Non-graphic and electronic art forms Books
Yale University Press William Edmondson
Book SynopsisA reassessment of self-taught artist William Edmondson, exploring the enduring relevance of his work
£36.00
Yale University Press Pierre Culot
Book SynopsisA complete overview of the Belgian ceramist Pierre Culot’s career in pottery, sculpture and landscaping, bridging the gap between the British, Japanese and French ceramic traditions
£54.00
WW Norton & Co Smashing Statues The Rise and Fall of Americas
Book SynopsisA leading expert's exploration of the past, present and future of public monuments in America
£18.89
The University of Michigan Press The Learned Collector
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£76.95
Thames & Hudson Ltd Unfolding
Book SynopsisA complete retrospective of the paper engineer and artist Matthew Shlian, documenting a decade of unrivalled and unexpected creativity. Paper engineer and artist Matthew Shlian has always recognized the materialâs potential for experimentation. Folded, tessellated, compressed, extrapolated, two-dimensional paper becomes three-dimensional sculpture in beautiful and unexpected ways. âMy process is extremely varied from piece to piece. Often I start without a clear goal in mind, working within a series of limitations. For example on one piece Iâll only use curved folds, or make my lines this length or that angle, etc. Other times I begin with an idea for movement and try to achieve that shape or form somehow.â Unfolding is Shlianâs first comprehensive monograph. A journey into the new possibilities of folding technology, the intricate complexities of Islamic patterns, and the sheer potential offered by a sheet of white paper, it celebrates a humble material, on the edge of its exiTrade Review'Intriguing' - Aesthetica
£29.75
University of California Press Modern Sculpture
Book SynopsisThis tapestry of primary sources is an essential primer on sculpture and its makers. Modern Sculpture presents a selection of manifestos, documents, statements, articles, and interviews from more than ninety sculptors, including a diverse selection of contemporary sculptors. With this book, editor Douglas Dreishpoon defers to artists, whose varied points of view illuminate sculpture's transformationfrom object to action, concept to phenomenonover the course of more than a century. Chapters arranged in chronological sequences highlight dominant stylistic, philosophical, and thematic threads uniting kindred groups. The result is an artist-centric history of sculpture as a medium of consequence and character.
£27.00
University of California Press The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa Second Edition
Book SynopsisAn expanded edition of the definitive book on Ruth Asawa's fascinating life and her lasting contributions to American art. The work of American artist Ruth Asawa (19262013) is brought into brilliant focus in this definitive book, originally published to accompany the first complete retrospective of Asawa's career, organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in 2006.This new edition features an expanded collection of essays and a detailed illustrated chronology that explore Asawa's fascinating life and her lasting contributions to American art.Beginning with her earliest worksdrawings and paintings created in the 1940s while she was studying at Black Mountain Collegethis beautiful volume traces Asawa's flourishing career in San Francisco and her trajectory as a pioneering modernist sculptor who is recognized internationally for her innovative wire sculptures, public commissions, and activism on behalf of public arts education. Through her lifelong experimentations with wire, Trade Review"The revised edition of The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air, a copious catalog first published in 2006 . . . offers stunning images of Asawa’s work. The essays here provide a fuller picture of the artist’s time at Black Mountain; the racial prejudices she encountered in her early life; her public commissions; her prints and drawings, which often display her more fantastical side; and her relationship with [Imogen] Cunningham, an early neighbor whose son worked for Lanier’s firm. . . . A fitting homage to this remarkable woman." * Wall Street Journal *"Together this publication and the exhibition [it coincided with] serve to reinforce this important artist’s work in the history of American modernism." * Art Daily *“Published to accompany the first complete retrospective of her career, The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air is a superb accomplishment. The book examines her pioneering modernist contributions and convinces the reader that Asawa’s work is well-deserving of the wide recognition it has received." * Leonardo Reviews *"A retrospective exhibition in 2007, and the accompanying catalog . . . . help[ed] relocate Asawa as an important figure in post-war American art." * Interior Design *“The first major efforts to reevaluate the art of Ruth Asawa. . . . This catalog will serve to give weight and purpose to Asawa’s lifetime of creative experimentation.” * Woman’s Art Journal *"The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa provides considerable and useful detail on her background, training, working processes, and community involvement." * Textile: Cloth and Culture *"A definitive collection of material on and about the artist." * Rain Taxi Review of Books *
£32.30
University of California Press Accidental Possibilities of the City Claes
Book SynopsisClaes Oldenburg's commitment to familiar objects has shaped accounts of his career, but his associations with Pop art and postwar consumerism have overshadowed another crucial aspect of his work. In this revealing reassessment, Katherine Smith traces Oldenburg's profound responses to shifting urban conditions, framing his enduring relationship with the city as a critical perspective and conceiving his art as urban theory. Smith argues that Oldenburg adapted lessons of context, gleaned from New York's changing cityscape in the late 1950s, to large-scale objects and architectural plans. By examining disparate projects from New York to Los Angeles, she situates Oldenburg's innovations in local geographies and national debates. In doing so, Smith illuminates patterns of urbanization through the important contributions of one of the leading artists in the United States.Trade Review"Smith's book will be valuable for those interested in urban art, multidisciplinary urbanism, or the history of ideas." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Streets 2. Stores 3. Holes 4. Plugs 5. Binoculars Epilogue Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
£46.75
University of California Press The Black Art Renaissance
Book SynopsisReading African art's impact on modernism as an international phenomenon, The Black Art Renaissance tracks a series of twentieth-century engagements with canonical African sculpture by European, African American, and sub-Saharan African artists and theorists. Notwithstanding its occurrence during the benighted colonial period, the Paris avant-garde discovery of African sculptureknown then as art nègre, or black arteventually came to affect nascent Afro-modernisms, whose artists and critics commandeered visual and rhetorical uses of the same sculptural canon and the same term. Within this trajectory, black art evolved as a framework for asserting control over appropriative practices introduced by Europeans, and it helped forge alliances by redefining concepts of humanism, race, and civilization. From the Fauves and Picasso to the Harlem Renaissance, and from the work of South African artist Ernest Mancoba to the imagery of Negritude and the École de Dakar, African sculpture's influence proved transcontinental in scope and significance. Through this extensively researched study, Joshua I. Cohen argues that art history's alleged centers and margins must be conceived as interconnected and mutually informing. The Black Art Renaissance reveals just how much modern art has owed to African art on a global scale.Table of ContentsPrologue Acknowledgments Note on Terms Introduction 1. Rethinking Fauve “Primitivism” 2. Picasso’s African Infl uences 3. Harlem Renaissance and Diaspora 4. Mancoba between Paradigms 5. Art Nègre and the École de Dakar Epilogue: Was Picasso “Black”? Archive Abbreviations Notes Selected Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
£32.30
University of California Press Speculative Landscapes
Book SynopsisSpeculative Landscapes offers the first comprehensive account of American artists' financial involvements in and creative responses to the nineteenth-century real estate economy. Examining the dealings of five painters who participated actively in this economyDaniel Huntington, John Quidor, Eastman Johnson, Martin Johnson Heade, and Winslow HomerRoss Barrett argues that the experience of property investment exposed artists to new ways of seeing and representing land, inspiring them to develop innovative figural, landscape, and marine paintings that radically reworked visual conventions. This approach moved beyond just aesthetics, however, and the book traces how artists creatively interrogated the economic, environmental, and cultural dynamics of American real estate capitalism. In doing so, Speculative Landscapes reveals how the provocative experience of land investment spurred painters to produce uniquely insightful critiques of the emerging real estate economy, critiques that uncovered its fiscal perils and social costs and imagined spaces outside the regime of private property. Trade Review"Barrett illuminates a number of new perspectives from the period which make Speculative Landscapes…worth reading." * Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide *"[The book] is exemplary in its purposeful investigations that, in breaking from standard interpretations, enables readers to see and understand multifaceted aspects of works of art with clarity while opening the door to other new inquiries." * Nineteenth Century: The Magazine of the Victorian Society in America *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1. Land, Looking, and Futurity in the Hudson Valley 2. Digging for Gold: Allegories of Speculation on the Illinois Frontier 3. Picturing Land and Labor in the Old Northwest and New England 4. Perilous Prospects: Speculation and Landscape Painting in Florida 5. Painting and Property on Prouts Neck Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
£44.00
Logan Center Exhibitions Kapwani Kiwanga Structural Adjustments
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£18.05
James Clarke & Co Ltd Maskwork The Background Making and Use of Masks
Book SynopsisA practical study of the art of masks and mask-making, combined with an exploration of their cultural and anthropological history.Table of ContentsPrologue Acknowledgements of Photographs Introduction What are Masks? Masks as resources Planning a Project Project 1: First steps Project 2: Shape-Masks Project 3: Changing Faces Project 4: Symmetry & Collage Project 5: Theatre, Mask & Myth Project 6: Character & Commedia Project 7: Gods, Dragons & Demons Project 8: Masquerade Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
£41.00
Manchester University Press The doityourself artwork
Book SynopsisSpanning a range of practices including kinetic art, happenings, environments, performance, installations, relational and new media art from the 1950s to the present, this critical anthology sheds light on the history and specificity of artworks that only come to life when you the viewer - are invited to do it yourself.' -- .Table of ContentsContents1. Anna Dezeuze: An introduction to 'do-it-yourself'' artworkPART I: SITUATING PARTICIPATION2. Guy Brett: 3 Pioneers3. Anna Dezeuze: “Open work,” “do-it-yourself artwork,” and bricolage4. Judith Rodenbeck: “Creative acts of consumption” or, death in Venice5. Arnauld Pierre: Instability: the visual/bodily perception of space in kinetic environmentsPART II: PERFORMING PARTICIPATION6. Catherine Wood: The rules of engagement: Displaced figuration in Robert Morris’s sculpture7. Frazer Ward: Marina Abramovic: Approaching zero8. Amelia Jones: Space, body and the self in the work of Bruce Nauman9. Janet Kraynak: Tiravanija’s liability10. Jennifer Gonzalez: The face and the public: Race, secrecy and digital art practicePART III: THEORISING PARTICIPATION11. Anna Dezeuze: Play, ritual and politics: Transitional artworks in the 1960s12. Miwon Kwon: Exchange and reciprocity in some art of the 1960s and after13. Christian Kravagna: Working on the community: Models of participatory practice14. Claire Bishop: Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics15. Beryl Graham: What kind of participative system? Critical vocabularies from new media artIndex
£18.99
Pluto Press Peter Kennard
Book Synopsis50 years of hard-hitting protest art from Britain’s foremost political artistTrade Review'These images refuse to be forgotten ... they remind us of the need to speak out in protest, the protests of the dead and the living' -- John Berger'This art is a a jolt of electricity. A shot in the arm. A kick up the backside. You know what? It’s a wake-up call' -- Jarvis Cocker'Britain's most important political artist' -- The Guardian'I take my hat off to you Sir' -- Banksy'Art cannot change the world but while Kennard is still working, there is at least hope' -- Laura Cumming, The Observer'Kennard sees the skull beneath the skin all right: an area dominated by greed, indifference, ruthlessness, naked force against the powerless; the holy grail of the Big Buck' -- Harold Pinter'In its form and power, Peter Kennard's art ranks among the most important in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. His pictures brilliantly evoke the faces that cry out from the silent war' -- John Pilger, The Guardian'Peter Kennard's work is a harrowing x-ray of the shadow side of the world. He perfectly captures the brutal asymmetries of our age: heavy weaponry trained on broken people, all-seeing technologies and disappearing identities, perpetually exhaling industry and an asphyxiating planet' -- Naomi Klein'Peter Kennard's work is redolent of the best anti-war imagery of Goya, it is iconic in our movement and beyond' -- Kate Hudson, General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)Table of ContentsSeries Preface Preface 1. Feminist Futures: A Conditional Paeon for the Anything-Digital 2. Scale, Subject and Stories: Unreal Objects 3. Bland Ambition? Automation's Missing Visions 4. Driving at the Anthropocene, or, Let's Get Out of Here: How? 5. Technological Feminism and Digital Futures Bibliography
£26.99
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Mexican Cartoneria Paper Paste and Fiesta Paper
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£25.59
McGill-Queen's University Press Designed Words for a Designed World
Book SynopsisReading concrete poetry as the world’s first global literary movement.Trade Review" Hilder brings fresh life to concrete poetry, providing nuanced details on poets and poems and posing tremendously important questions. Designed Words for a Designed World is a much-needed book on a politically engaged, complex, and varied movement that is still relevant to the 21st century." - Lori Emerson, University of Colorado, Boulder " This study is likely to revive serious interest in an avant-garde experiment that exhibition curator Jasia Reichardt in 1965 hailed as "the first international poetry movement." Highly recommended." Choice
£31.50
Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S. Japanese Screens
Book SynopsisJapanese screens (byobu) are made of wooden lattices with two to twelve panels, covered with a canvas of paper or fabric. Artists, embracing the dynamic format of screens, incorporated shadows and other elements on the canvas to direct the viewer's eye from one panel to the next. Screens are unique for being beautiful artworks as well as lightweight, portable objects, acting as backdrops for court ceremonies or partitions for intimate tea services.This sumptuous book explores the 1,300-year history of screens created in Japan. In the text, leading experts on Japanese art and culture describe how screens developed from the 8th to the 21st century, from their ceremonial use in royal residences and Buddhist temples to their functional and decorative use in the homes of samurai and aristocracy. The authors examines the stylistic evolution of screens and the wide variety of subjects depicted, such as flying dragons, the passing of seasons, monumental battles, and The Tale of GenjiTrade Review"An exquisitely illustrated and enlightening new book that reveals the screen’s unique role in Japanese history and culture from its origins to the 20th century." - Lauren Moya Ford, Hyperallegic Review
£106.24
Johns Hopkins University Press Testament to Union Civil War Monuments in
Book SynopsisFor tourists and long-time residents, and for anyone interested in the Civil War or public art, Testament to Union is a wonderful guide to these tangible connections to the nation's past and an era when public monuments packed powerful messages.Trade ReviewReading this book makes me want to jump in the car, drive down to Washington and look at these monuments with new eyes. It provides a wonderful example of what historic travel is all about and the way it can add a whole new dimension to a visit... Jacob takes what could have been a dry topic and turns it into a fascinating behind-the-pedestals look at 41 Civil War monuments in the nation's capital. -- Tom Huntington, Editor Historic Traveler Rich and fascinating and packed with the kind of detail that can only come with total immersion in a subject, Testament to Union is a Washingtonian's jewel hoard... We are, in short, in the hands of a master of anecdote, who leads the reader from one end of the town to the other by the stories and histories behind the sightless faces of the sculptured heroes and their attendant figures. -- Duncan Spencer Washington Times Readable and well illustrated... Each entry sets the memorial in its political and artistic context and traces the story of its design, construction, and dedication. These accounts are well researched, vivid, and revealing, as Jacob weaves in human stories about controversies, sponsors, and sculptors. -- Catherine W. Bishir Journal of Southern History 2000 Jacob's book is a handsomely produced catalog of the Civil War monuments located in the Washington, D.C., area, with excellent new photographs. -- Kirk Savage Public Historian 1999 Jacob's remarkable volume vividly animates our understanding of the resonant connections between art and history within a politically charged civic matrix, and she skillfully conveys the complexities inherent in historical commemoration. -- Betsy Fahlman Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 1999Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionMonumentsChapter 1. Arsenal MonumentChapter 2. EmancipationChapter 3. Veterans of Foreign Wars TributeChapter 4. FreedomChapter 5. James A. Garfield MemorialChapter 6. Ulysses S. Grant MemorialChapter 7. Peace MonumentChapter 8. Major General George Gordon Meade MemorialChapter 9. Albert Pike Memorial Chapter 10. Pension BuildingChapter 11. Abraham Lincoln, Judiciary SquareChapter 12. Benjamin Franklin Stephenson and the Grand Army of the Republic MemorialChapter 13. Major General Winfield Scott HancockChapter 14. Admiral David Farragut, United States Navy MemorialChapter 15. Major General John A. LoganChapter 16. Major General George H. ThomasChapter 17. Brigadier General James Birdseye McPhersonChapter 18. General William Tecumseh Sherman Monument Chapter 19. Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, Scott Circle Chapter 20. Admiral David Farragut, Farragut SquareChapter 21. Major General John A. RawlinsChapter 22. Abraham Lincoln, Rail Fence MenderChapter 23. John Ericsson MonumentChapter 24. Lincoln MemorialChapter 25. Nuns of the BattlefieldChapter 26. Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont Memorial FountainChapter 27. Major General George B. McClellanChapter 28. General Philip H. SheridanChapter 29. 25th New. York Volunteers MonumentChapter 30. Lincoln Under FireChapter 31. African-American Civil War Memorial Chapter 32. Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, Soldiers' HomeChapter 33. Abraham Lincoln, Fort Lincoln Cemetery Chapter 34. Arlington National Cemetery Chapter 35. Major John Rodgers MeigsChapter 36. Major General William Worth Belknap Monument Chapter 37. Major General Philip KearnyChapter 38. Confederate MonumentChapter 39. Brigadier General Richard L. Hoxie and Vinnie Ream Hoxie MonumentChapter 40. Major General Henry W. Lawton MonumentChapter 41. Alexandria Confederate MemorialAppendix A. Monuments by Date of InstallationAppendix B. Alphabetical List of Monuments with Sculptors Appendix C. Alphabetical List of Sculptors with MonumentsOther Sources ConsultedIndex
£29.34
University Alabama Press Pablo Nerudas Ship Figureheads
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£24.29
Duke University Press Whose Art Is It
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In Whose Art Is It? Jane Kramer provides a striking account of the debate surrounding a white artist’s controversial bronze statues of three people from a particularly rough section in the South Bronx." * The American Prospect *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Catharine R. Stimpson 1 Whose Art Is It? / Jane Kramer 37
£21.59
Rizzoli International Publications Natural Wonders
Book SynopsisArtists such as Maya Lin, Roxy Paine, and Dustin Yellin show the impact of human interventionon our ecosystem through a mix of installations, video, photography, and sculpture.Natural Wonders spotlights the works of thirteen artists who work in various media to depict themes of nature—both its beauty and its more disquieting aspects—from painting and sculpture to 3-D landscapes and botanical replications to dioramas and lenticular prints. The range of works encourages us to be more attentive to our natural surroundings and address timely issues such as habitat loss, environmental toxins, bioengineering, and increasing alienation from nature. Ramljak’s essay provides a broad cultural and historical context for the contemporary artworks, complemented by artist statements and an interview between environmentally minded artists Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman.
£28.45
Rizzoli International Publications Poetic Practical
Book SynopsisPoetic Practical offers the first examination of Chris Burden’s unrealized projects, featuring never-before-seen archival materials and newly commissioned photography of Burden’s studio and property.This extensively illustrated book includes 435 images, featuring never-before-seen archival materials and newly commissioned photography of Burden’s studio and property. Burden’s work, whether realized or unrealized, was fundamentally driven by a speculative approach to artistic production, one that compelled him to interrogate the physical limits of his own body, social mores, institutional capabilities, and scientific forces. Above all, his work repeatedly sought to test the thresholds of presumed impossibility, making his unrealized works the ultimate example of such measures. The sixty-seven artworks included in this publication offer a unique and unprecedented perspective on the life and working proc
£71.25
Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd Art of the Renaissance Bronze 15001650 The Robert
Book SynopsisThis new and extended version of the first edition retains the entries written by Anthony Radcliffe with a few additions or corrections, and an entry that he drafted on the miniature cannon signed by Orazio Antonio Alberghetti has also been incorporated.Trade ReviewAntiques Magazine, 11th June 2005: 'Those who own the first edition will be itching to get their hands on this update.' 'This far reaching and comprehensive survey.' 'Perhaps the highpoint for catalogues of private collections of paintings and works of art was reached in the decades around the turn of the twentieth century... although a very different sort of book, this new catalogue... sits firmly within that tradition.' - Burlington MagazineTable of ContentsForeword Preface Introduction Acknowledgements Part One: Bronze Objects Made for Use Part Two: The Revival of the Antique Bronze Statuette Part Three: New Developments in Venice Part Four: New Developments in Florence and North of the Alps Part Five: Small Bronzes By and After Giambologna Part Six: Barthélemy Prieur Part Seven: Florentine Seventeenth-Century Bronzes Interpreting the Bronzes: A Technical View by Shelley Sturman Bibliography Abbreviations
£71.25
British Museum Press Remote Possibilities Hoa Hakananaia and HMS
Book SynopsisThis paper is a considerably revised version of the 1992 British Museum Occasional Paper No. 73 by the same author. The book describes how, when and by whom Hoa Hakanai'a was collected. It also reconstructs the underlying Rapanui aesthetic and social structure that produced Hoa Hakanai'a , and which has been obscured by time and historic accident.
£31.58
Te Herenga Waka University Press Wellington A City for Sculpture
Book SynopsisFeaturing brilliant urban photography, this celebration of the dynamic presence of sculpture in Wellington vividly captures more than 40 sculptures throughout the cityâs streets and parks. An informative and provocative examination of the sculptures' origins, this collection shows how many of the gorgeous art works came into being due to the shared vision of individuals, government agencies, and corporations who value the relationship of art and city, to brighten the lives of its citizens. The result is both a visual feast and a unique record of the 21st-century cityâs fabricâsure to be treasured by travelers, art enthusiasts, and locals alike.
£30.35
LAST GASP The Lost Tune
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£41.25
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Bronzes Sculptors and Founders 18001930 v 3
Book SynopsisThis is the third volume of the definitive reference series dealing with commercial bronze sculptures in the period 1800 to 1930. This period spans the rise and decline of commercial industrial foundries in Europe, especially in France, and a wide array of international sculptors. Together, they produced millions of fine statuettes for the general public. Volume 3 includes 1315 photographs of sculptures on 320 pages with information on the Hirsch Foundry of Paris and Brooklyn, New York. It incorporates lists of the sculptors whose work is shown, the founders represented, and 21 different founders'' seals. The photographs are remarkably clear enabeling small details in the sculptures to be visible. With this reference series, collectors will be able to identify many of the old commercial bronzes found on the market today.
£58.39
University of Regina Press Art of Immersive Soundscapes
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£26.60
Getty Trust Publications Palace Sculptures of Abomey History Told on Walls Getty Publications Yale
£22.50
American Numismatic Society The Early Betts Medal Companion
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£118.75
Richard Dennis Gilbert Bayes Sculptor 18721953
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£14.25
Pindar Press Studies in Burgundian Romanesque Sculpture Volume
Book SynopsisRomanesque sculpture in Burgundy, a crucial part of 11th and 12th-century European history, reflects the region's economic growth and monastic influence. Neil Stratford, a renowned expert, compiles two volumes of his studies on this topic, including lesser-known monuments and new insights. Vol.I: Text, Vol.II: Plates.Table of ContentsIntroduction Romanesque Sculpture in Burgundy. Reflections on its Geography, on Patronage, on the Status of Sculpture and on the Working Methods of Sculptors A 10th-century Epitaph Fragment from St-Eusèbe, Auxerre Sculptures de Flavigny The Documentary Evidence for the Building of Cluny III La sculpture des parties orientales de l'église Cluny III d'après les fouilles de K.J. Conant The Apse Capitals of Cluny III (unpublished lecture) A Cluny Capital in Hartford, Connecticut Les bâtiments de l'abbaye de Cluny à l'époque médiévale. Etat des questions Contribution à l'histoire de la sculpture des maisons romanes de Cluny Vézelay - introduction historique. Des origines aux XVIIIe siècle La sculpture médiévale de Moutiers-Saint-Jean Sculpture romane originaire de Moutiers-Saint-Jean L'église de Bussy-le-Grand Flavigny, Monastère St-Joseph de Clairval, Bas-relief de Saint Pierre aux liens Le portail roman de Neuilly-en-Donjon Note on the reconstruction work with fragments from the portals of St-Lazare, Autun Un bas-relief roman de Nevers Chronologie et filiations stylistiques des sculptures de la façade nord du porche de Charlieu A Romanesque marble altar-frontal in Beaune and some Cîteaux manuscripts Une nouvelle acquisition du Musée d'art et d'archéologie de Moulins Le Mausolée de Saint Lazare à Autun Receuil des source pour l'étude du Mausolée de saint Lazare Autun and Vienne Sur quelques chapiteaux romans du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Troyes "Compostela and Burgundy?" Thoughts on the Western Crypt of the Cathedral of Santiago St. Bernard and the Visual Arts (unpublished lecture) Additional Notes Index
£65.87
Association for Asian Studies Scattered Goddesses Travels with the Yoginis
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£25.50
Seattle Art Museum Calder In Motion
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£31.50
The University of Chicago Press The Theatrical Baroque
Book SynopsisThis volume investigates the dialogue between the newly-invigorated European theatre of the late 16th and 17th centuries, and the plastic arts. The interactions between the spectator and the spectacle, social performance and the staging of the individual are discussed.
£23.36
Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Models and Prototypes Focus CHI
Book SynopsisDraws on the works of modernist pioneers and contemporary figures alike to explore how artists in a variety of media have redefined artistic practice by expanding the use of the model as a new visual force. This book illuminates the centrality of models in contemporary art, asking why they remain so compelling as both tools and subjects.
£16.72
Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago Richard Rezac
Book SynopsisThe title of Richard Rezac's Renaissance Society exhibition, Address, plays on the multivalent quality of the word. As a noun, it refers to a unique identifier of a precise location. As a verb, it refers to a form of communication crafted for a specific people, time, and place. This exhibition drew upon both elements of the word's two meanings: the artist deliberately created and selected works in response to the architecture of the Renaissance Society's gallery space, and the title also nods to the sculptures' relationship to their presumptive audience. This book showcases twenty pieces featured in the exhibition that are made of a wide range of materials including cherry wood, cast bronze, and aluminum and that span Rezac's career--including newly commissioned pieces.s Through the concept of address, the exhibit and book explore the artist's ongoing engagement with both tangible, mathematical ordering systems and the elusive mechanisms of memory and interpretation. This publication continues Rezac's address, extending it to a greater audience of readers through a generous selection of images, a conversation between the artist and curator Solveig vsteb , and new texts by Matthew Goulish, Jennifer R. Gross, and James Rondeau.
£28.50
Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago Unthought Environments
Book SynopsisUnthought Environments brings together art influenced by the forces that are integral to our daily lives, yet are easily forgotten or overlooked, such as the ancient elements of air, fire, water, and earth; weather systems; geopolitics; and the hidden physical components of our virtual world. Informed by media studies, ecology, and philosophy, these multi-media artworks explore the elemental sphere as it intersects with the human-made. This exhibition catalog brings together images from the exhibition alongside texts that engage directly with the works as well as the larger issues that drive them. Essays by Karsten Lund, John Durham Peters, Keller Easterling, Ina Blom, Marissa Lee Benedict, Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen, and Peter Fend are included, as well as a conversation with Lund, Nicholas Mangan, Robin Watkins, and Nina Canell.
£28.50
Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture Sonic Wallpapers
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£7.50
David Zwirner Books Richard Serra Early Work
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£63.75
Fowler Museum At Ucla World Share
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£15.19
Marciano Art Foundation Bookst Olafur Eliasson Reality Projector
Book SynopsisIn collaboration with Sigur Rós musician Jónsi, Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson (born 1967) conceived a complex installation for his site-specific exhibition at the Marciano Art Foundation. Using projected light and the existing architecture of the museum, he created a dynamic shadow play referencing both Los Angeles'' history of filmmaking and the gallery''s former function as a theater.
£24.30
Glenstone Foundation Charles Ray Vol. II
Book SynopsisCommemorating Charles Ray''s rotating exhibitions at Glenstone MuseumThis book is part of an ongoing series of publications commemorating rotating exhibitions of the artist's work at Glenstone Museum, the second of which opened in Spring 2020. The catalog includes an essay by the artist, a contribution from art historian Russell Ferguson and an introduction by Emily Rales, cofounder and director of Glenstone Museum.
£30.60
Glenstone Foundation Charles Ray Volume III
Book SynopsisThe third installment commemorating Charles Ray''s rotating exhibitions at Glenstone The diverse sculptural practice of American sculptor Charles Ray (born 1953) has long challenged perceptions of scale, material and subject matter, necessitating multiple viewings over time. Charles Ray: Volume III is part of an ongoing series of publications commemorating rotating exhibitions of the artist's work at Glenstone Museum, the third of which opened in the winter of 2021. Organized in close collaboration with the artist, the selections showcase Ray's practice from early in his career to the present day, with four works ranging in material from concrete and steel to handmade paper used to realize a recent self-portrait, Return to the one (2020). This catalog includes documentation of the exhibition at Glenstone, an original essay by the artist, a contribution from art historian Anna Lovatt and an introduction by Emily Rales, cofounder and director of G
£27.00
Random House USA Inc Poems About Sculpture
Book SynopsisPoems About Sculpture is a unique anthology of poems from around the world and across the ages about our most enduring art form. Sculpture has the longest memory of the arts: from the Paleolithic era, we find stone carvings and clay figures embedded with human longing. And poets have long been fascinated by the idea of eternity embodied by the monumental temples and fragmented statues of ancient civilizations. From Keats’s Grecian urn and Shelley’s “Ozymandias” to contemporary verse about Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Janet Echelman’s wind-borne hovering nets, the pieces in this collection convert the physical materials of the plastic arts—clay, wood, glass, marble, granite, bronze, and more—into lapidary lines of poetry. Whether the sculptures celebrated here commemorate love or war, objects or apparitions, forms human or divine, they have called forth evocative responses from a wide range of poets, including Homer, Ovid, Shakespeare, Baudelaire, Rilke, Dickinson, Yeats, Auden, and Plath. A compendium of dazzling examples of one art form reflecting on another, Poems About Sculpture is a treat for art lovers of all kinds.
£12.71
WW Norton & Co Smashing Statues
Book SynopsisA leading expert's exploration of the past, present and future of public monuments in AmericaTrade Review"Comprehensive…Thompson provides a compelling, historical account of how capitalism is both motivator and maintainer of institutional racism…Her examination of 'art crime' as central to understanding our shameful United States history is captivating." -- Jack Christian - Los Angeles Review of Books
£12.34
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Scenography and Art History
Book SynopsisScenography and Art History reimagines scenography as a critical concept for art history, and is the first book to demonstrate the importance and usefulness of this concept for art historians and scholars in related fields. It provides a vital evaluation of the contemporary importance of scenography as a critical tool for art historians and scholars from related branches of study addressing phenomena such as witchy designs, Early Modern festival books, live rock performances, digital fashion photography, and outdoor dance interventions. With its nuanced and detailed case studies, this book is an innovative contribution to ongoing debates within art history and visual studies concerning multisensory events. It extends the existing literature by demonstrating the importance of a reimagined scenography concept for comprehending historical and contemporary art histories and visual cultures more broadly. The book contends that scenography is no longer restricted to the traditional spTrade ReviewThe editors of this provocative and stimulating collection of essays use the concepts of scenography and art history to mutually challenge and expand the analytic potential of each to provide important new strategies for exploring the increasingly complex world of contemporary art. * Marvin Carlson, Distinguished Professor, Theatre and Performance, CUNY, USA *The essays collected in the present volume shift the conversation with scenography away from definitions, and this opens terminology—scenography, scenographics—but also theoretical parameters. … The anthology seeks to give scenography its voice and in so doing, challenges easy boundaries between disciplines and forges new methodologies for thinking with and through scenographic agency. … Scenography and Art History opens its dialogue with art and its histories … at a time when reconceiving the material and imaginative encounters between times, spaces and bodies has never been more urgent and necessary. * Marsha Meskimmon, Professor of Transnational Art and Feminism, and Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Loughborough University, UK *A book devoted to the interfaces of scenography and art history is long overdue for numerous reasons. ... As the authors deftly argue, art history has been as ready to dismiss scenography on the same grounds that, until recently, allowed theatre and performance scholars to brush it off as purely decorative (as a practice) or vocational (as a form of thinking). The marriage of these subjects is, consequently, a welcome and exciting addition to the growing library of scenography scholarship and its many possible futures beyond theatre. * Rachel Hann, Senior Lecturer in Performance & Design, Northumbria University, UK *Scenography and Art History is a thrillingly multifaceted and innovative collection of cross-disciplinary case studies unlocking the potentials of scenography as an overlooked sphere, concept and phenomenon in relation to art history as well as to other aesthetic disciplines. * Andrea Kollnitz, Associate professor in Art History, Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University, Sweden *Spatial, temporal, affective, critical, and embodied dimensions of scenographic perspectives inform this cross-disciplinary, multifaceted anthology. An unprecedented dialogue between art history and scenography, this volume is both urgent and necessary, exploring the multisensory workings that can shape culture through scenographic phenomena. * Donatella Barbieri, Senior Research Fellow and Principal Lecturer in design for performance, University of the Arts London, UK *This important study shifts our perceptions and understandings of what scenography is. It shows us how agential modes of creative practice can lead towards new theoretical frameworks and how the expanded relationality between objects, subjects, spaces, and ideas can help us forging new realities within and outside the world of art history. * Alda Terracciano, Participatory Design Consultant at The Sloane Lab (AHRC TaNC Programme), UCL Department of Information Studies, UK *The book is a very important contribution to current discussions on multisensory art historical and contemporary events by proposing scenography both as a theoretical concept and as a practical exercise in the field of art history and related disciplines. * Andrea Sommer-Mathis, Former Senior Research Asscociate at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria *Bypassing conventional interdisciplinary anthologies, this collection illuminates the primacy of the physical body and the spatial and material allure it evinces on stage and in visual artistry. Contributions from diverse scholars, sometimes working in direct collaboration, illuminate the many ways in which the performative operates both in real time and in allusive visual form. * Sarah R Cohen, Professor and Chair, Department of Art and Art History, University at Albany, SUNY, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Two forewords Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Re-imagining Scenography in Relation to Art History, Astrid von Rosen (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) and Viveka Kjellmer (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) 2. Black Goats and Broomsticks: Feminism and the Figure of the Witch in Leonor Fini’s Designs for Le Sabbat, Rachael Grew (Loughborough University, UK) 3. Scenographing the Dance Archive – Keep Crawling!, Astrid von Rosen (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) 4. Michael Chapman’s Rauschenberg: Mis-en-scène and Scenography in Taxi Driver, Gillian McIver (The University for the Creative Arts, UK) 5. A Dynamic Bipolarity: The Royal Holloway Chapel Project, Scenography and Art History, Greer Crawley (Buckinghamshire New University/Royal Holloway University of London, UK) and Harriet O’Neill (British School at Rome, Italy) 6. Killed by Drones: Embodying Live Performance Scenography, Olga Nikolaeva (Independent scholar, Sweden) 7. Evocations of the ‘sonore et voilé’: The Scenographic World of Der Ring in the Art of Henri Fantin-Latour, Corrinne Chong (Peel District School Board/Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada) 8. Visual Couture: Costume Agency in the Advertising Campaign Opera Papier, Viveka Kjellmer (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) 9. ‘Re-Dressing The Part:’ The Scenographic Strategies of Ellen Terry (1847-1928), Veronica Isaac (University of Brighton/New York University London, UK) 10. Scenographing Festival Books: Towards a Multisensory Archive, Carmen González-Román (University of Málaga, Spain) 11. Scenographic Events: Interfacing with Digital Fashion Stories, Christine Sjöberg (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) 12. Beyond Change: Archaeology of a Spook Play, Tamas Szalczer (Designer, USA) and Eszter Szalczer (University at Albany, State University of New York, USA) Index
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Life and Ship Models of Norman Ough
Book SynopsisNorman Ough is considered by many as simply the greatest ship modeller of the twentieth century and his exquisite drawings and meticulous models have come to be regarded as masterpieces of draughtsmanship, workmanship and realism; more than technically accomplished ship models, they are truly works of art.This new book is both a tribute to his lonely genius and a practical treatise for model shipwrights. Ough lived most of his adult life far from the sea in a flat high above the Charing Cross Road in London, where his frugal existence and total absorption in his work led to hospitalisation on at least two occasions; he was an eccentric in the truest sense but he also became one of the most sought-after masters of his craft. Earl Mountbatten had him model the ships he had served on; his model of HMS Queen Elizabeth was presented to Earl Beatty; film production companies commissioned models for effects in several films. Incorporating many of his original articles from Model Maker Magazin
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