American Presidents

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Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1606991302
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (69 download)

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Book Synopsis American Presidents by : David Levine

Download or read book American Presidents written by David Levine and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a half century, David Levine has taken on the most powerful men of the free world with only his pen and a bottle of India ink. That pen has proved to be mightier than the sword as Levine skewered, illuminated, satirized and condemned every president of the 20th century, as well as the most significant presidents from colonial times and the Civil War era. His drawing of Lyndon Johnson revealing a scar in the shape of Vietnam is considered one of the most recognized (and most copied) of the Vietnam era. His devastating wit and delicately cross hatched drawing have exposed the venality of the Nixon administration, the phoniness of the Reagan years, the duplicity of the Clinton era, and the evil of the Bush cabal. Nine administrations have come and gone during Levine's tenure, and with a new one on the horizon, the artist remains, unbowed, unfazed, and unrelenting. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.9px Arial; color: #424242}

Art History, After Sherrie Levine

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520267222
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis Art History, After Sherrie Levine by : Howard Singerman

Download or read book Art History, After Sherrie Levine written by Howard Singerman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For this in-depth examination of artist Sherrie Levine, Howard Singerman surveys a broad range of sources to assess an artist whose work was understood from the outset to oppose the values of the art world in the 1980s but who, by the end of the decade, was exhibiting in some of the most successful commercial galleries in New York.

The Art of Controversy

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Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307962148
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Book Synopsis The Art of Controversy by : Victor S Navasky

Download or read book The Art of Controversy written by Victor S Navasky and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated, witty, and original look at the awesome power of the political cartoon throughout history to enrage, provoke, and amuse. As a former editor of The New York Times Magazine and the longtime editor of The Nation, Victor S. Navasky knows just how transformative—and incendiary—cartoons can be. Here Navasky guides readers through some of the greatest cartoons ever created, including those by George Grosz, David Levine, Herblock, Honoré Daumier, and Ralph Steadman. He recounts how cartoonists and caricaturists have been censored, threatened, incarcerated, and even murdered for their art, and asks what makes this art form, too often dismissed as trivial, so uniquely poised to affect our minds and our hearts. Drawing on his own encounters with would-be censors, interviews with cartoonists, and historical archives from cartoon museums across the globe, Navasky examines the political cartoon as both art and polemic over the centuries. We see afresh images most celebrated for their artistic merit (Picasso's Guernica, Goya's "Duendecitos"), images that provoked outrage (the 2008 Barry Blitt New Yorker cover, which depicted the Obamas as a Muslim and a Black Power militant fist-bumping in the Oval Office), and those that have dictated public discourse (Herblock’s defining portraits of McCarthyism, the Nazi periodical Der Stürmer’s anti-Semitic caricatures). Navasky ties together these and other superlative genre examples to reveal how political cartoons have been not only capturing the zeitgeist throughout history but shaping it as well—and how the most powerful cartoons retain the ability to shock, gall, and inspire long after their creation. Here Victor S. Navasky brilliantly illuminates the true power of one of our most enduringly vital forms of artistic expression.

The Hakawati

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Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307269272
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis The Hakawati by : Rabih Alameddine

Download or read book The Hakawati written by Rabih Alameddine and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father's deathbed. As the family gathers, stories begin to unfold: Osama's grandfather was a hakawati, or storyteller, and his bewitching tales are interwoven with classic stories of the Middle East. Here are Abraham and Isaac; Ishmael, father of the Arab tribes; the beautiful Fatima; Baybars, the slave prince who vanquished the Crusaders; and a host of mischievous imps. Through Osama, we also enter the world of the contemporary Lebanese men and women whose stories tell a larger, heartbreaking tale of seemingly endless war, conflicted identity, and survival. With The Hakawati, Rabih Alameddine has given us an Arabian Nights for this century.

After Art

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691150443
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Book Synopsis After Art by : David Joselit

Download or read book After Art written by David Joselit and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How digital networks are transforming art and architecture Art as we know it is dramatically changing, but popular and critical responses lag behind. In this trenchant illustrated essay, David Joselit describes how art and architecture are being transformed in the age of Google. Under the dual pressures of digital technology, which allows images to be reformatted and disseminated effortlessly, and the exponential acceleration of cultural exchange enabled by globalization, artists and architects are emphasizing networks as never before. Some of the most interesting contemporary work in both fields is now based on visualizing patterns of dissemination after objects and structures are produced, and after they enter into, and even establish, diverse networks. Behaving like human search engines, artists and architects sort, capture, and reformat existing content. Works of art crystallize out of populations of images, and buildings emerge out of the dynamics of the circulation patterns they will house. Examining the work of architectural firms such as OMA, Reiser + Umemoto, and Foreign Office, as well as the art of Matthew Barney, Ai Weiwei, Sherrie Levine, and many others, After Art provides a compelling and original theory of art and architecture in the age of global networks.

All the Art That's Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn't)

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231533233
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Book Synopsis All the Art That's Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn't) by : Jerelle Kraus

Download or read book All the Art That's Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn't) written by Jerelle Kraus and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times’s former Op-Ed art director, the true story of the world’s first Op-Ed page, a public platform that prefigured the blogosphere. Jerelle Kraus, whose thirteen-year tenure as Op-Ed art director far exceeds that of any other art director or editor, unveils a riveting account of working at the Times. Her insider anecdotes include the reasons why artist Saul Steinberg hated the Times, why editor Howell Raines stopped the presses to kill a feature by Doonesbury’s Garry Trudeau, and why reporter Syd Schanburg—whose story was told in the movie The Killing Fields—stated that he would travel anywhere to see Kissinger hanged, as well as Kraus’s tale of surviving two and a half hours alone with the dethroned outlaw, Richard Nixon. All the Art features a satiric portrayal of John McCain, a classic cartoon of Barack Obama by Jules Feiffer, and a drawing of Hillary Clinton and Obama by Barry Blitt. But when Frank Rich wrote a column discussing Hillary Clinton exclusively, the Times refused to allow Blitt to portray her. Nearly any notion is palatable in prose, yet editors perceive pictures as a far greater threat. Confucius underestimated the number of words an image is worth; the thousand-fold power of a picture is also its curse . . . Features 142 artists from thirty nations and five continents, and 324 pictures—gleaned from a total of 30,000—that stir our cultural-political pot. “To discover what really goes on inside the belly of the media beast, read this book.” —Bill Maher “In this overflowing treasure chest of ideas, politics and cultural critiques, Kraus proves that “art is dangerous” and sometimes necessarily so.” —Publishers Weekly

A History of the Hudson Valley

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ISBN 13 : 9781493047895
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (478 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of the Hudson Valley by : David Levine

Download or read book A History of the Hudson Valley written by David Levine and published by . This book was released on 2020-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the dinosaurs and the glaciers to the first native peoples and the first European settlers, from Dutch and English Colonial rule to the American Revolution, from the slave society to the Civil War, from the robber barons and bootleggers to the war heroes and the happy rise of craft beer pubs, the Hudson Valley has a deep history. The Hudson Valley: The First 250 Million Years chronicles the Valley's rich and fascinating history and charms. Often funny, sometimes personal, always entertaining, this collection of essays offers a unique look at the Hudson Valley's most important and interesting people, places, and events.

Against Intellectual Monopoly

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521127264
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Against Intellectual Monopoly by : Michele Boldrin

Download or read book Against Intellectual Monopoly written by Michele Boldrin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Intellectual property" - patents and copyrights - have become controversial. We witness teenagers being sued for "pirating" music - and we observe AIDS patients in Africa dying due to lack of ability to pay for drugs that are high priced to satisfy patent holders. Are patents and copyrights essential to thriving creation and innovation - do we need them so that we all may enjoy fine music and good health? Across time and space the resounding answer is: No. So-called intellectual property is in fact an "intellectual monopoly" that hinders rather than helps the competitive free market regime that has delivered wealth and innovation to our doorsteps. This book has broad coverage of both copyrights and patents and is designed for a general audience, focusing on simple examples. The authors conclude that the only sensible policy to follow is to eliminate the patents and copyright systems as they currently exist.

NewARTtheatre

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Publisher : Performance Ideas
ISBN 13 : 9781555541583
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (415 download)

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Book Synopsis NewARTtheatre by : Paul David Young

Download or read book NewARTtheatre written by Paul David Young and published by Performance Ideas. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of PAJ Publications' "Performance Ideas" books: small books that crossover performance, visual arts, dance, sound, and media. One of the hotly debated current issues is the turn by visual artists towards theatre as a way of working, by using plays, acting and rehearsal techniques for their art. The first of the new "Performance Ideas" books by PAJ, this volume includes playwright and curator Paul David Young in dialogue with many crossover artists, including Pablo Helguera, Liz Magic Laser, David Levine, Janet Cardiff, Alix Pearlstein, and Michael Smith, who offer wide-ranging views on performance, video, photography, and sound. Table of Contents Metamorphosis: How Visual Artists Turn Theatre into Art Theatrical Ephemera and Alternative Performance Spaces: A Conversation with John Kelly, Liz Magic Laser, David Levine, and Alix Pearlstein Beckett, Brecht, and Minimalism: A Conversation with Gerard Byrne Sounds Like Theatre: A Conversation with Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller Scripts and Process: A Conversation with Pablo Helguera, Ohad Meromi, and Xaviera Simmons California Conceptualism: A Conversation with William Leavitt The Rebirth of Character: A Conversation with John Jesurun, Joe Scanlan, Michael Smith, and Elisabeth Subrin California Conceptualism: A Conversation with William Leavitt The Rebirth of Character: A Conversation with John Jesurun, Joe Scanlan, Michael Smith, and Elisabeth Subrin About the series: Performance Ideas explores performance that crosses boundaries of all live art forms and media. The series highlights the long-standing editorial commitment of PAJ Publications to bring together the histories of performance in theatre and in visual art for a more expansive vision of artistic practice. "newARTtheatre's greatest value may be that of a historical document of the understanding of a specific set of performance practices in its own time of making. The fresh and speculative perspective of these artists grappling with the evolving paradigm of the tightening entanglement between performance and visual artist is worth a read now and may be rich material for historians to come." - Jess Wilcox, The Brooklyn Rail

A Discourse on Method

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ISBN 13 : 9780997866452
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (664 download)

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Book Synopsis A Discourse on Method by : David Levine

Download or read book A Discourse on Method written by David Levine and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the text of Levine's monologue Edition of Eight, which formed the centerpiece of Bystanders, Levine's 2015 gallery exhibition at Toronto's Gallery TPW.

Psychedelic

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Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
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Book Synopsis Psychedelic by : David Rubin

Download or read book Psychedelic written by David Rubin and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 2010-03-05 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This eye-popping book offers a visual history of the psychedelic sensibility. In pop culture, that sensibility is associated with lava lamps, album covers, and "teashades," but it first manifested itself in the extreme colors and kaleidoscopic compositions of 1960s Op Artists. The psychedelic sensibility didn't die at the end of the 1960s; Psychedelic traces it through the day-glo colors of painters Peter Saul, Alex Grey, and Kenny Scharf, the pill and hemp leaf paintings of Fred Tomaselli, the intensified palettes of Douglas Bourgeois and Sharon Ellis, and mixed-media and new media works by younger artists in the new millennium." "Although the term "psychedelic" was coined to describe hallucinatory experiences produced by drugs used psychotherapeutically, the story these images tell is about the influence of psychedelic culture on the art world - not necessarily the influence of drugs. As contemporary art evolved into a diverse and pluralistic discipline, the psychedelic evolved into a language of color and light. In Psychedelic, more than seventy-five vivid color images chart this development, exploring the art chronologically, from early Op Art through recent work using digital technology. The book, which accompanies an exhibition organized by the San Antonio Museum of Art, includes three essays that set the works in historical and cultural context." --Book Jacket.

Pens and Needles

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ISBN 13 : 9780880294331
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (943 download)

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Book Synopsis Pens and Needles by : David Levine

Download or read book Pens and Needles written by David Levine and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete array of the literary figures by one of the great caricaturists of our time David Levine selected and briefly introduced by one our great writers John Updike who once himself wanted become a caricaturist.--From jacket

The arts of David Levine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The arts of David Levine written by David Levine and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Infinite Jest

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Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588394298
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Infinite Jest written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2011 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 13, 2011-Mar. 4, 2012.

Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year

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Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455600816
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year by : Charles Brooks

Download or read book Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year written by Charles Brooks and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Drawings and Watercolors

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Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870996398
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)

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Book Synopsis American Drawings and Watercolors by : Carol Clark

Download or read book American Drawings and Watercolors written by Carol Clark and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1992 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in a series of sixteen that features the more than two thousand works of art in the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art focuses on American drawings and watercolors. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Canons and Values

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Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606065971
Total Pages : 338 pages
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Book Synopsis Canons and Values by : Larry Silver

Download or read book Canons and Values written by Larry Silver and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical rethinking of the way canons are defined, constructed, dismantled, and revised. A century ago, all art was evaluated through the lens of European classicism and its tradition. This volume explores and questions the foundations of the European canon, offers a critical rethinking of ancient and classical art, and interrogates the canons of cultures and regions that have often been left at the margins of art history. It underscores the historical and geographical diversity of canons and the local values underlying them. Twelve international scholars consider how canons are constructed and contested, focusing on the relationship between canonical objects and the value systems that shape their hierarchies. Deploying an array of methodologies—including archaeological investigations, visual analysis, and literary critique—the authors examine canon formation throughout the world, including Africa, India, East Asia, Mesoamerica, South America, ancient Egypt, classical Greece, and Europe. Global studies of art, which are dismantling the traditionally Eurocentric canon, promise to make art history more inclusive. But enduring canons cannot be dismissed. This volume raises new questions about the importance of canons—including those from outside Europe—for the wider discipline of art history.