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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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Sexual personae : art and decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson / by Paglia, Camille,1947-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 675-700) and index.Sex and violence, or nature and art -- The birth of the western eye -- Apollo and Dionysus -- Pagan beauty -- Renaissance form: Italian art -- Spenser and Apollo: the Faerie queene -- Shakespeare and Dionysus: As you like it and Antony and Cleopatra -- Return of the great mother: Rousseau vs. Sade -- Amazons, mothers, ghosts: Goethe to Gothic -- Sex bound and unbound: Blake -- Marriage to Mother Nature: Wordsworth -- The Daemon as lesbian vampire: Coleridge -- Speed and space: Byron -- Light and heat: Shelley and Keats -- Cults of sex and beauty: Balzac -- Cults of sex and beauty: Gautier, Baudelaire, and Huysmans -- Romantic shadows: Emily Bronte -- Romantic shadows: Swinburne and Pater -- Apollo daemonized: decadent art -- The beautiful boy as destroyer: Wilde's The picture of Dorian Gray -- The English epicene: Wilde's The importance of being earnest -- American decadents: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville -- American decadents: Emerson, Whitman, James -- Amherst's Madame de Sade: Emily Dickinson.Discusses the works of Edmund Spenser, Shakespeare, Rousseau, de Sade, Goethe, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Balzac, Gautier, Baudelaire, Huysmans, Emily Bronte, Swinburne, Oscar Wilde, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Whitman, Henry James, and Emily Dickinson.
Subjects: Literature, Modern; Literature, Modern; Decadence (Literary movement); Paganism in literature.; Sex in literature.; Paganism in art.; Romanticism.; Sex in art.; Arts.;
© 1991., Vintage Books,
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Not here, not now, not that! : protest over art and culture in America / by Tepper, Steven J.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-350) and index.Introduction: The social nature of offense and public protest over art and culture -- A bird's-eye view of cultural conflict in America -- Social change and cultural conflict: uncertainty, control, and symbolic politics -- Some like it hot: why some cities are more contentious than others -- Fast times in Atlanta: change, identity, and protest -- From words to action: the political and institutional context for protest -- Introduction to chapters six, seven, and eight -- Profiles of contention -- Cities of cultural regulation: Cincinnati, Dayton, Kansas City, and Oklahoma City -- Cities of contention: Dallas, Fort Worth, Charlotte, and Denver -- Cities of recognition: San Francisco, Albuquerque, San Jose, and Cleveland -- On air, our air: fighting for decency on the airwaves -- Conclusion: Art and cultural expression in America: symbols of community, sources of conflict, and sites of democracy -- Epilogue: Reflections on cultural policy, democracy, and protest -- Methodological appendix.
Subjects: Arts; Arts; Culture conflict; Homosexuality and the arts; Arts and religion; Protest movements;
© 2011., The University of Chicago Press,
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A people's art history of the United States : 250 years of activist art and artists working in social justice movements / by Lampert, Nicolas,1969-;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Most people outside of the art world view art as something that is foreign to their experiences and everyday lives. A People's Art History of the United States places art history squarely in the rough-and-tumble of politics, social struggles, and the fight for justice from the colonial era through the present day. Author and radical artist Nicolas Lampert combines historical sweep with detailed examinations of individual artists and works in a politically charged narrative that spans the conquest of the Americas, the American Revolution, slavery and abolition, western expansion, the suffragette movement and feminism, civil rights movements, environmental movements, LGBT movements, antiglobalization movements, contemporary antiwar movements, and beyond. A People's Art History of the United States introduces us to key works of American radical art alongside dramatic retellings of the histories that inspired them. Stylishly illustrated with over two hundred images, this book is nothing less than an alternative education for anyone interested in the powerful role that art plays in our society."--Parallel paths on the same river -- Visualizing a partial revolution -- Liberation graphics -- Abolitionism as autonomy, activism, and entertainment -- The battleground over public memory -- Photographing the past during the present -- Jacob A. Riis's image problem -- Haymarket : an embattled history of static monuments and public interventions -- Blurring the boundaries between art and life -- "The Masses" on trial -- Banners designed to break a president -- The lynching crisis -- Become the media, circa 1930 -- Government-funded art : the boom and bust years for public art -- Artists organize -- Artists against war and Fascism -- Resistance or loyalty : the visual politics of Miné Okubo -- Come let us build a new world together -- Party artist : Emory Douglas and the Black Panther Party -- Protesting the museum industrial complex -- "The Living, breathing embodiment of a culture transformed" -- Public rituals, media performances, and citywide interventions -- No apologies : Asco, performance art, and the Chicano civil rights movement -- Art is not enough -- Antinuclear street art -- Living water : sustainability through collaboration -- Art defends art -- Bringing the war home -- Impersonating utopia and dystopia.
Subjects: Art; Dissident art; Art, American;
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Fascination with fiber : Michigan's handweaving heritage / by Gile, Marie A.; Marzolf, Marion.; Michigan State University.Museum.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-184).The early years -- The revival of handweaving -- Hartland: an ideal crafts community -- Arts and crafts: Cranbrook and the college for creative studies -- Guilds and groups: the grassroots movement -- Art centers, museums, and shops -- Trends of the times -- Weavers organize: the MLH and the HGA -- Finnish rag rugs: keeping the tradition alive -- Weaving in higher education -- Conclusion -- The MLH history project.
Subjects: Hand weaving; Textile fabrics; Fiberwork;
© c2006., University of Michigan Press,
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The American women's almanac : 500 years of making history / by Felder, Deborah G,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 549-552) and index.The arrival of women in America -- The struggle for equality: The first women's rights movement -- The second women's rights movement -- Literature -- Art and applied arts -- Media and the performing arts -- Sports figures -- Science, medicine, and technology -- Politics, government, and the law -- Religion -- Activists for social change -- Education - Business leaders and entrepreneurs -- The military -- Explorers."The most complete and affordable single-volume reference on women's history available today, this almanac is a unique and valuable resource devoted to illustrating the moving and often lost history of women in America. A fascinating mix of biographies, little-known or misunderstood historical facts, enlightening essays on significant legislation and movements, this book also contains numerous photographs and illustrations. Honoring and celebrating the vital role of women in American history, this fascinating tome provides insights on the long-ignored influence, inspiration, and impact of women on U.S. society and culture. The most illustrious figures, as well as less-known stars, are illuminated, including Louisa May Alcott, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Mary McCleod Bethune, Nellie Bly, Amelia Earhart, Jessie Benton Fremont, Marguerite Higgins, Grace Hopper, Julia Ward Howe, Harriet Jacobs, Barbara Jordan, Julie Krone, Juliette Gordon Lowe, Dolley Madison, Lynn Nottage, Pocahontas, Jeanette Rankin, Sally Ride, Bernice Sandler, and approximately 350 others"--
Subjects: Women;
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Street art / by Armstrong, Simon,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (page 171) and index.Street Art is a phenomenon and subcultural movement that reaches from the darkest urban backstreets to the most glamorous international art fairs. Simon Armstrong examines how it evolved from its origins in the 1970s New York graffiti scene to embrace many new materials, styles and techniques along the way, tracing how this marginal art form graduated into art galleries and the art market, while also heavily influencing design, fashion, advertising and visual culture. Despite having earned a place in the canon of 20th-century art history, Street Art's qualifications are often disputed both by the art establishment and practitioners themselves, all concerned with notions of authenticity. Examining Street Art's controversial history in detail, this book provides a full-colour worldwide journey, taking in all of the movement's significant artists and artworks, styles, materials and methods, and showcasing the works that have come to define it more than any other. It also examines its close relationship to Pop Art and Digital Art, and explores possible futures for Street Art.
Subjects: Street art.;
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Anatomy for the artist : drawings and text / by Barcsay, JenoÌ.;
Subjects: Anatomy, Artistic.;
© 2001., MetroBooks,
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The disordered mind : what unusual brains tell us about ourselves / by Kandel, Eric R.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.What brain disorders can tell us about ourselves -- Our intensely social nature : the autism spectrum -- Emotions and the integrity of the self : depression and bipolar disorder -- The ability to think and to make and carry out decisions : schizophrenia -- Memory, the storehouse of the self : dementia -- Our intrinsic creative capability : brain disorders and art -- Movement : Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases -- The interplay of conscious and unconscious emotion : anxiety, post-traumatic stress, and faulty decision-making -- The pleasure principle and freedom of choice: addictions -- Sexual differentiation of the brain and gender identity -- Consciousness : the great remaining mystery of the brain -- Conclusion : coming full circle.Eric R. Kandel, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his foundational research into memory storage in the brain, is one of the pioneers of modern brain science. His work continues to shape our understanding of how learning and memory work and to break down age-old barriers between the sciences and the arts. In his seminal new book, The Disordered Mind, Kandel draws on a lifetime of pathbreaking research and the work of many other leading neuroscientists to take us on an unusual tour of the brain. He confronts one of the most difficult questions we face: How does our mind, our individual sense of self, emerge from the physical matter of the brain? The brain's 86 billion neurons communicate with one another through very precise connections. But sometimes those connections are disrupted. The brain processes that give rise to our mind can become disordered, resulting in diseases such as autism, depression, schizophrenia, Parkinson's, addiction, and post-traumatic stress disorder. While these disruptions bring great suffering, they can also reveal the mysteries of how the brain produces our most fundamental experiences and capabilities--the very nature of what it means to be human. Studies of autism illuminate the neurological foundations of our social instincts; research into depression offers important insights on emotions and the integrity of the self; and paradigm-shifting work on addiction has led to a new understanding of the relationship between pleasure and willpower. By studying disruptions to typical brain functioning and exploring their potential treatments, we will deepen our understanding of thought, feeling, behavior, memory, and creativity. Only then can we grapple with the big question of how billions of neurons generate consciousness itself.
Subjects: Mental illness.; Neuropsychology.;
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The persuaders : at the front lines of the fight for hearts, minds, and democracy / by Giridharadas, Anand.;
"An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and save democracy"--
Subjects: Political culture; Political participation; Polarization (Social sciences); Democracy;
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