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1. | | Title: On the edge of America: California modernist art, 1900-1950 Author: Karlstrom, Paul J Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art | Art History | California and the West | United States History | Californian and Western HistoryPublisher's Description: To many, California's social and cultural identity has set it apart from the rest of the nation. Identified almost exclusively with Hollywood and popular culture, the entire region has been denied a meaningful relationship to mainstream twentieth-century modernism. This groundbreaking collection emp . . . [more]Matches in book (1448):...California Modernist Art, 1900-1950......Art and Life......Mexican Art and Los Angeles, 1920-1940... Similar Items | 2. | | Title: Unpacking Duchamp: art in transit Author: Judovitz, Dalia Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art | LiteraturePublisher's Description: Perhaps no twentieth-century artist utilized puns and linguistic ambiguity with greater effect - and greater controversy - than Marcel Duchamp. Through a careful "unpacking" of his major works, Dalia Judovitz finds that Duchamp may well have the last laugh. She examines how he interpreted notions of . . . [more]Matches in book (869):...Art in Transit......Retinal Art and Conceptual Euphoria......2— Ready-Mades: (Non) sense and (Non) art... Similar Items | 3. | | Title: A fable of modern art Author: Ashton, Dore Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Theory | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: Dore Ashton's masterly analysis of modern art grows out of a consideration of Balzac's brilliant and little known 'philosophic' story The Unknown Masterpiece in which the concerns of Cézanne, Picasso, and the abstract expressionists are strikingly prefigured. Balzac's fable is discussed not only wit . . . [more]Matches in book (232):...A Fable of Modern Art......n.d. Venturi, Lionello, Cézanne, son art, son œuvre . Paris, 1936. Vollard,......Concerning the Relation of the Plastic Arts to Nature' (tr. Michael Bullock),... Similar Items | 4. | | Title: Painters and politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979 Author: Andrews, Julia Frances Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art | Art History | Asian Studies | ChinaPublisher's Description: Julia Andrews's extraordinary study of art, artists, and artistic policy during the first three decades of the People's Republic of China makes a major contribution to our understanding of modern China. From 1949 to 1979 the Chinese government controlled the lives and work of the country's artists - . . . [more]Matches in book (2764):...First National Art Exhibition......The Shanghai Art School......Red Guard Art... Similar Items | 5. | | Title: Latin American vanguards: the art of contentious encounters Author: Unruh, Vicky Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Latin American Studies | Literary Theory and CriticismPublisher's Description: In this first comprehensive study of Latin America's literary vanguards of the 1920s and 1930s, Vicky Unruh explores the movement's provocative and polemic nature. Latin American vanguardism - a precursor to the widely acclaimed work of contemporary Latin American writers - was stimulated by the Eur . . . [more]Matches in book (412):...The Art of Contentious Encounters......A Rehumanization of Art......Introduction— Contentious Encounters in Life and Art... Similar Items | 6. | | Title: Out of Eden: essays on modern art Author: Di Piero, W. S Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Art | Art CriticismPublisher's Description: Out of Eden presents the rigorous investigations and musings of a poet-essayist on the ways in which modern artists have confronted and transfigured the realist tradition of representation. Di Piero pursues his theme with an autobiographical force and immediacy. He fixes his attention on painters an . . . [more]Matches in book (197):...Essays on Modern Art......72 × 48 inches. Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University. 10. ......N.Y. : Aperture, 1973. Wind, Edgar. Art and Anarchy . New York: Knopf, 1964. 3rd... Similar Items | 7. | | Title: The ultimate art: essays around and about opera Author: Littlejohn, David 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Music | OperaPublisher's Description: Anyone who cares about opera will find The Ultimate Art a thoroughly engaging book. David Littlejohn's essays are exciting, provocative, sometimes even outrageous. They reflect his deep love of opera - that exotic, extravagant, and perpetually popular hybrid performing art form - and his fascination . . . [more]Matches in book (116):...The Ultimate Art......disciplines; in this it is far behind art history, literary studies, and the......justifies formal exaggeration in art, just as intensity of feeling creates the "... Similar Items | 8. | | Title: Broken tablets: the cult of the law in French art from David to Delacroix Author: Ribner, Jonathan P Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Art | Art History | French Studies | European Literature | European History | LawPublisher's Description: In this first study of art, law, and the legislator, Jonathan Ribner provides a revealing look at French art from 1789 to 1848, the period in which constitutional law was established in France. Drawing on several disciplines, he discusses how each of the early constitutional regimes in France used i . . . [more]Matches in book (159):...The Cult of the Law in French Art from David To Delacroix......18 , 25 , 44 , 195 n1 Royal Society of Arts, London, 110 Royalism, 4 , 19 , 23 ,......Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. Et pour consacrer l'héritage... Similar Items | 9. | | Title: Masking the blow: the scene of representation in late prehistoric Egyptian art Author: Davis, Whitney Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Art | Art HistoryPublisher's Description: The meaning of late prehistoric Egyptian images has until now been tantalizingly mysterious, as little understood as the circumstances of their production. As a result, analyses of these images have been general and often incorrectly illustrated. Whitney Davis now provides a welcome remedy in this d . . . [more]Matches in book (202):...The Scene of Representation in Late Prehistoric Egyptian Art......Japanese art, 200......Late prehistoric art. See Prehistoric art Libyan Booty Palette, 38 , 169 , 194 ,... Similar Items | 10. | | Title: Historical economics: art or science? Author: Kindleberger, Charles Poor 1910- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Economics and Business | European History | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: Charles P. Kindleberger's writing has ranged widely in the past, from international economics to such specialized topics as the Marshall Plan. In recent years, however, his perspective has shifted to one that tempers the rigidity of technical economics with the flexibility of the liberal arts. Histo . . . [more]Matches in book (23):...Art or Science?......1— Historical Economics a Bridge between Liberal Arts and Business Studies? *......and new resources in a given state of the arts than of technological change.... Similar Items | 11. | | Title: The flight of the mind: Virginia Woolf's art and manic-depressive illness Author: Caramagno, Thomas C Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | Autobiographies and Biographies | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: In this major new book on Virginia Woolf, Caramagno contends psychobiography has much to gain from a closer engagement with science. Literary studies of Woolf's life have been written almost exclusively from a psychoanalytic perspective. They portray Woolf as a victim of the Freudian "family romance . . . [more]Matches in book (73):...Virginia Woolf's Art and Manic-Depressive Illness......Immense Must Be the Force of Life": The Art of Autobiography and Woolf's Bipolar......Immense Must Be the Force of Life": The Art of Autobiography and Woolf's Bipolar... Similar Items | 12. | | Title: Late modernism: politics, fiction, and the arts between the world wars Author: Miller, Tyrus 1963- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Literature | Fiction | Art Theory | Cinema and Performance Arts | Politics | Political Theory | HistoryPublisher's Description: Tyrus Miller breaks new ground in this study of early twentieth-century literary and artistic culture. Whereas modernism studies have generally concentrated on the vital early phases of the modernist revolt, Miller focuses on the turbulent later years of the 1920s and 1930s, tracking the dissolution . . . [more]Matches in book (204):...Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the World Wars......only those who are left behind. Motto from art-text by Richard Tipping, 1993......of Violence: Narrative in Assyrian Art and Modern Culture (New York: Schocken... Similar Items | 13. | | Title: Singular women: writing the artist Author: Frederickson, Kristen 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Criticism | Art Theory | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: In this groundbreaking volume, contemporary art historians - all of them women - probe the dilemmas and complexities of writing about the woman artist, past and present. Singular Women proposes a new feminist investigation of the history of art by considering how a historian's theoretical approach a . . . [more]Matches in book (862):...She has taught critical theory in the Fine Art Photography Program at Rochester......additional venues. Quoted in Lewis, Art of Elizabeth Catlett, 26; also in......look at the process of producing art history is to reveal how the discipline... Similar Items | 14. | | Title: Interpretation radical but not unruly: the new puzzle of the arts and history Author: Margolis, Joseph 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political ThoughtPublisher's Description: With this challenging work, Joseph Margolis continues the project begun in The Flux of History and the Flux of Science (California, 1993). Tackling one of philosophy's master themes, he develops the controversial thesis that the world is a flux. Here he applies this doctrine to Western theories of h . . . [more]Matches in book (201):...The New Puzzle of the Arts and History......Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History and Politics , ed. James M. Edie (......260 Auden, W. H. : "Musée des Beaux Arts," 167 -168, 169 -170, 172 Augustine,... Similar Items | 15. | | Title: The "new woman" revised: painting and gender politics on fourteenth street Author: Todd, Ellen Wiley Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Art | Art History | United States History | Women's Studies | American StudiesPublisher's Description: In the years between the world wars, Manhattan's Fourteenth Street-Union Square district became a center for commercial, cultural, and political activities, and hence a sensitive barometer of the dramatic social changes of the period. It was here that four urban realist painters - Kenneth Hayes Mill . . . [more]Matches in book (843):...Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. : Artists'......Yale University: and art education, 49 , 51 ; and Marsh,......74 ; Record , 49 , 195 Young, Art (cartoonist), 130... Similar Items | 16. | | Title: The Enlightenment against the Baroque: economics and aesthetics in the eighteenth century Author: Saisselin, Rémy G. (Rémy Gilbert) 1925- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Economics and Business | Popular Culture | Art | Renaissance HistoryPublisher's Description: How do seemingly disparate arenas of Enlightenment philosophy, economic theories, boudoir etiquette, literary styles, and artistic modes coincide in the late eighteenth century? In this poetic essay on the evolution of the idea of luxury and art, Rémy Saisselin uses precise, witty examples to descri . . . [more]Matches in book (382):...Art or Luxury?......Conclusion: The End of the Baroque and the Invention of Aesthetic Art......L 'Homme du monde éclairé par les arts . 2 vols. Amsterdam and Paris, 1774.... Similar Items | 17. | | Title: The private worlds of Marcel Duchamp: desire, liberation, and the self in modern culture Author: Seigel, Jerrold Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art | History | Popular CulturePublisher's Description: Marcel Duchamp is a founding figure of twentieth-century art and culture, the common source to which many contemporary movements trace their roots. His career has often been celebrated for its contradictions and discontinuities, its disparate parts unified only by their assault on the traditions of . . . [more]Matches in book (357):...Nine— Conclusion: Art and Its Freedoms......Nine— Conclusion:Art and Its Freedoms......10 , 61 , 66 ; On the Spiritual in Art, 61 Kerbellec, Philippe, 83 Klimt,... Similar Items | 18. | | Title: Erotic faculties Author: Frueh, Joanna Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | Art TheoryPublisher's Description: The erotic and the intellectual come together to create a new kind of criticism in the lushly written work of Joanna Frueh. Addressing sexuality in ways that are usually hidden or left unsaid, Frueh - a noted performance artist and art historian - explores subjects such as aging, beauty, love, sex, . . . [more]Matches in book (244):...The Art of Flying......ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS......her as a soothsayer so I can find in her art a resolution of my own extremes.... Similar Items | 19. | | Title: The two-headed deer: illustrations of the Rāmāyaṇa in Orissa Author: Williams, Joanna Gottfried 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art | Art History | South AsiaPublisher's Description: India's epic poem, the Ramayana, is a dramatic, ever-evolving tale of a prince and his bride, their adventures and dilemmas, and demons. Joanna Williams studies the art of the Ramayana in Orissa, a region known for its elegantly carved temples. There she researched both literary and visual art works . . . [more]Matches in book (117):...support of Deborah Kirshman as Fine Arts Editor of the University of California......alive in Orissa is inestimable for the art historian usually forced to work from......I shall not pretend to do justice to the rich performing arts of Orissa per se.... Similar Items | 20. | | Title: A critical study of Philip Guston Author: Ashton, Dore Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Criticism | Autobiographies and BiographiesPublisher's Description: Dore Ashton has updated the bibliography and added a new concluding chapter to her classic study of the paintings and drawings of Philip Guston, the only study of his work completely authorized by the artist.Philip Guston (1913-1980) was one of the most independent of the painters whose work was loo . . . [more]Matches in book (352):...Yeats, William Butler, 124 Young, Art, 13 Yunkers, Adja, 124......1966 "Faith, Hope, and Impossibility," Art News Annual, XXXI, October1966, pp.......91 , 114 Mumford, Lewis, 38 Municipal Art Gallery, 44 Museum of Modern Art, 46 ,... Similar Items |
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