Individual artists, art monographs Books
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Frans Wildenhain 195075
Book SynopsisAn in-depth analysis of Frans Wildenhain and his role in mid-century studio ceramics.Steeped in modernist ceramic aesthetics, Frans Wildenhain studied under Gerhard Marcks and Max Krehan at the Bauhaus pottery workshop in Dornburg, Germany. There, Wildenhain met another potter, Marguerite Friedlaender, his futurewife. Following World War II, Wildenhain emigrated to the U.S. Earning prizes for his art at the 1939 International Exposition in Paris and the 1958 Brussels World's Fair, Wildenhain also received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1958,became a Fellow of the American Crafts Council and his work is in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution, Everson Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago.This book features archival images as well as more than 150rich, color photographs of the ceramics exhibited in 2012 at the Rochester Institute of Technology, NY. Six chapters offer contributions to scholarship on the artist, mid-century studio pottery and modern design, monetizing and commercial acceptance of mid-century handcrafted art at an innovative artists' cooperative, university education at the School for American Craftsmen, and an interview with collector Robert Johnson who donated his Wildenhain collection to RIT. The book is an essential document of the exhibition and an excellent reference for those interested in ceramics, crafts, mid-century design and art entrepreneurship.Trade ReviewGoing well beyond the traditional biography of the artist and his works, the catalog contextualizes the cultural, academic, and economic factors of the mid-twentieth century that influenced not only Wildenhain's career, but also the state of contemporary American craft...exhaustively researched and stunningly presented...highly recommended for any library collecting materials on ceramics, mod-century decorative arts and design, and the post WWII arts marketplace. * ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY *The photographs of the pots inspire a wish to hold them. The large number of great photographs will stand as a testimony to Wildenhain's career and serve as a reference. * MAINE ANTIQUE DIGEST *After the RIT exhibition and Bruce Austin's accompanying book...Frans Wildenhain may finally be ready for his close-up. * ANTIQUES ROADSHOW INSIDER (USA) *
£54.00
Harvard University Press Catalogue Raisonné
Book SynopsisSydney J. Freedberg presents an interpretive analysis and a full Catalogue Raisonné of Andrea del Sarto's achievement. The interpretive work includes an account of Andrea's career as a painter, illustrations of all his authentic paintings and many of his drawings, a brief biography, and a selective bibliography. The painter's style and its place in the history of Italian painting are discussed in detail. The author questions current concepts of a sudden triumph of Mannerism in Florence after 1520 and presents a more balanced interpretation of this era. The Catalogue Raisonné includes a complete critical catalogue of Andrea's paintings and drawings, an inventory of lost works, and a full account of paintings and drawings attributed to the artist. Documentary information on Andrea's life and the details of dating and attribution which are the basis for the interpretive text are also included. The illustrations in this volume supplement those in the interpretive work and will be of particular interest to scholars and art historians.
£72.76
Harvard University Press Text and Illustrations
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Harvard University Press Giotto and His Publics
Book SynopsisThis probing analysis of three of Giotto’s major works and the patrons who commissioned them goes beyond the clichés of Giotto as the founding figure of Western painting. It traces the interactions between Franciscan friars and powerful bankers and illuminates the complex interactions between mercantile wealth and the iconography of poverty.Trade ReviewOne of Julian Gardner’s most significant contributions to the study of late medieval Italian art has been to move the focus of discussion away from style and attribution to context and patronage, and readers expecting such a treatment of Giotto will not be disappointed… It examines the reciprocal relationship between painter and patron, and how the ingenuity of the former satisfied the intellectual, religious and social needs of the latter… It represents a sort of summa, building on the author’s research over some forty years, each word chosen carefully for maximum impact, and each sentence concise yet pregnant with meaning. The text is accompanied by an exceptionally rich scholarly apparatus. -- John Osborne * Burlington Magazine *The expertise of distinguished scholar Gardner reveals itself in every page of this small volume… Gardner has numerous insights about content, patronage, and historical background, and he is especially sensitive to the artistic expression of Franciscan values and concerns. His characterization of the absence of minoritas, or Franciscan humility, in the paintings in Assisi and Florence seems particularly apt. His essays lead readers to look at the paintings anew—both the familiar images, such as the Bardi Chapel frescoes, and the often-overlooked Assisi allegories. -- J. I. Miller * Choice *
£33.96
Harvard University, Asia Center GeoNarratives of a Filial Son
Book SynopsisElizabeth Kindall’s definitive study elucidates the context for the paintings of Huang Xiangjian (1609–1673) and identifies geo-narrative as a distinct landscape-painting tradition lauded for its naturalistic immediacy, experiential topography, and dramatic narratives of moral persuasion, class identification, and biographical commemoration.
£63.71
Harvard University Press The Logic of Disorder
Book SynopsisThe Logic of Disorder presents for the first time to the English-speaking world the writings of seminal Mexican contemporary visual artist Abraham Cruzvillegas. Each of the texts included in this volume is fully annotated and is accompanied by a number of critical studies by leading curators and scholars.
£999.99
Princeton University Press The Paris Letters of Thomas Eakins
Book SynopsisThe young Thomas Eakins''s most revealing letterspublished here for the first timeThe most revealing and interesting writings of American artist Thomas Eakins are the letters he sent to family and friends while he was a student in Paris between 1866 and 1870. This book presents all these letters in their entirety for the first time; in fact, this is the first edition of Eakins''s correspondence from the period. Edited and annotated by Eakins authority William Innes Homer, this book provides a treasure trove of new information, revealing previously hidden facets of Eakins''s personality, providing a much richer picture of his artistic development, and casting fresh light on his debated psychosexual makeup. The book is illustrated with the small, gemlike drawings Eakins included in his correspondence, as well as photographs and paintings.In these letters, Eakins speaks openly and frankly about human relationships, male companionship, marriage, and women. In viviTrade Review"Although there are a number of excellent biographies, critical works, and published collections of the work of seminal American artist Thomas Eakins, this is the first collection of his letters from his years as a student in Paris (1866-70)... Highly recommended for scholars and art history students as well as general readers and young adults."--Library Journal "Homer has been writing and lecturing about Eakins for 40 years, and his familiarity adds much to his annotations of these letters; he captures their essence even in the briefest synopses. Homer's second volume, collecting later Eakins letters, should continue to present this lucid perspective and, more important, promises further firsthand insights."--Edith Newhall, ArtNewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Thomas Eakins: The Artist and His Letters 1 Chapter 1: 1866 9 Chapter 2: 1867 79 Chapter 3: 1868 187 Chapter 4: 1869 237 Chapter 5: 1870 293 Chapter 6: The Spanish Notebook (1870) 299 Chapter 7: Letters & Theories after 1870: A Summary 309 Collection Code Key 321 List of Owners of Thomas Eakins Letters 323 Selected Bibliography 331 Index 333 Letter Credits and Permissions 341
£27.00
Princeton University Press Michelangelo A Life on Paper
Book SynopsisMichelangelo is best known for great artistic achievements such as the Sistine ceiling, the Piet, and the dome of St Peter's. He not only filled hundreds of sheets of paper with drawings, sketches, and doodles, but also, composed his own words. This book examines this interplay of words and images, providing insight into his life and work.Trade ReviewOne of the The Daily Beast's (Brad Gooch) Favorite Books of the Year for 2010 "But for sheer joy of reading, reach for Michelangelo: A Life on Paper, by Leonard Barkan ($49.50). The writer is a professor of comparative literature at Princeton, and his view of the artist usually regarded as superhuman, a Sistine-style colossus, is through the intimate, sometimes all-too-human medium of his words--private letters, poems, notes to self--as well as drawings. Personable in tone, astute in observation, Mr. Barkan's book is that rare thing, a historical study as absorbing as a novel."--Holland Cotter, New York Times "In Michelangelo: A Life on Paper (Princeton University Press, 366 pages, $49.50), scholar Leonard Barkan has not only found something new to say about this well-picked-over artist; he has come up with a new approach to his subject, producing one of the most absorbing books of the year. Like many Renaissance artists, Michelangelo often used the same piece of paper for multiple purposes. A given sheet might contain sketches, wording for a contract, fragments of verse and a shopping list--what Mr. Barkan vividly describes as a 'riot of activities.' Until now, scholars have approached these sheets piecemeal, focusing on the parts of greatest interest to them--the figure sketches, say--to the exclusion of the others. Mr. Barkan's simple but, as it turns out, revolutionary idea was to ask himself: 'What can we learn by taking each sheet as an organic unity and regarding everything on it as equally relevant?' Mr. Barkan's book blends art history, biography and detective work to give us an unparalleled insight into the mind of Michel angelo as a creator, citizen, papal lackey, businessman and family man."--Eric Gibson, Wall Street Journal "Leonard Barkan's ingenious, lavishly illustrated study does not linger over the familiar aspects of the Divine One's life and work. It focuses instead on the artist's 'life on paper,' the hundreds of sheets that have survived containing drawings, poems, doodles, instructions to assistants and 'notes to self.' For Barkan, a professor of comparative literature at Princeton, these sheets are a treasure trove of aesthetic delights; traces of the historical context of Renaissance art making; and, most important, a window onto the personality and artistic practice of a figure who came to define genius... Barkan is a tentative but deeply learned interpreter. His close readings of these complex traces are marvels of erudition, even though he understands that claims about the meaning of these images will never be proven... Barkan is a sensitive and thoughtful guide through this fragile legacy of a monumental figure. Michelangelo, he writes, 'remains stuck in the paradox of a godlike creativity that cannot bring him closer to God.' This biography of the artist's 'life on paper' reveals both his solitude and his efforts at communion. Barkan's reading of the richly evocative paper trail reminds us how much we still have to learn about this towering, quivering man."--Michael S. Roth, Washington Post "A sumptuous art book full of brain food, Michelangelo is a book and concept that has been hiding in plain sight for centuries. Princeton University Comp Lit Professor Leonard Barkan has decided to shift his eye, and attention, two inches to the left and right to take seriously all the scribbling, doodling, lines of poetry, and notes to workshop assistants, in the margins of Michelangelo's drawings on paper. (The volume includes more than 200 museum-quality reproductions of the artist's most private papers, many in color.) As quirkily brilliant--and ultimately more satisfying and helpful than--Derrida's '80s meditations on Nietzche's laundry list, Barkan's book is both fun and a paradigm shift."--Brad Gooch, Daily Beast "With a similar spirit of pure joy in language's capacity to illuminate great art and great artists, Leonard Barkan in Michelangelo: A Life on Paper gives us a more human Michelangelo who looks and sounds a lot like us today, but with all the genius left intact."--Bob Dugan, Big Think "Barkan explores the full complexity of Michelangelo as revealed in hundreds of pieces of paper on which the artist combined both writing and drawing. This is the first study to fully explore the intriguing interplay of words and images, providing numerous insights into the artist's life, work, and unconscious motivations... His brilliant analysis of individual sheets vividly highlights the important role played by the written word in Michelangelo's artistic process and creativity. The book provides a rare and intimate look at how Michelangelo's artistic genius expressed itself, especially in moments of unselfconscious expression when the artist shifted from drawing to words and vice versa. Illustrated with more than 200 excellent reproductions, many in color, this sumptuous volume is beautifully produced."--Choice "Barkan's analyses are rich and complex--this is a book that rewards close reading... The book is beautifully produced, with excellent reproductions."--Bernadine Barnes, European LegacyTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii Chapter 1: Hieroglyphs of the Mind 1 Chapter 2: O n the Same Page 35 Chapter 3: Picture Writing 69 Chapter 4: Making a Name 97 Chapter 5: Crowded Sheets 127 Chapter 6: Private in Public 173 Chapter 7: V at. lat. 3211 235 Chapter 8: Drawing the Line 287 Notes 305 Credits 353 Index 357
£37.80
Princeton University Press Preserving the Dharma Hzan Tankai and Japanese
Book SynopsisIn this beautifully illustrated book, eminent art historian John Rosenfield explores the life and art of the Japanese Buddhist monk Hozan Tankai (1629-1716). Through a close examination of sculptures, paintings, ritual implements, and primary documents, the book demonstrates how the Shingon prelate's artistic activities were central to his importanTrade Review"This is a solid, accessible study."--ChoiceTable of ContentsForeword and Acknowledgments 9 Author's Acknowledgments 13 Notes to the Reader 15 Historical Dates and Places 17 Maps 19 Introduction 23 CHAPTER 1 Birth and Training 39 CHAPTER 2 Sacred Mount Ikoma 55 CHAPTER 3 Head Priest 79 CHAPTER 4 Sculpture 93 CHAPTER 5 Pictures 109 CHAPTER 6 Eminence 127 APPENDIX A Hozanji Archive 143 APPENDIX B Shingon Priests 147 Notes 153 Bibliography 161 Glossary 171 Index 191 Image Credits 199
£58.50
Princeton University Press Pleasure and Piety
Book Synopsis"The exhibition is organized by the Centraal Museum Utrecht; the National Gallery of Art, Washington; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation."--Title page verso.Trade Review"Handsomely produced... The catalogue's generously scaled illustrations provide the visual delight that alone will surely attract new audiences to Wtewael's work."--Lisa Rosenthal, Renaissance QuarterlyTable of Contentsxv Directors' Foreword xvi Acknowledgments xix Lenders to the Exhibition xx Introduction: A Surprising and Diverse Life: Joachim Wtewael (1566 - 1638), Liesbeth M. Helmus 1 Desire and Devotion in Wtewael's Art, Anne W. Lowenthal 17 Love and Passion: Wtewael's Personal Statement, Liesbeth M. Helmus 25 Hastening to See Christ: Religious Painting in an Age of Conflict, James Clifton 37 Wtewael's Historical Reputation, Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. 49 Wtewael as Draftsman, Stijn Alsteens 61 Catalog 194 Essay Notes 201 Bibliography 207 Index 210 Photography Credits
£51.00
Princeton University Press Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish
Book SynopsisThis is the first in-depth historical study of Jan Gossart (ca. 1478-1532), one of the most important painters of the Renaissance in northern Europe. Providing a richly illustrated narrative of the Netherlandish artist's life and art, Marisa Anne Bass shows how Gossart's paintings were part of a larger cultural effort in the Netherlands to assert tTrade Review"[A] fascinating and beautifully produced book... Marisa Anne Bass's fine book can help open up a debate about specific artists, about the role of traditions in the shaping of art, and about the relationship between a sixteenth-century moment and a twentieth-century one, which is long overdue."--Gabriel Josipovici, Times Literary Supplement "A satisfyingly lavishly illustrated, beautifully written and detailed study of one of the Renaissance's most important northern European painters, Jan Gossart."--Karen Shook, Times Higher Education "Totally original as well as lavishly illustrated, Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity is as idiosyncratically informative as it is occasionally spellbinding."--David Marx, David Marx Reviews "This is a rich and rewarding book that wears its learning lightly and is full of insights into place and period. Succinct, well written and very well illustrated, Bass's book provides a stimulating guide to Gossart's work and a fresh perspective on the Renaissance in a specific area of Northern Europe."--Susan Foister, Art Newspaper "This well-documented, richly illustrated book offers an in-depth study of the career of Netherlandish artist Jan Gossart. Bass focuses on the artist's representations of classical and mythological subjects, and for the most part she bases the discussion on primary sources in Latin, Dutch, and French--sources not previously used by art historians and scholars in association with Gossart's works... A well-balanced interplay of visual analyses and historical investigations."--Choice "Beautifully written and full of provocative insights into the humanist ambiance and intellectual network associated with Jan Gossart's mythological paintings."--Maryan W. Ainsworth, Burlington MagazineTable of ContentsAcknowledgments viii Introduction 1 Chapter 1 The Embodied Past 7 Chapter 2 Land 45 Chapter 3 Lineage 75 Chapter 4 Legacy 115 Epilogue 145 Notes 155 Bibliography 183 Index 203 Illustration Credits 213
£40.80
Princeton University Press William Blake and the Age of Aquarius
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of the The New York Times Best Art Books of 2017, chosen by Holland Cotter""Honorable Mention for the 2018 PROSE Award in Art Exhibitions, Association of American Publishers""In 1948, in a Spanish Harlem apartment, the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg had an auditory hallucination of Blake reciting 'Ah Sun-flower!' and other mind-altering verses. That vision changed Ginsberg’s life, and Blake became a touchstone figure for many radical American artists of the 1950s and his destroy-all-tyrants radar continued to burn through the 1960s. It would certainly find appropriate targets today, as is confirmed by this excellent book, the catalog for an exhibition at the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University."---Holland Cotter, New York Times"The works of William Blake gradually but conclusively made its way into the poetry of Allen Ginsberg, the principles of Jim Morrison and The Doors, incantations from Van Morrison, and the religious work of Bob Dylan. Indeed, Blake has been everywhere and nowhere at the same time, perhaps just as he would have wanted it to be. William Blake and the Age of Aquarius--a beautiful volume published in conjunction with Northwestern University's Block Museum of Art exhibition of the same name--wonderfully, strikingly, fantastically puts this formidable artist/ poet/ visionary into a logical context. . . . Those familiar with William Blake's work will welcome the considerations of his legacy as seen through visual and auditory art since the mid-20th century through today. Those unfamiliar with Blake should still be fascinated by how the man's work has drifted through the ages without losing much of its power. No reader of this book will come away from it unmoved and indifferent to the potential of the artistic sensibility as it comes to terms with light, dark, and everything in between."---Christopher John Stephens, PopMatters"William Blake and the Age of Aquarius is the most intriguing book on Blake since Marsha Keith Schuchard’s expose of him as a swinger."---Dominic Green, The Spectator"One of the most stunning books of art I have ever seen and read. I highly suggest this book to everyone."---Anna Maria Polidori, Al Femminile"A handsomely designed book . . . including an excellent historical overview."---Albert Rivero, Times Literary Supplement
£37.80
Princeton University Press Van Gogh and the Seasons
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book offers extensive evidence concerning van Gogh's interest in the seasons, an important theme for grasping some of the broader symbolic and spiritual associations of his art. Van Gogh and the Seasons is an essential resource for anyone interested in van Gogh, from general admirers to scholars and curators."—Matthew Simms, author of Cézanne's Watercolors
£49.50
Princeton University Press Enchantments
Book Synopsis"This book uncovers a largely overlooked strand of American modernism in Cornell's work that engaged with current issues through the metaphysical aspects of vernacular objects and experiences"--Trade Review"Kwon’s handsomely illustrated book takes a deep dive into the culture that influenced Cornell, and situates him within the art and politics—and politics of art—of his time. . . .[A] beautifully produced book." * Library Journal *"In her book Enchantments . . .[Marci Kwon] gives what amounts to a hidden history of modernism in this country, placing Cornell in context and revealing his connections to his contemporaries and his influence on later generations of artists. She also explores the concept of enchantment and mounts a passionate defense of it."---John Dorfman, Art & Antiques"A superb achievement. . . . [and] the best treatment of the artist’s career, milieu, and work to date."---Massimo Introvigne, Novo Religio
£46.75
Princeton University Press Delacroix
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] unique creative intensity entirely worth revisiting with this latest Delacroix: New and Expanded Edition." * New York Journal of Books *"No cartoon or multi-level digital painting I have seen has reached this level of dramatic intensity." * Pennsylvania Literary Journal *
£46.75
Princeton University Press Black Mountain Chamberlain
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The main draw of [Black Mountain Chamberlain] is how it offers a new window into the sculptor’s process, how [John Chamberlain] broke the world around him into words." * Hyperallergic *
£37.80
Princeton University Press Piranesi Unbound
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A handsome treatment of [an] unheralded aspect of Piranesi’s career."---Benjamin Riley, New Criterion"Piranesi Unbound is a beautifully made book about a maker of beautiful books. Giambattista Piranesi (1720-78) is remembered mostly for his etchings, but art historians Carolyn Yerkes and Heather Hyde Minor make a strong—and charmingly wonkish—case that his true medium was the bound volume. They’re helped enormously by the designer Yve Ludwig, who strengthens every step of their argument with vivid closeups of the maestro’s work. Her gold-on-terracotta color scheme is the icing on the cake: Ms. Ludwig evokes Piranesi’s love for red chalk and Moroccan leather in a way that suggests the Roman genius might have a living heir."---Jackson Arn, Wall Street Journal"[Piranesi Unbound is], an academic book [that] contains plenty of visual material exploring the Italian artist’s work, and . . . dives into the world of bookmaking."---Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Washington Post"If you liked Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, you might want to look at Piranesi Unbound by Carolyn Yerkes and Heather Hyde Minor. It's an academic book, but it contains plenty of visual material exploring the Italian artist's work, and it dives into the world of bookmaking."---Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Independent"Piranesi Unbound is a thoroughly researched and stimulating discursive study of Piranesi as a creator and seller of books. This will be a valuable book for students of Piranesi, book arts and patronage in Eighteenth-Century Rome."---Alexander Adams, Alexander Adams Art"In Piranesi Unbound . . . Carolyn Yerkes and Heather HydeMinor show how books represented an alternative business model for [Piranesi], one that required technologies of production and routes of distribution that were different from those for prints. According to the authors, Piranesi the bookmaker has been shouldered aside in the literature by the suitable-for-framing hero of exhibitions and catalogues. Their Piranesi, by contrast, is to be found in libraries more often than in print cabinets. . . . This is a book lover’s book."---Joseph Connors, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians"By treating Piranesi’s books as a distinct and specific medium, Yerkes and Hyde Minor draw attention to a feature of early modern publications that scholarship rarely fully acknowledges: their inherent instability and ‘openness’. From Piranesi Unbound, the book emerges as a site of a continuous reconfiguration of content and printed matter, and this over the entire course of its life: from its conception, when plates are reused and content is cribbed, over its production and sale, when pages and fascicules are combined, bound and personalised, to its distribution and dispersal in collections of books and prints. . . . By casting Piranesi primarily as a bookmaker, Piranesi Unbound begins to liberate his work from his overbearing presence in its interpretation."---Maarten Delbeke, Architectural History"A scholarly and visually rich history that . . . should appeal to fans of Giovanni Battista Piranesi. . . . A beautiful book about books."---John Hill, A Daily Dose of Architecture"Beautifully designed and lavishly illustrated . . . the book is a testament to the kind of scholarship Piranesi stood for."---Richard Calis, International Journal of the Classical Tradition"Piranesi Unbound occupies a special place as a volume clearly aligned with the “material turn" of art history. The coauthors, experts on architectural drawings and prints, are implicitly and productively critical of the canonical type of art historical research, concentrating specifically on what classical art history has regarded as parerga—the technical, material, and economic aspects of artistic production."---Lola Kantor-Kazocsky, CAA Reviews"Piranesi Unbound . . . rematerialize[s] the codex as a material repository of practice"---Luisa Calè, European Romantic Review
£55.25
Princeton University Press Keith Haring
Book SynopsisTrade Review"If you believe (like I do) that the “Subway Drawings” are the bedrock of Haring’s achievement, this slim volume will reinforce that notion—or wholly convince you."---Richard Polsky, ArtNet"This trim art book showcases some of Keith Haring's most elusive art: his chalk on black paper drawings that were created on the walls of the New York City subways. . . . The collected art is vintage Haring: goofy, bold, political and accessible."---Kevin Howell, Shelf Awareness
£31.50
Princeton University Press Of Divers Arts
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A more lucid artist than Naum Gabo would be hard to find. His discussions of what the consciousness of man has created, what differentiates Science from Art, what Nature has meant to him, and what influences have shaped his own style are stated with deceptive clarity. The reader cannot help relating Gabo’s literary style to the crystalline constructions for which he is famous." * Art in America *
£27.00
Princeton University Press Visionary and Dreamer
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Cecil] does more for both painters than simply recount their lives. He presents both the visionary and dreamer in the bright and captivating light of his own sympathy." * The Observer *
£32.30
Princeton University Press Giorgio Vasari
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Princeton University Press Betye Saar Heart of a Wanderer
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award, College Art Association""An Art Newspaper Top Art Book of the Year""This beautiful book . . . details the artist’s journeys over 50 years, from trips to Morocco in 1968 and Guatemala in 2018. . . . It is as close as a mass-produced art tome gets to an artist’s book—a covetable object in its own right."---Ben Luke, The Art Newspaper"Determined to expand awareness about this much overlooked Black artist, Betye Saar . . . extends the previous scope of insight into her practice beyond her assemblages; the book includes color reproductions of half a dozen notebooks from her decades of world travel."---Patrick James Dunagan, Rain Taxi Review of Books"Full-colour throughout, this fabulous volume—as close as commercial publishing gets to an artist’s book—explores the importance of travel for the African American sculptor Betye Saar. Interweaving the explanatory text and images of Saar’s assemblages (found material combined with the artist’s own drawings and paintings) are full-page facsimiles of her fascinating travel journals."---Jacqueline Riding, The Art Newspaper
£34.20
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Lost Michelangelos
Book Synopsis* This book tells the remarkable story of the discovery of two lost paintings by Michelangelo D one held in a private collection in the US and the other held by an Oxford college.Trade Review"As much a story about the intransigence of the art establishment and the gaps in its tradition-bound methods for considering authentication claims as it is about the ultimate fate of the painting itself." New York Times "An art mystery for the ages." New York Post "An unlikely and rather miraculous piece of art history." Bay Area Reporter "In reconstructing the history of two lost paintings, Forcellino transforms the material into a cinematic plot worthy of a spy movie." Il Manifesto "This is an intriguing piece of artistic detective work...Reading Forcellino's investigations is like watching a jigsaw being painstakingly pieced together." The Saturday Age The story behind The Lost Michelangelos has garnered a lot of media attention including features in the following news outlets: The Huffington Post The Independent The Daily Mail BBC Oxford Sky News Daily News & Analysis "In compelling fashion, Antonio Forcellino traces the remarkable journey of a painting from Rome to Dubrovnik to Berlin, and finally to Buffalo, NY: could it be a masterpiece by the greatest genius of the Italian Rennaissance? William Wallace, Washington University, St Louis "Forcellino's new book reads like a detective story, draws on his expertise as a restorer and makes a good case for the rediscovery of two lost paintings by Michelangelo." Peter Burke, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsChapter One - NiagaraChapter Two - Mantua, 11 June 1546Chapter Three - Between legends and documentsChapter Four - A movable panelChapter Five - Isabel ArcherChapter Six - The meetingChapter Seven - The wax sealsChapter Eight - Flying back from New York Chapter Nine - Fabio TempestiviChapter Ten - The melancholic exileChapter Eleven - The last survivorChapter Twelve - Ragusa 1573Chapter Thirteen - The Madonna's teethChapter Fourteen - The hidden drawingChapter Fifteen - The Stone CityChapter Sixteen - Tempestivi's funeralChapter Seventeen - The island of SipanChapter Eighteen - OxfordChapter Nineteen - Back to BuffaloChapter Twenty - RestorationChapter Twenty-One - PentimentiEpilogue
£11.77
Liverpool University Press Charles Tomlinson
Book SynopsisThis book, the first on this major English writer from a British publisher, forms a comprehensive defence of Charles Tomlinson’s project, including his work as a graphic artist, as a translator, and as a participator in experiments in multiple authorship and multi-lingual poetry.
£18.69
Cornell University Press Reading Charlotte Salomon
Book SynopsisCharlotte Salomon was born in Berlin in 1917 and was murdered at Auschwitz at the age of twenty-six. While in exile in the south of France from 1940 until her deportation in 1943, she created some 1,325 small gouaches using only the three primary colors plus white. From these she gathered nearly 800 into a work that she titled Life? or Theater?: A Play with Music, which employs images, texts, and musical and cinematic references. The narrative, informed by Salomon''s experiences as a talented, cultured, and assimilated German Jew, depicts a life lived in the shadow of Nazi persecution and a family history of suicide, but also reveals moments of intense happiness and hope. The tone of the gouaches becomes increasingly raw and urgent as Salomon is further enmeshed in grim personal as well as political events. The result is a deeply moving meditation on life, art, and death on the eve of the Holocaust.Salomon''s art, discovered after the war in the south of France where she had
£50.40
Cornell University Press Treasures from Olana
Book Synopsis"The wide variety of selections from Frederic Edwin Church's collection of his own paintings shows the master in all phases of his career, in sketches and finished paintings, depicting the breadth of his subjects and the high technical skills that...Trade Review"Church boasted, 'Almost an hour south of Albany is the Center of the World—I own it.' The word 'Olana' is one that Mr. and Mrs. Church found applied to a 'fortress or treasury-storehouse in ancient Persia.' According to Kevin J. Avery's description in his excellent and entertaining catalog text, it feels like a fortress from outside and is a musty treasury within, evoking 'nothing so much as a silent film set, minus a turbaned Douglas Fairbanks Sr. bounding down the stairs.'." -- John Updike, New York Review of Books, 23 March 2006"Next to visiting Olana in person, browsing through Treasures from Olana is as fine a visit to Frederic Edwin Church's home on the upper Hudson River that you might hope for. Full of facts and images, this little book is a treasure you will periodically want to dip into at your leisure." -- Raymond J. Steiner, Art Times, October 2005
£19.94
Cornell University Press Glories of the Hudson
Book SynopsisThe site is the result of a careful study of the river-banks, and commands so many views of varied beauty, that all the glories of the Hudson may be said to circle it.H. W. French, Art and Artists in Connecticut, 1879In 1609, Henry Hudson sailed up the river that now bears his name. The exhibition and its accompanying publication Glories of the Hudson: Frederic Edwin Church''s Views from Olana mark the quadricentennial of his discovery by highlighting Frederic Church''s sketches of the prospect from his hilltop home overlooking the river. Church made his first sketch of the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains from Red Hillthe south end of the property that became his home, Olanain 1845, on a sketching expedition suggested by his teacher Thomas Cole. Returning to the Hudson Valley in 1860 as the nation''s most famous and best-paid artist, Church settled on a farm on the lower slope of the Sienghenbergh, securing for himself and his new wife a splendid vantage poi
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Cornell University Press Fern Hunting Among These Picturesque Mountains
Book SynopsisPreface and Acknowledgments by Washburn S. OberwagerIn 1865 the American landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church and his wife, Isabel, traveled to Jamaica on a sojourn of recovery after the tragic deaths of their two young children Herbert and Emma. A time to mourn and escape from the constant reminders found at their home, Olana, the Churches'' trip to Jamaica also provided ample inspiration for Frederic. The Olana Collection includes eight oil sketches, an ink drawing, and a pencil drawing Church made in Jamaica. Five of these oil sketches on paper Church chose to mount to canvas and frame for his and Isabel''s enjoyment; over the years they have hung in different rooms at Olana. From these works, and others held by the Cooper-Hewitt, Church created two major studio oils, The Vale of St. Thomas, Jamaica, 1867 (the Wadsworth Atheneum) and The After Glow, 1867 (the Olana Collection). Within Church''s oeuvre the studies of Jamaican sunsets, mountains, and foliage are pa
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Cornell University Press Marsden Hartley
Book SynopsisA penetrating biography.... Ludington offers a psychological portrait of an intense, contradictory, scornful, but gentle man who transcended his nineteenth-century roots in Lewiston, Maine, to view Europe as his home and to make a distinctive contribution to modernism.Kirkus ReviewsDrawing on Hartley''s letters and other writings as well as on the correspondence and reminiscences of the artist''s friends, Ludington traces the restless career of the painter.... [Hartley] had troubled friendships with some of the most important artists and writers of his dayGertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Fairfield Porter, Eugene O''Neill, Georgia O''Keeffe, and others. His relationship with Alfred Stieglitz, who supported him financially and exhibited his work,... runs like a leitmotif through the book, and indicates Hartley''s characterdemanding, touchy, often ungrateful but also compelling.... This frank and unsentimental account of a life of contradictions and paradoxes returns oneTrade Review"A penetrating biography.... Ludington offers a psychological portrait of an intense, contradictory, scornful, but gentle man who transcended his nineteenth-century roots in Lewiston, Maine, to view Europe as his home and to make a distinctive contribution to modernism.""Drawing on Hartley's letters and other writings as well as on the correspondence and reminiscences of the artist's friends, Ludington traces the restless career of the painter.... Hartley had troubled friendships with some of the most important artists and writers of his day—Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Fairfield Porter, Eugene O'Neill, Georgia O'Keeffe, and others. His relationship with Alfred Stieglitz, who supported him financially and exhibited his work,... runs like a leitmotif through the book, and indicates Hartley's character—demanding, touchy, often ungrateful but also compelling.... This frank and unsentimental account of a life of contradictions and paradoxes returns one to the artist's paintings with a fresh eye.""Marsden Hartley (1877–1943) had a virtually unique role as a modernist painter. He was notable not only for his powerful canvases but for his poetry and essays. Townsend Ludington's astute portrait of the artist focuses upon his cosmopolitan sensibility in a generation melding modern art with an American tradition of mystical idealism.... Ludington views Hartley as an essential American artist embarked on a spiritual odyssey." -- Robert Taylor, Boston Globe
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University of Toronto Press Aspiring to the Landscape On Painting and the
Book SynopsisIt is the tension between modern and postmodern interpretations of the subject of nature that makes the theory and the artwork discussed in Aspiring to the Landscape so important to contemporary Canadian culture.Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction * A Longing for the Impossible Place: Wanda Koop's Paintings for Dimly Lit Rooms and Paintings for Brightly Lit Rooms * The Allegorical Impulse in Stephen Hutchings's Plants, Bushes, and Hedges * Speaking the Wild: The Apophatic Representation of Nature in Susan Feindel's Paintings * Cosmoville: The Unmanageable Surfaces of Eleanor Bond's Rotterdam Paintings Conclusion (or Beginning): Opening Up the Conversation Appendix: Artists' Biographies Notes Bibliography Index
£49.30
University of Nebraska Press Fabulous Harlequin
Book SynopsisFor four decades the internationally renowned French artist ORLAN has interrogated every defining aspect of being human - gender, ethnicity, religion, beauty, physiognomy, and even physiology itself - through an endlessly mutating oeuvre that defies categorization. Fabulous Harlequin showcases photographs of ORLAN's projects along with critical essays on ORLAN's work.Table of ContentsTOCContentsORLAN in America: Preface and Acknowledgments 000[1] Libre Parole 000 ORLAN[2] On Secularism: Preface to The Troubadour of Knowledge 000 Michel Serres[3] Fashioning Hybridity 000 Rhonda Garelick[4] ORLAN and the Critique of Multiculturalism 000 Jorge Daniel Veneciano[5] ORLAN and the Terms of Work 000 Homi K. Bhabha and Jorge Daniel Veneciano[6] Transgression/Transfiguration: A Conversation 000 ORLAN and Paul Virilio[7] ORLAN, Subject Omitted: Attire as Epidermis, Epidermis as Attire 000 Isabel Tejeda[8] ORLAN, Forerunner of Tendencies 000 Lan Vu[9] In the Name of ORLAN: Artist as Text 000 Jorge Daniel Veneciano[10] Four Questions to ORLAN 000[11] Four Questions to davidelfin 000[12] Murcia Installation (plates) 000[13] ORLAN Biography 000[14] ORLAN Chronology 000[15] ORLAN Bibliography 000[16] davidelfin Chronology 000[17] Contributors 000
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University of Nebraska Press Theresa Bernstein
Book SynopsisThe American artist Theresa Ferber Bernstein (1890–2002) made and exhibited her work in every decade of the twentieth century. This authoritative book about Bernstein provides an overview of her life and artistic career, examining her relationships with contemporary artists.Trade Review“Theresa Bernstein: A Century in Art is a major contribution to art history. Although there are exhibition catalogs of Theresa Bernstein’s work and her writings, there is no overview of her life and career, so this book is unique in viewing all the aspects of Bernstein’s artistic career and her biography, as well as her relationship with contemporary artists.”—Alicia Craig Faxon, professor of art history emerita at Simmons College and the author of Self-Portraits by Women Painters “Gail Levin and her team of authors have assembled a fascinating account of the life and art of Theresa Bernstein, who came of age in the early years of the twentieth century and painted with a boldness of technique and feeling on a par with John Sloan and Stuart Davis. Indeed, she often surpassed them in terms of the praise showered on her when she exhibited in New York and Gloucester during the interwar years. Eclipsed at midcentury, as so many other women artists were, she is today recognized as a leading artist of the early twentieth-century urban scene.”—Patricia Hills, professor of art history at Boston University and the author of Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob Lawrence “Based on extensive research, this important book illuminates the compelling life and work of American realist painter Theresa Bernstein. Bernstein’s career spans a century, from her early success in the vibrant New York art world of the 1910s to the diverse portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and prints she produced and exhibited until well past the age of one-hundred. This volume’s rich essays and illustrations restore Bernstein to the place she deserves in art history.”—Laura R. Prieto, professor of history and women’s and gender studies at Simmons College and author of At Home in the Studio: The Professionalization of Women Artists in America "This book helps bring to life Theresa Bernstein, her life and her art. . . . Her work is impressive, especially compared to her peers at the time. . . . This book will help people appreciate her art more."—Kevin Winter, Portland Book Review"Levin—who first encountered Bernstein's name while researching her book on Edward Hopper—has rendered an intriguing biography out of wonderful artwork and a provocative life story."—Arlene B. Soifer, Jewish Book CouncilTable of ContentsAcknowledgements by Gail LevinList of Illustrations1. Forgotten Fame: Inscribing Theresa Bernstein into HistoryGail Levin2. The Ashcan School? Theresa Bernstein and Her Vision of New YorkElsie Heung3. Theresa Bernstein in Gloucester: Shaping Artistic IdentityMichele Cohen4. Theresa Bernstein and the Era of World War I in New YorkSarah Archino5. Dada’s Long Shadow: Theresa Bernstein and “The Paint Rag”Sarah Archino6. Theresa Bernstein’s World in Still LifePatricia M. Burnham7. Documentary Still, a Portrait of a RelationshipGillian Pistell8. Impressions: Theresa Bernstein as PrintmakerStephanie Hackett9. Theresa Bernstein: A Chronology, 1890-200210. Theresa Bernstein: A List of Public Collections11. BibliographyTheresa Bernstein: A Selection of Her Writings
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University of Oklahoma Press Thomas Moran
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University of Oklahoma Press Painted Journeys The Art of John Mix Stanley
Book SynopsisSo highly regarded was John Mix Stanley that more than two hundred of his paintings were held at the Smithsonian Institution - where in 1865 a fire destroyed all but seven of them. This volume, featuring a comprehensive collection of Stanley's extant art offers an opportunity to rediscover his remarkable accomplishments.
£26.06
University of Oklahoma Press Frederic Remington
Book SynopsisOne of America's most influential artists, Frederic Remington is renowned for his depictions of the Old West. Through paintings, drawings, and sculptures, he immortalized a dynamic world of cowboys and American Indians, hunters and horses, landscapes and wildlife. This book offers a comprehensive presentation of the artist's body of work.
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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Narrating the Landscape
Book SynopsisRevealing the crucial role of print and visual culture in shaping the nineteenth-century United States, Narrating the Landscape offers fresh insight into the landscapes Americans beheld and imagined in this formative era.
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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Ray Stanford Strong West Coast Landscape Artist
Book SynopsisThroughout his long and prolific career, Ray Stanford Strong (1905-2006) strove to capture the essence of the western American landscape. This beautiful volume, featuring more than 100 colour and black-and-white illustrations, is the first comprehensive exploration of Strong's life and artistry.
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University of Oklahoma Press Albert Bierstadt Witness to a Changing West
Book SynopsisAs one of America's most prominent nineteenth-century painters, Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) is justly renowned for his majestic paintings of the western landscape. This splendid colour volume highlights his achievements in chronicling a rapidly changing American West.
£999.99
Louisiana State University Press Audubon on Louisiana
Book SynopsisCompiles and explains John James Audubon's essential writings on the region. Beginning in 1810 as Audubon arrives in the upper Louisiana Territory, Audubon's journals, essays, and letters reveal his struggles to fill his portfolio with new watercolors, his discoveries, and the transformative effect the area had on both his art and his life.
£50.40
Northwestern University Press The Letters and Journals
Book SynopsisRecognized today as one of the great modernist painters, Paula Modersohn-Becker was also a gifted writer, and her large body of letters and journals represent the story of her life. This volume presents the journals and every extant letter, each carefully annotated.
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Letter to the Americans
Book SynopsisLike Alexis de Tocqueville a century earlier, Jean Cocteau offers a powerful reminder to Americans of their own potential—and issuesTrade Review"The lasting feeling that his work leaves is one of happiness; not of course in the sense that it excludes suffering, but because, in it, nothing is rejected, resented, or regretted." -- W.H. Auden"One of the master craftsmen." -- Tennessee Williams"A man to whom every great line of poetry was a sunrise, every sunset the foundation of the Heavenly City." -- Edith Wharton"That is how Jean Cocteau’s work seems to us, like a light, aerial, stormy civilization hanging from the heavy heart of our own. The very person of the poet adds to it, thin, knotted, silvery as olive trees" -- Jean Genet"Cocteau’s fans won’t regret making room for this short but sweet outing on their shelves." -- Publishers Weekly"In our current moment of distrust and anger and suspicion, Cocteau’s reminder is a welcome tonic." -- New York Journal of Books
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University of Pennsylvania Press Edna Andrade
Book SynopsisEdna Andrade is the first book-length study of the aesthetic influences, creative development, and enduring legacy of this dynamic twentieth-century American artist, tracing her career from her early surrealist landscapes, through decades of the geometric patterns of Op Art to her late-life studies of the Atlantic coastline.Trade Review"A resplendent and comprehensive look at the artist and her influences, development, and enduring legacy." * Boston Globe *"Exhibiting flawless production values, Edna Andrade is a truly impressive body of work and an essential addition to community and academic library American Art History reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists." * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsForeword and Acknowledgments Edna Andrade: The Means by Which A Line Comes Into Being —Debra Bricker Balken Between Magic and Logic: The Perceptual Art of Edna Andrade —Joe Houston Plates Chronology Bibliography List of Works Index
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Mina Loys Critical Modernism
Book SynopsisProvides a fresh assessment of the works of British-born poet and painter Mina Loy. Laura Scuriatti shows how Loy's “eccentric” writing and art celebrate ideas central to the modernist movement while simultaneously critiquing them, resulting in a continually self-reflexive and detached stance that Scuriatti terms “critical modernism”.
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Wayne State University Press The Queen Next Door
Book SynopsisLinda Solomon met Aretha Franklin in 1983 when she was just beginning her career as a photo journalist and newspaper columnist. The Queen Next Door is a book full of firsts as Solomon was invited not only to capture historical events in Aretha'smusic career showcasing Detroit, but to join in with the Franklin family's most cherished moments.Trade Review“Aretha and I grew up together. She was the sister I never had. Her parents were parents of both of us. She is more than a Queen of Soul. She’s a Queen of Caring, a Queen of Social Justice. She stood with Dr. King and she stood for Nelson Mandela. This beautiful book captures her essence.– Reverend Jesse L. Jackson Jr., founder and president of Rainbow PUSH Coalition”Linda’s got ‘it’"—what a great artist!– Tony Bennett, entertainer”To most, Aretha Franklin is an icon. But to Linda, she was also a friend. And Linda’s intimate photographs of Aretha reveal the true lady beyond the legend. What a gift for all her fans!– Meredith Vieira, television journalist and host”A picture is worth a thousand words, and with Linda no words were needed with she and Aretha. A powerful, emotional journey of photos that are beyond words and inspires us all to ‘say a little prayer.’ Thank you, Linda Solomon!”– Isiah Thomas, Basketball Hall of Fame inductee and Detroit Pistons champion”Linda Solomon is a Michigan treasure. She photographs celebrities and friends with equal enthusiasm, all the while devoting much of her time teaching others to enjoy the profession she loves.”– James J. Blanchard, former Governor for the State of Michigan”I feel like I’ve known Linda all my life. She intuitively seems to know how to catch that déjà vu moment with her camera lens—giving the pictures a unique and special touch like no other. She amazes me.”– Kim Novak, screen actress and visual artist”Her voice, her presence lives and breathes in her music which is kicking it to this day in my world. And now add some beautiful visuals. Thanks Linda for the wonderful images of the Queen of Soul.”– Tim Allen, actor and comedian”Aretha Franklin trusted very few journalists—a handful of us were lucky enough to be in that number, and that includes Detroit-based photojournalist Linda Solomon. You can see in the Queen of Soul’s soft, unguarded expressions in Linda’s photographs in The Queen Next Door that she was at ease with her. Linda had unprecedented access, but she didn’t overwhelm Aretha with a barrage of shots, instead capturing sensitive, evocative photos of a woman with the mystique of an icon, who was also the down-home woman ‘next door.’ This trove of beautiful images is a must for fans of the Queen.”– Susan Whitall, editor of Joni on Joni: Interviews and Encounters with Joni Mitchell and author of Fever: Little Willie John’s A Fast Life, Mysterious Death and the Birth of Soul”In The Queen Next Door, Linda Solomon gives us a rare photojournalistic glimpse into the life, lady, and legacy of one of the greatest talents of all time, Aretha Franklin—the Queen of Soul. Like Motown, Aretha Franklin is synonymous with the city of Detroit; she represented Detroit royalty and realness at the same time. While Aretha never signed to Motown Records, she was undoubtedly part of the Motown family and, like my grandmother, Esther Gordy Edwards, founder of the Motown Museum, Aretha used her celebrity to elevate the city she loved, Detroit.”– Robin R. Terry, chairwoman and CEO, Motown Museum”I met Linda Solomon in the early eighties while enjoying one of the Queen’s lavish parties. Linda was very charming and so professional in capturing that perfect and special moment. Linda will be always be special to all of us in the Queen’s court.”– Beverly Bradley, Aretha’s close friend”No one but Linda Solomon could have captured in moving words and photographs the real Queen, the Aretha Franklin who was sister-mama-daughter-friend, the woman who was larger-than-life star in her career, but down-to-earth Detroiter at home. Linda has given those who loved Ms. Franklin an intimate and needed tour of life off the stage.”– Rochelle Riley, essayist, arts advocate, and editor of The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery (Wayne State University Press, 2017)”[. . .] the 140 photographs collected in the volume reveal the Aretha Franklin who lived outside the spotlight, sure to intrigue music lovers and pop culture enthusiasts alike.”– Danielle Ballantyne, Foreword Reviews”A unique and inherently fascinating visual tribute to one of America's greatest vocal talents of her day, "The Queen Next Door: Aretha Franklin, An Intimate Portrait" is an extraordinary, coffee-table sized volume that should be considered a 'must' for the legions of Aretha Franklin fans, and would prove to be an immediate and enduringly popular addition to personal, community and academic library collections.”– Mary Cowper, Midwest Book Review
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Wayne State University Press The Promise of Language
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Winslow Homer in London
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University of Minnesota Press Pictorial Nominalism On Marcel Duchamps Passage
Book SynopsisReveals the invention of the readymade as a critical point in contemporary art.Trade Review"De Duve offers clear insight into Duchamp's relation to painting and how readymades can be seen as a clear response to problems specific to painting."-American Book Review
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University of Minnesota Press Suzanne Lacy Spaces Between
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations, Preface and Acknowledgments, Introduction: Positionality, Performance, and Participation, 1. Visceral Beginnings, 2. Embodied Networks, 3. The Urban Stage, 4. Convergences, 5. We Make the City, the City Makes Us, 6. Turning Point, 7. Teens and Violence, Conclusion: Spaces Between, Still (Inter)Acting, Chronology of Suzanne Lacy, Notes, Bibliography, Index
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