History of art Books
Instituto Monsa de Ediciones Alice Inspiration
Book SynopsisAlice was created by British mathematician, photographer, and writer Lewis Carroll, inspired by the daughter of some friends. Carroll fantasized about taking the child to a parallel-reality world which he called "Wonderland". Alice has inspired movies, songs, video games, and all kinds of books. The book is a tribute to this fanciful girl and all the friends she meets along the way, including the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, and the Mad Hatter. Each character shines in their own right and reveals its unique personality in each encounter with Alice. Twenty-eight illustrators offer us a personal version of each character, revealing something more of their art and aesthetic. Have a happy, creative journey to wonderland!
£14.39
Instituto Monsa de Ediciones Star Wars
Book SynopsisThe mere mention of the title Star Wars can evoke all kinds of feelings and memories in a person. The trilogy that thrilled everyone in the late 70s and early 80s, the highly criticised prequels from the early 2000s, and the newer sequels are just added fuel to make the work of George Lucas shine dazzlingly in our lives. This book is an illustrated tribute to the fictional universe created by George Lucas, in which readers will find forty portraits of its most outstanding characters, such as Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Leia Organa, Han Solo, Yoda, Chewbacca, R2-D2, C-3PO, Rey, Stormtrooper, and Wilhuff Tarkin - along with sixty unpublished alternative posters! Twenty-seven artists from around the world show us their most personal vision through one or more illustrations, additionally expressing in a sentence what Star Wars means to them. In this way, many artists achieve their desire to share their life and work, and return the favor to what has inspired them, in turn becoming part of the legend, for a long, long time.
£14.39
Promopress Animals: 1000 Handmade Illustrations
Book SynopsisThe book features retro style pen and ink illustrations by Joan Escandell (illustrator of "Captain Thunder," "He-Man," and Disney's "Cinderella "and "The Lion King"), who molded the image many youngsters in Europe have of literary figures like Robin Hood. The book gives free access to a library of downloadable high-resolution animal images.
£15.29
Editorial Tenov S.L. Constructivism
Book SynopsisPublished in 1922 in Russian, Aleksei Gan's Constructivism was the first theoretical treatise of postrevolutionary Russia's emergent Constructivist movement. This edition replicates Gan's original layout, which was one of the first experiments in Constructivist typography and graphic design, and also presents an introductory essay.
£24.50
Editorial Tenov S.L. Photography or Life Popular Mies Columns of
Book SynopsisFeatures overlooked aspects of modern architecture and photography and reveal a more nuanced-and plausible-conception of the world. This volume includes images tied to the history of twentieth-century architecture with anonymous graphic materials and pictures. It will redefine our concept of modernity.
£24.22
Editorial Tenov S.L. Joseph Beuys–Manresa – A Spiritual Geography
Book SynopsisThe first performances by Joseph Beuys were a radical turning point for twentieth-century art. Beuys saw art as a transformative action that is both personal and communal, and his expanded artistic practice engaged spirituality, personal mythology, political structures, and symbolic materials. For Manresa, one of his legendary performance actions, which took place on December 15, 1966 in Düsseldorf, he collaborated with the Danish artists Henning Christiansen and Bjørn Nørgaard. This book presents never-before-seen materials from the performance, including texts, images, scripts, and preparatory drawings, alongside contributions from scholars and critics that offer further insight. Friedhelm Mennekes, an art critic and Jesuit priest, analyses Saint Ignatius of Loyola’s imprint on Beuys’s work while elucidating its spiritual complexity, looking beyond the popular vision of the artist as shaman. Pilar Parcerisas examines Beuys’s spiritual geography, explaining the importance the town of Manresa within it and also laying out the physical and mystical coordinates of Eurasia, a site that was always present in Beuys’s work. Klaus-D. Pohl addresses the paradoxical union between Beuys’s mysticism and the neo-Dadaists of Fluxus. Beuys’s collaborator Bjørn Nørgaard recalls his time working with the German artist and reflects on the paths he opened up. Finally, art historian Harald Szeemann considers the possibility of liberating politics through spirituality.Table of ContentsM A N R E S A (Homage to Schmela) - Joseph Beuys, Henning Christiansen and Björn NörgaardArt and religion as a movement of resurgence - Friedhelm MennekesI also fly to you, Manresa - Pilar ParcerisasThe Manresa features at the Block Beuys in Darmstadt - Klaus D.PohlJoseph Beuys and his place within the Fluxus movement - Klaus D.Pohl“Where is Element 3” - Harald SzeemannManresa - Björn NörgaardOpening lecture for the performance carried out in Manresa in 1994 - Harald SzeemannReality multiplied by 3 - Henning ChristiansenThe cross of Björn Nörgaard - Pilar Parcerisas
£28.00
Editorial Tenov S.L. Henning Christiansen, Bjørn Nørgaard–MANRESA
Book SynopsisA collection of materials and essays contextualizing a performance by Christiansen and Nørgaard in homage to Joseph Beuys. Joseph Beuys performed one of his most radical pieces, the action Manressa, on December 15, 1966, at the Galerie Schmela in Düsseldorf. He was accompanied by the Danish artists Henning Christiansen and Bjørn Nørgaard, who, in 1994, created Manresa Hauptbahnhof (Manresa, Central Station), a new performance in homage to the original. The performance was carried out in Manresa, the city that both gave the name to the original action and was where Saint Ignatius Loyola had the revelations that led him to write his Spiritual Exercises, which Beuys considered essential reading. This book brings together all the material related to the 1994 performance—including images, scripts, and preparatory drawings—as well as a selection of critical texts that situate the action within its European context. In one essay, Friedhelm Mennekes analyses the action by delving into its spiritual meaning, exploring the symbolism of the objects employed. In another, Pilar Parcerias uses the metaphor of the central station to discover the city of reference and redraw the map of Europe with unexpected connections between Manresa and Copenhagen. In the final essay, Peter van der Meijden contextualizes the two performances, which represented a meeting place for different artistic personalities working on the cutting edge in creating a new form of art. Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTSScores and preparatory drawings Images of the performancesHenning Christiansen – Time Henning Christiansen – Reality Multiplied by Three. Four Epistles on Joseph Beuys’ Working MethodsMENNEKES- I fly to you, Manresa PARCERISAS – A journey and an invocationPeter Van der Meijden -
£24.00
Aarhus University Press K S Malevich: The Leporskaya Archive
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£999.99
Aarhus University Press Depicting the Dead: Self-Representation and
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£31.50
Aarhus University Press Sámi Art and Aesthetics: Contemporary
Book SynopsisDuring the last five decades we have witnessed an increase in activity among artists identifying themselves as Sámi, the only recognised indigenous people of Scandinavia. At the same time, art and duodji (traditional Sámi art and craft) have been organized and institutionalized, not least by the Sámi artists themselves. Sámi Art and Aesthetics discusses and highlights these developments and places them in historical and contemporary contexts for an international audience. At stake are complex, changing terms regarding the creative and the political agencies. The question is not how indigeneity, identity, people, art, duodji, and aesthetics correspond to conventional Western ideas, rather it is how they interact with the Sámi and their neighbouring cultures and societies.The volume is written by some of the foremost art historians and literary scholars in Sámi art, craft, architecture, culture, and indigenous studies. Artists presented include Johan Turi, Ivar Jåks, Outi Pieski, Folke Fjellström, Katarina Pirak Sikku, Geir Tore Holm, and Silje Figenschou Thoresen.
£31.50
Aarhus University Press Dead or Alive!: Tracing the Animation of Matter
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£41.60
Aarhus University Press Faaborg Museum and the Artists' Colony
Book SynopsisBehind rolling hills, overlooking the fjord and the islands of Southern Funen, you will find Faaborg Museum. With its boldly coloured walls and decorative tile floors made from local clay, the building has quite literally sprung from Funen soil in a symbiosis of local nature and culture. Inside, visitors will find art by the ‘Funen Painters’, created during the period 1880 to 1928 when Faaborg was home to one of Denmark’s pre-eminent artists’ colonies. With their paintings of rural Funen, farmworkers and domestic scenes, the artists Peter Hansen, Fritz and Anna Syberg, Jens Birkholm and Johannes Larsen introduced new subject matter and new methods of painting in Danish art.Faaborg Museum was founded in 1910 by Mads Rasmussen, art patron and manufacturer of tinned goods and preserves. The museum was intended as a celebration of the art created in and around Faaborg. Together with the artists, he commissioned the architect Carl Petersen to create a building to house the museum’s collection – a building that is now acclaimed as a masterpiece of neoclassical architecture and embodies a rare union of art, architecture and design.Faaborg Museum and the Artists’ Colony presents the history of Faaborg Museum, its architecture, collection and artists to international audiences for the first time. Lavishly illustrated, the book features architectural photographs and plans as well as dozens of reproductions of the museum’s art.
£28.00
Aarhus University Press The Gesamtkunstwerk in Design and Architecture:
Book SynopsisThe history of modern design and architecture has seen many attempts to embrace and merge different art forms, and to bring art into the framing of everyday life and the organisation of modern society, in a process understood as total design or total architecture. These attempts were historically based on the romanticist idea of merging all art forms into a uniting and transgressing work of art, mostly associated with – but certainly not limited to – Richard Wagner’s theoretical writings and musical dramas.This utopian dream of the Gesamtkunstwerk, or Total Work of Art, was intended both to bring unity to the people and to bring art into the everyday life of their homes, as well as into factories, cities and even modern media. As a result, the experiments ranged from music, poetry and drama to architecture, design, visual communication and city-planning. These ideas of merging art forms into more immersive and transgressive installations or design interventions to change everyday life are widespread today, but their complex and often problematic roots are mostly ignored. Design and architecture have delivered some of the broadest and most influential experiments with the Gesamtkunstwerk, from garden cities for workers and corporate identity design to the German AEG corporation.
£39.10
Aarhus Universitetsforlag Animation between Magic, Miracles and Mechanics:
Book Synopsis"Animation" implies that the image or figural object is alive, endowed with anima: a "soul", "spirit" or "vital principle." In the Middle Ages, holy or emphatically unholy imagery often possessed an ability to come to life, to act and do things, to move and gesticulate, to speak and exude. This "life" might be a result of natural or supernatural principles; it might be a work of magic, a work of mechanics or a miracle (a divine work). This book is about the different modes of animation that made medieval images perform their spectacular wonders of locomotion and physical transformation, ranging from mechanical machinery to magical conjuration and miraculous ensoulment. Talking and bleeding crucifixes are investigated alongside robot Redeemers, weeping Madonnas, automated devils and self-propelled statues - "statuas animatas" - that enacted their visible and audible animations in monasteries and churches, in historical technologies and treatises, in theurgical tales and demonologies. With its confessed reinvigoration of animism, this book will animate anyone with an interest in medieval art and art history, culture, ideas, religion, anthropology, philosophy and theology.
£32.00
Aarhus University Press Krøyer and Paris: French Connections and Nordic
Book Synopsis‘A lover of light’: in 1912, a French critic used these words to describe the great Danish painter Peder Severin Krøyer, who had close ties to the French art scene for more than two decades. Krøyer first visited Paris in 1877, and his many letters clearly show the impact French art had on Krøyer’s own development as a painter, on the artists’ colony in Skagen, and on Danish art history in general.In Krøyer and Paris. French Connections and Nordic Colours, art historians Mette Harbo Lehmann and Dominique Lobstein describe Krøyer’s artistic development from the Golden Age tradition favoured by the Danish academy to Naturalism and the Modern Breakthrough. They show how inspiration from France can be traced in his painting technique and his open-air paintings from Skagen, revealing how French Naturalism made its mark on Krøyer’s distinctive style.
£32.00
Casa Editrice Leo S.Olschki Il Disegno Veneziano 1580-1650: Ricostruzioni Storico-Artistiche (Drawing in Venice 1580-1650)
£109.25
Harmonie, Uitgeverij De Unposted Letters: Correspondence, Diaries,
Book SynopsisLetters, diaries, drawings and official documents tell the wartime story of Franciszka and Stefan Themerson, artists, writers and film-makers.In 1938 Franciszka and Stefan Themerson moved from Warsaw to Paris. Who were they? They made avant-garde films in Poland in the 1930s. She was a painter, he was a writer. Why did they go to Paris? Because Paris was the centre of the art world, and as Stefan said: "if one wrote, painted or made films, one had to be in Paris". When the war broke out, they volunteered for the Polish Army. Stefan stayed in France, Franciszka escaped to London withthe Polish Government in Exile. They were separated until the summer of 1942. 150 of their letters survive, as do 150 telegrams, Stefan's diaries, official documents, and Franciszka's drawings, which she called 'Unposted Letters', and which provide the title of this book. The documents in this beautifully produced and illustrated book articulate the inner life of two remarkable individuals borne on an erratic current of events over which they hadno control. In London, they made two more films. And after the war, they founded the Gaberbocchus Press and published books by Alfred Jarry, Kurt Schwitters, Bertrand Russell among others, as well as their own, startlingly original works. Benelux: De Harmonie, Amsterdam
£27.00
Leiden University Press The Secret Lives of Artworks: Exploring the
Book SynopsisThe Secret Lives of Artworks is a collection of essays on the phenomenon that viewers treat works of art as living beings: they attribute life, personhood and agency to them, kiss them, beat them, or claim that portraits look at viewers, and that statues move, breathe and speak. This volume engages in existent theories of these phenomena in art history, psychology, aesthetics and anthropology developed by the members of the Leiden Art, Agency and Living Presence' group. The Secret Lives of Art Works identifies new areas of research and presents the theoretical and historical account exploring the boundaries between Art and Life'.
£40.50
Leiden University Press The Lives of Paintings: Presence, Agency and
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£66.40
Stolpe Publishing Hilma af Klint Catalogue Raisonné Volume I:
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£38.00
Stolpe Publishing Hilma af Klint Catalogue Raisonné Volume VI: Late
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£38.00
Stolpe Publishing Hilma af Klint: Occult Painter and Abstract
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£38.00
Stolpe Publishing Hilma af Klint: The Five’s Sketchbooks, Nos. S2,
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£25.65
Stolpe Publishing Anna Cassel: The Tale of the Rose
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£33.75
City University of Hong Kong Press Scientific Feng Shui for the Built Environment:
Book SynopsisFeng Shui is a Chinese wisdom in knowledge and experience related to the built environment, which has accumulated over more than three thousand years. This book, based on Scientific Feng Shui for the Built Environment - Fundamentals and Case Studies, offers a remarkable in-depth view of Feng Shui by integrating the historical theories with scientific data and examples of applications.
£999.99
The Chinese University Press Framing Famous Mountains: Grand Tour and Mingshan
Book SynopsisMingshan, which literally means ""famous mountains"", refers to a group of mountains in China that have been set apart for special veneration since ancient times. Over the centuries, the ""famous mountains"" as a conceptual term has been continually (re)invented, (re)framed, and (re)appropriated by different ideological systems. This book examines sixteenth-century paintings of famous mountains by three major artists in the light of a diachronic account of the evolution of famous mountains over time and a synchronic account of the vogue for the grand tour in late Ming society.
£39.75
The Chinese University Press Dimensions of Originality: Essays on
Book SynopsisDimensions of Originality investigates the issue of conceptual originality in art criticism of the seventeenth century, a period in which China dynamically reinvented itself. In art criticism, the term which was called upon to indicate conceptual originality more than any other was qi 奇, literally, "different"; but secondarily, "odd," like a number and by extension, "the novel," and "extraordinary." This work finds that originality, expressed through visual difference, was a paradigmatic concern of both artists and critics. Burnett speculates on why many have dismissed originality as a possible "traditional Chinese" value, and the ramifications this has had on art historical understanding. She further demonstrates that a study of individual key terms can reveal social and cultural values and provides a linear history of the increase in critical use of qi as "originality" from the fifth through the seventeenth centuries, exploring what originality looks like in artworks by members of the gentry elite and commoner classes.
£48.00
Sunway University Press An Introduction to the History of Architecture,
Book SynopsisChronicling the times in which major works of architecture, art and design were created, this compact book includes features and images of major artworks from each art and design period.Architecture, art and design have shaped the world in which we live and are representative of the eras in which they were made. With vivid photographs of art, readers of this book will get a good understanding of the evolution of architecture, art and design, starting from the earliest periods of ancient civilisations to that of early 21st century.From ancient monuments to whistling kettles, from Renaissance masters to graffiti artists, and from the Colosseum to the Beijing Bird's Nest, the best examples from each period are illustrated together with their famous creators, alongside timelines that track the evolution of the artistic disciplines throughout history. All this information is presented in a clear and accessible way.This book is suitable for students and the interested general public.Table of Contents About This Book Part I Prehistoric to Gothic Prehistoric Early Civilisations Ancient Egypt Ancient Greece Ancient Rome Early Asia Byzantine Empire Medieval & Romanesque Islamic Era Gothic Part II Renaissance to 19th Century Renaissance & Mannerism Baroque & Rococo Neoclassicism & Romanticism Georgian & Regency Victorian Era The Arts & Crafts Movement Art Nouveau Part III 20th Century and Beyond Early 20th Century Art Suprematism & Constructivism De Stijl Bauhaus Art Deco The International Style (Pre-War): The Modern Movement The War Years Abstract Expressionism The International Style (Post-War): Mid-Century Modern & Brutalism Pop Art, Minimalism & Op Art Postmodernism Late Modern Architecture Contemporary Art Afterword Further Reading Acknowledgements Picture Credits
£22.75
Ateneo de Manila University Press Ukkil: Visual Arts of the Sulu Archipelago
Book SynopsisShows, through research and documentation of artifacts and practices, how art pervades the everyday life of the people of the Sulu Archipelago, such that no divide exists between beauty and function, between artistry and utility.
£222.75
National Gallery Singapore Siapa Nama Kamu? Art in Singapore since the 19th Century
Book SynopsisSiapa Nama Kamu? weaves together a rich and captivating narrative of artworks in a broadly chronological sequence, covering Singapore's art history from the 19th century to the present. This handy little guide presents an overview of the exhibition through 100 key works. Beautifully reproduced and accompanied by curatorial texts, it tells the story of nearly two centuries of art in Singapore- one of diverse influences, shared impulses and ceaseless flux.
£8.00
National Gallery Singapore Reframing Modernism: Painting from Southeast
Book SynopsisWhat is modernism in Southeast Asia? What is modern art, as embodied in the paintings of Southeast Asia? These questions and more are answered in Reframing Modernism: Painting from Southeast Asia, Europe and Beyond, published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name. Featuring 217 works by 51 Southeast Asian and European artists, from the Centre Pompidou and National Gallery Singapore as well as other Southeast Asian collections in the region and beyond, this catalogue tells the compelling story of modernism as it developed across continents, and reveals artists’ powerful, and sometimes surprising, responses to modernity.
£44.80
National Gallery Singapore Yayoi Kusama: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow
Book SynopsisYayoi Kusama is one of the world's most influential artists, having played a crucial role in key art movements of the 20th and 21st centuries. Accompanying the first major survey of Kusama's work in Southeast Asia, this catalogue features essays by curators from National Gallery Singapore and Queensland Art Gallery Gallery of Modern Art, a biographical timeline and beautifully reproduced images of her works.
£17.00
National Gallery Singapore Awesome Art: The Next 20 Works Everyone Should Know
Book SynopsisExplore the awesome world of art through 20 awesome works from Southeast Asia! Perfect for the young and young at heart, Awesome Art dispels the notion that art is a difficult domain, introducing instead its colourful stories and personalities, as well as the diverse styles and forms artworks can take. Besides learning to understand and look at art, readers will also be able to see how art is inextricably connected to the world around us. Beautifully reproduced in full colour, the 20 artworks featured in Awesome Art are also accompanied by original illustrations, fun facts and questions.
£17.85
National Gallery Singapore Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission: Rirkrit Tiravanija
Book SynopsisRirkrit Tiravanija has created the second Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission artwork for National Gallery Singapore. Featuring an interlocking bamboo structure with a simple wooden tea house at its centre, this site- specific installation springs from the artist’s interest in fostering social engagement and human interaction through art. With homes in Chiang Mai, New York and Berlin, Tiravanija’s nomadic life is a constant negotiation of cultures, and a source of inspiration for his practice. This catalogue illuminates this influential artist’s fascinating oeuvre through newly commissioned essays and full-colour images of the installation.
£18.00
National Gallery Singapore Minimalism: Space. Light. Object
Book SynopsisMinimalism: Space, Light and Object is an expansive global survey of the movement’s influential language of reductive forms, from its Abstract Expressionist colour field antecedents to Post-Minimalism, and how it continues to speak to artists today. In this timely re-evaluation, the contemporaneous Mono-ha movement, as well as experimentation in video, sound and performance are brought to bear on the Minimalist canon. This richly illustrated exhibition catalogue features essays by the exhibition curators and international contributors, along with conversations with artists, opening up a forum for contemporary readings of this dynamic, multivalent and pivotal movement.
£29.75
National Gallery Singapore Lim Cheng Hoe: Painting Singapore
Book SynopsisLim Cheng Hoe’s ardour and discipline as a painter merge in his evocative portrayals of light and life in developing Singapore. This catalogue examines his contribution to the watercolour tradition and plein-air painting in Singapore, and republishes essays from previous exhibition catalogues which are now out of print, serving as a comprehensive repository of research around this significant Singapore artist.
£999.99
National Gallery Singapore Suddenly Turning Visible: Art and Architecture in
Book SynopsisIn 1981, the Filipino artist and curator Raymundo Albano adopted the expression “Suddenly Turning Visible” to describe the rapid transformation of Manila’s urban landscape. The visibility that Albano evoked was aspirational, driven by a desire for rapid economic growth in which art had a critical role. This catalogue traces this story through three influential art institutions: The Cultural Centre of the Philippines, the Alpha Gallery in Singapore, and the Bhirasri Institute of Modern Art in Bangkok. It presents in rich detail artworks from the period, an anthology of primary documents, and interviews with curators, artists and architects, revealing the links between architecture, modern art and the role of institutions in Southeast Asia.
£24.00
National Gallery Singapore Eat with Your Eyes
Book SynopsisFeast on 14 yummy modern Southeast Asian artworks from National Gallery Singapore. You could even share these tasty nibbles with a friend or two! This is the first title in the Gallery’s Art for Tinies series: board books with larger- than-life artworks for little art lovers and their grown-up companions.
£9.50
Talisman Publishing See Me, See You: Early Video Installation of
Book SynopsisSee Me, See You is the world’s first-ever retrospective survey of early video installation in Southeast Asia, spanning the early 1980s to the early 1990s. This catalogue traces the journeys and evolving identities of the ten artists featured in the exhibition and their pivotal experiments with the moving image, which variously incorporate readymade objects and cathode-ray tube television monitors as well as performative and participatory elements. Their artworks encapsulate the techniques and materials of their generation and mark the emergence of video installation as a form in the region. The publication features interviews, essays, rare archival images and texts, as well as a timeline that highlights the definitive moments and inventions that propelled video installation in global and regional contexts.
£25.50
Talisman Publishing Shilpa Gupta: Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission
Book SynopsisThe latest title in this book series presents Indian artist Shilpa Gupta’s monumental inflatable sculpture, Untitled. The sculpture depicts the dualities of our innermost struggles and the externalities around us. This book includes a curatorial essay that situates Gupta’s new work in relation to her art practice and other global sociopolitical forces as well as a full colour photo documentation of the sculpture against the backdrop of Singapore’s skyline. It also features a guest essay written by a well-known mental health professional who engages with the artist’s take on the human conditions. The last section of the book is a set of colourfully illustrated activity sheets, co-developed with an art therapist, that children and adults can use to navigate their emotions and responses towards conflict and other difficult issues.
£18.00
Talisman Publishing Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America
Book SynopsisTropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America brings together more than 200 artworks and primary documents by over 100 artists across the 20th century, tracing the cultural and conceptual conditions under which claims of vanguardism first emerged in the Global South. By attending to the manners in which words and images are organised on canvas, paper, film and wood, to sensations artists presented vis-à-vis histories of colonial subjugation, this exhibition catalogue offers insights into how even the most restrictive of conditions may experience the simultaneity of magic and realism, revolution and subversion. The so-called Tropical is a geographically expansive term that has always resisted precise definitions; its ability to entangle with all sorts of political and cultural desires has made it permanently plural and contradictory. The polyphonic nature of “stories” is adopted to enable both fiction and non-fiction, as well as philosophical, technological and mythical narratives. Beyond clime, this richly illustrated book ventures the tropical as a palpable, material, strategic, relational and radical space.
£25.50
NUS Press Artists and the People: Ideologies of Art in Indonesia
Book SynopsisGets to the heart of what is unique about Indonesian art. Exploring the work of established and emerging artists in Indonesia’s vibrant art world, this book examines why so many artists in the world’s largest archipelagic nation choose to work directly with people in their art practices. While the social dimension of Indonesian art makes it distinctive in the globalized world of contemporary art, Elly Kent is the first to explore this engagement in Indonesian terms. What are the historical, political, and social conditions that lie beneath these polyvalent practices? How do formal and informal institutions, communities, and artist-run initiatives contribute to the practices and discourses behind socially engaged art in Indonesia? Drawing on interviews with artists, translations of archival material, visual analyses, and participation in artists’ projects, this book presents a unique, interdisciplinary examination of ideologies of art in Indonesia. Table of Contents Author's Introduction: Entanglement in the world Part 1: History, identity and culture: the matrix for the artist's soul Si Kabayan Nyintreuk: eccentricity and activism Local knowledge: Jiwa ketok The unified eye: Where do the Quiet Ones Go? Etching performance: reflections from praxis Personal/social/interactive: a formula for the engaged artist Drawing on the personal-social-interactive Part 2: Turba, down to 'the people' People's culture inside and outside institutions Participation, pedagogy and politics: Made Bayak's Plasticology Adiboga Wonoasri – cosmopolitanism out of starvation Jakarta Biennale and Trotoart: social tactics in the city IBU at Cigondewah: turba as antagonism Part 3: Kerakyatan: conscientisation for the people The New Order and New Indonesian Art: Opportunity and Oppression Conscientisation and the rakyat – global/local entanglement Rayuan Pulau Kelapa – turba, conscientisation and negotiation KuehSenyum: actions in social exchange Tepuk Tangan Nuhun: interventions in gratitude Back to the Bay: Tita Salina and conceptual conscientisation Performing opposition: the burial of Made Bayak Part 4: Ethics and Aesthetics Local knowledge: gotong royong and rasa Pirates and maids: gotong royong as horizontal knowledge-building An ecosystem of production: institutional practices and contemporary art practice in Indonesia Mamahkuaing: maternal feelings Rasa: Feeling, Flavour, Taste and Touch A conversation: true fiction, fictional truth Impermanent conclusions An artistic ideology Originary discourses Coda
£23.76
Springer A Transcultural History of Art
Book SynopsisChapter 1. From Assisi Florence to Sultaniyeh.- Chapter 2. Graphics as Knowledge: A Transcultural Journey of Tour Maps of China.- Chapter 3. The Secret of the Worm and Silk.- Chapter 4. Visual Psalms: A New Exploration into the Relations between Poetry and Painting Concerning Chuan Qiaozhongchang’s “Later Fu on Red Cliff”.- Chapter 5. Style and Character: Transformation of Early Architectural Design and Theory by Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin.- Chapter 6. Architecture and Poetry: The Historical Opportunity for the Emergence of Lin Huiyin's Structural Rationalism.- Chapter 7. Comments of Shen Congwen on Four Paintings in Relation to Wang Dewei’s “Visibility”.- Chapter 8. Shen Congwen’s Visual Turn: An Intermedial Study.- Chapter 9. Another form of the Silk Road.- Chapter 10. Exploring the Visible Transcultural History of Art.
£59.39
The Chinese University Press A History of Cultic Images in China – The
Book SynopsisIn the past twenty years, work on the local culture of central Hunan has been one of the most exciting sources for rethinking the nature and variety of Chinese local society. At the heart of this society is a kind of statuary found nowhere else in China—sculpted images of local people, primarily religious specialists of a wide range, but also parents and ancestors who, according to Confucian orthodoxy, should be represented by tablets, not statues. While the consecration ceremonies of these statues include rites that are common to all China, they are embedded in unique local ritual traditions. Based on two decades of international collaborative research, Alain Arrault focuses on some 4,000 of these statues and studies them on the basis of consecration certificates inserted in the statues, the earliest of which date to the sixteenth century.Trade ReviewArrault’s comprehensive investigation of central Hunan religious and social practices is the first devoted entirely to the unique statuary and represents a major contribution to our understanding of local Chinese society."" - John Lagerwey, The Chinese University of Hong Kong""This is a significant contribution to the study of religion and local society in China. The main focus of this book is a large collection of small wooden statues that had originally been installed on domestic altars throughout central Hunan province. This new vantage point helps to fill out our picture of the Chinese religious landscape and at the same time challenges many scholarly assumptions about the nature of Chinese religions—and the ways they have been conceptualized and categorized—from the sixteenth century to the present day"" - James Robson, Harvard University
£48.75
The Chinese University Press China Pluperfect: Volume 1Epistemology of Past
Book SynopsisInitially based on a comparative study of Chinese and Euro?American art theory in the 18th and 19th centuries, this book examines how both cultures looked at their own past and their outside, i.e. what was construed as not belonging to their own cultural sphere, and how they devised new ways of adapting them into evolving cultural constructs.While the 17th century was still a time when the epistemological backgrounds of both civilizations were so profoundly different that nearly no dialogue was possible, the 18th century saw the emergence in both places of profound changes that would get them close enough to create the conditions for the beginning of a conversation. First quite superficial and taking shape mostly in the decorative arts, this process of rapprochement, while remaining chaotic and unpredictable, led to wider and more profound zones of contact throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries. Through the reinterpretations of each other's cultural creations, these zones of contact grew wider as the conditions for globalization became more and more prevalent.Frank Vigneron observes and explores these changes through texts and the visual arts to reveal how these two civilizations, while keeping their own characteristics, managed to develop fruitful dialogues and create deeply intertwined cultures. As an example, the final chapter looks at contemporary Chinese calligraphy as an art that, even though it has no equivalent in Euro?America, successfully integrated cross?cultural theoretical elements, thus exemplifying how past and outside can combine into new artistic constructs.Table of Contents 1 Floating Epistemes Episteme in the Works of Michel Foucault "Passeurs": The Jesuits in China "Passeurs": Chinoiseries Conditions of Passage Change of Episteme in China 2 Changing Epistemes Literati Tradition in Painting Dualism in Chinese Portrait Painting Misreading by the Jesuit Portrait Painters Misreading as Opening The Idea of Period Style as Life Cycle 3 Changing Views of History Art Classifications before the Republic Originality and Copying A Brief History of Chinese Art History Teleological Process Modern and Postmodern 4 Past and Present of Chinese Calligraphy From Antiquarianism to Chaos Script Brush Opening?Closing Performativity Conclusion: Multi?epistemic World
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The Chinese University Press China Pluperfect: Volume 2Practices of Past and
Book SynopsisThis book contains analysis of different domains of contemporary art in China seen through the lens of the epistemological changes described in China Pluperfect I: Epistemology of Past and Outside in Chinese Art. It first looks at the concept of "ink art," describing how it meant different things to different people in the former colony and how these different meanings came to determine certain institutional choices made at the beginning of the 21st century. The following chapters are dedicated to issues related to the urban and rural contexts for art creation in Mainland China and Hong Kong. One chapter observes the ups and downs of the representations of cities in the history of the People's Republic of China and how they have defined a certain idea of culture. Another looks at how Chinese cities have been exceptional centers of art creations over the last thirty to forty years through the example of Shenzhen where a vibrant art scene, albeit closely connected to Hong Kong which has become a major art hub in the last two decades, has developed. The following is dedicated to the changing fortunes of art making in the countryside, observing how institutions in the Mainland and in Hong Kong have supported these practices very differently.Frank Vigneron finally considers how the different speeds of globalization, slow in the past and fast today, have determined some of the issues of past and outside in the present, particularly in the context of socially engaged art in both the Mainland and Hong Kong.Table of Contents 1 Hong Kong Ink: A History of Past and Outside Bamboo Curtain and Mass Media Ink Society in Hong Kong Hong Kong Ink Art Museum Marginalization of Hong Kong Art 2 "When Is a Landscape Like a Body?" The Mollywood Series Mundane Mind and "Paintings of Beauties" Gender Positioning in Literati Culture Hong Kong Mundanity and Patriarchy in Mainland China 3 From Rural to Urban and Back Again Peace Reigns over the River in Hong Kong River of Wisdom in Shanghai and Hong Kong Anti?urban Bias of the Maoist Period Pro?urban Bias of the 1990s and Beyond 4 New Urban Frontier "One Country, Two Systems," and One Border The City over the Border: Shenzhen Three Plasticians in Shenzhen Art Market and Institutional Critique 5 New Rural Frontier Peasant Paintings during the Maoist Period "Beautiful Countryside" "Reviving the Country through Culture" Socially?Engaged Art Practices in the Hong Kong Countryside 6 Multi?cultural World Past and Outside Mobility as Privilege Mobility as Necessity
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University of Iowa Press In a Time of Witness
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University of Hawaii Press Architectures of FuturoPasados
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