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Book Art in America and Elsewhere

Download or read book Art in America and Elsewhere written by Frederick Fairchild Sherman and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated quarterly magazine.

Book Bas Jan Ader

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  • Author : Alexander Dumbadze
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2013-05-27
  • ISBN : 022603867X
  • Pages : 197 pages

Download or read book Bas Jan Ader written by Alexander Dumbadze and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-05-27 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 9, 1975, Dutch-born artist Bas Jan Ader set sail from Chatham, Massachusetts, on a thirteen-foot sailboat. He was bound for Falmouth, England, on the second leg of a three-part piece titled In Search of the Miraculous. The damaged boat was found south of the western tip of Ireland nearly a year later. Ader was never seen again. Since his untimely death, Ader has achieved mythic status in the art world as a figure literally willing to die for his art. Considering the artist’s legacy and concise oeuvre beyond the romantic and tragic associations that accompany his peculiar end, Alexander Dumbadze resituates Ader’s art and life within the conceptual art world of Los Angeles in the early 1970s and offers a nuanced argument about artistic subjectivity that explains Ader’s tremendous relevance to contemporary art. Bas Jan Ader blends biography, theoretical reflection, and archival research to draw a detailed picture of the world in which Ader’s work was rooted: a vibrant international art scene populated with peers such as Ger van Elk, William Leavitt, and Allen Ruppersberg. Dumbadze looks closely at Ader’s engagement with questions of free will and his ultimate success in creating art untainted by mediation. The first in-depth study of this enigmatic conceptual artist, Bas Jan Ader is a thoughtful reflection on the necessity of the creative act and its inescapable relation to death.

Book The Making of the American Creative Class

Download or read book The Making of the American Creative Class written by Shannan Clark and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Making of the American Creative Class narrates the history of workers in New York's publishing, advertising, design, and broadcasting industries and their efforts to improve their working conditions, set against the backdrop of the economic dislocations of twentieth-century capitalism.

Book American Visions

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  • Author : Robert Hughes
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9781860463723
  • Pages : 635 pages

Download or read book American Visions written by Robert Hughes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1997 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Hughes begins where American art itself began, with the Native Americans and the first Spanish invaders in the Southwest; he ends with the art of today. In between, in a scholarly text that crackles with wit, intelligence and insight, he tells the story of how American art developed. Hughes investigates the changing tastes of the American public; he explores the effects on art of America's landscape of unparalleled variety and richness; he examines the impact of the melting-pot of cultures that America has always been. Most of all he concentrates on the paintings and art objects themselves and on the men and women - from Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins to Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keeffe, from Arthur Dove and George Bellows to Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko -awho created them. This is an uncompromising and refreshingly opinionated exploration of America, told through the lens of its art.

Book Internationalizing the History of American Art

Download or read book Internationalizing the History of American Art written by Barbara S. Groseclose and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of essays presenting international perspectives on the narratives and the practices grounding the scholarly study of American Art"--Provided by publisher.

Book Art in America

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 710 pages

Download or read book Art in America written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists

Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists written by Ann Lee Morgan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dictionary of American art, 945 alphabetically arranged entries cover painters, sculptors, graphic artists, photographers, printmakers, and contemporary hybrid artists, along with important aspects of the cultural infrastructure.

Book Art in America  A Critical and Historial Sketch

Download or read book Art in America A Critical and Historial Sketch written by Samuel Greene Wheeler Benjamin and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Art in America  A Critical and Historial Sketch

Download or read book Art in America A Critical and Historial Sketch written by S. G. W. Benjamin and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Art in America: A Critical and Historical Sketch', S. G. W. Benjamin offers a look at the evolution of American art, from its earliest beginnings to the late 19th century. Through critical analysis of various artists and their works, Benjamin expertly traces the progression of American art and its place within the broader context of international art. While he focuses primarily on American artists working in the U.S., he also includes a discussion of American sculptors working in Europe. An essential read for anyone interested in the history and development of American art.

Book The Fine Arts in America

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  • Author : Joshua C. Taylor
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1981-02-15
  • ISBN : 9780226791517
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book The Fine Arts in America written by Joshua C. Taylor and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1981-02-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Though comparatively short, it is no once-over-lightly chronicle full of insignificant names and dates. It brilliantly achieves its principal aim: to provide readers with a compact but broad and well rounded conception of the progress of the fine arts in America from ca. 1670 to the present day. . . . It is a fascinating book, full of new vistas; it has all the earmarks of an instant classic."—American Artist "[Taylor] describes changing definitions of art as much as he describes art itself, and he shows how the shifting forms of patronage affected the forms of art. He analyzes artists' associations . . . and he shows how museums and schools have expanded the audience for art. In short, he places artists and their work in cultural context. This treatment of the social history of art is the most original and intriguing aspect of Taylor's sketch."—Journal of American History "This is a brilliantly subtle book. It builds with one insight after another, and suddenly the reader finds that a whole new way of looking at American art is being proposed. . . . After decades of thinking and looking and teaching, Dr. Taylor has written it all down. This work will become a classic interpretation almost overnight."—Peter Marzio, director, Corcoran Gallery of Art "Interest in American art is unlikely to abate. . . . Mr. Taylor's short book is an invaluable guide through this activity and to its traditions."—Neil Harris, Wall Street Journal

Book Not Here  Not Now  Not That

Download or read book Not Here Not Now Not That written by Steven J. Tepper and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1990s Angels in America,Tony Kushner’s epic play about homosexuality and AIDS in the Reagan era, toured the country, inspiring protests in a handful of cities while others received it warmly. Why do people fight over some works of art but not others? Not Here, Not Now, Not That! examines a wide range of controversies over films, books, paintings, sculptures, clothing, music, and television in dozens of cities across the country to find out what turns personal offense into public protest. What Steven J. Tepper discovers is that these protests are always deeply rooted in local concerns. Furthermore, they are essential to the process of working out our differences in a civil society. To explore the local nature of public protests in detail, Tepper analyzes cases in seventy-one cities, including an in-depth look at Atlanta in the late 1990s, finding that debates there over memorials, public artworks, books, and parades served as a way for Atlantans to develop a vision of the future at a time of rapid growth and change. Eschewing simplistic narratives that reduce public protests to political maneuvering, Not Here, Not Now, Not That! at last provides the social context necessary to fully understand this fascinating phenomenon.

Book Old Master Drawings

Download or read book Old Master Drawings written by Karl Theodore Parker and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Baltimore s Books

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  • Author : Enoch Pratt Free Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1927
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 124 pages

Download or read book Baltimore s Books written by Enoch Pratt Free Library and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs

Download or read book The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Art  History and Culture  Revised First Edition

Download or read book American Art History and Culture Revised First Edition written by Wayne Craven and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 2003 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [This book is] for American art survey courses. [It] provides a thorough ... chronology of American art, including painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and folk art. [The author] presents art and artists within the context of their times, including insights into the intellectual, spiritual, and political environment. [He] charts the growth of a distinctly American art culture.-Back cover.

Book American Art

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  • Author : United States. Office of the United States Commissioner General, Brussels Universal and International Exhibition, 1958
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1958
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book American Art written by United States. Office of the United States Commissioner General, Brussels Universal and International Exhibition, 1958 and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Internationalizing the History of American Art

Download or read book Internationalizing the History of American Art written by Barbara Groseclose and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of essays presenting international perspectives on the narratives and the practices grounding the scholarly study of American art"--Provided by publisher.