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Explore Global Manufacturing Fashion Beyond Borders
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Independently Published Mandala Designs: Reflecting the Uniqueness of
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Independently Published Selk'nam
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Insight Editions The Shop
Book SynopsisExperience The Shop as never before through behind-the-scenes anecdotes, insights from the hosts and guests, stunning photography, and unforgettable quotes from culture-leading athletes, artists, and entrepreneurs—all giving an in-depth look at the real, unfiltered, empowering conversations that only happen within the walls of The Shop.You''ve watched them talk, laugh, and debate on The Shop, a show The New Yorker called, “…entertainment at its finest.” Now, take a step behind the scenes with hosts LeBron James, Maverick Carter, and Paul “PR” Rivera in The Shop, a book that chronicles the candid moments and conversations. The Shop isn''t just about people talking to each other. It''s deeper. It''s about the things that shape us, the battles we fight, and the journey we''re all on... Over the years, we''ve peeled back the curtain, showing the world that athletes, artists, and entertain
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Rocky Nook Fuji XT5 PocketGuide
Book SynopsisDesigned for photographers who haven't memorised every button, dial, setting, and feature on their Fujifilm X-T5, Rocky Nook's handy and ultra-portable quick reference Pocket Guidehelps you get the shot when you're out and about. Confirm that your camera is set up properly with the pre-shoot checklistIdentify every button and dial on your cameraLearn the essential modes and settings you need to knowDive deeper with additional features of your cameraExecute step-by-step instructions for shooting multiple exposures, in-camera HDR, time-lapse movies, and moreFollow tips and techniques for getting great shots in typical scenarios (portrait, landscape, freezing action, low light, etc.)
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Rocky Nook Sketch Every Damn Day
Book SynopsisLevel up your drawing skills with this groundbreaking weekly guidebook!
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Radius Books Debi Cornwall Model Citizens
Book SynopsisThe last in a trilogy of books on the American condition, Model Citizens considers the United States as a case study into a global phenomenon: How have staging, performance, and roleplay come to inform thinking about citizenship in a violent land whose people no longer agree on what is true?Jarringly juxtaposed images from apparently unrelated sites—such as US Border Patrol Academy training scenarios, “Save America” rallies, and history museums—illuminate systems that reconcile, justify, or distract from the harsh realities of life in a polarized, militarized society. The design accentuates slippages: images flow across French-fold page turns, just as Cornwall’s practice questions the role of documentary photography in an era of splintered realities. The Model Citizens project was awarded the 2023 Prix Elysée, a biennial juried prize for mid-career ph
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Liberties Journal Foundation Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics
Book SynopsisLiberties, a Journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues of our time. Liberties, is a collection of the most significant writers today as well as launching the voices of tomorrow.In this issue of Liberties: Cynthia Ozick on the power of Philip Roth; Linda Kinstler on the Need for Oblivion; Michael Ignatieff’s History of My Privileges; Timothy Noah offers a Prayer for the Administrative State; Sohrab Ahmari on the Poverty of Catholic Intellectual Life; Yaroslav Hrytsak on Ukraine and Liberal Nationalism; David Rieff on Populism, Peronism, and Madness in Argentina; Len Gutkin investigates if studying Humanities is Too Traumatic?; Elliot Ackerman in Mercenaries, provides a guide through history and current practice and risks of governments using private armies; the great pianist Alfred Brendel on his love
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Mind Pollution Publishing Quit Hating On Satan!
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Jean Boite editions NEW OFFICE: THE ADS: 31.03.2019-31.03.2020
Book SynopsisNew Office is a dummy company created by Florence Jung using a fake identity between March 2019 and March 2020. New Office does not produce anything. New Office reproduces the only know system, the one on which it was built. A system whose sole line of defense is its impossibility to imagine a way out. A system that, in its most advanced form, provokes a variety of symptoms: a state of generalized suspicion, a feeling of chronic oppression, a growing propensity for boredom, a desire to flee as forms the core of New Office''s activities. The sale of the data from every person who answered New Office''s ads financed the production of an original edition. This book is a facsimile of it. This book was made possible with the support of Helmhaus Zürich.
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Mousse Publishing 24Hour Interview
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Onomatopee No Internet, No Art
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Onomatopee Echoing Exhibition Views: Subjectivity in
Book SynopsisEdited by A. R. practice (Ann Richter & Agnieszka Roguski), Introduction by A. R. practice (Ann Richter & Agnieszka Roguski), Texts by Melanie Bühler, Erika Landström, Agnieszka RoguskiWhen the exhibition enters the digital realm, as it is increasingly happening now when the display of art and culture can be enjoyed individually behind screens, then how does the exhibition view diffuse optically, technically, and culturally? And how does this transformation echo the new understanding of subjectivity? Echoing Exhibition Views. Subjectivity in Post-Digital Times explores the different medialities and intersubjective shifts that follow the moment of seeing a physical exhibition today. It takes the digitized exhibition view as starting point for artistic and theoretic reflections on post-digital culture, hyperreality and its relation to subjectivity. Focusing on the transformative potential of the exhibition as circulating view, this publication asks how it transfers again into a subjective mode of perspective through the artistic lens. So what is at stake when an exhibition circulates as a digital view? And how does its digital presence in turn affect and transform the subjective experience of seeing a physical exhibition?With images from João Enxuto & Erica Love, Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, New Noveta/Yair Oelbaum, SANY, Hanna Stiegeler, Jasmin Werner, and Jonas Paul Wilisch, as well as texts by Melanie Bühler, Erika Landström, and Agnieszka Roguski, this publication gathers artists, curators, and writers who frame these questions through a variety of practices and media. It thus addresses a self-reflexive and critical approach on medium and formatunderstanding the exhibition as a fluid and diverse view. How is our view on exhibitions influenced by their digital re-/presentation on the internet? How can art affect the normalized, circulating installation views in a creative wayand articulate a subjective view in this way? And how, above all, do seemingly objective standards and subjectivity affect each other?The publication Echoing Exhibition Views. Subjectivity in Post-Digital Times focuses on the subjectivity of the supposedly objective exhibition documentation. It is about how artists realize a kind of subjective view when they are presenting an exhibitionin terms of performative, spatial, visual or technological aspectsand how that view can broaden, reflect or criticize the standardized claim of exhibition views. For Echoing Exhibition Views. Subjectivity in Post-Digital Times, a total of seven international artistic positions articulate their personal interpretation of the installation view'. Most important is their disciplinary versatility, which provides a multifaceted and complex approach to the topic. Artistic photography, illustration, conceptual art and performance art together respond to the apparent objectivity emanating from exhibition documentation and the photographic installation view. The medium of display always shapes the work, therefore the form of the book becomes the venue for a visual tension between specification and ambiguity. To underline the modification as a productive act, A. R. practice interfered with book production standards and used a special RGB-three-color printing technique instead of CMYK. RGB (red green blue) is the digital color range and refers to the online format. However, it will evoke experimental effects for this analogue format. The guiding principle is the idea of transformation through various media and formats. Thus, the featured artists represent a practice in which various media and spaces are crossed; from the virtual exhibition on the internet to the actual exhibition space to the photographic image from the exhibition. All works become independent exhibition practices and works of art. TABLE OF CONTENTEditorial (A. R. practice: Ann Richter & Agnieszka Roguski) Essays:In Other Words, Please be True (Melanie Bühler)Subjective Exposure (Agnieszka Roguski)Professionalized Reenactment (Erika Landström)Featured work:João Enxuto & Erica Love Anonymous Paintings (2011)Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff Schinkel Klause (2016)New Noveta/Yair Oelbaum Violent Amurg (2017)SANY Acting Untitled (2009-2018)Hanna Stiegeler Untitled (2015)Jasmin Werner Observational Games (2016)Jonas Paul Wilisch the work: a series of installation views (2016/2017)
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Sternberg Press Bad Infinity: Selected Writings
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MIT Press Ltd Ridykeulous Presents
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Power Publications UnAustralian Art
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Fabric of Vision
Book SynopsisClothing appears in all forms of figurative painting, often taking up two thirds of a frame; yet it can often go unnoticed. Far more than a simple means of identifying the status or occupation of a figure, clothes and cloth are used creatively by artists to hint at ambiguities in character, adjust the emotional temperature, direct the eye or make subtle allusions. Drawing on works by artists over a period of six centuries, from Giotto to El Greco, Matisse to Cindy Sherman, the author reveals through paintings, fashion plates, photographs and film stills how drapery in art evolved from Renaissance extravagance to Neoclassical simplicity at the end of the 18th century, and has extended to infinite uses in all genres of Modern art. First published in 2002 to accompany an exhibition of the same name at the National Gallery, London, this beautifully illustrated - and beautifully written - book by pioneering art historian and critic Anne Hollander, is reissued with a new Foreword by Valerie Trade ReviewWith Fabric of Vision, Hollander [explores] the ways in which artists have used dress and drapery to give emphasis and emotional force to the figures portrayed ... [and] brilliantly combines [her] skills as both an art historian and a dress historian. ... Reading this book is like having Hollander walk with us through our favorite art museum, helping us really see and understand the works of art through close attention to dress, drapery, and the depiction of the body,whether clothed or nude. * From the Foreword by Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator, The Museum at FIT, New York *A beautifully written, beautifully illustrated introduction to the whole of western European painting from the 14th century through the 20th from a specific, yet basic and widely interesting point of view. This is not just a book for people fascinated by clothes, but for anyone who likes to think about paintings. ... The writing is exceptionally deft; the ideas will interest novices and experts alike. * Choice *Fabric of Vision is a unique and welcome contribution to art history and criticism that will doubtless serve as a valuable scholarly resource. * Reid Ahlbeck, Dialogue *[Fabric of Vision] demonstrates how artists used garments and draperies as an expressive means in their paintings. Covering Western European art from the Renaissance to the 20th century, Hollander shows how fabric in art reflected each era's social preoccupations, fashions, and tastes ... The text is illustrated by more than 140 beautiful full-color illustrations of works by such artists as Tintoretto, Van Dyck, Delacroix, and Picasso. Throughout, Hollander brings new insight into the fields of both art and costume history. * Sandra Rothenberg, Library Journal *Anne Hollander’s Fabric of Vision: Dress and Drapery in Painting ... is rich with color reproductions showing this and other splendid yardage from the classical period through the mid-20th century ... A dynamic and provocative study. * Suzanne Cleary, Bloomsbury Review *Illuminating. * Kim Waller, Victoria magazine *Table of ContentsAuthor's Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction I Cloth of Honour II Liberated Draperies III Sensuality, Sanctity, Zeal IV High Artifice V Romantic Simplicity: Women VI Romantic Simplicity: Men VII Restraint and Display VIII Nude and Mode IX Woman as Dress X Form and Feeling List of Illustrations Bibliography Index
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Phaidon Press Ltd Cecily Brown
Book SynopsisThe first — and highly anticipated — monograph on one of the most influential painters of our timeCecily Brown is a British-born, New York-based artist who rose to prominence in the late 1990s. Brown established her unique voice within the art sphere by investigating the sensual qualities of oil paint and challenging the conventions of abstraction and figuration. Through a range of reference to old master paintings, Abstract Expressionism, and popular culture, Brown's symbolic language, exuberant brushwork, rich palette, intense energy, and embrace of the erotic have redefined some of painting's historical canons.
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The Westbourne Press Smashing It: Working Class Artists on Life, Art
Book SynopsisSmashing It celebrates the exceptional works and words of 31 leading working-class artists in Britain. Featuring writing, lyrics and images by Wiley, Maxine Peake, Malorie Blackman, Riz Ahmed and many more, it also includes reflections from artists on how class has impacted their working lives. Come behind the scenes to find out how they overcame obstacles - from the financial to the philosophical - to forge careers in the arts and get inspiration to launch your own project. Smashing It empowers those who will be a part of tomorrow's bigger picture. Contributors: Riz Ahmed, Sabeena Akhtar, Travis Alabanza, Anthony Anaxagorou, Raymond Antrobus, Malorie Blackman, Michaela Coel, Emma Dennis-Edwards, Maureen Duffy, Jenni Fagan, Marvell Fayose, Salena Godden, Hassan Hajjaj, Omar Hamdi, Kerry Hudson, Rabiah Hussain, Fran Lock, David Loumgair, Lisa Luxx, Paul McVeigh, Bridget Minamore, Courttia Newland, Aakash Odedra, Maxine Peake, Rebecca Strickson, Chimene Suleyman, Joelle Taylor, Monsay Whitney, Wiley, Madani YounisTrade Review`An inspiring book full of fight, fire and light. Absolutely necessary for anyone interested in the arts to devour these pages to learn, create, laugh and, obviously, smash it.' Kate Tempest `Empowering ... the bible for the next generation of artists from marginalised backgrounds.' Nikesh Shukla `Incredible; warmth and wit radiate through these pages. It offers urgent inspiration for those from working class backgrounds and a revealing read for those who aren't. A must-read.' Yomi AdegokeTable of ContentsIntroduction by Sabrina Mahfouz Ten Crack Commandments, Madani Younis Little Rass & Coming in from the Cold, Raymond Antrobus Resolutions for the Common, Black, Queer, Young Kid (and anyone else who may need it) Travis Alabanza Strength Thy Name is a Working-Class Woman, Maxine Peake That's How It Was (an extract), Maureen Duffy Diversity vs. Representation, Riz Ahmed My Rockstars, Hassan Hajjaj Spun: Making a Debut Hit Play, Rabiah Hussain Stories Not Stats, Kerry Hudson gutter girls, Joelle Taylor Playing the Part, Michaela Coel Am I Working-Class or Am I Just Black?, Emma Dennis-Edwards Cohort, Fran Lock In the Boot of a Car, Chimene Suleyman Pluripotent, Jenni Fagan London Underground, Courttia Newland Lyrics to Light the Way, Wiley Family Question Time, Omar Hamdi Dear British Theatre, David Loumgair Box Clever, Monsay Whitney Money Money Money, Bridget Minamore A Tailor's Son, Marvell Fayose All Eyes on Me, Paul McVeigh Entry Points, Sabeena Akhtar Jeremy Corbyn At the Doctor's Surgery and Separation Has Its Own Economy, Anthony Anaxagorou Q&A with Novelist, Malorie Blackman You Wretched Men, Rebecca Strickson Broken Biscuits, Salena Godden I Move, I Tell, Aakash Odedra The Economy of Sisterhood, Lisa Luxx Smashing the Class Ceiling, Joelle Taylor Applying for Arts Funding: A Guide, Sabrina Mahfouz
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Edition Skylight Atlantic Sirens
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V&R Unipress Crisis and Astonishment
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BIS Publishers B.V. Creative Block: Over 100 Tasks to Get Your Head
Book SynopsisCreative Block is a book set out to ruffle feathers, get out of ruts and start those juices flowing. Focussing on creative process and theory, it is filled with over 100 tasks to get your head into a conceptual and creative space, encouraging experimentation and playfulness in art. Ideal for artists, industry creatives and individuals who simply want to delve deeper into their own creativity. This book helps to improve your process and technique when approaching art, in all its forms. Intriguing, fun and challenging, Creative Block will have you distorting, abstracting, morphing, reinventing and, above all, leaving the box behind.
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Insight Editions Wicked Wizards Balloon Sculpted Journal
Book SynopsisThis collectible, hardcover journal has an eye-catching, sculpted cover featuring intricate artwork from Universal Pictures' cinematic event, Wicked.
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Columbia University Press Duchamp Is My Lawyer
Book SynopsisIn 1996, Kenneth Goldsmith created UbuWeb to post hard-to-find works of concrete poetry. It grew into an essential archive of twentieth- and twenty-first-century avant-garde and experimental literature, film, and music. In Duchamp Is My Lawyer, Goldsmith tells the history of UbuWeb, explaining the motivations behind its creation.Trade ReviewNamed a Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020 * PopMatters *UbuWeb is one of the great avant-garde projects of our times. In Duchamp Is My Lawyer, Goldsmith takes us through the aesthetic, legal, economic, and social aspects of the whole project. Through it, we see how the avant-garde had to shift gears to move from the era of analog media to that of digital, or database media. It is an essential document on the theory and practice of experimental media art. -- McKenzie Wark, author of A Hacker ManifestoKenneth Goldsmith’s Duchamp Is My Lawyer details the story of UbuWeb, a free-source library for visual, audio and written art. He cites many extraordinary items – from masterpieces to flukes, oddities and trifles – that will send us rushing to the site to see, but the discussion is equally about the weighty issues of freedom vs ownership of culture. Goldsmith takes a stand – with Duchamp grinning wryly over his shoulder – for availability, access and the accumulation of knowledge. He’s holding the cultural back door open and letting in all the outcasts, misfits and oddballs that would never get past the velvet ropes up front. -- Lee Ranaldo, Sonic YouthDuchamp Is My Lawyer reads like an upbeat mediactivist manifesto—providing all at once an alternative political economy of open access, a humorous introduction to legal poetics, a joyful survey of artistic resistance, and an empowering toolbox to keep the web as free as we care for it to be. -- Yves Citton, author of MediarchyIn 1996, Kenneth Goldsmith sat down at his computer and initiated a website he appropriately called UbuWeb—a site soon consisting of “thousands of freely downloadable avant-garde artifacts,” and unlike any of its peers in being entirely free and open to all: no sponsors, no fees, no memberships or passwords required. Over the decades, it has become clear that UbuWeb, although an unmatchable scholarly resource, is itself the avant-garde artwork we have been waiting for—a giant collage of appropriated materials, chosen, juxtaposed, and framed so as to constitute perhaps the best single available history of its subject, and one entirely created by a single author—Goldsmith himself. The artist’s lively, entertaining, and revelatory account of how this uniquely democratic site was created and maintained, how he resolved vexing copyright issues, and how UBU has helped us reconsider movements from Concrete Poetry to the feminist punk of Angry Women—is nothing short of inspiring. This should be required reading for all those who wonder whether it still possible, in 2020, to speak of the avant-garde. -- Marjorie Perloff, author of Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New CenturyUbuWeb is an anomaly of the internets. The irony is that it completely functions the way we envisioned the everything would, in the beginning of internets history. Kenneth Goldsmith kept UbuWeb true to the core values of the network: humanity, collectiveness, and borderless openness. In a world where data is synonymous with control and value is synonymous with price, UbuWeb functions as an oasis. -- Peter Sunde, founder of The Pirate BayWith an unshakable belief that art belongs more in the public sphere than behind closed walls, physical or digital, Kenneth Goldsmith originated the first open source platform for those who revere culture. This invigorating and timely book surveys why brilliant ideas, images, and sounds are important to both preserve and proliferate as freely as ever. -- Naomi Beckwith, senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, ChicagoDuchamp Is My Lawyer is the in-depth secret history of one of Goldsmith's most expansive and long running projects—the renegade website UbuWeb. At once manifesto, memoir, treatise, exposition, critique, and gossip column, it presents an essential history of renegade underground creative activity in the past 100 or so years. Brilliantly structured and filled with wit, wisdom, and Goldsmith's provocations, it is also an inspiring and hilarious read. -- John Zorn, composer and performerOne of the smartest manifestos on art and internet politics that I've seen. * The Wire *This book, although written in the first person singular, is an example of collective enunciation, the 'I' of Kenneth Goldsmith being a cooperative person representing all those eager to rely on the creative and communicative possibilities of the net to build a collaborative framework that does not dissolve but offers new promises to all individuals as well. In that sense, Duchamp Is My Lawyer perfectly qualifies as what Deleuze and Guattari call 'minor literature,' . . .the noncanonical use of a 'major' system to serve the needs and expectations of those at the margins. * Leonardo Reviews *A remarkably fluid and engaging read. . . When I finished Duchamp Is My Lawyer, I had the pleasure of sitting in natural silence for a brief while, pondering how much I had learnt, how entertainingly the book had conveyed its message of openness, what a gift it is to have such a light touch. * PopMatters *Duchamp is My Lawyer is an approachable and even-handed discussion of UbuWeb and issues regarding copyright in the digital age. It also provides an insight into the evolution of the counter culture in the internet age and the practical, legal and financial issues of producing and consuming art today. Well worth seeking out. * Alexander Adams Art *This is a book for lovers of art’s revolutionary import and those interested in the interface between art and the law. Recommended. * Choice *UbuWeb is portrayed as a small utopia in the middle of the commercial Internet, built on the principles of freedom, equality and cultural progress, but also subversiveness . . . between the lines, [Goldsmith] persuades us to create other such utopian places online, to try to transform the Internet and reclaim its vision of the future. * 3/4 Magazine *Duchamp Is My Lawyer displays Goldsmith fulfilling an ethics of caring about others who care about conserving odd things. Caring is at the heart of this tender homage to eccentric collectors who have put themselves at legal risk to share their obsessions. * William Carlos Williams Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Back DoorPart I: PolemicsPart II: Pragmatics 1. Folk Law2. From Panorama to Postage Stamp: Avant-Garde Cinema and the Internet3. The Work of Video Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction4. Shadow Libraries and Preserving the Memory of the WorldPart III: Poetics5. Dirty Concrete6. From Ursonate to Re-Sonate7. People Like Us8. Aspen: A “Multimedia Magazine in a Box”9. Street Poets and Visionaries10. An Anthology of AnthologiesCoda: The Ghost in the AlgorithmAppendix: 101 Things on UbuWeb That You Don’t Know About but Should NotesAcknowledgmentsIndex
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Yale University Press Louise Nevelsons Sculpture
Book SynopsisA daring reassessment of Louise Nevelson, an icon of twentieth-century art whose innovative procedures relate to gendered, classed, and racialized forms of makingTrade Review“[Bryan-Wilson] shows why Nevelson’s sculpture matters today, and that art history can be a tool for responding to what is happening now.”—Sophie Oliver, Times Literary Supplement“Boldly conceived, Julia Bryan-Wilson’s far-reaching study gives us a multidirectional understanding of Louise Nevelson’s intersectional abstraction that renders the artist strikingly contemporary.”—Kobena Mercer, author of Travel & See: Black Diaspora Art Practices since the 1980s“Julia Bryan-Wilson’s Louise Nevelson is exceptional in its innovative framing, physical structure, and above all, brilliantly original weaving of personal experience, material analysis, and art historical methodologies.”—Jo Applin, author of Lee Lozano: Not Working“Bryan-Wilson brings world-class critical, feminist, and social-historical skills to bear on Nevelson’s sculpture and public persona. The result is that we see Nevelson’s radiant intelligence in a new light.”—Richard Meyer, author of Master of the Two Left Feet: Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered“From the multicomponent design to the conceptual approaches therein, Bryan-Wilson has crafted an innovative and engaging look at Louise Nevelson. Further, she offers a queered, critical methodology that changes the game.”—Bridget R. Cooks, author of Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum
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Yale University Press Locating Sol LeWitt
Book SynopsisA revelatory consideration of the wide-ranging practice of one of the most influential American artists of the 20th centuryTrade Review“Shedding new light on Sol LeWitt’s conceptual practice and his artworks, this book addresses some of the most interesting—and previously underexplored—aspects of LeWitt’s art.”—Gwen Allen, San Francisco State University“This rich volume dispels once and for all the presumption that Sol LeWitt's artistic practice is easily summarized. Readers will be repeatedly struck by the multifaceted, experimental, and often highly personal dimension to his work that emerges from these pages.”—Alistair Rider, University of St Andrews
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Yale University Press Ogata Korin Art in Early Modern Japan
Book SynopsisA lush portrait introducing one of the most important Japanese artists of the Edo periodTrade Review"With a mastery of the prodigious Kōrin scholarship in Japanese and insightful visual analysis, Feltens weaves together a narrative of artistic development that gives readers a textured understanding of the life and circumstances of this major world artist."—Yukio Lippit, Harvard University"This is an excellent treatment of a figure regarded as a towering artist of early modern Japan, and indeed of all Japanese art. Feltens demonstrates an impressive and thorough mastery of critical Japanese source materials, and weaves them into a compelling account of Kōrin's career."—Timon Screech, SOAS, University of London
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Yale University Press Roger Raveel Retrospection
Book SynopsisAn extensive retrospective dedicated to Roger Raveel (1921‑2013), one of the most important Belgian painters of the second half of the 20th century
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Yale University Press Howardena Pindell Reclaiming Abstraction
Book SynopsisExploring the art and life of this important American artist whose work bridged the gaps between abstraction, feminism, and BlacknessTrade Review“Cowan’s focus on the influence of Africa and African textiles on Howardena Pindell’s work and her convincing presentation of abstraction as politically meaningful make this book entirely unique.”—Lisa Farrington, Howard University“Cowan creates an important and compelling analysis of the life and career of a grossly understudied American artist. This book has the potential to change the way we understand Howardena Pindell.”—Jordana Moore Saggese, University of Maryland
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Yale University Press The Sassoons
Book SynopsisTracing the global history of the Sassoon family, entrepreneurs and patrons of remarkable art and architecture, from Baghdad to Mumbai, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and LondonTrade Review“[A] lavishly produced and beautifully illustrated book” —Peter Parker, Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year 2023
£42.75
Yale University Press Old Age in Greek and Roman Art
Book SynopsisA comprehensive look at ancient sculptures, wall paintings, vases, and more depicting the elderly in Greek and Roman society
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Yale University Press Being and Belonging
Book SynopsisInterviews with women artists connected with the Islamic world and their compelling works that are shaping contemporary art today
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University of California Press Art Worlds 25th Anniversary Edition
Book SynopsisServes as a sociological examination of art which explores the cooperative network of suppliers, performers, dealers, critics, and consumers who - along with the artist - 'produce' a work of art. This book looks at the conventions essential to this operation and, prospectively, at the extent to which art is shaped by this collective activity.Trade Review“As timely as ever.” * The Nation *"An interesting, suggestive overview of just how art worlds do function." * Kirkus Reviews *"Unusual and excellent. . . . Discusses everything from aesthetics, criticism, censorship, artistic mavericks, and professionalism to authenticity, conformity, commercial distribution, and changes in art. . . . Fascinating." * Christian Science Monitor *"The clearest, most articulate, elegant, and coherent sociology of art to appear in a long time." * American Journal of Sociology *"This is an important book, very well written, beautifully produced, and bound to be much read and talked about in the world of sociology." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface to the 25th Anniversary Edition Preface to the First Edition Acknowledgments 1 Art Worlds and Collective Activity 2 Conventions 3 Mobilizing Resources 4 Distributing Art Works 5 Aesthetics, Aestheticians, and Critics 6 Art and the State 7 Editing 8 Integrated Professionals, Mavericks, Folk Artists, and Naive Artists 9 Arts and Crafts 10 Change in Art Worlds 11 Reputation 12 Epilogue to the 25th Anniversary Edition Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Hybrid Practices
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The hybrid practices featured in this collection speak to collaboration and participation, between disciplines and between presenters and audiences. They speak to a fluidity of working in and across scientific, artistic, and performance disciplines." * Leonardo *"...[a] welcome addition to the field of hybrid practices." * Espace *"Specialists interested in inhabiting a range of situated environments from new points of view will find many rewards in Hybrid Practices." * Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society *"This book. . . . show[s] how interdisciplinarity allowed each community to reflect and find its place in a changing world. . . .[it] is well edited and allows a relevant understanding of all the case studies." * Technology and Culture *Table of ContentsForeword Saralyn Reece Hardy and Rebecca Blocksome Introduction: Reassessing Hybrid Practice David Cateforis, Steven Duval, and Shepherd Steiner PART I: FALLOUT: CREATIVITY AND INVENTION IN, AS, OR BETWEEN ART, SCIENCE, AND GOVERNMENT 1. Launching “Hybrid Practices” in the 1960s: On the Perils and Promise of Art and Technology / Anne Collins Goodyear 2. Identity, Rhetoric, and Method in the Collaborations of Experiments in Art and Technology, the Artist Placement Group, and the Art and Technology Program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art / Steven Duval 3. Fallout and Spinoff : Commercializing the Art-Technology Nexus / W. Patrick McCray 4. Beyond Method and without Object: Subject as Inquiry in the Irwin-Wortz Collaboration / Dawna Schuld 5. Monuments to the Period We Live In / Craig Richardson PART II: AFFECTIVE FEEDBACK: TIME, PLAY, AND CONTAGION AS SYSTEMS OF PARTICIPATION 6. Sounding Snows: Bodily Static and the Politics of Visibility during the Vietnam War / Erica Levin 7. Contagious Creativity: Participatory Engagement in the Magic Theater Exhibition (1968) / Cristina Albu 8. Programming and Reprogramming the Institution: Systems Politics in Hans Haacke’s Photoelectric Viewer-Programmed Coordinate System / John A. Tyson PART III: THRESHOLDS OF THE VISIBLE: TECHNOLOGIES OF THE EVERYDAY 9. Technologies of Indeterminacy: John Cage Invents / Sandra Skurvida 10. Dramaturgical Devices and Stanley Milgram’s Hybrid Practice / Maya Rae Oppenheimer 11. Prostheses or Technical Extensions: Rereading the Work of Bernd and Hilla Becher / Shepherd Steiner Supplement: The Hale Experiments: Object-Oriented Ventriloquy during the Cold War An ESTAR(SER) project by the Prosopopoeia Working Group Acknowledgments List of Contributors List of Illustrations Index
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University of California Press Is It Ours Art Copyright and Public Interest
Book SynopsisExploring artistic authorship and intellectual property in the contemporary world. If you have tattoos, who owns the rights to the imagery inked on your body? What about the photos you just shared on Instagram? And what if you are an artist, responding to the surrounding landscape of preexisting cultural forms? Most people go about their days without thinking much about intellectual property, but it shapes all aspects of contemporary life. It is a constantly moving target, articulated through a web of laws that are different from country to country, sometimes contradictory, often contested. Some protections are necessarynot only to benefit creators and inventors but also to support activities that contribute to the culture at largeyet overly broad ownership rights stifle innovation. Is It Ours? takes a fresh look at issues of artistic expression and creative protection as they relate to contemporary law. Exploring intellectual property, particularly copyrights, Martha Buskirk draws connections between current challenges and early debates about how something intangible could be defined as property. She examines bonds between artist and artwork, including the ways that artists or their heirs retain control over time. The text engages with fundamental questions about the interplay between authorship and ownership and the degree to which all expressions and inventions develop in response to innovations by others. Most importantly, this book argues for the necessity of sustaining a vital cultural commons.Trade Review"Buskirk’s critical, nuanced take on copyright includes varied, important topics, such as a deep dive on the shortcomings of our fair-use exceptions to copyright; discussions on who benefits from copyright restrictions (author or publisher); how to consider moral or personhood rights of the author; and the challenges that fake or forged artwork poses to the art world. . . . Is It Ours? exposes the challenges of applying a uniform system to a diverse set of art through examples of cases that involve text, painting, sculpture, music, film, photography, digital images, etc." * ARLIS/NA Reviews *"The meticulously researched material makes this text a good reference for librarians, faculty, and graduate students desiring context for the constantly evolving copyright landscape and its impact on our culture." * College & Research Libraries *"Is It Ours? provides an impressive range of lawsuits and other conflicts within and beyond the contemporary art world emblematic of different problems that arise when copyright and other types of intellectual property function as a powerful economic engine." * Art Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Convenient Fiction of Authorship 1. From Privilege to IP 2. The Appropriation Game 3. Art, Life, and Infringement 4. Moral Rights and Beyond 5. Public Matters 6. Authorship and the Undead 7. Status Shifts 8. From Authentic to Fake Coda: Life in the Virtual Commons Notes List of Illustrations Index
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University of California Press Forming Abstraction
Book SynopsisArt produced outside hegemonic centers is often seen as a form of derivation or relegated to a provisional status. Forming Abstraction turns this narrative on its head. In the first book-length study of postwar Brazilian art and culture, Adele Nelson highlights the importance of exhibitionary and pedagogical institutions in the development of abstract art in Brazil. By focusing on the formation of the São Paulo Biennial in 1951; the early activities of artists Geraldo de Barros, Lygia Clark, Waldemar Cordeiro, Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape, and Ivan Serpa; and the ideas of critics like Mário Pedrosa, Nelson illuminates the complex, strategic processes of citation and adaption of both local and international forms. The book ultimately demonstrates that Brazilian art institutions and abstract artistic groupsand their exhibitions of abstract art in particularserved as crucial loci for the articulation of societal identities in a newly democratic nation at the onset of the Cold War.Trade Review"Forming Abstraction fills in many gaps and inconsistencies about this period and as such is a welcome addition to extant scholarship and especially to the classroom, where Nelson’s clear and engaging prose will undoubtedly be appreciated. More importantly, the author’s unique insight paves the way for new possibilities in addressing postwar art in Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America, including further research into the racialized, classed, and gendered dimensions of abstract art." * Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture *
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University of California Press Transmedia Frictions
Book SynopsisEditors Marsha Kinder and Tara McPherson present an authoritative collection of essays on the continuing debates over medium specificity and the politics of the digital arts. Comparing the term transmedia with transnational, they show that the movement beyond specific media or nations does not invalidate those entities but makes us look more closely at the cultural specificity of each combination. In two parts, the 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. Each part includes a substantive introduction by one of the editors. Part 1 examines precursors, contemporary theorists, and artists who are protagonists in this discursive drama, focusing on how the transmedia frictions and continuities between old and new forms can be read most productively: N. Katherine Hayles and Lev Manovich redefine medium specificity, Edward Branigan and Yuri TsivTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface: Origins, Agents, and Alternative ArchaeologiesPART I. MEDIUM SPECIFICITY AND PRODUCTIVE PRECURSORSMedium Specificity and Productive Precursors: An IntroductionMarsha KinderPrint Is Flat, Code Is Deep: The Importance of Media-Specific AnalysisN. Katherine HaylesPostmedia AestheticsLev ManovichIf–Then–Else: Memory and the Path Not TakenEdward BraniganCyberspace and Its Precursors: Lintsbach, Warburg, EisensteinYuri TsivianPast Indiscretions: Digital Archives and Recombinant HistorySteve AndersonFilms Beget Digital MediaStephen MamberNavigating the Ocean of Streams of StoryGrahame WeinbrenIs This Not a Screen? Notes on the Mobile Phone and CinemaCaroline BassettPART II. DIGITAL POSSIBILITIES AND THE REIMAGINING OF POLITICS, PLACE, AND THE SELFDigital Possibilities and the Reimagining of Politics, Place, and the Self: An IntroductionTara McPhersonTransnational/National Digital ImaginariesJohn Hess and Patricia R. ZimmermannIs (Cyber) Space the Place?Herman GrayLinkages: Political Topography and Networked TopologyDavid Wade CraneThe Database City: The Digital Possessive and Hollywood BoulevardEric GordonCuba, Cyberculture, and the Exile DiscourseCristina VenegasThinking Digitally/Acting Locally: Interactive Narrative, Neighborhood Soil, and La Cosecha Nuestra CommunityJohn T. CaldwellVideo Installation Art as Uncanny Shock, or How Bruce Nauman’s Corridors Expand Sensory LifeMark B. N. HansenBraingirls and FleshmonstersHolly WillisTech-illa Sunrise (.txt con Sangrita)Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Guillermo Gómez-PeñaWorks CitedIndex
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Harvard University Press The Image of the Black in Western Art Volume I
Book SynopsisOffers commentary and an illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent ranging from the ancient images of Pharaohs created by unknown hands to the works of the great European masters such as Bosch, Rembrandt, Rubens, and Hogarth to stunning creations by contemporary black artists.Trade ReviewA fascinating story of the changing image of Africa's people in Western art. The images are simply extraordinary and the scholarship inspiring. Anyone who cares about Western art or about Africa and her diaspora ought to know these magnificent volumes. -- Kwame Anthony AppiahIn addition to being an indispensable guide to the evolving meanings of racial difference, these dazzling volumes filled with extraordinary images and rich arguments contribute to an alternative history of the Western world. An invaluable gift for both specialists and general readers. -- Paul Gilroy, author of The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double ConsciousnessOne of the most thorough collections depicting the African-American in works of art...The books build on the research and photo project started by art patron Dominique de Menil in the 1960s, which grew out of a frustration with segregation. The collection was then transferred and continued to grow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. De Menil's original volumes have been updated by David Bindman and Henry Louis Gates Jr. and now include more detailed descriptions and provide a larger context of the artwork that spans more than 5,000 years, including the Roman Empire to present-day pieces, filling in tremendous gaps in de Menil's collection, according to some art historians. The images, printed in full-color on high-quality pages, are available for the masses to see and understand how African-Americans not only fit into the various societies of the Western world, but how those relationships evolved throughout the ages. * Kirkus Reviews *The volumes so far are a treasury of paintings and sculptures of people down the ages, taking in many strands of ritual, classicism, artlessness and humanity. -- William Feaver * Spectator *A sumptuous new edition with much additional material and copious color pictures....The books are a wonderful resource: a glitteringly decorated window into the Du Bois Institute's unrivalled archive of relevant images. The accompanying essays, which are models of erudition, are inescapable reading for anyone interested in the subject. -- Felipe Fernández-Armesto * The Art Newspaper *In his fresh introduction for volume 1, Jeremy Tanner, Greek and Roman art/archaeology specialist, recontextualizes the text and images in the original volume of this work in light of the explosion of scholarship examining the notions of race and identity as constructed historically and in the present. Tanner's well-researched, critical essay offers a rich bibliography of the literature on the subject of race and representation in ancient art...The high-quality color images that have replaced black-and-white images, and the more richly textured black-and-white images, all printed on good quality art stock paper, help to reinforce arguments where color symbolism is deemed critically important. -- K. Mason * Choice *Monumental and groundbreaking volumes...[with] beautifully reproduced and thought-provoking images…A vast array of different "Images of the Black" appear in these volumes, from statues of black saints such as St. Maurice or St. Benedict the Moor, to portraits of notable African ambassadors and kings, poets and musicians, or drawings of literary characters such as Shakespeare's Othello, Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, or Yarico from George Colman's Inkle and Yarico...Africans have been painted and sculpted by some of the most eminent artists in the Western tradition, including Titian, Tiepolo, Rubens, Rembrandt,Van Dyck, Reynolds, Hogarth, Watteau and Gainsborough. More importantly, they have not been caricatured, but sensitively portrayed by these masters, their humanity captured on canvas for all to see...In placing such a vast variety of different images together, both positive and negative, these volumes show that the "Image of the Black" was not at all homogenous but rather reflected the wide range of the Western response to the "other."...Seen through the prism of "Western Art," these "Images of the Black" often tell us more about the Europeans and their agendas than the Africans they portray. Nonetheless, the cumulative effect of the images is to demonstrate a continuous black presence in the Western imagination and experience…This series will pose new questions to scholars of art, history and literature and provoke us all to reconsider the role of "the Black" in Western civilization. -- Miranda Kaufmann * Times Literary Supplement *
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Harvard University Press Sustainable Utopias
Book SynopsisJennifer Allen details a German utopian movement that arose against capitalist triumphalism at the end of the Cold War. Describing public art and history projects, alongside novel community-centered political institutions, Allen shows how activists invited ordinary people to build a radically new society free from alienation and disenfranchisement.Trade ReviewJennifer Allen’s splendid book on the survival and transformation of utopia in late–twentieth-century Germany announces a brilliant career. Far from dying, hope was rehabilitated in surprising places and projects across the divide of 1989, sheltered in fascinating new forms she intrepidly reconstructs in luminous prose. Those forms matter for their own sakes, and because the future does not just threaten catastrophe and desperation. It might also bring us within reach of stupendous and unexpected opportunity. -- Samuel Moyn, author of The Last Utopia: Human Rights in HistorySustainable Utopias provides innovative insights into creative social movements that brought up a new artistic and democratic ‘history from below.’ Allen brilliantly analyzes different ways of coping with the German past that have shaped both the present and visions of the future. If you want to know how a new memory culture was created in the streets of Berlin, read this book. -- Frank Bösch, University of PotsdamAllen takes us deep into the intellectual world of West Germany’s left-liberal activist milieu. Against the backdrop of Helmut Kohl’s 1980s, she compellingly uncovers the utopian projects pursued by ‘spatial interventionist’ artists, the West Berlin History Workshop, and the Green Party. Sustainable Utopias is essential reading for anyone trying to understand contemporary Germany. -- Astrid M. Eckert, author of West Germany and the Iron CurtainIn this excitingly multifaceted study of Germany in the 1980s and 1990s, Allen combines art and aesthetics with the social history of intellectuals and the emergent political forms of the time. She sees history’s epistemologies as intricately grounded not just in the period’s cultural and political climate, but in the working contexts and working practices historians and artists tried to develop. -- Geoff Eley, University of MichiganA fascinating, original study of ‘sustainable’ utopias in German society from the 1970s into the twenty-first century. Allen examines three utopian networks never before brought together under the same narrative umbrella. Instead of trying to create ‘heaven on earth,’ they had more adaptive and limited aims achievable not through the wholesale transformation of society but through repeatable micro-actions in small-scale venues. Based on impressive research, this book is an important contribution to the scholarship on German utopian thought and contemporary cultural and political history. -- Rudy J. Koshar, University of Wisconsin, Emeritus
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Harvard University Press Marking Time
Book SynopsisNicole Fleetwood enters American prisons to explore the creativity flourishing there. Though isolated and degraded, incarcerated artists produce bold works that testify to the economic and racial injustice of American punishment. These pieces, many published here for the first time, offer a new vision of freedom for the twenty-first century.Trade ReviewThe beauty in these often painful images (like Muhammad al Ansi’s 2016 untitled painting of Alan Kurdi, the Syrian toddler who drowned as his family sought refuge across the Mediterranean) powerfully reclaims the visual idea of what it means to be imprisoned. Fleetwood seeks to revise the mainstream media narrative…by letting us see the diverse array of ‘studio photos, handmade greeting cards, drawings and other pieces of art made by incarcerated people’ that offer a story we on the outside have never really heard. * New York Times Book Review *[Fleetwood] brings together an impressive array of paintings, sculptures, murals, and photos that speak to the impact of incarceration on American life…In amplifying the stories of those marked by incarceration, she makes visible the individuals and families the carceral state has tried so hard to disappear and silence. * Los Angeles Review of Books *An urgently political text…Fleetwood’s training as an art historian is evident, as her analysis follows a narrative arc that moves across artistic mediums and within the physical architecture of prison itself…Marking Time, however, never becomes too wrapped up in its own theory to forget that the prison industrial complex is a system of people, many of whom are the most vulnerable among us…Moves fluidly between this art historical survey and a sharp attention to the social apparatuses that have enabled the very foundation of the prison state. -- Jessica Lynne * The Nation *In her groundbreaking and expansive book…Fleetwood has created something of a foundational index of prison art, an incisive guide to the multitudinous practices, aesthetics, styles, and conditions of art made by those in captivity. Fleetwood makes evident simultaneously the unique conditions of prison and the unique features of the art that is made there. Critically, Fleetwood’s book frees this art, and these artists, from prison as a delimited and marginalizing niche. -- Rachel Kushner * Artforum *A thoroughly researched and heartbreakingly personal look at prison art and the broader visual culture of incarceration…Woven throughout the book are striking illustrations of the work of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists…While prisoners have been largely excluded from public life, the art and images Fleetwood highlights function as material traces of the disappeared, who, through acts of creation, refuse to be rendered invisible. -- Jackie Wang * Art in America *It’s so eloquently written and is the first book to explore art practices in proximity to the carceral state, representing more than a decade of research by Nicole and including the work of more than 70 artists. -- Kate Fowle * Artnet News *The United States has the largest population of captive human beings on the planet, some 2.5 million, in a prison-industrial complex that constitutes a punitive universe walled off the larger world. What takes place behind those walls? Deprivation and cruelty, but also art, as we learn from this absorbing book. -- Holland Cotter * New York Times *[An] ambitious book…Fleetwood deftly weaves personal narrative together with nuanced readings of artworks created by incarcerated people in order to illustrate how, in her own words, ‘art in prison is a practice of survival, an aesthetic journey that documents time in captivity, a mode of connecting with others.’…She models how creative expression can build the coalitions necessary for imagining and realizing a more just society. -- Kimberly Probolus * Smithsonian *Illuminates the creative process of artists working behind bars… Incorporating the work of artists within several different mediums—from painting and sculpture, to photography and bricolage—Marking Time explores how the creation of art in prison can disrupt institutionalized patterns of dehumanization… Makes visible the lives, experiences, and creativity of the incarcerated, a population which, despite being over two-million in size, remains largely either ignored or disparaged. -- Patrick Conway * Arts Fuse *At its heart, Marking Time is an abolitionist text, arriving during the recent international surge of the Black Lives Matter movement with a picture of mass incarceration as the less visible, but always present counterpart to police brutality…Thoughtful and stylistically accessible, Marking Time is meant for a broad audience across the inmates’ families, the academy, and the artworld…Frames art as a life-saving endeavor for many incarcerated artists. -- Matthew Joseph Irwin * Momus *Fleetwood spent a decade researching the visual culture of the American penal system, and the product is as illuminating as it is heartbreaking. -- Tessa Solomon * ARTnews *Introduced me to artists working outside of a hyper-monetized system and, equally incisively, highlights meaningful artistic practices operating with deep effect within and beyond our museums and galleries. -- Zoé Whitley * Art Newspaper *Details the practices, products, and struggles of incarcerated artists...This drive to create art in prison illustrates convincingly that art and beauty are not merely added to an already good life; they’re more fundamental than that. * Splice Today *[A] stunning work…Fleetwood has curated a compelling and soul stirring narrative that inspires. What is striking to the reader uninformed in the tradition of prison art is not just the high quality but the incredibly clever use of available materials…A statement about the massive strength of the human spirit. -- Beth Adubato * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Review *As Fleetwood writes in her book, one of the calculated effects of incarceration is the breaking down of the prisoner’s sense of individuality and agency. Portraits, which are highly valued in prison communities, and self-portraits are an assertion of both…Her firsthand account of these realities, and their effect on her extended African-American family, forms the moving final chapter. -- Holland Cotter * New York Times *Dovetail[s] with newly invigorated debates about the systemic inequities that inform, and deform, the entire American criminal justice system, from the cop on the street to the courts to the penitentiary cages…So many of the images in the book…operate as nothing less than mechanisms of ecstasy—as means by which the artists might project themselves ‘out of place,’ beyond the spaces and systems of imprisonment. In doing so, they are also beginning to imagine life as it might otherwise be, with each creative effort attempting somehow to summon into existence a new, more human world. -- Jeffrey Kastner * Places *Fleetwood takes on this subject with passion and originality, looking at how the creation of art liberates the incarcerated…Fleetwood writes with poignancy about the power imbalance between the prisoner and the omnipotent state, and how this is reflected in artistic production—on paper, as sculpture, and even from a bootlegged cellphone…Such a beautiful volume on such an agonizing topic. * Choice *Fleetwood leaves no stone unturned as she envelops the reader in an immersive and bristling study of what it takes to make art and survive in the age of mass incarceration. A groundbreaking, unique, and necessary work. -- Cheryl Finley, Inaugural Distinguished Visiting Director, Atlanta University Center Art History and Curatorial Studies CollectiveNicole Fleetwood’s illuminating narrative centers and amplifies the brilliant aesthetic engagements of those most impacted by the carceral regime. Through stunningly original cultural analysis, visionary curation, and intellectual tenacity, Marking Time confronts the violence of captivity and propels readers toward a future without cages. This book is an extraordinary achievement. -- Sarah Haley, author of No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow ModernityMaybe Nicole Fleetwood’s Marking Time offers that one thing missing from talk about incarceration in America: where words fail, there is art. Which is to say, Fleetwood breaks all of it down, by not flinching at the scars that come from knowing too many people who’ve done time or are doing time and recognizes that the challenge of seeing them, is a literal challenge—a challenge that is shared by both the unincarcerated and the incarcerated. Art, as Fleetwood explains, becomes a way of being seen, a way of making the shackles visible and the living visible, with the ultimate goal being a bigger measure of freedom. This is a book that reveals what’s been ignored. -- Reginald Dwayne Betts, author of Bastards of the Reagan EraMarking Time is a tremendous achievement that provides one of the most important discussions of prisons to date. Nicole Fleetwood illuminates the world of incarcerated artists and brings readers into their lives with powerful analysis and care. It is the kind of book that stays with you long after you finish, inspiring change in us all. -- Elizabeth Hinton, author of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in AmericaMonumental, expansive, and revelatory, Marking Time masterfully traces the connection between prisons and the art world. This book will define how the intersections of art, incarceration, and the fight for freedom are written about for decades to come. -- Jesse Krimes, artist, curator, and cofounder of Right of Return USAInspiring, powerful, and deeply moving, Nicole Fleetwood’s Marking Time captures the genius, the humanity, and the resilience of the brilliant artists trapped behind bars whom she profiles. Fleetwood takes us into the prison to experience the hope and pain and the artists’ experiences (and frustrations) associated with prison art. In her personal and erudite voice, Fleetwood helps transform the narrative of mass incarceration today, pushing us all to imagine and hope for a future world, in her words, without human caging. A terrific read, and the artwork is stunning! -- Bernard Harcourt, author of The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own CitizensMarking Time is an unprecedented work built over nearly a decade of connection with currently and formerly incarcerated artists, their families, and community organizations working with incarcerated artists…Fleetwood’s care, delicacy, and rigor are a gift, and her ability to honor people subjected to incarceration is a guide for all readers, especially those trying to understand the life-shaping complexities of carceral systems. -- Jeanie Austin * Resources for Gender and Women's Studies *
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Harvard University Press Inside the Lost Museum Curating Past and Present
Book SynopsisMuseum lovers know that energy and mystery run through every exhibition. Steven Lubar explains work behind the scenes—collecting, preserving, displaying, and using art and artifacts in teaching, research, and community-building—through historical and contemporary examples, especially the lost but reimagined Jenks Museum at Brown University.Trade ReviewGives readers a privileged peek into the storerooms, boardrooms, and curatorial offices of many storied institutions. In doing so, the book offers a scholarly snapshot of the role that museums have played throughout history, as well as the challenges they face today. Although students and interested laymen will undoubtedly gain much from Lubar’s comprehensive overview, even the most experienced museum professionals will likely learn a thing or two. -- Paul D. Brinkman * Science *Steven Lubar has written a wonderfully comprehensive and intriguing assessment of the impact and importance of museums by unearthing both the history of these cultural institutions and the contemporary challenges that face the field. Featuring an insider’s knowledge and a scholar’s curiosity, Inside the Lost Museum is a must-read for those who want to understand how museums shape America’s memories and its national identity. -- Lonnie G. Bunch III, Director, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian InstitutionIn this volume, Steven Lubar, among the most thoughtful scholars and professionals in the field, turns ‘museum’ into a verb, taking us behind the scenes to show how collecting, exhibiting, and programming are conceived and organized. His clear, straightforward, and insightful account provides case studies as well as a larger framework for understanding museological practices, choices, historical trends, controversies, and possible futures. The treatment of art, science, and history museums and occupational roles from director and curator to exhibition designer and educator make this required reading for everyone in the museum field. -- Richard Kurin, Acting Provost and Under Secretary for Museums and Research, Smithsonian InstitutionInside the Lost Museum ably demonstrates that Steven Lubar is among the most perceptive historians thinking and writing about the American museum today. Equipped with intimate knowledge from years at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Lubar connects the history of early museums to what currently transpires behind the scenes, as staff debate ideas for exhibitions, wrestle with ethical dilemmas, and attempt to foster greater public participation than ever before. -- Kym Rice, Assistant Director for Academic Affairs, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, George Washington UniversityInside the Lost Museum is a book worth wandering through, much like the capacious institutions whose histories and futures it contemplates…[A]thoughtful and feeling survey of changing practices of curation in American museums of all sorts. -- Christopher H. Heaney * Journal of Social History *Offers illuminating chapters on key curatorial questions about museum life…Lubar’s highly accessible book sits comfortably on museum-studies shelves alongside such works as Stephen Weil’s Making Museums Matter, Nina Simon’s The Participatory Museum, and Adrian George’s The Curator’s Handbook…It could be of practical interest to people who participate in any organization, large or small, devoted to preserving or displaying art or artifacts. -- Amy Henderson * Weekly Standard *
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Princeton University Press ARTiculations Undefining Chinese Contemporary
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to say that some of the best Chinese contemporary art is made in America, by Americans? This book challenges the artificial and narrowly conceived definitions of Chinese art, revealing the great diversity of Chinese art and showing just how complex and uncertain the labels 'contemporary', 'Chinese', and 'American' have become.
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Princeton University Press After Art
Book SynopsisArt as we know it is dramatically changing, but popular and critical responses lag behind. This title describes how art and architecture are being transformed in the age of Google. It provides an original theory of art and architecture in the age of global networks.Trade Review"[A] succulent little book."--Flora Samuel, Times Higher Education "Joselit, a Yale professor and critic whose previous writings have assiduously observed the intersection of art and tech, lays his argument out with pedagogic steadiness."--Art Review "[After Art] is insightful and offers countless examples of the cultural and political forces influencing creative arts... [W]ell-referenced and clearly written."--Choice "Joselit points out a stimulating journey through recent art and architecture where his discourse functions as a sort of guide, complete with images and diagrams, within the illuminating text."--Kieran Lyons, Leonardo ReviewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Preface xiii Image Explosion 1 Populations 24 Formats 55 Power 85 Notes 97 Credits 115
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Princeton University Press The Seduction of Curves
Book SynopsisA lavishly illustrated book that explores the language of curves that spans the human body, science, engineering, and artCurves are seductive. These smooth, organic lines and surfaces-like those of the human body-appeal to us in an instinctive, visceral way that straight lines or the perfect shapes of classical geometry never could. In this large-fTrade Review"One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018""I have never encountered anything quite like [The Seduction of Curves], which I view as genuinely sui generis. . . . The (excellent) prose descriptions are accompanied by lots of illustrations, both photographs and drawings, quite a few of which are in color. . . . An unusual and eclectic book, and one that taught me a lot of things that I did not know before."---Mark Hunacek, MAA Reviews"To illustrate this little-known branch of mathematics, [Allan McRobie] draws on the art of David Hockney, Henry Moore and Salvador Dalí, as well as Helena Weightman's superb photographs of mountains, mushrooms, reflections on water and naked bodies."---Matthew Reisz, Times Higher Education"Stunning. . . . The balance is such that it should appeal both to art lovers and those with a real interest in the mathematical basis."---Brian Clegg, Popular Science"Marvelous."---Adhemar Bultheel, European Mathematical Society"Can you find your own butterflies, swallowtails and wigwams? They are right there on your body: the geometrical figures that appear when smoothly curved surfaces are viewed from the right angle. Structural engineer Allan McRobie's The Seduction of Curves is your guide to these most intimate of mathematical objects."---Philip Ball, New Scientist"A delightful journey beyond disciplines. . . . The book intends to lead readers to see the world differently and I believe that in many cases it will, linking subtle mathematical ideas to the world they are surrounded by."---Edmund O. Harriss, MathSciNet"This book is a bold attempt at evoking multiple feelings towards curves. Allan McRobie deserves praise for sensually drawing parallels between the natural and constructed worlds."---Sudhirendar Sharma, Current Science"Both immediate and analytical, beautiful and informative, The Seduction of Curves is a successful hybrid of art book, representation of descriptive geometry, and explanation of mathematical concepts . . . . a book that entertains and teaches, pleases and challenges in equal measure."---Hans J. Rindisbach, European Legacy"Remarkable. . . . Successful . . . due to the erudition of the author plus the quality of the production both in the illustrations used and in the general elegance of the book itself. It would grace the grandest of coffee tables and provide the basis for interesting debates."---Phil Dyke, Leonardo ReviewsTable of Contents1 The Alphabet of Beautiful Curves 12 The Fold 53 The Cusp 144 The Swallowtail 225 The Butterfly 316 The Wigwam 357 Lips, Beaks, Gull, Goose 378 The Persistence of Cusps 439 Moire and Dupin 4710 The Umbilics 6111 Catastrophe Optics 6712 The Rainbow 7313 Gravitational Lenses 7714 Stability 8515 Morphogenesis 8816 Gabo 9417 The Pregnance of Curves 11718 Thom 12519 Dali 135Notes 147Bibliography 151Image Credits 153Index 157
£27.00
Princeton University Press Second Site
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Honorable Mention for the Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize, Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada""A brisk, contemplative, and often brilliant study. . . . Second Site is an example of how issues of climate change, global politics, and social justice currently inform and redirect the ways in which we understand the history of site-specificity and land art. "---Enrique Ramirez, Landscape Architecture Magazine"[Nisbet’s] achievement in Second Site is the way in which he places a number of site-specific works of varying renown into conversation, recontextualizing each through the lens of its secondary effects and impacts, and layering this onto urgent concerns around conservation — both curatorially and ecologically."---Emily Cadotte, Esse Magazine"[Second Site] is a welcome addition to a body of literature on site-specificity, or the idea that a particular space or place is integral to the meaning of an artwork, where activities, events, or objects turn a location into a unique site. . . . Concise and thought-provoking."---Brianne Cohen, caa.reviews
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Princeton University Press The Deformation
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Princeton University Press Entitled
Book SynopsisThe author presents an in-depth look at how democratic values have widened the American arts scene, even as it remains elite and cosmopolitan.Trade Review"A critical guide for new directions in the sociology of the arts."---Amanda Koontz, Contemporary Sociology"Entitled tackles a fascinating new dimension, exploring how the definition of art in the United States has broadened over time while remaining unmistakably elite. . . . [A] powerful theory of artistic legitimation that brings us to a much deeper understanding of art in the United States."---Raquel Jimenez, Contexts Magazine"Entitled [is] an authoritative, eye-opening, and astonishingly detailed look at the power struggle over the boundaries of art, as conducted over approximately the last two centuries of American cultural life."---C. Thi Nguyen, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism"The book is full of startling nuggets."---Josephine Livingstone, Times Literary Supplement"[Entitled] traces the almost 200-year-old story of how the objects and performances that educated Americans today consider art came to be 'sacralized' as art. Weaving together historical research with theoretical insights from the sociology of culture, Entitled narrates the transformation in American elite tastes from quasi-European highbrow snobs to omnivorous cosmopolitans"---Sergio Cabrera, Social Forces
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Princeton University Press The Natural History of Edward Lear New Edition
Book SynopsisEdward Lear, known as an author of nonsense verse, was also an artist and natural history illustrator.Trade Review"As Robert McCracken Peck shows us in his The Natural History of Edward Lear, when it comes to realistic animal portraiture, Lear could have run circles around any of his successors. He simply chose not to."---Emily Donaldson, Globe and Mail"This book is much recommended and indeed an essential reference for this rather under-researched part of Lear’s artistic life."---Clemency Fisher, Archives of Natural History"An engaging history of the remarkable 19th century artist, Edward Lear. . . . The Natural History of Edward Lear is an important and insightful description of the artist’s career with convincing evidence that his unique contributions continue to influence our artistic and literary culture."---Tony Angell, Wilson Journal of Ornithology
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