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Art & Discontent

Author : Thomas McEvilley
Publisher : Documentext
ISBN 13 : 9780929701318
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Art & Discontent written by Thomas McEvilley and published by Documentext. This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‹€‹In these six essays, Thomas McEvilley tackles the aesthetics of formalism and proceeds to shed new light on the roots of Modernism and the collapse of the idea of history. The world-renowned critic confronts the ideas and philosophies which for two centuries have exalted art above constructive involvement in the world, and proposes a new vision for the critical enterprise. By explaining why our Modernism was not unique and why it is being superseded, McEvilley suggests functions that art performs in a post-Modern culture and offers compelling reasons why the history of art needs to be rewritten from an altered perspective. McEvilley argues, for example, against the dominant theoretical position which removed art from contextual examination by declaring its "sublime" nature somehow elevated above ordinary life, and he goes on to effectively destroy the notion that Modernism in the larger sense is an example of the superiority of technological society. More than anything else, however, he breathes real life into the intellectual understanding of contemporary art in a way that no critic has since perhaps Herbert Read. McEvilley humanizes the undertaking; in addition his wit is evident throughout. Chapters include "Heads It's Form, Tails It's Not Content," "On the Manner of Addressing Clouds," and "The Opposite of Emptiness."

Sacred Discontent

Author : Herbert N. Schneidau
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520031654
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Discontent written by Herbert N. Schneidau and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Art and Its Discontents

Author : Richard Read
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271022963
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Art and Its Discontents written by Richard Read and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although interest in the painter, poet, and art writer Adrian Stokes (1902&–1972) has been growing in recent years, Art and Its Discontents is the first biographical study of this pivotal figure in British modernism. Focused on Stokes's formative years, the book offers important new insights into his intellectual development, his growing commitment to the arts, and his eventual turn to the art criticism that would win him international renown. Even as Richard Read follows Stokes from his London childhood to his travels in Italy and his psychoanalysis with Melanie Klein, he weaves Stokes's experiences and writings into the great social and cultural issues of his era. Stokes's friendship with Ezra Pound is given its due, but Read balances his exploration of Stokes's modernist ideas with detailed discussion of his profound debt to the teachings of John Ruskin and Walter Pater. Seen in this broad perspective, Stokes emerges as a thinker who bridged Victorian and modernist cultures and renewed the British tradition of aesthetic criticism.

Passionate Discontent

Author : Patricia Mathews
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226510187
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Passionate Discontent written by Patricia Mathews and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Art historian Patricia Mathews examines the artistic, social, and scientific discourses of fin-de-siecle France. Along the way, she illuminates the Symbolist construction of a feminized aesthetic that nonetheless excluded female artists from its realm. She analyzes contemporary cultural assumptions as well as theories such as social Darwinism, biological determinism, and degeneracy."--BOOK JACKET.

Summers of Discontent

Author : Raymond Tallis
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
ISBN 13 : 1908524413
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Summers of Discontent written by Raymond Tallis and published by Bitter Lemon Press. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of why artists make art in the first place, and why we all feel the need for it.

Art & Discontent

Author : Thomas McEvilley
Publisher : Kingston, N.Y. : Documentext, McPherson & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780929701134
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Art & Discontent written by Thomas McEvilley and published by Kingston, N.Y. : Documentext, McPherson & Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Holy Discontent

Author : Bill Hybels
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310294053
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Holy Discontent written by Bill Hybels and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2008-09-09 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the one aspect of this broken world that, when you see it, touch it, get near it, you just can’t stand? Very likely, that firestorm of frustration reflects your holy discontent, a reality so troubling that you are thrust off the couch and into the game. It’s during these defining times when your eyes open to the needs surrounding you and your heart hungers to respond that you hear God say, “I feel the same way about this problem. Now, let’s go solve it together!”Bill Hybels invites you to consider the dramatic impact your life will have when you allow your holy discontent to fuel instead of frustrate you. Using examples from the Bible, his own life, and the experiences of others, Hybels shows how you can find and feed your personal area of holy discontent, fight for it when things get risky, and follow it when it takes a mid-course turn. As you live from the energy of your holy discontent, you’ll fulfill your role in setting what is wrong in this world right!

Drawing Blood

Author : Molly Crabapple
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062323652
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Drawing Blood written by Molly Crabapple and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art was my dearest friend. To draw was trouble and safety, adventure and freedom. In that four-cornered kingdom of paper, I lived as I pleased. This is the story of a girl and her sketchbook. In language that is fresh, visceral, and deeply moving—and illustrations that are irreverent and gorgeous—here is a memoir that will change the way you think about art, sex, politics, and survival in our times. From a young age, Molly Crabapple had the eye of an artist and the spirit of a radical. After a restless childhood on New York's Long Island, she left America to see Europe and the Near East, a young artist plunging into unfamiliar cultures, notebook always in hand, drawing what she observed. Returning to New York City after 9/11 to study art, she posed nude for sketch artists and sketchy photographers, danced burlesque, and modeled for the world famous Suicide Girls. Frustrated with the academy and the conventional art world, she eventually landed a post as house artist at Simon Hammerstein's legendary nightclub The Box, the epicenter of decadent Manhattan nightlife before the financial crisis of 2008. There she had a ringside seat for the pitched battle between the bankers of Wall Street and the entertainers who walked among them—a scandalous, drug-fueled circus of mutual exploitation that she captured in her tart and knowing illustrations. Then, after the crash, a wave of protest movements—from student demonstrations in London to Occupy Wall Street in her own backyard—led Molly to turn her talents to a new form of witness journalism, reporting from places such as Guantanamo, Syria, Rikers Island, and the labor camps of Abu Dhabi. Using both words and artwork to shed light on the darker corners of American empire, she has swiftly become one of the most original and galvanizing voices on the cultural stage. Now, with the same blend of honesty, fierce insight, and indelible imagery that is her signature, Molly offers her own story: an unforgettable memoir of artistic exploration, political awakening, and personal transformation.

Beyond Discontent

Author : Eckart Goebel
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441178333
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Discontent written by Eckart Goebel and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping intellectual history, encompassing literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis, of the pervasive idea of sublimation in German thought.

Manet and the Family Romance

Author : Nancy Locke
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691114842
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (148 download)

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Download or read book Manet and the Family Romance written by Nancy Locke and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Édouard Manet's paintings have long been recognized for being visually compelling and uniquely recalcitrant. While critics have noted the presence of family members and intimates in paintings such as Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, Nancy Locke takes an unprecedented look at the significance of the artist's family relationships for his art. Locke argues that a kind of mythology of the family, or Freudian family romance, frequently structures Manet's compositional decisions and choice of models. By looking at the representation of the family as a volatile mechanism for the development of sexuality and of repression, conflict, and desire, Locke brings powerful new interpretations to some of Manet's most complex works. Locke considers, for example, the impact of a father-son drama rooted in a closely guarded family secret: the adultery of Manet père and the status of Léon Leenhoff. Her nuanced exploration of the implications of this story--that Manet in fact married his father's mistress--makes us look afresh at even well-known paintings such as Olympia. This book sheds new light on Manet's infamous interest in gypsies, street musicians, and itinerants as Locke analyzes the activities of Manet's father as a civil judge. She also reexamines the close friendship between Manet and the Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot, who married Manet's brother. Morisot becomes the subject of a series of meditations on the elusiveness of the self, the transience of identity, and conflicting concerns with appearances and respectability. Manet and the Family Romance offers an entirely new set of arguments about the cultural forces that shaped these alluring paintings.

Art Under Plutocracy

Author : William Morris
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Art Under Plutocracy written by William Morris and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the 27-page classic "Art Under Plutocracy" by William Morris, a thought-provoking exploration of art's role and challenges in a society dominated by wealth. Written in the 1890s, Morris delves into the intersection of art, society, and economics. His insights and critiques remain relevant, making this a must-read for art enthusiasts and historians alike.

This is Not Art

Author : Alana Jelinek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085773802X
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book This is Not Art written by Alana Jelinek and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-22 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art is not political action. Art is not education. Art does not exist to make society stronger, or the world a better place. Art disrupts and resists the comfortable, the stiflingly familiar and the status quo, or it only serves to deaden a disenfranchised society further. So argues This Is Not Art, a radical and vigorous critique that debunks myths about art in order to celebrate its real and unique importance. With the postmodern deconstruction of now-outdated shibboleths such as 'genius', 'authenticity' and 'beauty', new and neoliberal myths about art have arisen to take their place: that art's value is primarily monetary as a prized and marketable commodity, or that art is important because it ameliorates social problems. These ideas are not only the province of art-dealers and power-brokers, but pervade the part of the artworld that defines itself as radical, political or ethical too. Highlighting the social mechanisms of legitimisation and dissemination that exclude the genuinely disruptive or defiant, This Is Not Art draws on Foucault and Marx to uncover an artworld obsessed with profit and from which diversity, individuality and freedom have been erased. In the search for a new way to understand art's urgent importance, Alana Jelinek returns to the question of 'what is art?', retelling the history of art practice for our contemporary moment and exposing the ways in which neoliberal norms and values have seeped into every aspect of our lives. From the author's unique perspective as a practicing artist and theoretician, This Is Not Art offers not just a searing criticism of the artworld as it is, but a vision of a new way of understanding and practicing art - as the embodiment of power and agency within us, the possibility of thinking and acting differently, of finding new stories to tell.

The Artist

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Artist written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Flames of Discontent

Author : Gary Kaunonen
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452955794
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Flames of Discontent written by Gary Kaunonen and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 2, 1916, forty mostly immigrant mineworkers at the St. James Mine in Aurora, Minnesota, walked off the job. This seemingly small labor disturbance would mushroom into one of the region’s, if not the nation’s, most contentious and significant battles between organized labor and management in the early twentieth century. Flames of Discontent tells the story of this pivotal moment and what it meant for workers and immigrants, mining and labor relations in Minnesota and beyond. Drawing on previously untapped accounts from immigrant press newspapers, company letters, personal journals, and oral histories, historian Gary Kaunonen gives voice to the strike’s organizers and working-class participants. In depth and in dramatic detail, his book describes the events leading up to the strike, and the violence that made it one of the most contentious in Minnesota history. Against the background of the physical and cultural landscape of Minnesota’s Iron Range, Kaunonen’s history brings the lives of working-class Finnish immigrants into sharp relief, documenting the conditions and circumstances behind the emergence of leftist politics and union organization in their ranks. At the same time, it shows how the region’s South Slavic immigrants went from “scabs” during a 1907 strike to full-fledged striking members of the labor revolt of 1916. A look at the media of the time reveals how the three main contenders for working-class allegiances—mine owners, Progressive reformers, and a revolutionary union—communicated with their mostly immigrant audience. Meanwhile, documents from mining company officials provide a strong argument for corruption reaching as far as the state’s then governor, Joseph A. A. Burnquist, whose strike-busting was undertaken in the interests of billion dollar corporations. Ultimately, anti-syndicalist laws were put in place to thwart the growing influence of organizations that sought to represent immigrant workers. Flames of Discontent raises the voices of those workers, and of history, against an injustice that reverberates to this day.

After Arguing Against the Contention that Art Must Come from Discontent

Author : William Stafford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book After Arguing Against the Contention that Art Must Come from Discontent written by William Stafford and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Palmers' Index to the Times Newspaper

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Palmers' Index to the Times Newspaper written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Anatomy of Melancholy

Author : Robert Burton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Anatomy of Melancholy written by Robert Burton and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: