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Silence
Silence : Interdisciplinary Perspectives Studies in Anthropological Linguistics.
AIDS and the National Body
Yingling was a relatively young, but already important Americanist who died of AIDS related causes in 1992. This volume gathers his uncollected and unpublished essays together with some of his more personal writing and memorial essays by three former col
With Pleasure
A timely and expansive survey of a groundbreaking American art movement that overturned aesthetic hierarchies in a riot of color and ornamentation The Pattern and Decoration movement emerged in the 1970s as an embrace of long-dismissed art forms associated with the decorative. Pioneering artists such as Miriam Schapiro (1923-2015), Joyce Kozloff (b. 1942), Robert Kushner (b. 1949), and others appropriated patterns, frequently from non-Western decorative arts, to produce intricate, often dizzying or gaudy designs in media ranging from painting, sculpture, and collage to ceramics, installation art, and performance. This dazzling book showcases an astonishing array of works by more than 40 arti...
Judging the Image
This book extends the cultural turn in legal and criminological studies by interrogating our responses to the image. It provides a space to think through problems of ethics, social authority and the legal imagination.
Ideas About Art
Ideas About Art is an intelligent, accessible introductory text for students interested in learning how to think about aesthetics. It uses stories drawn from the experiences of individuals involved in the arts as a means of exposing readers to the philosophies, theories, and arguments that shape and drive visual art. An accessible, story-driven introduction to aesthetic theory and philosophy Prompts readers to develop independent ideas about aesthetics; this is a guide on how to think, not what to think Includes discussions of non-western, contemporary, and discipline-specific theories Examines a range of art-based dilemmas across a wide variety of disciplines - from art and design and law to visual and museum studies
Queer Behavior
Introduction: Scott Burton's Queer Postminimalism -- Street and Stage: Early Experiments -- Imitate Ordinary Life: Self-Works, Literalist Theater, and Being Otherwise in Public, 1969-70 -- Languages of the Body: Theatrical, Feminist, and Scientific Foundations, 1970-71 -- Performance and Its Uses -- The Emotional Nature of the Number of Inches between Them: Behavior Tableaux, 1972-80 -- Acting Out: Queer Reactions and Reveals, 1973-76 -- Pragmatic Structures: Sculpture and the Performance of Furniture, 1972-79 -- Conclusion: Homocentric and Demotic.
Hooked Rugs
Through a close look at the history of the modernist hooked rug, this book raises important questions about the broader history of American modernism in the first half of the twentieth century. Although hooked rugs are not generally associated with the avant-garde, this study demonstrates that they were a significant part of the artistic production of many artists engaged in modernist experimentation. Cynthia Fowler discusses the efforts of Ralph Pearson and of Zoltan and Rosa Hecht to establish modernist hooked rug industries in the 1920s, uncovering a previously undocumented history. The book includes a consideration of the rural workers used to create the modernist narrative of the hooked...
A New Deal for Native Art
Available for the first time in paperback!
