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Pathways to Complexity synthesizes a wealth of new archaeological
data to illuminate the origins of Maya civilization and the rise of
Classic Maya culture. In this volume, prominent Maya scholars argue
that the development of social, religious, and economic complexity
began during the Middle Preclassic period (1000-300 BC), hundreds
of years earlier than previously thought. Contributors reveal that
villages were present in parts of the lowlands by 1000 BC.
Combining recent discoveries from the northern lowlands--an area
often neglected in other volumes-and the southern lowlands, the
collection then traces the emergence of sociopolitical inequality
and complexity in all parts of the Yucatan Peninsula over the
course of the Middle Preclassic period. They show that communities
evolved in different ways due to influences such as geographical
location, ceramic exchange, shell ornament production, agricultural
strategy, religious ritual, ideology, and social rankings. These
varied pathways to complexity developed over half a millennium and
culminated in the institution of kingship by the Late Preclassic
period. Presenting exciting work on a dynamic and misunderstood
time period, Pathways to Complexity demonstrates the importance of
a broad, comparative approach to understanding Preclassic Maya
civilization and will serve as a foundation for future research and
interpretation.
Art auctions are spectacular theatres of the contemporary art
world. From glittering black-tie events to the anonymity of the
digital realm, auctions stage the creation of value and can make or
break artists’ careers. They are a strange phenomenon: relics
from the 18th century which remain at the heart of the art world in
our digital age. And yet they have undergone huge transformation in
the past decades, adapting to online formats, encroaching on
territory which was once the preserve of galleries, and expanding
ruthlessly into new regions and categories. Why are they still
relevant, and what does their future hold? This accessible new book
offers a fresh view of auctions, exploring their multifaceted role
in today’s international art market.
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Eeny and Her Sisters
Jane Yolen; Illustrated by Kathryn Brown
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The first monograph to examine the depiction of reading women in
French art of the early Third Republic, Women Readers in French
Painting 1870-1890 evaluates the pictorial significance of this
imagery, its critical reception, and its impact on notions of
femininity and social relations. Covering a broad range of
paintings, prints, and sculptures, this book shows how the liseuse
was subjected to unprecedented levels of pictorial innovation by
artists with widely differing aesthetic aims and styles. Depictions
of readers are interpreted as contributions to changing notions of
public and private life, female agency, and women's participation
in cultural and political debates beyond the domestic household.
This highly original book explores images of women readers from a
range of social classes in both urban and rural settings. Such
images are shown to have articulated concerns about the impact of
female literacy on labour environments and family life while, in
many cases, challenging conventions of gendered reading. Kathryn
Brown also presents an alternative way of conceiving of modernity
in relation to nineteenth-century art, a methodological departure
from much recent art historical literature. Artists discussed range
from Manet, Cassatt and Degas, to less familiar figures such as
Lavieille, Carriere, Toulmouche and Tissot.
Audience participation has polarized the critical debate
surrounding contemporary art's social, moral and aesthetic
potential. This incisive collection of essays sheds new light on
the political, ethical and artistic capacity of participatory works
and tests the most recent theoretical approaches to the subject.
Internationally renowned art historians, curators and artists
analyse the impact of collaborative aesthetics on personal and
social identity, concepts of the artist, the ontology of art and
the role of museums in contemporary society. Essays tease apart
notions of 'interactivity', 'collaboration', 'performance',
'relational aesthetics' and 'social art' for the purpose of
clarifying a range of conflicting approaches to the making and
reception of art and promoting a dialogue between art historians,
curators, and artists. They ask: what are the ways in which
audiences experience contemporary art? Do participatory art forms
generate a new type of aesthetic education that is capable of
shaping social and political behaviour? What degree of co-operation
is required for such artworks to be successful? What approaches do
curators take to such works when organizing exhibitions? Through
close analysis of interactive artworks in a range of media,
Interactive Contemporary Art examines current critical debates in
this field and proposes new ways of conceptualizing participatory
practices.
Investigating the complex history of visual art's engagement with
literature, this collection demonstrates that the art of the book
is a fully interdisciplinary and distinctly modern form. The essays
in the collection develop new critical approaches to the analysis
of twentieth-century bookworks and explore ways in which European
writers and painters challenged the boundary between visual and
linguistic expression in the content, production, and physical form
of books. The Art Book Tradition in Twentieth-Century Europe offers
a detailed examination of word-image relations in forms ranging
from the livre d'artiste to personal diaries and almanacs. It
analyzes innovative attempts to challenge familiar hierarchies
between texts and images, to fuse different expressive media, and
to reconceptualize traditional notions of ekphrasis. Giving
consideration to the material qualities of books, the works
discussed in this collection also test and celebrate the act of
reading, while locating it in the context of other sensory
experiences. Essays examine works by Dufy, Matisse, Beckett,
Kandinsky, Braque, and Ponge, among other European artists and
writers active during the twentieth century.
The first monograph to examine the depiction of reading women in
French art of the early Third Republic, Women Readers in French
Painting 1870-1890 evaluates the pictorial significance of this
imagery, its critical reception, and its impact on notions of
femininity and social relations. Covering a broad range of
paintings, prints, and sculptures, this book shows how the liseuse
was subjected to unprecedented levels of pictorial innovation by
artists with widely differing aesthetic aims and styles. Depictions
of readers are interpreted as contributions to changing notions of
public and private life, female agency, and women's participation
in cultural and political debates beyond the domestic household.
This highly original book explores images of women readers from a
range of social classes in both urban and rural settings. Such
images are shown to have articulated concerns about the impact of
female literacy on labour environments and family life while, in
many cases, challenging conventions of gendered reading. Kathryn
Brown also presents an alternative way of conceiving of modernity
in relation to nineteenth-century art, a methodological departure
from much recent art historical literature. Artists discussed range
from Manet, Cassatt and Degas, to less familiar figures such as
Lavieille, Carriere, Toulmouche and Tissot.
Dialogues with Degas demonstrates the ongoing relevance of Edgar
Degas to 20th- and 21st-century ideas and art practices. The first
in-depth examination of this major artist’s impact on
contemporary art, this book charts how contemporary practitioners
have used Degas’s creativity as a springboard to engage
imaginatively and critically with themes of colonialism, gender,
race and class. Individual chapters are devoted to different
dialogues between Degas’s painting, drawing, printmaking,
sculpture and art produced from the 1980s to the present. Through
close analyses of selected works, Kathryn Brown explores how
Degas’s technical experiments have been tested and extended in
innovative ways. The artists selected for this study have
explicitly taken up, developed or challenged Degas’s technical
and compositional experiments; they include Frank Auerbach, Cecily
Brown, Ryan Gander, Maggi Hambling, Damien Hirst, Howard Hodgkin,
R.B. Kitaj, Paula Rego, Yinka Shonibare and Cy Twombly. By
submitting existing compositions to new technical and imaginative
experiments, these artists generate visual palimpsests that make
new demands of the viewer and reveal the meanings that accrue to
artworks as they circulate within different spatial, temporal and
institutional networks. The book overturns familiar conceptions of
influence by showing how the art historical canon can be challenged
from a position within it and by making the case that a close
examination of dialogues with Degas generates a way of writing art
history that eschews genealogies. Prioritizing, instead, the
analysis of non-linear and conceptual encounters between images
generates a new conception of the agency of artworks and of the
dialogues they are capable of entertaining with other works. While
this study will shed new light on Degas’s art and that of his
interlocutors, it will also have methodological significance for
the writing of art history.
The first comprehensive assessment of Degas's legacy to be
published in over two decades, Perspectives on Degas unites a team
of international scholars to analyze Degas's work, artistic
practice, and unique methods of pictorial problem-solving.
Established scholars and curators show how recent trends in art
historical thinking can stimulate innovative interpretations of
Degas's paintings, prints, sculptures, and drawings and reveal new
ideas about his place in the art historical narrative of the
nineteenth-century avant-garde. Questions posed by contributors
include: what interpretive approaches are open to a new generation
of art historians in the wake of a vast body of existing
scholarship on nineteenth-century art? In what ways can feminist
analyses of Degas's works continue to yield new results? Which of
Degas's works have received less attention in critical literature
to date and what does study of them reveal? As the centenary of
Degas's death approaches, this book offers a timely re-evaluation
of the critical literature that has developed in response to
Degas's work and identifies ways in which the further study of this
artist's multi-facetted output can deepen our understanding of the
wider scientific, literary, and artistic ideas that circulated in
France during the latter decades of the nineteenth century.
The first comprehensive assessment of Degas's legacy to be
published in over two decades, Perspectives on Degas unites a team
of international scholars to analyze Degas's work, artistic
practice, and unique methods of pictorial problem-solving.
Established scholars and curators show how recent trends in art
historical thinking can stimulate innovative interpretations of
Degas's paintings, prints, sculptures, and drawings and reveal new
ideas about his place in the art historical narrative of the
nineteenth-century avant-garde. Questions posed by contributors
include: what interpretive approaches are open to a new generation
of art historians in the wake of a vast body of existing
scholarship on nineteenth-century art? In what ways can feminist
analyses of Degas's works continue to yield new results? Which of
Degas's works have received less attention in critical literature
to date and what does study of them reveal? As the centenary of
Degas's death approaches, this book offers a timely re-evaluation
of the critical literature that has developed in response to
Degas's work and identifies ways in which the further study of this
artist's multi-facetted output can deepen our understanding of the
wider scientific, literary, and artistic ideas that circulated in
France during the latter decades of the nineteenth century.
An old woman discovers an abandoned puppy that she is afraid to
name--or to even love. This moving story features Gary Larson-esque
"(The Far Side)" visuals that will appeal to adults as well as
kids. Full-color illustrations.
The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities and Art History
offers a broad survey of cutting-edge intersections between digital
technologies and the study of art history, museum practices, and
cultural heritage. The volume focuses not only on new computational
tools that have been developed for the study of artworks and their
histories but also debates the disciplinary opportunities and
challenges that have emerged in response to the use of digital
resources and methodologies. Chapters cover a wide range of
technical and conceptual themes that define the current state of
the field and outline strategies for future development. This book
offers a timely perspective on trans-disciplinary developments that
are reshaping art historical research, conservation, and teaching.
This book will be of interest to scholars in art history,
historical theory, method and historiography, and research methods
in education.
Investigating the complex history of visual art's engagement with
literature, this collection demonstrates that the art of the book
is a fully interdisciplinary and distinctly modern form. The essays
in the collection develop new critical approaches to the analysis
of twentieth-century bookworks and explore ways in which European
writers and painters challenged the boundary between visual and
linguistic expression in the content, production, and physical form
of books. The Art Book Tradition in Twentieth-Century Europe offers
a detailed examination of word-image relations in forms ranging
from the livre d'artiste to personal diaries and almanacs. It
analyzes innovative attempts to challenge familiar hierarchies
between texts and images, to fuse different expressive media, and
to reconceptualize traditional notions of ekphrasis. Giving
consideration to the material qualities of books, the works
discussed in this collection also test and celebrate the act of
reading, while locating it in the context of other sensory
experiences. Essays examine works by Dufy, Matisse, Beckett,
Kandinsky, Braque, and Ponge, among other European artists and
writers active during the twentieth century.
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Tough Boris (Paperback)
Mem Fox; Illustrated by Kathryn Brown
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R205
R160
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Boris von der Borch is a mean, greedy old pirate--tough as nails,
through and through, like all pirates. Or is he? When a young boy
sneaks into Boris' ship, he discovers that Boris and his mates
aren't quite what he expected! Full color.
“Goodbye Anna,” said Nikolai, and he kissed her forehead. “Keep your sisters safe inside you and may you find a happy home.”
So begins the journey of matryoshka sisters Nina, Nadia, Vanda, Varka, Olga, and Anna, from a village in Russia to a toy store in America. But once there, the littlest sister, Nina, is swept off the edge of the shelf. While her older sisters find their way into the hands of a caring new owner, Nina begins a perilous journey that takes her from the street in front of the toy store, down waterfalls, rivers and streams. How will Nina ever be reunited with her sisters? This tender, old-fashioned story is a testament to the power of sisterly love and a celebration of matryoshkas, the cherished Russian nesting dolls.
Corinne Demas Bliss is the author of several books for children, including Matthew’s Meadow. Ms. Bliss is a professor of English at Mount Holyoke College, and lives with her family in western Massachusetts.
Kathryn Brown has illustrated several children’s books, including Tough Boris by Mem Fox (an ALA Notable Book). Ms. Brown lives in Massachusetts.
The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities and Art History
offers a broad survey of cutting-edge intersections between digital
technologies and the study of art history, museum practices, and
cultural heritage. The volume focuses not only on new computational
tools that have been developed for the study of artworks and their
histories but also debates the disciplinary opportunities and
challenges that have emerged in response to the use of digital
resources and methodologies. Chapters cover a wide range of
technical and conceptual themes that define the current state of
the field and outline strategies for future development. This book
offers a timely perspective on trans-disciplinary developments that
are reshaping art historical research, conservation, and teaching.
This book will be of interest to scholars in art history,
historical theory, method and historiography, and research methods
in education.
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Nora's Chicks (Hardcover)
Patricia MacLachlan; Illustrated by Kathryn Brown
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R451
R386
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From Newbery Medalist Patricia MacLachlan comes a reassuring story
about new beginnings and making friends.
Nora and her family have just arrived from Russia and are making a
new home on the American frontier. The prairie is very different
from the forested hills Nora is used to. Most of all, it's lonely.
Papa has the cows he sings to as he milks them. Baby brother Milo
has a dog to follow him wherever he goes. But Nora has no one and
nothing to call her own until Papa brings home a dozen chicks and
two geese. Nora names each one, and they follow her everywhere --
even to church But what will happen when one of her beloved chicks
goes missing?
Henri Matisse's experiments with form and color revolutionized the
twentieth-century art world. In this concise critical biography,
Kathryn Brown explores Matisse's long career, beginning with his
struggles as a student in Paris and culminating in his celebrated
use of paper cutouts and stained glass in the last decade of his
life. The book challenges various myths about Matisse and offers a
fresh perspective on his creativity and legacy. Chapters explore
the artist's enthusiasm for fashion and cinema, his travels,
personal ties, interest in African art, love of literature, and
willingness to challenge audience expectations. Through close
readings of Matisse's works, Brown offers new insight into the
artist's friendships and battles with dealers, critics, collectors,
and fellow artists.
Women, Art and Money in England establishes the importance of women
artists' commercial dealings to their professional identities and
reputations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Grounded in economic, social and art history, the book draws on and
synthesises data from a broad range of documentary and archival
sources to present a comprehensive history of women artists'
professional status and business relationships within the complex
and changing art market of late-Victorian England. By providing new
insights into the routines and incomes of women artists, and the
spaces where they created, exhibited and sold their art, this book
challenges established ideas about what women had to do to be
considered 'professional' artists. More important than a Royal
Academy education or membership to exhibiting societies was a
woman's ability to sell her work. This meant that women had strong
incentive to paint in saleable, popular and 'middlebrow' genres,
which reinforced prejudices towards women's 'naturally' inferior
artistic ability - prejudices that continued far into the twentieth
century. From shining a light on the difficult to trace pecuniary
arrangements of little researched artists like Ethel Mortlock to
offering new and direct comparisons between the incomes earned by
male and female artists, and the genres, commissions and
exhibitions that earned women the most money, Women, Art and Money
is a timely contribution to the history of women's working lives
that is relevant to a number of scholarly disciplines.
Throughout his career, Henri Matisse used imagery as a means of
engaging critically with poetry and prose by a diverse range of
authors. Kathryn Brown offers a groundbreaking account of Matisse's
position in the literary cross-currents of 20th-century France and
explores ways in which reading influenced the artist's work in a
range of media. This study argues that the livre d'artiste became
the privileged means by which Matisse enfolded literature into his
own idiom and demonstrated the centrality of his aesthetic to
modernist debates about authorship and creativity. By tracing the
compositional and interpretive choices that Matisse made as a
painter, print maker, and reader in the field of book production,
this study offers a new theoretical account of visual art's
capacity to function as a form of literary criticism and extends
debates about the gendering of 20th-century bibliophilia. Brown
also demonstrates the importance of Matisse's self-placement in
relation to the French literary canon in the charged political
climate of the Second World War and its aftermath. Through a
combination of archival resources, art history, and literary
criticism, this study offers a new interpretation of Matisse's
artist's books and will be of interest to art historians, literary
scholars, and researchers in book history and modernism.
Commentators have noted the extraordinary impact of popular culture
on legal practice, courtroom proceedings, police departments, and
government as a whole, and it is no exaggeration to say that most
people derive their basic understanding of law from cultural
products. Movies, television programs, fiction, children's
literature, online games, and the mass media typically influence
attitudes and impressions regarding law and legal institutions more
than law and legal institutions themselves.Law and Popular Culture:
International Perspectives enhances the appreciation of the
interaction between popular culture and law by underscoring this
interaction's multinational and international features. Two dozen
authors from nine countries invite readers to consider the role of
law-related popular culture in a broad range of nations,
socio-political contexts, and educational environments. Even more
importantly, selected contributors explore the global transmission
and reception of law-related cultural products and, in particular,
the influence of assorted works and media across national borders
and cultural boundaries.The circulation and consumption of
law-related popular culture are increasing as channels of mass
media become more complex and as globalization runs its uncertain
course. Law and Popular Culture: International Perspectives adds to
the critical understanding of the worldwide interaction of popular
culture and law and encourages reflection on the wider implications
of this mutual influence across both time and geography.
Pathways to Complexity synthesizes a wealth of new archaeological
data to illuminate the origins of Maya civilization and the rise of
Classic Maya culture. In this volume, prominent Maya scholars argue
that the development of social, religious, and economic complexity
began during the Middle Preclassic period (1000-300 B.C.), hundreds
of years earlier than previously thought.Contributors reveal that
villages were present in parts of the lowlands by 1000 B.C.,
challenging the prevailing models estimating when civilization took
root in the area. Combining recent discoveries from the northern
lowlands-an area often neglected in other volumes-and the southern
lowlands, the collection then traces the emergence of
sociopolitical inequality and complexity in all parts of the
Yucatan peninsula over the course of the Middle Preclassic period.
They show that communities evolved in different ways due to
influences such as geographical location, ceramic exchange, shell
ornament production, agricultural strategy, religious ritual,
ideology, and social rankings. These varied pathways to complexity
developed over half a millennium and culminated in the institution
of kingship by the Late Preclassic period.Presenting exciting work
on a dynamic and poorly understood time period, Pathways to
Complexity demonstrates the importance of a broad, comparative
approach to understanding Preclassic Maya civilization and will
serve as a foundation for future research and interpretation.
Contributors: M. Kathryn Brown | George Bey III | Tara Bond-Freeman
| Fernando Robles Castellanos | Tomas Gallareta Negron | E. Wyllys
Andrews V | Anthony Andrews | David S. Anderson | Lauren Sullivan |
Jaime J. Awe | James F. Garber | Mary Jane Acuna | William Saturno
| Bobbi Hohmann | Terry Powis | Paul Healy | Richard Hansen |
Donald W. Forsyth | David Freidel | Barbara Arroyo | Richard E. W.
Adams
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