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Book Survival Boogie Woogie  Neo Japonisme  Architectural Photography   Abstraction

Download or read book Survival Boogie Woogie Neo Japonisme Architectural Photography Abstraction written by Jean-Sébastien Cluzel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What links are there between Piet Mondrian’s unfinished work Victory Boogie Woogie (1942–4) and post-war Japanese and Japanese-style architectural photography? As far back as the mid-1950s, critics and photographers were inclined to link Mondrian’s painting with modern Japanese architecture and some historians were to go so far as to assert that Mondrian himself had been influenced by traditional Japanese architecture.Powerful associations such as these contributed to the coming together of Western and Japanese architectural modernity. They also underpinned the survival of Japonisme in architecture, or put another way, of the neo-Japonisme that emerged after the Second World War. However, while this kinship between Mondrian’s abstraction and the aesthetic of Japanese architecture is little apparent in architecture, it does show in architectural photography. This book, which takes a sidelong look at Mondrian, examines the works of the foremost among Japanese and American architectural photographers in an effort to interpret the dynamics of how the world of architecture was Japanized between 1945 and 1985.

Book Surrealism and Photography in 1930s Japan

Download or read book Surrealism and Photography in 1930s Japan written by Jelena Stojkovic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-31 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the censorship of dissident material during the decade between the Manchurian Incident of 1931 and the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941, a number of photographers across Japan produced a versatile body of Surrealist work. In a pioneering study of their practice, Jelena Stojkovic draws on primary sources and extensive archival research and maps out art historical and critical contexts relevant to the apprehension of this rich photographic output, most of which is previously unseen outside of its country of origin. The volume is an essential resource in the fields of Surrealism and Japanese history of art, for researchers and students of historical avant-gardes and photography, as well as forreaders interested in visual culture.

Book The Investment Game in Private Equity

Download or read book The Investment Game in Private Equity written by Mika Lehtimäki and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-02 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Investment Game in Private Equity, Mika Lehtimäki discusses the legal relationship between investors and managers of private equity funds and sets out a game-theoretical framework for evaluating the role of regulation and contract in asset management.

Book Blue Nippon

    Book Details:
  • Author : E. Taylor Atkins
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780822327219
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book Blue Nippon written by E. Taylor Atkins and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Art of this Century

    Book Details:
  • Author : Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
  • Publisher : Guggenheim Museum
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book Art of this Century written by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and published by Guggenheim Museum. This book was released on 1993 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface and Acknowledgments / Thomas Krens -- The Genesis of a Museum: A History of the Guggenheim / Thomas Krens -- Frank Lloyd Wright and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum / Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer -- Paintings of Modern Life and Modern Myths: Late-Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Representations of Gender, Class, and Race in the Thannhauser Collection / Andrea Feeser -- 1912 / Lisa Dennison -- Technology and the Spirit: The Invention of Non-Objective Art / Michael Govan -- Peggy's Surreal Playground / Jennifer Blessing -- Art of This Century and the New York School / Diane Waldman -- Against the Grain: A History of Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim / Nancy Spector -- The Institution as Frame: Installations at the Guggenheim / Clare Bell.

Book Galliano

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kerry Taylor
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2019-10-31
  • ISBN : 147427787X
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book Galliano written by Kerry Taylor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galliano: Spectacular Fashion is the first detailed guide to the work of one of fashion's greatest talents. Though the designer's otherwise glittering career has been punctured by years out of the limelight, his catalogue of work remains astonishing. Written by internationally renowned fashion expert Kerry Taylor, this beautifully illustrated and meticulously researched book looks in depth at John Galliano's collections from his 1984 graduate show at Saint Martins to his triumphant renaissance at Maison Margiela in 2015. With never-before-seen images of rare designs from private couture archives, close ups revealing the intricacies of garments, and iconic runway shots showing the designer's most innovative creations in motion, this visually rich book examines his revolutionary designs in unprecedented depth. In addition, original interviews with the designer as well as the people who worked closely with him throughout his career shed new light on both the clothes and the context in which they were created. A must-have for fashion lovers, collectors and researchers alike, Galliano: Spectacular Fashion is the ultimate overview of the work of a design genius.

Book Extreme Exoticism

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  • Author : W. Anthony Sheppard
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2019-09-20
  • ISBN : 0190072725
  • Pages : 608 pages

Download or read book Extreme Exoticism written by W. Anthony Sheppard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-20 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To what extent can music be employed to shape one culture's understanding of another? In the American imagination, Japan has represented the "most alien" nation for over 150 years. This perceived difference has inspired fantasies--of both desire and repulsion--through which Japanese culture has profoundly impacted the arts and industry of the U.S. While the influence of Japan on American and European painting, architecture, design, theater, and literature has been celebrated in numerous books and exhibitions, the role of music has been virtually ignored until now. W. Anthony Sheppard's Extreme Exoticism offers a detailed documentation and wide-ranging investigation of music's role in shaping American perceptions of the Japanese, the influence of Japanese music on American composers, and the place of Japanese Americans in American musical life. Presenting numerous American encounters with and representations of Japanese music and Japan, this book reveals how music functions in exotic representation across a variety of genres and media, and how Japanese music has at various times served as a sign of modernist experimentation, a sounding board for defining American music, and a tool for reshaping conceptions of race and gender. From the Tin Pan Alley songs of the Russo-Japanese war period to Weezer's Pinkerton album, music has continued to inscribe Japan as the land of extreme exoticism.

Book The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman

Download or read book The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman written by Grayson Perry and published by British Museum Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogue of exhibition combining Grayson Perry's own work with objects from across the British Museum's collection.

Book The Warrior s Camera

Download or read book The Warrior s Camera written by Stephen Prince and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, who died at the age of 88, has been internationally acclaimed as a giant of world cinema. Rashomon, which won both the Venice Film Festival's grand prize and an Academy Award for best foreign-language film, helped ignite Western interest in the Japanese cinema. Seven Samurai and Yojimbo remain enormously popular both in Japan and abroad. In this newly revised and expanded edition of his study of Kurosawa's films, Stephen Prince provides two new chapters that examine Kurosawa's remaining films, placing him in the context of cinema history. Prince also discusses how Kurosawa furnished a template for some well-known Hollywood directors, including Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas. Providing a new and comprehensive look at this master filmmaker, The Warrior's Camera probes the complex visual structure of Kurosawa's work. The book shows how Kurosawa attempted to symbolize on film a course of national development for post-war Japan, and it traces the ways that he tied his social visions to a dynamic system of visual and narrative forms. The author analyzes Kurosawa's entire career and places the films in context by drawing on the director's autobiography--a fascinating work that presents Kurosawa as a Kurosawa character and the story of his life as the kind of spiritual odyssey witnessed so often in his films. After examining the development of Kurosawa's visual style in his early work, The Warrior's Camera explains how he used this style in subsequent films to forge a politically committed model of filmmaking. It then demonstrates how the collapse of Kurosawa's efforts to participate as a filmmaker in the tasks of social reconstruction led to the very different cinematic style evident in his most recent films, works of pessimism that view the world as resistant to change.

Book The Palestine Yearbook of International Law  2019 2020

Download or read book The Palestine Yearbook of International Law 2019 2020 written by Nimer Sultany and published by Palestine Yearbook of Internat. This book was released on 2021-12-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the editorship of Nimer Sultany, the peer-reviewed Volume 22 of the Palestine Yearbook of International Law includes articles on international law and Palestinian liberation; minority protections in international law; systemic economic harm under Israeli occupation; apartheid and restrictions of movement in the West Bank; restrictions on pro-Palestinian speech and activism in Germany; as well as book review essays.

Book Varieties of Visual Experience

Download or read book Varieties of Visual Experience written by and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1972 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A classic on the functions, styles and structure of the major visual art forms, this well-received text is reputed to have the best treatment available on the theory and practice of art criticism. It examines the connection between the visual, social, and physical dimensions of everyday life in which the arts perform essential roles, while illustrating clearly the common features of theme and style in works of art separated by time and culture. For art critics, artists, and all those interested in art criticism."--Publisher.

Book History s Carnival

Download or read book History s Carnival written by Leonid Plyushch and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1979 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Henk Pander

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roger Hull
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9781930957633
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Henk Pander written by Roger Hull and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henk Pander has lived in Portland, Oregon, for 45 years but describes himself as a "reluctant immigrant" from his native Holland. He has maintained a cultural double vision. He records and interprets American technology, materialism, topography, and disaster in paintings and drawings that radically revise aspects of traditional Dutch painting in order to make hard-hitting American art. At the same time, he frequently paints specifically European scenes and subjects. His painted narratives range from memories of Nazi-occupied Holland, to a conflation of the American West with Deep Space, to the burning of the New Carissa off the Oregon coast. Combining personal and art historical memory with the subject matter of modern life, Pander creates works that are profound in their seriousness, dramatic intensity, and expressive power.

Book Hamilton College Catalogue

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  • Author : Hamilton College (Clinton, N.Y.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1853
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book Hamilton College Catalogue written by Hamilton College (Clinton, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Matrixial Gaze

Download or read book The Matrixial Gaze written by Bracha Ettinger and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Art as Image and Idea

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  • Author : Edmund Burke Feldman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 544 pages

Download or read book Art as Image and Idea written by Edmund Burke Feldman and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book on the functions, styles and structure of the major visual art forms, this text is reputed to have the best treatment available on the theory and practice of art criticism. It examines the connection between the visual, social, and physical dimensions of everyday life in which the arts perform essential roles, while illustrating clearly the common features of theme and style in works of art separated by time and culture.

Book A Dictionary of the Avant Gardes

Download or read book A Dictionary of the Avant Gardes written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes recognizes that change is a driving force in all the arts. It covers major trends in music, dance, theater, film, visual art, sculpture, and performance art--as well as architecture, science, and culture.