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Author : Howard J. Smagula
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Currents written by Howard J. Smagula and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Howard J. Smagula
Publisher : Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Currents, Contemporary Directions in the Visual Arts written by Howard J. Smagula and published by Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall. This book was released on 1983 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Currents presents the full spectrum of contemporary art activity from painting to environmental sculpture, from photography to performance. The present is looked at in the context of the past. Historical precedents, important shifts in focus, and significant individual contributions give the book a depth and comprehensiveness that are unique. Through profiles of important artists and explorations of widely used materials and techniques, Howard J. Smagula skillfully reveals the meanings which underlie much of today's best art."--Back cover.
Author : Jean Robertson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780190078331
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (783 download)
Download or read book Themes of Contemporary Art written by Jean Robertson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980 offers students and readers an introduction to recent art"--
Author : Terry E. Smith
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 : 9780205789719
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (897 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Art written by Terry E. Smith and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Art: World Currents is the first comprehensive worldwide survey of contemporary art from the 1980s to the present day. Author Terry Smith argues that, in recent decades, a global shift from modern to contemporary art has occurred: artists everywhere have embraced the contemporary world's teeming multiplicity, its proliferating differences and its challenging complexities and new technologies. Alongside more than 350 carefully selected color images of key works, Terry Smith offers the first account of these changes, from their historical beginnings to the present day. Exploring key works by both well known and little-known artists, the author shows how contemporary art achieved definitive force in the markets and museums of the major art centres during the 1980s and then became a global phenomenon as artworlds everywhere began to connect more closely: new communicative technologies and expanding social media are now shaping the future of art. Contemporary Art: World Currents breaks new ground in tracing how modern, traditional and indigenous art became contemporary in each cultural region of the world, ranging across Western, East and Central Europe, North and South America and the Caribbean, Oceania, Africa, and the Middle East. Terry Smith lays the groundwork for a new comparative approach to contemporary art, emphasizing its relationships to all aspects of contemporary life. He argues that it is cultural diversity and individual artistic inventiveness, not a convergence towards sameness, which makes today's art contemporary. Contemporary Art: World Currents brings the subject right up-todate, highlighting the concerns of contemporary artists while giving the reader an invaluable insight to art today. Teaching and Learning Experience Improve Critical Thinking- Explore how contemporary art has become a global, connected phenomenon Engage Students- Looks at the work of contemporary artists from across the world. Support Instructors- Image PowerPoints slides are available for Contemporary Art: World Currents.
Author : Harriet Senie
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452905273
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Tilted Arc Controversy written by Harriet Senie and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katherine Ware
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Earth Now written by Katherine Ware and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents delicious and easy to prepare recipes and dishes from the northern region of Mexico.
Author : Cher Krause Knight
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444360612
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Public Art written by Cher Krause Knight and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-23 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a bold look at public art and its populist appeal, offering a more inclusive guide to America's creative tastes and shared culture. It examines the history of American public art – from FDR's New Deal to Christo's The Gates – and challenges preconceived notions of public art, expanding its definition to include a broader scope of works and concepts. Expands the definition of public art to include sites such as Boston's Big Dig, Las Vegas' Treasure Island, and Disney World Offers a refreshing alternative to the traditional rhetoric and criticism surrounding public art Includes insightful analysis of the museum and its role in relation to public art
Author : John F. Moffitt
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791486907
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Alchemist of the Avant-Garde written by John F. Moffitt and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledged as the "Artist of the Century," Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) left a legacy that dominates the art world to this day. Inventing the ironically dégagé attitude of "ready-made" art-making, Duchamp heralded the postmodern era and replaced Pablo Picasso as the role model for avant-garde artists. John F. Moffitt challenges commonly accepted interpretations of Duchamp's art and persona by showing that his mature art, after 1910, is largely drawn from the influence of the occult traditions. Moffitt demonstrates that the key to understanding the cryptic meaning of Duchamp's diverse artworks and writings is alchemy, the most pictorial of all the occult philosophies and sciences.
Author : Dawn Perlmutter
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438415893
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Reclaiming the Spiritual in Art written by Dawn Perlmutter and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Walt Disney World to the movie Natural Born Killers, this book explores uncommon indicators of the spiritual in contemporary art and culture. Drawing on a diversity of perspectives in philosophy and aesthetics to highlight conscious and unconscious manifestations of the sacred in art, this work makes a compelling case for its continued contemporary relevance. Contributors include Andrew Doerr, Melissa E. Feldman, Cher Krause Knight, Debra Koppman, Janice Mann, Dawn Perlmutter, Crispin Sartwell, and Susan Shantz.
Author : Margery B. Franklin
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 113475082X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Development and the Arts written by Margery B. Franklin and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume's unifying theme is the question: Is a concept of development relevant to art? Bringing together contributions from the perspectives of philosophical aesthetics, psychoanalysis, architecture and design, and the practicing artist, as well as developmental theory in psychology, this volume provides a unique assembly of voices from different disciplines. The twelve chapters span artistic production in childhood, transformations in the work of the individual artist, and historical changes in art, thus establishing a broad canvas for examining how concepts of development are used in relation to the arts. The contributors consider specific phenomena and questions against the background of theoretical issues, taking markedly different views on whether change in artistic work can be aptly characterized as development and, if so, what modulations of the concept may be required in light of accompanying assumptions and implications. Given the nature of this discourse, this richly illustrated book should lead to a radical rethinking among those who apply developmental concepts to artistic phenomena and aesthetic movements, and to reconsideration of the role of art in optimal human development within the individual and within social orders.
Author : Silvio Gaggi
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 151280228X
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book From Text to Hypertext written by Silvio Gaggi and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a tenet of postmodern writing that the subject—the self—is unstable, fragmented, and decentered. One useful way to examine this principle is to look at how the subject has been treated in various media in the premodern, modern, and postmodern eras. Silvio Gaggi pursues this strategy in From Text to Hypertext, analyzing the issue of subject construction and deconstruction in selected examples of visual art, literature, film, and electronic media. Gaggi concentrates on a few paradigmatic works in each chapter; he contrasts van Eyck's Wedding of Arnolfini with the photography of Cindy Sherman and Barbara Kruger; examines fiction that centers on an elusive subject in works by Conrad, Faulkner, and Calvino; and explores the ability of such films as Coppola's One from the Heart and Altman's The Player to emancipate the subject through cinematography and editing. In considering electronic media, Gaggi takes his argument to an entirely new level. He focuses on computer-controlled media, specifically examples of hypertextual fiction by Michael Joyce and Stuart Moulthrop. Besides recognizing how the computer has enabled artists to create works of fiction in which readers themselves become decentered, Gaggi also observes the impact of literature created on computer networks, where even the limitations of CD-ROM are lifted and the notion of individual authorship may for all practical purposes be lost.
Author : Irving Sandler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429981821
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Art Of The Postmodern Era written by Irving Sandler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sandler discusses the major and minor artists and their works; movements, ideas, attitudes, and styles; and the social and cultural context of the period. He covers post-modernist art theory, the art market, and consumer society. American and European art and artists are included.
Author : Jules Heller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135638896
Total Pages : 1941 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century written by Jules Heller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 1941 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1997. North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary was created to fill a gap of there being a comprehensive reference work like this available, even though the bibliography in English on various aspects of the history of women artists has grown exponentially during the past ten years. As researchers, the editors have been frustrated many times by being unable to locate basic information about many of the artists included in this volume—especially those working outside the United States. This leads directly to another reason for producing this particular kind of reference book—to try and create a better understanding between and among the artists and art audiences in these countries.
Author : Dwight Fee
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761952534
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (525 download)
Download or read book Pathology and the Postmodern written by Dwight Fee and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2000-02-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `This is a wonderful volume, powerfully written, timely, insightful, and filled with major pieces; the passion, intellectual rigor and sense of history found here promises to shape this field in the decades to come. This volume sets the agenda for the future' - Norman K Denzin, University of Illinois Pathology and the Postmodern explores the relationship between mental distress and social constructionism using new work from eminent scholars in the fields of sociology, psychology and philosophy. The authors address: how specific cultural, economic and historical forces converge in contemporary psychiatry and psychology; how new syndromes, subjectivities and identities are being constructed and
Author : Amelia Jones
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9781405152358
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (523 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945 written by Amelia Jones and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Contemporary Art is a major survey covering the major works and movements, the most important theoretical developments, and the historical, social, political, and aesthetic issues in contemporary art since 1945, primarily in the Euro-American context. Collects 27 original essays by expert scholars describing the current state of scholarship in art history and visual studies, and pointing to future directions in the field. Contains dual chronological and thematic coverage of the major themes in the art of our time: politics, culture wars, public space, diaspora, the artist, identity politics, the body, and visual culture. Offers synthetic analysis, as well as new approaches to, debates central to the visual arts since 1945 such as those addressing formalism, the avant-garde, the role of the artist, technology and art, and the society of the spectacle.
Author : Faye Ran
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433105197
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A History of Installation Art and the Development of New Art Forms written by Faye Ran and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art mirrors life; life returns the favor. How could nineteenth and twentieth century technologies foster both the change in the world view generally called postmodernism and the development of new art forms? Scholar and curator Faye Ran shows how interactions of art and technology led to cultural changes and the evolution of Installation art as a genre unto itself - a fascinating hybrid of expanded sculpture in terms of context, site, and environment, and expanded theatre in terms of performer, performance, and public.
Author : Dennis Oppenheim
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Dennis Oppenheim written by Dennis Oppenheim and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1992 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om den amerikanske kunstner, Dennis Oppenheim, født 1938
