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- Women, art, and society / by Chadwick, Whitney.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 518-539) and index.Art history and the woman artist -- The Middle Ages -- The Renaissance ideal -- The other Renaissance -- Domestic genres and women painters in northern Europe -- Amateurs and academics : a new ideology of femininity in France and England -- Sex, class, and power in Victorian England -- Toward Utopia : moral reform and American art in the nineteenth century -- Separate but unequal : woman's sphere and the new art -- Modernism, Abstraction, and the new woman -- Modernist representation : the female body -- Gender, race, and Modernism after the Second World War -- Feminist art in North America and Great Britain -- New directions : a partial overview -- Worlds together, worlds apart -- A place to grow : personal visions, global concerns -- The enduring legacy of feminism.This 5th edition of one of the best-selling World of Art titles features a completely new chapter that charts the evolution of feminist art history and pedagogy since the 1970s, revealing how artists have developed and subverted the strategies of feminism. It is brought up to date with discussion of some of the most significant international women artists to have emerged in recent years, including Wangechi Mutu, Pae White, Yael Bartana, Jenny Saville, and Teresa Margolles.
- Subjects: Women artists; Feminism and art.; Women in art.; Art and society.;
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- Framing America : a social history of American art / by Pohl, Frances K.(Frances Kathryn),1952-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 526-540) and index.Art and conquest -- Defining America -- Nature and nation -- A nation at war -- Work and art redefined -- The machine, the primitive, and the modern -- Art for the people, art against Fascism -- From Cold War to culture wars.
- Subjects: Art, American.; Art and society.;
- © 2002., Thames & Hudson,
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- The big picture : contemporary art in 10 works by 10 artists / by Israel, Matthew(Matthew Winer).;
Includes bibliographical references and index.1999, Andreas Gursky, Rhine II -- 2003, Olafur Eliasson, The Weather Project -- 2004, Rachel Harrison, Huffy Howler -- 2005, Kehinde Wiley, Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps -- 2008, Vik Muniz, Marat (Sebastião) -- 2009, Ai Weiwei, Remembering -- 2009, Ryan Trecartin, P.opular S.ky (section ish) -- 2010, Marina Abramović, The Artist Is Present -- 2012, Tauba Auerbach, Untitled (Fold) -- 2014, Kara Walker, A Subtlety.Written in an engaging, straightforward style by prominent art historian Matthew Israel, this book presents ten outstanding examples of contemporary art, each with significant historical or cultural relevance to contemporary art's big picture. Drawn from the fields of photography, painting, performance, installation, video, film, and public art, the works featured here combine to create a bigger picture of the state of contemporary art today. From Andreas Gursky's large-scale color photograph 'Rhine II' to Kara Walker's acclaimed installation in the Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn, each work is carefully explored within the larger perspective of its social and artistic milieu. Articulate and insightful, this book offers readers the ability to consider each work in-depth, while also providing an easily digestible foundation from which to study the often challenging but continually fascinating world of 21st-century art.
- Subjects: Art, Modern; Art and society;
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- Look at this if you love great art : a critical curation of 100 essential artworks / by Ashby, Chloë,author.;
Oh, what a feeling! -- You can leave your hat on -- Pushing the boundaries -- Gods and mythical creatures -- Troubled dreams -- Out of the ordinary -- To the barricades -- Natural wonders -- The balance of power -- Change of scene."Look At This If You Love Great Art is a must read for anyone with a passion for exceptional art. Featuring 100 of the best artworks ever produced, inside is a collection of insightful summaries on just what it is that makes each one so vital. Art writer Chloë Ashby talks you through the pieces that resonate with her, revealing the fascinating stories behind them and offering her considered take on why each work should be regarded as a pinnacle of artistic endeavour. With entries curated to offer a unique juxtaposition of styles, mediums and schools of art, expect a contemporary take on classic artworks, where titans of art history cross paths with under-appreciated examples from outside the traditional canon, and where rebellious visionaries blaze trails that still influence today's cutting-edge artists. Covering all the most important genres of art -Abstraction, Pop Art, Surrealism, Renaissance art, Impressionism and more - this engaging summary only deals with artworks that really matter and the reasons why you have to see them." --
- Subjects: Art; Picture interpretation.; Art appreciation.; Painting; Sculpture; Art, Modern; Art movements.; Art and society.;
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- Why our schools need the arts / by Davis, Jessica Hoffmann,1943-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-144) and index.The lay of the land. Prelude : what's the difference between science and art? ; Examples of the arts in education ; Responding to objections to the arts in education : lessons from out of school -- The case for the arts in education. Prelude : why must we justify the arts in terms of non-arts learning? ; Introducing unique features of the arts and what students learn -- Advocating for the arts in education. Prelude : might failure work as a platform for arts in education advocacy? ; What counts as advocacy ; Practical challenges ; Advocacy don'ts and do's -- With an eye to the future. Prelude : on painting with a young child ; In sum.
- Subjects: Art; Art and society; Art; Art et socieÌteÌ;
- © c2008., Teachers College Press,
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- Arts, Inc. : how greed and neglect have destroyed our cultural rights / by Ivey, Bill J.,1944-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-328) and index.The Cultural Bill of Rights -- Preface -- Introduction -- Heritage -- Artists -- A creative life -- America, art, and the world -- Art of lasting value -- Strong, responsible institutions -- The failure of government -- Conclusion: bridging the cultural divide.
- Subjects: Art and state; Art and society; Cultural property; Arts; Arts;
- © c2008., University of California Press,
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- Beautiful terrible ruins : Detroit and the anxiety of decline / by Apel, Dora,1952-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Modernity in Ruins -- Ruin Terrors and Pleasures -- Fear and Longing in Detroit -- Urban Exploration: Beauty in Decay -- Detroit Ruin Images: Where Are the People? -- Looking for Signs of Resurrection -- Surviving in the Post-Apocalyptic Landscape -- Conclusion: Your Town Tomorrow."Apel shows how Detroit has become pivotal to an expanding network of ruin imagery that speaks to the overarching anxieties of our era: increasing poverty, declining wages and social services, inadequate health care, unemployment, homelessness, and ecological disaster - in short, the failure of capitalism."Once the manufacturing powerhouse of the nation, Detroit has become emblematic of failing cities everywhere--the paradigmatic city of ruins--and the epicenter of an explosive growth in images of urban decay. In Beautiful Terrible Ruins, art historian Dora Apel explores a wide array of these images, ranging from photography, advertising, and television, to documentaries, video games, and zombie and disaster films. Apel shows how Detroit has become pivotal to an expanding network of ruin imagery, imagery ultimately driven by a pervasive and growing cultural pessimism, a loss of faith in progress, and a deepening fear that worse times are coming. The images of Detroit's decay speak to the overarching anxieties of our era: increasing poverty, declining wages and social services, inadequate health care, unemployment, homelessness, and ecological disaster--in short, the failure of capitalism. Apel reveals how, through the aesthetic distancing of representation, the haunted beauty and fascination of ruin imagery, embodied by Detroit's abandoned downtown skyscrapers, empty urban spaces, decaying factories, and derelict neighborhoods help us to cope with our fears. But Apel warns that these images, while pleasurable, have little explanatory power, lulling us into seeing Detroit's deterioration as either inevitable or the city's own fault, and absolving the real agents of decline--corporate disinvestment and globalization. Beautiful Terrible Ruins helps us understand the ways that the pleasure and the horror of urban decay hold us in thrall.--Publisher website.
- Subjects: Ruins in art.; Regression (Civilization) in art.; Arts and society; Arts and society;
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- Andy Warhol / by Danto, Arthur Coleman,1924-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-150) and index.The window at Bonwit's -- Pop, politics, and the gap between art and life -- The Brillo box -- Moving images -- The first death -- Andy Warhol enterprises -- Religion and common experience."In a work of great wisdom and insight, art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto delivers a compact, masterful tour of Andy Warhol's personal, artistic, and philosophical transformations. Danto traces the evolution of the pop artist, including his early reception, relationships with artists such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, and the Factory phenomenon. He offers close readings of individual Warhol works, including their social context and philosophical dimensions, key differences with predecessors such as Marcel Duchamp,and parallels with successors like Jeff Koons. Danto brings to bear encyclopedic knowledge of Warhol's time and shows us Warhol as an endlessly multidimensional figure - artist, political activist, filmmaker, writer, philosopher who retains permanent residence in our national imagination. Danto suggests that "what makes him an American icon is that his subject matter is always something that the ordinary American understands: everything, or nearly everything he made art out of came straight out of the daily lives of very ordinary Americans .... The tastes and values of ordinary persons all at once were inseparable from advanced art."--Book jacket.
- Subjects: Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987; Art and society; Warhol, Andy.; Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987.;
- © c2009., Yale University Press,
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- The Civil War and American art / by Harvey, Eleanor Jones.; Smithsonian American Art Museum.; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.);
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-293) and index."The American Civil War was arguably the first modern war. Its grim reality, captured through the new medium of photography, was laid bare. American artists could not approach the conflict with the conventions of European history painting, which glamorized the hero on the battlefield. Instead, many artists found ways to weave the war into works of art that considered the human narrative--the daily experiences of soldiers, slaves, and families left behind. Artists and writers wrestled with the ambiguity and anxiety of the Civil War and used landscape imagery to give voice to their misgivings as well as their hopes for themselves and the nation. This important book looks at the range of artwork created before, during, and following the war, in the years between 1859 and 1876. Author Eleanor Jones Harvey examines the implications of the war on landscape and genre painting, history painting, and photography, as represented in some of the greatest masterpieces of 19th-century American art. The book features extensive quotations from men and women alive during the war years, alongside text by literary figures including Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, and Walt Whitman, among many others"--Landscapes and the metaphorical war -- The art of wartime photography -- The human face of war -- Abolition and emancipation.
- Subjects: Art, American; Art and society;
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- Corn palaces and butter queens : a history of crop art and dairy sculpture / by Simpson, Pamela H.(Pamela Hemenway),1946-2011.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-227) and index.Banquet Tables to Trophy Displays -- Cereal Architecture -- Butter Cows and Butter Ladies -- America's World's Fairs, 1893/1915 -- Boosters, Saracens, and Indians -- Mrs. Brooks and President Roosevelt -- An Ongoing Tradition -- Conclusion: Icons of Abundance."Teddy Roosevelt's head sculpted from butter. The Liberty Bell replicated in oranges. The Sioux City Corn Palace of 1891 encased with corn, grains, and grasses and stretching for two city blocks--with a trolley line running down its center. Between 1870 and 1930, from county and state fairs to the world's fairs, large exhibition buildings were covered with grains, fruits, and vegetables to declare in no uncertain terms the rich agricultural abundance of the United States. At the same fairs--but on a more intimate level--ice-cooled cases enticed fairgoers to marvel at an array of butter sculpture models including cows, buildings, flowers, and politicians, all proclaiming the rich bounty and unending promise held by the region. Often viewed as mere humorous novelties--fun and folksy, but not worthy of serious consideration--these lively forms of American art are described by Pamela H. Simpson in a fascinating and comprehensive history. From the pioneering cereal architecture of Henry Worrall at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition to the vast corn palaces displayed in Sioux City, Iowa, and elsewhere between 1877 and 1891, Simpson brings to life these dazzling large-scale displays in turn-of-the-century American fairs and festivals. She guides readers through the fascinating forms of crop art and butter sculpture, as they grew from state and regional fairs to a significant place at the major international exhibitions. The Minnesota State Fair's Princess Kay of the Milky Way contest, Lillian Colton's famed pictorial seed art, and the work of Iowa's "butter cow lady," Norma "Duffy" Lyon, are modern versions of this tradition. Beautifully illustrated with a bounty of never-before-seen archival images, Corn Palaces and Butter Queens is an accessible history of one of America's most unique and beguiling Midwestern art forms--an amusing and peculiar phenomenon that profoundly affected the way Americans saw themselves and their country's potential during times of drought and great depression."--
- Subjects: Corn palaces; Butter sculpture; Plants as art material; Art and society;
- © 2012., University of Minnesota Press,
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