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Valiz The Future of the New: Artistic Innovation in
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Valiz Help Your Self: The Rise of Self-Design
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Valiz Wicked Arts Assignments: Practising Creativity in
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Valiz Forces of Art: Perspectives from a Changing World
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Kontejner Extravagant Bodies: Extravagant Age Reader:
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Termoelektrarna Sostanj Code: Red
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GHOST Editions Complexity: At the Limit of the (Im)possible
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The University of Chicago Press Art in Mind How Contemporary Images Shape Thought
Book SynopsisVan Alphen analyzes how art visually thinks about these difficult cultural issues, tapping into an understudied interpretation of art as the realm where ideas and values are actively created, given form, and mobilized.Trade Review"This book advances a strong and original claim: that art, in this case contemporary art, thinks. And in this study, thought is always visual. The style is clear, animated, and free of jargon. Anyone interested in contemporary art or philosophy will find this book informative, thought-provoking, and rewarding." - Norman Bryson, author of Looking at the Overlooked"
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The University of Chicago Press Art and Truth after Plato
Book SynopsisDespite its foundational role in the history of philosophy, Plato's famous argument that art does not have access to truth or knowledge is now rarely examined, in part because recent philosophers have assumed that Plato's challenge was resolved long ago. In this title, the author argues that Plato has in fact never been satisfactorily answered.Trade Review"Art and Truth after Plato is a highly important contribution to the philosophy of art, aesthetics, and the history of philosophy generally. Tom Rockmore successfully explores one of the fundamental problems in the history of philosophy, namely, appearance and reality, mimesis and representation, and their bearing on the question of truth, and he does so in a way that is engaging and highly readable. Indeed, his literary style is exceptionally lucid and clear. His work easily ranks with the best in contemporary philosophy." (Alan Olson, Boston University)"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Art History after Modernism Emersion Emergent
Book SynopsisBelting examines how art is made, viewed, and interpreted today. Arguing that contemporary art has burst out of the frame that art history had built for it, Belting calls for an entirely new approach to thinking and writing about art.
£76.95
University of Chicago Press Art History after Modernism
Book SynopsisIn this title, Belting examines how art is made, viewed, and interpreted today. Arguing that contemporary art has burst out of the frame that art history had built for it, Belting calls for an entirely new approach to thinking and writing about art.
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The University of Chicago Press Two Thumbs Up
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Leading with a discussion of food and wine criticism, Ross shows how debates about objectivity of taste provide a clue to the role of critics in the appreciation of art. She demonstrates encyclopedic knowledge of the main figures and arguments regarding aesthetic properties and opens up the material with her accessible style and concise summaries of the central topics."--Alan Goldman, author of Life's Values: Pleasure, Happiness, Well-Being, and Meaning "At a time when philosophers of art are paying more attention to criticism, Two Thumbs Up offers an excellent contribution. It covers every aspect of the Humean tradition of criticism as well as pertinent debates, such as on the nature of aesthetic properties, supplementing the philosophical discussion with a valuable overview of the literature, all written in language clear to both general readers and philosophical specialists."--Noel Carroll, author of Beyond AestheticsTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter One: Taste and Preference Chapter Two: Aesthetic Qualities Chapter Three: Hume on the Standard of Taste Chapter Four: Identifying Critics Chapter Five: When Critics Disagree Chapter Six: Comparing and Sharing Taste Chapter Seven: Some Applications Appendix: A Checklist for Appreciation Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£37.05
The University of Chicago Press The Visible Word Experimental Typography and
Book SynopsisEarly in this century, Futurist and Dada artists developed brilliantly innovative uses of typography that blurred the boundaries between visual art and literature. In this text, Johanna Drucker shows how later art criticism has distorted our understanding of such works.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Geography of the Gaze Urban Rural Vision in
Book SynopsisFocusing on Western Europe from the 17th to 19th centuries, Geography of the Gaze offers a new history and theory of how the way we look at things influences what we see. Dubbino shows how developments in science and art affected the portrayal of landscapes.
£89.30
The University of Chicago Press Clement Greenberg Between the Lines
Book SynopsisClement Greenberg (1909-94), champion of abstract expressionism and modernism has been esteemed by many as the greatest art critic of the second half of the twentieth century, and possibly the greatest art critic of all time. This title assesses Greenberg's writings, and features the approaches to the man and his work.Trade Review"In this compelling study, Thierry de Duve reads Greenberg against the grain of the famous critic's critics - and sometimes against the grain of the critic himself. By reinterpreting Greenberg's interpretations of Pollock, Duchamp, and other canonical figures, de Duve establishes new theoretical co-ordinates by which to understand the uneasy complexities and importance of Greenberg's practice." - John O'Brian, editor of Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism. "De Duve is an expert on theoretical aesthetics and thus well suited to reassess the formalist tenets of the late American art critic's theory on art and culture.... De Duve's close readings of Greenberg... contain much of interest, and the author clearly enjoys matching wits with 'the world's best known art critic.'" - Library Journal.
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The University of Chicago Press The Beauty of a Social Problem Photography
Book SynopsisBertolt Brecht once worried that our sympathy for the victims of a social problem can make the problem's beauty and attraction invisible. The author explores the effort to overcome this difficulty through a study of several contemporary artist-photographers whose work speaks to questions of political economy.
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The University of Chicago Press Daguerreotypes Fugitive Subjects Contemporary
Book SynopsisIn the digital age, photography confronts its future under the competing signs of ubiquity and obsolescence. By examining the medium as articulated in literature, film, and the graphic novel, this book demonstrates how photography secures identity for figures with an unstable sense of self.
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The University of Chicago Press Art and Truth after Plato
Book SynopsisPresents a fresh look at an ancient question, bringing it into contemporary relief. This volume offers a comprehensive account of Plato's influence through nearly the whole history of Western aesthetics.Trade Review"Art and Truth after Plato is a highly important contribution to the philosophy of art, aesthetics, and the history of philosophy generally. Rockmore successfully explores one of the fundamental problems in the history of philosophy, namely, appearance and reality, mimesis and representation, and their bearing on the question of truth, and he does so in a way that is engaging and highly readable. Indeed, the literary style of Rockmore is exceptionally lucid and clear. His work easily ranks with the best in contemporary philosophy." (Alan Olson, Boston University)
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The University of Chicago Press Sculpture Some Observations on Shape Form from Pygmalions Creative Dream Some Observations on Shape and Form from Pygmalions Creative Dream ... Village resources for communities of faith
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The University of Chicago Press Sculpture Some Observations on Shape and Form
Book SynopsisHerder combines rationalist and empiricist thought with a wide range of sources - from the classics to Norse legend, Shakespeare to the Bible - to illuminate the ways we experience sculpture.Trade Review"Herder on sculpture: "The eye that gathers impressions is no longer the eye that sees a depiction on a surface; it becomes a hand, the ray of light becomes a finger, and the imagination becomes a form of immediate touching.
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The University of Chicago Press Making TheoryConstructing Art On the Authority of
Book SynopsisThis text examines and critiques the norms, assumptions, historical conditions and institutions that have framed the development and uses of art theory. It looks at the work of major figures in the avant-garde movement, such as John Cage, Jean-Francois Lyotard and Andy Warhol.
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The University of Chicago Press Network Aesthetics
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University of Chicago Press Arts of Wonder
Book SynopsisThe fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by 'the disenchantment of the world.' Max Weber's statement remains a dominant interpretation of the modern condition: the increasing capabilities of knowledge and science have banished mysteries, leaving a world that can be mastered technically and intellectually. And though this idea seems empowering, many people have become disenchanted with modern disenchantment. Using intimate encounters with works of art to explore disenchantment and the possibilities of re-enchantment, Arts of Wonder addresses questions about the nature of humanity, the world, and God in the wake of Weber's diagnosis of modernity. Jeffrey L. Kosky focuses on a handful of artists Walter De Maria, Diller + Scofidio, James Turrell, and Andy Goldsworthy to show how they introduce spaces hospitable to mystery and wonder, redemption and revelation, and transcendence and creation. What might be thought of as religious longings, he argues, are crucial aspects of enchanting secularity when developed through encounters with these works of art. Developing a model of religion that might be significant to secular culture, Kosky shows how this model can be employed to deepen interpretation of the art we usually view as representing secular modernity. A thoughtful dialogue between philosophy and art, Arts of Wonder will catch the eye of readers of art and religion, philosophy of religion, and art criticism.
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The University of Chicago Press Outliers and American Vanguard Art
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The University of Chicago Press Womens Culture American Philanthropy and Art
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The University of Chicago Press Talking Art The Culture of Practice and the
Book SynopsisGary Fine opens up the contemporary art practice MFA and finds that it's mostly about theorizing and arguing about art, and very little about actually making it.
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The University of Chicago Press Talking Art The Culture of Practice and the
Book SynopsisGary Fine opens up the contemporary art practice MFA and finds that it's mostly about theorizing and arguing about art, and very little about actually making it.
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The University of Chicago Press Georg Simmel
Book SynopsisTrade Review“At long last a collection in English that does justice to the breadth, depth, and contemporary significance of Simmel’s writings on the arts! With many new translations and a wide-ranging introduction, Harrington’s volume portrays the influential modernist philosopher and pioneering cultural theorist in deep and critical engagement with a rapidly changing world. A powerful testament to Simmel’s conception of philosophical culture—and to the transdisciplinary significance of a thinker whose achievements continue to resist disciplinary categorization.” -- Elizabeth Goodstein, Emory University“Georg Simmel is known in sociology for many things: the structure of social groups, the philosophy of money, metaphysical essays on life, individuality and social forms, the metropolis, and social differentiation. However, apart from the publication of Rembrandt in 2005, Simmel’s fascinating studies of culture, literature, and art forms have been neglected. Therefore, we owe Austin Harrington a serious debt of gratitude for editing and translating Simmel’s diverse publications on the theatre, sculpture, style and representation, and aesthetics into a single volume. In addition, I strongly recommend Harrington’s modestly entitled ‘Introduction’ as a comprehensive and meticulous commentary on Simmel and contemporary evaluations of his oeuvre. This volume will deepen and expand our understanding of the Simmel legacy for years to come.” -- Bryan S. Turner, Australian Catholic University and the Graduate Centre CUNY"The long and detailed introduction that Harrington provides is probably one of the best introductions to Simmel's works. . . Harrington's goal of providing the reader with a complete and well-structured collection of the most important Simmel essays on art and aesthetics in just one book is fully achieved." * Simmel Studies *
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The University of Chicago Press Georg Simmel
Book SynopsisTrade Review“At long last a collection in English that does justice to the breadth, depth, and contemporary significance of Simmel’s writings on the arts! With many new translations and a wide-ranging introduction, Harrington’s volume portrays the influential modernist philosopher and pioneering cultural theorist in deep and critical engagement with a rapidly changing world. A powerful testament to Simmel’s conception of philosophical culture—and to the transdisciplinary significance of a thinker whose achievements continue to resist disciplinary categorization.” -- Elizabeth Goodstein, Emory University“Georg Simmel is known in sociology for many things: the structure of social groups, the philosophy of money, metaphysical essays on life, individuality and social forms, the metropolis, and social differentiation. However, apart from the publication of Rembrandt in 2005, Simmel’s fascinating studies of culture, literature, and art forms have been neglected. Therefore, we owe Austin Harrington a serious debt of gratitude for editing and translating Simmel’s diverse publications on the theatre, sculpture, style and representation, and aesthetics into a single volume. In addition, I strongly recommend Harrington’s modestly entitled ‘Introduction’ as a comprehensive and meticulous commentary on Simmel and contemporary evaluations of his oeuvre. This volume will deepen and expand our understanding of the Simmel legacy for years to come.” -- Bryan S. Turner, Australian Catholic University and the Graduate Centre CUNY"The long and detailed introduction that Harrington provides is probably one of the best introductions to Simmel's works. . . Harrington's goal of providing the reader with a complete and well-structured collection of the most important Simmel essays on art and aesthetics in just one book is fully achieved." * Simmel Studies *
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The University of Chicago Press Seeing Silence
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Based on the synesthesia between seeing and hearing, Seeing Silence is an original and fascinating meditation on the origins of human experience, art, and language. Taylor argues eloquently for the significance of silence in the contemporary world, and he shows the value of reflecting on the work of artists and thinkers who have recognized this." --Graham Parkes, University of ViennaTable of Contents0. 1. Without 2. Before 3. From 4. 5. Beyond 6. Against 7. Within 8. 9. Between 10. Toward 11. Around 12. 13. With 14. In Acknowledgments Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Logic of the Lure
Book SynopsisThe attraction of a wink, a nod, a discarded snapshot - such feelings permeate our lives, yet we usually dismiss them as insubstantial. Jean Paul Ricco argues through the medium of modern art that it is precisely such fleeting experiences that will create a queer aesthetic, and notion of ethics.Trade Review"This original and frequently dazzling work explores sites that might be defined as queer spaces, and in which we might think of a queer architecture being located. What results is an extremely fascinating effort to redefine notions of architectural space and identity, and to reimagine the spatial dimensions of subjectivity itself." - Leo Bersani, author of Homos
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The University of Chicago Press The DeDefinition of Art Phoenix Book
Book SynopsisLike the great German critic Walter Benjamin, Rosenberg is a master of dialectics whose sense of art is continuous with his sense of society, and (also like Benjamin) bears no taint of compromised, out-of-work radicalism. Instead, his radicalism is very much at work, enabling him to spot and skewer fallacies, false logic and the camouflaged nudity that is a large part of the art emperor's new wardrobe. [The De-definition of Art] detects with great sensitivity the forces that are deflecting and pressuring art in the direction of esthetic and moral nullity.Jack Kroll, Newsweek
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The University of Chicago Press Art on the Edge Creators and Situations
Book SynopsisAs a stylist, in his descriptions of art and movements and books, Rosenberg has no equal. . . . One is grateful for [this] essay collection. To my mind, his piece on art criticism and the distinction between it and art history is alone worth the price of the book. Corinne Robins, New York Times Book Review
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The University of Chicago Press Distant Early Warning Marshall McLuhan and the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Each chapter puts McLuhan into context with individual artists... This is a good way to revisit McLuhan, particularly as his work is too often reduced to enigmatic bons mots... [Kitnick] makes a compelling case..." * Literary Review of Canada *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 The Age of Mechanical Production Chapter 2 What It Means to Be Avant-Garde Chapter 3 Lights On Chapter 4 Electronic Opera Chapter 5 Massage, ca. 1966 Chapter 6 Information Environment Chapter 7 Culture Was His Business Postscript: McLuhan’s Art Today Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Scandal of Pleasure Art in an Age of
Book SynopsisSurveys a wide range of cultural controversies, from the Mapplethorpe affair to Salman Rushdie's death sentence. This book seeks to show that the fear and outrage these events inspired were the result of dangerous misunderstandings about the relationship between art and life.
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The University of Chicago Press The Poets Freedom A Notebook on Making
Book SynopsisWhy do we need new art? How free is the artist in making? And why is the artist, and particularly the poet, a figure of freedom in Western culture? This book explores and celebrates the freedom of artists who, working under finite conditions, make considered choices and shape surprising consequences.Trade Review"Susan Stewart is an investigator of linguistic nuance and a new metaphysics, par excellence.... I believe she is one of the finest poets of the last fifty years." -John Kinsella, Salt Magazine "Stewart's meditations on the history of poetry and the poetic are in themselves an original contribution to the philosophy of culture." -Hayden White, author of Figural Realism"
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The University of Chicago Press Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus Berlin
Book SynopsisPoets often have responded vitally to the art of their time, and ever since Susan Stewart began writing about art in the early 1980s, her work has resonated with practicing artists, curators, art historians, and art critics. Rooted in a broad and learned range of references, Stewart's fresh and independent essays bridge the fields of literature, aesthetics, and contemporary art. Gathering most of Stewart's writing on contemporary artlong and short pieces first published in small magazines, museum and gallery publications, and edited collectionsThe Open Studio illuminates work ranging from the installation art of Ann Hamilton to the sculptures and watercolors of Thomas Schütte, the prints and animations of William Kentridge to the films of Tacita Dean. Stewart's essays are often the record of studio conversations with living artists and curators, and of the afterlife of those experiences in the solitude of her own study. Considering a wide variety of art forms, Stewart finds pathbreak
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Columbia University Press Theorizing Modernism
Book SynopsisConcentrating on canonical critical texts and images, the book examines modern art through a rhetoric of representation rather than through formalist criticism or the history of the avant-garde.
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Columbia University Press Hiroshima After Iraq
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRosalyn Deutsche argues for a certain modesty-or perhaps, I should say, a modest uncertainty-with regard to the demands placed upon art in response to war. She brings a deep knowledge of both contemporary art and the psychoanalytic literature on war to her study, as well as the careful exposition and lucid prose we've come to expect from her work. -- Douglas Crimp, author of Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer PoliticsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Silvia Kolbowski 2. Leslie Thornton 3. Krzysztof Wodiczko Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Hiroshima After Iraq
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRosalyn Deutsche argues for a certain modesty-or perhaps, I should say, a modest uncertainty-with regard to the demands placed upon art in response to war. She brings a deep knowledge of both contemporary art and the psychoanalytic literature on war to her study, as well as the careful exposition and lucid prose we've come to expect from her work. -- Douglas Crimp, author of Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer PoliticsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Silvia Kolbowski 2. Leslie Thornton 3. Krzysztof Wodiczko Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press A Hunger for Aesthetics
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFor artists, critics, theoreticians, and the like, this book is a call to engage with philosophy's numerous critical resources. Michael Kelly takes a significant first stab at healing the deleterious rift between philosophical aesthetics, on the one hand, and art, art criticism, art history, and 'theory' on the other. This is an ambitious and important book! No other work in the literature-art historical or philosophical-makes such an attempt. -- A.W. Eaton, University of Illinois at Chicago In elegant and trenchant commentaries on influential twentieth-century artists, art movements, and art theories (ranging from John Dewey to Susan Sontag and from Pop art to Doris Salcedo), Michael Kelly interrogates the 'anti-aesthetic' stance among certain artists and critics and in recent histories and philosophies of the arts, and reinvigorates the possibility of a robust critical aesthetics of art. Weaving careful attention to the aesthetic, social, and ethical claims of particular artworks with an investigation of a range of philosophical and critical responses to them, Kelly shows that the very possibilities of art as critique and of the critique of art demand-even 'hunger for'-an aesthetics that addresses the moral-political stakes and limits of art. Kelly's explication and defense of aesthetics as the grounds of art critique-rather than inimical to it-will interest not only philosophers of art and aestheticians of all stripes. In developing theoretical resources to renew the relations between aesthetics and ethics, social theory, and political economy, it will command the close attention of curators, historians, sociologists, and practitioners of the arts, especially those who have been tempted to abandon aesthetics. -- Whitney Davis, University of California, Berkeley Useful for scholars in philosophy who are reflecting on the links between aesthetics and beauty in contemporary art. Literature and AestheticsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: The Dewey Effect 1. The Pop Effect 2. The Sontag Effect 3. The Richter Effect 4. The Salcedo Effect Notes Index
£69.26
Columbia University Press Photography and Its Violations
Book SynopsisA passionate defense of the medium’s truth-telling powers.Trade ReviewPhotography and Its Violations poses a world-transforming ethical challenge to photography's makers, subjects, and viewers alike: to reveal or conceal the exercise of power. Armed with John Roberts's insights into the often insidious, sometimes enfranchising, always intricate interplay of these two opposing violations, sensitive readers will be empowered and emboldened as they battle for position amid the tsunami of photographs that has come to define our world. -- Blake Stimson, University of Illinois at Chicago, author of The Pivot of the World: Photography and Its Nation I know of no other work in photographic history or theory which takes such a wide survey of well-chosen examples in service of making profound and provocative sense of the whole field of photography. This book also successfully proposes a genuinely novel position from which to re-engage the most pressing, important, and persistent problems of photography. -- Tom Huhn, School of Visual ArtsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Social Ontology of Photography Part I. The Document, the Figural, and the Index 1. Photography and Its Truth-Event 2. The Political Form of Photography Today 3. "Fragment, Experiment, Dissonant Prologue": Modernism, Realism, and the Photodocument 4. Two Models of Labor: Figurality and Nonfigurality in Recent Photography Part II. Abstraction, Violation, and Empathy 5. Photography After the Photograph: Event, Archive, and the Nonsymbolic 6. Photography, Abstraction, and the Social Production of Space 7. Violence, Photography, and the Inhuman Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Installation and the Moving Image
Book SynopsisTraces the lineage of moving-image installation through architecture, painting, sculpture, performance, expanded cinema, film history, and countercultural film and videoTrade Review[A] wild ride of a book... Elwes has made an admirable assault on the field and I am sure this book will influence generations of students. Art Monthly Fascinating. Cinema TechnologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Architecture 2. Painting 3. Sculpture 4. Performance 5. Film History 6. Film as Film 7. Structural Film: Detractions and Revisions 8. The Dialectics of Spectatorship 9. Expanded Cinema 10. Sound 11. Video Installation 12. Closing Thoughts Bibliography Index
£64.00
Columbia University Press The Work of Art
Book SynopsisArt making as a way of mediating between inner and outer realities.Trade ReviewTo read a book by Michael Jackson is to be in his company: to hear a cultured and cosmopolitan voice relating stories that disclose how the human and universal inhabit the personal and particular. Art and religion, he avers, are transitional phenomena that facilitate links between inner experience and outer worlds such that human life is made more viable. To craft artworks and to engender religious cosmologies and practices is to create that artifice whereby pain may translate into comprehension and anonymity into a sense of control. Jackson is a uniquely insightful and compassionate guide. -- Nigel Rapport, author of I Am Dynamite: An Alternative Anthropology of Power Jackson's meditation on art and religion is an erudite blending of philosophy, personal biography, history, and ethnography. Full of powerful time-space juxtapositions that weave Europe, West Africa, Australia, and New Zealand into the same sentences, paragraphs, and pages, The Work of Art is a sustained inquiry into the affecting sociality of art in its making and sensuous resonance. A wonderful addition to Jackson's elegant writings on key existential themes in anthropology: between-ness, becoming, and relationality. -- Steven Feld, author of Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra: Five Musical Years in Ghana Jackson's lucid, elegant, and incisive book is a laser beam piercing the murky discourse that surrounds contemporary art. His clarity restores the reciprocal relations between the work of art and our experience of it; his wisdom honors the age-old link between life, ritual, and soul-making. Most important of all, he shows again what it means to be alive in the world: bearing witness equally to joy and to pain. -- Martin Edmond, author of The Resurrection of Philip Clairmont The Work of Art is a deeply moving, inspirational, and intellectually compelling examination of the myriad ways in which art, religion, and ritual overlap. Combining phenomenological and existential insights with honest and intimate ethnographic reflection, Jackson teases out the productive and transformative implications of art practice. -- Adrian Parr, author of The Wrath of Capital: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics [The Work of Art] offers intriguing insights into how we might understand art and religion as two modes of the same creative impulse. Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsPreamble Part 1 Worlds Within and Worlds Without Melbourne Now The Elementary Forms of Religious Life Art as Religion The Interplay of Coming Out and Going In Consciousness From Joyce to Beuys Production and Reproduction Axes of Bias A Visit to the Kunstmuseum Basel Part 2 The Life and Times of Paddy Jupurrula Nelson Ecstatic Professions Art and Adversity: Ian Fairweather and the Solitude of Art Transplantations: The Art of Simryn Gill My Brother's Keeper: The Art of Susan Norrie Heroic Failure: The Art of Sidney Nolan Une Vie Breve, Mais Intense The Pare Revisited A Man of Constant Sorrow: The Existential Art of Colin McCahon Part 3 Landscape and Nature Morte: The Art of Paul Cezanne Art and the Unspeakable Marina Abramovic and the Shadows of Intersubjectivity Exodus Making It Otherwise Art and the Everyday The Work of Art and the Arts of Life Notes Acknowledgments Permissions Index
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Columbia University Press Critics Coteries and PreRaphaelite Celebrity
Book SynopsisWendy Graham traces the critical discourses that shaped the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood’s reception and continues to inform responses to them. She explains the mechanics of fame and the politics of scandal contributing to the rise of aestheticism, providing a new interpretation of the place of aesthetic counterculture in Victorian England.Trade ReviewThis is a useful survey of high Victorian critical values, and it helps prepare the way for a deeper understanding of Henry James and Oscar Wilde. * Choice *Graham’s strengths are in her meticulous historical illustrations of her theoretical claims. -- Erica Haugtvedt, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Rapid City, South Dakota * Clio *The book makes a helpful addition to the growing scholarship on avant-garde celebrities, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the eighteenth century to Gertrude Stein, Truman Capote, and Andy Warhol in the twentieth. -- Sharon Marcus * Victorian Studies *Graham’s is a book for which to feel grateful . . . Her determination to write both the homosociality and the (often denied) homoeroticism of the PRB men back into their story, and thus into cultural history, is an admirable animating purpose. That she does this, too, by means of such energetic, idiosyncratic, passionately engagé prose makes her study a most welcome one. -- MARGARET D. STETZ, University of Delaware * English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 *This book should be welcomed by scholars working in Queer and Gender studies, whom it most directly addresses. Victorianists interested in the figure of the celebrity and the role played by periodicals will also value its detailed reception history. Scholars of Pre-Raphaelite art (and to a lesser extent, literature) will find some interesting and provocative claims to ponder. -- Elizabeth Helsinger * Cercles *Wendy Graham writes with engaging clarity and rigor about the curious homoeroticism of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the volatile sexual politics surrounding the careers of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, and Simeon Solomon in particular. With her subtle eye for the odd erotic enthusiasm, the conflicted allegiance, and the panicky equivocation, she takes a fresh and judicious look at the abundant mythmaking, journalistic backstabbing, and personal betrayals that attended the myriad Pre-Raphaelite challenges to Victorian conventions. -- Ellis Hanson, Cornell UniversityCritics, Coteries, and Pre-Raphaelite Celebrity is chock full of insight. Graham wants us to think of Pre-Raphaelitism as not just a, but the crucial movement in the making of modern ideas of celebrity. Her concern is at once with the Pre-Raphaelites, and with the assortments of critical discourse that greeted their onset, shaped their contemporary reception, and continued to guide critical responses to them well after their supersession. She argues that there exists both within the PRB and its reception a persistent homosocial and often homoerotic dynamic, which shapes the ways we think about art movements and their possibilities. This is a distinguished and fascinating work. -- Jonathan Freedman, University of MichiganTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Pre-Raphaelite Vanguard2. Puff, Slash, Burn: Literary Celebrity3. Fortune’s Weal4. Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Aesthetic Celebrity5. Anonymous Journalism: The Fleshly School Controversy6. Henry James and British AestheticismAfterwordNotesWorks CitedIndex
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Columbia University Press Embodying Art
Book SynopsisChiara Cappelletto recasts the relationship between neuroscience and aesthetics and calls for shifting the focus of inquiry from the brain itself to personal experience in the world. Embodying Art offers a strikingly original and profound philosophical account of the human brain as a living artifact.Trade ReviewCappelletto’s Embodying Art marks a new beginning. Skeptics of brain-oriented approaches to art and aesthetics will delight in her trenchant criticisms, even as friends will welcome what is in fact a sympathetic, deeply informed, and highly informative embrace of the emerging field. But whatever side you are on, you will be impressed by her demonstration that neuroaesthetics has become a new arena in which not only scientists of the brain, but also philosophers, art historians, and artists themselves, are reimagining, indeed, remaking what it is to be human. This is a book for anyone interested in why the study of the brain now occupies such a central place in our cultural life. -- Alva Noë, author of Strange Tools: Art and Human NatureChiara Cappelletto is celebrated for writing the first book on neuroaesthetics to come out of Italy, but what we really should be noticing is her powerful ability to dispense with cultural conventions about aesthetics to perform what is among the most careful sifting and analysis of the literatures, including the persistent literature on the mind-body divide, that have informed the disparate threads of this relatively new field, without forcing them into unitary interdisciplinarity. Cappelletto combines an insistence on the field's early and uneven development with measured skepticism about the discipline’s love of its own metaphors and cultures—what she refers to as the 'intractable problem' of neuroesthetics' 'fictional experimental setting' and its narrow thematization of the embodied mind, bringing us to recognize the value of analyzing lived encounters with art in its historical contexts. If you are looking to stay with the trouble of neuroaesthetics without losing sight of the cultural conventions that produce both art and the brain itself, this is the book to stay with. -- Lisa Cartwright, author of Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine’s Visual CultureTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNeuroaesthetics Reloaded1. 1994: Putting Neuroaesthetics on the Map2. Neuroaesthetics: Cerebral Attributes and Bodily Ghosts3. Neuroarthistory: On Emotions, Matter, and Time4. Neuroartcriticism: From the Artist’s Lesions to the Artwork and Vice Versa5. The Brain’s Iconoclash6. Brains on StageNotesBibliographyAppendix: Artworks on the BrainIndex
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Columbia University Press Embodying Art
Book SynopsisChiara Cappelletto recasts the relationship between neuroscience and aesthetics and calls for shifting the focus of inquiry from the brain itself to personal experience in the world. Embodying Art offers a strikingly original and profound philosophical account of the human brain as a living artifact.Trade ReviewCappelletto’s Embodying Art marks a new beginning. Skeptics of brain-oriented approaches to art and aesthetics will delight in her trenchant criticisms, even as friends will welcome what is in fact a sympathetic, deeply informed, and highly informative embrace of the emerging field. But whatever side you are on, you will be impressed by her demonstration that neuroaesthetics has become a new arena in which not only scientists of the brain, but also philosophers, art historians, and artists themselves, are reimagining, indeed, remaking what it is to be human. This is a book for anyone interested in why the study of the brain now occupies such a central place in our cultural life. -- Alva Noë, author of Strange Tools: Art and Human NatureChiara Cappelletto is celebrated for writing the first book on neuroaesthetics to come out of Italy, but what we really should be noticing is her powerful ability to dispense with cultural conventions about aesthetics to perform what is among the most careful sifting and analysis of the literatures, including the persistent literature on the mind-body divide, that have informed the disparate threads of this relatively new field, without forcing them into unitary interdisciplinarity. Cappelletto combines an insistence on the field's early and uneven development with measured skepticism about the discipline’s love of its own metaphors and cultures—what she refers to as the 'intractable problem' of neuroesthetics' 'fictional experimental setting' and its narrow thematization of the embodied mind, bringing us to recognize the value of analyzing lived encounters with art in its historical contexts. If you are looking to stay with the trouble of neuroaesthetics without losing sight of the cultural conventions that produce both art and the brain itself, this is the book to stay with. -- Lisa Cartwright, author of Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine’s Visual CultureTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNeuroaesthetics Reloaded1. 1994: Putting Neuroaesthetics on the Map2. Neuroaesthetics: Cerebral Attributes and Bodily Ghosts3. Neuroarthistory: On Emotions, Matter, and Time4. Neuroartcriticism: From the Artist’s Lesions to the Artwork and Vice Versa5. The Brain’s Iconoclash6. Brains on StageNotesBibliographyAppendix: Artworks on the BrainIndex
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University of Illinois Press Queer Pollen
Book Synopsis Queer Pollen discusses three notable black queer twentieth century artists--painter and writer Richard Bruce Nugent, author James Baldwin, and filmmaker Marlon Riggs--and the unique ways they turned to various media to work through their experiences living as queer black men. David A. Gerstner elucidates the complexities in expressing queer black desire through traditional art forms such as painting, poetry, and literary prose, or in the industrial medium of cinema. This challenge is made particularly sharp when the terms 'black' and 'homosexuality' come freighted with white ideological conceptualizations. Gerstner adroitly demonstrates how Nugent, Baldwin, and Riggs interrogated the seductive power and saturation of white queer cultures, grasping the deceit of an entrenched cultural logic that defined their identity and their desire in terms of whiteness. Their work confounds the notion of foundational origins that prescribe the limits of homosexuTrade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2012. "Gerstner is a master theorist who renders a compelling and cutting-edge narrative about the complexity of black homosexual desire. The first book of its kind to specifically address the formation of black queer subjectivity in relation to white seduction, Queer Pollen offers a major contribution to African American studies, gender studies, film studies, literary studies, and art history."--E. Patrick Johnson, author of Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South "[Gerstner] is extremely well informed on the landmark work in critical theory...and continues to establish his reputation as an influential daredevil theorist who probes the complexity of identity. Highly recommended."--Choice "Queer Pollen examines the work of three queer black creators: Harlem Renaissance aesthete Richard Bruce Nugent, novelist James Baldwin and filmmaker Marlon Riggs. . . . Like all twentieth and even twenty-first century creators, all three have a relationship to film which emerges in their work in multimedia and in the written word. . . . Gerstner asks us to de-naturalise the cinematic frame of reference and understand how it can be used as a strategy to examine how power relations are manifested as looks and inscribed on the body through desire and shame. Instead of poisoned fruit, these three authors offer insight into the ways in which desire draws its own authenticity by consuming and re-appropriating a collage of different cultural forms."--Dr. Scott Beattie, Somatechnics "A true companion piece to Baldwin's [Go Tell It on the Mountain]. Provides good intellectual theory."--Film InternationalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Richard Bruce Nugent (1906-87) 19 2. James Baldwin (1924-87) 73 3. Marlon Riggs (1957-94) 138 Notes 215 Bibliography 261 Index 277
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