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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900
How to Read Modern Buildings is an indispensable pocket-sized guide
to understanding the architecture of the modern era. It takes the
reader on a guided tour of modern architecture through its most
iconic and significant buildings, showing how to read the hallmarks
of each architectural style and how to recognise them in the
buildings all around. From Art Deco and Arts and Crafts, through
the International Style and Modernism to today's environmental
architecture and the rise and fall of the icon, all the major
architectural movements from the 1900s to the present day are
traced through their classic buildings. Examining the key
architectural elements and hidden details of each style, we learn
what to look out for and where to look for it. Packed with detailed
drawings, plans, and photographs, this is both a fascinating
architectural history and an effective I-spy guide, it is a
must-read for anyone with an interest in modern design and
architecture.
A Financial Times Book of the Year 2022 A landmark volume
presenting the history of Indian art across the subcontinent and
South Asia from the late 19th century to the present day, published
in association with Art Alive. Recent decades have seen significant
growth in the interest, acquisition and exhibition of modern Indian
and South Asian art and artists by major international museums.
This essential textbook, primarily aimed at students, presents an
engaging, informative history of modern art from the subcontinent
as seen through the eyes of prominent Indian academics. Illustrated
throughout with strong narrative content, key experts contribute
multiple perspectives on modernism, modernity and plurality, and
expansive ideas about contemporary art practices. A range of
subjects and topics feature including Group 1890, the Madras Art
Movement, Regional Modern and Dalit art, as well as artists such as
Amrita Sher-Gil and Raqs Media Collective. This book also has
sections devoted to the art of Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and
other parts of South Asia. Together with lively academic
discussions and a selection of absorbing interviews with artists,
this title meets a clear demand for a comprehensive and
authoritative sourcebook on modern, postmodern and contemporary
Indian art. It is the definitive reference for anyone with an
interest in Indian art and non-Western art histories. Published in
association with Art Alive
Phenomenal Difference grants new attention to contemporary black
British art, exploring its critical and social significance through
attention to embodied experience, affectivity, the senses and
perception. Featuring attention to works by the following artists:
Said Adrus, Zarina Bhimji, Sonia Boyce, Vanley Burke, Chila Burman,
Mona Hatoum, Bhajan Hunjan, Permindar Kaur, Sonia Khurana, Juginder
Lamba, Manjeet Lamba, Hew Locke, Yeu-Lai Mo, Henna Nadeem, Kori
Newkirk, Johannes Phokela, Keith Piper, Shanti Thomas, Aubrey
Williams, Mario Ybarra Jr. Much before scholars in the arts and
humanities took their recent 'ontological turn' toward the new
materialism, black British art had begun to expose cultural
criticism's overreliance on the concepts of textuality,
representation, identity and difference. Illuminating that original
field of aesthetics and creativity, this book shows how black
British artworks themselves can become the basis for an engaged and
widely-reaching philosophy. Numerous extended descriptive studies
of artworks spell out the affective and critical relations that
pertain between individual works, their viewers and the world at
hand: intimate, physically-involving and visceral relations that
are brought into being through a wide range of phenomena including
performance, photography, installation, photomontage and digital
practice. Whether they subsist through movement, or in time,
through gesture, or illusion, black British art is always an
arresting nexus of making, feeling and thought. It celebrates
particular philosophical interest in: - the use of art as a place
for remembering the personal or collective past; - the fundamental
'equivalence' of texture and colour, and their instances of
'rupture'; - figural presence, perceptual reversibility and the
agency of objects; - the grounded materialities of mediation; - and
the interconnections between art, politics and emancipation.
Drawing first hand on the founding, historical texts of early and
mid-twentieth century phenomenology (Heidegger; Merleau-Ponty), and
current advances in art history, curating and visual anthropology,
the author transposes black British art into a freshly expanded and
diversified intellectual field. What emerges is a vivid
understanding of phenomenal difference: the profoundly material
processes of interworking philosophical knowledge and political
strategy at the site of black British art.
Celebrated children's book illustrator Fritz Wegner (b.Vienna 15th
September 1924, d. London 15th March 2015,). Early work included
assignments for Lilliput, Dorothy L.Sayers and Enid Blyton, with
book covers for Raymond Chandler and J.D.Salinger. In the late
1950s he moved away from advertising and commercial art to focus on
children's literature. Significant titles include The Hamish
Hamilton Book of Princes and Princesses (1963), The Marvellous
Adventures and Travels of Baron Munchausen (1967), Fatipuffs and
Thinifers (Andre Maurois), to books by Alan Ahlberg, Michael Rosen
and Brian Alderson in the 1980s and '90s. He also created over
thirty stamp designs for the Royal Mail.The Fritz Wegner Archive
documents phases of his work from the 1950s to the 2000s, and
includes comprehensive images scanned from the originals kept ion
seventeen folders in his studio. The publication is authorised by
executors of the estate of the artist.
An award-winning study of England's unique and peculiarly insular
variant of modernism. While the battles for modern art and society
were being fought in France and Spain, it has seemed a betrayal
that John Betjeman and John Piper were in love with a provincial
world of old churches and tea-shops. In this multi-award-winning
book, Alexandra Harris tells a different story. In the 1930s and
1940s, artists and writers explored what it meant to be alive in
England. Eclectically, passionately, wittily, they showed that 'the
modern' need not be at war with the past. Constructivists and
conservatives could work together, and even the Bauhaus emigre,
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, was beguiled into taking photographs for
Betjeman's nostalgic Oxford University Chest. This modern English
renaissance was shared by writers, painters, gardeners, architects,
critics, tourists and composers. John Piper, Virginia Woolf,
Florence White, Christopher Tunnard, Evelyn Waugh, E. M. Forster
and the Sitwells are part of the story, along with Bill Brandt,
Graham Sutherland, Eric Ravilious and Cecil Beaton.
This essay explores the development of Salvador Dali, from the
early phases of childhood, the bizarre and complex aims of his
first experiments, to his absorption into high society of Paris in
the 1930s, and his inclusion in the Surrealist movement from 1928
to 1939. The essay focuses on the makeup of a provocative and
original personality acutely reflexive, intelligent and
pathologically driven. As a creative signifier of considerable and
generative impact, Dali can be identified as a unique sounding
board for his own and succeeding times.
The Fine Feats of the Five Cockerels Gang is a Marxist-Surrealist
Yugoslav epic poem for children, written by Aleksandar Vuco and
accompanied by Dusan Matic's photocollage illustrations and
captions. The poem tracks the adventures of five scrappy,
resourceful working-class boys who endeavor to free an equally
plucky girl from the evil clutches of a convent school (and its
fearsome nuns). While weighing in on various contemporary political
issues, the story is unpredictable, action-packed and relayed in
richly colloquial language. Matic's photocollages show "what
happened in the meantime" between the "songs" (episodes) of the
poem, providing clever twists to the linear plot as well as an
illustration of the surrealist concepts of time, space and the
transformative capabilities of art.
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