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University of California Press Music and Sexuality in Britten
Book SynopsisFocuses on Benjamin Britten, one of the great British composers. Addressing urgent questions of how an artist's sexual, cultural, and personal identity feeds into specific musical texts, this title examines most of Britten's operas as well as his role in the British cultural establishment of the mid-twentieth century.Trade Review"Philip Brett changed the way we hear Britten's music, compelling us to listen anew for its sounding-out of political, sexual, and cultural meanings. Brett's richly detailed historical awareness, his supple and subtle theoretical mind, his sheer musicianship - these are qualities clear on every page of this book." - Philip Rupprecht, author of Britten's Musical Language"Table of ContentsPreface George Haggerty Introduction Susan McClary 1. Britten and Grimes 2. "Grimes Is at His Exercise": Sex, Politics, and Violence in the Librettos of Peter Grimes 3. Grimes and Lucretia 4. Salvation at Sea: Britten's Billy Budd 5. Character and Caricature in Albert Herring 6. Britten's Bad Boys: Male Relations in The Turn of the Screw 7. Britten's Dream 8. Eros and Orientalism in Britten's Operas 9. Keeping the Straight Line Intact? Britten's Relation to Folksong, Purcell, and His English Predecessors 10. Pacifism, Political Action, and Artistic Endeavor 11. Auden's Britten 12. The Britten Era Afterword Jenny Doctor Appendix: Philip Brett's Britten Scholarship Works Cited Index
£27.00
University of California Press The Red Count
Book SynopsisThe life of Count Harry Kessler (1868-1937), the famous Anglo-German art patron, writer, and activist, offers a vivid and engrossing perspective on the tumultuous transformation of art and politics that took place in modern Europe between 1890 and 1930. This is his biography.Trade Review"W.H. Auden called him probably the most cosmopolitan man who ever lived. Aesthete, patron, diplomat, diarist, peace campaigner, defender of the Weimar republic and exile from Nazism, this ultra-sophisticated German count belongs to a type that probably no longer exists: a moneyed and cultivated amateur whose brains and background brought him effortless access to politics, society and intellectual life in any capital where he set foot." - The Economist "By weaving together the story of Kessler's life with that of is time, in a way that evokes the reader's sympathy for his subject without sacrificing critical perspective, he offers a compelling insight into an often dramatic and sometimes terrifying period of history." - Washington Post "Easton deftly fills in the rich cultural context of Kessler's many realms." - New York Times Book Review "From Laird M. Easton's Life of Kessler, told in an exemplary fashion, there is much to learn about what went wrong at such a crucial period of German history. And about the danger inherent in a belief in the improving power of culture." - Times Literary Supplement"Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Art and Politics in Modern Germany I. Family and Education II. Apprenticeship III. The Third Weimar IV. The Fever Curve V. War's Purifying Fire VI. The Red Count VII. The Path Downward Conclusion: A World Forever Lost? Notes Bibliography Index
£27.90
University of California Press Categorizing Sound Genre and TwentiethCentury
Book SynopsisAddresses the relationship between categories of music and categories of people, particularly how certain ways of organizing sounds becomes integral to how we perceive ourselves and how we feel connected to some people and disconnected from others.
£64.00
University of California Press When We Were Young New Perspectives on the Art of
Book SynopsisExplores children's art and its history. This book addresses central questions of how children use art to make sense of their experience and what really constitutes visual 'giftedness' in children. It also covers such topics as visual thinking, and the influence of popular culture on children's drawings.Table of ContentsForeword by Jay Gates and Richard Herman Acknowledgments by Jonathan Fineberg and Kathleen T. Harleman Introduction: Gifts of Seeing Jonathan Fineberg Beginning with the Child Rudolf Arnheim The "Ket Aesthetic": Visual Culture in Childhood Christine Marme Thompson Drawing in Children's Lives Olga Ivashkevich The Early Drawings of Louis XIII in the Journal de Jean Heroard Misty S. Houston "Animal Sketching": Aspects of Drawing and Play in Early Calder Elizabeth Hutton Turner Child's Play and the Origins of Art Jonathan Fineberg Gallery Children's Art: An Annotated Chronology by Jonathan Fineberg, Olga Ivashkevich, and Mysoon Rizk Index
£32.40
University of California Press Ronnie Gilbert
Book SynopsisRonnie Gilbert had a long and colorful career as a singer, actor, playwright, therapist, and independent woman. Her lifelong work for political and social change was central to her role as a performer. This book deals with her life and work.Trade Review"Readers of Ronnie Gilbert: A Radical Life in Song will finish the book inspired, reinvigorated, and more committed than ever to continue the fight for justice." -- Randy Shaw Beyond Chron "Activism is just one of the threads winding through this title, along with music, theater, performance, politics, and the challenges of building a life outside of the 20th-century mainstream... Yet it's the music that shines the brightest in this memoir; Gilbert's time with the Weavers and her creative partnership with Holly Near bookend a life no less remarkable for being remarkably nonlinear." Library Journal "Gilbert's memoir brings to life the frightening political climate of the times... We are fortunate that Gilbert took the time to document her singular experiences as a committed activist and singer whose soaring contralto and "dangerous songs" both accompanied and animated the progressive movements of her time." -- Elaine Elinson San Francisco Chronicle "Offers an exceptional narrative about the life of a courageous and radical woman who believed that 'songs are dangerous.'" The Gay & Lesbian Review "This posthumously published memoir offers an exceptional narrative about the life of a courageous and radical woman." -- Irene Javors The Gay & Lesbian Review "Gilbert's Radical Life in Song is an honest self-examination after a long career of enthusiastic pursuits, free of defensiveness and open to change." -- Eric A. Gordon People's WorldTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Holly Near Acknowledgments 1. Songs Are Dangerous 2. Family 3. Making My Own Way 4. The Weavers 5. Moving On 6. Theater 7. Heading West 8. British Columbia 9. The Winter Project 10. The Weavers' Last Concert 11. Women's Music 12. Women in Black 13. Learning to Be Old Index
£20.70
University of California Press Russian and Soviet Views of Modern Western Art
Book SynopsisFrom the first Modernist exhibitions in the late 1890s to the Soviet rupture with the West in the mid-1930s, Russian artists and writers came into wide contact with modern European art and ideas. This book presents Russian and Soviet views of Western art during this critical period of cultural transformation.Trade Review"Dorontchenkov presents the ... reader with a great throng of opinionated Russian museum visitors as they react to Western painting." Times Literary Supplement (TLS) "Highly recommended... A basis for well-informed art history and its social history in Russia." -- Patricia Railing Journal Of Incorm "This is a thoughtfully composed volume, informative and compelling, a delight to read." -- Layla Bloom The Art BookTable of ContentsPreface Introduction RUSSIAN CRITICISM BEFORE THE REVOLUTION: 1890S--1917 I Facing Europe: Impressions, Contacts, and Criticisms 1 Mark Antokol'skii, "Notes on Art" (1897) 2 Igor' Grabar', "Decline or Renaissance? A Survey of Contemporary Trends in Art" (1897) 3 Vladimir Stasov, Nineteenth-Century Art: Painting (1901) 4 Vasily Kandinsky, "An Artist's Text" (1918) 5 Andrei Belyi, At the Turn of the Century (1930) 6 Pavel Muratov, "On Grand Art" (1907) 7 Sergei Diaghilev [and Dmitrii Filosofov], "The Bases of Artistic Judgment" (1899) 8 Sergei Diaghilev, "European Exhibitions and Russian Painters" (1896) 9 Sergei Diaghilev, "The Exhibition in Helsingfors" (1899) 10 Vladimir Stasov, "Exhibitions" (1898) 11 Grigorii Miasoedov, Letter to Vladimir Stasov (1898) 12 Vladimir Stasov, "The Court of Miracles" (1899) 13 Igor' Grabar', "Around European Exhibitions" (1904) 14 Vasily Kandinsky, "A Letter from Munich" (1909--10) Western Influences: Symbolism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism,and the "Golden Fleece" Exhibitions 15 Ivan Konevskoi, "Bocklin's Painting" (1900) 16 Alexandre Benois, "Maurice Denis" (1901) 17 Igor' Grabar', "Around Europe" (1902) 18 Alexandre Benois, "An Artist's Conversations: 1. On Impressionism" (1899) 19 Igor' Grabar', "Around Europe: Letters on Contemporary Art" (1902) 20 Georgii Plekhanov, "The Proletarian Movement and Bourgeois Art" (1905) 21 Stepan Iaremich, "The Autumn Salon" (1904) 22 Alexandre Shervashidze, "Cezanne" (1905) 23 Maksimilian Voloshin, "Aspirations of the New French Painting" (1908) 24 Petr Konchalovskii, Letters from Paris to Il'ia Mashkov (1908) 25 Pavel Muratov, The "Golden Fleece Salon" (1908) 26 Igor' Grabar', "Moscow Exhibitions" (1909) Matisse, Picasso, and the Shchukin and Morozov Collections 27 Iakov Tugendkhol'd, "S. I. Shchukin's French Collection" (1914) 28 Natalia Severova [Nordman], Intimate Pages (1910) 29 Vasilii Kamenskii, "KARTINiia" (1914) 30 Sergei Makovskii, "French Artists in the Morozov Collection" (1912) 31 Boris Ternovets, "The Museum of Modern Western Art in Moscow (The Morozov Section)" (1922--23) 32 Nikolai Breshko-Breshkovskii, "The Salon" (1910) 33 Alexandre Benois, "The 'Salon' and Bakst's School" (1910) 34 Il'ia Repin, "The Izdebsky Salon" (1910) 35 Iakov Tugendkhol'd, "The Autumn Salon" (1910) 36 Boris Ternovets, Letter to Nadezhda Shamshina (1911) 37 Alexandre Benois, "Moscow Impressions" (1911) 38 Boris Bugaev [Andrei Belyi], "Stamped Culture" (1909) 39 Boris Anrep, "Apropos of an Exhibition in London with Participating Russian Artists" (1913) 40 Alexandre Benois, "More on New Trends in Art" (1912) 41 S. Khudakov, "Literature, Art Criticism, Debates, and Lectures" (1913) 42 Sergei Bulgakov, "Beauty's Corpse (Apropos of Picasso's Paintings)" (1915) 43 Ivan Aksenov, Picasso and the Environs (1917) Cubism and Futurism 44 E. Dmitriev, "What Is Cubism?" (1912) 45 Iakov Tugendkhol'd, "A Letter from Paris" (1912) 46 Georgii Plekhanov, "Art and Social Life" (1912) 47 David Burliuk, "Cubism (Surface--Plane)" (1912) 48 Nadezhda Udal'tsova, Diary (1912--13) 49 Mikhail Matiushin, "On Du Cubisme, by Metzinger and Gleizes" (1913) 50 Aleksandr Shevchenko, The Principles of Cubism and Other Currents in Painting from All Ages and Nations (1913) 51 Nikolai Kulbin, "Cubism" (1915) 52 Kazimir Malevich, "On New Systems in Art: Statics and Speed" (1919) 53 Nikolai Punin, "Escapes from Cubism" (1923) 54 Sillart, "Boccioni's Futurist Sculpture Exhibition" (1913) 55 Genrikh Tasteven, Futurism: Toward a New Symbolism (1914) 56 Velimir Khlebnikov and Benedikt Livshits, "On Marinetti's Visit to Russia" (1914) 57 Nikolai Berdiaev, The Crisis in Art (1918) 58 R. Ia. [Roman Jakobson] "Futurism" (1919) V Art and Nationality: Polemics and Reactions 59 Sergei Makovskii, "Art Survey" (1910) 60 Iakov Tugendkhol'd, "The 'Russian Seasons' in Paris" (1910) 61 Alexandre Benois, "Icons and the New Art" (1913) 62 David Burliuk, "The Noisy 'Benois' and the New Russian National Art" (1913) 63 Natal'ia Goncharova [Il'ia Zdanevich], Foreword to the Goncharova exhibition catalogue (1913) 64 Aleksei Grishchenko, On the Ties of Russian Painting to Byzantium and the West, 13th--20th Century: Thoughts of an Artist (1913) 65 Mikhail Le Dantiu, "The Painting of the Everythingists" (1914) 66 Georgii Iakulov, Benedikt Livshits, and Artur Lourie, "We and the West" (1914) 67 Vladimir Mayakovsky, "Russia. Art. We" (1914) RUSSIAN AND SOVIET CRITICISM AFTER THE REVOLUTION VI The International of Art and the Great Utopia 68 Klara Zetkin, Reminiscences of Lenin (1924) 69 Aleksandr Bogdanov, "Our Critique. Essay One: On the Artistic Heritage" (1918) 70 Vladimir Friche, "The Art of the Labor Commune" (1918) 71 Decree of the Soviet of People's Commissars on the Nationalization of the Sergei Shchukin Art Gallery (1918) 72 Pavel Muratov, "The Museum of Western Art in Moscow" (1920) 73 Vasily Kandinsky, "The Museum of the Culture of Painting" (1920) 74 Varvara Stepanova, Diary Entry (1919) 75 Nikolai Punin, "The Third International" (1919) 76 Konstantin Krainii [Umanskii], "The International of Art (The Tasks Confronting the International Union of Fine Arts Workers)" (1919) 77 Vasily Kandinsky, "The Great Utopia" (1920) 78 IZO (1921) 79 Abram Efros, "We and the West" (1920) 80 Nikolai Punin, Tatlin (Against Cubism) (1921) 81 Jansen, "On the Exchange of Art Exhibitions with Western Europe" (1921) 82 Boris Arvatov, "Toward Proletarian Art" (1922) 83 Pavel Muratov, "Predictions" (1922) 84 Vasilii Chekrygin, "On the Emerging New Phase of All-European Art" (1922) 85 Viktor Perelman, "From the Wanderers to Heroic Realism" (1923) 86 Nikolai Punin, "A Response to French Artists" (1924) 87 Iakov Tugendkhol'd, "Once Again on French Artists and Us" (1924) 88 Nikolai Punin, "The USSR and French Artists" (1924) VI I New Visions of Western Art 89 R. Ia. [Roman Jakobson], "Letters from the West: Dada" (1921) 90 El [Lazar Lissitsky], "Exhibitions in Berlin" (1922) 91 Leon Trotsky, "Futurism" (1923) 92 Vladimir Mayakovsky, "A Seven-Day Inspection of French Painting" (1923) 93 Aleksandr Rodchenko, "Rodchenko in Paris: Letters Home" (1927) 94 Iakov Tugendkhol'd, The Artistic Culture of the West (1928) 95 Ia. T-d [Iakov Tugendkhol'd], "The Art of Contemporary America" (1928) Expressionism and George Grosz 96 Vladimir Weidle, "Notes on Western Painting: 1. The End of Expressionism" (1923) 97 Boris Arvatov, "Expressionism as a Social Phenomenon: Apropos of Eckart v[on] Sydow, Die deutsche expressionistische Kultur und Maleri (Berlin, 1920)" (1922) 98 Nikolai Radlov, "Introduction" to Georg Marzinski's The Expressionist Method in Painting (1923) 99 Nikolai Tarabukin, "Apropos of the German Art Exhibition" (1924) 100 Osip Brik, "Ecce Homo" (1923) 101 Abram Efros, "George Grosz" (1923) 102 Viktor Pertsov, "Foreword" to the Russian translation of George Grosz and Wieland Herzfelde's Art Is in Danger: Three Essays (1926) 103 Anatolii Lunacharskii, "Art Is in Danger" (1926) IX Creating a Model for Revolutionary Art 104 Aleksei Fedorov-Davydov, "On the New Realism in Connection with Western European Trends in Art" (1925) 105 Abram Efros, "Revolutionary Art of the West (The State Academy of Artistic Sciences Exhibition)" (1926) 106 Ivan Matsa (Janos Macza), The Art of Contemporary Europe (1926) 107 Anatolii Lunacharskii, "Discussion on AKhRR" (1926) 108 Emelian Iaroslavskii, "Against Leftist Phrase Mongering and Careless Criticism (Apropos of Comrade A. Kurella's Article)" (1928) 109 Alfred Kurella, "From 'Russia's Revolutionary Art' to Proletarian Art: Responses and Questions for the Critics" (1928) 110 Aleksei Mikhailov, "Diego Rivera" (1929) 111 Aleksei Fedorov-Davydov, "Militant Art: John Heartfield, Proletarian Artist" (1932) Changing Views of Western Art 112 Boris Ternovets, "The Contemporary French Art Exhibition in Moscow" (1928) 113 Ts. Plotkin, "The French in Moscow" (1928) 114 Nikolai Punin, Vladimir Vasil'evich Lebedev (1928) 115 Sergei Romov, "From Dada to Surrealism: On Painting, Literature, and the French Intelligentsia" (1929) 116 Sergei Romov, "Contemporary French Painting" (1929) 117 Frida Roginskaia, "Against the Cult of the French" (1930) 118 Ivan Matsa, "To the Highest Level!" (1931) 119 Aleksei Mikhailov, "Comrade Bogorodskii's Trip Abroad" (1931) 120 Dmitrii Lebedev, "The Museum of Modern Western Painting Must Live!" (1930) 121 Osip Mandelstam, "A Journey to Armenia: The French" (1933) 122 D. Melnikov, "Cezanne and Cezannism" (1921) 123 David Arkin, "R[obert] Fal'k and Moscow Painting" (1923) 124 Nikolai Tarabukin, "The Still Life as a Problem of Style" (1928) 125 Nikolai Punin, "Mikhail Larionov's Impressionist Period" (1928) 126 Amshei Niurenberg, "The Pissarro Exhibition: Letter from Paris" (1929) 127 Aleksandr Severdenko, "Response to an Impressionist" (1929) 128 Anatolii Lunacharskii, "The Painter of Happiness: On Viewing Renoir's Canvases" (1933) The End of an Era 129 Polikarp Lebedev, "Against Formalism in Soviet Art" (1936) 130 Nina Iavorskaia, "An Eyewitness Account of the Closing of the Museum of Modern Western Art" (1988) Chronology List of Acronyms Select Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
£27.00
University of California Press Lets Get to the Nitty Gritty
Book SynopsisAn autobiography of Horace Silver, composer, pianist, and band leader that takes us from his childhood in Norwalk, Connecticut, through his rise to fame as a musician in New York, to his comfortable life 'after the road' in California.Table of Contentsforeword Joe Zawinul preface acknowledgments chapter one Childhood chapter two Dreaming My Dreams: Teenage Years chapter three Lady Music and the Messengers: Early Adult Years chapter four The Quintet chapter five Westward Bound: Middle Years chapter six Off the Merry-Go-Round: Later Years epilogue afterword Phil Pastras discography Eric B. Olsen recordings honoring Horace Silver a select bibliography of music publications awards index
£27.00
University of California Press Opera in SeventeenthCentury Venice The Creation
Book SynopsisShows how opera took root in the social and economic environment of seventeenth-century Venice and there developed the stylistic and aesthetic characteristics we recognize as opera. This book examines critically the literary and musical documentation left by the Venetian makers of opera. It explains the mechanics of the proliferation of opera.
£41.65
University of California Press Classic Chic
Book SynopsisExplores the relationship between music and fashion, and discusses the importance of these arts to the rise of transatlantic modernism. This book demonstrates that aesthetic approaches were related to fashion in a manner that was perfectly attuned to the tastes of jazz-age sophisticates. It also considers the role played by the Ballets Russes.Trade Review"Engaging ... A good book, one certainly worth reading for the wealth of information it contains." Modernism/Modernity "A fascinating study of what turns out to be a most intriguing subject." Musical Times "An important and ambitious in-depth study and no one will come away from reading it without a greater understanding of a fascinating period in the history of modernism and fashion." Costume "A refreshing look at Parisian culture at the turn of the century... A fine addition to the interdisciplinary realm." -- Carissa M. Pitkin Music Research ForumTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Magazines, Music, and Modernism 2. Paul Poiret 3. La Gazette du Bon Ton 4. Germaine Bongard 5. Vanity Fair 6. Coco Chanel 7. Vogue Notes Works Cited Illustration Credits Index
£27.00
University of California Press Why Classical Music Still Matters
Book SynopsisExplores classical music's nature of subjectivity, the conquest of time and mortality, the harmonization of humanity and technology, the cultivation of attention, and the liberation of human energy.Table of ContentsIn Lieu of a Preface 1. Classical Music and Its Values 2. The Fate of Melody and the Dream of Return 3. Score and Performance, Performance and Film: Classical Music as Liberating Energy 4. But Not for Me: Love Song and the Heartache of Modern Life 5. The Ghost in the Machine: Keyboard Rhapsodies 6. Crisis and Memory: The Music of Lost Time 7. Persephone's Fiddle: The Value of Classical Music References Index
£20.70
University of California Press Sounding New Media
Book SynopsisExamines the role of sound and audio in the development of media theory and practice, including technologies and performance art events, with particular emphasis on sound, embodiment, art, and technological interactions. This book takes an historical approach, focusing on technologies that became available in the mid-twentieth century-electronics.Trade Review"Dyson seamlessly integrates theoretical perspectives with the history of technological developments in this thought-provoking work for scholars and practitioners." Choice "An informative book on the still developing role between new media, consumer, and creator." -- Heather Pinson Notes (Music Library Assoc) "Sophisticated and ... ambitious... Dyson's skillful, erudite excavations of rhetorical and conceptual structures bring many benefits." Filter Magazine "A stimulating read... Dyson engages with an impressive range of perspectives. She contributes valuably to contemporary music scholarship. -- Nina Sun Eidsheim, Mandy-Suzanne Wong Organised SoundTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Ethereal Transmissions The "Tele" of Ph_n_ 2. Celestial Telegraphies 3. Aural Objects, Recording Devices, and the Proximate Apparatus 4. Death, Silence, and the Tape Recorder 5. Immersion 6. Embodying Technology From Sound Effect to Body Effect 7. Atmospheres Conclusion: Music and Noise Notes References Index
£27.00
University of California Press In Pursuit of Universalism
Book SynopsisA comprehensive, English-language study of early twentieth-century Japanese modern art. It constructs a critical theory of artistic modernism in Japan between 1900 and 1930 by analyzing the work of Yorozu Tetsugoro, whose paintings she casts as a polemic response to Japan's late-nineteenth-century encounter with European art.Trade Review"Definitively illuminates a new horizon for the field of modern Asian art... It is precisely what the discipline needs." -- Chun-Wa Chan, The University of Hong Kong Journal Of Oriental Studies "Forceful and eloquent... A substantially rigorous and provocative probe into the search for universalism in a differentiated world." -- Alice Y. Tseng International Journal Of Asian Studies "Deserves to be read by all historians of modern art and East Asian culture and contributes to the growing field of East-West cultural exchange." Journal Of Asian Stds (Jas) / Se Asia & Western Pacific "An impressive book, beautifully produced and sustaining intellectual rigour with its detailed, stimulating research." -- Helenkilpatrick Japanese Studies "Excellent... Exquisitely written." Art Bulletin (CAA) "Written beautifully and compellingly." Journal Of Japanese StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Translation and Names Introduction: Painting "X" 1. Reverse Japonisme and the Structure of Modern Art in Japan 2. Nude Beauty: A Modernist Critique 3. Inventing the Self: The New Woman and the Revolutionary Artist 4. Expressionism and the "New Period of the Primitive" 5. Unified Rhythm: Toward a Universal Painting Epilogue: Japanese Modern Art in the World Notes Further Reading List of Illustrations Index
£60.35
University of California Press Learning Mind
Book SynopsisHow is art conceived, created, and experienced? How is it taught? How does the act of viewing a work make the viewer part of that work? This title addresses these questions and documents the changing practices in the making, teaching, and exhibition of art.
£45.05
University of California Press Envisioning Howard Finster
Book SynopsisFinster began preaching as a teenager in the South in the 1930s. But it was not until he received a revelation from God at the age of sixty that he began to make sacred art. This book explores the life and religious-artistic significance of Finster and his work.Trade Review"An important book for anyone interested in outsider art, folk art, Southern studies, and American religion." - STARRED REVIEW Library Journal "Entertaining and insightful ... a thoroughly researched and illuminating book." -- John Foster Raw Vision "How [Girardot] came to write a book about Finster and Finster's art after a decade and a half of visiting him- and an additional decade of visiting his garden-is a story in itself, and Girardot's book is as much about that narrative as it is about the mythico-religious structure behind Finster's immense quantity of artwork. In many ways, this book is sui generis." Art Papers "Gives the flavor of the particular religious environment from which Finster emerged and how he transformed it through his art... Of importance, and contrary to typical readings of the work, the only fundamentalism that Girardot recognizes in Finster is the artist's own fundamental strangeness. But the core of that strangeness was core to his liberating message." The Outsider "Densely written but supremely readable. Much of its density comes from the author's often hilarious and often riotously poetic language, which echoes the ecstatic excesses of Paradise Garden itself... His inquiry, which both complicates and elucidates the Finster myth, demonstrates why Finster's lifework matters." Folk Art MessengerTable of ContentsNote on Internet Citations and Additional Web Resources Preface: Stories about Stories Introduction. Once upon a Time: Encountering the Word Made Flesh 1. On the Finster Trail: The Business of Howard Finster's Divine Busyness 2. Signs of the Times: Howard Finster and Prophetic Reenchantment 3. The Matter of My Mission: Howard Finster's Religious Template 4. The First and Second Noah: Howard Finster's Ark of Myth and Meaning 5. The Finster Mythos: Just the Facts in Howard Finster's Mythic Life 6. Snakes in the Garden: Life and Death in Paradise 7. The Strange Beauty of Bad and Nasty Art: Toward a Finsterian Aesthetic Conclusion. Howard Finster: The Hidden Man of the Heart Notes Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Index
£22.50
University of California Press Brunelleschis Egg
Book SynopsisFeminist historians of science and philosophy have shown that during the Italian Renaissance, the profound shift in the concept of nature - from an organic worldview to the scientific - was assisted by the gender metaphor that defined nature as female. This book proposes that the larger shift was both anticipated and mediated by the visual arts.Trade Review"Brunelleschi's Egg is an immensely stimulating, thought-provoking book that represents a major contribution to Renaissance studies." -- Marilyn Dunn Renaissance Qtly "Excellent... Mary Garrard's contributions to art history are considerable." -- Marjorie Och Woman's Art Journal
£60.35
University of California Press Embattled AvantGardes Modernisms Resistance to
Book SynopsisOffers an exploration of the avant-garde practices through which the modernist generations after 1900 resisted the rise of commodity culture as a threat to authentic cultural expression. This book charts the rise and fall of modernist aspirations in movements and individuals as diverse as Ruskin, Marinetti, Kandinsky, Bauhaus, and Purism.Trade Review"This [is an] erudite, richly comparative study of avant-garde aesthetics and public engagement." -- Laura Winkiel Modernism/ModernityTable of ContentsPreface Introduction PART ONE: EARLY AVANT-GARDE MODERNISM 1. Intellectuals, Commodity Culture, and Religions of Art in the Nineteenth Century 2. F.T. Marinetti 3. Guillaume Apollinaire 4. Wassily Kandinsky PART TWO: VARIETIES OF INTERWAR MODERNISM 5. The Rise and Fall of Design Modernism: Bauhaus, De Stijl, and Purism 6. Futurism and Its Modernist Rivals in Fascist Italy 7. Andre Breton's Surrealism 8. The Critical Modernism of Herbert Read Conclusion Notes Index
£27.00
University of California Press Infinite City
Book SynopsisWhat makes a place? This title searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. It explores the area thematically - connecting, for example, Eadweard Muybridge's foundation of motion-picture technology with Alfred Hitchcock's filming of Vertigo.Trade Review"A joyous book." San Francisco Chronicle "Inventive and affectionate." -- Lise Funderburg New York Times Book Review "This nicely designed book offers a collection of essays and subject specific maps anyone who loves San Francisco will enjoy poring over." -- Bob Walch Bookloons.com "Brilliantly disorients our native sense of place." -- Jonathon Keats San Francisco Magazine "This is an amazing and thought-provoking book." Geist "A richly textured graphic book that no electronic format can master yet, Infinite City features Rebecca Solnit as cultural and historical tour guide through the city she calls home." -- Bridget Kinsella Shelf Awareness "A fresh and intriguing spin on mapmaking." -- Elizabeth Ryan Utne "A thrilling new book." -- Nicole Gluckstern San Francisco Bay Guardian "A gorgeously produced collection of maps and essays." -- Nikil Saval Los Angeles Review Of Books "Breathtakingly original." San Francisco Bay Guardian "A treasure of intricate, intimate maps." -- Adam Hartzell SF360 "A gorgeously published book ... After you have finished savoring this book, which deserves to be read slowly and thoughtfully, you feel like you have been living for decades in San Francisco." -- Murray Browne The Book Shopper "Gorgeous and infinitely fascinating ... A treasure," -- Sherry Wright Kissing the EartTable of ContentsIntroduction: On the Inexhaustibility of a City Map 1. The Names before the Names: The Indigenous Bay Area, 1769 "A Map the Size of the Land," by Lisa Conrad Map 2. Green Women: The Open Spaces and Some Who Saved Them "Great Women and Green Spaces," by Richard Walker Map 3. Cinema City: Muybridge Inventing Movies, Hitchcock Making Vertigo "The Eyes of the Gods," by Rebecca Solnit Map 4. Right Wing of the Dove: The Bay Area as Conservative/Military Brain Trust "The Sinews of War Are Boundless Money," by Rebecca Solnit Map 5. Monarchs and Queens: Butterfly Habitats and Queer Public Spaces "Full Spectrum," by Aaron Shurin Map 6. Truth to Power: Race and Justice in the City's Heart "The City's Tangled Heart," by Rebecca Solnit Map 7. Poison/Palate: The Bay Area in Your Body "What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Gourmet," by Rebecca Solnit Map 8. Shipyards and Sounds: The Black Bay Area since World War II "High Tide, Low Ebb," by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro Map 9. Fillmore: Promenading the Boulevard of Gone "Little Pieces of Many Wars," by Rebecca Solnit Map 10. Third Street Phantom Coast: A Map by Alison Pebworth Map 11. Graveyard Shift: The Lost Industrial City of 1960 and the Remnant 6 AM Bars The Smell of Ten Thousand Gallons of Mayonnaise and a Hundred Tons of Coffee, by Chris Carlsson Map 12. The Lost World: South of Market, 1960, before Redevelopment Piled Up, Scraped Away," by Rebecca Solnit Map 13. The Mission: North of Home, South of Safe "The Geography of the Unseen," by Adriana Camarena Map 14. Tribes of San Francisco: Their Comings and Goings "Who Washed Up on These Shores and Who the Tides Took Away," by Rebecca Solnit Map 15. Who Am I Where? 'Quien soy donde?: A Map of Contingent Identities "Who Am I Where? 'Quien soy donde?" by Rebecca Solnit and Guillermo Gomez-Pena Map 16. Death and Beauty: A Year of Murders, a Noble Species of Tree "Red Sinking, Green Soaring," by Summer Brenner Map 17. Four Hundred Years and Five Hundred Evictions in the City "Dwellers and Drifters in the Shaky City," by Heather Smith Map 18. The World in a Cup: Coffee Economies and Ecologies "How to Get to Ethiopia from Ocean Beach," by Rebecca Solnit Map 19. Phrenological San Francisco "City of Fourteen Bumps," by Paul La Farge Map 20. Dharma Wheels and Fish Ladders: Salmon Migrations, Soto Zen Arrivals "A Way Home," by Genine Lentine Map 21. Treasure Map: The Forty-Nine Jewels of San Francisco "From the Giant Camera Obscura to the Bayview Opera House," by Rebecca Solnit Map 22. Once and Future Waters:Nineteenth-Century Bodies of Water, Twenty-Second-Century Shorelines Acknowledgments Contributors
£28.50
University of California Press Cinema and Experience Siegfried Kracauer Walter
Book SynopsisSiegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W Adorno - affiliated through friendship, professional ties, and argument - developed an astute philosophical critique of modernity in which technological media played a key role. This book explores their reflections on cinema and photography from the Weimar period up to the 1960s.Trade Review"This magisterial book is a gift... There is no other study like it." Artforum [Hansen's] reader is amply rewarded by the rich suggestiveness and expansive quality of her insights... A crowning achievement." Bookforum "A crowning achievement in its own right." -- Noah Isenberg BookforumTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Part I. Kracauer 1. Film, Medium of a Disintegrating World 2. Curious Americanism Part II. Benjamin 3. Actuality, Antinomies 4. Aura: The Appropriation of a Concept 5. Mistaking the Moon for a Ball 6. Micky-Maus 7. Room-for-Play Part III. Adorno 8. The Question of Film Aesthetics Part IV. Kracauer in Exile 9. Theory of Film Notes Index
£27.00
University of California Press Trauma and Documentary Photography
Book SynopsisProposes that we reconsider the work of the Farm Security Administration and its most beloved photographers in light of various forms of trauma in the 1930s. This title offers ways to understand this body of work by exploring a more variable idea of documentary photography than what the New Dealers proposed.Trade Review"An excellent contribution; moving, considered, articulate and painfully relevant." -- Mark Welch, PhD Metapsychology Online Review "Farm Security Administration work from the 1930s, so often viewed in political and socioeconomic terms, is here reconsidered in light of new theories on how personal and collective trauma may have affected photographers." Art In AmericaTable of ContentsIntroduction Anthony W. Lee Against Trauma: Documentary and Modern Times on the Lower East Side Sara Blair With Trauma: Walker Evans and the Failure to Document Eric Rosenberg Notes Index
£27.00
University of California Press Telling Stories
Book SynopsisFocuses on Philip Guston's controversial figurative paintings of the late 1960s and 1970s. This title looks at the early critical reception of these works to see what the artist was actually doing and, at another level, to investigate the odd alchemy of artists and their audiences. It deals with Guston's complicated relationship to Judaism.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Sick of Purity 2. Thinking Thoughtlessness 3. Allegory 4. Jewish Jokes Acknowledgments Notes Index
£27.00
University of California Press Arts Inc.
Book SynopsisAssesses the state of the arts in America and finds cause for alarm. This title combines personal and professional memoir, policy analysis, and deeply held convictions to explore and define a coordinated vision for art, culture, and expression in American life.Trade Review"Cogent consideration of the stakes for all involved... Interesting glimpses behind the scenes at the NEA... A comprehensive treatment." Pw: Nonfiction (2) "Provocative." USA Today "Ivey is well equipped to lead a fresh discussion about the role of creativity in a healthy democracy." Utne "Explore(s) and define(s) a co-ordinated vision for art, culture and expression in American life." Times Higher Ed Sup (Thes) "Reads like a manifest on cultural happiness and quality of life through access to the arts... Recommended." Choice "A gift... Timely and important." Journal Of Folklore Research
£18.00
University of California Press The Danger of Music and Other AntiUtopian Essays
Book SynopsisFeatures a collection of essays that considers the contemporary composition and performance, the role of critics and historians in the life of the arts, and the fraught terrain where ethics and aesthetics interact and at times conflict. This title also considers the rights and obligations of artists in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.Trade Review"This is one of the most important books about music you'll read this year... No one has bridged the gap between music scholarship and mainstream media as virtuosically as Taruskin." -- Tom Service The Guardian "Very entertaining." -- Michael Kimmelman New York Review Of Books "A collection of essays by the fearsomely intelligent Berkeley-based musicologist [offering] a passionately engaging perspective." The Guardian "Intellectually generous compendium that merits serious and sustained engagement." -- Michael Quinn Classical Music Magazine "Erudite and passionate ... there is much within this intellectually generous compendium that merits serious and sustained engagement." -- Richard Taruskin Classical Music Magazine "A stimulating book that offers a wide range of topics and ideas." Music Educators JournalTable of ContentsPreface: Against Utopia 1. Et in Arcadia Ego; or, I Didn't Know I Was Such a Pessimist until I Wrote This Thing (a talk) From the New York Times, mostly 2. Only Time Will Cover the Taint 3. "Nationalism": Colonialism in Disguise? 4. Why Do They All Hate Horowitz? 5. Optimism amid the Rubble 6. A Survivor from the Teutonic Train Wreck 7. Does Nature Call the Tune? 8. Two Stabs at the Universe 9. In Search of the "Good" Hindemith Legacy 10. Six Times Six: A Bach Suite Selection 11. A Beethoven Season? 12. Dispelling the Contagious Wagnerian Mist 13. How Talented Composers Become Useless 14. Making a Stand against Sterility 15. A Sturdy Musical Bridge to the Twenty-first Century 16. Calling All Pundits: No More Predictions! 17. In The Rake's Progress, Love Conquers (Almost) All 18. Markevitch as Icarus 19. Let's Rescue Poor Schumann from His Rescuers 20. Early Music: Truly Old-Fashioned at Last? 21. Bartok and Stravinsky: Odd Couple Reunited? 22. Wagner's Antichrist Crashes a Pagan Party 23. A Surrealist Composer Comes to the Rescue of Modernism 24. Corraling a Herd of Musical Mavericks 25. Can We Give Poor Orff a Pass at Last? 26. The Danger of Music and the Case for Control 27. Ezra Pound: A Slim Sound Claim to Musical Immortality 28. Underneath the Dissonance Beat a Brahmsian Heart 29. Enter Boris Goudenow, Just 295 Years Late For the New Republic, mostly 30. The First Modernist 31. The Dark Side of the Moon 32. Of Kings and Divas 33. The Golden Age of Kitsch 34. No Ear for Music: The Scary Purity of John Cage 35. Sacred Entertainments 36. The Poietic Fallacy 37. The Musical Mystique: Defending Classical Music against Its Devotees From the scholarly press 38. Revising Revision 39. Back to Whom? Neoclassicism as Ideology 40. She Do the Ring in Different Voices 41. Stravinsky and Us Envoi 42. Setting Limits (a talk) Index
£24.30
University of California Press David Park
Book SynopsisDavid Park (1911-1960), transplanted Bostonian turned ground-breaking West Coast painter, led the way in creating what became known as Bay Area Figurative Art - a daring move during the post-World War II years when abstract expressionism held sway. This biography traces Park's resolute search for a fresh kind of figuration.Trade Review"The first full biographical portrait, not a memoir, of Park (1911-1960), the reticent founder of Bay Area Figuration, the region's only modern art movement so far to win global recognition." -- Kenneth Baker San Francisco Chronicle "Even insiders who thought they knew this complicated artist will know him far better thanks to Boas." San Francisco Chronicle "Just as Park put the humanity back into an era of abstraction, Boas brings David Park the man into the foreground in a literary and historical sense." Huffington Post "A welcome volume." Los Angeles Times "[Boas's] passion shows in how persuasively she argues for a wider recognition of Park's importance." Art Critical "Shows how Park conferred a human presence on the painting of his time, influencing artists such as Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bischoff." San Jose Mercury News "An enthralling read." San Francisco Magazine "[David Park's] bold colors and everyday subjects helped usher in a new modernism." Berkeleyside "[A project] put together with care." San Francisco ChronicleTable of ContentsPrologue. Values, Not Scenes 1. First Years, 1911--1928 2. Out West, 1928--1930 3. New Friends, 1931--1934 4. Genesis, 1934--1936 5. Back East, 1936--1941 6. The War Effort, 1941--1944 7. The California School of Fine Arts, 1945--1946 8. In the Studio, 1946--1949 9. I Call Them Pictures, 1950--1953 10. A Single Self, 1953--1955 11. From Domestic Scenes to Bathers and Nudes, 1955--1958 12. Image and Void, 1958--1959 13. End Story, 1959--1960 14. The Life of the Work, after 1960 Coda. The Blaze in the Darkness Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
£22.50
University of California Press The Aesthetics of Anarchy
Book SynopsisIdentifies the early Russian avant-garde (1910-1918) as a distinctive movement in its own right and not a preliminary stage to the Constructivism of the 1920s. This title also identifies aesthetics of anarchy - art-making without rules - that greatly influenced early twentieth-century modernists.Table of ContentsIntroduction. The Russian Avant-Garde and the Aesthetics of Anarchy Part I. Movements and Ideas 1. The Aesthetics of Anarchy: Definitions 2. Ideas: Bakunin, Tolstoy, and the Russian Anarchists 3. Movements: Futurisms and the Principle of Freedom Part II. Poetics 4. A Game in Hell: The Poetics of Chance and Play 5. Victory over the Sun and the Theater of Alogism 6. Deconstructing the Canon: Russian Futurist Books Part III. Locating the Avant-Garde's Social Stance 7. The "Social Test": The Avant-Garde and the Great War 8. The Suprematist Party Part IV. Politics 9. Art, Creativity, and Anarkhiia 10. The Last Revolt: Politics of the Left Federation 11. The Avant-Garde and Ideology Conclusion. The Historical Paradigm: The Avant-Gardes and Revolution Notes List of Illustrations Index
£56.80
University of California Press JazzNot Jazz
Book SynopsisWhat is jazz? What is gained - and what is lost - when various communities close ranks around a particular definition of this quintessentially American music? This book features writers who look beyond the canon of acknowledged jazz greats and address some of the big questions facing jazz today.Trade Review"A sterling collection of writings... There are no misfires. This collection will be useful for decades to come... Highly recommended." -- G. A. Akkerman, University of South Carolina Upstate Choice "it will be interesting to observe the impact that this collection of unusual, entertaining and thought-provoking perspectives has on jazz studies." -- Alison Eales Popular MusicTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part One. Categories 1. Incorporation and Distinction in Jazz History and Jazz Historiography Eric Porter 2. Louis Armstrong Loves Guy Lombardo Elijah Wald 3. The Humor of Jazz Charles Hiroshi Garrett 4. Creating Boundaries in the Virtual Jazz Community Ken Prouty 5. Latin Jazz, Afro-Latin Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Cubop, Caribbean Jazz, Jazz Latin, or Just ... Jazz: The Politics of Locating an Intercultural Music Christopher Washburne Part Two. Practices 6. Jazz with Strings: Between Jazz and the Great American Songbook John Howland 7. "Slightly Left of Center": Atlantic Records and the Problems of Genre Daniel Goldmark 8. The Praxis of Composition-Improvisation and the Poetics of Creative Kinship Tamar Barzel 9. The Sound of Struggle: Black Revolutionary Nationalism and Asian American Jazz Loren Kajikawa Part Three. Education 10. Voices from the Jazz Wilderness: Locating Pacific Northwest Vocal Ensembles within Jazz Education Jessica Bissett Perea 11. Crossing the Street: Rethinking Jazz Education David Ake 12. Deconstructing the Jazz Tradition: The "Subjectless Subject" of New Jazz Studies Sherrie Tucker Contributors Index
£50.40
University of California Press The Embodied Eye
Book SynopsisOffers an integrated theory of the study of religion as visual culture. Providing key tools for scholars across disciplines studying the materiality of religions, this title gives an overview including case studies of the ways seeing is related to touching, hearing, feeling, and such ephemeral experiences as dreams, imagination, and visions.Trade Review"This rewarding book will provoke thought and re-vision... Highly recommended." Choice "Excellent analysis of the social dynamics of the visual field." -- Monique Scheer, Universitat Tubingen Journal Of Religion In Europe "Morgan's clever and penetrating academic analysis of case studies provides his text with profundity and interest." -- Jeremy W. H. Arnold Religious Studies Review "A first-rate work of scholarship... Anyone piqued by these subjects will find David Morgan's pioneering vision deeply satisfying." ImageTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Part One. Culture's Two Bodies 1. Vision and Embodiment 2. The Body in Question 3. Ways of Seeing 4. Icon and Interface Part Two. The Senses of Belief 5. The Matter of the Heart: Touching and Seeing 6. The Look of Sympathy: Feeling and Seeing 7. The Enchantment of Media: Hearing and Seeing 8. At the Cusp of Invisibility: Visions, Dreams, and Images Notes Select Bibliography Index
£999.99
University of California Press Cezanne Murder and Modern Life
Book SynopsisOffers an original approach to early French modernism, one informed by the art's unprecedented psychological intensity. Focusing on the early work of Paul Cezanne, this title offers a competing version for modern painting rooted in the evocation of emotive "expression," emblematized by scenes of murder, sexual violence, and anxious domesticity.Trade Review"Throughout the arguments are supported with a stunning array of contextual information, including both the expected and unexpected... Recommended." -- E. K. Mix, Butler University Choice "Life is beautifully produced. The use of illustrations is materly." -- Alex Danchev Times Higher Education Supplement "That Andre Dombrowski has contributed a highly original and persuasive interpretation of Cezanne's early work is indubitable." H-France Review "Probing ... very rewarding ... [enables] a more complete view of the origins of modernist painting." -- Allison Morehead Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Violent Beginnings: The Murder 2. "I Is Another": Self-Portraiture and the Modernization of Olympia 3. Poetry, Portraiture, and Interiority: Paul Alexis Reading to Emile Zola 4. Art Arranged for Piano: The Overture to "Tannhauser" 5. The Emperor's Last Clothes: Cezanne, Fashion, and L'Annee terrible Epilogue: The End of Violence Notes Further Reading List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Index
£60.35
University of California Press Mingus Speaks
Book SynopsisCharles Mingus is among jazz's greatest composers and perhaps its most talented bass player. He was blunt and outspoken about the place of jazz in music history and American culture, about which performers were the real thing (or not), and more. This title provides a fresh perspective on the musician's life and career.Trade Review"Makes for fascinating reading." -- Jack Shakely Foreword Reviews "A valuable contribution to 20th century jazz history." JJA News "The book is full of ... illuminating stories." Santa Fe New Mexican "Mingus's candid intelligence shines through in these interviews as the discussion ranges through all aspects of jazz, from composition to performance to history and more, and on to matters of American culture, politics, and race... Fans of Mingus will definitely want to get their hands on this book." Library Journal "What's clear from Goodman's fluid interactions with Mingus is that the bassist trusted him. Consequently, Mingus' thoughts have the ring of honesty about them, even if his versions of certain events were often at odds with the way others perceived them... Goodman extracts plenty of material that will delight Mingus' fans and ignite debate." All About Jazz "Known for mind-gaming journalists, Mingus is open, voluble and very funny here, clearly due to his trust for the interlocutor... Like a tasteful musician, Goodman lays out until the improvisational repartee calls for him." MOJO Magazine "Mingus Speaks provides a wealth of new perspectives on the musician's life and career... Much of what Mingus shares shows him in a new light: his personality, his passions and sense of humor, and his thoughts on music. The conversations are wide-ranging, shedding fresh light on important milestones in Mingus's life such as the publication of his memoir, Beneath the Underdog, the famous Tijuana episodes, his relationships, and the jazz business." Jerry Jazz Musician "Goodman is a superb guide to Mingus" IAJRC JournalTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. Avant-Garde and Tradition 2. Studying, Teaching, and Earning a Living 3. Recordings: Children and Friends 4. Authenticity: Whose Tribe Are You In? 5. Musicians: Reminiscing in Tempo 6. Debut Records, George Wein, and the Music Business 7. The Clubs and the Mafia 8. The Critics 9. Survival: The Reason for the Blues 10. Eviction and Laying Out 11. Mingus Women 12. Mingus on Sue 13. The Real and the Fictional Mingus Chronology Acknowledgments Index
£22.50
University of California Press Out of Time
Book SynopsisFocusing on the thirty-three paintings Philip Guston exhibited at the Marborough Gallery in 1970, this title reconsiders the history of postwar American art and the conception of figuration in modern art history.Trade Review"A superb book." Modern Painters "A sophisticated monograph on the postwar American painter Philip Guston." -- C. N. Robbins Choice "Slifkin is clearly smart and this first book promises a strong career." -- David Kaufmann The Burlington MagazineTable of ContentsPreface: Art, History, and the 1960s 1. Introduction: Figuration circa 1970 2. Literal, Lateral, Historical 3. Action Painting Refigured 4. Conclusion: Badness circa 1970 Notes Selected Bibliography List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Index
£42.50
University of California Press Revolutionary Beauty
Book SynopsisTrade Review"John Heartfield (1891-1968) was one of the most significant visual artists of the twentieth century. Sabine T. Kriebel's sophisticated study contributes enormously to our understanding of how and why." -- Peter Chametzky American Historical Review "Kriebel is intently concerned with the poetics of the photographic image, but this should not imply that her focus is only on the immanent qualities of Heartfield's montages. There is also a rigorous interrogation of the political and material stakes for photography and a keen alertness to the importance of laughter and the comic at the root of these works. The challenges of writing about these alone are considerable and Kriebel's long-awaited book admirably rises to the task." -- Debbie Lewer History of Photography Revolutionary Beauty covers an extraordinary amount of ground in order to situate Heartfield as an historical producer... This remarkable amalgamation of broadly historicizing and deeply analytical reconsiderations of relatively iconic things is the great strength of this book." -- James A. van Dyke Oxford Art JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Photomontage, Paradigm of the Modern 1. The Subject in Circulation 2. Photomontage in the Age of Technological Reproducibility 3. Photomontage in the Year 1932 4. Left-Wing Laughter 5. Revolutionary Beauty Epilogue: To Gratify a Wish Notes Selected Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
£999.99
University of California Press Art of Renaissance Venice 14001600
Book SynopsisChronicling the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and journeying from the Piazza San Marco to the villas of the Veneto, this book presents the survey of architecture, sculpture, and painting that offers a rich perspective on the history and artistic achievements of Renaissance Venice.Trade Review"Delightful and convenient ... rich and readable ... A valuable contribution and a model piece of art historical synthesis, the text is as well written as the project is deftly conceived." -- P. Emison CHOICE "Throughout the book, Partridge masterfully interweaves close formal and stylistic analysis with thorough treatments of these works' iconography, patronage, and relation to civic ritual, local history, and broader trends in spirituality and literature." -- Lorenzo G. Buonanno Renaissance QuarterlyTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments PROLOGUE I. FIFTEENTH-CENTURY VENICE INTRODUCTION 1. CIVIC ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM 2. CHURCHES 3. DUCAL TOMBS 4. FREESTANDING PUBLIC SCULPTURE 5. ALTARPIECES 6. CONFRATERNITIES 7. PALACES 8. NONNARRATIVE DEVOTIONAL PAINTING 9. NARRATIVE DEVOTIONAL PAINTING 10. PORTRAITS OF MEN 11. PORTRAITS OF WOMEN II. SIXTEENTH-CENTURY VENICE INTRODUCTION 12. CIVIC ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM 13. FREESTANDING PUBLIC SCULPTURE 14. CHURCHES 15. ALTARPIECES 16. DUCAL TOMB 17. REFECTORIES 18. CONFRATERNITIES 19. PALACES 20. NONNARRATIVE DEVOTIONAL PAINTING 21. NARRATIVE DEVOTIONAL PAINTING 22. SECULAR PAINTING 23. PORTRAITS OF MEN 24. PORTRAITS OF WOMEN 25. HALLS OF STATE 26. VILLAS OF THE VENETO CONCLUSION: PATRONAGE Timeline Glossary Selected Bibliography List of Illustrations Picture Credits Index
£30.60
University of California Press Transmedia Frictions
Book SynopsisPresents a collection of essays on the continuing debates over medium specificity and the politics of the digital arts. This book stages debates across essays, creating dialogues that give different narrative accounts of what is historically and ideologically at stake in medium specificity and digital politics.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface: Origins, Agents, and Alternative Archaeologies PART I. MEDIUM SPECIFICITY AND PRODUCTIVE PRECURSORS Medium Specificity and Productive Precursors: An Introduction Marsha Kinder Print Is Flat, Code Is Deep: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis N. Katherine Hayles Postmedia Aesthetics Lev Manovich If--Then--Else: Memory and the Path Not Taken Edward Branigan Cyberspace and Its Precursors: Lintsbach, Warburg, Eisenstein Yuri Tsivian Past Indiscretions: Digital Archives and Recombinant History Steve Anderson Films Beget Digital Media Stephen Mamber Navigating the Ocean of Streams of Story Grahame Weinbren Is This Not a Screen? Notes on the Mobile Phone and Cinema Caroline Bassett PART II. DIGITAL POSSIBILITIES AND THE REIMAGINING OF POLITICS, PLACE, AND THE SELF Digital Possibilities and the Reimagining of Politics, Place, and the Self: An Introduction Tara McPherson Transnational/National Digital Imaginaries John Hess and Patricia R. Zimmermann Is (Cyber) Space the Place? Herman Gray Linkages: Political Topography and Networked Topology David Wade Crane The Database City: The Digital Possessive and Hollywood Boulevard Eric Gordon Cuba, Cyberculture, and the Exile Discourse Cristina Venegas Thinking Digitally/Acting Locally: Interactive Narrative, Neighborhood Soil, and La Cosecha Nuestra Community John T. Caldwell Video Installation Art as Uncanny Shock, or How Bruce Nauman's Corridors Expand Sensory Life Mark B. N. Hansen Braingirls and Fleshmonsters Holly Willis Tech-illa Sunrise (.txt con Sangrita) Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Guillermo Gomez-Pena Works Cited Index
£68.00
University of California Press Rendering Violence
Book SynopsisExplores the problems and possibilities that the subject of political violence presented to American painters working between 1830 and 1890, a turbulent period during which common citizens frequently abandoned orderly forms of democratic expression to riot, strike, and protest violently.Trade Review"Intriguing." -- S. Webster CHOICETable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. How Could a Mob Be Painted? Picturing Political Violence in the Jacksonian Era 2. Painting That "Might Prove Injurious": Cinque and the Representation of African American Political Violence 3. Riot, Rowdyism, and Reform: George Henry Hall and the Picturing of Midcentury Urban Upheaval 4. Trouble on the Home Front: Art, Democracy, and Disorder during the Civil War 5. Painting and Political Violence at Century's End Conclusion Notes List of Illustrations Index
£42.50
University of California Press Stick to the Skin
Book SynopsisThe first comparative history of African American and Black British artists, artworks, and art movements, Stick to the Skin traces the lives and works of over fifty painters, photographers, sculptors, and mixed-media, assemblage, installation, video, and performance artists working in the United States and Britain from 1965 to 2015. The artists featured in this book cut to the heart of hidden histories, untold narratives, and missing memories to tell stories that stick to the skin and arrive at a new Black lexicon of liberation. Informed by extensive research and invaluable oral testimonies, Celeste-Marie Bernier's remarkable text forcibly asserts the originality and importance of Black artists' work and emphasizes the need to understand Black art as a distinctive category of cultural production. She launches an important intervention into European histories of modern and contemporary art and visual culture as well as into debates within African American studies, African diasporic studies, and Black British studies. Artists featured: Larry Achiampong Hurvin Anderson Benny Andrews Rasheed Araeen Jean-Michel Basquiat Zarina Bhimji Sutapa Biswas Frank Bowling Sonia Boyce Vanley Burke Chila Kumari Burman Eddie Chambers Thornton Dial Godfried Donkor Kimathi Donkor Sokari Douglas Camp Melvin Edwards Mary Evans Nicola Frimpong Joy Gregory Bessiey Harvey Mona Hatoum Lubaina Himid Lonnie Holley Gavin Jantjes Claudette Johnson Tam Joseph Roshini Kempadoo Juginder Lamba Hew Locke Steve McQueen Chris Ofili Keith Piper Ingrid Pollard Thomas J. Price Noah Purifoy Faith Ringgold Donald Rodney Betye Saar Joyce J. Scott Yinka Shonibare Gurminder Sikand Marlene Smith Maud Sulter Barbara Walker Kara Walker Carrie Mae Weems Deborah Willis Hank Willis Thomas Lynette Yiadom-BoakyeTrade Review"...[A] welcome new volume . . . . [and] a Herculean effort of naming and contextualizing an array of vital and frequently overlooked practices and methods. Its power as an intellectual project and teaching resource is to work inductively, sidestepping theory and allowing artists’ words to elaborate the specificity of art making as a form of individual exploration and collective intervention." * caa.reviews - College Art Association *". . . a timely contribution to the field of Black diasporic art history. . . . Celeste-Marie Bernier offers respite from seemingly interminable institutional tendencies that continue to limit Black British and African American art to particular curatorial and art-historical jurisdictions. Whereas the former is often expediently defined within the historical parameters of the 1980s, the latter is rarely viewed in relation to other art histories, not least those of the United States. Stick to the Skin challenges these conventions and pathologies, bringing as it does a comparative study of the work of over fifty artists spanning half a century. . . . we can be grateful to Bernier who, as a UK-based academic, has taken it upon herself to produce a very tangible and substantial study on contemporary Black visual arts practice." * Burlington Magazine *"Throughout, Bernier examines how art can dismantle, disrupt and challenge the status quo. It can be a form of radical protest, used to confront racism and white privilege in a world that continues to be threatened by outsiders and “others”. This remarkable book makes very clear how and why this is important, more so today than ever." * Times Higher Ed *Table of ContentsFOREWORD Lubaina Himid PREFACE “WE WILL BE / WHO WE WANT / WHERE WE WANT / WITH WHOM WE WANT” ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION “Inside the Invisible” African American and Black British Artists and Art-Making Traditions 1 “Do Something with It” The Search for a New Critical Language in African American and Black British Art 2 “I’m Always Ready to Die” Memorializing Slavery and Narrativizing Freedom 3 “Lifting, Hanging, Burning” Defiance, Dissidence, and to Destroy Is to Create 4 “Branded, Raped, Beaten” Acts and Arts of Bearing Witness 5 “How to Paint Suffering” Anti-Portraiture, Anti-Product, and Anti-Painting 6 “Enter at Your Own Risk” Artist-as-Trickster-as-Prophet-as-Historianas- Witness-as-Freedom-Fighter-as-Artist 7 “BURIED, HIDDEN, AND DISGUISED” “Storying” in a State of Shock 8 “A FREAK IN THE BLIZZARD OF THE WHITE MAN’S GAZE” Black Absent Presences and Present Absences 9 An “Indelible Mark”? Autobiographies, Archives, and Amnesia 10 “I Was Branded” Spectacularized Histories, Serial Narratives, and Illicit Iconographies 11 “Power to the Powerless” Tracing Black Lives in Protest Portraits, History Paintings, and Radical Installations 12 “Hurting to Death” Struggle, Survival, and Storytelling in Salvaged Objects, Paint, Beads, and Steel CONCLUSION “Survivors of the Diasporic Journey” Past, Present, and Future Artists and Art-Making Traditions NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS INDEX
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University of California Press Cultivating Citizens
Book SynopsisDuring the 1930s and 1940s, painters Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and John Steuart Curry formed a loose alliance as American Regionalists. Some lauded their depictions of the rural landscape and hardworking inhabitants of America's midwestern heartland; others deemed their painting dangerous, regarding its easily understood realism as a vehicle for jingoism and even fascism. Cultivating Citizens focuses on Regionalists and their critics as they worked with and against universities, museums, and the burgeoning field of sociology. Lauren Kroiz shifts the terms of an ongoing debate over subject matter and style, producing the first study of Regionalist art education programs and concepts of artistic labor.Trade Review"...a long overdue reevaluation of the American Regionalist triumvirate of Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and John Steuart Curry. Featuring a mix of lush color reproductions, black-and-white documentary photographs, and preliminary sketches, and drawing on a wealth of primary sources. . . .Cultivating Citizens offers readers a compelling reexamination of the controversies surrounding the art and professional lives of these formidable personalities." * Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art *“Cultivating Citizens is a richly illustrated and enlightening account of the institutions and educational theories that shaped the public personae of Wood, Benton, and Curry. As a history of ideas rather than an analysis of objects, the book poses numerous questions that inflect the conversation around regional art with critical nuance… [it] is a welcome contribution for its thoughtful and thought-provoking reconsideration of American Regionalism.” * The Annals of Iowa Journal *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations • ix Preface • xiii Acknowledgments • xv Introduction • 1 PART 1: IOWA 1. Art in the University • 19 2. Stone City • 24 3. How to Teach Art • 53 4. Grant Wood, H. W. Janson, and the Case of the Naked Chicken • 74 PART 2: MISSOURI 5. Art and the Museum • 93 6. Opening the Nelson Gallery • 102 7. Building a Regionalist Movement with Thomas Hart Benton • 115 8. Creative Appreciation and Museum Minds • 138 PART 3: WISCONSIN 9. Art and Sociology • 161 10. John Steuart Curry’s Amateurism • 166 11. Inventing the Artist-in-Residence • 182 12. Encouraging Rural Art • 202 Conclusion • 223 Notes • 231 Bibliography • 275
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University of California Press Corporate Imaginations
Book SynopsisThe first extended study of the renowned artists' collective Fluxus, Corporate Imaginations examines the group's emergence on three continents from 1962 to 1978, and its complexities, contradictions, and historical specificity. Its founder, George Maciunas, organized Fluxus like a multinational corporation, simulating corporate organization and commodity flows, a reflection of how he imagined critical art practice at that time. Despite the collective's critical stance toward the corporation, Fluxus shared aspects of the rising corporate culture of the day. In this book, Mari Dumett addresses the business of Fluxus and explores the larger discursive issues of organization, mediatization, routinization, automation, commoditization, and systematization that Fluxus artists both manipulated and exposed in bold relief. A study of six central figures in the group-George Brecht, Alison Knowles, Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Mieko Shiomi, and Robert Watts,-reveals how they developed historically specific strategies of mimicking the capitalist system. These artists appropriated tools, occupied spaces, revealed operations, and, ultimately, performed the system itself by employing an aesthetics of organization, communication, events, branding, routine, and global mapping. Invoking corporate imaginations, Fluxus artists proposed strategies for living as conscious creative subjects within a totalizing and increasingly global system, and demonstrated how these strategies must be repeated in an ongoing negotiation of new relations of power and control between subject and system.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. A Fantastic Confusion 2. The Great Executive Dream 3. Performing the System 4. George Brecht: Scoring Events 5. Robert Watts: Engineering Objects 6. Nam June Paik: Art for Cybernated Life 7. Alison Knowles: Ritual and Routine 8. Mieko Shiomi: The Artistic Globalism of Fluxus Notes List of Illustrations Index
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University of California Press The End of Landscape in NineteenthCentury America
Book SynopsisThe End of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century America examines the dissolution of landscape painting in the late nineteenth-century United States. Maggie M. Cao explores the pictorial practices that challenged, mourned, or revised the conventions of landscape painting, a major cultural project for nineteenth-century Americans. Through rich analysis of artworks at the genre's unsettling limitslandscapes that self-destruct, masquerade as currency, or even take flightCao shows that experiments in landscape played a crucial role in the American encounter with modernity. Landscape is the genre through which American art most urgently sought to come to terms with the modern world.Trade Review"The case Cao makes is too complicated to reproduce here; one detail will have to suffice: the decorative butterfly unexpectedly echoes the apparition of the steamboat Ancon as it lists off the shores of Alaska, reminding the artist of his own artistic dead end. Imaginative leaps such as this abound in this brilliant book; Cao makes them with breathtaking historical sophistication." * Journal of American History *"It must be said that [Cao's] arguments are frequently highly creative and imaginative." * Winterthur Portfolio *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments • ix Prologue: What End? • 1 Introduction: Inventions and Failures • 9 PART I 1. Closure: Albert Bierstadt’s Last Pictures • 31 2. Sabotage: Martin Johnson Heade and Frederic Church • 68 PART II 3. Insolvency: Ralph Blakelock’s Economic Accretion • 113 4. Camouflage: Abbott Handerson Thayer and John Singer Sargent • 153 Afterword: Un-landing Landscape • 199 Notes • 207 List of Illustrations • 247
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University of California Press Artist as Reporter
Book SynopsisActive from 1940 to 1948, PM was a progressive New York City daily tabloid newspaper committed to the politics of labor, social justice, and antifascism-and it prioritized the intelligent and critical deployment of both pictures and their perception as paramount in these campaigns. With PM as its main focus, Artist as Reporter offers a substantial intervention into the literature on American journalism, photography, and modern art. The book considers the journalistic contributions to PM of such signal American modernists as the curator Holger Cahill, the abstract painter Ad Reinhardt, the photographers Weegee and Lisette Model, and the filmmaker, photographer, and editor Ralph Steiner. Each of its five chapters explores one dimension of the tabloid's complex journalistic activation of modernism's potential, showing how PM inserted into daily print journalism the most innovative critical thinking in the fields of painting, illustration, cartooning, and the lens-based arts. Artist as Reporter promises to revise our own understanding of midcentury American modernism and the nature of its relationship to the wider media and public culture.Trade Review“Amazing to excavate so radical and genuinely experimental a position in the moldering pages of an ancient five-cent fish wrap.” * Artforum *"'Looking is not as simple as it looks,' reads Ad Reinhardt's drawing entitled 'How to Look at Things Through a Wineglass' and published in the New York daily PM . . . The essential education that derives from such a finding—untranslatable in its circular efficiency—is at the heart of the book just released by Jason E. Hill." * Les Cahiers du Musée national d’art modern *"Hill’s Artist as Reporter stands among the most insightful treatments of the entanglement of US art and visual culture published in recent memory, and it is an exemplar for future studies of art-journalism intermediality." * History of Photography *Table of ContentsA Note about Captions of PM Pages Preface Introduction 1. The Artist as Reporter at the Museum of Modern Art 2. Drawing on Newsprint 3. Ralph Steiner’s Editorial Model 4. Weegee’s Corpus 5. How to Look at News Pictures in America Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Sources Art Credits Index
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University of California Press David Smith
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on the Texts Introduction THIRTIES AND FORTIES Media: The Materials of the Artist, by Max Doerner, 1935 Current Exhibitions: Abstract Painting in America, 1935 In America You Feel, 1935–36 An Expression of Emotion That Cannot Be Put into Words, 1935–36 The Concept Is Primary, 1938–39 The Architect Should Be Able to Judge, 1939–40 Modern Sculpture and Society, 1939–40 Abstract Art in America, 1940 Medals for Dishonor, Responses to Questions from Elizabeth McCausland, 1940 Sculpture: Art Forms in Architecture—New Techniques Affect Both, 1940 Medals for Dishonor, 1940 The Recurrences of Totemism, c. 1945 The Visual Arts, 1945 I Have Erected a Solid, c. 1945 A River Mts, c. 1945 The Sculpture Produces an Environment, c. 1945 To Keep from Becoming Enslaved, c. 1945 The Technique, Brushstrokes, Chisel Marks, c. 1946 Landscape Fish Clouds, 1946–47 The Question—What Is Your Hope, c. 1947 One of the Early Impressions, c. 1947 Lecture, Skidmore College, 1947 The Landscape; Spectres Are; Sculpture Is, 1947 Design for Progress—Cockfight, 1947 The Sculptor’s Relationship to the Museum, Dealer, and Public, 1947 The Golden Eagle—A Recital; Robinhood’s Barn, 1948 Foreword, Dorothy Dehner: Drawings, Paintings, 1948 FIFTIES Report for Interim Week, 1950 Statement, Herald Tribune Forum, 1950 Sculpture Hopes to Be, 1950 Notes on Books, 1950 The Question—What Are Your Influences, 1950 Autobiographical Notes, 1950 What I Believe about the Teaching of Sculpture, 1950 The Flight Paths of Birds Moths Insects, 1950–51 Notes—Watch a Torn Sheet, c. 1951 What Happens to Barnyard Grass, 1951 Foreword—(Apology of a Juryman), 1951 Notes on Seven Sculptures, 1951 Progress Report and Application for Renewal of Guggenheim Fellowship, 1951 And So This Being the Happiest—Is Disappointing, 1951 Notes for Elaine de Kooning, 1951 The Joint Is Foul with Smoke, 1951 Sketchbook Notes: The Red of Rust; The Metaphor of a Symbol; The Position for Vision; Reading, 1951–52 Sketchbook Notes: Music; The Cloud; Space; And in the Best of Squares, 1951–52 Lecture, Williams College, 1951 Problems of the Contemporary Sculptor, 1952 The Language Is Image, 1952 The New Sculpture, 1952 Atmosphere of Early ’30s, 1952 A Head Is a Drawing, c. 1952 The Modern Sculptor and His Materials, 1952 I Have Seen Some Critics, 1952 Lecture, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1952 Lecture, Fourth Annual Woodstock Art Conference, 1952 Relative to Tanktotem I (Pouring), 1952 How Far Away from Imitation of Reality, 1952 Statement, WNYC Radio, 1952 Who Is the Artist?, 1952 Notes on Details—Technical, c. 1952–53 Do We Dare to Do Bad Works, 1952–53 Sometimes a Drawing Gets Too Complete, 1953 Lecture, Portland Art Museum, 1953 Books: African Classics for the Modern, 1953 Sketchbook Notes: From the Textures; The Part to the Whole; There Is Something Rather Noble About Junk, 1953 Notes While Driving, 1953 The Artist and Art in America, 1953 I Sat Near My Window, 1953 Thoughts on Sculpture, 1953 Symposium: Art and Religion, 1953 How Little I Know, 1953–54 The Artist’s Image, 1954 Notes from a Sketchbook Titled “Nature,” 1954 Second Thoughts on Sculpture, 1954 The Artist, the Critic, and the Scholar, 1954 Tradition, 1954 Lecture, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1954 Contribution by the Aesthetician, 1954–55 Defi ne Technique, c. 1955 Editions, Duplication, c. 1955 It Has Got to Make Big, 1955 Notes—Improvised Upon, 1955 To Make a Mark, 1955 The Artist in Society, 1955 Drawing, 1955 And Drawings before the Etching or the Print, 1955 Sketch—Oil Painting—The Infl uence—The Historian, c. 1956 González: First Master of the Torch, 1956 Lecture, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1956 Sketchbook Notes: He May Be Intuitive Enough to Make It; Nothing Put Down with Force and Conviction Is Meaningless, 1957 Sculpture and Architecture, 1957 Selden Rodman, Conversation with David Smith, 1957 False Statements; Editor’s Letters, 1957 Contemporary Sculpture and Architecture, 1957 Letters: American Art at the Met, 1958 Is Today’s Artist With or Against the Past?, 1958 Culture and the Ideal of Perfection, 1959 Lecture, Ohio State University, 1959 SIXTIES Notes on My Work, 1960 Interview by David Sylvester, 1960 Thoughts Travel and Come Unexpectedly, 1960 Memories to Myself, 1960 A Protest Against Vandalism; Letters; Rescue Operation, 1960 What Is the Triumph, 1961 Letter to the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1961 Collective Concept, 1961 Interview by Katharine Kuh, 1962 Sculpture Today, 1962 Sketchbook Notes: The Great Decision; To Think—To Dream; I Do Not Care for the Home Environment, 1962 Sketchbook Notes: The Found Object; Isn’t It Good, 1962 Letter to David Sylvester, 1962 Report on Voltri, 1962–63 A Bin Full of Balls, c. 1963 365 Sketchbook Notes: CUBE III; Drawings Are a Change; Once in a Lifetime You Meet an Ironworks; You Rule Your Own World, 1962–63 Jim and Minnie Ball, c. 1963 I Like to Eat, c. 1964 Interview by Thomas B. Hess, 1964 The Subject Is Me, c. 1964 Interview by Marian Horosko, 1964 Interview by Frank O’Hara, 1964 Some Late Words from David Smith, 1964 Chronology List of Illustration Credits Index
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University of California Press Harvey Quaytman Against the Static
Book SynopsisHarvey Quaytman's paintings are distinct for their inventive, whimsical exploration of shape, meticulous attention to surface texture, and experimental application of color. While his works display a rigorous commitment to formalism, they are simultaneously invested with rich undertones of sensuality, decorativeness, and humorexpressed, too, in his playful poetic titles, such as A Street Called Straight and Kufikind. Demonstrating the arc of Quaytman's oeuvre, from his radically curvilinear canvases of the late 1960s and 1970s, to his exploration of serialized geometric abstraction in the 1980s, and finally to his serene cruciform canvases of the 1990s, this retrospective exhibition and accompanying illustrated catalogue is a timely reconsideration of Quaytman's influential work, placing him and his work more prominently in the trajectory of American modern art. With contributions by Suzanne Hudson and John Yau, as well reflections by R. H. Quaytman, an artist and the daughter of Harvey Quaytman, on her father's work and life. Published in association with the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). Exhibition dates: October 17, 2018January 27, 2019, Berkeley Museum of Art Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA).Table of ContentsDirector’s Foreword Acknowledgments Harvey Quaytman’s Arc: Against the Static Apsara DiQuinzio Plates HQ of My Mind R. H. Quaytman The Opposite of Irony Suzanne Hudson Picture and Sound: Harvey Quaytman’s Titles John Yau Reflections on an “Art Soldier”: A Conversation between Gregory Amenoff and William Corbett Ten Thoughts on Color Harvey Quaytman Dr. Kremer’s Magic Powders: A Color Glossary for Harvey Quaytman Lauren R. O’Connell Selected Exhibition History and Awards Bibliography Works in the Exhibition Index BAMPFA Board of Trustees Contributors Photography Credits
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University of California Press Art and War in the Pacific World
Book SynopsisThe Pacific world has longbeen recognized as a hub for the global trade in art objects, but the history of art and architecture has seldom reckoned with another profound aspect of the region's history: its exposure to global conflict during the British and US imperial incursions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Art and War in the Pacific World provides a new view of the Pacific world and of global artistic interaction by exploring how the making, alteration, looting, and destruction of images, objects, buildings, and landscapes intersected with the exercise of force. Focusing on the period from Commodore George Anson's voyage to the Philippine-American War, J. M. Mancini's exceptional study deftly weaves together disparate strands of history to create a novel paradigm for cultural analysis.Trade Review"...essential reading for scholars interested in the global interchange of art, objects, and architecture during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . . . . Mancini’s book is a critical study that offers a welcome reassessment of the chronology of empire in the Pacific. Moreover, Mancini provides an account of the integral role that vision, visuality, and objects played in this important history. . . . [it] should be included in any classroom that dives into a discussion of Asia’s interrelationship with the West during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries" * American Historical Review *“…in this compelling work of interdisciplinary scholarship. . . .Mancini’s provocative challenges to conventional wisdom are well worth reading.” * Pacific Historical Review *"...a remarkable work that provides a detailed examination and analysis of a little-studied aspect of trans-Pacific history. . . .With the rise of the Pacific World as a viable subfield for both research and pedagogy, this book should be in high demand across multiple disciplines." * Global Maritime History *“In this lavishly illustrated book, Mancini provides a rich multidimensional account of the role of war in the movements of objects and ideas in and beyond the Pacific Basin, as well as the impact of violent conflicts spilling over from other world regions to affect the arts and architecture in places like the Philippines and California. As such, the book offers a much wider perspective on the material culture of empire and war than the term 'art' in the title may suggest at first sight.…This is an important read for historians of the early modern and modern Pacific world, as well as for scholars working on the material cultures of the empires involved in the region.” * The Americas *"Art and War in the Pacific World makes valuable interventions in the study of the Pacific. . . . Mancini’s approach is a useful model for historians and art historians writing about the exchanges that influenced the movement and appearance of ‘art, artifacts, and architecture’ within and outside the region. By placing the Philippines at the centre of imperial conflict, Mancini has set the stage for future studies of the trans-Pacific world within a colonial context." * Journal of Pacific History *"Through its temporal, geographic, and maritime expansions, the book successfully articulates the limits of the spatial and scholarly borders that define American history and material culture studies. Art and War in the Pacific World demonstrates that the geographic boundaries of colonies, nations, and continents that determine the divisions of our fields are largely of scholarly making. Examining the far more complicated worlds of early modern and modern actors in the Pacific Americas brings provocative new questions to light." * Winterthur Portfolio *"Mancini expertly highlights the entwined nature of art and war through examining how the spoils of war are valued and circulate into private hands, how artwork from the Philippines made its way to California missions, and the impact that warfare can have on city planning and architecture." * The Journal of American History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations • ix Chronology • xvii Introduction • 1 PART I. PACIFIC TURNS: ANGLO-SPANISH CONFLICT IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 1. Surplus Transfer • 27 2. Composite Empire • 67 3. Transpacific Angles of Vision • 107 PART II. A PACIFIC RETURN: THE UNITED STATES, WAR, AND EMPIRE IN THE PHILIPPINES, 1898–1910 4. War, the Crucible of Art • 147 5. Sovereignty Trouble • 178 6. Destructive Creation • 211 Conclusion • 239 Acknowledgments • 241 Notes • 243 Bibliography • 287 Index • 301
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University of California Press Summer of Love Art Fashion and Rock and Roll
Book SynopsisFeaturing a wide array of iconic rock posters, period photographs, music memorabilia and light shows, "out-of-this-world" clothing, and avant-garde films, this title celebrates San Francisco's rebellious and colorful counterculture that blossomed in the years surrounding the 1967 Summer of Love.Trade Review"Summer of Love: Art, Fashion, and Rock and Roll does a remarkable job conveying both the ideas and the content of an exhibition many of us will never see. Its precision focus on one moment in one city in American history is the book’s greatest strength." * PopMatters *"The beautifully illustrated and very readable work provides the social, cultural, and political background that laid the era’s foundation." * Library Journal *Table of Contentsforeword map essays not past at all dennis mcnally selling san francisco’s sound colleen terry stitching a new paradigm jill d ’alessandro if you’re going to san francisco joel selvin catalogue and more (sittin’ on) the dock of the bay a trip without a ticket the gathering of the tribes love and haight the poster shop feed your head the music never stopped what are we fighting for? san francisco psychedelic rock posters victoria binder the sixties in san francisco van meter time line selected bibliography checklist index acknowledgments picture credits contributors
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University of California Press Bruce Nauman
Book SynopsisThe first book devoted solely to Bruce Nauman's corridors and other architectural installations, Bruce Nauman: Spatial Encounters deftly explores the significance of these works in the development of his singular art practice, examining them in the context of the period and in relation to other artists like Dan Graham, Robert Morris, Paul Kos, and James Turrell. Designed for viewer participation, Bruce Nauman's architectural installations often confound expectations and induce physical and psychological unease. The essays in this book consider these works, which begin in 1969 and continue into the 1970s and beyond, in terms of the physical, perceptual, and psychological pressures they exert on the participant. Three interlocking perspectives on the topicConstance M. Lewallen's historical overview, Dore Bowen's case study of Nauman's 1970 Corridor Installation with MirrorSan Jose Installation (Double Wedge Corridor with Mirror), and a supplementary essay by Ted Mann on Nauman's drawTrade Review"Remarkable. . . . The three authors provide deeply researched and complimentary paths to thinking about what the different installations mean for the artwork. Thankfully, their thoughtful contributions are accompanied by a great many stunning images, allowing the reader to visually track Nauman’s development over the course of more than five decades." * Brooklyn Rail *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction PART 1 Full Circle CONSTANCE M. LEWALLEN PART 2 Corridor Reflections: On Bruce Nauman’s San Jose Installation Reinstalled DORE BOWEN CONTRIBUTING ESSAY “Another Kind of Information”: Bruce Nauman’s Drawings for Corridors and Rooms TED MANN Notes Selected Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
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University of California Press Ray Johnson Selective Inheritance
Book SynopsisTrade Review“’Selective Inheritance’ achieves the scholarly goal of unpacking Ray Johnson’s unknown-artist status by peeling away the layers of his complex work with a savvy that combines art-world knowledge and darker, psychological theories." * BLOUIN ARTINFO *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments / ix Introduction: The Heir of Duchamp / 1 1. Johnson’s Background and Relationship to Duchamp / 12 2. A Language Fan Club / 80 3. The Viewer: Looking at Seeing / 128 4. Identity/Performance / 166 Conclusion / 203 Notes / 219 Selected Bibliography / 279 List of Illustrations / 287
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University of California Press The Noisemakers Estridentismo Vanguardism and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Noisemakers is a totally appropriate qualifier to make known to a broader profile of readers the international echoes of the first Mexican avant-garde. In a rigorous academic investigation, the author in six chapters takes a complete tour through the history of the architects of the movement, their intellectual connections, their affinities and differences, their field of action, and collaborative practices." * Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture *"Lynda Klich’s The Noisemakers offers a deep and nuanced investigation of the relationship between local post-revolutionary visual languages, the international avant-garde, and Estridentismo—a multi-disciplinary group of visual and performing artists, poets, writers, and musicians that emerged in 1921 in Mexico. Her work broadens our understanding of the historical moment that nurtured the Estridentista, situates them solidly within both local and international avant-garde contexts, and skillfully positions Estridentismo as part of a broad program for societal reform in 1920s Mexico." * Art Inquiries *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments / ix Introduction / 1 1. The Invention of the Vanguardia / 15 2. Actual No. 1’s Mexican Nexus, circa 1921 / 47 3. Public Art, the Vanguardia, and the Postrevolutionary Body / 87 4. Estridentista Portraits: Forging Vanguardia Identity / 124 5. Art as Action / 164 6. Estridentópolis: Vanguardia and the State / 217 Epilogue / 268 Notes / 273 Bibliography / 309 List of Illustrations / 327 Index / 333
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University of California Press Renaissance Futurities
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University of California Press Changing and Unchanging Things
Book SynopsisIn May 1950 Isamu Noguchi (190488) returned to Japan for his first visit in 20 years. He was, Noguchi said, seeking models for evolving the relationship between sculpture and societyhaving emerged from the war years with a profound desire to reorient his work toward some purposeful social end. The artist Saburo Hasegawa (190657) was a key figure for Noguchi during this period, making introductions to Japanese artists, philosophies, and material culture. Hasegawa, who had mingled with the European avant-garde during time spent as a painter in Paris in the 1930s, was, like Noguchi, seeking an artistic hybridity. By the time Hasegawa and Noguchi met, both had been thinking deeply about the balance between tradition and modernity, and indigenous and foreign influences, in the development of traditional cultures for some time. The predicate of their intense friendship was a thorough exploration of traditional Japanese culture within the context of seeking what Noguchi termed an innocent synthesis that must rise from the embers of the past. Changing and Unchanging Things is an account of how their joint exploration of traditional Japanese culture influenced their contemporary and subsequent work. The 40 masterpieces in the exhibitionby turns elegiac, assured, ambivalent, anguished, euphoric, and resignedare organized into the major overlapping subjects of their attention: the landscapes of Japan, the abstracted human figure, the fragmentation of matter in the atomic age, and Japan's traditional art forms. Published in association with The Noguchi Museum. Exhibition dates: Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan: January 12March 21, 2019 The Noguchi Museum, New York: May 1July 14, 2019 Asian Art Museum, San Francisco: September 27December 8, 2019Trade Review"Will undoubtedly be an important reference for future studies on Hasegawa, Noguchi, and postwar art by Japanologists and non-Japanologists alike." * Journal of Japanese Studies *Table of ContentsFOREWORD JENNY DIXON INTRODUCTION Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan DAKIN HART AND MARK DEAN JOHNSON ONE Modernist Passions for “Old Japan:” Saburo Hasegawa and Isamu Noguchi in 1950 BERT WINTHER-TAMAKI TWO “Accumulated Impressions”: A Photographic Travelogue of Noguchi and Hasegawa in Japan MATTHEW KIRSCH THREE Regretting the Future: Noguchi, and Hasegawa Consider the Direction of Postwar Japanese Art KOICHI KAWASAKI FOUR Isamu Noguchi’s Memorial to the Dead of Hiroshima: The Monument that Never Was and an Artistic Vision Shared with Saburo Hasegawa NAOAKI NAKAMURA FIVE Saburo Hasegawa in America: A Wide Open Road MARK DEAN JOHNSON SIX True Development of an Old Tradition: Isamu Noguchi’s Work in the 1950s DAKIN HART SEVEN Toward Abstraction: Saburo Hasegawa’s Exploration of the Photogram YASUFUMI NAKAMORI PLATES Saburo Hasegawa and Isamu Noguchi PRIMARY SOURCES Remembrance of Saburo Hasegawa ISAMU NOGUCHI Noguchi in Japan SABURO HASEGAWA CHRONOLOGY Isamu Noguchi and Saburo Hasegawa: 1904–April 1959 MATTHEW KIRSCH Japanese Translations Contributors Photography credits
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University of California Press Out of Earshot Sound Technology and Power in
Book SynopsisOut of Earshot offers a reconfiguration of three of the nineteenth century's most prolific painters: Winslow Homer (18361910), Thomas Eakins (18441916), and Thomas Dewing (18511939). Asma Naeem considers how these painters turned, in ways significant for their individual artistic ventures, to themes of sound and listening throughout their careers. She shows how the aural dimension of these artists' pictures was an ideological product of period class, gender, cultural, racial, and technological discourses. Equally important, by looking at such materials as the artists' papers, scientific illustrations, and technological brochures, Naeem argues that the work of these painters has complex and previously unconsidered connections to developments in sound and listening during a period when unprecedented innovation in the United States led to such inventions as the telegraph and phonograph and forged a technological narrative that continues to have force in the twenty-first century. Naeem's unusual approach to the work of these three well-known American artists offers a transformative account of artistic response during their own era and beyond.Trade Review"...Out of Earshot is not only an accomplished but also a timely scholarly contribution." * caa.reviews *
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