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Sanctuary Dishonored: The Decline and Fall of the Maxfield Parrish
Estate. Robin Lee, through an incredible twist of fate, was invited
to write and record her music, inspired by the great American
artist Maxfield Parrish, at the very time his iconic art studio was
on the verge of being gutted. Lee had the foresight to capture with
her camera and video recorder numerous pictures and footage of
Parrish's workshop and grounds just before and as they were being
torn apart. This great tragedy in art history will unfold before
your eyes, and Robin captures in her words and pictures the sense
of wonder and shock as the process unfolded. As if guided by the
restless spirit of Maxfield Parrish himself, Lee has become the
messenger to the rest of the world, telling the tragic tale of what
once was and is now lost to us forever, except for these pages and
the subsequent works she will be releasing. 56 pages w/color photos
8.5 x 8.5
CD-ROM contains pdf readers of monographs in Cv/VAR archive. Over
sixty files of artist interviews researched between 1989 and 1996,
ranging from Arman and Anthony Caro to James Turrell and Alison
Wilding.
This is Vol. 2 of The Interviews, a sequel to Every Step a
Struggle. While Vol. 1 recalled the performers who fought to give
black artists a voice and a presence, this new ground-breaking book
focuses on the personalities who replaced the pioneers and refused
to abide by Jim Crow traditions. Presented against a detailed
background of the revolutionary post-World War II era up to the
mid-1970s, the individual views of Mae Mercer, Brock Peters, Jim
Brown, Ivan Dixon, James Whitmore, William Marshall and Ruby Dee in
heretofore unpublished conversations from the past reveal just how
tumultuous and extraordinary the technological, political, and
social changes were for the artists and the film industry. Using
extensive documentation, hundreds of films, and fascinating private
recollections, Dr. Manchel puts a human face both on popular
culture and race relations. "A worthy successor to Every Step a
Struggle, Exits and Entrances combines superb historical research
and astute analytical insights with the inimitable voices of the
next generation of African-American artists. This book ensures that
the contributions to American cinema of these determined and
courageous rebels will never be forgotten. The film studies
community owes a debt of gratitude to Manchel for this, the finest
achieve- ment of his illustrious career. Exits and Entrances should
be required reading for everyone interested in the politics of race
in America, film studies, and African-American studies. It belongs
in every research library. Denise Youngblood, University of
Vermont, author of Cinematic Cold War. "Using the method of oral
history and the mature thinking of a senior scholar, Exits and
Entrances enhances our understanding of the difficult slog to
create a truthful, "round" image of African-Americans in U.S.
commercial films. This collection is a gold mine of information for
future research and should be in all libraries which value film
research." Peter C. Rollins, Emeritus EIC, Film & History: An
Interdisciplinary Journal
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(Hardcover)
Luke Lauber, Isaac Holt
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R477
Discovery Miles 4 770
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Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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Indonesian art entered the global contemporary art world of
independent curators, art fairs and biennales in the 1990s. By the
mid-2000s, Indonesian works were well-established on the Asian
secondary art market, achieving record-breaking prices at auction
houses in Singapore and Hong Kong. This comprehensive overview
introduces Indonesian contemporary art in a fresh and stimulating
manner, demonstrating how contemporary art breaks from colonial and
post-colonial power structures, and grapples with issues of
identity and nation-building in Indonesia. Across different media,
in performance and installation, it amalgamates ethnic, cultural
and religious references in its visuals, and confidently brings
together the traditional (batik, woodcut, dance, Javanese shadow
puppet theatre) with the contemporary (comics and manga, graffiti,
advertising, pop culture). Spielmann's Contemporary Indonesian Art
surveys the key artists, curators, institutions and collectors in
the local art scene, and looks at the significance of Indonesian
art in the Asian context. Through this book, originally published
in German, Spielmann stakes a claim for global relevance of
Indonesian art.
This book explores the notable roles that contemporary British
artists of African descent have played in the multicultural context
of postwar Britain. In four key case studies- Magdalene Odundo,
Veronica Ryan, Mary Evans, and Maria Amidu-Monique Kerman charts
their impact through analysis of works, activities, and
exhibitions. The author elucidates each of the artists' creative
response to their unique experience and examines how their work
engages with issues of history, identity, diaspora, and the
distillation of diverse cultural sources. The study also includes a
comparative discussion of art broadly defined as "black British,"
in order to question assumptions concerning racial and ethnic
identities that the artists often negotiate through their
works-particularly the expectation or "burden" of representing
minority or marginalized communities. Readers are thus challenged
to unburden the artists herein and celebrate their work on its own
terms.
The Peacock Revolution in menswear of the 1960s came as a profound
shock to much of America. Men's long hair and vividly colored,
sexualized clothes challenged long established traditions of
masculine identity. Peacock Revolution is an in-depth study of how
radical changes in men's clothing reflected, and contributed to,
the changing ideas of American manhood initiated by a 'youthquake'
of rebellious baby boomers coming of age in an era of social
revolutions. Featuring a detailed examination of the diverse
socio-cultural and socio-political movements of the era, the book
examines how those dissents and advocacies influenced the
youthquake generation's choices in dress and ideas of masculinity.
Daniel Delis Hill provides a thorough chronicle of the peacock
fashions of the time, beginning with the mod looks of the British
Invasion in the early 1960s, through the counterculture street
styles and the mass-market trends they inspired, and concluding
with the dress-for-success menswear revivals of the 1970s
Me-Decade.
In the 21st century, actors face radical changes in plays and
performance styles, as they move from stage to screen and grapple
with new technologies that present their art to ever-expanding
audiences. Active Analysis offers the flexibility of mind, body,
and spirit now urgently needed in acting. Dynamic Acting through
Active Analysis brings to light this timely legacy, born during the
worst era of Soviet repression and hidden for decades from public
view. Part I unfolds like a mystery novel through letters, memoirs,
and transcripts of Konstantin Stanislavsky's last classes. Far from
the authoritarian director of his youth, he reveals himself as a
generous mentor, who empowers actors with a brand new collaborative
approach to rehearsals. His assistant, Maria Knebel, first bears
witness to his forward-looking ideas and then builds the bridge to
new plays in new styles through her directing and influential
teaching. Part II follows a 21st century company of diverse actors
as they experience the joy of applying Active Analysis to their own
creative and professional work.
How is affective experience produced in the cinema? And how can we
write a history of this experience? By asking these questions, this
study by Hauke Lehmann aims at rethinking our conception of a
critical period in US film history - the New Hollywood: as a moment
of crisis that can neither be reduced to economic processes of
adaption nor to a collection of masterpieces. Rather, the
fine-grained analysis of core films reveals the power of cinematic
images to affect their audiences - to confront them with the new.
The films of the New Hollywood redefine the divisions of the
classical genre system in a radical way and thereby transform the
way spectators are addressed affectively in the cinema. The study
describes a complex interplay between three modes of affectivity:
suspense, paranoia, and melancholy. All three, each in their own
way, implicate spectators in the deep-seated contradictions of
their own feelings and their ways of being in the world: their
relations to history, to society, and to cultural fantasy. On this
basis, Affect Poetics of the New Hollywood projects an original
conception of film history: as an affective history which can be
re-written up to the present day.
Rana Begum RA (b.1977) is an artist known for her wide ranging
works, from the intimate to the monumental. Using a variety of
materials and exploring the use of light, she blurs the boundaries
between sculpture, architecture, design and painting to create
works that are both playful and ambiguous. This comprehensive
monograph expands on previous writings to investigate the ideas
behind the artist's varied use of materials, including wood, metal,
ready-made industrial components and MDF. With a focus on her
processes, the ways in which Begum's work intersects with
architecture and design are drawn out, while key sources of
inspiration - from the environments in which the artist works, to
Islamic art and minimalism - are discussed. Combining contextual
essays and an extensive interview with the artist, the development
of Begum's work - from painting and furniture design to
installations and light sculptures - is traced to present an
in-depth overview of the multifaceted, complex work of this
fascinating artist.
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Gehend
(Hardcover)
Peter Eleey, Yukio Lippit, Christina Vegh
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R1,370
Discovery Miles 13 700
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Reviews 'David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture', exhibited at The
Royal Academy. The project of creating monumental landscape
paintings was based on a small area near the artist's home at
Bridlington in East Yorkshire. Works developed with time-framed
films, photographs, i-pad studies, drawings, sketchbooks, oils and
watercolours. recording particular motifs and places in the
changing seasons. Studies were enlarged on joined canvases in
compositions up to 32' wide, designed to immerse the viewer in an
intense experience of the landscape. The monograph includes
exhibition reviews by James Cahill and Michael Lovell Pank +
reviews of recent catalogues and books on the artist by Marco
Livingstone, Martin Gayford and Christopher Simon Sykes, by Marina
Vaizey.
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