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Book The Evolution of Decorative Art

Download or read book The Evolution of Decorative Art written by Henry Balfour and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Evolution of Decorative Art

Download or read book The Evolution of Decorative Art written by Henry Balfour and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal   Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

Download or read book Journal Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland written by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Academy

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  • Release : 1892
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  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Academy written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Outward Mind

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  • Author : Benjamin Morgan
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2017-05-01
  • ISBN : 022645746X
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book The Outward Mind written by Benjamin Morgan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though underexplored in contemporary scholarship, the Victorian attempts to turn aesthetics into a science remain one of the most fascinating aspects of that era. In The Outward Mind, Benjamin Morgan approaches this period of innovation as an important origin point for current attempts to understand art or beauty using the tools of the sciences. Moving chronologically from natural theology in the early nineteenth century to laboratory psychology in the early twentieth, Morgan draws on little-known archives of Victorian intellectuals such as William Morris, Walter Pater, John Ruskin, and others to argue that scientific studies of mind and emotion transformed the way writers and artists understood the experience of beauty and effectively redescribed aesthetic judgment as a biological adaptation. Looking beyond the Victorian period to humanistic critical theory today, he also shows how the historical relationship between science and aesthetics could be a vital resource for rethinking key concepts in contemporary literary and cultural criticism, such as materialism, empathy, practice, and form. At a moment when the tumultuous relationship between the sciences and the humanities is the subject of ongoing debate, Morgan argues for the importance of understanding the arts and sciences as incontrovertibly intertwined.

Book The Culture of Property

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  • Author : Jordanna Bailkin
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2004-07-15
  • ISBN : 9780226035505
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book The Culture of Property written by Jordanna Bailkin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2004-07-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What kind of property is art? Is it property at all? Jordanna Bailkin's The Culture of Property offers a new historical response to these questions, examining ownership disputes over art objects and artifacts during the crisis of liberalism in the United Kingdom. From the 1870s to the 1920s, Britons fought over prized objects from ancient gold ornaments dug up in an Irish field to a portrait of the Duchess of Milan at the National Gallery in London. They fought to keep these objects in Britain, to repatriate them to their points of origin, and even to destroy them altogether. Bailkin explores these disputes in order to investigate the vexed status of property within modern British politics as well as the often surprising origins of ongoing institutional practices. Bailkin's detailed account of these struggles illuminates the relationship between property and citizenship, which has constituted the heart of liberal politics as well as its greatest weakness. Drawing on court transcripts, gallery archives, exhibition reviews, private correspondence—and a striking series of cartoons and photographs—The Culture of Property traverses the history of gender, material culture, urban life, colonialism, Irish and Scottish nationalism, and British citizenship. This fascinating book challenges recent scholarship in museum studies in light of ongoing culture wars. It should be required reading for cultural policy makers, museum professionals, and anyone interested in the history of art and Britain.

Book The Athenaeum

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  • Release : 1893
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 946 pages

Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transfixed by Prehistory

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  • Author : Maria Stavrinaki
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2022-05-24
  • ISBN : 194213066X
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Transfixed by Prehistory written by Maria Stavrinaki and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of how modern art was impacted by the concept of prehistory and the prehistoric Prehistory is an invention of the late nineteenth century. In that moment of technological progress and acceleration of production and circulation, three major Western narratives about time took shape. One after another, these new fields of inquiry delved into the obscure immensity of the past: first, to surmise the age of the Earth; second, to find the point of emergence of human beings; and third, to ponder the age of art. Maria Stavrinaki considers the inseparability of these accounts of temporality from the disruptive forces of modernity. She asks what a history of modernity and its art would look like if considered through these three interwoven inventions of the longue durée. Transfixed by Prehistory attempts to articulate such a history, which turns out to be more complex than an inevitable march of progress leading up to the Anthropocene. Rather, it is a history of stupor, defamiliarization, regressive acceleration, and incessant invention, since the “new” was also found in the deep sediments of the Earth. Composed of as much speed as slowness, as much change as deep time, as much confidence as skepticism and doubt, modernity is a complex phenomenon that needs to be rethought. Stavrinaki focuses on this intrinsic tension through major artistic practices (Cézanne, Matisse, De Chirico, Ernst, Picasso, Dubuffet, Smithson, Morris, and contemporary artists such as Pierre Huyghe and Thomas Hirschhorn), philosophical discourses (Bataille, Blumenberg, and Jünger), and the human sciences. This groundbreaking book will attract readers interested in the intersections of art history, anthropology, psychoanalysis, mythology, geology, and archaeology.

Book The Anthropology of Art

Download or read book The Anthropology of Art written by Howard Morphy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology provides a single-volume overview of the essential theoretical debates in the anthropology of art. Drawing together significant work in the field from the second half of the twentieth century, it enables readers to appreciate the art of different cultures at different times. Advances a cross-cultural concept of art that moves beyond traditional distinctions between Western and non-Western art. Provides the basis for the appreciation of art of different cultures and times. Enhances readers’ appreciation of the aesthetics of art and of the important role it plays in human society.

Book Life on the Lagoons

Download or read book Life on the Lagoons written by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Annual American Catalogue

Download or read book The Annual American Catalogue written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Arts and Crafts Essays

Download or read book Arts and Crafts Essays written by Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Art in Theory

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  • Author : Paul Wood
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2020-12-21
  • ISBN : 1119591392
  • Pages : 1368 pages

Download or read book Art in Theory written by Paul Wood and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-12-21 with total page 1368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking new anthology in the Art in Theory series, offering an examination of the changing relationships between the West and the wider world in the field of art and material culture Art in Theory: The West in the World is a ground-breaking anthology that comprehensively examines the relationship of Western art to the art and material culture of the wider world. Editors Paul Wood and Leon Wainwright have included 370 texts, some of which appear in English for the first time. The anthologized texts are presented in eight chronological parts, which are then subdivided into key themes appropriate to each historical era. The majority of the texts are representations of changing ideas about the cultures of the world by European artists and intellectuals, but increasingly, as the modern period develops, and especially as colonialism is challenged, a variety of dissenting voices begin to claim their space, and a counter narrative to western hegemony develops. Over half the book is devoted to 20th and 21st century materials, though the book’s unique selling point is the way it relates the modern globalization of art to much longer cultural histories. As well as the anthologized material, Art in Theory: The West in the World contains: A general introduction discussing the scope of the collection Introductory essays to each of the eight parts, outlining the main themes in their historical contexts Individual introductions to each text, explaining how they relate to the wider theoretical and political currents of their time Intended for a wide audience, the book is essential reading for students on courses in art and art history. It will also be useful to specialists in the field of art history and readers with a general interest in the culture and politics of the modern world.

Book Publishers  circular and booksellers  record

Download or read book Publishers circular and booksellers record written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum  A Characterization

Download or read book World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum A Characterization written by Dan Hicks and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization introduces the range, history and significance of the archaeological collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.