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Revolution and Ritual
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 178

Revolution and Ritual

  • Categories: Art

Published by the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College in association with Getty Publications This richly illustrated exhibition catalogue features photographs by three Mexican women, each representing a different generation, who have explored and stretched notions of Mexican identity in works that range from the documentary to the poetic. Revolution and Ritual looks first at the images of Sara Castrejón (1888–1962), the woman photographer who most thoroughly captured the Mexican Revolution. The work of photographic luminary Graciela Iturbide (born 1942) sheds light on Mexico’s indigenous cultures. Finally, the self-portraits of Tatiana Parcero (born 1967) splice images of her body with cosmological maps and Aztec codices, echoing Mexico’s layered and contested history. By bringing their work into conversation, Revolution and Ritual invites readers to consider how Mexican photography has been transformed over the past century.

Mark Rothko
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

Mark Rothko

  • Categories: Art

A visual analysis of the New York School painter, which examines the structure of Rothko's paintings while arguing that they implement traces of certain basic, symbolically charged pictorial conventions.

Jewish Artists
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 637

Jewish Artists

  • Categories: Art

John Castagno has collected more than 1,100 signatures and monograms of Jewish artists and artists whose work reflects Jewish themes.

The Culture of Spontaneity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 372

The Culture of Spontaneity

  • Categories: Art

In the first comprehensive history of the postwar avant-garde, "Belgrad contributes valuable insight and original scholarship to the study of 'projective' and 'spontaneous' aesthetics among cutting edge art movements of the American midcentury" (Tom Clark, author of "Jack Kerouac: A Biography"). 8 color plates. 28 halftones. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Antifascism in American Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 262

Antifascism in American Art

Whiting examines the various manifestations of antifacist art, showing how each negotiated the competing demands of artistic conventions, aesthetic and political theories, and historical developments.

Barnett Newman and Heideggerian Philosophy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 349

Barnett Newman and Heideggerian Philosophy

  • Categories: Art

This book investigates the writings and works of the American Abstract Expressionist artist Barnett Newman in light of ideas articulated by one of Germany's most important and influential philosophers: Martin Heidegger. At the intersection of art history and philosophy, an int...

Folk Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 738

Folk Art

  • Categories: Art

Listen to the artists of the Brazilian Northeast. Their work, they say, comes of continuity and creativity. Continuity runs along lines of learning toward social coherence. Creativity brings challenges and deep personal satisfaction. What they say and do in Brazil aligns with ethnographic evidence from New Mexico and North Carolina; from Ireland, Portugal, and Italy; from Nigeria, Turkey, India, and Bangladesh; from China and Japan. This book is about that, about folk art as a sign of human unity.

Hans Hofmann
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 140

Hans Hofmann

  • Categories: Art

Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) is one of the most important figures of postwar American art, for both his own abstract paintings and his influence as the legendary teacher of generations of artists in Germany, New York, and Provincetown. His presence in New York, a link to Wassily Kandinsky, the Cubists, and Fauves, catalyzed the movement ultimately known as Abstract Expressionism, whose influence still pervades the aesthetic categories and practices of art today. This volume features essays on Hofmann's life and work by Helmut Friedel and Tina Dickey; excerpts from Hofmann's own statements; full documentation of his career (including chronology, selected bibliography, and comprehensive list of solo and group exhibitions); and thirty-two large colorplates of works from 1942 to 1965 by this supreme colorist, his finest paintings from European and American collections. They richly represent his unique painting style, which conveys a deeply personal experience of color that has lost none of its power to fascinate the viewer.

Charles Olson and American Modernism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 223

Charles Olson and American Modernism

  • Categories: Art

Draws on the unpublished writings of Charles Olson and situates his work in the context of contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, and music to tell the story of how American poets and artists reimagined art and literature for the post-war world.

Nell Blaine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 168

Nell Blaine

  • Categories: Art

This volume presents the art and life of Nell Blaine, a member of the second generation of the New York School. Her work represents a dialogue between abstract principles and her sensory responses to the visible world. Her oils and watercolours of gardens, landscapes and flower still lifes display her commitment to the pleasure principle, her delight in vision, combined with a gift for improvisation and rhythm learned from the jazz greats of the 1940s.