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Is It Ours?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 301

Is It Ours?

  • Categories: Art

If you have tattoos, who owns the rights to the imagery inked on your body? What about the photos you just shared on Instagram? And what if you are an artist, responding to the surrounding landscape of preexisting cultural forms? Most people go about their days without thinking much about intellectual property, but it shapes all aspects of contemporary life. It is a constantly moving target, articulated through a web of laws that are different from country to country, sometimes contradictory, often contested. Some protections are necessary—not only to benefit creators and inventors but also to support activities that contribute to the culture at large—yet overly broad ownership rights st...

Love, Amy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 338

Love, Amy

This extraordinary collection of letters sheds light on one of the most important postwar American poets and on a creative woman's life from the 1950s onward. Amy Clampitt was an American original, a literary woman from a Quaker family in rural Iowa who came to New York after college and lived in Manhattan for almost forty years before she found success (or before it found her) at the age of 63 with the publication of The Kingfisher. Her letters from 1950 until her death in 1994 are a testimony to her fiercely independent spirit and her quest for various kinds of truth-religious, spiritual, political, and artistic. Written in clear, limpid prose, Clampitt's letters illuminate the habits of i...

What She Knew
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 68

What She Knew

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The Melancholy Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

The Melancholy Art

  • Categories: Art

Why the art historian's craft is a uniquely melancholy art Melancholy is not only about sadness, despair, and loss. As Renaissance artists and philosophers acknowledged long ago, it can engender a certain kind of creativity born from a deep awareness of the mutability of life and the inevitable cycle of birth and death. Drawing on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the intellectual history of the history of art, The Melancholy Art explores the unique connections between melancholy and the art historian's craft. Though the objects art historians study are materially present in our world, the worlds from which they come are forever lost to time. In this eloquent and inspiring book, Michael Ann Ho...

Multiple Wives, Multiple Pleasures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Multiple Wives, Multiple Pleasures

  • Categories: Art

This is a critical study of French and British art and written texts (poetry, literature, travel accounts, art criticism) -- orientalist works about the harem produced in the period from 1800-1875. Original readings are provided for over 150 harem pictures, from well-known salon paintings to rarely published erotic popular prints and book illustrations. Multiple Wives, Multiple Pleasures examines these works closely, often establishing fresh contexts for many of the more well-known nineteenth-century harem pictures, and often providing a consideration of lesser-known harem pictures that have been rarely published until now.

Freshman Register
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 128

Freshman Register

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How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 387

How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-09-24
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

Going beyond the 'blackness' of black art to examine the integrative and interdisciplinary practices of Kara Walker, Fred Wilson, Isaac Julien, Glenn Ligon, and William Pope.L—five contemporary black artists in whose work race plays anything but a defining role. Work by black artists today is almost uniformly understood in terms of its "blackness," with audiences often expecting or requiring it to "represent" the race. In How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness, Darby English shows how severely such expectations limit the scope of our knowledge about this work and how different it looks when approached on its own terms. Refusing to grant racial blackness—his metaphorical "total darkne...

Book Illustrations from Six Centuries in the Library of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 128

Book Illustrations from Six Centuries in the Library of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1990
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Chiefly the books acquired by Sterling Clark beginning in Paris, 1911. Some 40 illustrations, eight in color, embellish this exhibition catalog. Roeper provides expert commentary. A charming piece of book art at a humble price. Available from Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Museum Shop, 225 South Street, Williamstown, MA 01267. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Pop L.A.
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Pop L.A.

  • Categories: Art

In this original and engaging book, Cécile Whiting examines what Pop looked like when it left the highbrow cloisters of Manhattan's art galleries and ventured westward to the sprawling suburbs of Los Angeles.

Unfamiliar Streets
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

Unfamiliar Streets

divRevolutionizing the history of street photography, Unfamiliar Streets demonstrates an expanded understanding of the genre through the work of a fashion photographer, a photojournalist, a conceptual artist, and a contemporary artist. /DIV