Author: Ginevra Addis
Publisher: European Press Academic Publishing
ISBN: 9788883980879
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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The Pop Art phenomenon has been a subject of discussion for art critics, gallerists, collectors and the artists themselves since its first appearance in the '50s. Beginning in the '80s, a strong interest emerged in studying the current retrospectively, intending not only to define its spread in geographical and chronological terms, but also to identify which artists and single pieces of artwork could be labeled as 'Pop'. Despite the efforts made in describing the current, previous research has trivialized it to the point that the term 'Pop' has been misattributed and its features are not precise. It is within this framework that this book investigates the artistic fortunes of Pop Art in Italy, exploring whether what happened in Italy could be identified as such and especially focusing on the period between 1962 and 1964 (as well as the period immediately following).
Author: Mulholland, Jon
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1839106131
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Investigating the changing forms and dynamics of the artisanal and craft sector, this timely book considers the opportunities, challenges and uncertainties associated with artisanal businesses in new economic times. An international range of case studies is used to demonstrate that the sector must harness the transformational opportunities of technological innovation to ensure future viability and vitality.
Author: Nunzia Borrelli
Publisher: Ledizioni
ISBN: 8855268392
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 391
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Climate change is a reality, and communities around the world are now facing significant environmental problems – rising global temperatures leading to increased risk of flooding, fire, and sea level rise, resulting in the destruction of property and social infrastructure, loss of biodiversity and tangible and intangible cultural heritage, and damage to economies. Little wonder then that the online conference held on 30 September 2021 with the title “Ecomuseums and Climate Action” attracted more than one hundred participants from countries whose communities are facing these problems.This book presents the results of this conference where heritage experts, community activists, curators, politicians and academics from several countries, explored how ecomuseums and community museums are acting as catalysts for transition, renewal, and sustainable development and how they might effectively contribute to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and climate action. How can these organisations best contribute to the debate about the climate crisis and promote local action? Central to those actions are encouraging local people to recognise how important their cultural, natural and intangible cultural heritage is in making places special and giving a sense of belonging, why that heritage should be sustained, and how heritage assets can be used to promote climate action. This book – with its remarkable collection of essays from around the world – demonstrates how small local actions, considered together, can have a dramatic and far-reaching impact. It will be warmly welcomed by anyone interested in climate action, heritage and museum studies, and environmental issues.
Author: Jay Williams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780977636877
Category : Pop art
Languages : en
Pages : 29
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This exhibition catalogue centers on the visual language of Pop Art and the nature of its quoted sources. In 1974, Lawrence Alloway wrote that in the era of Pop Art, “the mass media entered the work of art, and the whole environment was regarded, reciprocally, by the artists as art, too.” When Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, Jasper Johns , and their contemporaries created art using the visual language of popular culture and mass communications, their audience usually understood their points of reference. Pop Art arose before the digital era; so many contemporary viewers see classic Pop Art from a different viewpoint, as historical art. The exhibition will shed light on the social context surrounding the creation of classic Pop Art and how our contemporary social environment has affected our attitudes towards the movement.
Author: Sylvia Harrison
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780511302459
Category : Pop art
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Examines the critical reception of Pop Art, identifying the American roots of deconstructive post-modernism.
Author: Julia C. Fischer
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527500543
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Popularized by the hit television show, the phrase “breaking bad” is defined in urban slang as someone who challenges convention, defies authority, or rejects moral and social norms. Running from 2008 to 2013 on AMC, Breaking Bad featured one of the most unforgettable characters in television history: Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher, husband, and father, who is diagnosed with terminal cancer. For five seasons, fans watched as Walter White tried to secure financial security for his family by using his chemistry skills to manufacture drugs. Throughout the series’ run, Walter White was the epitome of the phrase “breaking bad”, as he broke the law and continually rejected the social mores that he had dutifully followed until his cancer diagnosis. Taking its cue from Walter White, this volume explores the various ways in which artists, patrons, and art historians throughout history have broken bad by defying authority, challenging convention, or rejecting the norm. For example, artists also sometimes break away from tradition by using unconventional iconography, as is the case in Chapter Two, which investigates how Etruscan tomb reliefs show mourning rather than celebration. The book also includes a chapter in which an art historian breaks bad by challenging the conventional interpretation and date of an object, thus eschewing tradition and defying authority. In this case, Chapter Three disputes the largely accepted Hellenistic date and interpretation of the Tazza Farnese, and instead asserts that the cameo must be Roman. Spanning the art of ancient Etruria to the twentieth century, the eight chapters here explore the theme of breaking bad from a variety of time periods and artistic media, from Etruscan mirrors and Roman cameos to Baroque portraits and Italian Pop Art. Scholars approach the topic of breaking bad from a number of perspectives, including examining the artist, patronage, reception, propaganda, iconography, methodology, and use.
Author: James H. Beck
Publisher: European Press Academic Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : it
Pages : 222
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Nel 2004 due dipinti, una piccola Madonna, supposta opera di Raffaello, ed una altrettanto piccola Madonna, supposta opera di Duccio, sono stati venduti per una somma totale di più di 100 milioni di dollari. Il primo, noto come la "Madonna dei garofani" è stato comprato dalla National Gallery di Londra e il secondo, talvolta chiamato il "Duccio Stoclet" è stato acquistato dal Metropolitan Museum di New York. Il modo in cui i lavori sono stati attribuiti ai due famosi artisti, denota chiaramente la crisi della moderna pratica attribuzionistica di fronte all'odierno, plutocrate mondo dell'arte. Le due opere infatti costituiscono una forte spesa di denaro pubblico per lavori non più grandi di un foglio di carta. Il libro dimostra dove e perché la loro attribuzione è erronea e cerca di ristabilire gli strumenti per una analisi corretta. In pratica, l'autore fornisce uno studio rigoroso e filogico dei due dipinti, dimostrando che entrambi sono falsi creati nel diciannovesimo secolo. Annotation Supplied by Informazioni Editoriali
Author: Rosalind E. Krauss
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262610469
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Co-founder and co-editor of October magazine, a veteran of Artforum of the 1960s and early 1970s, Rosalind Krauss has presided over and shared in the major formulation of the theory of postmodernism. In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally appeared in October, she explores the ways in which the break in style that produced postmodernism has forced a change in our various understandings of twentieth-century art, beginning with the almost mythic idea of the avant-garde. Krauss uses the analytical tools of semiology, structuralism, and poststructuralism to reveal new meanings in the visual arts and to critique the way other prominent practitioners of art and literary history write about art. In two sections, "Modernist Myths" and "Toward Postmodernism," her essays range from the problem of the grid in painting and the unity of Giacometti's sculpture to the works of Jackson Pollock, Sol Lewitt, and Richard Serra, and observations about major trends in contemporary literary criticism.
Author: Cécile Whiting
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780521450041
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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When Pop Art paintings depicted Campbell soup cans or comic-book scenes of teen romance, did they stoop to the level of their mundane sources, or did they instead transform the detritus of consumer culture into high art? In this study, Ccile Whiting declares this issue fundamentally irresolvable and instead takes the question itself, along with the varied answers it has generated, as the object of her analysis. Whiting presents case studies that focus on works by four artists - Tom Wesselmann, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and Marisol Escobar - who are closely associated with the Pop Art movement. Throughout her engaging analyses, Whiting unravels the gendered overtones of their cultural manoeuvrings, noting how the connotations of masculinity as attached to the seriousness of high art, and the presumed frivolity and caprice of a feminine world of consumption repositioned cultural frontiers and reformulated the relation between sexes.
Author: Robert Greene
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1847651402
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Which sort of seducer could you be? Siren? Rake? Cold Coquette? Star? Comedian? Charismatic? Or Saint? This book will show you which. Charm, persuasion, the ability to create illusions: these are some of the many dazzling gifts of the Seducer, the compelling figure who is able to manipulate, mislead and give pleasure all at once. When raised to the level of art, seduction, an indirect and subtle form of power, has toppled empires, won elections and enslaved great minds. In this beautiful, sensually designed book, Greene unearths the two sides of seduction: the characters and the process. Discover who you, or your pursuer, most resembles. Learn, too, the pitfalls of the anti-Seducer. Immerse yourself in the twenty-four manoeuvres and strategies of the seductive process, the ritual by which a seducer gains mastery over their target. Understand how to 'Choose the Right Victim', 'Appear to Be an Object of Desire' and 'Confuse Desire and Reality'. In addition, Greene provides instruction on how to identify victims by type. Each fascinating character and each cunning tactic demonstrates a fundamental truth about who we are, and the targets we've become - or hope to win over. The Art of Seduction is an indispensable primer on the essence of one of history's greatest weapons and the ultimate power trip. From the internationally bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, Mastery, and The 33 Strategies Of War.
