History of art Books
University of Washington Press Tradition and Transformation
Book SynopsisIn 1978, Dr Chu-Tsing Li became the first Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor of Art History at the University of Kansas. With essays by friends and former students, this book commemorates Dr Li's achievements as educator and scholar, marking his teaching career at the University of Kansas, and his contribution to Asian studies.Table of ContentsAn Appreciation of Chu-tsing Li / Marilyn Stokstad A Personal View / Joseph Chang Acknowledgments Contributors Selected Bibliography of Chu-tsing Li Liao Painting and the Northern Grasslands School / Marilyn Gridley The Search for Zhao Bosu / Richard Edwards Song Mimesis and Beyond / Wen C. Fong The Emergence and Ideology of the Three Laughers and Its Derivative, the Laughers / An-Yi Pan A Landscape Painting and Its Literary Sources: Taigu Yimin's Traveling Among Streams and Mountains / Janet Louise Carpenter Allegories, Metaphors, and Satires: Writing About Painting in the Early Yuan Dynasty / Ankeney Weitz Chen Hongshou's Children Paying Homage to the Buddha: An Illustration to the Lotus Sutra / Hsing-Li Tsai Ming Paintings of Xiang Furen from the Nine Songs / Xue Yongnian The Mirror in the Garden: Courtesans' Painting of the Late Ming Dynasty / Jean Wetzel Ming Dynasty Aesthetic Theory / Hsio-Yen Shih Wang Duo's Assessment of Ni Zan: A Reappraisal / Alan G. Atkinson Real-Scenery Landscape Painting in China, Korea, and Japan in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century / Junghee Han Chain of Causation: Fang Shishu's The Autumn Colors on the Que and Hua Mountains after Zhao Mengfu and Dong Qichang / Ju-Hsi Chou Painting and the Qing Court: Scholar-Artists, 1736-1850 / Claudia Brown Returning to the Subject of Poetry as the Expression of Heartfelt Sentiments / Rao Zongyi Zhao Zhiqian and the Emergence of Self-Expression in Seal Carving / Philip C. J. Wu The Transformation in Jiangnan: A Glimpse of Chinese Art History in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century / Wan Qingli The Commodification of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy and Its Relationship to the Production of Forgeries / Yang Xin The Art of Pu Xinyu / Jane C. Ju The Inventor Wen-ying Tsai / Siliang Yang A Century of Change in Chinese Art / Tseng Yuho Ecke A Case Study of Continuity in Buddhist Art: Origins of the Attack of Mara at Dunhuang / Sarah Blick Dunhuang Cave 427: Evidence of Imperial Iconography / Janet Baker The Development of Illustrations to Buddhist Sutras in the Sui and Tang Periods / Jin Weinuo The Thousand-armed Avalokiteshvara in the Birmingham Museum of Art / Donald A. Wood Liu E and His Bronze Collection / Thomas Lawton Noes on Chinese Ceramics Excavated in Japan / Richard L. Wilson Glossary
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University of Washington Press Picturing the AlaskaYukonPacific Exposition The
Book SynopsisThe Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition was a time of wonder in a 'citadel set in stars' - a grand world's fair that transformed the summer of 1909 in Seattle into a whirl of excitement and pleasure. The best record of the event was made by Frank H Nowell, official photographer for the exposition. This book illuminates both the man and the fair.Trade Review"Nicolette Bromberg's excellent, exhaustively researched book on the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909 and the fair's official photographer, Frank H. Nowell, will be much appreciated by both historians and students of photography." * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *"'Picturing the Alaska-Yukon-Exposition: The Photographs of Frank H. Nowell' opens another entryway into the 1909 fairgrounds, through the eyes of the A-Y-P's official photographer whose black-and-white images are handsomely reproduced here." * Seattle Times *Table of ContentsForeword / Mark Emmert Acknowledgments Picturing the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: The Photography of Frank H. Nowell / Nicolette Bromberg The Klondike Gold Rush A Fair is Born Frank H. Nowell Juneau, Nome, and Teller An Alaskan Photographer Official Photographer of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Building the Fair Photography before the Fair The Exposition Opens On the Pay Streak Special Days and Events Photographing the A-Y-P The Fair Comes to an End Frank H. Nowell after the Fair Alaska Photographs / Frank H. Nowell A-Y-P Photographs / Frank H. Nowell The A-Y-P Photographic Project / John Stamets Select Bibliography
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University of Washington Press The Tooth That Nibbles at the Soul
Book SynopsisIncludes essays that engage questions that are central to the development of literature, music, and the arts in the period from Romanticism at the end of the eighteenth century to the avant-garde movements of the early twentieth, a period in which modern evolution of the arts is coupled with a rise in the significance of music as artistic form.Trade Review"He brings to discussions of music not only an accurate and precise analytical vocabulary, but the performing experience of a first-class cellist. At a time when many scholars claim to be 'interdisciplinary,' . . . it is thrilling to encounter the real thing." -- James A. Winn * Eighteenth-Century life *"The thread that runs through the whole—- the understanding of music and poetry as kindred art forms that resist fixity and capture the motion of our thought—- is deeply engaging, and provides us a language to delve further into the music of poetry and the poetry of music." * Wallace Stevens Journal *Table of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction: Music and Abstraction 2. Music and Fantasy 3. German Romanticism and Music 4. Negative Poetics: On Skepticism and the Lyric Voice 5. Rethinking the Scale of Literary History 6. Mozart, Bach, and Musical Abjection 7. Moods at Mid-Century: Handel and English Literature, 1740–1760 8. Passion and Love: Anacreontic Song and the Roots of Romantic Lyric 9. Haydn’s Whimsy: Poetry, Sexuality, Repetition 10. Non Giovanni: Mozart with Hegel Notes Index
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University of Washington Press Gods of Angkor
Book SynopsisA remarkable group of seven bronze figures was unearthed in Kampong Cham province, Cambodia, in 2006. This book celebrates the collaborative efforts of the Cambodian and US museums to restore and interpret these important images, and also the accomplishments of Khmer bronze casters from the fourth century BCE to the fourteenth century CE.Trade Review"The book is lavishly illustrated with color photographs of every object in the exhibition. The objects have been presented more than once and show them from various sided enabling the reader to gain a much better idea of the objects' features . . ." -- Dick van der Meij * IIAS Newsletter *
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University of Washington Press William H. Johnson
Book SynopsisMy aim is to express in a natural way what I feel, what is in me, both rhythmically and spiritually, all that which in time has been saved up in my family of primitiveness and tradition, and which is now concentrated in me.--William H. Johnson An essential figure in modern American art, William H. Johnson (1901-1970) was a virtuoso skilled in various media and techniques, who produced thousands of works over a career that spanned decades, continents, and genres. This volume considers paintings from the collection of Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, that show the pivotal stages in Johnson''s career as a modernist painter of post-impressionist and expressionist works reminiscent of Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Soutine, and the vernacular paintings in which he articulates his specific, unforgettable voice as an artist.In this lavishly illustrated book, some of the world''s premier scholars of William H. Johnson and African American art historyTrade Review"This new book brings to life Johnson's conscious combination of formal training, international influences, and personal experiences to pare his style down to the very simplest, starkest terms . . . forever marking him as a truly American modern." -- Robin Meyer * Artes Magazine *"Through his art, Johnson's life is triumphant. It celebrates the richness of human creativity, the beauty of the land, and the worth and dignity of people." -- Clint Schemmer * Fredericksburg.com *Table of ContentsForeword, Anna R. Cohn Introduction, Gabriel Tenabe 1. Preserving a Legacy, David C. Driskell 2. Trembling Vistas, Primal Youth, Richard J. Powell 3. Johnson and the Semiotics of Landscape and Still Life, Lowery Stokes Sims 4. Rural Rituals and Urban Realities, Leslie King-Hammond 5. Creating Church, Leslie King-Hammond 6. Devotion and Disrepute, Richard J. Powell 7. BLACK thou ART . . . BLACK thou AIN'T, Aaron Bryant Notes Selected Bibliography Image Credits
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University of Washington Press Lesley Dills Poetic Visions
Book SynopsisUnified by layers of words, figures, and symbolic imagery, underlines Dill's desire to render transcendental experience into form
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University of Washington Press Art by the Book
Book SynopsisShows how a world of social meaning is evident in the literary subgenre of painting manuals, and provides insight into the links between art history, print culture, and social historyTrade Review"This is a scholarly investigation into a subject that has many fascinating aspects – artistic, social, and economic. Park’s extensive research, evident in the careful treatment of the material, is a welcomed addition to the relatively new field of scholarship of Ming cultural history." -- Patricia Karetzsky * Frontiers of History in China, Vol. 8, No. 3 *"This study of pioneering, late-Ming dynasty painting manuals by Zhou Luijing reveals how access to cultural knowledge played out in the dynamic social world of the late Ming dynasty. Recommended." * Choice *"To date, there are few detailed studies of huapa in English, which makes Park’s book a welcomed addition to the literature. His book serves to introduce an important and still controversial aspect of late Ming artistic theory and production." -- Anne Burkus-Chasson * Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies *"[Art by the Book] is a meticulously researched social history of the content and function of painting manuals published during the forty-year period between 1580 and 1620. . . . The book is most absorbing when Park traces the intimate connections of the manuals not only to the social pleasures of performing with brush and ink, but also to the more private emotions generated by the process of learning to use the brush well and fluidly." -- Lisa Claypool * The Journal of Asian Studies *"Well-researched and eloquently written, and the joy to read is enriched by the extensive use of high-quality illustrations. . . . It is warmly recommended for readers interested in Ming cultural and social history, print and book culture, as well as visual culture." -- Hang Lin * Asiatische Studien/ Etudes Asiatiques *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Chronology of Chinese Dynasties Introduction William Shakespeare, a Great Painter? 1. Genre and Biography 2. Words without Images 3. Portraits of the Characteristic 4. Icons of Love and Marginality 5. The Art of Being Artistic Coda: The Late Ming at the Crossroads Appendix 1 | Locations and Editions of Late Ming Painting Manuals Appendix 2 | Lost Manuals and Albums of the Ming Dynasty Notes Glossary Bibliography Index Plates follow page
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University of Washington Press Maestro
Book SynopsisExplores Tagliapietra's current work presenting masterpieces created during the past decadeTrade Review"The free and ceaseless inventions on display in Maestro are a pure delight." -- Michael Upchurch * The Seattle Times *"This collection of vivid color photographs brings to life the maestro's beautiful, swirling, fluid glass forms." -- Cameron Reese * Alaska Airlines *
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University of Washington Press Art AIDS America
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University of Wisconsin Press Striding Lines The Unique Story Quilts of Rumi
Book SynopsisThe gnarled branches of a beautiful old plum tree reach toward the sky. A mushroom hunter searches for morels among rolling hills. A small boat is tossed among the tumultuous waves of an angry sea. Striding Lines, an homage to Wisconsin artist and quilter Rumi O'Brien, presents these striking images of her work and many more.
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Yale University Press Graphic Design A New History
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Yale University Press Zilia Sanchez Soy Isla
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Yale University Press Turner and Constable Art Life Landscape
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Yale University Press Guillaume Lethiere
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Yale University Press Yoko Ono
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Yale University Press Expressionists
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Yale University Press Approaching the Buddha
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Hachette Books Beyond the Throne
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Alfred A. Knopf Grant Wood A Life
Book SynopsisHe claimed to be “the plainest kind of fellow you can find. There isn’t a single thing I’ve done, or experienced,” said Grant Wood, “that’s been even the least bit exciting.” Wood was one of America’s most famous regionalist painters; to love his work was the equivalent of loving America itself. In his time, he was an “almost mythical figure,” recognized most supremely for his hard-boiled farm scene, American Gothic, a painting that has come to reflect the essence of America’s traditional values—a simple, decent, homespun tribute to our lost agrarian age. In this major new biography of America’s most acclaimed, and misunderstood, regionalist painter, Grant Wood is revealed to have been anything but plain, or simple . . . R. Tripp Evans reveals the true complexity of the man and the image Wood so carefully constructed of himself. Grant Wood called himself a farmer-painter but far
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Alfred A. Knopf Francis Bacon Revelations
Book SynopsisTHE TIMES BEST ART BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE PLUTARCH AWARD AND THE APOLLO AWARD • “There are not many biographical masterpieces, but…Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan have produced one,” wrote the novelist John Banville of Francis Bacon: Revelations. By the Pulitzer prize-winning authors of de Kooning: An American Master, this acclaimed biography contains a wealth of never before known details about one of the iconic artists of the 20th century—a singularly private, darkly funny, eruptive man and his extraordinary art, whose iconoclastic charm “keeps the pages turning” (The Washington Post).Francis Bacon created an indelible image of mankind in modern times, and played an outsized role in both twentieth century art and life—from his public emergence with his legendary Triptych 1944 (its images so unrelievedly awful that people fled th
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Zondervan Rembrandt Is in the Wind Video Study
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St Martin's Press What People Wore When
Book SynopsisWhat People Wore When combines the studies of two classic nineteenth-century illustrators Auguste Racinet and Friedrich Hottenroth for the first time. Their works are presented first by chronology and then by subject, so that illustrators, historians, and students alike can choose to follow the path of fashion through the centuries, or study in detail the contrasting styles of individual clothing and accessories. Silhouettes reveal the shape of style through the ages, detailed cross-references draw attention to recurring motifs, and navigation bars help the researcher to travel the complex chronology of costume.With authoritative narrative from leading experts in the history of costume, extraordinary contemporary quotes that reveal the impact of style in its day, detailed annotation, and an extensive glossary, the book provides a magnificent study of the rich vocabulary of style through the ages.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Artists of World War II Artists of an Era
Book SynopsisThe first global survey of art in WWII, this volume features selected biographies of artists and detailed discussions of war-era art worlds in China, France, Italy, Japan, Germany, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, Spain, and the United States. Readers can compare and contrast artists' experiences of war in these different countries. They will observe the artists' wide range of responses to war, from producing art works that actively supported the war effort, to criticism of death and destruction.Chapters begin with short synopses of the art worlds in each of these countries leading up to World War II. Following this are approximately five detailed biographies of selected artists whose works exhibited a wide range of responses to the war efforts of their nation. Their works cover a range of artistic styles, from traditional to modern, and demonstrate the blurred boundaries of art and propaganda during this period. The influence of their works on World War II and hoTrade Review[A]n excellent, thought-provoking art history. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty researchers; general readers. * Choice *[E]xplores the work of representative artists within the political and social contexts of their times….[t]he writing vividly demonstrates the impact of war on art. Additional aids to students include a brief timeline and selective bibliographies for art in each country. This survey makes a useful addition to art history collections. * Lawrence Looks At Books *[T]he first global survey of art during the war, and gathers biographies of such artists along with discussions of war-era art trends around the world. Of particular note are discussions which allow readers to compare not only artists' experiences of war in different countries, but their different responses to their experiences, from support of war efforts to criticism. Add discussions of the influence of artists' productions on war and you have an intriguing survey which goes beyond the art world. * MBR Bookwatch *[P]resents a survey of WWII artists from most of the regions involved in combat. * Reference & Research Book News/Art Book News Annual *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Art and World War II Artists in China: Between War and Civil War Artists in France: Between Collaboration and Resistance Artists in Germany: Constructing the "Thousand-Year Reich" Artists in Great Britain: Creating Art as Propaganda during "The Blitz" Artists of Italy: Shaping a Fascist Culture of Consensus Artists in Japan: Relating Tradition and Modernity to the Art of "Holy War" Artists in the Soviet Union: Defending Communist Utopia Artists in Spain: Waging a Media War Artists in the United States: Selling War and Peace in the "American Century" Conclusion: Remembering World War II Timeline Bibliography Index
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Little, Brown & Company David Sedaris Diaries A Visual Compendium
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HarperCollins The Hobbit Sketchbook
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Mariner Books Whats So Funny
Book Synopsis“David Sipress’s engaging, illuminating, and hilarious memoir will perhaps clarify what dark forces are at work when it comes to becoming a cartoonist rather than a podiatrist, a billionaire tech mogul, or someone who is deeply into collecting owl figurines. And if it doesn’t, you will love it anyway.”— Roz ChastFrom a longtime New Yorker staff cartoonist, an evocative family memoir, a love letter to New York City, and a delightful exploration of the origins of creativity—richly interleaved with the author’s witty, beloved cartoons.David Sipress, a dreamer and obsessive drawer living with his Upper West Side family in the age of JFK and Sputnik, goes hazy when it comes to the ceaselessly imparted lessons-on-life from his meticulous father and the angsty expectations of his migraine-prone mother. With wry and brilliantly obser
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc The Ransom of Russian Art
Book SynopsisJohn McPhee's The Ransom of Russian Art is a suspenseful, chilling, and fascinating report on a covert operation like no other. It offers unprecedented insight into Soviet culture at the brink of the Union's collapse.In the 1960s and 1970s, an American professor of Soviet economics forayed on his own in the Soviet Union, bought the work of underground unofficial artists, and brought it out himself or arranged to have it illegally shipped to the United States. Norton Dodge visited the apartments of unofficial artists in at least a dozen geographically scattered cities. By 1977, he had a thousand works of art. His ultimate window of interest involved the years from 1956 to 1986, and through his established contacts he eventually acquired another eight thousand works-by far the largest collection of its kind. McPhee investigates Dodge's clandestine activities in the service of dissident Soviet art, his motives for his work, and the fates of several of the
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Exchanging Hats
Book SynopsisWhen the distinguished art critic Meyer Schapiro said that Elizabeth Bishop writes poems with a painter's eye, Bishop was very flattered: I'd love to be a painter. The fact is-though not many knew it-she painted throughout her life, as this handsome book, reproducing in full color forty of her works, demonstrates. The paintings were tracked down, identified, and collected by the poet and art writer William Benton, who arranged the first exhibit of Bishop's artwork (twenty-seven pieces) in January 1993 at the East Martello Tower Museum as part of the Key West Literary Seminar on Bishop's writing.Probably the best-known paintings are the three or four that decorated the dust jackets of earlier editions of her books, but most of her artwork has never been reproduced. Some, like E. Bishop's Patented Slot-Machine, come as a total surprise.William Benton gives the provenance, dimensions, and (where possible) the date of each work. In the second half of the book, he
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ways of Curating
Book SynopsisThe world''s most influential contemporary-art curator explores the history and practice of his craftHans Ulrich Obrist curated his first exhibit in his kitchen when he was twenty-three years old. Since then he has staged more than 250 shows internationally, many of them among the most influential exhibits of our age.Ways of Curating is a compendium of the insights Obrist has gained from his years of extraordinary work in the art world. It skips between centuries and continents, flitting from meetings with the artists who have inspired him (including Gerhard Richter, Louise Bourgeois, and Gilbert and George) to biographies of influential figures such as Diaghilev and Walter Hopps. It describes some of the greatest exhibitions in history, as well as some of the greatest exhibitions never realized. It traces the evolution of collections from Athanasius Kircher''s seventeenth-century Wunderkammer to modern museums, and points the way for projects ye
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Penguin Random House LLC Selected Essays of John Berger
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Random House USA Inc Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and
Book SynopsisA painter and architect in his own right, Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) achieved immortality for this book on the lives of his fellow Renaissance artists, first published in Florence in 1550. Although he based his work on a long tradition of biographical writing, Vasari infused these literary portraits with a decidedly modern form of critical judgment. The result is a work that remains to this day the cornerstone of art historical scholarship. Spanning the period from the thirteenth century to Vasari’s own time, the Lives opens a window on the greatest personalities of the period, including Giotto, Brunelleschi, Mantegna, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian. This Modern Library edition, abridged from the original text with notes drawn from earlier commentaries, as well as current research, reminds us why The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects is indispensable to any student interested in Renaissance art.
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Random House USA Inc What the Ermine Saw
Book SynopsisThe remarkable true story behind one of history’s most enigmatic portraits—a glorious picaresque of unbridled passions and unmitigated scoundrels, a glorious romp through the great palaces and palazzos of Europe (Amanda Foreman, New York Times best-selling author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire)Five hundred and thirty years ago, a young woman sat before a Grecian-nosed artist known as Leonardo da Vinci. Her name was Cecilia Gallerani, and she was the young mistress of Ludovico Sforza, duke of Milan. Sforza was a brutal and clever man who was mindful that Leonardo’s genius would not only capture Cecilia’s beguiling beauty but also reflect the grandeur of his title. But when the portrait was finished, Leonardo’s brush strokes had conveyed something deeper by revealing the essence of Cecilia’s soul. Even today, The Woman with an Ermine manages to astonish. Despite the wor
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WW Norton & Co Broadway A History of New York City in Thirteen
Book SynopsisAn eye-opening history of Manhattan told through its most celebrated street.Trade Review"Wonderful. This isn’t only a history of Broadway—it’s a history of the entire city told through the story of the most famous street in America. Engagingly written and full of vivid characters. I couldn’t put it down." -- Kenneth T. Jackson, editor-in-chief, The Encyclopedia of New York City"Meticulously researched…Leadon’s tale is a whirl of characters…It is a whirl, too, of events…graced with wry wit." -- Clyde Haberman - New York Times Book Review"Part lively social history, part architectural survey, here is the story of Broadway—from 17th-century cow path to Great White Way." -- Wall Street Journal"A new history of the street that tells the story of modern America." -- David Taylor - The Guardian"Fran Leadon’s Broadway uses the thirteen miles of the great New York avenue to tell the remarkable story of the city’s evolution—its landmarks and legends, its high-rollers and lowriders. Part architectural history, part social history, it’s a cornucopia of intellectual delights. Endlessly fascinating and full of fun." -- John Lahr"A magical mystery tour of the street that invented American popular culture." -- Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz"[An] entertaining look at how the growth and development of New York City’s most famous street paralleled that of Manhattan…A welcome complement to more daunting and encyclopedic volumes on New York’s history." -- Publishers Weekly"Impressively detailed…A lively history of one of the most famous streets in America." -- Kirkus"[Leadon's] knowledge is expansive…[Broadway] is engagingly written and supplemented by good, easy-to-follow maps at each milestone." -- Booklist
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WW Norton & Co Portrait The Life of Thomas Eakins
Book Synopsis"Provocative.... McFeely sensitively chronicles the maturation of this enigmatic Philadelphian."—Matthew Price, New York Times Book ReviewTrade Review"Provocative... McFeely sensitively chronicles the maturation of this enigmatic Philadelphian." The New York Times Book Review"
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WW Norton & Co 33 Artists in 3 Acts
Book SynopsisThis compelling narrative goes behind the scenes with the world’s most important living artists to humanize and demystify contemporary art.Trade Review"Another art world page turner." -- Globe and Mail"A masterful picture of 33 artists, keenly bringing details of their lives to the surface with a skilled hand…With effortless sophistication, Thornton takes readers on a journey across the globe and into the homes and minds of contemporary artists. In the process, she banishes cynicism about modern art, revealing it to be a volatile, healthy enterprise still deeply engaged with the world." -- Publishers Weekly, Starred review"Will startle even art-world insiders." -- San Francisco Chronicle"[T]he Jane Goodall of the art world" -- Washington Post"How can one be a real artist in the real world? Thornton sets off to find out, meeting and debating with many of the most important artists around the globe. Credibility, integrity, legitimacy, recognition and truth in art are all tackled here. While the basis of the book is contemporary art, the themes are of universal interest." -- The Bookseller"Engaging and ingenious." -- The New Statesman"A vivid and entertaining read…Thornton meets some interesting artists and her direction can be playful. Her interviews with Andrea Fraser stand out, as do all her meetings with Ai Weiwei." -- The Guardian"Thornton nails some wonderful portraits of the people that, well, do wonderful portraits. These characters are no longer creators of icons but icons themselves and Thornton is in the front pew—but taking notes, not praying at all." -- Monocle"Inspiring—as unique as each of the artists featured." -- Carolina A. Miranda - Los Angeles Times"A readable, approachable introduction to the rock stars of [contemporary art] and their work." -- Kevin O’Kelly - Christian Science Monitor
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WW Norton & Co Tutankhamuns Trumpet Ancient Egypt in 100
Book SynopsisMarking the one hundredth anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s magnificent tomb, its incredible treasures are revealed as never before.Trade Review"British historian Toby Wilkinson tells everything we need to know about pharaonic Egypt…Wilkinson writes beautifully, melodically." -- David Luhrssen - Shepherd Express"A fresh history of King Tut and his world, generously illustrated and lucidly written." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred)"Wilkinson’s expert discussions touch on each item’s significance to Tutankhamun and what they reveal about daily life in ancient Egypt…Accentuated with black-and-white and color photos, this is an informative and immersive survey of the ancient world." -- Publishers Weekly"Beautifully written, sumptuously illustrated, constantly fascinating and the work of a man who is practised at explaining the past to the present" -- David Aaronovitch - Times (UK)"The cleverness of the book lies in how individual grave goods are used to crack open the mindset of a civilisation… This book thrums with life. To the ancient Egyptians, a pharaoh’s tomb was a ‘resurrection machine’ and, in a sense, they were right. The dead cannot be resurrected but, through the artefacts they used, we can sense the lives they lived. I’ve read many books on ancient Egypt, but I’ve never felt closer to its people." -- James McConnachie - Sunday Times (UK)
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WW Norton & Co Women in the Picture What Culture Does with
Book SynopsisArt historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their bodies, and their lives.Trade Review"Women in the Picture mounts a sensitive and probing critique of the motifs, the preordained poses and affectations of the female figure in art. If feminism aspires to render itself obsolete, McCormack’s project too yearns for a future when critiquing such postures...will no longer be necessary." -- Jasmine Sanders, New York Times Book Review"A passionate, serious, yet often entertaining introduction to issues that will be with us for the foreseeable future, their historic context and their implications for women." -- Cathryn Keller, Washington Post"McCormack moves seamlessly between feminism's academic and popular iterations…Women in the Picture gave me new ways to think about feminist art and feminist art history…[E]legant, precise, inviting." -- Kimberly Lann - Women's Art Journal"[An] illuminating look at how women's bodies have been depicted in the arts…This eye-opening work will leave readers with plenty to ponder." -- Publishers Weekly (starred)"A timely, succinct, aesthetic inquiry into debates about sexuality, objectification, and representation." -- Kirkus Reviews"On this grand tour of western visual culture, you couldn’t ask for a better guide." -- Bridget Quinn, author of Broad Strokes"Catherine McCormack succeeds in the nearly impossible task of discussing both the representation of women throughout the history of art as well as how women artists have challenged these male-centric images." -- Kathy Battista, author of New York New Wave"The art book we’ve all been waiting for." -- Helen Gørrill, author of Women Can’t Paint"I’m glad this book was written because it felt like the scales were falling from my eyes as I read it." -- Jan Patience - Herald
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Penguin Publishing Group Wildly into the Dark Typewriter Poems and the
Book SynopsisThe most intimate and eclectic poetry collection yet from bestselling author and online sensation Tyler Knott Gregson With loyal fans around the world and across the internet, Tyler Knott Gregson is reinventing poetry for a new generation, using Instagram and Tumblr to reach readers where they are. Tyler’s third collection includes more of his popular Typewriter Series poems (featured in his first book, Chasers of the Light) as well as never-before-published scenes that paint the world as only Tyler sees and experiences it. Filled with vivid photographs and even more vivid emotions, Wildly Into the Dark is a must-have for longtime fans as well as newcomers to Tyler's unique brand of passionate, intimate, and playful words and images.
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Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale David Bowie Retrospective and Coloring Book
Book SynopsisAn adult coloring book retrospective presenting music legend David Bowie's most idiosyncratic and indelible looks throughout the years, with insight into his famed designer collaborations, fashion inspirations, and stylish illustrations.Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, Thin White Duke. . . . Bowie changed his style more dramatically than any other musician in history. His transformations brought about seismic cultural shifts, altering the definition of what it meant to be a popular rock star. This annotated collection of illustrations provide a remarkable overview of Bowie's nearly fifty years of evolution, featuring looks by the likes of Freddie Burretti and Kansai Yamamoto, further establishing him as the fashion king of self-invention.
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Random House USA Inc Broken Glass
Book SynopsisThe true story of the intimate relationship that gave birth to the Farnsworth House, a masterpiece of twentieth-century architecture—and disintegrated into a bitter feud over love, money, gender, and the very nature of art.“An intimate portrait . . . alive with architectural intrigue.”—Architect Magazine In 1945, Edith Farnsworth asked the German architect Mies van der Rohe, already renowned for his avant-garde buildings, to design a weekend home for her outside of Chicago. Edith was a woman ahead of her time—unmarried, she was a distinguished medical researcher, as well as an accomplished violinist, translator, and poet. The two quickly began spending weekends together, talking philosophy, Catholic mysticism, and, of course, architecture over wine-soaked picnic lunches. Their personal and professional collaboration would produce the Farnsworth House, one of the most important works of architecture of all time, a
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Alfred A. Knopf Love in the Last Days
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The University of Michigan Press Fascination with Fiber
Book SynopsisFocuses on the forces that have kept the craft of handweaving alive in Michigan and throughout the country: individuals, organizations, and communities enlivened through necessity, opportunity, and creativity. This book is based on oral histories, interviews, documentary, and artifact research.
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The University of Michigan Press The Chatter of the Visible
Book SynopsisExamines the paradoxical narrative features of the photo montage aesthetics of artists associated with Dada, Constructivism, and the New Objectivity. McBride offers an historicized reappraisal of 1920s and 1930s German photo montage work to show that its peculiar mimicry was less a rejection of narrative and more an extension or permutation of it.Trade Review“The Chatter of the Visible is a wonderful book. Patrizia McBride knows her topic inside and out and manages to bring a refreshing new perspective on Weimar visual culture in a way I think few scholars working today could match. Her account of Weimar montage as ‘world making’ is at once innovative and compelling, expansive and extremely precise.”—Michael Cowan, University of St. Andrews""The Chatter of the Visible: Montage and Narrative in Weimar Germany has all the intellectual makings of becoming a major go-to and reference for Weimar culture studies written in English. It is one of the theoretically most accomplished studies in that field, which will simultaneously fulfill a complementary need for more historically oriented scholarly work in the area and era. This is the case for literary scholarship as well as for culture and visual studies, to all of which this book is of eminent importance.”—Rainer Rumold, Northwestern University""Patrizia McBride’s seminal study examines the relationship between montage and narrative in Weimar Germany. In its masterful analyses, the book provides a detailed presentation of the various facets of montage narratives as an interface of technology, perception, and materiality. In doing so, it develops a theory of narrative that spans different media and discourses and is thus pathbreaking for Literary Studies oriented toward the history of knowledge and media studies.”—Elisabeth Strowick, Johns Hopkins University""Patrizia McBride’s study impressively complexifies our understanding of montage. Without simply rejecting its modernist conceptualizations as a primarily antinarrative force of rupture, the readings presented show how in response to the contemporary crisis of narrative sensemaking, Weimar authors and artists profiled montage as an innovative, phenomenological means of narration.”—Claudia Breger, Indiana University""Reconstructing the complex ecology of old genres and new media in the interwar years, McBride develops a striking vision of montage as a practice of storytelling native to the modern technological surround. Against one-sided interpretations of montage as a strategy of deconstruction and protest, The Chatter of the Visible reminds us that every montage cut also entails a suture, and that political interventions can be found not just in critique but in connection and correspondence as well.”—Devin Fore, Princeton University""This is by far the best book written on the topic of montage and narrative in Weimar culture so far. It establishes historical and theoretical parameters one will have to work with in the future. McBride states that the aesthetic means of montage appeared as a most fitting correlate to the multiple traumas woven into the historical fabric of Weimar Germany.” —Paul Michael Lutzeler, Washington University
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The University of Michigan Press Long Suffering
Book SynopsisLinks avant-garde performance practices with religious histories in the United States, setting contemporary performances of endurance art within a broader context of prophetic religious discourse in the United States. Its focus is on the work of Ron Athey, Linda Montano, and John Duncan, US-based artists whose performances involve extended periods of suffering.Trade Review“The author’s engagement with the actual performances through anintense immersion in archival material, primary sources, interviews withthe artists, and a broad and sustained engagement with the contextand historical circumstances of this work make this book particularlycompelling, and her attempt to counter the academic mistrust offundamentalism and embrace of secularism is laudable. Equallysignificant is her engagement with the relationship between ecstaticreligions, ethical actions, moral imperatives, and the history of religiousrevivalism and reform in the U.S.” - Jennie Klein, Ohio University
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The University of Michigan Press Reading Medieval Images
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe editors of Reading Medieval Images have assembled an admirable collection of essays that show what art historians do when they confront a work. The contributors draw on contemporary theory yet their writing is jargon-free, and the editorial apparatus (two engaging introductory essays, nine very brief but valuable introductions to groups of essays, and a well-chosen bibliography) is exemplary." —Sylvan Barnet, author of A Short Guide to Writing about Art"A compelling conspectus of exemplary case-studies that demonstrates the variety and vitality of current scholarship on medieval art. Much more than the sun of its parts, this fine collection will further the lively exchange and debate found in its pages. . . . A model for other publications of its kind." —Jeffery Hamburger, Harvard University
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The University of Michigan Press The Chatter of the Visible
Book SynopsisExamines the paradoxical narrative features of the photo montage aesthetics of artists associated with Dada, Constructivism, and the New Objectivity. McBride offers an historicized reappraisal of 1920s and 1930s German photo montage work to show that its peculiar mimicry was less a rejection of narrative and more an extension or permutation of it.Trade Review“The Chatter of the Visible is a wonderful book. Patrizia McBride knows her topic inside and out and manages to bring a refreshing new perspective on Weimar visual culture in a way I think few scholars working today could match. Her account of Weimar montage as ‘world making’ is at once innovative and compelling, expansive and extremely precise.”—Michael Cowan, University of St. Andrews""The Chatter of the Visible: Montage and Narrative in Weimar Germany has all the intellectual makings of becoming a major go-to and reference for Weimar culture studies written in English. It is one of the theoretically most accomplished studies in that field, which will simultaneously fulfill a complementary need for more historically oriented scholarly work in the area and era. This is the case for literary scholarship as well as for culture and visual studies, to all of which this book is of eminent importance.”—Rainer Rumold, Northwestern University""Patrizia McBride’s seminal study examines the relationship between montage and narrative in Weimar Germany. In its masterful analyses, the book provides a detailed presentation of the various facets of montage narratives as an interface of technology, perception, and materiality. In doing so, it develops a theory of narrative that spans different media and discourses and is thus pathbreaking for Literary Studies oriented toward the history of knowledge and media studies.”—Elisabeth Strowick, Johns Hopkins University""Patrizia McBride’s study impressively complexifies our understanding of montage. Without simply rejecting its modernist conceptualizations as a primarily antinarrative force of rupture, the readings presented show how in response to the contemporary crisis of narrative sensemaking, Weimar authors and artists profiled montage as an innovative, phenomenological means of narration.”—Claudia Breger, Indiana University""Reconstructing the complex ecology of old genres and new media in the interwar years, McBride develops a striking vision of montage as a practice of storytelling native to the modern technological surround. Against one-sided interpretations of montage as a strategy of deconstruction and protest, The Chatter of the Visible reminds us that every montage cut also entails a suture, and that political interventions can be found not just in critique but in connection and correspondence as well.”—Devin Fore, Princeton University""This is by far the best book written on the topic of montage and narrative in Weimar culture so far. It establishes historical and theoretical parameters one will have to work with in the future. McBride states that the aesthetic means of montage appeared as a most fitting correlate to the multiple traumas woven into the historical fabric of Weimar Germany.” —Paul Michael Lutzeler, Washington University
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Long Suffering
Book SynopsisLinks avant-garde performance practices with religious histories in the United States, setting contemporary performances of endurance art within a broader context of prophetic religious discourse in the United States. Its focus is on the work of Ron Athey, Linda Montano, and John Duncan, US-based artists whose performances involve extended periods of suffering.Trade Review“The author’s engagement with the actual performances through anintense immersion in archival material, primary sources, interviews withthe artists, and a broad and sustained engagement with the contextand historical circumstances of this work make this book particularlycompelling, and her attempt to counter the academic mistrust offundamentalism and embrace of secularism is laudable. Equallysignificant is her engagement with the relationship between ecstaticreligions, ethical actions, moral imperatives, and the history of religiousrevivalism and reform in the U.S.” - Jennie Klein, Ohio University
£999.99
LUP - University of Michigan Press Material Witness
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsCorrespondents; Introduction by David Lehman; Prologue; Part I: 1927---1947; Part II: 1950---March 1967; Part III: December 1966---1975; Index
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