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In this latest addition to Oxford's Modernist Literature &
Culture series, renowned modernist scholar Michael North poses
fundamental questions about the relationship between modernity and
comic form in film, animation, the visual arts, and literature.
Machine-Age Comedy vividly constructs a cultural history that spans
the entire twentieth century, showing how changes wrought by
industrialization have forever altered the comic mode. With keen
analyses, North examines the work of a wide range of artists -
including Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney, Marcel Duchamp, Samuel
Beckett, and David Foster Wallace - to show the creative and
unconventional ways the routinization of industrial society has
been explored in a broad array of cultural forms. Throughout, North
argues that modern writers and artists found something inherently
comic in new experiences of repetition associated with, enforced
by, and made inevitable by the machine age. Ultimately, this rich,
tightly focused study offers a new lens for understanding the
devlopment of comedic structures during periods of massive social,
political, and cultural change to reveal how the original promise
of modern life can be extracted from its practical disappointment.
"Art+ NYC" is anart-lover s guide to New York City that combines a
crash course in 20th- and 21st-centuryarthistory with in-depth bios
of nine celebrated New York City artists: Jackson Pollock, Andy
Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Yoko Ono, Mark Rothko, Jeff Koons, Donald
Judd, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Rauschenberg. Each segment is
written by a leading art writer from publications such as "Art in
America," "Flaunt," and the "New York Times." Filled with useful
information for both locals and tourists, "Art + NYC" includes
comprehensive neighborhood-by-neighborhood gallery and museum
listings, along with studios and other artsy places of interest. In
addition, sidebars include the hotels and restaurants that are
steeped with history artist hangouts, residences, and events of
infamy. Also included is an extensive index of paintings,
sculptures, and public art by New York City artists; detailed maps
for 13 neighborhoods; a Q&A with a curator, gallerist, or
artist for each NYC neighborhood; and a museum, gallery, and studio
directory."
'Inside Photography', a collaboration between the writer/editor,
David Brittain and graphic artist, Clinton Cahill, is a book of
interviews that sheds light on the art photography magazine.
Inciteful and often irreverent, the book demonstrates how this
critically overlooked type of publication can be an invaluable
resource for creative and historical investigations.
One hundred artists showcase their conceptions of the world's
all-time favorite bad boy, Satan, in this subversive response to
the popular traveling exhibit "100 Artists See God. As the
popularity of angels rises, so does their oversaturation in the art
world. This is a tongue-in-cheek balancing of the cultural
phenomena of angels: 100 devilish works of art, sincere,
irreverent, and parodic.
This monograph brings together the work of artist David Medalla.
Born in Manila, in the Philippines in 1942, and based since 1960
mainly in London, Medalla has distinguished himself internationally
as an innovator of the avant-garde. His work has embraced a
multitude of enquiries and enthusiasms, forms and formats, to
express a singular yet deeply coherent vision of the world.
Life of Newlyn/St Ives artist famed for his paintings of animals
and birds.
Jao Tsung-i was China's last great traditional man of letters,
polymath, and pioneer of comparative humanistic inquiry during Hong
Kong's global heyday. Dunhuang is China's traditional northwest
frontier and overland conduit of exchange with the Old World. In
this volume, Jao proposes an entirely new school of Chinese
landscape painting, reconsiders Dunhuang's oldest manuscripts as
its newest research field, and explores topics ranging from
comparative religion to medieval multimedia.
This co-edited volume offers new insights into the complex
relations between Brussels and Vienna in the turn-of-the-century
period (1880-1930). Through archival research and critical methods
of cultural transfer as a network, it contributes to the study of
Modernism in all its complexity. Seventeen chapters analyse the
interconnections between new developments in literature (Verhaeren,
Musil, Zweig), drama (Maeterlinck, Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal),
visual arts (Minne, Khnopff, Masereel, Child Art), architecture
(Hoffmann, Van de Velde), music (Schoenberg, Ysaye, Kreisler,
Kolisch), as well as psychoanalysis (Varendonck, Anna Freud) and
cafe culture. Austrian and Belgian artists played a crucial role
within the complex, rich, and conflictual international networks of
people, practices, institutions, and metropoles in an era of
political, social and technological change and intense
internationalization. Contributors: Sylvie Arlaud, Norbert
Bachleitner, Anke Bosse, Megan Brandow-Faller, Alexander Carpenter,
Piet Defraeye, Clement Dessy, Aniel Guxholli, Birgit Lang, Helga
Mitterbauer, Chris Reyns-Chikuma, Silvia Ritz, Hubert Roland, Inga
Rossi-Schrimpf, Sigurd Paul Scheichl, Guillaume Tardif, Hans
Vandevoorde.
From Zappa hurting someone to Kurt Cobain hurting himself. From
trees of peace (except one) to bicycles of terrorism and crappy
nappies, this book contains everything you ever need to know - and
some things you wish you didn't This is to be Sexton Ming's first
ever mass market paperback, and the first book ever to be devoted
to his strange and wonderful drawings. Ming is a
writer/musician/painter extraordinaire and his meandering mind can
take you on an otherworldly journey steeped in so much black
humour, tangential weirdness and biting observation of the human
race it makes this world a much better place. He is little known in
mainstream culture but is in fact world famous. He was a founding
member of the Medway Poets, has appeared on over 20 albums, painted
some of the strangest paintings in the world, supported Sonic Youth
live, was called a failed intellectual by Ralph Steadman, once
saved Billy Childish's life
Although recently more studies have been devoted to the
representations of Biblical heroines in modern European art, less
is known about the contribution to the portrayals of Biblical women
by modern Jewish artists. This monograph explores why and how
heroines of the Scripture: Judith, Esther and the Shulamite
received a particular meaning for acculturated Jewish artists
originating from the Polish lands in the last decades of the
nineteenth century and the first two decades of the twentieth
century. It convincingly proves that artworks by Maurycy Gottlieb,
Wilhem Wachtel, Ephraim Moses Lilien, Maurycy Minkowski, Samuel
Hirszenberg and Boris Schatz significantly differed from renderings
of contemporary non-Jewish artists, adopting a "Jewish
perspective", creating complex and psychological portrayals of the
heroines inspired by Jewish literature and as well as by historical
and cultural phenomena of Jewish revival and the cultural Zionism
movement.
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
Award winner: Best Book in Latin American Visual Culture Studies
from the Latin American Studies Association Dematerialization and
the Social Materiality of Art reconceptualizes
mid-twentieth-century avant-garde practices in Argentina with a
focus on the changing material status of the art object in relation
to the country's intense period of modernization. Elize Mazadiego
presents Oscar Masotta's notion of dematerialization as a concept
for interpreting experimental art practices that negated the
object's primacy, while identifying their promise within the
sociopolitical transformations of the 1950s and 1960s. She argues
that, in abandoning the traditional art object, the avant-garde
developed new materialities rooted in Buenos Aires' changing social
life. A critical examination of art's materiality and its social
role within Argentina, this important study paves the way for
broader investigations of postwar Latin American art.
In Expressionism and Poster Design in Germany 1905-1925, Kathleen
Chapman re-defines Expressionism by situating it in relation to the
most common type of picture in public space during the Wilhelmine
twentieth century, the commercial poster. Focusing equally on
visual material and contemporaneous debates surrounding art,
posters, and the image in general, this study reveals that
conceptions of a "modern" image were characterized not so much by
style or mode of production and distribution, but by a visual
rhetoric designed to communicate more directly than words. As
instances of such rhetoric, Expressionist art and posters emerge as
equally significant examples of this modern image, demonstrating
the interconnectedness of the aesthetic, the utilitarian, and the
commercial in European modernism.
Are artistic engagements evolving, or attracting more attention?
The range of artistic protest actions shows how the globalisation
of art is also the globalisation of art politics. Here, based on
multi-site field research, we follow artists from the MENA
countries, Latin America, and Africa along their committed
transnational trajectories, whether these are voluntary or the
result of exile. With this global and decentred approach, the
different repertoires of engagement appear, in all their
dimensions, including professional ones. In the face of political
disillusionment, these aesthetic interventions take on new
meanings, as artivists seek alternative modes of social
transformation and production of shared values. Contributors are:
Alice Aterianus-Owanga, Sebastien Boulay, Sarah Dornhof, Simon
Dubois, Shyam Iskander, Sabrina Melenotte, Franck Mermier, Rayane
Al Rammal, Kirsten Scheid, Pinar Selek, and Marion Slitine.
A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries
1950-1975 is the first publication to deal with the postwar
avant-garde in the Nordic countries. The essays cover a wide range
of avant-garde manifestations in arts and culture: literature, the
visual arts, architecture and design, film, radio, television and
the performative arts. It is the first major historical work to
consider the Nordic avant-garde in a transnational perspective that
includes all the arts and to discuss the role of the avant-garde
not only within the aesthetic field but in a broader cultural and
political context: The cultural politics, institutions and new
cultural geographies after World War II, new technologies and
media, performative strategies, interventions into everyday life
and tensions between market and counterculture.
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