Author: Sidney Littlefield Kasfir
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253022657
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
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Focusing on the theme of warriorhood, Sidney Littlefield Kasfir weaves a complex history of how colonial influence forever changed artistic practice, objects, and their meaning. Looking at two widely diverse cultures, the Idoma in Nigeria and the Samburu in Kenya, Kasfir makes a bold statement about the links between colonialism, the Europeans' image of Africans, Africans' changing self representation, and the impact of global trade on cultural artifacts and the making of art. This intriguing history of the interaction between peoples, aesthetics, morals, artistic objects and practices, and the global trade in African art challenges current ideas about artistic production and representation.
Author: U-hwan Yi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Text assembled from writings by Lee Ufan published in catalogues, magazines and newspapers between 1967 and 2003.
Author: Bert Winther-Tamaki
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824824006
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Art in the Encounter of Nations is the first book-length study of interactions between the Japanese and American art worlds in the early postwar years. It brings to light a rich exchange of opinions and debates regarding the relationship between the art of the two nations. The author begins with an examination of the Japanese margins of American Abstract Expressionism. Taking a contrapuntal approach, he investigates four abstract painters: two Japanese artists who moved to the United States (Okada Kenzo and Hasegawa Saburo) and two European Americans whose work is often associated with Japanese calligraphy (Mark Tobey and Franz Kline). He then looks at the work of two young scions of the calligraphy and pottery worlds of Japan -- Morita Shiryo and Yagi Kazuo -- and argues that their radical innovations in these ancient arts were, in part, provoked by their sense of a threat posed by Euro-American modernity. The final chapter is devoted to the career of Japanese American sculptor and designer Isamu Noguchi, whose feeling of affiliation was directed to both the U.S. and Japan in shifting ratios through a series of public and private places, each posing unique opportunities for exploring national distinctions.
Author: Lissant Bolton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780714125961
Category : Art, Melanesian
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The British Museums uniquely important Melanesian collection is pre-eminent among early collections, and the 20,000 items it comprises are core to understanding the cultures of the western Pacific.
Author: Elizabeth Ashburn
Publisher: Fine Art Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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This benchmark publication documents the diversity and vitality of lesbian talent in Australia. A hitherto marginalised group, lesbian artists are now being incorporated into mainstream culture and this book provides a timely introduction to the issues explored by these artists, which include sexuality, mythology and religion, mass media and technology. The development of different modes of production through collaborative processes and collective art making is also discussed. The history of the emergence of lesbian art practice into contemporary culture is charted through documentation of alternative exhibition spaces, legislation, protest marches and events such as the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras held annually in Sydney. The acceptance of lesbian art as an art of difference rather than of community is examined. The diversity in lesbian art practice is highlighted through the variety of styles, art forms and practices which the author has uncovered. Performance art, film, video, computer generated imagery as well as painting, sculpture, graphic arts and craft reinforce the impression of a vital, imaginative body of work making an important contribution to late twentieth-century visual art. This book, with its theoretical discussion, historical overview and profiles of leading practitioners will be an invaluable resource for artists, students and teachers in art schools, women's, gender and queer studies, feminists, homosexuals and lesbians.
Author: Brittany Luby
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316449148
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
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A powerful imagining by two Native creators of a first encounter between two very different people that celebrates our ability to acknowledge difference and find common ground. Based on the real journal kept by French explorer Jacques Cartier in 1534, Encounter imagines a first meeting between a French sailor and a Stadaconan fisher. As they navigate their differences, the wise animals around them note their similarities, illuminating common ground. This extraordinary imagining by Brittany Luby, Professor of Indigenous History, is paired with stunning art by Michaela Goade, winner of 2018 American Indian Youth Literature Best Picture Book Award. Encounter is a luminous telling from two Indigenous creators that invites readers to reckon with the past, and to welcome, together, a future that is yet unchartered.
Author: Angela L. Miller
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 9780130300041
Category : Art and society
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"Contextual in approch, this text draws on socio-economic and political studies as well as histories of religion, science, literature, and popular culture, and explores the diverse, conflicted history of American art and architecture. Thematically interrelating the visual arts to other material artifacts and cultural practices, the text examines how artists and architects produced artwork that visually expressed various social and political values."--Publisher's website.
Author: Miryam Sas
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674053403
Category : Arts, Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Miryam Sas explores the theoretical and cultural implications of Japanese experimental arts in a range of media, casting light on important moments in the arts from the 1960s to the early 1980s. This book also locates Japanese experimental arts in an extensive, sustained dialogue with key issues of contemporary critical theory.
Author: Tarnya Cooper
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781855147751
Category : Art, Baroque
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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This book brings together fifty exquisite observational portrait drawings from the Renaissance and Baroque periods , including works by Leonardo da Vinci, D�rer, Holbein, Bernini, Carracci, Clouet , Rubens and Rembrandt . More than a record of the sitters ' appearance, these works capture a moment of connection between artist and sitter: an encounter.
Author: Michael Ann Holly
Publisher: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Museum
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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