History of art Books
Yale University Press Locating Sol LeWitt
Book SynopsisA revelatory consideration of the wide-ranging practice of one of the most influential American artists of the 20th centuryTrade Review“Shedding new light on Sol LeWitt’s conceptual practice and his artworks, this book addresses some of the most interesting—and previously underexplored—aspects of LeWitt’s art.”—Gwen Allen, San Francisco State University“This rich volume dispels once and for all the presumption that Sol LeWitt's artistic practice is easily summarized. Readers will be repeatedly struck by the multifaceted, experimental, and often highly personal dimension to his work that emerges from these pages.”—Alistair Rider, University of St Andrews
£40.38
Yale University Press Louise Bourgeois Freuds Daughter
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the art and writing of Louise Bourgeois through the lens of her relationship with Freudian psychoanalysis
£38.00
Yale University Press Bob Thompson
Book SynopsisA rich reconsideration of a short-lived but visionary voice in twentieth-century American painting and his enduring relevance
£35.62
Yale University Press Cubism in Color
Book SynopsisRestoring a “perfect painter” to the Cubist canon
£33.25
Yale University Press Politics and Memory Civil War Monuments in
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£45.00
Yale University Press Ogata Korin Art in Early Modern Japan
Book SynopsisA lush portrait introducing one of the most important Japanese artists of the Edo periodTrade Review"With a mastery of the prodigious Kōrin scholarship in Japanese and insightful visual analysis, Feltens weaves together a narrative of artistic development that gives readers a textured understanding of the life and circumstances of this major world artist."—Yukio Lippit, Harvard University"This is an excellent treatment of a figure regarded as a towering artist of early modern Japan, and indeed of all Japanese art. Feltens demonstrates an impressive and thorough mastery of critical Japanese source materials, and weaves them into a compelling account of Kōrin's career."—Timon Screech, SOAS, University of London
£45.12
Yale University Press Art in the First Cities of Iran and Central Asia
Book SynopsisA beautifully illustrated book exploring the art of Iran and Central Asia from the 5th to the 2nd Millennium BC.Trade Review“Art in the First Cities of Iran & Central Asia combines the thoroughness of a scholarly study with a collection focused on the beauty of the objects...Enthusiasts for the arts of Iran will appreciate owning this beautiful book.”—David Chaffetz, Asian Review of Books
£33.25
Yale University Press Roger Raveel Retrospection
Book SynopsisAn extensive retrospective dedicated to Roger Raveel (1921‑2013), one of the most important Belgian painters of the second half of the 20th century
£33.25
Yale University Press Carolee Schneemann
Book SynopsisTraces the feminist icon Carolee Schneemann’s prolific six-decade output, spanning her remarkably diverse, transgressive, and interdisciplinary expression
£33.25
Yale University Press Power and Perspective
Book SynopsisA critical reconsideration of the history of photography that explores how commerce and conflict fueled its practice in nineteenth-century ChinaTrade Review“This substantial and lavishly illustrated book is an important contribution to scholarship. . . . A timely reassessment of early photography in China that urges readers to reflect.”—Claire Roberts, Burlington MagazineWinner of the Photography Network Prize, sponsored by the Photography Network
£42.75
Yale University Press Crossroads Drawing the Dutch Landscape
Book SynopsisAn investigation into how landscape drawing informed a new Dutch identity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
£38.00
Yale University Press Julie Manet
Book SynopsisA beautifully illustrated exhibition catalogue accompanying the first ever exhibition dedicated to Julie Manet
£38.00
Yale University Press Water Wind Breath
Book SynopsisThe Barnes Foundation's historic Pueblo and Navajo collections are explored alongside works by contemporary Native American artists
£42.75
Yale University Press Howardena Pindell Reclaiming Abstraction
Book SynopsisExploring the art and life of this important American artist whose work bridged the gaps between abstraction, feminism, and BlacknessTrade Review“Cowan’s focus on the influence of Africa and African textiles on Howardena Pindell’s work and her convincing presentation of abstraction as politically meaningful make this book entirely unique.”—Lisa Farrington, Howard University“Cowan creates an important and compelling analysis of the life and career of a grossly understudied American artist. This book has the potential to change the way we understand Howardena Pindell.”—Jordana Moore Saggese, University of Maryland
£42.75
Yale University Press Alexander Henderson
Book SynopsisExplores the life and work of the little-known photographer Alexander Henderson, whose work laid the foundations of the Canadian romantic landscape
£38.00
Yale University Press Called to the Camera
Book SynopsisA timely reconsideration of the history of photography that places Black studio photographers, and their subjects, at the center
£33.25
Yale University Press Virginia Jaramillo
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive look at the nearly seven-decades-long career of contemporary Mexican American artist Virginia Jaramillo
£38.00
Yale University Press The World Outside
Book SynopsisA deep dive into the life and work of sculptor Louise Nevelson recontextualizes her art in light of social movements, travel, and her experiences in dance and theater
£33.25
Yale University Press James Ensor and Stillife in Belgium 18301930
Book SynopsisA unique journey with James Ensor through the history of still life in Belgium in the nineteenth and twentieth centuriesTable of Contents Sabine Taevernier James Ensor and Still Life Bart Verschaffel A Historical Overview of Still Life in Belgium Stefan Huygebaert Notes on 30 Belgian Artists and Their Exhibited Still Lifes.
£42.75
Yale University Press Being and Belonging
Book SynopsisInterviews with women artists connected with the Islamic world and their compelling works that are shaping contemporary art today
£38.00
Yale University Press Ensor Brussels
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£33.25
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£45.00
University of California Press Theories of Modern Art
Book SynopsisOffering a collection of texts from letters, manifestos, notes and interviews, this book offers an insight into the way artists think and work.Trade Review"The richest, most thorough and authoritative anthology of theoretical source materials on painting and sculpture since Cezanne which has so far appeared." -- Alfred Frankenstein San Francisco Chronicle "Once in a great while one discovers a book that is unusual in approach, scope, and content. This is such a book ... From the words of the artists, ... one gets an insight concerning their art, a feeling of knowing the artists, and an awareness of their humanness -- added dimensions that make viewing their art work even more meaningful... This book is a significant contribution and is an important source for anyone interested in or involved with modern art." Art Education "A rich feast of letters, manifestos, reviews, interviews, and other writings relating to the study of modern art, carefully searched and methodically selected... He wrote the book to fill a need often cited by art historians and students -- to put the study of modern art on a sounder ideological basis. This he does... Other collections of documents of art by modern artists have been printed, but this source book has the advantages of objectivity and large scope... highly recommended for art collections and also for its relevance to humanities in general." Library JournalTable of ContentsGENERAL INTRODUCTION I. POST-IMPRESSIONISM: Individual Paths to Construction and Expression Introduction: The Letters of Cezanne Paul Cezanne: Excerpts from the Letters Introduction: The Lettters of van Gogh Vincent van Gogh: Excerpts from the Letters II. SYMBOLISM AND OTHER SUBJECTIVIST TENDENCIES: Form and the Evocation of Feeling Introduction: Gauguin and Other Subjectivists Paul Gauguin: Synthetist Theories Gauguin: On His Paintings Gauguin: On Primitivism Symbolist Theories III. FAUVISM AND EXPRESSIONISM: The Creative Intuition Introduction by Peter Selz Fauvism Expressionism IV. CUBISM: Form as Expresssion Introduction V. FUTURISM: Dynamism as the Expression of the Modern World Introductoin by Joshua C. Taylor VI. NEOPLASTICISM AND CONSTRUCTIVISM: Abstract and Nonobjective Art Introduction VII. DADA, SURREALISM, AND SCUOLA METAFISICA: The Irrational and the Dream Introduction: Dada and Surrealsism Dada Surrealism Introduction: Scuola Metafisica by Joshua C. Taylor VIII. ART AND POLITICS: The Artist and the Social Order Introduction by Peter Selz IX. CONTEMPORARY ART: The Autonomy of the Work of Art Introduction: The Americans Introduction: The Europeans APPENDIX BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
£27.00
University of California Press Art as Art
Book SynopsisAd Reinhardt is probably best known for his black paintings, which aroused as much controversy as admiration in the American art world when they were first exhibited in the 1950s. Although his ideas about art and life were often at odds with those of his contemporaries, they prefigured the ascendance of minimalism. Reinhardt's interest in the Orient and in religion, his strong convictions about the value of abstraction, and his disgust with the commercialism of the art world are as fresh and valid today as they were when he first expressed them.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction by Barbara Rose I. Reinhardt on Reinhardt Editor's Note Chronology (1966) A Contribution to a Journal of Some Future Art Historian (1958) Five Stages of Reinhardt's Timeless Stylistic Art-Historical Cycle (1965) Reinhardt Paints a Picture (1965) An Interview with Ad Reinhardt (1966-1967) Monologue (1970) II. Art as Art Editor's Note [Abstraction vs. Illustration] (1943) Abstract Art Refuses (1952) 25 Lines of Words on Art: Statement (1958) Art-as-Art (1962) [Art-as-Art] (1962-63) The Next Revolution in Art (1964) Art in Art is Art-as-Art (1966) 39 Art Planks: Programs for "Program" Painting (1963) There Is Just One Painting (1966) [Art-as-Art] (1966-67) III. The Black Paintings Editor's Note [The Black-Square Paintings] (1963) The Black-Square Painting Shows, 1963, 1964, 1965 (1966) Abstract Painting, Sixty by Sixty Inches Square, 1960, (1963) [On the Black Paintings] (1963) Black as Symbol and Concept (1967) Dark (undated) One Black, Symbol (undated) "Black" (undated) Time (undated) Black (undated) [On Negation] (undated) [Notes on the Black Paintings] (undated) [Oneness] (undated) [lmageless Icons] (undated) The First Paintings End IV. Art and Life Editor's Note Paintings and Pictures (1943) The Context of Art (1963) To Be Part of Things ... (undated) Routine Extremism (undated) Museum (undated) [Worldliness] (undated) Timeless Art-Words (undated) [Art in the World] (undated) The Artist is Responsible . . . Artist (undated) [The Role of the Artist] (undated) An Artist, a Fine-Artist or Free-Artist (undated) V. Art and Ethics Editor's Note On Standards-in Art (1953) 44 Titles for Articles for Artists under 45 (1958) On Art and Morality (1960) What is Corruption? (1961) [The Present Situation in Art] The Artist in Search of a Code of Ethics (1960) Aesthetic Responsibility (1962) Documents of Modern Art (1960) VI. Art and Politics Editor's Note [To the Artists' Union] (c. 1937) [The Fine Artist and the War Effort] (c. 1943) [What are Artists' Crimes as Artists?] (1963) [Government and the Arts] (undated) VII. Art and Religion Editor's Note [The Cult of Art] (undated) Mandala (undated) [Religious Strength through Market-place Joy] (undated) [Creation as Content] (undated) VIII. Art and Education Editor's Note The Artist in Search of an Academy, Part I (1953) The Artist in Search of an Academy, Part II (1954) Twelve Rules for a New Academy (1957) Is There a New Academy? (1959) IX. Essays on Art History Editor's Note Cycles through the Chinese Landscape (1954) Timeless in Asia (1960) Angkor and Art (1961) Art vs. History (1966) Bibliography
£24.30
University of California Press Seeing Through Clothes
Book SynopsisThis is an illustrated study of the representation of the body and clothing in Western art, from Greek sculpture and vase painting, through medieval and Renaissance portraits, to contemporary films and fashion photography.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface I DRAPERY II NUDITY III UNDRESS I IV COSTUME 2 v DRESS VI MIRRORS Sources for Illustrations Notes Bibliography Index
£27.90
University of California Press China and the Church
Book SynopsisExamines decorative Chinese works of art and visual culture, known as chinoiserie, in the context of church and state politics, with a particular focus on the Catholic missions' impact on Western attitudes toward China and the Chinese.Trade Review"...this engaging and sumptuously illustrated study sets out to address an intriguing historical question that most likely would never have occurred to a scholar working solely in one traditional discipline or another: namely, how might the shifting registers of aesthetic responses to China in eighteenth-century Europe be understood in relation to contemporary contro-versies over the nature of Chinese spiritual life?" Journal of Jesuit StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. China and the Church: From Matteo Ricci to the Chinese Rites Controversy 2. Chinoiserie and Chinese Art: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 3. Chinoiserie and the Chinese Body Conclusion: Chinoiserie and the Enlightenment Notes Selected Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
£35.70
University of California Press Infrastructure and Form
Book SynopsisIn the 1990s and 2000s, contemporary art in India changed radically in form, as an art world once dominated by painting began to support installation, new media, and performance. In response to the liberalization of India's economy, art was cultivated by a booming market as well as by new nonprofit institutions that combined strong local roots and transnational connections. The result was an unprecedented efflorescence of contemporary art and growth of a network of institutions radiating out from India. Among the first studies of contemporary South Asian art, Infrastructure and Form engages with sixteen of India's leading contemporary artists and art collectives to examine what made this development possible. Karin Zitzewitz articulates the connections among formal trajectories of medium and material, curatorial frames and networks of circulation, and the changing conditions of everyday life after economic liberalization. By untangling the complex interactions of infrastructure andTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Feminist Networks, New Biennials,and Performance 2. Painting and the Image Condition at the Millennium 3. Materiality, Ephemerality, Haptics 4. Language, the Documentary, and Art in a Discursive Mode 5. Infrastructure, Collaboration, and the Cut Conclusion: Infrastructure Is Not (Only) a Metaphor Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
£46.75
University of California Press Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan
Book SynopsisArticles crafted from lacquer, silk, cotton, paper, ceramics, and iron were central to daily life in early modern Japan. They were powerful carriers of knowledge, sociality, and identity, and their facture was a matter of serious concern among makers and consumers alike. In this innovative study, Christine M.E. Guth offers a holistic framework for appreciating the crafts produced in the city and countryside, by celebrity and unknown makers, between the late sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Her study throws into relief the confluence of often overlooked forces that contributed to Japan's diverse, dynamic, and aesthetically sophisticated artifactual culture. By bringing into dialogue key issues such as natural resources and their management, media representations, gender and workshop organization, embodied knowledge, and innovation, she invites readers to think about Japanese crafts as emerging from cooperative yet competitive expressive environments involving both human and nonhuTrade Review"This is a book that brings the past into conversation with the present, inspiring the reader with its insights into possibilities for the future." * Monumenta Nipponica *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue Introduction 1. Natural Resources 2. Picturing the Early Modern Craftscape 3. Craft Organizations and Operations 4. Tacit Knowledge 5. Technology, Innovation, and Craft Mastery Conclusion Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
£37.80
Harvard University Press The Dynamics of Learning in Early Modern Italy
Book SynopsisA longstanding tradition holds that universities in early modern Italy suffered from cultural sclerosis and long-term decline. Drawing on rich archival sources, including teaching records, David Lines shows that one of Italy's leading institutions, the University of Bologna, displayed remarkable vitality in the arts and medicine.Trade ReviewWith this contribution, Lines provides students and scholars with an excellent summary of the organization of university life in early modern Bologna, and he fosters the pursuit of new studies to shed light on the dynamics of teaching and learning that are yet to be unveiled. -- Silvia M. Marchori * History of Universities *This is foundational scholarship at its best. Joining great scope with precise detail, Lines offers a sweeping account of an institution central to European education and thought over many centuries. Through his eyes, we see the dynamism, energy, and innovation that characterized life at one of Europe’s greatest universities. -- Ann Moyer, author of The Intellectual World of Sixteenth-Century Florence: Humanists and Culture in the Age of Cosimo IAn impressively researched book on Bologna la dotta. David Lines puts to rest the image of the early modern Italian university as an institution in relentless decline. Instead, he demonstrates how the civic and religious government of Bologna, along with its dynamic community of learned professors, repeatedly reinvented the university to meet their needs. -- Paula Findlen, author of Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern ItalyDavid Lines skillfully reframes the history of the University of Bologna, revealing a dynamic institution with numerous links to cultural life in Italy and beyond. This book is essential reading for historians of science and medicine, intellectual historians of humanism, and anyone interested in understanding the social contexts of education from the late Middle Ages to the modern age. -- Craig Martin, author of Subverting Aristotle: Religion, History, and Philosophy in Early Modern Science
£39.06
Harvard University Press Liner Notes for the Revolution
Book SynopsisLiner Notes for the Revolution offers a startling new perspective on Black women musicians from Bessie Smith to Beyoncé. Informed by the overlooked contributions of women who wrote about the blues, rock, and pop, Daphne A. Brooks argues that acclaimed entertainers have also been radical intellectuals, challenging the culture industry to catch up.Trade ReviewBrooks traces all kinds of lines, finding unexpected points of connection…inviting voices to talk to one another, seeing what different perspectives can offer, opening up new ways of looking and listening by tracing lineages and calling for more space. * New York Times *Daphne Brooks has written a gloriously polyphonic book. Moving through the tumult of the twentieth century and the millennium, she scores, archives, and curates the history of Black woman musicians and their radical modernities, all created in a culture that presumed they had no voices or minds. What did they do to be so Black, brilliant, and blue? Listen. And read on. -- Margo Jefferson, author of the National Book Critics Circle Award–winning NegrolandBrooks takes on a wide-ranging study of Black female artists, from elders like Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters to Beyoncé and Janelle Monáe. But she reaches far beyond music, exploring writers like Zora Neale Hurston and Pauline Hopkins…Liner Notes is a secret history…connecting the sonic worlds of Black female mythmakers and truth-tellers. -- Rob Sheffield * Rolling Stone *Brooks moves deftly between eras, from early-twentieth-century blues and vaudeville to Lemonade-era Beyoncé…In articulating the intellectual labor of so many Black women artists—unknown, ‘undertheorized,’ or both—she implicitly acknowledges those who, for whatever reason, didn’t make it into the capital-A archive, but whose contributions surround us nonetheless…Liner Notes is a loud warning shot: seeing Black women everywhere is not the same as seeing Black women. -- Rawiya Kameir * Bookforum *Takes on the weighty task of sifting through more than a century’s worth of music history, cultural criticism and long forgotten archives to explore the revolutionary practices of Black women musicians…Brooks is effusive in her belief that not only did these women exist in spaces previously thought to be exclusively white, she suggests their impact can be felt in all spheres of music today. -- Stephanie Phillips * The Wire *A passionate book, written with a vigorous confidence…Brooks’s command of history and her reading are broad and deep…Instinct says there is a large audience that is not only sympathetic to what she has to say but would be charged up by Brooks’s ideas, that would hear in the music what Brooks hears. -- George Grella * Brooklyn Rail *Effortlessly poetic, deeply historical, and insistently imaginative, Liner Notes for the Revolution doesn’t merely give voice to unheeded and crucial innovators; it offers a new method for approaching music history itself. -- Ann Powers, author of Good BootyDaphne Brooks’s brilliant evocation of what gets lost when women of color don’t speak, let alone sing, is one of the most moving testaments to the power of silence, and what breaking that silence means, that I have ever read. Vivid, joyful, and heartbreaking in its passionate understanding of soul in all its manifestations, Liner Notes for the Revolution is itself a new kind of music: propulsive, witty, wise, and true. -- Hilton Als, author of White GirlsFor Daphne Brooks, black feminist sound is sensuous thought. In Liner Notes for the Revolution, she feels and shows and says this with such devotion, such critical and emotional intelligence, such archival commitment and dexterity, and such urgent social aspiration that listening itself is new again. -- Fred Moten, author of All That BeautyLiner Notes for the Revolution is a groundbreaking and breathtaking volume from one of our leading cultural historians that will forever change the way we write and think about American culture. Daphne Brooks insists upon the genius of Black women music-makers, listeners, and critics. This transformative work of intellectual generosity is sure to join the ranks of classic works such as Amiri Baraka’s Blues People and Greil Marcus’s Lipstick Traces. -- Farah Jasmine Griffin, author of Harlem NocturneIt went so many unexpected places and it fed me. I was especially drawn to the under-told stories of trailblazing women who were the collectors, archivists, and storytellers. She’s made what has been in the shadows legible. It’s full of stories of creative resistance and persistence. Perfect for this moment. * Los Angeles Times *A sweeping survey of Black women’s contributions to music history and a rigorous mapping of their lives as intellectuals. From Bessie Smith to Beyoncé…A positively revolutionary ‘critical re-attunement.’ * Pitchfork *A groundbreaking study that is necessary reading for scholars of Black studies, women’s studies, sound studies, and performance studies. The methods and arguments put forth by Brooks will undoubtedly inspire the growth of Black feminist archival scholarship dedicated to unearthing the stories of many more sidelined, yet-to-be-recognized culture makers. -- Shanice Wolters * Women and Music *Through storytelling, analysis, and archival research, Liner Notes for the Revolution spans generations of Black women as musical pioneers, including Ma Rainey, Billie Holiday, and Tina Turner, and calls attention to their resounding influence. -- Jaelani Turner-Williams * Teen Vogue *Enlightening…a fresh perspective on more than a century’s worth of Black female musicians…Brooks combines an impressive archive of musical works and the artists’ own words to convincingly reveal how they each impacted popular culture. Music aficionados should take note. * Publishers Weekly *A spirited study of how Black women musicians and writers have informed each other despite gatekeepers’ neglect and dismissals…A sui generis and essential work on Black music culture destined to launch future investigations. * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *A lyrical masterpiece that takes readers on an exhilarating journey through a century of Black sound from Bessie Smith to Beyoncé…Brooks’ liner notes are a ‘requiem’ for the oversight of Black women musicians and their intellectual resonance. * New Books Network *An impressive exploration of Black women’s intellectuality in music. -- Jordannah Elizabeth * Amsterdam News *Rich with insights…A rigorous and sweeping counter-history of American pop. -- Danielle A. Jackson * Vulture *
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Princeton University Press Weiweiisms
Book SynopsisA collection of quotes that demonstrates the simplicity of the author's thoughts on key aspects of his art, politics, and life. It is organized into six categories: freedom of expression; art and activism; government, power, and moral choices; the digital world; history, the historical moment, and the future; and personal reflections.Trade ReviewOne of The Village Voice's Favorite Books for 2012 One of Big Think's Best Art Books of 2012 One of Huffington Post's Best Art Books for 2012, List of the 50 Greatest Creative Publications "Warsh has collected statements from Weiwei on topics ranging from technology to Twitter, freedom of speech to the power of action, and creativity to morality. Although loosely divided into chapters, the book and its brief but powerful quotations all reference back to humanity and the rights of all its members. Unfailingly pithy and refreshingly modest, the book reads quickly and conversationally. Inspirational through its simplicity and generating feelings of complicity, Weiwei succeeds in creating obsessed readers and his desire for obsessed citizens, in China and the world at large, cannot be far behind."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "[H]ere is a man who understands how to get messages to people. His expertise in artful dissemination is the 21st-century equivalent of Andy Warhol's brilliant populism... [E]pigrammatic, pungent, uncompromising."--Peter Aspden, Financial Times "Physically Weiwei-isms is a black, small hardbound book, fitting nicely into a jacket pocket and meant to be carried around, perused at chance moments and ruminated on. It knowingly bears a resemblance to the little red books that were given out by Chairman Mao in order to popularize his philosophies to his subjects. Yet, brainwashing is not the dastardly attempt of the author this time; it is more akin to brain-widening. Take a look for yourself. I feel safe in saying that some statement, one of his turns of phrase, will hit you like a punch in the gut, likely leaving an emotional bruise that will take great time and thought to recover from."--Luke Goldstein, Blogcritics "If it's even possible to put a whole person into your pocket, Weiwei-isms comes close... Unlike The Little Red Book, carrying Weiwei-isms isn't compulsory, but you'll find yourself compelled to read it again and again and fit it into your head and heart, if not your pocket."--Bob Duggan, Big Think "For those who have been moved by his struggles with the Chinese authorities, who admire his art or dance along to his irreverent interpretation of Psy's 'Gangnam Style', taken up by artists and museums across the world on YouTube, Ai Weiwei's little book of sayings is for you."--Sarah Greenberg, Editor of RA Magazine "This little book collects Ai's aphorisms, or 'Weiwei-isms,' distilled thoughts culled from Ai's writings, interviews, and Twitter posts on freedom of expression, human rights, art and activism, power and the government, and moral choices... As brilliant and serious as Ai is, he is also companionable and uplifting."--Booklist "Although this book, a collection of quotes from Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, is only four by five inches in dimension, it contains powerful and dangerous ideas. Powerful for general readers: 'Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.' And dangerous to China's leaders: 'The people who control culture in China have no culture.' Chinese authorities have beaten and jailed Ai, destroyed his studio, and threatened his loved ones because he won't stop denouncing government oppression. Buy this book to keep his brave words alive, since, as he points out, 'The government computer has one button: delete.'"--R.C. Baker, Village Voice "PERFECT FOR: Dissidents-in-training, Ai fans and anyone with a Twitter handle."--Huffington Post "His quotations, collected from his own writings, interviews and Tweets, offer musings on art, politics and Chinese life. They also show us the man himself: uncompromising, upfront, amusing, and charismatic, with an often wicked sense of humour."--Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore, The Independent "The little black book of Weiwei-isms packs a serious, pensive punch."--Karen Day, Cool Hunting "Don't let the size fool you. Ai Weiwei's 'little black book' will leave a lasting impression."--Sylvia Tsai, ArtAsiaPacific "This wonderful little book of memorable quotes from the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei--culled from his numerous videos and posts on his blog and Twitter--encourages us to accept the challenges of life and to use our time on this earth to stand up for human rights and a better life for all."--John May, Generalist "Weiwei-isms is not another trite collection of quotes gathered for the casual reader. From a man who admonishes 'Say what you need to say plainly, and then take responsibility for it' comes this short, frank, and thoughtful collection that does just that."--Michael Abatemarco, Pasatiempo, New MexicanTable of ContentsIntroduction vii On Freedom of Expression 1 On Art and Activism 23 On Government, Power, and Making Moral Choices 39 On the Digital World 69 On History, the Historical Moment,and the Future 77 Personal Reflections 91 Sources 103 Chronology 117 Acknowledgments 127
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Princeton University Press Lewis Carrolls Photography and Modern Childhood
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The best book yet written on Dodgson’s photography. Measured in tone and thickly referenced, it is also refreshingly open to seeing both sides of an argument. In this sense it reads as much like a book written by Carroll as one about him."---Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, V&A Magazine"Diane Waggoner’s comprehensive study, lavishly illustrated with excellent reproductions of Carroll’s albumen prints, alongside letters and sketches, explores how his paintings and photographs helped shape emerging conceptions of childhood in the Victorian age. . . . The book will appeal not just to Carroll aficionados but to anyone with an interest in the development of photography in the 19th century."---Jonathan Harwood, Black & White Photography Magazine"Diane Waggoner’s comprehensive study, lavishly illustrated with excellent reproductions of Carroll’s albumen prints, alongside letters and sketches, explores how his paintings and photographs helped shape emerging conceptions of childhood in the Victorian age."---Jonathan Harwood, Black & White Photography Magazine"Waggoner illuminates the complexity of her subject, bringing to it both fresh context and academic rigor. . . . This is a book to read carefully, as well as to look at, and it will be a vital addition to Carroll scholarship. . . . The result is a descriptive and measured account of the making of photographs whose subjects are familiar to any Carroll scholar, as well as a number that are less well known—which ultimately makes the book something of a corrective in terms of its content and approach. . . . Waggoner’s book is strikingly beautiful but also . . . contributes so significantly to the history of childhood itself."---Jennifer Green-Lewis, H-Net Reviews"The most detailed critical analysis of Dodgson’s photographs to date."---Jan Susina, Victorian Studies
£55.25
Princeton University Press Brutal Aesthetics
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Hal Foster’s eloquent book Brutal Aesthetics attempts to inaugurate a positive appraisal of what the author identifies as 'positive barbarism'. . . . This erudite, nearly coffee table-sized book—substantially rewarding both in historical detail and theoretical reference, with copious footnotes and voluminous glossy color plates—is fascinatingly factual and beautiful to peruse."---Joseph Nechvatal, Brooklyn Rail"Hal Foster's research sets the figures in context, compares them in an original way and skilfully manages to identify common aspects of their work. For those interested in modern art, intellectual history and politics of the cold war era, this book comes strongly recommended."---Christian Kile, Sehepunkte"In Brutal Aesthetics, Hal Foster compellingly investigates the complex dichotomies that inherently exist within brutalist art theory of the postwar period. Through the lens of five iconic figures and the transformative nature of their respective disciplines, Foster provides substantial evidence for such an examination and lays the foundation for this essential contribution to the literature around the subject. Covering an historically pivotal turning point in Western art, Foster’s research illuminates new insights into the study of brutalism to supplement mid twentieth-century avant-garde art history. . . . Brutal Aesthetics is an indispensable addition to the art library. –ARLIS/NA Reviews""A fine production, a beautiful publication, that honours the exceptionally high quality of the lectures contained within."---Ian Lipke, Queensland Reviewers Collective"Highly recommended." * Choice *"An informative (and well-illustrated) overview of how intellectuals in the immediate post-war period saw primitivism as a viable remedy for art and society."---Alexander Adams, The Jackdaw
£36.00
Princeton University Press Alexander the Great
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Princeton University Press The Grant Writing Guide
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Historically marginalized scholars will particularly find [The Grant Writing Guide] indispensable; they will relish reading the comforting prose of Lai, who lucidly explains how to get an edge on the competitive genre of funding. . . . The book promises—and delivers—on keeping the reader abreast with all the technical details of funding. It provides the novice with a blueprint for navigating the complex funding process with vigor and rigor."---Abdulrahman Bindamnan, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
£17.09
Princeton University Press Goya
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the PROSE Award in Biography & Autobiography, Association of American Publishers""A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Art, Architecture, & Photography Book of Fall 2020""One of The Sunday Times' Best Art Books of 2020""An impressive and scrupulous work of scholarship."---Michael Prodger, The Sunday Times"Goya: A Portrait of the Artist [is] a newly informed chance to reflect on an artist of enigmatic mind and permanent significance. . . . Tomlinson addresses, with refreshing clarity, a chronic question of just how independent, not to say subversive, Goya was of the powers that employed him. . . . She admirably keeps the mysteries of Goya’s character distinct from its self-serving machinations."---Peter Schjeldahl, New Yorker"[A] thorough and balanced biography. . . . Tomlinson is an excellent guide."---Robin Simon, Literary Review"According to Janis Tomlinson, the great Spanish painter and etcher was not, as legend has it, a man who turned in on himself and . . . depicted a horror-haunted inner world with demons and witches everywhere, but a social creature who took on the cultural and folkloric currents of his time. Her Goya is no recluse, but shifts alongside his rapidly changing political masters." * Sunday Times *"If ever there was a time that demanded a fuller understanding of Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, that time is now. Goya navigated the tempestuous shoals around being a court painter and an independent humanist during the brutal period of Spain’s Imperial unraveling. In the process he emerged as arguably the first modern artist…[A] superlative study."---Christopher Knight, LA Times"Tomlinson has produced an authoritative, reliable and thoroughly up-to-date biography that includes many insights into Goya’s social and political milieu during a time of unprecedented upheaval in Spain. . . . [The book offers] a detailed account of his life while simultaneously offering insights into the artist’s creative process and providing the reader with the opportunity to distinguish between the legends and the facts concerning many facets of Goya’s life and work."---Simon Lee, Burlington Magazine"In Goya: A Portrait of the Artist, [Janis Tomlinson shows that] the painter was not the loner that he is sometimes imagined to be. . . . One of the pleasures of Tomlinson’s book lies in encountering the unvarnished details of Goya’s life; her delineation of the artist’s remarkably flexible political allegiances is especially engrossing."---Andrew Martin, Harper's Magazine"[Tomlinson] is an expert, evenhanded guide and there is no question we are in the surest hands."---Maxwell Carter, Wall Street Journal"Tomlinson’s detailed account of this long and productive life is discriminating and trustworthy. . . . Tomlinson has supplied a cool and corrective scholarly chronicle."---Julian Bell, New York Review of Books"A passionate and well-researched biography. . . . Tomlinson refutes the common image of Goya as a dark, obsessive artist and attributes his success, instead, to his geniality and initiative. The writing is insightful, with Tomlinson’s pensive, philosophical tone mirroring her deep expertise and knack for critical thinking. This inspired, thoughtful work sheds new light on Goya and will enthrall any lover of fine art." * Publishers Weekly *"Tomlinson’s meticulous distillation of a voluminous number of parish records, drawings, notes, and letters is impressive, and her knowledge of and passion for Goya continually shine through in her writing, making for a fascinating and insightful reading experience. A top-notch biography." * Kirkus starred review *"This well-informed, comprehensive biography would make an excellent gift for an art lover. Tomlinson has fashioned a clear and informative biography that will appeal to Goya researchers and enthusiasts."---Alexander Adams, The Critic"This masterly biography now puts the work into context and breathes life into the legend of the morose recluse."---Bel Mooney, The Daily Mail"The 'portrait of the artist' painted by Tomlinson is that of a man able to adapt to an ever-changing political landscape. Her prose interweaves personal biography and major historical events with brief interludes of artistic description that whet the visual appetite. Reading it is like walking on a frozen lake, aware of the scholarly depth beneath but safe on top of the thick ice. Bite-size chapters transform the tome into a digestible and enjoyable read. . . . in a world brimming with books on Goya, this will surely stand as the definitive biography for years to come."---Isabelle Kent, Apollo"Goya [is] a lucid, meticulously researched, and nuanced account of the life of the perennially fascinating Spanish painter, Francisco de Goya…[Janis] Tomlinson’s book is both a meticulous scholarly contribution and a highly accessible biography for the non-specialist reader. . . . Tomlinson’s tour de force is a profoundly sensitive and masterful portrait of one of the towering artists of the modern era."---Catherine M. Jaffe, Dieciocho"Goya takes a fresh look at well-trodden misconceptions about the artist, exhuming details from parish records, court papers, newspapers, and other archives, and investigated how recent discoveries like an early sketchbook and new access to his letters provide insight into his six decades of art."---Allison C. Meier, Fine Books & Collections"Francisco de Goya is often thought of as the reclusive, deaf and delusional artist who depicted drowning dogs, mutilated bodies and Saturn devouring his son…In Goya, the American art historian Janis Tomlinson goes some way to dispelling this perception, scouring primary resources — including the Spaniard’s letters, court papers and sketchbooks — to provide a more nuanced depiction." * Christie's *"Janet Tomlinson’s new biography restores [Goya] to his own times. . . . The pragmatic portrait of the artist offered by Tomlinson is one that makes compelling sense of the surviving textual evidence. . . . Tomlinson has provided the most reliable life of the artist to date."---Tom Stammers, London Review of Books
£18.00
Princeton University Press Mina Loy
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Mina Loy] gives a crucial account of Loy’s varied life and art, and also shines a light on other aspects of her multifaceted creative output, including her work as a writer, poet, playwright, inventor, and fashion and industrial designer. . . . This book provides an essential foundation for future scholarship on this fascinating and enigmatic artist."---Lauren Moya Ford, Hyperallergic"Loy’s repute as a writer (poet, satirist, polemicist, critic, feminist), and the international scholarship around it, underpins how the visual works are here brought to public attention. The contributors approach the task discursively: Lauterbach considering Loy’s engagement with truth and beauty, Ades exploring the trajectory from Dada to the late constructions, and Conover writing more self-reflexively as a result of his experience of 50 years studying and editing Loy’s work. This is a noble endeavour."---Matthew Gale, The Art Newspaper"[Mina Loy] significantly restores [the artist] to the center of international 20th century Modernism. . . . [The] catalog allow[s] both a historical and contemporary view of Loy, analyzing her literary and artistic careers and works historically through her archive, and also in light of an expansive current concept of artistic production. The catalog’s contributors . . . look back and forth between word and image, knitting back together the different parts of her life—social, literary, artistic, and entrepreneurial—that have formerly separated Loy’s accomplishments and obscured her art historical importance."---Amy Rahn, Brooklyn Rail"[A] fascinating exhibition catalog."---Jorge S. Arango, Portland Press Herald"Loy has long been recognized for her poetry (among poets, anyway), yet gradually, recognition of her multi-faceted artistic practice has increased—and with Mina Loy: Strangeness Is Inevitable . . . it is irrevocably clearer than ever."---Patrick James Dunagan, Rain Taxi Review of Books
£35.70
Princeton University Press We Are Made of Stories
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finalist for the PROSE Award in Art Exhibitions, Association of American Publishers"
£37.80
Princeton University Press Barbara ChaseRiboud Monumentale
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award, College Art Association""Chase-Riboud’s work.... truly shines. The luscious illustrations of the artist’s sculptures and drawings compose much of the catalogue’s heft, and in an adroit and meaningful editorial move, the reproductions are interspersed with full-page reprints of seven of the artist’s poems. Thus Chase-Riboud’s visual and literary works are physically placed into conversation— with neither taking priority over the other, and with both, at times literally, existing side by side. In one of the most powerful juxtapositions."---Nika Elder, Women's Art Journal
£35.70
Princeton University Press The Land Carries Our Ancestors
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Princeton University Press 1898
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Princeton University Press Painting as an Art
Book SynopsisTrade Review"There are books aplenty on painting and art, but this is the first to explain seriously what makes painting an art, and it is our good luck to have it from a notable philosopher who is also on an intimate footing with the tradition of Western painting and who knows how to stand in front of a painting and spin tales that sparkle with truth. . . . Wollheim's interpretations are bold, revisionary and cogent. Only a philosopher of his rare gifts, and a connoisseur with his command of the art-historical tradition, could possibly have the confidence to bring off his feat of virtuoso interpretation."---Flint Schier, New York Times Book Review"It is one of the achievements of Richard Wollheim's superb book that it offers an extremely subtle sense of the mind's functioning, while providing a theory of critical relevance: it shows how psychological and cultural factors enter a painting's content, and how arguments on relevance can be conducted in difficult cases."---Michael Podro, Times Literary Supplement
£35.70
Princeton University Press Fellow Wanderer
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A material and deeply personal lens onto 19th-century global culture"---Lauren Christensen, New York Times"An exceptionally lavish catalogue."---James Panero, New Criterion"A glorious, large-scale, coffee table book."---Chadd Scott, Essential West Magazine"[A] lavishly produced, larger-than-coffee-table-sized volume."---Peter Walsh, Arts Fuse
£46.75
Princeton University Press Recording State Rites in Words and Images
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£64.00
Syracuse University Press Winslow Homer and His Cullercoats Paintings
Book SynopsisIn his Cullercoats paintings, Winslow Homer took as his main subject the lives and labours of the village's women and their strong sense of community. These paintings display his masterly uses of watercolor. The Cullercoats paintings show Homer in a new light, and Tatham's revelatory account provides the long-overdue attention they deserve.
£44.96
University of Minnesota Press Sowing Empire
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The University of Alabama Press Reconstructing Tascalusas Chiefdom Pottery Styles
Book SynopsisReconstructing Tascalusa's Chiefdom is an archaeological study of political collapse in the Alabama River Valley following the Hernado de Soto expedition. To explain the cultural and political disruptios caused by Hernado de Soto's exploration deep into north America, Amanda L. Regnier presents an analysis of ceramics and a novel theory of cultural exchange, which argues that culture consists of a series of interconnected models governing proper behaviour that are shared across the belief systems of communities and individuals. An approach not often applied to archaeological research, ceramic study serves as a test of whether historic cognitive models can be extracted from ceramic data via cluster and correspondence analysis. In addition, the summary of Late Mississippian sites includes a chronology of the Alabama River from approximately AD 900 to 1600, which previously has only existed in manuscript form, and a summary of excavations at major Late Mississippian sites along the Alab
£36.51
University of Alabama Press Immersive Words Mass Media Visuality and American
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