The Arts Books
Books by Chris M. Balz Burning The May Tree: The Sacrifice of Jim
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Idler Books The Idler 87: Graham Coxon on the disappointments
Book SynopsisHere is issue 87 of Tom Hodgkinson's essential magazine for good living. Meet Blur guitarist Graham Coxon, discover why Socrates was cynical about politics, and learn about the idling academies of 17th century Naples.
£8.55
Idler Books The Idler: 88, feat. Richard Coles
Book SynopsisThe cheering journal of merry philosophy, featuring Richard Coles on his new life by the sea, plus Virginia Ironside, Stewart Lee, Ukrainian fashion, Modern Toss and more
£8.55
Fig Studio The Waiting List
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Black Artists in British Art: A History since the
Book SynopsisBlack artists have been making major contributions to the British art scene for decades, since at least the mid-twentieth century. Sometimes these artists were regarded and embraced as practitioners of note. At other times they faced challenges of visibility - and in response they collaborated and made their own exhibitions and gallery spaces. In this book, Eddie Chambers tells the story of these artists from the 1950s onwards, including recent developments and successes. Black Artists in British Art makes a major contribution to British art history. Beginning with discussions of the pioneering generation of artists such as Ronald Moody, Aubrey Williams and Frank Bowling, Chambers candidly discusses the problems and progression of several generations, including contemporary artists such as Steve McQueen, Chris Ofili and Yinka Shonibare. Meticulously researched, this important book tells the fascinating story of practitioners who have frequently been overlooked in the dominant history of twentieth-century British art.Trade Review'Eddie Chambers' Black Artists in British Art is a breathtaking tour de force. Brilliantly conceptualised, beautifully written and inspirationally theorised, this volume's seminal contribution to art history is unparalleled. Spectacularly well researched and stunningly original, it is an exemplary scholarly feat, essential for researchers, students and general audiences alike, and one which offers yet further confi rmation of Chambers' reputation as the leading international scholar of his generation.' Celeste-Marie Bernier PROFESSOR OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM; 'If you told most art-world types you were interested in black British art, they might point you to Yinka Shonibare, Chris Ofili, Steve McQueen, and-maybe-a couple of others. That's it. But if you really want to know about the history and context of this vital part of contemporary practice in the UK, Black Artists in British Art: A History Since the 1950s (I. B. Tauris) by Eddie Chambers is the book you need. Chambers writes an authoritative history of black British art, but also explores its fraught relationship with white, establishment institutions... a refreshing mix of the art historian's meticulous archival work, the thrilling, blow-by-blow account of the eyewitness, and the impassioned, candid argumentation of the seasoned critic.' - Chika Okeke-Agulu, ArtForumTable of ContentsBlack Artists in British Art: A History from 1950 to the Present Chapters Foreword: Celebrating Nelson’s Ships Introduction: Some Problems with History and its Treatment of Black-British Artists. Chapter One: The Pioneering Generation of Caribbean Artists Chapter Two: Early Contributions by South Asian Artists Chapter Three: The Significance of the 1970s Chapter Four: Uzo Egonu and Contemporary African Art in Britain Chapter Five: The Earliest Black-British Practitioners Chapter Six: South Asian Stories Chapter Seven: The ‘Black Art’ Generation and the 1980s Chapter Eight: The Rise and Fall of The Black-Art Gallery Chapter Nine: The Emergence of Black Women Artists: Arguments and Opinions Chapter Ten: Sonia Boyce and Other Black Women Artists Chapter Eleven: Substantial Sculpture: The work of Sokari Douglas Camp, Veronica Ryan, and Permindar Kaur. Chapter Twelve: Black Artists of the 1990s Generation Chapter Thirteen: The Triumphant Triumvirate: Yinka Shonibare, Chris Ofili, and Steve McQueen. Epilogue: The New Generation
£999.99
Intellect Books Lessons from a Multispecies Studio: Uncovering
Book SynopsisA highly original book in which the author proposes an expanded field of aesthetics, guided by her philosophy and approach to working, through the ways that philosophy can be manifested in art. She demonstrates the depth and complexity that she brings to her work through a sustained and committed relationship to working with animals across multiple projects. The book tells real-world stories about the author’s creative encounters – with animals, plant life, mineral beings and forest ecosystems – in her Vancouver-based interspecies art practice, Animal Lover, and how they shifted her outlook on the Earth and all of life. Each chapter presents a weaving together of personal reflection, interdisciplinary research, critical thought and art methods. The threads converge on this main point: the need to move away from anthropocentrism and towards ecological understanding, reciprocity and biophilia. The local journeys in each chapter are guided by more-than-human ways of knowing which provide an expanded sense of the world and an understanding of the imperative for action. This book is an invitation to readers to step into more-than-human worlds, re-sense life and re-think their relationship with the planet and all its inhabitants. It asks readers to slow down, look around and listen – and feel. Love for life is practised by all beings in their lively projects. It is what joins us together in the relational flourishing that is the vital wondrous complexity of the Earth. The Anthropocene is a term used to describe the geological era in which we live, marking the realization that humans have become such a force that we are affecting the Earth’s air, lands, oceans, climate. At its core, in the modern Eurocentric societies that typify this era, is an entrenched worldview of nature as a means to fuel global capitalist-colonial systems. This anthropocentric worldview justifies the colonization and exploitation of ecosystems and nonhuman life, seen as ‘resources’ available for human expansion and prosperity, and readily available as free labour. The consequential outcomes are manifest in today’s climate emergency and ecological degradations including animal slavery, industrial farming, over-fishing, deforestation and habitat loss, and the coming environmental collapse with its sixth mass extinction. Within recent decades, the sustainability of anthropocentric views have been called into question across disciplines. Lessons from a Multispecies Art Studio joins with these movements, and offers new applied approaches – from interspecies art – to help shape and evolve human outlooks, emotions and actions. Primary readership will be research-creation academic artists working with animals, and researchers working around animals; more-than-human-animal activists; artists and emerging artists, as well as to art theorists and to those with a strong interest in environmental values.Table of ContentsIntroduction Dogs Dog lessons Early days Dog communications Communication ethics Transformation EPIC_Tom Crows and Stones A gift from a crow Good neighbours Crow mind and narrative ethics Stone communications Stone aesthetics Ruins Other gifts Crow Stone Tone Poem New gift, new art Salmon and River Salmon lesson River The Adams River spawning grounds Salmon migration projects Fish ways of knowing Salmon People Forest Dawn The forest Life’s beginnings Phyto-fungal-communications Interspecies indeterminacy and biophilic attention Anthrophony Old trees Biophilia Afterword Acknowledgements
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Intellect Books Let's Talk about Critique: Reimagining Art and
Book SynopsisThis book explores the tradition of critique in art and design education. It examines how critique, as a signature pedagogy in the field, has evolved, how it falls short, and what else it can be. Current practices are contextualized and suggestions are made for ways to have more open, inclusive and dynamic classroom conversations about art and design. Included is a discussion of the history of critique, grounding current practice in the discipline’s history, the field of education, and characteristics of contemporary students. The book is designed to be useful, with an array of critique methods, written by experienced arts educators. Each one guides the reader through a method, describing “why you might do it this way” and “for what group, purpose, or type of assignment”. The text explores what the art critique is, and what it can be, offering practical, updated approaches for faculty and students seeking more educationally beneficial and nuanced critiqueTrade Review"Let’s Talk about Critique includes a variety of ways to look at and talk about work, pushing beyond the stale traditions and enlivening the possibilities for what can happen in discussing art. Armstrong and Doren provide a very thorough history and critique of the critique, as well as solutions to the inadequacies of the past traditions. The book meets an important need, evolving the critique from an authority/judgment model to a dialogue where all voices are respected and content meaning is addressed." -- Susan Waters-Eller, Maryland Institute College of Art“In Let’s Talk about Critique, Armstrong and Doren make a compelling case for the necessity of different studio critiques within contemporary higher education. This book is an extensive and diverse catalogue of innovative studio critiques, explores the history of the studio critique, and discusses recent studies on Generation Z.” -- Roger Rothman, Bucknell UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction 1. What Is a Critique? 2. The Critique’s History: How the Contemporary Critique Evolved 3. The Contemporary Student and the Critique 4. Critique And Assessment 5. Critique Methods Collection I: Non-verbal critiques Yun Shin and Emily Stokes Elissa Armstrong Nida Abdullah and Denise Gonzales Crisp Chelsea Coon Mariah Doren Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard II: Play and improvisation critiques Carol Elkovich Nida Abdullah and Denise Gonzales Crisp Jonathon Russell Laurie Gatlin Tyrus Clutter Jonathon Russell III: Pre-, mid-, post- and extended critiques Ane Gonzalez Lara Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard Leslie Bellavance Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard Elissa Armstrong Hannah Barnes IV: Student-centered critiques Gaia Scagnetti and T. Camille Martin-Thomsen Denielle J. Emans and Kelly M. Murdoch-Kitt April Friges Andrea Marpillero-Colomina Kristina Bivona nicole killian Hande Sever and Alexandre Saden melissa m button, Matt Nock, and Phil Stoesz V: Critique of critiques Mariah Doren Maya Krinsky Andy Broadey and Richard Hudson-Miles Matt King Morgan Alford, Alia Ali, Naama Attias, Julia Chai, Casey Chan, Jiayun Chen, Yingtong He, Ashley Hunt, Kaidi Jiu, Keunjae Kwon, Michael Mendoza, Oscar Ochoa, Alexeis Reyes, Ruoyi Shi, Estela Ana Silva, Allison Yasukawa, and Hanzhu Zhang Conclusion References Notes on Contributors
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Arcadia Missa Publications Gravity Road: A Rollercoaster Reader
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£11.78
Emerald Publishing Limited Music
Book SynopsisMusic is an art form but also a social activity. It is a part of every human society, contributing to community, culture, and a sense of group identity. It is also fundamental to individual identity and personal well-being. In Music, Eugene Beresin traces the possible applications of musical expression for human health and happiness. At the heart of Music are powerful examples from the lives of real individuals, families, and populations. These stories cover a myriad of ages, instruments, situations, and purposes, to convey the universal power of music to help us all get more out of life. Offering practical ideas for integrating musical practice into a wide range of settings from the medical to the personal, Beresin provides a compelling evocation of the healing power of music. It is a must-read for practitioners, teachers, counsellors, and lovers of the art form.Trade ReviewMusic and the arts reach around all corners of the world and into all corners of our life and Dr. Eugene Beresin details many aspects of their purpose and importance in his book Arts For Health: Music. I think this is important information to share and it reinforces what all of us musicians and artists already know…that the arts (regardless of their type), when done with the right intention, are healing arts. -- Jeff Coffin, 3x Grammy winning saxophonist, composer, educator, author. Dave Matthews Band, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Ear Up Records founder, The Mu’tet.Music is certainly a pleasurable and universal part of the human experience, but is it really possible that harms could be assuaged through harmonies, symptoms soothed by symphonies, remedies found in rhythm? As an expert Harvard physician, healer, and musician, Dr. Gene Beresin makes a forceful and persuasive case that the answer is a resounding, “yes” - scientifically elucidating and affirming music’s psycho-biological therapeutic effects and uncovering its power to heal. Informative, instructive, inspirational, students, clinicians, patients, and family members, will find solace and joy here. -- John F. Kelly, PhD, ABPP Elizabeth R. Spallin Professor of Psychiatry in Addiction Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Director of the Recovery Research Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA USA. Award-winning songwriter, singer, musician, and producer.If you are in the group of people that think music is ancillary to your life - or extracurricular or non-essential - but have been waiting for someone to prove you wrong, look no further! Dr. Eugene Beresin has comprehensively, and in simple language, dispelled any hypothesis of the kind in his book, Arts For Health: Music. From heartfelt personal testimonies to factual medical data, this book beautifully explains the effect music universally has on humanity and why it’s important for individual well-being. It is a must have for all music teachers, students and professionals, as it gives language to what we innately already know. -- Terri Lyne Carrington - Grammy Award winning, drummer/composer/producer/activist, who is played with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Stan Getz, Al Jarreau and many others.Music has a visceral, transcendent power that cuts across language, culture and age, and it can help us connect to each other, as well as to our innermost selves. In Arts For Health: Music, Gene Beresin has created a fantastic reminder of and argument for music’s power to lead us to healthier, more connected, and more fulfilling lives. -- Chris Eldridge - Grammy winning acoustic guitarist with Punch Brothers, Julian Lage. Americana Music Association Instrumentalist of the Year. Visiting Assistant Professor of Contemporary Acoustic Music, Oberlin Conservatory.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Why Music? The Universality of Music Chapter 2. How Music Improves Well-being Chapter 3. Who Benefits? Stories Of Music Enhancing Personal and Professional Well-Being Chapter 4. Ways To Engage With Music Chapter 5. How Professionals Can Use Music to Improve Well-being Chapter 6. Challenges for Engagement In Music Chapter 7. Overcoming Challenges and Future Directions
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Eyewear Publishing Holding The Line: Art Celebrating Frontline
Book SynopsisSince the start of the global pandemic of2020-2021 the comic book art of M.J. Hiblen hastouched hearts across the world his more than325,000 followers on social media include fans likeMark Hamill and Chris Hemsworth. Hiblen hashighlighted, in epic illustrations, just howimportant and heroic our brave Frontlineworkers have been in this time of Covid-19.Now, here, is the expanded and revised 2021paperback of the 2020 limited edition FrontlineHeroes to mark this unprecedented, terrible, sadyear of the everyday heroes, who changed ourway of seeing the world of work forever apicture book without words, timeless, universal,and finally, both heart-breaking and ennobling.Holding the Line is the book to give to anyonewho has known and appreciated these heroes,or who wants to recall the best part of ourselves,in the worst of times, now including drawings ofCaptain Tom, and the vaccine rollout.
£15.29
Veneficia Publications Dialectic
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£6.64
DIRTYillness Habitat
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£18.00
Unicorn Publishing Group Being a Painter
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£24.00
Unicorn Publishing Group Xu Xiaowei
Book SynopsisThe book features dream-space photo collages created by Xu Xiaowei. By combining visual representations of objects and places with ready-made images that randomly appear and disappear in contemporary Chinese society, the artist reinvents his memories. The artwork reflects the personal turmoil experienced in the face of rapid changes in Chinese society. Through non-linear and fragmentary stories that unfold in a dystopian fantasy world that is both pre-modern and post-industrial, the artist tries to convey this agitation. Using reconstructed photographs, the artist constructs a space of memory that lies somewhere between the tangible and the absurd.
£24.00
Unicorn Publishing Group Christina Tung Wai Breath of the Universe
Book SynopsisThis book showcases the work of contemporary ink artist Christina Tung Wai. Feathers and Taoist philosophy have been recurring subjects in her paintings; for her the feather symbolises her aspirations for freedom following a previous career in the finance sector. Initially working on Chinese rice paper and Japanese linen paper, she has recently chosen to explore more innovative materials such as tissue paper and leather, turning ordinary things into extraordinary art.
£28.00
Photo Editions Ltd Silent Coast: 2022
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£999.99
Smith Street Books Snow Be It
Book SynopsisLearn how to make the perfect holiday wreath and plenty more festive fun activities! Halloween has been and gone, and Thanksgiving is over it's time to prepare for the most festive holiday of all Christmas! Learn how to make the perfect holiday wreath to adorn your front door with a step-by-step guide that even the littlest elf can follow. Then move onto some other holiday activities, like making an advent calendar so you can count down the days to the 25th; preparing a custom snack tray to leave out for Santa and the reindeer; building a sturdy snowman; and how to trim a tree to perfection. Then turn your attention to crafting the perfect festive table, whipping up some steaming mulled wine, eggnog or a fizzy festive cocktail to entertain your guests, before impressing them all with a showstopping feast with all the trimmings. Transform your festive fun with 29 ideas that will have you saying, Snow be it!
£13.50
Woodslane Pty Ltd When We Was Fab
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£27.99
Hendrik Varju Mexican Dinner Parties: Complete Menus for
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£30.35
Freya Rothwell-Bodycomb Blush Feelings Notebook: We Are Greater Series
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£999.99
Headbangers Publishing After Party
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£35.10
EAR (EDITIONS ANTOINE ROUX) FLOWERS
Book SynopsisFLOWERS doesn't represent flowers.They are explicitly flowers, as per the title, but flowers reduced to the mere forms, on which spray paint and kid's glue can be dumped.They stand reconfigured, their stems artificially grafted together via Serflex, blu-tack or wires.They are an aggregation of materials, textures and colors, a composite greater than the sum of its parts.These (mostly supermarket) flowers end up being transformed into a pile of stuff to disarm the immediate perception of their very nature.Forms are made difficult to increase the length of perception, to delay the understanding of what is seen.It's a stratagem to create a thin breach, through which can arise a visual pleasure unrelated to any what' of any object. It is a loose approach on a constantly evolving, reconfigured, half intentionally and half accidentally produced image, where instability is designed from the start.All these forms are improvised, transient, and modifiable.The structures always collapse, but ins
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JRP Ringier Walead Beshty: 33 Texts: 93,614 Words: 581,035
Book SynopsisLos Angelesbased artist Walead Beshty (born 1976) has long maintained an active writing career alongside his work in the visual arts. Writing on a variety of media, including essays on cinema, painting, sculpture and photography, and texts on artists such as Jay DeFeo, Sharon Lockhart, Kelley Walker, Luisa Lambri, Annette Kelm and Michael Asher, among others, Beshty has been widely published in both books and magazines. This book, the latest in JRPRingier's Positions series copublished with Les presses du réel, gathers together a selection of these essays, often hard to find, in partially reedited forms. Together these texts appear as a parallel production to Beshty's artistic work: they reflect on the conditions of the realization and circulation of images, undermining distinctions between media, abstraction and figuration, and proposing new aesthetic criteria for the works examined.
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JRP Ringier Andro Wekua
Book SynopsisGeorgian artist Andro Wekua (born 1977) uses painting, collage, drawing, installation, sculpture and film to reflect on childhood, memory and political history in his depictions of fictional and dream-like realities, documented in this first comprehensive publication.
£41.40
JRP Editions Kenny Scharf: MOODZ
Book SynopsisVariations on the face: downtown legend Kenny Scharf's permutational exploration of characterThis new book by cult artist Kenny Scharf (born 1958) debuts his latest body of work, MOODZ. Comprising more than 330 circular paintings of faceseach one differentthis ensemble gives form to a population of moods, feelings, expressions and colors. Scharf explains that the characters reflect aspects of his own personality: some days he needs to release his aggressive energy and they may reflect his anger; other faces reflect his exuberance and love of painting. Organized chromatically, the publication gathers the entire series of MOODZ, as well as exhibition views and documentation related to the project. It features an essay by American gallerist and cultural figure Jeffrey Deitch. A poster (28 x 21.5 inches)on which all the faces are reproduced together as if to form a color chartaccompanies the publication.
£49.50
Kerber Verlag Constructing the World: Art and the Economy 1919
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£41.25
Hirmer Verlag The True Size of Africa
Book SynopsisOpening up the cosmos of an entire continent New perspectives on Africa This lavishly illustrated volume approaches the vast continent of Africa from a variety of viewpoints; beyond prejudice and stereotypes, via cultural history and contemporary art: by means of permanent changes of perspective and a diversity of artistic voices. The history of humankind meets the colonial past and the omnipresence of aspects of Africa in many regions of the world. On the one hand, surprising views of Africa are focused on from Europe. And on the other, works and installations by Africans or protagonists from the diaspora present ideas, impulses and identities which all signify Africa. The texts illustrate the broad time frame from the first humans to Pan-Africanism and Afro-Futurism, as well as present literary and philosophical narratives.
£45.00
Hirmer Verlag From Odesa to Berlin
Book SynopsisImportant masterpieces of European painting from the Ukrainian city of Odesa have been preserved from the threat of damage during the ongoing war. In this magnificently produced volume, the collection shines forth in superlative reproductions alongside texts in English, German, and Ukrainian a symbol of solidarity with Ukraine and its cultural institutions. At the heart of this publication are seventy-six works from the painting collection of the Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art masterpieces of European art that span the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Presented in an art historical dialogue with exquisite works from Berlin's Gemäldegalerie, this unique collection encompasses Biblical and mythological stories from Italy and the Netherlands, portraits, still lifes, genre scenes, images of the Madonna, and landscapes by artists such as Francesco Granacci, Bernardo Strozzi, Cornelis de Heem, Frans Hals, and Andreas Achenbach.
£28.00
Hirmer Verlag Black Ancient Futures
Book SynopsisArtists from the vast African diaspora challenging the dominant aesthetic representations of Africa The visual and textual proposals presented in this book challenge the dominant aesthetic representations of Africa through languages that propose and reimagine a past, a present and a future for the black artistic experience in a transcontinental reality. These are broad proposals that do not aim to illustrate a current or movement, but embrace the creation of fantasies, science-fiction narratives, and discourses where criticism, satire and irony are evident. This book brings together a significant group of voices from the vast African diaspora that offers dense visual and philosophical thought rich in references to African history, mysticism, mythology, ecology and fictions. Through visual and textual proposals, these voices challenge the dominant aesthetic representations of Africa through languages that propose and reimagine a past, a present and a future for the black artistic experience in a transcontinental reality.
£28.80
Hirmer Verlag GmbH T. Lux Feininger
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Hirmer Verlag GmbH The Mannerist Mind
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£37.50
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Jacob Lawrence: Lines of Influence
Book SynopsisJacob Lawrence (1917-2000) is among the most distinguished 20th-century African-American painters. He is widely known for his modernist illustrations of everyday life as well as epic narratives of African American history and historical figures. The new book Jacob Lawrence: Lines of Influence explores his life, work, and legacy not only as an acclaimed artist but also as a storyteller, educator, and chronicler of the mid-20th-century African American experience. The book's first part, 'Relations', traces some of the engagements that shaped Lawrence's personal and professional life. It presents his work in dialogue with that of his contemporaries, mentors, and historically significant artists, such as Josef Albers, Richmond Barthe, Romare Bearden, Jose Clemente Orozco, George Grosz, Marsden Hartley, Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence, Horace Pippin and Augusta Savage. Its second part, 'Legacy', explores Lawrence's influence on contemporary artists living and working today and those who share similar formal and conceptual concerns.
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Nieves Paintings Objects Installations
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Nieves Mount Horeb Palestine
Book SynopsisIn 1962 at the age of 71, Joseph E. Yoakum (18911972) reported having a dream that inspired him to draw. Thereafter the retired veteran began a daily practice and over the next 10 years produced some 2,000 works. Yoakum was born into poverty, had very little schooling, and at an early age left home to join a circus. He wound up working with several circuses, traveling across the United States as well as abroad and becoming intimately familiar with the world's various landscapes. These experiences would provide the foundational memories that fueled his deeply spiritual vision decades later. When he began to put that vision to paper in his apartment on Chicago's South Side in the early 1960s, Yoakum quickly developed a unique visual language, independent and distinct from other artists in the city, such as those involved in the flourishing Black Arts Movement or the up-and-coming Chicago Imagist group. His drawings predominantly landscapes in ballpoint pen, colored pencil, pastel, a
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Walther Koenig Counter Gravity: The Films of Heinz Emigholz
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£30.60
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite Partitura
Book SynopsisPartitura is published on the occasion of the solo presentation by Silvia Bächli at Centro Botín, Santander, Spain in 2024. Bächli has created a score' in eight movements for the exhibition space: a sequence of rhythmic groups of drawings or ensembles' hung at different heights and intervals that, room after room, accrue meaning in their persistent accumulation. Each drawing and each set embodies a precious act of care and attention, of profound observation and reconsideration, in which the blank spaces are as important as the coloured forms. The publication reflects this rhythmic arrangement in its pages, respecting each composition of drawings presented on each wall, reproducing the changes of scale, the silences between shapes and the accumulations of textures, and thus becoming an experiential archive of the show. Since the late 1970s, Swiss artist Silvia Bächli has committed to drawing as a continuous practice that is deeply dependent on and entangled with her body and its movements, both within the domestic sphere and the landscape. Her drawings can be read as traces of sensorial records a walk on a field, a body that aches, a poem that triggers and corporeal gestures the extension of the arm, the strength of the hand or the rhythm of the brushstroke. In this book, we find an essay by poet and art critic Quinn Latimer that presents Silvia's practice as a somatic performance; a text by writer Chris Fite-Wassilak which narrates Silvia's work as evidence of a rooted and daily practice, and finally a conversation between Bächli and Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz, curator of the exhibition, that brings us closer to the artist's decision-making process.
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EI Publishing Co., Ltd Vintage Motorcycle Style
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£20.42
EI Publishing Co., Ltd Lightning Vol.174 Japanese Craftsman
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£24.70
Grafiche Veneziane Immune Morphologies: Forms of Militarization and
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£23.58
Schilt Publishing b.v. Mar Saez Terza Vita
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£21.25
Tulip Seminars Love in Action: Encountering Gods Manifold
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£11.88
Set Margins' publications Who can afford to be critical?
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£14.25
Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art Character is Fate: Piet Mondrian's Horoscope
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APE What is a good world?: Internationalisation in a
Book SynopsisThis essay series attempts to stimulate the debate about the moral challenges that internationalisation confronts us with, both in the Netherlands and abroad, and in particular for Artist-in-Residencies (AIRs). The publication is a reflection on how the crisis is reconsidering our international ambitions, starting from a post-COVID society. Internationalisation is an inevitable reality, inherent to the art landscape. The current time calls for a critical reflection on major issues such as climate inequality, plurality and the Western-dominant canon. With contributions and critical insights by Jeanne van Heeswijk, Jack Segbars, Erik Hagoort, Pascal Gielen, Cecilia Bengtsson, Merlijn Twaalfhoven, Hicham Khalidi, reinaart vanhoe and Suzanne van der Beek. Thanks to Jan van Eyck Academie, Mondriaan Fonds, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds en het Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst for their support.
£12.35
Springer Verlag, Singapore International Colloquium of Art and Design Education Research (i-CADER 2014)
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on Art and Design Education Research. Gathering 72 papers illustrated with diagrams and tables, they provide state-of-the-art information on infrastructure and sustainable issues in Art and Design, focusing on Design Industrial Applications, Visual Communication and New Media, Art Education Research, Cultural Studies, and the Social Implications of Art. They also offer detailed information on innovative research trends in Design Technology and Multimedia Design, as well as a compilation of interdisciplinary findings combining the Humanities and Quality of Life in Art and Design.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Structured Planning as a Front-end Process for Concept Design and Development.- Chapter 2: Traditional Keris Pandai Saras Design.- Chapter 3: Innovation Culture: An Evaluation of Academicians in Universiti Teknologi MARA Branch Campuses.- Chapter 4: Microscopic Image and Text Examination of Conventional and Digital Print-outs.- Chapter 5: Theoretical Framework Study on Formgiving Mobile Education Game Design Technology.- Chapter 6: Anthropomorphism in Political Cartoon: Case Study of the 1965 Malaysia- Indonesia Confrontation.- Chapter 7: Developers View: Understanding the Importance of the Courseware Interfaces as Part of the Software Development Process.- Chapter 8: A Randomized Pilot Study to Determine the Effectiveness of Assistive Technology Based Dynamic Visual in Cognition Stimulation Towards Alzheimer's Patients.- Chapter 9: Socioeconomic and Political Implications for Ethnic and National Sentiments: The Impact on Nation-Building Policy Efforts.- Chapter 10: The Effectiveness of Visual Rhetoric in Public Awareness Prints Advertising as A Social Culture Space in Malaysia.- Chapter 11: A Recognizable Symbol of Wedding Ring as a Communication Object to Portray Marital Status.- Chapter 12: 'Gasing' as a Commercialize Games Product in Malaysia.- Chapter 13: Rivet in Ceramic: Method of Past and Present Restoration.- Chapter 14: Comparison of Natural and Synthetic Adhesives for Ceramic Conservation.- Chapter 15: Interrater Agreement for Process Loss Measures: Are They Applicable for Brainstorming Technique in Industrial Design Practices?.- Chapter 16: Stoneware Clay as a Replacement Material for Artificial Reef Design.- Chapter 17: The Exploration Methods of Consistent Raku Firing Glaze Effect Framework.- Chapter 18: Photo Exemplars Classification: The Integration Photographic History Into Photographic Technique.- Chapter 19: Construction of Design: A Formal Proposition of Graphics Analysis of Comics.- Chapter 20: Empirical Study on Game-based Learning Phenomenon Through Mobile Design Technology.- Chapter 21: The Concept of Formgiving for Color and Trim in Car Design.- Chapter 22: Unity through Arts: An Approach for Harmony among Children in Malaysia in Achieving the Concept of One Malaysia.- Chapter 23: 'Kuih Putu' Mould as a Matrix for Alternative Printmaking: Transformation Towards an Artistic Interpretation.- Chapter 24: The Study of Proverbs as A Way to Enhance Ethical Values in Artwork.- Chapter 25: A Game-based Learning: A Study on Wau Among Selected University Students in Klang Valley, Malaysia.- Chapter 26: Role of Mobile Web-Based Technology Towards Online Grocery Shopping in Malaysia.- Chapter 27: A Comparative Study of the Appreciation of Local Malaysian Culture in the Artworks of Ilse Noor and Tina Rimmer.- Chapter 28: Preservation Characteristics of Malay Garden: A Catalyst for Sustainable Cultural Landscape in Malaysia.- Chapter 29: The Exploration Technique of Nature for Contemporary Batik Design.- Chapter 30: Promoting the Culture of Philanthropy in Malaysia.- Chapter 31: Elaborating Context from the Content Making Framework.- Chapter 32: Visual Advertisement Images in the Wanita Magazine; an Empirical Study Towards Women Stereotype.- Chapter 33: A Blended Method for Generating Creative Product Concepts.- Chapter 34: Symmetrical Pattern: Analysing Songket in Wallpaper Patterns.- Chapter 35: Conceptual Labyrinth Pattern Design for Ceramic Stoneware Art Form.- Chapter 36: SCAMPER for Character Design Unique Zoo Creature.- Chapter 37: Framework Muwajjah as an Islamic Art Decoration Through Formgiving Process.- Chapter 38: Furniture Design Identity Implementation of National Identity Into Office Chair Design.- Chapter 39: Designing Conceptual 3D Tessellation Ceramic Optical Illusions.- Chapter 40: Paper Clay Study Development for Ceramic Art Form Design.- Chapter 41: Corn Husk Fiber in Songket Weaving for Cottage Industry.- Chapter 42: Luminescence Glaze as Third Decoration on Ceramic Surface.- Chapter 43: A Reference to Usability Inspection Methods.- Chapter 44: From Subjectivity to Objective Evaluation: A Techno-Rationalist Approach of Assessment Design for Art & Design Education.- Chapter 45: Correlation Cognition Behaviour and Design in Influencing Ablution Tub.- Chapter 46: Enhancement on Visual Communication for Preschool Education Using Transmedia Approach.- Chapter 47: Acculturation of Peranakan Chinese Into Malay Culture in Terengganu: Influenced to the Development of Malaysian Modern Art.- Chapter 48: The Potential of Photo Manipulation as Visualization Technique in Advertising Campaign.- Chapter 49: Developing Sarawak Motifs Elements of Ventilation Pattern Through Ceramic Stoneware Materials.- Chapter 50: Perception of Readers Towards the Crime Photographs from the Mainstream Malaysian Newspaper in Kuala Terengganu.- Chapter 51: Classification of Frieze Patterns in Malay Songket Textile.- Chapter 52: Mengkuang Pattern of Plaiting as an Aesthetic Design in Kedah.- Chapter 53: Social Media and Cyber Crime in Malaysia.- Chapter 54: Bamboo Modular System (BMS) for New Eco Architecture.- Chapter 55: Investigating Feasibility of Mobile Learning (M-Learning) for History Lesson.- Chapter 56: An Overview of Book Printing and Publishing Industry in Malaysia.- Chapter 57: The Use of Infographics as a Tool for Facilitating Learning.- Chapter 58: Measuring Organisational Culture Performance: The Preliminary Model.- Chapter 59: To Innovate the Potential Used of Arc and Oxy-Acetylene Welding Tools as an Alternative Technique to the Expensive Foundry Works in Creating Metal Casting Sculpture.- Chapter 60: The Behaviour Patterns Towards Printed Colour Medium for Students with Hearing Disabilities.- Chapter 61: Vision 2020 Banknotes Revisited: A Semiotic Analysis of the Third Series Malaysian Banknotes.- Chapter 62: Symmetry in Malaysian Paintings: A Compositional Analysis.- Chapter 63: Graphic Elements in the Portuguese Cartography of Malacca.- Chapter 64: Preventing Childhood Obesity Through Poster Design.- Chapter 65: Design of Prayer Room in Shopping Mall: A Feasibility Study.- Chapter 66: An Innovation of Traditional Malay Singgora Roof Tiles in Modern Architecture.- Chapter 67: A Hybrid Model of Drawing: Pictorial Representation of Visuospatial Attention Through an Eye Tracking Research and Numerical Logic of Lines.- Chapter 68: Design as an Innovative Solution to Promote Impulsive Blood Donation Activity.- Chapter 69: Visual Art Approach to Promoting Malaysia's Art and Cultural Heritage Overseas.- Chapter 70: A Framework of Empirical Study Through Design Practice for Industrial Ceramic Sanitary Ware Design.- Chapter 71: Symmetrical Motifs Design in Malaysian Batik Sarongs Patterns.- Chapter 72: Folding Paper Technique Incorporation in Plaster Modelling.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Artists in the University: Positioning Artistic Research in Higher Education
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the relationship between the university and a particular cohort of academic staff: those in visual and performing arts disciplines who joined the university sector in the 1990s. It explores how artistic researchers have been accommodated in the Australian university management framework and the impact that this has had on their careers, identities, approaches to their practice and the final works that they produce. The book provides the first analysis of this topic across the artistic disciplinary domain in Australia and updates the findings of Australia’s only comprehensive study of the position of research in the creative arts within the government funding policy setting reported in 1998 (The Strand Report).Using lived examples and a forensic approach to the research policy challenges, it shows that while limited progress has been made in the acceptance of artistic research as legitimate research, significant structural, cultural and practical challenges continue to undermine relationships between universities and their artistic staff and affect the nature and quality of artistic work.Table of ContentsForeword.- Artists in the University: An introduction.- Worlds colliding - the ongoing influence of amalgamation.- The University as a Site for Artistic Practice .- Is Artistic Practice Research?.- Artistic Research Within National Research Policy.- Artistic Research and university research management practices.- Institutional research management from the inside.- Beyond Equivalency: Repositioning Artistic Research Within higher education.- Appendix.
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Lugemik Matching MotherDaughter Tattoos
Book SynopsisThe story was, me returning home from a trip to NY and showing her my new black star tattoo I got to match hers. She was busy cooking, as per, and turned to me with an eyebrow raised. In her kinda cutting sarcasm she said 'matching mother daughter tattoos? Charming.' She was half smiling and DEEPLY unimpressed. France-Lise McGurnPublished on the occasion of the exhibition Matching Mother/Daughter Tattoos' by France-Lise McGurn and Rita McGurn at Margot Samel, 295 Church Street, New York, September 5 October 14, 2023. Rita McGurn (19402015, Glasgow, UK) was an artist and set designer who worked with figuration, painting, and textiles. France-Lise McGurn (b. 1983, Glasgow, UK) is an artist based in London, UK.
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Printed Matter, Incorporated Jaguar Group
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