History of art Books
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Edouard Vuillard the Nabis and the Politics of
Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking book is the first to address the feminine and feminist politics of Intimiste art - a modernist mode of art making developed in the 1890s by Édouard Vuillard while associated with the Nabi ''brotherhood''.Coined by contemporary critics, ''intimisme'' encapsulated the shared approach of these artists to depicting intimate settings and themes. Vuillard''s paintings, which are typically small, employ bold pigments and economic brushstrokes to depict female figures in tightly composed apartment interiors. Those portrayed include his mother and sister, just as wives and lovers dominate the art of other Nabis, including Maurice Denis and Pierre Bonnard.Francesca Berry comparatively analyses the gender politics of Nabi art to reveal real differences. Through skilled visual interpretation she argues that Vuillard attempted a profound engagement with the material conditions of feminine domesticity in cooperation with his first and most
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Random House Publishing Group A Month in Siena
Book SynopsisFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Return comes a profoundly moving contemplation of the relationship between art and life. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND EVENING STANDARD After finishing his powerful memoir The Return, Hisham Matar, seeking solace and pleasure, traveled to Siena, Italy. Always finding comfort and clarity in great art, Matar immersed himself in eight significant works from the Sienese School of painting, which flourished from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. Artists he had admired throughout his life, including Duccio and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, evoke earlier engagements he’d had with works by Caravaggio and Poussin, and the personal experiences that surrounded those moments.Including beautiful full-color reproductions of the artworks, A Month in Siena is about what occurred between Matar, those paintings, and the city. That month would be an extraordinary period in the writer’s life: an exploration of how art can console and disturb in equal measure, as well as an intimate encounter with a city and its inhabitants. This is a gorgeous meditation on how centuries-old art can illuminate our own inner landscape—current relationships, long-lasting love, grief, intimacy, and solitude—and shed further light on the present world around us.Praise for A Month in Siena“As exquisitely structured as The Return, driven by desire, yearning, loss, illuminated by the kindness of strangers. A Month in Siena is a triumph.”—Peter Carey
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Prestel Caravaggio and Bernini: Early Baroque in Rome
Book SynopsisThis book examines in depth the painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) and the sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680). Other painters and sculptors gathered around these two geniuses in Rome in the first decades of the 17th century. Together they formulated a new artistic language which later came to be known as Roman Baroque. In a very short period of time, Rome became an international cultural hotspot, the breeding ground of new ideas and initiatives. Artists from all over Europe came to the Eternal City to study the many remnants of Roman Antiquity and to seek the increasing patronage of the popes, cardinals, and the local nobility. More than ever before, painters and sculptors shared ambitions, personal friendships, and worked together, often on large papal projects. Caravaggio, Bernini, and their fellow artists embody this artistic fraternisation. Together, their works tell the story of the birth of this new movement in art, and the radical artistic innovation which would prove to have far reaching influence in Europe.
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Insight Editions Star Wars: The Concept Art of Ralph McQuarrie
Book SynopsisExplore the evocative Star Wars concept art of legendary artist Ralph McQuarrie in this miniature art book.Hold a galaxy of legendary designs in the palm of your hand with Star Wars: The Concept Art of Ralph McQuarrie Mini Book. Featuring over 100 stunning concept images from the original Star Wars trilogy as well as the many books and publications inspired by the Star Wars galaxy, this mini book is bound together at a readable pocket-book size and is the perfect collectible item for Star Wars fans of all ages.
£9.49
Salzgeber Unholy
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MIT Press Ltd Total Expansion of the Letter
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£40.00
British Museum Press Masterpieces
Book SynopsisDrawn from all the major cultures of the period and covering an extensive geographical and chronological sweep, this richly illustrated book celebrates the artistic accomplishment of objects made from a varied and attractive array of materials such as gold, silver, precious stones, ivory, glass, ceramics and textiles.
£22.50
Yale University Press Marie Cuttoli
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Kang transcends the purely biographical approach that has long plagued monographs on craftspeople and designers to situate Cuttoli's production within the critical discourses surrounding gender, colonialism and the decorative.”—Sarah Parrish, The Burlington Magazine
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Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Encyclopedia of American Silver Manufacturers
Book SynopsisWith more than 2300 marks illustrated and brief histories and cross-references of more than 1600 manufacturers, this is the most comprehensive reference source on the subject. To compile the information presented here, the authors devoted much time researching numerous sources. These include various editions of Trademarks of the Jewelry & Kindred Trades, U.S. Patent Office records, silver and jewelry catalogs of manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers, records of companies still in business, and pieces examined in antiques shops all over the country. This fifth edition includes new trademarks, additional companies, and brings to date the many changes in company ownership during the last decade.
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Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art The Classical Body in Romantic Britain
Book SynopsisA radical, lively departure from received notions about art of the Romantic period For many, the term “neoclassicism” has come to imply discipline, order, restraint, and a certain myopia. Leaving the term behind, this book radically challenges enduring assumptions about the art produced from the late 18th century to the early Victorian period, casting new light on appropriations of the classical body by British artists. It is the first to foreground the intersections of gender, race, and class in discussions of British visual classicism, laying bare artists’ alternately politicizing and emphatically sensual engagements with Greco-Roman art. Rather than rely exclusively on subsequent scholarship, the book takes up the poet John Keats (1795–1821) as a theoretical framework. Eschewing the “Golden Age” narrative, which sees J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) as the pinnacle of the period’s artistic achievement, the book examines overlooked artists, such as Henry Howard (1769–1847) and John Graham Lough (1798–1876). The result is a fresh account of underappreciated works of British painting and sculpture.Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British ArtTrade Review“Cora Gilroy-Ware mounts a refreshing, combative argument for the radical links of white marble statuary.”—Marina Warner, Times Literary Supplement 'Books of the Year'
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Duke University Press Disordering the Establishment
Book SynopsisLily Woodruff examines the development of artistic strategies of political resistance in France in the decades following World War II, showing how artists countered establishment ideology, challenged traditional art institutions, appealed to direct political engagement, and grappled with French intellectuals’ modeling of society.Trade Review“Lily Woodruff's examination of conceptual painting in France is at once timely and long overdue. She offers a satisfying total narrative of the artworks situated in relation to the changing dynamics of both the state and the market as they came to determine culture without losing focus of the specificity of the aesthetic dimension of these interventions. She situates artwork as a vehicle for an intellectual and sensual proposition charged with capacity. I learned a tremendous amount from this book.” -- Jaleh Mansoor, author of * Marshall Plan Modernism: Italian Postwar Abstraction and the Beginnings of Autonomia *“This extraordinarily lucid book is required reading for anyone wondering how the 1960s—and even ‘democracy’ itself—still matters. As Lily Woodruff demonstrates, the top-down instrumentalization of participation was countered in that decade by an artistic landscape ranging from kinetic painting and wearable objects to handheld props and logos. In beautifully readable prose, she replaces French artistic practice in a geopolitical terrain that negotiates both Soviet and Maoist histories, making those practices once again urgently contemporary.” -- Rachel Haidu, author of * The Absence of Work: Marcel Broodthaers, 1964–1976 *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. The Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel's Social Abstractions 31 2. Daniel Buren's Instrumental Invisibility 91 3. André Cadere's Calligrams of Institutional Authority 143 4. The Collectif d'Art Sociologique's Sociological Realism 195 Conclusion 257 Notes 265 Bibliography 293 Index 304
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Hauser & Wirth Mike Kelley: Timeless Painting
Book SynopsisAn exploration of Mike Kelley's unique approach to painting as a conceptual medium and his enduring relevance as an artist through responses by various artists that range from art historical analysis to epistolary ode. Published on the occasion of the eponymous 201920 exhibition at Hauser & Wirth New York, Mike Kelley: Timeless Painting the publication reproduces twelve series of paintings from 1994 through 2009 alongside responses to Kelley's work by a diverse group of artists that Porter has invited to contribute: Edgar Arceneaux with Kurt Forman, Carroll Dunham, Daniel Guzmán, Richard Hawkins, Jay Heikes, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Christina Quarles, Mary Reid Kelley, and Laurie Simmons. In writing that ranges from personal anecdote to art historical analysis, cento poem to epistolary ode, these artists consider the enduring relevance of Kelley's practice both as a painter and as an artist more broadly.
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Fowler Museum At Ucla Striking Iron
Book SynopsisFor more than two millennia, African blacksmiths have transformed one of Earth's most basic natural resources into objects of life-changing utility, empowerment, prestige, spiritual potency, and astonishing artistryshaping African cultures in the most fundamental ways. Striking Iron combines interdisciplinary scholarship with vivid illustrations to offer the most comprehensive treatment to date of the blacksmith's art in sub-Saharan Africa. Interspersed throughout are photographs of more than 250 diverse works from over 100 ethnic groupsincluding tools, blades, currencies, wood sculptures studded with iron, musical instruments, and accoutrementswith field photographs documenting blacksmiths at work and objects in use. Seventeen contributors write from the disciplinary perspectives of art history, art, anthropology, archaeology, history, and astronomy, examining how the blacksmiths' virtuosity can harness powers of the natural and spiritual worlds, effect change and ensure protection, a
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University of Illinois Press African Art Reframed Reflections and Dialogues on
Book SynopsisAn essential guide to building new exchanges and connections in the dynamic worlds of African and global art. Read to explore the reframing of African art through case studies of museums and galleries in the United States, Europe, and Africa.Trade Review"At just under 400 pages, this splendid and impressively researched book has eight chapters that divide thematically into three parts. . . . The main themes centre around artworks, artists, museum exhibits and others, while interviews with artists and curators close each chapter." --Theory, Culture, and Society"The authors' enthusiasm for their analytical approach is admirable . . . very timely and insightful work." --Ethnic and Racial Studies"Jules-Rosette and Osborne succeed in their intention to illustrate a historical reconstituting of public perception of the African object--from ethnographic curiosity, to influence on other artistic movements, to embrace of the gamut of creative expression." --Choice"African Art Reframed is a qualitative study of the circulation and exhibition of African art in ethnographic and art museums and galleries in Europe, Africa, and the United States. Drawing on years of ethnographic observations, interviews with museum professionals and artists, and extensive archival and visual materials such as museum catalogs, Jules-Rosette and Osborn examine how African art is created, framed, and reframed in museums across three continents." --Symbolic Interaction”An important intervention featuring new approaches to 'unmixing' in the exhibitionary complex of African and African American Art. It features interviews with French and US-based curators and museum directors engaged in emerging contexts and legacies of ethnographic display.”—Peter J. Bloom, author of French Colonial Documentary: Mythologies of Humanitarianism"African Art Reframed is a masterwork that interweaves theoretical innovations and critical analyses of the power dynamics in museum displays of African art." --Journal of African American History”This book is nothing less than a major breakthrough in museum studies. It is the first to systematically connect museum display practice to the recalibration of 'ethnic identity' that happens after colonialism. Its focus is on the global display of art and crafts from Africa and the African diaspora. But it is essential reading for anyone who wonders about what we want to hear from our forebears as we compel them to speak from behind glass, standing on plinths, and hanging on walls.”—Dean MacCannell, author of The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure ClassTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Simon Njami Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Reframing African Art PART I: ENTERING MUSEUMS AT THE THRESHOLD CHAPTER 1. Lost and Found: Postcolonial Reflections on Colonial Museums CHAPTER 2. Revisiting the Storeroom: Collections and Cultural Surplus CHAPTER 3. Reaching Out: Museums, Audiences, and the Public Sphere PART II: DIALOGUES ON MUSEUM PRACTICES AND ART WORLDS CHAPTER 4. Museums Speak Out: Curators' Dialogues CHAPTER 5. Agitating African Art: Artists' Voices and Audience Responses PART III: UNMIXING AFRICAN ART AND REMIXING THE RESULTS CHAPTER 6. The Theory and Method of Unmixing CHAPTER 7. Remixing the Results and Looking Ahead CHAPTER 8. Personal Journeys and Reflections on African Art Chronology Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Surrealist Masculinities
Book SynopsisOffers an exploration of how surrealist visual production was shaped by constructions of gender and sexuality, particularly masculinity, in the 1920s and early 1930s. This book analyzes surrealist work in relation to the history of surrealism and investigates how surrealist artists and writers appropriated advertising, and sexology.Trade Review"Lyford demonstrates the subtle interpretation needed to navigate the complexities raised by issues of masculinity within Surrealism." -- Robert Radford Burlington Magazine "Tight, richly documented, and does an excellent job of interweaving image, text, and context, no easy task... Lyford has done a remarkable job of demonstrating how complicated surrealism's relationship was to all forms of normative masculinity." -- Carolyn J. Dean H-France ReviewsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Paradox of Surrealist Masculinity 1. Anxiety and Perversion in Postwar Paris 2. The Aesthetics of Dismemberment 3. The Advertisement of Emasculation: Andre Kertesz in Surrealist Paris 4. Man Ray, Lee Miller, and the Photography of Surrealist Sexuality 5. The Lessons of Barbette: Surrealism, Fascism, and the Politics of Sexual Metamorphosis Conclusion: A Postscript on Masculinity and Reconstruction Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£999.99
Cambridge University Press Christianity Art and Transformation
Book SynopsisChristianity, Art and Transformation is a journey of exploration that is both historical and contemporary, theological and practical. The reader is invited to share in the journey beginning in the life of the early Church, travelling through the history of European Christianity and art, and arriving in southern Africa.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: '… a new and original and a very welcome addition to the subject.' Journal of Ecclesiastical HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Historical Trajectories: 1. The power of sacred images; 2. The beautiful, the ugly, and the holy; Part II. Theological Reflection: 3. The redemptive power of beauty; 4. Restoring broken themes of praise; Part III. Aesthetic Praxis: 5. Art in the public square; 6. Art in the life of the church; Select bibliography; Index of names; Index of subjects.
£37.99
The University of Chicago Press The Rhetoric of Perspective
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Arnoldsche Enric Mestre: Ceramic Sculpture
Book SynopsisDespite the fundamental functions that architecture must perform, it will always inspire artists across all genres with its masterful handling of space, harmony and proportion. Enric Mestre (b.1936) is one of those observers of space and volume who have left their mark on the ceramic sculptural art movement of the 20th century and beyond. As one of the key artists of the Spanish school, his name is mentioned in the same breath as master sculptors Jorge Oteiza and Eduardo Chillida. His sculptures come across as sober spatial constructions, but appearances are deceptive: these objects have a poetic force that counters the gaze of the beholder. This book celebrates the master's best creations and is a perfect opportunity to discover or rediscover his timeless work. Text in English and Spanish.
£35.70
Amherst College Dismantling the Nation: Contemporary Art in Chile
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Insight Editions Harry Potter: Film Vault: The Complete Series:
Book SynopsisAll twelve volumes in a beautifully produced box set, perfect for Wizarding World fans everywhere.Harry Potter: Film Vault compiles the filmmaking secrets and visionary artistry behind the Harry Potter films into twelve deluxe collectible volumes. Intricately designed and packed with concept art and unit photography from the Warner Bros. archive, each volume in the series gives fans striking insights about bringing the Wizarding World to the big screen.
£112.10
Getty Trust Publications Hollywood Arensberg AvantGarde Collecting in
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive reconstruction and interpretation of Louise and Walter Arensberg's groundbreaking collection of modern and pre-Columbian art takes readers room by room, wall by wall, object by object through the couple's Los Angeles home in which their collection was displayed.
£49.50
HarperCollins Publishers Inc What Becomes a Legend Most
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Oxford University Press Inc Latterday Saint Art
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The University of Chicago Press Iconoclasm
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Most academic art history considers the social and historical contexts of art-making, but Freedberg instead investigates emotional responses we are generally embarrassed to admit even to ourselves. . . . Freedberg argues that those who attack images do so because they find it hard to draw a line between image and reality. For protesters, ‘the broadly political act becomes allied with the idiosyncratic, neurotic one.’ Freedberg sees both iconoclasm and censorship as a way of repressing the irrational fear that an image might truly come alive. If you want to change the meaning of an image or the way it makes people feel or act, he suggests that you encourage people to reflect on their relationship to it." * London Review of Books *"Freedberg (Columbia Univ.) has devoted five decades to studying causes for the destruction of images, and this volume collects his essays on the subject, both classic and new. Over the decades, Freedberg's scholarly research has widened from iconoclastic activities in the 16th-century Netherlands to include Byzantine and Reformation practices and, most recently, the Middle East, South Africa, and the Confederate monument debacles in the US. As he weaves together his earlier essays with his most recent analyses, Freedberg confirms that this is not a topic for a single discipline. The complexity of iconoclasm and its ramifications needs to be multidisciplinary and should incorporate religious attitudes, theology, politics, social issues, gender studies, and economics. Every aspect of human activity is in some way affected by or affects iconoclasm, no matter whether it is acknowledged as iconophobia, aniconism, idolatry, or censorship or its motivation is religious, political, or something else. Read in tandem with Freedberg's now-classic The Power of Images (CH, Jan'90, 27-2517), which initiated the vocabulary of response as integral not simply to art history but also to the humanities and social studies, Iconoclasm illuminates the turmoil of contemporary events." * Choice *“Freedberg reminds us that the essence of iconoclasm does not consist in a radical refusal of images, as its destructive violence would have us think, but in the awareness of the centrality of images themselves.” * Il Foglio (translated from original Italian) *"Iconoclasm feels like a monument to the intellectual testimony of Freedberg. It is the result of a lifelong academic engagement with iconoclasm and art that has been going on for over fifty years. . . . The point that Freedberg convincingly makes throughout this book, that if we want to understand the value of images and art history we need to look at the destruction of art and images, is still as strong and exciting as fifty years ago." * Reading Religion *"A highly relevant collection of texts by a specialist in early modern and contemporary destruction of images. From the battles over images in the Reformation to 'cancel culture', Freedberg combines fresh thinking with deep expertise to address the renewed significance of his subject." * The Bookseller *“The moment for this book is now. Freedberg shows not just the relationship of past iconoclasm to current debates about what to do with monuments, but reveals the central paradox of our relationship to graven images: we are unable to stop ourselves giving a power and agency to what we know are pieces of stone, wood, or canvas. The deep recognition we find in these inanimate objects is at the root of our need to smash them to halt this recognition. Every example he describes brings new ideas to current questions.” -- William Kentridge, artist“Iconoclasm will become not only a classic in art and image destruction scholarship but also a must-read for every scholar interested in the field. Freedberg—the world authority on iconoclasm—questions his beliefs and rethinks what iconoclasm means for images in our current age of digital reproducibility. He draws attention to the relation between images, signs, and bodies, offering a fresh investigation of the role images play in our society.” -- José Antonio González Zarandona, author of Murujuga – Rock Art, Heritage and Landscape Iconoclasm“Long before image surpassed word in the battle for our hearts and minds in a virtual world, David Freedberg studied the fascinating, invasive phenomenon of iconoclasm. His visionary work changed the course of art history and visual studies, pointing our attention to our ambiguous relationship to art works, images, and the universal drive to both worship and destroy them. This sample of his very best analyses is nothing less than a must-read for everybody interested in the tremendous power of images and iconoclasm, from antiquity till now. Combining impressively broad scholarship with amazing writing, this book is literally an eye-opener.” -- Koenraad Jonckheere, author of Antwerp Art After Iconoclasm: Experiments in Decorum, 1566-1585
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The University of Chicago Press Fluxus Administration
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Penguin Books Ltd Roe S In Montmartre
Book Synopsis''Heady, lively, engaging...brings Montmartre''s heyday back to life'' Sunday Times''Brilliant'' GuardianThe real revolution in the arts first took place not, as is commonly supposed, in the 1920s to the accompaniment of the Charleston, black jazz and mint juleps, but more quietly and intimately, in the shadow of the windmills - artificial and real - and in the cafés and cabarets of Montmartre during the first decade of the century. The cross-fertilization of painting, writing, music and dance produced a panorama of activity characterized by the early works of Picasso, Braque, Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck and Modigliani, the appearance of the Ballet Russe and the salons of Gertrude Stein.In Montmartre is the fascinating story of the birth of Modernism in Paris. Full of life, colour and squalour, and incredible painting and sculpture, Sue Roe vividly brings to life the bohemian Parisian art scene between 1900-1910.
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MIT Press Ltd Art for Coexistence Unlearning the Way We See
Book SynopsisAn exploration of how contemporary art reframes and humanizes migration, calling for coexistence—the recognition of the interdependence of beings.In Art for Coexistence, art historian Christine Ross examines contemporary art’s response to migration, showing that art invites us to abandon our preconceptions about the current “crisis”—to unlearn them—and to see migration more critically, more disobediently. We (viewers in Europe and North America) must come to see migration in terms of coexistence: the interdependence of beings. The artworks explored by Ross reveal, contest, rethink, delink, and relink more reciprocally the interdependencies shaping migration today—connecting citizens-on-the-move from some of the poorest countries and acknowledged citizens of some of the wealthiest countries and democracies worldwide. These installations, videos, virtual reality works, webcasts, sculptures, graffiti, paint
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MIT Press Ltd One Place after Another SiteSpecific Art and
Book SynopsisA critical history of site-specific art since the late 1960s.Site-specific art emerged in the late 1960s in reaction to the growing commodification of art and the prevailing ideals of art's autonomy and universality. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, as site-specific art intersected with land art, process art, performance art, conceptual art, installation art, institutional critique, community-based art, and public art, its creators insisted on the inseparability of the work and its context. In recent years, however, the presumption of unrepeatability and immobility encapsulated in Richard Serra's famous dictum to remove the work is to destroy the work is being challenged by new models of site specificity and changes in institutional and market forces. One Place after Another offers a critical history of site-specific art since the late 1960s and a theoretical framework for examining the rhetoric of aesthetic vanguardism and political progressivism associated with its ma
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Yale University Press Chinas Southern Paradise
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Little, Brown Book Group The Power of Art
Book SynopsisTo read most histories of art, you might be forgiven for supposing that great artists are superhuman, and the knowledge of different movements, periods and styles is essential to truly appreciate art.It''s time to look at art in a new way.THE POWER OF ART delves into the stories behind remarkable acts of creation in fifteen global cities at pivotal moments of artistic brilliance. It shows how art is an integral part of our daily lives, embedded in the very fabric of our existence. From the enduring wonders of ancient Babylon to the menacing pastel architecture of contemporary Pyongyang, eminent curator Caroline Campbell intertwines the stories of artists with the broader social, cultural and political landscapes of their time.In each vivid episode, Campbell reveals how art, in all its forms, is a testament to humanity''s inventiveness and ingenuity: it has served our fundamental needs for shelter, sustenance, spirituality, pleasure, order and community. But it can also evoke envy, anger, greed, and even be used as a means of social control.Spanning thousands of years of creativity, THE POWER OF ART will ignite your imagination and open your eyes to the art that surrounds us, whether it be a painting in a gallery, a public sculpture or an everyday object with hidden beauty.
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Thames & Hudson Ltd The Van Gogh Sisters
Book SynopsisA new biography of Vincent van Gogh's sisters, published in English for the first time, containing previously unpublished letters and photographs from the archives of Van Gogh descendants.Trade Review'In 'The Van Gogh Sisters' we see Van Gogh’s story through the eyes and voices of the young women in his family circle. Their distinctive perspective offers valuable insights into Van Gogh’s values and family life and enables the sisters to step forward in their own right' - Carol Jacobi, Curator, Tate'An interior look at the sisters’ challenges and desires ... compelling and intimate' - Hyperallergic'Gives insights into the tragedy and turmoil of [the sisters'] lives' - ObserverTable of Contents1. It was terrible. I shall never forget that night: Nuenen, 1885 • 2. Undisturbed Married Felicity: The Hague, Breda and Zundert, 1851 and earlier • 3. The Land of Desire: Zundert, 1851-1871 • 4. Young Mistresses: Helvoirt, Leeuwarden, Tiel, 1871-1875 • 5. Cottages Covered in Ivy: London, Welwyn, 1873-1877 • 6. Quiet at Home: Etten, Tiel, Dordrecht, Soesterberg, ’s-Hertogenbosch, 1875-1882 • 7. Memories of the Garden: Etten, Hengelo, Leiderdorp, 1876-1877 • 8. Great and Holy in his Final Rest: Nuenen, Leiderdorp, Soesterberg, 1882-1886 • 9. My Greatest Ambition is to Write Something Original: Soesterberg, Elburg, Breda, Middelharnis, Amsterdam, Paris, 1885-1888 • 10. All Such a Dreadful Muddl: Breda, Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, Soesterberg, 1886-1889 • 11. I Just Can’t Imagine You in Paris: Soesterberg, Leiden, Paris 1889-1890 • 12. Dear Sister, Dear Vincent: Paris, Leiden, Arles, Auvers-sur-Oise 1888-1890 • 13. Oh, Mother, He Was So Truly My Brother: Paris, Leiden, Auvers-sur-Oise, Utrecht 1890-1891 • 14. The Poison of Impropriety: Nijmegen, The Hague, 1893-1898 • 15. Such Momentous Times! Leiden, Dieren, Baarn, Ermelo-Veldwijk, 1900-1920 • 16. Poetry as Clear as a Brook: Baarn, Ermelo-Veldwijk, 1920-1934 • 17. The Last Years: Amsterdam, Baarn, Dieren, Ermelo-Veldwijk, 1925-1941
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Thames and Hudson Ltd The Foreign Invention of British Art
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Thames & Hudson Ltd Living with Leonardo
Book SynopsisMartin Kemp, described by The Times as the world's leading authority on Leonardo', relates his fifty-year relationship with the most famous artist of all time.Table of ContentsPreface • Introduction: Art History in Action • Prologue: a Sketch of Leonardo • 1. The Last Supper and the First Steps • 2. The ‘Original’ Last Supper • 3. Looking at Lisa • 4. The Stolen Madonna • 5. The Beautiful Princess • 6. Ugly Arguments • 7. The Saviour • 8. Science and Seeing • 9. Codices and Computers • 10. Exhibitions • 11. Codes and Conjectures
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Thames & Hudson Ltd Pop Art
Book SynopsisPop ArtThe newest installment in the Art Essentials series explores this phenomenon, which had its roots in post-war British and American consumerism before spreading and capturing the imagination of young artists. After establishing the origins of the form, the book delves into subjects like the role of stardom and glamor in pop art and how pop art vocabulary grew to include political figures and even war imagery.As written by Flavia Frigeri, an authority on the subject, this book is an essential guide for anyone fascinated by the pop art movement.
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Thames & Hudson Ltd Impressionism
Book SynopsisIt is often forgotten just how provocative and unsettling impressionist canvases seemed when they were first exhibited in 1874. Critics, professional artists, and gallery visitors alike were shocked to encounter the unorthodox paintings on display, with their seemingly unfinished surfaces and lack of any elements of traditional composition. The advocates of this new approach rejected nearly all the established principles and practices of oil painting prevalent at that time in France.Tracing the origins and history of impressionism in a concise, introductory volume, Ralph Skea highlights the major differences between the new techniques and aesthetic principles of the impressionists and the academic art they abhorred, and goes a step further in exploring the original intellectual focus of the movement. Skea explores the impressionists? desire to investigate their own sensory perceptions when painting, which resulted in their unique ?impressions.?Impressionism
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Cambridge University Press Greek Sculpture
Ancient Greek sculpture seems to have a timeless quality provoking reactions that may range from awe to alienation. Yet it was a particular product of its age: and to know how and why it was once created is to embark upon an understanding of its ''Classic'' status. In this richly illustrated and carefully written survey, encompassing works from c.700 BC to the end of antiquity, Nigel Spivey expounds not only the social function of Greek sculpture but also its aesthetic and technical achievement. Fresh approaches are reconciled with traditional modes of study as the connoisseurship of this art is sympathetically unravelled, while source material and historical narratives are woven into detailed explanations, putting the art into its proper context. Greek Sculpture is the ideal textbook for students of classics, classical civilisation, art history and archaeology and an accessible account for all interested readers.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Guide to Christian Art
Book SynopsisDiane Apostolos-Cappadona is Professor Emerita of Religious Art and Cultural History and Haub Director in the Catholic Studies Program, Georgetown University, USA.Trade ReviewThe scope of A Guide to Christian Art is sufficiently broad to attract readers from a wide variety of audiences … [This book] is a welcome, valuable, and easily accessible reference. * Dialogismos *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Glossary (including Bible, Apocrypha, and other literary sources) Chapter I: Narratives of Jesus Christ and his mother, Mary, in Christian Art Chapter II: Themes A. Personages 1. Classical personages & metaphors 2. Biblical and Apocryphal figures 3. Saints 4. Celestial figures 5. Evil figures B. Signs and Symbols 1. Animals, real & imaginary 2. Botanicals 3. Human Body: Dressed and Undressed 4. Colors; Letters, words & phrases; Geometric shapes 5. Musical Instruments 6. Visual Church Chapter III:Guide to Christian Art in Churches and Museums Chapter IV: Timeline Bibliography Illustration credits Index
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Princeton University Press Leon Battista Alberti
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Anness Publishing Renoir His Life and Works in 500 Images An
Book SynopsisAn expert and comprehensive new reference book on the life and works of the influential impressionist artist, Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
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Duke University Press The Migrant Image
Book SynopsisThe Migrant Image offers a sophisticated analysis of how refugee and exiled artists imagine a globalized world where borders are shifting, populations are forcibly removed from their homelands, and the gap separating the rich from the poor is growing.Trade Review“The Migrant Image is an important reflection on a form of art practice marked by the ‘posts’ of postmodern critique and a political commitment to oppose prepackaged discourses of crisis, austerity, and futile resistance. In a timely way, Demos shows the two are compatible. The Migrant Image will stimulate fascinating debates in the academic, artistic, and documentary spheres. In triangulating among these camps Demos brings down the barriers separating them.” -- Alex Fattal * Public Books *“Think of T.J. Demos’s The Migrant Image as a field guide to art for those interested in the politics of human rights, globalization, migration, and war.” -- Ryan Wong * Hyperallergic *“T. J. Demos’s The Migrant Image is the most comprehensive and in-depth scholarly investigation of the effects that globalization has had on contemporary artistic practice over the past three decades. The scope of Demos’s investigation is impressive, most notably in his unpacking and explication of key terms in global art discourse that have proven problematic, and at times elusive. The effects of globalization on creative and intellectual practices in the arts has been a controversial subject that has eluded easy consensus – and Demos skilfully brings a much needed legibility to a discussion that is as divisive as it is complex.” -- Derek Conrad Murray * Third Text *“Demos’s deft criticism means that he is able to bring together a broad range of artwork and argue very persuasively in each case for its effectiveness. . . . His authorial voice rings crystal clear throughout the analysis of this range and mix of artistic practice.” -- James Day * Art History *"Framing contemporary artworks dealing with the theme of migration within the twenty-first century context of 'crisis globalization,' Demos engages with a growing and interdisciplinary body of scholarship on neoliberalism and uneven development. The book’s main intervention, however, is within the subfield of global contemporary art history, where it will serve as a very useful text for students, researchers, critics, and curators concerned with the relationship between art and politics in the post–September 11 era." -- Tammer Salah El-Sheikh * Arab Studies Journal *Table of ContentsIllustrations vii Check-In: A Prelude xiii Charting a Course: Exile, Diaspora, Nomads, Refugees: A Genealogy of Art and Migration 1 Departure A. Moving Images of Globalization 21 1. Indeterminacy and Bare Life in Steve McQueen's Western Deep 33 2. "Sabotaging the Future": The Essay-Films of the Otolith Group 54 3. Hito Steyerl's Traveling Images 74 Transit: Politicizing Aesthetics 90 Departure B. Life Full of Holes 95 4. The Art of Emily Jacir: Dislocation and Politicization 103 5. Recognizing the Unrecognized: The Photographs of Ahlam Shibli 124 6. The Right of Opacity: On the Otolith Group's Nervus Rerum 144 Transit: Going Offshore 160 Departure C. Zones of Conflict 169 7. Out of Beirut: Mobile Histories and the Politics of Fiction 177 8. Video's Migrant Geography: Ursula Biemann's Sahara Chronicle 201 9. Means without End: Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri's Camp Campaign 221 Destination: The Politics of Aesthetics during Global Crisis 245 Acknowledgments 251 Notes 255 Bibliography 305 Index 323
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Rizzoli International Publications Gainsborough
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Les Fugitives Now Now Louison
Book Synopsis'Louise Bourgeois talks, talks to herself, reviewing the scraps of her long life in all their disorder. This is the portrait, from memory, of a woman who devoted her life to her art, a life that was also the life of the century' writes J. Fremon.Trade Review'A truly wonderful book... The spider woman, the intellectuel, the rebel, the sly enchantress, and the good girl sing together in this exuberant, lithe text, beautifully translated by Cole Swensen.' - SIRI HUSTVEDT. `Now, Now Louison draws the reader in with all of the monstrous elegance of a spider, capturing us in the fine web of the creative process, and revealing, with biting wit and lyrical style, the ego, and sacrifices it takes to make monumental work.' - PRETI TANEJA, laureate of the Desmond Elliott Prize 2018 for 'We That Are Young'. `Jean Fremon is a wholly singular artist, a writer who lives in the radiant zone where poetry, philosophy and storytelling meet.' - PAUL AUSTER. 'Like all the most urgent poetry, it is "fragile and momentary, but momentarily invincible."' JOHN ASHBERY. 'As much a portrait of Bourgeois as it is of one who has outlasted another and is trying, in full knowledge of an impending failure, to reassemble a figure from the fragments. Perhaps life, this life, any life, is best preserved in its many bits, just as it was lived.' - FRIEZE. `Metamorphosing like Arachne, Bourgeois's imagined voice recounts how she wove the detritus of her memory (...) into an art of resistence (...) Now, Now, Louison (a reference to her childhood nickname) is a sensitive portrait of a woman whose struggle for self-definition came to drive her artistic practice.' Financial Times 'The life of Louise Bourgeois is rendered in ellipsis, quick brush strokes, and a mix of associations of ideas and of sensations waltzing with chronology. An original, sensitive text.' - ArtPress.Table of ContentsNow, Now, Louison, page 1. Jean Fremon, select bibliography, page 113
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Taylor & Francis Ltd 18th Century Male Tailoring
Book Synopsis18th Century Male Tailoring: Theatrical and Historical Tailoring c1680â1790 introduces the reader to English eighteenth century tailoring and covers the drafting of patterns, cutting out in cloth and construction techniques in sequence for the tailoring of waistcoats, breeches and coats.From choosing the right cloth to preparing for the fitting process, this how-to guide will help readers create beautiful, historically accurate eighteenth century male garments for events and performances. The book contains the following: step-by-step instructions complete with illustrations for students and costumiers who are new to the making of male tailored garments from the eighteenth century; drafting blocks and construction techniques for the different styles through the eighteenth century and patterns, photographs, detailed measurements and articles taken from a variety of male coats, waistcoats and trousers from c1680 âc1790 from museums and collections. 18th Century Male Tailoring is written for costume design and construction students, fashion students and practitioners who have a reasonable working knowledge of sewing and general costume making, but not necessarily of tailoring, drafting patterns, cutting skills and the making of male garments.Table of Contents1. Getting Started 2. Pattern Drafting and Diagrams 3. Seam Allowances, Pattern Layouts, Cutting Out and Marking Up 4. Preparing for the Fitting and the Fitting Process 5. Making up Waistcoats 6. Making up Breeches 7. Making up Coats 8. Original Garments: Patterns, Photographs and Measurements
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Fashion Criticism
Book SynopsisThis is the first anthology of fashion criticism, a growing field that has been too long overlooked. Fashion Criticism aims to redress the balance, claiming a place for writing on fashion alongside other more well-established areas of criticism.Exploring the history of fashion criticism in the English language, this essential work takes readers from the writing published in avant-garde modernist magazines at the beginning of the twentieth century to the fashion criticism of Robin Givhanthe first fashion critic to win a Pulitzer Prizeand of Judith Thurman, a National Book Award winner. It covers the shift in newspapers from the so-called women's pages to the contemporary style sections, while unearthing the work of cultural critics and writers on fashion including Susan Sontag and Eve Babitz (Vogue), Bebe Moore Campbell (Ebony), Angela Carter (New Statesman) and Hilton Als (New Yorker).Examining the gender dynamics of the field and its historical assocTrade ReviewSeven billion humans on the planet clothe or adorn themselves every day. Yet the subject of dress – it’s language; its influence on the way we express our identities, desires, allegiances, aspirations and (in many cases, our servitude) – has rarely been considered worthy of serious inquiry. This essential anthology of essays on fashion corrects that oversight ... and it does so with exceptional verve and intelligence. * Judith Thurman, The New Yorker *From Oscar Wilde’s musing on corsets to Connie Wang’s discussion of Wokeness, this dazzling compendium of critical fashion writing—with a sweep of over one hundred years—is as fun to read as it is intellectually provocative. * Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, US *[Fashion Criticism: An Anthology] represents a step forward to considering fashion criticism a respected discipline alongside cultural criticism. Moreover, it can be a very useful resource for those who wish to deepen their knowledge on the subject, and it might even help them develop their own critical skills for fashion writing. Eventually, this anthology demonstrates how politics, gender, race, and other socio cultural issues are extremely interconnected with the matters of dress. Fashion criticism can be another way of examining those contexts and enrich the conversation with new, stimulating perspectives. * The Journal of Dress History *Reprints of lesser-known essays (Campbell’s “What Happened to the Afro?”), plus essays that use a variety of approaches, from glamorous description (Long’s “Feminine Fashions”), to social theory (Sontag’s “Looking with Avedon”), make this a solid primer on cultural criticism and fashion journalism. * Library Journal *A welcome anthology of fashion criticism establishing that writing about fashion can be as influential as designing it. Ranging across late nineteenth century gazettes, twentieth century newspapers and twenty-first century posts, it’s a key reference work for reading about how fashion measures up. * Alistair O’Neill, Central Saint Martins, London, UK *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments viii Introduction 1 PART I Late Nineteenth Century–1960s Introduction to PART I 13 1 Mr. Oscar Wilde on Woman’s Dress Oscar Wilde 17 2 Literary and Other Notes (excerpt) Oscar Wilde 19 3 Philosophic Fashions: Who Fell Asleep on the King’s Highway? Dame Rogue [Louise Norton] 23 4 Philosophic Fashions: Trouser-Talk (excerpt) Dame Rogue [Louise Norton] 27 5 Philosophic Fashions: The Importance of Being Dressed Dame Rogue [Louise Norton] 31 6 Feminine Fashions Lois Long 35 7 Feminine Fashions Lois Long 37 8 Copying a Fancy Name Elizabeth Hawes 39 9 News … News … News … Elizabeth Hawes 45 10 Fashions from Paris: A Suit Story at Balenciaga Eugenia Sheppard 51 11 A Mini for Men? Eugenia Sheppard 53 12 A Campaign Issue—Clothes? Eleni Epstein 55 13 Candidates in a Tie on Fashion’s Slate Eleni Epstein 57 PART II 1970s–1990s Introduction to PART II 61 14 The Wound in the Face Angela Carter 65 15 Feminine Fashions: The Fall Collections II Kennedy Fraser 69 16 Looking with Avedon Susan Sontag 77 17 What Happened to the Afro? Bebe Moore Campbell 81 18 Ralph Lauren’s Achievement Holly Brubach 87 19 In Fashion: Modernism Outmoded Holly Brubach 95 20 Haute Coiffure de Gel Elizabeth Wilson 103 21 Hippie Heaven Eve Babitz 107 22 Calvinism Unclothed Valerie Steele 113 23 Coming Apart Amy Spindler 119 24 The Once and Future Suit Anne Hollander 125 25 Sexualities Anne Hollander 129 26 The Eastern Bloc Lynn Yaeger 133 27 Avant Guardians Lynn Yaeger 137 28 The Only One Hilton Als 139 29 Buying the Fantasy Hilton Als 147 30 Fashion’s Military Fascination: Unsettling, Romantic Esthetic Suzy Menkes 151 PART III Twenty-first Century Introduction to PART III 155 31 Future, Take Note: Raf Simons Was Here Cathy Horyn 159 32 Hussein Chalayan: Nostalgia for the Future Caroline Evans 163 33 The Misfit Judith Thurman 169 34 Dressed to Thrill: Alexander McQueen at the Met Judith Thurman 179 35 Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch (Excerpt) Dwight A. McBride 183 36 The Mystery Man: Margiela, Be Mine Sarah Mower 193 37 All Hail the Leader of the Fashionable World Robin Givhan 197 38 The Revolution Will Be Branded Vetements Anja Aronowsky Cronberg 201 39 Will I Get a Ticket? A Conversation about Life after Vogue with Lucinda Chambers Anja Aronowsky Cronberg 205 40 Trump vs. the Disappearing Tie Vanessa Friedman 209 41 Suket Dhir, Men’s Wear Designer, from Delhi to the World Guy Trebay 213 42 Melania Trump and the Chilling Artifice of Fashion Rhonda Garelick 217 43 Is Wokeness in Fashion Just Another Illusion? Connie Wang 219 Sources and Acknowledgments 222 Index 225
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Design
Book SynopsisDesign is everywhere. It shapes not only our present but also our future. An essential introductory guide, Design: The Key Concepts covers fundamental design concepts: thinking, service, context, interaction, experience, and systems.Each concept is situated within a broad context, enabling the reader to understand design's contemporary practice and its relationship to issues such as new technology, social and economic development, globalization, and sustainability. Concepts are also explained by use of concise, illustrated case studies of contemporary objects, spaces, systems, and methods such as Uber, the iPhone, Kickstarter and IKEA. Chapter summaries and supporting discussion questions make this an engaging and accessible introduction for students and those new to the field. An annotated bibliography provides direction for further reading.Trade ReviewThis book is a treasure trove. With a variety of examples, DJ Huppatz shows the close connection between theory and practice in design … His recourse to historical examples lead to a very contemporary interpretation of design. * Gesellschaft fur Designgeschichte (Bloomsbury Translation) *Design: The Key Concepts is the first book to set out, with simplicity and clarity, the directions in which design has moved in the early twenty-first century. Rooted in case-studies, it unpacks the complexity of recent developments and will undoubtedly become a ‘must read’ for design students across the globe. * Penny Sparke, Professor of Design History at Kingston University, UK *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Introduction - What is Design? - Design’s Relatives - Design’s History - The Concepts 1. Information - From Print to Cyberspace - Making Marks - Case Study 1: Emojis - Graphic Identities - Visualizing Data - Case Study 2: Infographics - Finding our Way - The Return to Craft 2. Things - From Mechanization to Automation - Serial Things - Case Study 3: Chairs - Singular Things - Materials - Case Study 4: the Moneymaker Pump - Ethics 3. Interactions - Designing Machines for People - Affordances and Scripts - Case Study 5: Doors - Interface - Software - Case Study 6: the iPhone - Smart Things - Robots 4. Systems and Services - Systems - Mapping Services - Case Study 7: IKEA - Sharing - Hackathons and Jams - Case Study 8: Uber - Social Design - Government Services 5. Experiences - Interaction and Emotion - Participation - Case Study 9: Facebook - Inclusive Experience - The Experience Economy - Immersive Entertainment - Case Study 10: Universal Design - Tourism 6. Strategies - Organizational Design - Case Study 11: IBM - Strategic Design - Policy - Problems and Methods - Case Study 12: IDEO - Design Thinking Conclusion - Design in the Anthropocene - Technological Fixations - Design Futures Notes Annotated Guide to Further Reading Select Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Landscape and Infrastructure
Book SynopsisMargaret Birney Vickery is a lecturer in the History of Art and Architecture Department and the Department of Architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Buildings for Bluestockings: The Architecture and Social History of Women's Colleges in Late Victorian England, and (Translations) Architecture/Art Works of Sigrid Miller Pollin.Trade ReviewIn this original and timely book, Vickery establishes the continued and vital importance of art history in contemporary landscape and architectural design. Landscape and Infrastructure traces the roots and uncovers the significance of the productive activities and elements of pastoral traditions in art and designed landscapes, clearly documenting the persistent and sometimes difficult relationship of aesthetics and production in Western art. Art history is rarely as engaging for the general public to read, or as important for designers to understand. -- Ethan Carr * Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Massachusetts Amherst *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Infrastructure, Landscape and the Pastoral Paradigm: A Tale of Two Projects 1. Landscape Painting and the Productive Pastoral Tradition 2. The Eighteenth-Century English Landscape: The Classic Pastoral and its Productivity 3. The Industrial Revolution and its Intrusion on the Landscape 4. A Growing Divide: Landscape and Infrastructure in Victorian Britain 5. Progress and Nature in the American Landscape 6. Infrastructure and Landscape in Early-Twentieth-Century England and America 7. Questioning the Infrastructural Paradigm in the late Twentieth Century 8. Twenty-First-Century Power Generation: An Invitation to the Public 9. Clean Water and Recreation: New Approaches to Water Treatment Plants 10. Food, Community, and the Productive Landscape Conclusion: Reimagining the Pastoral Paradigm for the Twenty-First Century Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Academic On Design
Book SynopsisThis volume presents for the first time a curated selection of essays written over the last 30 years by leading design thinker and educator, Tevfik Balcioglu. With a focus on Turkish and British design, his writing examines questions of national and transnational design history and provides a critical insight into contemporary global design issues.Structured into four thematic sections with contextualizing introductions, this anthology addresses various aspects of design history, theory, education and practice. Essays look at the impact of industrialization and globalization on design cultures and highlight local and global design developments from the late 20th century to the present day. They cover reproduction techniques and technological progress in recent decades, the changing nature of mass-produced objects and the introduction of new methods, systems, shapes, forms and styles over time.Addressing issues relating to education and practice, case studies draw on
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Pitchers of American Life
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