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Ecological Eye
Assembling an Ecocritical Art History
Häftad, 2018
442 kr
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In the popular imagination, art history remains steeped in outmoded notions of tradition, material value and elitism. How can we awaken, define and orientate an ecological sensibility within the history of art? Building on the latest work in the discipline, this book provides the blueprint for an …
'Do-It-Yourself' Artwork
Participation from Fluxus to New Media
Av Anna Dezeuze
Inbunden, 2010
1337 kr
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Viewers of contemporary art are often invited to involve themselves actively in artworks, by entering installations, touching objects, performing instructions or clicking on interactive websites. Why have artists sought to engage spectators in these new forms of participation? In what ways does …
After the Event
New Perspectives on Art History
Av Charles Merewether, John Potts
Inbunden, 2010
1224 kr
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The event occurs in and over time; the aftermath concerns the traces, which are frozen into images, objects, re-presentations. Traditionally, art history is written in the aftermath as representational. A different perspective on the visual arts is opened up when scholars insist on exploring the …
Glorious Catastrophe
Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Inbunden, 2012
1156 kr
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Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Heralded by peers as well as later …
Gender, Artwork and the Global Imperative
A Materialist Feminist Critique
Inbunden, 2013
1156 kr
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Is gender implicated in how art does its work in the world created by global capital? Is a global imperative exclusive to capital’s planetary expansion or also witnessed in oppositional practices in art and curating? And what is new in the gendered paradigms of art after the fall of the Berlin …
Screen/Space
The projected image in contemporary art
Av Tamara Trodd
Häftad, 2011
348 kr
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Projected-image art occupies an increasingly important place in the contemporary art-world. But does the projected image have its own specificity, beyond the histories of experimental film and video on the one hand, and installation art on the other? What is a projected image, and what is the …
Vertiginous Mirrors
The Animation of the Visual Image and Early Modern Travel
Inbunden, 2011
1263 kr
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In early modern Europe, the visual image began to move, not only as it traveled across great distances but also due to the introduction of innovative visual formats that produced animation within the image itself.This book traces the arduous journeys of visual images through evidence of their use …
Timed out
Art and the transnational Caribbean
Häftad, 2011
382 kr
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'Timed out' is a pioneering study of modern and contemporary art in the aftermath of empire. It addresses the current ‘global turn’ in the study of art by way of the transnational Caribbean, offering an in-depth account of the Atlantic world in relation to the mainstream history of art. It looks at …
'do-it-yourself' artwork
Participation from Fluxus to New Media
Av Anna Dezeuze
Häftad, 2012
382 kr
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Viewers of contemporary art are often invited to involve themselves actively in artworks, by entering installations, touching objects, performing instructions or clicking on interactive websites. Why have artists sought to engage spectators in these new forms of participation? In what ways does …
Fleshing out Surfaces
Skin in French Art and Medicine, 1650–1850
Inbunden, 2016
1337 kr
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Fleshing out surfaces is the first English-language book on skin and flesh tones in art. It considers flesh and skin in art theory, image making and medical discourse in seventeenth to nineteenth-century France. Describing a gradual shift between the early modern and the modern period, it argues …
After-affects | after-images
Trauma and aesthetic transformation in the virtual feminist museum
Häftad, 2013
374 kr
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Do artists travel away from or towards trauma? Is trauma encrypted or inscribed in art? Or can aesthetic practices (after-images) bring about transformation of trauma, personal trauma or historical traumas? Can they do this in a way that does not imply cure or resolution of the traces …
Women, the Arts and Globalization
Eccentric Experience
Av Marsha Meskimmon, Dorothy Price
Inbunden, 2013
1337 kr
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Women, the arts and globalization: Eccentric experience is the first anthology to bring transnational feminist theory and criticism together with women’s art practices to discuss the connections between aesthetics, gender and identity in a global world. The essays in Women, the Arts and …
Photography and Documentary Film in the Making of Modern Brazil
Inbunden, 2013
1156 kr
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Photography and documentary film in the making of modern Brazil provides a major contribution to the field of visual culture through a study of still and moving images of Brazil in the first four decades of the twentieth century, when the camera played a key role in making Brazilian peoples and …
Glorious catastrophe
Jack Smith, performance and visual culture
Häftad, 2013
382 kr
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Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Heralded by peers as well as later …
Flesh Cinema
The corporeal turn in American avant-garde film
Häftad, 2014
382 kr
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Flesh Cinema: The corporeal turn in American avant-garde cinema explores the groundbreaking representation of the body in experimental films of the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing on sexually explicit films by Andy Warhol, Barbara Rubin, Stan Brakhage, Carolee Schneemann, Yoko Ono and Paul Sharits, this …
Performative monuments
The rematerialisation of public art
Häftad, 2014
301 kr
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This book answers one of the most puzzling questions in contemporary art: how did performance artists of the ‘60s and ‘70s, famous for their opposition both to lasting art and the political establishment, become the foremost monument builders of the ‘80s, ‘90s and today? Not by selling out, nor by …
Otherwise
Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories
Inbunden, 2015
1156 kr
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Otherwise: Imagining queer feminist art histories is the first book to address queer feminist politics, methods and theories in relation to the visual arts, including new media, installation and performance art. Despite the crucial contribution of considerations of ‘queer’ to feminism in other …
Otherwise
Imagining queer feminist art histories
Häftad, 2015
367 kr
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Otherwise: Imagining queer feminist art histories is the first book to address queer feminist politics, methods and theories in relation to the visual arts, including new media, installation and performance art. Despite the crucial contribution of considerations of ‘queer’ to feminism in other …
Women, the Arts and Globalization
Eccentric Experience
Av Marsha Meskimmon, Dorothy Price
Häftad, 2015
382 kr
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This is the first anthology to bring transnational feminist theory and criticism together with women’s art practices to discuss the connections between aesthetics, gender and identity in a global world. The essays in Women, the arts and globalization demonstrate that women in the arts are rarely …
Architecture and Ekphrasis
Space, Time and the Embodied Description of the Past
Av Dana Arnold
Inbunden, 2020
1411 kr
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Architecture and ekphrasis examines how eighteenth-century prints and drawings of antique architecture operated as representations of thought. Using original archival material, it considers the idea of the past in the period, specifically how it was discovered and described, and investigates how …
Architecture and Ekphrasis
Space, Time and the Embodied Description of the Past
Av Dana Arnold
Häftad, 2020
392 kr
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Architecture and ekphrasis examines how eighteenth-century prints and drawings of antique architecture operated as representations of thought. Using original archival material, it considers the idea of the past in the period, specifically how it was discovered and described, and investigates how …
Art and Human Rights
Contemporary Asian Contexts
Häftad, 2016
382 kr
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Contemporary Asian art has had a remarkable impact on global art practice, in addition to serving as a record of the region’s history from decolonisation to the present. Many Asian artists are deeply concerned about what it means to be human and to contribute to the development of a sustainable …
Engendering an Avant-Garde
The Unsettled Landscapes of Vancouver Photo-Conceptualism
Inbunden, 2018
1263 kr
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Engendering an avant-garde is the first book to comprehensively examine the origins of Vancouver photo-conceptualism in its regional context between 1968 and 1990. Employing discourse analysis of texts written by and about artists, feminist critique and settler-colonial theory, the book discusses …
Almost Nothing
Observations on Precarious Practices in Contemporary Art
Av Anna Dezeuze
Häftad, 2016
382 kr
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What does an assemblage made out of crumpled newspaper have in common with an empty room in which the lights go on and off every five seconds? This book argues that they are both examples of a 'precarious' art that flourished from the late 1950s to the first decade of the twenty-first century, in …
Art, Global Maoism and the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Av Jacopo Galimberti, Noemi de Haro García m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1337 kr
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This is the first book to explore the global influence of Maoism on modern and contemporary art. Featuring eighteen original essays written by established and emerging scholars from around the world, and illustrated with fascinating images not widely known in the west, the volume demonstrates the …
Art, Global Maoism and the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Av Jacopo Galimberti, Noemi de Haro García m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
448 kr
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This is the first book to explore the global influence of Maoism on modern and contemporary art. Featuring eighteen original essays written by established and emerging scholars from around the world, and illustrated with fascinating images not widely known in the west, the volume demonstrates the …
Colouring the Caribbean
Race and the Art of Agostino Brunias
Inbunden, 2017
1366 kr
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Colouring the Caribbean offers the first comprehensive study of Agostino Brunias’s intriguing pictures of colonial West Indians of colour – so called ‘Red’ and ‘Black’ Caribs, dark-skinned Africans and Afro-Creoles, and people of mixed race – made for colonial officials and plantocratic elites …
Addressing the Other Woman
Textual Correspondences in Feminist Art and Writing
Inbunden, 2017
904 kr
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This book analyses how three artists – Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero and Mary Kelly – worked with the visual dimensions of language in the 1960s and 1970s. These artists used text and images of writing to challenge female stereotypes, addressing viewers and asking them to participate in the project of …
Ecological Eye
Assembling an Ecocritical Art History
Inbunden, 2018
1263 kr
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In the popular imagination, art history remains steeped in outmoded notions of tradition, material value and elitism. How can we awaken, define and orientate an ecological sensibility within the history of art? Building on the latest work in the discipline, this book provides the blueprint for an …
Migration into Art
Transcultural Identities and Art-Making in a Globalised World
Inbunden, 2017
1156 kr
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This book addresses a topic of increasing importance to artists, art historians and scholars of cultural studies, migration studies and international relations: migration as a profoundly transforming force that has remodelled artistic and art institutional practices across the world. It explores …
