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Book SynopsisThe texts in this volume represent Kristin Ross's attempt to think the question of the everyday across a range of discourses, practices and knowledges, from philosophy to history, from the visual arts to popular fiction, all the way to the forms taken by collective political action in the territorial struggles of today. If everyday life is, as many have come to believe, the ideal vantage point for an analysis of the social, it is also the crucial first step in its transformation.The volume opens with a return to Henri Lefebvre's powerful attempt to think the everyday as both residue and resource, as the site of profound alienation and-by the same token-the site where all emancipatory initiatives and desires begin. The second section focuses on our attempts to represent our lived reality to ourselves in cultural forms, from painting and literature and film to an analysis of the contemporary transformations of the sub-genre most embedded in the deep superficiality of everyday life: detective fiction. The final section turns to present-day ecological occupations in the wake of the zad at Notre-Dame-des-Landes, and locates the everyday as a site for rich oppositional resources and immanent social creativity.Trade ReviewIn these remarkably lucid essays, real critics, rebellious farmers, artisans, and diverse character-types are summoned to remind us of moments of conformist immobility, disavowals of colonialism, violence and class difference; but also, of how French cultural history offers paths toward public beauty, collectivity, ecological ways of living. Ross has an uncanny ability to zero in on what matters in the forms of the Paris Commune and beyond, letting participants speak without the usual virtue-signaling. -- Karen Pinkus, Professor of Romance Studies and Comparative Literature, Cornell UniversityThis volume recalls why Kristin Ross's work is a necessary point of entry into the infinite insurrection of everyday life envisaged by Karl Marx and Henri Lefebvre, Arthur Rimbaud and Jacques Ranciere, variously enacted from the Commune to May 68, and that animates the rural radicalism of today's Zad. Anyone interested in altering the questions of our day towards a new everyday life will find here an abundant reservoir to think and do anew. -- Manu Goswami, New York University

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Book SynopsisIn the wake of failed states, growing economic and political inequality, and the ongoing US- and NATO-led wars for resources, security, and economic dominance worldwide, contemporary artists are revisiting former European colonies, considering past injustices as they haunt the living yet remain repressed in European consciousness. With great timeliness, projects by Sven Augustijnen, Vincent Meessen, Zarina Bhimji, Renzo Martens, and Pieter Hugo have emerged during the fiftieth anniversary of independence for many African countries, inspiring a kind of “reverse migration”—a return to the postcolony, which drives an ethico-political as well as aesthetic set of imperatives: to learn to live with ghosts, and to do so more justly.

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Book SynopsisOn Curating, Carolee Thea's second volume of interviews with ten of today's leading curators, explores the intellectual convictions and personal visions that lay the groundwork for the most prestigious and influential exhibitions in the world today. Among the aesthetic and theoretical issues raised are the relationship between artist and curator, globalism, post-colonialism, capitalism, the future of cultural tourism and the biennial as spectacle or utopian ideal. As Thea notes in her introduction, "the biennial or mega-exhibition--a laboratory for experimentation, investigation and aesthetic liberation--is where the curators' experience and knowledge are tested. As they negotiate venues for artistic expression, intellectual critiques and humanistic concerns in their own societies and others, they are challenged by the certainties and uncertainties of a constantly evolving future." Thea's interviewees are Joseph Backstein, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Okwui Enwezor, Charles Esche, Massimiliano Gioni, RoseLee Goldberg, Mary Jane Jacob, Pi Li, Virginia Perez-Ratton and Rirkrit Tiravanija. On Curating also includes 50 color illustrations of relevant works by (among others) Kutlug Ataman, Tamy Ben-Tor, John Bock, Cao Fei, Olafur Eliasson, Isaac Julien, Francois & Philippe Parreno, Yvonne Rainer, Michael Rakowitz, Doris Salcedo, Allan Sekula, Yinka Shonibare and Francesca Woodman. Carolee Thea is a curator, critic, art historian and independent scholar. Her first book, Foci: Interviews with Ten International Curators was published in 2001. She is contributing editor at ArtAsiaPacific and Sculpture magazine and was the English editor of Atlántica 45. Her articles, reviews and interviews have been published in many arts journals, among them Parkett, Artforum.com, The New Art Examiner, Modern Painters, Artnet.com, ZSijue 21 Beijing, Heresies, Tema Celeste, Parachute and ArtNews.

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Book SynopsisA teacher to Jacques Lacan, André Breton, and Albert Camus, Kojève defined art as the act of extracting the beautiful from objective reality. His poetic text, “The Concrete Paintings of Kandinsky,” endorses nonrepresentational art as uniquely manifesting beauty. Taking the paintings of his renowned uncle, Wassily Kandinsky, as his inspiration, Kojève suggests that in creating (rather than replicating) beauty, the paintings are themselves complete universes as concrete as the natural world. Kojève’s text considers the utility and necessity of beauty in life, and ultimately poses the involuted question: What is beauty? Including personal letters between Kandinsky and his nephew, this book further elaborates the unique relationship between artist and philosopher. An introduction by Boris Groys contextualizes Kojève’s life and writings.

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Book SynopsisA photograph lives in multiple eras at once: the time of its making, the time of its unveiling, the time of its subsequent rediscovery. —Rebecca Bengal In Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists, Rebecca Bengal considers the photographers who have defined our relationship to the medium. Through generous essays and interviews, she contemplates photography’s narrative power, from the radical intimacy of Nan Goldin’s New York demimonde to Justine Kurland’s pictures of rebel girls on the open road. Bengal brings us closer to pioneering artists and the personal and political stories surrounding their images. She travels with Alec Soth in Minneapolis, searching for the houses where Prince once lived, and revisits Chauncey Hare’s 1979 protest against the Museum of Modern Art. She speaks with Dawoud Bey about his evocative portraits and explores Diana Markosian’s cinematic take on her family’s immigration to the US. Throughout Strange Hours, Bengal’s prose is attuned to the alchemy of experience, chance, and vision that has always pushed photography’s potential for unforgettable storytelling.Trade Review"Strange Hours serves a crash course in the enormity and importance of photography. It plunges quickly beneath the surface to reveal just how deep the image can go."—Kat Herriman, Cultured Magazine

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Book SynopsisArt + Archive provides an in-depth analysis of the connection between art and the archive at the turn of the twenty-first century. The book examines how the archive emerged in art writing in the mid-1990s and how its subsequent ubiquity can be understood in light of wider social, technological, philosophical and art-historical conditions and concerns. Deftly combining writing on archives from different disciplines with artistic practices, the book clarifies the function and meaning of one of the most persistent artworld buzzwords of recent years, shedding light on the conceptual and historical implications of the so-called archival turn in contemporary art.Table of ContentsThe archive: a must-have accessory of the moment?Part I: The notion of the archive in art writing and theory1 Archive art discourse2 Archive theory3 The artworld as an archival structure Part II: Five themes in contemporary archive art4 Materiality5 Research6 Critique7 Curating8 TemporalityPostscriptIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This indispensable collection follows Schwitters' swiftly changing thought on a diverse range of subjects from architecture and painting to graphic art and poetry. In each case Schwitters delivers his canny diagnosis with rigor, humor, and unflinching belligerence. No figure was able to reconcile Dadaist nihilism with constructivist optimism quite like Schwitters, and his striking insights about the hollow metaphysics of consumer society will not fail to resonate with anyone torn between the positions of critique and complicity today."--Devin Fore, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations An Introduction to Merz-Thought A Note to the Reader 1 The Problem of Abstract Art. First Attempt (June–August 1910) 2 Problem of Pure Painting. 2nd Attempt. 1. Beginning (before December 1910) 3 Materials for My Work on the Problem of Pure Painting. 3rd Attempt (November 1910) 4 2nd Beginning to the Problem of Pure Painting. 2nd Attempt (December 1910–January 1911) 5 Abstract Painting. 1918. A. (February 1918) 6 Merz-Painting (July/November 1919) 7 A Solid Article: A Wienerization in Sturm (August 1919) 8 The Merz-Theater / To All the Theaters of the World (1919) 9 Artists’ Right to Self-Determination (1919) 10 Thou Me, I Thee, We Mine (and Sun Infinity Thin Out the Stars) (December 1919) 11 Nothing Kills Quicker Than Ridicule (February 1920) 12 Berliner Börsenkukukunst (February 1920) 13 Tran Number 7. General Amnesty for My Hannoverian Critics in the Style of Merz (April 1920) 14 What Art Is: A Guide for Great Critics (April 1920) 15 Statement (April 1920) 16 [I divide my poetry into three types . . .] (April 1920) 17 Hannover (June 1920) 18 Extension (June 1920) 19 Tran Number 11. German Popular Criticism, the Criticism of Reconstruction (August 1920) 20 Tran No. 12. Criticism as Artwork (September 1920) 21 Tran Number 13. The Private Scouring Cloth: Contribution to a Phenomenology of Critical Enjoyment (October 1920) 22 Tran No. 14. Dr. Frog Starves the Intellect (October 1920) 23 Tran Number 16. Life on Blind Feet (December 1920) 24 Kurt Schwitters (1920) 25 Tran Number 17. The Fettered Paul Madsack (December 1920) 26 MERZ (Written for the Ararat, 19 December 1920) (January 1921) 27 Tran No. 15. The Average Phenomenon with Clear Eyes (January 1921) 28 Why I Am Dissatisfied with Oil Painting (January 1921) Translated from Hungarian by John Batki 29 Tran 18 (February 1921) 30 Evening Reading (ca. February 1921) 31 My Views on the Value of Criticism (for the Ararat) (May 1921) 32 Cleanliness (for People Who Don’t Know It Yet) (May 1921) 33 Tran 19 (August 1921) 34 Castle and Cathedral with Courtyard Fountain (1922) 35 Tran 21. Speech at the Grave of Leo Rein (in the Berliner Börsenzeitung 547 on 27 November 1921) (January 1922) 36 Tragedy. Tran No. 22, against Dr. Weygandt, PhD and MD (May 1922) 37 i (A Manifesto) (May 1922) 38 Tran No. 26 (1922) 39 Tran 23 (September 1922) 40 Introduction to Tran No. 30: Auguste Bolte (1923) 41 The Self-Overcoming of Dada (January 1923) Translated from Dutch by Michael White 42 [Introduction to Merz 1. Holland Dada] (January 1923) 43 Dadaism in Holland (January 1923) 44 [Editorial note to Vilmos Huszár, Mechanische Dansfiguur] (January 1923) 45 Style (ca. January–April 1923) 46 i (April 1923) 47 WAR (April 1923) 48 War (April 1923) 49 Manifesto Proletarian Art (April 1923) 50 From the World: “MERZ” (April–June 1923) 51 Banalities (3) (July 1923) 52 dada complet. 1 (July 1923) 53 Banalities (4) / [Tristan Tzara] (July 1923) 54 DADA NEWS (July 1923) 55 WATCH YOUR STEP! (October 1923) 56 Merz (1924) 57 i (January 1924) 58 DADA COMPLET No. 2. / TRAN 50 (January 1924) 59 Dadaists (January 1924) 60 [Advertisement for Merz 8/9. Nasci] (January 1924) 61 Tran 35. Dada Is a Hypothesis (March 1924) 62 Rigorous Poetry (June 1924) 63 Dadaism (1924) Translated from Polish by Kamila Kuc 64 National Feeling (August 1924) 65 The Westheim Threat, Again (December 1924) 66 National Art (1925) 67 [What Is Madness?] (ca. mid-1920s) 68 Theses on Typography (1925) 69 [The Standard Merz Stage] (1925) 70 STANDARD MERZ STAGE (July 1925) 71 Religion or Socialism (July 1925) 72 STANDARD MERZ STAGE (Some Practical Suggestions.) (July 1925) 73 The ABC of the Standard Merz Stage (July 1925) 74 Language (November 1925) 75 Standard Stage by Kurt Schwitters (December 1925) 76 Gut Garkau (ca. late 1925/early 1926) 77 FANTASTIC THOUGHTS (ca. 1926) 78 Art and the Times (March 1926) 79 The New Architecture in Germany (March 1926) 80 Life’s Path (May 1926) 81 Facts from My Life (June 1926) 82 Rhythm in the Work of Art (October 1926) 83 Merz-Book (October 1926) 84 Standard Stage (October 1926) 85 My Merz and My Monster Merz: Model Marketplace at Sturm (October 1926) 86 Call It Coincidence (ca. mid-1920s) 87 The Artist and His Titles (1926) 88 Merz 20. Kurt Schwitters Catalogue (1927) 89 [Ella Bergmann-Michel] (March 1927) 90 [Letter to Wassily Kandinsky] (April 1927) 91 Elementary Knowledge in Painting (ca. 1927) 92 Style or Form-Creation (1927) 93 typography and orthography: lowercase (ca. 1927) 94 Sensation (July 1927) 95 Front against Fronta: Afterword to the Foreword of Fronta (July–August 1927) 96 Proposals for a Systematic Typeface (August–September 1927) 97 Sense of Duty (September 1927) 98 Stuttgart, The Home—Werkbund Exhibition (October 1927) 99 My Sonata in Ur-Sounds (November 1927) 100 Kitsch and Dilettantism (December 1927) 101 Good or Bad Fortune (December 1927) 102 On Greek Temples (April 1928) 103 Appearance (ca. spring 1928) 104 Third Prague Letter (May 1928) 105 The New Architecture in Celle: The Architect Otto Haesler (August 1928) 106 Form-Creating Typography (September 1928) 107 Modern Advertising (October 1928) 108 Werkbund Congress in Munich, 1928 (November 1928) 109 Stories That Have Run Their Course (November 1928) 110 Revue by Three Reviewed (December 1928) 111 [Review of Hans Hildebrandt, Woman as Artist] (December 1928) 112 Hannover and the Abstract Room by Lissitzky (April 1929) 113 About Me by Myself (May 1929) Originally published in English, translator unknown 114 A Layman’s Judgment of New Architecture (June 1929) 115 The Style of the Age and the Dammerstock Housing Estate (September 1929) 116 Facts from My Life (December 1929) 117 [The art of today is a strange thing . . .] (March 1930) Translated from French by Eva Morawietz 118 the ring neue werbegestalter (1930) 119 Advertising Design (1930) 120 Form-Creation in Typography (February and April 1930) 121 Painting (ca. late 1920s/early 1930s) 122 On the Uniform Design of Print Materials (1930) 123 Kurt Schwitters (1930) 124 [The Big E is finished . . .] (ca. 1930–33) 125 Myself and My Aims (1931) 126 [We know the Doesburg of “Stijl” . . .] (June 1931/January 1932) 127 merz-paintings (1932) Translated from French by Eva Morawietz 128 [Statement about the Merzbau] (1933) Translated from French by Eva Morawietz 129 [Excerpts from letters to Susanna Freudenthal-Lutter about the Merzbau] (February and March 1935) 130 [Excerpt from a letter to Susanna Freudenthal-Lutter about landscape painting] (July 1935) 131 The Work of Art (ca. 1937–40) 132 Impressionism/Expressionism (ca. 1937–40) 133 The Tin Palm Tree (July 1937) 134 [I once saw a famous singer in a film . . .] (December 1937) 135 [Anyone who wants to write about people . . .] (December 1937) 136 Sheet 1. For My New Studio (April 1938) 137 Sheet 2 (April 1938) 138 Merz (April 1938) 139 [I first saw the light of the world in the year 1887 . . .] (June 1938) 140 [Once we realize that, basically, everything is futile . . .] (after 16 December 1939) 141 Truth (ca. 1930s) 142 Art (January 1940) 143 Mixing of Artistic Genres (ca. 1940) 144 Theory in Painting (January 1940) 145 Painting (Pure Painting) (October 1940) 146 [The Portrait] (October 1940) 147 European Art of the 20th Century (between 17 July 1940 and 22 November 1941) 148 [Statement declining membership in the Freier Deutscher Kulturbund] (after November 1941) 149 Abstract Art (after November 1941) Original in English 150 Material and Aims (after November 1941) Original in English 151 [Kurt Schwitters] (after November 1941) Original in English 152 The Origin of Merz (after November 1941) 153 [Kurt Schwitters] (after November 1941) Original in English 154 [Renaissance] (after 30 October 1945) 155 [Answers to a questionnaire for La savoir vivre] (1946) Translated from French by Eva Morawietz 156 Key for Reading Sound Poems (September 1946) Original in English 157 My Art and My Life (ca. 1946–47) Original in English Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisFilm is considered by some to be the most dominant art form of the twentieth century. It is many things, but it has become above all a means of telling stories through images and sounds. The stories are often offered to us as quite false, frankly and beautifully fantastic, and they are sometimes insistently said to be true. But they are stories in both cases, and there are very few films, even in avant-garde art, that don''t imply or quietly slip into narrative. This story element is important, and is closely connected with the simplest fact about moving pictures: they do move. Even the older meanings of the word ''film'' - a membrane, a covering, a veil, an emanation - now seem to have something to do with moving pictures. Many people believe films are an instrument of illusion, an emphatic way of seeing what is not there; and this capacity has been both celebrated and condemned. ''Like a movie'' mostly means like some sort of fairy-tale. But what about the reverse proposition: that more than any other invention film brings us close to the world as it actually is? ''Photography is truth'', a character says in a film by Jean-Luc Godard. ''And cinema is the truth twenty-four times per second''. The same claim is made every day, albeit less epigrammatically, by newsreels and surveillance cameras. In this Very Short Introduction Michael Wood provides a brief history and examination of the nature of the medium of film, considering its role and impact on society as well as its future in the digital age. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade ReviewThis is an excellent short guide that manages to cram in a vast amount of information into a very small space. It never pretends to offer a history of film but is a superb resource for getting students to think about film as a medium, and to think about what makes film distinct as a means of conveying information, emotion, ideas at the same time as generating wonder, admiration, controversy, or ire. An unrivalled introduction to thinking about film as a medium. / Matthew Woodcock, University of East AngliaTable of Contents1. Frame after Frame ; 2. Life in the Dark ; 3. Story Time ; 4. Digital Dreams

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Book SynopsisIn today''s art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this book, Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many fascinating examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, museums, sex, and politics, clarifying contemporary and historical accounts of the nature, function, and interpretation of the arts. Freeland also propels us into the future by surveying cutting-edge web sites, along with the latest research on the brain''s role in perceiving art. This clear, provocative book engages with the big debates surrounding our responses to art and is an invaluable introduction to anyone interested in thinking about art.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition So many of the questions that define us as a culture have been raised through and by the art of recent decades, that without coming to terms with our art, we can scarcely understand ourselves. Cynthia Freeland has written a very smart book, in which high philosophical intelligence is applied to difficult questions raised by real works of art. It immediately situates the reader where thought and action meet, and since the issues are inescapable, it should be required reading for everyone. 'I know of no work that moves so swiftly and with so sure a footing through the battle zones of art and society today.' * Arthur C. Danto, Columbia University, author of After the end of art *This pocket potboiler provides some answers, a lot of questions and plenty of entertainment along the way * TNT Magazine 25/03/2002 *this is a pacy and readable introduction to art history * Independent on Sunday 10/03/2002 *admirable for its scope, compactness and exceptional clarity. Reader-friendly and thought-provoking * The Independent, 23/02/2002 *a book of simplicity and clarity that may well come to rival John Berger's Ways of Seeing as a reader's digest of the rubric of theories that make up contemporary art criticism . . . This is a valuable book for anyone perplexed by the arcane theorising of contemporary art * Sue Hubbard, The Independent 14/03/01 *.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ; 1. Blood and Beauty ; 2. Paradigms and Purposes ; 3. Cultural Crossings ; 4. Money, Markets, Museums ; 5. Gender, Genius, and Guerrilla Girls ; 6. Cognition, Creation, Comprehension ; 7. Digitizing and Disseminating ; Conclusion ; References ; Further Reading ; Index

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Book SynopsisVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring For thousands of years humanity has engaged in creative expression, allowing us to relate to other people, contribute to shared culture, build an identity, and give meaning to our existence. From the painted caves in Lascaux and the invention of the first tools to modern day advertising campaigns and inventors'' labs, creativity has a long past but a short history. The word ''creativity'' emerged in the English language in the 19th century and only become popular from the mid-20th century.This Very Short Introduction explores the history, theory, and practice of creativity from a psychological perspective. Vlad Glaveanu considers the nature and development of the creative process, and analyzes the reasons why we produce creative work. Offering a sociocultural reading of this phenomenon, he discusses how we can understand creative people and their creations within the social, material, and historical context that made them possible. In doing so, he demonstrates how we can address the meaning and value of creativity beyond its contribution to economic growth and personal well-being. Finally Glaveanu focuses on the future of creativity and creativity research, reflecting on technological development, the evolution of society and, ultimately, on our place in a world populated by creative beings, ideas, and encounters. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Table of Contents1: Creativity: what is it? 2: The who of creativity 3: The what of creativity 4: The how of creativity 5: The when and where of creativity 6: The why of creativity 7: Creativity: where to? Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In publishing, there is a difference between making a splash and actually making waves. Brown's work has done both. He opens his lens this time to a wide array of aesthetic and cultural objects from indigenous ethnographic sculpture to the kitsch memorabilia of 9/11. Along the way, there are readings devoted to material objects in canonical literature and more popular contemporary writing. Holding all this together in the force field of Brown's lucid prose are his steadily surprising insights into 'things other' than meet the eye in such object matter. This new book, too, will be not only applauded but also widely consulted."--Garrett Stewart, author of Bookwork: Medium to Object to Concept to Art "Audacious and profound, Brown rereads the great theorists and philosophers of modernism to create new categories--redemptive reification, misuse value, the meta-object--to explore a counter-history of the elusive 'other thing.' The art and literature of American and European modernist culture, he brilliantly argues, yield up the incandescence of the other thing once it can be emancipated from the teleology of commodity and war."--Isobel Armstrong, Birkbeck, University of London "For decades now, Brown has been thinking and writing about "thing theory," as he has called it. But in Other Things, he attempts to make clear the connections between his work and the recent surge of critical work involving things, objects, and matter....Brown makes what is likely the most sophisticated and strongest case for literary and historical study within a new materialist framework by suggesting that thingness can best be explained 'in the cultural field, ' rather than through, say, metaphysics."--Los Angeles Review of Books "In Brown's supple mind, things are alive. Their theoretical twists and turns and stubborn materiality are not opposites, but interwoven dynamics--material objects in a field of thingness. For more than a decade, Brown has explored the various meanings and operations of things in, and as, literature and the visual arts. His grasp of the subject, control of interpretation, and willingness to take intellectual risks make this book a necessary read for anyone interested in the things that provoke our intellectual curiosity."--James Cuno, The J. Paul Getty Trust "Compelling. . . . The test of Brown's book--which it surpasses and sustains--is that, like the paper clip or rubber band you almost certainly aren't holding as you read this, Other Things will stick in your mind anyway."--Modernism/modernity "Brown is a pre-eminent scholar of the material world. . . . Other Things is rigorously conceptual but it is also good company, an enlightening contribution to our understanding of material culture across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries."--Times Literary Supplement

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Book SynopsisIn addition to the 22 original essays, this edition includes 9 new ones as well as new introductory material. All help expand the book's scope while retaining its central goal of stimulating discussion of theoretical issues in art history and making it accessible.

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Book SynopsisHow art played a central role in the design of America's racial enterpriseand how contemporary artists resist it. Art has long played a key role in constructing how people understand and imagine America. Starting with contemporary controversies over public monuments in the United States, Rebecca Zorach carefully examines the place of art in the occupation of land and the upholding of White power in the US, arguing that it has been central to the design of America's racial enterprise. Confronting closely held assumptions of art history, Zorach looks to the intersections of art, nature, race, and place, working through a series of symbolic spacesthe museum, the wild, islands, gardens, home, and walls and bordersto open and extend conversations on the political implications of art and design. Against the backdrop of central moments in American art, from the founding of early museums to the ascendancy of abstract expressionism, Zorach shows how contemporary artistsincluding Dawoud

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book poses two, deceptively simple, questions: what is a sculpture garden, and what happens when you give equal weight to the main elements of landscape, planting and artwork? Its wide-ranging frame of reference, including the USA, Europe and Japan, is brought into focus through Tremenheere Sculpture Garden, Cornwall, with which the book begins and ends. Effectively less than 15 years old, and largely the work of one man, Tremenheere affords an opportunity to examine as work-in-progress the creation of a new kind of sculpture garden. Including a historical overview, the book traverses multiple ways of seeing and experiencing sculpture gardens, culminating in an exploration of their relevance as ''cultural ecology'' in the context of globalisation, urbanisation and climate change. The thinking here is non-dualist and broadly aligned with New Materialisms and Material Feminisms to explore our place as humans in the non-human world on which we depend. ETrade Review‘What happens if you take landscape, art and planting as equals in the Sculpture Garden?’ This is the question, ‘deceptively simple’, with which editor Penny Florence sets out. Essays ebb and flow around these common themes, arranging objects and ideas like Lee Ufan’s ‘tapestries of intimate breathing’. Gay Watson writes that the Buddhist philosophy of complementarity and the promotion of awareness was a ‘core intention’ of the Cornish Tremenheere Sculpture Garden – this book’s touchstone. Rippling the contradictory opposition of categories that has patterned western discourse on site-specificity and nature-culture relation so far, the intention of this ‘other’ mode of thinking-writing-breathing is to change consciousness. It’s a wonderful achievement with a beautiful structure, pace and energy. Quite unlike any other book on sculpture gardens I know!Jane Rendell, author of The Architecture of Psychoanalysis (2017) and Site-Writing (2011) is Professor of Critical Spatial Practice at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.This book is a delight: at once sharply focussed and diffused, it draws together some of the foremost theorists and practitioners of garden design, and invites us to rethink our understanding not just of sculpture in gardens but of gardens as the sculpting of experience. A hybrid volume exploring hybridity, Florence’s book combines intense insights and compelling overviews as it ranges from the established excitements of Little Sparta and the Louisiana Sculpture Park to the ongoing creation of Cornwall’s Tremenheere, and from the Mono-Ha school to the betweenness of Bernard Lassus.Professor Stephen Bending, University of SouthamptonTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsContentsi.​ Note on Method: Diffracting The Sculpture Gardenii. Introduction. The GroundPart I Tremenheere Sculpture Garden Tremenheere: Place of the Long Stones. Art, Plants, Landscape​. Penny Florence The Seed in the Stone: Peter Randall-Page’s Exploration of Energetic Structure. Penny Florence Mono-ha: Paying Attention. Japanese Art in/of the Garden Gay Watson Part II Placing History in/of the Garden4. Sculpture Gardens and Sculpture in Gardens. John Dixon Hunt5. The Garden: Art Object. Bernard Lassus 6. From Pedestal to Place. David Leatherbarrow7.Little Sparta and the Neo-Classical Re-Arming of the Sculpture Garden. Patrick Eyres8. How to Make a Path. The Swiss Way Project 1991 Georges DescombesPart III​ ​Return to Tremenheere9. ​Landscape, Art, Plant, Event Penny Florence ​10. ​Thinking the Sculpture Garden Penny FlorenceAppendix. Tremenheere Lists and Map.Author Biographies

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Book SynopsisPresents an overview of significant issues and debates in Gothic studies. This book explains the origins and development of the term Gothic. It explores the evolution of the Gothic in both literary and non-literary forms, including art, architecture and film.Trade Review"The overall result is wonderfully informative and suggestive for the beginning student, while offering some striking additional insights spread across the book for advanced students of Gothic who have yet to consider such contexts for it as postcolonialism, 'goth' subcultures and 'Hallucination and the Narcotic'." Gothic StudiesTable of ContentsHow to Use This Book. Chronology. Introduction. Backgrounds and Contexts. Civilisation and the Goths. Gothic in the Eighteenth Century. Gothic and Romantic. Science, Industry and the Gothic. Victorian Gothic. Art and Architecture. Gothic and Decadence. Imperial Gothic. Gothic Postmodernism. Postcolonial Gothic. Goths and Gothic Subcultures. Gothic Film. Gothic and the Graphic Novel. Writers of Gothic. William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-82). Jane Austen (1775-1817). J. G. Ballard (1930-). Iain Banks (1954-). John Banville (1945-). Clive Barker (1952-). William Beckford (1760-1844). E. F. Benson (1867-1940). Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914). Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951). Robert Bloch (1917-1994). Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973). Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915). Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) and Emily Brontë (1818-1848). Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810). Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873). James Branch Cabell (1879-1958). Ramsey Campbell (1946-). Angela Carter (1940-1992). Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933). Wilkie Collins (1824-1889). Marie Corelli (1855-1924). Charlotte Dacre (1771/1772?-1825). Walter de la Mare (1873-1956). August Derleth (1909-1971). Charles Dickens (1812-1870). 'Isak Dinesen' (1885-1962). Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930). Lord Dunsany (1878-1957). Bret Easton Ellis (1964-). William Faulkner (1897-1962). Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865). William Gibson (1948-). William Godwin (1756-1836). H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925). Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864). James Herbert (1943-). William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918). E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822). James Hogg (1770-1835). Washington Irving (1783-1859). G. P. R. James (1799-1860). Henry James (1843-1916). M. R. James (1862-1936). Stephen King (1947-). Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). Francis Lathom (1777-1832). J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873). Sophia Lee (1750-1824). Vernon Lee (1856-1935). M. G. Lewis (1775-1818). David Lindsay (1878-1945). H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937). George MacDonald (1824-1905). Arthur Machen (1863-1947). James Macpherson (1736-1796). Richard Matheson (1926-). Charles Robert Maturin (1780-1824). Herman Melville (1819-1891). Joyce Carol Oates (1938-). Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897). Mervyn Peake (1911-1968). Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). John Polidori (1795-1821). Radcliffe, Ann (1764-1823). Reeve, Clara (1729-1807). G. W. M. Reynolds (1814-1879). Anne Rice (1941-). Walter Scott (1771-1832). Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851). Charlotte Smith (1740-1806). Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). Bram Stoker (1847-1912). Horace Walpole (1717-1797). H. G. Wells (1866-1946). Edith Wharton (1862-1937). Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). Key Works. Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1764). William Beckford, Vathek (1786). Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794). William Godwin, Caleb Williams (1794). M. G. Lewis, The Monk (1796). Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818, revised 1831). C. R. Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer (1820). James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824). Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847). Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (1860). Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas (1864). Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886). Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897). Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (1898). Robert Bloch, Psycho (1959). Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire (1976). Stephen King, The Shining (1977). Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (1991). Themes and Topics. The Haunted Castle. The Monster. The Vampire. Persecution and Paranoia. Female Gothic. The Uncanny. The History of Abuse. Hallucination and the Narcotic. Guide to Further Reading. Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is significant for its concept of “openness”—the artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a work to the public or to chance—and for its anticipation of two themes of literary theory: the element of multiplicity and plurality in art, and the insistence on literary response as an interaction between reader and text.Table of Contents1. The Poetics of the Open Work 2. Analysis of Poetic Language 3. Openness, Information, Communication 4. The Open Work in the Visual Arts 5. Chance and Plot: Television and Aesthetics 6. Form as Social Commitment 7. Form and Interpretation in Luigi Pareyson's Aesthetics 8. Two Hypotheses about the Death of Art 9. The Structure of Bad Taste 10. Series and Structure 11. The Death of the Gruppo 63 Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThrought-provoking ecological paintings and the artist who created them.Trade ReviewWho knows how Peter's recognition as a top artist would have turned out had he, as a 2-year-old, not been evacuated from the soon-to-be occupied Guernsey in WW2 to London. It was here that his exceptional talent was spotted in the early 50's by his teacher. A Brush with Life encapsulates so many of Peter's paintings along with the deep meanings he wants to share with us. A wonderful insight into the real Peter Le Vasseur. Dame Mary Perkins, Founder, Specsavers Peter's paintings are full of vibrant colours and beauty. Under the surface there are provoking and subtle messages, bursting to be heard. Jason Monaghan draws our attention to Peter's warnings of the ugliness of human mismanagement and exploitation, driven by man's greed and ignorance. However, Peter manages to combine these powerful emotions and still create beautiful and desirable art. I am in awe. Eric, Lord de SaumarezTable of ContentsForeword by Lee Durrell 1. Peter in Wonderland 2. 'You Don't Know Who You Are' 3. A Brush With Life 4. Into the Future Catalogue Acknowledgements and Sponsors' Notes

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses video games like Grand Theft Auto and Resident Evil as aesthetic objects. Drawing on philosophical theories of art from Kant to Ranciere, it focuses on what games feel like to players and argues that their appeal can only be adequately understood by relating them to developments in contemporary art and recent cultural history.Trade Review"An established scholar of the sociology of gaming and computers, Kirkpatrick (Univ. of Manchester, UK) argues video games are autonomous cultural forms that should be considered art.""Kirkpatrick positions the aesthetics of video games in interactivity, outside the traditional realm of formal or literary representation.""......adds a distinct, if rather conservative, perspective on video game play to the burgeoning field of game studies."I have yet to encounter a book as extensive and thought-provoking as Aesthetic Theory and the Video Game....Kirkpatrick’s book is an illuminating exploration of how a players body and a game intertwine, or how, “a generation of young men have grown up dancing with their hands.”There is no doubt that this book is important: for the academic theorization of gameplay, aesthetic theory, and cultural studies in its broadest, interdisciplinary or ‘indisiciplined’ manifestations… Rancière is one of a plethora of writers with whom Kirkpatrick artfully weaves propositions and readings of games to accumulate a coherently mapped theory of gaming as an aesthetic cultural practice... I have yet to encounter a book as extensive and thought provoking as Aesthetic Theory and the Video Game.You’ll never look at a controller the same way again after Kirkpatrick explains how we’ve been conditioned to use carefully designed blobs of plastic to influence an image. -- .Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Aesthetic ApproachWhy an aesthetic approach?Play and formForm, taste and societyArt and politicsCulture industry revisited2. Ludology, Space and TimeFrom ergodicity to ludologyGameness and its limitsAbstraction, virtual space and simulacraThe rhythm of suspended timeLudology, narratology and aesthetics3. Controller, Hand, ScreenForm, vision and matterHands and touchThe controllerVideo game imageEmbodied activity and culture4. Games, Dance and GenderDance and artHabitus and embodied playChoreography in ‘Mirror’s Edge’A dance aesthetic Choreography and discourseAesthetics and gender5. Meaning and Virtual WorldsFictional worldnessNeo-baroque entertainment cultureForm and fictional contentDeath and allegoryPlay and mourning6. Political AestheticsUnit operationsRhetoric and persuasionBadiou’s inaestheticsThe ludological truth-eventDancing our way to where?Index

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Book SynopsisA crucial resource for specialists and students seeking to enrich their understanding of the relationship between gender politics and visual culture. -- .Trade Review‘…the volume as a whole makes a compelling case for more queer feminist art histories…the essays and dialogues range over twentieth-century and contemporary art and curatorial practice as well as theory, enacting a vibrant debate over queer feminism—its possibilities, challenges, and place in the visual arts and the academy.’ Alison Syme, CAA Reviews -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Sexual differences and otherwise – Amelia Jones1 Queer theory and feminist art history: an imperfect genealogy – Amelia Jones and Erin Silver2 Just friends: on the making of Pop Out: Queer Warhol – Jennifer Doyle3 Our maiden aunt, lesbianism, or the limits of queer: a dialogue with Erin Silver and Amelia Jones – Jonathan D. Katz4 Improper objects: performing queer/feminist art/history – Tirza True Latimer5 Queerly made: Harmony Hammond’s Floorpieces – Julia Bryan-Wilson6 Ink on paper, again – Catherine Lord7 On the site of her own exclusion: strategising queer feminist art history – Dore Bowen8 Dyke talk, or ‘political lesbianism’ and queer feminist art (history): Amelia Jones in dialogue with Cheri Gaulke, A.L. Steiner and Terry Wolverton9 Notes from backstage: a dialogue among Pauline Boudry, Renate Lorenz and Jon Davies10 The male nude as a queer feminist iconography in contemporary Polish art – Pawel Leszkowicz11 Is identity a method? A study of queer feminist praxis – Nizan Shaked12 Are we still trespassing? A trans-Atlantic conversation between Emily Roysdon and Xabier Arakistain13 And the altar started to moan and groan!: transfeminist artistic practices in Spain, a taxonomy – Juan Vicente Aliaga14 Thinking archivally: curating WOMEN?? – Alpesh Kantilal Patel15 Striking reverberations: beating back the unfinished history of the colonial aesthetic with Jeannette Ehlers’s Whip it Good – Mathias Danbolt16 Triple threat: queer feminist of colour performance art – Jennifer Gonzalez and Tina Takemoto17 Beyond the binary: the gender neutral in JJ Levine's Queer Portraits – Jackson Davidow18 Trans*feminism: fragmenting and re-reading the history of art through a trans* perspective – Jennie Klein and Kris Grey19 ‘What have you done for me lately?’: the institutionalisation of queer feminist art histories – Lisa Newman in dialogue with Vaginal Davis and Del LaGrace Volcano20 Transition pieces: the photography of Del LaGrace Volcano – Dominic Johnson21 Not at the beginning and not at the end: a conversation among Deirdre Logue, Allyson Mitchell and Helena ReckittEpilogue: Out of the boxes and into the streets: translating queer and feminist activism into queer feminist art history – Erin SilverIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Philosophy of Art is a highly accessible introduction to current key issues and debates in aesthetics and philosophy of art. Chapters on standard topics are balanced by topics of interest to today's students, including creativity, authenticity, cultural appropriation, and the distinction between popular and fine art. Other topics include emotive expression, pictorial representation, definitional strategies, and artistic value. Presupposing no prior knowledge of philosophy, Theodore Gracyk draws on three decades of teaching experience to provide a balanced and engaging overview, clear explanations, and many thought-provoking examples. All chapters have a strong focus on current debates in the field, yet historical figures are not neglected. Major current theories are set beside key ideas from Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Marx, and Hegel. Chapters conclude with advice on further readings, and there are recommendations of films that will serve as a basis for further reflection and discussion. Key ideas are immediately accompanied by exercises that will test students' reactions and understanding. Many chapters call attention to ideology, prejudices, and common cliches that interfere with clear thinking. Beautifully written and thoroughly comprehensive, The Philosophy of Art is the ideal resource for anyone who wants to explore recent developments in philosophical thinking about the arts. It is also provides the perfect starting point for anyone who wants to reflect on, and challenge, their own assumptions about the nature and value of art.Trade Review"A valuable introduction which is unusual in both offering students extremely clear accounts of philosophers’ efforts in the field and also highly provocative and relevant questions for them to use as ways of digesting the material." Consciousness, Literature and the Arts "Gracyk's Philosophy of Art mingles deft presentation of philosophical positions with insightful examples of artworks that illustrate or challenge those positions. This clear and methodical introduction considers fine art as well as popular culture, and the text is interspersed with thought-provoking exercises. An excellent read for students and professionals alike." Carolyn Korsmeyer, University at Buffalo (SUNY) "Gracyk's book introduces classical questions in philosophy of art and fresh contemporary issues that will capture the interest of undergraduates. Written in a clear, accessible style, it is replete with examples drawn from the fine arts and popular culture. Gracyk succeeds in being both rigorous and engaging. Highly recommended." James O. Young, University of Victoria "With its fresh and even-handed approach to the most recent developments, its delightful use of example, and its clean prose, this book is the perfect introduction to how to use philosophy to think clearly, creatively, and deeply about art and the aesthetic." Dominic McIver Lopes, University of British ColumbiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPreface1 Meaning, Interpretation, and Picturing1 Representations and pictures2 Theories of picturing3 Intentions and transparency in pictures and photographs4 Indiscernible counterparts5 Fine art2 Art as Expression1 Overview of expression theories2 Tolstoy's account of expressive art3 Collingwood's account of expressive art4 The expressive persona 5 Expression as arousal6 Revising the arousal theory7 Expression as cognitive recognition3 Meaning and Creativity1 Plato on creativity2 Kant on genius3 Metaphorical exemplification4 Hegel and Marx5 Material bases of creativity6 Feminism and creativity4 Fakes, Originals, and Ontology1 Multiples and singularities2 Abstract objects3 Problems and implications4 Fakes and originals5 Objections and alternatives5 Authenticity and Cultural Origins1 Two kinds of contextualism2 Four kinds of appropriation3 Moral concerns4 Culture5 Authenticity6 Modernity and authenticity6 Defining Art1 Philosophical definition2 Historical background 3 Functional definitions4 Institutional definitions 5 Historical definitions6 The cluster account7 Aesthetics1 Aesthetic judgments and properties2 Supervenience3 Two complications4 Aesthetics and nature 5 Formalism and detachment 6 Making special 7 Pleasure and appreciation8 Beyond the Fine Arts1 Popular and mass art2 Standard criticisms of popular art3 Social consequences of popular culture4 Gender and race5 Everyday aesthetics9 Artistic and aesthetic value1 Three kinds of value2 The uniqueness thesis3 Value empiricism4 Instrumental value 5 An alternative analysis6 Appreciation7 Cognitive value10 ConclusionReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisExplore the intersection of tarot, artistic creativity, and technical innovation in The Artist Decoded Tarot, a first-of-its-kind deluxe deck and guidebook set from author of Amenti Oracle Jennifer Sodini and artist Yoshino.  Art, myth, and storytelling have guided spiritual exploration throughout history, and the intersection of technology and spirituality unveils captivating connections between ancient wisdom and contemporary innovation. In this singular tarot deck, author Jennifer Sodini and artist Yoshino delve deep into this intersection, revealing to readers that the common artery through which this wisdom flows is the human imagination—that vast inner landscape of infinite creative potential that is always in dialogue with time and space. Through the thoughtfully designed cards and accessibly written guidebook, The Artist Decoded Tarot has been designed to tap into that conversational reservoir and reveal the artist within each of us, while creating a bridge toward higher Worlds, by fusing the symbolic language of the Tarot and the artistic medium of synthography—or generative AI prompting—paired with digital collage. Tarot practitioners and novices alike will find a new approach to the cards—one that explores the codes of texts from mystical traditions like Kabbalah, alongside individual artistic prompts tailored to the message of card in the Major and Minor Arcana. This set includes:  Deluxe tarot package. Includes 78 cards (3 X 5 inches), full-color guidebook (4 3/4 X 6 inches, 192 pages), inner card box, and magnetic closure keepsake outer box.  Fully illustrated guidebook. The full-color guidebook includes images of each card, alongside card descriptions and tailored prompts, as well as sample card spreads to guide your practice.  Foreword by Mitch Horowitz. The guidebook includes an illuminating and contextualizing foreword from PEN award-winning author and thinker Mitch Horowitz. A note on packaging: In order to help honor our planet and reduce waste, we have only shrink wrapped the interior cards, rather than the keepsake box. Please feel confident that your product is not defective or used, but rather represents a step we are taking to protect our collective home. When you open your deck, you will find that the actual cards inside the box are shrink wrapped for protection and to ensure first use by the buyer. A note on art creation: The tarot card images in this deck were developed in collaboration between artist and technology. They were created in part by generative AI.

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Book SynopsisAs an art student in the late sixties, I recall how painfully dry and intellectual my art history classes were. I thought to myself, or rather felt to myself, 'There must be something more' (Van James). Artist Van James offers that something more. This is a richly readable and lavishly illustrated text that reveals how, at every stage, human consciousness has evolved through the medium of art. It makes the case for a hidden stream that has put forth art works and art movements throughout history, in an ongoing visible revelation of invisible spiritual currents. Art, originally a part of the secret Mystery cults of the ancient world, has become an expression of the individual creative intuition. At every stage, Albert Einstein's comment applies: The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.Trade ReviewThis coffee-table book on sacred art has a rather unique twist: It concentrates on art that reveals "the transformation of consciousness," narrowing in particularly on images from ancient mystery cults and cave drawings from Paleolithic times. James has selected art from ancient Greece, Egypt, Africa, and parts of Asia, explicating what he sees as its spiritual themes. This is in some ways a personal book, as its selections are eclectic and highly individual, but the text is also rigorous, informed by theorists such as Mircea Eliade, Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell and especially Rudolf Steiner. One wishes that the 300-plus illustrations were larger and in color, but an eight-page color tip-in helps to stimulate visual interest.

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Book SynopsisThis book excavates the depths of creative purpose and meaning-making and the extent to which artist autonomy and authenticity in art is a struggle against psychological conditioning, controlling cultural institutions and markets, key to which is representation.The chapters are underpinned by examples from the arts, and the narrative weaves a trail through a range of conceptualizations that are applied to various aspects of visual culture from mainstream canonical arts to avant-garde, community and public art; social and political art to commercial art; and ethereal art to the popular, edgy and kitsch. The book is wide-ranging and employs various aesthetic, cultural, philosophical, political, psycho-social and sociological debates to highlight the problems and contradictions that an encounter with the arts and creativity engenders.The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, museum studies, arts management, cultural policy, cultural studies and cult

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Book SynopsisBringing together artists, curators, activists, academics, managers, and educators from around the world, this unique anthology examines the notion of ethics within socially engaged art. The volume aims to deepen conversations around what âgoodâ or ârightâ activities could be in this developing and expanding practice, and readers are invited to consider the contextual nature of socially engaged art â its politics, infrastructures and values. Supported by case studies from the United Kingdom, the United States, China, Cuba, South Africa, and Norway, as well as discussions relating to education, cultural policy, and activism, this volume provides a much-needed critical analysis in the making, curating, commissioning and managing of socially engaged art. This collection is an ideal text for interdisciplinary courses that place visual arts (including design or performance) within social and political contexts but also for students and scholars of art, art history and visual studies more generally.

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Book SynopsisWriting Borderless Histories of Art is an aspirational, historical, and critical project that offers a fundamental rethinking of the relationship of humans to the rest of nature.Race, Indigeneity, and the environmental crisis are the burning issues of today. A transcultural approach calls for abandoning structures of domination that are built into the academic disciplines, regardless of the scale or extent of interpretation. Drawing upon writings from a wide range of fields, Claire Farago argues that Art History can play a role in advancing the public's interconnectedness with the planetary life-support system that so urgently needs to be restored. Studying the discourse on art at the intersection of global capitalism, environmental degradation, and human subjection over four centuries, Writing Borderless Histories of Art advocates ontologies that do not distinguish between the sentience of humans and other animals and go beyond the dualistic metaphysics of the

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Book SynopsisConceptual Performance explores how the radical visual art that challenged material aesthetics in the 1960s and 1970s tested and extended the limits, character and concept of performance.Conceptual Performance sets out the history, theoretical basis, and character of this genre of work through a wide range of case studies. The volume considers how and why principal modes and agendas in Conceptual art in the 1960s and 1970s necessitated new engagements with performance, as well as expanded notions of theatricality. In doing so, this book reviews and challenges prevailing histories of Conceptual art through critical frameworks of performativity and performance. It also considers how Conceptual art adopted and redefined terms and tropes of theatre and performance: including score, document, embodiment, documentation, relic, remains, and the narrative recuperation of ephemeral work. While showing how performance has been integral to Conceptual art's critiques ofTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Languages 3. Documents 4. Things 5. Infiltrations 6. Theatricalities 7. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisContemporary Photography and Theory offers an essential overview of some of the key critical debates in fine art photography today. Building on a foundational understanding of photography, it offers an in-depth discussion of five topic areas: identity, landscape and place, the politics of representation, psychoanalysis and the event. Written in an accessible style, it introduces the critical literature relevant to photography that has emerged over recent decades. Moving beyond seminal works by writers such as Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, and Susan Sontag, it enables readers to explore an extended canon of theorists including Jacques Lacan, Judith Butler and Giorgio Agamben. The book is illustrated throughout and analyses a range of works by established and emergent artists in order to show how these theoretical concepts are central to understanding contemporary photography. These 15 short essays encourage readers to apply critical thinking to both their own work and that of others.Table of ContentsContents List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements Introduction Part One: Photography and Identity 1. The Honorific and the Subjugated Portrait 2. The Blank portrait and the Intimate Record 3. The Portrait and the Contemporary Self Part Two: Photography, Landscape and Place 4. The Politics of Place 5. Non-Place and New Topologies 6. Ruins and the Anthropocene Part Three: Photography, Performance & the Politics of Representation 7. Gender and the Selfie 8. Race, Culture and Time 9. Performativity and Disability Part Four: Photography and Psychoanalysis 10. Psychoanalysis, representation and desire 11. Psychoanalysis, Spectatorship and the Gaze 12. The Politics of Enjoyment Part Five: Photography and the Event 13. Photography, Memory, History 14. Post-photojournalism and Contemporary Images of Conflict 15. Photography, Empathy and Responsibility Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisSince the turn of the millennium, protests, meetings, schoolrooms, reading groups and many other social forms have been proposed as artworks or, more ambiguously, as interventions that are somewhere between art and politics. This book surveys the resurgence of politicized art, tracing key currents of theory and practice, and mapping them against the dominant experience of the last decade: crisis.Drawing upon leading artists and theorists within this field including Hito Steyerl, Marina Vishmidt, Art & Language, Gregory Sholette, John Roberts and Dave Beech this book argues for a new interpretation of the relationship between socially-engaged art and neoliberalism. Kim Charnley explores the possibility that neoliberalism has destabilized the art system so that it is no longer able to absorb and neutralize dissent. As a result, the relationship between aesthetics and politics is experienced with fresh urgency and militancy.Trade ReviewSociopolitical Aesthetics is without doubt the best political analysis of art’s ‘social turn’, which it revisits through a reexamination of the contested meanings of collectivity and a re-reading of debates on aesthetics and politics within the context of neoliberalism, the globalisation of contemporary art and narratives of crisis. Charnley combines first rate art historical scholarship with razor sharp political analysis and an insider’s understanding of contemporary art to explain the rise of socially engaged art against the prevailing wisdom that art as an institution must neutralise dissent, through co-optation, absorption, incorporation, and recuperate and by turning politics into aesthetics. What if, Charnley asks, the art system has reached the limit of its ability to contain the critical practices that occupy it. * Dave Beech, Reader in Art and Marxism, University of the Arts London, UK *Table of ContentsIntroduction: In what sense ‘sociopolitical’ aesthetics? 1. Collective impurities 2. Art, economics, reproductive labour 3. Kaleidoscopic Institutions 4. Materialities of the Neoliberal State 5. Art, Ignorance and the Pedagogic Turn 6. Documentary, Post-Truth and Realism 7. Crisis, Criticism and Contemporary Art Conclusion: Autonomy, Heteronomy, Solidarity? Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisGiving an overview of the history of color theory from ancient and classical cultures to contemporary contexts, this book explores important critical principles and provides practical guidance on the use of color in art and design. Going beyond a simple recitation of what has historically been said about color, artist and educator Aaron Fine provides an intellectual history, critiquing prevailing Western ideas on the subject and challenging assumptions. He analyses colonialist and gendered attitudes, materialist and romanticist perspectives, spiritualist approaches to color, color in the age of reproduction, and modernist and post-modernist color strategies. Highlighted throughout are examples of the ways in which attitudes towards color have been impacted by the legacy of colonialism and are tied up with race, gender, and class. Topics covered include color models, wheels and charts, color interaction and theories of perception, with over 150 images throughout. By placing under-eTrade ReviewAlmost everyone sees color – but this might be the only general statement it is possible to make on the subject. When we begin to ask how color is seen and what it is seen to mean, what value colour has and to whom: then any notion of a consensus quickly falls apart. Aaron Fine’s rich and wide-ranging study discusses numerous theories of color, some intersecting and overlapping, others divergent and conflicting. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in how different cultures have interpreted the vibrant patterns of reflected light that almost all of us see. -- David Batchelor, artist and writer, UKColor Theory is a superb book. With impeccable scholarship it spans centuries, regions and disciplines to give the reader a panoptic account of the many guises of colour in society, art and philosophy. Fine’s prose is clear and thought-provoking. Readers new to the theory of colour will have no better guide to the subject, and those already familiar will discover many new and intriguing things. -- Mazviita Chirimuuta, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, UKIf you are curious about learning color theory, I suggest that you experiment with some watercolor. If you are serious about color theory, I suggest you read Aaron Fine's book. This is the intelligent and active approach to the subject. Placed on a spectrum between John Gage's heady and densely academic, historical color books and the excellent ‘semester-minded’ color texts of the like of Pentak and Zelanski, Fine's book provides toothsome material for the advanced student with opportunities for practical application and testing of theory. While many color texts have slapped a ‘global color’ chapter at the last of the book, Fine squares the world and its people into the beginning perspectives in chapter 1 and works out from there. This is, I hope, the beginning of a new generation of color writing that embraces a thoughtful, world perspective -- Scott Betz, Professor of Art, Winston-Salem State University, USATable of ContentsList of Images Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Natural Resources and Trade: Color Use in Traditional Cultures 2. Knowing at a Distance: Color Problems in Ancient Greek Thought 3. Stained Glass and Illuminations: European and Islamic Color Theory before Galileo 4. Prisms, Mirrors, and Lenses: The Newtonian Revolution 5. Romanticism and Chromophobia: The Creation of Color Theory in the 19th Century 6. The Science of the Invisible: Color Classification Systems and Spiritual Color 7. High Modern: Color Use at the Bauhaus and in Abstract Expressionism 8. Postmodern: Contemporary Directions in Color Use Glossary About the Author

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Book SynopsisWhat can philosophy reveal about painting and how might it deepen our understanding of this enduring art form? Philosophy of Painting investigates the complex relationship between the painted surface and the depicted subject, opening up current debates to address questions concerning the historicality of art. Embracing contemporary painting, it examines topics such as the post-medium condition and the digital divide, and the work of artists such as Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Amy Sillman and Katharina Grosse. Illustrated with 24 colour plates and highly readable throughout, Philosophy of Painting provides a philosophically rigorous defence of the relevance of painting in the 21st century, making an original contribution to the major ideas informing painting as an art. Here is a clear and coherent account of the contemporary significance of painting and the pressures and possibilities that distinguish it from other art forms.Trade ReviewPhilosophy of Painting fills an important void. Jason Gaiger shows why it's important to think about paintings – not only newer media such as photography or films – and what contemporary paintings offer in our own time. Beautifully and clearly written – a gem that brings theoretical issues to life. * Sonia Sedivy, Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada *This book will appeal to both experts and non-experts. It deftly combines philosophical insight and rigour with art historical substance and detail. I can’t think of a better introduction to the philosophy of painting. * Hans Maes, Senior Lecturer History and Philosophy of Art, University of Kent, UK *Table of ContentsPreface 1. Philosophical Questions 2. A Window onto the World 3. Surface and Subject 4. Resemblance and Denotation 5. The Specifically Visual 6. Modernism and the Avant-Garde 7. Contemporary Painting Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPaul Duncum is Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois, USA, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He is the author of Picture Pedagogy (Bloomsbury, 2020).Trade Review[P]layful yet serious and will attract a large audience. * International Journal of Education through Art *From Plato to Pokémon GO, Duncum brilliantly examines the enduring entanglements between art and popular culture … This book is for everyone who wants to avoid the interminable arguments that seem to dominate all things ‘aesthetics.’ * Kevin Tavin, Aalto University, Finland *Popular Pleasures is well-researched and has flashes of brilliant insight … The book will benefit students of many visual culture disciplines, including art education, art history, graphic arts and media communications. * Kerry Freedman, Northern Illinois University, USA *Immaculately researched and eloquently written, this engaging book highlights both the irresistible sensory appeal and economic, political, and ideological interest behind popular images. * Olga Ivashkevich, University of South Carolina, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction But What is Aesthetics? And What is Popular? Popular Pleasures and Politics Previous Attempts So What’s Different Here? The Mind/Body Context Scope and Outline Chapter 1: A Realistic Style What is Realism? Idolatry and Ideology The Search for Realism Painting Screen Imagery The Pleasures of Realism Making Comparisons Appreciating the Skill Evaluating Realism is Easy Pulling Back the Curtain Realism and Reality When Too Much Realism is Bad When Seeing Shouldn’t be Believing Fake versus the Bona Fide Veridical, Virtual, and Verifiable Chapter 2: The Illusionistic Illusion versus Realism Magic, Miracles and the Devil The Persistence of Illusion Trompe-l’oeil Three-Dimensional Movies Optical Illusion Devices Stage Magic Magic, Wonder and Mischief Being Deceived Being in the Know Conflating Realism with Illusion Illusion and Delusion Illusion and Life Chapter 3: The Bright and Busy Terms and Taste The Doctrine of Decorum Reason and Restraint Modernist Minimalism The Relativity of Restraint Serious versus Superficial Purpose Brightness and Business Delighting the Eye Enhancing the Ordinary Resisting Restraint Bright, Busy and Biology The Seriousness of Selling Bright, Busy and Business Chapter 4: The Highly Emotional An Empire of Emotions Emotion versus Emotionalism The Rhetoric of Emotions versus the Aesthetics of Emotions The Theory of Emotional Rhetoric The Pictorial Practice of Rhetoric The Rise of Sentiment Rejecting Rhetoric The Rise of Romanticism Expression versus Imitation Fine Art and Popular Entertainment What Arouses Emotion? Why Do Emotional Lures Work? Catharsis versus Cognitive Coping Escaping Identifying Searching for Authenticity Seeking Attachment Participating For Better or Worse Chapter 5: The Sentimental Surveying Sentimentality A Discourse of Abuse A Sentimental Journey The Sugar of Sentimentality The Comfort of an Aestheticized Sanctuary Longing for a Past as Pleasant Love and Compassion as their Own Rewards The Ironic Distance of Camp and Kitsch Social Progress Exercising Power The Sins of Sentimentality Disempowering and Harming Sentimentality’s Subjects Disempowering and Infantilizing Viewers Poor Public Policy Sense and Sentimentality Chapter 6: The Vulgar Vulgarity and its Variants Vulgarity and Fine Art A Historical Perspective Grotesques and Carnival Vulgar Porn Scatology Vulgarity and Reform Viva Vulgarity! Disgust and Delight Transgression Social Bonding Joyful Resistance Haunting and Humanness Vile Vulgarity Transgression and Suppression Ridicule and Reaction Vexing Vulgarity Chapter 7: The Violent Violence and is Variants A Violent Present A Violent Past Explaining Violent Entertaiment Excitation Transfer Simultaneous Emotional Pleasures Fear and Mastery Seeking Stimulus Everything But Violence Algorithmic Allure The Problems of Violence Purgation Does Not Work Diminishing Returns Mental Scripts of a Hostile World A Cycle of Violence An End to Violence? Chapter 8: The Horrific Horror, Terror, and Dread Sublime Terror versus Popular Horror Horror Hedonism Performative Pleasures Escape and Stimulation Transfixed Fascination Making Moral Judgments Wish Fulfillment and/or Recognition Transgressive Liberation Repetition Horror and Humor Horror, Hostility and Hate Repression Unleashing Hatred Uncanny Uncertainty Chapter 9: The Miraculous Miracles and Marvels The Skeptical Discourse An Enchanted Universe of Miracles Wonder Curiosity Creating Social Identity Finding Patterns and Purpose Debunking Absurdities Parodying Absurdities Escaping into Fantasy Being Confounded Spectacles of Wonder Miracles and Mirage Rejecting Rationality Vulnerability and Vultures The Wonder of It All Chapter 10: The Exotic Exoticism Explored The Exotic Discourse Exotic Enchantment Wonder Spice Seasoning Cultural Renewal Defining Difference Feeling Culturally Superior Taking Symbolic Possession Being Reassured Distortion, Disparagement and Denigration Selectivity and Distortion Inferiority Complexes Superiority Complexes Denial and Projection Exiting the Exotic Chapter 11: The Erotic Exploring the Erotic Sexual Discourse The High Culture Alibi Enjoying the Erotic Voyeurism Fetishism Sadism, Masochism and Sadomasochism Identification Exhibitionism Queer and Queering Prohibition, Permission, and Perfection Permissiveness and Perfection Pornification Selling Sex Sex, Sin and Suppression Chapter 12: The Spectacular Sizing Up the Spectacular The Spectacular versus Sensationalism Size Matters Wonder Thrills and Spills Immersion Ego Loss Humor When Might Makes Right Requiring Submission Failing to See/ Failing to Feel Ignoring the Unspectacular Tedium Summarizing of the Spectacular Chapter 13: The Narrative The Nature of Narrative The Modernist Rejection of Narrative Narrative Norms Narrative’s Gratifications Organizing Complexity Satisfying Curiosity Escaping into Alternative Realities Emotional Identification Everything Else The Stories We Tell The End Chapter 14: The Formulaic Recipes and Road Maps Formulaic Fine Art Formulae and Form Why Formulae Work Easy Communication Reducing Complexity Further Ongoing Comfort and Anxiety Innovation Reading Complexly Formulae and their Challenges Boredom Formulae and Falsity Finishing with Formulae Chapter 15: The Humorous Humor and Mirth Humor and the Haughty Humor versus Gravitas Why We Smile, Snigger and Snort. Feeling Superior Descending Incongruity Emotional Release Humor’s Disciplinary and Dark Side Anaesthesia of the Heart Imposing Social Discipline Ridicule and Repression Humor and Hate Humor and Hostility References Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Contents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. ‘Who is the Fairest?’ Skin Colour Matters, in conversation with NT 2. Beauty and the Privilege of Looking, in conversation with Marcia Michael 3. ‘What Cha Looking At?’ An Oppositional Gaze in Image-Making Practice, in conversation with Sadie Lee 4. Red Shift: Not, ‘Doing it for Daddy’, in conversation with Ajamu 5. Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book considers questions of materiality and painting, focalized through the notoriously obscure work of Georges Rouault, and offers an innovative critical approach to the various questions raised by this challenging modernist. Described as a difficult and dark painter, Rouault's oeuvre is deeply experimental. Images of the circus emerge from a plethora of chaotic marks, while numerous landscapes appear as if ossified in thick paint.Rouault's work explodes the genre of painting, drawing upon the residue of Gustave Moreau's symbolism, the extremities of Fauvism, and the radical theatrical experiments of Alfred Jarry. The repetitions and re-workings at the heart of Rouault's process defy conventional chronological treatment, and place the emphasis upon the coming-into-being of the work of art. Ultimately, the book reveals the process of making as both a search for understanding and a response to the problematic world of the 20th century.Trade ReviewJennifer Johnson’s ground-breaking study offers a new, comprehensive account of the world and work of Georges Rouault. Elegant prose, rich formal description, and bold theoretical insights reveal the crucial role of materiality as a form of thought in modern art. * John R. Blakinger, Endowed Associate Professor of Contemporary Art, University of Arkansas, USA *In a narrative full to bursting with luminous visual analyses and exciting passages of contextualisation, Jennifer Johnson presents us with a new vision and understanding of Georges Rouault, an artist who has languished for too long on the outskirts of Modernism. A truly captivating book. * Karen Lang, former Editor-in-Chief, The Art Bulletin, and Slade Professor of Fine Art and Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford, UK *Jennifer Johnson’s book is a timely and important exploration of Rouault’s probing relationship with questions of materiality and meaning. It is a serious and powerful contribution to a central art-historical issue, the material character of making as a form of understanding. * David Peters Corbett, Professor of American Art & Director of the Centre for American Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, UK *In Jennifer Johnson’s reading of Rouault’s surfaces, meaning accrues in a richly layered manner. Drawing upon theorists and philosophies—both contemporaneous and more recent—Johnson returns the reader to Rouault’s thick, reworked, slabs of paint with new understandings of how the artist grappled with questions at the heart of modernism through his subjects, materials, and making. * Ashley Dunn, Assistant Curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Georges Rouault's Modernism Chapter 1: 1903-1907: Mutilation, Revivification and Imaginative Play on the Surface Chapter 2: The Interwar Years: Materiality, Theatricality, and Social Critique Chapter 3: ‘Le métier de peindre’ or Making as Thought: Bergson, Maritain, and Rouault’s landscapes Chapter 4: Light Thickens: Theology, Phenomenology and the Veronica Chapter 5: Material Imaginings: Matter, Materiality, and Modes of Being Index

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Book SynopsisEmily Hage is Associate Professor of Art History, Saint Joseph's University, USA.Trade ReviewHage’s book offers something different. It provides an introduction, a cohesive narrative, and a path through the movement from a revised perspective in which journals take center stage. ... The outstanding achievement in this book is its ability to look beyond the particulars of these journals … that have long entranced Dada scholars, in the interest of uncovering their role as an underlying system (“langue”), with myriad game-changing implications. * CAA Reviews *Magazines were the lifeblood of Dada, a movement that still resists neat pigeonholing in the history of the avant-gardes. Emily Hage’s Dada Magazines brings a fresh eye to these publications and presents new arguments and evidence for their importance, not just as the print conduits for the manifestos, art, poems, polemics, gossip, and diverse writings of the small, widely separated groups of activists who produced them, under a non-name that spread like a virus, but as active in their own right—creating networks and influencing Dada exhibitions, for example. Hage expertly lays out the ways the juxtapositions, collages, jokes, and confrontations in the magazines influenced radical methods of display in Dada exhibitions and installations. Hage’s lucid presentation, focusing on the material production, presence, and impact of the magazines, is especially valuable for the breadth of her research, bringing out the later strands of Dada in unexpected places like Zagreb and Bucharest. This excellent study of the magazines is a timely reminder of the way Dada has remained a cultural, artistic, political, and even moral irritant, whose tactics have been repeated in so many contexts over the last century: from appropriation to performance, parody to the readymade, and are still not quite laid to rest in history, as Hage’s fascinating epilogue, looking at the 'Dadazines' of the sixties and seventies, explains. * Dawn Ades, Emeritus Professor, School of Philosophy and Art History, University of Essex, UK *If we thought that we knew everything there was to know about Dada periodicals, Emily Hage’s Dada Magazines sets us right. This engaging and elegantly crafted study provides fresh approaches to the ‘active agents’ of Dada’s formation and spread. * Marius Hentea, Professor of English Literature, University of Gothenburg, Sweden *The international dissemination of its creative energy, its anarchic humor and its response to the contradictions of modernity made Dada possibly the most vital of the early twentieth-century avant-gardes. Emily Hage’s lively, meticulously researched volume tackles the issue of Dada’s geographical expansion head-on, offering the most complete study of Dada magazines, in all their inventiveness and diversity, currently available to scholars. * David Hopkins, Professor of Art History, University of Glasgow, UK *Table of ContentsList of Plates List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1. An Extraordinary Opportunity to be Denounced as a Wit: How Magazines Launched ‘Dada,’ 1916-1917 2. ‘Every page must explode’: Dada Magazines as Exhibition Venues, 1918-1919 3. Printing Artworks, Exhibiting Ephemera: Dada Journals and Exhibitions, 1920-1921 4. ‘Be on your guard, Madam’: New York Dada and the Magazine as Readymade, 1921 5. Contingency and Continuity: Dada Magazines and the Expanding Network, 1922-1926 Epilogue: Magazines to Zines: Echoes of Dada in 1970s America Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisGriselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History at the University of Leeds, UK. She is Editor, with Anthony Bryant, of Digital and Other Virtualities: Renegotiating the Image and of Visual Politics of Psychoanalysis: Art and the Image in Post-Traumatic Cultures (both I.B. Tauris) and is Series Editor of Tauris' New Encounters Series. Max Silverman is Professor of Modern French Studies at the University of Leeds. His recent publications include Palimpsestic Memory: the Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film (Berghahn, 2013). Griselda Pollock and Max Silverman are joint authors of Concentrationary Cinema: Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's 'Night and Fog', which won the Kraszna-Krausz Award for Best Book on the Moving Image, 2011.Trade ReviewConcentrationary Memories rests on a provocative, carefully theorized consideration of the nature of the ‘concentrationary’ universe, extending and reframing terms and ideas introduced by Hannah Arendt, on the one hand, and lesser known but significant figures in the French context such as David Rousset, Robert Antelme and Jean Cayrol. As its editors note, the first word of their title is unfamiliar in English, and this is perhaps a sign of the need for renewed and close attention to the phenomenon named by the French writer Rousset in 1946. The volume answers this need with care and a justly high level of critical vigilance. Without deflecting the importance attached to the term holocaust and to the issues and concerns of the racial genocides of the twentieth-century, the volume shifts attention towards the politics of deportation and internment, and pursues vital questions about the adequacy and nature of aesthetic responses, questions which bear upon the nature and concept of representation. A crucial emphasis of the volume is on the ‘permanent presence’ of the concentrationary, since its inception; the volume thus includes powerful and essential analyses of the phenomenon across examples in literature, film and photography since the liberation of the camps, and in varying global contexts. The 11 essays in the volume are supported by an extensive introduction by the editors, a contribution in its own right to ongoing debates about politics and representation, and the politics of representation. Given this focus, the meticulous attention to the presentation of the substantial number of images which feature in the volume is unsurprising, and deserves special recognition. This is a unique project, insofar as it breaks new ground in the establishment of a new object of enquiry and research, and goes some way into the exploration of this territory. The volume makes a substantial contribution to research on the legacies of the political evils of the last century and will be essential reading for anyone concerned with it and by it. The book makes a clear case that this includes all of us. * Patrick ffrench, King’s College, University of London, UK *Table of ContentsConcentrationary Memories Series Preface Griselda Pollock & Max Silverman Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction The Politics of Memory: From Concentrationary Memory to Concentrationary Memories Griselda Pollock & Max Silverman: Part 1: Theorising the Political Space and Beyond Chapter 1 The Memory of Politics: Hannah Arendt, Carl Schmitt and the Possibility of Encounter John Wolfe Ackerman Part 2: Mediations of Memory Chapter 2 Migration and Motif: the (Parapractic) Memories of an Image Thomas Elsaesser Chapter 3 The Two Stages of the Eichmann Trial Sylvie Lindeperg & Annette Wieviorka Chapter 4 Brushing the Film Against the Grain: Locating Jean Cayrol’s Lazarean Figure in Alain Resnais’s Muriel ou le temps d’un retour Matthew John Part 3: Camp Visions Chapter 5 Symbol Re-formation: Concentrationary Memory in Charlotte Delbo’s Auschwitz and After Nicholas Chare Chapter 6 A New Visual Structure for the Unthinkable: The Surrealist Aesthetic and the Concentrationary Sublime in Lee Miller’s Photographs of Buchenwald and Dachau Isabelle de le Court Chapter 7 Muselmann: a distilled image of the Lager? Glenn Sujo Chapter 8 Nameless before the Concentrationary Void: Charlotte Salomon’s Leben? oder Theater? 1941–42 after Gurs Griselda Pollock Part 4: Beyond the Limits Chapter 9 Animated Memory: Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir Claire Launchbury Chapter 10 Isn’t this where…? Projections on Pink Floyd The Wall: Tracing the Concentrationary Image Benjamin Hannavy Cousen Chapter 11 Memory Work in Argentina 1976-2006 Laura Malosetti Costa Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSharon Hecker is an art historian and curator of Italian art. She is the author of A Moment's Monument: Medardo Rosso and the International Origins of Modern Sculpture (2017), and co-editor of Postwar Italian Art History: Untying the Knot' (2018) and Lead in Modern and Contemporary Art (2021).Raffaele Bedarida is Associate Professor of Art History at Cooper Union, USA. He is the author of Corrado Cagli: La pittura, l'esilio, L'America (2018; English edition forthcoming) and Exhibiting Italian Art in the United States from Futurism to Arte Povera (2022).Trade ReviewFifty years going since Susan Sontag’s Fascinating Fascism, we have in this marvellous volume a fascinating kaleidoscope of historical and critical perspectives on the art world of Fascism. Grounded in rigorous questions about aesthetics and contexts, the volume brings into lively conversation successive generations of curators, critics and historians from all over the Atlantic World—Italy, Brazil, the USA, Canada. It is in itself like the opening of an exciting exhibition, curated with empathy, loaded with striking and beautiful images, and, above all, guided by a strong, critical collective eye for the many diverse, often controversial ways of looking at the art and artefacts that have yielded the fascist aesthetic, itself so varied, elusive and insidious. * Victoria de Grazia, Moore Collegiate Professor of History, Columbia University, USA *What ethical debts do museums owe to their objects of study—particularly those inextricable from a totalitarian regime? At every turn, this exciting volume unsettles the presumed neutrality of curatorial selection and display, underscoring the often unwitting political contingencies attendant upon seemingly straightforward exhibition strategies. * Ara H. Merjian, Professor of Italian, New York University, USA *In confronting a critical lacuna in our understanding of postwar history and memory in Italy – the complex and problematic ways in which the art of the Fascist era was displayed after the fall of the regime – Curating Fascism presents an insightful and disturbing picture of a past that has yet to be faced. * Marla Stone, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, American Academy in Rome, Italy *A pivotal and fresh reconsideration of cultural politics in the fascist era, through the lens of a selection of historical and recent exhibitions that have shaped the interpretation of the ventennio over time. * Ester Coen, Professor of Art History, Università degli Studi dell’Aquila, Italy *This masterly book provides an extraordinary in-depth look at the untold story of postwar exhibitions on fascism. An international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, raisesd the fundamental question of how these exhibitions have shaped historical narratives and collective memory in Italy and abroad. Subverting the usual categories, historical studies and direct accounts guide us in understanding the peculiar difficulties in exhibiting the works of the fascist era, the related curatorial responsibilities, and the legacy of fascism in the current historical moment. * Laura Iamurri, Professor of Art History, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy *Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Rethinking Historical Exhibitions in Italy 1. Exhibiting Art of the Fascist Ventennio: Curatorial Choices, Installation Strategies, and Critical Reception from Arte Moderna in Italia 1915–1935 (Florence, 1967) to Annitrenta (Milan, 1982), Luca Quattrocchi, University of Siena, Italy 2. Pluralism as Revisionism: Annitrenta at Palazzo Reale, Milan, 1982, Denis Viva, the University of Trento, Italy 3. Interview with Renato Barilli, Curator of Annitrenta Exhibition at Palazzo Reale (Milan, 1982), Raffaele Bedarida, Cooper Union, New York, USA 4. Art, Life, Politics, and the Seductiveness of Italian Fascism: Post Zang Tumb Tuuum at Fondazione Prada (Milan, 2018), Sharon Hecker and Raffaele Bedarida, Art historian and Curator, Italy; Cooper Union, New York, USA 5. Italy’s Holocaust on Display: From Carpi-Fossoli to Auschwitz (to Florence), Robert S. C. Gordon, Cambridge University, UK 6. Umbertino Umbertino: The Many Masks of Rome’s Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Romy Golan, the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA Part Two: Exhibitions of Fascism Around the World 7. Exhibiting and Collecting the F-word in Britain, Rosalind McKever, Curator, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK 8. Novecento Brasiliano: Margherita Sarfatti, Ciccillo Matarazzo, and the Italian Collection of MAC USP, Ana Gonçalves Magalhães, University of São Paulo (MAC USP), Brazil 9. Contextualizing Razionalismo in the exhibition Photographic Recall (2019): Fascist Spaces in Contemporary German Photography, Miriam Paeslack, University at Buffalo (SUNY), New York, USA 10. Feeling at Home: Exhibiting Design, Blurring Fascism, Elena Dellapiana and Jonathan Mekinda, the Politecnico di Torino, Italy; University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), USA 11. Italian Jewish Artists and Fascist Cultural Politics: on Gardens and Ghettos at the Jewish Museum in New York (1989), Emily Braun, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA, interviewed by Raffaele Bedarida and Sharon Hecker Part Three: Absences 12. Exhibiting the Homoerotic Body, the Queer Afterlife of Ventennio Male Nudes, John Champagne Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, USA 13. “Partigiano Portami Via”: Exhibiting Antifascism and the Resistance in Post-Fascist Italy, Raffaele Bedarida, Cooper Union, New York, USA 14. Looking at Women and Mental Illness in Fascist Italy: An Exhibition’s Dialogical and Feminist Approach, Lucia Re, University of California, Los Angeles, USA 15. Silencing the Colonial Past: The 1993 Exhibition Architettura italiana d’oltremare 1870-1940 in Bologna, Nicola Labanca, University of Siena, Italy 16. Recharting Landscapes in the Exhibition Roma Negata: Postcolonial Routes of the City (2014) and the Digital Project Postcolonial Italy: Mapping Colonial Heritage, Shelleen Greene University of California, Los Angeles, USA Part Four: Curatorial Practices 17. From MRF to Post Zang Tumb Tuuum: The Responsibilities of the Re-hang, Vanessa Rocco, Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, USA 18. The Final Ramp: Addressing Fascism in Italian Futurism at the Guggenheim Museum, Vivien Greene and Susan Thompson, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, USA; Curator and Writer, Brooklyn, USA 19. The Making of MART and the Archivio del Novecento: Interview with Gabriella Belli, Director of the Foundation from the Municipal Museums of Venice 20. Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Reconstructing Artists’ Studios in Exhibitions on Fascist-Era Art, Sharon Hecker, Art Historian and Curator, Italy 21. Interview with Maaza Mengiste on Project 3541: A Photographic Archive of the 1935-41 Italo-Ethiopian War, Raffaele Bedarida and Sharon Hecker, Art historian and Curator, Italy; Cooper Union, New York, USA Index

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Book SynopsisMarsha Morton is Professor of Art History at Pratt Institute, USA. A specialist in German and Austrian cultural history with a focus on interdisciplinary topics of art, anthropology, science, and music, her books include Max Klinger and Wilhelmine Culture (2014) and the co-edited anthology The Arts Entwined (2000). She is also a co-editor and contributing author to Visual Culture and Pandemic Disease Since 1750: Capturing Contagion (2023).Barbara Larson is Professor of Modern European Art History in the Art and Design Department of the University of West Florida, USA. She is author of The Dark Side of Nature: Science, Society and the Fantastic in the Work of Odilon Redon (2005) and lead editor of The Art of Evolution: Darwin, Darwinisms, and Visual Culture (2009) and Darwin and Theories of Aesthetics and Cultural History (2013).Trade Review[T]he narrow focus of each chapter essay builds both a satisfyingly comprehensive and very specific picture of the social and cultural histories of countries at the Continental margins. * Visual Culture *[T]his edited volume offers a number of very rich case studies from different geographies within Europe. The chapters merge primary and secondary sources and open up possibilities for a critical interpretation of visual materials through the history of ethnography and anthropology. As such, the edited volume should be of interest to an interdisciplinary readership interested in the construction of the other through visual depictions. * German Studies Review *The uniqueness of the book and its fascinating contents lies [...] in the skilful juxtaposition of textual and visual sources in [the editors'] analyses. * Mosse Program Blog *Focusing our attention on the often contested and frequently porous "borders of Europe", this essential collection of essays complicates our understanding of how race, ethnicity, and national identity have been constructed and operationalized through art, design, and visual culture. * Allison Morehead, Associate Professor of Art History, Queen’s University, Canada *A compelling and timely collection of essays based on immaculate research that will alter the reader’s critical understanding of the complex cultural-political engagement with subordinate ethnic groups in parts of Europe that have too long been marginalised by postcolonial discourse. * Sabine Wieber, Lecturer in History of Art, University of Glasgow, UK *Table of ContentsList of Plates List of Figures List of Contributors Introduction, Marsha Morton (Pratt Institute, USA) 1. From Folk to a Folk Race: Carl Arbo and National Romantic Anthropology in Norway, Patricia G. Berman (Wellesley College, USA) 2. From “Northern Dweller” to “Distinguished Among His Race”: The Transformation of the Nordic Colonial Subject, 1900-1935, Bart Pushaw (University of Maryland, USA) 3. Decolonizing the Archive: Pia Arke and Stories from Scoresbysund, Alison Chang (Independent Curator, USA) 4. Brigands and Virtuous Musicians: Representations of Roma (“Gypsies”) as Oriental Other in the Eastern Part of the Habsburg Monarchy during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Robert Born (University of Leipzig, Germany) and Dirk Suckow (University of Leipzig, Germany) 5. Leopold Carl Müller’s Scenes from Egyptian Life: Ethnography, Race, and Orientalism in Habsburg Vienna, Marsha Morton (Pratt Institute, USA) 6. A Hungarian Treasure Chest: The Art Colony at Gödöllo in Critical Perspective, Rebecca Houze (Northern Illinois University, USA) 7. The Journey West: Gauguin, Philology, And the Celts of Brittany, Barbara Larson (The University of West Florida, USA) 8. In the Beginning was the Image: Russian Ethnography and Colonial Photography in Turkestan, 1860s–1870s, Margaret Dikovitskaya (Independent Scholar, USA) 9. “Children of the Narod: Early Soviet Children’s Books’ Racialization of Childhood”, Marie Gasper-Hulvat (Kent State University, USA) 10. From Sideshow to Portrait: The Ethnographic Vision of Christian Schad, Kristin Schroeder (University of Virginia, USA) 11. Anthropological Histories and Techniques in Philip Scheffner’s Films, Priyanka Basu (University of Minnesota, USA) Index

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Book SynopsisHighlighting intersections of gender, race, and class and their explosive encounters with Pop Art during the Long Sixties, this book offers a new critical reading of Pop for the 21st century. ''a brilliant and important corrective to much writing on Pop art'' - Jo Applin, The Courtauld Institute of Art, LondonFeaturing an array of rigorous chapters that examine the work of over 20 artists from 5 continents, Pop Art and Beyond transcends the borders of individual and national contexts, and suspends hierarchies to create a space for the work of artists like Andy Warhol and the women of the Black Arts Movement to converse. Casting an inclusive look at the intersectional complexities of difference in Pop at a moment that gave rise to a plethora of radical social movements and identity politics, it contributes bold new perspectives on Pop's heterogeneity.While this book introduces revelatory non-canonical artists into the Pop context orTrade ReviewPop Art and Beyond: Gender Race and Class in the Global Sixties is the perfect response to today’s urgent calling for ever more credible art histories that center recognition of artists and practices that have tended to be erased or downplayed within the dominant canon. The range of texts in the volume will prove indispensable in further building on scholarship that unsettles and challenges stale, hegemonic readings of Pop Art. As such, this book makes an invaluable contribution to art history and decisively signals the direction of progressive academic study. The global reach of this volume, together with the erudition of its contributors, ensure that scholars now have access to new, rigorous, and persuasive research into important aspects of modern art. * Eddie Chambers, David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor in Art History, University of Texas at Austin *This book is a brilliant and important corrective to much writing on Pop art. It offers an urgent analysis and expansion of the material, geographic, and political framing of Pop art. Each of the fifteen original and exhaustively researched chapters shed important new and critical light on the raced, gendered, and classed aspects of Pop art and its artists. * Jo Applin, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London *The authors in this ground-breaking collection make vital, incisive and deeply energising interventions into debates on Pop art, together achieving a major intersectional re-examination of Pop which attends to gender, race, class and sexuality, while illuminating and complicating formulations of ‘global’ Pop. Required reading for scholars, curators and students alike. * Catherine Spencer, University of St Andrews, UK *Hadler rethinks the very idea of the “revolutionary icon” within Pop Art history in writing about the interconnections between groundbreaking stand-up comedians like Richard Pryor, Jackie “Moms” Mabley, and Lenny Bruce, and the feminist, anti-racist Pop Art of the era. * Maria Elena Buszek, Woman’s Art Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction by Mona Hadler and Kalliopi Minioudaki 1. Cults or Subcultures? Reckoning with Collective Creation in the English Pop World by Thomas Crow 2. The 1960s in Bamako: Malick Sidibé and James Brown by Manthia Diawara 3. Yugoslav Pop, Female Artists, and the Emergence of Feminist Agency by Lina Džuverovic 4. “Everything for Money”: Warhol, Kant, and Class by Anthony E. Grudin 5. Pop Art’s Comic Turn and the Stand-Up Revolution by Mona Hadler 6. Tom Max’s “Okinawan Inferno”: Reversion and After by Hiroko Ikegami 7. Following the Traces of Yemanjá: Pop Art, Cultura Popular, and Printmaking in Brazil by Giulia Lamoni 8. Facing the Maid: Gendered Shades of Labor in American Pop by Kalliopi Minioudaki 9. The Commonwealth of British Pop: Race, Labor, and Postcolonial Politics in Frank Bowling’s Mother’s House Series by Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani 10. Market Wares and Trade Marks: Painting Pop in Indian Country, 1964 by Kristine K. Ronan 11. Entangled Mythologies: Race and Class in Hervé Télémaque’s Pop (1963-5) by Marine Schütz 12. Snap! Crackle! Pow!: Robert Colescott and Pop Art by Lowery Stokes Sims 13. Against the Heroes: Revolution, Repression, and Raúl Martínez’s Cuban Pop Art by Mercedes Trelles Hernández 14. Myriam Bat-Yosef: World Citizen, Artist of the Pop Era by Sarah Wilson 15. Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow: Feminism and the (Pop) “Image” in Chicago’s Black Arts Movement by Rebecca Zorach Index

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