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by Biljana Arandelovic
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
This book provides insight into the significant area of public art and memorials in Berlin. Through diverse selected examples, grouped according to their basic character and significance, the most important art projects produced in the period since World War II are presented and discussed. Both as...
Leaving Art
Writings on Performance, Politics, and Publics, 1974–2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
Since the 1970s, the performance and conceptual artist Suzanne Lacy has explored women’s lives and experiences, as well as race, ethnicity, aging, economic disparities, and violence, through her pioneering community-based art. Combining aesthetics and politics, and often collaborating with other...
by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
The late Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, curator of Indian art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, uniquely combined art historian, philosopher, orientalist, linguist, and expositor in his person. His knowledge of the arts and handcrafts of the Orient was unexcelled and his numerous monographs on Oriental...
Modern Art
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Revised and restructured, this second edition of Modern Art traces the historical and contemporary contexts for understanding modern art movements, and the theories that influenced and attempted to explain them. Its radical approach foregoes the chronological approach to art movements in favour of...
Museum Skepticism
A History of the Display of Art in Public Galleries
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2006
In Museum Skepticism, art historian David Carrier traces the birth, evolution, and decline of the public art museum as an institution meant to spark democratic debate and discussion. Carrier contends that since the inception of the public art museum during the French Revolution, its development has...
Landscape into Eco Art
Articulations of Nature Since the ’60s
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Dedicated to an articulation of the earth from broadly ecological perspectives, eco art is a vibrant subset of contemporary art that addresses the widespread public concern with rapid climate change and related environmental issues. In Landscape into Eco Art, Mark Cheetham systematically examines...
Creative Enterprise
Contemporary Art between Museum and Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
In the face of unparalleled growth and a truly global audience, the popularity of contemporary art has clearly become a double-edged affair. Today, an unprecedented number of museums, galleries, biennial-style exhibitions, and art fairs display new work in all its variety, while art schools continue...
by David Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this groundbreaking book David Roberts sets out to demonstrate the centrality of the total work of art to European modernism since the French Revolution. The total work of art is usually understood as the intention to reunite the arts into the one integrated whole, but it is also tied from the...
Scroll Paintings of Bengal
Art in the Village
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Th e art of vernacular painting in India is not only varied and rich but also intriguing for several reasons. With such observations the book addresses certain issues, like the validity of the historical information on Indian Art that excludes vernacular trends. The information on vernacular art in...
Sociology of Art
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
Introducing the fundamental theories and debates in the sociology of art, this broad ranging book, the only edited reader of the sociology of art available, uses extracts from the core foundational and most influential contemporary writers in the field. As such it is essential reading both for students...
Burning Man
Art on Fire
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Every August, tens of thousands of participants gather to celebrate artistic expression in Nevada's barren Black Rock Desert. This vastly inhospitable location, called the playa, is the site of Burning Man, where, within a 9-mile fence, artists called Burners create a temporary city devoted to art...
A Contested Art
Modernism and Mestizaje in New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
When New Mexico became an alternative cultural frontier for avant-garde Anglo-American writers and artists in the early twentieth century, the region was still largely populated by Spanish-speaking Hispanos. Anglos who came in search of new personal and aesthetic freedoms found inspiration for their...
What is Art?
"The Kingdom of God is Within You"
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015
WHAT thoughtful man has not been perplexed by problems relating to art?
An estimable and charming Russian lady I knew, felt the charm of the music and ritual of the services of the Russo-Greek Church so strongly that she wished the peasants, in whom she was interested, to retain their blind...
Brazilian Art under Dictatorship
Antonio Manuel, Artur Barrio, and Cildo Meireles
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Brazilian Art under Dictatorship is a sophisticated analysis of the intersection of politics and the visual arts during the most repressive years of Brazil's military regime, from 1968 until 1975. Raised in Rio de Janeiro during the dictatorship, the curator and art historian Claudia Calirman describes...