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Book Freight Train Graffiti

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roger Gastman
  • Publisher : ABRAMS
  • Release : 2006-06
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Freight Train Graffiti written by Roger Gastman and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As dazzling as the art it celebrates, this volume is packed with 1,000 full-color illustrations and features in-depth interviews with more than 125 train artists and "writers" to provide unprecedented perspective into graffiti.

Book The Art Gallery on Stage

Download or read book The Art Gallery on Stage written by Mariacristina Cavecchi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art Gallery on Stage is the first book to consider the representation of the art gallery on the contemporary British stage and to discuss how playwrights have begun to regard it as inspiration, location, focus or theme in an ever-more intense game of cross-fertilization. The study analyzes the impact on dramatic form and theatrical presentation of what has been a paradigmatic shift in the way art galleries and museums display their collections and how these are perceived, establishing a hitherto unexplored connection between modes of exhibiting and modes of representation. It traces a trajectory from plays that were initially performed in traditional theatres in accordance with a naturalistic play structure to plays that favour of a radical reconfiguration of visual representation. Indeed, since the beginning of the new millennium, playwrights and theatre-makers have increasingly experimented with new dramatic forms and site-specific venues, while forging collaborations with art makers and curators. The book focuses on plays from the 1980s onwards, such as Howard Barker's Scenes from an Execution, Nick Dear's The Art of Success, Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution, Timberlake Wertenbaker's Three Birds Alighting on a Field and The Line, David Edgar's Pentecost, Martin Crimp's Attempt on Her Life, Rebecca Lenkiewicz's Shoreditch Madonna and The Painter, David Leddy's Long Live the Little Knife, and Tim Crouch's My Arm, An Oak Tree and England, and considers the vital contribution to the field made by set designers. Ultimately, through this study, we come to understand how modern drama can offer a set of interpretative tools to enhance our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the social construction of art and, furthermore, the potential of theatre and the gallery space to question our fundamental cultural assumptions and values.

Book Susan Point

    Book Details:
  • Author : Grant Arnold
  • Publisher : Black Dog Press
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 9781911164265
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Susan Point written by Grant Arnold and published by Black Dog Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Vancouver Art gallery from February 18 to 28 May 2017.

Book The Moleskine Project Volume 1

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  • Author : Ken Harman Hashimoto
  • Publisher : Moleskine Project
  • Release : 2016-04-15
  • ISBN : 9781732798052
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Moleskine Project Volume 1 written by Ken Harman Hashimoto and published by Moleskine Project. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compendium of fifty full page illustrations and paintings collected from the 2014 and 2015 "Moleskine Project" group show at Spoke Art gallery in San Francisco. Featuring an all-star roster of international artists in an embossed leather bound cover with rounded corners, ribbon bookmark and elastic band closure.

Book The Contemporary Art Gallery

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Carrier
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2016-09-23
  • ISBN : 1443896322
  • Pages : 115 pages

Download or read book The Contemporary Art Gallery written by David Carrier and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone who looks at contemporary art is familiar with galleries. But visual features of these mysterious temples tend to be taken for granted. The basic purpose of this book is to enliven the reader’s latent knowledge of galleries, including architectural motifs, the intended impression that is conveyed to the visitor, and human interactions within them. The contemporary art world system includes artists’ studios, art galleries, homes of collec-tors and public art museums. To comprehend art, one needs to understand these settings and how it travels through them. The contemporary art gallery is a store where luxury goods are sold. What distinguishes it from stores selling other luxuries – upscale clothing, jewelry, and posh cars – is the nature of the merchandise. While much has been written about the art, this book uncovers the secretive culture of the galleries themselves. The gallery is the public site where art is first seen – anyone can come and look for free. This store, a commercial site, is where aesthetic judgments are made. Art’s value is determined in this marketplace by the consensus formed by public opinion, professional re-viewers and sales. The gallery, then, is the nexus of the enigmatic, billion dollar art world, and it is that space that is dissected here. The first chapter briefly describes the beginnings of the present contemporary art gallery. The second presents the experience of gallery going, presenting summary accounts of vis-its to some contemporary galleries. The third expands and extends that analysis, with de-tailed close up descriptions and comparative evaluations of many diverse contemporary galleries, in order to identify the challenges provided by these marvelous places. Then the fourth chapter indicates why, in the near future, due to the proliferation of myriad art fairs and online platforms extant today, such galleries might disappear altogether.

Book The Secret Art of Dr  Seuss

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  • Author : Audrey Geisel
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 1995-10-03
  • ISBN : 0679434488
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book The Secret Art of Dr Seuss written by Audrey Geisel and published by Random House. This book was released on 1995-10-03 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These fabulous, whimsical paintings, created for his own pleasure and never shown to the public, show Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss) in a whole new light. Depicting outlandish creatures in otherworldly settings, the paintings use a dazzling rainbow of hues not seen in the primary-color palette of his books for children, and exhibit a sophisticated and often quite unrestrained side of the artist. 65 color illustrations.

Book Street Gallery

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robin J. Dunitz
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 492 pages

Download or read book Street Gallery written by Robin J. Dunitz and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Love Bites

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  • Author : Cynthia St. Aubin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2023-05-15
  • ISBN : 9781648394379
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Love Bites written by Cynthia St. Aubin and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A girl's gotta eat-and so do her three cats. Recently divorced art history grad student Hanna Harvey has just fibbed her way into a job as the assistant to dangerously drool-worthy art gallery owner Mark Abernathy. For Hanna, working in the field she desperately loves provides the perfect opportunity to begin putting her life back together. Soon her cheese budget is in the black and her feline life partners are no longer eyeing her like a six-foot can of Fancy Feast. But when her boss's lady friends start turning up dead, Hanna finds herself in the cross hairs of a murder investigation. Even worse, hunky homicide detective James Morrison fears hers might be the next body he discovers. With the "help" of the gallery's quirky cast of resident artists, Hanna will have to hunt down the truth about Abernathy's dark secret-before it hunts her.

Book Jacqueline Hick

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  • Author : Gloria Strzelecki
  • Publisher : Wakefield Press
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 1743052006
  • Pages : 138 pages

Download or read book Jacqueline Hick written by Gloria Strzelecki and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacqueline Hick (1919-2004) was one of Australia's most successful figurative painters. This book showcases many of Hick's finest works, and traces a life that, like her art, was imbued with wit, wisdom and empathy.

Book Studio

    Book Details:
  • Author : John McDonald
  • Publisher : R. Ian Lloyd
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9810574665
  • Pages : 147 pages

Download or read book Studio written by John McDonald and published by R. Ian Lloyd. This book was released on 2007 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Studio' presents an extraordinary anthology of visual and verbal insights into the way paintings are made, and the complex blend of motivation and inspiration that sustains the painter in his or her solitary search for meaning.

Book The Universe of Peter Max

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  • Author : Peter Max
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2013-11-19
  • ISBN : 0062121405
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book The Universe of Peter Max written by Peter Max and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at the personal and artistic life of renowned artist Peter Max...in his own words In this intimate visual memoir, artist Peter Max details his life journey as an artist, providing a stirring account of himself as a young boy and as a successful artist eager to return to the days of wonderment and inspiration found only in dreams and childhood. Max charts his ascension in the art world and pauses to reflect on the nature of creativity, the universe at large, his many loves, and his ability to see beauty in the everyday. Vibrantly illustrated with Max's signature work, including some never-before-seen pieces, this colorful memoir reveals the personal inspiration behind the work of one of the world's most popular artists. With 200 full-color photographs

Book Jeffrey Harris

    Book Details:
  • Author : Justin Paton
  • Publisher : Victoria University Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780864734860
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Jeffrey Harris written by Justin Paton and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Book Hearings

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Art of Florida

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  • Author : Rodney Carlisle
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2021-10-01
  • ISBN : 1683342593
  • Pages : 219 pages

Download or read book The Art of Florida written by Rodney Carlisle and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visual guide to approximately 20 Florida art colonies and districts. The book will discusses in detail a variety of towns in Florida renowned as “Art Colonies,” together with several “Arts Districts” in both small towns and larger cities that have been designated by the local government and/or by developers as neighborhoods set aside to foster the arts. Many of the communities sponsor annual art festivals or shows that have been held for more than 40 years. The book features color photographs that capture the variety of art forms that are uniquely Florida and covers special aspects of art in Florida such as the great number of Florida artists, the influence of arts projects and social realism of the New Deal, mural painting in Florida, the “Highwaymen,” and the extremely rich 19th and 20th century history of Florida artists. Colonies and districts include: Bradenton Village of the Arts, Eau Gallie Arts District, St Petersburg Warehouse Arts District and Central Arts District, Tampa and Tallahassee.

Book Grand Street Gallery  New York  N Y

Download or read book Grand Street Gallery New York N Y written by Grand Street Gallery (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 112 Greene Street

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher : David Zwirner Books
  • Release : 2012-07-31
  • ISBN : 9781934435410
  • Pages : 197 pages

Download or read book 112 Greene Street written by and published by David Zwirner Books. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 112 Greene Street was more than a physical space—it was a locus of energy and ideas that with a combination of genius and chance had a profound impact on the trajectory of contemporary art...its permeable walls became the center of an artistic community that challenged the traditional role of the artist, the gallery, the performer, the audience, and the work of art. — Jessamyn Fiore 112 Greene Street was one of New York’s first alternative, artist-run venues. Started in October 1970 by Jeffrey Lew, Gordon Matta-Clark, and Alan Saret, among others, the building became a focal point for a young generation of artists seeking a substitute for New York’s established gallery circuit, and provided the stage for a singular moment of artistic invention and freedom that was at its peak between 1970 and 1974. 112 Greene Street: The Early Years (1970–1974) is the culmination of an exhibition by the same name that was on view at David Zwirner in New York in 2011. This extensively researched and historically important book brings together a number of works that were exhibited at the seminal space (including works by Gordon Matta-Clark, Vito Acconci, Tina Girouard, Suzanne Harris, Jene Highstein, Larry Miller, Alan Saret, and Richard Serra); extensive interviews with many of the artists involved in the space; a fascinating timeline of all the activity at 112 Greene Street in the early years; and installation views of the 2011 exhibition. The interviews in the book have been prepared by the exhibition’s curator, Jessamyn Fiore, and Louise Sørensen, Head of Research at David Zwirner, has contributed an introductory text that illuminates the space’s significance and critical reception during the prime years of its operation, as well as commentary on individual works in the show.

Book The Arcades Project

    Book Details:
  • Author : Walter Benjamin
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780674043268
  • Pages : 1100 pages

Download or read book The Arcades Project written by Walter Benjamin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the arcades of 19th-century Paris--glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism--Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources. 46 illustrations.