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Clay WorksEarthen Sculpture in South Asia
Until recently, polychrome terracruda (air-dried clay) sculpture has been virtually absent from exhibitions and scholarship on South Asian art history. This is beginning to change. As early Indic texts and accounts published in the last few centuries attest, this malleable and dynamic medium has played a fundamental role in the region's visual arts. This boundary-breaking book traces the longs…
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- 9781350505056
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The Australian ObjectMaking Material Histories
This boundary-breaking volume examines an array of objects that, in various ways, complicate narrow definitions of art and Australian identity. It shows how each object has informed and enriched contemporary Australian personal and political life in complex, often overlooked ways. Featuring essays and object case studies by leading and emerging art historians, artists, curators, historians and…
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- 9781350507852
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Invisible InkFeminism and Identity in Contemporary Chinese Art
What does it mean to be a woman artist – or a feminist artist – in China today? Analyzing how Chinese women artists have reinvented traditional forms of ink and brush painting, Invisible Ink shows how the use of ink in their work becomes a tool of gender and art historical subversion in contemporary Chinese art. The book explores how the work of Bingyi, Ma Yanling, Tao Aimin, Xiao Lu and X…
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- 9781350433960
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Das Bild des Bildersturms in den Niederlanden (1566–1800)
1566 wurden zahlreiche Kirchen in den Niederlanden gestürmt, Gemälde, Statuen und liturgisches Gerät zerstört bzw. aus Kirchenräumen entfernt. Der Bildersturm wurde für etwa 250 Jahre in unterschiedlichen Medien wie Flugblättern, Ölgemälden, Medaillen, Anhängern und Buchillustrationen dargestellt. Dadurch blieb die Erinnerung an das Ereignis lebendig. Welche Gründe hatte die anhalten…
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- 9783496031116
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Scalability and its Limits in Photography and (Digital) Sculpture
Der Band untersucht Skalierungsverfahren als Kulturtechnik, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf dem Vermessen, Abtasten, der Transformation und Projektion von Objekten in Zeit und Raum liegt. Aus kunsthistorischer, bild- und medienwissenschaftlicher Perspektive werden die komplexen Wechselverhältnisse zwischen Zwei- und Dreidimensionalität erforscht. Der Fokus richtet sich auf Fotografie und die (digit…
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- 9783111374888
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Pier Paolo Pasolini for art history and practiceAesthetics and politics
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) remains best known for his influential cinematic and literary works. These attest in turn to a crucial early formation: Pasolini's intermittent practice as a painter, critic, and historian of art. Spanning the fifth-century BCE to the early twenty-first century, this volume's chapters reflect the breadth of Pasolini's aesthetic commitments and predilections, from…
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- 9781526186133
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Counter-realismArt and subjectivity in contemporary capitalism
Counter-realism: Art and subjectivity in contemporary capitalism is an ambitious and original study of key works of film and video art made since 2008 by leading contemporary artists, including William Kentridge, Amalia Ulman, Melanie Gilligan, Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin and Elizabeth Price. It argues their work should be understood as a reconfigured form of 'realism', expressing economic forc…
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The Valentine GalleryThe Forgotten Story of Valentine Dudensing, Matisse, Pic…
This is the first book to examine the key role played by New York gallerist and dealer Valentine Dudensing (1892-1967) in shaping the canon of modern art in the United States. It reveals how Dudensing developed relationships with the country's leading art collectors, establishing the market and bringing some of modernism's most celebrated artists to American consciousness in the process. Many …
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The Politics of Global Craft
As climate change, war, social injustice, gender and racial inequality, unchecked technology and exploitative capitalism remain urgent issues, the worldwide craft community has responded in notable ways. In this follow-up to Craft is Political (Bloomsbury, 2021), D Wood and contributors demonstrate how global circumstances have given rise to additional craft scholarship that further interrogate…
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A History of Male PhotographersAnalyzing Men as Men in Scientific, Commercial…
What, if anything, makes photography masculine? This book begins the task of recognizing men's photography as the work of men and their masculinities. From the composite portraiture at the male-only university of the 1880s, to the work of still-living photographer Reagan Louie, the authors situate their photographic subjects in the context of evolving racial, gender, and class identities in Eur…
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