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£37.80
Artbook D.A.P. The Harlem Book of the Dead
£20.57
The University of Chicago Press Picturing Time
Book SynopsisA complete, illustrated survey of Etienne-Jules Marey's work that investigates the far reaching effects of her inventions on stream-of-consciousness literature, psychoanalysis, Bergsonian philosophy, and the art of cubists and futurists.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Pt. 1: Marey and His Work 1: Brains in His Fingertips 2: The Writing of Life: The Graphic Method 3: Reinventing the Camera: The Photographic Method 4: Animating Images: The Cinematographic Method 5: The Last Work Pt. 2: Marey's Legacy 6: Marey, Muybridge, and Motion Pictures 7: Marey, Modern Art, and Modernism 8: Marey and the Organization of Work Conclusion: Inventing the Inventor Catalog 1: Photographic Negatives and Prints Catalog 2: Original Chronophotographic and Photographic Experiments Catalog 3: Films Notes Bibliography of Works by Marey Index
£42.75
The University of Chicago Press Rediscovering Jacob Riis
Book SynopsisBefore publishing his book How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis (1849-1914) spent his first years in the US as an immigrant and itinerant laborer, until he landed a job as a muckraking reporter. This book places Jacob Riis' images in historical context. It explores Riis' reporting and activism within the gritty specifics of Gilded Age New York.Trade Review"An evocative and valuable reminder both of one unrelenting individual's ability to make a difference and of the relevance of his revelations to the painfully familiar problems we face today." (Sam Roberts, New York Times) "A rigorous, scholarly reexamination of Riis's life and work.... Riis's lightning-flash images of social catastrophe still have the power to shock, even after 120 years." (Matthew Power, New York Times Book Review)"
£17.00
The University of Chicago Press DiaryLandscape
Book SynopsisA beautiful and moving meditation on family, history, memory, and place, this title reintroduces history and private emotion as subjects in high art, while also helping to usher in the centrality of photography and theoretical questions about originality that mark the epochal Pictures Generation.
£40.00
Columbia University Press Picturing Algeria
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA seminal work that is strongly recommended reading. The Midwest Book Review Essential reading for those who are interested in the link between colonial politics and ethnographic practices. -- Muriam Haleh Davis Arab Studies Journal With its translation of lesser-known texts, thoughtful juxtaposition of texts and images, and, above all, beautiful presentation of the photographs, this book provides a fascinating glimps into the working process and intellectual origins of the most important scholars of the twentieth century. H-France Review Picturing Algeria juxtaposes Bourdieu's photographs with excerpts from his later writings, enabling the reader/viewer to grasp the destruction left in the wake of colonial violence. -- Olivia Harrison The Los Angeles Review of Books Picturing Algeria is worth its price for the 130 images alone... An invaluable contribution to scholarship. The photographs offer a rare glimpse into an unfamiliar aspect of Bourdieu's work in Algeria, displaying the literal lenses through which he framed his research sites. Journal of Historical GeographyTable of ContentsForeword, by Craig Calhoun Pierre Bourdieu and Algeria: An Elective Affinity, by Franz Schultheis Pictures from Algeria: An Interview with Pierre Bourdieu, by Franz Schultheis War and Social Transformation in Algeria Habitus and Habitat Men-Women An Agrarian Society in Crisis The Economics of Poverty In Algiers and Blida: Image Sequence, by Pierre Bourdieu Comments on the Photographic Documentations of Pierre Bourdieu, by Christine Frisinghelli Works by Pierre Bourdieu on Algeria List of Photographs Notes
£70.00
University of Illinois Press Bringing Aztlan to Mexican Chicago
Book Synopsis Bringing Aztlán to Mexican Chicago is the autobiography of Jóse Gamaliel González, an impassioned artist willing to risk all for the empowerment of his marginalized and oppressed community. Through recollections emerging in a series of interviews conducted over a period of six years by his friend Marc Zimmerman, González looks back on his life and his role in developing Mexican, Chicano, and Latino art as a fundamental dimension of the city he came to call home. Born near Monterey, Mexico, and raised in a steel mill town in northwest Indiana, González studied art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Notre Dame. Settling in Chicago, he founded two major art groups: El Movimiento Artístico Chicano (MARCH) in the 1970s and Mi Raza Arts Consortium (MIRA) in the 1980s. With numerous illustrations, this book portrays González''s all-but-forgotten communiTrade Review"A fascinating personal and artistic odyssey. González's story is about community art and community organizing, how art informs politics, and, conversely, how politics informs art."--Victor Alejandro Sorell, University Distinguished Professor of Art History and Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, Chicago State University "A unique contribution to the story of Latino arts. Bringing Aztlán to Mexican Chicago reveals a highly personal story of one participant's involvement in events that illuminate the difficulties, obstacles, and conflicts he experienced in the arts movement."--Theresa Delgadillo, assistant professor of comparative studies at Ohio State University "Gónzalez was a tireless and forceful artist-activist who struggled to promote Latino arts in the community and mainstream. His life story gives the reader a glipse into the rise of Latino popular art and politics. His autobiography fills a substantial gap in the cultural history of Chicago's Latino community."--Latino Studies "[Editor] Zimmerman has filled an important need to document the life and art of José González . . . . the story, politics, and images are an important part of the history of Chicago and of the Latino community there."--Studies in Latin American Popular Culture
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Barns of Illinois
Book SynopsisAn endearing tribute to the well-grounded majesty of Illinois barnsTrade Review"Barn lovers, this one's for you. . . . An enduring tribute to the land, people and traditions of the Midwest."--American Profile"Kanfer has provided deeper insight into the state's rural scenery."--Peoria Journal Star"This handsome work will be treasured by those with a real-life connection to barns and the country side, delight all readers with its beautiful photography, and perhaps inspire a new appreciation of these iconic structures that are so central to our consciousness of the past."--Journal of Folklore Research "Kanfer’s beautiful book will appeal to all kinds of folks and will make a great gift. It is also a tribute to the stewards of our farmland."--Illinois Times
£15.19
University of Illinois Press Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art
Book SynopsisTrade Review"We have Cherny to thank for the detective work that produced this fine biography of an artist whose work and life tell us much about twentieth century history." --Pacific Historical Review"Robert W. Cherny has written a fascinating and meticulously researched political biography exploring the life and work of the public muralist Victor Arnautoff." --The Journal of American History"A useful tool for scholars who want to pursue further work on Arnautoff's legacy and Russian art in the United States."--H-Net"Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art relays a fascinating tale of an artist who made what at times appear to be counterintuitive life choices while remaining true to his vision of art as a weapon. The book illustrates how we can learn from controversial art." --California History"Engaging and impressively researched. . . This is an interesting work that ties the biography of a fascinating historical actor to global art and politics."--Western Historical Quarterly"[Cherny] does a magisterial job of placing the artist in the context of his times with fruitful discussion of the surrounding politics, social fabric, and ethnic influences. The result is a fascinating study of the artist and his times."--Newsletter of the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society"A fascinating study of Russian American muralist Victor Arnautoff."--Choice"Robert Cherny, a leading historian of California politics and former Fulbright Professor at Moscow State University in Russia has written the definitive account of the odyssey of Victor Arnautoff, a Czarist cavalry officer in World War I who migrated after the war to the Pacific Coast, became an influential and controversial figure in the San Francisco leftwing arts scene from the 1920s through the 1950s, and then returned to Russia after deciding to live out his life in the Soviet Union of the 1960s and 1970s. Cherny tells a spellbinding story that is at once illuminating and authoritative in its depiction of the Russian diaspora after the Bolshevik Revolution, the cultural politics of San Francisco from the Twenties through the Fifties, the intersection of individual artistic creativity, patronage and philanthropy, and public arts policy in California in the context of the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. His book establishes a new gold standard in the field of California cultural history in the twentieth century."--William Issel, author of Church and State in the City: Catholics and Politics in Twentieth Century San Francisco "Well-written and highly readable. Arnautoff's story weaves together social, cultural, and political themes. Will be especially engaging to people interested in progressive art communities, New Deal programs, and the Russian diaspora."--Randi Storch, author of Red Chicago: American Communism at Its Grassroots, 1928–1935 "This work, in being so faithfully executed and richly illustrated, will move every student of art and history to admiration. It is the beautifully crafted tale of an artist whose work and most unusual life reflected the destinies of two great nations."--Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, author of The American Left: Its Impact on Politics and Society since 1990
£25.19
Indiana University Press Somewhere West of Lonely
Book SynopsisSomewhere West of Lonely brings together 150 stunning photographs from across the globe with the stories behind the camera lens in an intimate tour of National Geographic photojournalist Steve Raymer's remarkable life and work. Trade ReviewHis images remind us that, however easy it is to click a cellphone shutter, apply an Instagram filter or Photoshop a background, a great gulf exists between our pictures and those of professionals who devote their lives to capturing the revealing moments that celebrate our shared humanity. * Limestone Post Magazine *Table of Contents1. Old and New Frontiers2. The Tug of Asia3. Adventure and Misadventure4. An Outsider Looking In5. The End of the Cold WarEpilogue
£28.80
Indiana University Press Rural Free
Book SynopsisA timeless celebration of farm lifeTrade ReviewTo all who care about nature and the changing seasons, reading it will be a satisfying experience. * Harper's Magazine *Mrs. Peden's observation is amazingly keen, and her ability to sketch with a few strokes, the color and line of a scene or an occasion is, remarkable. . . This farm wife has written a beautiful and inspiring book. -- Raymond Holden * New York Times Book Review *There is beauty—lots of it—down on the farm and a Hoosier farm wife has captured most of it in her first book, Rural Free. . . . The author shares her love of nature and farm living in a fascinating way with those who already experience this exciting way of life down on the farm as well as those caught in the mad whirl of city living. . . . It's delightful. -- Frank Salzarulo * Indianapolis News *[Mrs. Peden] has a sharp eye for the parade of nature outside her window, and a fine day in May will turn her almost poetic. . . . A handsome book, illustrated with drawings to match by Sidonie coryn. -- John Barkham * Saturday Review *Rachel Peden is a farmer's wife with an eloquent pen and a superb awareness and understanding of nature. Her observations are laced with inspired philosophies expressed in poetic prose. This is more than an almanac—it's a signpost to richer living. * Los Angeles Times *Poignant and intriguing, Rural Free is worth considering for those who want to gain a better understanding of how most of America lived throughout its history. December 2009 * Library Bookwatch *[T]hese stories recount far more than just the drudgery of farm chores. Peden's prose is stunning, causing the reader to stop and read again its beauty.1/8/2010 * indianalivinggreen.com *Now back in print from IU Press, Rural Free's values resonate once again with a new generation that's searching for ways to re-establish a sense of community within local and natural environments. It's also a well-written pleasure to read.February/March 2010 * Bloom *Table of ContentsSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecemberJanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugust
£19.94
University of Notre Dame Press This Place Called Notre Dame
Book SynopsisThis gorgeous coffee table book captures the vibrant campus life at Notre Dame, with stunning photographs and insightful essays capturing the tradition, growth, culture, and spirit of the university.Trade Review"Matt Cashore is a master of the visual art of photography. In this wonderful new book, he displays once again his love for Notre Dame by capturing the beauty of the place, the combination of natural preservation and human construction. We see those places, angles of sight, and events that spark our imagination and recall moments in each of our personal histories." —Rev. Edward A. Malloy, C.S.C., president emeritus, University of Notre Dame"Matt Cashore and Kerry Temple bring to This Place Called Notre Dame a depth of knowledge about the university shared by few people. Through the striking photography and engaging prose, we see 'old Notre Dame' in new and illuminating ways. In their pictures and words, Notre Dame comes alive as it is today—and even echoes awaken." —Robert Schmuhl, author of Fifty Years with Father Hesburgh“When I'm distant from campus, when I'm missing Our Lady, when I'm craving a dose of the dome, I turn to the photos of Matt Cashore and the words of Kerry Temple. Now, thankfully, I have a book that pairs them, soulfully and insightfully, no farther away than my coffee table. This is a necessary book for anyone lucky enough to find a home at Notre Dame. " —Beth Ann Fennelly, '93, Poet Laureate of Mississippi “If you’ve been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven’t, none is adequate.” —Lou Holtz, head football coach, University of Notre Dame, 1986-1996"'I hope if you're a visitor to Notre Dame that it really helps capture the place in all the seasons and all the ways that maybe you didn't have a chance to see in a weekend here,' Cashore said. 'And if you are an alum, I hope it brings back whatever special memories you might have of a dorm or a place or an event. I hope it reconnects you with Notre Dame." —WNDU.com"They have spent a combined six decades chronicling the University. In this coffee-table book, Cashore, the senior University photographer, and Temple, editor of this magazine, offer a visual and literary reflection on the institutional evolution they have witnessed firsthand, offering their perspectives on the campus landmarks, traditions and people who make up this place called Notre Dame." —Notre Dame Magazine“Now Notre Dame Press has collected Cashore’s images into one volume conveying the beauty, character and spirit of the University, accompanied by text from Temple, an astute University observer and writer whose articles and essays have chronicled the nature, traditions and growth of Notre Dame over the past four decades.” —NDWorks Table of ContentsReflections 1. Autumn 2. Winter 3. Spring 4. Summer Index of Photographs
£31.50
University of Notre Dame Press Love Thee Notre Dame
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£35.62
Pennsylvania State University Press Napoleon Saronys Living Pictures
Book SynopsisExamines the career of the Gilded Age photographer Napoleon Sarony and his role in the rise of celebrity culture in the United States.Trade Review“Napoleon Sarony’s Living Pictures persuasively links Sarony's work to a set of major conceptual questions in the history of the photography of the last third of the nineteenth century, offering an archivally intensive and contextually rich account of a major—but understudied—photographer of this period.”—Jordan Bear,Associate Professor of Art History, University of Toronto“Erin Pauwels brilliantly analyzes the ways that Napoleon Sarony’s late nineteenth-century renown as a celebrity portrait photographer was finely attuned to the emerging medial and consumer cultures of his time. Her wide-ranging interdisciplinary scholarship and extensive original research authoritatively place Sarony within American and global contexts of cultural mobility, nationalism, and technological change.”—Joanne Lukitsh,Massachusetts College of Art and Design
£53.06
University of Texas Press Inferno
Book SynopsisOne of America''s foremost environmental writers joins with an acclaimed landscape photographer to create an unmatched portrait of the Sonoran Desert in all its harsh beauty. Winner, Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association, 2007 Runner-up, Honorable Mention, Orion Book Award, 2007Charles Bowden has been an outspoken advocate for the desert Southwest since the 1970s. Recently his activism helped persuade the U.S. government to create the Sonoran Desert National Monument in southern Arizona. But in working for environmental preservation, Bowden refuses to be one who 'outline[s] something straightforward, a manifesto with clear rules and a set of plans for others to follow.' In this deeply personal book, he brings the Sonoran Desert alive, not as a place where well-meaning people can go to enjoy 'nature,' but as a raw reality that defies bureaucratic and even literary attempts to define it, that can only be experienced through the senseTable of Contents How This Book Came to Pass fair warning strike a match bones singing
£31.50
University of Texas Press Fireflies
Book SynopsisA superb collection of previously unpublished portraits of children and a selection of iconic images from Keith Carter’s books Mojo, Heaven of Animals, Holding Venus, and The Blue Man.
£35.10
University of Texas Press Covarrubias
Book SynopsisA sparkling account of the life and times of a couple who fostered a renaissance of interest in the history and traditional arts of Mexico's indigenous peoples.Trade Review"[Williams'] detailed account of the lives, work and friends of Miguel and Rosa Covarrubias brings alive what some regard as the Golden Age of Mexican art in the 30s and 40s... Covarrubias is a handsomely produced and well presented book that gives a full and enlightening account of the career of the man who Antonio Rodriguez described as '...the encyclopedic artist of Mexico's rebirth...' in his El Nacional eulogy." - British Bulletin of Publications on Latin America, the Caribbean, Portugal and Spain "The rich tapestry of Mexican cultural life in the 1940s that [this book] evokes is spellbinding ..." - Cynthia Steele, associate professor of Spanish, University of WashingtonTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Beginnings (1904-1923) 2. The Twenties, Part One (1923-1924) 3. The Twenties, Part Two (1924-1929) 4. The Thirties, Part One (1930-1932) 5. The Thirties, Part Two (1932-1937) 6. The Thirties, Part Three (1935-1939) 7. The Forties, Part One (1940-1942) 8. The Forties, Part Two (1942) 9. The Forties, Part Three (1943-1949) 10. The Fifties, Part One (1950-1952) 11. The Fifties, Part Two (1952-1954) 12. The Fifties, Part Three (1955-1957) 13. Afterward (1957-1970) Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£31.50
University of Texas Press Eli Reed
Book SynopsisWith over 250 images that span the astonishing range of his subjects and his evolution as a photographer, this is the first career retrospective of Eli Reed, one of America’s leading contemporary photojournalists and the first African American member of Magnum Photos.Trade Review"A Long Walk Home [is] a definitive–that is, big—retrospective of the work of Mr. Reed, a longtime member of Magnum. Working from an original selection of about 1,000 images—face it, his interests are wide and his eye wide-ranging—the book has some 250 photos that chronicle not just the world, but also Mr. Reed’s search for understanding of the human condition." * New York Times Lens Blog *"Reed, the first African American to join the prestigious photo collective Magnum, has witnessed and experienced the world through its many turns; tender, tumultuous, violent, vigorous, hopeful and helpless. Although he photographs from a six-foot-five-inch height, his work is never aloof, it is full of compassionate, intimate and grounded moments." * Smithsonian Magazine *"Whether he’s photographing Hollywood actors or armed militia men, Eli Reed’s work can be characterized by a distinct sense of humanity and empathy. His book, A Long Walk Home... is an expansive testament to this quality through more than 250 black-and-white images from several continents and more than five decades covering a wide spectrum of subjects." * Slate Behold Blog *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction by Paul TherouxPlates On the Verge America The World Beauty, Illusion, and Power Passages Dedication and Acknowledgments
£59.50
University of Texas Press Bronx Boys
Book SynopsisBronx Boys captures the violence, resilience, and hope of young men growing up in what was one of the toughest and most dangerous neighborhoods in the United States.
£35.10
MU - University of Texas Press José Clemente Orozco
Book SynopsisThe autobiography of one of Mexico's greatest artists.Table of Contents Introduction Presentation 1. Posada Inspires Me. San Carlos. Fabrés. 2. Dr. Atl and Julio Ruelas. Artistic Colonialism. The Revolution in Mexican Painting. Copying Velázquez. 3. Gedovius’ Studios. Rival Exhibitions in 1910. The Artistic Center. The Son of Ahuizote. The Student Strike. Raziel Cabildo. 4. Ramos Martínez. Barbizon in Santa Anita. My Studio on Illescas. My Wartime Exploits. Victoriano Huerta. Gambling Halls and Conscription. The Theatre Maria Tepache. 5. Dr. Atl Returns. Handing Out Money. The House of the World Worker. Orizaba. Storming and Sacking Churches. Red Battalions. The Vanguard. 6. Customs Officers in Laredo, Texas. San Francisco, California. Fernando G. Galván and Company. The League of Nations. Expulsion from Canada. 7. Shocks and Conflicts. Mass Meetings. The Bearded Lady. Costumed Fleas. The Sermon on the Mount Falsified. The Donkey Paints a Picture. 8. The Table Is Set. First Efforts. The Painters, Their Critical Powers. Jean Charlot. European Painting. Artists Today. 9. The Syndicate of Painters and Sculptors. The Manifesto. Socialization of Art. Bourgeois Art and Proletarian Art. Rectifications. 10. The History of Mexico. Indians, Spaniards, and Mestizos. How the Conquest Should Have Gone. 11. The Machete. The United Group of the Working Class Movement. Asúnsolo and His Stonecutters. Vandalism. Fanfare. Pulque-Shop Painting. 12. My Second Visit to New York. Harlem. The Yiddish Theatre. Naples in New York. Alma Reed and Eva Sikelianos. And Sarojini Naidu. The Untouchables. 13. I Become a Greek. Laurel Wreaths. The Crash. Surrealistic Economy. The Delphic Studios. The Tsar of Russia’s Clock. Pomona and Prometheus. Home, Sweet Home. 14. Painting in the School for Social Research. Dynamic Symmetry. The Secret of Beauty. 15. Raphael’s Cartoons—London, Paris, Italy, and Spain. Dartmouth College. Index
£15.19
Yale University Press Edouard Baldus at the Chateau de la Faloise Clark
Book SynopsisThis title offers an in-depth exploration of one of Edouard Baldus' most intriguing projects - a series of views of the Chateau de La Faloise. The subject of these views being the owner and family of the country house at leisure in the grounds.
£12.99
Yale University Press The Photographs of Homer Page The Guggenheim Year
Book SynopsisFocuses on Homer Page's New York photographs taken while he was a Guggenheim Fellow during the late '40s.
£36.10
Yale University Press Donald Blumberg Words and Images from the
Book SynopsisWords and Images from the American Media gathers over 162 images that Donald Blumberg has photographed directly from newspapers and television screens since the 1960s. In his most recent work from this series, Blumbergâs photographs also include closed captioning texts. This new approach reveals numerous contemporary American cultural expressions and archetypes. Blumbergâs presentation of these images is often highly humorous and darkly satirical, and at times deeply poignant. Distributed for the Yale University Art GalleryExhibition Schedule:Yale University Art Gallery (08/21/15â11/22/15)
£38.00
Yale University Press In Front of Saint Patricks Cathedral
Book SynopsisAmerican photographer Donald Blumberg (b. 1935) began his career making black-and-white photographs of the streets and people of New York. He first gained national attention and widespread recognition for his 196567 series In Front of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, published in 1973. In these thought-provoking photographs, Blumberg innovatively captured worshippers exiting the cavernous threshold of the famed Roman Catholic cathedral on Fifth Avenue. The figures often seem to defy scale and perspective, clustered in the corners of the frame or gathered in blurry crowds. This revised and expanded edition of Blumberg's pioneering project features a new sequence that includes previously unpublished images and select contact sheets from the project, all printed in rich duotones.Distributed for the Yale University Art GalleryExhibition Schedule:Yale University Art Gallery (08/21/1511/22/15)Trade Review“These Saint Patrick’s pictures are a landscape not quite like any other . . . they take us to a real-life, here-and-now place that doubles as visual wonderland . . . where sociology meets character study, and vice versa.”—Mark Feeney, Boston Globe -- Mark Feeney * Boston Globe *‘[An] engaging series . . . Mr. Blumberg achieved stunning effects.”—Jason Farago, New York Times -- Jason Farago * New York Times *
£28.50
Yale University Press That Day
Book SynopsisRather than the proverbial melting pot, Wilson asks us to recognize a West that is at least a place where, against a backdrop of aridity and expansive space, diverse lives can and do coexist. -John RohrbachTrade Review"Laura Wilson has an ever-searching eye for the bleak beauty of he West—and for its bleak reality, too. These singular photographs mirror her admiration for the stubborn strength of those who occupy such hard places. It’s a remarkable book."—Larry McMurtry"This volume presents a series of fascinating photographic essays by photographer Wilson that capture the majesty, as well as the tragedy, of the contemporary West."—Publishers Weekly
£30.88
Yale University Press Danny Lyon
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive overview of an influential American photographer and filmmaker whose work is known for its intimacy and social engagementTrade Review"Danny Lyon’s career would make a great bio-pic. The New York City photographer, who, at seventy-four, is the subject of the terrific survey 'Message to the Future,' has led an improbably adventurous life . . . [and] he has remained a maverick throughout his long career—an irritant to the system and an ally to the outcast."—Vince Aletti, New Yorker"[This] retrospective, accompanied by an extensive catalogue . . . is the most comprehensive showing of Lyon’s career. . . . His photographs depict the outsiders from within their own worlds; his camera is lodged in the center, aiming straight for the heart."—Rebecca Bengal, Vogue.com"A picture of a creative life informed by a probing intellect and a passionate eye."—Christopher Lyon, Bookforum
£52.25
Yale University Press Berend Strik Deciphering the Artists Mind
Book SynopsisAn exploration of recent work by the award-winning Dutch visual artist Berend Strik Berend Strik (b. 1960) is an internationally acclaimed Dutch visual artist whose oeuvre ranges from two-dimensional works to sculpture and architecture. He is best known for his embroidered found objects, including photographs. Since 2012, Strik has focused on a series he calls Deciphering the Artist's Mind; Strik has photographed the studios of well-known modern and contemporary artists, such as Marcel Duchamp, Jackson Pollock, John Baldessari, and Martha Rosler, and then stitched colorful materials into enlarged prints of the photographic images. This book, designed by Irma Boom, documents this series. Texts by Marja Bloem, in collaboration with Strik, explore the artist's visits to the studios, including encounters and conversations with many living artists. The visual documentation of the works and the insightful accompanying texts serve to fully investigate the themes that underpin the series, incl
£33.25
Yale University Press The Writers
Book SynopsisIntimate photo essays of thirty-eight important writers, including Margaret Atwood, Gabriel García Márquez, Zadie Smith, and Colm TóibínTrade Review"In The Writers: Portraits, you'll find front-facing images of poignant intensity...But subjects are also seen informally, in their home milieu, often with friends or spouses."—Damian Thompson, World of Interiors 'Holiday roundup'
£28.50
Yale University Press Didier Vermeiren
Book SynopsisMarking the occasion of Didier Vermeiren’s eponymous solo exhibition at WIELS in Brussels, this book illuminates the recurrent strategies of repetition, reversal, doubling and inversion that the artist explores in his work
£42.75
WW Norton & Co A Steam Odyssey The Railroad Photographs of
Book SynopsisStunning photographs of steam locomotives on all six continents.
£53.99
WW Norton & Co Rick Sammons Travel and Nature Photography
Book SynopsisGo on location around the globe to learn the techniques that professional photographers use to make great photographs.Trade Review"Highly recommended." Better Digital Photography "...a comprehensive opener to digital photography..." Digital Photography Made Easy "...an excellent guide for all digital photographers." Editor's Choice, PC Utilities"
£22.79
LUP - University of Michigan Press Dean Worcesters Fantasy Islands Photography Film
Book SynopsisInformed by contemporary theories of colonial photography and the history of US imperialism, Dean Worcester’s Fantasy Islands is narrative in its approach, tracing Worcester’s emergence both as a colonial administrator and a photographer and analysing the intersections between his personal desires and his political agenda as they shaped his photography in the Philippines.
£23.70
University of California Press Shadows Fire Snow The Life of Tina Modotti
Book SynopsisTen years of research and the discovery of long-forgotten letters and photos enabled the author to bring new recognition to this talented, intelligent, and independent photographer whose life embodied the cultural and political values of many artists of the post-World War I generation.Table of ContentsPreface PART I. TINA Chapter 1. Friuli and Austria ( 1896-1913) Chapter 2. San Francisco ( 1913-1918) PART II. MADAME DE RICHEY Chapter 3. Lompoc and Los Angeles ( 1918-1921) Chapter4. Los Angeles and Mexico City (1921-1922) Chapter 5. Mexico City and Los Angeles (1922-1923) PART III. TINISIMA Chapter 6. Mexico City ( 1923-1924) Chapter 7. Mexico City (1925-1926) Chapter8. Mexico City(1927-1928) Chapter9. Mexico City(1928-1929) Chapter 10. Mexico City (1929-1930) PART IV. TOB. Chapter 11. Berlin and Moscow (1930-1932) Chapter 12. Moscow and Paris (1932-1935) PART V. MARIA Chapter 13. Spain (1936-1939) Chapter 14. Mexico City (1939-1942) Endnotes Permissions Index
£27.00
University of California Press Weegee and Naked City
Book SynopsisArthur Fellig, known as Weegee, and his 1945 photography book, "Naked City" - with its tabloid-style images of Manhattan crime, crowds, and boisterous nightlife - changed journalistic practices almost overnight. This book brings different outlooks on photography and modernism to their discussions of Weegee and his book.Trade Review"Gives more detail to Weegee's well-known evolution from freelance photographer to Hollywood celebrity." ChoiceTable of Contentsintroduction Learning from Low Culture richard meyer Human Interest Stories anthony w. lee notes works cited index
£22.50
University of California Press The Steerage and Alfred Stieglitz Defining
Book SynopsisWhen, in 1907, Alfred Stieglitz took a simple picture of passengers on a ship bound for Europe, he could not have known that The Steerage, as it was soon called, would become a modernist icon and, from today's vantage, arguably the most famous photograph made by an American photographer. This title reassesses this important picture.Trade Review"Fascinating and revealing... A rich experience... Illuminates the way in which we see ourselves and others around us." -- Mark Welch Metapsychology Online ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Anthony W. Lee The Making of a Modernist Myth Elizabeth Anne McCauley The Prismatic Fragment Jason Francisco Notes Index
£27.00
University of California Press Art History After Sherrie Levine
Book SynopsisExamines the career of New York-based artist Sherrie Levine, whose 1981 series of photographs after Walker Evans - taken from Evans' famous depression-era documents of rural Alabama - became central examples in theorizing postmodernism in the visual arts in the 1980s.Trade Review"A critical examination of how the art world's singular characterization of Levine's work began." -- Nogin Chung Afterimage "A hugely ambitious text... Singerman masterfully retools art history in favor of deep, precisionist yet associative reading." -- Judith Rodenbeck X-TRATable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Pictures 2. Photographs 3. Paintings 4. Endgame 5. Sculptures 6. Counting Notes List of Illustrations Index
£27.00
University of California Press Body Language
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction Anthony W. Lee, Nick Mauss, and Angela Miller The Uses of Photographs Nick Mauss PaJaMa Drama Angela Miller Notes Index
£22.50
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 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
£33.15
University of Nebraska Press Vanished Act The Life and Art of Weldon Kees
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Reidel . . . provides an intimate view of an indecipherable poet, critic, painter, musician, and filmmaker whom some critics (e.g. Dana Gioia) have long considered woefully underappreciated. This book may help change that. . . . Reidel's invitation into Kees's life leaves the reader reaching for his poetry, hungry for clues."—Choice"The biography of an American writer who is not nearly as famous as he ought to be. . . . Weldon Kees (1914–55?) is the 'nearly' man of 20th-century American poetry—and . . . fiction, art and music and poetry criticism, Abstract Expressionist painting, traditional jazz (both pianism and composition), avant-garde theatricals and documentary filmmaking. Until I read the poet James Reidel's biography, Vanished Act, I had not realized how 'nearly' Kees was, and how far he came, in so many fields of artistic endeavor. . . . [A] really good, well-written and thoughtful biography."—Michael Hofmann, The New York Times Book Review"Poet, fiction writer, painter, critic, filmmaker, playwright, musician—Weldon Kees had a seemingly bottomless supply of creativity and an artistic output as diverse as anyone working in the years surrounding World War II. . . . Vanished Act, the first biography of the artist to appear . . . [is] a thorough, clear-eyed account of Kees's life."—Washington Post Book World“Long overdue biography of an important American poet. . . . Reidel's two decades of scholarship fleshes out the details in the life of this enigmatic 20th-century writer and artist.”—Kirkus“The story of Weldon Kees is not so much one of an achievement as it is the story of an aspiration and its afterglow. The man has a dusky, flickering allure. . . . James Reidel does not attempt to make the story any happier than it is. He frames his biography with images of ones who were left behind. . . . Reidel is right to give the book a novelist’s mood-setting touches, and he is right to have shaped the account in terms of the places where Kees lived, with long sections on Nebraska, New York, Provincetown, and San Francisco. Yet, in the end this remains a conventional biography, an attempt to step back and let the life tell itself.”—Jed Perl, Harper’s Magazine"[We are] privy to the life, art, and anxieties of a man . . . poignantly representative of the artist's struggle to survive in wartime and post-war America. . . . Reidel has meticulously catalogued a complicated and engaging life. This book (to be followed this winter by a volume of poems and a collection of critical essays on Kees, also from University of Nebraska Press) will be of great interest to Kees's admirers and should also broaden their ranks."—Jennifer Liese, Bookforum“Mr. Reidel uses biography as a poetic form. His mission is to re-create the experience that drew people to Kees, who enchanted women and men alike because he completely immersed himself in art and made his life into art.”—Carl Rollyson, The New York Sun“Reidel has done a great deal with Kees’ 41 years, producing a 400 page book dedicated to the man’s known life and work. . . . His prose is clean, compelling, and reads with the ease of a novel. In doing so, it gives us another valuable history—social, aesthetic, and political—of the thirties, forties, and start of the fifties.”—Stephen Motika, Another Chicago Magazine“Now, for the first time, a biographer has tried to unravel Kees' complicated world. [P]oet and editor James Reidel hopes to introduce a wider world to the talent and contradictions of Kees.”—Omaha World-Herald“Vanished Act lucidly examines Kees’s heartbreaking life.”—David Caplan, The Weekly Standard
£16.14
Ohio University Press Wyeth People
Book SynopsisWyeth People is the story of one writer’s search for the meaning of artistic creativity, approached from personal contact with the work of one of the world’s great artists, Andrew Wyeth.Trade ReviewPublic and academic collections alike will want this gem. * Library Journal *“Logsdons writing is surprisingly polished…. The people are alive and you know them; the scenes are just the other side of your windowsill.” * Courier Post, Camden, N.J. *
£14.24
Ohio University Press Photographs from Detroit 19752019
Book SynopsisWith these intimate social documentary photographs and oral histories, Bruce Harkness and John J. Bukowczyk have sensitively collaborated with and amplified the stories of Detroit’s often overlooked people and lost neighborhoods. The result is an unforgettable portrait of Detroit’s hard-won resiliency.Trade Review“Bruce Harkness is a masterful hunter, communicator, and seer in the visual language of photography. His photographs are charged with an emotional level that transfixes the viewer into wanting to know more.” -- Adger Cowans“In the 1950s, the avant-garde group known as the Situationist International developed the concept of dérive (French: drift) to describe a method of serendipitously navigating the urban environment to reveal its objective and subjective conditions, to disclose not only how things look but how they feel. Over a lifetime of circumambulating Detroit’s environs, photographer Bruce Harkness has observed the often-neglected people and places of the city to expose, as it were, the essence of its otherwise marginalized physical, social, and emotional spaces. In these much-vaunted times of Detroit as a ‘Comeback City,’ the photography of Bruce Harkness calls upon us to pause and take note of what too often gets left behind in the march of ‘progress.’” -- Vince Carducci, dean emeritus, College for Creative Studies”An incredibly beautiful and elegantly constructed body of work…[with] masterful editing. The captions are unpretentious and straightforward, like the images, which navigate the years with honesty and sensitivity. Love it, man. Bravo.“ -- Brian Day, award-winning Detroit street photographer“Harkness’s photography portrays the undulating moods of shadow and light refracted in a community’s afterlife and rebirth, like the image of jazz great Marcus Belgrave reconfiguring loss into belief flowing from his trumpet.” -- Melba Joyce Boyd, distinguished professor in African American studies, Wayne State University, and author of Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E. W. Harper, 1825–1911“In this collection of intimate portraits, ragged streetscapes, and lively clubs and coffeehouses, Bruce Harkness depicts the stark beauty of Detroit and its people. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes uplifting, and always beautiful, Harkness captures both the city’s struggles and its profound resilience.” -- Thomas J. Sugrue, author of The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit“Unsentimental but deeply human, Bruce Harkness’s photographs draw you in to every detail—into the tales told by every crack in the plaster, every poster on the wall, every storefront and front stoop. They compel you to look in every eye and, in these moving images of brick and mortar and flesh and blood, to read the stories of the communities we create and those we leave behind.” -- Karen Majewski, author of Traitors and True Poles: Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880–1939 and former mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan“Bruce Harkness spent decades walking the streets of Detroit and photographing the people he met along the way. His images capture not just a street-level view of Detroit’s human tapestry, but the very soul of this city.” -- Peter O'Keefe, filmmaker and editor of A Brief Peculiar History of Detroit“We tend to think of history as a written record established by others. Photographs from Detroit, 1975–2019 takes you on a rare journey back in time, showing how history is written by the people who live it.” -- Nadja Rottner, professor of art history, University of Michigan-Dearborn and editor of Cardiovista: Detroit Street Photography
£21.59
Stanford University Press Grains of Sand
Book SynopsisMarion Patterson's 57 "photographs of the intimate landscape, simple and contemplative like a zen garden," focus beautifully on the natural surroundings of the central California coast and Sierra.Trade Review“When I look at a picture of Marion’s, I react to the openness, the sense that the subject isn’t clearly set in boundaries that exclude it from what lies around it. With continued viewing of the images, a deeper awareness emerges beyond the frame. Marion’s photographs are all about nature reaching out of the frame.”—from the Foreword by Charis Wilson
£52.70
Northwestern University Press The Third Coast
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£24.00
University of Pennsylvania Press Ed Bacon
Book SynopsisEd Bacon is the first biography of the innovative and controversial urban planner who transformed Philadelphia in the mid-twentieth century.Trade Review"Gregory Heller's Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia provides a thorough, engaging, and compelling story about the career of Philadelphia's most prominent urban planner. . . . The book's content is extremely well documented and provides the reader with a new perspective on many of the city's rather famous midcentury plans and development projects. Aside from the rich historical narrative, which is valuable in and of itself, the book succeeds at making clear connections to contemporary planning practice. . . . A terrific contribution to the literature on planning history, the politics of urban planning and development, and the value of physical planning." * Stephanie Ryberg-Webster, Journal of Planning Education and Research *"Heller's book gives us a fascinating-and sympathetic-account of Bacon's accomplishments." * The New Republic *"Edmund Bacon, probably the most relentless and determined of all planners, believed that the most important and difficult thing to do was deciding what to advocate and that the trick in making that decision was selecting something that you could bring to fruition. . . . We are fortunate in having this stunning biography by Gregory Heller. The result is an engrossing story explaining how modern Philadelphia took shape." * From the Foreword, by Alexander Garvin *Table of ContentsForeword —Alexander Garvin Preface Introduction Chapter 1. Planning for a New Deal Chapter 2. Toward a Better Philadelphia Chapter 3. Planning for People Chapter 4. The Architect Planner Chapter 5. Reinvesting Downtown Chapter 6. The Planner Versus the Automobile Chapter 7. Articulating a Vision in a Shifting World Chapter 8. New Visions of Philadelphia Conclusion List of Abbreviations Notes Index Acknowledgments
£25.19
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Florida Cowboys
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£35.96
New York University Press Frederick Law Olmstead The Passion of a Public
Book SynopsisFrederick Law Olmsted is famous for his urban landscape designs: Central Park in Manhattan, Prospect Park in Brooklyn, and Franklin Park in Boston. Olmsted devoted much of his later life to this work. This title looks at Olmsted's varied early career.
£23.74
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Dorothea Lange
Book SynopsisThis is a chronicle of a life in photography. Detailing the adventures of Dorthea Lange, the book raises questions about the uses and effectiveness of the medium and examines her images of anxious mothers and hungry infants and sullen men waiting in long city breadlines.Trade ReviewIt is one of the glories of Milton Meltzer's superb life of Lange . . . that his innate reporting skill and honesty forbade him to gloss over the complexities and conflicts. As Meltzer develops his richly detailed study, the adventures of Dorothea Lange become as compelling as the unforgettable images she photographed-the anxious mothers surrounded by hungry infants, the sullen, staring men waiting in long city breadlines, the worn, dispirited farmers. Meltzer's book is significant both because it chronicles a life in photography in rare detail and because it raises questions about the uses and effectiveness of the medium. Meltzer's book makes clear how art and life can feed on or devour each other.
£18.86
