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Book Art   Outrage

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  • Author : John A. Walker
  • Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Art Outrage written by John A. Walker and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 1999 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the period from the late 1940s to 1990s , Walker provides a detailed survey of the most prominent cases of art that has scandalised.

Book Outrage  Art  Controversy  and Society

Download or read book Outrage Art Controversy and Society written by R. Howells and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of controversy in the arts, and the extent to which such controversies are socially rather than just aesthetically conditioned. The collection pays special attention to the vested interests and the social dynamics involved, including class, religion, culture, and - above all - power.

Book Art  Dialogue  and Outrage

Download or read book Art Dialogue and Outrage written by Wole Soyinka and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1993 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never less than profound, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka's fierce and provocative contribution to the debate on multiculturalism brings together 19 iconoclastic essays on African, European, and American literature, culture, and politics. "Unquestionably Africa's most versatile writer".--New York Times

Book A Violent Embrace

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  • Author : renée c. hoogland
  • Publisher : Dartmouth College Press
  • Release : 2014-01-07
  • ISBN : 1611684927
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book A Violent Embrace written by renée c. hoogland and published by Dartmouth College Press. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instead of asking questions about the symbolic meaning or underlying "truth" of a work of art, renée c. hoogland is concerned with the actual "work" that it does in the world (whether intentionally or not). Why do we find ourselves in tears in front of an abstract painting? Why do some cartoons of the prophet Muhammad generate worldwide political outrage? What, in other words, is the compelling force of visual images, even—or especially—if they are nonfigurative, repulsive, or downright "ugly"? Rather than describing, analyzing, and interpreting artworks, hoogland approaches art as an event that obtains on the level of actualization, presenting "retellings" of specific artistic events in the light of recent interventions in aesthetic theory, and proposing to conceive of the aesthetic encounter as a potentially disruptive, if not violent, force field with material, political, and practical consequences.

Book Art and Outrage

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  • Author : Alfred Perlès
  • Publisher : New York : Dutton, 1961 [c1959]
  • Release : 1961
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book Art and Outrage written by Alfred Perlès and published by New York : Dutton, 1961 [c1959]. This book was released on 1961 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Art Rage Us

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1998-05
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Art Rage Us written by and published by . This book was released on 1998-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a unique collaboration, The Breast Cancer Fund, the American Cancer Society, and the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation invited artists and writers across the nation who had faced breast cancer to submit their work. The result is Art.Rage.Us., a riveting book of art, fiction, poetry, and prose, and a bold testimony to the courage of women who face the disease. At turns stirring, humorous, heartrending, introspective, stark, and defiant, the pieces in Art.Rage.Us. have the power to comfort, provoke, and transform. For each of the 75 artists, the impulse to transform her experience of breast cancer through creative expression was an integral part of the search for healing. Together their work forms a inspiring statement about the healing power of art.

Book Art and Celebrity

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  • Author : John A. Walker
  • Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Art and Celebrity written by John A. Walker and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2003 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and accessible study of what happens when the ‘serious’ world of art collides with celebrity.

Book Sting in the Tale

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  • Author : Antoinette LaFarge
  • Publisher : Doppelhouse Press
  • Release : 2021-08-19
  • ISBN : 9781733957953
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Sting in the Tale written by Antoinette LaFarge and published by Doppelhouse Press. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated survey of artist hoaxes, including impersonations, fabula, cryptoscience, and forgeries, researched and written by an expert "fictive-art" practitioner. The shift from the early information age to our 'infocalypse' era of rampant misinformation has given rise to an art form that probes this confusion, foregrounding wild creativity as a way to reframe assumptions about both fiction and art in contemporary culture. At its center, this "fictive art" (LaFarge's term) is secured as fact by employing the language and display methods of history and science. Using typically evidentiary objects such as documentary photographs and videos, presumptively historical artifacts and relics, didactics, lectures, events, and expert opinions in technical language, artists create a constellation of manufactured evidence attesting to the artwork's central narrative. This dissimulation is temporary, with a clear "tell" often surprisingly revealed in a self-outing moment. With all its attendant consequences of mistrust, outrage, and rejection, this genre of art with a sting in its tale is a radical form whose time has come.

Book The Art of Controversy

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.

Book Models of Integrity

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  • Author : Joan Kee
  • Publisher : University of California Press
  • Release : 2019-02-12
  • ISBN : 0520299388
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Models of Integrity written by Joan Kee and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Models of Integrity examines the relationship between contemporary art and the law through the lens of integrity. In the 1960s, artists began to engage conspicuously with legal ideas, rituals, and documents. The law—a primary institution subject to intense moral and political scrutiny—was a widely recognized source of authority to audiences inside the art world and out. Artists frequently engaged with the law in ways that signaled a recuperation of the integrity that they believed had been compromised by the very institutions entrusted with establishing standards of just conduct. These artists sought to convey the social purpose of an artwork without overstating its political impact and without losing sight of how aesthetic decisions compel audiences to see their everyday world differently. Addressing the role that law plays in enabling artworks to function as social and political forces, this important book fills a gap in the field of law and the humanities, and will serve as a practical “how-to” for contemporary artists.

Book Chromatic

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  • Author : Purang Abolmaesumi
  • Publisher : Peter Wall Institute
  • Release : 2021-10
  • ISBN : 9781775276654
  • Pages : 78 pages

Download or read book Chromatic written by Purang Abolmaesumi and published by Peter Wall Institute. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chromatic: Ten Meditations on Crisis in Art and Letters is a collection of essays and illustrations as diverse as the subject of crisis itself. Imagined and brought to life by leading UBC scholars in collaboration with local artists, Chromatic asks what it means to be in crisis and grapples with the personal and societal impacts of crisis during a time of unprecedented global upheaval. Each contributor to this diverse collection takes a profoundly different approach yet fascinating and unexpected connections emerge. The result is a book that juxtaposes gorgeous, colourful artwork with writing that will surprise and challenge you, outrage and enlighten you.

Book What Comes After Farce

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  • Author : Hal Foster
  • Publisher : Verso Books
  • Release : 2024-10-22
  • ISBN : 1804295930
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book What Comes After Farce written by Hal Foster and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2024-10-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying the artistic and cultural scene in the era of Trump In a world where truth is cast in doubt and shame has gone missing, what are artists and critics on the left to do? How to demystify a political order that laughs away its own contradictions? How to mock leaders who thrive on the absurd? And why, in any event, offer more outrage to a media economy that feeds on the same? Such questions are grist to the mill of Hal Foster, who, in What Comes after Farce?, delves into recent developments in art, criticism, and fiction under the current regime of war, surveillance, extreme inequality, and media disruption. Concerned first with the cultural politics of emergency since 9/11, including the use and abuse of trauma, conspiracy, and kitsch, he moves on to consider the neoliberal makeover of aesthetic forms and art institutions during the same period. A final section surveys signal transformations in art, film, and writing. Among the phenomena explored are machine vision (images produced by machines for other machines without a human interface), operational images (images that do not represent the world so much as intervene in it), and the algorithmic scripting of information that pervades our everyday lives. If all this sounds dire, it is. In many respects we look out on a world that has moved, not only politically but also technologically, beyond our control. Yet Foster also sees possibility in the current debacle: the possibility to pressure the cracks in this order, to turn emergency into change.

Book Irony and Outrage

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  • Author : Dannagal Goldthwaite Young
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 0190913088
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Irony and Outrage written by Dannagal Goldthwaite Young and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores the aesthetics, underlying logics, and histories of two seemingly distinct genres - liberal political satire and conservative opinion talk - making the case that they should be thought of as the logical extensions of the psychology of the left and right, respectively.

Book Histories of Violence

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  • Author : Brad Evans
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2017-01-15
  • ISBN : 1783602406
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Histories of Violence written by Brad Evans and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there is a tacit appreciation that freedom from violence will lead to more prosperous relations among peoples, violence continues to be deployed for various political and social ends. Yet the problem of violence still defies neat description, subject to many competing interpretations. Histories of Violence offers an accessible yet compelling examination of the problem of violence as it appears in the corpus of canonical figures – from Hannah Arendt to Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault to Slavoj Žižek – who continue to influence and inform contemporary political, philosophical, sociological, cultural, and anthropological study. Written by a team of internationally renowned experts, this is an essential interrogation of post-war critical thought as it relates to violence.

Book Art Under Attack

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  • Author : Tabitha Barber
  • Publisher : Tate
  • Release : 2014-11-04
  • ISBN : 9781849760300
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Art Under Attack written by Tabitha Barber and published by Tate. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published to accompany a major exhibition at Tate Britain, this fully illustrated catalogue explores the history of attacks on art in Britain, from the reformation of the sixteenth century to the present day, demonstrating how religious, political, moral and aesthetic controversy can become arenas for assaults on art. Through eight essays, the broad subject of iconoclasm is broken into three overarching themes: the state-sanctioned iconoclastic zeal of religious reformers, who aimed to purge both churches and minds of the sin of idolatry; the symbolic statue-breaking that accompanies political change such as the targeted attacks on cultural heritage by the suffragettes; and attacks on art by individuals stimulated by a moral or aesthetic outrage. Importantly, the aim of the study is to present the rationale of iconoclasm, its significance to the history of an object, and how it has become a productive and transformational practice for some modern and contemporary artists."--Publisher's description.

Book Blasphemy

    Book Details:
  • Author : S. Brent Plate
  • Publisher : Black Dog Publishing
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 202 pages

Download or read book Blasphemy written by S. Brent Plate and published by Black Dog Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an examination of a broad range of contentious imagery in art, this book questions the status of blasphemy in a world ever more divided in its views of what is acceptable, and aims to provide a vantage point from which to view the interrelations between religion, politics and the visual arts.

Book Belonging and Betrayal

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  • Author : Charles Dellheim
  • Publisher : Brandeis University Press
  • Release : 2021-09-21
  • ISBN : 1684580560
  • Pages : 688 pages

Download or read book Belonging and Betrayal written by Charles Dellheim and published by Brandeis University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The old masters' new masters -- Was modernism Jewish? -- In the middle -- To have and have not.