Allan Kaprow's "e;happenings"e; and "e;environments"e; were the precursors to contemporary performance art, and his essays are some of the most thoughtful, provocative, and influential of his generation.
The promotion of classicism in the visual arts in late eighteenth and nineteenth-century Latin America and the need to "e;revive"e; buen gusto (good taste) are the themes of this collection of essays.
This study demonstrates the significance of using contemporary art in scholarly debates about cultural aspects of skin, in particular "e;whiteness"e; as a phenomenon that is both overly visible and invisible.
In 1858 Francois-Auguste Biard, a well-known sixty-year-old French artist, arrived in Brazil to explore and depict its jungles and the people who lived there.
Taking up questions of artists' materials and technical processes currently at the vanguard of art-historical scholarship, this book studies the contiguity and interchange of workshop methods in the linked fabrication of both ephemeral and preparatory works by Bernini.
Drawing on the author's discovery of an unknown, long-forgotten collection of photographs in an Indian ashram, this book offers an exciting, new view of the international community of young architects who served as Le Corbusier's assistants in the inter-war years.
This vintage book contains a detailed treatise on enamelling metal, with interesting historical information, simple instructions, comprehensive explanations, helpful tips, and more.
Early Modern Women's Work examines the contributions of female writers, artists, scientists, religious leaders, and patrons who engaged in entrepreneurial, intellectual, and emotional labor in German-speaking Europe.
Contributors investigate the motivation behind scientifically-embedded contemporary art practices as well as art-based scientific research and engagement that attempt to shape society.
Mainframe Experimentalism challenges the conventional wisdom that the digital arts arose out of Silicon Valley's technological revolutions in the 1970s.
Examining the career of a largely unstudied eighteenth-century engraver, this book establishes Jeronimo Antonio Gil, a man immersed within the complicated culture and politics of the Spanish empire, as a major figure in the history of both Spanish and Mexican art.
This companion analyzes, frames, and provokes race in insightful ways that center non white communities' artistic and visual expression in the early modern period, rather than presenting the bias of European artistic and visual depictions of the colonization, enslavement, and subordination of People of Color.
Responding to an absence of Latine and Chicane artist and teaching resources, Art Borderlands in Theory, Practice, and Teaching shows how artists and educators can use borderlands, in-between geographical, emotional, cultural, and conceptual spaces, in three ways: theory, art practice, and teaching.
This companion analyzes, frames, and provokes race in insightful ways that center non white communities' artistic and visual expression in the early modern period, rather than presenting the bias of European artistic and visual depictions of the colonization, enslavement, and subordination of People of Color.
This book sheds light on an as-yet unstudied aspect of The Museum of Modern Art's (MoMA) preeminent role in establishing the definition of the problematic term "e;Latin American art"e; in the United States from the 1930s to the present through its collection displays.
First published in 1899, Arthur Wesley Dow's Composition has probably influenced more Americans than any other text to think of visual form and composition in relation to artistic modernity.
Contemplating the Ancients: Aesthetic and Social Issues in Early Chinese Portraiture delves into the intriguing world of ancient Chinese art, exploring portraits that transcend physical likeness to embody deeper societal and aesthetic values.
First published in 1978, Artists and People examines the formal attempts by arts administrators to set up schemes for artists to work in community contexts.
This comprehensive and cross-cultural study examines three-dimensional structural replicas of the Santa Casa, or Holy House of the Virgin Mary, and related circulating visual and textual media.
This book explores the Artistic Records Committee (ARC) of the Imperial War Museum (IWM) as a bureaucratic mechanism that enabled the deployment of art as an instrument of war.
Using previously undiscovered material, Surreal tells the riveting story of Gala Dal ,(1894-1982) who broke away from her cultured but penurious background in pre-Revolutionary Russia to live in Paris with both France's most famous poet, Paul luard, and artist Max Ernst.
In Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination, Eric Herhuth draws upon film theory, animation theory, and philosophy to examine how animated films address aesthetic experience within contexts of technological, environmental, and sociocultural change.
