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The Intelligence of Art
Discusses writings by each of Meyer Shapiro, Claude Lévi-Strauss and Michael Baxandall.
The Rise of the Sixties
Thomas Crow's analysis of the art of the 1960s remains as fresh as ever as he expertly follows the broad range of artists working in Europe and America in the stormy years of the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, and the counterculture. At a time when visual artists sought a variety of responses to the turmoil of the public sphere and struggled to have an impact on a world preoccupied with social crisis, Crow explores the relationship of politics to art, and shows how the rhetoric of one often informed - or subverted - the other. He also traces the emergence of a new aesthetic climate that challenged established notions of content, style, medium and audience.
Emulation
This fascinating and elegant book tells the story of five painters at the center of events in Revolutionary France: Jacques-Louis David and his first cohort of precocious pupils, including the meteoric Jean-Germain Drouais and the astonishingly gifted but deeply troubled Anne-Louis Girodet. Written by a major art historian, it interprets in a new and original way the relationships between these men and the paintings they created. This new edition includes a revised introduction and incorporates the fruit of recent new research. "Crow combines excellent formal and stylistic analysis of particular paintings with close attention to the psychological complexities and political and social contexts of the artists’ lives. He delves deeply into David’s and his students’ thematic choices, compositional strategies and personal relations in order to make his overarching political and aesthetic arguments.”--Lynn Hunt, New Republic "A magisterial contribution to the history of art.”--Richard Cobb, The Spectator
No Idols
The first in the new Power Polemics series, Thomas Crow's No Idols: The Missing Theology of Art turns away from contemporary cultural theories to face a pervading blindspot in today's art-historical inquiry: religion. Crow pursues a perhaps unpopular notion of Christianity's continued presence in modern abstract art and in the process makes a case for art's own terrain of theology: one that eschews idolatry by means of abstraction. Tracking the original anti-idolatry controversy of the Jansenists, anchored in a humble still life by Chardin, No Idols sets the scene for the development of an art of reflection rather than representation, and divinity without doctrine. Crow's reinstatement of the metaphysical is made through the work of New Zealand artist Colin McCahon and American artists Mark Rothko, Robert Smithson, James Turrell, and Sister Mary Corita Kent. While a tightly selected group of artists, in their collective statute the author explores the proposal that spiritual art, as opposed to "a simulacrum of one," is conceivable for our own time.
Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-century Paris
Written at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, this is the story of Angela Murray, a young black girl from Philadelphia who discovers she can pass for white.
A Hooded Crow
The battlefield is new, the enemies unfamiliar, but for British agent Patrick Hyde, the stakes are as high as ever... Patrick Hyde has uncovered a conspiracy: high-tech equipment is being smuggled out of the UK with help from the KGB, and the evidence points to electronics conglomerate, Reid Group. But with Reid’s former chairman now working in Cabinet, Hyde’s accusations fall on deaf ears. Meanwhile, deep in the Namibian Bush, British ex-pat Richard Anderson stumbles upon a crashed Dakota plane. Inside, he finds a dead KGB man and stolen British electronics. He takes some as proof, sensing foul play, to send back to British Intelligence. Both Hyde and Anderson, one agent and one unofficial agent-in-place, each working on opposite sides of the globe, soon find themselves targets of the same conspiracy. The mission that connects them is big – far bigger than either of them bargained for – and their pursuers will stop at nothing to ensure it fails... A game of death under a scorching sun, Craig Thomas’ A Hooded Crow is perfect for fans of Charles Cumming and Jack Higgins.
Robert Smithson
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The Artist in the Counterculture
"An examination of the counterculture movement in California and how it both influenced and was influenced by art"--
Seeing Rothko
I am interested only in expressing basic human emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom, - Mark Rothko (1903 - 1970) said of his paintings. If you are moved only by their colour relationships, then you miss the point. Throughout his career, Rothko was concerned with what other people experienced when they looked at his canvases. As his work shifted from figurative imagery to luminous fields of colour, his concern expanded to the setting in which his paintings were exhibited.
The Hidden Mod in Modern Art
"Searching for the young soul rebels" -- Front cover.
