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University of California Press In Search of a Concrete Music
Book SynopsisSuitable for those interested in contemporary musicology or media history, this title offers translation of the author's pioneering work - at once a journal of his experiments in sound composition and a treatise on the raison d'etre of concrete music.Trade Review"Collects Schaeffer's journals and other writings about his musique concrete, which he created by manipulating recorded sounds." Harper's "One of the postwar period's most significant (and readable) grapplings with new artistic paradigms." -- Rob Young Frieze "Completely changed how I hear the world and, after more than 30 years, I am still living with the consequences." -- John Dack The Wire "One striking impression that emerges from reading this book is that [Schaeffer's] work merits a perspective with greater nuance." Times Higher Education "Captures these uneven rhythms of intuition and perplexity, and his imagination and wit." Los Angeles Review Of Books "Recommended." -- J. Behrens, Wolf Museum of Music and Art ChoiceTable of ContentsTranslators' Note I. First Journal of Concrete Music (1948--1949) Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 II. Second Journal of Concrete Music (195--1951) Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 1 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 III. The Concrete Experiment in Music (1952) Chapter 14. The Concrete Approach Chapter 15. The Experimental Method Chapter 16. The Musical Object Chapter 17. From the Object to Language Chapter 18. From the Object to the Subject Chapter 19. Inventory Chapter 2. Farewells to Concrete Music IV. Outline of a Concrete Musical Training Index
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University of California Press MoMA Goes to Paris in 1938
Book SynopsisThree Centuries of American Art in 1938 was the Museum of Modern Art's first international exhibition. With over 750 artworks on view in Paris ranging from seventeenth-century colonial portraits to Mickey Mouse and spanning architecture, film, folk art, painting, prints, and sculpture, it was the most comprehensive display of American art to date in Europe and an important contributor to the internationalization of American art. MoMA Goes to Paris in 1938 explores how, at a time when the concept of artworks as masterpieces was very much up for debate, the exhibition expressed a vision of American art and culture that was not only an art historical endeavor but also a formulation of national identity. Caroline M. Riley demonstrates in what ways, at the brink of international war in the politically turbulent 1930s, MoMA collaborated with the US Department of State for the first time to deploy works of art as diplomatic agents.Trade Review"A detailed account of the many contingencies and the vast efforts, planning and negotiation required to stage an exhibition, particularly one on this scale and with an international venue. . . . An impressively thorough account." * Early Popular Visual Culture * "Riley’s contribution to the new scholarship on MoMA is timely and important to understanding the specific impact of the museum’s exhibition program on art history." * Panorama *"This well-researched and richly illustrated book significantly contributes to stress the centrality of museum studies within art and cultural history. Most importantly, it calls attention to the transnational character of ‘national’ imaginaries and the inherent reflexive nature of any cultural practice." * European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. What Was Three Centuries of American Art? 2. Loaning across Oceans: Symbolism, Risk, and Value 3. Creating a Contemporary American Art History across Centuries 4. Art on Paper Conclusion Appendix: Tables of Artworks Included in Three Centuries of American Art List of Abbreviations Notes Selected Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
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University of California Press The Geometries of Afro Asia Art beyond
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A reformulation in which ‘Afro’ and ‘Asia’ are loosed to orbit and collide with one another in new ways, presenting nuanced and timely approaches to exchange. . . . Kee’s rich interpretive geometry is a fractal that arcs towards the future." * ArtReview *"Wide-ranging and meticulously compiled, the volume examines artworks from the past century that push our conceptions of Afro Asia beyond the confines of identity and regionalism currently in institutional vogue." * ArtForum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Coincident Intensities: Friendship, Comparison, and the Afro Asian Body 2. Angles of Incidence: Interracial Encounters of a Photographic Kind 3. Integral Tangents: Black Arts of Asia 4. Adjacent and Parallel: Planes of Collaboration 5. Circling Afro China: The New Global Majority List of Illustrations Notes Index
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University of California Press The Forgers Creed Reinventing Art History in
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University of California Press Imperial Animations in Transpacific Contemporary Art
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University of California Press Sojourners Sultans and Slaves America and the Indian Ocean in the Age of Abolition and Empire
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Princeton University Press The Notebooks
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOne of Art World's Top Ten Art Books to Read during Thanksgiving, 2015 "This carefully reproduced facsimile edition of renowned visual artist Basquiat's eight notebooks provides us a glimpse into the mind of a visionary artist. On nearly every page, readers will ponder over why and how Basquiat chose to string together these specific word marks and often bizarre phrases. The notebooks function as a sort of incubator for Basquiat's artistic process as well as a finished product in their own right ... a vital part of Basquiat's legacy and an invaluable window into his ingenious and whimsical mind."--Publishers Weekly "Seeing and reading the pages in the gallery certainly make one want to spend more time with Basquiat's writing, and Princeton University Press's forthcoming facsimile of the notebooks provides this time for closer study... The book offers the intimate reading experience one expects when engaging with an artist's private musing."--Megan N. Liberty, Hyperallergic "The Notebooks by Jean-Michel Basquiat is one of the most interesting books published in recent memory... A book for all seasons--it is a text and an art object at once, adding a new dimension to our knowledge of Basquiat's thought. It brings us under the surface or behind the scenes, whichever metaphor you prefer, showing the artist at his most protean, and pure, stained with the life that rarely slows down long enough to capture it in words."--Stephan Delbos, BODY "This beautiful book ... Expands our understanding of what this artist created in the too-short time he spent at work."--Colin Rafferty, Key Reporter "The Notebooks gathers passages selected from Basquiat's eight notebooks in one fascinating volume that will reveal many lesser-known talents and quirks of SAMO to his ever-growing number of fans worldwide."--Lorena Munoz-Alonso, Artnet News
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Princeton University Press Human Flow
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Provides a powerful, personal, and moving account of the most urgent humanitarian crisis of our time."---Eleni Sakellis, National Herald"A gift for those who care deeply about their fellow humans, or a needed wake-up call for those who could learn a little empathy, Ai Weiwei’s book Human Flow brings to light the stories of those on the front lines of the global refugee crisis . . . [T]his book is able to give voice to many . . . featuring 100 first-person accounts alongside Weiwei’s photographs."---Shannon Connellan, Mashable"Providing descriptions of the difficulties from many perspectives of the refugee situation and perspectives on how it might be dealt with, [Human Flow] is a powerful resource about a critical humanitarian issue. . .Highly recommended." * Choice *"A remarkable dossier. . . . Human Flow needs to be read now."---Jeremy Adelman, Public Books
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Princeton University Press Wassily Kandinsky
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Princeton University Press Fortuna and the Immortality Garden Machine
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Princeton University Press Ben Shahn On Nonconformity
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Princeton University Press Exemplary Things Meibutsu in Premodern Japan
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Johns Hopkins University Press Maryland Wits and Baltimore Bards A Literary
Book SynopsisAs entertaining as it is informative, Maryland Wits and Baltimore Bards shows us why.Trade ReviewLocal treasure Frank Shivers Jr. wields his prodigious knowledge of Baltimore's past in this first literary history of the region. Baltimore Magazine Baltimore, Shivers explains, with its courtly charm, crabby cuisine, and proximity to the Chesapeake Bay, lures writers for life, whether its Mencken and Poe or Barry Levinson and John Waters. Washington City Paper Is there a special quality in our Maryland way of life that is conducive to creative writing and to writers?... Frank Shivers has put together a well-researched, carefully documented, and entertaining study that focuses on these and other questions... The range of this study is extensive but well-managed. Baltimore Sun Shivers has done the Maryland literary community, and literary historians in general, a tremendous service with this book... His eye for important detail, as well as the interestingly trivial, is more than just commendable. He reveals why Baltimore is called 'Mobtown,' where the expression 'hooker' originated, and where the story of George Washington and the cherry tree can first be found... A book any serious lover of Maryland literary history must read."- -- Stephen J. Vicchio Maryland Historical MagazineTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and MapsPreface Chapter 1. Sometimes Bitter FriendsChapter 2. Recognition, Confrontation, and CoexistenceChapter 3. Through Caesar's EyesChapter 4. The Early Empire and the Barbarians: An OverviewChapter 5. Perspectives from PannoniaChapter 6. The Barbarians and the "Crisis" of the EmpireChapter 7. Barbarians and the Late Roman EmpireEpilogueAppendix: Most Important Roman Emperors and UsurpersNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Studies in EighteenthCentury Culture Volume 37
Book SynopsisPresents essays that share a common concern with investigating Enlightenment categories of historical understanding and determining how these categories helped shape Enlightenment culture. This work addresses the question of how eighteenth-century writers make sense of the past for their own practical, aesthetic, and ideological purposes.Table of ContentsFrank Palmeri, Conjectural History and the Origins of Sociology; Stuart Peterfreund, From the Forbidden to the Familiar: The Way of Natural Theology Leading up to and beyond the Long Eighteenth Century; Tony C. Brown, The Barrows of History; Shane Agin, Sex Education in the Enlightened Nation; Suzanne R. Pucci, Snapshots of Family Intimacy in the French Eighteenth Century: The Case of Paul et Virginie; Ana Hontanilla, Images of Barbaric Spain in Eighteenth-Century British Travel Writing; Mark R. Malin, The Good, the Bad, and the Sentimental Savage: Native Americans in Representative Novels from the Spanish Enlightenment; Simon During, Church, State, and Modernization: English Literature as Gentlemanly Knowledge after 1688; Julia Rudolph, "That Blunderbuss of Law": Giles Jacob, Abridgement, and Print Culture; Anne H. Stevens, Forging Literary History: Historical Fiction and Literary Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain; Jennifer Thorn, "All beautiful in woe": Gender, Nation, and Phillis Wheatley's Niobe; Hilary Englert, "This Rhapsodical Work": Object-Narrators and the Figure of Sterne.
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Stanford University Press Present Pasts
Book SynopsisMemory of historical trauma has a unique power to generate works of art. This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New Yorkthree late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas. Berlin experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall and the city's reemergence as the German capital; Buenos Aires lived through the dictatorships of the 1970s and 1980s and their legacy of state terror and disappearances; and New York City faces a set of public memory issues concerning the symbolic value of Times Square as threatened public space and the daunting task of commemorating and rebuilding after the attack on the World Trade Center. Focusing on the issue of monumentalization in divergent artistic and media practices, the book demonstrates that the transformation of spatial and temporal experience by memory politics is a major cultural effect of globalization. Trade Review"Fascinating reading, this is a profound, original, and timely book about the world's current obsession with the past, as well as the form which this obsession has taken: memory. Huyssen considers what our obsession with memory means, and examines a number of material forms that it has taken, as well as the social, cultural, and aesthetic functions they have served." -Kaja Silverman, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsPresent pasts - media, politics, amnesia; Monumental seduction - Christo in Berlin; The voids of Berlin; After the war - Berlin as palimpsest; Fear of mice - the Times Square redevelopment; Memory sites in an expanded field - the Memory Park inBuenos Aires; Doris Salcedo's memory sculpture unland - the Orphan's Tunic; Of mice and mimesis - reading Spiegelman's Maus with Adorno; Rewritings and new beginnings - W.G. Sebald and the literature on the air war; Twin memories - after-images of nine/eleven.
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University of Minnesota Press The Matrixial Borderspace
Book SynopsisAn intertwining of the philosophy of art and psychoanalytic theory. This book presents a theoretical exploration of shared affect and emergent expression, across the thresholds of identity and memory. The author replaces the phallic structure with a dimension of emergence, where objects, images, and meanings are glimpsed in their incipiency.
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Zone Books The Life of Forms in Art
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Zone Books Europe and the Wolf
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Princeton University Press The Organic Line
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ERIS Secrets of Beauty
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Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art London's New Scene: Art and Culture in the 1960s
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking and extensively researched account of the 1960s London art scene In the 1960s, London became a vibrant hub of artistic production. Postwar reconstruction, jet air travel, television arts programs, new color supplements, a generation of young artists, dealers, and curators, the influx of international film companies, the projection of “creative Britain” as a national brand—all nurtured and promoted the emergence of London as “a new capital of art.” Extensively illustrated and researched, this book offers an unprecedented, rich account of the social field that constituted the lively London scene of the 1960s. In clear, fluent prose, Tickner presents an innovative sequence of critical case studies, each of which explores a particular institution or event in the cultural life of London between 1962 and 1968. The result is a kaleidoscopic view of an exuberant decade in the history of British art.Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British ArtTrade Review“[E]loquent moments are investigated and analysed in a style that reminds us of the author’s academic credentials, at the same time as showing a wide and warm immersion in her subject and a generous range of reference.”—Julia Sutherland, Financial Times “A scholarly, beautifully constructed survey of the London art scene of the 1960s that focuses on a fascinating cast of glamorous characters and gritty drama, with much that resonates with today's art world”—Hettie Judah, Art Newspaper“Tickner unpicks the myths of London’s Pop Art counterculture, investigating the transformational moments that allowed the avant-garde to flourish.”—Holly Black, Elephant magazine“[A] handsome new volume, well-illustrated…which tells of the emergence of London as an international art scene, during the years that followed World War II”—Edward Lucie-Smith, ArtLyst“Tickner’s case studies range across institutions and events, from films and exhibitions to books and even protests.”—Dance Gazette“Lisa Tickner takes an in-depth look at the conditions that made 1960s London such a vibrant cultural hub.”—The Arts Society Magazine, ‘Best Books for June’“The YBA years had nothing on the London art scene of the '60s…Tickner offers a fresh account…through a series of original case studies.”—Apollo Magazine“[A] comprehensive survey of the burgeoning art scene in London 60 years ago, taking in everyone from Gilbert & George to David Hockney”—The Herald“London’s New Scene is full of unfamiliar material and original ideas…packed with information and reflection, [it] will prove invaluable to students and scholars but is written with a lightness of touch that will also appeal to the general reader.”—Art Daily “Chapters include examinations of Ken Russell’s seminal TV documentary Pop Goes the Easel, the influence of the Kasmin Gallery (the original white cube) and Michelangelo Antonioni’s film Blow Up, which perfectly captured the look and feel of the times. Well written and copiously illustrated, this is about as perfect a biography of a decade as you could wish for.”—Henry Walt, The Artist “London's New Scene is thus at once a corrective and an act of reappropriation. Our current reading of the 1960s comes from the populism of its initial writing, or, perhaps, packaging. All this needs careful unpicking, and Tickner provides it.”—Charles Darwent, Times Literary Supplement“Collectively, the texts represent one of the most imaginative sources on the 1960s London art world.”—Anne Massey, The Burlington Magazine“This richly illustrated book about the emergence of London as an international art scene is as much social history as art book. Besides bringing very precise details and perspective to key moments and subjects of the period, what it demonstrates clearly is that Sixties London was the crucible from which the new notion of a creative Britain emerged.”—Charlotte Gould, Cercles“An exceptionally well-researched and extensive study.”—Paul Flux, Albion Magazine
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Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art The Rainbow's Gravity: Colour, Materiality and
Book SynopsisFrom Victorian breakthroughs in synthesising pigments to the BBC’s conversion to chromatic broadcasting, the story of colour’s technological development is inseparable from wider processes of modernisation that transformed Britain. This revolutionary history brings to light how new colour technologies informed ideas about national identity during a period of profound social change, when the challenges of industrialisation, decolonisation of the Empire and evolving attitudes to race and gender reshaped the nation. Offering a compelling new account of modern British visual culture that reveals colour to be central to its aesthetic trajectories and political formations, this chromatic lens deepens our understanding of how British art is made and what it means, offering a new way to assess the visual landscape of the period and interpret its colourful objects. Across a kaleidoscopic array of materials, from radiant paintings by major Victorian artists, vivid print advertisements and vibrant interwar fashion photographs, to glorious Technicolor films and the prismatic programmes of the BBC’s early years of colour television, The Rainbow’s Gravity reveals how Britain modernised colour and how colour, in turn, modernised Britain. Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
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Columbia Books on Architecture and the City Nights of the Dispossessed – Riots Unbound
Book SynopsisRiots are extraordinary events that have been recurring with increasing frequency and occupy a highly controversial space in the political imagination. Despite their often negative portrayals, it is undeniable that riots have played a pivotal role in the confrontation between authority and dissent. Recently, with the deepening crises of capitalism, racial violence, and communal tension, an “age of riots” has powerfully begun. As master fictions of the sovereign nation-state implode, and the hegemonic silencing of the dispossessed reveals the cracks in governability, Nights of the Dispossessed: Riots Unbound brings together artistic works, political texts, critical urban analyses, and research projects from across the world in an endeavor to “sense,” chronicle, and think through recent riots and uprisings—evoking a phenomenology of the multitude and surplus population.With contributions from Asef Bayat, Joshua Clover, Vaginal Davis, Keller Easterling, Zena Edwards, Nadine El-Enany, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Gauri Gill, Natasha Ginwala, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Louis Henderson, Satch Hoyt, Hamid Khan, Gal Kirn, Josh Kun, Léopold Lambert, Margit Mayer, Vivek Narayanan, Ai Ogawa, Oana Pârvan, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, SAHMAT, Thomas Seibert, Niloufar Tajeri, Chandraguptha Thenuwara, Dariouche Tehrani, and Ala Younis.Table of Contents1. Shake the Ground: A Foreword Keller Easterling2. A Slow Cancellation of the Future and the Fires Next Time Natasha Ginwala, Gal Kirn, and Niloufar Tajeri3. The Manifesto Unwritten Satch HoytTrouble with Riots: Alternative Definitions and Political Histories4. Introduction Gal Kirn5. Demos Noir: Riot after Riot Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar6. Revolts, Resentment, Resignation: Five Theses on the Negative Dialectics of Post-Marxist Socialism Thomas Seibert7. No One Leaves Delila–A (W)rap on Riots Natasha Ginwala in conversation with Vaginal Davis8. Ideologies of Riot and Strike Joshua Clover9. “They Been Jealous, Must Be”–Toxic Sovereignty, Dispossession, and the Extimacy of Riots Elizabeth A. Povinelli10. Riot Act, April 29, 1992 Ai Ogawa11. Pat–Riot–Against the Slow Cancellation of the Future Ala YounisMnemonic Spatiality of Violence12. IntroductionNiloufar Tajeri13. Riots as Contestations of Neoliberal Urbanism Margit Mayer14. Built to Be Torn Down, Fed to Be Starved, Resurrected to Be Disposed Of: Capitalism is a Riot, a Riot from Above Gal Kirn and Niloufar Tajeri15. Revolving Anger & The Tarot Banksy Zena Edwards16. A Night of the Dispossessed: The Imaginable Violence of the Grenfell Tower Fire Nadine El-Enany17. Chrono-Cartography of the October 17, 1961, Massacre of Algerians in Paris Léopold Lambert18. 15 Years After 2005: Anticolonial Reflections on the Concept of “Riots” in the French Context Dariouche Tehrani19. Cities of Dissent Asef Bayat20. 1984 Gauri GillFiguration/Disfiguration: Racial Logic and Representation21. Introduction Natasha Ginwala22. In Search of 1949 Vivek Narayanan23. Unruly Life: Subverting “Surplus” Existence in Tunisia Oana Pârvan24. Evidence of Things Unseen But Heard Louis Henderson25. Re-looking at Riots in Contemporary Sri Lanka Chandraguptha Thenuwara 26. Black Side of the Hidden MoonUnthreading Thoughts on the Riot in My Head Satch Hoyt27. SAHMAT: Cultures of Dissent and Collective Memory28. The Time is Still, Always, Now! Josh KunBiographiesAcknowledgments
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Layout and Composition for Animation
Book SynopsisThis essential, hands-on guide is filled with examples of what a composition should look like and example of poorly designed layouts. Spot potential problems before they cost time and money, and adapt creative solutions for your own projects with this invaluable resource for beginner and intermediate artists. With Beauty and the Beast examples and Simpson character layouts, readers will learn how to develop character layout and background layout as well as strengthen composition styles with a creative toolset of trick shot examples and inspirational case studies. A companion website will include further technique based tools, finalized layout and composition examples and tutorials for further artistic skill development. Trade ReviewEd Ghertner is a highly regarded master craftsman in the animation industry. This book is packed with ideas that cover the art of visual story telling. It would be a helpful tool for any animator, layout artist or filmmaker. Mark Kirkland -- Three-time Emmy Award-winning Director of The Simpsons Ed Ghertner is a highly regarded master craftsman in the animation industry. This book is packed with ideas that cover the art of visual story telling. It would be a helpful tool for any animator, layout artist or filmmaker. Mark Kirkland -- Three-time Emmy Award-winning Director of The Simpsons Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionIt's All About StorytellingChoosing the Correct Tools to tell the storyPutting it down on PaperExtreme Perspective SolutionsPlacement of Characters in a CompositionCameraChanging Perspective in a SceneLightingDigital Layout and Composition: 2D and 3DFrequently Used Terms and Definitions
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University of Minnesota Press Art and Posthumanism: Essays, Encounters,
Book SynopsisA sustained engagement between contemporary art and philosophy relating to our place in, and responsibility to, the nonhuman world How do contemporary art and theory contemplate the problem of the “bio” of biopolitics and bioart? How do they understand the question of “life” that binds human and nonhuman worlds in their shared travail? In Art and Posthumanism, Cary Wolfe argues for the reconceptualization of nature in art and theory to turn the idea of the relationship between the human and the planet upside down.Wolfe explores a wide range of contemporary artworks—from Sue Coe’s illustrations of animals in factory farms and Eduardo Kac’s bioart to the famous performance pieces of Joseph Bueys and the video installations of Eija-Liisa Ahtila, among others—examining how posthumanist theory can illuminate, and be illuminated by, artists’ engagement with the more-than-human world. Looking at biological and social systems, the question of the animal, and biopolitics, Art and Posthumanism explores how contemporary art rivets our attention on the empirically thick, emotionally charged questions of “life” and the “living” amid ecological catastrophe.One of the foremost theorists of posthumanism, Wolfe pushes that philosophy out of the realm of the purely theoretical to show how a posthumanist engagement with particular works and their conceptual underpinnings help to develop more potent ethical and political commitments. Trade Review "Conversational in style yet highly ambitious in its ideas, this inspiring collection explores different ways of being in the world for humans and nonhumans alike. Cary Wolfe provides a unique approach to thinking both about art and with art—but also a new possibility for seeing and sensing the world through art."—Joanna Zylinska, King’s College London "Cary Wolfe is one of the few animal studies scholars thoroughly fluent in the complex language of contemporary visual arts culture, and he brings his talents for exquisite prose to Art and Posthumanism. I can think of no more valuable volume for makers engaged in the culture of interspecific ecological entanglements."—Mark Dion, visual artist "This important book provides readers with fascinating, crisscrossing paths into Wolfe’s entanglement of contemporary art world and posthumanist theory."—Ecozon@Table of ContentsContentsPreface1. In Lieu of an Introduction: A Conversation with Giovanni AloiPart I. Systems: Social, Biological, Ecological2. Lose the Building: Meaning and Form in Diller and Scofidio’s Blur3. Time as Architectural Medium: Koolhaas and Mau’s Tree City4. The Installation That Almost Ate MePart II. “The Animal”5. From Dead Meat to Glow-in-the-Dark Bunnies: Seeing “The Animal Question” in Contemporary Art6. Apes Like Us7. Condors at the End of the World: Rethinking Environmental Art8. Each Time Unique: The Poetics of ExtinctionPart III. The Biopolitical9. What Is the Bio- of Biopolitics and Bioart?10. No Immunity: The Biopolitical Worlds of Eija-Liisa Ahtila11. The Miracle of the Familiar: A Conversation with Eija-Liisa Ahtila12. The Biopolitical Drama of Joseph Beuys NotesIndex
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Paris Grafik Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island Map
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Taschen GmbH Fausto & Felice Niccolini. Houses and Monuments
Book SynopsisWhen the excavations at Pompeii were first placed on a scholarly archaeological footing in the 19th century, brothers Fausto and Felice Niccolini were close at hand and ready to respond. Making use of the newly introduced technique of color lithography, they documented the buildings, frescos, statues, as well as the most ordinary everyday objects, of the city buried in just 24 hours by the catastrophic eruption of Vesuvius and preserved for over 1,600 years under a mantle of volcanic ash. The Niccolinis’ goal was to illustrate all aspects of life in the antique city. Their publication, Le case ed i monumenti di Pompei (“The Houses and Monuments of Pompeii”), which was issued in installments between 1854 and 1896 in Naples, presented over 400 color plates providing not only views, maps, and groundplans of the city and its public buildings, but also offered unprecedented access to Pompeii’s private residences. They revealed the astonishing painted wall decorations that adorned these long-buried abodes, their intricate works of art, and the practical utensils of everyday use, conjuring up a vivid picture of each house as a real domestic space. In total, the plates illustrated more than 1,000 items, each extensively specified and located for the first time, making the publication a major reference in Pompeii research. In addition, “animated” representations visualized daily life in Pompeii’s workshops, taverns, and shops, on its public squares, and in its temples, theaters, and baths. This meticulous facsimile revives the Niccolinis’ extraordinary achievement with all color plates and two introductory essays setting the project in its contemporary context and presenting the historical protagonists of the Vesuvian excavations. In addition, we explore the remarkable influence exerted by Pompeian art—and by the haunting plaster casts made of victims of the eruption—on the visual arts. Across painting, sculpture, and interior design, we trace the Pompeii legacy in the work of Robert Adam, Anton Raphael Mengs, Angelika Kaufmann, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Pablo Picasso, and Giorgio de Chirico, right through to recent masters Duane Hanson and George Segal.Trade Review“TASCHEN resurrects [the Niccolini brothers’] achievement in this sumptuous tome.” * The Guardian *
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CRC Press The Secret World of Flexagons
Book SynopsisThe hexaflexagon is a folded paper strip of colored triangles that has long delighted people with how it magically changes its appearance when âœflexedâ. This hands-on, comprehensive book goes beyond the hexaflexagon, the standard version of this folded puzzle, exponentially expanding this barely explored field as it brings new options and fresh insights to light. Learn over a dozen different flexes, make dozens of different flexagons with the aid of step-by-step illustrated directions and templates to copy and print. Delve into the internal structure of flexagons and discover a universal way to describe and predict their behavior. Learn how to create your own custom flexagons with a special computer program. Understand how flexagons are connected to group theory, computer science, and topology. Have fun decorating flexagons and make flexagon books, puzzles, pop-ups, mazes, and more. Written in a clear, easy-to-understand,
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University of Minnesota Press Bauhaus Weaving Theory
Book SynopsisTrade Review"T’ai Smith’s careful opening up of the theoretical space between ‘craft’ and ‘medium’ will be an important intervention into discussions of medium specificity in the arts of the twentieth century. Attuned to the historical specificity of the practice, gender roles, and new possibilities for mediation in the Weimar period, she gives a compelling account of how the practical and theoretical concerns of weaving were negotiated discursively as well." —Frederic J. Schwartz, University College London "This is the first scholarly analysis of the theoretical writing by the women weavers of the Bauhaus and as such fills a huge gap in the literature about the work of women artists at the school and the role and evolution of a feminized craft within the institution’s history. This book functions as not only a history of the weaving workshop, but also a nuanced history of the Bauhaus through the lens of creative practice." —Elissa Auther, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs"Smith’s account yields important insights for the history of modernism as well as the art world’s current fascination with textiles and fiber art. A welcome resource for any scholar of modernism and a crucial lens on contemporary textile art."—Art Papers"This book of theoretical essays uncovers a rarely spotlighted yet deeply significant creative process within the Bauhaus movement."—Metropolis"An edifying and overdue investigation of the weavers’ far-reaching contributions."—American Craft"A fascinating book that should interest professionals and amateurs alike."—CHOICE"Compelling research."—Crafts Magazine"An important schoalarly work for anyone interested in the history of fiber art, weaving, and the discourse about art vs. medium-specific craft."—Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot"Bauhaus Weaving Theory proves to be foundational in rethinking weaving; it is a remarkable work of scholarship, pellucid and engaging."—Journal of Modern CraftTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Textiles, Text, and a Medium-Specific Craft1. Pictures Made of Wool: Weaving Labor in the Workshop2. Toward a Modernist Theory of Weaving: The Use of Textiles in Architectural Space3. The Haptics of Optics: Weaving and Photography 4. Weaving as Invention: Patenting Theories of AuthorshipConclusion: On Weaving, On WritingNotesIndex
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Duke University Press Becoming Palestine
Book SynopsisIn Becoming Palestine, Gil Z. Hochberg examines how contemporary Palestinian artists, filmmakers, dancers, and activists use the archive in order to radically imagine Palestine''s future. She shows how artists such as Jumana Manna, Kamal Aljafari, Larissa Sansour, Farah Saleh, Basel Abbas, and Ruanne Abou-Rahme reimagine the archive, approaching it not through the desire to unearth hidden knowledge, but to sever the identification of the archive with the past. In their use of archaeology, musical traditions, and archival film and cinematic footage, these artists imagine a Palestinian future unbounded from colonial space and time. By urging readers to think about archives as a break from history rather than as history''s repository, Hochberg presents a fundamental reconceptualization of the archive''s liberatory potential.Trade Review“Becoming Palestine offers a treasure of insights, challenging the reader to keep up with the radically new temporalities and aesthetic forms in which archives are being called upon to carve out a new Palestine, to imagine what its political space might look and feel like. Here archives have become the active sites for conceptualizing alternative futures. Moving with deft nuance through projects realized in video art, dance, essay-film, and performance, Gil Z. Hochberg provides perceptive witness to artistic interventions with ‘phantasmal power’ to reclaim space for these political visions in the making.” -- Ann Laura Stoler, author of * Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times *“Appearing at a time when interest in Palestinian imaginative culture is higher than it has ever been, Becoming Palestine is a highly original and illuminating study of recent Palestinian creative works unlike any that has been published thus far. It will attract scholars of Israel and Palestine, Palestinian culture, and modern Arab and Middle Eastern art and cinema, and I expect it to be widely read by curators and practitioners throughout the world who work on art that engages with archives and politics.” -- Nadia Yaqub, author of * Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution *“Becoming Palestine is a most interesting contribution to studies about the Palestinian resistance against the settler colony, under which they have lived since 1948. Gil Z. Hochberg adds a radical analysis of the imaginative creations of young artists in the twenty-first century. It would be an eye-opener to students and scholars of dance and the performing arts, and Middle East, international politics, and cultural studies.” * Arab Studies Quarterly *“In this book, Hochberg makes a powerful contribution to the important and growing field of critical Palestine Studies that complicates and questions assumptions about a Palestine presented in mainstream politics as a depoliticized space devoid of the reality of occupation and settler colonialism.” -- Dina Matar * Middle East Journal *“The abiding contribution of Becoming Palestine is how it extends awareness of some particularly provocative and politically acute art. This book conducts careful, detailed labour throughout, explaining works that have existed almost exclusively within the time-limited confines of metropolitan art museums and art-film festivals.” -- Kay Dickinson * Screen *“The artists and creators who populate [Becoming Palestine] create new archives by remixing, citing, and manipulating older materials, to borrow just a few of the expansive set of verbs Hochberg uses to describe archival projects. . . . Becoming Palestine offers a bold path forward for discussions of future, hope, and political possibilities in both Palestinian Studies and broader anti-colonial resistance.” -- Katie Logan * Markaz Review *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. Archival Imagination of/for the Future 1 1. Revisiting the Orientalist Archive: Jumana Manna's Re-Mapped Musical Archive of Palestine 37 2. Lost and Found in Israeli Footage: Kamal Aljafari's "Jaffa Trilogy" and the Productive Violation of the Colonial Visual Archive 53 3. "Suspended between Past and Future": Larissa Sansour's Sci-Fi Archaeological Archive in the Past-Future Tense 72 4. "Face to Face with the Ancestors of Civilization": Ruanna Abou-Rahme and Basel Abbas's Archive of the Copy 87 5. Gesturing toward Resistance: Farah Saleh's Archive of Gestures 107 Afterword 128 Notes 135 Bibliography 171 Index 189
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Rab-Rab Press Biting the Hand
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Pie International Co., Ltd. Cannabis Works
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David Zwirner The Critic as Artist
Book SynopsisIn The Critic as Artist, arguably the most complete exploration of his aesthetic thinking, and certainly the most entertaining, Oscar Wilde harnesses his famous wit to demolish the supposed boundary between art and criticism. Subtitled Upon the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything, the essay takes the form of a leisurely dialogue between two characters: Ernest, who insists upon Wilde’s own belief in art’s freedom from societal mandates and values, and a quizzical Gilbert. With his playwright’s ear for dialogue, Wilde champions idleness and contemplation as prerequisites to artistic cultivation. Beyond the well-known dictum of art for art’s sake, Wilde’s originality lays argument for the equality of criticism and art. For him, criticism is not subject to the work of art, but can in fact precede it: the artist cannot create without engaging his or her critical faculties first. And, as Wilde writes, “To the critic the work of art is simply a suggestion for a new work of his own.” The field of art and criticism should be open to the free play of the mind, but Wilde plays seriously, even prophetically. Writing in 1891, he foresaw that criticism would have an increasingly important role as the need to make sense of what we see increases with the complexities of modern life. It is only the fine perception and explication of beauty, Wilde suggests, that will allow us to create meaning, joy, empathy, and peace out of the chaos of facts and reality.
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Princeton University Press Queer Moderns
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JRP Ringier The Yugoslav Art Space: Denegri in the First
Book SynopsisA critical introduction to the life and work of Yugoslav modernist and conceptual art's foremost exponentJeša Denegri (born 1936) has been the most influential historian and theorist of Yugoslav modernist art of the 1950s and 1960s. Yet despite recent international interest in Yugoslav modernist and conceptual art, his critical writing and curatorial work has remained in relative obscurity.This volume positions Denegri's foundational role in the narrative on Yugoslav art. The backbone of the book is an extended conversation with Denegri that looks beyond his critical impact and into artistic circles in 1960s''70s Belgrade, Zagreb, Ljubljana and Novi Sad. The work of the most influential artists and artistic groups in YugoslaviaMangelos, OHO Group, Tom Gotovac, Mladen Stlinovic, Marina Abramovic, Raša Todosijevic, Sanja Ivekovic, Braco Dimitrijevicand some still less known for international audiences, such as Radomir Damnjanovic and Goran Trbuljak, are discussed. This first comprehensive survey of Denegri's life and work also features a postface by German theorist Boris Groys.
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University of California Press Totality
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Symbol 2. Surface 3. Self-Evidence 4. Space 5. Standpoint 6. Scale Frequently Cited Sources Notes Picture Credits Index
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Taylor & Francis Recording Orchestra and Other Classical Music
Book SynopsisRecording Orchestra and Other Classical Music Ensembles explores techniques and methodologies specific to recording classical music. Whether the reader is a newcomer or a seasoned engineer looking to refine their skills, this book speaks to all levels of expertise and covers every aspect of recording symphonic and concerto repertoire, opera, chamber music and solo piano.With a focus on the orchestra as an instrument and sound source, Recording Orchestra and Other Classical Music Ensembles features sections on how to listen, understanding microphones, concert halls, orchestra seating arrangements, how to set up the monitoring environment and how to approach recording each section of the orchestra. Offering concise information on preparing for a recording session, the role of the producer and mixing techniques, whilst a quick-start reference guide with suggested setups also helps to introduce the reader to the recording process. Online Instructor and Student Res
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Paris Grafik Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway Map
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Rowman & Littlefield Activating the Art Museum: Designing Experiences
Book SynopsisThis book offers a framework for collaboration between art museum educators and health professionals. It includes advice on selecting meaningful and provocative works of art; models of responsive workshop design, compelling descriptions of gallery experiences; and references to supporting medical literature
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Princeton University Press After the End of Art
Book SynopsisOriginally delivered as the prestigious Mellon Lectures on the Fine Arts in 1995, After the End of Art remains a classic of art criticism and philosophy, and continues to generate heated debate for contending that art ended in the 1960s. Arthur Danto, one of the best-known art critics of his time, presents radical insights into art's irrevocable deTrade ReviewWinner of the 1998 Eugene M. Kayden National University Press Book Prize, University of Colorado at Boulder "If you are seriously attentive to contemporary art, you are already aware of Danto and his general positions, and owe it to yourself to read this book. If you are not, but are genuinely curious, you would do well to follow him... Throughout it is clear and direct; at best, it is brilliantly crystalline... I know of no more useful single book on art today."--Michael Pakenham, Baltimore Sun "Is Danto gloomy about the end of art? Not in the slightest... Danto is nothing if not cheered by the prospect of an art world in which everything is permitted."--Roger Copeland, Wilson Quarterly "... the need for critical works such as this one--learned, discerning and refreshingly open-minded--is perhaps greater than ever."--Publishers Weekly "In this, Dr. Danto's best book yet, he helps us make sense of the times we are living in."--Richard Dorment, The Art Newspaper "Required reading for anyone seriously interested in late-modern and contemporary art."--Library Journal "Danto was and remains the high priest of pluralism, and arch-critic of the view that art has a distinctive essence... The chapters in this book are a challenging read, but a good one, because they take us to the heart of a living and profoundly interesting contemporary debate."--A.C. Grayling, Financial Times "Danto makes a lively and stimulating case [about the end of art]... The source ... of all ths mental labor is Andy Warhol, or more precisely his Brillo box sculpture... The utter banality of the piece sent 600 years of art history crashing to the ground in ruins."--Boston Book ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Foreword to the Princeton Classics Edition xi Preface xvii Acknowledgments xxi CHAPTER ONE Introduction: Modern, Postmodern, and Contemporary 3 CHAPTER TWO Three Decades after the End of Art 21 CHAPTER THREE Master Narratives and Critical Principles 41 CHAPTER FOUR Modernism and the Critique of Pure Art: The Historical Vision of Clement Greenberg 61 CHAPTER FIVE From Aesthetics to Art Criticism 81 CHAPTER SIX Painting and the Pale of History: The Passing of the Pure 101 CHAPTER SEVEN Pop Art and Past Futures 117 CHAPTER EIGHT Painting, Politics, and Post-Hisotrical Art 135 CHAPTER NINE The Historical Museum of Monochrome Art 153 CHAPTER TEN Museums and the Thirsting Millions 175 CHAPTER ELEVEN Modalities of History: Possibility and Comedy 193 Index 221
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Game Economy Design
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive overview of game economy design. It begins with a high-level overview, then utilizes subsequent chapters to break this down into finer details, showing methods to approach the various problems and challenges involved in creating an intricate game economy and metagame experience. The content of the book extends to associated and related fields such as monetization and live operations.The book contains step-by-step processes with best practices and examples, with content written from an empirical standpoint. The reader will gain insights into the components that form a game economy, how these components are utilized to shape a metagame experience and how monetization is integrated into this. The content will consider the work economy designers undertake during development through to postlaunch live operations.The book will appeal to all game design professionals and students of game design that wish to gain a deeper understanding of how
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Taylor & Francis Theatre Studies The Basics
Book SynopsisNow in a second edition, Theatre Studies: The Basics is a fully updated guide to the wonderful world of theatre. The practical and theoretical dimensions of theatre â from acting to audience â are woven together throughout to provide an integrated introduction to the study of drama, theatre and performance. Topics covered include: dramatic genres, from tragedy to political documentary theories of performance the history of the theatre in the West acting, directing and scenography With a glossary, chapter summaries and suggestions for further reading throughout, Theatre Studies: the Basics remains the ideal starting point for anyone new to the subject.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Performance Chapter 2: The TextChapter 3: Dramatic Form Chapter 4: Theatre and History Chapter 5: Acting Chapter 6: Directing Chapter 7: Scenography Chapter 8: The audience GlossaryIndexBibliography
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Princeton University Press An Anthropology of Images
Book SynopsisProposes an anthropological theory for interpreting human picture making. Refusing to reduce images to their material embodiment yet acknowledging the importance of the historical media in which images are manifested, this book presents a challenging and provocative account of what pictures are and how they function.Trade Review"Belting is one of the most brilliant and most prolific art historians."--Choice "[A] fascinating if not revolutionary look at the way we interact with other 'embodied' images such as sculptures, photographs, films, paintings and more... Brilliant."--William Yeoman, West Australian "An Anthropology of Images is a wonderful insightful account of a new anthropological theory for interpreting human picture-making."--Joanna Rak, Anthropological NotebooksTable of ContentsA New Introduction for the English Reader 1 Chapter 1: An Anthropology of Images: Picture, Medium, Body 9 Chapter 2: The Locus of Images: The Living Body 37 Chapter 3: The Coat of Arms and the Portrait: Two Media of the Body 62 Chapter 4: Image and Death: Embodiment in Early Cultures 84 Chapter 5: Media and Bodies: Dante's Shadows and Greenaway's TV 125 Chapter 6: The Transparency of the Medium: The Photographic Image 144 Notes 169 Bibliography 189 Index 199
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Skylight Edition Young Melissa
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Fillip Folio G Gendered Labour and Clitoridean Revolt
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rick Sammons Creative Visualization for
Book SynopsisThe difference between seeing and looking is essentialmuch like the difference, in music, between hearing and listening. In Creative Visualization, master photographer, photo educator and photo instructor Rick Sammon presents his proven methodology for creative digital photography. His signature inspiring and motivating approach opens creative avenues for photographers in a variety of genres.With easy-to-follow examples, Sammon shows you how simple changeswith visualization, composition, post-processing, and morecan mean the difference between a snapshot and a great shot. This book, illustrated with more than 300 of Rick's photographs, includes invaluable information about exposure, composition, subject choice, lighting, mood, and depth. In the Food for Thought section, Rick offers guidelines for setting goals, getting motivated, connecting with a subject, learning, painting with light, thinking like a painter and more. In Develop Your Creative Vision<Table of ContentsPart I: Developing Your Creative Mind 1. Four Levels of Learning 2. Photography and the Space-Time Continuum 3. Making Image with Impact (Light, Subject, Color, Contrast, Abstract, Action, Lens, Exposure, Mood, Participation, Altered Reality, HDR, Processing) 4. Setting Goals 5. Why We Like the Work of Master Painters 6. Making Order Out of Chaos 7. Photography: The Death of Reality & The Birth of Creativity 8. Photographic Philosophies Part II Developing Your Creative Vision 9. Seeing the light: contrast, direction, color, quality, intensity, and movement 10. Thoughts on the Histogram 11. Importance of a good/interesting subject 12. Seeing in 2-D vs. seeing in 3-D 13. The mood of the image 14. Follow Your Passion and Heart: Wildlife, People, Landscape, City shooting, Nature Part III: Capturing and Controlling the Moment 15. Composition: Rules and Breaking the Rules 16. Exposure 17. Controlling Light 18. Color 19. Dumb Luck Shots Part IV: Corrective Image 20. Exposure 21. Color 22. Contrast Processing Part V: Creative Image Processing 23. The Art of the Crop 24. Black and White Imaging 25. Basic Image Processing 26. Playing with Plug-ins 27. HDR Part VI: Telling a Story with Stills
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