Posted on Jul-30-2009

Small Histories: 800 Jpeg Files & Texts as Word for Windows: Studies of Western Art


Small Histories: 800 Jpeg Files & Texts as Word for Windows: Studies of Western Art


Author: Philip James
ISBN: 190116182X
Languages:
Unknown: English
Original Language: English

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Art criticism and historical analysis of classic and contemporary work from the database of Cv/Visual Arts Research. Formatted on a compact disc for Windows. Small Histories presents analytical essays on classic examples of Western art ranging from Masaccio's Trinity at S.Maria Novella, Florence to paintings by Vermeer, Cezanne, Salvador Dali and Francis Bacon. Postmodernist Culture includes notes for a lecture series at Middlesex University 1995-96, evaluating contributions by Bourdieu, Derrida, Baudrillard, Foster, McCracken and Langman, to cultural debates of art, society and spectacle. Curators & Collections includes interviews with keepers of leading national collections: Tate, National Gallery, IMMA Dublin, and a guide to over 350 public and private collections in Britain. London Review documents over one hundred exhibitions in museums and private galleries over a period of ten years. Cv Journal Volume 1-5 presents facsimiles of eleven issues of the quarterly review Cv Journal of the Arts.

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Posted on Jul-12-2009

Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures (Annotating Art's Histories: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in the Visual Arts)


Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures (Annotating Art\'s Histories: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in the Visual Arts)



ISBN: 0262633507
Number Of Pages: 232
Languages:
Unknown: English
Original Language: English
Published: English

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How does pop art translate across cultures? What does pop art look like through a postcolonial lens? In the global marketplace of images, artists have long challenged the discourse of officialdom by turning to dissident elements in the languages of vernacular culture. This volume casts new light on the aesthetics and politics of pop by taking a cross-cultural perspective on what happens when everyday objects are taken out of one context and repositioned in the language of art.

Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures examines practices that range from the recycling of consumerist waste in Chicano "rasquachismo" to the painterly pastiche of Hindu "photo-gods," exploring the semiotic transformations that arise when art reveals unexpected antagonisms in the social life of images. Showing how boundaries marking "high" and "low" are further corroded by strategies that question categories of "folk," "nation," and "people" in the global culture of modernity, this book breaks new ground in understanding pop art's ambiguous reaction to (and compliance with) the dynamics of high capitalism. When Mao goes pop, should we see the results as avant-garde, anti-modern, or postmodern? Who "owns" popular culture in South Africa or Brazil? The critical revision proposed by this third volume in the Annotating Art's Histories series dramatically expands the world map of the period from which our definitions of contemporary art are drawn.

Contributors:
Holly Barnet-Sanchez, Gavin Butt, Geeta Kapur, Martina Koppel-Yang, Kobena Mercer, Colin Richards, and Sonia Salzstein

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Posted on Jul-09-2009

Theatre Histories: An Introduction


An amazing theatre textbook. It covered a wide range and was set up chronologically rather than by culture, which made more sense to me than any other theatre history text I've used. It also covered cultures and types of theatre that I had never heard of before, rather than focusing on Western cultures. The writing style was approachable and held my interest easily. There were many photos, drawings, and diagrams, which all served to augment the reading.

I highly recommend it. Especially because it is an entertaining textbook while still being vastly informative.

Theatre Histories: An Introduction

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'A work that more than any other currently available suggests the range and richness of theatre and performance history study today.' - Marvin Carlson, City University of New York
'This book will significantly change theatre education' - Janelle Reinelt, University of California, Irvine

Theatre Histories: An Introduction is a bold and innovative way of looking both at the way we understand performance and the ways in which history is written. Its chapters offer clearly written overviews of theatre and drama in many world cultures and periods. These and its unique in-depth case studies demonstrate the methods used by today's theatre historians. .
Using a new narrative strategy that challenges the standard format of one-volume theatre history texts, the authors help the reader think critically about performance in all its global diversity. Theatre Histories explores aesthetic and interpretive approaches from many cultures, continents and time periods. The authors explore contemporary Japanese theatre, kabuki and kathakali with as much range and depth as Shakespeare, vaudeville and realism.
Theatre Histories: An Introduction is organized to provide:
? an understanding of how key shifts in human communication shaped developments in the history of theatre and performance throughout the world
? an introduction to the methodologies employed by today's theatre historians
? in-depth case studies demonstrating "history at work"
? a truly global perspective on drama, theatre, and performance
Keeping performance, drama, and culture at centre stage, Theatre Histories: An Introduction is compatible with standard play anthologies and offers many pedagogical resources including a website with additional references, discussion questions, and links to related sites.


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Posted on Jul-03-2009

Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and Histories of Art


Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and Histories of Art

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Chapters on the structures of art historical writing are complemented by studies of Elizabeth Siddall, Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot, which deal with themes of modernity, sexuality and repression.

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Posted on Jun-30-2009

Veiled Histories: The Body, Place, and Public Art (Thinking Publicly)


Edition: 1st
ISBN: 1883831075
Number Of Pages: 177
Languages:
Unknown: English
Original Language: English
Published: English

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Posted on Jun-27-2009

Impossible Histories: Historic Avant-Gardes, Neo-Avant-Gardes, and Post-Avant-Gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918-1991


Impossible Histories: Historic Avant-Gardes, Neo-Avant-Gardes, and Post-Avant-Gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918-1991


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ISBN: 0262541890
Number Of Pages: 623
Languages:
Unknown: English
Original Language: English
Published: English

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Impossible Histories is the first critical survey of the extraordinary experiments in the arts that took place in the former Yugoslavia from the country's founding in 1918 to its breakup in 1991. The combination of Austro-Hungarian, French, German, Italian, and Turkish influences gave Yugoslavia's avant-gardes a distinct character unlike those of other Eastern and Central European avant-gardes. Censorship and suppression kept much of the work far from the eyes and ears of the Yugoslav people, while language barriers and the inaccessibility of archives caused it to remain largely unknown to Western scholars. Even at this late stage in the scholarly investigation of the avant-garde, few Westerners have heard of the movements Belgrade surrealism, signalism, Yugo-Dada, and zenitism; the groups Alfa, Exat 51, Gorgona, OHO, and Scipion Nasice Sisters Theater; or the magazines Danas, Red Pilot, Tank, Vecnost, and Zvrk.

The pieces in this collection offer comparative and interpretive accounts of the avant-gardes in the former Yugoslavian countries of Croatia, Serbia, and Slovenia. The book is divided into four sections: Art and Politics; Literature; Visual Art and Architecture; and Art in Motion (covering theater, dance, music, film, and video). All of the contributors live in the region and many of them participated in the movements discussed. The book also reprints a selection of the most important manifestos generated by all phases of Yugoslav avant-garde activity.

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Terrific book!
Impossible Histories is a terrific collection of essays bringing together information on the Yugoslav avant-gardes that has never been available in any language in one place before. The essays consider the avant-gardes in film, photography and video, avant-garde music and rock, and they topics ranging from conceptual art and Laibach back to the earliest Barbarageniuses such as Ljubomir Micic, Avgust Cernigoj, Branko Ve Poljanski and Srecko Kosovel. The book brings together amazing material in its illustrations and manifestoes. Highly recommended!

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Posted on Jun-26-2009

Discrepant Abstraction (Annotating Art's Histories: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in the Visual Arts)


Discrepant Abstraction (Annotating Art\'s Histories: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in the Visual Arts)


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ISBN: 026263337X
Number Of Pages: 232
Languages:
Unknown: English
Original Language: English
Published: English

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For anyone who thinks the question of abstract art is settled, this book will come as a surprise. Discrepant abstraction is hybrid and partial, elusive and repetitive, obstinate and strange. It includes almost everything that does not neatly fit into the institutional narrative of abstract art as a monolithic quest for artistic purity. Exploring cross-cultural scenarios in twentieth-century art, this second volume in the Annotating Art's Histories series alters our understanding of abstract art as a signifier of modernity by revealing the multiple directions it has taken in wide-ranging international contexts.

Impure, imperfect, and incomplete, the version of abstraction that emerges from this global journey—from Hong Kong and Islamic regions to Canada, Australia, Europe, and the United States—shows how the formal ingenuity of abstract art has been cross-fertilized, from abstract expressionism onwards, by creative discrepancies that arise when disparate visual languages are brought into dialogue. Discrepant Abstraction is essential reading for students, practitioners and anyone curious about cross-cultural interaction in the visual arts.

Copublished with inIVA/Institute of International Visual Arts, London

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An Important and Groundbreaking Book
Kobena Mercer has long been an important figure in the world of cultural theory and identity politics. He has more recently turned his attention to the fine art object itself. In this groundbreaking book Mercer and a range of other art historians and scholars examine the place of the black artist in the fine art arena. Contrary to art history artists of the African diaspora have played an ongoing and important role in advancing the high art paradigm of painting. Abstraction does not only mean Jackson Pollock! Here Mercer and his critical cohorts examine the role that black artists have played and continue to play in making painting and abstraction an engaging and meaningful conceptual practice.

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Posted on Jun-20-2009

Cosmopolitan Modernisms (Annotating Art's Histories: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in the Visual Arts)


Cosmopolitan Modernisms (Annotating Art\'s Histories: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in the Visual Arts)



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ISBN: 0262633213
Number Of Pages: 208
Languages:
Unknown: English
Original Language: English
Published: English

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Recipient of the 2005 Clark Prize for Excellance in Arts Writing.

This first book in the Annotating Art's Histories series revisits the period in which modernist attitudes took shape, examining the ways in which a shared history of art and ideas was experienced in different nations and cultures. Original essays by leading art historians and curators trace the dynamic interplay of cultures across the story of modern art, looking at moments of crisis and innovation in modernism's cross-cultural past. An account of colonialism and nationalism in Indian art from the 1890s to the 1920s, for example, suggests that cultural identities are constantly modifying one another in the very moment of their encounter and points to primitivism as a counter-discourse to modernism. A collision between modernism and colonialism in the design of a Bauhaus model housing project reveals the volatile conditions of European modernism in the 1930s. Discussions of the abstract painting of Norman Lewis and the collages of Romare Bearden illustrate the conflicted experiences and multiple affiliations of African American artists in the New York art world of the 1940s and 1950s. The first English translation of an influential essay in the Brazilian neoconcrete movement of the 1950s takes up concerns similar to those of North American minimalism in the 1960s. These and the other journeys into modernism's past described in Cosmopolitan Modernisms return to our contemporary moment with questions about modern art and modernity that we are only beginning to ask.

Copublished with inIVA/Institute of International Visual Arts, London.

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An Insightful Look at One Artist's Enuring Contribution
Kobena Mercer has long been a strong presence in the ongoing debate and discourse around issues of race and representation in the practice of artists of color. Much of his work has focused on the postmodern moment. With this important book Mercer now brings his incisive intelligence to bear on one of the premier African American modernists, Romare Bearden. It is no surprise that Mercer has brought the same high level of intellectual acuity and observation to Bearden's work, casting him in a new and exciting light. Mercer is joined here by a host of other art historians and theorists, each taking a moment out from the continuing din of Postmodernism to reflect on how we might bring a seemingly moderninst artist into the current discussion. In doing so they rescue Bearden from the dustbin of history, and make him once again an artist worthy of continued--and renewed--attention.

This book is an important and valuable addition to the ongong discourse around the place of African American artists within both the modernist and postmodern canon. That this work was undertaken by Mercer--with his impeccable Postmodernist pedigree--makes it that much more impressive.

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Posted on Jun-16-2009

Art and its Histories: A Reader (Art & Its Histories)


Art and its Histories: A Reader (Art & Its Histories)



Edition: 1st ed
ISBN: 0300077440
Number Of Pages: 352
Languages:
Unknown: English
Original Language: English
Published: English

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A presentation of 89 texts that have played a role in shaping modern judgements and values about art. Emphasizing the debates and ideological assumptions around the Western canon of art, it ranges through art history from Pliny the Elder to current issues of gender.

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Posted on Jun-06-2009

The Two Art Histories: The Museum and the University (Clark Studies in the Visual Arts)


The Two Art Histories: The Museum and the University (Clark Studies in the Visual Arts)


ISBN: 0300097751
Number Of Pages: 224
Languages:
Unknown: English
Original Language: English
Published: English

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Many museum professionals today believe that university-based art history focuses too much on theory and the social agency of art, neglecting the aesthetic dimensions of the art object. Conversely, many academics feel that museums have become preoccupied with the quest for money and audiences, making them an increasingly unlikely source of innovative scholarship. In this provocative book, seventeen eminent figures from both sides of the art world—museum professionals and university scholars—explore the questions underlying the often tense relationship between the two main branches of the discipline.

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