American Arts

Download American Arts full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online American Arts ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

African American Arts

Author : Sharrell D. Luckett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781684481569
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (815 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis African American Arts by : Sharrell D. Luckett

Download or read book African American Arts written by Sharrell D. Luckett and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Signaling recent activist and aesthetic concepts in the work of Kara Walker, Childish Gambino, BLM, Janelle Monáe, and Kendrick Lamar, and marking the exit of the Obama Administration and the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, this anthology explores the role of African American arts in shaping the future, and further informing new directions we might take in honoring and protecting the success of African Americans in the U.S. The essays in African American Arts: Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity engage readers in critical conversations by activists, scholars, and artists reflecting on national and transnational legacies of African American activism as an element of artistic practice, particularly as they concern artistic expression and race relations, and the intersections of creative processes with economic, sociological, and psychological inequalities. Scholars from the fields of communication, theater, queer studies, media studies, performance studies, dance, visual arts, and fashion design, to name a few, collectively ask: What are the connections between African American arts, the work of social justice, and creative processes? If we conceive the arts as critical to the legacy of Black activism in the United States, how can we use that construct to inform our understanding of the complicated intersections of African American activism and aesthetics? How might we as scholars and creative thinkers further employ the arts to envision and shape a verdant society?"--

The Unforgettables

Author : Charles C. Eldredge
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520385551
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Unforgettables by : Charles C. Eldredge

Download or read book The Unforgettables written by Charles C. Eldredge and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the past, histories of American art have traditionally highlighted the work of a familiar roster of artists, often white and male. Over time the achievements of others worthy of attention, including numerous women and artists of color, as well as white men, have gone uncelebrated and fallen into obscurity. In this collection of essays, sixty-three scholars from various institutions, specialties, and locales respond to the challenge to nominate one maker deserving remembrance and detail the reasons for their choice. The collection is headed by a preface from editor Charles C. Eldredge, explaining the genesis of the anthology, and an introduction by Dr. Kirsten Pai Buick, promoting the value of recovered reputations and oeuvres in the training of future art experts and audiences"--

Good and Plenty

Author : Tyler Cowen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400827000
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Good and Plenty by : Tyler Cowen

Download or read book Good and Plenty written by Tyler Cowen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans agree about government arts funding in the way the women in the old joke agree about the food at the wedding: it's terrible--and such small portions! Americans typically either want to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts, or they believe that public arts funding should be dramatically increased because the arts cannot survive in the free market. It would take a lover of the arts who is also a libertarian economist to bridge such a gap. Enter Tyler Cowen. In this book he argues why the U.S. way of funding the arts, while largely indirect, results not in the terrible and the small but in Good and Plenty--and how it could result in even more and better. Few would deny that America produces and consumes art of a quantity and quality comparable to that of any country. But is this despite or because of America's meager direct funding of the arts relative to European countries? Overturning the conventional wisdom of this question, Cowen argues that American art thrives through an ingenious combination of small direct subsidies and immense indirect subsidies such as copyright law and tax policies that encourage nonprofits and charitable giving. This decentralized and even somewhat accidental--but decidedly not laissez-faire--system results in arts that are arguably more creative, diverse, abundant, and politically unencumbered than that of Europe. Bringing serious attention to the neglected issue of the American way of funding the arts, Good and Plenty is essential reading for anyone concerned about the arts or their funding.

African American Visual Arts

Author : Celeste-Marie Bernier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis African American Visual Arts by : Celeste-Marie Bernier

Download or read book African American Visual Arts written by Celeste-Marie Bernier and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American Visual Arts: From Slavery to the Present

An American Renaissance

Author : Phillip James Dodd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781864706819
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (68 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis An American Renaissance by : Phillip James Dodd

Download or read book An American Renaissance written by Phillip James Dodd and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, which has been painstakingly researched and beautifully photographed over many years, takes a close look at twenty of the finest examples of Beaux-Arts architecture in New York City. While showing public exteriors, its focus is on the lavish interiors that are associated with the opulence of the Gilded Age--often providing a glimpse inside buildings not otherwise viewable to the public. The pages recount not only the fascinating stories of some of New York's most famous and significant Beaux-Arts buildings, it also recalls the lives of those who commissioned, designed, and built them.

The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists

Author : Ann Lee Morgan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198029551
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists by : Ann Lee Morgan

Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists written by Ann Lee Morgan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-18 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the advent of abstract expressionism in the 1940s, America became the white hot center of the artistic universe. Now, in The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists, the first such volume to appear in three decades, Ann Lee Morgan offers an informative, insightful, and long overdue resource on our nation's artistic heritage. Featuring 945 alphabetically arranged entries, here is an indispensable biographical and critical guide to American art from colonial times to contemporary postmodernism. Readers will find a wealth of factual detail and insightful analysis of the leading American painters, ranging from John Singleton Copley, Thomas Cole, and Mary Cassatt to such modern masters as Jackson Pollack, Romare Bearden, and Andy Warhol. Morgan offers razor-sharp entries on sculptors ranging from Alexander Calder to Louise Nevelson, on photographers such as Berenice Abbott, Man Ray, Walker Evans, and Ansel Adams, and on contemporary installation artists, including video master Bill Viola. In addition, the dictionary provides entries on important individuals connected to the art scene, including collectors such as Peggy Guggenheim and critics such as Clement Greenberg. Morgan also examines notable American institutions, organizations, schools, techniques, styles, and movements. The range of coverage is indeed impressive, but equally important is the quality of analysis that appears in entry after entry. Morgan gives readers a wealth of trustworthy and authoritative information as well as perceptive, well-informed criticism of artists and their work. In addition, the book is thoroughly cross-referenced, so readers can easily find additional information on any topic of interest. Beautifully written, filled with fascinating historical background and penetrating insight, The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists is an essential one-volume resource for art lovers everywhere.

The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts

Author : John Michael Vlach
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820312339
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts by : John Michael Vlach

Download or read book The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts written by John Michael Vlach and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included in the examples are works from the Charleston and Old Slave Mart museums and the ironwork of Philip Simmons.

The Invention of the American Art Museum

Author : Kathleen Curran
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606064789
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Invention of the American Art Museum by : Kathleen Curran

Download or read book The Invention of the American Art Museum written by Kathleen Curran and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American art museums share a mission and format that differ from those of their European counterparts, which often have origins in aristocratic collections. This groundbreaking work recounts the fascinating story of the invention of the modern American art museum, starting with its roots in the 1870s in the craft museum type, which was based on London’s South Kensington (now the Victoria and Albert) Museum. At the turn of the twentieth century, American planners grew enthusiastic about a new type of museum and presentation that was developed in Northern Europe, particularly in Germany, Switzerland, and Scandinavia. Called Kulturgeschichte (cultural history) museums, they were evocative displays of regional history. American trustees, museum directors, and curators found that the Kulturgeschichte approach offered a variety of transformational options in planning museums, classifying and displaying objects, and broadening collecting categories, including American art and the decorative arts. Leading institutions, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, adopted and developed crucial aspects of the Kulturgeschichte model. By the 1930s, such museum plans and exhibition techniques had become standard practice at museums across the country.

Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement

Author : Kevin W. Tucker
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300118025
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement by : Kevin W. Tucker

Download or read book Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement written by Kevin W. Tucker and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After three decades of Arts and Crafts exhibitions that have surveyed the entire movement or focused on its many regional manifestations, Gustav Stickley, the movement's central figure in the US, now receives his due. This exhibition catalogue, redolent with stunning color photographs of 100-plus selected Stickley pieces, draws its intellectual credibility from essays by six leading scholars of the Arts and Crafts movement: Tucker, Brandt, David Cathers, Joseph Cunningham, Beth Ann Macpherson, and Tommy MacPherson. They examine the cultural and economic circumstances of Stickley's emergence around 1900, the formulation of his business strategies and ideals, the role of Irene Sargent and The Craftsman magazine, the paradoxical nature of the craftsman home, and Stickley's own two homes. Stickley is a large subject, but this catalogue captures the essence of the man and his work. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; general readers. General Readers; Upper-division Undergraduates; Graduate Students; Researchers/Faculty; Professionals/Practitioners. Reviewed by J. Quinan.

Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network

Author : Howie Chen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736534625
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (346 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network by : Howie Chen

Download or read book Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network written by Howie Chen and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory compendium of writings, art and ephemera on the '90s New York collective that fostered a social space for diasporic Asian artists This anthology gathers writings, documentation and ephemera from Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network, a collective based in New York from 1990 to 2001, which was formed to provide a support structure for Asian American artists, writers and curators to stimulate visibility and critical discourse for their work. Edited by curator Howie Chen, the book gathers archival material from the group's wide-ranging activities, which included producing exhibitions and forums to social change advocacy surrounding institutional racism, the politics of representation, Western imperialism, the AIDS crisis and violence against Asian Americans. Godzilla created a social space for diasporic Asian artists and art professionals, including members Tomie Arai, Karin Higa, Byron Kim, Paul Pfeiffer, Eugenie Tsai, Lynne Yamamoto and Alice Yang, among others. Founded by artists Ken Chu, Bing Lee and Margo Machida in New York and eventually expanding into a national network, Godzilla's aim was to "function as a support group interested in social change through art, bringing together art and advocacy" and "to contribute to changing the limited ways Asian Pacific Americans participate and are represented in broad social context--in the artworld and beyond." This comprehensive chronicle of Godzilla: Asian American Arts Networkassembles art projects, critical writing, correspondences, exhibition and meeting documentation, media clippings and other archival ephemera to convey the political and cultural stakes of the time.

American Arts and Crafts Textiles

Author : Dianne Ayres
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis American Arts and Crafts Textiles by : Dianne Ayres

Download or read book American Arts and Crafts Textiles written by Dianne Ayres and published by . This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years after it was born, the American Arts and Crafts style remains enormously popular. But while the architecture and furniture have received most of the attention, the colorful table linens, curtains, pillows, clothing, and other textiles have been largely overlooked. This lavishly illustrated volume will delight the eye and become the standard reference on these treasures from our past.

The Kinsey Collection

Author : Khalil B. Kinsey ($e writer of added commentary)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982622537
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (225 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Kinsey Collection by : Khalil B. Kinsey ($e writer of added commentary)

Download or read book The Kinsey Collection written by Khalil B. Kinsey ($e writer of added commentary) and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Arts of the North American Indian

Author : Philbrook Art Center
Publisher : Hudson Hills
ISBN 13 : 9780933920569
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (25 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Arts of the North American Indian by : Philbrook Art Center

Download or read book The Arts of the North American Indian written by Philbrook Art Center and published by Hudson Hills. This book was released on 1986 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen authorities explore sociology, anthropology, art history of Native American creativity.

Color as Field

Author : Karen Wilkin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300120233
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (22 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Color as Field by : Karen Wilkin

Download or read book Color as Field written by Karen Wilkin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Color field painting, which emerged in the United States in the 1950s, is based on radiant, uninflected hues. Exemplified by the work of Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons, and Frank Stella, among others, these stunningly beautiful and impressively scaled paintings constitute one of the crowning achievements of postwar American abstract art. Color as Field offers a long-overdue reevaluation of this important aspect of American abstract painting. The authors examine how color field painting rejects the gestural, layered, and hyper-emotional approach typical of Willem de Kooning and his followers, yet at the same time develops and expands ideas about all-overness and the primacy of color posited by the work of other members of the abstract expressionist generation, such as Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. From the fresh historical standpoint of the 21st century, this fascinating reassessment ranges across the artists’ individual approaches and their commonalities, concluding with insights into the ongoing legacy of post-1970s color field painting among present-day artists.

Collecting African American Art

Author : John Hope Franklin
Publisher : Museum of Fine Arts (Houston)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Collecting African American Art by : John Hope Franklin

Download or read book Collecting African American Art written by John Hope Franklin and published by Museum of Fine Arts (Houston). This book was released on 2009 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Celebrating an important aspect of cultural history, this book showcases the institutional and private efforts to collect, document, and preserve African American art in Houston during the 20th and 21st centuries"--Provided by publisher.

American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Author : Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts by : Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Download or read book American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts written by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this publication, produced in conjunction with the largest expansion in the history of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the full scope of the museum's outstanding American art collection is represented for the first time. Following an introduction tracing the history of American art at this encyclopedic museum--a state-supported, privately endowed institution--readers will discover lively and generously illustrated essays about selected paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by many of America's leading artists: John James Audubon, Thomas Hart Benton, Mary Cassatt, Frederic Church, John Singleton Copley, Edward Hopper, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Willson Peale, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, John Singer Sargent, William Wetmore Story, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and James McNeill Whistler. Also included are decorative objects by well-known artisans and firms, such as John Henry Belter, the Goddard-Townsend group, Herter Brothers, Paul Revere, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Organized in chronological sections ranging from the colonial era to the mid-twentieth century, this long-awaited book examines a noteworthy collection through a variety of interpretive lenses--aesthetic and cultural--for the benefit of a broad readership. Published by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in association with the University of Virginia Press

Whitney Biennial 2022

Author : David Breslin
Publisher : Whitney Museum of American Art
ISBN 13 : 9780300263893
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (638 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Whitney Biennial 2022 by : David Breslin

Download or read book Whitney Biennial 2022 written by David Breslin and published by Whitney Museum of American Art. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting the latest iteration of this crucial exhibition, always a barometer of contemporary American art The 2022 Whitney Biennial is accompanied by this landmark volume. Each of the Biennial's participants is represented by a selected exhibition history, a bibliography, and imagery complemented by a personal statement or interview that foregrounds the artist's own voice. Essays by the curators and other contributors elucidate themes of the exhibition and discuss the participants. The 2022 Biennial's two curators, David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards, are known for their close collaboration with living artists. Coming after several years of seismic upheaval in and beyond the cultural, social, and political landscapes, this catalogue will offer a new take on the storied institution of the Biennial while continuing to serve--as previous editions have--as an invaluable resource on present-day trends in contemporary art in the United States.