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As we approach the bicentennial, in 2017, of the birth of Henry
David Thoreau, there is considerable debate and confusion as to
what he may, or may not have, contributed to American life and
culture. Almost every American has heard of Thoreau, but only a few
are aware that he was deeply engaged with most of the important
issues of his day, from slavery to "Manifest Destiny" and the
rights of the individual in a democratic society. Many of these
issues are still affecting us today, as we move toward the second
quarter of the twenty-first century. By studying how various
American artists have chosen to portray Thoreau over the years
since the publication of Walden in 1854, we can gain a clear
understanding of how he has been interpreted (or misinterpreted)
throughout the years since his death in 1862. But along the way, we
might also find something useful, for our times, in the insights
that Thoreau gained as he wrestled with the most urgent problems
being experienced by American society in his day.
Graphic artist Daz Girling creates a visual celebration of
alternative counter cultures. 130 pages of art featuring alt models
& performers from around the world, such as international
fetish icon Masuimi Max, Las Vegas blood sucking metal models The
Vamp Girls, Iconic adult performer April Flores and UK Bizarre
Ultra vixens Amie Conradine, Star of 'Scruff City' graphic
novels-Scruffy Kitten, plus many other dark themed doodles,
work-in-progress sketches and photos of many of your favourite alt
girls.
This book of 112 pictures is a selection of drawings and paintings
representing Jindrich's artistic endeavours over the last three
decades. The collection contains real-life portraits as well as
images and portraits based on the works of other artists. Some of
the works in the book are the product of Jindrich's own
imagination. In addition, there is a section containing icons and
symbols and two sections picturing animals (domestic and wild).
This selection of drawings of classical, romantic, and a few modern
composers represents part of a larger collection of drawings made
as cover illustrations for KMFA-FM, a listener-supported radio
station in Austin, Texas.
This book explores the rich but understudied relationship between
English country houses and the portraits they contain. It features
essays by well-known scholars such as Alison Yarrington, Gill
Perry, Kate Retford, Harriet Guest, Emma Barker and Desmond
Shawe-Taylor. Works discussed include grand portraits, intimate
pastels and imposing sculptures. Moving between residences as
diverse as Stowe, Althorp Park, the Vache, Chatsworth, Knole and
Windsor Castle, it unpicks the significance of various spaces - the
closet, the gallery, the library - and the ways in which
portraiture interacted with those environments. It explores
questions around gender, investigating narratives of family and
kinship in portraits of women as wives and daughters, but also as
mistresses and celebrities. It also interrogates representations of
military heroes in order to explore the wider, complex ties between
these families, their houses, and imperial conflict. This book will
be essential reading for all those interested in eighteenth-century
studies, especially for those studying portraiture and country
houses. -- .
The Women of the Grand Theater offers posters of some of the most
glamorous women of the early 20th century. The Grand Posters of the
Past collection provides a look into the magical world of theater,
aristocracy, and cinema. From portraits of elite women to posters
of famous actresses, these beautiful posters let you step into the
world of the colorful past and experience the dynamics of that
time. Great posters of great women of the theater, art, and movies.
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Red Social
(Hardcover)
Alejandro Garcia-Lemos, Cynthia Boiter
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R826
Discovery Miles 8 260
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About Red Social Red Social by Alejandro Garcia-Lemos and Cynthia
Boiter is a visual and literary art book that evolved from a 2012
art exhibition of work by Garcia-Lemos at the Goodall Gallery at
Columbia College in Columbia, SC. The title of the book and
exhibition, Red Social, translates to Social Network in
Garcia-Lemos's native Spanish. As he approached this body of work,
which is made up of 24 unique portraits, Garcia-Lemos who is a
native of Bogota, Colombia, focused on relationship-building and
the community of fellow artists and arts lovers he had become
enmeshed in in his new home of Columbia, SC. The sitters for each
portrait, almost all of whom were close members of his newly formed
community, were asked to bring symbolic icons for their sitting and
many went so far as to collaborate on their specific portraits.
(Several fellow-artists made actual artistic contributions to their
portraits.) "The creative space that opened during these sessions
provided an atmosphere of candor which mimicked that of the
therapist," the artist says. "I came to realize the importance of a
comfort level between the artist and subject and I chose people who
have been supportive of me and are truly friends and family." Once
the series was complete and had been exhibited, Garcia-Lemos hoped
to continue in the collaborative spirit so he approached local
writer and editor, Cynthia Boiter. It was his idea to have Boiter
create short fictional stories about the characters in the
portraits-whether she was personally familiar with the characters
or not-based on nothing but the title of the portrait and the
various icons represented. Boiter says that, "Many of the friends
about whom I wrote had to become strangers before they could become
subjects about whose inner lives-their worries, fantasies, and
insecurities-I could write. But as unconnected as these stories are
to the portrait models who inspired them, they are still real
stories, I'm sure, that belong to someone else out there." The
result is a fascinating reverse-process of illustration. Based upon
Garcia-Lemos's paintings, Boiter uses fiction to illustrate the
portrait subjects. Each piece of short fiction-few are over 250
words in length-tells the tale of a unique individual with subject
matters ranging from love to loss to issues of gender roles, new
roles, and throwing off the roles society attempts to impose upon
all of us.
A mother... An artist... A publisher of human emotion... The art of
M. Zapp (Marilyn Zapp) has been seen internationally acclaimed on
prints and greeting cards. For the first time together, an
autobiographical anthology of 40 FULL-COLOR art prints by "M.
Zapp," expressing her love and experience as a mother. This current
anthology collection of her art work is representative of the first
project of this genre, which she completed as a mother, producing a
series of over three dozen different original art prints, which
sold out the first run of 1500 copies each in less than a year.
This specific cycle of material she calls -- "The Family Series" --
reflecting a unifying theme expressing the joy and love of family
life and raising children amazingly illustrated in her own famously
unique style. She explains: "After my first born, Mark, was born, I
created the first piece for The Family Series, 'Mother's Love', in
my forties, I had three children a year apart. My time was now
occupied marveling, inspired and caring. I had no relatives to
share my beautiful children or my strong feelings and emotions of
being a parent, so the artist within me shared them with you. I was
a mother, an artist, and the publisher of the feelings I needed to
share. These art pieces also served as a biography of my life and
my love as a mother - the feelings of joy, anxieties and emotions.
So, I became a publisher of the feelings I needed to share and over
the years many mothers, and even fathers, have understood my work."
"For the first time in a collection together, many of these prints
are still owned by numerous people worldwide who have identified
and collected my work. My son, Mark, modeled for 'Jesus and the
Lamb' and then cut his hair and shaved so that he would not be
recognized as the model. My daughter, Lea, poised as the Virgin
Mary for me. This book includes some, but not all, of the work I
have done on this quest, that ended with my models and the youngest
daughter, Erika's, teen experiences."
The first in-depth exploration of the rise and evolution of
abstract, symbolic, and conceptual portraiture in American art This
groundbreaking book traces the history of portraiture as a site of
radical artistic experimentation, as it shifted from a genre based
on mimesis to one stressing instead conceptual and symbolic
associations between artist and subject. Featuring over 100 color
illustrations of works by artists from Charles Demuth, Marcel
Duchamp, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O'Keeffe to Janine Antoni,
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn, Jasper Johns, and Glenn Ligon,
this timely publication probes the ways we think about and picture
the self and others. With particular focus on three periods during
which non-mimetic portraiture flourished-1912-25, 1961-70, and
1990-the present-the authors investigate issues related to
technology, sexuality, artist networks, identity politics, and
social media, and explore the emergence of new models for the
visual representation of identity. Taking its title from a 1961
work by Robert Rauschenberg-a telegram that stated, "This is a
portrait of Iris Clert if I say so"-this book unites paintings,
sculpture, photography, and text portraits that challenge the genre
in significant, often playful ways and question the convention, as
well as the limits, of traditional portrayal. Published in
association with the Bowdoin College Museum of Art Exhibition
Schedule: Bowdoin College Museum of Art (06/25/16-10/23/16)
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