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Yale University Press Roman Sculpture
Book SynopsisDiscusses all the major public and private monuments in Rome, as well as many less well-known monuments in the capital and elsewhere in the empire. Kleiner examines art commissioned by the imperial elite as well as by private patrons, including freedmen and slaves.Table of ContentsThe Art of the Republic; The Age of Augustus and the Birth Imperial Art; Art under the Julio-Claudians; The Civil War of 68-69 AD; Art under Trajan and Hadrian; Antonine Art - The Beginning of Late Antiquity; The Severan Dynasty; The Third Century - A Century of Civil War; The Tetrarchy; The Constantinian Period.
£52.25
Yale University Press Roubiliac the EighteenthCentury Monument
Book SynopsisThis is a study of the 18th-century sculptor Louis Francois Roubiliac. His most important work takes the form of monuments seen in Westminster Abbey and in churches throughout the country. The book examines his style in the light of the social and religious conditions of his time.
£45.00
Yale University Press The Lightning Field Dia Foundation YALE
Book SynopsisWalter De Maria's Lightning Field (1977) is one of the twentieth century's most significant works of art. This book deploys quotation to effect multiple perspectives and points of view.
£35.62
Yale University Press Manuel Neri
Book SynopsisThis engaging publication examines the prodigious body of work of American sculptor Manuel Neri (b. 1930) through the unique perspective of one of Neri's former students. A near-contemporary of other notable California-based artists Richard Diebenkorn and Wayne Thiebaud, Neri is best known for his large-scale figurative sculptures that combine classical figuration with the dynamic mark-making of Abstract Expressionism. The book traces the compelling yet often contradictory thematic arcs of Neri's powerful work and his greater impact on the field of sculpture. At the heart of the publication are Jock Reynolds's personal reflections on Neri and his legacy as a teacher, adding insight and intimacy to the scholarly understanding of the artist. Photographs of Neri in his studio, archival images, and installation photos of the related exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery round out the book. With its blend of art historyand personal reflection, this unique book offers valuable insight into an important, understudied California artist. Distributed for the Yale University Art GalleryExhibition Schedule:Yale University Art Gallery (03/02/1807/08/18)
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Yale University Press Rachel Harrison Life Hack
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Yale University Press Louise Bourgeois Freuds Daughter
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the art and writing of Louise Bourgeois through the lens of her relationship with Freudian psychoanalysis
£36.00
Yale University Press Bill Brandt Henry Moore
Book SynopsisTrade Review“[A] magnificent produce of quality publishing, printed and bound in the United States, with its superb large-size reproductions on heavy glossy paper, its attractive end papers, its sewn, not glued sections – a guarantee of durability for a hefty volume of that category – and its very informative accompanying text…Unreservedly recommended.”—Antoine Capet, Cercles“Well worth picking up…A real treat for nostalgia and history buffs”—Amy Davies, Amateur Photographer“[A] fascinating and beautifully illustrated book”—Roderick Conway Morris, The Lady“The book takes an unusual approach to the reproduction of photographic works, capturing the materiality of the print as a singular, three-dimensional object rather than a flattened image on the page.”—Norfolkchamber.co.uk“The sculptor Henry Moore and photographer Bill Brandt were not nearly so closely connected, nor any sort of couple at all. Nonetheless, as an exhibition and associated book Bill Brandt/Henry Moore bring out, they moved on parallel paths.”—Martin Gayford, SpectatorShortlisted for the 2020 Paris Photo – Aperture Foundation Photo Book Awards, sponsored by The Aperture Foundation
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Yale University Press Folon
Book SynopsisThe extraordinary sculptures of Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon
£31.50
Yale University Press Berlinde De Bruyckere Angels Throat
Book SynopsisA comprehensive overview of renowned Belgian artist Berlinde De Bruyckere’s work since 2014, inspired by the figure of the angel
£40.50
Yale University Press Alberto Giacometti
Book SynopsisA comprehensive survey of the work of the legendary Swiss artist, this book illustrates and examines more than 100 of his sculptures, paintings, drawings, and prints
£36.00
Yale University Press Bamigboye
Book SynopsisThe first publication on the Yorùbá master sculptor Moshood Olúṣọmọ Bámigbóyè
£38.00
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
£40.50
Yale University Press Modigliani Up Close
Book SynopsisAn in-depth exploration of how the iconic artist created his works over the course of his full career
£36.00
Yale University Press Canova
Book SynopsisThe first book-length examination of the clay models and creative process of the preeminent neoclassical sculptor Antonio CanovaTrade Review“A comprehensive, beautifully illustrated catalog.”—Karen Wilkin, Wall Street Journal“This beautiful catalogue combines up-to-date scholarship and scientific analysis, stunning photography by Luigi Spina (close-ups reveal Canova’s fingerprints) with an elegantly understated design.”—Art Newspaper, “Top Art Books of 2023”
£45.00
Yale University Press Josh Kline
Book SynopsisA deep look at a contemporary artist whose work highlights how the rise of technology and corporate capitalism have disrupted our lives and polarized society
£40.50
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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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 *
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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
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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
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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
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Animal Media Group LLC B. Wurtz Pan Paintings
Book SynopsisGorgeous abstractions on roasting pans and takeout containers from a beloved figure of the New York art worldFor nearly five decades New York-based artist B. Wurtz (born 1948) has transformed humble materials and discarded objects into humorous and wryly beautiful works of art. This full-color, Swiss-bound monograph focuses on the artist's iconic series of pan paintings made on disposable aluminum roasting pans and to-go containers. In 1990, Wurtz discovered patterns stamped in the bottom of these mass-produced products and grasped their potential as readymade abstract paintings. In the three decades since, he has worked across a wide variety of pan shapes and sizes, applying dazzling combinations of color using the patterns as predetermined compositions. Pan Paintings provides the first overview of the various permutations in color and shape that comprise this long-term series. The book includes an essay by art historian and curator Erica Cooke which
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Princeton University Press Ambitious Form
Book SynopsisDescribes the transformation of Italian sculpture during the neglected half-century between the death of Michelangelo and the rise of Bernini. This book follows the Florentine careers of three major sculptors - Giambologna, Bartolomeo Ammanati, and Vincenzo Danti - as they negotiated the politics of the Medici court and eyed one another's work.Trade ReviewFinalist for the 2012 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, College Art Association One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011 "In this stimulating offering, Cole investigates sculptural enterprise in Florence during the second half of the 16th century. Focusing on Giambologna, Bartolomeo Ammanati, and Vincenzo Danti, this book is no mere survey of trends or compilation of biographies. It concerns what being a sculptor meant in this dynamic time and place and the nature of the plastic arts themselves. The study, which is as ambitious as its subjects were, succeeds brilliantly... [P]rofoundly original."--Choice "The book is beautifully illustrated and structured around clearly defined thematic chapters, and Cole weaves, or perhaps it would be better to say, builds an art historical text that is just as monumental as the sculptural works he discusses."--Jennifer D. Webb, Sixteenth Century Journal "Cole is persuasive and unsettling enough to ensure that no reader will be able to look at a sixteenth-century sculpture the same way again."--Cammy Brothers, Oxford Art Journal "Ambitious Form has much to recommend it as essential reading for anyone interested in the history of art. Cole's ability to make the reader/viewer take a second and more studied look at an object is repeatedly evinced."--Fredrika Jacobs, European LegacyTable of ContentsIntroduction i Chapter 1: Models 21 Chapter 2: Professions 51 Chapter 3: Naturalism 90 Chapter 4: Pose 121 Chapter 5: Sculpture as Architecture 158 Chapter 6: Chapels 193 Chapter 7: Sculpture in the City 244 Conclusion 283 Photo Credits 287 Notes 293 Acknowledgments 353 Index 357
£55.25
Marquand Books Inc Robert Murray
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Logan Center Exhibitions Kapwani Kiwanga Structural Adjustments
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British Museum Press Catalogue of Greek Terracottas in the British
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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 Participation from
Book SynopsisWhat happens when you touch or enter an artwork instead of looking at it? As artists since the 1950s have increasingly sought to involve viewers more actively in their artworks, this critical anthology sheds light on the nature of these new forms of participation and their historical, social and political significance.Table of ContentsAnna Dezeuze: What the do-it-yourself artwork can do for youPART I: PARTICIPATION IN CONTEXTAnna Dezeuze: “Open work,” “do-it-yourself artwork,” and bricolageJudith Rodenbeck: “creative acts of consumption” or, death in VeniceArnauld Pierre: Instability: the visual/bodily perception of space in kinetic environmentsGuy Brett: 3 PioneersPART II: PERFORMING PARTICIPATIONCatherine Wood: The rules of engagement: Displaced figuration in Robert Morris’s sculptureFrazer Ward: Marina Abramovic: Approaching zeroAmelia Jones: Space, body and the self in the work of Bruce NaumanJanet Kraynak: Tiravanija’s liabilityJennifer Gonzalez: the face and the public: Race, secrecy and digital art practicePART III: ANALYSING PARTICIPATIONAnna Dezeuze: Play, ritual and politics: Transitional artworks in the 1960sChristian Kravagna: Working on the community: Models of participatory practiceMiwon Kwon: Exchange and reciprocity in some art of the 1960s and afterClaire Bishop: Antagonism and Relational AestheticsBeryl Graham: What kind of participative system? Critical vocabularies from new media artIndex
£81.00
Manchester University Press Transcultural Encounters
Book SynopsisExplores Franco-Maghrebi crossings in contemporary art, giving particular attention to performance, video, photography and installation. It is the first book to focus on postcolonial approaches to art in France and the wider French-speaking world. -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Visualising Franco-Maghrebi identities1. Art, fashion and veiling: Majida Khattari’s défilé-performances 2. Performing the veil in urban and virtual spaces: Princess Hijab and Niqabitch secoue Paris 3. Belly dancing to the Marseillaise: crossing cultures and media in the art of Zoulikha Bouabdellah 4. Transculturation and ‘veiling the mind’ in the art of Zineb Sedira 5. Visualising diversity: renegotiating ‘home’ in video art by Katia Kameli 6. New orientations in the art of travel: Maghrebi and Mediterranean journeys in video and photography Conclusion: transnational art in a Francophone frame Index
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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
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Manchester University Press Grown but not made
Book SynopsisThe first detailed critical history of British Modernist sculpture's interaction with modern biology. -- .Trade Review"In Grown But Not Made: British Modernist Sculpture and the New Biology, Juler […] truly captures the exciting cultural crosspollination at work in 1930s Great Britain, connecting, for example, the extraordinarily talented creator and editor of the avant-garde journal Axis Myfanwy Piper, Neo-Constructivism, and the biologistic mindset cultivated in H. G. Wells and Julian Huxley’s collaboratively written book of 1938, The Science of Life—a nexus of forces which materialized in the beautiful garden suburb of London that is Hampstead […] Juler’s book is all about loving science, at least in the popular realm, and its coexistence and mixing with art during the 1930s. His is what Bloom called “a profound act of reading that is a kind of falling in love with a literary work."Charissa N. Terranova, Athenaeum Review, Issue 1 (Fall 2018)‘The sinuous organic forms in the sculpture of Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore and others are often tied to vague conceptions of Biology; however, few have embarked on the subject with the level of scienti?c speci?city that Edward Juler does in his book Grown But Not Made […] Through the author’s con?dent explanations of the scienti?c factions at play – something of a rarity in art historical accounts of bio-centricity – he weaves a comprehensive picture of the biological foundations that underpin the conceptual frameworks of artists and critics in the interwar period.’Rachel Stratton, Sculpture Journal, Vol. 27, No. 3 (2018) -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Bridging the two cultures: relations between art and science in the 1930s2. Metamorphosis3. Organismal composition4. The morphology of art5. Worlds beneath the microscopeBibliographyIndex
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Lexington Books Political Animals Public Art in American Zoos and
Book SynopsisOffers a study and perspective on the relationship between politics and the art found in American zoos and aquariums. This book examines the ways that zoos and aquariums have successfully served as sculptural gardens for the masses. It also contains art and architecture that convey political messages about both the patrons and the animals.Trade ReviewPolitical Animals is a thorough history of how one cultural institution has negotiated the relationship between its public and its collection, using art as a mediator. -- Harry Sheff * Public Art Review *Overlooked by scholars but looked over daily by visitors, artworks in the nation's zoos and aquariums reveal Americans' evolving understanding of animals and themselves. In this much welcome contribution, authors Jesse Donahue and Erik Trump examine the means by which public art at the public zoo testifies not only humans' relationship to other animals. Such art engages political debates about the nature of democracy and aesthetics, about scientific research and religious belief, and, finally, about animal rights and the nature of Nature itself. Political Animals extends current discussions of the role of the arts in a democracy as it critically examines Americans' stewardship of the animal kingdom... -- Shirley Teresa Wajda, Kent State UniversityOverlooked by scholars but looked over daily by visitors, artworks in the nation's zoos and aquariums reveal Americans' evolving understanding of animals and themselves. In this much welcome contribution, authors Jesse Donahue and Erik Trump examine the means by which public art at the public zoo testifies not only humans' relationship to other animals. Such art engages political debates about the nature of democracy and aesthetics, about scientific research and religious belief, and, finally, about animal rights and the nature of Nature itself. Political Animals extends current discussions of the role of the arts in a democracy as it critically examines Americans' stewardship of the animal kingdom. -- Shirley Teresa Wajda, Kent State UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Science for the Millions: Realistic Animals in Temples Chapter 2 Animal Art for the People: The New Deal to the 1960s Chapter 3 Making Animals Accessible Through Art: Representational Art Revisited Chapter 4 Exposing Human Violence: Postmodern Animal Art Chapter 5 The Politics of Diversity: Ethnic and Religious Art
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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
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Pottery in Roman Britain Shire Archaeology No 79
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Alfred USA Pop Hits for the Instrumental Soloist Clarinet
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Mexican Cartoneria Paper Paste and Fiesta Paper
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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
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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
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Johns Hopkins University Press Testament to Union
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
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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
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George Braziller Inc Origins of Modern Sculpture
Book SynopsisThis book focuses upon Rodin and the sculptors between 1890 and 1918 who revolutionised the form and meaning of sculpture.
£9.45
University Alabama Press Pablo Nerudas Ship Figureheads
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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
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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.
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