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Taylor & Francis The Look of Van Dyck
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Taylor & Francis Pantheons
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Taylor & Francis Rodin The Zola of Sculpture SubjectObject New Studies in Sculpture
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Taylor & Francis Sculpture and the Garden
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Taylor & Francis Digital Applications for Cultural and Heritage Institutions Selected Papers from the EVA Conferences
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Taylor & Francis Of Armor and Men in Medieval England
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Iconoclasm Contested Objects Contested Terms SubjectObject New Studies in Sculpture
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Taylor & Francis Hawthorne Sculpture and the Question of American Art
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Taylor & Francis Womens Albums and Photography in Victorian England
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Taylor & Francis Leone Leoni and the Status of the Artist at the End of the Renaissance
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Taylor & Francis Francesca Woodman and the Kantian Sublime
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Taylor & Francis The Late Paintings of Velazquez
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Taylor & Francis Patronage and Italian Renaissance Sculpture
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Shimon Atties Writing on the Wall
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Art and Art Therapy of Papermaking
Book SynopsisThe Art and Art Therapy of Papermaking: Material, Methods, and Applications provides a comprehensive collection about the contemporary practices, media, and value of hand papermaking as social engagement, art therapy, and personal voice. Divided into three parts that highlight each of these areas, contributors explore topics such as advocacy, work with survivors, community outreach, medical challenges, and how papermaking can empower creative expression, stories of change, recovery, and reclamation to address trauma, grief and loss, social action, and life experiences. Previous books have covered hand papermaking or art therapy media as stand-alone subjects; this text is the first of its kind that unites and describes the convergence of papermaking in all these forms. Art therapists, art educators, and artists will find this book essential to their education about how papermaking can be a powerful process to make meaning for the self, groups, and community.Trade Review"In The Art and Art Therapy of Papermaking: Material, Methods, and Applications, editors Drew Luan Matott and Gretchen M. Miller have gathered an important series of essays by practitioners who have seen, again and again, how therapeutic the craft can be. This book is essential for anyone who cares about the craft of papermaking, and its ability to help nurture and heal."Tim Barrett, director emeritus, University of Iowa Center for the Book"This wonderful book is what happens when artists and art therapists get together to rediscover an age-old yet uncommon material. Every aspect of papermaking is described: from how to approach this fascinating medium and invite participants to explore its alchemical potential, to the practical details and endless therapeutic adaptations that can be made. But it doesn’t stop there: More than a book on papermaking, it offers a soul-stirring testimony to the work of reclamation – as people courageously free the fibers of their military uniforms, baby blankets, public records, t-shirts, love and hate letters, and more – to be pulped, recast, and transformed with radical insights that inspire far-reaching transformations in their lives."Lynn Kapitan, Ph.D., ATR-BC, HLM, professor emerit of graduate and doctoral art therapy and author, Introduction to Art Therapy Research"The Art & Art Therapy of Papermaking is an accessible guide to transforming meaningful materials and experiences into sheets of paper and works of art. An insightful book filled with examples of healing through the papermaking process – the first of its kind!"Helen Hiebert, author, The Papermaker’s Companion, artist, and educator"Serendipity often led contributors to this book to papermaking. Fortunately, readers can engage with papermaking more intentionally and knowledgeably with Matott and Miller’s The Art and Art Therapy of Papermaking as their guide. Teachers, art activists, art therapists, students, and artists of all experience levels will find practical and inspirational material here. The book is replete with examples, instructions, and resources that are relatable and accessible. The authors have made papermaking, often perceived as too complicated for novice users, approachable by all. Highly Recommended!" Lisa D. Hinz, Ph.D., ATR-BC author, Expressive Therapies Continuum A Framework for Using Art in TherapyTable of ContentsIntroduction PART I: Papermaking as Social Engagement 1. Making Paper Mean Something: Socially Engaged Art with Content-Specific Fibers 2.Pulp, Pull, Press, and Print: Engaging with Papermaking in Community Art Workshops 3. Paper as Praxis PART II: Papermaking as Art Therapy 4. Adaptations and Modifications for Therapeutic Hand Papermaking 5.Papermaking Transformation in an Art Therapy Curriculum 6. Voices of the Bereaved: Papermaking for Processing Grief and Loss PART III: Papermaking as Personal Voice 7.Papermaker Reflections: Stories of Change, Growth, and Creativity 8.Future Thoughts and Directions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Artistic Cartography and Design Explorations
Book SynopsisThis edited volume uses an interdisciplinary approach to art and design that not only reframes but also repositions agendas and actions to address fragmented global systems. Contributors explore the pluriverse of art and design through epistemological and methodological considerations. What kinds of sustainable ways are there for knowledge transfer, supporting plural agendas, finding novel ways for unsettling conversations, unlearning and learning and challenging power structures with marginalised groups and contexts through art and design? The main themes of the book are art and design methods, epistemologies and practices that provide critical, interdisciplinary, pluriversal and decolonial considerations. The book challenges the domination of the white logic of art and design and shifts away from the Anglo-European one-world system towards the pluriverse. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, arts-based research, and Table of ContentsPreface- Andrea W. Mignolo and Walter D. Mignolo Foreword: The European Commission policy for promoting arts to tackle societal challenges and increase cohesion and inclusion- Christina Sarvani and Jarkko Siren Introduction: Artistic cartographies and design explorations towards the pluriverse - Satu Miettinen, Enni Mikkonen, Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos and Melanie Sarantou Section I: Pluriversal A/r/tographies Record of a multispecies creative exploration in the austral forests - Mariluz Soto Hormazábal and Mauricio Tolosa Dialogues for plurality—art-based exchange for strengthening youth’s role as agents of change - Katri Konttinen, Enni Mikkonen & Mikko Ylisuvanto Multiperspective take on pluriversal agenda in artistic research - Marija Griniuk, Daria Akimenko, Satu Miettinen, Heidi Pietarinen and Melanie Sarantou A critical retrospective on whiteness in Possible Worlds video artwork - Mari Mäkiranta and Outi Ylitapio-Mäntylä New genre Arctic art in the city of Rovaniemi: Promotion of de-Arctification and pluralism - Maria Huhmarniemi and Mirja Hiltunen Expanding design narratives through handmade embroidery production: A dialogue with a community of women in Passira, Pernambuco, Brazil - Ana Julia Melo Almeida and Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos Afrikana—burying colonial bones to harvest seeds and bouquets of plurality - Michelle Olga van Wyk Section II: Design explorations towards the pluriverse Excluding by design - Peter West Knowledge plurality for greater university-community permeability: Experiences in art and design from fieldwork - Caoimhe Isha Beaulé, Élisabeth Kaine, Étienne Levac, Anne Marchand and Jean-François Vachon Other worlds are possible: Advanced computational and design thinking in South Auckland - Ricardo Sosa Pluriverse perspectives in designing for a cultural heritage context in the digital age - Jonna Häkkilä, Siiri Paananen, Mari Suoheimo and Maija Mäkikalli Centring relationships more than humans and things: Translating design through the culture of the Far East - Namkyu Chun Professionalised designing in between plural makings - Zhipeng Duan Enacting plurality in designing social innovation: Developing a culturally grounded twenty-first-century leadership programme for a Cambodian context - Joyce Yee, Sovan Srun and Laura Smitheman Section III The pluriverse of activism, diversity and accessibility A history of design education in Brazil: A decolonial perspective - Júlio César Tamer Okabayashi and Maria Cecília Loschiavo Dos Santos Unveiling the layered structures of Youth Work - Ana Nuutinen and Enni Mikkonen Making IMPACT: Visibility status in participatory projects - Teresa Torres De Eça and ngela Saldanha Flag: A shared horizon - Heidi Pietarinen, Amna Qureshi and Melanie Sarantou Ghost bike agency and urban culture through art activism - Eduardo Rumenig, Julio Talhari, Maria Cecilia L. Dos Santos and Luiz E.P.B.T. Dantas Mediating social interaction through a chatbot to leverage the diversity of a community: Tensions, paradoxes, and opportunities - Amalia De Götzen, Peter Kun, Luca Simeone, and Nicola Morelli
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Conversations on Creative Process Methods
Book SynopsisConversations on Creative Process, Methods, Research and Practice provides unique insights into the experiences of eight established creative practitioners who use their creative process in a professional and personal context. Each of them details their creative processes and how being creative has helped them to achieve a fulfilling work/life balance. Interviewees discuss how their creativity has helped them to overcome challenges or difficulties they have faced in their lives including grief, health issues, prejudice, divorce, maternity and creative blocks. This book uses original material research and interviews to explore the nature of the creative process from the perspective of understanding the activities, thoughts and feelings that shape an individual artist's creative practice and how this might inform a wider collective understanding of creativity and how it can help us to live well. The book suggests that individual creative practice is a means ofTable of Contents1. The Science of Creativity: A Conversation with Anna Abraham What Is Creativity? A Response to Anna Abraham 2. Real and Imagined Explorations of Self: A Conversation with Katarina Ranković Creative Inspiration: Looking Back to Move Forward: A Response to Katarina Ranković 3. Taking Charge of What You Can Take Charge Of: A Conversation with Sonia Overall Creative Conversations as a Way of Re-establishing Academic Joy: An Autoethnography: A Response to Sonia Overall 4. Desiring a Fulfilled Creative Life: A Conversation with Irene Marot Creativity, Myth, and Memory: A Response to Irene Marot 5. Creating Space, Time and Magic Moments: A Conversation with Grizelda Creative Change: A Response to Grizelda 6. Connected Creativity: A Conversation with Thomasina Gibson Supporting Our Creativity: A Response to Thomasina Gibson 7. Making Your Creative Life Work and Making Work Your Creative Life: A Conversation with Lisa Norman Creative Futures: A Response to Lisa Norman with Megan Bell
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Queer Methodology for Photography
Book SynopsisThis volume presents new ways of approaching photographic discourse from a queer perspective, offering discussions on what a queering methodology for photography may entail by drawing links between artistic strategies in photographic practice and key theoretical concepts from photography theory, queer theory, critical theory, and philosophy.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Queer: What Is Queer Photography?2 Representation: Capturing or Staging the Scene3 Refigure: Writing the Photograph, Queerly4 Skin: A Material Image5 Measure: Paradigms of Exactitude6 Ground: On the Margins of PhotographyConclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Silver Gelatin In the Digital Age
Book SynopsisThis book provides photographers of all skill levels with a concise step-by-step guide to combining analog and digital tools with the goal of making silver gelatin prints in the traditional darkroom. It offers the most comprehensive treatment of lith printing published in many years, focusing on materials which are currently available.Key topics include traditional silver gelatin printing, direct and second-pass lith printing, film to digital image conversion, bleaching, toning and other post-production practices. Readers will learn how to use specific Photoshop tools to carry out the time-honored techniques of overall tonal control, contrast, and burning and dodging. This also features Photoshop basics for black and white, image shaping in Photoshop, and digital negative creation. Through exploring these skills, readers will gain an understanding of how to prepare images and create negatives that can be used in other historical processes including cyanotype, platinum/palladiTable of ContentsPart 1: The Adventure Begins 1. Printmaking with Intent 2. Getting Started, Hardware and Software 3. Photoshop Basics for Black and White Part 2: Recording The Image 4. Film Photography 5. Analog to Digital Conversion 6. Digital Photography and Raw Conversion Part 3: Shaping The Image, Making The Negative 7. Shaping The Image 8. Making The Digital Negative Part Four: Making The Print 9. Silver Gelatin Printing 10. Silver Gelatin Lith Printing Part 5: Contemporary Artists 11. Contemporary Artists
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Taylor & Francis In a Glamourous Fashion
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1981, In A Glamourous Fashion is not only a fascinating look at film fashion portraying the glamour and glitter of Hollywoodâs heyday; but is also an invaluable reference source for any student of the film, of costume, or of the social history. It documents some of the best work of the designers â names like Adrian, Cecil Beaton, Edith Head â but tells the often-dramatic story of their careers and their relationships with legendary stars such as Garbo, Dietrich, Monroe and many more. Here are the stories behind the screenâs most famous costumes: Walter Plunkettâs âcurtain dressâ for Scarlett OâHara; the red Jezebel gown Orry-Kelly designed for Bette Davis; the slinky back satin sheath Rita Hayworth wore in Gilda; and the extravagant gown â â 15, 000 worth of mink â worn by Ginger Rogers in Lady in the Dark. The photographs and original sketches are an essential and decorative complement to the text; there is an index, bibliography, and
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Taylor & Francis Encountering Craft
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Taylor & Francis Art Culture and International Development
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Art, Culture and International Development offers a profound civilizational critique of contemporary predicament of development and presents us many important resources for development of a new culture of creativity. It challenges us to realize our manifold contemporary poverty in the midst of illusion of affluence on the part of a few—material, cultural and spiritual poverty—and urges us to strive for realizing ‘integral development’ in self and society in which arts in all their myriad manifestations—visual, crafts, literature, painting, and theatre—play an important role." – Ananta Kumar Giri, Madras Institute of Development Studies, India "John Clammer brings fresh air to the field of development. The author proposes art and its transformative potential as a way to improve the living conditions of the poorest. Therefore, art, once a stronghold of the elites, would become a powerful resource for development. Clammer reinstates the expressive and creative capacity of vulnerable groups as a means of exploring alternative paths to the longed, but rarely achieved "well-being". This perspective on development -a field still hegemonized by hard data, and the logics of economics-is optimistic, and especially humane." – Marian Moya, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina"Because of the provocative argument of including culture into holistic understandings of growth and wellbeing, this text is an inspirational account of what truly human approaches to social development can be and, alongside other texts in the ‘Rethinking Development’ series is a recommended reading for both seasoned practitioners and development studies students alike." – Jacqueline Priego-Hernandez, LSE Review of Books"The book serves the purpose of demonstrating the potential influence of re-imagining cultural expression through arts. The case studies and wide variety of empirical examples are suitable for advanced students and practitioners. It should also find a wide audience in those with an interest in global artistic production." – Margath A. Walker, Department of Geography and Geosciences University of Louisville, USATable of ContentsPreface 1. Art, Culture and Development: What Are the Connections? 2. Art as Social Enterprise: The Creative Sector in Relation to Poverty, Policy and Social Development 3. The Arts of Sustainability: Architecture, Design and Public Art 4. Performing Development: Theatres of the Oppressed and Beyond 5. Visualizing Development: Film, Photography, Representation 6. Writing Development: Literatures of Critique and Transformation 7. Arts Education for Development and Social Justice 8. Art, Culture and Integral Development
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Taylor & Francis Turner as Draughtsman
Book SynopsisTurner as Draughtsman looks at the artist's practice of drawing in various media (pen, pencil and chalk as well as watercolour and oil paint), an aspect of Turner's work which has hitherto received very little attention. Andrew Wilton shows that, while Turner's art has always been celebrated for its atmospheric breadth and freedom of handling, he based his working procedures throughout his career on the discipline of drawing in outline, which was an essential element in the grand strategy by which he achieved his formidable results. An important section of the book is devoted to the vexed question of Turner's drawing of the human figure, and the crucial role played by the figure both in his conception of landscape and in his ambitious attempts to master all the genres of fashionable contemporary art.Trade Review'This book is a masterpiece. If nothing else this exceptional book lifts Turner out of the straight-jackets imposed hitherto by sundry art historians, critics and other experts, to a level free of myth and other posthumous shades. Here is the man himself, an incorrigible genius, forever experimenting, forever at work'.' www.artnewsletter.com 'This is a highly original study, resting on an intimate knowledge of the visual materials, which Wilton often characterizes with great vividness and verve ... his style is free of academic jargon ... The theme of this book is thoroughly worthwhile and its material is rich and up-to-date.' John Gage, University of Cambridge, UK ’...47 good black-and-white illustrations...Wilton writes with the erudition and knowledge of an experienced observer who is adept at casting a critical eye on both traditional and recent scholarship. At the same time, his skill at explaining the nuances of Turner’s genius should give this book a wide appeal. Extensive endnotes and full bibliography...Recommended.’ Choice ’... an important contribution to our overall understanding of Turner's work... nuanced and perceptive study...’ Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: could Turner draw?; Turner's history of drawing; The rudiments of draughtsmanship; Early influences; A mature shorthand; Line and colour; Drawing and painting; Turner's humanity; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Max Liebermann
Book SynopsisMax Liebermann: Modern Art and Modern Germany is the first English-language examination of this German impressionist painter whose long life and career spanned nine decades. Through a close reading of key paintings and by a discussion of his many cultural networks across Germany and throughout Europe, this study by Marion Deshmukh illuminates Liebermann's importance as a pioneer of German modernism. Critics and admirers alike saw his art as representing aesthetic European modernism at its best. His subjects included dispassionate depictions of the rural Dutch countryside, his colorful garden at the Wannsee, and his many portraits of Germany's cultural, political, and military elites. Liebermann was the largest collector of French Impressionism in Germany - and his cosmopolitan outlook and his art created strong antipathies towards both by political and cultural conservatives throughout his life.Trade Review"Marion Deshmukh has deftly interwoven a comprehensive study of Liebermann’s life, art, and critical reception within a context of the cultural and political history of Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany. Deshmukh has used Liebermann’s "bourgeois modernism" to reassess the unique and conflicted nature of modernism in Germany. Her book is now the definitive English-language source of information on the painter and will no doubt remain so for years to come." - Marsha Morton, Pratt Institute, USA "At long last, a monograph in English on Max Liebermann, one of Germany’s most important cultural figures of the modern era. Meticulously researched, this study is especially welcome for the way in which it weaves together and illuminates Liebermann’s life, art and times in ways that enormously enrich our understanding of how culture intersected with politics in a period of fraught and conflicting ideologies." - Maria Makela, California College of the Arts, USA"The first biography of Liebermann (1847-1935) in English, this densely written, exhaustuvely researched book is far more than a life of critically important modern German Artist. In writing about Liebermann, Deshmukh (emer., history, George Mason Univ.) looks at critical issue of German history during the first half of the 20th century... Summing Up: High recommended." - J.T. Paoletti, Wesleyan University, CHOICE Reviews "This study succeeds in providing a useful survey of many of the existing approaches to Liebermann's work from within the German literature, including the relevance of his interest in Holland, and his position as an advocate for international Modernism in Germany. At the same time, Deshmukh provides fresh perspectives on some of these interpretations, for example in her exploration of Liebermann's art-world networks and the politicisation of his art. The result is a book of considerable value, for both English-speaking scholars of Liebermann and those less familiar with the artist's work." - Lucy Watling, The Burlington MagazineTable of ContentsTable of Contents to come.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Artists in the Archive
Book SynopsisArtists in the Archive explores the agency and materiality of the archival document through a stunning collection of critical writings and original artworks. It examines the politics and philosophy behind re-using remains, historicising this artistic practice and considering the breadth of ways in which archival materials inform, inflect and influence new works.Taking a fresh look at the relationships between insider know-how and outsider knowledge, Artists in the Archive opens a vital dialogue between a global range of artists and scholars. It seeks to trouble the distinction between artistic practice and scholarly research, offering disciplinary perspectives from experimental theatre, performance art, choreography and dance, to visual art making, archiving and curating.Table of ContentsPaul Clarke, Simon Jones, Nick Kaye and Johanna Linsley, Introduction: inside and outside the archive Nick Kaye, Liveness and the entanglement with things 1. REMAKE 1a Janez Janša, Monument G as a call for reconstruction1b Tim Etchells, Untitled (After Violent Incident) 1c Robin Deacon, Stuart Sherman's Hamlet: a careful misreading 1d Rosemary Butcher and Stefanie Sachsenmaier, Rosemary Butcher: After Kaprow–a visual journey 1e Zhang Huan, Six Questions1f Adrian Heathfield, The ghost time of transformation. 2. RETURN2a Blast Theory/John Hunter, Jog Shuttler2b Lin Hixson and Matthew Goulish, Our 18 Beginnings2c Paul Clarke/Performance Re-enactment Society, Performing art history: non-linear, synchronous and syncopated times in Performance Re-enactment Society’s Group Show (Arnolfini, Bristol 2012) 2d Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Re-enacting the archive: untimely meditations on the use and abuse of repetition 2e Amelia Jones, Archive, repertoire and embodied histories in Não Bustamente’s performative practice 2f Andrew Quick, The patina of performance: documentary practice and the search for origins in The Wooster Group’s Fish Story 3. REVIEW 3a Mike Pearson, The lesson of anatomy 3b Fiona Templeton, Authority, authorship and authoring in the Theatre of Mistakes 3c Bodies in Flight, Do the Wild Thing! Redux 3d Felix Gmelin, Understanding negative dialectics 3e Johanna Linsley, 9 beginnings: sonic theatrical possibilities and potentialities in the performance archive3f Maaike Bleeker, Resistance to representation and the fabrication of truth: performance as thought-apparatus 4. ARCHIVE 4a Giles Bailey, Talker Catalogue 4b Terry O’Connor, Nothing goes to waste 4c Koh Nguang How, The Singapore Art Archive Project 4d Richard Hancock and Traci Kelly, Playing with shadows and speaking in echoes 4e Claire MacDonald, Performing with ghosts: a talk remembered4f Simon Jones, The future perfect of the archive: re-thinking performance in the age of third natureList of contributorsAcknowledgementsIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Capturing Japan in NineteenthCentury New England
Book SynopsisCapturing Japan in Nineteenth-Century New England Photography Collections examines the evidence left behind from a famous first encounter-that of prominent New England Americans with the remnants of feudal Japan in the 1870s and 1880s. The study reveals that, despite these Americans'' varied reasons for traveling to Japan and studying its culture, a common desire united all of their collecting activities: to gather photographic documentation of a Japan they believed was disappearing under the pressures of trade and industrialization. Eleanor Hight focuses on the case studies of six New Englanders, whose travel and photograph collecting influenced the flowering of Japonism in the late nineteenth-century Boston area-still visible today in institutions such as the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Peabody Essex Museum, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The book also explores the history of Japanese photography and its main themes, from images of travel and historic sites, to exotic Trade Review'Hight [...] offers a perceptive, multifaceted study of photographs made in Japan in the 1870s-80s...This book is important both for its Japanese subject and for its wider implications for the history of photography. Extensive notes and bibliography... Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty.' Choice 'The book [...] is well-designed and beautifully illustrated with many examples of nineteenth-century photographs, including eleven colour plates reproducing hand-coloured photographs and one showing the collector’s album cover... Capturing Japan in Nineteenth-Century New England Photography Collections is an entertaining, informative, and highly readable account of an important facet of American Cultural History.' Historical Journal of Massachusetts 'Eleanor M. Hight offers an intriguing addition to the growing body of literature on early Japanese photography... Hight’s book draws on a rich archive of previously understudied primary source material: the photographs, albums, letters, and travelogues of six early visitors to Japan... the book is a welcome contribution to the literature. Hight’s highly readable text provides a clear and concise summary of Yokohama photography and its primary themes. It raises a number of provocative questions regarding the roles played by the consumers of the images, both in shaping the market within Japan and in shaping the perceptions of audiences back home, and ultimately opens up a number of further avenues of inquiry into this very rich material.' History of PhotographyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Into the emergent Japan; New England travelers; The adventure of early photography in Japan; Along the go-kaido; The people of 'old Japan'; Capturing Japan; Selected bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Getting the Picture
Book SynopsisPowerful and often controversial, news pictures promise to make the world at once immediate and knowable. Yet while many great writers and thinkers have evaluated photographs of atrocity and crisis, few have sought to set these images in a broader context by defining the rich and diverse history of news pictures in their many forms.For the first time, this volume defines what counts as a news picture, how pictures are selected and distributed, where they are seen and how we critique and value them. Presenting the best new thinking on this fascinating topic, this book considers the news picture over time, from the dawn of the illustrated press in the nineteenth century, through photojournalism's heyday and the rise of broadcast news and newsreels in the twentieth century and into today's digital platforms. It examines the many kinds of images: sport, fashion, society, celebrity, war, catastrophe and exoticism; and many mediums, including photography, painting, wood engraving, Trade Review"These 49 essays are far-ranging and cogent, and shed new and needed light on the visual culture of the news. The essays address topics as varied as technology, style, fashion as news, veracity, the myth of the decisive moment, censorship, and photojournalism as art. Mostly, this work is not about the specific, and sometimes iconic, photographs cited but instead uses the pictures to illustrate larger cultural and professional issues. In ""Street Execution of a Viet Cong Prisoner, Saigon, 1968,"" Robert Hariman and John Louis Locates supply needed background information on Eddie Adams's photograph, but more importantly argue that ""the significance of 'Saigon Execution' was not that it represented or misrepresented an execution but that it embodied the moral ambiguity of violence that characterized US involvement in the Vietnam War. Its continued circulation suggests that in more ways than one, the war is not over."" Regarding celebrity, Ryan Linkof makes the case that ""photojournalism plays an inseparable role in making celebrities, but also works to drag them into a court of public opinion; it is at once a condition of celebrity and a consequence of it."" This book is an important and timely addition to the literature of visual media. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels."--C. Baker, Baylor University, USA, CHOICE"An immensely rich collection of essays that will change the way that we understand and study the visual culture of the news." --Lynda Nead, Birkbeck University of London, UK "The representation of the news in pictures has a complex history that extends from early print-making through the industrial revolution to the contemporary digital device. It is amazing that this is the first book to attempt an in-depth account of this history, which is not just about images, but about editorial practices, technologies, censorship, authenticity, and styles of seeing and showing. Assembling a team of experts on everything from lithography to the laptop, the editors have created an essential scholarly compendium that will have a major impact on the general study of media and visual culture, as well as the specific fields of photography and art history."--W. J. T. Mitchell, The University of Chicago, USA"Getting the Picture is a fresh examination of the visual media that bring us the news. Its editors and contributors excel at drawing attention to moments of modernity captured, interpreted, disseminated and undergirded by the visual practices of the popular press. Historically grounded, theoretically informed, stylistically elegant and interpretively challenging, this anthology is an excellent foundational text." --Laura Wexler, Yale University, USATable of ContentsGeneral Introduction Part I: Big Pictures Part Introduction 1. Patricia Mainardi, Dupinade, French caricature, 1831 2. Martha A. Sandweiss, General Wool and His Troops in the Streets of Saltillo, 1847 3. Matthew Fox-Amato, An Abolitionist Daguerreotype, New York, 1850 4. Anthony Lee, Antietam Sketches and Photographs, 1862 5. Jeannene Przyblyski, Barricades of Paris Commune, 1871 6. Thierry Gervais, Interview of Chevreul, France, 1886 7. John Mraz, Zapata and Salinas, Mexico, 1911 and 1991 8. Caitlin Patrick, Photographer on the Western Front, 1917 9. Michel Frizot, Sports Photomontage, France, 1926 10. Richard Meyer, Public Execution of Ruth Meyer, Sing-Sing Prison, 1928 11. Daniel Magilow, Photo of Kellogg-Briand Pact Meeting, Paris, 1931 12. Catherine Clark, A Decisive Moment, France, 1932 13. Sally Stein, Republican Soldier, Spanish Civil War, 1936 14. Barbie Zelizer, Child in Warsaw Ghetto, 1943 15. Alexander Nemerov, Flag-Raising, Iwo Jima, 1945 16. David Shneer, Soviet War Photo, Crimea, 1942 17. Vanessa Schwartz, New York in Color, 1953 18. Martin Berger, Rosa Parks Fingerprinted, Montgomery, Alabama, 1956 19. Mary Panzer, An Essay on Success in the USA, 1962 20. Diane Winston, Burning Monk, Saigon, 1963 21. David Lubin, Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Dallas, 1963 22. Victoria Gao, Chinese Political Persecution, Red Square, Harbin, 1966 23. Robert Hariman and John Lucaites, Street Execution of a Vietcong Prisoner, Saigon, 1968 24. Gennifer Weisenfeld, Industrial Poisoning, Minamata, 1972 25. Christian Delage, Police Beating, Los Angeles, 1992 26. Liam Kennedy, The Situation Room, Washington, DC, 2011 Part II: Re-Thinking the History of News Pictures 1. Justine de Young, Not Just a Pretty Picture: Fashion as News 2. Ryan Linkof, Celebrity Photos and Stolen Moments: Witnessing the Lives of Others 3. Ulrich Keller, Pictorial Press Reportage and Censorship in the First World War 4. Thierry Gervais, Illustrating Sports, or the Invention of the Magazine 5. Will Straw, After the Event: The Challenges of Crime Photography b) News Picture Media 6. Michael Leja, News Pictures in the Early Years of Mass Visual Culture in New York: Lithographs and the Penny Press 7. Jordana Mendelson, Beautiful Contradictions: News Pictures and Modern Magazines 8. Joe Clark, “Public Forum of the Screen”: Modernity, Mobility, and Debate at the Newsreel Cinema 9. Mike Conway, “See it Now”: Television News 10. Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Collective Self-Representation and the News: Torture at Abu-Ghraib c) News Picture Time 11. Jordan Bear, Adrift: The Time and Space of the News in Géricault’s Le Radeau de La Méduse 12. Jason Hill, Snap-Shot After Bullet Hit Gaynor 13. Andrés Zervigón, Rotogravure and the Modern Aesthetic of News Reporting 14. Zeynep Gursel, A Short History of Wire Service Photography d) Speaking of News Pictures 15. Jennifer Tucker, “Famished for News Pictures”: Mason Jackson, The Illustrated London News, and the Pictorial Spirit 16. Patricia Goldsworthy, Staying Close to Power: Picturing the King’s Entourage in Turn-of-the-Century Morocco 17. Nadya Bair, A Photojournalist is Never Alone: Photo Editing and Collaboration in the History of News Pictures 18. Kim Timby, Look at those Lollipops!: Integrating Color into News Pictures e) News Picture Connoisseurship 19. Katie Hornstein, Horace Vernet's Capture of the Smahla: Reportage and Actuality in the Early French Illustrated Press 20. Vincent Lavoie, Appraising News Pictures: Awarding a Multifaceted Icon 21. Kristen Gresh, An Era of Photographic Controversy: Edward Steichen at the MoMA 22. Gaëlle Morel, Photojournalism as Formal Paradigm in Contemporary Art 23. Erina Duganne, Adam Broomberg, Oliver Chanarin, and World Press Photo: Contemporary Art and Contemporary Photojournalism
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Cambridge University Press The Medieval Carver
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Cambridge University Press Animal Carvings in British Churches
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Cambridge University Press Art and Artificial Intelligence
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Cambridge University Press The Art of Decorative Design
Book SynopsisChristopher Dresser (18341904) was arguably the first British industrial designer, working in a variety of media, and this 1862 work was his most influential book. Highly illustrated, it describes how to incorporate ornament into design, and encouraged the rising middle classes to decorate their homes themselves.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Primarily, on the nature and character of ornament; 2. The ministrations of plants to ornament; 3. Grades in decorative art; 4. The affinity of the aesthetic arts; 5. Analysis of ornamental forms; 6. Order; 7. Repetition; 8. Curves; 9. Proportion; 10. Alternation; 11. Adaptation; 12. The power of ornament to express feelings and ideas; 13. Principles common to ornament; Appendix.
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Vintage Publishing The Redstone Book of the Eye A Compendium of
Book SynopsisAs we look at the world the eye seeks meaning, searches for the familiar. It will excite the eye: make you look again, see things anew, tease the mind and make you smile.Julian Rothenstein is the brilliant editor and designer of Redstone Press.Trade ReviewJulian Rothenstein's books are extraordinary - their range of reference seems to be universal and yet they have a flavour distinctively of their own. This Book of the Eye is no exception - vintage Redstone -- Quentin BlakeHis whole mission has been to make beautiful things and the results have almost never been equalled -- Will SelfVisual confusion and asymmetrical beauty are celebrated in this stimulating series of images and photos * The Times *Rothenstein uses an array of striking images to deconstruct everything about eyes, from the eye itself to optical illusions. Not simply a book for the art crowd * Big Issue *An eccentric compendium of images celebrating the world of the visual in delightfully oblique ways...the most moving section is perhaps The Unseeing Eye, where most of the pictures reproduced were taken by blind photographers and beguilingly demonstrate their sharpened sensual engagement with the world they are capturing * Metro *
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Houghton Mifflin JRR Tolkien Artist Illustrator
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Toile
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Jewelry From Sarah Coventry and Emmons
Book SynopsisThis beautiful book showcases the popular and fashionable jewelry produced by Sarah Coventry and Emmons, both of which began in 1949 under the auspices of the C.H. Stuart company in Newark, New York. Eye-catching, versatile, and affordable, fashion jewelry from these two companies was produced through the early 1980s and is highly collectible today. Here, a dazzling array of gorgeous color photographs illustrates sets, brooches, earrings, necklaces, rings, and bracelets from Sarah Coventry (USA), Sarah Coventry International, and Emmons. Captions include item descriptions, production dates, original pricing, and current values. Most pieces are identified by original company name to help both buyers and sellers become more knowledgeable. This user friendly book also includes company overview, stories from former employees, information on marks, collector hints, catalog images, glossary, and index. If you''re not already collecting this fabulous jewelry, you''ll be inspired to get starte
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Saturday Evening Girls Paul Revere Pottery
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Louisiana State University Press The Frescoes of Conrad Albrizio
Book SynopsisThe artist Conrad Albrizio, a New York City native who studied internationally, made his home in New Orleans for half a century. To the people of Louisiana and Alabama, he bestowed the lasting gift of large-scale public frescoes. In this lavishly illustrated volume, Carolyn Bercier analyses Albrizio's frescoes against the backdrop of his life.
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George Braziller Inc The Art of American Book Covers 18751930
Book SynopsisAt the turn of the nineteenth century, book covers were revered as works of art. Publishers commissioned distinguished artists such as Maxfield Parrish and Rockwell Kent to create exquisite covers appreciated by authors and readers alike. The Art of American Book Covers is an entertaining and educational retrospective, lavishly illustrated with more than one hundred full-color plates.Trade ReviewThere's an appealing element of mystery to these designs, which rarely announce exactly what content lies within, of course enhanced by the fact that many of the books are long out of print and forgotten. Minsky makes clear that these covers weren't typical even of their own time, but they still might hold a good lesson for today. ...a fascinating book for anyone with a keen interest in books and cover art. This insightful collection of cover art, spanning 55 years and straddling two different centuries, shows masterfully crafted covers that have an incredible amount of detail and in many cases are quite beautiful. ... All in all, this is the perfect coffee table book for any lover of books. You'll be sure to get plenty of enjoyment from each and every page. -- (10/17/2013)
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Spring Publications,U.S. Money and Dreams
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Mixed Forms of Visual Culture
Book SynopsisMary Anne Francis is Principal Lecturer in the School of Art at the University of Brighton, UK.Trade Reviewit is a pleasure to follow the author on her historical and taxonomic crossing of the world of mixed form, from the Renaissance and post-Renaissance cabinet of curiosities till today’s digital creations, over popular genres such as the broadsheet, the chapbook and the scrapbook – all well documented and cleverly illustrated. The visual material of the book is refreshing and often very original, while the comments are always helpful as well as consistently structured in function of the underlying general question of the link with division of labor. * Jan Baetens, Leonardo *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Mixtures of all sorts 1. The cabinet of curiosities as mixed form: depictions and desire 2. Mixed form in working life: the rise of manufacture 3. Popular mixed forms in a long eighteenth century: from the broadside ballad to the chapbook 4. Visual essay 5. Mixed-form and modernism in the visual arts: assemblage and assembly lines 6. Visual essay 7. Digital culture as Wunderkammer Conclusion: A synthesis of sorts Bibliography Index
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University of New Orleans Press Off the Grid: Art Practices and Public Space
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Verso Books Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy
Book SynopsisWhat is the relation of art to the practice of radical politics today? Strike Art explores this question through the historical lens of Occupy, an event that had artists at its core. Precarious, indebted, and radicalized, artists redirected their creativity from servicing the artworld into an expanded field of organizing in order to construct of a new-if internally fraught-political imaginary set off against the common enemy of the 1%. In the process, they called the bluff of a contemporary art system torn between ideals of radical critique, on the one hand, and an increasing proximity to Wall Street on the other-oftentimes directly targeting major art institutions themselves as sites of action.Tracking the work of groups including MTL, Not an Alternative, the Illuminator, the Rolling Jubilee, and G.U.L.F, Strike Art shows how Occupy ushered in a new era of artistically-oriented direct action that continues to ramify far beyond the initial act of occupation itself into ongoing struggles surrounding labor, debt, and climate justice, concluding with a consideration of the overlaps between such work and the aesthetic practices of the Black Lives Matter movement.Art after Occupy, McKee suggests, contains great potentials of imagination and action for a renewed left project that are still only beginning to ripen, at once shaking up and taking flight from the art system as we know it.Trade ReviewThis irrepressibly vibrant page-turner is the first art historical reading of Occupy Wall Street, and a canny account of politically engaged art before, during and after the events of 2011. I'm tempted to call it the sequel to Artificial Hells, but this would do a disservice to its enthusiastic approach to activism. No left melancholia here-just a powerful commitment to the liberatory horizon of both progressive art and politics. -- Claire Bishop, author of Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of SpectatorshipStrike Art is, above all, a book of cultural documentation, one that relives the events and "ethical spectacle" of a radical political moment that seems to be giving way, in the usual manner, to a pursuit of electoral success rather than wholesale reform. The art that McKee discusses is often transient by design, produced by collectives or anonymous bodies, and distributed freely or slyly entered into the circulation systems of the culture at large. * Harper's *Strike Art is written by someone who was directly involved in the day-to-day organizing work of [Occupy Wall Street], and who continues to participate in the movement's afterlife. McKee's book is therefore replete with granular information about the ambitious, and sometimes ambiguous, revolt of the 99%, details that other commentators can only address in a second-hand manner. In this sense he aligns his writing with Walter Benjamin's well-known directive that authors become producers with a 'tendentious' tilt towards working class struggles. * E-flux *
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Bohlau Verlag Hermathena: Rezeption, Transfer, Inszenierung
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Bohlau Verlag Unzeitgemäße Techniken: Historische Narrative
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