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Taylor & Francis Liang Shaojiâs Silkworm Art
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the work of Chinese contemporary artist Liang Shaoji and emphasises the contribution of multispecies ethnography to art criticism. Over three decades, Liang has worked with domestic silkworms to craft art that embodies the Daoism-inspired ecological motif of âziranâ. Are silkworms co-authors or alienated fabricators in such creative practice? Based on a multi-sited ethnographic study conducted in China, the book delves into Liangâs artistic techniques involving close collaboration with silkworm farmers and biologists. In doing so it makes a significant contribution to discussions of non-human agency and labour. The author unveils the intricate power dynamics between silkworms and their caretakers, revealing multi-sensory knowledge, anthropomorphic kinship and moral dilemmas inherent in working with these insects. This volume will be of particular interest to scholars working in the anthropology of art, human-animal studies, and environmental humanities.
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Routledge Adventurous Film Making
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Taylor & Francis Chinese Art Theory I
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Taylor & Francis Chinese Art Theory II
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CRC Press Smart Technologies for Sustainable Development Goals
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Taylor & Francis Exhibiting Antonio Canova
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Cambridge University Press Herders Naturalist Aesthetics
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Aesthetics
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgements xi Sources xiii Part I: Classic Sources 1 The Modern System of the Arts 3Paul Oskar Kristeller 2 The Ancient and Modern System of the Arts 17James O. Young 3 Ion 31Plato 4 The Republic 39Plato 5 Symposium 49Plato 6 Poetics 57Aristotle 7 Ennead I, vi 73Plotinus 8 De Musica 81St. Augustine 9 On the Reduction of the Arts to Theology 89St. Bonaventure 10 Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times 95Third Earl of Shaftesbury 11 An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue 105Francis Hutcheson 12 Of the Standard of Taste 121David Hume 13 Of Tragedy 131David Hume 14 A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful 137Edmund Burke 15 Laocoon 147Gotthold Lessing 16 Critique of the Power of Judgment 155Immanuel Kant Part II: Modern Theories 17 Introduction 199Christopher Janaway and Sandra Shapshay 18 Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man 205Friedrich Schiller 19 Letter to M. d’Alembert on the Theatre 209J.-J. Rousseau 20 Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics 217G.W.F. Hegel 21 The World as Will and Representation 241Arthur Schopenhauer 22 The Beautiful in Music 281Eduard Hanslick 23 The Birth of Tragedy 287Friedrich Nietzsche 24 What is Art? 299Leo Tolstoy 25 “Psychical Distance” as a Factor in Art and as an Aesthetic Principle 313Edward Bullough 26 Art 331Clive Bell 27 The Principles of Art 341R.G. Collingwood 28 Art as Experience 357John Dewey 29 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 379Walter Benjamin 30 The Origin of the Work of Art 397Martin Heidegger 31 Aesthetic Theory 411Theodor Adorno 32 Criteria of Negro Art 423W.E.B. Du Bois 33 Art or Propaganda? 429Alain Locke Part III: Contemporary Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art 34 Introduction 433Stephanie Ross 35 The Artworld 439Arthur Danto 36 What is Art? An Institutional Analysis 449George Dickie 37 “Art” as a Cluster Concept 461Berys Gaut 38 When is Art? 475Nelson Goodman 39 Art and Its Objects 483Richard Wollheim 40 Varieties of Art 497Stephen Davies 41 What a Musical Work Is 513Jerrold Levinson 42 Fictional Characters as Abstract Artifacts 529Amie L. Thomasson 43 Aesthetic Concepts 535Frank Sibley 44 Categories of Art 551Kendall L. Walton 45 The Myth of the Aesthetic Attitude 569George Dickie 46 What is Aesthetic Experience? 581Alan H. Goldman 47 Artistic Value 589Malcolm Budd 48 Beauty Restored 597Mary Mothersill 49 Artistic Worth and Personal Taste 609Jerrold Levinson 50 Style and Personality in the Literary Work 619Jenefer Robinson 51 Criticism and Interpretation 631Noël Carroll 52 The Postulated Author: Critical Monism as a Regulative Ideal 641Alexander Nehamas 53 Artistic Value and Opportunistic Moralism 653Eileen John 54 Emotions in the Music 663Peter Kivy 55 Music and Emotions 673Jenefer Robinson 56 Fearing Fictions 691Kendall L. Walton 57 Transparent Pictures: On the Nature of Photographic Realism 705Kendall L. Walton 58 The Power of Movies 723Noël Carroll 59 Oppressive Texts, Resisting Readers, and the Gendered Spectator: The “New” Aesthetics 737Mary Devereaux 60 Feminist Philosophy of Art 751A.W. Eaton 61 Appreciation and the Natural Environment 767Allen Carlson 62 Everyday Aesthetics 777Yuriko Saito 63 Aesthetic Value, Art, and Food 783Carolyn Korsmeyer 64 Art and Aesthetic Behaviors as Possible Expressions of our Biologically Evolved Human Nature 791Stephen Davies Index 797
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Taylor & Francis Is Landscape...
Book SynopsisIs Landscape . . . ? surveys multiple and myriad definitions of landscape. Rather than seeking a singular or essential understanding of the term, the collection postulates that landscape might be better read in relation to its cognate terms across expanded disciplinary and professional fields. The publication pursues the potential of multiple provisional working definitions of landscape to both disturb and develop received understandings of landscape architecture. These definitions distinguish between landscape as representational medium, academic discipline, and professional identity. Beginning with an inquiry into the origins of the term itself, Is Landscape . . . .? features essays by a dozen leading voices shaping the contemporary reading of landscape as architecture and beyond.Trade Review"A series of rhetorical questions asked by well- known authors describe the relationship between landscape architecture and its closely related disciplines and other cultural fields." – Peter Zöch, Topos "As richly illustrated and annotated volume, Is Landscape…? is of significant value to students and researchers who wish to dig deeper, and for those leading topical seminars on any of the covered subjects." – Sarah Cowles, Landscape Architecture Magazine"Is Landscape…? Presents both a documentation and projection of Gareth Doherty and Charles Waldheim’s proseminar at the Harvard Graduate School of Design that explores questions of landscape identity." - Karl Kullman, JAE Online Table of ContentsIntroduction: What is landscape? Gareth Doherty and Charles Waldheim, 1. Is landscape architecture? Garrett Eckbo 2. Is landscape literature? Gareth Doherty, 3. Is landscape painting? Vittoria Di Palma, 4. Is landscape photography? Robin Kelsey, 5. Is landscape gardening? Udo Weilacher, 6. Is landscape ecology? Nina-Marie Lister, 7. Is landscape planning? Frederick Steiner, 8. Is landscape urbanism? Charles Waldheim, Is landscape infrastructure? Pierre Bélanger, 9. Is landscape technology? Niall Kirkwood, 10. Is landscape history? John Dixon Hunt, 11. Is landscape theory? Rachael Z. DeLue, 12. Is landscape philosophy? Kathryn Moore, 13. Is landscape life? Catharine Ward Thompson, 14. Is landscape architecture? David Leatherbarrow
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Painting Politics and the Struggle for the Ecole
Book SynopsisPainting, Politics and the Struggle for the École de Paris, 1944-1964 is the first book dedicated to the postwar or ''nouvelle'' École de Paris. It challenges the customary relegation of the École de Paris to the footnotes, not by arguing for some hitherto ''hidden'' merit for the art and ideas associated with this school, but by establishing how and why the École de Paris was a highly significant vehicle for artistic and political debate. The book presents a sustained historical study of how this ''school'' was constituted by the paintings of a diverse group of artists, by the combative field of art criticism, and by the curatorial policies of galleries and state exhibitions. By thoroughly mining the extensive resources of the newspaper and art journal press, gallery and government archives, artists'' writings and interviews with surviving artists and art critics, the book traces the artists, exhibitions, and art critical debates that made the École de Paris a zone of aesthetTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: École de Paris: meaning to be determined; A complete change of décor: the Nouvelle École de Paris; An 'individualist internationale': foreign artists and abstract painting; The crisis of realism and reality; The critics of the École de Paris; Is the École de Paris condemned to death?; Conclusion: the mourning of the object; Selected bibliography; Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Irma Stern and the Racial Paradox of South
Book SynopsisSouth African artist Irma Stern (18941966) is one of the nation's most enigmatic modern figures. Stern held conservative political positions on race even as her subjects openly challenged racism and later the apartheid regime. Using paintings, archival research, and new interviews, this book explores how Stern became South Africa's most prolific painter of Black, Jewish, and Colored (mixed-race) life while maintaining controversial positions on race. Through her art, Stern played a crucial role in both the development of modernism in South Africa and in defining modernism as a global movement. Spanning the Boer War to Nazi Germany to apartheid South Africa and into the contemporary #RhodesMustFall movement, Irma Stern's work documents important twentieth-century cultural and political moments. More than fifty years after her death, Stern's legacy challenges assumptions about race, gender roles, and religious identity and how they are represented in art history.Trade ReviewLaNitra M. Berger’s subtle and very timely study brilliantly mines Stern’s story and her works’ imagery to extract from them essential insights into global modernism, art under apartheid, and Stern’s conflicted legacy. * Peter Chametzky, Professor of Art History, University of South Carolina, USA *Strikingly original and well-researched, Irma Stern and the Racial Paradox of South African Modern Art is the work of a pioneering scholar. Employing a powerful Black feminist and decolonial perspective, LaNitra M. Berger questions received ideas about what constitutes modern African art. She shows us that the life and work of a controversial white artist like Irma Stern, whose work was predicated on racial exploitation, is important to the formation of global modernism in South Africa and beyond. * Prita Meier, Associate Professor of Art History, New York University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Irma Stern in a Global Context: Expressionist Influences Chapter 2 Cape Town Blues: Painting South Africa Chapter 3 Congo and Zanzibar Chapter 4 Modernism Under Apartheid: Art and Social Context Chapter 5 Irma Stern and Post-Apartheid South Africa Conclusion Biographical Timeline Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Concerning Stephen Willats and the Social
Book SynopsisThis book on Stephen Willats pulls together key strands of his practice and threads them through histories of British cybernetics, experimental art, and urban design. For Willats, a cluster of concepts about control and feedback within living and machine systems (cybernetics) offered a new means to make art relevant. For decades, Willats has built relationships through art with people in tower blocks, underground clubs, middle-class enclaves, and warehouses on the Isle of Dogs, to investigate their current conditions and future possibilities. Sharon Irish's study demonstrates the power of Willats's multi-media art to catalyze communication among participants and to upend ideas about audience and art. Here, Irish argues that it is artists like Willats who are now the instigators of social transformation.Trade ReviewChange and exchange—Sharon Irish has given us an insightful, nuanced and sympathetic account of Stephen Willats’s cybernetic art and social practice, growing from the maelstrom of the 1960s to the present, unsettling the balance of present and future, artist and participants, galleries and worlds along the way. * Andrew Pickering, Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Philosophy, Exeter University, UK *Table of ContentsList of figures Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: new functions for art practice in society A cybernetics primer Cybernetics goes social A social practice primer Chapter overview 1. The Omni-Directional Artist Heuristic tools on the move < Control Magazine Homeostat diagrams Cooperative decision-making: Visual Meta Language Simulation Pedagogical processes Man from the Twenty-First Century 2. Modelling the Social Cognition Control Centre for Behavioural Art Constructing social resources and social models West London Social Resource Project Social modelling in Edinburgh Meta Filter Art and social function 3. Mutually Bound Of concept frames From a Coded World A ‘new reality’? Willats in east London Sorting Out Other People’s Lives Inside an Ocean Art for Whom? 4. The Art of Sociotechnical Systems Toward a ‘depleted, disillusioned new reality’ The Ideological Tower Vertical Living Brentford Towers Art creating society: curating the Oxford Symposium and the Mosaic Series Personal Islands 5. Creativity in Self-Organization Participatory reception Working within a defined context Defined context, social practice, and the multi-homeostat problem Living with practical realities Do-It-Yourself (DIY) aesthetics ‘Objects of Creative Release’ Back to the Wasteland 6. Open-Ended Urban Systems Middlesbrough and The Transformer Marble Arch to Oxford Circus, London: Freezone Simulation in Sheffield South London: changing everything A pivot in scale: data streams Oxford community data stream Data stream portrait of London Conclusion: On Giving Up and Compromise Feedback and multiple futures Open systems and participation Thinking with cybernetics Compromise not compliance Notes Select Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Art and Creativity in an Era of Ecocide
Book SynopsisAnna Pigott is Lecturer in Human Geography at Swansea University, UK. Working in the field of Environmental Humanities, she is particularly interested in the impact of art and storytelling on our responses to environmental, social and economic crises.Owain Jones is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Humanities at Bath Spa University, UK. He has published over eighty scholarly articles and edited four books including Visual Culture in the Northern British Archipelago (2017).Ben Parry is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader of the MA in Curatorial Practice at Bath School of Art, Bath Spa University, UK. He is co-editor of Waste Work: The art of Survival in Dharavi (2023)and works as an artist, curator and independent researcher at the intersections of art, activism and urban space.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Feminism and Art History Now
Book SynopsisTo what extent have developments in global politics, artworld institutions and local cultures reshaped the critical directions of feminist art historians? The significant research gathered in Feminism and Art History Now engages with the rich inheritance of feminist historiography since around 1970, and considers how to maintain the forcefulness of its critique while addressing contemporary political struggles.Taking on subjects that reflect the museological, global and materialist trajectories of 21st-century art historical scholarship, the chapters address the themes of Invisibility, Temporality, Spatiality and Storytelling. They present new research on a diversity of topics that span political movements in Italy, urban gentrification in New York, community art projects in Scotland and Canada''s contemporary indigenous culture. Case studies focus on the art of Lee Krasner, The Emily Davison Lodge, Zoe Leonard, Martha Rosler, Carla Lonzi and Womanhouse. Together withTrade ReviewAs an innovative selection that engenders new approaches to writing feminist art histories today, [this collection] unquestionably adds to the scholarship and the growing number of edited collections on feminist art and art histories. * Visual Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Feminism and Art History Now Victoria Horne and Lara Perry PART I. WRITING | SPEAKING | STORYTELLING 1. An Unfinished Revolution in Art Historiography, or How to Write a Feminist Art History Victoria Horne and Amy Tobin 2. I Want a Dyke for President: Sounding out Zoe Leonard’s Manifesto for Art History’s Feminist Futures Laura Guy 3. ‘Our Stories Are Our Life Blood’: Indigenous Feminist Memory and Storytelling as Strategy for Social Change Cherry Smiley PART II. VISIBILITY | INTERVENTION | REFUSAL 4. Making Visible Lee Krasner’s Occupation: Feminist Art Historiography and the Pollock-Krasner Studio Andrew Hardman 5. Challenging Feminist Art History: Carla Lonzi’s Divergent Paths Giovanna Zapperi 6. This Moment: A Dialogue on Participation, Refusal and History Making Angela Dimitrakaki and Lara Perry PART III. SPATIALITY | OCCUPATION | HOME 7. The Salon Model: The Conversational Complex Elke Krasny 8. Los Angeles, 1972/Glasgow, 1990: A Report on Castlemilk Womanhouse Hannah Hamblin 9. If You Lived Here…: A Case Study on Social Reproduction in Feminist Art History Kirsten Lloyd PART IV. TEMPORALITY | GHOSTS | RETURNS 10. Temporalities of the ‘Feminaissance’ Francesco Ventrella 11. Gestures of Inclusion, Bodily Damage and the Hauntings of Exploitation in Global Feminisms (2007) Kimberly Lamm 12. Learning and Playing: Re-enacting Feminist Histories Catherine Grant Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Images of Childhood
Book SynopsisDrawing on a rich legacy of pictorial evidence, Images of Childhood examines historical constructions of childhood and how they reinforce or challenge the prevailing view of childhood as a state of innocence. Each chapter explores how visual elements such as framing, points-of view, and lighting, as well as clothes, accessories, and body language, help to construct our many different conceptions of children: from members of the family unit and assumed gender roles; to schooling and aesthetic objects; through to their economic value and use in political propaganda.Skillfully navigating a multitude of perspectives on this topic, Paul Duncum considers both how our ideas, beliefs and values have changed throughout history and how some have remained unchanged. He also explores the cultural notion of the child within and how this has contributed to the way adults perceive children. The result is a text far broader in scope than any other in its field, as art history is interweaved wiTrade ReviewAnchored by respect for children and by compelling imagery, Paul Duncum comprehensively and captivatingly interrogates multiple and contradictory discourses that generate both personal and public conceptions of childhood. * Marissa McClure, Professor of Art Education, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA; Associate Editor, Childhood Art: An International Journal of Research *Images convey so much more than we realize. This extraordinary and seminal text will surely expand, enrich, even interrogate, one’s conceptions of what childhood has meant across history, cultural studies and psychology. * Rita L. Irwin, Distinguished University Scholar and Professor, Art Education, The University of British Columbia, Canada *Deconstructing childhood imagery and its ideologies, this book outlines the different ways of understanding infancy throughout history. Gender, abuse, victimization, and commoditization are some of the issues the author reveals through a wide array of historical images. * Cesar Peña, Professor, School of Architecture & Design, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia *Examining the trope of childhood innocence that permeates representations of children throughout Western history, this engaging text highlights the role images play in shaping our conceptions of childhood and our enduring cultural ambivalence toward children. * Christine Marmé Thompson, Professor Emerita, Penn State University School of Visual Arts, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1. Children as Worthy Subject 2. Children as Family Member 3. Children as Gendered 4. Children as Adult 5. Children as Schooled 6. Children as Aesthetic 7. Children as Victim 8. Children as Threat 9. Economic Entity 10. Political Propaganda 11. Children as Innocent Bibliography Index
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John Wiley & Sons Memorials Now
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Edinburgh University Press The DidiHuberman Dictionary
Book SynopsisThe Didi-Huberman Dictionary is a specialized introduction to the thought of contemporary French philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman, best known for his path-breaking philosophy of image and for his impact on the 'visual turn' in theoretical humanities.Trade Review"This extraordinary glossary leverages the power of interdisciplinary research in art and human sciences, and invites the reader to consider the beauty of these disciplines by embracing multiple genres in and about the work of philosopher, thinker, poet Georges Didi-Huberman." -Barbara Baert, KU Leuven
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Edinburgh University Press Gombrich a Theory of Art
Book SynopsisThis is the first English translation of Gombrich: una teor a del arte, by Joaqu n Lorda, originally published in 1991. This book presents an extensive, expansive and holistic analysis of Gombrich's thought.
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State University of New York Press Dimensions of Aesthetic Encounters
Book SynopsisA novel fusing of multiple approaches and range of examples exploring the dimensions, objects, and import of aesthetic encounters.We encounter in our lives things and situations that elicit from us special forms of attention. They affect and inform us in various ways, drawing us in and holding us in their grasp or turning us away. Works of art of all sorts, and nature in its myriad manifestations, exemplify these luring and repelling qualities and potencies. Dimensions of Aesthetic Encounters explores central perceptual, interpretative, and semiotic dimensions of these encounters, combining a wide range of examples and intellectual resources from pragmatist, hermeneutical, and semiotic frameworks. Practicing a kind of "method of rotation" Robert E. Innis breaks down barriers in aesthetic theory and shows their complementary powers. Recurring themes link each chapter, throwing a powerful light on aesthetic encounters by foregrounding such pivotal notions as play, fundedness and the role of memory, the defining quality of an artwork, energies of objects, potencies, rhythm, form, presentational abstraction, medium, symbolization, intuition, role of the body, and the non-argumentative nature of art.
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Edinburgh University Press Grey on Grey
Book SynopsisInspired by Hegel's invocation of philosophy as a painting of grey on grey', this collection of essays explores the rich scope of ideas implicated by grey, as a colour and a philosophical concept.
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Edinburgh University Press The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twentyfirst
Book SynopsisDeals with the exploration and theorisation of Modern and Contemporary art of Iran through the examination of art movements and artistic practices in relation to other cultural, social and political discourses during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Edinburgh University Press Probabilistic Aesthetics of the AvantGardes
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Edinburgh University Press ImageThinking
Book SynopsisIn this rich, highly illustrated book, Mieke Bal takes us on a journey through the range of her work, using the concept of image-thinking as a point of connection between cultural analysis and artistic practice. Bal teaches us how to think with images, but also how to write and think as artists and writers about our own creative work.
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Manchester University Press Addressing the Other Woman: Textual
Book SynopsisThis book analyses how three artists – Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero and Mary Kelly – worked with the visual dimensions of language in the 1960s and 1970s. These artists used text and images of writing to challenge female stereotypes, addressing viewers and asking them to participate in the project of imagining women beyond familiar words and images of subordination. The book explores this dimension of their work through the concept of ‘the other woman’, a utopian wish to reach women and correspond with them across similarities and differences. To make the artwork’s aspirations more concrete, it places the artists in correspondence with three writers – Angela Davis, Valerie Solanas, and Laura Mulvey – who also addressed the limited range of images through which women are allowed to become visible.Trade Review'In looking at the decade that occupies a unique place in the ongoing history of the transnational feminist movement, [Lamm has] uncovered hitherto unassessed materials and proposed insightful new readings in the archives of feminism, whilst also presenting us with an archival rearrangement that produces new objects with which to think about art history.'Association for Art History -- .Table of ContentsList of figuresIntroduction: addressing the other womanPart I: Writing the 'I' otherwise: telegraphing black feminism in the work of Adrian Piper and Angela Davis 1 Adrian Piper’s textual address2 Letters from an imaginary enemy, Angela DavisPart II: Typing the poetry of monsters: Nancy Spero and Valerie Solanas write aggression 3 Writing the drives in Nancy Spero’s Codex Artaud4 Valerie Solanas’ SCUM Manifesto and the texts of aggression Part III: Hieroglyphs of maternal desire: the collaborative texts of Mary Kelly and Laura Mulvey5 Rewriting maternal femininity in Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum Document6 Feminist desires and collective reading in the work of Laura MulveyConclusionBibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press Transmodern: An Art History of Contact, 1920–60
Book SynopsisHow can we reconfigure our picture of modern art after the postcolonial turn without simply adding regional art histories to the Eurocentric canon? Transmodern examines the global dimension of modern art by tracing the crossroads of different modernisms in Asia, Europe and the Americas. Featuring case studies in Indian modernism, the Harlem Renaissance and post-war abstraction, it demonstrates the significance of transcultural contacts between artists from both sides of the colonial divide. The book argues for the need to study non-western avant-gardes and Black avant-gardes within the west as transmodern counter-currents to mainstream modernism. It situates transcultural art practices from the 1920s to the 1960s within the framework of anti-colonial movements and in relation to contemporary transcultural thinking that challenged colonial concepts of race and culture with notions of syncretism and hybridity.Trade ReviewThis book makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate on global modernism. Enriched by wide research spanning a wide geographical area, this subtle, scholarly work, well-grounded in deep research, will become an essential textbook at educational institutions as well as provide a benchmark in future discussions on questions of global art. Partha Mitter -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Toward a postcolonial art history of contact2 In the shade of tall mango trees: art education and transcultural modernism in the context of the Indian independence movement3 Transcultural beginnings: decolonisation, transculturalism and the overcoming of race4 Trees of knowledge: anthropology, art and politics. Melville J. Herskovits and Zora Neale Hurston – Harlem circa 19305 The migrant as catalyst: Winold Reiss and the Harlem Renaissance6 Encounters with masks: counter-primitivisms in Black modernism7 Purity of art in a transcultural age: modernist art theory and the culture of decolonisation8 Painting the global history of art: Hale Woodruff’s The Art of the NegroIndex
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Manchester University Press Gestures
Book SynopsisThis cross-disciplinary collection of feminist approaches to gesture offers new explorations of how gesture/s and feminism/s have animated one another in feminist and interdisciplinary artistic practice from the 1960s onwards. -- .
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Manchester University Press Model Collapse
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Manchester University Press Addressing the Other Woman
Book SynopsisThis book analyses how three artists Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero and Mary Kelly worked with the visual dimensions of language in the 1960s and 1970s. -- .
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David Zwirner Souvenirs From a Memoir
Book SynopsisA selection from the memoir of Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, the renowned eighteenth-century French portraitist and one of the most important women painters in art historyIn her memoir, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun offers a candid and thoroughly enjoyable account of her life and art. She relates her encounters among the royalty and aristocracy she paintedincluding, most famously, her patron Marie Antoinetteand the effusive reception they extended to her across Europe. Forced to flee during the French Revolution, Vigée Le Brun traveled through Italy, Russia, Germany, and England, returning twelve years later to France under Napoleon I. These pages demonstrate her unflagging creativity during unstable times and her remarkable savvy. Her observations provide unique insight into the art world of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe, a time when women were rarely allowed success. In her introduction to this volume, the scholar Anne Higonnet conveys Vigée Le Brun's unique position at a turning point in the art world, as well as the larger world beyond, and navigates in particular how one retroactively reconstructs a relationship to a world-changing revolution.
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Archaeopress Artistic Practices and Archaeological Research
Book Synopsis‘Artistic Practices and Archaeological Research’ aims to expand the field of archaeological research with an anthropological understanding of practices which include artistic methods. The project has come about through a collaborative venture between Dragos Gheorghiu (archaeologist and professional visual artist) and Theodor Barth (anthropologist). This anthology contains articles from professional archaeologists, artists and designers. The contributions cover a scale ranging from theoretical reflections on pre-existing archaeological finds/documentation, to reflective field-practices where acts of ‘making’ are used to interface with the site. These acts feature a manufacturing range from ceramics, painting, drawing, type-setting and augmented reality (AR). The scope of the anthology – as a book or edited whole – has accordingly been to determine a comparative approach resulting in an identifiable set of common concerns. Accordingly, the book proceeds from a comparative approach to research ontologies, extending the experimental ventures of the contributors, to the hatching of artistic propositions that demonstrably overlap with academic research traditions, of epistemic claims in the making. This comparative approach relies on the notion of transposition: that is an idea of the makeshift relocation of methodological issues – research ontologies at the brink of epistemic claims – and accumulates depth from one article to the next as the reader makes her way through the volume. However, instead of proposing a set method, the book offers a lighter touch in highlighting the role of operators between research and writing, rather entailing a duplication of practice, in moving from artistic ideas to epistemic claims. This, in the lingo of artistic research, is known as exposition. Emphasising the construct of the ‘learning theatre’ the volume provides a support structure for the contributions to book-project, in the tradition of viewing from natural history. The contributions are hands-on and concrete, while building an agenda for a broader contemporary archaeological discussion.Table of ContentsContents; Introduction: Exposition and Transposition. Seeking an Ontologic Sensoriality in Contingencies – by Theodor Barth; Convergences: Archaeology and Art – by Giulio Calegari; Art as Entangled Material Practices. The Case of Late Iron Age Scandinavian Gold Foil Figures in the Making – by Ing-Marie Back Danielsson; The Mediality of Rock and Metal. Exploring Formal Analyses of Rock Art through Graffiti – by Fredrik Fahlander; The Diverse Sense of Frontality of Prehistoric Pottery: At the Time of Production, Deposition, and Publication/Exhibition – by Makoto Tomii; Art or Creativity? From Archaeological Photo-Ethnography to Art: Approaches to Two Contemporary Sites – by José Ant. Marmol Martinez; Heidegger at Work. An Archaeological Employment of a Theory of Truth in Art – by Ylva Sjostrand; Art and Thought – by Marcel Otte and Hans Lemmen; Experimenting the Art of Origins: Animating Images by Blowing Colours and Sounds – by Dragoş Gheorghiu; ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ Art, Archaeology and Forensic Anthropology – by Theodor Barth and Ane Thon Knutsen; Epigraphy in the Landscape: Intersections with Contemporary Ink Painting and Land Art – by Lia Wei; Magnetic Boulders. Unfolding Stone with Gestures and Light – by Geir Harald Samuelsen; PORØS: A Model of Resistance as Material Communication – by Neil Forrest and Theodor Barth; Virtual Art in Teaching and Learning Archaeology: An Intermedia to Augment the Content of Virtual Spaces and the Quality of Immersion – by Dragos Gheorghiu and Livia Stefan
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Art LoVers Celebrating Elisabeth de Bièvre and
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Intellect Critical Digital Art History
Book SynopsisThis anthology highlights emerging criticalperspectives on digitization, computationalmethods and datafication in art history and themuseum/heritage sector. The aim is to develop adeeper understanding of the theoretical andpolitical aspects of the use of digital tools in theseareas. 25b&w illus.
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Intellect Photo Obscura
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Verso Books Crisis as Form
Book SynopsisCriticism of contemporary art is split by an opposition between activism and the critical function of form. Yet the deeper, more subterranean terms of art-judgment are largely neglected on both sides. These essays combine a re-examination of the terms of judgement of contemporary art with critical interpretations of individual works and exhibitions by Luis Camnitzer, Marcel Duchamp, Matias Faldbakken, Anne Imhof and Cady Noland. The book moves from philosophical issues, via the lingering shadows of medium-specificity (in photography and art music), and the changing states of museums, to analyses of the peculiar ways that works of art relate to time.To give artistic form to crisis, it is suggested, one needs to understand contemporary art's own constitutive crisis of form.Trade ReviewSpritely -- David Beer * The Critic *Praise for Anywhere or Not At All * : *An important achievement. This is the first book known to me that brings contemporary art as a whole to philosophical consideration. One of the orienting points for future work. -- John Rapko * Notre Dame, Philosophical Reviews *A brilliant book -- Blake Stimson * Philosophy of Photography *Osborne's capacity to synthesise the impact of new geopolitical realities on art practices make this book an important one not just for philosophers, art historians and critics, but new media theorists as well. -- Lisa Trhair * Critical Enquiry *An inestimably significant intervention into a range of debates in the history, theory, criticism, and philosophy of contemporary art and its various genealogies and lineages. For the range of thought-provoking and suggestive insights offered, it has few competitors in the field. -- James Lavender * Goodreads *Praise for The Postconceptual Condition * : *Compelling -- Max L. Feldman * Afterimage *Peter Osborne offers a fundamental reflection on the critical potential of art today, but also on its lacunas, an element that gives more value to the work. * Critique d’art *Very little philosophical writing is inspiring enough to catalyse art and bring it into being. Peter Osborne's writing is consistently in this category. -- Hito SteyerlIt is essential reading for anyone serious about contemporary art - or its philosophy. -- Ruth Noack, Curator of documeta 12
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Tate Publishing A Short Book About Art Expanded Edition
Book SynopsisThe bestselling survey of art history, newlyexpanded with additional artworks and freshcommentary across six overarching themes:looking, materials, mind, devotion, power, and sex. How is art made? How can we interpret the meaning behind it? And what is the significance of the way in which it is displayed? Using six common themes that bind together art from around the globe, this lively and illuminating journey through art history seeks to answer these questions and more, drawing parallels across different time periods and cultures from cave paintings to contemporary multi-media works. This expanded edition of Dana Arnold's bestselling survey offers news illustrations and fresh insights the perfect companion for anyone seeking to learn more across a stunning breadth of art.
£13.50
Reaktion Books Outsider Art: From the Margins to the Marketplace
Book SynopsisOutsider art is work produced outside the mainstream of modern art by self-taught visionaries, spiritualists, eccentrics, recluses, psychiatric patients, criminals and others beyond the perceived margins of society. Coined in 1972 the term is derived from art brut', which the artist Jean Dubuffet began promoting just after the Second World War. Both focus on the idea of a raw', untaught creativity, which is still a contentious and much-debated issue. Is this a natural phenomenon, requiring only the right circumstances (isolation or alienation) to be revealed; or is it more like a mirage projected by the very culture it is supposed to be escaping from? Behind the polemic and the commercial hype lies a cluster of assumptions about creative drives, the expression of inner worlds, radical originality and the artist's social or psychological eccentricity. Although Outsider art is often presented as a recent discovery, these ideas belong to a tradition that goes back to the Renaissance, when the modern image of the artist began to take shape. If Outsiders are in some way outside' the conventional art world, what happens to them, and to the works they create, when they are introduced to it? David Maclagan has been writing on Outsider art for over twenty-five years, and this book sets out to challenge many of the received ideas in the field. This book will be of interest to the growing number of people interested in the field of Outsider art, and all those studying concepts of artistic creativity and their cultural background.Trade ReviewTo celebrate publication of Outsider Art, James Maclagan will be in discussion with James Brett, the curator of the Museum of Everything, at the ICA on 10th February 2010, with Jarvis Cocker as fellow panelist. 'The author guides the reader through this complex debate, building up the historical background and investigating the growth of psychological ideas and psychiatric therapies during the 20th century. His analysis includes an introduction to the principles of art brut as defined by Dubuffet, the evolution of public appreciation, the role of collectors, and the impact of these developments on the artists themselves.' - The Art Newspaper 'a thoughtful, informative and well-researched analysis of an area of art that defies easy classification or study ... he shows that in the struggle for understanding of this complex and contradictory genre there is much to learn about art from the outside edge, and through it, understanding of the art that resides in the mainstream centre.' - The Art Book
£22.00
Persephone Books Ltd The Exiles Return
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£16.00
Wooden Books Shadows: in Nature, Life and Art
Book SynopsisWhats the difference between a cast shadow and a form shadow? Why do shadows become increasingly important in Western art? Can we only ever see shadows, not objects themselves, as Plato claimed? In this beautiful little book, printmaker and History of Art Professor William Vaughan presents the history of shadows, from their emergence in the visuals arts to their association with death and the subconscious. Get ready! You may never look at the world the same way again! "Fascinating" FINANCIAL TIMES. "Beautiful" LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS. "Rich and Artful" THE LANCET. "Genuinely mind-expanding" FORTEAN TIMES. "Excellent" NEW SCIENTIST. "Stunning" NEW YORK TIMES. Small books, big ideas.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Shadows in Nature The Naming of Parts 2 3-D Shadows and Ambient Light 4 How Do We See Shadows? 6 Night The Earths Shadow 8 Eclipses Shadows of the Sun and Moon 10 Measuring Time Sundials 12 Spatial Calculations and Revealing the Invisible 14 Shadows in the Mind The Shadow and the Soul 16 In Platos Cave 18 Melancholia 20 Fairy Tales and Popular Culture 22 Psychology Freud, Jung and the Archetype 24 In Praise of Shadows 26 Shadows in Art The Origins of Art 28 Skiagraphia Shadows and Illusion 30 Shadows in Sculpture 32 The Rebirth of the Shadow 34 Drawing shadows 36 Shadow in Architecture 38 Caravaggio and Chiaruscuro 40 Rembrandt and the Ambient Shadow 42 The Enlightenment Lavater and Silhouette Portraiture 44 Chinese Shadows 46 The Magic Lantern 48 Romantics and Other Mysterious Shadows 50 The Shadow in Modern Art 52 Filmic Shadows 54 Shadows and Paradox 56 Ending 58
£7.49
Black Dog Press Central Line Series
Book Synopsis The Central Line Series documents and celebrates a selection of artworks commissioned and presented at a range of sites along the Central Line of the London Underground, intended to enhance the experience of traveling on the Tube.Projects include: Michael Landy, Acts of Kindness, 2011 and the collaborative work A Lock is a Gate, 2011, from Ruth Ewan, composer Kerry Andrew and poet Evlynn Sharp in conjunction with the Laburnum Boat Club, amongst many others.
£11.01
Strange Attractor Press In Search Of The Third Bird: Exemplary Essays
Book SynopsisThe real history of the covey of attention-artists who call themselves "The Birds."A great deal of uncertainty--and even some genuine confusion--surrounds the origin, evolution, and activities of the so-called Avis Tertia or "Order of the Third Bird." Sensational accounts of this "attentional cult" emphasize histrionic rituals, tragic trance-addictions, and the covert dissemination of obscurantist ontologies of the art object. Hieratic, ecstatic, and endlessly evasive, the Order attracts sensual misfits and cabalistic aesthetes--both to its ranks, and to its scholarship.In recent years, however, the revisionist work of the research collective ESTAR(SER) has done much to clear the air, bringing archival precision to the history of this covey of attention-artists who call themselves "The Birds." Gathering the best articles of the last twenty years of The Proceedings of ESTAR(SER), this volume represents a landmark in the history of aesthetic practices, and will be a point of departure for future work wading the muddy marshes at the limits of historicism.
£19.55
Zone Books Francisco de Goya and the Art of Critique
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£31.50
ELM Grove Publishing The Singular Adventures of Rabbit and Kitty Boy
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£23.39
Shelter Press Twenties are Gone
Book SynopsisTwenties Are Gone is a sentimental journey written in the mist of a Finnish August of 2012. It guides us as a reconstructed and DIY carte du Tendre . Reconstructed through the primordial forests from the Californian redwoods to the northern Finland. A statement led by the experience of making sculptures and having drinks under a porch, drawing as making sandwiches, being in love and singing songs, watching tv shows and staring at sunsets. Both highly in the now and at the same time metaphysical. The Twenties are gone. And thirties are opening their wild gates. This is the first poetry book wrote by the visual and sound artist Felicia Atkinson.
£9.00
CFC Les collections du Art et marges musée:
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£28.50
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Performance and Spectatorship in Edwardian Art
Book SynopsisThis book explores how Edwardian art writing shaped and narrated embodied, performative forms of aesthetic spectatorship. It argues that we need to expand the range of texts we think of as art writing, and features a diverse array of critical and fictional works, often including texts that are otherwise absent from art-historical study. Multi-disciplinary in scope, this book proposes a methodology for analyzing the aesthetic encounter within and through art writing, adapting and reworking a form of phenomenological-semiotic analysis found conventionally in performance studies. It focuses on moments where theories of spectatorship meet practice, moving between the varied spaces of Edwardian art viewing, from the critical text, to the lecture hall, the West End theatre and gallery, middle-class home, and fictional novel. It contributes to a rethinking of Edwardian culture by exploring the intriguing heterogeneity and self-consciousness of viewing practices in a period more commonly associated with the emergence of formalism.Table of Contents1. Introduction: An Invitation.- 2. Characterising the Viewer.- 3. Spectatorship and Ekphrasis.- 4. Staging Spectatorship.- 5. Staging Art.- 6. Domesticity, Decoration and Role Play.- 7. Conclusion.
£42.74
Springer International Publishing AG From STEM to STEAM
Book SynopsisThis book provides readers with an introductory overview of art from the perspective of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The author ensures that readers will understand the art terms used by comparing them with terms used in STEM fields of study.
£33.24
JRP Ringier Resistance Anew: Artworks, Culture & Democracy
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£15.20
