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Yale University Press How Photography Became Contemporary Art
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Yale University Press Wall Power
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Yale University Press Manga
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Yale University Press Christo and JeanneClaude
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) The Renaissance Seminar Studies
Book SynopsisThe Renaissance, now in its third edition, engages with earlier and current debates about the Renaissance, especially concerning its âmodernityâ, its elitism and gender bias and its globalism. This new edition has been revised to include a discussion of Venice, Rome, Naples and Florence and their relationship with surrounding courts and smaller provincial towns. Brown provides a fresh insight into some of the main themes of the Renaissance, with humanism now being explored in relation to gender, the position of women and the response of religious reformers to the new ideas. The broad geographical scope, concluding with an examination of diffusion through trade with Constantinople, Portugal and Spain, allows students to fully explore how the Renaissance transformed into a global movement. Key themes, such as humanism, art and architecture, Renaissance theatre and the invention of printing, are illustrated with quotations and exempla, making this book an invaluable source for students of the Renaissance, early modern history and social and cultural history.Table of ContentsPART ONE: INTRODUCTION 1. The Problem of Interpretation 2. The Concept of Revival 3. Earlier Renaissances, 800-1300 PART TWO: CONTEXT: POLITICS AND RELIGION 4. Italian Communes and City-States, c. 1300 5. The Rise of Lordships and the Black Death 6. Florence, Venice and Naples 7. Rome and the Papacy PART THREE: RENAISSANCE PASSIONS 8. Petrarch: self-love and the love of books 9. New Schools 10. Liberty and Republicanism 11. Art and Architecture 12. Man the Measure of all things: humanism and gender 13. Religion ancient and modern PART FOUR: SOCIETY AND THE CIRCULATION OF NEW IDEAS 14. Commerce and the Classics in Europe and the East 15. Portugal, Spain and the New World 16. The Invention of Printing 17. Representation and the Renaissance Theatre PART FIVE: ASSESSMENT 18. Globalism and the Renaissance PART SIX: DOCUMENTS
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Archaeology of Seeing Science and
Book SynopsisThe Archaeology of Seeing provides readers with a new and provocative understanding of material culture through exploring visual narratives captured in cave and rock art, sculpture, paintings, and more. The engaging argument draws on current thinking in archaeology, on how we can interpret the behaviour of people in the past through their use of material culture, and how this affects our understanding of how we create and see art in the present. Exploring themes of gender, identity, and story-telling in visual material culture, this book forces a radical reassessment of how the ability to see makes us and our ancestors human; as such, it will interest lovers of both art and archaeology.Illustrated with examples from around the world, from the earliest art from hundreds of thousands of years ago, to the contemporary art scene, including street art and advertising, Janik cogently argues that the human capacity for art, which we share with our most ancient ancestTable of ContentsIntroduction1 How contemporary is prehistoric art?2 The origins of art 3 The gallery: unveiling visual narrative 4 Power of display: the artist and the object5 Embodiment and disembodiment: the corporality of visual art and interwoven landscapes6 Portraiture and the reverence of the other7 Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Chemistry and Mechanism of Art Materials
Book SynopsisThis unique book presents an integrated approach to the chemistry of art materials, exploring the many chemical processes involved. The Chemistry and Mechanism of Art Materials: Unsuspected Properties and Outcomes engages readers with historical vignettes detailing examples of unexpected outcomes due to materials used by known artists. The book discusses artists' materials focusing on relevant chemical mechanisms which underlie the synthesis and deterioration of inorganic pigments in paintings, the ageing of the binder in oil paintings, and sulfation of wall paintings as well as the toxicology of these pigments and solvents used by artists. Mechanisms illustrate the stepwise structural transformation of a variety of art materials. Based on the author's years of experience teaching college chemistry, the approach is descriptive and non-mathematical throughout. An introductory section includes a review of basic concepts and provides conTable of ContentsChapter 1 Essential ConceptsChemical Bonding, Solubility, Properties of Solids,Hard and Soft Acids and BasesOxidation-ReductionChemical Reaction MechanismsExperimental Methods Used to Characterize Works of ArtChapter 2 Preparation of Inorganic PigmentsIntroductionBlack PigmentsAntimony BlackCarbon BlacksCobalt BlackIron Oxide, MagnetiteManganese BlackBlue PigmentsAzuriteCerulean BlueEgyptian BluePrussian BlueSmaltUltramarineVerdigrisBrown PigmentsIron (III) Oxide PigmentsLead DioxideGreen PigmentsChromium OxideHydrated Chromium Oxide, ViridianMalachite, see AzuriteParis GreenVerdigrisRed Pigmentsα-Cinnabar and VermilionRed LeadIron (III) Oxide, Hematiteα-Realgar, see OrpimentViolet PigmentsPigment Violet 14White PigmentsAntimony WhiteBarium WhiteLithoponeTitanium WhiteWhite LeadZinc WhiteZinc SulfideYellow PigmentsBismuth VanadateCadmium PigmentsCobalt YellowIron (III) OxideLead ChromateLead Tin Yellow type ILead Tin Yellow type IILead Monoxide, Litharge and MassicotLead Tin Antimonate, Naples YellowOrpimentTitanium YellowChapter 3 Silica, Silicates and AluminosilicatesIntroductionSilicaSilicatesPigment-Silicate InteractionsPottery GlazesAluminosilicatesChapter 4 Discoloration StoriesIntroductionSmaltRed LeadRealgarCinnabarHematiteChrome YellowSilverpointCadmium YellowBlackening of Pigments by H2SUltramarineAzurite and MalachiteMedieval PigmentsChapter 5 Toxicology of Art MaterialsIntroductionOrganicsMethylene ChlorideCarbon TetrachlorideTrichloroethylenen-HexaneN-MethylpyrrolidoneDiisocyanatesAlcohols, Glycols and Glycol EthersMineral SpiritsInorganicsLeadZinc, Cadmium and Mercury Familial PropertiesCadmiumMercurySilverArsenicChromiumChapter 6 Ageing of Oil PaintOxidative Degradation of Oil BinderMetal Soap formationChapter 7 Ageing of Wall PaintingsSecco and Fresco methodsReversal of SulfationDeposition of Water Soluble SaltsDegradation of Oil Binder
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Taylor & Francis Icons of Sound
Book SynopsisIcons of Sound: Voice, Architecture, and Imagination in Medieval Art brings together art history and sound studies to offer new perspectives on medieval churches and cathedrals as spaces where the perception of the visual is inherently shaped by sound. The chapters encompass a wide geographic and historical range, from the fifth to the fifteenth century, and from Armenia and Byzantium to Venice, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela. Contributors offer nuanced explorations of the intangible sonic aura produced in these places by the ritual music and harness the use of digital technology to reconstruct historical aural environments.Rooted in a decade-long interdisciplinary research project at Stanford University, Icons of Sound expands our understanding of the inherently intertwined relationship between medieval chant and liturgy, the acoustics of architectural spaces, and their visual aesthetics. Together, the contributors provide insights that are relevant across Table of ContentsIntroductionBissera V. Pentcheva1. Singing Doors: Images, Space, and Sound in the Santa Sabina NarthexIvan Foletti2. Sights and Sounds of the Armenian Night Office, as Performed at Ani: A Collation of the Archaeological, Historical, and Liturgical EvidenceChristina Maranci3. The Glittering Sound of Hagia Sophia and the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross in ConstantinopleBissera V. Pentcheva4. Transcendent Visions: Voice and Icon in the Byzantine Imperial ChapelsBissera V. Pentcheva5. Echoes and Silences of Liturgy: Liturgical Inscriptions and the Temporality of Medieval RitualsVincent Debiais6. Sound, Space, and Sensory Perception: The Easter Mass in the Liturgy of San Marco, VeniceDeborah Howard7. The Marble Tempest: Material Imagination, the Echoes of Nostos, and the Transfiguration of Myth in Romanesque SculptureFrancisco Prado-VilarEpilogue: A Voice from beyond the Grave: Tintoretto among the Art HistoriansAlexander Nemerov
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Michael Fried and Philosophy Modernism Intention
Book SynopsisThis book brings together philosophers, literary theorists, and art historians to argue for the philosophical significance of Michael Fried’s art history and criticism. Fried’s analyses of absorption and theatricality throw new light on problems in aesthetics, as well as questions surrounding authenticity, scepticism, modernity, and politics.Trade Review"This exemplary collection brings together philosophers, art historians, and literary scholars to shed light on the vast range of work by Michael Fried, and the relevance of Fried's work to philosophy . . . [It] opens an authentic, valuable dialogue between art and philosophy. Summing Up: Essential." – CHOICE Reviews"This is a superb set of essays on the writing of Michael Fried . . . Every essay is lucid, scholarly, meticulously crafted, detailed and acute in a way worthy of Fried's virtuoso and philosophically subtle approach to the history of art." – Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Michael Fried and PhilosophyMathew Abbott1. Modernism and the Discovery of FinitudeMathew Abbott 2. "When I raise my arm": Michael Fried’s Theory of ActionWalter Benn Michaels3. Why Does Photography Matter as Art Now, as Never Before? On Fried and IntentionRobert Pippin4. Schiller, Schopenhauer, FriedDavid Wellbery5. Deep Relationality and the Hinge-like Structure of History: Michael Fried’s PhotographsStephen Mulhall6. Becoming MediumStephen Melville7. Formulism and the Appearance of NatureRichard Moran8. Michael Fried, Theatricality, and the Threat of SkepticismPaul J. Gudel9. Michael Fried’s IntentionalityRex Butler10. On the (So-Called) Problem of Detail: Michael Fried, Roland Barthes, and Roger Scruton on Photography and IntentionalityDiarmuid Costello11. The Aesthetics of AbsorbtionMagdalena Ostas12. Grace and Equality, Fried and Rancière (and Kant)Knox Peden13. Diderot’s Conception of Aesthetic Subjectivity and the Possibility of ArtAndrew Kern14. The Promise of the Present: Michael Fried’s Poetry NowJennifer Ashton15. Constantin Constantius Goes to the TheaterMichael Fried
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Routledge Art Historiography and Iconologies Between West and East
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Taylor & Francis Art and Street Politics in the Global 1960s
Book SynopsisAnarchic street performances in late-1950s Japan; inauguration of the first Happenings in Antwerp and charging of the magic circle in Amsterdam; Bauhaus Situationiste and anti-national art exchanges, networks and communes. As Happener and Art Missionary, Yoshio Nakajimaâs storied career traverses an astounding range of locations, scenes, movements, media, and performance modes in the global 1960s and 1970s in ways that challenge our notions of the possibilities of art. Nakajima repeatedly plays a role in jump-starting spaces of possibility, from Tokyo to Ubbeboda, from Spui Square and the Dutch Provos to Antwerp and Sweden. Despite this, Nakajimaâs work has paradoxically been largely excluded from accounts where it might have justifiably featured. The present volume represents an international collaboration of researchers working to remedy this oversight. Nakajimaâs work demands a reconceptualization of narratives of this art and politics and their specific interrelation to consider his exemplary nonconformityâand its exemplary exclusion. This history demonstrates the inadequacy of notions of specificity that would oppose an authentic local or national frame to an inauthentic transnational one. Conversely, Nakajima manifests a key dimension of the 1960s as a global event in the interrelation between eventfulness itself and the redrawing of categories of practice and understanding.
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Routledge The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History
Book SynopsisThis companion is the first global, comprehensive text to explicate, theorize, and propose decolonial methodologies for art historians, museum professionals, artists, and other visual culture scholars, teachers, and practitioners.Art history as a discipline and its corollary institutions - the museum, the art market - are not only products of colonial legacies but active agents in the consolidation of empire and the construction of the West. The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History joins the growing critical discourse around the decolonial through an assessment of how art history may be rethought and mobilized in the service of justice - racial, gender, social, environmental, restorative, and more. This book draws attention to the work of artists, art historians, and scholars in related fields who have been engaging with disrupting master narratives and forging new directions, often within a hostile academy or an indifferent art world. The volume unpacks the assumptions projected onto objects of art and visual culture and the discourse that contains them. It equally addresses the manifold complexities around representation as visual and discursive praxis through a range of epistemologies and metaphors originated outside or against the logic of modernity. This companion is organized into four thematic sections: Being and Doing, Learning and Listening, Sensing and Seeing, and Living and Loving.The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, museum studies, race and ethnic studies, cultural studies, disability studies, and womenâs, gender, and sexuality studies.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Modern Women Artists in the Nordic Countries
Book SynopsisThis transnational volume examines innovative women artists who were from, or worked in, Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, SÃpmi, and Sweden from the emergence of modernism until the feminist movement took shape in the 1960s.The book addresses the culturally specific conditions that shaped Nordic artistsâ contributions, brings the latest methodological and feminist approaches to bear on Nordic art history, and engages a wide international audience through the contributorsâ subject matter and analysis. Rather than introducing a new history of rediscovered women artists, the book is more concerned with understanding the mechanisms and structures that affected women artists and their work, while suggesting alternative ways of constructing womenâs art histories. Artists covered include Else Alfelt, Pia Arke, Franciska Clausen, Jessie Kleemann, Hilma af Klint, Sonja Ferlov Mancoba, Greta Knutson, Aase Texmon Rygh, Hannah Ryggen, JÃlÃana SveinsdÃttir, Ellen Thesleff, and Astri Aasen.The target audience includes scholars working in art history, cultural studies, feminist studies, gender studies, curatorial studies, Nordic studies, postcolonial studies, and visual studies.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION She Is No Gentle Lamb in the Cave of the Werewolf: Modern Women Artists in the Nordic Countries SECTION 1:Critical Reconsiderations, New Languages of Interpretation 1. The Work of Júlíana Sveinsdóttir: Engaging Issues of Gender and Colonial Subjectivity 2. The Symbolic Abstraction of Else Alfelt 3. Women Pioneers of Abstraction in 1950s Norway: The Balancing Act of Aase Texmon Rygh, Inger Sitter, and Gudrun Kongelf 4. Movement and the Living Surface: Greenlandic Modernism, Pia Arke, and the Decolonial Legacy of Women Artists in Greenland SECTION 2:Interventions, Transmissions, Networks 5. Gabriele Münter and the 1917 Exhibition of the Föreningen Svenska Konstnärinnor and Vereinigung Bildende Künstlerinnen Österreichs 6. Modern Corporeality: Body, Movement, and Dance in Ellen Thesleff’s Art 7. Women Artists in and around the Danish Journal linien 8. No One Creates Alone: Past and Present in a Common Reading of Artist Sonja Ferlov Mancoba SECTION 3:Subversive Spaces, Collaborations, and Reclamations 9. Collaboration and Co-Habitation: Swedish Women Artists at the Turn of the Century 10. “Women Need Work, and Work Needs Women”: Women Artists and Their Networks in Fin de Siècle Sweden 11. Shady Plants, Ecstatic Trees, and Vulva Seashells: Symbols of Erotic Nature in the Surrealist Work of Rita Kernn-Larsen and Elsa Thoresen 12. Anneliese Hager, Cobra, and the Camera-less Photograph SECTION 4:Subjectivities, Identity, and Self-Fashioning 13. Elsa Laula, Astri Aasen, and the Ascent of Sámi Visual Sovereignty, 1904–1917 14. Emancipated Bodies: Anna Klindt Sørensen Paints the Female Nude 15. Elaboration of the “New Woman” Figure by Women Artists in Interwar Finland 16. Soft Bones: Sonja Ferlov Mancoba and the Reconfiguration of Anatomy SECTION 5:Alternative Practices of Agency and Resistance 17. Dealing with Circles: Franciska Clausen and Her Position in the Group Cercle et Carré (1929–1930) 18. Surrealist Beasts: Greta Knutson’s Strategy of “Performative Refusal” 19. The Representation of Lack, the Matter of Imagination: Hannah Ryggen, Aesthetics of Resistance, and Art against Fascism 20. Intra-Actions with Nature (and Beyond): Hilma af Klint, Else Alfelt, and Sonja Ferlov Mancoba
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Taylor & Francis Glitch Art in Theory and Practice
Book SynopsisGlitch Art in Theory and Practice: Critical Failures and Post-Digital Aesthetics explores the concept of glitch alongside contemporary digital political economy to develop a general theory of critical media using glitch as a case study and model, focusing specifically on examples of digital art and aesthetics. While prior literature on glitch practice in visual arts has been divided between historical discussions and social-political analyses, this work provides a rigorous, contemporary theoretical foundation and framework.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Origins of 'Glitch' in The Stoppage2. The Heritage of Materialist Media3. Digital Misfunction and Materialist Approaches4. Critical Engagements with FailureConclusion: ProspectsGlossary
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WW Norton & Co American Art Deco
Book SynopsisA lavishly illustrated survey of American Art Deco architecture.
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WW Norton & Co The Collector of Lives
Book SynopsisA narrative of intrigue, gossip and colourful artistic rivalry, The Collector of Lives presents a lively introduction to a seminal figure in the very human story of art itself.Trade Review"The authors' greatest service to their subject is to reestablish him as a tireless artist and a central witness to an epic period of Italian history." -- Michael Prodger - The Sunday Times"... an insightful and gripping new book... Ms Rowland and Mr Charney draw a panoramic view of the art-world during the Renaissance, placing Vasari at the centre... This is an important book and long awaited. The authors have done a commendable job of returning to his rightful place the man who inflated the reputation of art and artists so successfully that he himself was squeezed out of the picture." -- The Economist"... absorbing... a page-turningly compelling overview of Giorgio Vasari and his age…" -- Literary Review"Ingrid Rowland and Noah Charney give full measure to his [Georgio Vasari's] artistic skills (and the diplomatic adroitness he needed to exercise them) and place him again at the centre of 16th-century Italian art." -- Michael Prodger, Art Books of the Year 2017 - The Sunday Times"Ingrid Rowland, a prominent scholar of Renaissance art and history, and her fellow writer and historian Noah Charney, wear their erudition lightly in their gracefully written biography." -- Deborah Solomon - New York Times Book Review"Readers curious about the making of Renaissance art, its cast of characters and political intrigue, will find much to relish in these pages. This is a lively, highly readable point of entry into an important and fascinating text." -- Cammy Brothers - The Wall Street Journal"[Rowland and Charney's] account of Vasari’s Tuscany, and of the facts (and fictions) that went into his “Lives,” is a fitting tribute to their subject’s biographical achievements." -- The New Yorker
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Social History of Art Volume 4
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1951 Arnold Hausers commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone Age through to the Film Age. Exploring the interaction between art and society, Hauser effectively details social and historical movements and sketches the frameworks in which visual art is produced.This new edition provides an excellent introduction to the work of Arnold Hauser. In his general introduction to The Social History of Art, Jonathan Harris asseses the importance of the work for contemporary art history and visual culture. In addition, an introduction to each volume provides a synopsis of Hausers narrative and serves as a critical guide to the text, identifying major themes, trends and arguments.Trade Review'Arnold Hausers Social History of Art - a very important and under-appreciated text.' - Whitney Davis, John Evans Professor of Art History, Northwestern University'It is no exaggeration to say that more than any other work Hauser's four volumes inspired my interest in art history.' - Alan Wallach, Ralph H Wark Professor of Art History, College of William and Mary'This work has great value in a contemporary context. I look forward to seeing what Jonathan has done with the introduction, but I cannot think of anyone better suited to the task.' - Johanna Drucker, Professor of Art History, Yale UniversityHausers extraordinary energy and subtlety wave a brilliant synthesis of the interaction between the aesthetic and societal, giving us at one and the same time a wealth of artistic detail and a consistent and fully elaborated exposition of the social process. - Albert Boime, UCLA, author of The Social History of Modern Art, 1750-1989Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction; Introduction to Volume IV; I: Naturalism and Impressionism; II: The Film Age
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Invitation in Art Volume 51 International Behavioural and Social Sciences Classics from the Tavistock Press
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Taylor & Francis Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty
Book SynopsisThis lavishly illustrated book brings together, for the first time, all of the different ways in which vase-painting portrays or refers to pederasty, from scenes of courtship, foreplay, and sex, to scenes of Zeus with his boy-love Ganymede, to painted inscriptions praising the beauty of boys. The book shows how painters used the language of vase-painting to cast pederasty in an idealizing light, portraying it as part of a world in which beautiful elite males display praiseworthy attitudes, such as moderation, and engage in approved activities, such as hunting, athletics, and the symposium. The book also incorporates a comprehensive catalogue of relevant vase-paintings, compiled by noted archaeologist Keith DeVries. It is the most comprehensive treatment available of an institution that has few modern parallels.Trade Review'This volume will be a much-used starting point for students and scholars of Greek male sexuality' – Times Higher Education Supplement‘This book meets a real need. The very fact that the authors' analysis is based on study of approximately 1000 vases (111 of which they illustrate) makes Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty a valuable resource, and an appendix including a catalogue of 647 vases compiled by the late Keith DeVries only adds to its value. The book greatly expands the amount of material available to nonspecialists, demonstrating that there are considerably more pederastic scenes in the surviving vases than has generally been believed, and its balanced and articulate readings of the material--the authors carefully describe recurring patterns, make allowance for exceptions, discuss alternative interpretations, and do not press when the evidence only goes so far--make it a significant contribution to our understanding of Greek pederasty.’ – Bryn Mawr Classical Review‘This extremely likable and well-presented book … will present essential reading for anyone working in the field of ancient sexuality and/or classical Greek iconography … This is a well-balanced and superbly written book – and one that is no doubt destined for classic status.’ – American Journal of Archaeology 'This volume will be a much-used starting point for students and scholars of Greek male sexuality.' – Times Higher Education Supplement‘This book meets a real need. The very fact that the authors' analysis is based on study of approximately 1000 vases (111 of which they illustrate) makes Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty a valuable resource, and an appendix including a catalogue of 647 vases compiled by the late Keith DeVries only adds to its value. The book greatly expands the amount of material available to nonspecialists, demonstrating that there are considerably more pederastic scenes in the surviving vases than has generally been believed, and its balanced and articulate readings of the material--the authors carefully describe recurring patterns, make allowance for exceptions, discuss alternative interpretations, and do not press when the evidence only goes so far--make it a significant contribution to our understanding of Greek pederasty.’ – Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction. Textual Evidence. The Iconography of Pederasty. What is Iconography. Elements of Iconography 1. Courtship. Courting-gift Scenes. Other Courtship Iconographies. 2. Ideals/Idealization 3. Consummation 4. Pederasty and the Gods 5. Kalos-inscriptions 6. Vase Dating 7. Fragments. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Festival Architecture
Book SynopsisWith contributions from provocative art and architectural historians, this book is a unique exposition of the temporary architecture erected for festivals and the role it has played in developing Western architectural and urban theory.Festival Architecture is arranged in historical periods â from Antiquity to the modern era â and divided between analyses of specific festivals, set in relation to contemporary architecture and urban design ideas and theories.Illustrated with a wealth of unusual and rarely-seen images from the European festival tradition, this is a fascinating outline of the history of festival architecture ideal for postgraduate architecture and urban design students.Table of Contents1. Introduction Sarah Bonnemaison and Christine Macy Part 1: Ritual and Architecture in Antiquity 2. The Festive Experience: Roman Processions in the Urban Context Diane Favro Part 2: Renaissance and Baroque Spectacle as Representations of Power 3. Festival Bridal Entries in Renaissance Ferrara Diane Yvonne Ghirardo 4. Festivals of State: The Representation of Power in Late Renaissance and Baroque Venice Margherita Azzi Visentini 5. Statecraft or Stagecraft? English Paper Architecture in the Seventeenth Century Caroline van Eck 6. Framing History: The Jubilee of 1625, the Dedication of New Saint Peter’s and the Baldacchino Maarten Delbeke Part 3: Eighteenth Century Festivals and Urban Beautification 7. The Speculative Challenges of Festival Architecture in Eighteenth Century France Eric Monin Part 4: World Expositions and the Idea of Modernity 8. Marking Time and Space in the City: Kromhout’s Decorations for the Investiture of Wilhelmina in Amsterdam Nancy Stieber 9. Sound, Light, and the Mystique of Space in Paris, 1937 Robert Weddle Part 5: Festivals of Resistance 10. Festival Urbanism: Carnival as an Expression of Civil Society in Nineteenth Century Basel Christine Macy 11. Taking Back the Street, Paris 1968-1978 Sarah Bonnemaison
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) The Photography Cultures Reader Representation
Book SynopsisThe Photography Cultures Reader: Representation, Agency and Identity engages with contemporary debates surrounding photographic cultures and practices from a variety of perspectives, providing insight and analysis for students and practitioners. With over 100 images included, the diverse essays in this collection explore key topics, such as: conflict and reportage; politics of race and gender; the family album; fashion, tourism and surveillance; art and archives; social media and the networked image. The collection brings together essays by leading experts, scholars and photographers, including Geoffrey Batchen, Elizabeth Edwards, Stuart Hall, bell hooks, Martha Langford, Lucy R. Lippard, Fred Ritchin, Allan Sekula and Val Williams. The depth and scope of this collection is testament to the cultural significance of photography and photographic study, with each themed section featuring an editorâs introduction that sets the ideas and debates in context. Along with its companion volume â The Photography Reader: History and Theory â this is the most comprehensive introduction to photography and photographic criticism. Includes essays by: Jan Avgikos, Ariella Azoulay, David A. Bailey, Roland Barthes, Geoffrey Batchen, David Bate, Gail Baylis, Karin E. Becker, John Berger, Lily Cho, Jane Collins, Douglas Crimp, Thierry de Duve, Karen de Perthuis, George Dimock, Sarah Edge, Elizabeth Edwards, Francis Frascina, Andrà Gunthert, Stuart Hall, Elizabeth Hoak-Doering, Patricia Holland, bell hooks, Yasmin Ibrahim, Liam Kennedy, Annette Kuhn, Martha Langford, Ulrich Lehmann, Lucy R. Lippard, Catherine Lutz, Roberta McGrath, Lev Manovich, Rosy Martin, Mette Mortensen, Fred Ritchin, Daniel Rubinstein, Allan Sekula, Sharon Sliwinski, Katrina Sluis, Jo Spence, Carol Squiers, Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert, Ariadne van de Ven, Liz Wells, Val Williams, Judith Williamson, Louise Wolthers and Ethan Zuckerman.Table of ContentsGeneral IntroductionPart OneThe Photographic GazeIntroduction1 Roberta McGrathRe-Reading Edward Weston: Feminism, Photography and Psychoanalysis 2 Jan AvgikosCindy Sherman: Burning Down the House 3 Sarah Edge and Gail BaylisPhotographing Children: The Works of Tierney Gearon and Sally Mann 4 Lucy R. LippardDoubletake: The Diary of a Relationship with an Image 5 Catherine Lutz and Jane CollinsThe Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes: The example of National Geographic 6 Ariadne van de VenThe Eyes of the Street Look Back: In Kolkata with a Camera Around My Neck 7 Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert Tourists with Cameras: Reproducing or Producing 8 Louise WolthersSurveilling Bodies: Photography as Control, Critique and Concern Part TwoReportage – Image as AgentIntroduction9 John BergerPhotographs of Agony 10 Fred RitchinOf Them, and Us 11 Francis FrascinaFace to Face: Resistance, Melancholy and Representations of Atrocities 12 Liam KennedyFraming Compassion 13 Sharon SliwinskiOn Photographic Violence 14 Ariella AzoulayThe Ethic of the Spectator: The Citizenry of Photography 15 Elizabeth Hoak-DoeringA Photo in a Photo: The Optics, Politics and Powers of Hand-held Portraits in Claims for Justice and Solidarity 16 André GunthertDigital Imaging Goes to War: The Abu Ghraib Photographs 17 Ethan ZuckermanCurating Participation 18 Mette MortensenWhen Citizen Photojournalism Sets the News Agenda: Neda Agha Soltan as a Web 2.0 Icon of Post-Election Unrest in IranPart ThreeImage and IdentityIntroduction19 David A. Bailey and Stuart HallThe Vertigo of Displacement 20 Rosy Martin and Jo SpencePhoto-Therapy: Psychic Realism as a Healing Art?21 George Dimock"The Negro As He Really Is": W. E. B. Du Bois and Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore22 bell hooksIn Our Glory: Photography and Black Life 23 Annette KuhnPhotography and Cultural Memory: a Methodological Exploration 24 Lily ChoCitizenship, Diaspora and the Bonds of Affect: The Passport Photograph Part FourSnapshot Culture and Social MediaIntroduction25 Pat HollandFamily Snaps, Introduction: History, Memory, and the Family Album26 Martha LangfordStrange Bedfellows: Appropriations of the Vernacular by Photographic Artists 27 Geoffrey BatchenObserving by Watching: Joachim Schmid and the Art of Exchange 28 Lev ManovichWatching the World 29 Daniel Rubenstein and Katrina SluisA Life More Photographic: Mapping the Networked Image Part FiveMedium and MeditationsIntroduction30 Roland BarthesOrnamental Cuisine and The New Citroën 31 Judith WilliamsonTiffany, Porsche Panamera and Microsoft Cloud 32 Yasmin IbrahimThe Pornography of Food Imaging: The Aesthetics of Capturing Food Online33 Karin E. BeckerPhotojournalism and the Tabloid Press 34 Carol SquiersClass Struggle: The Invention of Paparazzi Photography and the Death of Diana, Princess of Wales35 Karen de PerthuisThe Synthetic Ideal: The Fashion Model and Photographic Manipulation 36 Ulrich LehmannChic Clicks: Creativity and Commerce 37 Val WilliamsA Heady Relationship: Fashion Photography and the Museum, 1979 to the Present Part SixContexts: Art, Archives, EducationIntroduction38 Douglas CrimpThe Museum’s Old, the Library’s New Subject 39 Thierry Du DuveArt in the Face of Radical Evil 40 Allan Sekula Reading an Archive: Photography Between Labour and Capital 41 Elizabeth EdwardsPhotographs: Material Form and the Dynamic Archive 42 Liz WellsWords and Pictures: On Reviewing Photography43 David BateArt, Education, Photography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd An Introduction to NineteenthCentury Art
Book SynopsisUsing the tools of the new art history (feminism, Marxism, social context, etc.) An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Art offers a richly textured, yet clear and logical, introduction to nineteenth-century art and culture. This textbook will provide readers with a basic historical framework of the period and the critical tools for interpreting and situating new and unfamiliar works of art.Michelle Facos goes beyond existing histories of nineteenth-century art, which often focus solely on France, Britain, and the United States, to incorporate artists and artworks from Scandinavia, Germany, and Eastern Europe.The book expertly balances its coverage of trends and individual artworks: where the salient trends are clear, trend-setting works are highlighted, and the complexity of the period is respected by situating all works in their proper social and historical context. In this way, the student reader achieves a more nuanced understanding of the way in which the Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Illustrations Introduction 1. A Time of Transition 2. Classical Influences and Radical Transformations 3. Re-presenting Contemporary History 4. Romanticism 5. Shifting Focus: Art and the Natural World 6. Colonialism, Imperialism, Orientalism 7. New Audiences, New Approaches 8. Photography as Fact and Fine Art 9. Realism and the Urban Poor 10. Imagined Communities: Views of Peasant Life 11. Crisis in the Academy 12. Impressionism 13. Symbolism 14. Individualism and Collectivism Epilogue: Looking Toward the Twentieth-Century Bibliography Glossary Index
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Taylor & Francis On Landscapes
Book SynopsisThere is no escaping landscape: it''s everywhere and part of everyone''s life. Landscapes have received much less attention in aesthetics than those arts we can choose to ignore, such as painting or music but they can tell us a lot about the ethical and aesthetic values of the societies that produce them. Drawing on examples from a wide range of landscapes from around the world and throughout history, Susan Herrington considers the ways landscapes can affect our emotions, our imaginations, and our understanding of the passage of time. On Landscapes reveals the design work involved in even the most naturalistic of landscapes, and the ways in which contemporary landscapes are turning the challenges of the industrial past into opportunities for the future. Inviting us to thoughtfully see and experience the landscapes that we encounter in our daily lives, On Landscapes demonstrates that art is all around us.Trade Review"Herrington deftly and succinctly draws together a vast range of material on landscape from several disciplines. She writes engagingly without oversimplifying; she thinks carefully without losing sight of the lay of the land. Both lay readers and professionals will come away from this small gem looking at and living in the landscape in new ways." –Bruce Janz, University of Central Florida, USA"[Herrington's] focus on contemporary landscapes is a fresh approach that is commendable in its scope as well as being rich, informative and accessibly written. While it draws on diverse philosophical perspectives it also draws on an impressive range of interdisciplinary sources. On Landscapes is an indispensable starting point for anyone who wants to think seriously about landscapes."-Environmental ValuesTable of ContentsIntroduction. Who Designs Landscapes? What Can Landscapes Represent? Are Landscapes Natural? Memory and Emotion. Instrumental Imagination. Aesthetic Experience
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The Story of PostModernism
Book SynopsisIn The Story of Post-Modernism, Charles Jencks, the authority on Post-Modern architecture and culture, provides the defining account of Post-Modern architecture from its earliest roots in the early 60s to the present day.Trade ReviewThe Power of the book lies not so much in the sharpness of the author s criticism of the present as in the generosity and perceptiveness of his anticipation of the future . Arichitectural Review, Nov 2011. 'Charles Jencks s summary of the post-modern architectural movement promises clarity and straightforwardness. There is a little of each but not too much . Country Living, Nov 2011Table of Contents8 Preface Post-Modernism Resurgent? The Back Story Some Debts Acknowledged And Especially Madelon 16 Part I The Perfect Storm of Post-Modernism The Moral Failures of Modernism The Recurrent Deaths of Modernism The Triumph of Nothingness Revisionists and Le Corbusier Lead the Revolt Complexity and Double-Coding – the First Post-Modern Synthesis The Shape of History – Big, Medium and Small Waves 50 Part II Searching for Difference, Finding Commonality Global Pluralism Radical Eclecticism, the First Response to Homogeneity Contextual Counterpoint Post-Modern Classicism – the Ironic International Style Media Events and Money A Diversion on Cost and Taste James Stirling Synthesises Contextualism and Pluralism The Complexity Paradigm Extended Modernists Becoming Post-Modern Time-Binding Opposites 114 Part III Towards a Critical Modernism What is a City? A Complex Adaptive System Heterotopias and the Heteropolis Expressively Green and Inexpensive Rem Koolhaas, Steven Holl, Toyo Ito and the Porous Route Building Peter Eisenman, the Landform and the Critical-Creative 160 Part IV Complexity and Nature’s Ornament The Complexity Paradigm Fractal Architecture and the Metaphysics of Seamless Continuity Opening Up the White Cube Four Degrees of Ornament 200 Part V The Coming of the Cosmic Icons The Iconic Building and its Discontents The Bilbao Effect Multiple Meaning and Enigmatic Signifiers Worthy Icons? Paranoia, Veiled Themes and Cosmic Iconology Premature Conclusion: the Iconology of Post-Modernism? 248 Notes 260 A Post-Modern Bibliography 266 Picture Credits 268 Index
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Dover Publications Inc. Vasaris Lives of the Artists Giotto Masaccio Fra
Book SynopsisOne of the principal resources for study of Italian Renaissance art and artists, Vasari's Lives offers colorful, detailed portraits of the era's most representative figures. This single-volume edition spotlights 8 prominent artists.
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Dover Publications Inc. Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil
Book SynopsisThe second of the great Surrealist's collage novels, this profoundly bizarre work was first published in Paris in 1930. Humor and irony abound in its expression of religious ecstasy and carnal desire.
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Thames & Hudson Ltd The History of Art A Global View
Book SynopsisWritten by a team of expert authors, this landmark textbook shows that art is more than European and extends far beyond the traditional canon. The History of Art: A Global View answers the urgent need for a more global, inclusive way to teach the history of the worldâs art. Led by Jean Robertson and Deborah Hutton, eleven specialists have cohered around the shared goal of bringing multiple perspectives to a worldwide narrative. The resulting survey represents every global region as an important part of an integrated, chronological history that emphasizes cross-cultural connections, contrasts and comparisons. The first major art history textbook of the 21st century, The History of Art: A Global View equips students to understand the history of art in new and revealing ways.
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Thames & Hudson Ltd The Art of the Bible
Book SynopsisAn extensively illustrated compendium of 45 expertly selected illuminated bibles that transport the reader through 1,000 years of history and across the Christian world. For two millennia the Bible has inspired the creation of art. Within this legacy of remarkable art and beauty, illuminated biblical manuscripts offer some of the best evidence for our understanding of early Christian painting and artistic interpretations of the Bible. Compiled and written by two internationally renowned experts, this beautiful book immerses the reader in the world of illuminated manuscripts of the Bible. Through its pictures we are transported across 1,000 years of history, passing chronologically through many of the major centres of the Christian world. Starting in Constantinople in the East, the journey moves on to Lindisfarne in the North, to imperial Aachen, back to Canterbury, then to Carolingian Tours in western France. Later we view some of the riches of Winchester, Mozarabic Spain, CrusTrade Review'Sumptuous … spans 1,000 years and considers the history and significance of 45 illuminated biblical manuscripts, providing much insight into medieval Christian art' - ApolloTable of ContentsIntroduction: One Thousand Years of Art and Beauty The Bibles 1. The Golden Canon Tables Canon Tables of Eusebius of Caesarea, in Greek Constantinople, 6th or 7th century [Turkey] Glimpses of early Christian splendour in Constantinople 2. The Lindisfarne Gospels The Four Gospels, in Latin, with added interlinear gloss in Old English Lindisfarne, c. 700 (added gloss, Chester-le-Street, c. 970) [UK] Spectacular Anglo-Saxon Ornament 3. The Vespasian Psalter Psalter, in Latin, with interlinear gloss in Old English Kent, 1st half of the 8th century [UK] The Earliest Narrative Initials in Western Europe 4. The Harley Golden Gospels The Four Gospels, in Latin Aachen?, Carolingian Empire, c. 800 [UK] The Gospels Written in Gold 5. The Canterbury Royal Bible Bible, in Latin (incomplete, now comprising the Four Gospels only) Canterbury, 1st quarter of the 9th century, [UK] An Early Canterbury Bible 6. The Moutier-Granval Bible Bible, in Latin Tours, 2nd quarter of the 9th century [France] Symbolic Figurative Art 7. The Lothar Psalter Psalter, in Latin Aachen, c. 842–55 [Germany] An Imperial Psalter 8. The Aethelstan or Coronation Gospels The Four Gospels, in Latin Lobbes, south of Brussels, last quarter of the 9th century, or 1st quarter of the 10th century [Belgium] A Royal Gift 9. Guest-Coutts New Testament New Testament, in Greek Constantinople, middle of 10th century [Turkey] An Illuminated New Testament from Constantinople 10. The Harley Psalter Psalter, in Latin (Psalms, incomplete) Canterbury, 1st half of the 11th century [UK] An Anglo-Saxon Masterpiece 11. The Old English Hexateuch Hexateuch (Genesis-Joshua), in Old English Canterbury, 2nd quarter of the 11th century [UK] The Earliest Illustrated Western Vernacular Bible 12. The Harley Echternach Gospels The Four Gospels, in Latin Echternach, middle of the 11th century [Luxembourg] Ottonian Imperial Style 13. The Tiberius Psalter Psalter, in Latin, imperfect, with Old English gloss Winchester, 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 11th century [UK] A Grand Christological Cycle 14. Theodore Psalter Psalter, in Greek Constantinople, 1066 [Turkey] A Byzantine Visual Commentary on the Psalms 15. The Silos Apocalypse Revelation and Beatus of Liébana’s commentary, St Jerome’s commentary on Daniel, in Latin Silos [Spain], 1091 (text) and 1109 (decoration) [Spain] A Spanish Vision of the Apocalypse 16. The Stavelot Bible Bible, in Latin Stavelot, near Liège, 1093–97 [Belgium] Monumental Art 17. The Egerton Gospel Lectionary Gospel Lectionary, in Latin Germany, c. 1100 [Germany] Illuminating the Liturgy 18. The Burney Gospels The Four Gospels, in Greek Constantinople, 10th century (script) and 2nd quarter of 12th century (portraits) [Turkey] An Imperial Tetraevangelion 19. The Psalter of Queen Melisende Psalter, in Latin Jerusalem, between 1131 and 1143 [Middle East] A Psalter for a Crusader Queen 20. The Winchester Psalter Psalter, in Latin and French with the Apostles Creed and some prayers in French Winchester, England, middle of 12th century [UK] An Illustrated Bilingual Psalter 21. The Worms Bible Bible, in Latin Frankenthal, near Worms, c. 1148 [Germany] A Romanesque Giant Bible 22. The Floreffe Bible Bible, in Latin Meuse valley, 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century [Germany] Visual Biblical Exegesis 23. The Arnstein Bible Bible, in Latin Arnstein, Germany, c. 1172 [Germany] A Grand Monastic Bible 24. The Harley Greek Gospels The Four Gospels, in Greek Cyprus or Palestine, late 12th century [Middle East] A Gospels to Aid Devotion 25. Syriac Lectionary Gospel Lectionary, in Syriac Mosul, between 1216 and 1220 [Syria / Middle East] A Syrian Visualization of the Gospels 26. The Harley Bible moralisée Moralized Bible (Maccabees and the New Testament), in Latin, Paris, 2nd quarter of 13th century [France] Royal Instruction 27. Apocalypse Revelation, with extracts from the commentary of Berengaudus, in Latin, imperfect London or Westminster, c. 1260 [UK] An English Illustrated Apocalypse 28. Bolognese Bible Bible, in Latin Bologna, c. 1280–1300 [Italy] Italian Splendour 29. Gospel Lectionary of the Sainte-Chapelle Gospel Lectionary, in Latin Paris, last quarter of 13th century [France] Picturing the Gospels in Medieval Paris 30. The Queen Mary Psalter Psalter, in Latin London?, 1st quarter of 14th century [UK] Unprecedented Psalter Illustration 31. Welles Apocalypse Revelation, with commentary in Anglo-Norman French, bound with Peter of Peckham, La lumere as lais England, c. 1310 [UK] Revelation in the Vernacular 32. Holkham Bible Picture Book Bible Picture Book, with captions in Anglo-Norman French London, c. 1320–30 [UK] The Bible in Pictures 33. The St Omer Psalter Psalter, in Latin Norfolk, c. 1330 (with later additions) [UK] Glorious Marginal Imagery 34. Bible of Clement VII Bible, in Latin Naples, c. 1330–40 [Italy] A Papal Bible 35. The Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander The Four Gospels, in Slavonic of Bulgarian character Turnovo (?), 1355–56 [Bulgaria] Slavonic Emulation of Byzantine Splendour 36. Bible historiale of Charles V Bible historiale completée moyenne: Genesis to the Apocalypse, in French Paris, 1357 [France] The Bible as History 37. Paduan Bible Picture Book Bibbia istoriata: Exodus to Joshua, in Italian Padua, c. 1390–1400 [Italy] The Old Testament in Pictures 38. King’s Biblia pauperum Biblia pauperum The Hague, c. 1395–1400 [Netherlands] The Old Testament revealed in the New 39. The Great Bible of the Kings of England Bible, in Latin London, c. 1410–13 [UK] A Late Medieval Giant Bible 40. Bible historiale of Charles of France Grande Bible historiale à prologues: Genesis to the Apocalypse Paris, c. 1420 [France] Learning Wisdom from the Bible 41. Dutch History Bible Utrecht Bible: Genesis to Esther Utrecht, c. 1440–45 [Netherlands] Seeing Salvation in the Netherlands 42. Edward IV’s Bible historiale Bible historiale: Tobit to Acts, in French Bruges, 1470 (script) and c. 1479 (illumination) [Belgium] A Bible fit for a King 43. The Gospels of Cardinal Francesco Gonzaga The Four Gospels, in Greek Rome, 1478 [Italy] A Renaissance Cardinal’s Gospel book 44. Armenian Gospels Four Gospels, in Armenian Isfahan, 1608 [Middle East] Painting the Gospels in Persia 45. Ethiopian Octateuch and Gospels Octateuch, Four Gospels and Apostolic Canons, in classical Ethiopic (Ge'ez) Gondar (?), late 17th century [Ethiopia] Reviving Former Ethiopian splendour Further Reading Index
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Thames & Hudson Ltd Gauguin
Book SynopsisAn updated edition of a classic volume in the World of Art series.Trade Review'A pithy biography and an analytical evaluation written with energy and zest' - The Sunday TimesTable of ContentsIntroduction • 1. The Part-Time Painter (1848–1884) • 2. The Full-Time Painter (1885–1888) • 3. Collaborative Experiments (1888) • 4. Leader of the Symbolists (1889–1891) • 5. The Search for the Primitive (1891–1893) • 6. Confronting the Public (1893–1895) • 7. Definitive Exile (1895–1903) • Appendix to the New Edition – Gauguin Research since 1987
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Thames & Hudson Ltd In My View
Book SynopsisA collection of reflections by 78 contemporary artists in which each artist reveals the influence and inspiration he or she has found in a particular artwork or artist. It identifies themes that emerges and contextualizes the history and practice of artists looking back at the work of others.Trade Review'A brilliant, argumentative and provocative anthology, ideal for dipping in and out of … We come away from this book with all sorts of avenues to explore ourselves, and an enhanced understanding of the talents and even visionary genius of artists past and present' - Marina Vaizey, V&A Magazine'A simple idea elegantly executed in an attractive, compact, well-illustrated volume' - Financial Times (Books of the Year)'A terrific idea. This wonderful book presents an entirely new way of looking at art … the deeply personal stories reveal the profound connections between artists, shedding light on the work of both the past and the present creators, as well as capturing the joy that can come from encounters with great art' - Good Book Guide'Invariably fascinating' - The Spectator'Absorbing … elegantly designed and cleverly conceived' - The Art NewspaperTable of ContentsIntroduction by Simon Grant, followed by over 75 artists discussing their favourite works of art, among them: Frank Auerbach on Henri Matisse • Miroslaw Balka on Michelangelo • Vija Celmins on Philip Guston • George Condo on Rembrandt • Michael Craig-Martin on Marcel Duchamp • Gregory Crewdson on Edward Hopper • Thomas Demand on Paolo Uccello • Dr Lakra on Hieronymus Bosch • Marlene Dumas on Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres • Antony Gormley on Jacob Epstein • Thomas Hirschhorn on Andy Warhol • Candida Höfer on Ludwig Mies van der Rohe • Annette Messager on William Blake • Beatriz Milhazes on Hans Memling • Vik Muniz on Peter Paul Rubens • Jorge Pardo on Gustave Courbet • Cornelia Parker on Man Ray • Ed Ruscha on John Everett Millais • Hiroshi Sugimoto on Petrus Christus • Do Ho Suh on Kim Jeong-hui • Bill Viola on Giovanni Bellini • Mark Wallinger on Diego Velázquez • Franz West on Caravaggio • Rachel Whiteread on Pierro della Francesca • Zhang Huan on Leonardo da Vinci and more
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Thames & Hudson Ltd Japonisme and the Rise of the Modern Art Movement
Book SynopsisFrom the 1860s through to the early 20th century the rise of Japonisme and the Art Nouveau movement meant that few could ignore or resist the obsession with all things Japanese. This book includes examples of the designed and executed decorative arts of the Meiji periods from the Khalili Collection.Trade Review'A persuasive, sumptuous exploration of Japanese influence on western modernism … pairings of paintings by Monet, Manet and Degas with Japanese works, and discussions of gold-adorned Klimt and sexy Schiele, are revelatory' - Financial Times (Books of the Year)'Invaluable for anyone with an interest in late-19th-century European art and culture' - Country Life'In-depth essays and superb colour illustrations' - Ceramic Review'If art books were nominated for annual awards … then 'Japonisme and the Rise of the Modern Art Movement' would definitely be a front-runner in the "most beautiful book category for 2013"' - Art Eyewitness
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Thames & Hudson Ltd The Spirit of Indian Painting
Book SynopsisOpens readers' eyes to the wonders of Indian painting, and shows them new ways of seeing art.Trade Review'An out-and-out masterpiece ... will undoubtedly come to be looked on as one of the greatest books ever written on Indian art' - William Dalrymple, Guardian'Wonderful … a book to make both layman and connoisseur alike realize why pre-modern Indian painting is one of the great arts of the world' - Neil MacGregor'Professor Goswamy’s book meets a long-felt need. In all the years I have been involved with Indian art I have repeatedly been asked to recommend a book which covers the whole subject. This is it. This is it. This is it' - Sir Howard Hodgkin'No one knows more about Indian painting than B.N. Goswamy and in 'The Spirit of Indian Painting' he shares a lifetime of knowledge and insights' - Glenn Lowry'A thrilling and novel survey … a wonderful primer to an unfamiliar world of art' - RA MagazineTable of Contents1. Visions • 2. Observation • 3. Passion • 4. Contemplation
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Thames & Hudson Ltd What is Painting
Book SynopsisA new, significantly revised edition of Julian Bell’s 1999 book, taking a fresh, focused look at the situation of painting in contemporary culture.Trade Review'Bold and brilliant ... a modern intellectual classic' - Jonathan Jones'Brilliant, concise and above all original ... The joy of looking – essentially wordless, as Julian Bell says – here finds a true parallel in the pleasure of reading' - Laura Cumming'A work of refreshing originality' - Sir Ernst Gombrich'A very good book' - Andrew Marr'A worthwhile analysis of the creative process and [is] well-argued and thoroughly illustrated' - Art Book Review'Bell’s examination of what defines, links and changes the act of painting raises live questions … fascinating' - Michael Prodger, New Statesman'Don’t miss What is Painting? by Julian Bell, a man who both paints and writes exceptionally well' - Independent'An extended and scholarly look at how painting came into being … don’t miss What is Painting by Julian Bell, a man who both paints and writes exceptionally well' - IndependentTable of Contents1. Images and Marks • 2. Sight and Knowledge • 3. Form and Time • 4. Expression • 5. The Arts and Art • 6. Representation
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University of California Press The Arts of China Sixth Edition Revised and
Book SynopsisInternationally renowned and a crucial classroom text, The Arts of Chinahas been revised and expanded by the late Michael Sullivan, with Shelagh Vainker. This new, sixth, edition has an emphasis on Chinese art history, not as an assemblage of related topics, but as a continuous story. With updated attributions and dating throughout and a revised bibliography, it reflects the latest archaeological discoveries, as well as giving increased attention to modern and contemporary art and to calligraphy throughout China's history, with additional discussions of work by women artists. Visual enhancements include all new maps, and approximately one hundred new color illustrationsbringing the total to well over four hundred color illustrations. Written in the engaging and lucid style that is Sullivan's hallmark,The Arts of Chinais readily accessible to general readers as well as to serious students of art history. Sullivan's approach remains true to the way the Chinese themselves view art, providing readers with a sense of the sweep of history through China's dynasties. This organizational strategy makes it easy for readers to understand the distinct characteristics of each period of art and to gain a clearer view of how Chinese art has changed in relation to its historical context. With many improvements that bring it fully up to date,The Arts of Chinawill remain the most comprehensive and widely read introduction to the history of Chinese art.Table of ContentsPreface to Sixth Edition Afterthoughts Chronological Table of Dynasties and Modern Republics Reign Periods of the Ming and Qing Dynasties 1 Before the Dawn of History 2 The Early Bronze Age: Shang and Western Zhou 3 Eastern Zhou and the Period of the Warring States 4 The Qin and Han Dynasties 5 The Three Kingdoms and the Six Dynasties 6 The Sui and Tang Dynasties 7 The Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty 8 The Yuan Dynasty 9 The Ming Dynasty 10 The Qing Dynasty 11 The Twentieth Century and Beyond Notes Books for Reference and Further Reading List of Maps and Illustrations Index
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University of California Press We Gather Together
Book SynopsisThe mutual history of art, agriculture, and American identity as told through the theme of the harvest. The harvest has traditionally been a productive season, both on American farms and in its artists' studios. Before the early nineteenth century, the ideal of the Jeffersonian yeoman, singly cultivating a subsistence plotfor family use, dominated the American imagination; after World War II, the advent of big agribusiness proved less immediately attractive for artists. In We Gather Together, Charles C. Eldredge examines the period in betweenwhen many Americans were farmers and much of America was farmland. Organized in a series of case studies each devoted to a single crop, We Gather Together initially focuses on familiar commodity crops such as corn, wheat, and potatoes, and then expands to other yields by Native American harvesters and California floriculturists, as well as winter ice cutters and coastal seaweed gatherers. This novel history of agriculture and art tracesparallel developments on land and canvas, highlighting breakthroughs in each field.Artists such as Winslow Homer, Doris Lee, and Georgia O'Keeffe are joined by innovators in agriculture, whether mechanical inventors such as Eli Whitney, John Deere, and Cyrus McCormick or genetic hybridizers such as Luther Burbank, W. Atlee Burpee, and Theodosia Shepherd. Surveying an astonishing amount of material and a wide range of paintings, prints, and other artworks from the nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, We Gather Together gorgeously demonstrates how the use of agricultural metaphors permeated American visual culture. The harvest, we see here, came to signify and dominate politics, poetry, and popular culture, ultimately representing a primary facet of American identity and nationhood.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction One: Agriculture and Art Romantic Traditions 1 Farmscapes and Romantic Agrarianism 2 Natives and Romantic Indigeneity Two: Foodstuffs 3 Corn 4 Wheat 5 Roots and Tubers: Potatoes, Onions, Carrots 6 Pome and Stone: Apples, Peaches Three: Cash Crops 7 Cotton 8 Tobacco 9 Floriculture: Callas, Chrysanthemums Four: Nature's yield 10 Ice 11 Seaweed Five: Coda 12 Crop Arts Updated Notes 277 List of Illustrations Index
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Cambridge University Press Double Vision
Book SynopsisThis book explores the ambivalences of European perceptions of the Pacific and juxtaposes them with the indigenous visual cultures that challenge western assumptions about art and representation. It yields a fresh understanding of history, colonialism and culture in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.Trade Review'… the reader comes away enlightened and sensitized to many of the ways in which imagination and reality have entangled in the imaging of Oceania - a laudable contribution to an important and growing field.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological InstituteTable of ContentsIntroduction Nicholas Thomas; Part I. Voyages: 1. Reimagining Juan Fernandez: probability, possibility and pretence in the South Seas Jonathan Lamb; 2. Images of monarchy: Kamehameha I and the art of Louis Choris Harry Liebersohn; 3. Art as ethnohistorical text: science, representation and indigenous presence in 18th and 19th century oceanic voyage Bronwen Douglas; Part II. Colonies: 4. The penitentiary as paradise Michael Rosenthal; 5. Under Saturn: melancholy and the colonial imagination Ian McLean; 6. Looking at Goldie: face to face with 'All 'e Same t'e Pakeha' Leonard Bell; Part III. Imaginings Beyond Colonialism: 7. Voices beyond the Pae Robert Jahnke; 8. The importance of birds: or, the relationship between art and anthropology reconsidered Diane Losche; Part IV. Counter-Colonial Imaginings: 9. Past present: the local art of colonial quotation Joan Kerr; 10. Australian icons: notes on perception Gordon Bennett; Afterword: clumsy Utopians Peter Brunt.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the PreRaphaelites
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to provide a general introduction to the Pre-Raphaelite movement that integrates its literary and visual art forms and explains what made the Pre-Raphaelite style unique in painting, poetry, drawing and prose.Trade Review'Ambitious and challenging, The Cambridge Companion to the Pre-Raphaelites achieves the impossible task of a somewhat comprehensive view of Pre-Raphaelite poetry and painting, thus making a solid contribution to Pre-Raphaelite studies and art history.' Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies'… offers eighteen distinct chapters and an introduction by major scholars in the field, the variety of authorship allowing for an unusually full treatment of individual issues and artists. In the case of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris, there is one chapter on the verse and another on the plastic arts. What emerges is an unusually textured account of a movement and its sources and ramifications.' Jonah Siegal, Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsChronology Louise Hughes; Introduction Elizabeth Prettejohn; Part I. Pre-Raphaelitism: 1. The Pre-Raphaelites and literature Isobel Armstrong; 2. Artistic inspirations Jenny Graham; 3. Pre-Raphaelite drawing Colin Cruise; 4. The religious and intellectual background Michaela Giebelhausen; 5. The Germ Andrew M. Stauffer; Part II. Pre-Raphaelites: 6. The poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–82) Jerome McGann; 7. The painting of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Elizabeth Prettejohn; 8. William Holman Hunt (1827–1910) Carol Jacobi; 9. John Everett Millais (1829–96) Paul Barlow; 10. Ford Madox Brown (1821–93) Tim Barringer; 11. Christina Rossetti (1830–94) Lorraine Janzen Kooistra; 12. Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall (1829–62) Deborah Cherry; 13. The writings of William Morris (1834–96) Jeffrey Skoblow; 14. The designs of William Morris Imogen Hart; 15. Edward Burne-Jones (1833–98) Caroline Arscott; 16. Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) Catherine Maxwell; 17. William Michael Rossetti (1829–1919) Angela Thirlwell; 18. Envoi Elizabeth Prettejohn; Appendix 1. The contents of The Germ; Appendix 2. The Pre-Raphaelite 'list of Immortals'; Guide to further reading and looking; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Reformed Theology and Visual Culture
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Marci Rodgers MaJaRas Dream
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Random House USA Inc Tacky
Book SynopsisAn irreverent and charming collection of deeply personal essays about the joys of low pop culture and bad taste, exploring coming of age in the 2000s in the age of Hot Topic, Creed, and frosted lip gloss—from the James Beard Award-nominated writer of the Catapult column Store-Bought Is Fine”Tacky is about the power of pop culture—like any art—to imprint itself on our lives and shape our experiences, no matter one''s commitment to good taste. These fourteen essays are a nostalgia-soaked antidote to the millennial generation''s obsession with irony, putting the aesthetics we hate to love—snakeskin pants, Sex and the City, Cheesecake Factory''s gargantuan menu—into kinder and sharper perspective. Each essay revolves around a different maligned (and yet, Rax would argue, vital) cultural artifact, providing thoughtful, even romantic meditations on desire, love, and the power of nostalgia.
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Harvard University Press Global Gold
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Princeton University Press Artemisia Gentileschi
Book SynopsisArtemisia Gentileschi, widely regarded as important woman artist before the modern period, was a major Italian Baroque painter of the seventeenth century and the only female follower of Caravaggio. This work shows that her original treatments of mythic-heroic female subjects depart radically from traditional interpretations of the same themes.Trade Review"[This book] is doubly welcome, both for its hitherto underrehearsed subject--one of the most accomplished female practitioners in the history of art--and for the exceptionally keen and questing intelligence which the author brings to her task."--John Gash, Art in America "Garrard brings her subject vividly to life as few scholars of the period have done for other artists... [Her] powerfully argued, intelligent appreciation of every facet of Gentileschi's difficult life and artistic contribution will bring the artist a large, new audience."--Ann Sutherland Harris, The Women's Review of Books "If you read only one art history book this year, it should be Mary D. Garrard's Artemisia Gentileschi."--Raymond B. Waddington, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
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Princeton University Press The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
Book SynopsisPresents a study of the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, beginning with his work in Oak Park in the late 1880s and culminating in the construction of the Guggenheim museum in New York and the Marin County Civic Center in the 1950s. This book provides an introduction to Wright's remarkable accomplishments.Trade ReviewWinner of the 1997 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Architecture and Urban Planning, Association of American Publishers One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1996 "Scrupulously researched, elegantly written (with a refreshing lack of jargon), beautifully illustrated and designed ... the book is a feast for eye and mind, challenging assumptions and deepening understanding on almost every page... Wright's ability to translate the poetic essence of a place into form was unrivaled, and no one has explored it with more insight than Levine."--The Architects' Journal "A major publication, a benchmark study not only of Wright's career but of architectural history as well... A magnum opus by one of the most highly regarded architectural historians of our day."--Choice "He [Wright] created beauty, a serene beauty of space--new, undemocratic and unapologetic--a beauty springing from the deepest resonance of man and nature. The strength of Levine's book is that he explains exactly how and why he did it, with a wealth of illustration."--Joe Berridge, Toronto Globe & Mail "A monumental project... This book, rather than any extant Wright biography, is the source for those who want to know about the immensity and worth of the accomplishments of Frank Lloyd Wright."--Library Journal "Wright's personal history was extraordinary by any standards, and it is the great strength of Neil Levine's book that he manages to correlate the developments in Wright's architecture with the events in his life, without being sentimental or over-reverent."--Andrew Ballantyne, The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroductionCh. IBeginnings of the Prairie House1Ch. IIAbstraction and Analysis in the Architecture of the Oak Park Years23Ch. IIIVoluntary Exile in Fiesole59Ch. IVThe Story of Taliesin75Ch. VBuilding against Nature on the Pacific Rim113Ch. VIFrom Los Angeles to Lake Tahoe and Death Valley149Ch. VIIWriting An Autobiography, Reading the Arizona Desert191Ch. VIIIThe Temporal Dimension of Fallingwater217Ch. IXThe Traces of Prehistory at Taliesin West255Ch. XThe Guggenheim Museum's Logic of Inversion299Ch. XISigns of Identity in an Increasingly One-Dimensional World365Conclusion: Wright and His/story419Notes435Bibliographical Note505List of Illustrations507Index515
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Princeton University Press The Posthuman Dada Guide
Book SynopsisA handbook for practical living in posthuman world - all by way of examining the imagined 1916 chess game between Tristan Tzara, the daddy of Dada, and V I Lenin, the daddy of communism.Trade Review"One of our most prodigiously talented and magical writers."--New York Times Book Review "Can't decide whether to cry or laugh? Laugh at absurdity, laugh at hardship, laugh at poverty, says Andrei Codrescu in his maddening, enlightening, self-contradictory, highly amusing new book... [Codrescu] has rolled into one slim guide a postmodern self-help manual, a history lesson, a love letter to dissident poets, a hard jab at communism and a veiled autobiography... The guide is, beneath it all, a mournful celebration of the achievements of pre-communist Romanian Jews, such as Tzara and modernist painter and architect (and Dadaist) Marcel Janco."--Carly Berwick, Los Angeles Times "Any reader looking for a quirky, polemical, provocative introduction to Dada might like to try Andrei Codrescu's Posthuman Dada Guide, in which the author's key terms are alphabetically listed and 'hermeneutically filleted'. His linguistic glee also means that this dictionary can easily be read cover to cover."--Peter Read, Times Literary Supplement "This Zagat-sized handbook, a Dadaist chop suey showcasing the astonishing intellectual range of English professor and NPR commentator Codrescu, is arranged alphabetically and topically, which permits one to dip in or to read it all. The occasionally outrageous encyclopedic juxtapositions of entries give a firsthand experience similar to the effect of Dada cutups and collages."--Publishers Weekly "A hard-edged, rapier-like volume, perfect for sliding into a back pocket of skinny hipster pants or stabbing into the complacent underbelly of bourgeois (or bourgeois-bohemian) society. It offers a headier-than-usual tour of the early-1900s avant-garde, sprinkled with sex appeal for the would-be MySpace-age revolutionary... As art theory, the Guide could even be preferable to a college seminar on modernism... [Codrescu] also places Dada on a broader historical stage than it usually receives, mingling it with world politics."--Eli Epstein-Deutsch, Village Voice "Even for professional provocateur Andrei Codrescu, he of the playful intelligence and sardonic wit, this new book is quite something. It's out there--a chronicle of an imagined chess game between V.I. Lenin and Tristan Tzara, the founder of Dada, set in the cafe culture of Zurich, Switzerland, in 1916, amid the ferment of bohemianism and revolution. It's a scholarly work, with extensive footnotes; it's a work of imagination; it's a guidebook to a strange new era. It's a call to remember humanity in a post-human time, and an incitement. To read it is to light a mental fuse."--Susan Larson, New Orleans Times-Picayune "A profoundly provocative look at dada... If you're vaguely familiar with Codrescu's NPR essays or other writings, than you already know that this is a book laced with wit and humor. He makes an erudite topic easy--and pleasurable--to follow."--Robert L. Pincus, San Diego Union Tribune "A dictionary, a history of art movements, a manifesto, and a joke book; [The Posthuman Dada Guide] traverses high and low, seeking answers to our most persistent confusions about art, culture, and identity... By the end, the reader has come to grips with Codrescu's stoic, but darkly hopeful, vision for a future that is no future at all."--D. Scot Miller, San Francisco Bay Guardian "Codrescu's analysis of the chess game is written with attitude--itself a Dada-like performance--balancing critique with reinvention, aiming to reveal Dada's place in 'posthuman' life. This guide is true to its title, fitting comfortably in a pocket, ready to be deployed at the slightest provocation."--Alan Lucey, Bookforum "Erudite, witty, often demented, Codrescu's book is an excellent introduction to the matter and spirit of dada."--Justin Clemens, The Australian "A delicious book... A fascinating mix of history, common and obscure ... rigorously intellectual without being stuffy or dogmatic, serious without being solemn and ... obviously and sneakily playful at the same time."--Michel Basilieres, Toronto Star "Peppered with warnings not to make Dada a guide for living, the Guide makes it all the more alluring. Readers of this book acquire a delicious complicity with Dada. I can't stop intoning it. Dada dada dada dada. This is a subversive book."--Helen Scully, ArtVoices Magazine "Ever want to run naked across a convention floor, pie-hit a bishop, or show up at a job interview in a firecracker hat, screaming poetry until security guards haul you away? Andrei Codrescu's The Posthuman Dada Guide may not be the literal how-to that the title implies, but it will definitely give you the historical and philosophical basis you need to justify a stunt to your cell mates while the authorities figure out what to do with you... Fascinating and indispensible."--John-Ivan Palmer, Rain Taxi Review of Books "He's all over the place, and no place in particular--almost the perfect definition of Dada. Best read as a poem pretending to be prose (both Tzara and Lenin were pseudonyms, after all), The Posthuman Dada Guide gives a barbaric yawp in the best tradition of Walt Whitman--and, in its own peculiar way, it's just as American."--Ben Steelman, Star News "A roller-coaster ride of essay(s) and grab-bag of ideas, history, and recollections, The Posthuman Dada Guide is an appropriately loose and shifting piece. It is informative and entertaining."--M. A. Orthofer, Complete Review "The chess game (both fictitious and ongoing) puts politic and parody at one and at war. The scene is a fast flashing, nonlinear montage taking us in, through and out of the 20th century and delivering us into the 21st, spinning... It is recommended that you carry this guide with you at all times. Consider reading it aloud in the most public of places... The perfect prescription against the posthuman condition--that place where our senses are all too well rehearsed and clearly limiting."--Katherine Anders, Baton Rouge Advocate "[A] literary event, a spectacular splash of intelligence and erudition, of clean style and magical impressionability."--Nicholas Catanoy, World Literature Today "While it takes its cue from an imaginary game of chess, the book is in fact a witty pointer into the real fabric of contemporary art and politics ... refreshingly 'un-theoretical' in its approach, and Codrescu's writing is utterly pleasurable."--Cosana Eram, Vetiver blog "By combining ... vivid personal accounts with brilliant literary theory, The Posthuman Dada Guide becomes more than a review of the Dadaism's history. It represents a spiritual and intellectual journey in itself, a guide, as Codrescu states at the book's beginning for instructing posthumans in living a Dada life."--John Nizalolwski, Magill's Literary AnnualTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Part I, pg. 1*Notes, pg. 221
£999.99
British Library Publishing Gold
Book SynopsisWritten and selected by the curatorial team, the dazzling, large-format Gold Exhibition Highlights Book showcases the British Library’s exceptional collection of manuscript items incorporating gold as featured in this major exhibition.
£9.50
British Museum Press Gesture and line
Book SynopsisFrom the 1960s drawing assumed a prominent position in the practice of a rising generation of post-war artists in Germany and Austria. This publication examines works on paper by four artists still comparatively little known in the UK. While Georg Baselitz and Gerhard Richter, household names in German contemporary art, are well known for their large and commanding works, a quieter and more reflective strand is found in the work of Rudi Tröger (b. 1929), Karl Bohrmann (19281998) and Carl-Heinz Wegert (19262007). Small and intimate in scale, their drawings focus on the abstracted, minimalist figure, the studio interior and landscapes, through a sensitive use of line and a spare, self-effacing gesturalism. By contrast, the Austrian actionist Hermann Nitsch (19382022) presents visceral depictions of the human anatomy in his large lithographs, which come out of his notorious actionist performances. This publication celebrates a second major gift to the British Museum from the German collecTable of ContentsForewordEssay by John-Paul StonardEssay by Michael Semff1. Rudi Tröger2. Karl Bohrmann3. Carl-Heinz Wegert4. Hermann NitschSelect bibliography, Credits, Acknowledgements, Index
£999.99
British Museum Press Cats
Book SynopsisA collection of poetry, quotations and anecdotes about the cat and the long history of its relationship with human beings.
£9.49
Phaidon Press Ltd Pop
Book SynopsisA survey of the explosive rise of Pop from 1950s-60s.Trade Review"Modern art and design continues to fillet the movement once known as Pop, so Phaidon’s new monograph is a timely look back... Pop has it all, not just the iconic big-name images... Editor Mark Francis [...] has dug a little deeper and drawn together film, photography and even architecture."—Wallpaper*"What makes the book indispensable is the inclusion of documents in which the artists, critics and theorists speak for themselves."—Martin Coomer, Time Out"If you're looking for last-minute Christmas presents for your art-loving friends, you could do a lot worse than this. Divided into three sections - the survey by Hal Foster, a gazetteer of works and a selection of contemporary documents - this book could replace a whole bookshelf in your art library... It's a formula that should ensure that this book is one of the essential reference works on the Pop-art era."—Mark Rappolt, Modern Painters"The many strengths of this absorbing, eclectically detailed survey are concentrated most in the cultural historical networking that is achieved between image and text. What results is in part a luxurious and luxuriating immersion in the sheer visual gorgeousness of much Pop material, and in part a digest and directory of Pop's great works, sources and related texts - Pop's greatest hits, so to speak... Pop art ought never to be consigned to some ever-expanding repertoire of stylish retro-aesthetics. It is the cultural link between Surrealism and Postmodernism, and often made statements about the modern world that have yet to be improved, or updated."—Michael Bracewell, Art MonthlyTable of ContentsPreface by Mark Francis Survey essay by Hal Foster Works: extensive colour plate section with extended caption descriptions for every artwork (Revolt into Style; Consumer Culture; Colonization of the Mind; Spectacular Time; Helter Skelter) Artists' Biographies Bibliography Index
£14.20
