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Parkstone Press USA, Limited RUSSIAN IMPRESSIONISTS and POST-IMPRESSIONISTS
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Legare Street Press Gold Und Silber
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Yale University Press Pop Art Contemporary Perspectives
Book SynopsisTalks about the revelatory and controversial Pop art movement that emerged in America in the 1960s. This illustrated book focuses on 40 paintings, works on paper, and sculptures by influential artists in the collection of the Princeton University Art Museum. It shows how the artists pointed revisions of the movement's relationship to art history.
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Rocky Nook A Beautiful Anarchy: When the Life Creative
Book SynopsisA Beautiful Anarchy is a vulnerable, honest, and insightful book about the human longing to create, whether you’re creating a family, a business, a book, or a photograph. Your greatest creation can be an intentional life lived on your own terms. What is our life but a chance to make the greatest art of all?If you already identify as a creative person, this book is an invitation to more intentionally explore your creative process. If you've ever said, “But I’m not really creative,” it’s a call to exhume a part of yourself that desperately needs to get out and breathe.This is an honest discussion about creativity and the obstacles that stand in your way on that journey. It’s an invitation to consider the creative in all of us, and to recognize that your best work will always be done when you colour outside the lines and listen first to your own voice. Truly exceptional, authentic lives have never belonged to the talented or the fearless, but to those who find the courage to do their work, and to be themselves.
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Getty Trust Publications Polychrome Sculpture
Book SynopsisThis book features a masterwork in the field of conservation published in English for the first time. In the decades since its initial publication in German in 1978, Polychrome Sculpture has come to be widely regarded as a watershed text on the making and meaning of European medieval and Baroque painted wood sculpture. An early proponent of interdisciplinary research, Johannes Taubert played a pioneering role in combining the rigorous scientific analysis of materials with a fuller understanding of form and function, an approach that has led to the development of technical art history as practiced today. Many of the essays in this volume apply such scientific techniques as microscopic analysis to an art-historical understanding of Romanesque and late Gothic wood sculpture, revealing that, far from serving a merely decorative function, the painted surface of these works was intricately connected to their meaning. The paint layers on the sculptures, for example, which the author spent years documenting through close examination and analysis, were intended to impart a heightened sense of reality to the life-sized sculptures, thereby enhancing the viewer's experience of worship.Taubert believed it was crucial for conservators to understand this context before undertaking any treatments. No other book offers such a focused, subtle, and interdisciplinary examination of the subject as Polychrome Sculpture. This influential work is now available in English for the first time, in a meticulous translation enhanced and updated by new color illustrations, annotations to the original text, and a new introduction.
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Getty Publications Cave Temples of Mogao at Dunhuang
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Getty Trust Publications Principles of Art History
Book SynopsisThis book features a crystalline new translation of one of art history's most influential works-published on its one-hundredth anniversary. Principles of Art History by Heinrich Wolfflin (1864-1945), a revolutionary attempt to construct a science of art through the study of the development of style, has been a foundational work of formalist art history since it was first published in 1915. At once systematic and subjective, and remarkable for its compelling descriptions of works of art, Wolfflin's text has endured as an accessible yet rigorous approach to the study of style. Although Wolfflin applied his analysis to objects of early modern European art, Principles of Art History has been a fixture in the theoretical and methodological debates of the discipline of art history and has found a global audience. With translations in twenty-four languages and many reprints, Wolfflin's work may be the most widely read and translated book of art history ever. This new English translation, appearing one hundred years after the original publication, returns readers to Wolfflin's 1915 text and images. It also includes the first English translations of the prefaces and afterword that Wolfflin himself added to later editions. Introductory essays provide a historical and critical framework, referencing debates engendered by Principles in the twentieth century for a renewed reading of the text in the twenty-first.
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Yale University Press Whitney Museum of American Art
Book SynopsisAn exciting guide to, and celebration of, the Whitney Museum and its outstanding collection of American art
£23.75
University Press of New England Picasso and the Chess Player
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Columbia University Press A History of Virility
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn innovative contribution to the cultural history of gender, with literature as a central element, A History of Virility provides a complete and coherent sense of the trajectory of French notions of virility from and across all periods. Readers interested in masculinity or gender more broadly will read with great interest. -- Todd W. Reeser, University of Pittsburgh A sweeping history of masculinity in the tradition of Aries and Duby's A History of Private Life that complements and enriches English-language perspectives on gender and sexuality. -- Lewis Seifert, Brown University Highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsTranslator's Note Preface 1. Greek Virilities, by Maurice Sartre 2. Roman Virilities: Vir, Virilitas, Virtus, by Jean-Paul Thuillier 3. Barbarian and Knight The Barbarian World: Hybridity and Transformation of Virility, by Bruno Dumezil The Medieval: Strength and Blood, by Claude Thomasset 4. Absolute Virility in the Early Modern World Modern Virility: Convictions and Questionings, by Georges Vigarello Virility and Its "Others": The Representation of Paradoxical Masculinity, by Lawrence D. Kritzman Examples from Painting, by Nadeije Laneyrie-Dagen 5. The Virile Man and the Savage in the Lands of Exploration, by Georges Vigarello 6. Uneasy Virility in the Age of Enlightenment Common Folks' Virility, by Arlette Farge Men of Fiction, by Michel Delon 7. The Code of Virility: Inculcation The Triumph of Virility in the Nineteenth Century, by Alain Corbin Childhood, or the "Journey Toward Virility," by Ivan Jablonka 8. The Duel and the Defense of Virile Honor, by Francois Guillet 9. The Necessary Manifestation of Sexual Energy, by Alain Corbin 10. Military Virility, by Jean-Paul Bertaud 11. Virility in the Colonial Context, from the Late Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century, by Christelle Taraud 12. The Burden of Virility The Injunction of Virility, Source of Anguish and Anxiety, by Alain Corbin Homosexuality and Virility, by Regis Revenin 13. The Great War and the History of Virility, by Stephane Andoin Rouzeau 14. Origins and Transformations of Male Domination Impossible Virility, by Jean-Jacques Courtine Anthropology of Virility: The Fear of Powerlessness, by Claudine Haroche 15. Virilities on Edge, Violent Virilities, by Fabrice Virgili 16. Virility Through the Looking Glass of Women, by Christine Bard 17. "One Is Not Born Virile, One Becomes So," by Arnaud Bauberot 18. Fascist Virility, by Johann Chapoutot 19. Working-Class Virility, by Thierry Pillon 20. Homosexual Transformations, by Florence Tamagne 21. Exhibitions: Virility Stripped Bare, by Bruno Nassim Aboudar 22. Brawn in Civilization: Virile Myth and Muscular Power, by Jean-Jacques Courtine Notes Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd How to Cheat in Photoshop CS6 The art of creating
Book SynopsisWith enough charm and wit to make learning Photoshop anything but taxing, Steve Caplin delivers the next instalment of the How to Cheat series, containing all the techniques you need to create and master the art of photomontage. Delivered in easy to follow step-by-step tutorials, How to Cheat in Photoshop CS6 covers all the basics of selections and layers before moving on to top tricks and techniques for creating realistic works of art for business, pleasure, or something in between. Accompanying downloadable resources are packed full of practice images and tutorial movies for you to work along with, plus bonus chapters to push your skills even further. Using a tweaked design that is clearer and fresher than previous editions, this is the most fun way to master Photomontage. This complete How to Cheat in Photoshop CS6 package includes a fully updated book, downloadable resources containing all of the images used in the helpful tutorials, plusTrade Review"Photomontage master Steve Caplin shows readers how to utilize the new features in CS6 efficient, as well as how to make an image look like something else entirely. This resource is for all kinds of creative inside and out of the industry such as retouchers, designers, illustrators and graphic artists. The book is now in its eighth edition and comes fully updated to cover the new features found in CS6. A packed DVD and supplemental website complete the package."--Advanced Photoshop, page 40Table of ContentsHow to cheat, and why, Acknowledgments, How to use this book, What’s new in Photoshop CS6, 1. Natural selection, 2. Transformation and distortion, 3. Hiding and showing, 4. Image adjustment, 5. Composing the scene, 6. Getting into perspective, 7 Light and shade, 8. Heads and bodies, 9. Shiny surfaces, 10. Metal, wood and stone, 11. Paper and fabric, 12. The third dimension, 13. Hyper realism, 14. Advanced techniques, 15. Print and the internet
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The University of Chicago Press Teaching Artist Handbook Volume One
Book SynopsisBased on the premise that teaching artists have the ability to engage students as fellow artists, this book includes a collection of essays, stories, lists, examples, dialogues, and ideas, all offered with the aim of helping artists create and implement effective teaching based on their own expertise and strengths.Trade Review"The growing field of teaching artistry has needed the Teaching Artist Handbook for a long time. Needed it badly. And here it is, even better than I hoped. Thanks to the authors whose work will help us all get better; congratulations to the field that, because of the book, takes another step into fuller recognition and more powerful practice. This book belongs on every teaching artist's bookshelf-no, on their bedside table." (Eric Booth, author of The Everyday Work of Art: Awakening the Extraordinary in Your Daily Life)
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The University of Chicago Press Gerhard Richter
Book SynopsisGerhard Richter is one of the most important and popular artists of the postwar era. For decades he has sought innovative ways to make painting more relevant, often through a multifaceted dialogue with photography. This book presents a foundational portrait of this artist and his profoundly influential oeuvre.Trade Review"At a time when art is full of doubt, Richter is the most self-critical of artists, putting painting to the most extravagant tests and taking nothing for granted. In the process, he makes disturbing and often utterly beautiful art.... His work asks people to think freshly and not romantically about control versus freedom, austerity versus exuberance, faith versus skepticism: about what we can trust in what we see.... Having grown up under the Nazis and then in Communist East Germany, he has had his share of dictators and ideologues, in life and in art. He is a solitary man who rarely grants interviews, aware that his solitude also enhances his aura." - New York Times"
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc On Stories
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University of California Press Vanishing Paradise Art and Exoticism in Colonial
Book SynopsisOffers a fresh take on the modernist primitivism of the French painter Paul Gauguin, the nostalgic exoticism of the American John LaFarge, and the elite tourism of the American writer Henry Adams. This title explores how these artists, lured by romantic ideas about travel and exploration, wrestled with the elusiveness of paradise.Trade Review"I can't recall when I've been so enthralled by a book about 19th century art. Elizabeth Childs' Vanishing Paradise is an exhaustive, beautifully written account of colonialism in Tahiti and its enduring influence on art in the West." -- Farisa Khalid PopMatters.com "A much-needed, deeply humane view of artists and Tahiti that is truly elegant and refreshingly complex... Childs's scholarship is consistently captivating, and this work is as transporting as a book analyzing the power of Tahiti should be." -- James E. Housefield CHOICE "Childs is unafraid to examine American and European attitudes to Tahitian culture. She is curious and intellectually resolute, honest in her careful delving into Tahiti's history and culture ... an impressive examination of a very difficult and complex subject." -- Susan Wilson Journal of New Zealand and Pacific StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface: Regarding Tahiti 1. Histories of an Island and an Idea: From Tahiti to New Cythera 2. Garden of Eden to Dying Paradise: The Foundational Myths of Tahiti 3. Polynesia in Paris: Paul Gauguin in Search of the Exotic at the Exposition Universelle of 1889 4. The Colonial Lens: Gauguin, Primitivism, and Photography 5. Henry Adams, Indolence, and Ethnic Tourism in Tahiti 6. John La Farge and the Sensuousness of Regret 7. Against Vanishing Notes Glossary of Tahitian Terms Selected Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
£60.35
University of California Press The Poethical Wager
Book SynopsisIncluding inventive essays, the author conveys her post-utopian vision as she explores the relationship between art and life in this chaotic world.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Essay as Wager The Poethical Wager Wager as Essay Blue Notes on the Know Ledge Poethics of the Improbable: Rosmarie Waldrop and the Uses of Form The Experimental Feminine The Scarlet Aitch: Twenty-Six Notes on the Experimental Feminine :RE:THINKING:LITERARY:FEMINISM: (three essays onto shaky grounds) The Difficulties of Gertrude Stein, I & II FOUR ON JOHN CAGE Geometries of Attention Fig. 1, Ground Zero, Fig. 2: John Cage--May 18, 2005 Poethics of a Complex Realism Uncaged Words: John Cage in Dialogue with Chance Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments and Permissions Index
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University of California Press Conversation Pieces Community and Communication
Book SynopsisSome of the most innovative art over the years has been created far outside conventional galleries and museums. This title discusses a disparate network of artists and collectives united by a desire to create new forms of understanding through creative dialogue that crosses boundaries of race, religion, and culture.Trade Review"A brilliant critical re-evaluaton of art critical methodologies." * Leonardo *"A much-needed discussion regarding a practice that is too often ignored. We need a dialogue about what community art is and could be . . . [and] need more discussions like Kester’s that question the traditional roles of artists and audiences." * Public Art Review *"Conversation Pieces nobly records and analyzes dialogical art with a respect that very few critics have offered thus far." * Flaunt *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface to the 2013 Edition Introduction 1. The Eyes of the Vulgar 2. Duration, Performativity, and Critique 3. Dialogical Aesthetics 4. A Critical Framework for Dialogical Practice 5. Community and Communicability Notes Index
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University of California Press What Is This Thing Called Jazz
Book SynopsisThis title explores the ideas of African American musicians, analyzing them on the context of meanings circulating around jazz. The text shows how much black musicians have struggled against the definations of racial authenticity and racism in the dominant culture.Trade Review"Among the many books on the history of jazz, most document the interpretations of white critics....But now, Eric Porter's brilliant book seeks to trace the ways in which black jazz musicians have made verbal sense of their accomplishments, demonstrating the profound self-awareness of the artists themselves as they engaged in discourse about their enterprise." - Susan McClary, author of Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical FormTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 "A Marvel of Paradox": Jazz and African American Modernity 2 "Dizzy Atmosphere": The Challenge of Bebop 3 "Passions of a Man": The Poetics and Politics of Charles Mingus 4 "Straight Ahead": Abbey Lincoln and the Challenge of Jazz Singing 5 Practicing "Creative Music": The Black Arts Imperative in the Jazz Community 6 Writing "Creative Music": Theorizing the Art and Politics of Improvisation 7 "The Majesty of the Blues": Wynton Marsalis's Jazz Canon Epilogue Notes Acknowledgments of Permissions Index
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University of California Press Song Loves the Masses
Book SynopsisCompiles Johann Gottfried Herder's writings on music and nationalism, from his early volumes of Volkslieder through sacred song to the essays on aesthetics late in his life. The author uses the mode of translation to explore Herder's own interpretive practice as a translator of languages and cultures.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on the Text Note on Translation and Commentary Prologue: Again, Herder PART I. THE ONTOLOGY PROJECT 1. Folk Song at the Beginnings of National History: Essay on Alte Volkslieder (1774) Translation from Alte Volkslieder / Ancient Folk Songs 2. The Folk Song Project at the Confluence of Music and Nationalism: Essay on Volkslieder (1778/79) and Stimmen der Völker in Liedern (1807) Translation from Volkslieder and Stimmen der Völker in Liedern / Folk Songs and Voices of the People in Song Appendix A: Introduction to the Folk Song Texts Appendix B: Translation from the Folk Song Texts 3. Singing the Sacred Body: Essay on Lieder der Liebe (1778) Translation from Lieder der Liebe: Die ältesten und schönsten aus Morgenlande / Songs of Love: The Oldest and Most Beautiful from the Orient PART II. THE HISTORY PROJECT 4. The Nation and Its Fragments: Essay on “Briefwechsel u¨ber Ossian und die Lieder alter Völker” (1773) Translation from “Briefwechsel u¨ber Ossian und die Lieder alter Völker” / “Correspondence about Ossian and the Songs of Ancient Peoples” 5. Songs of the Enlightenment Bard: Essay on “Homer und Ossian” (1794) Translation of “Homer und Ossian” / “Homer and Ossian” 6. Redemption through Sacred Song: Essay on Letter 46, Theologische Schriften (1780/81) Translation of Letter 46, Theologische Schriften / Theological Writings PART III. THE NATION PROJECT 7. The Shores of Modernity: Essay on “Wirkung der Dichtkunst auf die Sitten neuerer Zeiten” (1777) Translation from “Wirkung der Dichtkunst auf die Sitten neuerer Zeiten” / “The Influence of Poetry on the Customs of Modernity” 8. The Epic as Nation: Essay on Herder’s Der Cid Translation from Der Cid / The Cid 9. Music Transcendent and Sublime: Herder’s “Von Music” (1800) Translation of “Von Musik” / “On Music” Epilogue: Herder’s Journey Notes Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Bad Music
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Playa Fire Spirit and Soul at Burning Man
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Indian Folk Theatres Theatres of the World
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Taylor & Francis Landscape Theory
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Yale University Press Clarence H. White and His World The Art and
Book SynopsisRestoring a gifted art photographer to his place in the American canon and, in the process, reshaping and expanding our understanding of early 20th-century American photographyTrade Review“In the book. . . . It is the faux medieval costumes; the vague, dewy (Ms. McCauley’s word) images; the faces buried in shadow; and the saccharine melodrama that earned Pictorialism its dismissal. But by showing White’s work in its contemporaneous artistic, social and political contexts, Ms. McCauley makes it possible for it to be reassessed.”—William Meyers, Wall Street Journal
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Harvard University Press The Annotated Emerson
Book SynopsisEmerson remains one of America’s least understood writers, having spawned neither school nor follower. Those wishing to discover or reacquaint themselves with Emerson’s writings but who have not known where or how to begin will not find a better starting place or more reliable guide than David Mikics in this richly illustrated Annotated Emerson.Trade ReviewMikics's annotations are gracious, helpful, and genuinely illuminating. This is a 'reader's edition' in the truest sense. -- Philip F. Gura, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillImpressive in its thoroughness… the author's enthusiasm for his subject is infectious. -- Paul Kane, Vassar CollegeDavid Mikics's The Annotated Emerson is the best possible introduction to Emerson's prose and poetry. -- Harold BloomThe #1 essayist and pure prose stylist in U.S. literature is on grand display in this lavish edition of essays, poems, and passages from Emerson's voluminous journals. The neophyte entering the Emersonian universe, as opposed to the scholar, is best served by Mikics's careful annotations and cogent commentary surrounding these selections, though even the most knowledgeable scholar would benefit. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *In his writing, Emerson favored fire imagery, and his own fiery intellect brightens every page of The Annotated Emerson, a wonderful new collection, meticulously annotated by David Mikics...In the lush pages of The Annotated Emerson readers will find that fire still warm, able to illuminate and sear. -- Daniel Dyer * Cleveland Plain Dealer *What a pleasure to have, in The Annotated Emerson, a lovely and helpful version of many of Emerson's bests, gathered and annotated by David Mikics and introduced by Phillip Lopate. This is in no way Emerson lite. These are not shortcuts but rather a welcome frame for Emerson's particular kind of difficulty. The book's introductions curate the voluminous career, and the wide margins of the pages, dappled with thoughtful notes, give the meditations space to unfurl. This is a book that gives us each hope to approach the "new yet unapproachable" Emerson. Any lay reader will find an open door here. Those who already love Emerson and know him well may find a few cherished things missing, but they may also find a few things they didn't know they wanted to find. -- Tess Gallagher * Barnes & Noble Review *Editor Mikics has selected the best known of Emerson's works but also includes excerpts from his journals, selections from lesser-read books, and a number of his poems. The volume is prefaced by a thoughtful foreword by Philip Lopate and a very useful editor's introduction...All in all, this handsome edition will be useful both to newcomers and to Emerson vets. -- Margaret Heilbrun * Library Journal *Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote essays about Shakespeare, John Brown, Stonehenge, Montaigne, best friend Henry David Thoreau, circles, nature, and self-reliance. One of his most famous lines--"the shot heard round the world" from his poem "Concord Hymn"--is still used to describe singular events in sports and history. The Annotated Emerson, edited by David Mikics, an English professor at the University of Houston, explains language and allusions that may be foreign to today's readers. By doing this, Mikics makes a great American essayist, whom Phillip Lopate in his foreword calls a "hero of intellectual labor," readily accessible to a new generation. -- Jan Gardner * Boston Globe *Copiously annotated, richly illustrated and handsomely bound, a volume all lovers not just of literature but of freedom will want on their shelves…[Emerson's] astute observations and generous vision of the world within and without still have much to teach. -- William Yeoman * West Australian *Mikics has put together a handsome edition of Emerson's most popular and enduring work. First-time readers of Emerson will find the collection useful because the annotations reference the common occurrences of Emerson's attention and, along with the illustrations, place Emerson's work in the context of the 19th century. More-experienced readers of Emerson will value the many annotations that reference his journals, letters, and other essays not gathered here. -- R. T. Prus * Choice *
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Harvard University Press Sassetta
Book SynopsisSassetta, the subtle genius from Siena, revolutionized Italian painting with an altarpiece for the small Tuscan town of Borgo San Sepolcro in 1437–1444. This book solves the three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle of this masterwork’s reconstruction and, on a firm scientific foundation, restores it to its vivid historical context.Trade ReviewAdmirers of the richness, seductive accents and elusive beauty of the paintings of Stefano di Giovanni, known as il Sassetta (1392–1450/51), will be delighted by the extraordinary, indeed exhaustive depth of this two-volume study devoted to the polyptych once to be seen on the high altar of the church of S. Francesco in Borgo San Sepolcro, painted between 1437 and 1444. -- Jennifer Sliwka * The Burlington Magazine *Sassetta was the leading painter in Siena in the early fifteenth century and the altarpiece he made for the Franciscan church in the town of Borgo San Sepolcro was one of the biggest altarpieces of the Renaissance, about twenty feet tall and fifteen feet wide. For the last hundred years, this painting has inspired research on the character of Sienese art, and it is now the subject of a beautiful new study in two volumes, Sassetta: The Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece. Everything about the book is impressive, from the quality of its printing to the number of people involved in its writing. Led by the brilliant scholar Machtelt Israëls, more than forty experts contributed to the book; and at 636 pages and 435 color illustrations, it is one of the most comprehensive monographs ever written on a single work of Renaissance painting. -- Andrew Butterfield * New York Review of Books *Monumental, immaculately produced volumes...They represent arguably the most exhaustive study of a single altarpiece ever undertaken, and are...both a supreme triumph and a spectacular demonstration of the value of collaborative and interdisciplinary research...In spite of the fact that we already know so much about the altarpiece and its commission, the various authors of this book most definitely do not agree on everything--for all the exquisite good manners on display, the knives are unmistakeably out. Of course, this is as it should be, but is also refreshingly unusual in a world where spineless agreement is all too often the order of the day. What makes the killer footnotes so entertaining here is the way contributors refer to the conflicting arguments of other scholars within these pages precisely in order to explain that they have not been persuaded by them to change their minds...The editorial and literary standards of a publication which necessarily involved a number of contributors whose first language is not English are remarkably high. -- David Ekserdjian * Apollo *
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Other Objects of Desire
Book SynopsisOther Objects of Desire; Collectors and Collecting Queerly explores gay identities and identifications as they are communicated in and through art, and provides a critical approach to the study of collectors and collecting. From Jean de Berry to the internet addict, from Christina of Sweden to Andy Warhol, this collection of essays sets about questioning the terms and methodologies of gay or queer historical studies and the very nature and definition of collecting. Richly illustrated, scholarly and bold, this anthology respresents the work of both young and established Art Historians in trenchant, original and groundbreaking style.Table of Contents1. 'For Our Devotion and Pleasure': The sexual objects of Jean, Duc de Berry: Michael Camille (University of Chicago). 2. Desiring Things: Rebecca Zorach (University of Pennsylvania). 3. The Virtue of a King and the Desire of a Woman? Mythological respresentations in the collection of Queen Christina: Veronica Biermann (Technische Universität, Munich). 4. Absent Love in Pleasure Houses. Frederick II of Prussia as art collector and patron: Christoph Martin Vogtherr (Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg). 5. Homoerotic Art Collection from 1750-1920: Whitney Davis (Northwestern University). 6. Shopping the Leftovers: Warhol's collecting strategies in Raid the Icebox I: Deborah Bright (Rhode Island School of Design). 7. Mapplethorpe's Living Room: Photography and the furnishing of desire: Richard Meyer (University of Southern California). 8. Collecting men, or my next duchess: Adrian Rifkin (Middlesex University)
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University of Minnesota Press Making Things and Drawing Boundaries: Experiments
Book SynopsisIn Making Things and Drawing Boundaries, critical theory and cultural practice meet creativity, collaboration, and experimentation with physical materials as never before. Foregrounding the interdisciplinary character of experimental methods and hands-on research, this collection asks what it means to “make” things in the humanities. How is humanities research manifested in hand and on screen alongside the essay and monograph? And, importantly, how does experimentation with physical materials correspond with social justice and responsibility? Comprising almost forty chapters from ninety practitioners across twenty disciplines, Making Things and Drawing Boundaries speaks directly and extensively to how humanities research engages a growing interest in “maker” culture, however “making” may be defined.Contributors: Erin R. Anderson; Joanne Bernardi; Yana Boeva; Jeremy Boggs; Duncan A. Buell; Amy Burek; Trisha N. Campbell; Debbie Chachra; Beth Compton; Heidi Rae Cooley; Nora Dimmock; Devon Elliott; Bill Endres; Katherine Faull; Alexander Flamenco; Emily Alden Foster; Sarah Fox; Chelsea A. M. Gardner; Susan Garfinkel; Lee Hannigan; Sara Hendren; Ryan Hunt; John Hunter; Diane Jakacki; Janelle Jenstad; Edward Jones-Imhotep; Julie Thompson Klein; Aaron D. Knochel; J. K. Purdom Lindblad; Kim Martin; Gwynaeth McIntyre; Aurelio Meza; Shezan Muhammedi; Angel David Nieves; Marcel O’Gorman; Amy Papaelias; Matt Ratto; Isaac Record; Jennifer Reed; Gabby Resch; Jennifer Roberts-Smith; Melissa Rogers; Daniela K. Rosner; Stan Ruecker; Roxanne Shirazi; James Smithies; P. P. Sneha; Lisa M. Snyder; Kaitlyn Solberg; Dan Southwick; David Staley; Elaine Sullivan; Joseph Takeda; Ezra Teboul; William J. Turkel; Lisa Tweten.Trade Review"Sayers is to be commended for giving space to queer and feminist makers, who are often overlooked in favor of discussions on technological innovations. The essays on the interplay of craft and circuitry highlight how academic institutions need to look beyond monograph and journal publication as keystones to academic careers. This is required reading for those interested in digital humanities and in the intersection of maker culture and academics."—CHOICETable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: “I Don’t Know All the Circuitry”Jentery SayersPart I. Making and the Humanities1. The Boundary Work of Making in Digital HumanitiesJulie Thompson Klein2. On the “Maker Turn” in the HumanitiesDavid Staley3. Vibrant Lives presents The Living Net4. A Literacy of Building: Making in the Digital HumanitiesBill Endres5. MashBOT6. Making Humanities in the Digital: Embodiment and Framing in Bichitra and Indiancine.maP. P. SnehaPart II. Made by Whom? For Whom?7. Making the RA Matter: Pedagogy, Interface, and PracticesJanelle Jenstad and Joseph Takeda8. Reproducing the Academy: Librarians and the Question of Service in the Digital HumanitiesRoxanne Shirazi9. Looks Like We Made It, But Are We Sustaining Digital Scholarship?Chelsea A. M. Gardner, Gwynaeth McIntyre, Kaitlyn Solberg, and Lisa Tweten10. Full Stack DH: Building a Virtual Research Environment on a Raspberry PiJames Smithies11. Mic Jammer12. The Making of a Digital Humanities Neo-LudditeMarcel O’Gorman13. Made: Technology on Affluent Leisure Time14. Reifying the Maker as HumanistJohn Hunter, Katherine Faull, and Diane Jakacki15. All Technology Is Assistive: Six Design Rules on DisabilitySara HendrenPart III. Making as Inquiry16. Thinking as Handwork: Critical Making with Humanistic ConcernsGabby Resch, Dan Southwick, Isaac Record, and Matt Ratto17. Bibliocircuitry and the Design of the Alien Everyday, 2012–201318. Doing History by Reverse Engineering Electronic DevicesYana Boeva, Devon Elliott, Edward Jones-Imhotep, Shezan Muhammedi, and William J. Turkel19. Electronic Music Hardware and Open Design Methodologies for Postoptimal ObjectsEzra Teboul20. Glitch Console21. Creative Curating: The Digital Archive as ArgumentJoanne Bernardi and Nora Dimmock22. Reading Series Matter: Performing the SpokenWeb ProjectAlexander Flamenco, Lee Hannigan, and Aurelio Meza23. Loss Sets24. Dialogic Objects in the Age of 3D Printing: The Case of the Lincoln Life MaskSusan GarfinkelPart IV. Making Spaces and Interfaces25. Feminist Hackerspaces: Hacking Culture, Not Devices (the zine!)Amy Burek, Emily Alden Foster, Sarah Fox, and Daniela K. Rosner26. Fashioning Circuits, 2011–Present27. Making Queer Feminisms Matter: A Transdisciplinary Makerspace for the Rest of UsMelissa Rogers28. Movable Party29. Disrupting Dichotomies: Mobilizing Digital Humanities with the MakerBusKim Martin, Beth Compton, and Ryan Hunt30. Designs for Foraging: Fruit Are Heavy, 2015–201631. Experience Design for the Humanities: Activating Multiple InterpretationsStan Ruecker and Jennifer Roberts-Smith32. AIDS Quilt Touch: Virtual Quilt Browser33. Building Humanities Software That Matters: The Case of Ward One Mobile AppHeidi Rae Cooley and Duncan A. Buell34. Placeable: A Social Practice for Place-Based Learning and Co-design ParadigmsAaron D. Knochel and Amy Papaelias35. Making the Model: Scholarship and Rhetoric in 3D Historical ReconstructionsElaine Sullivan, Angel David Nieves, and Lisa M. SnyderPart V. Making, Justice, Ethics36. Beyond MakingDebbie Chachra37. Making It MatterJeremy Boggs, Jennifer Reed, and J. K. Purdom Lindblad38. Ethics in the MakingErin R. Anderson and Trisha N. CampbellAcknowledgmentsContributors
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Museum Tusculanum Press Installation Art: Between Image and Stage
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Simply Read Books Jason D'aquino's Circus ABC
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Abrams The Little Dictionary of Fashion
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Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig ZERO
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Steyler Verlagsbuchhandlung GmbH Shanghai 1940-1949: Shanghai 1940-1949
Book SynopsisHerausgegeben von Barbara Hoster, Roman Malek und Katharina Wenzel-Teuber Der vorliegende Band stellt erstmals die im Shanghaier Exil (1940-1949) entstandenen Holzschnitte von David Ludwig Bloch gesammelt vor. Der seit seiner Kindheit gehorlose Kunstler (geb. 1910) stammt aus dem oberpfalzischen Floss. 1940 floh er, wie Tausende anderer europaischer Juden, vor den nationalsozialistischen Juden-verfolgungen in die ostchinesische Hafenstadt Shanghai. Trotz der schwierigen Lebensbedingungen als Fluchtling schuf David Ludwig Bloch dort ein reichhaltiges Werk von fast 300 Holzschnitten.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Silver Curios in the Home
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Studying Horiyoshi III
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Encyclopedia of American Silver Manufacturers
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Parkett Verlag,Switzerland Parkett
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Product Design and Sustainability
Book SynopsisWhether it is the effects of climate change, the avalanche of electronic and plastic waste or the substandard living and working conditions of billions of our fellow global citizens, our ability to deal with unsustainability will define the twenty-first century. Given that most consumption is mediated through products and services, the critical question for designers is: How can we radically reshape these into tools for sustainable living? As a guide and reference text, Product Design and Sustainability provides design students, practitioners and educators with the breadth and depth needed to integrate the most appropriate sustainable strategies into their practice. It establishes the principles that underpin sustainability and introduces a diverse range of social, economic and environmental design responses and tools available to designers. The numerous real-world examples illustrate how these strategies play out in different product sectors and reinforce the vTrade Review"For anyone fatigued by the term "sustainability," Jane Penty breaths vitality back into the word—expanding its purview and animating its potential. Traversing multiple disciplines from material culture and artificial intelligence, to business frameworks, ethics, and social innovation, Jane Penty's Product Design and Sustainability may be the single most effective compendium for simultaneously defining a contemporary understanding of sustainability while providing an actionable toolkit for its practice. Required reading for design professionals, educators, and students; essential reading for anyone who needs to believe that we can find a way forward."Allan Chochinov, Chair, SVA MFA Products of Design, NY; Partner, Core77"A book that is timely and urgently needed - revisiting the complex and fast-evolving relationships between design, consumption, economics and technology at a pivotal moment. Product Design and Sustainability will help answer questions we all have as designers, and help further close the gap between the work that we do and our lived experience of the world." Hugo Jamson, Creative Director, New Territory, London"Far from the tired, doom and gloom rhetoric peddled by so many academics on this topic, Penty’s hopeful treatise lights the way toward a sustainable design future. Her clear and precise theoretical writing is further elucidated by a rich repertoire of case studies, methodological tools and practical examples. This important book will surely become an essential point of reference for anyone working at the intersections of design, sustainability and systems change."Jonathan Chapman, Professor and Director of Doctoral Studies, School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh"A wonderfully comprehensive real-world guide through the maze of sustainability for anyone involved in new product creation. It manages to be both rigorous and pragmatic in equal measure and is the perfect starting point for designers, students and academics."Alex Hulme, director, Map Project Office, London"Through a very accessible yet profound work, Jane Penty reminds us that product designers can play a major role in the transition to a more sustainable and meaningful tomorrow. For a whole new generation of designers ready and mobilised to engage on this course of action, this book offers a valuable tool to inform their thinking and practice."Anne Marchand, Professor of Product Design, School of Design, Université de Montréal "Product Design and Sustainability is a resource primed for designers to tackle wicked global problems they are increasingly required to help solve. Penty sets the scene of humanity's 'unsustainability' from a vast body of knowledge, identifying practical environmental, economic and social levers for designers to use in response. Real world examples then contextualise frameworks that are life cycle based; systemic; efficiency-led; regenerative; regulatory; socially equitable; circular; and economically transformative, to assist designers in reorienting their practice to be sustainability-driven." Simon Lockrey, Senior Lecturer, RMIT University, Executive Director, Glowpear, Melbourne"Jane Penty’s book is a well-informed and engaging overview of the dramatic material challenges of our contemporary world we live in, as well as a useful and practical guide as to how design tools, methods and practice can be used to drive change." Clare Brass, designer, circular economy expert and director, Department 22, London"In a world where doomsday scenarios paint alarming pictures while designers work on the next new trend, Jane Penty’s voice is calm and points to a better world through design. She asks the difficult question - what problems are we solving and how? Product Design and Sustainability calls upon us to be conscious and responsible designers and shows us how. The mix of carefully put together information, insightful analysis, detailed examples and design strategy is valuable for both the student and practitioner of design. It is comprehensive and covers several design disciplines and their intersections." Naga Nandini, Industrial Arts and Design Practices, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, BangaloreTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part 1: Concepts and context. 1. Sustainability and design in context. 1.1 Our unsustainability and major threats. 1.2 The concept of sustainability: definitions and models. 1.3 A timeline: design and the sustainability movement. 1.4 Obstacles, challenges and key players for change. Chapter summary. Key texts and further reading. Endnotes. Part 2: Strategies, tools and approaches. 2. Environmentally led strategies. 2.1 From less bad to better and positive: an overview of approaches. 2.2 Thinking in systems and designing for life cycles. 2.3 Tools and metrics for better design choices. 2.4 Carrot and stick: voluntary, mandatory, regulations and certification. 2.5 Radical rethinks: low tech and old tech. Chapter summary. Key references and further reading. Endnotes. 3. Socially led strategies. 3.1 Overconsumption: shifting the consumer society through behaviour change. 3.2 Better products and real needs: human centred and socially responsible design. 3.3 The other 70%: design for the base of the pyramid. 3.4 Ethics & sustainability: design as a tool for change. Chapter summary and key design challenges. Key references and further reading. Endnotes. 4. Economically led strategies. 4.1 Introduction to economy and sustainability. 4.2 The rise of more responsible business. 4.3 Emerging business models: the collaborative economy. 4.4 Emerging business models: open design and distributed production. 4.5 Emerging business models: the circular economy. Chapter summary. Key references and further reading. Endnotes. Part 3: In practice. 5. Short-use products: packaging, consumables and disposables. 5.1 In the balance: pros and cons of Consumer Packaged Goods. 5.2 Key re-design strategies. Chapter summary. Endnotes. 6. Electronic tools and digital gateways. 6.1 the visible and invisible environmental impacts of the digital world. 6.2 design strategies for reducing the environmental impacts of electronic devices. 6.3 the social value of digital tools. Chapter summary. Endnotes. 7. Furniture and space related products. 7.1 Furniture trends and their sustainability implications. 7.2 Problematic materials and toxicity. 7.3 Design strategies for more sustainable furniture. Chapter summary. Endnotes. 8. Transportation and mobility: products and services. 8.1 The environmental, social and economic impacts of transportations and mobility. 8.2 Design for more sustainable transport modes. 8.3 Systems thinking: new technologies and business models for mass personalised mobility. Chapter summary. Endnotes. Conclusion. Glossary. Index.
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Editorial Gustavo Gili Crochetterie: Proyectos Contemporáneos Para
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Princeton University Press Rembrandts Roughness
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] very ambitious book that analyzes Rembrandt’s main works . . . [it] certainly made me look with new eyes at some of the best-known paintings and prints of the Dutch golden age."---Thijs Weststeij, The Art Bulletin
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Princeton University Press Scale and the Incas
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Scale and the Incas] is a very beautiful book. . . . It is also an important book. . . . No previous study has mapped the aspect of scale in a single society and related it to a more general consideration of its meanings in the wider world of art and human creativity. . . . This is an invigorating and suggestive work, opening up new avenues and sight-lines for further research, and it brings welcome freshness to a well-trodden and arid field."---Nigel Barley, World of Interiors"This book raises the important question of whether scale should be considered an aspect within tightly defined disciplinary fields or shape our approach to an understanding of cultural production."---Alexander Adams, Sculpture Journal"Hamilton’s book is an innovative and compelling contribution to the ongoing process of recovering intellectual traditions that were, as he laments, devastated by the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. . . . Through his unique, aesthetically compelling, and erudite presentation, Hamilton makes Inca scale more accessible and intelligible to modern audiences. His sophisticated study reveals the webs of meaning that scale inspired and sustained for the Incas. Perhaps just as important, it presents these webs of meaning in a way that allows them to be put into conversation with other cultures at other times and in other places around the globe."---Julia Guernsey, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
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University of California Press Minimal Conditions Light Space and Subjectivity
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Schuld elaborates a broader and more complex historiography in which minimal art is expanded to include phenomena such as spatiality, perceptual depth, transparency and disorientation. . . . she achieves [her goal]." * Espace *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Plates • ix Preface: Situating Ourselves • xi Acknowledgments • xv Introduction • 1 1. Robert Irwin and the Presence of the Situation: From Post-Painterly to Post-Object • 16 2. In a Fog: Light, Space, Obfuscation, and Emergence • 37 3. Cave Dwelling: Resolution and Dissolution • 55 4. Being Nowhere: Desert Situations • 75 Conclusion • 103 Notes • 107 Bibliography • 127 Index • 137
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Parkett Verlag Parkett No. 86 John Baldessari, Carol Bove,
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Getty Trust Publications Houses and Monuments of Pompeii The Work of
Book SynopsisThis title reproduces, with commentary, "Le Case i Monu Menti di Pompeii" (1854) of Fausto and Felice Niccolini, the first work to completely and systematically present the public and private buildings so far excavated in Pompeii. It features the watercolours they created to document Pompeii.
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Getty Trust Publications Library of Villa Dei Papiri at Herculaneum
Book SynopsisAn introduction to this ancient library that describes the difficult history of attempts to unwind the damaged rolls. This book discusses the texts that have been deciphered and puts them in the context of literacy and Roman society of the time. It also describes the form of books in antiquity and the papyrus sheets on which they were written.
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Getty Trust Publications herculaneumitalysburiedtreasure
Book SynopsisA vivid portrayal of life in Pompeii's sister city, this book includes a detailed description of the ancient Villa dei Papiri, on which the present Getty Museum in Malibu is modeled.
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Getty Trust Publications Marguerite Makes a Book
Book SynopsisIt is Paris in the 1400s. A young girl named Marguerite delights in assisting her father, Jacques, in his craft: illuminating manuscripts for the nobility of France. His current commission is a splendid book of hours for his patron, Lady Isabelle, but will he be able to finish it in time for Lady Isabelle's name day?Trade Review"Beautifully rendered, with jewel-like colours and gold leaf details that make the pages sparkle." Booklist"
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Last Gasp,U.S. The Outlaw Bible of American Art
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