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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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University of Arizona Press Women and Ledger Art
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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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University of Massachusetts Press Shaker Vision: Seeing Beauty in Early America
Book SynopsisThe Shakers are known for self-denial and austerity in everyday living and their material world, as embodied by the heavenly simplicity and purity of their chairs and blanket chests. Yet the believers also enjoyed a diversity of visual pleasures, from flowers, sunSets, rainbows, and the northern lights as seen at home to waterfalls, ocean waves, and dramatic cliffs viewed while traveling across America.In Shaker Vision, Joseph Manca explores original texts, especially diaries and travel journals, and material culture to demonstrate that Shakers enjoyed a remarkably deep experience of the visual world. Shakers shared tastes with mainstream Americans and often employed a similar aesthetic vocabulary, but all within a belief system that made them distinct. In addition to their well-known ascetic architecture, furniture, and handicraft styles, they expressed themselves through ornate and detailed spiritual art and in vivid, visionary experiences. Based on firsthand accounts of the believers themselves, this richly illustrated volume will dramatically change how we assess the visual world of this uniquely American religious sect.
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Reaktion Books The Shape of Craft
Book SynopsisToday, the word 'craft' is linked to a vast array of items, from handmade objects to microbreweries. The term 'artisanal' is so overused that it can strain our credulity. But this also reveals that the value of craft remains compelling in modern life. In this cogently argued book, Ezra Shales explores some of the key questions about craft: who makes it, what we mean when we think about a craft object and how that shapes our understanding of what craft is. Along the way, he continually upends our definitions and typical expectations of what we think is handcrafted or authentic. Shales's discussion ranges widely across people and objects: from potter Karen Karnes to weaver Jack Lenor Larsen, glass sculptor Dale Chihuly to Native American basket-maker Julia Parker, as well as younger makers such as Sopheap Pich and Maarten Baas, and to the porcelain and cast-iron sanitary ware produced by the Kohler Company, the pottery made in Stoke on Trent and the people in Asia today who weave beautiful things for IKEA. Engaging, pertinent and direct, the book ultimately encourages us to feel the shape of craft in our own lives.Trade Review'Smart hands indicate intelligence and sensitivity. Alert eyes identify works made with ingenuity. Ezra Shales's book sharpens our visual perception and appreciation of finely crafted objects and environments which have enriched our lives from the beginning of time.' - Sheila Hicks
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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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Reaktion Books A Feast for the Eyes: Edible Art from Apple to
Book SynopsisSavour a taste of the edible alphabet, from A to Z. Throughout history, visual and performance artists have rendered their visions within the whimsical medium of food. In Carolyn Tillie’s deeply satisfying A Feast for the Eyes, you’ll embark on a delicious adventure that redefines the art world. Explore the surprising artistry of apple-head dolls, butter sculptures, coffee paintings and a grand cathedral carved entirely from salt. Learn about the ancient role of food creations in ritual and global folk art. Experience the modern magnificence of electrified vegetable sculptures and ethereal molecular gastronomy. Discover why Salvador Dalí had an obsession with lobsters, and why there is a giant palace in the American Midwest made entirely of corn. Whether you’re a food lover or an art aficionado, this book serves up an aesthetic banquet that will delight your senses – and nourish mind, body and soul.
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Intellect Books The Lure of the Social: Encounters with
Book SynopsisThis new and original book is a creative practice ethnography, which navigates a spectrum where at one end the author works closely with socially engaged artists as part of her ethnographic research, and at the other she tries to find a critical distance to write about their art projects and the institutional structures that support their work, such as art schools and conferences. Artists increasingly find themselves working in participatory settings where skills in social engagement are as essential as their creative skills. The author was involved in the field of social practices from its early stages and stayed engaged with the primary movers in the field for nearly two decades as a witness, participant and critical observer. Her writing evokes the people and places she discusses, and her writing style is personal and accessible. Over the course of the book, readers are introduced to artists and their work, and to the key debates and issues facing this fast-growing and emergent field. The author navigates the contradictions and paradoxes of this field of practice through description and analysis and, importantly, gives voice to the artists who are working to make art relevant in times of social and political uncertainty. The problems addressed by social practices, as well as their contradictions, very much reflect our troubled political global moment. This book is a significant contribution to the field – few people have followed the development of social practices for as long as Coombs, and her dual perspective as an art critic and anthropologist make her ideally placed to describe and evaluate the institutions and practices. While there are many books already in this growing field, the experimental and intensely personal nature of this book sets it apart. It could be a useful teaching tool to generate debate around the tensions and paradoxes inherent in the field of social practices and politically engaged art. Students will appreciate the author’s attempt to convey what it was really like to be there at certain key events and insights gained from direct conversations with the artists, curators and writers shaping the field. Relevant to academics working in, and students studying, art and social practice, community arts programmes, contemporary anthropology, cultural historians and those with an interest in the sociology of art, protest or activism. Will appeal to artists, writers and students interested in the history of how social practices developed as a field through its practitioners, discourse and lived experience. Trade Review"What story do you want to hear about social practices?’ was the opening question Coombs posed to the artists she met. The responses are fleshed out in this engaging ethnography of a complex, contested field of arts practice. [...] We can never get a real sense of the places, people and processes involved in social practices unless we were there, but thankfully Coombs was listening in, taking notes. The result is a collection of encounters that trace the ideas that have informed these socially engaged artists. The whispers between delegates, the discussions over lunches have informed Coombs’ own positionality and understanding of the stories artists tell. The way she has written these up allows for the contradictions felt in these practices to be aired. The book presents hope in these ‘pockets of resistance’, that these processes and ways of working can effect change.' -- Sophie Hope, Cultural Sociology“A modern-day Vasari’s The Lives of The Artists for the era of socially engaged art, The Lure of the Social is an intimate journey with key individuals into the gatherings and institutions that make up the field. Coombs' voice is insightful and knowledgeable, and the writing is moving and often strikingly beautiful. While there are many, many books on Socially Engaged Art, the experimental and intensely personal nature of this book sets it apart. It is a book of and for the field.” -- Stephen Duncombe, professor of media and culture at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study and the department of media, culture and communication at the Steinhardt School of New York University. Author of Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy“Gretchen Coombs’s important, engaging book puts the ‘social’ back into the often institutionalized medium of social practice. Through a series of studio visits, Coombs takes the reader behind the scenes, creating nuanced and telling portraits of some of today’s leading practitioners. Coombs’s approach—at once critical and anthropological—is blissfully unrhetorical. The Lure of the Social captures the heart of one of the most important artistic movements to emerge in the 21st century, and one that is here to stay.” -- Chris Kraus, author of Social Practices and After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography“Artists and activists lured to the social—anyone interested in leaping the walls between art and life—will find this book a smart, accessible, and eye-opening treasure trove. It is full of fascinating projects, many new to me, presented on a first-name basis through the author's intimate discussions with the artists and facilitating organizations. The pros and cons of social practice art have rarely been so intelligently examined.” -- Lucy R. Lippard, author of Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics and Art in the Changing WestTable of ContentsAcknowledgements A Letter to the Preeminent Feminist Art Critic Lucy Lippard Introduction: Art and Social Practice Art & Social Practice: A Constellation of Influences Encounters Contemporary Artists (and One Curartor) Ted Purves Come Together (Harrell Fletcher) Jen Delos Reyes Amy Spiers Aaron Hughes Gregory Sholette Fallen Fruit: Austin Young and David Allen Burns Chloë Bass Gabrielle de Vietri Carol Zou Astra Taylor Bek Conroy Aaron Gach Marisa Jahn Nato Thompson Institutions California College of the Arts Otis Public Practice The Shape of a Conference Come Together On and Off Stage Field Notes Spectres of Evaluation, Rethinking: Art/Community/Value Open Engagement: Life/Work Queens Museum, New York City, May 2014 A Lived Practice Creative Time Summit: The Curriculum Open Engagement: Place and Revolution Creative Time Summit: The Curriculum Civic Actions: Artists’ Practices Beyond the Museum Creative Time Summit: The Curriculum ENGAGE MORE NOW! A Symposium on Artists, Museums, and Publics Open Engagement: Power Creative Time Summit: Occupy the Future College Art Association Creative Time Summit: Of Homelands and Revolutions Open Engagement: Sustainability Denouement Notes
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Rutgers University Press Not Your Mother's Mammy: The Black Domestic
Book SynopsisNot Your Mother’s Mammy examines how black artists of the African diaspora, many of them former domestics, reconstruct the black female subjectivities of domestics in fiction, film, and visual and performance art. In doing so, they undermine one-dimensional images of black domestics as victims lacking voice and agency and prove domestic workers are more than the aprons they wear. An analysis of selected media by Alice Childress, Nandi Keyi, Victoria Brown, Kara Walker, Mikalene Thomas, Rene Cox, Lynn Nottage, and others provides examples of generations of domestics who challenged their performative roles of subservience by engaging in subversive actions contradicting the image of the deferential black maid. Through verbal confrontation, mobilization, passive resistance, and performance, black domestics find their voices, exercise their power, and maintain their dignity in the face of humiliation. Not Your Mother’s Mammy brings to life stories of domestics often neglected in academic studies, such as the complexity of interracial homoerotic relationships between workers and employers, or the mental health challenges of domestics that lead to depression and suicide. In line with international movements like #MeToo and #timesup, the women in these stories demand to be heard. Trade Review"Tracey Walters weaves together a fascinating story about power and representation of Black domestic workers across the globe. Her attention to Black women artists and writers offers a compelling and empowering portrait of workers who were anything but silent and deferential. These 'quiet radicals,' as Walters describes them, are inspirational models for our time. This is a book about claiming space, giving voice, and, fundamentally, about remaking Black womanhood." — Premilla Nadasen, author of Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women who Built a Movement "What Walters achieves is an aesthetic of the black female domestic, a study of the representational dynamics of the figure in film, visual art, and literature. This book is a fascinating showcase of black women's nuanced reimaginings of servitude's long afterlife."— Kevin Quashie, author of The Sovereignty of Quiet: Beyond Resistance in Black Culture "Challenging mainstream media’s unidimensional portrayal and mis/representation of black female domestic workers as vulnerable and lacking agency, Not Your Mother’s Mammy identifies the myriad ways domestic workers, i.e. essential services workers, engender the politics of subversion and exercise their (labor) rights. This book will certainly influence future studies on labor rights of black female domestic workers." — Simone A. James Alexander, author of African Diasporic Women’s Narratives: Politics of Resistance, Survival, and CitizenshipTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1. Overview: The History of Black Women’s Domestic Labor from the Twentieth Century to the Present Part 1: Quiet Subversion: The Radical Acts of Working-Class Women in the Domestic Sphere 2. Let’s Hear It from the Maid: Alice Childress’s Like One of the Family 3. Dirty Work: The Representation of Undocumented Caribbean Domestic Laborers in Nandi Keyi’s The True Nanny Diaries and Victoria Brown’s Minding Ben 4. Forbidden Kinship: Homoerotic Desire between the Maid and Mistress in Zanele Muholi’s “Massa” and Mina(h) Part 2: We Wear the Mask: Servitude, an Art of Performance and Deception 5. A Sartorial Expression of Frenchness in Ousmane Sembène’s Black Girl: A Francophone Revision of Jean Genet’s The Maids 6. Maid in Hollywood: The Art of Performance in Theresa Harris’s By the Way, Meet Vera Stark 7. The Art of Dressing Up in Mary Sibande’s Long Live the Dead Queen Part 3: Representing for Laure: African American / Caribbean Women’s Reimaginings of Édouard Manet’s Olympia 8. From the Margin to the Center: The Maid in Édouard Manet’s Olympia and the Politics of Recognition in the Artwork of Mickalene Thomas and Renee Cox 9. Kara Walker’s “Marvelous Sugar Baby ‘Sphinx’”: A Satirical Rendition of the Mammy Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index
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Rutgers University Press Robin and the Making of American Adolescence
Book SynopsisHoly adolescence, Batman! Robin and the Making of American Adolescence offers the first character history and analysis of the most famous superhero sidekick, Robin. Debuting just a few months after Batman himself, Robin has been an integral part of the Dark Knight’s history—and debuting just a few months prior to the word “teenager” first appearing in print, Robin has from the outset both reflected and reinforced particular images of American adolescence. Closely reading several characters who have “played” Robin over the past eighty years, Robin and the Making of American Adolescence reveals the Boy (and sometimes Girl!) Wonder as a complex figure through whom mainstream culture has addressed anxieties about adolescents in relation to sexuality, gender, and race. This book partners up comics studies and adolescent studies as a new Dynamic Duo, following Robin as he swings alongside the ever-changing American teenager and finally shining the Bat-signal on the latter half of “Batman and—.” Trade Review“Lauren R. O’Connor explains Robin—as a teen, as a superhero, as a symbol—as a necessary way to understand adolescence in America along the axes of age, class, gender, and race. O'Connor does us all a favor and gives us a way to know how this enduring figure of adolescence fits into the superhero genre, into comics publishing, and into American culture.” -- Peter Coogan * author of Superhero: The Secret Origin of a Genre *"In Robin and the Making of American Adolescence, Lauren R. O'Connor deftly demonstrates how various iterations of Robin express contemporary anxieties about adolescence, sexuality, gender, and race. This insightful, engaging study discusses the various ways Batman's sidekick is often kicked aside; it urges us to see how Robin's subordinate position mirrors young people's peripheral status. Robin and the Making of American Adolescence is a valuable contribution to histories of comics and adolescence." -- Lara Saguisag * author of Incorrigibles and Innocents: Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics *"In this engaging account located at the intersection of youth studies and comics studies, O’Connor uses Robin as a lens to look at shifting cultural constructions of adolescence in the USA over time. In doing so she emphasizes the significance of the longevity of the character and the diversity of the individuals who have taken on the role." -- Mel Gibson * co-editor of Superheroes and Identities *"Holy adolescence, Batman! Robin and the Making of American Adolescence offers the first character history and analysis of the most famous superhero sidekick, Robin. Debuting just a few months after Batman himself, Robin has been an integral part of the Dark Knight’s history—and debuting just a few months prior to the word 'teenager' first appearing in print, Robin has from the outset both reflected and reinforced particular images of American adolescence. Closely reading several characters who have 'played' Robin over the past eighty years, Robin and the Making of American Adolescence reveals the Boy (and sometimes Girl!) Wonder as a complex figure through whom mainstream culture has addressed anxieties about adolescents in relation to sexuality, gender, and race. This book partners up comics studies and adolescent studies as a new Dynamic Duo, following Robin as he swings alongside the ever-changing American teenager and finally shining the Bat-signal on the latter half of 'Batman and—.'" * Forces of Geek *“Lauren R. O’Connor explains Robin—as a teen, as a superhero, as a symbol—as a necessary way to understand adolescence in America along the axes of age, class, gender, and race. O'Connor does us all a favor and gives us a way to know how this enduring figure of adolescence fits into the superhero genre, into comics publishing, and into American culture.” -- Peter Coogan * author of Superhero: The Secret Origin of a Genre *"In Robin and the Making of American Adolescence, Lauren R. O'Connor deftly demonstrates how various iterations of Robin express contemporary anxieties about adolescence, sexuality, gender, and race. This insightful, engaging study discusses the various ways Batman's sidekick is often kicked aside; it urges us to see how Robin's subordinate position mirrors young people's peripheral status. Robin and the Making of American Adolescence is a valuable contribution to histories of comics and adolescence." -- Lara Saguisag * author of Incorrigibles and Innocents: Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Com *"In this engaging account located at the intersection of youth studies and comics studies, O’Connor uses Robin as a lens to look at shifting cultural constructions of adolescence in the USA over time. In doing so she emphasizes the significance of the longevity of the character and the diversity of the individuals who have taken on the role." -- Mel Gibson * co-editor of Superheroes and Identities *"Holy adolescence, Batman! Robin and the Making of American Adolescence offers the first character history and analysis of the most famous superhero sidekick, Robin. Debuting just a few months after Batman himself, Robin has been an integral part of the Dark Knight’s history—and debuting just a few months prior to the word 'teenager' first appearing in print, Robin has from the outset both reflected and reinforced particular images of American adolescence. Closely reading several characters who have 'played' Robin over the past eighty years, Robin and the Making of American Adolescence reveals the Boy (and sometimes Girl!) Wonder as a complex figure through whom mainstream culture has addressed anxieties about adolescents in relation to sexuality, gender, and race. This book partners up comics studies and adolescent studies as a new Dynamic Duo, following Robin as he swings alongside the ever-changing American teenager and finally shining the Bat-signal on the latter half of 'Batman and—.'" * Forces of Geek *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One The Secret Origins of Adolescence Chapter Two Robin, Nightwing, Batman: The Shifting Sexuality of Dick Grayson Chapter Three Girls Wonder: Young Female Robins in the Modern Age of Comics Chapter Four Mixed Signals: Adolescence, Race, and Robin Chapter Five The Sidekick on Screen: Images of Robin in Television and Film Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£999.99
Bohlau Verlag Hermathena: Rezeption, Transfer, Inszenierung
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£92.32
Bohlau Verlag Unzeitgemäße Techniken: Historische Narrative
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£61.28
Gingko Press Small Scale Big World History Culture and Memory
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£35.14
Siruela La indetenible quietud
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£23.39
