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Author : Kate Ezra
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870996339
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Royal Art of Benin written by Kate Ezra and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1992 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tantalizing trivia. this Hitler, spoiling everything?"
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1040 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Subject Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807119921
Total Pages : 1064 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (199 download)
Download or read book A Writer's Companion written by Louis D. Rubin, Jr. and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1995-09-01 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Writer’s Companion, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., has drawn on his years of accumulated wisdom—as well as the advice of some fifty prominent writers from various fields—to put together in a single volume a vast array of information. Organized in such a way as to make it exceptionally easy to use, and enhanced by Rubin’s graceful and witty prose, A Writer’s Companion will merit a place on the desk of every serious wordsmith. It is also a book that will bring endless hours of pleasure to anyone who enjoys reading simply for the sake of gaining new knowledge. As Casey Stengel said, “You could look it up.”
Author : James Elkins
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271072253
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Art and Globalization written by James Elkins and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “biennale culture” now determines much of the art world. Literature on the worldwide dissemination of art assumes nationalism and ethnic identity, but rarely analyzes it. At the same time there is extensive theorizing about globalization in political theory, cultural studies, postcolonial theory, political economy, sociology, and anthropology. Art and Globalization brings political and cultural theorists together with writers and historians concerned specifically with the visual arts in order to test the limits of the conceptualization of the global in art. Among the major writers on contemporary international art represented in this book are Rasheed Araeen, Joaquín Barriendos, Susan Buck-Morss, John Clark, Iftikhar Dadi, T. J. Demos, Néstor García Canclini, Charles Green, Suman Gupta, Harry Harootunian, Michael Ann Holly, Shigemi Inaga, Fredric Jameson, Caroline Jones, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Anthony D. King, Partha Mitter, Keith Moxey, Saskia Sassen, Ming Tiampo, and C. J. W.-L. Wee. Art and Globalization is the first book in the Stone Art Theory Institutes Series. The five volumes, each on a different theoretical issue in contemporary art, build on conversations held in intensive, weeklong closed meetings. Each volume begins with edited and annotated transcripts of those meetings, followed by assessments written by a wide community of artists, scholars, historians, theorists, and critics. The result is a series of well-informed, contentious, open-ended dialogues about the most difficult theoretical and philosophical problems we face in rethinking the arts today.
Author : David Halle
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226313672
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (136 download)
Download or read book Inside Culture written by David Halle and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are there differences in artistic preferences between social classes or races or between urban and suburban homes? Similarities? How do choices in art works - and the way we display them - speak to our dreams, desires, pleasures, and fears? And what do they say about the real cultural boundaries between elite and popular, high and low?
Author : Mary Haverstick
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0593727827
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)
Download or read book A Woman I Know written by Mary Haverstick and published by Crown. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “fascinating” (The New York Times) true story of a filmmaker whose investigation of her film’s subject opened a new window onto the world of Cold War espionage, CIA secrets, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. “A compelling real-life thriller.”—The Telegraph (UK) Independent filmmaker Mary Haverstick thought she’d stumbled onto the project of a lifetime—a biopic of aviation pioneer Jerrie Cobb, the key figure in a group of extraordinary women who in 1960 passed the same tests as the legendary male astronauts of the Mercury 7 but never went to space. Just as casting was set to begin, Haverstick received a mysterious warning from a government agent; soon she began to suspect that there was more to Jerrie’s story than what met the eye. As she dug deeper, she discovered that Jerrie’s life shadowed that of a mysterious CIA agent named June Cobb, whose espionage career traced an arc of intrigue from the jungles of South America to Fidel Castro’s Cuba, to the communist literary circles in Mexico City—and ultimately into the dark heart of the Kennedy assassination in Dallas. Haverstick’s attempt to learn the truth directly from Jerrie would plunge her into a cat-and-mouse game that stretched across a decade, deep into a thicket of coded CIA files. As she uncovered a remarkable set of mostly unknown women whose high-stakes intelligence work left its only traces in redacted files, she also found shocking new clues about what really happened at Dealey Plaza in 1963. Offering fresh insight into the Kennedy assassination and a vivid picture of women in midcentury intelligence, A Woman I Know brings to life the astonishing duplicities of the Cold War intelligence game, a world where code names and hidden identities were the lifeblood of spies bent on seeking advantage by any means necessary.
Author : J. Donald Ragsdale
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443803928
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book American Museums and the Persuasive Impulse written by J. Donald Ragsdale and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-14 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In American Museums and the Persuasive Impulse, Professor Ragsdale assesses American museums as means of visual persuasion. He demonstrates that museums, their contents, and their manners of display are as capable of influencing visitors as speeches or advertisements and that an awareness of their social influence provides an insight into the cultural roles of museums. The book considers a diverse array of museums ranging from such national cultural icons as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Institute to such city museums as the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, and includes separate chapters on museums devoted to modern and contemporary art and to the specialized collections of individual connoisseurs. In addition to these primarily art museums, Professor Ragsdale assesses museums devoted to collections, such as the National Air and Space Museum, and to commemoration and remembrance, such as the National World War II Museum and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. American Museums and the Persuasive Impulse makes an important contribution to the theory of persuasion and to visual communication, art history, and museology. It utilizes a theory of visual signs based on the semiotic theory of C. S. Peirce. In so doing, it demonstrates that museum buildings, the art and other objects contained within them, and the spaces used for display may all be thought of in terms of means of social influence.
Author : Suzanne Loebl
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393320060
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book America's Art Museums written by Suzanne Loebl and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tour of America's most notable museums is also a history of the nation's art that highlights each location's top works while discussing the backgrounds of each building and featured piece of art.
Author : Peter Probst
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606068792
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Art History and Anthropology written by Peter Probst and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth and nuanced look at the complex relationship between two dynamic fields of study. While today we are experiencing a revival of world art and the so-called global turn of art history, encounters between art historians and anthropologists remain rare. Even after a century and a half of interactions between these epistemologies, a skeptical distance prevails with respect to the disciplinary other. This volume is a timely exploration of the roots of this complex dialogue, as it emerged worldwide in the colonial and early postcolonial periods, between 1870 and 1970. Exploring case studies from Australia, Austria, Brazil, France, Germany, and the United States, this volume addresses connections and rejections between art historians and anthropologists—often in the contested arena of “primitive art.” It examines the roles of a range of figures, including the art historian–anthropologist Aby Warburg, the modernist artist Tarsila do Amaral, the curator-impresario Leo Frobenius, and museum directors such as Alfred Barr and René d’Harnoncourt. Entering the current debates on decolonizing the past, this collection of essays prompts reflection on future relations between these two fields.
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1056 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Library of Congress Catalogs written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Traute M. Marshall
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584656210
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (562 download)
Download or read book Art Museums Plus written by Traute M. Marshall and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2009 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging guide to over 150 art museums and more throughout New England
Author : Anderson, Davis, and Everhard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Accounting Manual for Multi-funded Economic Development Districts written by Anderson, Davis, and Everhard and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sherry Hutt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315415399
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Yearbook of Cultural Property Law 2008 written by Sherry Hutt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yearbooks of Cultural Property Law provide the key, up-to-date information and analyses that keep heritage professionals, lawyers, and land managers abreast of current legal practice, including summaries of notable court cases, settlements and other dispositions, legislation, government regulations, policies and agency decisions. Interviews with key figures, refereed research articles, think pieces, and a substantial resources section round out each volume. Thoughtful analyses and useful information from leading practitioners in the diverse field of cultural property law will assist government land managers, state, tribal and museum officials, attorneys, anthropologists, archaeologists, public historians, and others to better preserve, protect and manage cultural property in domestic and international venues. In addition to eight practice-area sections (federal land management; state and local; tribes, tribal lands, and Indian arts; marine environment; museums; art market; international; enforcement actions), the 2009 volume features an interview with an important figure in the field and original articles on new ICOMOS rules on dispute resolution, Section 47 of the Internal Revenue Code, risk and fair market value of antiquities, the visual artists rights act, and religious free exercise and historic preservation. All royalties are donated to the Lawyer’s Committee on Cultural Heritage Preservation.
Author : Joseph Leo Koerner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691267243
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Art in a State of Siege written by Joseph Leo Koerner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2025-02-04 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An art historical epic for dangerous times What do artworks look like in extreme cases of collective experience? What signals do artists send when enemies are at the city walls and the rule of law breaks down, or when a tyrant suspends the law to attack from inside? Art in a State of Siege tells the story of three compelling images created in dangerous moments and the people who experienced them—from Philip II of Spain to Carl Schmitt—whose panicked gaze turned artworks into omens. Acclaimed art historian Joseph Koerner reaches back to the eve of iconoclasm and religious warfare to explore the most elusive painting ever painted. In Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Delights, enemies are everywhere: Jews and Ottomans at the gates, witches and heretics at home, sins overtaking the mind. Following a paper trail leading from Bosch’s time to World War II, Koerner considers a monumental self-portrait painted by Max Beckmann in 1927. Created when Germany was often governed by emergency decree, this image brazenly claimed to decide Europe’s future—until the Nazis deemed it to be a threat to the German people. For South African artist William Kentridge, Beckmann exemplified “art in a state of siege.” Koerner shows how his work served as beacon during South Africa’s racialist apartheid rule and inspired Kentridge’s breakthrough animations of drawings being made, erased, and remade. Spanning half a millennium but urgent today, Art in a State of Siege reveals how, in dire straits, art becomes the currency of last resort.
Author : Richard F. Townsend
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300214839
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago written by Richard F. Townsend and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning survey of the indigenous art, architecture, and spiritual beliefs of the Americas, from the Precolumbian era to the 20th century This landmark publication catalogues the Art Institute of Chicago’s outstanding collection of Indian art of the Americas, one of the foremost of its kind in the United States. Showcasing a host of previously unpublished objects dating from the Precolumbian era to the 20th century, the book marks the first time these holdings have been comprehensively documented. Richard Townsend and Elizabeth Pope weave an overarching narrative that ranges from the Midwestern United States to the Yucatán Peninsula to the heart of South America. While exploring artists’ myriad economic, historical, linguistic, and social backgrounds, the authors demonstrate that they shared both a deep, underlying cosmological view and the desire to secure their communities’ prosperity by affirming connections to the sacred forces of the natural world. The critical essays focus on topics that bridge traditions across North, Central, and South America, including materials, methods of manufacture, the diversity of stylistic features, and the iconography and functions of various objects. Gorgeously illustrated in color with more than 500 vibrant images, this handsome catalogue serves as the definitive survey of an unparalleled collection.
Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1981-06-08 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Author : DK Travel
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1465433511
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (654 download)
Download or read book Top 10 New Orleans written by DK Travel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 New Orleans in ePub format will lead you straight to the very best New Orleans has to offer. Whether you're looking for things not to miss at the Top 10 sights or want to find the top place to eat, this guide is the perfect companion, taking the best of the printed guidebook and adding new eBook-only features. Rely on dozens of Top 10 lists--from the Top 10 museums to the Top 10 events and festivals. There's even a list of the Top 10 ways to avoid the crowds. The guide is divided by area, each with its own photo gallery and clear maps pinpointing the top sights. You also can view each location in Google Maps if reading on an Internet-enabled device. Plan each day with our itineraries and see the sights in individual areas. You'll find the insider knowledge you need to explore every corner with DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 New Orleans, now with a sleek new eBook design.
