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Reaktion Books Darker Shades: The Racial Other in Early Modern
Book SynopsisDifference exists; otherness is constructed. This book asks how important Western artists, from Giotto to Titian and Caravaggio, and from Bosch to D rer and Rembrandt, shaped the imaging of non-Western individuals in early modern art. Victor I. Stoichita's nuanced and detailed study examines images of racial otherness during a time of new encounters of the West with different cultures and peoples, such as those with dark skins: Muslims and Jews. Featuring a host of informative illustrations and crossing the disciplines of art history, anthropology, and postcolonial studies, Darker Shades also reconsiders the Western canon's most essential facets: perspective, pictorial narrative, composition, bodily proportion, beauty, color, harmony, and lighting. What room was there for the "Other," Stoichita would have us ask, in such a crystalline, unchanging paradigm?
£28.50
Liverpool University Press The Reclining Nude: Agnès Varda, Catherine
Book SynopsisThe figure of a woman reclining, in repose, displayed, abandoned, fallen, asleep, or dreaming, returns in the work of women filmmakers and photographers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Filmmakers Agnès Varda and Catherine Breillat, and American photographer working in Paris, Nan Goldin, return to the paintings of Titian, Velázquez, Goya, Courbet, and others, re-imagining, and re-purposing, their images of female beauty, display, (auto)eroticism, and intimacy. This book, a sensuous evocation of these feminist works, claims a female-identified pleasure in looking. The artists explored align images of repose and sensuality with other images of horizontality and proneness, of strong emotional content, images of erotic involvement, of vulnerability, of bodily contortion, of listlessness, grief, and depression. The reclining nude is for all three artists a starting point for a reflection on the relation of film, projections, and still photography, to painting, and a sustained re-imagining of the meanings conjured through serial returns to a particular pose. This book claims that the image of the reclining nude is compelling, for female-identified artists – and for all allied in feeling and picturing femininity – in the sensitive, ethically adventurous, politically complex feminist issues it engages. The reclining nude is an image of passivity, of submission, of hedonism. It allows thought about passivity as pleasure, about depression and grief figured posturally, about indolence as a form of resistance and anarchy. Through this image, female-identified artists have claimed freedom to offer new focus on these extremes of emotion. They are re-imagining horizontality.Trade ReviewReviews ‘This book is a deep and far-reaching exploration of the sensory impressions, affective impact, and gender-ideological import of films and photographs by three women—Agnès Varda, Catherine Breillat, and Nan Goldin. The author wisely focuses on an important but underexamined area of these women’s work: images of the reclining nude.'Douglas Keesey, California Polytechnic State UniversityTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgementsIllustrationsshorelineThe Reclining Nudefour reflections on reclining: 1four reflections on reclining: 2four reflections on reclining: 3four reflections on reclining: 4VardaBreillatGoldinIndia SongBibliography and Filmography
£109.50
Liverpool University Press Sk-interfaces
Book SynopsisSkin represents a place where art, science, philosophy and social culture intersect. With a growing number of bodily extensions and the continuous discovery of new areas – physical, virtual and psychological – the clear distinctive lines between individuals, countries and even species are beginning to blur. Advances in bio-medical research together with deconstructivist theories in philosophy are reflected in the work of many artists using skin, materially or metaphorically, as an interface, whose work goes beyond the descriptive surface of the skin, to explore issues of xeno-transplants, trans-species and trans-racial exchanges. In recent years, a trend towards the analysis of skin, its functions and meanings, has emerged in the practice of many artists using wet biology, bio-architecture and self-experimentation. Jens Hauser has been involved in much of the development in this area. Bound in a unique thermochromic cover (designed by artist Zane Berzina), this book provides an engaging, critical and thought-provoking approach to how current technologies are changing our perceptions of the body, the self and the interactions between bodies. Edited by one of the leading curators in (bio)technology based art and including contributions from 25 major international artists, scholars and critics in this field, this provocative art and text book examining some of the most contentious moral, aesthetical and philosophical issues of our day will complement the exhibition and encourage debate within this exponentially growing field.Trade ReviewAnd what a book it is! Liverpool University Press has taken academic publishing into the next phase with this book in its integration of various modes for representing knowledge production. Richard Cavell... this book reacts to the body heat of the reader, [the cover]changing colour on contact, fading from bright orange to reveal a whitesurface with a texture not that far from some kind of skin...the book endpapers also reveal printed skin patterns...If the complexity of these external and internal surfaces intrigues you, then so will the ideas contained within them.Times Higher Education SupplementTable of Contents Welcoming sk-interfaces to FACT – Mike Stubbs Culturing Change – Marta Rupérez Who’s Afraid of the In-Between? – Jens Hauser The Return of Marsyas: Creative Skin – Stéphane Dumas McLuhan and the Body as Medium – Richard Cavell Endogenous Design of Biofacts: Tissues and Networks in Bio Art and Life Science – Nicole C. Karafyllis Fitter, Better, Stronger, Faster – John A. Hunt e-skin: Research into Wearable Interfaces, Cross-modal Perception and Communication for the Visually Impaired on the Mediated Stage – Jill Scott Feel Me, Touch Me: The hymNext Project – Julia Reodica In the Face of the Victim: Confronting the Other in the Tissue Culture and Art Project – Adele Senior Harlequin Coat – Orlan Secularism, Preface from Michel Serres, The Troubadour of Knowledge The Fusional Haptics of Art Orienté pbjet – Marion Laval-Jeantet Marsyas – beside myself – Kira O’Reilly Extra Ear: Ear on Arm – Stelarc The Telepresence Garment – Eduardo Kac World Skin: A photo safari in a land of war – Maurice Benayoun Why Immolation? – Critical Art Ensemble The Office of Experiments’ Truth Serum Threat: Notes on the Psychopharmacology of Truthfulness – Nicolas Langlitz Wim Delvoye’s Sybille II – Ralf Kotschka Immobile, Bleu... Remix! – Yann Marussich Biological Habitat: Developing Living Spaces – Zbigniew Oksiuta Light, only light – Jun Takita The Midas Project – Paul Thomas Re-thinking Touch – Zane Berzina Olivier Goulet’s SkinBag Corps.EXT – Fabienne Stahl Biographies Funders and Supporters sk-index
£109.50
National Gallery Company Ltd The National Gallery: An Illustrated History
Book SynopsisThe National Gallery started life in 1824 when the British government purchased the collection of 38 pictures belonging to the estate of wealthy banker John Julius Angerstein. As there was no suitable space available to display the collection, the pictures were put on display in Angerstein’s former home in Pall Mall. It was only in 1838 that the collection moved to its current site in Trafalgar Square. The building and collection have continued to expand ever since; today, the National Gallery houses one of the world’s greatest collections of western European paintings. This book brings together the stories behind the founding and growth of the National Gallery: the generous benefactors, the architectural controversies, the protracted acquisitions, the dedicated staff, and the visiting public. Generously illustrated, it aims to give insight into the history of the people and events that have helped shape this much-loved national institution.Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press
£12.99
Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd Painting Childhood
Book SynopsisChildren have always fascinated artists and Painting Childhood will explore some of the most iconic paintings of children produced over the past 500 years. Featuring stunning portraits, amusing genre scenes and touching ‘fancy pictures’, the book will examine both the creative process and the specifi c challenges posed by painting children: from how to capture the fleeting moments of youth to how to encourage young subjects to sit still. Accompanying the exhibitions Painting Childhood: From Holbein to Freud and Childhood Now, the book will discuss a wealth of masterpieces from British collections by artists including Hans Holbein the Younger, Anthony van Dyck, Jan Steen, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, William Hogarth, Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, Johan Zoff any and John Everett Millais. These iconic paintings will be considered alongside the preparatory sketches that were made for them and the works that were made after them in an exploration of the creative process and the artistic ‘conversations’ that occurred throughout the centuries. Painting Childhood will also explore ‘intimate portraits’ – artist’s portrayals of their own children. Paintings, sketches and sculptures by Stanley Spencer, Louise Bourgeois, Jacob Epstein and Lucian Freud, among others, present highly personal insights into the place of family within an artist’s life, and the ongoing dialogue between biography and creativity. This theme extends to the present day, and the work of three contemporary figurative painters - Chantal Joffe, Mark Fairnington and Matthew Krishanu. Drawn to children as subjects, each of these London-based artists depict childhood in very diff erent ways. Together, they provide fresh perspectives on what constitutes childhood today and reaffirm the place of painting as a diverse and powerful artistic practice.
£15.68
Taylor & Francis Art Awakening and Modernity in the Middle East
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Taylor & Francis Albrecht Durer and the Depiction of Cultural Differences in Renaissance Europe
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£135.00
Taylor & Francis Constructing the Viennese Modern Body Art Hysteria and the Puppet Studies in Art Historiography
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£39.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd An Intimate Distance Women Artists and the Body
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£128.25
Taylor & Francis The Athenian Woman An Iconographic Handbook
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Taylor & Francis The Athenian Woman An Iconographic Handbook
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Taylor & Francis The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Art of Drawing Folds An Illustrators Guide to Drawing the Clothed Figure
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£128.25
Cambridge University Press Picturing Women in Renaissance and Baroque Italy
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£37.04
Cambridge University Press Children in the Visual Arts of Imperial Rome
Book SynopsisIn this 2005 study, Jeannine Uzzi examines the ruling elite's notions of what it meant to be Roman by examining images of children in Roman imperial art. Roman children are most often shown in depictions of peaceful public gatherings before the emperor, whereas non-Roman children appear only in scenes of submission, triumph, or violent military activity.Table of Contents1. Introduction: the question; 2. Evidence, methodology, and the child image; 3. Imperial largesse; 4. Public gathering; 5. Anaglypha Traiani/Hadriani; 6. Submission; 7. Triumph; 8. Battle ground; 9. Ara Pacis; 10. Conclusion: a narrative of identity; Appendix. Children in nonofficial imagery.
£85.72
Phaidon Press Ltd 500 Autorretratos Nueva Edicin Actualizada 500
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Bodies of WorkContemporary Figurative Painting
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSummer must-read. -- Watercolor Artist Magazine
£41.39
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Consuming the Body
Book SynopsisDawn Woolley is an artist and research fellow at Leeds Arts University examining consumer culture, social media, and gender. She completed an MA in Photography (2008) and PhD by project in Fine Art (2017) at the Royal College of Art. Her artwork is a feminist critique of consumer culture, encompassing photography, video, installation, and performance to draw attention issues of sexualisation, objectification, and idealisation. Recent solo exhibitions include; Consumed: Stilled Lives', Perth Centre for Photography, Australia (2021) and Dance for Good & Exercise Your Rights' in collaboration with Davin Watne, Public Space One gallery, Iowa City (2020).Trade ReviewA brilliant analysis of consumerism exposing how we are manipulated by capitalism seeking to turn our subjectivity into an object for corporate profit. By drilling into the shiny surface of corporate deceit Consuming the Body uncovers ways to resist the deceptions foisted on us. * Peter Kennard, Professor of Political Art, Royal College of Art, UK *What are we to do with the idealised mirror-images that capitalism beams at us through social media, making us all fetishists and hysterics? Consuming the Body is written urgently but elegantly, finally offering ways of thinking outside this dangerous box. * Professor Naomi Segal, Honorary Fellow, Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London, UK *This book is a fascinating take on selfie culture and beyond, taking up classic feminist psychoanalytic discussions of the fetishistic gaze to think about the impact of social networks, cosmetic surgery, health surveillance and the ‘sadistic commands’ of capitalist consumer culture. Focusing on the increasingly blurred lines between neoliberal self-surveillance and neurosis, the book explores how hysteria, anorexia and bulimia share much with contemporary online imperatives around fitness, health and beauty. Offering some solace through activist work on social networks, the book proposes that selfie culture needs a new set of rules for it to become a space of empowerment and to loosen the disciplinary control that it exerts. * Catherine Grant, Senior Lecturer, Art and Visual Cultures department, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK *Selfies and social media have an image problem - in more ways than one. In this compelling book, Dawn Woolley challenges the narrow stereotypes criticising how bodies are portrayed in these digital media. She elucidates their complex meanings, practices and politics, and in doing so, recuperates their value, particularly for women with non-normative bodies. * Deborah Lupton, SHARP Professor, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, Australia *Dawn Woolley offers up an exciting and eloquent exploration of the often sadistic ways that contemporary capitalism compels us to consume. Importantly Woolley gives us valuable insight into radical self-presentation approaches on social media that glitch and refuse the ‘ideal’ in order to empower a body’s presence. * Dr. Jacki Willson, Associate Professor in Performance and Gender, School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Sadistic Commands 2 The Fetishistic Gaze 3 Hystericized Insistent Presence 4 Self(ie) Discipline 5 The Hysteria Economy 6 The Clinical Fetishistic Gaze 7 Anti-Consumers and the Fetishistic Gaze 8 The Bulimic Economy 9 Empowering Presence Conclusion Bibliography Glossary Index
£90.00
Chronicle Books Drawn from Life Tips and Tricks for Contemporary
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Wings Press Borderlines: Drawing Border Lives: Fronteras:
Book SynopsisFeaturing 25 drawings in charcoal, conte crayons, and pastels, this handbook pairs portraits of people who live and work along the U.S./Mexico border with bilingual poems that have been inspired by each of the drawings. A testimony to the people of the Rio Grande Valley, these drawings and poems capture their spirit, their quest for happiness, and their struggles to overcome economic hardship. This remarkable book highlights characters such as the "young street musician," the "six-year-old street vendor," and the "wise woman with rings." Compassionate and aesthetically compelling, this record raises awareness about social and cultural issues associated with border life, such as education, literacy, and poverty, and fosters cross-cultural understanding.Trade ReviewHurray for Steve and Reefka and the magical work they are doing crossing fronteras." —Sandra Cisneros, author, Caramelo and House on Mango Street"Such a kiss is this book that you oftentimes cannot tell which came first: the poem, it’s translation, or the art work." —Rene Saldaña, author, The Jumping Tree and The Whole Sky Full of Stars"In the tradition of an earlier era, Steve and Reefka Schneider have created a portrait of border life that utilizes both words and pictures to capture the moment." —Kathleen Alcalá, author, The Flower in the Skull
£14.36
Walter Foster Publishing TenStep Drawing People Draw a Range of Figures
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£15.29
Dietrich Reimer Staging Desires: Japanese Femininity in Kusakabe
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£58.90
Edition Imorde Vor-Bildliches Sterben: Der Tod Der Kleopatra ALS
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