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Book SynopsisWhat makes stories about portraits so gripping and unsettling? Through close readings of nineteenth-century portrait stories from different literary traditions, the book analyzes the way subjectivity is produced in relation to representations, focusing on the power to represent, especially its relation to gender, and on the act of seeing.Trade Review"With its broad international reach, its canny and often remarkable choices, its solid scholarship and linguistic grounding, and its theoretical engagement, Portrait Stories opens up significant new perspectives on the literature of a century." -- -Marshall Brown University of Washington "Ginsburg makes an engaging and significant contribution by identifying portraits and portraiture as an important topos in nineteenth-century European narrative literature." -- -Ross Chambers University of Michigan "Mixing well-known work such as The Picture of Dorian Gray with relatively undiscussed examples by Honore de Balzac and George Sand, Ginsburg defines a new corpus and isolates the multiple ways in which subject and representation are entangled with each other and the act of readerly interpretation ." -SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1 Poe's "Oval Portrait" 2 The Portrait's Two Faces: James's "The Special Type" and "The Tone of Time" 3 The Portrait Painter and His Doubles: Hoffmann's "Die Doppeltganger," Gautier's "La Cafetiere," and Nerval's "Portrait du diable" 4 On Portraits, Painters, and Women: Balzac's La Maison du chat-qui-pelote and James's "Glasses" 5 Portraits of the Male Body: Kleist's "Der Findling," Hardy's "Barbara of the House of Grebe," and Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray 6 Portraits, Parents, and Children: Storm's "Aquis submersus" and Sand's "Le Chateau de Pictordu" 7 Gogol: "The Portrait" Afterword: Reading Portrait Stories Works Cited

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Book SynopsisVia the story of two images separated by a century, Jean-Christophe Bailly’s The Instant and Its Shadow is a poetic and theoretical reflection on the origins of photographic technique, the imaginative power of montage, and the relation of photography to time itself.Table of ContentsPreface | vii Part I: A Haystack in the Sun | 1 Part II: The Shadow of a Ladder | 57 Notes | 95

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Book SynopsisVia the story of two images separated by a century, Jean-Christophe Bailly’s The Instant and Its Shadow is a poetic and theoretical reflection on the origins of photographic technique, the imaginative power of montage, and the relation of photography to time itself.Table of ContentsPreface | vii Part I: A Haystack in the Sun | 1 Part II: The Shadow of a Ladder | 57 Notes | 95

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Book SynopsisShortlisted, Marilyn Gaull Book AwardTechno-Magism explores how British Romantic literature abuts and is organized around both print and non-print media. The book explores not only the print, pictorial art, and theater of early nineteenth-century England and Europe but also communicative technologies invented after the British Romantic period, such as photography, film, video, and digital screens. This proleptic abutting points to one way we can understand the implicit exceptionality wagered by reading Romanticism through media studies and media theory.Techno-Magism argues that both media studies and the concept of mediation in general can benefit from a more robust confrontation with, or recovery of, the arguments of deconstruction, an unavoidable consequence of thinking about the relationship between Romanticism and media. The book thinks that relationship through the catachrestic practice of a techno-magism, a technics of inscription always outsidTable of ContentsIntroduction | 1 Constellations 1. Techno-Magism, Coleridge’s Mariner, and the Sentence Image | 33 2. Two Pipers and the Cliché of Romanticism | 53 3. The Gothic Zany | 78 4. Prometheus Unbound and Commemorative Thought | 102 5. After Life: Byron’s Manfred and the Umwelt | 123 Cuts 6. Play Time: Austen, Byron, and Mary Shelley | 149 7. Chthonic Michael: Smithson, Lévi-Strauss, Freud, Wordsworth | 175 8. Dream Animals | 196 Acknowledgments | 223 Index | 225

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword Lisa Stevenson | vii Introduction: Imagistic Inquiries: Old Age, Intimate Others, and Care Lone Grøn and Cheryl Mattingly | 1 The Gift: An Imagistic Critical Phenomenology Cheryl Mattingly | 31 Virtuous Aging in Uncanny Moral Worlds: Being Old and Kyrgyz in the Absence of the Young Maria Louw | 59 “Yeah . . . Yeah”: Imagistic Signatures and Responsive Events in a Danish Dementia Ward Lone Grøn | 83 On the Silent Anarchy of Intimacy: Images of Alterity, Openness, and Sociality in Life with Dementia Rasmus Dyring | 109 Together Apart: Fence Work in Landscapes of Relationality, Old Age, and Care in the Ik Mountains Lotte Meinert | 137 Imagining Self and Other: Carers, TV, and Touch Harmandeep Kaur Gill | 163 Virtues and Vexations: Intimate Others Caring for Elders in Eastern Uganda Susan Reynolds Whyte | 187 The Staircase: The Ethics of “Transcendence and Height” in Welfare Care Helle Sofie Wentzer | 209 The Drawing Underneath Maria Speyer | 229 Afterword: These Images Burn Robert Desjarlais | 251 List of Contributors | 261 Index | 265

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Book SynopsisA multi-genre collection featuring works by Asian American artists based in California. Exploring the places of Asian America through the migration and circulation of the arts, this volume highlights creative processes and the flow of objects to understand the rendering of California's imaginary.Trade ReviewTo be sure, California Dreaming fills a remarkable gap within Asian American studies, an interdiscipline that often rehearses its Pacific state origins: born out of West Coast student protests and shaped by multiple migrations to and fro, Asian American studies has most recently endeavored to situate its growth as "east of California" (as evidenced by other regional collections concentrated on the U.S. South, the Midwest, and New England). What sets this collection apart from others in the field is its truly interdisciplinary purview and its aesthetically motivated regional focus. California Dreaming brings together works by an impressive intergenerational group of Asian American scholars, artists, performers, and writers, who offer fresh and engaging insights on California by providing a richly textured juxtaposition of scholarly essays alongside a number of engaging literary, theatrical, and performative texts. This anthology is significant because it highlights the diversity of Asian American literary and artistic practices by Filipino/a, South Asian American, Vietnamese American, Japanese American, Cambodian American, Korean American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, Latino, Sri Lankan American, and Chinese American, queer, and mixed race practitioners.

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Book SynopsisThe first monograph on the popular New York-based artist Will Cotton, best known for his large-scale portraits of female nudes in candy-coated dreamlike landscapes.   Will Cotton is best known for his depictions of “landscapes” composed of sweets: fondant frostings, peppermint sticks, marshmallows, and cotton-candy clouds often inhabited by languidly posed females. Executed with flawless skill and technique, Cotton’s work is an optical delight and is formally resonant with the influences of seventeenth-century rococo paintings, the nudes of Bouguereau and Cabanel, and the classic American pin-ups of George Petty and Alberto Vargas. Cotton’s figures are often inspired by models such as burlesque performers and fellow artists from the art, film, and music worlds.This book-the artist’s first monograph-is a celebration of Cotton’s work in all mediums: prints, drawings, canvases, and public events. In addition to this elegantly designed trad

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Book SynopsisThe exquisite objects created by goldsmith and jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé and his studio in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the aristocracy and nobility of imperial Russia are considered to be some of the most refined examples of the jeweler's art of any age.  Of greatest fascination are the extraordinary Easter eggs created as special commissions for the Russian imperial family and other notable patrons - works that remain unparalleled in their ingenuity of construction and sheer beauty. Accompanying a major exhibition Faberge Revealed represents a landmark for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and for Fabergé scholarship. The essays by Géza von Habsburg and other scholars present new findings on Fabergé, his workshops, and the creation of these extraordinary objects. For the first time all items by or attributed to Fabergé in VMFA's collection are documented along with the museum's significant holdings of other RussianTrade Review"If you have ever had the slightest bit of curiosity about Fabergé eggs then this is the book to own...an intellectually stimulating text with magnificently photographed pieces. Fabergé Revealed is a great read." ~New York Journal of Books

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Book SynopsisCreated in close collaboration with the artist, this beautiful new book not only presents Michael Heizer’s first exhibition with Gagosian Gallery in New York, but also firmly establishes the artist’s reputation as a legendary sculptor.

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Book SynopsisThe first major monograph on Turner Prize–nominated Glasgow artist Jim Lambie.   This long-awaited volume surveys the career of Glasgow-based contemporary sculptor Jim Lambie. From his distinctive floor works, striped from wall to wall with vibrant electrical tape, to his paint-soaked mattresses, Lambie adroitly sculpts humor and pathos from the clutter of modern life. Working with items immediately at hand, as well as those sourced in secondhand and hardware stores, he resurrects record decks, speakers, clothing, accessories, doors, and mirrors to form sculptural elements in larger compositions.   Lambie prioritizes sensory pleasure over intellectual response. He selects materials that are familiar and have a strong personal resonance, so that they offer a way into the work as well as a springboard to a psychological space beyond. This volume not only serves as a definitive mid-career survey but also as a major reframing of the artist’

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Book SynopsisThe first book to celebrate the dramatic Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, setting and renowned art collection of the Brandywine River Museum of Art and its historic homes, studios, and sites relating to three generations of the Wyeth family.   The Brandywine River Museum of Art is home to one of the country’s renowned collections of American art. This stunning book reveals the beauty of the museum’s remarkable holdings, housed in a renovated nineteenth-century mill building with a steel- and-glass addition overlooking the Brandywine River, and of its three historic properties—the N. C. Wyeth home and studio, the Andrew Wyeth studio, and the Kuerner Farm, which inspired over 1,000 works by Andrew Wyeth—all National Historic Landmarks. This volume features fifty of the museum’s most beloved paintings, by artists such as John Kensett, Martin Johnson Heade, William Trost Richards, Horace Pippin, and Andrew Wyeth, along with immersive photographs Trade Review"...features 50 paintings from the renowned art collection of the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, Pa., and celebrates the beauty of the actual museum as well as its holdings; with a foreword by Thomas Padon, the museum’s director."—Publishers Weekly, Spring 2017 Announcements

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Book SynopsisWinner of the James A. Porter and David C. Driskell Book Award for African American Art History, I Too Sing America offers a major survey on the visual art and material culture of the groundbreaking movement one hundred years after the Harlem Renaissance emerged as a creative force at the close of World War I.It illuminates multiple facets of the era--the lives of its people, the art, the literature, the music, and the social history--through paintings, prints, photography, sculpture, and contemporary documents and ephemera. The lushly illustrated chronicle includes work by cherished artists such as Romare Bearden, Allan Rohan Crite, Palmer Hayden, William Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, Archibald Motley, and James Van Der Zee.The project is the culmination of decades of reflection, research, and scholarship by Wil Haygood, acclaimed biographer and preeminent historian on Harlem and its cultural roots. In thematic chapters, the author captures the range and breadth oTrade Review"One measure of an exhibition catalogue’s quality is the degree to which it makes you want to go see the exhibition. In the case of this volume, let us just say that, since picking it up, I have been wracked with pain that I have not been able to visit the Columbus Museum of Art to catch the show it accompanies, which runs through January 20. It is a sumptuously illustrated tome, with reproductions of pieces, variously iconic and little-known, by Palmer Hayden, Loïs Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Augusta Savage, Horace Pippin, and many, many more. Haygood is a biographer and journalist (famed for writing the story that became the film The Butler), and he’s accomplished the rare feat of weaving together rich scholarship with luminous prose. Including contributions from a variety of experts, it takes an expansive view of its subject, looking not only at visual art but vernacular photography, writing, and periodicals of the movement. 'The Harlem Renaissance lives,' Haygood writes. 'It sings. It continues to do its part to explain America to itself, and also to the world.' This book is a superb vehicle for that remarkable story. —Andrew Russeth"Celebrating the centennial of the creative and intellectual flowering, “I Too Sing America” is a unique exploration of the subject that brings a journalist together with his hometown museum and the community where he grew up in Columbus, Ohio... Titled after Langston Hughes’s iconic poem, “I Too Sing America” considers the Harlem Renaissance “as a movement not confined to either upper Manhattan or the interwar period, but as a historical moment of national and international significance that continues to have reverberations far beyond its typically noted end date in the mid-1930s.” The catalog is a wonderful volume lavishly illustrated with the art and photography that defined the Renaissance. Haygood’s essays on how Harlem emerged as the mecca of Black America, the feverish publishing the period sparked, the dance, theater, and music the era engendered, the two Reverend Powells, and W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston, appear throughout the volume. His contributions are punctuated by writings about individual visual artists, including Malvin Gray Johnson, Winold Reiss, Aaron Douglas, Palmer Hayden, Augusta Savage, and James VanDerZee, authored by the museum’s curators." —Culture Type

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Book SynopsisA reflection of American art's most iconic portraits that feature eyeglasses, and their significance to the artists--from Grant Wood to Alex Katz--through the lens of renowned art historian John Wilmerding.This book celebrates and interprets eyeglasses in American art through painting, prints, folk art, sculpture, and photography from the end of the eighteenth century to the present. Accompanying an exhibition at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont, the book includes eighty works by illustrious artists such as Mary Cassatt and Alice Neel.Though we know eyeglasses are for looking through, we often overlook their role in portraits and figure images. This survey looks at their appearance and uses in American art, from 1784 when Benjamin Franklin invented the bifocal, to the present day. Spectacles in artwork served as emblems of literacy, fashion, and self-identity; old age and wisdom; inner or psychological vision; and sometimes just contemplation. Contemporary works i

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Book SynopsisSketches, drawings, and scribbles from the private letters and notebooks of some of the greatest names in history--notable figures in art and literature, fashion and film--revealing that even the most influential minds have doodled their time away!From the first ever sketch of the Red Cross logo by its founder Clara Barton to a cartoon scrawled on a love letter from Charles Bukowski, the objects in this fascinating collection are a perfect reflection of the eclectic and storied cast of characters from whose archives they've been collected over the years. Organized alphabetically, with a range of influential names, from William Burroughs to Mark Twain, the book is a voyeur's treasure trove of the ephemeral, in which cultural icons reveal their own preoccupations, passions, plans, and distractions in the marginalia of their daily correspondence. A satirical sketch by Marc Chagall sits beside a quick self-portrait by Charlie Chaplin; a throwaway drawing on a dollar bill by Trade Review"Whether you’re a frequent doodler or not, Scrawl: An A to Z of Famous Doodles will draw you in (sorry!). The lovingly printed and fascinating visual encyclopedia is a voyeur’s trove of intimate drawings by some of the world’s most respected and well-known minds. Included, you’ll find rare musings and early sketches by artists, writers, academics and actors such as Charlie Chaplin, Clara Barton, Mark Twain, Andy Warhol, and Marc Chagall. The best coffee-table books provide some much-needed respite from computer and phone screens, and this one is no exception." —NEW YORK MAGAZINE

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Book SynopsisIn this expansive volume devoted to one of the premier art collections in the U.S., the rich and full picture of Maine's central role in American art from the early nineteenth century to the present is chronicled.Published on the occasion of Maine's bicentennial, the book considers more than 200 major works of American art from the Farnsworth Art Museum's impressive holdings and details how the state has figured prominently in the development of American art. The volume includes artists as diverse as Andrew Wyeth, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O'Keeffe, Francesco Clemente, Robert Rauschenberg, and Alex Katz, among others. Through their work, a fascinating depiction of the state--and indeed of the development of American art--emerges. The volume will feature two historic sites: the Farnsworth Homestead (the National Register of Historic Places home of founder Lucy Copeland Farnsworth) and the National Historic Landmark Olson House, inspiration for some 300 works by Andrew WyetTrade Review"The straightforward title might suggest a straightforward survey of the Farnsworth’s collection, but not so…Collectively, [the books] tell[s] the story of two centuries of Maine art from a variety of angles. The fascinating first chapter isn’t much about artwork at all: it’s a fresh evaluation – supported by recently discovered correspondence – of Lucy Copeland Farnsworth’s effort at willing an ambitious art museum into existence in Rockland." —DownEast.com "Guided by the museum’s mission to celebrate Maine’s role in American art, the book features a diverse range of American artists from Marsden Hartley, Winslow Homer, and Georgia O’Keeffe to Francesco Clemente, Robert Rauschenberg, and Alex Katz. Through more than 200 images, the story of the Farnsworth Art Museum is told variously through monographic chapters devoted to Jonathan Fisher, the Wyeth family, Louise Nevelson, and Robert Indiana, among others; thematic chapters, including Maine’s landscape, its many industries, and important inhabitants; and includes important areas of concentration in the Farnsworth collection, such as watercolors and photography." —ARTFIXDAILY.COM "...an expansive 384-page volume devoted to the Farnsworth collection...In it, the rich and full picture of Maine’s central role in American art from the early 19th century to the present is chronicled." —CAMDEN HERALD

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Book SynopsisA volume devoted to artists addressing our politically tumultuous times.Soft Power: A Conversation for the Future accompanies an exhibition of recent work and new commissions by twenty artists from around the world organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. These artists understand themselves as social actors, question their responsibility as citizens, and are active in their role as public intellectuals and provocateurs. Artists featured include Nairy Baghramian, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Carlos Motta, and Xaviera Simmons, among many others.This expansive catalog includes six long-form essays by curators, artists, and other writers, as well as brief texts and interviews introducing the exhibition artists, and showcases work ranging from video and photography to sculpture, architectural interventions, and performance. Each work of art in its own way considers the collective histories and construction of ideologies and other underlying power structuresTrade Review"...US political scientist Joseph Nye coined the term ‘soft power’, a theory which holds that nations can wield their cultural influence to gain allies more efficiently than by economic or military coercion alone. After nearly 30 years of US co-option, though, the country now finds itself losing most of its friends. ‘SOFT POWER’, curated by Eungie Joo, fittingly turns Nye’s theory on its head, examining how 20 artists ‘deploy art to explore their roles as citizens and social actors.’ Rather than seeking to export values, many of the works on display shine a harsh light on the US’s own socio-political ills." —FRIEZE"Contemporary artists explore how, as creative forces and active citizens, they can help fix the world in “Soft Power,” a stimulating exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art." —SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER "Organized around the concept of artists as civically engaged actors—people who use their platforms to either engage directly in social, political and environmental concerns or highlight those issues in their work—SOFT POWER emphasizes just that: art’s quiet ability to carry ideas around the world." —KQED-AM/Forum

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Book SynopsisIn commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Yukio Mishima, one of the leading figures in modern literature, The Death of a Man presents a sublime--and often shocking--visual record of the last few months prior to his sensational ritual suicide in November 1970.The author of masterworks such as The Temple of the Golden Pavilion and Forbidden Colors, Mishima, a celebrated figure in postwar world literature, remains a controversial figure in Japan. His reactionary politics and the spectacular nature of his death had so profoundly impacted Japanese society that images associated with the event were never publicly shown.In the months prior to the November incident, he enlisted Kishin Shinoyama to create a photographic, radical work of fiction, a photo essay on the death of the Japanese everyman. In images often suffused with militarism and eroticism, a parade of men, including a sailor, a construction worker, a fisherman, and a soldie

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Book SynopsisA powerful collection of photographs and essays by trailblazing women that celebrates Maria Grazia Chiuri's feminine and feminist spirit within the House of Dior.Since being appointed the first female creative director of Dior in 2016, Maria Grazia Chiuri has infused the illustrious fashion brand with a strong current of femi-nism. Her approach is at once refreshing and needed, while still paying homage to the avant-garde ethos that has been at the heart of the house since its founding by Christian Dior in 1947.This beautifully produced volume presents 160 images by leading female photographers such as Nan Goldin, Sarah Moon, Brigitte Niedermair, Coco Capitán, Vanina Sorrenti, Julia Hetta, Katerina Jebb, Zoë Ghertner, and Bettina Rheims. The women creators featured among these pages represent the breadth of style and diversity upheld by the Maison Dior. Thought-provoking quotes and poems from inspirational women--Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Linda Nochlin, CTrade Review"Women Seeing Women: Since taking over as artistic director of women’s collections at Dior in 2016, Maria Grazia Chiuri has made it a rule to work with female photographers. The resulting images are sampled in “Her Dior: Maria Grazia Chiuri’s New Voice,” a book from Rizzoli New York that celebrates the female gaze." — WOMEN'S WEAR DAILY"Now, just in time for Women’s History Month, a new book titled Her Dior: Maria Grazia Chiuri’s New Voice (Rizzoli) aims to celebrate art and photography through the lens of the female gaze. For the anthology, Chiuri—who only works with female photographers—has gathered the work of 33 photographers and longtime Dior collaborators, among them Brigitte Niedermair, Nan Goldin, Sarah Moon, Bettina Rheims, Lean Lui, Maya Goded, Julia Hetta, and Janette Beckman." —GALERIE MAGAZINE.COM "'The book represents the kaleidoscope of voices and visions that the house of Dior embodies today,' says Maria Grazia Chiuri of Her Dior, published by Rizzoli and out now. This 'living project,' as she describes it, brings together 160 images by groundbreaking women image-makers from around the world who have interpreted Chiuri’s work at Dior and represent a 'multitude of ideas on femininity.' While, as Chiuri notes, 'many voices are expressed' in the volume—among them Nan Goldin, Sarah Moon, Coco Capitán, Katerina Jebb, Zoë Ghertner, Sarah Waiswa, Kristin-Lee Moolman, Jodi Bieber and Bettina Rheims—'there are many more ways of understanding, apprehending and living one’s femininity… the naturalness of this conversation is important, [its] point of view is both intimate and open, free of judgment and paternalism.'" —VOGUE"-- Comprised of 160 photos by the likes of Nan Goldin, Sarah Moon, Vanina Sorrenti, Zoë Ghertner, and Bettina Rheims, as well as inspirational poems and quotes from a group including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Judy Chicago, this tome pays homage to Maria Grazia Chiuri's tenure as creative director at Dior and also the famed house's long and storied history. A must for any fashion lover's bookshelf." —TOWN AND COUNTRY

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive monograph on the master contemporary Korean American sculptor, from his seminal wire sculptures to his never-before-seen early works formed of steel.John Pai (b. 1937) is a prolific multimedia artist whose handmade three-dimensional sculptures are, paradoxically, still objects that seem to exist in a state of movement and transformation. This full-career survey of Pai’s inventive work consists of his rarely seen early work up to the present.Pai’s incredibly intricate, three-dimensional abstract “drawings in space” are made of endless lengths of individual steel or copper rods and textured sheets made from hundreds of rods welded together. Unlike many contemporary sculptors who draw a sketch and let metalworkers do the actual construction, Pai continues to do all his work himself―from choosing the materials to the labor-intensive process of welding and bending the metals into complex and sometimes massive forms

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Book SynopsisClay Pop documents the reinvention of ceramic sculpture by a new generation of artists.

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Book SynopsisNFTs, or non-fungible tokens, exploded into the art space last year, no doubt because Beeple (a digital artist) sold his NFT at Christie’s auction house for a staggering $69 million. Yet the story of NFTs is much more interesting, significant, and subtle than that sale. This book explains NFTs in the art world—and the ways they might not only democratize the arts but enliven our larger democracy.Since the NFT phenomenon took over the art world, useful information that isn’t too reductive is in short supply. Artists, collectors, arts professionals, art lovers, and museumgoers are still trying to understand what NFTs are, how to benefit from or engage with them, and what they mean for the art world in the future. This book is precisely for this audience.The authors take the reader through the basic concepts of NFTs and the underlying technology of blockchain, including their origins, their surprising connections to the history of artmaking and artTrade Review"NYU associate professor Whitaker and museum director Abrams explain NFTs. . . and what collectors of them need to know." —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"Four chapters — “Origin Stories,” “Artists + Making,” “Collectors + Buying” and “Future States” — organize this overview of non-fungible tokens and their impact on the art world." —THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW"Despite the NFT crash, [The Story of NFTs] argues that the technology still has the power to build a better digital art future." —ARTNET.COM

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Book SynopsisOver the years, William Kentridge has built a world-wide reputation as a contemporary artist, known for his series of ten animated films created from drawings. This book include features that connects with smartphones and tablets. It brings a collaboration using the pages of the 1906 Cash Book of the East Rand Proprietary Mines Corporation.

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Book SynopsisWritten in response to and published together with a series of drawings by the Berlin-based artist Max Neumann, the book draws on Nooteboom's personal reflections--his arsenal of memories, dreams, fantasies, landscapes, stories and nightmares--and presents a set of prose poems that complements and echoes Neumann's work.

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Book SynopsisOdissi holds iconic status as one of the eight classical dance forms recognized and promoted by the Indian government. This book traces the dance's transformation from its historical role as a regional artistic practice to its modern incarnation as transnational spectacle, with a focus on the state's regulation of the dance form and the performances of gender embedded within it. Using an interdisciplinary approach that brings together social history, political theory, and dance and performance studies, the book explores three original themes: the idea of the state as a choreographic agent; the performance of extraordinary genders, or those identities and acts that lie outside everyday norms; and the original concept of the paratopiaa space of alterity produced by performance. Through an investigation of these themes, the author explores how Odissi has shown the potential to challenge dominant cultural imperatives in India.

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Book SynopsisThis unique book is a graphic novel and performance poem, a mixed-media musical cartoon, an animated feature film come to life. Lee Breuer's La Divina Caricatura is in the pataphysical tradition of Alfred Jarryif Jarry had been a Dante fan. In this play we meet unforgettable characters: Rose the Dog, who thinks she is a woman; her lover John, a junkie filmmaker; Ponzi Porco, PhD, a pig in love with the New York Times; and the Warrior Ant, who, to impress his father, Trotsky the Termite, declares the perpetual revolution of the bugs of the fifth world. Each a soul on its own pilgrimage, seldom with a Virgil or a Beatrice to guide them, they often try to guide each other, only to get more lost. A dazzling, comic, potent mix of ideas and character, invention and reality, the plays in La Divina Caricatura reinvigorate the stage for our time.

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Book SynopsisWith fifteen stunning new color drawings by Kentridge and an additional coda, this revised edition of Accounts and Drawings from Underground continues its remarkable documentation of the stories of migrant laborers and the flows of capital and desire, providing us with a palpable sense of a vanished world.Table of Contents1. 'Drawings' by William Kentridge 2. 'Accounts' by Rosalind C. Morris 3. 'Jonah and the whale at Blyvooreizicht' by Rosalind C. Morris 4. 'Coda: Half Life in Ruins' by Rosalind C. Morris

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1.The Quest for the Absolute2.Calder’s Mobiles3.Giacometti’s Paintings4.The Unprivileged Painter5.Masson6.Fingers and Non-Fingers

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Book SynopsisTranslations of eight saints' lives, giving an insight into women's religious culture in Anglo-Saxon England.Devout, virtuous and independent, the heroines of Old English saints' lives (one of the most popular literary genres of the middle ages) provided exemplars of personal and public inspiration for medieval Christians. The eight lives translated here are the earliest known vernacular accounts of the biographies of Æthelthryth, Agatha, Agnes, Cecilia, Eugenia, Euphrosyne, Lucy, and Mary of Egypt. They depict women escaping unwanted marriages, communicating with male relatives, acquiring an education, living autonomously as hermits, and achieving positions of leadership; such lives document not only the importance of spiritual faith to early Christian women, but also testify to how these women (and their audience) employed faith as a tool for empowerment. Each life is preceded by a brief description of the saint's cult from its early Christian origins to its presence in Anglo-Saxon culture. The translationis accompanied by an introduction establishing the general background for the genre, the conventions of women saints' lives, and women's religious culture in Anglo-Saxon England; and an interpretive essay exploring the relationships between explicit presentations of the female body and the strength of spiritual authority as exhibited in these texts completes the volume. LESLIE A. DONOVAN is Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico.

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Book SynopsisThe first book-length treatment of C19 fascination with Norse heroes.This is the first book-length treatment of the Victorians' fascination with the old north. It explores the ways in which the terms 'Viking' and 'Viking Age', both unknown in 1800, were invented, explored and popularised during thenineteenth century. The material examined - published and unpublished - includes novels, poems, plays, lectures, reviews, secondary school textbooks, saga-stead travelogues, private correspondence, art and music, as well as dictionaries, grammars and scholarly editions of eddas and sagas. In the cast of characters Sir Walter Scott, William Morris, Edward Elgar and Rudyard Kipling appear alongside long-forgotten amateur enthusiasts from Lerwick to the Isleof Wight. We follow the pursuit of Viking-related archaeology, dialectology, folklore, philology, runology and mythology. We see the old north used to legitimise many concepts and causes - from buccaneering mercantilism and imperial expansion to jury trial and women's rights. In drawing this wide range of materials together, Andrew Wawn presents a comprehensive and colourful account of the construction and translation of the Viking Age in Queen Victoria'sBritain.ANDREW WAWN is Professor of Anglo-Icelandic Studies at the University of Leeds.Trade ReviewFascinating and impressively scholarly ... a remarkable achievement. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT [Heather O'Donoghue] Delightful, erudite... With immense knowledge and a sense of humor, Wawn has brought a world of great importance brilliantly to life. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsPart 1 Hazelling the ground: of stockfish and saga; Georgian case-studies; protectors of Northern Arts. Part 2 Creating the canon: dead kings of Norroway; Frithiof of Sognefjord; George Dasent and "Burnt Njal"; the Eddas. Part 3 Philology and mercury: the Errander of Cheapinghaven; William Morris and the Old Grey North. Part 4 Living the Old North: travels, trips and trots; telling Viking tales; the invisible college. Part 5 Coda: "Vikinglife" after Victoria.

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Book SynopsisThe third and final instalment of the Chicao series.

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Book Synopsis If you haven''t read this book yet--buy it, take it home, and read it now! This is the work that made me get off my ass and actually do something, and it will inspire you, too.--Kathleen Hanna, singer, Bikini Kill, Le Tigre and The Julie Ruin I believe Karen Finley''s un-careful rage was threatening because it is filled with grief, humor, and a profound passion for this life. Rereading it, I feel refreshed, as if I''ve been self-policing for years by tolerating boring, stupid things and now I''m free again. Thank you, Karen.--Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man Shock Treatment is as timely and crucial as ever, inspiring feminist rage and wildness just as when it first blew my mind twenty-five years ago.--Michelle Tea, author of How to Grow Up Karen Finley is an iconoclast who, ironically, became an icon when her work in Shock Treatment was targeted by right wing politicians. This important book is as necessary and vital today as it was twenty-years ago.--Sapphire, author of Push, among other works Reading Shock Treatment today reminds me that Karen Finley has always been a writer of conscience. I remember seeing and hearing her read The Black Sheep off a piece of legal paper in the middle of a play at The Kitchen. No frills. She simply re-invented the poem.--Eileen Myles, author of Snowflake/different streets How exciting for you, me, Karen, and the world--to have an occasion to revisit this period of powerful and earth-shaking work. Culture wars? Those bastards had no idea what they were up against.--Justin Vivian Bond, author of Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels Finley’s Shock Treatment is more than just ''art.'' It remains a searing and necessary indictment of America, a call to arms, a great protest against the injustices waged on queers and women during a time in recent American history where government intervention and recognition was so desperately needed. Twenty-five years on, Finley’s work continues to shock and provoke readers and audiences, demonstrating the powerful cultural and political impact her work has had on modern American art and performance art.--Nathan Smith, Los Angeles Review of Books No other artist captures the drama and fragility of the AIDS era as Karen Finley does in her 1990 classic book Shock Treatment. The Black Sheep, We Keep Our Victims Ready, I Was Never Expected to Be Talented,--these are some of the seminal works which excoriated homophobia and misogyny at a time when artists and writers were under attack for challenging the status quo. This twenty-fifth anniversary expanded edition features a new introduction in which Finley reflects on publishing her first book as she became internationally known for being denied an NEA grant because of perceived obscenity in her work. She traces her journey from art school to burlesque gigs to the San Francisco North Beach literary scene. A new poem reminds us of Finley''s disarming ability to respond to the era''s most challenging issues with grace and humor. KAREN FINLEY''s raw and transgressive performances have long provoked controversy and debate. She has appeared and exhibited her visual art, performances, and plays internationally. The author of many books including A Different Kind of Intimacy, George & Martha, and The Reality Shows, she is a professor at the Tisch School of Art and Public Policy at NYU. Trade Review"This is the power of Shock Treatment, its direct engagement; 'One day, I hope to God,' she writes in 'Aunt Mandy,' 'Bush / Cardinal O’Connor and the Right-to-Lifers each / returns to life as an unwanted pregnant 13-year-old / girl working at McDonalds at minimum wage.' The irony — or maybe not — is that those sentiments remain relevant; the names may have changed but the landscape not so much. We are still, a quarter of a century later, fighting the once and future culture war, in a country that is as divided, as bifurcated on these issues as it has ever been."--David Ulin, The Los Angeles Times "Overflowing with crude unmitigated rage, Shock Treatment clawed at the bulwarks of homophobia, misogyny, racism, and casual violence, inspiring women like Kathleen Hannah, Michelle Tea, and Miranda July to step up . . . Twenty-five years later, Finley might be less ferocious but she remains astute."--Silke Tudor, SF Weekly"This is the power of Shock Treatment, its direct engagement; 'One day, I hope to God,' she writes in 'Aunt Mandy,' 'Bush / Cardinal O’Connor and the Right-to-Lifers each / returns to life as an unwanted pregnant 13-year-old / girl working at McDonalds at minimum wage.' The irony — or maybe not — is that those sentiments remain relevant; the names may have changed but the landscape not so much. We are still, a quarter of a century later, fighting the once and future culture war, in a country that is as divided, as bifurcated on these issues as it has ever been."--David Ulin, The Los Angeles Times "Overflowing with crude unmitigated rage, Shock Treatment clawed at the bulwarks of homophobia, misogyny, racism, and casual violence, inspiring women like Kathleen Hannah, Michelle Tea, and Miranda July to step up . . . Twenty-five years later, Finley might be less ferocious but she remains astute."--Silke Tudor, SF Weekly

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