History of art Books
Rizzoli International Publications Banksy Building Castles in the Sky
Book SynopsisCatalogue to a major traveling exhibition focused on Banksy, the world s most popular graffiti artist whose real identity remains unknown despite his domination of the global street art scene for over twenty-five years.Now Promotionally Priced!
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Tuttle Publishing Paper Quilling for Beginners
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Tuttle Publishing Hiroshiges Japan
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Tuttle Publishing Fabulous Paper Flowers
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Abrams Vermeer
Book SynopsisThis study presents the complete works of the great Dutch painter, Johannes Vermeer. The text includes a short essay and commentaries on each of the paintings, and incorporates new research on Vermeer's life and extraordinary artistic achievements.
£17.09
Duke University Press ExtraOrdinary Craft and Contemporary Art
Book SynopsisArtists, critics, curators, and scholars develop theories of craft in relation to art, chronicle how fine art institutions understand and exhibit craft media, and offer accounts of activist crafting.Trade Review“Extra/Ordinary is not only the best anthology of recent writing on craft out there, it also delivers several assessments of the Do-It-Yourself movement, which is sorely in need of critical interpretation.”—Glenn Adamson, Victoria and Albert Museum“Maria Elena Buszek has compiled an anthology that matches the dynamism of a field in flux. As a museum curator responsible for developing exhibitions that examine contemporary craft, I actively seek tools that provide context for craft from within, across, and outside this arena’s historic borders. The essays compiled here provide access to diverse voices and approaches, filling a current void in scholarship and engaging craft from a range of perspectives and places in a shifting culturescape. Buszek’s anthology moves across discursive platforms to share fresh ways of thinking about craft in relationship to gender, domesticity, feminism, activism, and science. Here, ordinary craft is the focus of productive criticism rather than denied, broadening the frameworks for how we connect craft to meaning today.”—Namita Gupta Wiggers, Museum of Contemporary Craft“Maria Elena Buszek’s volume critically unravels assumptions about craft and pieces together new theories about contemporary handmaking that are at once vibrant, textured, and necessarily scrappy.”—Julia Bryan-Wilson, University of California, Irvine“Extra/Ordinary begins to establish, with refreshing honesty, this thing that has become Craftivism. Time will tell if it sticks.” -- Jessica Hemmings * Surface Design Journal *“[A] smart, sassy collection of essays . . . bound to be a new classic for both academics and craft artists.” -- Antonia Blair * Bust *“[A] stellar collection of interdisciplinary essayists. . . . [T]his collection features full color illustrations, figures and photographs which not only clarify the processes and products referenced in the accompanying articles but also makes the book a joy to read, enhancing as it does the visual performance of the text itself. The inclusion of the full-color documentation of artistic process as well as the art objects produced therefore honors the main premise of the text: that craft can and should be understood as a liminal form of culturally performative fine art.” -- Kristen Williams * Liminalities *“[A] timely response to contemporary art’s interest in craft, challenging the perception that artists choose media or their work with the mere wanton abandon of a child in front of a pick’n’mix counter. Instead, its various authors explore the complexity of art’s interaction with craft, making subtle note of those covering this terrain before.” -- Stephen Knott * Crafts *“Finally, a reason to put down the knitting needles. . . . Like a quiltmaker, Buszek has assembled a fine array of writers and topics. . . .” -- Anastasia Masurat * Bitch *“This volume fills a void in the scholarship that examines the meaning and the diverse roles that craft plays in the discourse surrounding contemporary art and social, political and popular culture bringing together the voices of artists, curators, cultural thinkers and scholars. Together these authors have opened the dialogue allowing craft to have its own voice and its own meaning, no longer defined by or against fine art.” -- Angela Brayham * Visual Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The Ordinary Made Extra/Ordinary / Mary Elena Buszek 1 Redefining Craft: New Theory Making and Naming: The Lexicon of Studio Craft / M. Anna Fariello 23 Validity Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Mapping Craft Communities of Practice / Dennis Stevens 43 Super-Objects: Craft as an Aesthetic Position / Louise Mazanti 59 Fabrication and Encounter: When Content is a Verb / Paula Owen 83 Craft Show: In the Realm of "Fine Arts" How the Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary: The Modern Eye and the Quilt as Art Form / Karin E. Peterson 99 Wallpaper, the Decorative, and Contemporary Installation Art / Elissa Auther 115 Handwork and Hybrids: Recasting the Craft of Letterpress Printing / Betty Bright 135 Elastic/Expanding: Contemporary Conceptual Ceramics / Jo Dahn 153 Craftivism Craftivist History / Betsy Greer 175 Rebellious Doilies and Subversive Stitches: Writing a Craftivist History / Kirsty Robertson 184 Craft Hard Die Free: Radical Curatorial Strategies for Craftivism / Anthea Black and Nicole Burisch 204 Loving Attention: An Outburst of Craft in Contemporary Art / Janis Jefferies 222 New Functions, New Frontiers Put Your Thing Down, Flip It, Reverse It: Reimagining Craft Identities Using Tactics of Queer Theory / Lacey Jane Roberts 243 Men Who Make: The "Flow" of the Amateur Designer/Maker / Andrew Jackson 260 Crochet and the Cosmos: An Interview with Margaret Wertheim / Maria Elena Buszek 276 Contributors 291 Index 295
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Rizzoli International Publications Cuban MidCentury Design
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Rizzoli International Publications Tracing the Modern
Book SynopsisA prestigious, international collection of modern art, including major examples of impressionist, post-impressionist, and postwar art, published together for the first time.As the first comprehensive survey of the museum?s modern art collection, this volume celebrates the greatest and most iconic artworks housed within the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel?s first art museum, founded in 1932. This groundbreaking volume delves into the worlds of impressionism, post-impressionism, German Expressionism, and postwar art in Europe and America, where transformative figures like Renoir, Cézanne, van Gogh, Gauguin, Soutine, Modigliani, Monet, Picasso, O?Keeffe, Pollock, and Chagall converge to shape the captivating visual landscape.The carefully curated selection of 140 masterworks spans painting, sculpture, works on paper, and photography?thoughtfully arranged from 1880 to 1989?provides an intimate understanding of the progression of modern art through time. Crafted by art historians and curators, the accompanying text introduces newfound scholarship and insightful perspectives, illuminating the narrative behind each artwork. Iconic works include Munch?s Madonna lithograph, Picasso?s Woman with a Red Underskirt, Lichtenstein?s Tel Aviv Museum Mural, Rothko?s Number 24, and O?Keeffe?s Bleeding Heart.For those seeking a profound immersion into Tel Aviv?s unparalleled collection or an exploration of modern art?s evolution, this volume is destined to become a cherished and enduring survey for art enthusiasts worldwide.
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Rizzoli International Publications Alex Katz
Book SynopsisThe definitive Alex Katz book, like his iconic paintings, is larger than life. With more than 300 images, many unpublished, and a searching profile by an art historian who has studied the painter for more than half a century, this monograph charts the development of Katz''s singular American style.2020 GOLD WINNER OF THE FOREWORD INDIES AWARD IN ART Alex Katz has found his audience. It''s not the first time. Over seven decades, the artist has developed his vision with determination as the tides of avant-garde and academic fashion ebbed and flowed. His first audience was other painters (including de Kooning and Philip Guston), and today, still, he is perhaps best understood by other artists: those who appreciate how difficult it is to make something so simple, so well. Working in a representational style while his classmates celebrated Abstract Expressionism, eschewing slick surfaces for a pared-down view while his peers went glossy with Pop, Katz cleaTrade ReviewA definitive monograph of more than 300 images by artist Alex Katz—whose trademarks include brightly colored and highly stylized flattened forms, simplification of detail, and alla prima paint application—this book charts the development of Katz’s hallmark aesthetic that anticipated the emergence of Pop Art. — Vanity Fair, 11 of Fall's Best Coffee-Table Books“'Nothing to me is more interesting than being in the studio. I don’t have any conflicts, except with myself,' says Alex Katz over the phone from his studio in Manhattan. “New ideas and new things just keep on popping up.” The inimitable 93-year-old artist, who has spent the past few months in quarantine working from the countryside in Pennsylvania, has just released a handsome new book with Rizzoli. Edited by his son Vincent, the striking tome features a comprehensive essay by the art critic and Katz specialist Carter Ratcliff and around 300 full-page images of both well known and unpublished paintings alongside photographs, sketches and other ephemera." —GALERIE MAGAZINE.COM"Having become quite familiar myself with the wide variety of previous perspectives published about the artist’s work . . . I was happily surprised to be taken through the artist’s life via portraiture in such a rigorously perceptive way as Ratcliff fashions here." —TOM MCGLYNN, BROOKLYN RAIL
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Rizzoli International Publications Laurent Grasso
Book SynopsisKnown for installations exploring science, natural phenomena, and contemporary mythologies, Laurent Grasso presents a visual journey of his avant-garde, conceptual work.
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Rizzoli International Publications Stephen Antonakos
Book SynopsisA retrospective of the preeminent Greek-born American artist, who was a pioneer in the use of neon in the realm of fine art.Prolific multimedia artist Stephen Antonakos (1926–2013) is best known for his resplendent abstract neon sculptures—instantly recognizable for their vibrant colors and crisp geometry. Along with well-known artists Lucio Fontana, Bruce Nauman, Keith Sonnier, and his compatriot Chryssa, Antonakos brought new perceptual and formal possibilities to the medium of neon.This comprehensive book comprises Antonakos’s diverse output of neon, canvases, drawings, travel collages, chapels, and gold works, all of which reflect an abiding concern with illumination, incomplete geometric shapes, and an almost mystical spirituality that is manifest throughout his oeuvre, from his overtly religious pieces to his playful assembled collages from his trips to Greece. His later works feature neon lights placed behind painted or gold-leaf panels,
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Rizzoli International Publications Ebony G. Patterson
Book SynopsisThe artist''s deceptively beautiful work--colorful tapestries and garden-inspired installations created out of faux flowers, glitter, sequins, fabric, toys, beads, jewelry, and other embellishments--comes to life at The New York Botanical Garden, where she employs the beauty and symbolism of living plants to unearth the complex entanglements of race, gender and colonialism.Accompanying a major site-specific exhibition of sculptural and horticultural installations by artist Ebony G. Patterson at The New York Botanical Garden, this volume provides deeper insights into Patterson’s multilayered practice. The artist’s work has long examined and experimented with the concept of the garden through a practice that uses beauty as an invitation to confront larger societal questions and concerns.
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Rizzoli International Publications Luncheons on the Grass
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Seagull Books London Ltd Correspondence
Book SynopsisPablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein. Few can be said to have had as broad an impact on European art in the twentieth century as these two cultural giants. Pablo Picasso, a pioneering visual artist, created a prolific and widely influential body of work. Gertrude Stein, an intellectual tastemaker, hosted the leading salon for artists and writers between the wars in her Paris apartment, welcoming Henri Matisse, Ernest Hemingway, and Ezra Pound to weekly events at her home to discuss art and literature. It comes as no surprise, then, that Picasso and Stein were fast friends and frequent confidantes. Through Picasso and Stein's casual notes and reflective letters, this volume of correspondence between the two captures Paris both in the golden age of the early twentieth century and in one of its darkest hours, the Nazi occupation through mentions of dinner parties, lovers, work, and the crises of the two world wars. Illustrated with photographs and postcards, as well as drawings and paintings
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British Museum Press The Snettisham Hoards
Book SynopsisFirst complete publication of one of the most important Iron Age sites in Europe at Snettisham, Norfolk. It will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in Iron Age cultureTable of ContentsPart I: The site Chapter 1: Introduction (Julia Farley and Jody Joy) Chapter 2: A History of discoveries at the site (Jody Joy) Part II: The British Museum excavations at Snettisham Chapter 3: Excavating at Snettisham (Ian Stead) Chapter 4: The results of the 1990-1992 excavations (Julia Farley) Part III: Material Culture Chapter 5: Metalwork (Julia Farley, Jody Joy, Ian Stead, John Davies) Chapter 6: Coins (Eleanor Ghey, John Davies and Julia Farley) Chapter 7: Summary of finds by hoard (Julia Farley and Jody Joy) Chapter 8: Prehistoric Pottery (Sarah Percival) Chapter 9: Roman Pottery (Alice Lyons) Chapter 10: Roman CBM (Alice Lyons) Chapter 11: Furnace debris (Paul Craddock and Janet Lang) Chapter 12: Flint (Peter Makey) Chapter 13: Other stone objects (Peter Makey and Julia Farley) Chapter 14: Animal bone (Alan Pipe) Part IV: Conservation and analysis Chapter 15: The Conservation campaign (Fleur Shearman and Marilyn Hockey) Chapter 16: Technology and manufacture (Nigel Meeks, Aude Mongiatti, Daniel O'Flynn, Duncan Hook, and Caroline Cartwright, with contributions from John Fenn) Chapter 17: Compositional analysis (Peter Northover) Chapter 18: Seeing the wood for the trees; evaluating the woody resources of Snettisham (Caroline Cartwright) Chapter 19: Decoration of the Snettisham torcs (Jody Joy) Chapter 20: Torc biographies (Jody Joy, Nigel Meeks and Julia Farley) Part V: Discussion Chapter 21: Torcs and bodily adornment in Iron Age Britain (Jody Joy and Julia Farley) Chapter 22: Snettisham in its social and landscape context (Jody Joy and Julia Farley) Chapter 23: Conclusions (Julia Farley and Jody Joy) Part VI: Appendices Appendix 1: Other torcs from Great Britain (Julia Farley, Jody Joy and Ian Stead) Appendix 2: The radiocarbon dating programme (Julia Farley) Appendix 3: Analysis of Iron Age gold alloy coins from Snettisham (Matt Ponting) Appendix 4: Surface XRF analyses of selected objects from NCM (Peter Northover), the BM (Duncan Hook), and comparative material (Peter Northover) Appendix 5: Phosphate Survey (Mike Cowell) Appendix 6: The excavation methodology for the 1990-1992 excavations (Tony Spence) Appendix 7: Geophysical survey of the hoard field (Michael de Bootman) Bibliography Index
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Museum of Modern Art Rousseau The Dream
Book SynopsisDelves into various aspects of the artist Henri Rousseau's oeuvre and places the work in a broader social and art-historical context.
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Museum of Fine Arts,Boston Strong Women in Renaissance Italy
Book SynopsisThe lives, works and imagery of women artists, patrons and icons in Renaissance ItalyThe story of the Renaissance in Italy is often told through the work of great male artists such as Michelangelo, Raphael, Donatello and Leonardo. But what about the female half of the population? By exploring works made by, for, or about women, this book aims to reconsider a period of creative ingenuity and artistic excellence from their often-overlooked perspective.Drawing on the rich collection of paintings, ceramics, textiles, illustrated books and prints at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this publication focuses on images of feminine power, both sacred and secular, telling the stories of saints such as Mary Magdalen as examples of strength and ascetic devotion, Biblical heroines such as Judith as civic and domestic role models, and the mythical sorceress Medea as the ideal of a heroic nude. Women also asserted their presence as artists, artisans and patrons: Sofonis
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SteinerBooks, Inc Art History as a Reflection of Inner Spiritual
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Museum of New Mexico Press Woven Identities Basketry Art of Western North
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Getty Trust Publications History of the Art of Antiquity
Book SynopsisInvestigates the idea of beauty over time and space. This book offers a chronological account whose conceptual and historical paradigms have been reiterated and contested into the twentieth century. It not only sketches the circumstances that shaped Winckelmann's project but also assesses this scholar's influence on European intellectual life.
£57.00
Dia Art Foundation,U.S. Joan Jonas Next Move in a Mirror World
Book SynopsisA conceptually innovative take on Jonas' performances and installationsPublished in conjunction with the first major US museum show of Joan Jonas' art in nearly 15 years, this volume breaks new ground by contextualizing and expanding understandings of Jonas' body of work through three thematic approaches: the critical notions of gender, being and otherness; the politics of landscape and ecology; and new conceptions of medium specificity and un-specificity. These themes serve as a framework through which to address the rich vocabulary of Jonas' performances, sculptures, drawings and installations from the early 1970s until today.Inspired by the format of a reader, the monograph presents new writing and scholarship, excerpts from Douglas Crimp''s final interview, as well as a selection of drawings and sketches from Jonas' notebooks, including never-before-published drawings created during the coronavirus lockdown.Born and based in New York, Joan Jona
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University of Washington Press Chinese Books
Book SynopsisSome books from this collection are very rare.
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TransGlobe Publishing Ltd Sanctuary
Book SynopsisHossein Amirsadeghi is a writer, publisher, editor and documentary film maker. Maryam Homayoun Eisler had executive editorial roles for Unleashed and Art and Patronage . Iwona Blazwick is Director of the Whitechapel Gallery. Richard Cork is an award-winning art critic, historian, broadcaster and curator, formerly Chief Art Critic of The Times . Tom Morton is a writer and curator based in London. Robin Friend is a renowned photographer.
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Plexi Productions The New York Subway Map Debate
Book SynopsisGary Hustwit is an independent filmmaker and visual artist based in New York. He has produced 14 feature-length documentaries focusing on the worlds of design, architecture, and music, including Helvetica, Objectified, Urbanized, Workplace, and Rams. The films have been broadcast on outlets in 20 countries, and have been screened in over 300 cities worldwide. His film and photographic work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art New York, Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, and the Venice Biennale.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Gary Hustwit; Foreword: Paula Scher; The Debate; John Barnett; Peter Blake; Arthur Drexler; Hugh Dunne; Aviva Goldstein; Richard Harris; Peter LaundyJohn Tauranac; Massimo Vignelli; Interview: John Tauranac; Interview: Arline Bronzaft; Interview: Peter Laundy
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Caique Publishing Ltd Boughton The House its People and its Collections
Book SynopsisIn this sumptuous portrait of the house known as the English Versailles', the Duke of Buccleuch sets the scene with a history of his ancestors, the Montagus of Boughton, who acquired the manor in Northamptonshire in the reign of Henry VIII. Ralph, 1st Duke of Montagu (16381709), Charles II's envoy to Louis XIV, transformed Boughton into a palatial homage to French culture. His son John, the 2nd Duke, was noted for planting long avenues, a love of heraldry, a fondness for practical jokes and the ancient lion he nursed in one of the courtyards.The book showcases Boughton's magnificent painted ceilings, tapestries and Sèvres porcelain. The celebrated art collection also includes striking portraits of Elizabeth I, Charles II and his son the Duke of Monmouth, another Buccleuch ancestor. Van Dyck's friends and contemporaries cluster in the Drawing Room in dozen of grisailles. Most eye-catching of all is the portrait of Shakespeare's muses, the Early and Countess of Southampton. A graTable of ContentsTHE EARLY MONTAGUS OF BOUGHTON: THE DAWN OF A DYNASTY 6 ; The 1st Sir Edward Montagu ; The 2nd Sir Edward Montagu ; Edward, 1st Lord Montagu ; Edward, 2nd Lord Montagu ; The Hon. Edward Montagu and Elizabeth, Lady Harvey ; THE DUKES OF MONTAGU: POWER AND INFLUENCE ; Ralph, 1st Duke of Montagu ; John, 2nd Duke of Montagu ; Lady Mary Montagu, Duchess of Montagu, and George, 3rd Duke of Montagu ; John, Marquis of Montherme ; THE SCOTTISH CONNECTION ; Lady Elizabeth Montagu marries Henry, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch ; Boughton reawakens ; The family album ; THE GRAND TOUR ; THE NORTH FRONT: DUKE RALPH'S VISION ; The Staircase Hall, the State Rooms, the Northwest Pavilion, the ‘Unfinished Wing’ ; THE TUDOR MANOR: THE HEART OF THE HOUSE ; The Great Hall, the Egyptian Hall and the Little Hall ; THE WEST FRONT: DUKE JOHN'S LEGACY ; The Loggia, the Boudoir and the Boudoir Lobby, the South Passage, the Morning Room, the Rainbow Room, the Drawing Room, the Library, the Flower Gallery and the Nursery ; THE SOUTH SIDE: THE QUIET CORNER ; The White Drawing Room, the Chinese Staircase, the Audit Room and the Sèvres porcelain collection ; BEHIND THE SCENES: THE WORKING HOUSE ; The Old Kitchen, the Armoury, the Attics, the Dower House and Stables ; THE ARCHIVES ; The Montagu Music Collection ; The Huguenots at Boughton ; BEYOND THE HOUSE ; The Boughton landscape ; The Montagu Monuments ; Timeline and bibliography
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J & L Books Corita Kent Ordinary Things Will Be Signs for Us
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Cambridge University Press Cold War Asia
Book SynopsisThis innovative, interdisciplinary and international collection of essays offers fresh perspectives on the history of global diplomacy. Experts in history, international relations, art history and performance art have come together to examine a series of visual sources relating to Asia''s role in global diplomacy during the Cold War. They explore how leaders, including Indonesia''s Sukarno, the Philippines'' Imelda Marcos and Thailand''s King Bhumibol, exploited the symbolic value of diplomacy to emphasise their agency in relationships with Great Powers. These case studies demonstrate the significance of Asian diplomacy in understanding the Cold War, shifting away from the use of ''war'' as the dominant criterion for analysis of the region. Cold War Asia sheds critical light onto how culture shapes international relations, widening the lens of analysis to embed the role of gender, religion, and ethnicity, as well as the material world, into our understanding of diplomacy.
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Cambridge University Press Ancient Fantasies and Modern Power
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Cambridge University Press Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art
Book SynopsisHow do we best see and understand the art of late antiquity? One of the perceived challenges of so doing is that this is a period whose visual production has been defined as stylistically abstract and emotionally spiritual, and therefore elusive. But this is a perception which ? in her path-breaking new book ? Sarah Bassett boldly challenges, offering two novel lines of interpretative inquiry. She first argues, by focusing on the art of late antiquity in late nineteenth-century Viennese intellectual and artistic circles, that that period''s definition of late antique form was in fact a response to contemporaneous political concerns, anticipating modernist thinking and artistic practice. She then suggests that late antique viewers never actually abandoned a sense of those mimetic goals that characterized Greek and Roman habits of representation. This interpretative shift is transformative because it allows us to understand the full range and richness of late antique visual experience.
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Cambridge University Press Recycling the Roman Villa
Book SynopsisThough abandoned between the third and seventh centuries CE, many Roman villas enjoyed an afterlife in late antiquity as a source of building materials. Villa complexes currently serve as a unique archaeological setting in that their recycling phases are often better preserved than those at urban sites. Building on a foundational knowledge of Roman architecture and construction, Beth Munro offers a retrospective study of the material value of and deconstruction processes at villas. She explores the technical properties of glass, metals, and limestone, materials that were most frequently recycled; the craftspeople who undertook this work, as well as the economic and culture drivers of recycling. She also examines the commissioning landowners and their rural networks, especially as they relate to church construction. Bringing a multidisciplinary lens to recycling practices in antiquity, Munro proposes new theoretical and methodological approaches for assessing architectural salvage and reprocessing within the context of an ancient circular economy.
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Cambridge University Press The Art of Queenship in the Hellenistic World
Book SynopsisIn The Art of Queenship in the Hellenistic World, Patricia Eunji Kim examines the visual and material cultures of Hellenistic queens, the royal and dynastic women who served as subjects and patrons of art. Exploring evidence in the interconnected eastern Mediterranean and western Asia from the fourth to second centuries BCE, Kim argues that the arts of queenship were central to expressions of dynastic (and sometimes even imperial) consolidation, continuity, and legitimacy. From gems, coins, and vessels to monuments and sculpture, the visual and material cultures of queenship appeared in a range of sacred settings, public spaces, royal courts, and domestic domains. Encompassing several dynasties, including the Hecatomnids, Argeads, Ptolemies, Seleucids, and Attalids, Kim inaugurates new methods for comparing and interpreting visual articulations of queenship and ideal femininity from distinct yet culturally entangled contexts, thus illuminating the ways that women had an impact art and politics in the ancient world.
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Cambridge University Press Art Books for the People
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Waistcoat Workbook
Book SynopsisThe Waistcoat Workbook: Historical, Modern, and Genre Drafting of Waistcoats for Men and Women 1837Present Day provides comprehensive coverage of the design, construction, and role of waistcoats from the reign of Queen Victoria to the present day in the United Kingdom.The book contains step-by-step instructions on how to draft the garments onto pattern paper from start to finish with drafting tools, including diagrams and detailed instructions on what measurements are required and how to record the information. The book also features: A brief history of waistcoats in European, and particularly British history, highlighting key points in the evolution of the garment A discussion of fabrics that would be suitable to use for the garments and what kind of interlinings and linings are best suited, depending on the main fabric chosen for the front of the garment Information on how to deal with one and two-way fabrics and challenging materials, as
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Token Press Betty Joel
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Cambridge University Press Donor Portraits in Byzantine Art
Book SynopsisArgues that donor portraits in Byzantine art should instead be considered as contact portraits. Contends that the most important feature of the scenes of supplication between mortals and holy, supernatural interlocutors consists in the active role that they play within the belief systems of the supplicants.Trade Review'This is a book that takes a broadly synchronic look across the Byzantine world, a view that different works of art in different media from different times and places nonetheless speak to the same broad Christian world-view, to similar structures … This is a perspective that makes us think and it makes us question, and that is what the best scholarship should do.' Liz James, The English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: methodologies for the study of donor portraits; 1. The history and problematic of the donor portrait; 2. On meaning in portraits. The knot of intention and the question of the patron's share; 3. Awaiting the end after the end. Sin, absolution, and the afterlife; 4. Exchange and non-exchange. The gift between human and divine; 5. The literal, the symbolic, and the contact portrait. On belief in the interaction between human and divine; Postscript: the problem of terminology again. Donor portraits and contact portraits.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of the Gothic Volume 1
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Thinking About Art
Book SynopsisThinking about Art explores some of the greatest works of art and architecture in the world through the prism of themes, instead of chronology, to offer intriguing juxtapositions of art and history.Table of ContentsCompanion Website viAcknowledgements viiIntroduction 1Formal Analysis Toolbox 6Chapter 1 Genres and Subjects 20Chapter 2 Materials, Techniques and Processes 74Chapter 3 Form, Style and Function 114Chapter 4 Social and Historical Contexts 156Chapter 5 Patronage and the Social and Cultural Status of the Artist 190Chapter 6 Gender, Nationality and Ethnicity 230Glossary 274Index 289
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Art History For Dummies
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 About This Book 1 Foolish Assumptions 2 Icons Used in This Book 2 Beyond the Book 2 Where to Go from Here 3 Part 1: Getting Started with Art History 5 Chapter 1: Art Tour through the Ages 7 Connecting Art Divisions and Culture 8 It’s Ancient History, So Why Dig It Up? 8 Mesopotamian period (3500 bc–500 bc) and Egyptian period (3100 bc–332 bc) 9 Ancient Greek period (c 850 bc–323 bc) and Hellenistic period (323 bc–32 bc) 9 Roman period (300 bc–ad 476) 9 Did the Art World Crash When Rome Fell, or Did It Just Switch Directions? 10 Byzantine period (ad 500–ad 1453) 10 Islamic period (seventh century+) 10 Medieval period (500–1400) 10 High Renaissance (1495–1520) and Mannerism (1530–1580) 10 Baroque period (1600–1750) and Rococo period (1715–1760s) 11 In the Machine Age, Where Did Art Get Its Power? 11 Neoclassicism (1765–1830) 11 Romanticism (late 1700s–early 1800s) 11 The Modern World and the Shattered Mirror 12 Responding to modern pressures 12 Conceptualizing the craft 13 Expressing mixed-up times 13 Chapter 2: Why People Make Art and What It All Means 15 Focusing on the Artist’s Purpose 15 Recording religion, ritual, and mythology 15 Promoting politics and propaganda 16 When I say jump: Art made for patrons 16 Following a personal vision 17 Detecting Design 17 Perceiving pattern 17 Rolling with the rhythm 17 Weighing the balance 17 Looking for contrast 18 Examining emphasis 18 Decoding Meaning 19 The ABCs of visual narrative 19 Sorting symbols 19 Chapter 3: The Major Artistic Movements 21 Distinguishing an Art Period from a Movement 21 Tracking Major 19th-Century Art Movements 22 Realism (1840s–1880s) 22 Impressionism (1869–late 1880s) 22 Post-Impressionism (1886–1892) 22 Moving Off the Rails in the 20th Century 23 Fauvism and Expressionism 23 Cubism, Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism 24 Abstract Expressionism (1946–1950s) 25 Pop Art (1960s) 25 Conceptual art, performance art, and feminist art (late 1960s–1970s) 25 Postmodernism (1970–) 25 Part 2: From Caves to Colosseum: Ancient Art 27 Chapter 4: Magical Hunters and Psychedelic Cave Artists 29 Cool Cave Art or Paleolithic Painting: Why Keep It a Secret? 30 Hunting on a wall 31 Psychedelic shamans with paintbrushes 31 Flirting with Fertility Goddesses 32 Dominoes for Druids: Stonehenge, Menhirs, and Neolithic Architecture 33 Living in the New Stone Age: Çatalhöyük, Göbekli Tepe, and Skara Brae 33 Cracking the mystery of the megaliths and menhirs 34 Chapter 5: Fickle Gods, Warrior Art, and the Birth of Writing: Mesopotamian Art 37 Climbing toward the Clouds: Sumerian Architecture 38 Zigzagging to Heaven: Ziggurats 38 The Tower of Babel 39 The Eyes Have It: Scoping Out Sumerian Sculpture 39 Worshipping graven images 40 Stare-down with God: Statuettes from Abu Temple 40 Playing Puabi’s Lyre 41 Unraveling the Standard of Ur 42 Stalking Stone Warriors: Akkadian Art 43 Stamped in Stone: Hammurabi’s Code 43 Unlocking Assyrian Art 44 Babylon Has a Baby: New Babylon 45 Chapter 6: One Foot in the Tomb: Ancient Egyptian Art 47 Ancient Egypt 101 48 Segmenting the Egyptian periods 48 Thanking the Nile 49 The Art of a Unified Egypt 49 Depicting the unification 49 Noting art as history in the Palette of Narmer 50 The Egyptian Style: Proportion and Orientation 51 Excavating Old Kingdom Architecture 52 Early mastabas and step pyramids 52 Turning to stone 53 Making the architecture great 53 Spending life preparing for death 54 The In-Between Period and Middle Kingdom Realism 55 New Kingdom Art 56 Hatshepsut: A female phenom 56 Akhenaten and Egyptian family values 56 Raiding King Tut’s tomb treasures 58 Admiring the world’s most beautiful dead woman’s tomb 59 Decoding Books of the Dead 59 Too-big-to-forget sculpture 61 Chapter 7: Greek Art, the Olympian Ego, and the Inventors of the Modern World 63 Mingling with the Minoans: Snake Goddesses, Minotaurs, and Bull Jumpers 64 Greek Sculpture: Stark Symmetry to a Delicate Balance 66 Kouros to Kritios Boy 66 Golden Age sculptors: Myron, Polykleitos, and Phidias 68 Fourth-century sculpture 70 Figuring Out Greek Vase Painting 71 Cool stick figures: The geometric style 71 Black-figure and red-figure techniques 72 Rummaging through Ruins: Greek Architecture 73 Greece without Borders: Hellenism 76 Sculpting passion and struggle 76 Honoring the classical in a new world 77 Chapter 8: Etruscan and Roman Art: It’s All Greek to Me! 79 The Mysterious Etruscans 79 Temple to tomb: Greek influence 79 Smiles in stone: The eternally happy Etruscans 80 Infusing Art with Roman Influence 80 Linking the territory that was Rome 82 Art as mirror: Roman realism and Republican sculptural portraits 82 Progressing on to propaganda 83 Shirking idealism for authenticity 84 Realism in painting 85 Roman mosaics 86 Revealing Roman Architecture: A Marriage of Style and Engineering 87 Temple of Portunus 87 Maison Carrée 88 Roman aqueducts 88 The Colosseum 88 The Pantheon 90 Part 3: Art after the Fall of Rome: ad 500–ad 1760 93 Chapter 9: The Graven Image: Early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic Art 95 The Rise and Fall of Constantinople 95 Christianizing Rome 96 After the fall: Divisions and schisms 96 Early Christian Art in the West 96 Rejecting paganism 97 Drawing on Roman art and culture 97 Byzantine Art Meets Imperial Splendor 98 Justinian and Early Byzantine architecture 98 Amazing mosaics: Puzzle art 100 San Vitale: Justinian and Theodora mosaics 101 The mosaics of St Mark’s Basilica, Venice, Italy (Middle Byzantine) 103 Icons and iconoclasm 103 Islamic Art: Architectural Pathways to God 106 The Mosque of Córdoba 107 The dazzling Alhambra 109 A temple of love: The Taj Mahal 110 Chapter 10: Mystics, Marauders, and Manuscripts: Medieval Art 113 Irish Light: Illuminated Manuscripts 114 A unique Christian mission 114 Browsing the Book of Kells, Lindisfarne Gospels, and other manuscripts 114 Drolleries and the fun style 116 Charlemagne: King of His Own Renaissance 117 Weaving and Unweaving the Battle of Hastings: The Bayeux Tapestry 117 Providing a battle blueprint 117 Portraying everyday life in medieval England and France 118 Peddling political propaganda 119 Making border crossings 119 Romanesque Architecture: Churches That Squat 120 St Sernin 120 Durham Cathedral 121 Romanesque Sculpture 122 Nightmares in stone: Romanesque relief 123 Roman sculpture revival 123 Relics and Reliquaries: Miraculous Leftovers 123 Gothic Grandeur: Churches That Soar 125 Building a church-and-state alliance 125 Bigger and brighter 125 Making something new from old parts 126 Finishing touches and voilà! 127 Expanding the Gothic dream 127 Stained-Glass Storytelling 127 Gothic Sculpture 128 Italian Gothic 129 Gothic Painting: Cimabue, Duccio, and Giotto 130 Cimabue 130 Duccio 132 Giotto 133 Tracking the Lady and the Unicorn: The Mystical Tapestries of Cluny 134 Themes of love and desire? 134 Themes with religious connotation? 135 The questions remain 136 Chapter 11: Born-Again Culture: The Early and High Renaissance 137 The Early Renaissance in Central Italy 138 The Great Door Contest: Brunelleschi versus Ghiberti — And the winner is! 138 The Duomo of Florence 139 Vanishing points and perspective 140 Sandro Botticelli: A garden-variety Venus 144 Donatello: Putting statues back on their feet 145 The High Renaissance 146 Reviving self-respect 146 Elevating humanity in art 147 Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance man 147 Leonardo’s techniques 147 Leonardo’s greatest works 148 Michelangelo: The main man 150 Michelangelo’s greatest works 152 Raphael: The prince of painters 153 Chapter 12: Venetian Renaissance, Late Gothic, and the Renaissance in the North 157 A Gondola Ride through the Venetian Renaissance 158 First stop, Bellini 158 A shortcut to Mantegna and Giorgione 160 Dürer’s Venice vacations 161 Touring the 16th century with Titian 162 The Venice of Veronese 164 Tintoretto and Renaissance ego 165 La Tintoretta: Marietta Robusti 166 Palladio: The king of classicism 167 Late Gothic: Northern Naturalism 168 Jan van Eyck: The Late Gothic ace 168 Rogier van der Weyden: Front and center 169 Northern Exposure: The Renaissance in the Netherlands and Germany 172 Decoding Bosch 172 Deciphering the dark symbolism of Grünewald 174 Dining with Bruegel the Elder 175 Chapter 13: Art That’ll Stretch Your Neck: Mannerism 177 Detecting the Non-Rules of Mannerism 177 Pontormo: Front and Center 178 Bronzino’s Background Symbols and Scene Layering 179 Parmigianino: He’s Not a Cheese! 180 Contrasting proportions and balance 181 A surreal feel 181 Arcimboldo: À la Carte Art 182 Sofonisba Anguissola (1532–1625): Invading Art History’s Guys’ Club 183 Finding a place in the Spanish court 183 Rubbing elbows with the court painters 184 El Greco: Stretched to the Limit 185 Evolving a unique Mannerist style 185 Drawing inspiration from mysticism 185 How unappreciated was El Greco? 186 Lavinia Fontana: The First Professional Female Painter 187 Applying a rich education and broad network 187 Supplying the missing female storyline 187 Endowing Jesus with more humanity 188 Finding Your Footing in Giulio Romano’s Palazzo Te 189 Architectural surprises outside 190 An inside to die for 190 Chapter 14: When the Renaissance Went Baroque 193 Baroque Origin, Purpose, and Style 194 Annibale Carracci: Heavenly Ceilings 194 Shedding Light on the Subject: Caravaggio and His Followers 195 Elements of Caravaggio style 195 Caravaggio style applied 196 Orazio Gentileschi: Baroque’s gentle side, more or less 197 Shadow and light dramas: Artemisia Gentileschi 197 Elisabetta Sirani and an Art School for Women 199 Sirani’s notable career 199 Portraying brave and capable women 200 The Ecstasy and the Ecstasy: Bernini Sculpture 202 Embracing Baroque Architecture 203 Maderno and the launch of Baroque architecture 203 Bernini: Transforming St Peter’s Basilica 203 Baroque style migrates northward 204 Fischer: Harmonizing Baroque style 204 Dutch and Flemish Realism 205 Rubens: Fleshy, flashy, and holy 206 Rembrandt: Self-portraits and life in the shadows 207 Laughing with Hals 209 Bold Strokes: Judith Leyster 209 Vermeer: Musicians, maids, and girls with pearls 212 French Flourish and Baroque Light Shows 213 Poussin the Perfect 213 Candlelit reverie and Georges de La Tour 213 Versailles: Architecture as propaganda and the Sun King 214 In the Limelight with Caravaggio: The Spanish Golden Age 215 Ribera and Zurbarán: In the shadow of Caravaggio 215 Velázquez: Kings and princesses 216 Chapter 15: Going Loco with Rococo 219 What You Get in Rococo Art 220 Breaking with Baroque: Antoine Watteau 221 Fragonard and Boucher: Lush, Lusty, and Lavish 222 François Boucher 222 Jean-Honoré Fragonard 222 Flying High: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 223 Rococo Lite: The Movement in England 223 William Hogarth 224 Thomas Gainsborough 224 Sir Joshua Reynolds 226 Part 4: The Industrial Revolution Revs Up Art’s Evolution: 1760–1900 229 Chapter 16: All Roads Lead Back to Rome and Greece: Neoclassical Art 231 When Philosophers and Artists Join Forces 232 The promotion of reason 232 Enlightened views and political progress 232 Angelica Kauffman: The Queen of Neoclassicism 233 Focusing on women and brother- or sisterhood 233 Not everyone loved the depictions 235 Jacques-Louis David: The King of Neoclassicism 235 Grand, formal, and retro 236 Propagandist for all sides 237 Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres: The Prince of Neoclassical Portraiture 238 Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun: Portraitist of the Queen and Fashion Setter 239 Illustrating fashion trends 240 Fleeing for her life 241 Adélaïde Labille-Guiard: From Ideal to Real and Royals to Revolutionaries 241 Starting with socially acceptable miniatures 242 Graduating to sizeable self-portraiture 242 Working with the Revolutionaries 243 Canova and Houdon: Greek Grace and Neoclassical Sculpture 243 Antonio Canova: Ace 18th-century sculptor 243 Jean-Antoine Houdon: In living stone 244 Chapter 17: Romanticism: Reaching Within and Acting Out 247 Kissing Isn’t Romantic, but Having a Heart Is 247 Romancing independence 248 Romancing spirituality 248 Romancing the wild 249 Far Out with William Blake and Henry Fuseli: Personal Mythologies 249 Unifying body and soul 249 Drawing on imagination 250 Inside Out: Caspar David Friedrich 251 The Revolutionary French Romantics: Gericault and Delacroix 252 Théodore Gericault 252 Eugène Delacroix 253 Francisco Goya and the Grotesque 255 J. M. W. Turner Sets the Skies on Fire 257 Rebels with a Cause 260 Courbet and Daumier: Painting Peasants and Urban Blight 261 Gustave Courbet 261 Honoré Daumier: Guts and grit 262 The Barbizon School and the Great Outdoors 263 Jean-François Millet: The noble peasants 263 Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot: From naked truth to dressed-up reality 264 Rosa Bonheur: From a Horse Fair to Buffalo Bill 265 Portraying the Paris horse fair 266 Gaining world-wide renown 267 Keeping It Real in America 267 Along came Thomas Cole 267 Westward ho! with Albert Bierstadt 269 George Catlin, painter of western Indian tribes 271 Edmonia Lewis 272 Navigating sun, storm, and sea with Winslow Homer 272 Boating through America with Thomas Eakins 273 The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: Medieval Visions and Painting Literature 273 Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Leader of the Pre-Raphaelites 274 Marie Spartali Stillman: From model to artist 275 John Everett Millais and soft-spoken symbolism 276 The Ten: America’s First Art Movement 276 Celebrating the leisure class 277 Creating art for art’s sake 278 Ashcan Artists: Capturing the Grit of Urban Life 278 Presenting the urban underbelly 278 Illustrating the rough life 279 Chapter 19: First Impressions: Impressionism 281 M & M: Manet and Monet 282 Édouard Manet: Breaking the rules 283 Claude Monet: From patches to flecks 284 Pretty Women and Painted Ladies: Renoir and Degas 286 Impressionists and the movement’s midlife crisis 287 Pretty as a picture: Pierre-Auguste Renoir 287 The dancers of Edgar Degas 288 Cassatt, Morisot, and Other Female Impressionists 289 Mary Cassatt 290 Berthe Morisot 291 Eva Gonzalès 292 American Impressionism 293 William Merritt Chase: An Impressionist with Realist ties 293 Frieseke in the Giverny American Art Colony 294 Jane Peterson 295 Chapter 20: Making Their Own Impression: The Post-Impressionists 297 You’ve Got a Point: Pointillism, Georges-Pierre Seurat and Paul Signac 297 Observing the science of color 297 Applying the science of color 298 Red-Light Art: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 299 Tracking the “Noble Savage”: Paul Gauguin 300 Brittany paintings 301 Tahiti paintings 302 Gauguin’s influence 302 Painting Energy: Vincent van Gogh 303 Trading the ministry for art 303 Expanding artistic energy 303 Painting while confined 304 Love Cast in Stone: Rodin and Claudel 304 Auguste Rodin 305 Camille Claudel 306 The Mask behind the Face: James Ensor 306 The Hills Are Alive with Geometry: Paul Cézanne 308 Art Nouveau: Curves, Swirls, and Asymmetry 309 Art Nouveau: Not a painting style 309 Making functionality pretty 310 Fairy-Tale Fancies and the Sandcastle Cathedral of Barcelona: Antoni Gaudí 310 Part 5: Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Art 313 Chapter 21: From Fauvism to Expressionism 315 Fauvism: Colors Fighting like Animals 315 Henri Matisse 316 André Derain 317 Maurice de Vlaminck 317 German Expressionism: Form Based on Feeling 318 Die Brücke and World War I 318 Der Blaue Reiter 321 Austrian Expressionism: From Dream to Nightmare 324 Gustav Klimt and his languorous ladies 325 Egon Schiele: Turning the self inside out 325 Oskar Kokoschka: Dark dreams and interior storms 326 Chapter 22: Cubist Puzzles and Finding the Fast Lane with the Futurists 329 Cubism: All Views At Once 329 Pablo Picasso 330 Analytic Cubism: Breaking things apart 332 Synthetic Cubism: Gluing things together 332 Fernand Léger: Cubism for the commoner 333 Futurism: Art That Broke the Speed Limit 333 Umberto Boccioni 335 Gino Severini 335 Precisionism: Geometry as Art 336 The Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz Age 338 Chapter 23: Nonobjective Art: Dada, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism 343 Suprematism: Kazimir Malevich’s Reinvention of Space 343 The path to Suprematism 344 Reinventing the world in shape and color 344 Constructivism: Showing Off Your Skeleton 345 Tatlin’s Tower 346 A dance between time and space: Naum Gabo 346 Piet Mondrian and the De Stijl Movement 347 Dada Turns the World on Its Head 347 Dada, the ground floor, and Cabaret Voltaire 348 Dada: Influencee and influencer 348 Marcel Duchamp: Nudes, urinals, and hat racks 349 Hans (Jean) Arp: In and out of Dadaland 350 Surrealism and Disjointed Dreams 351 Max Ernst and his alter ego, Loplop 351 Salvador Dalí: Melting clocks, dreamscapes, and ants 352 René Magritte: Help, my head’s on backwards! 354 Dissecting Frida Kahlo 354 Joan Miro 356 My House Is a Machine: Modernist Architecture 357 Frank Lloyd Wright: Bringing the outside in 357 Bauhaus boxes: Walter Gropius 359 Le Corbusier: Machines for living and Notre-Dame du Haut 359 Abstract Expressionism: Fireworks on Canvas 361 Arshile Gorky 361 Jackson Pollock: Flick, fling, drip, splash, swirl — action painting 362 Lee Krasner: Almost patterns 363 Willem de Kooning 364 Chapter 24: Anything-Goes Art: Fab Fifties and Psychedelic Sixties 365 Artsy Cartoons: Pop Art 365 The many faces of Andy Warhol 366 Blam! Comic books on canvas: Roy Lichtenstein 367 Fantastic Realism 368 Ernst Fuchs: The father of the Fantastic Realists 368 Hundertwasser: Organic architecture and art 369 Louise Nevelson: Picking up the Trash and Assemblage 370 Louise Bourgeois: Sexualized sculpture 371 Less-Is-More Art: Rothko, Newman, Stella, Frankenthaler, and Others 372 Color Fields of dreams: Rothko and Newman 372 Helen Frankenthaler 373 Minimalism, more or less 373 Photorealism 374 Richard Estes: Always in focus 374 Clinical close-ups: Chuck Close 375 Helen Hardin: Native American Futurism 375 Performance Art and Installations 376 Fluxus: Intersections of the arts 376 Joseph Beuys: Fanning out from Fluxus 377 Carolee Schneemann: Body art and breaking taboos 378 Chapter 25: Photography: From Science to Art 381 The Birth of Photography 381 Transitioning from Science to Art 382 An early attempt to “artify” photography 383 Focusing on documentary photography 384 Alfred Stieglitz: Reliving the Moment 384 Recognition for photography as high art 385 Picturesque pictures 385 Henri Cartier-Bresson’s uncanny eye 386 From painting to photography 386 Stealth and the “Decisive Moment” 386 Group f/64: Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, and Ansel Adams 387 Dorothea Lange: Depression to Dust Bowl 388 Margaret Bourke-White: From Industrial Beauty to Political Statements 389 Photographing for Fortune 389 Photographing for Life 389 Fast-Forward: The Next Generation 391 Chapter 26: The New World: Postmodern Art 393 From Modern Pyramids to Titanium Twists: Postmodern Architecture 393 Viva Las Vegas! 394 Chestnut Hill: Case in point 394 Philip Johnson and urban furniture 395 The prismatic architecture of I M Pei 395 Deconstructivist architecture of Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, and Zaha Hadid 396 Making It or Faking It? 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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Byzantine Silk on the Silk Roads
Book SynopsisWith over 200 color illustrations, Byzantine Silk on the Silk Roads examines in detail the eclectic iconography of the Byzantine period and its impact on design and creativity today. Through an examination of the extraordinary variety of designs in these captivating silks, an international team of experts reveal that Byzantine culture was ever-moving and open to diverse influences across the length of the Silk Road. Commentaries from curators at key collections including the Museum of Arts, Boston, the Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt), the V&A and the Vatican reveal the spread of silk embroidery and designs from East to West, and from West to East, from China to Rome, and from Constantinople to Korea. Drawing on exclusive imagery from worldwide collections within museums, churches and archives as case studies, their analysis of these unique woven silks explores the relationship between color and power, material culture and status, and offers broader insight into Byzantine culture, Trade ReviewTextile enthusiasts looking for a deeper dive into the specific history of Byzantine silk will appreciate Byzantine Silk on the Silk Roads ... The volume includes gorgeous and helpful color illustrations throughout, mainly photographs of silk textiles but also diagrams of the weaving process and images of Byzantine art to enhance the reader’s understanding ... [An] encyclopedic reference volume for scholars who have serious interest in silk textiles. * Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America *A wide-ranging exploration of the borderless terrains traversed by the alluring patterns and complex looms that created the most treasured cloths in the Medieval period and continue to inspire today. * Mary Schoeser, V&A, The Textile Society and the School of Textiles, UK *As interesting to read as it is to look at. ... This sumptuous book is richly illustrated and almost as carefully crafted as the Byzantine silk of its title. * Newtown Review of Books *A must-read for scholars and students of textile design … Thoroughly researched and beautifully illustrated. * Steeve Buckridge, Grand Valley State University, USA *A detailed, comprehensive and lavishly illustrated study of Byzantine Silk, offering a genuinely transcultural perspective on the manufacture and dissemination of these key textiles. * Craig Benjamin, Grand Valley State University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations: Ryoko Yamanaka Kondo List of Contributors: Sarah E. Braddock Clarke Preface: Sarah E. Braddock Clarke Introduction: Ryoko Yamanaka Kondo Acknowledgements: Ryoko Yamanaka Konda and Sarah E. Braddock Clarke List of Abbreviations: Sarah E. Braddock Clarke Glossary: Sarah E. Braddock Clarke General Maps - Maps of East to West Silk Trade Routes: Ryoko Yamanaka Kondo 1: Silk Along the Silk Roads: Diversity & Eclecticism, Sarah E. Braddock Clarke 2: Ancient Chinese Silk Textiles: Focusing on Warp-faced Silks, Sae Ogasawara 3: A Study of Sassanian Brocade, Ryoko Yamanaka Kondo 4: Byzantine Brocades: A Contribution to Art History, Dr Tomoyuki Masuda 5: The Spread of Byzantine Silk Towards the Jacquard Loom, Ryoko Yamanaka Kondo 6: Four Categories of Ancient and Medieval Classical Figured Textiles, Kazuko Yokohari 7: Islamic Textiles, Louise W. Mackie 8: On Medieval Lampas: Textiles in the Iberian Peninsula from the Al-Andalus Period, Silvia Saladrigas Cheng 9: Byzantine Court Dress, Ryoko Yamanaka Kondo 10: Collections of Museums, Cathedrals and Churches, Ryoko Yamanaka Kondo with with Dominique Bénazeth, Toko Hirayama, Dr Rei Ito, Anne Hedeager Krag, Esclarmonde Monteil, Elena Ota, Alexandra Van Puyvelde, Kimberly Randall, Yoko Tanaka and Monica Vroon 11: Pattern and Colour in the Byzantine Empire, Ryoko Yamanka Kondo 12: The Spread of Silk to Japan, Ryoko Yamanka Kondo 13: Warp-faced Brocade in Japan, Shizuo Takata 14: Ancient Textiles Preserved in Japan, Reborn, Kiyoshi Tatsumura 15: Chronological Charts of Civilizations & Textiles, Ryoko Yamanaka Kondo Bibliography: Sarah E. Braddock Clarke Image Credits: Ryoko Yamanaka Kondo Index: Sarah E. Braddock Clarke
£32.29
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Devil
Book SynopsisIt is often said that the devil has all the best tunes. He also has as many names as he has guises. Lucifer, Mephistopheles, Beelzebub (in Christian thought), Ha-Satan or the Adversary (in Jewish scripture) and Iblis or Shaitan (in Islamic tradition) has throughout the ages and across civilizations been a compelling and charismatic presence. For two thousand years the supposed reign of God has been challenged by the fiery malice of his opponent, as contending forces of good and evil have between them weighed human souls in the balance. In this rich and multi-textured biography, Philip C Almond explores the figure of the devil from the first centuries of the Christian era through the rise of classical demonology and witchcraft persecutions to the modern post-Enlightenment ''decline'' of Hell. The author shows that the Prince of Darkness, in all his incarnations, remains an irresistible subject in history, religion, art, literature and culture.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Prologue Chapter One: The ‘Birth’ of the Devil Angels and Demons, Sons and Lovers ‘The Book of the Watchers’ Angels, Arising and Falling The Birth of ‘Satan’ The Archdemon Belial Satan and Jesus The Fall of the Dragon Chapter Two: The Fall of the Devil The Fall of Man The Satanic Serpent Pride Cometh before a Fall Lucifer Descending The Battleground of History Chapter Three: Hell’s Angel Paying Off the Devil The Demonic Paradox The Harrowing of Hades In Hell, and in the Air Chapter Four: The Devil Rides Out A Pope Bewitched Cathars, Moderate and Extreme Angels and Demons The Demonisation of Magic Magic Defined, Damned, and Defended Conjuring Demons and Conversations with Angels Chapter Five: Devilish Bodies The Demonisation of Popular Magic Errors Not Cathartic but Satanic The Devil, Sex and Sexuality Embodied Demons Chapter Six: The Devil and the Witch Infanticide and Cannibalism Travels Sabbatical The Satanic Pact The Devil’s Mark Chapter Seven: A Very Possessing Devil The Possessed Body Possession, Medicine, and Sceptics Forensic Demonology Beyond the Borders of the Human Exorcising the Devil Chapter Eight: The Devil Defeated The Binding and Loosing of Satan The Antichrist Adso and the Antichrist The Future Binding of Satan Apocalypse Now Satan and the Fires of Hell Chapter Nine: The ‘Death’ of the Devil Satan and Superstition The Cessation of Miracles The Devil De-skilled The Devil Disembodied Bodies, Platonic and Demonic Disenchanting the World Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
£15.19
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Unica Zürn
Book SynopsisEsra Plumer completed her PhD at the University of Nottingham, UK, on the work of Unica Zürn and her development of the technique of automatism as an artistic strategy. Dr Plumer is the leading expert on the artistic work of Zürn with an extensive background in the history of psychoanalysis and psychiatric treatment methods. She has taught at the University of Nottingham, the European University of Lefke and The Courtauld Institute of Art.Trade ReviewThe first significant and sustained English language study of the writer and artist that attempts to explicitly remove her from Bellmer's leaden shadow and show her as significant in her own right... The result of Plumer's careful and exhaustive scholarship is an image both of Zürn as an individual separate from the better known Bellmer, as well as her body of work as a distinct and unique contribution to postwar arts and literature. Plumer’s book is itself a superb and groundbreaking contribution to scholarship on Zürn and postwar Surrealism generally. In particular, Plumer provides great insight and methodological clarity into how to examine the relationship between mental illness and artistic creation without reducing one to the other, an activity that has, unfortunately, been the standard approach for so long. * Journal of Modern Literature *‘Esra Plumer’s illuminating study swiftly escapes the claws of psychobiography. Instead, she opts for an informative account of Unica Zürn’s oeuvre (both visual and textual) as an outcome of a conscious artistic strategy, at times infused by her mental illness, rather than a product of such illness per se. What emerges is a well-overdue portrait of an exceptional artist who was far more than just la femme de Bellmer, as demonstrated in Plumer’s astute analysis of the complexities of artistic and personal collaboration.’ * Kamila Kuc, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in New Media, Goldsmiths, University of London *‘Esra Plumer’s comprehensive study of the literary and artistic works of Unica Zürn is highly informative. She presents Zürn as an autonomous artist and also reviews her early period in Berlin. One particular merit is that it at last enables the English-speaking world to share an insight into the surrealistic oeuvre of an exceptional German-French artist.’ * Dagmar Schmengler and Isabel Fischer, curators of the exhibition 'Unica Zürn – Camaro – Hans Bellmer in Berlin: Early works at Camaro Haus, Berlin' (2016) *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Foreword by Mary Ann Caws Introduction 1. Beginnings of Change 2. Exhibitions and Exposure 3. ‘Femme de Bellmer’: Critical Reception from 1984 to 2014 4. Anagrams 5. Automatism after 1945 6. Notes on Unica Zürn’s The Man of Jasmine and Other Narratives Epilogue Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
£24.69
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Shaping the Surface
Book SynopsisShaping the Surface explores the history of modern British architecture through the lens of surface, materiality and decoration. Picking up on a trait that art historian Nikolaus Pevsner first identified as a national mania for beautiful surface quality', this book makes a new contribution to architectural history and visual culture in its detailed examination of the surfaces of British architecture from the middle of the 19th century up to the turn of the 21st century. Tracing this continuing sensibility to surface all the way through to the modern era, it explores how and why surface and materiality have featured so heavily in recent architectural tradition, examining the history of British architecture through a selection of key cultural moments and movements from Romanticism and the Arts and Crafts, to Brutalism, High-Tech, Post-Modernism, Neo-Vernacular, and the New Materiality. Embedded within the narrative is the question of whether such national characters can exist inTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Reading the wall-surface: John Ruskin, William Butterfield, and George Edmund Street Chapter 2: ‘Think first of the walls’: Surfaces of Romance – Morris, Webb, and the Arts and Crafts Domestic Interior Chapter 3: Smooth and Rough: George Frederick Bodley and Edward Schröder Prior Chapter 4: Carving the Surface: Edwardian and Inter-War Architecture and Sculpture Chapter 5: Surfaces and Sharawaggi: Aspects of the Picturesque c 1925-1955 Chapter 6: As-Found: Surfaces of Brutalism Chapter 7: Pattern, Abstraction, Post-Modernism: Lubetkin – Pasmore – Stirling Chapter 8: High-Tech, Neo-Vernacular, New Materiality: Richard Rogers – Ralph Erskine – Caruso St John Bibliography Index
£25.64
