The Arts: art forms Books
Springer Emotion in Aesthetics 64 Philosophical Studies Series
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Springer Science and Art Symposium 3rd International Conference on Flow Interaction of Science and Art with ExhibitionLectures on Interaction of Science and Art 28 February3 March 2000 at the ETH Zurich
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Springer Botanophilia in EighteenthCentury France
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Collaboration Through Craft
Book SynopsisAmanda Ravetz is Senior Research Fellow at MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Alice Kettle is Senior Research Fellow at MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Helen Felcey is Programme Leader for MA Design at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.Trade ReviewCollaboration Through Craft is a ground-breaking book. It sets out what we have known for some time but nobody has yet articulated – that the crafts are distinguished by their collaborative nature and the willingness of makers to share experience, knowledge and skills. From its insightful introduction, which eloquently sets the context for craft as a collaborative process and experience, this book’s collection of essays maps the hugely diverse territory of contemporary crafts via the framing mechanism of collaboration. -- Matthew Partington, V&A Museum Senior Research Fellow, University of West England, UKNothing is ever made without collaboration. Yet we continue to believe that every work is the product of a single hand. This book turns the belief in single-handed creation on its head. It shows that collaboration is not incidental to the crafting of things but the very power that drives it forward. Together, the contributors succeed in raising craft from its backward-looking association with traditional skills to where it belongs, as a dynamic, generative principle at the core of social and cultural life. -- Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen, UKThis book is a compelling critical appraisal of the friction and risk in collaboration, posing new forms of collaborative expertise through craft that are both challenging and immensely productive. These 16 chapters have deep relevance to makers in art, design, and craft as well as educators and practitioners within any field where working together is essential. This is an extraordinary resource! -- Anne Wilson, Professor Department of Fiber and Material Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USACollaboration through Craft adds to the growing number of publications that investigate and describe contemporary craft theory and practice […] This book would be a good acquisition for institutions or individuals wanting an overview of the breadth of contemporary ideas in collaborative craft and for artists who are interested in exploring collaborative possibilities. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. -- L. L. Kriner, Berea College * CHOICE *Table of Contents1. Collaboration Tthrough Craft: An Introduction Amanda Ravetz, Alice Kettle and Helen Felcey Part 1: Modes of collaborating 2. Collaboration: A Creative Journey or a Means to an End? Lesley Millar 3. Making Anew... Collaboration and Dynamic Change Helen Carnac 4. Triangulation Theory, Working as Three Jane Webb, David Gates, Alice Kettle 5. The Creation of a Collective Voice Brass Art: Chara Lewis, Kristin Mojsiewicz, Anneké Pettican Part 2: The Generative Power of Craft 6. Catalytic Clothing and Tactility Factory: Crafted Collaborative Connections Trish Belford 7. The Aesthetic of Waste: Exploring the Creative Potential of Re-cycled Ceramic Waste David Binns 8. Designing Collaboration: Evoking Dr Johnson Through Craft and Interdisciplinarity Jason Cleverly, Tim Shear 9. Skinship: An Exchange of Material Understanding Between Plastic Surgery and Pattern Cutting Rhian Solomon Part 3: Institutional Collaborations 10. Department 21: The Craft of Discomfort Stephen Knott 11. Skills in the Making Simon Taylor, Rachel Payne 12. Project Dialogue Barbara Hawkins and Brett Wilson 13. A Question of Value: Re-thinking the Mary Greg Collection Sharon Blakey and Liz Mitchell Part 4: Collaboration in an Emerging World 14. Expanded Battle Fields Allison Smith 15. Crafts and the Contemporary in South Asia Barney Hare Duke & Jeremy Theophilus 16. Circling Back Into That Thing We Cast Forward Judith Leemann and Shannon Stratton 17. Craft Knowledge and the Craft of Human Life: A South Asian Residency CJ O'Neill and Amanda Ravetz 18. Epilogue: A Response Glenn Adamson
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Hurtwood Press Walead Beshty
Book SynopsisWalead Beshty is a carefully curated guide to key bodies of work by the acclaimed conceptual artist presented in collaboration with Thomas Dane Gallery in London, Turin and Naples. One of todayâs leading conceptual artists, Los Angeles-based Walead Beshty (b. 1976, London) works across photography, sculpture and words. Beshtyâs art is expansive and best described as an ongoing conversation, to which this monograph is his next articulation. Through a deconstructing lens, Walead Beshty explores every exhibition and project the artist has presented in collaboration with Thomas Dane Gallery in London, Turin and Naples. The monograph offers a guide to some of the artistâs key bodies of work. Uncovering processes is central to Beshtyâs art. He deliberately incorporated marks made by oxidation and human touch into his FedEx copper works and Copper Surrogate works, as well as photographing the many individuals involved in his exhibitions in Industrial Portraits. The work that has gone into t
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Handwriting Success, LLC Italic Letters Handwriting Calligraphy Calligraphy Handwriting
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Caterpickles Press Whats That Mom How to use public art to engage your children with the world around them without being an artist yourself Volume 1 Caterpickles Parenting Series
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Cambridge University Press Art and Artificial Intelligence
Book SynopsisThis Element presents an overview of the controversies raised by various answers to the question: can computers create art? The position taken on controversial issues will depend on assumptions made about the technology, about the nature and location of consciousness, and about art and creativity.
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Springer New York Sketching the Moon An Astronomical Artists Guide The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series
Book SynopsisFor anyone artistically inclined, observing the Moon and attempting to sketch or paint it can easily become a passion.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews:“This book is a companion to an earlier volume in the same series, Astronomical Sketching … . Each section offers a choice of techniques and materials, from relatively simple graphite on white paper to the more demanding procedures of pen and ink and stippling. In this respect the book will be of interest to both the complete novice and the more advanced artist. … It is thus a welcome addition to the literature.” (Bill Leatherbarrow, The Observatory, Vol. 132 (1229), August, 2012)Table of ContentsForeword.- Preface.- Key to Map of Featured Targets.- Basic Sketching: A Place to Begin.- Chapter 1: Sketching Craters.- Chapter 2: Sketching Maria (Seas).- Chapter 3: Sketching Mons (Mountains).- Chapter 4: Sketching Rilles (Lava Channels).- Chapter 5: Sketching Dorsa (Wrinkle Ridges).- Chapter 6: Sketching Crater and Sunlight Rays.- Chapter 7: Sketching Rupes (Scarps).- Chapter 8: Sketching the Phases.- Chapter 9: Sketching Domes.- Chapter 10: Sketching Lunar Eclipses.- Chapter 11: Additional Tutorials and Sketching Gallery.- Chapter 12: General Hints and Tips.- A Final Note from the Authors.- Appendix A: Observing Forms.- Appendix B: Glossary.- Appendix C: Resources.- Index.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Worlds beyond My Window The Life and Work of
Book SynopsisArtist, columnist, and poet Gertrude McCarty Smith carried herself as a demure southern lady, yet this was deceiving as she was a prolific, creative trailblazer who had collectors and readers from coast to coast. This book features more than 150 images, a dozen poems, insightful essays, and a chronicle of her Smith's journey by her son-in-law.
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Penguin Books Ltd The New Carthaginians
Book SynopsisIn this book, Nick Makoha has found an otherworldly, visionary voice and diction that arrest you from the first page and never let you go.' Jason Allen-Paisant, Winner of the TS Eliot PrizeAn expansive new collection from one of the UK's most daring and celebrated poetsIn The New Carthaginians, time and with it the world is out of joint. A hijacked plane lands at Entebbe International Airport in 1976, triggering the crisis that will lead to Idi Amin's Uganda becoming a pariah state and, within a few years, to the young Nick Makoha's flight from the country. A mysterious writer daubs poetic slogans on the walls of late-'70s New York City, signing them SAMO. Three characters who are also one the Poet, a Black Icarus and a resurrected Jean-Michel Basquiat journey through a time that is both our own and not, watching TV, discussing art and literature and tucking their wings into their jackets on the way to airport security. Concerned throughout with flight and falling, the sample and the loop, The New Carthaginians is a poetry collection of staggering originality: a work by an author at the height of his powers, in which the familiar Western canons of art, history and philosophy are prised apart and reassembled in a new configuration. Drawing on Basquiat's technique of the exploded' collage, our heroes' odyssey gathers the symbols of a new mythos, through which the othering of Black life might be undone and the stage set for some fresh emergence, some transfigured understanding of myth and life. Hold that note,' writes the poet. In this place you are no longer the chorus In any future, remember you are a New Carthaginian.'
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Jorge Pinto Books Artoons. Volume 3
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Birkhauser Verlag AG Light From the Darkness / Licht aus dem Dunkel: The Paintings of Peter Birkhäuser / Die Malerei von Peter Birkhäuser
Book Synopsis/ Inhalt.- The Painter Peter Birkhäuser / Der Maler Peter Birkhäuser.- Plates and Commentaries / Bildteil mit Kommentaren.- Analytical Psychology and the Problems of Art (Lecture by Peter Birkhäuser) / Analytische Psychologie und die Probleme der Kunst (Vortrag von Peter Birkhäuser).- List of Plates / Bildverzeichnis.Table of Contents/ Inhalt.- The Painter Peter Birkhäuser / Der Maler Peter Birkhäuser.- Plates and Commentaries / Bildteil mit Kommentaren.- Analytical Psychology and the Problems of Art (Lecture by Peter Birkhäuser) / Analytische Psychologie und die Probleme der Kunst (Vortrag von Peter Birkhäuser).- List of Plates / Bildverzeichnis.
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Museum Ohne Grenzen (Museum with No Frontiers) Die Mudéjar-Kunst: Islamische Ästhetik in christlicher Kunst
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Vision and Textuality
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ctte 233
Book SynopsisFirst published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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British Museum Press Eric Gill Lust for Letter Line
Book SynopsisEric Gill (18821940) is one of the twentieth century's most controversial artists. This illustrated introduction focuses on the clarity of Gill's drawn and cut line. It explores his genius as a letter cutter, wood engraver, sculptor and typographer in the light of his refined finished drawings and preparatory sketches.
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British Museum Press Pacific Art in Detail
Book SynopsisIdeal as a spur to creative inspiration, this beautiful book offers a striking and unusual view of the wide array of Pacific art, evoking the skills of the most accomplished Pacific artists and craftworkers, past and present.
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Running Press,U.S. Art Hiding in New York An Illustrated Guide to
Book SynopsisUncover the artistic masterworks hidden across New York City in this charmingly illustrated exploration of one of the world's greatest creative treasure troves.There's so much to love about New York, and so much to see. The city is full of art, and architecture, and history -- and not just in museums. Hidden in plain sight, in office building lobbies, on street corners, and tucked into Soho lofts, there's a treasure trove of art waiting to be discovered, and you don't need an art history degree to fall in love with it.Art Hiding in New York is a beautiful, giftable book that explores all of these locations, traversing Manhattan to bring 100 treasures to art lovers and intrepid New York adventurers. Curator and urban explorer Lori Zimmer brings readers along to sites covering the biggest names of the 20th century -- like Jean-Michel Basquiat's studio, iconic Keith Haring murals, the controversial site of Richard Serra's Ti
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ReR Megacorp drawing a line
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HENI Publishing Gerhard Richter Night Sketches
Book SynopsisThis book contains reproductions of sketches taken from a notebook made by Gerhard Richter between 2004 and 2009.
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HENI Publishing Street Art Fine Art
Book SynopsisStreet Art Fine Art presents a collection of classic works of fine art by the old masters reinterpreted by today's most cutting-edge street artists.
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David Zwirner Michael Riedel Oskar
Book SynopsisOver the past decade, German artist Michael Riedel has incorporated a wide range of media into his practice, including large-scale works on canvas, fabric works, film and video, audio recordings, installations, and events. A central focus of his work is the publishing and production of artist’s books, catalogues, brochures, posters, and cards. In 2000, Riedel and Dennis Loesch launched a collaborative project in an abandoned building in Frankfurt. Using the building’s address—Oskar-von-Miller Strasse 16—as the name for their new space, they created an experimental laboratory where they restaged cultural events held at other locations throughout the city, effectively duplicating them in space and time. Occasionally, these re-presented events—which included book readings, film screenings, art exhibitions, and music concerts—were hosted on the same night as the actual event elsewhere in the city, but mostly, they were presented days or weeks after the o
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Feminist Perspectives on Art
Book SynopsisWhen the body is foregrounded in artwork as in much contemporary performance, sculptural installation and video work so is gendered and sexualised difference. Feminist Perspectives on Art: Contemporary Outtakes looks to interactions between art history, theory, curation, and studio-based practices to theorise the phenomenological import of this embodied gender difference in contemporary art.The essays in this collection are rooted in a wide variety of disciplines, including art-making, curating, and art history and criticism, with many of the authors combining roles of curator, artist and writer. This interdisciplinary approach enables the book to bridge the theorypractice divide and highlight new perspectives emerging from creative arts research. Fresh insights are offered on feminist aesthetics, women's embodied experience, curatorial and art historical method, art world equity, and intersectional concerns. It engages with epistemological assertions of Trade Review"A rousing riposte to anyone who thinks that feminism is now ‘post’, this book full of fascinating accounts of a disparate range of practises provides a challenge to patriarchal attitudes in the artworld in engaging, enlightening and at times humorous ways – a veritable celebration of female creativity and thought." - Elizabeth Ann Macgregor OBE, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia"A rousing riposte to anyone who thinks that feminism is now ‘post’, this book is full of fascinating accounts of a disparate range of practises and provides a challenge to patriarchal attitudes in the artworld in engaging, enlightening and, at times, humorous ways – a veritable celebration of female creativity and thought." -- Elizabeth Ann Macgregor OBE, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia "The volume edited by Jacqueline Millner and Catriona Moore shows the difficulty and weariness caused by the writing of a history that is never dealt with and carried out once and for all." -- Laura Lamurri, Critique d'artTable of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1 A feminist curator walks into a gallery…; Chapter 2 The value of maturity: Anne Ferran, Judith Wright, Lindy Lee; Chapter 3 Women in the Cross-cultural Studio: Invisible Tracks in the Indigenous artist’s archive; Chapter 4 The Pearl Gibbs ‘Gambanyi’ Kangaroo Cloak; Chapter 5 Still in my mind: Gurindji location, experience and visuality; Chapter 6 The practice of remaining perpetually contingent; Chapter 7 Curating Grief; Chapter 8 The Intimate Monument: Memorialising from a feminist perspective; Chapter 9 FLORINA PREFECTURE: Women in the shadow of ‘The Magnificent Empire’ 1900-1922 & 2017 — a feminist interpretation of Greek-Australian identity as explored in contemporary art; Chapter 10 Feeling seeing: image, sound and touch in the video installations of Angelica Mesiti; Chapter 11 Materialising the Interval: Relationality as a feminist art practice; Chapter 12 Heave, Ho, Ha: Disgust, humour and failure in contemporary feminist art; Chapter 13 Slim evidence of fat fortunes: toward a gendered history of fat acceptance
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Visual Media in Indonesia
Book SynopsisIn the age of digital communication and global capitalism, people's mental, social and natural environments are interconnected in complex and often unpredictable ways. This book focuses on the visual media, one of the key factors in shaping the contemporary ecology of colliding environments. Case-studies include video artists, community media activists, television programme makers and literary authors in the fourth most populous country in the world, Indonesia. The author demonstrates that these actors are part of an international creative and social vanguard that reflect on, criticise and rework the multidimensional impact of the visual media in imaginative and innovative ways. Their work explores alternative and more sustainable presents and futures for Indonesia and the world. This research is urgent and timely, as Indonesia has emerged in recent years as one of the world's most vibrant hubs for contemporary art and media experimentation.Using an innovative interdisTable of Contents1. Introduction Part 1: Media Environments 2. Media Critique 3. Media Literacy Part 2: Media Reflexivity 4. Media Democracy 5. Video Bodies 6. Video Interactivity Part 3. Media Utopia 7. Participatory Media 8. Video Communities 9. Video Simulations Part 4: Media Ecologies 10. Sustainable Media 11. Disaster Media 12. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Closeup and Macro Photography
Book SynopsisFocusing on fieldcraft techniques for macro and close-up photography, Thompson covers the vital but often overlooked skills necessary to achieve consistent professional results in the field. Case studies covering a broad and often challenging group of subjects from the seashore to your back garden form the core of the lavishly illustrated book. Biology, life history, subject behaviour and ethics along with best practice approaches are discussed in detail and underpinned with photographic tips. The book is divided into four sectionsDigital Fundamentals, Fieldcraft & Methodology, Portfolio Case Studies, Digital Workflow & Presentationcovering the full photographic process from capture through to editing, captioning, development and storage are discussed. Moving beyond the surface-level approach to macro instruction, this book provides readers with techniques that work in the field. Illustrated with over 250 of the author''s own inspiring images, this publicTrade Review"Every image is accompanied by details of the camera used, lens, focal distance, aperture, and ISO. He reveals natural and artificial lighting techniques, as well as tricks of the trade, learned over years and years of dedicated fieldcraft. The emphasis is very much on ‘art and fieldcraft.’ But the author also emphasizes the importance of ethics in nature photography, something that we as photographers must adhere to at all times. His dedication to capturing his subjects in camera and his incredible knowledge is inspirational. Each page oozes with information that every bona fide nature photographer should know."—Bill Power, FIPF, ARPS, EFIAP/s, EPSA; Fellow of the Irish Photographic Federation"This is both a beautiful and intensely-practical book from a master of his trade, covering everything you could need or want to know in order to improve your close-up photography of butterflies, moths and other wildlife. Set out in four parts, the book covers all the fundamentals of digital photography and kit, fieldcraft and methodology, case studies and a brief section on processing and presenting your images.Lavishly illustrated with Robert Thompson’s superb images, not just of Lepidoptera but a wide range of subject from fungi to fish, this book is a joy to browse as well as a fount of information and hands-on tips."—Richard Fox, Butterfly-Conservation.org"Close-up and Macro Photography focuses on fieldcraft techniques and is divided into four neat sections: Digital Fundamentals, Fieldcraft & Methodology, Portfolio Case Studies and Digital Workflow & Presentation. Each section is generously illustrated with the author’s wonderful images, and the text is full of hard-won knowledge: who knew, for instance, that the pupae of some moths resembles polished wood? Whether you are a keen close-up photographer or a passionate naturalist, this book will satisfy your needs."—Tracy Calder, Amateur Photographer Magazine – March 2018"With Robert Thompson, you have an author and photographer at the top of his game ... This book provides a very good level of knowledge without being inaccessible on the one hand or of being guilty of trivialisation on the other."—Paul Harcourt Davies, learnmacro.com"It doesn’t matter if you are a complete beginner, or an experienced enthusiast, this book sets the benchmark for all future books on close-up and macro photography. If you are a professional photographer, then this book is also of immense value to you. Why? Because it represents a superb example of what us amateurs want from a photography book—full of extremely useful advice set out in a clear and concise manner, together with stunning images throughout that we all want to strive for."—Robert Kent, MacroPhotographyWorld.comTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION PART ONE DIGITAL FUNDAMENTALSHAVING A PHOTOGRAPHIC ROADMAP DIGITAL CAMERAS TRIPODS & CAMERA SUPPORT DEVICES EXPOSURE AND METERING MODES UNDERSTANDING ISO APERTURE DEPTH OF FIELD UNDERSTANDING WHITE BALANCE FILE FORMATS MEMORY CARDS HISTOGRAMS LENSES LIGHT UNDERSTANDING FLASH EXTENDED DEPTH OF FIELD BACKGROUNDS CUSTOM-DESIGNED EQUIPMENT PART TWO FIELDCRAFT & METHODOLOGYSETTING UP YOUR CAMERA FOR MACRO COMPOSITION & ORIENTATION IN THE FIELD WIDE-ANGLE MACRO MACRO ON THE MOVE THE OUTDOOR FIELD STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHING FURTHER AFIELD PHOTOGRAPHING IN CHALLENGING CONDITIONS MACRO THROUGH THE SEASONS BEYOND LIFE-SIZE ACCESSORIES FOR MACRO MY FIELD EQUIPMENT FILTERS PART THREE PORTFOLIO CASE STUDIESJEWELS OF THE INSECT WORLD (Dragonflies & Damselflies) MEADOW DANCERS (Butterflies) NATURE’S NOCTURNAL BUTTERFLIES (Moths) LIFE IN THE FOLIAGE (The Larval Phase of Butterflies & Moths) NATURE’S FLORAL GARDEN (Plants) THE KINGDOM OF THE UNDERWORLD (Fungi) LIFE IN FRESHWATER (The Aquatic Environment) LIFE ON THE SHORELINE (Coastal Creatures & Rockpools) PATTERNS ON BARK & STONE (Lichens) NATURE’S GRAND DESIGNS (Patterns & Abstracts)NATURE ON YOUR DOORSTEP (Macro in the Garden) PART FOUR DIGITAL WORKFLOW & PRESENTATIONDIGITAL WORKFLOW & PRESENTATION CONTACT DISPLAYS & PANELS PRESENTING & PUBLISHING YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS ADDITIONAL RESOURCESINDEX
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Binding Space The Book as Spatial Practice
Book SynopsisBooks orient, intrigue, provoke and direct the reader while editing, interpreting, encapsulating, constructing and revealing architectural representation. Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice explores the role of the book form within the realm of architectural representation. It proposes the book itself as another three-dimensional, complementary architectural representation with a generational and propositional role within the design process. Artists' books in particular that is, a book made as an original work of art, with an artist, designer or architect as author have certain qualities and characteristics, quite different from the conventional presentation and documentation of architecture. Paginal sequentiality, the structure and objecthood of the book, and the act of reading create possibilities for the book as a site for architectural imagining and discourse. In this way, the form of the book affects how the architectural work is conceived, constructed Table of ContentsPart I Field: the scope of the book. 1. Artists’ books: historical context2 Qualities and characteristics of artists’ books3 Architecture and printed media4 Recording time, place and memoryPart II Page: the book as cumulation5 The line within architectural documentation6 Architectural drawing and the pagePart III Volume: the book as vessel7 The objecthood of the book8 The book as folded model9 The temporality of interiorityPart IV Series: the book as sequence10 The reproducibility of drawings / buildings / books11 The book as exhibitionConclusion BibliographyIndex
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Beholding
Book SynopsisBeholding considers the spatially situated encounter between artwork and spectator. It argues that artworks created for specific places or conditions structure a reciprocal encounter, which is completed by the presence of a beholder. These are works which demand the ''beholder''s share'', but not, as Ernst Gombrich famously claimed, to sustain an illusion. Rather, Beholding reconfigures Gombrich''s notion of the beholder''s share as a set of ''licensed'' imaginative and cognitive projections.Each chapter frames a particular work of art from the remit of a complementary theoretical text. The book establishes a transhistorical notion of the spatially situated encounter, and considers the role of the architectural host in bringing the beholder's orientation into play. The book engages a diverse range of practices: from Renaissance painting and group portraiture to intermedia practices of installation and performance art. Written within the broad remit of reception aestheticsTrade ReviewA beautifully-written interdisciplinary book that acknowledges the permeability of the once strong divisions that separated art, architecture, the cinema and design. Artist and theorist Ken Wilder explains, through his theory of beholding, how the audience’s viewing conditions can shape their understanding of an art work. -- Stephen Farthing, artist, UKTable of ContentsList of Plates List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Sacred Imagery Chapter 1: The Beholder As Witness Chapter 2: Of Clouds and Terrestrial Beholders Chapter 3: The Melancholic Beholder Part II: Group Portraiture Chapter 4: The Artist as Beholder Chapter 5: Two Modes of Beholding Chapter 6: Theatricality and the Beholder PART III: Abstraction Chapter Seven: Beholding a ‘Reversible’ Space Chapter Eight: Virtual Space and the ‘Literal’ Beholder Chapter Nine: On Repetition and Beholding PART IV: Intermedia Chapter Ten: The Complicit Beholder Chapter Eleven: The Beholder in the Expanded Field Chapter Twelve: The Dislocated Beholder Bibliography Notes
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Mixed Forms of Visual Culture
Book SynopsisThis book celebrates and seeks to understand the overlooked appearances of hybrid forms in visual culture; artefacts and practices that meld or interweave incongruous elements in innovative ways. And with an emphasis on the material aspects of such entities, the book adopts the term ''mixed form'' for them.Focusing on key phenomena in the last half millennium, such as the cabinet of curiosities, the broadside ballad and the chapbook as early forms of image-text, the scrapbook, assemblage, and, in digital times, so-called ''mixed reality,'' the book argues that while the quality of inconsistency is traditionally dismissed, its expression nevertheless plays a vital role in social life.Crucially, Mixed Forms of Visual Culture relates its phenomena to the emergence of the division of labour under capitalism and addresses the shifting relationships between art and life, when singularity and uniformity are variously valued and dismissed in the two arenas, and at different points in hiTrade 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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Bristol Museum & Art Gallery Graysons Art Club The Exhibition Volume II
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Apostolic Iconography and Florentine
Book SynopsisFocusing on artists and architectural complexes which until now have eluded scholarly attention in English-language publications, Apostolic Iconography and Florentine Confraternities in the Age of Reform examines through their art programs three different confraternal organizations in Florence at a crucial moment in their histories. Each of the organizations that forms the basis for this study oversaw renovations that included decorative programs centered on the apostles. At the complex of Gesà Pellegrino a fresco cycle represents the apostles in their roles as Christâs disciples and proselytizers. At the oratory of the company of Santissima Annunziata a series of frescoes shows their martyrdoms, the terrible price the apostles paid for their mission and their faith. At the oratory of San Giovanni Battista detta dello Scalzo a sculptural program of the apostles stood as an example to each confratello of how Christian piety had its roots in collective effort. Douglas Dow shows thatTrade Review'This impressive volume by Dow ... helps fill a scholarly void in books on religious painting in the last quarter of the 16th century in Florence. ... The text is meticulous and scholarly, supported by copious notes, bibliography, and original illustrations appropriate to such an ambitious and groundbreaking study. ... Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty.’ Choice 'Dow's book uses a rich quantity of illustrations to make his point, both plans and reproductions of the frescoes and some of the statues ... Dow brings to light much detail regarding the confraternities' organisation and motivation in commissioning new works of art both as embellishment of the oratories and as education material for the confratelli.' Sehepunkte 'More than just a window onto a neglected field, it is a thorough, meticulous study based on archival research and stylistic analysis, in one case including a methodical reconstruction of a long-lost interior. It represents the kind of scholarship that has too often fallen by the wayside in an era when detail (and often accuracy) are neglected in favour of the big, interdisciplinary picture. Contributions such as Dow's are especially needed in places like post-Tridentine Florence, where the literature simply has not yet done the groundwork: we will not be able to see the big picture until we get our facts straight.' Burlington Magazine '... Dow focuses new attention on Florentine confraternal identification with the apostles at a time when the Church was asserting its own claims as a purified paleo- Christian institution. This exemplifies yet another dynamic way in which sodalities responded to and shaped the prevailing religious culture.' Renaissance Quarterly'This important, lucid, and elegantly written book is in part a product of the spatial and sensory turn that has driven much recent research. It will be of interest not only to art historians but also to scholars in other disciplines who are concerned with the process by which traditional forms of devotion, and the desired ends of Church reformers, converged and mingled with the city’s artisan culture and patronage relations. In a wider sense, Dow’s evocation of the resulting mélange, and his explication of how urban culture took visual and spatial form, teaches us more about how citizens, including non-elites, inhabited and negotiated the early modern European city.' CAA ReviewsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Alessandro de’ Medici and the Florentine archdiocese at the end of the cinquecento; ’Maledictus enim homo, qui opus Dei facit negligenter’: Giovanni Balducci’s frescoes of the Risen Christ and the Apostles in the church of Gesù Pellegrino; ’Essere amorevole della casa’: the sculptures of the Apostles in the oratory of San Giovanni Battista detta dello Scalzo; ’Far bene per i vivi, e morti’: the frescoes of the martyrdoms of the Apostles in the atrium of the oratory of Santissima Annunziata; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Food and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy
Book SynopsisThough Bartolomeo Scappi''s Opera (1570), the first illustrated cookbook, is well known to historians of food, up to now there has been no study of its illustrations, unique in printed books through the early seventeenth century. In Food and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy, Krohn both treats the illustrations in Scappi''s cookbook as visual evidence for a lost material reality; and through the illustrations, including several newly-discovered hand-colored examples, connects Scappi''s Opera with other types of late Renaissance illustrated books. What emerges from both of these approaches is a new way of thinking about the place of cookbooks in the history of knowledge. Krohn argues that with the increasing professionalization of many skills and trades, Scappi was at the vanguard of a new way of looking not just at the kitchen-as workshop or laboratory-but at the ways in which artisanal knowledge was visualized and disseminated by a range of craftsmen, from engineers to architects. The Trade Review'In Food and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy, Deborah Krohn brings much needed attention to the genre of culinary illustration. For far too long, even scholars who are fully focused on food's roles in culture have failed to address the work that images perform in cookbooks. By bringing close attention to the first illustrated European cookbook, Krohn helps to lay the groundwork for future work on this topic.'- Journal of Design History'Deborah Krohn tackles what has to be considered by far the most important cookbook of the Renaissance: Bartolomeo Scappi's Opera. Known not only for its massive text but also for its much reproduced illustrations, it has remained in many ways a somewhat mysterious unicum in the realm of high end cookery. Now, thanks to an innovative approach mixing book history, food history and the history of illustration in the sixteenth century, Scappi's cookbook finally finds its place in the context of sixteenth century publishing, a dynamic market in which both authors and publishers experimented with innovative formulas. A welcome contribution in more than one field.' - Allen Grieco, Villa I Tatti, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, ItalyTable of ContentsTable of Contents to come.
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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.
£137.75
Taylor & Francis Ltd Making and Moving Sculpture in Early Modern Italy
Book SynopsisIn recent years, art historians have begun to delve into the patronage, production and reception of sculptures-sculptors'' workshop practices; practical, aesthetic, and esoteric considerations of material and materiality; and the meanings associated with materials and the makers of sculptures. This volume brings together some of the top scholars in the field, to investigate how sculptors in early modern Italy confronted such challenges as procurement of materials, their costs, shipping and transportation issues, and technical problems of materials, along with the meanings of the usage, hierarchies of materials, and processes of material acquisition and production. Contributors also explore the implications of these facets in terms of the intended and perceived meaning(s) for the viewer, patron, and/or artist. A highlight of the collection is the epilogue, an interview with a contemporary artist of large-scale stone sculpture, which reveals the similar challenges sculptors still encountTrade Review'The book takes up two topics that are almost never considered together - how sculpture is made, and then, how it gets to its destination. The geographical sweep is refreshingly broad, up and down the Italian peninsula and westward into France and Spain. The well-written essays by notable scholars cover a range of media and types of commissions, from Donatello’s sculpture for the High Altar in the Santo in Padua to Bernini’s work in the San Pietro fabbrica. The wealth of material presented here sheds light on important sculptural works about which we may have thought nothing new could be said.' Debra Pincus, independent scholar, Washington, D.C., US 'Making and Moving Sculpture in Early Modern Italy recognizes the physicality and mass that distinguish sculpture, from its glittering surfaces to its interior core. It addresses overlooked areas of art-making by refocusing on some of the most basic and compelling issues of the sculptor, namely the practical considerations of creating, moving, and otherwise engineering the three-dimensional object. With essays by leading scholars and a practicing sculptor, the book is a fitting complement to the more interpretive and abstract studies that currently dominate scholarship in the visual arts ... an original and timely contribution to the field of early modern sculpture.' Victor Coonin, Rhodes College, USA'Making and Moving Sculpture in Early Modern Italy is certainly an important addition to the growing field of studies on the mobility and materiality of sculpture, and it offers new insights on many aspects of the history of sculpture that will certainly have a lasting impact on the field and provide materials for further studies and reflections on the variety of themes addressed. The wealth of new evidence and ideas emerging from this book makes it a mandatory addition to the library of any scholar interested in sculpture.' CAA ReviewsTable of ContentsTable of Contents to come.
£128.25
Edinburgh University Press The Making of Islamic Art
Book SynopsisExplores how Islamic art and architecture were made: their materials and their social, political, economic and religious context
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Islamic Chinoiserie
Book SynopsisThis illustrated book aims to provide a fresh insight into medieval Islamic art through the prism of Chinese elements in Iranian art under the Mongols.
£38.00
Museum of Modern Art Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen? A Reader
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£32.30
Museum of Modern Art Shigeko Kubota: Liquid Reality
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£24.00
Museum of Modern Art Just Above Midtown: 1974 to the Present
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£32.00
David Zwirner Nora Turato: govern me harder
Book SynopsisThe third title in the Clarion series features Amsterdam-based artist Nora Turato and her vibrant enamel panels that magnify the omnipresence of text, design, and speech in our contemporary culture. ---------- “Meticulous as Helen and tricky as Odysseus, the artist invites us first to misread the slick surfaces and humor of her works as effortless, then forces us to attend to the laborious practices they belie, the histories and possibilities of that effort.” — Art in America ---------- Originally trained as a graphic designer, Nora Turato adapts text to subvert and create messages. Although many of Turato’s performances and works appear to be drafted by free association, she meticulously and thoughtfully edits them to evoke a sense of alluring confusion. In three signature murals with a bespoke typeface, Turato addresses the inundation of language, typography, and graphic design in our contemporary culture, whether in the news, on social media, or in advertisements. Published on the occasion of Turato’s widely popular exhibition govern me harder at 52 Walker, this publication features texts by Ebony L. Haynes and Anna Kats. Serving as an extension of the exhibition, performance scripts by the artist are also included in this publication. As described in The Brooklyn Rail, “In the slick sea of graphic smoothness and language lost from meaning, something has still been irrefutably made.”
£21.25
Profile Books Ltd 14-18 NOW: Contemporary arts commissions for the
Book Synopsis14-18 NOW: Contemporary arts commissions for the First World War centenary presents a detailed look at the extensive 14-18 NOW programme, which was set up to bring a creative response to the centenary of the First World War. The richly illustrated hardback includes an introduction by Margaret MacMillan and essays by David Olusoga, Danny Boyle, Akram Khan, Helen Marriage, Charlotte Higgins, Mark Kermode, William Kentridge and Rachel Whiteread. Spread over five years, 14-18 NOW created a new way of marking major national moments through the arts, commissioning artists to create works that respond to different aspects of the war through film, visual arts, literature, dance, theatre and music. With a vast number of images from the entire season, this fully-illustrated book is a reminder of the transformative power of the arts to bring the stories of the First World War to life, through projects such as Jeremy Deller's Somme tribute We're here because we're here, Peter Jackson's colourised film They Shall Not Grow Old, and Danny Boyle's Armistice beach memorial Pages of the Sea. The 14-18 NOW programme is one of the largest public art commissions of all time, creating over 100 artworks which have been seen by more than 35 million people. Artists include Rachel Whiteread, John Akomfrah, Gillian Wearing, Peter Jackson, Danny Boyle, Vivienne Westwood, Jeremy Deller, Shobana Jeyasingh, Sir Peter Blake, Anna Meredith, William Kentridge, Akram Khan, Susan Philipsz and Yinka Shonibare CBE. Perceptions of the war have been shaped by the artists of the time, including poets, painters, photographers and film-makers - many of whom served and who reflected on the war and its effects. One hundred years later, today's artists are opening up new perspectives on the present as well as the past.
£29.75
The Lilliput Press Ltd Goodbye Again
Book SynopsisBen Contini, a disenchanted painter of considerable talent, has just buried his mother. Rifling through the attic of her Kilkenny house he stumbles across a Modigliani nude, worth millions. Determined to learn the provenance of the painting, he and Elsa, a disturbed and secretive woman who accosts him at the funeral, become embroiled in the sinister world of Nazi art theft. But they are not the only one with an interest in the painting… Together they set off on a frantic journey that leads them from Dublin to France via the Cotswolds, down the Canal du Midi into Italy. The intrigue surrounding the shadowy half-truths about their exotic families becomes increasingly sinister as Ben and Elsa are forced to confront their pasts and their buried demons. Set in the 1980s, this is a fantastic new book from established thriller writer Joseph Hone, who weaves a breathless, galloping intrigue packed with narrative twists and sumptuous evocations of Europe’s forgotten past.
£9.99
The Lilliput Press Ltd The Caravaggio Conspiracy
Book SynopsisCaravaggio was the greatest artist since Titian, a favourite of Popes and wealthy bankers. But at a timewhen the resurgent Ottoman Empire was planning a second wave of conquest, he discovered a secret sodark that it threatened the very existence of the Catholic Church.The secret endures. Four hundred years later, Declan O’Malley, the first Irish-born Superior Generalof the Society of Jesus, learns that his friend, the German Cardinal Horst Rüttgers, has died in mysteriouscircumstances. With his nephew Liam Dempsey he tries to uncover the truth, bringing him into conflictwith the sinister and virulently anti-Muslim Cardinal Bosani – Camerlengo, or High Chamberlain, of theHoly Roman Church – in charge of the upcoming Conclave to elect a new Pope. As the two prelates grapple, Dempsey finds a bizarre link between Bosani and Caravaggio’smasterpiece, ‘The Taking of Christ’, lost for 200 years until it emerged in 1999 in the unlikely setting of theJesuit house in Dublin. The painting turns out to be more than a sublime depiction of Christ’s seizure in theGarden of Gethsemane; it is also the key to a centuries-old conspiracy of evil. Can O’Malley and Dempsey,aided by the cool and resourceful Maya Studer, daughter of the Commandant of the Swiss Guard, preventBosani from re-igniting a calamitous war between Europe and the Muslim World?
£12.00
Dent-De-Leone The Sky is Touching You
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