History of art Books
Hallie Ford Museum of Art,US Marie Watt: Lodge
Book SynopsisMarie Watt is an American artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, and Portland, Oregon. Born in 1967 to the son of Wyoming ranchers and a daughter of the Turtle Clan of the Seneca Nation (Haudenosaunee), she identifies herself as "half cowboy and half Indian." Formally, her work draws from Indigenous design principles, oral tradition, personal experience, and western art history. Her approach to art-making is shaped by the proto-feminism of Haudenosaunee matrilineal custom, political work by Native artists in the '60s, a discourse on multiculturalism, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art, as well as a strong belief in interaction with her audience. Like Jasper Johns, she is interested in "things that the mind already knows." Unlike the Pop artists, she uses a vocabulary of natural materials (stone, corn husks, wool, cedar) and forms (blankets, pillows, bridges) that are universal to human experience and noncommercial in character. Marie Watt: Lodge offers the first comprehensive view of her work, covering a period extending from the mid-1990s to the present.
£19.79
Hallie Ford Museum of Art,US Manuel Izquierdo: Myth, Nature, and Renewal
Book SynopsisManuel Izquierdo (1925-2009) was a major talent and charismatic personality in Oregon’s modern art movement in the second half of the twentieth century. This book traces his compelling story of poverty-stricken origins in Madrid, his introduction to woodworking by his cabinet-maker grandfather, his childhood escape from Spain following the Spanish Civil War and emigration from France during World War II, and his life as a sculptor and printmaker in Portland from the 1940s to the twenty-first century. Inspired by mythology, nature, and art ranging Goya to Surrealism, Izquierdo’s work is sometimes somber, often festive, and always fascinating with a combination of tradition, modern art, and a world view informed by his odyssey from war-torn Europe to the Pacific Northwest.
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Hallie Ford Museum of Art,US Richard C. Elliott: Primal Op
Book SynopsisRichard C. Elliott (1945-2008) was a nationally recognized mixed media artist who lived and worked in Ellensburg, Washington. Born in Portland, Oregon, Elliott received his BA degree from Central Washington University in Ellensburg in art and economics. During the 1970s, he made meticulous drawings of his friends and other subjects, weaving light and form together to capture a particular moment in time. By the early 1980s, however, he no longer felt that he could express what he wanted to about light and natural structure through drawing. He began to explore primary colors and light active materials, and by 1987, decided to focus on the safety reflector as his medium of choice. During the 1990s and early 2000s, Elliott created a broad range of work that combined safety reflectors with two-dimensional geometric designs: site specific installations, reflectors mounted onto wood and canvas, and numerous public art commissions, including the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. He even experimented with neon in his ongoing exploration of light. During the last year of his life, he turned his attention to a series of computer-generated prints utilizing thousands of different colors and geometric designs.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments The Language of Light Life, Love, and Art The Early Drawings Fetishes and Festivals The Final Works Selected Biography
£23.39
Hallie Ford Museum of Art,US Louis Bunce: Dialogue with Modernism
Book SynopsisLouis Bunce: Dialogue with Modernism explores and assesses the art and life of the iconic Pacific Northwest modernist painter and printmaker who engaged with American and European modern art from Surrealism to Post-Modernism. Based in Portland, Oregon, Louis Bunce maintained strong ties with artists of the New York School, counting Jackson Pollock as colleague and friend. In his fifty-year career, Bunce (1907-1983) created a wide-ranging body of work that both reflects and illuminates twentieth-century modernism. He pioneered serigraphy as a fine art in the Northwest and as a painter infused painterly abstraction with references to the topography and light of the Northwest.
£32.40
Hallie Ford Museum of Art David Roberts: Artist and Traveler
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Hallie Ford Museum of Art The Art of D.E. May
£39.90
Archaeological Institute of America Crafting Encounters in the Art of Early Italy
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Smithsonian Books Beyond Grief: Sculpture and Wonder in the Gilded
Book SynopsisBeyond Grief explores high-style funerary sculptures and their functions during the turn of the twentieth century. Many scholars have overlooked these monuments, viewing them as mere oddities, a part of an individual artist's oeuvre, a detail of a patron's biography, or local civic cemetery history. This volume considers them in terms of their wider context and shifting use as objects of consolation, power, and multisensory mystery and wonder. Art historian Cynthia Mills traces the stories of four families who memorialized their losses through sculpture. Henry Brooks Adams commissioned perhaps the most famous American cemetery monument of all, the Adams Memorial in Washington, D.C. The bronze figure was designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, who became the nation’s foremost sculptor. Another innovative bronze monument featured the Milmore brothers, who had worked together as sculptors in the Boston area. Artist Frank Duveneck composed a recumbent portrait of his wife following her early death in Paris; in Rome, the aging William Wetmore Story made an angel of grief his last work as a symbol of his sheer desolation after his wife’s death. Through these incredible monuments Mills explores questions like: Why did new forms--many of them now produced in bronze rather than stone and placed in architectural settings--arise just at this time, and how did they mesh or clash with the sensibilities of their era? Why was there a gap between the intention of these elite patrons and artists, whose lives were often intertwined in a closed circle, and the way some public audiences received them through the filter of the mass media? Beyond Grief traces the monuments' creation, influence, and reception in the hope that they will help us to understand the larger story: how survivors used cemetery memorials as a vehicle to mourn and remember, and how their meaning changed over time.Trade ReviewCHOICE In this posthumously published work, Mills brings together a variety of threads to examine the nature of mourning and monumentality in the US from the 1880s to WW I. She focuses on several elite Eastern families, such as Henry and Clover Adams and William and Emelyn Story and their social networks in the US and abroad, to provide a context for the dissemination of "high-style" art in cemetery memorials during the period. The family tragedies of the deaths of spouses are background for the discussion of memorial art. Focusing on the work of such sculptors as Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Daniel Chester French, and Frank Duveneck, the author delves into their relationships to these families, their reception in both memorial art and high art, and subsequent influence and imitation. Mills is especially good at drawing out the perceived tensions between everyday memorialization and the work of these artists in the social environment of the period, as well as the contrasts between the intentions of the families and public reception of the memorials. Excellent photographs and a beautiful layout aid in the presentation. For collections in art history and history. --J. C. Wanser, Hiram College Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty; general readers.
£26.55
George F. Thompson Visual/Language: The Ledger Drawings of Dwayne
Book SynopsisPlains Indian ledger art grew out of the Native tradition of recording and chronicling through art important exploits by warriors and chiefs, among them images of war and hunting, that would adorn tipis and animal hides. These were seen as historical markers. But Native life on the Great Plains underwent tremendous change following the American Civil War, when the American conquest of the West was in full gear. In just a few decades, access to the hides of diminishing herds of bison, deer, antelope, and elk became more difficult and eventually impossible with reservation life. Native people creatively turned to the easily available ledger books of settlers, traders, and military men as their new canvases. The ledger art drawings of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are revered today for their depiction of Native life during the difficult transition to life on the reservation. The ledger drawings thus became a singularly important way for Native artists to preserve tribal history and to serve as a new kind of personal socio-political expression. Dwayne Wilcox, who grew up on the Pine Ridge Reservation and is a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, became interested in ledger art at an early age. He was influenced by the work of Lakota ledger artists such as Amos Bad Heart Bull (1869-1913), but he always sought to defy stereotypical notions of Native life and history and create his own artistic vision. Dwayne eventually focused on humor as his way to comment on the objectification of Native Americans. Skilled as an artist beyond measure, Dwayne’s ledger art drawings win major prizes and are sought by museums and collectors who see in him a true artist. Visual/Language is Dwayne’s first book, and it was created as a collaborative effort with curator Karen Miller Nearburg, who provides an enlightening introduction to his work. This book will surely penetrate the heart and soul and mind of all who read it.
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Shanghai Press An Illustrated Brief History of Chinese
Book SynopsisThe Chinese decorating art, in myriad media—bronze, ceramics, silk, embroidery, lacquer, jade, enamel, gold, and silver—and of carving and sculpture, is an ageless tradition of exquisite craftsmanship. Its evolution since ancient times was driven not only by the expanding use of materials available, but advances in technology. The understated elegance of Chinese aesthetics in arts and crafts, both functional and decorative, has in many ways influenced the development of the Chinese cultural identity, becoming emblematic of Chinese civilization in its worldwide dispersion. This concise history, complete and lucidly accessible, captures this millennia-old tradition, from the Neolithic Age to the late Qing when the last imperial reign unraveled, and the rise and evolution of its various forms, tracing the chronology of Chinese dynasties. Well researched and richly illustrated with more than 200 artefacts, it offers a fascinating journey through the evolution of Chinese aesthetics in the context of changing societies, reflecting the underlying qualities of the Chinese mind and a cultural heritage that endured uninterruptedly through millennia.Table of ContentsForewordThe Primitive SocietyThe Xia, Shang, and Western Zhou DynastiesThe Spring and Autumn and the Warring States PeriodsThe Qin and Han DynastiesThe Three Kingdoms, the Jin and the Northern and Southern DynastiesThe Sui, Tang and Five DynastiesThe Song DynastyThe Mongol Empire and Yuan DynastyThe Ming DynastyThe Qing DynastyAppendices
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Shanghai Press All About Chinese Culture: An Illustrated Brief
Book SynopsisAs one of the few ancient civilizations in the world, China features a multidimensional cultural deposit in consistency and unification, endowing her history with a sense of perplexity and enchantment. Together in this book, we shall follow the historical trace of 50 national treasures of the museums through the time tunnel, and enjoy their stories buried in the past 5000 years. In this book, the Chinese history is divided into eight periods. The treasures selected as samples are precious collections from museums around the world, including ceramics, jades, bronze wares, paintings, bamboo slips, sculptures, gold wares, and silver wares. Rich in photographs and illustrations, the book introduces the most representative academic thoughts, moral education, religious beliefs, and folk customs in every period of the ancient China, and describes the interaction of Chinese and foreign cultures, as well as the spirit of the times and the cultural characteristics hidden behind them. In this way, the most crucial social concepts and the most attractive anecdotes in history will be revealed, and a sketch of Chinese culture will unfold in front of you.
£17.95
Shanghai Press Chinese Brush Painting Four Seasons: Paint
Book SynopsisThis book combines Chinese painting techniques with twenty-four solar terms of traditional Chinese culture. According to the sequence of the four seasons—spring, summer, autumn, and winter—natural scenes are refined into a series of charming ink paintings. Following the tutorials in this book, you can complete beautiful ink and wash paintings in just a few strokes. In this book: •Starting with the most basic knowledge, you will gain an understanding of the classification and characteristics of the brush, ink, paper, inkstone, and pigment. •You can gradually move from superficial to deeper techniques as they are integrated into the tutorials, including a total of more than 30 painting techniques that can be easily learned through practice. •Follow meticulous graphic steps and intimate key tips to complete 24 fine ink paintings with rich themes centered around flowers, birds, vegetables and fruits, fish and insects, and landscapes. •Gain inspiration to integrate these paintings into life and turn them into practical items which can be used to decorate your home or as gifts. •Easily copied images and the spine binding design make it easy to spread the book evenly as you practice.Table of ContentsPreface Chapter One Tools and Materials 1. Paintbrush 2. Ink 3. Paper 4. Inkstone 5. Pigment Chapter Two Spring Painting 1. Beginning of Spring 2. Rain Water 3. Awakening of Insects 4. Spring Equinox 5. Pure Brightness 6. Grain Rain Chapter Three Summer Painting 1. Beginning of Summer 2. Grain Buds 3. Grain in Ear 4. Summer Solstice 5. Minor Heat 6. Major Heat Chapter Four Autumn Painting 1. Beginning of Autumn 2. End of Heat 3. White Dew 4. Autumn Equinox 5. Cold Dew 6. Frost’s Descent Chapter Five Winter Painting 1. Beginning of Winter 2. Minor Snow 3. Major Snow 4. Winter Solstice 5. Minor Cold 6. Major Cold
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Islandport Press The Essential Danby
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Museyon Guides French Riviera and Its Artists
Book SynopsisArt, Literature, Love, and Life on the Cote d'Azur Get swept up in the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera as author and filmmaker John Baxter takes readers on a whirlwind tour through the star-studded cultural history of the Cote d'Azur that's sure to delight travellers, Francophiles, and culture lovers alike. Readers will discover the dramatic lives of the legendary artists, writers, actors, and politicians who frequented the world's most luxurious resort during its golden age. In 25 vivid chapters, Baxter introduces the iconic figures indelibly linked to the South of France - artist Henri Matisse, who was inspired by the Riviera's colour and light; writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose Riviera hosts inspired 'Tender is the Night'; Coco Chanel, whose Saint-Tropez tan became an international fashion trend; and many more. Along the way, Baxter takes readers where few people ever get to go: the alluring world of the perfume industry, into the cars and casinos of Monte Carlo, behind-the-scenes at the Cannes Film Festival, to the villa where Picasso and Cocteau smoked opium, and to the hotel where Joseph Kennedy had an affair with Marlene Dietrich. These luminaries celebrated life and created art amid paradise, and this book is the ultimate guide to the Riviera's golden age. AUTHOR: John Baxter is an Australian-born writer, journalist and filmmaker; he has called Paris home since 1989. He is the author of numerous books including the autobiographical Immoveable 'Feast: A Paris Christmas', 'The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris', 'Chronicles of Old Paris: Exploring the Historic City of Light', and 'The Golden Moments of Paris: A Guide to the Paris of the 1920s'. REVIEWS of 'Chronicles of Old Paris' and 'The Gold Moments of Paris': "This richly illustrated and beautifully formatted work" - Library Journal "This lovely, gorgeous and intelligent book examines the Paris of old and not so old, with its many fascinating figures and tales." -Chicago Tribune "Excellent walking tours are accompanied by engaging anecdotes .." - France Magazine "While this is a nonfiction book, it reads like fiction, whereby the reader journeys through Paris at different times in its history, through the stories of famous people and places." - ForeWord Review 100 + illustrations and photos
£16.14
Museyon Guides Inspired!
Book SynopsisDiscover the fascinating true stories behind the world's most famous works of art, literature, music and film, complete with historical images. What real-life hero inspired the literary adventures of the Count of Monte Cristo and the Three Musketeers? How many women paid a steep price for being Picasso's muse? Why did author Conan Doyle dream of murdering his biggest creation, Sherlock Holmes? What force drove George Lucas to create Star Wars? Full of tragedy and humour, the 20 stories included in this book explore the lesser-known facts about the world's most Inspired! lives, from Mata Hari to Salvador Dali, from Bonnie and Clyde to Andy Warhol. 'Inspired!' is an easy-to-read, entertaining book for everyone interested in art, history, film and extraordinary human stories. AUTHOR: Maria Bukhonina is a world traveller, writer and television producer. She is a co-creator and executive producer of the television program Booze Traveler, which explores cultures around the world through their native libations. In this book, Maria continues to explore her favourite subjects of creativity, destiny and the power of human spirit. 60 images
£15.29
Museyon Guides Art + NYC: A Complete Guide to New York City Art
Book Synopsis'Art + NYC' is an art-lover's guide to New York City that combines a crash course in 20th- and 21st-century art history with in-depth bios of ten celebrated New York City artists: Edward Hopper, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Yoko Ono, Mark Rothko, Jeff Koons, Donald Judd, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Rauschenberg. Each segment is written by a leading art writer from publications such as Art in America, Flaunt, and the New York Times. Filled with useful information for both locals and tourists, 'Art + NYC' includes comprehensive neighbourhood-by-neighborhood gallery, museum and public art listings, along with studios and other artsy places of interest with detailed maps.
£19.76
Msu Broad The Transported Man
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Msu Broad David Lamelas: Fiction of a Production
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£999.99
Msu Broad Oscar Tuazon: Water School
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£999.99
Bard Graduate Center, Exhibitions Department Design by the Book – Chinese Ritual Objects and
Book SynopsisToday, China's classical antiquity is often studied through recovered artifacts, but before this practice became widespread, scholars instead reconstructed the distant past through classical texts and transmitted illustrations. Among the most important illustrated commentaries was the Sanli tu, or Illustrations to the Ritual Classics, whose origins are said to date back to the great commentator Zheng Xuan. Design by the Book, which accompanies an exhibition at Bard Graduate Center Gallery, discusses the history and cultural significance of the Sanli tu in medieval China. The Sanli tu survives in a version produced around 960 by Nie Chongyi, a professor at the court of the Later Zhou (951 960) and Northern Song (960 1127) dynasties. It is now mostly remembered if at all for its controversial entries and as a quaint predecessor of the more empirical antiquarian scholarship produced since the mid-eleventh century. But such criticism hides the fact that the book remained a standard resource for more than 150 years, playing a crucial role in the Song dynasty's perception of ancient ritual and construction of a Confucian state cult. Richly illustrated, Design by the Book brings renewed focus to one of China's most fascinating medieval works.
£999.99
Dry Climate Studios New York City's Central Park Seasons Art Print 11x14
£13.46
Dry Climate Studios New York City Grand Central Station Art Print 11x14
£13.46
Dry Climate Studios San Francisco Golden Gate Park Pagoda and Tea House Art Print 11x14
£13.46
University of Nevada Press Women Artists of the Great Basin
Book SynopsisThirty-two women artists scattered over 200,000 square miles introduce a powerhouse of three-dimensional art in Women Artists of the Great Basin. A wave of women’s art has begun to paint the land with a giant brush, and nowhere have the winds of change been more evident than in the Great Basin, where a sense of freedom and rugged individualism has swept across the playas and through cities and towns. This book is a stunning visual rendering of a wide range of visionary women artists of all ages and backgrounds, and readers will discover their dynamic works and get to know them on a personal level. Sculptors, painters, fabric artists, glassblowers, marble and stone workers, and even a renowned Twinkie artist are represented here, all producing artwork that is jam-packed with originality. Fulkerson and Mantle, longtime artists and residents of the Great Basin themselves, offer a behind-the-scenes intimate glimpse into these women’s lives and artwork—showing not only what they create, but why they create it. Too often overlooked, the women covered here prove there is much richness, life, and creativity in what has often been dismissed as a barren desert. Their stories of overcoming great obstacles unfold right alongside images of their art. Many circle outside the conventional world of galleries, museums, and art publications and have created varied paths to their success. They are indeed true originals, rooted in a land of unique geography, a stew of cultures, and stories like no other.Trade ReviewFulkerson and Mantle set out to discover and communicate the rich stories of each artist’s life journey, as well as their journey to or within the Great Basin, and how each of those journeys influenced both the practice and the products of artistic vision. They present a range of methods and creative expression as well as a diversity of truth."" - Patricia A. Atkinson, Nevada Arts Council
£999.99
Smithsonian Books Politics and Portraits in the United States and
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£37.40
University of Washington Press Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger
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£22.79
Laboratory Books What Heaven Looks Like Comments on a Strange
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Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers Limited Jen Alkema: Works & Projects
Book SynopsisJen Alkema's minimalism goes beyond an economy of language and material; it is a way of perceiving the world, a personal attitude rather than an application of style or method. Alkema’s primary objective is not to produce a definitive work of beauty. Rather, he creates the conditions that allow beauty to surface. The design claims its own existence, developing into an undeniable reality. The architect becomes his own instrument, no longer the master. If we see minimalism as a derivative of modernism in art, architecture and music, Jen Alkema is not a minimalist. If, however, minimalism is regarded as a way of thinking shared by numerous cultures throughout the ages, Jen Alkema is a minimalist pur sang. His minimalism goes beyond an economy of language and material; it is a way of perceiving the world, a personal attitude rather than an application of style or method. After receiving his degree at The Academy of Architecture (Amsterdam) and reaching the finals of the prestigious Prix de Rome competition in 1995, Jen Alkema turned his focus to the pure essence of architecture: mass, light, structure, repetition, volume, material. His designs, although austere almost to the point of being chaste, incorporate an innate luxury achieved through the exacting use of materials and attention to detail, a perfection in execution. Paradoxical as it may seem, the creation of this sensuous simplicity demands tremendous skill and discipline.
£58.50
Grid Books Tender Voyeur
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£33.75
Apollo Publishers The da Vinci Legacy: How an Elusive 16th-Century
Book SynopsisFor the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death comes an immersive journey through five centuries of history to define the Leonardo mystique and uncover how the elusive Renaissance artist became a global pop icon.Virtually everyone would agree that Leonardo da Vinci was the most important artist of the High Renaissance. It was Leonardo who singlehandedly created the defining features of Western art: a realism based on subtle shading; depth using atmospheric effects; and dramatic contrasts between light and dark.But how did Leonardo, a painter of very few works who died in obscurity in France, become the internationally renowned icon he is today, with the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper the most visited artworks in the world, attracting nearly a billion visitors each year, and Salvator Mundi selling as the most expensive artwork of all time, for nearly half a billion dollars?This extraordinary volume, lavishly illustrated with 130 color images, is the first book to unravel these mysteries by diving deep into the art, literature, science, and politics of Europe from the Renaissance through today. It gives illuminating context to both Leonardo and his accomplishments; explores why Leonardo’s fame vastly overshadowed that of his contemporaries and disciples; and ultimately reveals why despite finishing very few works, his celebrity has survived, even thrived, through five centuries of history.Table of ContentsIntroduction Leonardo in Amboise The Legacy of Leonardo’s Studio The Leonardeschi after Leonardo Leonardo and the Artists of the High Renaissance Leonardo in the Literature of the 16th Century The Leonardo Legend and the Art of Engraving The Mona Lisa and the Last Supper in the Baroque Era Leonardo’s Legacy in the 19th Century Leonardo da Vinci in the 20th century The Legacy of Leonardo Select Bibliography Endnotes Index
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Lockwood Press The Art of Painting in Ancient Greece
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£62.96
No Place Press Hello Leonora, Soy Anne Walsh
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£28.80
No Place Press For Want of a Nail
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£22.95
Random House USA Inc El Tarot Deck: Millennial Loter�a Edition
Book SynopsisThe classic game of Loter�a drew a lot of inspiration from the ancient practice of Tarot. This deck explores the similarities between these two timeless traditions with a modern twist�finally reuniting these long lost primos to help you reconnect with your Latinx magic. One common misconception is that Tarot is a practice used only to predict the future, but this Millennial Loter�a Tarot Deck is specifically designed to help you better understand your present and get in touch with your heritage. The only person in charge of your future is you, so the guidebook accompanying this 78-card tarot deck focuses on self-reflection and inspiration for your goals, all done with a sprinkle of Millennial Loter�a humour.
£27.00
Gagosian/Rizzoli Picasso Têteatête
£72.00
Oro Editions The City of Imagination
Book SynopsisIt is in the wilderness of cities rather than in nature that the imagination of these landscape drawings comes to life. Without any heroic emphasis, these drawings result from the observation of traces, evident or discreet, in the urban landscape, and the process to collect and memorise traces is the way to consider memory as a primary medium for creativity. The selected collection of over 150 drawings, thought and imagined over many years, delineates a personal city experience, without any intention of building a new city theory. No single drawing in this book is a representation of cities in-situ; all of them are interpretations, translations, and combinations of traces collected and selected while teaching, working, meeting cultures, and eating food in many different cities around the world. These drawings are a different form of communication than the beautiful renderings produced in endless numbers.
£29.02
Wooden Books Celtic Pattern: Visual Rhythms of the Ancient
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£7.55
Wooden Books Shadows: In Nature, Life & Art
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£7.55
Wooden Books Origami
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Paragon Books The Moleskine Project Volume 3
£999.99
Outland Entertainment The Funky Fish Book
Book SynopsisArtist Kennon James set out to draw fish and that is what he did. In a pure artistic exercise turned playful and eye-catching coffee table book, Kennon brings you a wonderful fish-filled book that will surprise and delight readers of all ages.
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Casemate Publishers The Darby School of Art: A Forgotten Chapter in
Book SynopsisThis is the story of an almost completely forgotten summer art school that flourished first in Darby, PA, and then in Fort Washington, PA, between 1898 and 1918. The Darby School of Art was founded and operated by Thomas Anshutz and Hugh Breckenridge, two artists who taught during the academic year at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Anshutz and Breckenridge brought a lot of new ideas about painting back to Philadelphia after their European sojourns, and introduced those ideas to a public that was initially not very responsive to Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and semi-abstract art. But an appreciation for modern styles of painting began to slowly grow among Philadelphia artists and collectors, and Anshutz and Breckenridge were in the forefront of this development. They also sympathized with what some have called the "New Woman" movement, which backed women who wanted to pursue careers outside of the home.In this new history, expert Mark Sullivan argues that the Philadelphia area was a genuine hub of avant-garde painting in the early twentieth century, even though it has earned the reputation of lagging far behind New York City in its openness to new styles of painting. It also discusses how the Darby School should be recognized as an institution that got behind the idea of women as professional artists at a time when that concept was quite radical.Table of ContentsIntroduction Dedication Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Chapter One: The Founders Chapter Two: The Early Days of the Darby School, 1898–1902 Chapter Three: Fort Washington, 1902–1907 Chapter Four: Fort Washington, 1908–1918 Chapter Five: The Legacy Chapter Six: Conclusions
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Rutgers University Press The Visual Is Political: Feminist Photography and
Book SynopsisThe Visual is Political examines the growth of feminist photography as it unfolded in Britain during the 1970s and 1980s. This period in Britain was marked by instability following the collapse of the welfare state, massive unemployment, race riots, and workers’ strikes. However, this was also a time in which various forms of social activism emerged or solidified, including the Women’s Movement, whose members increasingly turned to photography as a tool for their political activism. Rather than focusing on the aesthetic quality of the images produced, Klorman-Eraqi looks at the application of feminist theory, photojournalism, advertising, photo montage, punk subculture and aesthetics, and politicized street activity to emphasize the statement and challenge that the photographic language of these works posed. She shows both the utilitarian uses of photography in activism, but also how these same photographers went on to be accepted (or co-opted) into the mainstream art spaces little by little, sometimes with great controversy. The Visual is Political highlights the relevance and impact of an earlier contentious, creative, and politicized moment of feminism and photography as art and activism.Trade Review"A wide-ranging history of feminist photography as it unfolded, embracing documentary, activist and artistic practices." — Source Thinking Through Photography "Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars" https://www.wiareport.com/2019/07/recent-books-of-interest-to-women-scholars-77/— WIA Report Photographs did much more than take on representations of women in 1970s Britain, which Na’ama Klorman-Eraqi demonstrates in her valuable contribution to feminist historiography. As a form of countermedia, feminist photography disrupted conventions of artistic production and display, illuminated power dynamics in public and private space, complicated theoretical debates, and framed a growing social movement identity. With attention to the street, the home, the museum, the media, and the government, this book offers an engaging, interdisciplinary account of aesthetics in politics that will undoubtedly appeal to scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts. — Agatha Beins, co-editor of Women's Studies for the Future "Na’ama Klorman-Eraqi makes a powerful statement with this book. She tackles power dynamics through aesthetic portrayals of politics in 1970’s and 1980’s Britain. This book packs a real punch."— Pretty Progressive In The Visual is Political Na’ama Klorman-Eraqi brings together a number of important debates concerning the politics of representation in the 1970s and 1980s. Her lucid analysis and wide-ranging themes bring the feminist investments of artists and photographers in Britain to life. This is a timely and important book, which synthesizes information of a number of practices that have so far been peripheral to the history of art. The Visual is Political will surely put these debates back into the spotlight. — Amy Tobin, co-editor of London Art Worlds " A seminal work of original and insightful scholarship [and] an extraordinary study that is enhanced for academia....Impressively informative and exceptional in organized and presentation."— Midwest Book Review "Books for July 2019" monthly round-up http://www.indiebookshops.com/2019/06/01/books-for-july-2019/?fbclid=IwAR0fqqv20TfpiRLX_eMbVvHm4SDwxoBeh53bZG6nqFAL9m0fZ5AM69Fwxj8— Indie BookshopsTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations 1 Introduction 2 Feminist Photography and the Media 3 Photography and the Street / Feminist Documentary 4 Entering the Museum 5 Conclusion and Afterthoughts Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press In Plenty and in Time of Need: Popular Culture
Book SynopsisIn Plenty and in Time of Need demonstrates how the unique history of Barbados has contributed to complex relations of national, gendered, and sexual identities, and how these identities are represented and interpreted on a global stage. As the most widespread manifestation of social commentary, the book uses music and performance to analyze the competing ideals and realities of the national culture. It details the histories of prominent musical artists, including the prolific Pan-Africanist calypsonian the Mighty Gabby, the world-renowned Merrymen, Soca Queen Alison Hinds, artist/activist Rupee, and international superstar Rihanna. Using these artists, the project analyzes how femininity, masculinity, and sexuality are put in service of Barbadian nationalism. By examining websites, blogs, and digital products of these artists in conversation with Barbadian tourism, the book re-examines the ways in which commodity, sexuality, gender performance, and diasporic consciousness undergird individual careers and national representations.Trade Review“A refreshingly vital work! As Barbados flexes its stance, situating itself in the contemporary world, Lia T. Bascomb provides one of the most engaging and enlightening published discussions on the meanings of this process. In Plenty and in Time of Need will be a go-to text for many years.” -- Curwen Best * author of The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados: Pathways to Digital Culture *“Lia Bascomb’s In Plenty and In Time of Need is a necessary and powerful remix of performance studies, diaspora studies, studies of the nation, studies of migration and popular culture. Her remixes of critical theory, Caribbean intellectual traditions, discourses of the nation, post-independence and postcolonial conditions, along with gender and sexuality provide a powerful account of contemporary Black diasporic connection and performativity located in the geopolitics of Barbados but exceeding the geography of that place to reorient our thinking on the global flows of people, cultures and power.” -- Rinaldo Walcott * author of Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora, and Black Studies *"This text is a well-conceived and articulated discussion of the ways in which history intertwine with contemporary cultural performances to construct a national identity. For Bascomb, this exchange takes place in a political arena where not only the personal is political but the political is often symbolic and immaterial." -- Hunter H. Fine * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *Table of ContentsList of Images Introduction 1 England’s Child, the People’s Nation: Myths of Barbadian National Identity 2 Performing National Identity 3 Caribbean Queen: Afro-Barbadian Femininity, Alison Hinds, and Performing of the Erotic at Home and Abroad 4 “Love You All”: Rupee, Afro-Barbadian Masculinity, Activism, and the Temptations of a Global Pop Market 5 Rihanna, Where Celebrity and Tourism Meet in a Dangerous Crossroads of Representation Conclusion: Celebrating Barbadian Independence, the Golden Jubilee Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index
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Rutgers University Press Irina Nakhova: Museum on the Edge
Book SynopsisThroughout her extensive career, Russian conceptual artist Irina Nakhova has frequently pushed the limits of what constitutes art and how we experience the art museum. One of her famous early pieces, for instance, transformed a room in her very own Moscow apartment into an art installation. Released in conjunction with Nakhova’s first museum retrospective exhibition in the United States, this book includes many full-color illustrations of her work, spanning the entirety of her forty-year career and demonstrating her facility with a variety of media. It also includes essays by a variety of world-renowned curators and art historians, each cataloging Nakhova’s artistic innovations and exploring how she deals with themes of everyday life, memory, viewer engagement, and moral responsibility. It concludes with a new interview with Nakhova herself, giving new insight into her creative process and artistic goals. Irina Nakhova: Museum on the Edge provides a vivid look at the work of a visionary artist. Published in partnership with the Zimmerli Museum.Table of ContentsForeword and Acknowledgements 5 Thomas SokolowskiMuseum on the Edge 8Julia TulovskyIrina Nakhova’s Complexity: The Photograph and the Museum 14Jane SharpIrina Nakhova’s Battle of the Invalids 18Natalia SidlinaFirst Comes the Feeling: A Dialogue with Irina Nakhova 22Gabriella FerrariPlates 26 Seven Masterpieces: An Audioguide by Irina Nakhova 2013 70 Works in the Exhibition 74 Selected Exhibitions 76 Contributors 81
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Rutgers University Press Dialogues: Ilya Kabakov and Viktor Pivovarov,
Book SynopsisArtists in the Soviet Union faced a difficult choice: either join the official academies and make art that conformed to the state’s aesthetic and ideological dictates, or attempt to develop alternative artistic practices and spheres for exhibiting their work. In the early 1970s, conceptual artists Ilya Kabakov and Viktor Pivovarov chose the latter option, turning their limited resources into an asset by pioneering an entirely new artistic genre: the album. Somewhere between drawings and novels, Kabakov and Pivovarov’s albums were also the basis for unique performance pieces, as the artists invited select audiences to their Moscow apartments for private readings and viewings of the albums, helping to cultivate an alternative artistic community in the process. This exhibition catalog brings together Kabakov and Pivovarov’s key works for the first time, putting the two artists in dialogue and recreating their artistic community. It not only includes nearly hundred pages of full-color illustrations, but also provides complete English translations of the Russian texts that appear in the volume, plus new interviews with each artist. Taken together, they give viewers a new appreciation of the different aesthetic strategies each artist used to depict the absurdities of everyday life in the Soviet era. Published in partnership with the Zimmerli Museum.Table of ContentsContents Foreword Acknowledgments Ksenia NourilBetween the Lines: The Intermediality of Ilya Kabakov’s AlbumsKsenia NourilIlya Kabakov in Conversation with Ksenia Nouril KABAKOV PLATES The Beloved Agent in LoveTomáš GlancViktor Pivovarov in Conversation with Tomáš Glanc PIVOVAROV PLATES Catalogue of the Exhibition Selected Bibliography About the Authors
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Rutgers University Press Martin Scorsese and the American Dream
Book SynopsisMore than perhaps any other major filmmaker, Martin Scorsese has grappled with the idea of the American Dream. His movies are full of working-class strivers hoping for a better life, from the titular waitress and aspiring singer of Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore to the scrappy Irish immigrants of Gangs of New York. And in films as varied as Casino, The Aviator, and The Wolf of Wall Street, he vividly displays the glamour and power that can come with the fulfillment of that dream, but he also shows how it can turn into a nightmare of violence, corruption, and greed. This book is the first study of Scorsese’s profound ambivalence toward the American Dream, the ways it drives some men and women to aspire to greatness, but leaves others seduced and abandoned. Showing that Scorsese understands the American dream in terms of a tension between provincialism and cosmopolitanism, Jim Cullen offers a new lens through which to view such seemingly atypical Scorsese films as The Age of Innocence, Hugo, and Kundun. Fast-paced, instructive, and resonant, Martin Scorsese and the American Dream illuminates an important dimension of our national life and how a great artist has brought it into focus.Trade Review"Martin Scorsese is a preeminent American filmmaker, and Jim Cullen is a preeminent historian of American culture. Spanning from the director's youth on the mean streets of Manhattan to the closing scene of The Irishman, this book is teeming with brilliant insight into some of the most important films of the last 50 years. Highly recommended for cinephiles and for anyone interested in the story of the American Dream." — Jonathan D. Cohen, co-editor of Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen "Jim Cullen is one of the most acute cultural historians writing today. This sweeping analysis of Martin Scorsese’s films through the lens of the American Dream is a must read for the many fans of the director’s work." — Louis P. Masur, author of The Sum of Our Dreams: A Concise History of AmericaTable of ContentsPreface A Martin Scorsese Feature Film Chronology Introduction: The Provincial Cosmopolitan 1 The Elizabethan Era 2 Redeeming Dreams 3 Impressive Failures 4 Dream Critiques 5 Recurring Dreams Conclusion: Dream of Life Acknowledgments Notes Index
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Rutgers University Press Day of the Dead in the USA, Second Edition: The
Book SynopsisHonoring relatives by tending graves, building altars, and cooking festive meals has been a major tradition among Latin Americans for centuries. The tribute, "El Día de los Muertos," has enjoyed renewed popularity since the 1970s when Latinx activists and artists in the United States began expanding "Day of the Dead" north of the border with celebrations of performance art, Aztec danza, art exhibits, and other public expressions. Focusing on the power of public ritual to serve as a communication medium, this revised and updated edition combines a mix of ethnography, historical research, oral history, and critical cultural analysis to explore the manifold and unexpected transformations that occur when the tradition is embraced by the mainstream. A testament to the complex role of media and commercial forces in constructions of ethnic identity, Day of the Dead in the USA provides insight into the power of art and ritual to create community, transmit oppositional messages, and advance educational, political, and economic goals. Today Chicano-style Day of the Dead events take place in all fifty states. This revised edition provides new information about: The increase in events across the US, incorporating media coverage and financial aspects, Recent political movements expressed in contemporary Day of the Dead celebrations, including #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo Greater media coverage and online presence of the celebration in blogs, websites, and streaming video Día de los Muertos themes and iconography in video games and films The proliferation of commercialized merchandise such as home goods, apparel, face paints and jewelry at mainstream big box and web retailers, as well as the widespread proliferation of calavera-themed decorations and costumes for Halloween 24 new full color illustrations Trade Review"Marchi provides a unique and valuable account of the rise of Day of the Dead celebrations in the U.S., demonstrating the complex dynamics of ethnic and cultural identity in the contemporary cultural economy, urban community, and media environment." -- Eric W. Rothenbuhler * author of Ritual Communication and co-editor of Media Anthropology *"What a difference a day (the Day of the Dead) makes! In the U.S. in the past generation, a Latin American family/religious ritual has been reinvented as a holiday of ethnic pride that builds bridges between new and settled immigrants, between Latinos and Anglos, and across cultural identity, consumerism, and political protest. Regina Marchi reveals all this in a marvelous work, a rare blend of charm, grace, attentive field work, and theoretical savvy." -- Michael Schudson * author of The Good Citizen: A History of American Public Life *"Regina Marchi speaks directly to all of those wondering how Mexico's tradition of re-membering the dead within living communities became US America's newest holiday. The book thoughtfully records the voices of significant Chicanas/os whose traditional and non-traditional approaches initiated this transformation." -- David Avalos * Visual and Performing Arts Department, California State University San Marcos *“Regina Marchi has written the most historically and geographically comprehensive documentation of Día de los muertos. The second edition centers the voices of the Chicana/o/x artists and advocates who made this celebration into an international phenomenon and subsequently gained the attention of markets, museums, and the media.” -- Karen Mary Davalos * author of Chicana/o Remix: Art and Errata Since the Sixties *“Fifty years after the first Day of the Dead celebration was hosted in the United States, Marchi invites readers into a thriving world of the Día de los Muertos consumer culture. The book expands upon Marchi’s original historical and ethnographic research to foreground the role of consumer culture in the expression of ethno-racial identities within traditional practices of commemoration.” -- Rachel V. González-Martin * author of Quinceañera Style: Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities *"Marchi provides a unique and valuable account of the rise of Day of the Dead celebrations in the U.S., demonstrating the complex dynamics of ethnic and cultural identity in the contemporary cultural economy, urban community, and media environment." -- Eric W. Rothenbuhler * author of Ritual Communication and co-editor of Media Anthropology *"What a difference a day (the Day of the Dead) makes! In the U.S. in the past generation, a Latin American family/religious ritual has been reinvented as a holiday of ethnic pride that builds bridges between new and settled immigrants, between Latinos and Anglos, and across cultural identity, consumerism, and political protest. Regina Marchi reveals all this in a marvelous work, a rare blend of charm, grace, attentive field work, and theoretical savvy." -- Michael Schudson * author of The Good Citizen: A History of American Public Life *"Regina Marchi speaks directly to all of those wondering how Mexico's tradition of re-membering the dead within living communities became US America's newest holiday. The book thoughtfully records the voices of significant Chicanas/os whose traditional and non-traditional approaches initiated this transformation." -- David Avalos * Visual and Performing Arts Department, California State University San Marcos *“Regina Marchi has written the most historically and geographically comprehensive documentation of Día de los muertos. The second edition centers the voices of the Chicana/o/x artists and advocates who made this celebration into an international phenomenon and subsequently gained the attention of markets, museums, and the media.” -- Karen Mary Davalos * author of Chicana/o Remix: Art and Errata Since the Sixties *“Fifty years after the first Day of the Dead celebration was hosted in the United States, Marchi invites readers into a thriving world of the Día de los Muertos consumer culture. The book expands upon Marchi’s original historical and ethnographic research to foreground the role of consumer culture in the expression of ethno-racial identities within traditional practices of commemoration.” -- Rachel V. González-Martin * author of Quinceañera Style: Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on the TextGlossaryIntroduction An Ancient and Modern Festival Mexico’s Special Relationship with Day of the Dead Day of the Dead in the United States Ritual Communication and Community Building US Day of the Dead as Political Communication: A Moral Economy Day of the Dead in the US Media: The Celebration Goes Mainstream Appeal, Influence and Ownership The Commodification of Day of the Dead Conclusion: What We Can Learn from US Day of the Dead CelebrationsMethodological AppendixNotesBibliographyIndex
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