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A thrilling journey through 100,000 years of art, from the first
artworks ever made to art's central role in culture today "This
lively volume is ideal for the precocious high-schooler, the lazy
collegian . . . and any adult who wishes for greater mastery of the
subject. . . . Mullins leav[es] readers with an expansive,
no-regrets appreciation of art and the human story."-Meghan Cox
Gurdon, Wall Street Journal "A fresh take on art history as we know
it."-Katy Hessel, The Great Women Artists Podcast Charlotte Mullins
brings art to life through the stories of those who created it and,
importantly, reframes who is included in the narrative to create a
more diverse and exciting landscape of art. She shows how art can
help us see the world differently and understand our place in it,
how it helps us express ourselves, fuels our creativity and
contributes to our overall wellbeing and positive mental health.
Why did our ancestors make art? What did art mean to them and what
does their art mean for us today? Why is art even important at all?
Mullins introduces readers to the Terracotta Army and Nok
sculptures, Renaissance artists such as Giotto and Michelangelo,
trailblazers including Kathe Kollwitz, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo,
and contemporary artists who create art as resistance, such as Ai
Weiwei and Shirin Neshat. She also restores forgotten artists such
as Sofonisba Anguissola, Guan Daosheng and Jacob Lawrence, and
travels to the Niger valley, Peru, Java, Rapa Nui and Australia, to
broaden our understanding of what art is and should be. This
extraordinary journey through 100,000 years celebrates art's
crucial place in understanding our collective culture and history.
An introduction to the feminist art movement: one of the most
ambitious, influential and enduring artistic movements of the
twentieth century. Emerging in the late 1960s as women artists
struggled to `de-gender' their work to compete in a male-dominated
arena, the feminist art movement has played a leading role in the
art world over the last five decades. Using the `female gaze' to
articulate socially relevant issues after an era of aesthetic
`formalism', women artists, working in a variety of media, have
called to attention ideas around gender, identity and form,
criticising the cultural expectations and stereotyping of women,
women's struggle for equality, and the treatment of the female body
as a commodity. This little book is a short and pithy introduction
to some of the most important artworks born out of this movement.
Fifty outstanding works - from the late 1960s to the present -
reflect women's lives and experience, as well as the changing
position of women artists, and reveal the impact of feminist ideals
and politics on visual culture. Exploring themes such as gender
inequality, sexuality, domestic life, personal experiences and the
female body, A Little Feminist History of Art is a celebration of
one of the most ambitious, influential and enduring artistic
movements to emerge from the twentieth century.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Figurative art is currently riding high. Contemporary works
depicting the human form grace the walls of public institutions and
commercial galleries alike. Champions of paint, such as Katherine
Bernhardt and Adrian Ghenie; photographic artists, such as Gillian
Wearing and Cindy Sherman; Charles Avery's drawings, Grayson
Perry's tapestries and Kara Walker's silhouettes - these and many
other artists from diverse backgrounds are working in a range of
media to explore new ways to depict the human form. Charlotte
Mullins explores the reasons behind this resurgence and considers
what the figure means to the artists who depict it in their
practice. Her accessible yet highly perceptive introduction
includes works by 70 artists, all created in the past five years.
These artists successfully employ the figure to help make sense of
the mercurial, fast-paced and challenging world we live in.
Rachel Whiteread has single-handedly expanded the parameters of
contemporary sculpture with her casts of the outer and inner spaces
of familiar objects, sometimes in quiet monochrome, sometimes in
vivid jewel-like colour. She won the Turner Prize in 1993, the same
year as her first large-scale public project, House, a concrete
cast of a nineteenth-century terraced house in London's east end.
This book, by writer and editor Charlotte Mullins - the first
significant survey to examine Whiteread's career to date - has been
substantial updated with a new chapter containing 10 major works,
including Tate's Turbine Hall installation Embankment and Cabin,
Whiteread's first permanent public sculpture in America. Born in
London in 1963, Rachel Whiteread is one of Britain's most exciting
contemporary artists. Her work is characterised by its use of
industrial materials such as plaster, concrete, resin, rubber and
metal. With these she casts the surfaces and volume in and around
everyday objects and architectural space, creating evocative
sculptures that range from the intimate to the monumental.
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