Nature in the arts Books
Damiani Caleb Cain Marcus: A Brief Movement After Death
Book SynopsisA brief movement after death by Caleb Cain Marcus explores the release of energy from the body into the universe when we die. The images were taken along the coasts of New York and California and contain sky and ocean—immense bodies of space that we can lose ourselves in; becoming part of their vastness. The inspiration for the book came to the photographer from a personal experience. With the birth of his daughter, his death suddenly felt very near. His childhood questions about what happens when we die resurfaced and Marcus began to think about how to visually represent what occurs after death. The work represents the starting point of his new practice that juxtaposes digital and hand-applied mediums to create a hybrid surface, color and edge that challenges the medium of a photograph and the way in which it is seen, understood and felt. With the motion of a pendulum the grease pencil is swung by a string to make tightly grouped marks that reference the finite quantity of time in a lifespan and that move across the paper as if in a formation of light leaving the earth.
£18.00
Damiani David Gulden: Nor Dread Nor Hope Attend:
Book SynopsisNor Dread Nor Hope Attend. Photographs from the Plains of Africa gathers 65 stunning black and white photographs of the icons of the Kenyan wilderness. This is David Gulden’s second monograph and the culmination of seven years work. With his masterful eye, he has perfectly captured the elegance and beauty of lions, elephants, zebras and giraffes in their natural habitat. With a title from a poem by acclaimed Irish poet W.B. Yeats, Nor Dread Nor Hope Attend includes text by Dr. Richard Leakey, journalist Fiammetta Rocco, and American artist Alex Beard.
£48.00
Damiani WC - World Citizen
Book SynopsisWC. World Citizen presents photographs taken by Gustav Willeit while traveling across Italy, China, Japan, California, Iceland, and Uganda. Every corner of the planet hides traces of the past, and Willeit perfectly captures these evanescent memories. Regardless of latitude and longitude, the presence of humans, civilizations and anthropogenic interventions in natural ecosystems has caused an exceptionally rapid loss of biodiversity. And yet he is aware that humanity does not own Earth, and never has – despite the fact we have always thought so. An awareness reflected in pictures depicting how our home has become more and more of a precarious habitation. The book is a journey delving into nature’s folds and cracks, increasingly impacted by humanity’s arrogant stewardship. We are WCs: world citizens, as described by Japanese composer Sakamoto. And yet as WCs we run the risk of, slowly but inexorably, transforming into another WC of lesser noble nature.
£39.20
Uitgeverij Kannibaal Elvis and Presley
Book SynopsisIn 1999, photographers Robert Huber and Stephan Vanfleteren travelled through the US in the wake of their hero, Elvis Presley. Elvis (Huber) and Presley (Vanfleteren) invite you to share their journey across the American landscape, from Times Square to Death Valley. Decked out in glittering jumpsuits and big hair, this is the story of two European photojournalists who travelled across eleven states taking pictures of each other, Stephan Vanfleteren using black and white film, Robert Huber, colour. This is the ultimate pop idol on a tour of America, interacting with the people, the places, the history, the cool glances, the warm embraces, the hot coffee and the cheap motels that define modern life. AUTHOR: Robert Huber is a Swiss photographer. He studied at the CEPV (Centre d'Enseignement Professionel de Vevey) in Switzerland (1991-1995). Two years later he moved to New York to work as an editorial photographer. From 2004 until 2006 he lived in Istanbul to pursue his career, and worked for several European and American magazines. He now lives in Zürich and works there as a commercial and editorial photographer and works on his own projects as well. Stephan Vanfleteren specialises in black-and-white portraits and reports extensively at home and abroad. He is currently working mainly for foreign newspapers and magazines. In 1998, Vanfleteren won the European Fuji Awards; in 1996, 1998 and 2000, he won five World Press Photo Awards and several Belgian press awards. He also won the German Henri Nannen Prize in 2011. In 2012, he received the five-yearly Culture Award for the Province of West Flanders and the National Portrait Award in the Netherlands. In 2013, he has won the World Press Photo Award for his series "People of Mercy" in the category "Staged Portraits". SELLING POINTS: . A unique collaboration between two photographers, which resulted in colour (Robert Huber) and black and white (Stephan Vanfleteren) photos inspired by Elvis Presley . Huber and Vanfleteren travelled through the US looking for interesting places to shoot, using themselves as costumed protagonists for their photo series 39 colour, 44 b/w
£999.99
Insight Editions The Art of the National Parks Boxed Note Card Set
Book SynopsisCelebrate your love of America's national parks with this deluxe boxed set of 20 blank cards and envelopes featuring eye-catching artwork from the popular Fifty-Nine Parks print series.
£18.23
The University of Chicago Press A General History of Quadrupeds
Book SynopsisShowcases the author's engraving techniques that allowed text and images to be published on the same page. This book features engravings of over four hundred animals alongside descriptions of their characteristics as scientifically understood at the time.
£19.00
The University of Chicago Press Geography of the Gaze Urban Rural Vision in
Book SynopsisFocusing on Western Europe from the 17th to 19th centuries, Geography of the Gaze offers a new history and theory of how the way we look at things influences what we see. Dubbino shows how developments in science and art affected the portrayal of landscapes.
£89.30
McGill-Queen's University Press Women Environment and Networks of Empire
Book SynopsisWomen, Environment, and Networks of Empire is the first detailed study of the art and correspondence of Elizabeth Gwillim and her sister Mary Symonds in South India. The book explores what their work reveals about natural history, the natural environment, colonialism, and women’s lives at the turn of the nineteenth century.Trade Review“For those who value close historical study of a time and a place and new historical sources, this book – and the trove of primary materials unearthed by the researchers of the Gwillim project that it contains – gives us a window onto British, Indian, and imperial worlds, nineteenth-century material culture, foodways, clothing and textiles, and natural history, as well as women's work in art and science.” Ann Shteir, York University and editor of Flora's Fieldworkers: Women and Botany in Nineteenth-Century Canada
£52.70
University of Illinois Press A Prairie State of Mind
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This beautifully crafted work would grace the coffee table of anyone who has a passion for the loveliness of the prairie."--Kansas History
£25.19
University of Illinois Press A Prairie State of Mind
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This beautifully crafted work would grace the coffee table of anyone who has a passion for the loveliness of the prairie."--Kansas History
£17.99
Indiana University Press The Chinese Atlantic
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMetzger demonstrates that artworks can be vessels that cut pathways through surface representations and move us with the undercurrents of our global networks: art offers us the experience of sensing the world in ways that release us from the script of a totalizing representational system. The Chinese Atlantic contributes to a growing body of scholarship dedicated to exploring the role of aesthetics and cultural production in the totalizing representational system of liberal humanism. -- Hadley Howes * ANTIPODE ONLINE *Table of ContentsPrologueIntroduction1. Reeling2. Incorporating3. Flowing4. Ebbing5. EddyingEpilogueIndex
£52.70
Indiana University Press The Chinese Atlantic
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMetzger demonstrates that artworks can be vessels that cut pathways through surface representations and move us with the undercurrents of our global networks: art offers us the experience of sensing the world in ways that release us from the script of a totalizing representational system. The Chinese Atlantic contributes to a growing body of scholarship dedicated to exploring the role of aesthetics and cultural production in the totalizing representational system of liberal humanism. -- Hadley Howes * ANTIPODE ONLINE *Table of ContentsPrologueIntroduction1. Reeling2. Incorporating3. Flowing4. Ebbing5. EddyingEpilogueIndex
£17.99
Indiana University Press Fantasmic Objects
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewScheid's knowledge of Lebanese art, its socio-political context and its historical unfolding are unequal. Her ethnographic immersion in that field is also unequal. What's more, a vast body of comparative and theoretical literature is brought to bear on the subject. The result is a genuinely important work, conceptually innovative, thoroughly educative, and highly stimulating. -- Ghassan Hage, University of Melbourne Future Generations Professor of Anthropology, author of The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the WorldWhere there is no art, this book finds much that art does. In a place where the ontology of art is seen as belonging to an elsewhere, this book steams the tapestry of complex local art-acts into view. If concerned with the becoming of art and its social consequences in societies overlooked by high modernism and in turn self-belittling, read Kirsten Scheid's book. -- Walid Sadek, Philippe Jabre Endowed Professor in Art, author of The Ruin to Come, Essays from a protracted warA highly original, richly textured, and meticulously researched study of three major Lebanese artists and their reception in Beirut. The works of Moustapha Farrouk, Omar Onsi, and Saloua Raouda Choucair come alive in Scheid's evocative prose. Essential reading for scholars of modern art in postcolonial, postwar, and Muslim societies. -- Sonal Khullar, W. Norman Brown Associate Professor of South Asian Studies, author of Worldly Affiliations: Artistic Practice, National Identity, and Modernism in India, 1930-1990The most important book about middle eastern art and social life I've read, Fantasmic Objects gives Humanists and Social Scientists a uniquely intra-disciplinary tour de force, that produces new knowledge about Lebanon, its art, modern citizenships, double decolonization, and methods to rethink local art histories. Scheid's brilliant offering of taswir, the polysemic Arabic word for imagination, compels us to rethink what art is and does. You need this book; it will change the way you think. Beautifully written, breathtakingly observed, and nothing less than inspiring, this brilliant book will guide art historical enquires of the global for decades to come. -- Hannah Feldman, author of From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945-1962Table of ContentsPreambleAcknowledgmentsNotes on LanguageNotes on Sources1. Introduction: No Art Here2. Exhibitions: Sociality as Fantasm3. Nudes: The Citizen as Fantasm4. Landscapes: The Nation as Fantasm5. Art Lessons: Fantasmic Formations of the Lady-Artist6. Portraits: Towards a Fantasmic Ontology of Art ActsConclusion: Between Art and HereBibliographyIndex
£25.19
University of Washington Press Shifting Grounds
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Morris’s] excellent in-depth analysis of two case studies may provide a starting point for future broader discussions and analyses of landscape and the themes she identifies with contemporary indigenous work. . ." * Choice *"[S]ignificant contribution to art history" * Artblog *"Shifting Grounds is elegantly designed and beautifully illustrated...fascinating study." * H-Net *"[S]ignificant interdisciplinary strides...toward uniting the fields of art history and Indigenous studies." * Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal *
£52.14
University of Washington Press Shifting Grounds
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Morris’s] excellent in-depth analysis of two case studies may provide a starting point for future broader discussions and analyses of landscape and the themes she identifies with contemporary indigenous work. . ." * Choice *"[S]ignificant contribution to art history" * Artblog *"Shifting Grounds is elegantly designed and beautifully illustrated...fascinating study." * H-Net *"[S]ignificant interdisciplinary strides...toward uniting the fields of art history and Indigenous studies." * Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal *
£33.98
University of Washington Press Mary Randlett Landscapes
Book SynopsisMary Randlett''s photographic vision of the Northwest is big-hearted, intricate, and tender and fully inhabited by the animals, tides, forests, mountains, and spirits that dwell there. What others may take for granted, Randlett sees as quintessential: overcast days with endless and often exquisite variations of gray clouds, raindrops on puddles, dripping branches, and distant shafts of sunlight breaking through the cloud cover. She is steeped in the history of the Northwest and its many art forms.Mary Randlett Landscapes presents a visual record of the Northwest at its most pristine and poetic. During her many years of finely tuned observation, Randlett has learned to take the time to ponder the essences of what she seesthe curl of a bird''s drifting feather, a water strider not quite breaking the surface of the water, fog ascending a hillside, the moment a pond''s surface turns to ice. Her photography brings this corner of the Northwest to the world.Trade Review"In this superb collection Randlett, who knows her subject well, majestically captures the physical qualities of the Pacific Northwest. Her work represents splendid environmental perfection: one knows these definitive photographs could have been taken nowhere else. This beautifully presented collection should be made available to everyone interested in the art form." * Choice *"This quiet, reflective collection is filled with photos that work like poems. It invites repeat visits because of the subtlety of Randlett's art—much of it focused on light, clouds, and mist—and also because it stands as a stern rebuke of what growth and development are doing to a bounteous natural world that once seemed immutable." -- John Marshall * Seattle Post-Intelligencer *"Like all the great landscape photographers, Randlett avoids excess studio manipulation and instead lets her subject do the talking. And oh, how Mother Nature talks—or rather sings—in front of her lens." * Seattle Magazine *"Randlett's interest isn’t in place as much as mood and composition. And of course, the main ingredient in these introspective studies is light, its endless variations, its absence." -- Sheila Farr * Seattle Times *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Lifting the Veil / Ted D'Arms Mary Randlett, Friend and Photographer / Barry Herem The Art of Mary Randlett / Denise Levertov 7 Poems by Denise Levertov Afterword / Joyce Thompson Chronology / Jo Ann Ridley Acknowledgments Technical Notes
£38.30
University of Washington Press Vanishing Ice Alpine and Polar Landscapes in Art
Book SynopsisIntroduces the artistic legacy of the planet's frozen frontiers now threatened by a changing climate. Tracing the impact of glaciers, icebergs, and fields of ice on artists' imaginations, this book explores the connections between generations of artists who adopt different styles, media, and approaches to interpret alpine and polar landscapes.Trade Review"This unusual and involving work is recommended for art, arctic history, and alpine history collections. It is highly recommended for the many readers interested in historic expeditions and/or climate change, who will appreciate the eye-opening dialog between art from many periods." -- Shelly Sommer * Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research *
£38.30
University of Washington Press Mary Randlett Landscapes
Book SynopsisMary Randlett''s photographic vision of the Northwest is big-hearted, intricate, and tender and fully inhabited by the animals, tides, forests, mountains, and spirits that dwell there. What others may take for granted, Randlett sees as quintessential: overcast days with endless and often exquisite variations of gray clouds, raindrops on puddles, dripping branches, and distant shafts of sunlight breaking through the cloud cover. She is steeped in the history of the Northwest and its many art forms.Mary Randlett Landscapes presents a visual record of the Northwest at its most pristine and poetic. During her many years of finely tuned observation, Randlett has learned to take the time to ponder the essences of what she seesthe curl of a bird''s drifting feather, a water strider not quite breaking the surface of the water, fog ascending a hillside, the moment a pond''s surface turns to ice. Her photography brings this corner of the Northwest to the world.Trade Review"In this superb collection Randlett, who knows her subject well, majestically captures the physical qualities of the Pacific Northwest. Her work represents splendid environmental perfection: one knows these definitive photographs could have been taken nowhere else. This beautifully presented collection should be made available to everyone interested in the art form." * Choice *"This quiet, reflective collection is filled with photos that work like poems. It invites repeat visits because of the subtlety of Randlett's art—much of it focused on light, clouds, and mist—and also because it stands as a stern rebuke of what growth and development are doing to a bounteous natural world that once seemed immutable." -- John Marshall * Seattle Post-Intelligencer *"Like all the great landscape photographers, Randlett avoids excess studio manipulation and instead lets her subject do the talking. And oh, how Mother Nature talks—or rather sings—in front of her lens." * Seattle Magazine *"Randlett's interest isn’t in place as much as mood and composition. And of course, the main ingredient in these introspective studies is light, its endless variations, its absence." -- Sheila Farr * Seattle Times *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Lifting the Veil / Ted D'Arms Mary Randlett, Friend and Photographer / Barry Herem The Art of Mary Randlett / Denise Levertov 7 Poems by Denise Levertov Afterword / Joyce Thompson Chronology / Jo Ann Ridley Acknowledgments Technical Notes
£25.32
Yale University Press Empire to Nation Art History and the
Book SynopsisOffers a fresh consideration of the image of the sea in British visual culture during a critical period for both the rise of the visual arts in Britain and the expansion of the nation's imperial power. This work begins in the year 1768, which marks the foundation of the Royal Academy and the launch of Captain Cook's first circumnavigation.Trade Review"[A] strikingly handsome book.”—Andrew Lambert, The Northern Mariner/Le marin du nord -- Andrew Lambert * The Northern Mariner / Le marin du nord *Shortlisted for the 2013 Historians of British Art Book Prize in the Pre-1800 category, given by the Historians of British Art. -- 2013 Historians of British Art Short List in the Pre-1800 category * Historians of British Art *
£38.00
Yale University Press Weatherbeaten
Book SynopsisA celebration of the American painter's life and work in the region he loved bestTrade Review"Wonderful."—Frank Wilson, Philadelphia Inquirer (Holiday Gift Guide selection)"A vivid survey of his work from those years when the Maine coast served as Homer’s muse."—Dana Jennings, New York TimesWinner of the Photography/Art category at the 2012 New England Book Festival"[A] gorgeous book." —American History
£30.88
Yale University Press Smithsonian Trees of North America
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£54.00
Yale University Press Ireland and the Picturesque
Book SynopsisThat Ireland is picturesque is a well-worn cliche, but little is understood of how this perception was created, painted and manipulated during the long eighteenth century. This book positions Ireland at core of the picturesque's development and argues for a greater degree of Irish influence on the course of European landscape theory and design.Trade Review“The two-way flow of picturesque inspiration across the Irish Sea was a complex cultural phenomenon that this study brilliantly illuminates.”—William Laffan, World of Interiors -- William Laffan * World of Interiors *Winner of the 2015 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize sponsored by the Foundation for Landscape Studies. -- John Brinckerhoff Jackson * Foundation for Landscape Studies *Won Honorable Mention for the 2016 Elisabeth Blair MacDougal Award sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians. -- Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Award * Society of Architectural Historians *
£42.75
Yale University Press Baule Monkeys
Book SynopsisThe Baule people of the Ivory Coast are renowned for their refined sculptural work of masks and figures. This book is the first to focus exclusively on an antithetic aspect of Baule culturerough zoomorphic sculptures representing monkeys. These awe-inspiring bowl-bearing figures evoke invisible powers and serve their communities through the mediation of diviners. Investigating the creation, forms, and usage of the sculptures, the authors shed light on the cultural and ritual contexts in which they operated. Beautifully illustrated with over 55 full-page color images of works in public and private collections, this important publication also includes many unpublished field photographs. Distributed for Mercatorfonds
£47.50
Yale University Press East of the Mississippi
Book SynopsisAn important reconsideration of landscape photography in 19th-century America, exploring crucial but neglected geographies, practitioners, and themes
£40.38
Yale University Press Making a Photographer
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWinner of the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize, sponsored by The Center for Cultural Landscapes at the UVA School of Architecture“In her brilliant book, Dr. Rebecca Senf allows us to go beyond the pure beauty of Adams’s images. We are brought into a much-needed passion and complexity of his practice.”—Catherine Opie“This is an important work that augments existing literature in both content and methodology. It will be a standard reference for anyone interested in Ansel Adams.”—Britt Salvesen, Los Angeles County Museum of Art“Rebecca Senf brilliantly demonstrates how the first two decades of Ansel Adams’s long career—years that are often dismissed as ‘formative’ or ‘immature’—in fact, sow the seeds of the astonishing work that we now identify as ‘classic’ Adams.”—Steven Hoelscher, The University of Texas at Austin“In this great, approachable read, Senf helps us appreciate the skills and genius of Adams, who inspired millions of Americans to visit, and to ultimately love and support, their National Parks.”—James E. Cook, CEO, Western National Parks Association“Lavishly illustrated and painstakingly researched, Senf’s book reveals how a 14-year-old visitor to Yosemite became America’s most famous photographer and a passionate advocate for the National Parks.”—Malcolm Daniel, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
£38.00
Yale University Press Inventing Acadia Painting and Place in Louisiana
Book SynopsisA wide-rangingstudy of Louisiana landscape painting that places art from the region into a broader national and global context With its dense forests and swamps, Louisiana captured the imagination of writers and painters who viewed its landscape as a fascinating, untamed wilderness. Starting in the 1820s when French émigrés brought the Barbizon school to New Orleans, the state attracted artists from Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the greater United States who shared ideas and experimented with approaches to the enigmatic scenery. Although Louisiana was in many ways an artists' paradise, the land also bore the scars of colonialism and the forced migrations of slavery. Inventing Acadia explores this complex history, following the rise of Louisiana landscape art and situating it amid the cultural shifts of the 19th century. The authors engage not only with artworks but also with the issues that informed themrepresentations of race and industry, international trade, and climate
£38.00
Yale University Press Danish Golden Age Painting
Book SynopsisA vibrant survey of visual culture in Golden Age Denmark (1801-1864).
£38.00
Yale University Press James Prosek
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£25.00
Yale University Press Groundwork
Book SynopsisA lush visual document of the Clark Art Institute’s first-ever outdoor exhibition, featuring the work of six significant contemporary artists working in sculpture today
£33.25
Yale University Press Signs
Book SynopsisVivid, clear-sighted images of American vernacular signage and architecture encountered along old US highways showcase the early black-and-white work of the acclaimed photographer Jim Dow
£38.00
WW Norton & Co The Birds of America
Book SynopsisA never-before-published edition of the rare chromolithographic Audubon prints of American birds.Trade Review"Staggeringly beautiful." -- Buffalo News
£236.29
LUP - University of Michigan Press Bits and Pieces
Book SynopsisGathers pivotal and more mundane moments, dispersed across a predominantly Western history of moving images, in which animals materialize in movies and TV shows, from iconic scenes of cattle slaughter in early Soviet montage to quandaries over hunting trophies in recent home-renovation reality TV series, to animals in Black horror films.Trade Review“O’Brien’s wonderful study offers rich readings of the mediation of animal lives and deaths by cinema and television, its connections to slaughter and taxidermy, and related questions of race and commodification. O’Brien traces the historical and material contours of these entanglements in highly astute and accessible terms, prompting us to look anew at animal and animalized presences on-screen, from slaughter cinema to ‘TV trophies’.”—Laura McMahon, University of Cambridge “Bits and Pieces explores the ways in which film and television mediate our understanding of animal life and death, and especially the issue of animal slaughter. The scholarship is sound, and the presentation of the material and writing style are wonderfully clear and crisp.” —Claire Jean Kim, University of California, Irvine “O’Brien rightly finds images of animals everywhere—but doesn’t try to approach the subject encyclopedically. Instead, she hones in on parallel thematic and imagistic tracks, and takes intensive looks within. Bits and Pieces is a compelling, well-written, and deeply researched work.”—Cynthia Chris, College of Staten Island, CUNYTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Filmography Chapter 1: Slaughter Cinema Chapter 2: Glass Walls Chapter 3: Cabinets of Curiosity Chapter 4: TV Trophies Conclusion Index
£60.95
University of California Press The End of Landscape in NineteenthCentury America
Book SynopsisThe End of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century America examines the dissolution of landscape painting in the late nineteenth-century United States. Maggie M. Cao explores the pictorial practices that challenged, mourned, or revised the conventions of landscape painting, a major cultural project for nineteenth-century Americans. Through rich analysis of artworks at the genre's unsettling limitslandscapes that self-destruct, masquerade as currency, or even take flightCao shows that experiments in landscape played a crucial role in the American encounter with modernity. Landscape is the genre through which American art most urgently sought to come to terms with the modern world.Trade Review"The case Cao makes is too complicated to reproduce here; one detail will have to suffice: the decorative butterfly unexpectedly echoes the apparition of the steamboat Ancon as it lists off the shores of Alaska, reminding the artist of his own artistic dead end. Imaginative leaps such as this abound in this brilliant book; Cao makes them with breathtaking historical sophistication." * Journal of American History *"It must be said that [Cao's] arguments are frequently highly creative and imaginative." * Winterthur Portfolio *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments • ix Prologue: What End? • 1 Introduction: Inventions and Failures • 9 PART I 1. Closure: Albert Bierstadt’s Last Pictures • 31 2. Sabotage: Martin Johnson Heade and Frederic Church • 68 PART II 3. Insolvency: Ralph Blakelock’s Economic Accretion • 113 4. Camouflage: Abbott Handerson Thayer and John Singer Sargent • 153 Afterword: Un-landing Landscape • 199 Notes • 207 List of Illustrations • 247
£46.75
University of California Press Like a Little Dog
Book SynopsisA bold, compelling, and original study of nonhuman life in Warhol. Like a Little Dog examines a dimension of Andy Warhol that has never received critical attention: his lifelong personal and artistic interest in nonhuman life. With this book, Anthony E. Grudin offers an engaging new overview of the iconic artist through the lens of animal and plant studies, showing that Warhol and his collaborators wondered over the same questions that absorb these fields: What qualities do humans share with other life forms? How might the vulnerability of life and the unpredictability of desire link them together? Why has the human/animal/plant hierarchy been so rigidly, violently enforced? Nonhuman life impassioned every area of Warhol's practice, beginning with his juvenilia and an unusually close creative collaboration with his mother, Julia Warhola. The pair codeveloped a transgressive animality that permeated Warhol's prolific career, from his commercial illustration and erotica to his writingTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments A Note on Terminology Introduction: Warhol's Nonhuman Life 1. "Like a Little Dog" 2. Factory Badlands 3. Machines, Animal and Vegetal 4. "Philosophy of the Fragile" 5. Queer Beauty and Extinction Conclusion: The Python Priestess Notes Selected Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
£32.30
Princeton University Press The Bird Name Book
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] fascinating combination of etymology and ornithology."---Nate Swick, American Birding Podcast"I found the answers to many questions in this book, and I am sure you will, too."---John Miles, Birdwatching Magazine"If you have ever wondered about the origins of the English words we use to name birds, this book is for you." * BirdWatching *"This is an exceptionally fine book and one that I imagine every bird lover will will wish to have."---David Gascoigne, Travels with Birds"Hats off to ornithologist Susan Myers on the exhaustive research and colourful writing style that characterise her latest book. . . Hard to put down."---Jim Wright, The Wryneck"Extensive and well-researched . . . . Each entry goes beyond etymology, weaving in interesting ornithological details."---Penny Sarchet, Wild Wild Lfie"[Myers] research, painstaking and comprehensive throughout, resulted in production of this fascinating volume which spans alphabetically – from Accentor to Zeledonia – all the bird groups of the world."---Jim Wright, Lincolnshire Bird Club"As ever from Princeton this is a book produced to the highest standards of presentation and fit & finish, one which I highly recommend to readers of Another Bird Blog and to birders everywhere. . . . It’s time to get your order in folks."---Phil Slade, Another Bird Blog"[A] valuable reference work for academic and public libraries."---H.T. Armistead, Choice"I certainly learnt many interesting facts from the entries that I read through and often couldn’t resist reading just one more entry before I put the book down again."---Stephen Menzie, British Birds"This is a book to treasure."---Andrew Lack, IBIS Book Reviews
£29.75
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
£18.99
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
£18.99
Rutgers University Press The Animated Bestiary Animals Cartoons and
Book SynopsisThe Animated Bestiary critically evaluates the depiction of animals in cartoons and animation more generally. Paul Wells argues that artists use animals to engage with issues that would be more difficult to address directly because of political, religious, or social taboos.Trade ReviewWells has proven himself to be a leading scholar of animation and has here produced a solid piece of scholarship that shows an incredible breadth of knowledge. -- Eric Smoodin * author of Regarding Frank Capra: Audience, Celebrity,and American Film Studies, *Wells has proven himself to be a leading scholar of animation and has here produced a solid piece of scholarship that shows an incredible breadth of knowledge. -- Eric Smoodin * author of Regarding Frank Capra: Audience, Celebrity,and American Film Studies, *Table of ContentsThe bear who wasn't : bestial ambivalence Of mice and men : what do animals mean? "I don't care what you say, I'm cold" : anthropomorphism, practice, narrative Which came first, the chicken or the egg? : performance, philosophy, tradition Creature comforted : animal politics, animated memory
£26.09
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Gods in Granite The Art of the White Mountains
Book SynopsisA survey of the topographic and metaphoric landscape of New Hampshire's White Mountains through the artistic and tourist life of the region as it appears in paintings and illustrations. Extending from the late-18th to the late-20th century, it includes a large collection of pictorial works.
£38.66
The University of Alabama Press John Abbot and William Swainson
Book SynopsisThe relationship between John Abbot and William Swainson - who never met in person - is explored in this volume. The book also showcases, for the first time, the complete set of original, full-color illustrations discovered in 1977 in the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, New Zealand.Trade Review“This beautifully illustrated work represents the 19th-century collaboration between two artist-naturalists, John Abbot (1751–c.1840) and William Swainson (1789–1855). This complete set of Abbot’s original, full-color drawings includes beetles, grasshoppers, butterflies, and moths. It should delight naturalists, artists, and historians of science.”- CHOICE;“I believe this work, by including reproductions of 104 drawings, will add substantively to the limited information available to the public about Abbot and his devotion to entomology during the early part of the ‘golden age’ of natural history.”- Gary R. Mullen, coeditor of Philip Henry Gosse’s Letters from Alabama: Chiefly Relating to Natural History;“A panoply of winged insects comes brilliantly to life in Janice Neri’s studious account of John Abbott’s never-before-published entomological drawings. Their global journey—from the tidewaters of Georgia to the windy shores of Wellington—reveals a naturalist’s world that is as interconnected as it is fragile and fleeting, like the delicate wings of a rare butterfly, observed for a moment until it flies away.”- Neil Safier, director and librarian, John Carter Brown Library;“Janice Neri’s keen eye for beautiful images that illuminate the entwinement of art and science is alive in this analysis of a much-traveled and hitherto unstudied set of watercolors. These images depict some of the most perplexing subjects of natural history—the life cycles and metamorphoses of insects, matters at the heart of the study of nature for centuries. Her sensitive historical account of the people and places that gave rise to this investigation and produced these images takes us back to a time when natural history could be a business, a mark of gentility and status, and a type of knowledge that promised an escape from such human structures. Thanks to Nummedal and Calhoun, Neri’s voice emerges loud and clear from this intelligent and informative account.”- Pamela H. Smith, author of The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire and The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution
£38.66
University of Pittsburgh Press Brownsville to Braddock
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Fordham University Press The Color of the Moon
Book SynopsisON MY MODERN MET'S TOP TEN LIST OF BEST CREATIVE BOOKS TO CELEBRATE THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF MOON LANDINGThe moon-its face, color, and power-threads through the tapestry of American landscape painting, holding timeless allure for artists and beloved by viewers of paintings everywhere. The Hudson River Museum has organized The Color of the Moon: Lunar Painting in American Art-the first major museum examination of the moon in American visual arts from the nineteenth through the twentieth centuries for a 2019 exhibition. This timely presentation also celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission when, in 1969, American astronauts first stepped onto the surface of the moon. From the romantic silvery moonscapes of nineteenth-century artists to the abstractions by artists of the twentieth century who explored the moon, the perfect orb, and tapped into its spiritual possibilities, this celestial body, closest to Earth, remains constant in our sky, though our relationship to it a
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University of Hawai'i Press The Zoomorphic Imagination in Chinese Art and
Book SynopsisChina has an age-old zoomorphic tradition. The First Emperor was famously said to have had the heart of a tiger and a wolf. The names of foreign tribes were traditionally written with characters that included animal radicals. In modern times, the communistgovernment frequently referred to Nationalists as running dogs, and President Xi Jinping, vowing to quell corruption at all levels, pledged to capture both the tigers and the flies. Splendidly illustrated with works ranging from Bronze Age vessels to twentieth-century conceptual pieces, this volume is a wide-ranging look at zoomorphic and anthropomorphic imagery in Chinese art. The contributors, leading scholars in Chinese art history and related fields, consider depictions of animals not as simple, one-for-one symbolic equivalents: they pursue in depth, in complexity, and in multiple dimensions the ways that Chinese have used animals from earliest times to the present day to represent and rhetorically stage complex ideas about the wo
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Texas Christian University Press Seeing Wild
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Getty Trust Publications A Royal Menagerie Meissen Porcelain Animals
Book SynopsisA catalogue of the almost life-size porcelain animals created for the elector of Saxony and king of Poland, Augustus the Strong, in 1735. This was perhaps the most significant commission for porcelain ever executed in Europe. The text discusses the challenges and solutions the work demanded.
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Duke University Museum of Art,U.S. The Forest
Book SynopsisFocuses on the forest as a theme in contemporary art. This full-colour catalogue accompanies one of the inaugural exhibitions at the new Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, on view from October 2, 2005, through January 29, 2006. It includes drawings, prints, sculpture, photography, film, video, digital imagery, and sound art.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments / Kimerly Rorscach, Kathleen Goncharov 6 The Forest: Politics, Poetics, and Practice / Kathleen Goncharov 8 Catalogue 29 Checklist of the Exhibition 68
£18.99
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Flower Power The Meaning of Flowers in Asian Art
Book SynopsisIn 1967, the phrase flower power transformed the commonplace flower into a Buddhist-inspired symbol of peace. In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of San Francisco''s Summer of Love, this art and design book showcases the expressive powers of flowers in Asian arts and cultures. Beginning in ancient times, a language of flowers, where certain blooms suggest specific themes, was communicated in art throughout Asia. Here forty artworks, all drawn from the Asian Art Museum''s renowned collection, focus on six celebrated flowers—lotus, plum blossom, cherry blossom, chrysanthemum, tulip, and rose—and the messages they convey.
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Michael Forsberg Photography Have You Seen Mary
Book Synopsis“…and the sky blackened with dark, gray bodies. In the blurry confusion, John lost Mary.” So begins Have You Seen Mary?, Jeff Kurrus's fictional account of one sandhill crane's faithful search during spring migration for his lost mate.Trade Review“No one has photographed sandhill cranes as thoroughly or as well as Michael Forsberg. Here, author Jeff Kurrus cleverly weaves a story around these images, luring readers young and old into one of nature’s great spectacles.”—David Bristow, author of Sky Sailors: True Stories of the Balloon Era and editor of Nebraska History magazine“Have You Seen Mary? is an appealing children’s story by Jeff Kurrus that blends sandhill crane natural history with Mike Forsberg’s spectacular photographs of cranes and their Great Plains wetlands habitats.”—Paul Johnsgard, Foundation Professor Emeritus at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and author of Sandhill and Whooping Cranes“Have You Seen Mary? is an enchanting love song to Plains wildness, and its fragile, magnificent migrations of feather and heart. It will appeal to both children and adults, taking us all on an unforgettable journey of joy, knowledge, and hope. A beautiful book.”—John T. Price, author of Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships“Jeff Kurrus’s words and Michael Forsberg’s photographs are teamed here to bring us a remarkable story from the natural world they both cherish. The result is an elegant, touching, and inspiring book to help reconnect our children to nature, and not a moment too late. May there be many more like this to come.”—Joel Sartore, author, conservationist, and contributing photographer for National Geographic magazine
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