| Your search for
'Art' in subject
found 84 book(s). | Modify Search | Displaying 61 - 80 of 84 book(s) |
61. | | Title: Postmodernism and the postsocialist condition: politicized art under late socialismAuthor: Erjavec, Aleš Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Theory | Intellectual History | Russian and Eastern European StudiesPublisher's Description: The Berlin Wall was coming down, the Soviet Union was dissolving, Communist China was well on its way down the capitalist path; the world was witnessing political and social transformations without precedent. Artists, seeing it all firsthand, responded with a revolution of their own. What form this . . . [more]Similar Items | 62. | | Title: Prayers in stone: Greek architectural sculpture ca. 600-100 B.C.EAuthor: Ridgway, Brunilde Sismondo 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | Art | Art and Architecture | Art HistoryPublisher's Description: The meaning of architectural sculpture is essential to our understanding of ancient Greek culture. The embellishment of buildings was common for the ancient Greeks, and often provocative. Some ornamental sculpture was placed where, when the building was finished, no mortal eye could view it. And unl . . . [more]Similar Items | 63. | | 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]Similar Items | 64. | | Title: Real fantasies: Edward Steichen's advertising photographyAuthor: Johnston, Patricia A 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art | Art History | History | Cultural AnthropologyPublisher's Description: During the 1920s and 1930s, Edward Steichen was the most successful photographer in the advertising industry. Although much has been said about Steichen's fine-art photography, his commercial work - which appeared regularly in Vanity Fair, Vogue, Ladies Home Journal , and almost every other popular . . . [more]Similar Items | 65. | | Title: Recording conceptual art: early interviews with Barry, Huebler, Kaltenbach, LeWitt, Morris, Oppenheim, Siegelaub, Smithson, Weiner, by Patricia NorvellAuthor: Barry, Robert 1936- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art TheoryPublisher's Description: Recording Conceptual Art features a highly provocative series of previously unpublished interviews conducted in early 1969 with some of the most dynamic, daring, and innovative artists of the tumultuous 1960s. The nine individuals - eight artists and one art dealer - are now known as major contribut . . . [more]Similar Items | 66. | | Title: Red city, blue period: social movements in Picasso's Barcelona Author: Kaplan, Temma 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Art | European History | Cultural Anthropology | Gender Studies | Art HistoryPublisher's Description: In Red City, Blue Period , Kaplan combines the methods of anthropology and the new cultural history to examine the civic culture of Barcelona between 1888 and 1939. She analyzes the peculiar sense of solidarity the citizens forged and explains why shared experiences of civic culture and pageantry so . . . [more]Similar Items | 67. | | Title: Remembering the present: painting and popular history in ZaireAuthor: Fabian, Johannes Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Art | African History | Politics | African StudiesPublisher's Description: This book combines ethnography with the study of art to present a fascinating new vision of African history. It contains the paintings of a single artist depicting Zaire's history, along with a series of ethnographic essays discussing local history, its complex relationship to forms of self-expressi . . . [more]Similar Items | 68. | | Title: Renaissance Paris: architecture and growth, 1475-1600 Author: Thomson, David 1912- Published: University of California Press, 1985 Subjects: Art | ArchitecturePublisher's Description: In the modern literature on Renaissance art and architecture, Paris has often been considered the Cinderella of the European capitals. The prestigious buildings that were erected soon after François I decided in 1528 to make Paris his residence have long since been lost. Thomson, however, restores t . . . [more]Similar Items | 69. | | Title: The royal image: illustrations of the Grandes chroniques de France, 1274-1422 Author: Hedeman, Anne Dawson Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Art | Art History | Medieval Studies | French StudiesPublisher's Description: The Grandes Chroniques de France is a vernacular, frequently illustrated history of the medieval French monarchs. Originally describing the lives of the kings from their origins in Troy in 1274 to the reign of Philip Augustus, it was updated in several stages to the life of Charles VI. Copied and am . . . [more]Similar Items | 70. | | 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]Similar Items | 71. | | Title: The Society of Six: California coloristsAuthor: Boas, Nancy 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art | Art History | California and the West | Californian and Western HistoryPublisher's Description: Six plein-air painters in Oakland, California, joined together in 1917 to form an association that lasted nearly fifteen years. The Society of Six - Selden Connor Gile, Maurice Logan, William H. Clapp, August F. Gay, Bernard von Eichman, and Louis Siegriest - created a color-centered modernist idiom . . . [more]Similar Items | 72. | | Title: Subtle bodies: representing angels in ByzantiumAuthor: Peers, Glenn Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Art | Medieval Studies | Art History | Christianity | Art and ArchitecturePublisher's Description: Throughout the course of Byzantine history, Christian doctrine taught that angels have a powerful place in cosmology. It also taught that angels were immaterial, bodiless, invisible beings. But if that were the case, how could they be visualized and depicted in icons and other works of art? This boo . . . [more]Similar Items | 73. | | Title: Symbolist art theories: a critical anthologyAuthor: Dorra, Henri 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Theory | Art CriticismPublisher's Description: Henri Dorra, in his comprehensive new book, presents the development and the aesthetic theories of the symbolist movement in art and literature. Included are writings (many never before translated or reprinted) by artists, designers, architects, and critics, along with Dorra's learned commentary. Fi . . . [more]Similar Items | 74. | | Title: Tangled memories: the Vietnam War, the AIDS epidemic, and the politics of rememberingAuthor: Sturken, Marita 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: American Studies | Sociology | Art | Media Studies | Popular CulturePublisher's Description: Analyzing the ways U.S. culture has been formed and transformed in the 80s and 90s by its response to the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic, Marita Sturken argues that each has disrupted our conventional notions of community, nation, consensus, and "American culture." She examines the relationship o . . . [more]Similar Items | 75. | | Title: Telematic embrace: visionary theories of art, technology, and consciousnessAuthor: Ascott, Roy Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Art | Art Theory | Electronic MediaPublisher's Description: Long before e-mail and the Internet permeated society, Roy Ascott, a pioneering British artist and theorist, coined the term "telematic art" to describe the use of online computer networks as an artistic medium. In Telematic Embrace Edward A. Shanken gathers, for the first time, an impressive compil . . . [more]Similar Items | 76. | | Title: Three artists (three women): modernism and the art of Hesse, Krasner, and O'KeeffeAuthor: Wagner, Anne Middleton 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art | Art History | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: This original and sharply obser-vant book gives new significance to three important figures in the history of twentieth-century art: Eva Hesse, Lee Krasner, and Georgia O'Keeffe. Anne Wagner looks at their imagery and careers, relating their work to three decisive moments in the history of American . . . [more]Similar Items | 77. | | Title: To the rescue of art: twenty-six essaysAuthor: Arnheim, Rudolf Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Art | Art HistoryPublisher's Description: Never before published essays by the widely admired psychologist of art. Arnheim spiritedly asserts art's fundamental achievements.Rudolf Arnheim has spent a lifetime analyzing the basic psychological principles that make works of visual art meaningful, stirring, indispensable, and lasting. But rece . . . [more]Similar Items | 78. | | Title: To weave and sing: art, symbol, and narrative in the South American rainforestAuthor: Guss, David M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Art | Latin American StudiesPublisher's Description: To Weave and Sing is the first in-depth analysis of the rich spiritual and artistic traditions of the Carib-speaking Yekuana Indians of Venezuela, who live in the dense rain forest of the upper Orinoco. Within their homeland of Ihuruna, the Yekuana have succeeded in maintaining the integrity and uni . . . [more]Similar Items | 79. | | Title: Toward a simpler way of life: the arts & crafts architects of CaliforniaAuthor: Winter, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art | Architecture | Architectural History | Californian and Western HistoryPublisher's Description: This book celebrates one of the richest and most enduring themes in American architecture - California's Arts and Crafts Movement. Echoing the writings of Helen Hunt Jackson, Charles F. Lummis, and Charles Keeler, this movement represented a retreat into a quieter place from the materialism of Ameri . . . [more]Similar Items | 80. | | 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]Similar Items |
|