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The Sculptural Imagination
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 442

The Sculptural Imagination

  • Categories: Art

Potts also offers a detailed view of selected iconic works by sculptors ranging from Antonio Canova and Auguste Rodin to Constantin Brancusi, David Smith, Carl Andre, Eva Hesse and Louise Bourgeois - key players in modern thinking about the sculptural. The impact of minimalism features prominently in this discussion, for it disrupted accepted understanding of how a viewer interacts with a work of art, thereby placing the phenomenology of viewing three-dimensional objects for the first time at the center of debate about modern visual art."--Jacket.

Flesh and the Ideal
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 310

Flesh and the Ideal

  • Categories: Art

Winckelmann's writing has a richness and density that take it well beyond the bounds of the simple rationalist art history and Neo-classical art theory with which it is usually associated. He often seems to speak disturbingly directly to our present awareness of the discomforting ideological and psychic contradictions inherent in supposedly ideal symbolic forms.

Experiments in Modern Realism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 494

Experiments in Modern Realism

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Subject: The case for realism -- The new painting in America -- Vernacular modernism -- New brutalism and the 'as found' -- New realism and pop art -- Composite painting -- Assemblages and world making -- Art and life: happenings -- Hybrid practices and political art

Modern Sculpture Reader
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 546

Modern Sculpture Reader

  • Categories: Art

In many anthologies of art, sculpture is given short shrift in relation to other media, if it is treated at all. Modern Sculpture Reader aims to rectify this situation by presenting a collection of important texts that have defined sculpture’s radically changing status and role since the end of the nineteenth century, a time marked by a general reappraisal of the forms and functions of art. From the rigorously theoretical to the experimental and poetic, Modern Sculpture Reader offers a lively discourse on the medium by a range of artists, writers, critics, and poets—Marcel Duchamp, Louise Bourgeois, Claes Oldenberg, André Breton, Ezra Pound, and Clement Greenberg—in a variety of genre...

Art as Worldmaking
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 346

Art as Worldmaking

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-10-23
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This collection is a response to Alex Potts's provocative 2013 book Experiments in modern realism. Twenty essays by leading art historians explore Pott's recasting of realism, providing a new understanding of artworks dating from the eighth to twenty-first centuries and challenging established thinking on art's relation to the everyday.

It's Cold in the River at Night
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 84

It's Cold in the River at Night

Somewhere, in an isolated corner of Western Europe, Carl and Rita rent a house on stilts. Due to the pressures of spending so much time only in each other's company, cracks in their relationship start to appear. To relieve the pressure and secretly hoping to meet someone he can look up to who will take him on as an apprentice, Carl embarks on a search for the last remaining practitioner of an ancient local tradition. His quest brings him to a craftsman who is very different to the type of man he was hoping to find. Animator and illustrator Alex Pott's first long-form graphic novel is a psychological drama and a coming-of-age tale, where the protagonist is too old to come of age, doesn't experience any personal growth and is instead pushed to the brink of his sanity...

History of the Art of Antiquity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 452

History of the Art of Antiquity

  • Categories: Art

"Translation of a foundational text for the disciplines of art history and archaeology. Offers a systematic history of art in ancient Egypt, Persia, Etruria, Rome, and, above all, Greece that synthesizes the visual and written evidence then available"--Provided by publisher.

Principles of Art History Writing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Principles of Art History Writing

  • Categories: Art

"Principles of Art History Writing traces the changes in the way in which writers about art represent the same works. These differ in such deep ways as to raise the question of whether those at the beginning of the process even saw the same things as those at the end did. Carrier uses four case studies to identify and explain changing styles of restoration and the history of interpretation of selected works by Piero, Caravaggio, and van Eyck." -- Back cover

Stick to the Skin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Stick to the Skin

  • Categories: Art

The first comparative history of African American and Black British artists, artworks, and art movements, Stick to the Skin traces the lives and works of over fifty painters, photographers, sculptors, and mixed-media, assemblage, installation, video, and performance artists working in the United States and Britain from 1965 to 2015. The artists featured in this book cut to the heart of hidden histories, untold narratives, and missing memories to tell stories that "stick to the skin" and arrive at a new "Black lexicon of liberation." Informed by extensive research and invaluable oral testimonies, Celeste-Marie Bernier’s remarkable text forcibly asserts the originality and importance of Blac...

Color and Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Color and Culture

An encyclopaedic work on color in Western art and culture from the Middle Ages to Post-Modernism.