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Book Storywork  The Prints of Marie Watt

Download or read book Storywork The Prints of Marie Watt written by Marie Watt and published by . This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multimedia artist Marie Watt is a storyteller. As a member of the Seneca Nation with German-Scots ancestry, her stories draw from Native and non-Native traditions. Over the course of her career, Watt has told these stories through prints. The collaborative printmaking process is consistent with Watt's desire to build communities through art and storytelling. The stories the prints tell are personal, cultural, and universal, dealing with elemental themes of shelter, dreams, the earth and sky, and the cosmos. This book was published on the occasion of a national tour of the retrospective exhibition of her unique contribution to printmaking from 1996 to the present.

Book Textile Conservation

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  • Author : Frances Lennard
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2024-03-07
  • ISBN : 1003825273
  • Pages : 894 pages

Download or read book Textile Conservation written by Frances Lennard and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Textile Conservation offers an up-to-date perspective on the role and practice of textile conservators, capturing the diversity of textile conservation work across the globe. The volume considers key factors that are integral to effective conservation decision-making. It achieves this by focusing on four major factors that have influenced development in textile conservation practice over the past decades: the changing context, an evolution in the way conservators think about objects, the greater involvement of stakeholders, and technical development. Features of the new edition include: Updated chapters that explain new techniques and recent developments in the field; New and updated international case studies that demonstrate conservation decision-making in practice, including assessments of the conservation of objects in some of the world’s major cultural institutions; Full-colour illustrations that demonstrate conservation in practice. Textile Conservation will be essential reading for conservators around the world. It will also be of great interest to academics and students engaged in the study of the conservation of textiles, as well as museum and heritage professionals.

Book Marie Watt

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  • Author : Marie Watt
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2006-04-01
  • ISBN : 9780961497170
  • Pages : 52 pages

Download or read book Marie Watt written by Marie Watt and published by . This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Marie Watt

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  • Author : Kathryn Rose Loeb
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book Marie Watt written by Kathryn Rose Loeb and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project explores the early works of artist Marie Watt (b. 1968) and how her fiber pieces and their production process visualize her philosophies on the interconnection between humans, animals, and our environs. Watt incorporated used blankets as her primary medium in 2002, transition from her education in painting and drawing. Blankets prove to be a texturally and visually rich material with complicated emotional qualities that support Watt's tendency toward highly affective work. Blankets facilitate storytelling as knowledge production, as does Watt's incorporation of sewing circles-where strangers interact with one another, forge community, and have the opportunity to leave their mark through rudimentary stitches in the artwork. Few scholars have addressed Watt's work, and those who do have indicated her Seneca enrollment as a sign of her authenticity, burdening her work with cultural imperatives. To relieve some of that burden, I broaden the scope of art historical references, putting her work in conversation with artists such as Constantin Brancusi, Liz Magar, and Joseph Beuys. Watt's deployment of Seneca philosophies through her process, narrative, composition, and artwork titles, indicate her commitment to preserving indigenous practices. Her work simultaneously criticizes art institutions, contemporary art criticism, and the category of indigenous art. Watt's philosophies and execution converge with a 2008 series of constellation portraits that illustrate human interconnection, and traces Watt's use and critiques of Beuys's ideas regarding pedagogy, participatory democracy, and indigeneity. I argue Watt is able to concurrently entertain and employ indigenous authenticity while criticizing other artists and critic's co-optation of indigenous symbols and concepts.

Book Marie Watt

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2023
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Marie Watt written by and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This catalogue surveys the artist's works and exhibitions, highlighting Marie Watt: Sky Dances Light at Kavi Gupta | Washington Blvd. Drawing from history, biography, Iroquois protofeminism, and Indigenous teachings, Watt mobilizes her art practice as a form of visual and experiential storytelling. She frequently invites collaborators into her creative process, either as literal participants in the art making process or as contributors of materials or narratives that are then integrated into the work. Watt embraces and centers the stories embedded within those materials and narratives. Examples include her use of donated and vintage blankets, which frequently bear the scars of their histories in the form of flaws such as rips, repairs, or faded colors. Such markings connect Watt to the people who once used them, and to the moments of their lives that read like visual echoes stored within the objects." --Publisher's website (accessed 07/25/2024).

Book Marie Watt

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  • Author : Marie Watt
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Marie Watt written by Marie Watt and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Refusal of Work

Download or read book The Refusal of Work written by David Frayne and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paid work is absolutely central to the culture and politics of capitalist societies, yet today’s work-centred world is becoming increasingly hostile to the human need for autonomy, spontaneity and community. The grim reality of a society in which some are overworked, whilst others are condemned to intermittent work and unemployment, is progressively more difficult to tolerate. In this thought-provoking book, David Frayne questions the central place of work in mainstream political visions of the future, laying bare the ways in which economic demands colonise our lives and priorities. Drawing on his original research into the lives of people who are actively resisting nine-to-five employment, Frayne asks what motivates these people to disconnect from work, whether or not their resistance is futile, and whether they might have the capacity to inspire an alternative form of development, based on a reduction and social redistribution of work. A crucial dissection of the work-centred nature of modern society and emerging resistance to it, The Refusal of Work is a bold call for a more humane and sustainable vision of social progress.

Book Fresh Talk Daring Gazes

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  • Author : Elaine H. Kim
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-12-22
  • ISBN : 0520938798
  • Pages : 239 pages

Download or read book Fresh Talk Daring Gazes written by Elaine H. Kim and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes chronicles the blossoming of Asian American art and anticipates the growing democratization of American art and culture. Pairing work by twenty-four contemporary Asian American visual artists with responses provocatively drawn from cultural critics, other artists, activists, and intellectuals, this book explores themes of geographical movement, the sexuality of Asian bodies, colonization, miscegenation, hybrid forms of immigrant cultures, the loss of home, war, history, and memory. Elaine H. Kim's historical introduction charts the trajectory of Asian American art from the nineteenth century to the present, offering a comprehensive account of artists, major artworks, and major events. Commentaries by writers, artists, and cultural activists examine the work of visual artists such as Pacita Abad, Albert Chong, Y. David Chung, Allan deSouza, Michael Joo, Hung Liu, Yong Soon Min, Manuel Ocampo, PipoNguyen-Duy, Roger Shimomura, Carlos Villa, and Martin Wong. Prominent artists and critics such as Homi K. Bhabha, Luis Camnitzer, Enrique Chagoya, Gina Dent, Ellen Gallagher, Arturo Lindsay, Kobena Mercer, Griselda Pollock, Jolene Rickard, Faith Ringgold, Ella Shohat, Lowery Stokes Sims, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, and Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie offer thought-provoking reflections on each artist. Sharon Mizota's extended captions further elucidate the paintings, graphics, photography, installations, and mixed-media constructions under discussion. As a set of dialogues, simultaneously visual and textual, Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes encourages the cross-cultural conversation that is shaping the emerging art of Asian Americans and of the United States in general. Alternately personal, intellectual, aesthetic, and political, these essays and the art they consider provide unique perspectives on both the past and the future of American art.

Book For America

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  • Author : Jeremiah William McCarthy
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2019-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300244282
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book For America written by Jeremiah William McCarthy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring paintings by American icons like Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, this book illustrates the ways American artists have viewed themselves, their peers, and their painted worlds over 200 years.

Book GenderFail

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  • Author : Be Oakley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book GenderFail written by Be Oakley and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Watchful Eyes

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  • Author : Theresa Harlan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 56 pages

Download or read book Watchful Eyes written by Theresa Harlan and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Our Lady s Juggler

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  • Author : Anatole 1844-1924 France
  • Publisher : Hassell Street Press
  • Release : 2021-09-09
  • ISBN : 9781014722256
  • Pages : 38 pages

Download or read book Our Lady s Juggler written by Anatole 1844-1924 France and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Thesaurus of Slang

Download or read book The Thesaurus of Slang written by Esther Lewin and published by Checkmark Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes jargon, sports slang, and ethnic and regional expressions

Book Res

    Res

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  • Author : Francesco Pellizzi
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2008-02-15
  • ISBN : 087365790X
  • Pages : 253 pages

Download or read book Res written by Francesco Pellizzi and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Res is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art. The journal presents contributions by philosophers, art historians, archaeologists, critics, linguists, architects, artists, among others.

Book Art  Women  California 1950 2000

Download or read book Art Women California 1950 2000 written by Diana Burgess Fuller and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the book on women's art I've been waiting for--smart, deeply rooted, and up-to-date, with an overdue focus on women of color that fills in the historical cracks. Read it and run with it."--Lucy R. Lippard, author of The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Essays on Feminist Art "More than merely beautiful and ground-breaking, Art/ Women/ California 1950-2000 is also about the enriching interventions created by diverse women artists, the effect of whose work is not only far-reaching, but has also opened up the very definition of American art. It is about intellectual interdisciplinality and the dialectical relationship between art and social context. It is about the way various California cultures--Native, Latino, Asian, feminist, immigrant, politically active, and virtual, which are so different from the trope of the Western cowboy--have intervened in that entity we imagine as 'America.' "--Elaine Kim, editor of Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism "Rich and provocative. A pleasure to read and to look at."--Linda Nochlin, author of The Body in Pieces: The Fragment as a Metaphor of Modernity "This book should greatly help everyone understand the remarkably diversified evolution of art in California, which is largely due to the great influx of women and the transformative effect of a new feminist consciousness."--Arthur C. Danto, author of Philosophizing Art: Selected Essays

Book Who Am I this Time

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  • Author : Kurt Vonnegut
  • Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 0822227622
  • Pages : 65 pages

Download or read book Who Am I this Time written by Kurt Vonnegut and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2014 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of this play—as we are told at the outset—is love, pure and complicated. Set on the stage of The North Crawford Mask & Wig Club ("the finest community theatre in central Connecticut!"), three early comic masterpieces by Kurt Vonnegut (Long Walk to Forever, Who am I This Time? and Go Back to Your Precious Wife and Son) are sewn together into a seamless evening of hilarity and humanity. With a single set, wonderful roles for seven versatile actors, and Vonnegut's singular wit and insight into human foibles, this is a smart, delightful comedy for the whole family.

Book Indian Humor

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9781887427005
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book Indian Humor written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: