History of art Books
Oxford University Press Inc In and Out of Sight
Book SynopsisIn a post-digital media landscape tracked endlessly by streams and feeds of images, it is clearer than ever that photography is an art poised between arresting singularity and ambiguous plurality. Drawing on work in visual culture studies that emphasizes the interplay between still and moving images, In and Out of Sight provides a provocative new account of the relationship between photography and modernist literature--a literature which has long been considered to trace, in its formal experimentation, the influence of modern visual technologies. Making pioneering claims about the importance of photography to the writing of Gertrude Stein, Jean Toomer, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alix Beeston traverses the history of photography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From the composite experiments of Francis Galton to the epic portrait project of August Sander; from the surrealist self-fashioning of Claude Cahun to the reappropriation of lynching photographTrade ReviewBeestons methodology has all the hallmarks and pleasures of the current trend in literary studies that blends theoretical subtlety—ably moving between the various branches of media and visual studies, as well as feminist theory and theories of modernity—with archival detail. ... This is an exciting debut, one which discloses through its study of the past consequential insights about how we intercept and areintercepted by mediated forms in our present. * Feminist Modernist Studies *Beeston's probing, artful, and original In and Out of Sight: Modernist Writing and the Photographic Unseen extends and redirects [the] dialogue between modernist literature and visual media. ... In and Out of Sight is a genuinely interdisciplinary project; its author is as conversant in moving-image studies as she is in modernist literary studies. Beeston sustains her range of references through what she identifies as a sort of critical montage, a methodology that poses important questions for the future of modernist studies. ... Beeston encodes her 'strong' combination of theoretical, formalist, and archival rigor within an open—composite, fractured, sutured—reading practice. It is this openness...that is sure to make it durable for generations of future scholars. * Stephen Pasqualina, Modernism/modernity *In and Out of Sight is powered by a truly interdisciplinary gathering of proofs and examples taken from photography, literature, history, and theory from the modernist moment and our own. [This book] may be the most thrilling offering of 2018". * Shawna Ross, The Year's Work in English Studies *Alix Beeston's bold and challenging new book offers a corrective to [Gertrude] Stein's statement of filmic equivalence, asking that we linger instead with the strangeness of photography when trying to account for literary modernism's interest in serial form. â Beeston carefully establishes a body of criticism into which her own book might be situated and forges an exciting direction for future work in modernist studies, photography and literature, still-moving studies, and feminist studies. * Louise Hornby , University of California, Los Angeles , Modern Language Review *Beeston's impressive first book makes significant contributions not just to the reading of literary and visual modernism but to the understanding of gender, race, and class in twentieth-century American culture... The theoretical and critical analyses of In and Out of Sight reveal how the tensions of the photographic unseen and the still-moving field exist in the representations of gender, race, and class that American visual or verbal images and texts subordinate. * Joseph R. Millichap , MFS Modern Fiction Studies *Alix Beeston's In and Out of Sight is one of several exciting and innovative accounts of the relation between literature and photography to appear in recent years, studies that have charted a new course for the field away from a focus on questions of realism and indexicality... the readings that emerge are powerful and persuasive... [it] is a welcome contribution to modernist and visual studies, persuasive evidence that these intertwined fields remain as vibrant as ever. * Stuart Burrows, American Literary History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Things Normally Unseen Chapter 1: Bodies Bad and Gentle: The Surrealist Convulsions of Gertrude Stein's Three Lives Chapter 2: Black Flesh is White Ash: Reframing Jean Toomer's Cane Chapter 3: Frozen in the Glassy, Bluestreaked Air: John Dos Passos's Photographic Metropolis Chapter 4: Torn, Burned, and Yet Dancing: The Hollywood Writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald Coda: Shared Hallucinations Works Cited
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University of Chicago Press Reading in the Wilderness Private Devotion and
Book SynopsisPresents an argument that Additional MS 37049, a Carthusian miscellany housed in the British Library closes the gap between group spectatorship and private study in late medieval England. This book addresses the manuscript's texts and illustrations to examine connections between reading and performance within the solitary monk's cell and outside.Trade Review"Jessica Brantley's Reading in the Wilderness is an impressive, thorough, and thoughtful analysis of one of the most important of all fifteenth-century English manuscripts. In addition to providing a much-needed discussion of a densely illustrated compendium, the book provides a good general discussion of Carthusian patronage of the arts and attitudes towards the visual arts, which has long represented a lacuna in the literature." - Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Harvard University"
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The University of Chicago Press Outside the Box Interviews with Contemporary
Book SynopsisWe are living in a golden age of cartoon art. This book includes discussions with twelve of the most prominent artists and writers in comics to reveal a creative community that is richly interconnected yet fiercely independent, its members sharing many interests and approaches while working with wildly different styles and themes.
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The University of Chicago Press Sweet Dreams Contemporary Art and Complicity
Book SynopsisSweet Dreams is a testament to the creative processes and self- conscious heterogeneity of art today as well as a revolutionary effort to solicit collaboration that will encourage the production of imaginative thought and contribute to contemporary life.
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The University of Chicago Press Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages Emersion
Book SynopsisChallenging the view that ideas about sexual and gender dissidence were too confused to congeal into a coherent form in the Middle Ages, the author demonstrates that sodomy had a rich, multimedia presence in the period - and that a flexible approach to questions of terminology sheds new light on the many forms this presence took.Trade Review"A tour de force of erudition, critical insight, and balanced judgment. Not since John Boswell's Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality has a single scholar working in gender and sexuality studies taken on such a vast array of data, genres, and languages and treated it with such wisdom and care. Mills is uniquely suited to the task: an art historian, a literary scholar, and a theoretical wizard, he combines like no one else in these three fields of expertise materials that he sees as complementary and essential to one another." (William Burgwinkle, University of Cambridge)"
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The University of Chicago Press OffScreen Cinema
Book SynopsisOne of the most important avant-garde movements of postwar Paris was Lettrism, which crucially built an interest in the relationship between writing and image into projects in poetry, painting, and especially cinema. This is a monograph in English on the Lettrists.
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The University of Chicago Press Classicism of the Twenties Art Music and
Book SynopsisThe triumph of avant-gardes in the 1920s tends to dominate our discussions of the music, art, and literature of the period. In this book, the author offers a compelling account of that movement. Focusing on the works of Stravinsky, Picasso, and T S Eliot, It shows how the turn to classicism manifested itself.Trade Review"'Classicism' in the earlier twentieth century has been extensively discussed in reference to individual writers, artists, and musicians, but Ziolkowski, dealing with individual cases from an overarching interdisciplinary and international perspective, has brilliantly expanded its multicultural horizons." (Burton Pike, City University of New York)"
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The University of Chicago Press Plotting Gothic
Book SynopsisPresents a new way of understanding the great Gothic churches of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries: as rhetorical constructs. The author traces common analogies between rhetoric and architectural space that date back to late antiquity, and then shows how those links were translated into wood, stone, and space under specific local conditions.
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University of Chicago Press Democratic Art The New Deals Influence on
Book SynopsisThroughout the Great Recession American artists and public art endowments have had to fight for government support to keep themselves afloat. This book outlines the successes, shortcomings, and lessons of the golden age of government funding for the arts.Trade Review"A compelling synthesis of federally funded cultural projects undertaken in the United States from 1933 to 1945, Musher's book is written for other historians but will certainly appeal to scholars in many fields-including American studies, cultural studies, public history, visual culture studies, and more. Eloquently written and historically balanced, the book uses anecdotal evidence and biography to animate the story of New Deal arts programming and notions of cultural capital in new and engaging ways." (Erika Doss, University of Notre Dame)
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The University of Chicago Press The Eye of the Lynx
Book SynopsisThe discovery of hundreds of botanical and zoological drawings at Windsor Castle led to a trail that led across Europe to a little-known scientific organization from 17th century Italy called the academy of Linceans (or Lynxes). This volume documents the history of their work.
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The University of Chicago Press The Next Bend in the Road Phoenix Poets
Book SynopsisMichael Fried continues his pursuit of lyric intensity with this volume of lyric and prose poems that has the internal scope of a novel, featuring a host of characters that ranges from the poet's wife to Franz Kafka and Osip Mandelstam.
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The University of Chicago Press Monet and His Muse Camille Monet in the Artists
Book SynopsisInterweaving biographical insight with psychoanalytic criticism, this title takes us on an exploration of Claude Monet's (1840-1926), conflicted relationships with women.Trade Review"Monet and His Muse is a highly original work of impeccable scholarship, not only because it provides the first thorough and penetrating psychobiographical portrait of the artist, but also because of its unusual focus on the profound role that the painter's first wife played in his life and art.... This book simply represents the crowning achievement of our country's best psychobiographer of figures in the visual arts." - Bradley I. Collins, Parsons, the New School for Design"
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University of Chicago Press Producing Local Color Art Networks in Ethnic
Book SynopsisIn big cities, major museums and elite galleries tend to dominate our idea of the art world. But beyond these moneyed institutions are vibrant, local communities of artists and art lovers. This book offers a guided tour of three such alternative worlds that thrive in the Chicago neighborhoods of Bronzeville, Pilsen, and Rogers Park.
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The University of Chicago Press Mantegna Painting as Historical Narrative
Book SynopsisA series of meditations on the ways in which Europeans represented non-European peoples and claimed to take possession of their lands during the Age of Discovery.
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The University of Chicago Press Sexuality and Form
Book SynopsisThis work proposes that, in Western encounters with homosexuality, the flesh emerges as both a problem and a promise at the limits of the narrative arts. It considers Italian humanism, art history, Elizabethan drama, early experimental science and contemporary theory.Trade Review"Hammill's ability to connect the dots of various disciplines to make a big cultural picture is nothing short of brilliant.... Original, daring, disturbing, polemical and persuasive. It stands head and shoulders above almost all, if not all, books on sex and violence (and outsiderness and cultural impact)." - Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance "Breathtaking, substantial, and original.... Hammill's use of humanist, Biblical, and psychoanalytic paradigms and micro-histories to intervene in current cultural studies of homosexuality and 'sexed thinking' is much needed. Readers will leave this book convinced that the flesh cannot be thought of outside a psychoanalytic register." - Julia Lupton, author of Afterlives of the Saints
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The University of Chicago Press Reflections on Baroque
Book SynopsisThis text offers a reinterpretation of the 17th-century Baroque style and the cultural and political interests that gave rise to it. Robert Harbison looks at the architecture, art, scenography, music, poetry and literature of the period and he explores the metamorphoses of Baroque ideas and works.
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University of Chicago Press Adulterous Alliances Home State History in
Book SynopsisThis work focuses on English, Spanish and French drama from the 1590s through the late 18th century, and on 17th-century Dutch painting. It shows that the home and the marriage on which it is based are disrupted by a sexually predatory intruder - one who comes from the sphere of the state.
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The University of Chicago Press Sealed in Parchment
Book SynopsisThe 44 surviving manuscripts of the work of Chretien de Troyes pose a number of questions about who used these books and in what way. In Sealed in Parchment, Sandra Hindman scrutinizes both text and images to reveal what the manuscripts can tell us about medieval society and politics.
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The University of Chicago Press Spiral Jetta A Road Trip Through the Land Art Of
Book SynopsisErin Hogan hit the road in her Volkswagen Jetta and headed west from Chicago in search of the monuments of American land art. Her journey took her through the states of Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. It also took her through the states of anxiety, drunkenness, and heat exhaustion. This title presents a chronicle of this journey.Trade Review"The reader emerges enlightened and even delighted.... Casually scrutinizing the artistic works... while gamely playing up her fish-out-of-water status, Hogan delivers an ingeniously engaging travelogue-cum-art history." - Atlantic "Smart and unexpectedly hilarious." - Kevin Nance, Chicago Sun-Times "One of the funniest and most entertaining road trips to be published in quite some time." - June Sawyers, Chicago Tribune "Hogan ruminates on how the work affects our sense of time, space, size, and scale. She is at her best when she reexamines the precepts of modernism in the changing light of New Mexico, and shows how the human body is meant to be a participant in these grand constructions." - New Yorker "I was never quite sure what Hogan was looking for when she set out... or indeed whether she found it. But I loved the ride. In Spiral Jetta, an unshamedly honest, slyly uproarious, ever-probing book, art doesn't magically have the power to change lives, but it can, perhaps no less powerfully, change ways of seeing." - Tom Vanderbilt, New York Times Book Review"
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The University of Chicago Press The Surrealism Reader
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University of Chicago Press The Paper Zoo 500 Years of Animals in Art
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The University of Chicago Press Automatic Architecture Motivating Form after
Book SynopsisIn the 1960s and '70s, architects, influenced by recent developments in computing and the rise of structuralist and poststructuralist thinking, began to radically rethink how architecture could be created. Though various new approaches gained favor, they had one thing in common: they advocated moving away from the traditional reliance on an individual architect's knowledge and instincts and toward the use of external tools and processes that were considered objective, logical, or natural. Automatic architecture was born. The quixotic attempts to formulate such design processes extended modernist principles and tried to draw architecture closer to mathematics and the sciences. By focusing on design methods, and by examining evidence at a range of scales from institutions to individual buildings Automatic Architecture offers an alternative to narratives of this period that have presented postmodernism as a question of style, as the methods and techniques traced here have been more deeply
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The University of Chicago Press Transmedium Conceptualism 2.0 and the New Object
Book SynopsisIf you attend a contemporary art exhibition lately, you're unlikely to see much traditional painting or sculpture. Indeed, artists today are preoccupied with what happens when you leave behind assumptions about particular media such as painting, or woodcuts and instead focus on collisions between them, and the new forms and ideas that those collisions generate. Garrett Stewart in Transmedium dubs this new approach Conceptualism 2.0, an allusion in part to the computer images that are so often addressed by these works. A successor to 1960s Conceptualism, which posited that a material medium was unnecessary to the making of art, Conceptualism 2.0 features artworks that are transmedial, that place the aesthetic experience itself deliberately at the boundary between often incommensurable media. The result, Stewart shows, is art whose forced convergences break open new possibilities that are wholly surprising, intellectually enlightening, and often uncanny.
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The University of Chicago Press Poetry in a World of Things Aesthetics and
Book SynopsisWe have become used to looking at art from a stance of detachment. In order to be objective, we create a mental space between ourselves and the objects of our investigation, separating internal and external worlds. This detachment dates back to the early modern period, when researchers in a wide variety of fields tried to describe material objects as things in themselvesthings, that is, without the admixture of imagination. Generations of scholars have heralded this shift as the Renaissance discovery of the observable world. In Poetry in a World of Things, Rachel Eisendrath explores how poetry responded to this new detachment by becoming a repository for a more complex experience of the world. The book focuses on ekphrasis, the elaborate literary description of a thing, as a mode of resistance to this new empirical objectivity. Poets like Petrarch, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare crafted highly artful descriptions that recovered the threatened subjective experience of the material
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The University of Chicago Press The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek
Book SynopsisWonder, not accuracy, realism, naturalism, or truth, was the supreme objective of Greek sculptors. This tile offers a fresh way to understand the epoch-making sculpture of classical Greece. It traces this way of thinking about art from the poems of Homer to the philosophy of Plato.
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The University of Chicago Press Ruthless Hedonism The American Reception of
Book SynopsisThis study argues that Henri Matisse's sober presentations of himself were calculated to fit with the social constraints and ideological demands of the times. It shows how the way Matisse's work was viewed changed as attention shifted away from the subject matter to the seductiveness of his paint.
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University of Chicago Press The Sarpedon Krater The Life and Afterlife of a Greek Vase
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University of Chicago Press French Popular Lithographic Imagery 18151870 V 11
Book SynopsisThis volume presents more than 300 lithographs showing women as passive, erotic objects. While numerous fantasies from this genre have been enshrined in modernist painting, the book demonstrates the large degree to which these powerful images circulated in popular culture.
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University of Chicago Press Drawings of Johan Tobias Sergel. Per Bjurstrom
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The University of Chicago Press Matt Saunders Parallel Plot
Book SynopsisReproducing the artwork from that show, this book includes two conversations between Saunders and artist Josiah McElheny and an essay by experimental film scholar Bruce Jenkins that tackles the relationship among painting, photography, and film, as well as the dynamics of Saunders' iconography.
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The University of Chicago Press Art Without Borders A Philosophical Exploration
Book SynopsisDraws on neuroscience and psychology to understand the way we both perceive and conceive of art, including its resistance to verbal exposition. This book probes the distinction between accepting a tradition and defying it through innovation, which leads to a consideration of the notion of artistic genius.Trade Review"This is the most comprehensive study of art and artists ever written. Not only does it range across the world's cultures in time and space, but it takes account of the latest findings in a variety of relevant disciplines, including neuroscience, cross-cultural psychology, and anthropology. Scharfstein's mastery of the literature of those disciplines is impressive, as is his command of scholarly writing on art worldwide. Timely, global, and open-minded, Art Without Borders evinces warmth and humanity as Scharfstein admirably highlights the makers of art, their individual lives, and their views on artistry." - Wilfried van Damme, author of Beauty in Context"
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The University of Chicago Press French Primitivism and the Ends of Empire
Book SynopsisOver the years, the idea of primitivism has motivated artistic modernism. Focusing on the three decades after World War II, known in France as les trentes glorieuses despite the loss of most of the country's colonial empire, this book argues that primitivism played a key role in a French society marked by economic growth and political turmoil.Trade Review"Bold and innovative in its conceptualization and execution, this book persuasively argues for the crucial role of primitivism in French culture and society following the end of World War II." (Leora Auslander, University of Chicago)"
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The University of Chicago Press TV by Design
Book SynopsisUncovers the story of how modernism and network television converged and intertwined in their mutual ascent during the decades of the cold war. This title shows how TV was instrumental in introducing the public to the different trends in art and design.Trade Review"Clear, compelling, frequently witty, and always engaging, TV by Design will easily meet the expectations of those readers who have come to expect the very best in scholarship, argument, and expression from Lynn Spigel. In stunning and bold fashion, she brings together television and fine arts and shows how their intersection fits logically into the history of twentieth-century culture. This is a work of major consequence." - Dana Polan, author of the British Film Institute's Pulp Fiction and Jane Campion"
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The University of Chicago Press Concerning Consequences Studies in Art
Book SynopsisKristine Stiles has played a vital role in establishing trauma studies within the humanities. A formidable force in the art world, Stiles examines the significance of traumatic experiences both in the individual lives and works of artists and in contemporary international cultures since World War II. In Concerning Consequences, she considers some of the most notorious art of the second half of the twentieth century by artists who use their bodies to address destruction and violence. The essays in this book focus primarily on performance art and photography. From war and environmental pollution to racism and sexual assault, Stiles analyzes the consequences of trauma as seen in the works of artists like Marina Abramovic, Pope.L, and Chris Burden. Assembling rich intellectual explorations on everything from Paleolithic paintings to the Bible's patriarchal legacies to documentary images of nuclear explosions, Concerning Consequences explores how art can provide a distinctive means of unde
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The University of Chicago Press The Fine Arts in America
Book SynopsisThough comparatively short, it is no once-over-lightly chronicle full of insignificant names and dates. It brilliantly achieves its principal aim: to provide readers with a compact but broad and well rounded conception of the progress of the fine arts in America from ca. 1670 to the present day. . . . It is a fascinating book, full of new vistas; it has all the earmarks of an instant classic.American Artist [Taylor] describes changing definitions of art as much as he describes art itself, and he shows how the shifting forms of patronage affected the forms of art. He analyzes artists' associations . . . and he shows how museums and schools have expanded the audience for art. In short, he places artists and their work in cultural context. This treatment of the social history of art is the most original and intriguing aspect of Taylor's sketch.Journal of American HistoryThis is a brilliantly subtle book. It builds with one insight after another, and suddenly the reader finds that a whole
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The University of Chicago Press Prehistoric Future Max Ernst and the Return of
Book SynopsisOne of the most admired artists of the twentieth century, Max Ernst was a proponent of Dada and founder of surrealism, known for his strange, evocative paintings and drawings. This title reveals, Ernst was interested in the construction and phenomenology of both collective and individual modern history and memory.
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University of Illinois Press Archibald Motley Jr. and Racial Reinvention The
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this engaging and well-researched book, Phoebe Wolfskill enlists the career of early twentieth-century Chicago painter Archibald Motley as a paradigm for considering the difficulties facing African American artists who have lived with cultural stereotypes their whole lives. Through a judicious balancing of insights derived from the careful analysis of individual paintings with a wide range of cultural, artistic, social, and theoretical references, Wolfskill honors the complex underpinnings of Motley’s works and explains the contradictions within them. As a whole, the book both provides an internal coherence to Motley’s career and successfully demonstrates his relation to other American artists of the period who similarly concerned themselves with questions of identity and representation during the interwar decades."--Mary Ann Calo, author of Distinction and Denial: Race, Nation, and the Critical Construction of the African American Artist, 1920-1940"A satisfyingly inquisitive foray into the complications of an African American artist grappling with his own uneasy relationship to matters of race, gender, class, culture, and modernism. Wolfskill provides a welcomed critical probing and less romanticized account of the Harlem Renaissance."--James Smalls, author of Homosexuality in Art"In Archibald Motley Jr. and Racial Reinvention: The Old Negro in New Negro Art, Wolfskill has composed a well-researched, insightful, and nuanced account that forces a reconceptualization of an artist and an era." --CAA.Reviews
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MIT Press Ltd Mixed Use Manhattan Photography and Related
Book SynopsisHow New York artists have made use of the city's run-down lofts, neglected piers, vacant lots, and deserted streets.When the real estate bust of the 1970s hit New York City, artists found their own mixed uses for the city's run-down lofts, abandoned piers, vacant lots, and deserted streets, and photographers and filmmakers documented their work. Gordon Matta-Clark turned a sanitation pier into the celebrated work Day's End, and Betsy Sussler filmed its making; Harry Shunk made a photographic series from Willoughby Sharp's Projects: Pier 18 (which included work by Vito Acconci, Mel Bochner, Dan Graham, Gordon Matta-Clark, and William Wegman, among others); Cindy Sherman staged some of her Untitled Film Stills on the same city streets. Mixed Use, Manhattan documents and illustrates the most significant of these projects as well as more recent works by artists who continue to engage with the city's public, underground, and improvised spaces. The book (which accompanies a
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MIT Press Ltd Ai Weiweis Blog
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MIT Press Ltd Materializing Six Years Lucy R. Lippard and the
Book SynopsisLucy R. Lippard's famous book, itself resembling an exhibition, is now brought full circle in an exhibition (and catalog) resembling her book. “Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or 'dematerialized.'”—Lucy R. Lippard, Six YearsIn 1973 the critic and curator Lucy R. Lippard published Six Years, a book with possibly the longest subtitle in the bibliography of art: The dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972: a cross-reference book of information on some esthetic boundaries: consisting of a bibliography into which are inserted a fragmented text, art works, documents, interviews, and symposia, arranged chronologically and focused on so-called conceptual or information or idea art with mentions of such vaguely designated areas as minimal, anti-form, systems, earth, or process art, occurring now in the Americas, Eur
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MIT Press Ltd Ecologies Environments and Energy Systems in Art
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MIT Press Ltd Past Futures Science Fiction Space Travel and
Book SynopsisA sumptuously illustrated exploration of themes from science fiction and space travel, as imagined by artists across the Americas from the 1940s to the 1970s.From the 1940s to the 1970s, visionary artists from across the Americas reimagined themes from science fiction and space travel. They mapped extraterrestrial terrain, created dystopian scenarios amid fears of nuclear annihilation, and ingeniously deployed scientific and technological subjects and motifs. This book offers a sumptuously illustrated exploration of how artists from the United States and Latin America visualized the future. Inspired variously by the “golden age” of science fiction, the Cold War, the space race, and the counterculture, these artists expressed both optimism and pessimism about humanity's prospects.Past Futures showcases work by more than a dozen artists, including the biomorphic cosmic spaces and hybrid alien-totemic figures painted by the Chilean artist Roberto Matta
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MIT Press Ltd NSK from Kapital to Capital Neue Slowenische
Book SynopsisThe generously illustrated, lavishly documented story of NSK (Neue Slowenische Kunst), the eastern European art collective present at the last revolution of the twentieth century.This book is the generously illustrated, lavishly documented, critically narrated story of one of the most significant art collectives of the late twentieth century.In 1984, three groups of artists in post-Tito Yugoslavia—the music and multimedia group Laibach, the visual arts group Irwin, and the theater group Scipion Nasice Sisters Theater—came together to form the Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) art collective.Adopting the symbols, codes, appearances, and discourses of fascism, nationalism, state power, socialist-realist, and avant-garde art, and pushing the strategies of overidentification and subversive affirmation to their limits, NSK exposed the common foundations of various regimes, systems, and ideologies, while affirming that “art and totalitarianism are not mut
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MIT Press Ltd Adjusted Margin Xerography Art and Activism in
Book SynopsisHow xerography became a creative medium and political tool, arming artists and activists on the margins with an accessible means of making their messages public. This is the story of how the xerographic copier, or “Xerox machine,” became a creative medium for artists and activists during the last few decades of the twentieth century. Paper jams, mangled pages, and even fires made early versions of this clunky office machine a source of fear, rage, dread, and disappointment. But eventually, xerography democratized print culture by making it convenient and affordable for renegade publishers, zinesters, artists, punks, anarchists, queers, feminists, street activists, and others to publish their work and to get their messages out on the street. The xerographic copier adjusted the lived and imagined margins of society, Eichhorn argues, by supporting artistic and political expression and mobilizing subcultural movements. Eichhorn describes early efforts to use xe
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MIT Press Ltd Reset Modernity
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MIT Press Ltd Elastic Architecture Frederick Kiesler and Design
Book SynopsisTwentieth-century architect Frederick Kiesler's innovative multidisciplinary practice responded to the ever-changing needs of the body in motion, anticipating the research-oriented practices of contemporary art and architecture.In 1960, the renowned architect Philip Johnson championed Frederick Kiesler, calling him “the greatest non-building architect of our time.” Kiesler's ideas were difficult to construct, but as Johnson believed, “enormous” and “profound.” Kiesler (1890-1965) went against the grain of the accepted modern style, rejecting rectilinear glass and steel in favor of more organic forms and flexible structures that could respond to the ever-changing needs of the body in motion. In Elastic Architecture, Stephen Phillips offers the first in-depth exploration of Kiesler's innovative and multidisciplinary research and design practice. Phillips argues that Kiesler established a new career trajectory for architects not
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MIT Press Ltd Thai Art
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MIT Press Ltd Flintstone Modernism or The Crisis in Postwar
Book SynopsisAncient history, midcentury modernism, Cinemascope, humanism and monumentality, totalitarianism and democracy: transformations in American culture and architecture.In Flintstone Modernism, Jeffrey Lieber investigates transformations in postwar American architecture and culture. He considers sword-and-sandal films of the 1950s and 1960s—including forgotten gems such as Land of the Pharaohs, Helen of Troy, and The Egyptian—and their protean, ideologically charged representations of totalitarianism and democracy. He connects Cinemascope and other widescreen technologies to the architectural “glass curtain wall,” arguing that both represented the all-encompassing eye of American Enterprise. Lieber reminds us that until recently midcentury modern American architecture was reviled by architectural historians but celebrated by design enthusiasts, just as sword-and-sandal epics are alternately hailed as cult clas
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