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A hand-signed porcelain urinal. An abstract drip painting. A silent 700 hour performance. Art has changed since the days of Giotto, Michelangelo, and even Picasso--and many of us are perplexed. Do modern and contemporary artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Jackson Pollock, and Marina Abramovic represent civilization's highest achievements? Or is something else afoot? Art critic Lance Esplund demonstrates that works of modern and contemporary art are not...
2) On weaving
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Anni Albers (1899–1994) was one of the foremost textile artists of the twentieth century; her works are in major museum collections around the world. Nicholas Fox Weber is executive director of The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and the author of The Bauhaus Group: Six Masters of Modernism. Manuel Cirauqui is curator at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain. T'ai Smith is associate professor of art history at the University of British Columbia...
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Throughout history, artists and citizens have turned to protest art as a means of demonstrating social and political discontent. From the earliest broadsheets in the 1500s to engravings, photolithographs, prints, posters, murals, graffiti, and political cartoons, these endlessly inventive graphic forms have symbolized and spurred on power struggles, rebellions, spirited causes, and calls to arms. Spanning continents and centuries, Protest! presents...
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"When reclusive, millionaire artist Robert Indiana died in 2018, he left behind dark rumors and scandal, as well as an estate embroiled in lawsuits and facing accusations of fraud. Here is the true story of the artist's final days, the aftermath, the deceptive world that surrounded him, and the inner workings of art as very big business. "I'm an artist, not a business man," Robert Indiana said, refusing to copyright his iconic LOVE sculpture in 1965....
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Celebrate 45 women artists, and gain inspiration for your own practice, with this beautiful exploration of contemporary creators from the founder of The Jealous Curator.
Walk into any museum, or open any art book, and you'll probably be left wondering: where are all the women artists? A Big Important Art Book (Now with Women) offers an exciting alternative to this male-dominated art world, showcasing the work of dozens of contemporary women artists...
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"Everyone knows a Feiffer illustration when they see one: His characters leap across the page, each line belying humor and psychological insight. Over Feiffer's prolific 70-year career, his nimble and singular imagination has given us new perspectives as well as biting satires on politics, love, marriage, and religion--alternating with stories imbued with the playful anarchy of a child. Feiffer's varied output includes children's books (The Phantom...
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"In 1911, the famed cartoonist Winsor McCay debuted an animated version of his popular newspaper strip, Little Nemo in Slumberland. Loosely inspired by Sigmund Freud's research on dreams, the film was one of the very first of its kind. McCay is largely forgotten today, but his work helped unleash the creative energy of animators like Otto Messmer, Max Fleischer, Walt Disney, and Chuck Jones. Their origin stories, rivalries, and sheer genius, as Reid...
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In 1943, Peggy Guggenheim commissioned a mural from Jackson Pollock to hang in the entryway of her Manhattan townhouse. It was the largest Pollock canvas she would ever own, and four years later she gave it to a small Midwestern institution with no place to put it. When the original scroll of On the Road goes on tour across the country, it lands at the same Iowa museum housing Peggy's Pollock, revitalizing Riley Hanick's adolescent fascination with...
10) Andy Warhol
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Art critic, philosopher, and winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award 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...
11) Second Site
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"Honorable Mention for the Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize, Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada" James Nisbet is associate professor of art history and visual studies at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Ecologies, Environments, and Energy Systems in Art of the 1960s and 1970s and the coeditor of The Invention of the American Desert: Art, Land, and the Politics of Environment. He lives in Irvine,...
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"Artists are expert lookers: they have learned to pay attention. The rest of us spend most of our time on auto-pilot, rushing from place to place, our overfamiliarity blinding us to the marvellous, life-affirming phenomena of our world. But that doesn't have to be the case. In his inimitable engaging style, Will Gompertz takes us into the minds of artists-from contemporary stars to old masters, the well-known to the lesser-so, and from around the...
13) The Way Forward
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The Way Forward, a sequel to The Way Back. Jody Mitchell, her brother Don, and friend Elliot Treggor have moved to a heavily-wooded area in the northeastern corner of Minnesota. Together they have ventured into purchasing and running the Pinewood Motel. As each leaves a troubled past behind them and are looking forward to a new beginning, some new and unexpected challenges hit by way of a bartender named Nora and a seven-year old girl named Mad. Frenzy...
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"El Premio de Ensayo Crítico invitaba a pensar problemas que recorrieran el arte argentino durante los últimos años, también sobre un corpus de obras o exhibiciones realizadas por artistas argentinos en los últimos quince años, estas eran unas proposiciones abiertas que no podría haber emprendido sin meditar antes sobre otras variables que exceden al arte e implican algo más grande. Algo que indecorosamente podría ser llamado mundo. Quería...
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Los soviets aprovecharon el malestar del pueblo ruso y su deseo de poner fin a La Gran Guerra, para imponer un nuevo orden comunista. La creación del Ejército Rojo les permitió contar con una amplia base de poder, sobre todo tras el estallido de la Guerra Civil. Su prueba de fuego definitiva se produjo durante la Gran Guerra Patriótica (la Segunda Guerra Mundial). Cuando los nazis invadieron la URSS, el Ejército Rojo plantó cara a la invasión...
16) Banzai
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Manuel Antonio y su esposa huyen de un grupo de asesinos que los persigue por pueblitos perdidos de la costa colombiana. Lo único que los mantiene vivos es su guardaespaldas, un hombre entrenado militarmente para enfrentar lo que sea.
¿Cómo llegaron a esto?
Una constructora colombiana contacta a Manuel, quien lleva varios años viviendo en España, para que viaje a Miami. Allí, asistirá a una cultura del exceso y del arribismo que lo deslumbrará,...
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This luxurious volume-the fourth in a series by Louis K. Meisel-is a comprehensive documentation of 21st-century Photorealism, one of the most popular art movements since the late 1960s. Photorealists work painstakingly from photographs to create startlingly realistic paintings, and where they once used film for gathering information, they now rely on digital technology, which has vastly expanded the amount of detail that can be captured. In these...
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Before Abbey Road there was Teme Street is about a day in the life of The Beatles.
-A band on the precipice of unprecedented global success
-who had released their first LP the previous month
-who had released their third hit single, From Me To You on the previous Thursday
-who had met the Rolling Stones for the first time the previous evening and partied at their Chelsea flat
-who would be playing the Royal Albert Hall in London the following...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 I was getting married, but I didn't feel like I was getting married. I was panicking, and I don't think I was alone. My heart was beating fast in my chest, and I was sure everyone could hear it.
#2 Jack's wedding was cold and calculating, and I felt like I was about to skydive. I wasn't in a garden surrounded by greenery and flowers, and the only piece of furniture...
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Partiendo del análisis exhaustivo de un conjunto significativo de artistas y obras, el presente volumen revela que tras la aparente homogeneidad del término "bioarte" se oculta una larga y compleja historia de relaciones entre arte, biología y tecnología. La vocación abarcadora del texto, primer estudio de conjunto sobre el tema escrito en castellano, permite analizar la posición que ocupa el bioarte con respecto a otros marcos establecidos,...
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