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The Imperfect Art
Taking a wide-ranging approach rare in jazz criticism, Ted Gioia's brilliant volume draws upon fields as disparate as literary criticism, art history, sociology, and aesthetic philosophy in order to place jazz within the turbulent cultural environment of the twentieth century. He argues that because improvisation--the essence of jazz--must often fail under the pressure of on-the-spot creativity, we should view jazz as an "imperfect art" and base our judgments of it on an "aesthetics of imperfection." Incorporating the thought of such seminal thinkers as Walter Benjamin, José Ortega y Gasset, and Roland Barthes, The Imperfect Art offers vivid portraits of the giants of jazz and startling insights into this vital musical form and the interaction of society and art.
After One Hundred Years
This book is the first comprehensive study of the path-breaking exhibition "Meisterwerke muhammedanischer Kunst" held in Munich in 1910. It offers new ideas and unpublished material on the exhibition's historical context, organization, display, reception in the West and its later influence on the study of Islamic art.
Approximation Theory
This concisely written book gives an elementary introduction to a classical area of mathematics—approximation theory—in a way that naturally leads to the modern field of wavelets. The exposition, driven by ideas rather than technical details and proofs, demonstrates the dynamic nature of mathematics and the influence of classical disciplines on many areas of modern mathematics and applications. Key features and topics: * Description of wavelets in words rather than mathematical symbols * Elementary introduction to approximation using polynomials (Weierstrass’ and Taylor’s theorems) * Introduction to infinite series, with emphasis on approximation-theoretic aspects * Introduction to F...
German Expressionist Painting
Published in 1957, German Expressionist Painting was the first comprehensive study of one of the most pivotal movements in the art of this century. When it was written, however, German Expressionism seemed like an eccentric manifestation far removed from what was then considered the mainstream of modern art. But as historians well know, each generation alters the concept of mainstream to encompass those aspects of the past which seem most relevant to the present. The impact of German Expressionism on the art and thought of later generations could never have been anticipated at the time of the original writing of this book. During the subsequent years an enormous body of scholarly research an...
Movement, Manifesto, Melee
The years before World War I were a fertile period for artists in Europe and the United States who were challenging aesthetic convention in music, writing, and the visual arts. These early pioneers of modernism sometimes preferred to work alone, but just as often they were associated with groups whose boundaries were permeable and freely changing. While these individual groups_including the Futurists, Imagists, Blue Rider, and the Second Vienna School_have been thoroughly studied, scholars of the period have often neglected the formative and pervasive interactions of these groups across geographic and artistic boundaries. Providing a historical taxonomy of this influential milieu, Milton Cohen demonstrates how these groups were largely responsible for the artistic innovation and nearly all the avant-garde agitation and major events of these years. With concluding appendices intended for scholars and specialists, this engagingly written book will be useful not only for classroom use and scholarly research, but will appeal to anyone interested in reading a fresh approach to the history of early modernism.
The Art Gallery
Issues for include Art gallery scene, which is also published separately.
Modernist Physics
Modernist Physics studies literary texts and scientific ideas in their historical context to provide an original account of the ways in which Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence engaged with the scientific theories, especially those of Albert Einstein.
Symbol und Wirklichkeit
Ernst Ludwig Kirchners Spätwerk blieb bis anhin in Verbindung mit jenem Edvard Munchs weitgehend unerforscht. Eine vertiefte Analyse des Verhältnisses von Kirchners Werkgruppe Bilder aus der Phantasie zu Munchs Lebensfries zeigt interessanterweise ähnliche Konturen dieser beiden Arbeiten. Dies obwohl Kirchner vehement jegliche Kenntnis von Munchs Schaffen zu negieren versuchte. Systematisch wird die Bedeutung, die Munchs Werk für Kirchner hatte, aufgrund der Briefkorrespondenz der «Brücke» mit Munch, den Munch-Ausstellungen, Kirchners Äusserungen über Munch in Briefen, seinen Skizzenbüchern und dem «Davoser Tagebuch» in der Zeitspanne von 1902 bis 1912 aufgezeigt. Die Arbeit rekonstruiert ausserdem die bisher nur ansatzweise erforschte Werkgruppe Bilder aus der Phantasie und stellt ihren herausragenden Platz als offenes Konzept und als kohärente Einheit innerhalb von Kirchners Werk heraus.
