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A captivating historical look at the cultural and artistic
significance of shells in early modern Europe Among nature's most
artful creations, shells have long inspired the curiosity and
passion of artisans, artists, collectors, and thinkers.
Conchophilia delves into the intimate relationship between shells
and people, offering an unprecedented account of the early modern
era, when the influx of exotic shells to Europe fueled their study
and representation as never before. From elaborate nautilus cups
and shell-encrusted grottoes to delicate miniatures, this richly
illustrated book reveals how the love of shells intersected not
only with the rise of natural history and global trade but also
with philosophical inquiry, issues of race and gender, and the
ascent of art-historical connoisseurship. Shells circulated at the
nexus of commerce and intellectual pursuit, suggesting new ways of
thinking about relationships between Europe and the rest of the
world. The authors focus on northern Europe, where the interest and
trade in shells had its greatest impact on the visual arts. They
consider how shells were perceived as exotic objects, the role of
shells in courtly collections, their place in still-life tableaus,
and the connections between their forms and those of the human
body. They examine how artists gilded, carved, etched, and inked
shells to evoke the permeable boundary between art and nature.
These interactions with shells shaped the ways that early modern
individuals perceived their relation to the natural world, and
their endeavors in art and the acquisition of knowledge. Spanning
painting and print to architecture and the decorative arts,
Conchophilia uncovers the fascinating ways that shells were
circulated, depicted, collected, and valued during a time of
remarkable global change.
Over 700 images create a portal into the architectural style of
Oaxaca, Mexico's most colonial city. Oaxaca's Spanish Colonial
architecture dates back to the early sixteenth century, and these
images explore an aesthetic that has hardly altered in all that
time. Great wooden doors, studded with hand wrought iron hardware,
create punctuation in walls of desert-hued sandstone. Oaxaca is
celebrated as the cultural and artistic center of Mexico, and this
book will help illustrate why. The rich textures and colors of the
diverse doorways will inspire anyone in search of a Southwestern
palette.
The beautiful and varied glassware lines produced by the Central
Glass Works of Wheeling, West Virginia, from the 1910s through
1939, are presented in 470 eye-catching images. Distributed
throughout the United States, Continental Europe, and Australia,
they include the company's depression era stemware and tumblers,
compotes, marmalades, covered candy dishes, dresser and vanity
trays, pitchers, tankards, jugs, candlesticks, and barware in a
striking variety of colors and forms. Close attention is paid to
the many etched patterns Central Glass Works produced. The text
provides an informative history of the company, descriptions of the
product lines, colors, and etched patterns. Values are found both
in the captions and in tables spread throughout the text. This book
is an essential reference for all who appreciate glassware produced
during the early twentieth century.
Icons of Sound: Voice, Architecture, and Imagination in Medieval
Art brings together art history and sound studies to offer new
perspectives on medieval churches and cathedrals as spaces where
the perception of the visual is inherently shaped by sound. The
chapters encompass a wide geographic and historical range, from the
fifth to the fifteenth century, and from Armenia and Byzantium to
Venice, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela. Contributors offer
nuanced explorations of the intangible sonic aura produced in these
places by the ritual music and harness the use of digital
technology to reconstruct historical aural environments. Rooted in
a decade-long interdisciplinary research project at Stanford
University, Icons of Sound expands our understanding of the
inherently intertwined relationship between medieval chant and
liturgy, the acoustics of architectural spaces, and their visual
aesthetics. Together, the contributors provide insights that are
relevant across art history, sound studies, musicology, and
medieval studies.
This book uses intermedial theories to study collage and montage,
tracing the transformation of visual collage into photomontage in
the early avant-garde period. Magda Dragu distinguishes between the
concepts of collage and montage, as defined across several media
(fine arts, literature, music, film, photography), based on the
type of artistic meaning they generate, rather than the mechanical
procedures involved. The book applies theories of intermediality to
collage and montage, which is crucial for understanding collage as
a form of cultural production. Throughout, the author considers the
political implications, as collages and montages were often used
for propagandistic purposes. This book combines research methods
used in several areas of inquiry: art history, literary criticism,
analytical philosophy, musicology, and aesthetics.
This volume explores how Italian institutions, dealers, critics,
and artists constructed a modern national identity for Italy by
exporting - literally and figuratively - contemporary art to the
United States in key moments between 1929 and 1969. From artist
Fortunato Depero opening his Futurist House in New York City to
critic Germano Celant launching Arte Povera in the United States,
Raffaele Bedarida examines the thick web of individuals and
cultural environments beyond the two more canonical movements that
shaped this project. By interrogating standard narratives of
Italian Fascist propaganda on the one hand and American Cold War
imperialism on the other, this book establishes a more nuanced
transnational approach. The central thesis is that, beyond the
immediate aims of political propaganda and conquering a new market
for Italian art, these art exhibitions, publications, and the
critical discourse aimed at American audiences all reflected back
on their makers: they forced and helped Italians define their own
modernity in relation to the world's new dominant cultural and
economic power. The book will be of interest to scholars working in
art history, social history, exhibition history, and Italian
studies.
GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES: A CONCISE GLOBAL HISTORY, 4th
Edition provides you with a comprehensive, beautifully illustrated
tour of the world's great artistic traditions, and, with MindTap,
all of the online study tools you need to excel in your art history
course! Easy to read and understand, the fourth edition includes
new artists and provides a rich cultural backdrop for each of the
covered periods and geographical locations.
Uniquely bridges the aesthetics of imperfection with areas of
philosophy, music, literature, urban environment, architecture, art
theory, and cultural studies. Divided into seven thematic sections
to offer a comprehensive study of how imperfectionist aesthetics
connect to art and everyday life. As an interdisciplinary study,
this book will appeal to a broad range of scholars and advanced
students working in philosophical aesthetics, cultural studies, and
across the humanities.
Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, this innovative comic book provides a detailed look at the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning.
This volume critically investigates how art historians writing
about Central and Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries engaged with periodization. At the heart of
much of their writing lay the ideological project of
nation-building. Hence discourses around periodization - such as
the mythicizing of certain periods, the invention of historical
continuity and the assertion of national specificity - contributed
strongly to identity construction. Central to the book's approach
is a transnational exploration of how the art histories of the
region not only interacted with established Western periodizations
but also resonated and 'entangled' with each other. In their
efforts to develop more sympathetic frameworks that refined,
ignored or hybridized Western models, they sought to overcome the
centre-periphery paradigm which equated distance from the centre
with temporal belatedness and artistic backwardness. The book thus
demonstrates that the concept of periodization is far from neutral
or strictly descriptive, and that its use in art history needs to
be reconsidered. Bringing together a broad range of scholars from
different European institutions, the volume offers a unique new
perspective on Central and Eastern European art historiography. It
will be of interest to scholars working in art history,
historiography and European studies.
This book presents the latest research that shows how design
thinking, making, and acting contribute to the co-designing and
development of products, spaces, and services with people living
with dementia. We know that there is currently no cure for the 130+
kinds of dementia that millions of people live with all over the
world, but the designed interventions such as the products, spaces,
and services described in this book can address stigma, isolation,
loss of confidence, and raise awareness and greater understanding
of dementia. This book showcases a range of innovative and creative
design interventions that have been developed to break the cycle of
well-established opinions, strategies, mindsets, and ways of doing
that tend to remain unchallenged in the health and social care of
people living with dementia. The book will be of interest to
scholars working in product design, service design, experience
design, architecture, design research, information design,
user-centred design, and design for health.
A growing awareness of climate change and looming planetary crisis
has put unprecedented pressure on the near future, leading to an
increasing amount of fiction being set there. But what do these
disparate works have in common, other than their temporal setting?
And what can the imagination of the near future tell us about where
we live now? The Near Future in 21st Century Fiction ranges across
novels and films to reveal how our contemporary near future splits
between two divergent paths. One seeks to retreat from climate
change and the disruption it threatens to affluent lifestyles; the
other tries to imagine new forms of community, and radical change,
but struggles to locate a genre adequate to the task. It in this
struggle, however, that we begin to glimpse the outlines of an
emergent near future form: a revolution fit for the Anthropocene.
Japan's Meiji Restoration brought swift changes through Japanese
adoption of Western-style modernization and imperial expansion.
Fanning the Flames brings together a range of scholarly essays and
collected materials from the Hoover Institution Library &
Archives detailing how Japanese propaganda played an active role in
fostering national identity and mobilizing grassroots participation
in the country's transformation and wartime activities, starting
with the First Sino-Japanese War to the end of World War II.
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Jimmy Desana: Submission
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Jimmy De Sana; Edited by Drew Sawyer; Preface by Anne Pasternak; Epilogue by Laurie Simmons
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This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the social
practice of taste in the wake of Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of
taste. For the first time, this book unites sociologists and other
social scientists with artists and curators, art theorists and art
educators, and art, design and cultural historians who engage with
the practice of taste as it relates to encounters with art,
cultural institutions and the practices of everyday life, in
national and transnational contexts. The volume is divided into
four sections. The first section on 'Taste and art', shows how art
practice was drawn into the sphere of 'good taste', contrasting
this with a post-conceptualist critique that offers a challenge to
the social functions of good taste through an encounter with art.
The next section on 'Taste making and the museum' examines the
challenges and changing social, political and organisational
dynamics propelling museums beyond the terms of a supposedly
universal institution and language of taste. The third section of
the book, 'Taste after Bourdieu in Japan' offers a case study of
the challenges to the cross-cultural transmission and local
reproduction of 'good taste', exemplified by the complex cultural
context of Japan. The final section on 'Taste, the home and
everyday life' juxtaposes the analysis of the reproduction of
inequality and alienation through taste, with arguments on how the
legacy of ideas of 'good taste' have extended the possibilities of
experience and sharpened our consciousness of identity. As the
first book to bring together arts practitioners and theorists with
sociologists and other social scientists to examine the legacy and
continuing validity of Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of taste, this
publication engages with the opportunities and problems involved in
understanding the social value and the cultural dispositions of
taste 'after Bourdieu'. It does so at a moment when the practice of
taste is being radically changed by the global expansion of
cultural choices, and the emergence of deploying impersonal
algorithms as solutions to cultural and creative decision-making.
John Fleming and Hugh Honour were giants of the art world. To
Susanna Johnston, however, they were simply John and Hugh, an
inseparable couple and two of her closest friends. They had met in
the 1950s at Gli Scafari, the opulent villa on the Italian Riviera
of the blind writer Percy Lubbock - one of Henry James' inamoratos
and Iris Origo's step father - when she was twenty one, on holiday
and penniless. Originally part of the Anglo-Italian world orbiting
Bernard Berenson's I Tatti and Harold Acton's La Pietra in Tuscany,
John Fleming and Hugh Honour were bemused by being lionised
themselves by the super-rich who beat a path to their Villa
Marchio. This candid memoir, full of private anecdotes, illuminates
these two celebrated, passionate, and very English geniuses,
through a close-up of a well-seasoned friendship of over 60 years.
• Showcases today's most influential architectural voices who
have been instrumental in shifting the direction of design in the
last decade • Includes perspectives of influential architects,
practitioners and academics, as well as critics including
philosophers • Case studies and essays engage and deploy a range
of topics and technologies from speculative realism and Object
Oriented Ontology to high computation, Big Data, parametricism,
digital fabrication, artificial intelligence, augmented reality and
virtual reality • A rigorous account of architecture's
theoretical and technological concerns over the last decade
Social groups formed around shared religious beliefs encountered
significant change and challenges between the 1860s and the 1970s.
This book is the first collection of essays of its kind to take a
broad, thematically-driven case study approach to this genre of
architecture and its associated visual culture and communal
experience. Examples range from Nuns' holy spaces celebrating the
life of St Theresa of Lisieux to utopian American desert
communities and their reliance on the philosophy of Teilhard de
Chardin. Modern religious architecture converses with a broad
spectrum of social, anthropological, cultural and theological
discourses and the authors engage with them rigorously and
innovatively. As such, new readings of sacred spaces offer new
angles and perspectives on some of the dominant narratives of the
nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries: empire, urban
expansion, pluralism and modernity. In a post-traditional
landscape, religious architecture suggests expansive ways of
exploring themes including nostalgia and revivalism; engineering
and technological innovation; prayer and spiritual experimentation;
and the beauty of holiness for a brave new world. Shaped by the
tensions and anxieties of the modern era and powerfully expressed
in the space and material culture of faith, the architecture
presented here creates a set of new turning points in the history
of the built environment.
- Presents novel framing of contemporary problems of design -
Includes historical examples drawn from every continent and time
period - Proposes specific reforms - Richly illustrated with over
80 black and white images
Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body brings together
cutting-edge scholarship examining the myriad ways that architects,
urban planners, medical practitioners, and everyday people have
applied modern ideas about health and the body to the spaces in
which they live, work, and heal. The book's contributors explore
North American and European understandings of the relationship
between physical movement, bodily health, technological innovation,
medical concepts, natural environments, and architectural settings
from the nineteenth century through the heyday of modernist
architectural experimentation in the 1920s and 1930s and onward
into the 1970s. Not only does the book focus on how professionals
have engaged with the architecture of healing and the body, it also
explores how urban dwellers have strategized and modified their
living environments themselves to create a kind of vernacular
modernist architecture of health in their homes, gardens, and
backyards. This new work builds upon a growing interdisciplinary
field incorporating the urban humanities, geography, architectural
history, the history of medicine, and critical visual studies that
reflects our current preoccupation with the body and its
corresponding therapeutic culture.
Art can be fun and so should be speaking about it. This
alphabetically-organised book is an excellent introduction to the
arts for kids. Designed in an engaging, colourful style, the
selection nurtures children's interest in artistic creation at
large. It not only delivers basic knowledge but also acts like a
good jumping-off point for exploring art. To match the shorter
attention span of many children, the book has a dynamic structure.
The definitions are short but comprehensive and each word or
concept is attractively illustrated.
Spanning 25 projects in as many years, Walls and Boxes charts the
remarkable commitment to Modernist design principles that
characterise the practice of Guard Tillman Pollock Architects. Mark
Guard, Steven Pollock and Keith Tillman present a body of
residential work that combines contemporary technology with the
ethos of the heroic period of Modern architecture. The practice
builds contemporary homes that are full of space and light without
compromising their function or form. This book chronicles the
results, a transformable architecture of exceptional practicality
and great beauty, with many bespoke details developed by the firm
over the years. . Through a rich combination of photography,
before-and-after plans, and axonometrics, Walls and Boxes
illustrates 25 projects built between 1990 and 2015. Each
demonstrates the application of the practice's rigorous design
attitude to different building types, ranging from modest
apartments to new-build houses. At a time when specialisation is
being met with a general scepticism, Walls and Boxes presents a
studio whose devotion to a particular aesthetic and sense of space
shows an insight and building expertise that borders on the
philosophical. The office's wealth of experience fuses British,
North American and European training to bring about elegant
residential projects on an international scale that are as
functional as they are stylish. As much a nuanced exploration of
Guard Tillman Pollock's practice as it is a powerful manifesto on
the timeless principles of form, space and light, Walls and Boxes
can be utilised as a guidebook into producing transformative
residential spaces that resist the constraints and limitations so
often imposed by twenty-first-century urban life. Walls and Boxes
is about design for modern times, a book for anyone interested in
both the creative process of architecture and in looking for new
ways of improving the spaces we inhabit.
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