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University of Chicago Press The Culture of Spontaneity Improvisation and the
Book SynopsisA history of the postwar avant-garde in America. The book integrates diverse moments in American culture, such as bebop jazz, gestalt therapy, beat poetry, Jungian psychology and Zen Buddhism and argues that all of these movements have a unifying theme: spontaneous improvization.Table of ContentsPart 1 The collective unconscious: the emergence of an avant-garde; the avant-garde and the American Indian; ideogram. Part 2 The energy field: subjectivity, existentialism and plastic dialogue; subjectivity in the energy field - the influence of Alfred North Whitehead; gestalt; the body in plastic; dialogue - dance and ceramics. Part 3 Spontaneous bop prosody: bebop; the beats; battling the social neurosis; conclusion - into the Sixties.
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The University of Chicago Press Sweet Dreams Contemporary Art and Complicity
Book SynopsisSweet Dreams is a testament to the creative processes and self- conscious heterogeneity of art today as well as a revolutionary effort to solicit collaboration that will encourage the production of imaginative thought and contribute to contemporary life.
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The University of Chicago Press Color Harmonies Paper
Book SynopsisIn Color Harmonies, Augusto Garau systematically investigates the role of both color and form in visual perception and presents an original theory of the aesthetic relations among colors. The author pays particular attention to the way colors behave when organized in patterns.
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The University of Chicago Press Network Aesthetics
Book SynopsisThe term network is now applied to everything from the Internet to terrorist-cell systems. But the word's ubiquity has also made it a cliché, a concept at once recognizable yet hard to explain. Network Aesthetics, in exploring how popular culture mediates our experience with interconnected life, reveals the network's role as a way for people to construct and manage their worldand their view of themselves. Each chapter considers how popular media and artistic forms make sense of decentralized network metaphors and infrastructures. Patrick Jagoda first examines narratives from the 1990s and 2000s, including the novel Underworld, the film Syriana, and the television series The Wire, all of which play with network forms to promote reflection on domestic crisis and imperial decline in contemporary America. Jagoda then looks at digital media that are interactive, nonlinear, and dependent on connected audiences to show how recent approaches, such as those in the videogame Journey, open up
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The University of Chicago Press Beauty of a Social Problem Photography Autonomy
Book SynopsisBertolt Brecht once worried that our sympathy for the victims of a social problem can make the problem's beauty and attraction invisible. In The Beauty of a Social Problem, Walter Benn Michaels explores the effort to overcome this difficulty through a study of several contemporary artist-photographers whose work speaks to questions of political economy. Although he discusses well-known figures like Walker Evans and Jeff Wall, Michaels's focus is on a group of younger artists, including Viktoria Binschtok, Phil Chang, Liz Deschenes, and Arthur Ou. All born after 1965, they have always lived in a world where, on the one hand, artistic ambition has been synonymous with the critique of autonomous form and intentional meaning, while, on the other, the struggle between capital and labor has essentially been won by capital. Contending that the aesthetic and political conditions are connected, Michaels argues that these artists' new commitment to form and meaning is a way for them to depict t
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The University of Chicago Press Art Without Borders A Philosophical Exploration
Book SynopsisDraws on neuroscience and psychology to understand the way we both perceive and conceive of art, including its resistance to verbal exposition. This book probes the distinction between accepting a tradition and defying it through innovation, which leads to a consideration of the notion of artistic genius.Trade Review"This is the most comprehensive study of art and artists ever written. Not only does it range across the world's cultures in time and space, but it takes account of the latest findings in a variety of relevant disciplines, including neuroscience, cross-cultural psychology, and anthropology. Scharfstein's mastery of the literature of those disciplines is impressive, as is his command of scholarly writing on art worldwide. Timely, global, and open-minded, Art Without Borders evinces warmth and humanity as Scharfstein admirably highlights the makers of art, their individual lives, and their views on artistry." - Wilfried van Damme, author of Beauty in Context"
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The University of Chicago Press The Poets Freedom A Notebook on Making
Book SynopsisWhy do we need new art? How free is the artist in making? And why is the artist, and particularly the poet, a figure of freedom in Western culture? This book explores and celebrates the freedom of artists who, working under finite conditions, make considered choices and shape surprising consequences.Trade Review"Susan Stewart is an investigator of linguistic nuance and a new metaphysics, par excellence.... I believe she is one of the finest poets of the last fifty years." -John Kinsella, Salt Magazine "Stewart's meditations on the history of poetry and the poetic are in themselves an original contribution to the philosophy of culture." -Hayden White, author of Figural Realism"
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The University of Chicago Press Bookwork
Book SynopsisBookwork takes our passion for books to its logical extreme - by studying artists who employ found or simulated books as a sculptural medium and investigating the conceptual labor behind this proliferating international art practice. This title offers an account of works that force attention upon a book's material identity and cultural resonance.
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The University of Chicago Press Concerning Consequences Studies in Art
Book SynopsisKristine Stiles has played a vital role in establishing trauma studies within the humanities. A formidable force in the art world, Stiles examines the significance of traumatic experiences both in the individual lives and works of artists and in contemporary international cultures since World War II. In Concerning Consequences, she considers some of the most notorious art of the second half of the twentieth century by artists who use their bodies to address destruction and violence. The essays in this book focus primarily on performance art and photography. From war and environmental pollution to racism and sexual assault, Stiles analyzes the consequences of trauma as seen in the works of artists like Marina Abramovic, Pope.L, and Chris Burden. Assembling rich intellectual explorations on everything from Paleolithic paintings to the Bible's patriarchal legacies to documentary images of nuclear explosions, Concerning Consequences explores how art can provide a distinctive means of unde
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The University of Chicago Press The Passionate Triangle
Book SynopsisTriangles abounded in the intellectual culture of early modern Europe - the Christian Trinity was often mapped as a triangle, for instance, and perspective, a characteristic artistic technique, is based on a triangular theory of vision. This book takes us on a hunt for the triangle's embedded significance.
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MIT Press Ltd Mass Effect Art and the Internet in the
Book SynopsisEssays, discussions, and image portfolios map the evolution of art forms engaged with the Internet.Since the turn of the millennium, the Internet has evolved from what was merely a new medium to a true mass medium—with a deeper and wider cultural reach, greater opportunities for distribution and collaboration, and more complex corporate and political realities. Mapping a loosely chronological series of formative arguments, developments, and happenings, Mass Effect provides an essential guide to understanding the dynamic and ongoing relationship between art and new technologies.Mass Effect brings together nearly forty contributions, including newly commissioned essays and reprints, image portfolios, and transcribed discussion panels and lectures that offer insights and reflections from a wide range of artists, curators, art historians, and bloggers. Among the topics examined are the use of commercial platforms for art practice, what art means
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MIT Press Ltd Public Servants Art and the Crisis of the Common
Book SynopsisEssays, dialogues, and art projects that illuminate the changing role of art as it responds to radical economic, political, and global shifts.How should we understand the purpose of publicly engaged art in the twenty-first century, when the very term “public art” is largely insufficient to describe such practices? Concepts such as “new genre public art,” “social practice,” or “socially engaged art” may imply a synergy between the role of art and the role of government in providing social services. Yet the arts and social services differ crucially in terms of their methods and metrics. Socially engaged artists need not be aligned (and may often be opposed) to the public sector and to institutionalized systems. In many countries, structures of democratic governance and public responsibility are shifting, eroding, and being remade in profound ways—driven by radical economic, political, and global force
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MIT Press Ltd Beyond Objecthood
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MIT Press Ltd Wanderlust Actions Traces Journeys 19672017 The
Book SynopsisArtists as voyagers who leave their studios to make art, including Nancy Holt, Vito Acconci, Sophie Calle, and Richard Long.Wanderlust highlights artists as voyagers who leave their studios to make art. This book (and the exhibition it accompanies) is the first comprehensive survey of the artist's need to roam and the work that emerges from this need. Wanderlust presents the work of under-recognized yet pioneering artists alongside their well-known counterparts, and represents works that vary in process, with some artists working as solitary figures implanting themselves physically on the landscape while others perform and create movements in a collaborative manner or in public.Many of the earlier works use what were at the time nontraditional methods of art making. In Trail Markers (1969), for example, Nancy Holt spent time in the English countryside, where she documented the painted orange trail markers she found dotting the landscape. Vito
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MIT Press Ltd The Long Front of Culture The Independent Group
Book SynopsisHow a group of artists and theorists turned to exhibition design as the only medium capable of synthesizing high and low in postwar culture.In 1950s London, a cadre of young artists, theorists, and popular culture aficionados known as the Independent Group (IG) came together for a series of pressing meetings. Their humble goal: to reimagine the structure of postwar culture by situating art in the midst of military-industrial technologies and pop pleasures. In this book, Kevin Lotery argues that the IG turned to the cross-disciplinary form of exhibition design as the only medium capable of getting the measure of these forces, the only technique that could integrate high and low, aesthetic and scientific, and redesign them in turn. At the heart of this story are the IG's most unruly members, including artists Richard Hamilton, Nigel Henderson, and Eduardo Paolozzi; architects Alison and Peter Smithson; and critics Lawrence Alloway and Reyner Banham. To these upstarts, art w
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MIT Press Postsensual Aesthetics
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MIT Press Ltd The Curatorial Conundrum What to Study What to
Book SynopsisThe future of curatorial practice: how education, research, and institutions can adapt to the expansion of the curatorial field.Today curators are sometimes more famous than the artists whose work they curate, and curatorship involves more than choosing objects for an exhibition. The expansion of the curatorial field in recent decades has raised questions about exhibition-making itself and the politics of production, display, and distribution. The Curatorial Conundrum looks at the burgeoning field of curatorship and tries to imagine its future. Indeed, practitioners and theorists consider a variety of futures: the future of curatorial education; the future of curatorial research; the future of curatorial and artistic practice; and the institutions that will make these other futures possible.The contributors examine the proliferation of graduate programs in curatorial studies over the last twenty years, and consider what can be taught without giving up what is pr
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MIT Press Ltd How Institutions Think Between Contemporary Art
Book SynopsisReflections on how institutions inform art, curatorial, educational, and research practices while they shape the world around us.Contemporary art and curatorial work, and the institutions that house them, have often been centers of power, hierarchy, control, value, and discipline. Even the most progressive among them face the dilemma of existing as institutionalized anti-institutions. This anthology-taking its title from Mary Douglas's 1986 book, How Institutions Think-reconsiders the practices, habits, models, and rhetoric of the institution and the anti-institution in contemporary art and curating. Contributors reflect upon how institutions inform art, curatorial, educational, and research practices as much as they shape the world around us. They consider the institution as an object ofienquiry across many disciplines, including political theory, organizational science, and sociology.Bringing together an international and multidisciplinary group of writers,
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MIT Press Ltd Forgetting the Art World MIT Press The MIT Press
Book SynopsisThe work of art's mattering and materialization in a globalized world, with close readings of works by Takahashi Murakami, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Hirschhorn, and others.It may be time to forget the art world—or at least to recognize that a certain historical notion of the art world is in eclipse. Today, the art world spins on its axis so quickly that its maps can no longer be read; its borders blur. In Forgetting the Art World, Pamela Lee connects the current state of this world to globalization and its attendant controversies. Contemporary art has responded to globalization with images of movement and migration, borders and multitudes, but Lee looks beyond iconography to view globalization as a world process. Rather than think about the “global art world” as a socioeconomic phenomenon, or in terms of the imagery it stages and sponsors, Lee considers “the work of art's world” as a medium through which globalization takes place. She
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MIT Press Ltd Chaos and Awe Painting for the 21st Century The
Book SynopsisFifty paintings, reproduced in color, by an international array of contemporary artists, show the aptness and relevance of painting in an era of uncertainty.In an age of global instability, the threat of chaos looms. Or is the threat more spectral than real? The fear of chaos may simply be our response to living in a world controlled by powerful forces beyond our understanding. Chaos and Awe demonstrates the aptness and relevance of painting as a medium for expressing the uncertainty of our era. It presents more than fifty paintings, by an international array of contemporary artists, that induce sensations of disturbance, curiosity, and expansiveness—the new sublime, derived not from the unfathomable mystery of nature but from the hidden and often insidious forces of culture. Essays by art historians and “painters who write” offer context and illumination.Chaos and Awe, which accompanies a major exhibition at the Frist Art Museum in Nash
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MIT Press Ltd The Locked Room Four Years that Shook Art
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MIT Press Ltd A Primer of Visual Literacy The MIT Press
Book SynopsisThis primer is designed to teach students the interconnected arts of visual communication. The subject is presented, not as a foreign language, but as a native one that the student knows but cannot yet read.Responding to the need she so clearly perceives, Ms. Dondis, a designer and teacher of broad experience, has provided a beginning text for art and design students and a basic text for all other students; those who do not intend to become artists or designers but who need to acquire the essential skills of understanding visual communication at a time when so much information is being studied and transmitted in non-verbal modes, especially through photography and film. Understanding through seeing only seems to be an obviously intuitive process. Actually, developing the visual sense is something like learning a language, with its own special alphabet, lexicon, and syntax. People find it necessary to be verbally literate whether they are writers: or not; they should find it e
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MIT Press Ltd This Great Allegory On WorldDecay and
Book SynopsisAn engagement with the relation between the world in which an artwork is created—a world that perishes or decays over time—and the new world that the artwork opens up.Gerhard Richter explores the relation between two worlds: the world in which an artwork is created, that is, a world that over time perishes or decays beyond interpretive understanding, and the new world that the artwork opens up. The multiple relations between these worlds are examined in a number of central thinkers and in various modes of aesthetic production, including poetry, painting, music, film, literature, and photography. It is precisely in and through the work of art, Richter shows, that central elements of the thinking of world as world are negotiated in the most essential and moving ways. Exploring the relationship between these worlds through art and European philosophy, Richter offers bold new interpretations of Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Maur
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MIT Press Ltd Uncommon Sense Aesthetics after Marcuse
Book SynopsisAn examination of Herbert Marcuse’s political claim for the aesthetic dimension, focusing on defamiliarization as a means of developing radical sensibility.In Uncommon Sense, Craig Leonard argues for the contemporary relevance of the aesthetic theory of Herbert Marcuse—an original member of the Frankfurt School and icon of the New Left—while also acknowledging his philosophical limits. His account reinvigorates Marcuse for contemporary readers, putting his aesthetic theory into dialogue with antiracist and anti-capitalist activism. Leonard emphasizes several key terms not previously analyzed within Marcuse’s aesthetics, including defamiliarization, anti-art, and habit. In particular, he focuses on the centrality of defamiliarization—a subversion of common sense that can be a means to the development of what Marcuse refers to as “radical sensibility.” Leonard brings forward Marcuse’s
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MIT Press Ltd The Cute
Book SynopsisA collection that tracks the astonishing impact of one vernacular aesthetic category—the cute—on postwar and contemporary art.The Cute tracks the astonishing impact of a single aesthetic category on post-war and contemporary art, and on the vast range of cultural practices and discourses on which artists draw. From robots and cat videos to ice cream socials, The Cute explores the ramifications of an aesthetic “of” or “about” minorness—or what is perceived to be diminutive, subordinate, and above all, unthreatening—on the shifting forms and contents of art today. This anthology is the first of its kind to show how contemporary artists have worked on and transformed the cute, in ways that not only complexify its meaning, but also reshape their own artistic practices. Artists surveyed includePeggy Ahwesh, Cosima Von Bonin, Nayland Blake, Paul Chan, Adrian Howells, Juliana Huxtable,
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Pennsylvania State University Press Portraits of Empiricism
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Letters to Camondo
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to American Art
Book SynopsisA Companion to American Art presents 35 newly-commissioned essays by leading scholars that explore the methodology, historiography, and current state of the field of American art history.Trade Review"Art historians will greet this stimulating series of companions to art history, of which this volume is the eighth, with enthusiasm." (Reference Reviews, May 2016)Table of ContentsList of Figures xi Notes on Contributors xvii Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction: American Art History Now: A Snapshot 1John Davis, Jennifer A. Greenhill, and Jason D. LaFountain Part I Writing American Art History 13 Dialogue 15 1 A Conversation Missed: Toward a Historical Understanding of the Americanist/Modernist Divide 17Joshua Shannon and Jason Weems 2 Response: Setting the Roundtable, or, Prospects for Dialogue between Americanists and Modernists 34Jennifer L. Roberts 3 A Time and a Place: Rethinking Race in American Art History 49Tanya Sheehan Dialogue 69 4 On the Social History of American Art 71Alan Wallach 5 Response: Our Cause Is What? 85Robin Kelsey 6 The Maker’s Share: Tools for the Study of Process in American Art 95Ethan W. Lasser Dialogue 111 7 The Problem with Close Looking 113Martin A. Berger 8 Response: Look Away 128Jennifer A. Greenhill 9 Looking for Thomas Eakins: The Lure of the Archive and the Object 146Kathleen A. Foster Dialogue 165 10 The Challenge of Contemporaneity, or, Thoughts on Art as Culture 167Rachael Z. DeLue 11 Response: Writing History, Reading Art 183Bryan Wolf Part II Geographies: Rethinking Americanness 191 12 Teaching Across the Borders of North American Art History 193Wendy Bellion and Mónica Domínguez Torres 13 An American Architecture? 211Dell Upton 14 The Pacific World and American Art History 228J.M. Mancini 15 “Home” and “Homeless” in Art between the Wars 246Angela Miller 16 Pueblo Painting in 1932: Folding Narratives of Native Art into American Art History 264Jessica L. Horton and Janet Catherine Berlo 17 US American Art in the Americas 281Mary K. Coffey 18 Geography Lessons: Canadian Notes on American Art History 299Frances K. Pohl 19 Only in America: Exceptionalism, Nationalism, Provincialism 317John Davis 20 Monolingualism, Multilingualism, and the Study of American Art 336Jason D. LaFountain Part III Subjectivities 357 21 Painters and Status in Colony and Early Nation 359Susan Rather 22 Pantaloons vs. Petticoats: Gender and Artistic Identity in Antebellum America 378Sarah Burns 23 Male or Man?: The Politics of Emancipation in the Neoclassical Imaginary 395Charmaine A. Nelson 24 Drawing Boundaries, Crossing Borders: Trespassing and Identity in American Art 414Randall R. Griffey 25 Lookout: On Queer American Art and History 433Richard Meyer 26 From Nature to Ecology: The Emergence of Ecocritical Art History 447Alan C. Braddock 27 Art History as Collage: A Personal Approach 468David M. Lubin Part IV Art and Public Culture 487 28 Material Religion in Early America 489Louis P. Nelson 29 Issues in Early Mass Visual Culture 507Michael Leja 30 Patrons, Collectors, and Markets 525John Ott 31 Historicism in the American Built Environment 544Kevin D. Murphy 32 The Painting of Urban Life, 1880–1930 562David Peters Corbett 33 Photography and Opium in a Nineteenth-Century Port City 581Anthony W. Lee 34 Value in the Vernacular 599Leo G. Mazow 35 Realism under Duress: The 1930s 617Andrew Hemingway Index 637
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The University of Michigan Press Rudolf Arnheim
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Thames & Hudson Ltd The Va Book of Color in Design
Book SynopsisTrade Review'Wonderfully arranged into colour-coded chapters ... an interesting and scholarly study' - Homes & Antiques'A visual compendium of inspiration … ideal for anyone interested in colour and the decorative arts' - Period Living'Drawing from a deep well of scholarship, this rich book shows that nothing under the rainbow is fixed' - World of Interiors'Comprehensive' - EmbroideryTable of ContentsIntroduction • White • Grey • Yellow • Orange • Pink • Red • Purple • Blue • Turquoise • Green • Brown • Black
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Graffiti Murals
Book SynopsisAn exploration of how graffiti murals are created and what role they play in and around New York City. Six case studies, conducted in New York City, and the surrounding areas of Trenton and Jersey City, New Jersey, explore how graffiti murals are created and what role they play in cities where buffing illegal graffiti is a lucrative business. Interveiws with those affected on a daily basis by the murals at sites around the metropolitan area are included, including property owners who have welcomed the muralists in hopes that the artwork would serve as a deterrent to vandalismand provide a more aesthetically pleasing alternative to buffing. This analysis, informed by cultural Marxism and supported by street photography, suggests a radical departure from traditional New York City policy: instead of spending money exclusively on the elimination of illegal graffiti, resources should also be devoted to the creation of graffiti murals. In the end, graffiti removal teams and mural promoters are pursuing the same goal: making the city a more visually appealing place.
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Universe Publishing How to Read Art
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Northwestern University Press Senses of Landscape Comparative and Continental
Book SynopsisBeginning with the assertion that earth is the elemental place that grants an abode to humans and to other living things, philosopher John Sallis turns to landscapes, and in particular to their representation in painting, to present a powerful synthetic work. Senses of Landscape proffers three kinds of analyses, which, though distinct, continually intersect in the course of the book.
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Northwestern University Press On Weight and the Will
Book SynopsisCharts a modern history of form as emergent from force. Offering a provocative alternative to the imagery of crisis and estrangement that has preoccupied scholarship on modernism, Malika Maskarinec shows that German modernism conceives of human bodies and aesthetic objects as shaped by a contest of conflicting and reciprocally-intensifying forces.
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Spring Publications,U.S. Color Symbolism The Eranos Lectures
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Principles of Color
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The University of Chicago Press Looking to Learn Visual Pedagogy at the
Book SynopsisThis text presents an exhibition held at the the University of Chicago. The exhibition challenges the decontextualized approach to images and learning by setting ritual, functional and intentionally aesthetic objects side by side, together with inventories and technical viewing devices.
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Urbanomic Media Ltd Secrets of Creation Urbanomic Redactions
Book SynopsisAn artist and a mathematician debate, find common ground, and jointly create an assemblage that is neither (or both) an artwork and a mathematical model.A week-long residency project brought together artist Conrad Shawcross and mathematician Matthew Watkins to reflect on the ways in which artists use (or misuse) scientific and mathematical concepts. Secrets of Creation documents this fascinating meeting of worlds, presenting both the week's discussions and debates, and the project upon which Shawcross and Watkins subsequently embarked.Navigating a route that tacked between formalism and natural language, experts and laymen, quantity and quality, poetics and mechanics, Shawcross and Watkins gradually forged a shared discourse in which the concerns of the artist and those of the mathematician could find a common ground. The project ended with their joint creation of an assemblage that was neither (or both) an artwork and a mathematical model.
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MIT Press Body without Organs Body without Image
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Public Art
Book SynopsisA Companion to Public Art is the only scholarly volume to examine the main issues, theories, and practices of public art on a comprehensive scale.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors x Acknowledgements xviii A Companion to Public Art: Introduction 1Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie Part I Traditions 13 Introduction 15Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie Artists’ Philosophies Memory Works 25Julian Bonder Public Art? 30Antony Gormley Natural Phenomena as Public Monuments 34Alan Sonfist Memorializing the Holocaust 37James E. Young Chilean Memorials to the Disappeared: Symbolic Reparations and Strategies of Resistance 51Marisa Lerer Modern Mural Painting in the United States: Shaping Spaces/Shaping Publics 75Sally Webster and Sylvia Rhor Locating History in Concrete and Bronze: Civic Monuments in Bamako, Mali 93Mary Jo Arnoldi The Conflation of Heroes and Victims: A New Memorial Paradigm 107Harriet F. Senie Part II Site 119 Introduction 121Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie Artists’ Philosophies Give That Site Some Privacy 129eteam (Hajoe Moderegger and Franziska Lamprecht) The Grandiose Artistic Vision of Caleb Neelon 135Caleb Neelon Sculptural Showdowns: (Re)Siting and (Mis)Remembering in Chicago 139Eli Robb In the Streets Where We Live 164Kate MacNeill Powerlands: Land Art as Retribution and Reclamation 176Erika Suderburg Waterworks: Politics, Public Art, and the University Campus 191Grant Kester Augmented Realities: Digital Art in the Public Sphere 205Christiane Paul Part III Audience 227 Introduction 229Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie Artists’ Philosophies Practical Strategies: Framing Narratives for Public Pedagogies 239Suzanne Lacy Public Art in a Post]Public World: Complicity with Dark Matter 245Gregory Sholette Audiences Are People, Too: Social Art Practice as Lived Experience 251Mary Jane Jacob Contextualizing the Public in Social Practice Projects 268Jennifer McGregor and Renee Piechocki Art Administrators and Audiences 285Charlotte Cohen and Wendy Feuer Poll the Jury: The Role of the Panelist in Public Art 296Mary M. Tinti Participatory Public Art Evaluation: Approaches to Researching Audience Response 310Katherine Gressel Part IV Frames 335 Introduction 337Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie Artists’ Philosophies The Virtual Sphere Frame: Toward a New Ontology and Epistemology 347John Craig Freeman The Elusive Frame: “Funny,” “Violent,” and “Sexy” 353 The Time Frame: Encounters with Ephemeral Public Art 359Patricia C. Phillips The Memory Frame: Set in Stone, a Dialogue 376Amanda Douberley and Paul Druecke The Patronage Frame: New York City’s Mayors and the Support of Public Art 386Michele H. Bogart The Process Frame: Vandalism, Removal, Re]Siting, Destruction 403Erika Doss The Marketing Frame: Online Corporate Communities and Artistic Intervention 422Jonathan Wallis The Mass Media Frame: Pranking, Soap Operas, and Public Art 435Cher Krause Knight Epilogue 457Cameron Cartiere Index 465
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Contemporary Design since 1945
Book SynopsisA critical overview of contemporary design and its place within the broader context of art history A Companion to Contemporary Design since 1945 introduces readers to a collection of specially commissioned essays exploring the complex areas of design that emerged through the latter half of the twentieth century, design history, design methods, design studies and more recently, design thinking. The book delivers a thoughtful overview of all design disciplines and also strives to stimulate inter-disciplinary debate and examine unconsidered convergences among design applications in different fields. By offering a new perspective on design, the articles assembled here present a challenging account of the boundaries between design history and its cognate disciplines, especially art history. The volume comprises five sectionsTime, Place, Space, Objects and Audiencesthat discuss environments for design and how we interact with designed objects and spaces. Notable features include: 24 new eTable of ContentsList of Illustrations viii About the Editor xii Notes on Contributors xiii Acknowledgments xviii Series Editor’s Preface xix Introduction 1 Anne Massey Part I Time 7 1 Contemporary Design History 9 Sarah Teasley 2 Nostalgia 32 Elizabeth Guffey 3 Design Futures 51 Damon Taylor Part II Place 73 4 Transnationalism for Design History: Knowledge Production and Decolonization Through East Asian Design History 75 Yuko Kikuchi 5 African Fashion Design and the Mobilization of Tradition 91 Victoria L. Rovine 6 Urban Sights: From Outdoor Streets to Interior Urbanism 111 Gregory Marinic Part III Space 137 7 Virtual Space 139 Rina Arya 8 Interior Atmosphere 157 Lois Weinthal 9 Home Truths: Identity and Materiality in the Postwar Interior 173 Ben Highmore 10 Design of Contemporary Mega-Events 189 Graeme Evans Part IV Object 215 11 The Vibrant Object 217 Alexa Griffith Winton 12 The Consumed Object 240 Jonathan Bean 13 The Object of Design History: Lessons for the Environment 260 Kjetil Fallan 14 The Fashionable Object 284 Christopher Breward 15 The Written Object: Design Journalism, Consumption, and Literature Since 1945 299 Grace Lees‐Maffei 16 Destabilizing the Scenario of Design: Queer/Trans/ Gender‐Neutral 326 John Potvin Part V Audiences 351 17 Luxury and Design: Another Time, Another Place 353 Jonathan Faiers 18 Amateur Design 373 Paul Atkinson 19 The Professionalization of Interior Design 393Mark Taylor and Natalie Haskell 20 Design Education in Higher Education 412 Vicky Gunn 21 Design Against Consumerism 436 Paul Micklethwaite 22 Guilty Pleasures: Taste, Design, and Democracy 457 Malcolm Quinn Index 479
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC How to Make the Body
Book SynopsisJennifer L. Creech is Instructor of German at Oregon State University, USA. She is the author of Mothers, Comrades and Outcasts in East German Women's Films (2016) and co-editor of Spectacle: German Visual Culture, Vol. 2 (2015)Thomas O. Haakeson is Associate Professor in Humanities & Sciences at California College of the Arts, USA. He is the author of Grotesque Visions: The Science of Berlin Dada (2021), and co-editor of Spectacle: German Visual Culture, Vol. 2 (2015)Trade ReviewFrom biblical arousals to RAF corpse art; from Joy's feminist pornography to Dr Bitch Ray's bodily interventions, there is much to admire in this thought-provoking essay collection on the visual culture and politics of the body in real-world German contexts. * Michael Hau, author of Performance Anxiety: Sport and Work in Germany from the Empire to Nazism (2017), and Head of History, Monash University, Australia *How to Make the Body is a rich, multi-faceted volume that demonstrates the value of focusing on the body, and embodiment, in examining various aspects of visual culture in 20th and 21st-century German contexts […] and with a strong and welcome emphasis on feminist and queer approaches. * Rick McCormick, Professor of German, Nordic, Slavic, and Dutch, University of Minnesota, USA *Engaging with a diverse array of events, texts, and representations of lived experience, How to Make the Body powerfully mobilizes a range of cutting-edge theoretical approaches to generate new understandings of embodiment vital to German Studies and beyond. * Sara F. Hall, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies, University of Illinois Chicago, USA *Table of Contents1. Jennifer L. Creech and Thomas O. Haakenson, “Introduction: How to Make the Body” 2. Alison Stewart, “Arousal, the Bible, and Bruegel’s Codpieces: The Male Body in Early Modern Visual Culture” 3. David Ciarlo, “The Construction of the Aryan Body in German Visual Advertising, 1908-33” 4. Jill Holaday, “Die Gruppe Zero: Transforming Trauma to Transcendence” 5.Ilka Rasch, “RAF Corpse Art: The Living Dead in the Work of Gerhard Richter, Ernst Volland, Astrid Proll and Andres Veiel” 6. Sebastian Heiduschke, “Penis-bodied Specimen in the Exhibit Körperwelten (‘Body Worlds’)” 7. Jennifer L. Creech, “For the Porn Connoisseur: Cinema Joy” 8. Zachary Fitzpatrick, “Orientalized Bodies at Work: Cultural Zaniness in Berlin's Sayonara Tokyo Revue” 9. Thomas O. Haakenson, “Ai Weiwei’s Body in Berlin” 10. Jamele Watkins, “Afrolocken: Natural Hair in German Literature and Media” 11. Faye Stewart, “Poppthority: The Politics of Dr. Bitch Ray’s Bodily Interventions” 12. Lucy Ashton, “Becoming Invisible/ Against Visibility: Hito Steyerl’s How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational. MOV File”
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Hungarian AvantGarde and Socialism
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis astute monograph offers a survey of Hungarian avant-garde art of the 1960s-80s that is at once accessible and methodologically rigorous. Its elucidation of the entanglements between the first (official) public sphere and its counterpart, the second (unofficial) public sphere, is thoroughly invigorating. * Klara Kemp-Welch, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, UK *‘This timely and expertly researched study of unofficial Kádár-era art explores the resourcefulness and ingenuity of Hungarian artists keen to push the limits of artistic freedom. The book is indispensable for anyone interested in the question what it meant to be radical for an artist in post-1956 Hungary, and beyond.’ * Sven Spieker, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA *Drawing on a wealth of research, Cseh-Varga provides a new and accessible interpretation of radical art phenomena in Hungary under socialism. The book points to the importance of the public sphere for the democratic ambitions and battles with authority of the East European neo-avant-garde. * Edit Sasvári, Art historian and Director of the Kassák Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary *Table of Contents1. Acknowledgements 2. Introduction 3. Public Spheres and Spatiality 4. The Happening and the Consolidation of the Art of the Second Public Sphere 5. Places of Resonance – Artist Studios 6. Official Venues, Semi-Official Art: Party-Run Locations 7. Turning Private into Public – Apartment Culture 8. Avant-Garde above the Ground 9. Conclusion 10. Bibliography
£90.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Images of War in Contemporary Art
Book SynopsisUroš Cvoro (UNSW Sydney, Australia) researches artistic and cultural strategies dealing with the multiple challenges of post-global exchange such as conflict, economic collapse, and migration. His books include Turbo-Folk Music and Cultural Representations of National Identity in Former Yugoslavia (2014), Transitional Aesthetics: Contemporary Art at the Edge of Europe (Bloomsbury, 2018), and Post-Conflict Monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Unfinished Histories (2020).Kit Messham-Muir (Curtin University, Australia) researches contemporary art and visual culture that addresses war, terror, and political violence. He wrote Double War: Shaun Gladwell, visual culture and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (2015). He is Lead Chief Investigator of the Art in Conflict project, which receives a Linkage Project grant from the Australian Research Council of $293,380 over 2018-2021.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Zero Hour, Ground Zero Chapter 1: The Trauma Artist Chapter 2: Weaponising Affect Chapter 3: The Gamification of Terror Chapter 4: Weaponisation of History Chapter 5: Military Humanism Chapter 6: Militant Humanism: Repurposing War Infrastructure Conclusion: Weaponised Art Bibliography Index
£112.18
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The City as Subject
Book SynopsisCarolyn S. Loeb is Associate Professor Emerita in Art & Architectural History in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University, USA. She has published on public art and urban redevelopment in Berlin, among other subjects.Trade Review“Grounded in a close and critical reading of a number of works of public art and monuments in contemporary Berlin, The City as Subject draws on a sophisticated array of scholarship rooted in critical urban studies and the history of memory, providing something of a blueprint for activist artists and citizens in other places.” * Joe Perry, Associate Professor of History, Georgia State University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Plates List of Figures Preface and acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Public Art and the Affirmation of the City 2. West Berlin Walls, Street Art, and the Right to the City 3. City Spaces: Contemporary Public Sculpture in Berlin 4. The Memorial Landscape of the Berlin Wall 5. Conclusion: Public Art within an Urban Discourse Bibliography Index
£90.00
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Drawing in Health and Wellbeing
Book SynopsisCurie Scott is an independent education consultant specializing in arts and health, based in the UK. After working as a medical doctor, she transitioned into Higher Education. Previously, she worked at Arts University Bournemouth, UK and Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. She is an award-winning educator for creative learning practices and holds a PhD in thinking through drawing. She is also the author of Drawing: Arts for Health (2021).Philippa Lyon leads drawing, health and wellbeing research at the University of Brighton, UK, where she teaches on the MA Craft and MA Textiles and supervises PhD students. She has publications on the history of art education, design education approaches, and on applications of drawing within educational, health and wellbeing contexts. She has published work in The Sage Handbook of Visual Research Methods (2019) and journals such as the International Journal of Art and Design Education and Visual Methodologies. She also completed her PhD on British Second World War poetry in 2005.
£83.27
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Beauty in Architecture
Book SynopsisNele De Raedt is an Associate Professor at UCLouvain's Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering, and Urbanism, specializing in the history, theory, and criticism of architecture. Her research delves into architectural theory and thought from the late medieval and early modern periods, with a keen focus on the ethical and political dimensions of architectural patronage and design. She also explores how architecture is experienced and debated within broader public discourse.Maarten Delbeke is Professor in the History and Theory of Architecture at the Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur (gta) at ETH Zürich. He works on the art and architecture of the early modern period in Europe, and its 19th- and 20th-century reception, with a particular interest in the intersection between religion and aesthetics, architecture's relationship to printed and digital media, and origin myths. He is an architecture critic and the founding editor-in-chief of Architectural Histories.
£80.75
