very readable contribution to ukiyo-e studies. It is a welcome addition to the literature." -- David Bell * New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies *
£53.42
Duke University Museum of Art,U.S. Black MirrorEspejo Negro
Book SynopsisNasher museum catalog following an installation by Pedro Lasch, where pre-Colombian sculptures were presented facing away from viewers, toward black mirrors, reflecting on the history of colonialism in the Americas.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments / Agradecimientos xi Preface / Prefacio, Kimerly Rorschach xiv Foreword / Prólogo, Srinivas Aravamudan 2 Black Mirror / Espejo Negro Introductory Statement by the Artist / Texto introductorio del artista, Pedro Lasch 10 Black Mirror, Ink Mirror: Fascination as Entrapment / Espejo negro, espejo de tinta: La fascinación como trampa, Arnaud Maillet 50 Stone Muse / Musa de piedra, Jennifer A. González 64 Colonial Reflections/Magical Imaginations: Pedro Lasch's Tezcatlipoca / Reflejos coloniales/imaginaciones mágicas: El Tezcatlipoca de Petro Lasch, Pete Sigal 74 Decolonial Aesthetics: Unlearning and Relearning the Museum Through Pedro Lasch's Black Mirror/Espejo Negro / Estética descolonial: desaprendiendo y reaprendiendo el museo a través del Black Mirror/Espejo Negro de Pedro Lasch, Walter Mignolo 86 Index / índice 104 Contributors / Contribuyentes 110
£26.59
Duke University Museum of Art,U.S. The Past is Present
Book SynopsisIn 2006, the collection of 224 antiquities assembled by Walter Kempner, M.D. was donated to the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University by Barbara Newborg, M.D. Ranging from the 3rd millennium to the 3rd century B.C.E., the collection includes Mediterranean antiquities such as Cycladic marble artifacts; Greek ceramics attributed to significant Athenian painters, including the Kleophrades Painter, the Athenian Painter, and the Matsch Painter; and carved amber likely from an Etruscan workshop. In The Past Is Present, scholars and Duke University students present the collection, including many objects that have never been published before, and discuss its significance for art history, classics, museum studies, and archaeology. The introductory essay by Kimerly Rorschach, Director of the Nasher Museum, discusses the gift in the context of current issues surrounding the acquisition of antiquities and the aims of university museums. ContributorsCarla AntonaccioEliz
£28.80
Duke University Museum of Art,U.S. Southern Accent
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[T]he work in this wonderful catalog comes from many perspectives, often grappling with the subtexts of race, religion, class, and loss. Curators and exhibition organizers Lash and Schoonmaker have assembled a marvelous group of artists, writers, curators, pundits, and musicians to address the question of Southern identity and the Southern experience, creating a grand pastiche of visual art, writing, and music. Covering touchstones such as Andy Warhol's appropriations of civil rights documentation and the classic lightning rod of polemic imagery, the Confederate battle flag, there is plenty of grist for controversy and a deep emotional well to plumb. A powerful collection and compelling guide to an outstanding exhibition. Well done." -- Dan McClure * Library Journal *“Southern Accent is an important contribution to existing scholarship. Not only a bellwether for new approaches to thinking about the region within the context of contemporary art, it also provides a framework for considering it through the experiences of its most accomplished voices. Southern Accent therefore stands as a testament to this particular place at a very specific moment in time.” -- Jennifer Jankauskas * Panorama *Table of ContentsDirectors' Foreword / 12 Curators' Acknowledgments 14 What Do We Envision When We Talk about the South? / Miranda Lash 19 Southern Accent: The Sound of Seeing / Trevor Schoonmaker 55 South / Natasha Trethewey 77 Latinos and the North Carolina Landscape / Diego Camposeco 83 Riding the Soul Food Rickshaw / John T. Edge 87 Accents Inside My Head / Carter Foster 91 KEW ACM ALT / Kara Walker and Ari Marcopoulos 95 On Things Unseen / Tom Rankin 101 Porch and Drawl / Richard J. Powell 107 Southern Mountain Time / Jeff Whetstone 121 Womanish / Brittney Cooper 127 "Humming This Song Trying to Remember the Way Another One Goes": Intermedia Conversations in a Southern Vernacular / Brendan Greaves 137 Down Home on the Moon / Mark Anthony Neal 157 I Reckon / Harrison Haynes 165 The Three Great Alabama Icons / Patterson Hood 171 Soul Food / Fahamu Pecou 177 No Lonesome Road / Catherine Opie 183 Honky-Tonks and Hospices / Dario Robleto 187 Medicine / Mel Chin 191 The Fast-Talking, Knife-Throwing, Trouble-Making Motorcycle Legend and Naturalist, Jim Roche, Makes Some Damn Good Work / Bradley Sumrall 197 Field Bling / Ada Limón 203 Southern Accent Music Library / Brendan Greaves, Harrison Haynes, and Trevor Schoonmaker 205 Chronology of Southern Art and Scholarship / Andrew Hibbard 213 The First Southern Rim Experience / William Fagaly 221 Southern Accent Reading List / Miranda Lash 225 Exhibition Checklist 231 Reproduction Credits 260 Curator Biographies 268 Lenders to the Exhibition 269 Board Members 270 Museum Staff 271
£35.10
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Persian Ceramics From the Collections of the
Book SynopsisWith dozens of stunning ceramic works drawn from the Asian Art Museum''s collection and a wealth of historical information, Persian Ceramics provides an introduction to the ceramic art of Persia (modern day Iran), one of the world''s greatest and most influential artistic traditions.Surprisingly well-preserved ancient works represent a range of cultures and functions dating from 4000 BCE to 600 BCE. Later the advent of Islam brought colorfully decorated fine ceramics produced in a broad range of styles. The arrival of the fritware technique to Persia by the twelfth century further transformed the ceramic industry, as potters seemed to burst with creativity, and the sky was the limit for their ceramic masterworks. The latest works catalogued include refined ceramics of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, many produced for Western markets. The Asian Art Museum''s impressive collection of Persian ceramics shines light on the rich visual culture and arti
£19.96
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Emerald Cities Arts of Siam and Burma 17751950
Book SynopsisEmerald Cities is a lavishly illustrated catalog of artworks from Thailand and Burma, and provides an introduction to one of Asia''s richest and least known artistic traditions. Focusing primarily on decorative and religious objects from the nineteenth century, Emerald Cities brings to light the lively, yet often strained, interchange between the regions of central and northern Thailand (Siam) and Burma.While representing the latest art historical scholarship, Emerald Cities is also an accessible entry into the world of Thailand and Burma, and highlights such luxuriant and spectacular artworks as gilded and mirrored ritual vessels, black lacquer and mother-of-pearl inlaid furniture, and vibrant, colorful paintings. These objects convey an exotic and exuberant ambiance which transports the reader to a lost time and place, one unlike any other.
£30.36
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Bali Art Ritual Performance
Book SynopsisFeaturing hundreds of full-color photographs, paintings, figurines, crafts, and furniture Bali: Art, Ritual, Performance is an exploration of the very best Balinese culture has to offer. For nearly a century, mention of Bali has evoked images of a tropical paradise. But it is not only the beauty of the island that has attracted artists, dancers, celebrities and scholars. Bali is also famed for its vibrant performance and ritual arts traditions.Although the island is so small it can be circled in a day, it is home to more than 20,000 temples, and each of these produces annual festivals. Where ritual is such a part of daily life, one cannot draw clear lines between the secular and the religious arts. Bali: Art, Ritual, Performance presents a holistic view of the ways that art, ritual, and performance interrelate within the seamless fabric of Balinese life.
£39.16
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Printers Eye Ukiyoe from the Grabhorn Collection
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£27.00
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Seduction Japans Floating World The John C Weber
Book Synopsis* * Winner of the 2017 Silver Medal for Fine Art (National Level) from the Independent Publisher Book Awards * *Featuring dozens of stunning Japanese woodblock prints, textiles, serving vessels and thoughtful essays, Seduction paints a vibrant and provocative picture of Japan''s Uikoyo-e or ''floating world.''''The Floating World'' was catch phrase that defined the pleasure quarters of Edo-period Japan''s (1615—1868) and conveyed a fantasy realm where men were led to believe they could drift aimlessly in the pursuit of pleasure. Brothels were a prominent feature, but other entertainments, such as theater, music, and wrestling were also offered. Pursuit of such pleasures prompted a revolution in fashion, literature, and the visual arts, as the pleasure district was marketed not just through the offer of sex but rather through the elaboration of the seductive image of a sophisticated demimonde that beckoned visitors. Seduction<
£34.19
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Collected Letters An Installation by Liu Jianhua
Book SynopsisAs a 50th anniversary gift to the museum, the Society for Asian Art has commissioned a major work by Liu Jianhua, one of China''s best-known contemporary installation artists. The work comprises approximately 2,500 pieces of white porcelain formed into letters of the English alphabet and components of Chinese characters, suspended from the ceiling of the second-floor loggia. The artist provides only the building blocks of words, leaving it to viewers to create meaning. The artwork''s location is especially apropos: the space offers an opportunity for dialogue with the original engraved literary quotations on the loggia''s walls, dating to the building''s previous incarnation as San Francisco''s Main Library.
£15.40
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Flower Power The Meaning of Flowers in Asian Art
Book SynopsisIn 1967, the phrase flower power transformed the commonplace flower into a Buddhist-inspired symbol of peace. In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of San Francisco''s Summer of Love, this art and design book showcases the expressive powers of flowers in Asian arts and cultures. Beginning in ancient times, a language of flowers, where certain blooms suggest specific themes, was communicated in art throughout Asia. Here forty artworks, all drawn from the Asian Art Museum''s renowned collection, focus on six celebrated flowers—lotus, plum blossom, cherry blossom, chrysanthemum, tulip, and rose—and the messages they convey.
£17.95
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Likeness and Legacy in Korean Portraiture
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£15.29
Cleveland Museum of Art,The,U.S. South of the Sahara Selected Works of African
Book SynopsisPresents general observations on the immensely rich and diversified artistic heritage of sub-Saharan Africa. This book examines the relationship between contemporary and so-called traditional African arts. It shows that many African works were originally part of an ensemble or one element of a performance.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Faces and Figures of Sub-Saharan Africa Map of Africa Plates Documentation References Photography Credits
£29.76
Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago Varda Caivano The Density of the Actions
Book SynopsisThis catalogue was published on the occasion of Varda Caivano's exhibition The Density of the Actions, February 22April 19, 2015 at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. The book features texts by Barry Schwabsky, Paula van den Bosch, Terry R. Myers, Peter St John, Georges Perec, and Solveig Øvstebø, as well as 43 color and 6 black and white images of Caivano's paintings and the Renaissance Society installation.
£30.40
Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago Mathias Poledna Substance
Book Synopsis In 2015 the Renaissance Society presented an exhibition of newly commissioned works by Los Angeles-based artist Mathias Poledna. Coinciding with the museum's centennial, it marked the final show in the institution's first hundred years. For this project Poledna used the notion of iconoclasm and its various historical contexts as a conceptual backdrop for two new works: a 35-mm film installation, co-produced with and premiering at the Renaissance Society, and a substantial alteration to the gallery space: the demolition, dismantling and removal of the gallery's ceiling structure, a steel truss grid that had horizontally bisected the double-height gallery since 1967. This catalogfeaturing a cover designed by artist Peter Downsbroughdocuments the exhibition and its installation, and in doing so celebrates a century of the Renaissance Society.
£32.30
Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago Richard Rezac
Book SynopsisThe title of Richard Rezac's Renaissance Society exhibition, Address, plays on the multivalent quality of the word. As a noun, it refers to a unique identifier of a precise location. As a verb, it refers to a form of communication crafted for a specific people, time, and place. This exhibition drew upon both elements of the word's two meanings: the artist deliberately created and selected works in response to the architecture of the Renaissance Society's gallery space, and the title also nods to the sculptures' relationship to their presumptive audience. This book showcases twenty pieces featured in the exhibition that are made of a wide range of materials including cherry wood, cast bronze, and aluminum and that span Rezac's career--including newly commissioned pieces.s Through the concept of address, the exhibit and book explore the artist's ongoing engagement with both tangible, mathematical ordering systems and the elusive mechanisms of memory and interpretation. This publication continues Rezac's address, extending it to a greater audience of readers through a generous selection of images, a conversation between the artist and curator Solveig vsteb , and new texts by Matthew Goulish, Jennifer R. Gross, and James Rondeau.
£28.50
Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago Alejandro Cesarco Song
Book SynopsisAlejandro Cesarco: Song, published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the Renaissance Society, brings together both new commissions and existing works. In the exhibition, Cesarco creates rhythm by incorporating silences and withholdings. The works form an installation drawing on the poetics of duration, refusal, repetition, and affective forms. This presentation, as in the artist's broader practice, represents a sustained investigation into time, memory, and how meaning is perceived. Centering on two related video works, the exhibition engaged deeply with histories of conceptual art. This catalog features an introduction by Solveig Øvstebø, a conversation between Alejandro Cesarco and Lynne Tillman, an essay by Julie Ault, and new short fiction by Wayne Koestenbaum in response to the exhibition.
£18.05
Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago David Maljkovic Also on View
Book SynopsisAlongside each of his exhibitions, David Maljkovic translates his work into the form of a book, which becomes another medium in the practice of this interdisciplinary artist. For Also on View, he collaborated with designer Toni Uroda to channel the themes and methods of his 2019 solo exhibition at the Renaissance Society. In the book, a rendition of Maljkovic's public artist talk from the opening night of the exhibition is accompanied by a dynamic array of images. While embracing a wide range of mediaincluding photography, painting, video, sculpture, and various hybridsthe Croatian artist has developed distinctive methods of incorporating and refiguring his own earlier works in new installations. For his exhibition and corresponding publication at the Renaissance Society, Maljkovic revisited elements that originated from previous projects, and gathered them together in a presentation of works tailored to the unique architectural space. Altered photographs, paintings directly on the gallery walls, videos, and sculptures accumulate into a rich and varied collection of works.
£20.00
Reaktion Books Nicolas Poussin Dialectics of Painting Pb
Book SynopsisPresenting a study of Nicolas Poussin, one of seventeenth-century Europe's greatest artists, this title offers a series of connected studies that provide ways of interpreting the work and ideas of Poussin.Trade ReviewLike Poussin's paintings, this is a highly polished work. In prose of great elegance, Batschmann achieves an almost perfect balance between exposition and polemic. The Times Literary Supplement This is a tough but rewarding book, focusing not so much on the context of Poussin's book - its extrinsic framework - but intently on the work itself, and the attitude of Poussin to his subject-matter, from history painting to the holy family, and what Batschmann calls "tragic landscape". The Sunday Times
£24.00
Sam Fogg Art of the Middle Ages
Book SynopsisRanging from paintings and sculpture to stained glass, manuscripts and caskets, many of the objects presented here are of absolute rarity, some are previously unpublished and - until recently - unknown.
£19.00
Yale University Press Gothic Spirit Medieval Art from Europe
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£23.75
Yale University Press Hogarth France and British Art
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