Art In Transition

Author : Francine Masiello
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822381389

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The Art of Transition addresses the problems defined by writers and artists during the postdictatorship years in Argentina and Chile, years in which both countries aggressively adopted neoliberal market-driven economies. Delving into the conflicting efforts of intellectuals to name and speak to what is real, Francine Masiello interprets the culture of this period as an art of transition, referring to both the political transition to democracy and the formal strategies of wrestling with this change that are found in the aesthetic realm. Masiello views representation as both a political and artistic device, concerned with the tensions between truth and lies, experience and language, and intellectuals and the marginal subjects they study and claim to defend. These often contentious negotiations, she argues, are most provocatively displayed through the spectacle of difference, which constantly crosses the literary stage, the market, and the North/South divide. While forcefully defending the ability of literature and art to advance ethical positions and to foster a critical view of neoliberalism, Masiello especially shows how issues of gender and sexuality function as integrating threads throughout this cultural project. Through discussions of visual art as well as literary work by prominent novelists and poets, Masiello sketches a broad landscape of vivid intellectual debate in the Southern Cone of Latin America. The Art of Transition will interest Latin Americanists,literary and political theorists, art critics and historians, and those involved with the study of postmodernism and globalization.

Author : Elise Herrala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429659607

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The dissolution of the Soviet Union brought a massive change in every domain of life, particularly in the cultural sector, where artists were suddenly "free" from party-mandated modes of representation and now could promote and sell their work globally. But in Russia, the encounter with Western art markets was fraught. The Russian field of art still remains on the periphery of the international art world, struggling for legitimacy in the eyes of foreign experts and collectors. This book examines the challenges Russian art world actors faced in building a field of art in a society undergoing rapid and significant economic, political, and social transformation and traces those challenges into the twenty-first century. Drawing on historical and ethnographic research, Art of Transition traces the ways the field of art has developed, evolved, and been sustained in Russia after socialism. It shows how Russia’s art world has grappled with its Soviet past and negotiated its standing in an unequal, globalized present. By attending to the historical legacy of Russian art throughout the twentieth century, this book constructs a genealogy of the contemporary field of postsocialist art that illuminates how Russians have come to understand themselves and their place in the world.

Author : Sara J. Simons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1838174613

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The Art of Transition guides you through strategic processing, utilizing both logic (left-brain engagement) exercises, and creative brain integration (right-brain engagement) through simple but effective art and movement exercises. How do we approach transition-especially difficult and often unwanted transitions-with our whole selves, not just our often spinning and frantic "mind"? How do we fully engage, embrace and receive from this unique season what is vital to learn? This whole-person integrated approach is not only unique, but it is based in solid research and helps give relief to the all-to-familiar ruts of heavy cognitive processing we find ourselves in during the stress of transition, that bring with it anxiety and such limited awareness. Through 6 main themes of transition, utilizing more than 35 holistic process tools-Movement tools, getting Unstuck tools, and Transition tools-you will find yourself with ample resources for creatively navigating your transition season! This resource guide can be utilized individually as a self- guided practice, or as a companion to the Art of Transition workshop experience, or 2-Day Life Planning process with your transition coach. "Transition is a grand pause inviting us to discover once again if we are living into our unique purpose the great Creator designed us for."

Author : Susanne Foellmer,Mária Schmidt,Cornelia Schmitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Performing arts
ISBN : 0367732351

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Performing Arts in Transition by Susanne Foellmer,Mária Schmidt,Cornelia Schmitz Pdf

"Performing artists - especially from dance and performance art, as well as opera - are involved to an increasing degree in the transfer between different media, not only in their productions but also the events, materials, and documents that surround them. At the same time, the focus on that which remains has become central to any discussion of performance. Performing Arts in Transition explores what takes place in the moments of transition from one medium to another, and from the live performance to that which 'survives' it. Case studies from a broad range of interdisciplinary scholars address phenomena such as: - the dynamics of transfer between the performing and visual arts - the philosophy and terminologies of transitioning between media - narratives and counternarratives in historical re-creations - the status of chronology and the document in art scholarship This is an essential contribution to a vibrant, multidisciplinary and international field of research emerging at the intersections of performance, visual arts, and media studies"--

Author : Octavian Esanu
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9786155225116

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Transition in Post-Soviet Art by Octavian Esanu Pdf

"With an abridged translation of the Dictionary of Moscow Conceptualism."

Author : Bartlett Harding Hayes,Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Mass.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Art, American
ISBN : 080481273X

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Art in Transition by Bartlett Harding Hayes,Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Mass.) Pdf

Author : Susanne Foellmer,Maria Katharina Schmidt,Cornelia Schmitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351330190

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Performing Arts in Transition by Susanne Foellmer,Maria Katharina Schmidt,Cornelia Schmitz Pdf

Artists especially from dance and performance art as well as opera are involved to an increasing degree in the transfer between different media, not only in their productions but also the events, materials, and documents that surround them. At the same time, the focus on that which remains has become central to any discussion of performance. Performing Arts in Transition explores what takes place in the moments of transition from one medium to another, and from the live performance to that which "survives" it. Case studies from a broad range of interdisciplinary scholars address phenomena such as: The dynamics of transfer between the performing and visual arts. The philosophy and terminologies of transitioning between media. Narratives and counternarratives in historical re-creations. The status of chronology and the document in art scholarship. This is an essential contribution to a vibrant, multidisciplinary and international field of research emerging at the intersections of performance, visual arts, and media studies.

Author : Eliza Garnsey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108494397

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The Justice of Visual Art by Eliza Garnsey Pdf

Drawing on novel case studies, this book provides the first substantive theoretical framework for understanding transitional justice and visual art.

Author : Thomas Lawton
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015058068175

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A Time of Transition by Thomas Lawton Pdf

Contains two essays which look at the lives of two men that collected Chinese art during the transition from Imperial to Republican China. Tuan-fang was a viceroy during the final years of the Ch'ing dynasty and Dr John C. Ferguson was an American missionary.

Author : James Lawrence,Karl Ove Knausgard
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780847862122

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Anselm Kiefer by James Lawrence,Karl Ove Knausgard Pdf

In 1974 Anselm Kiefer produced Erotik im Fernen Osten oder: Transition from Cool to Warm, a book of watercolors. Thirty years later, Gagosian Gallery’s newest catalogue marks Kiefer’s return to the medium, with works made between 2012 and 2015. More than forty unique artists’s books, their pages painted with gesso to mimic marble, can be found in the exciting new tome. Artists’s books are an integral part of Kiefer’s oeuvre; over time they have ranged in scale from the intimate to the monumental, and in materials, from lead to dried plant matter. In this selection of books, the sequences of narrative information and visual effect evoke the fragile endurance of the sacred and the spiritual through the female figures on the marbled pages.

Author : Anna Bentkowska-Kafel,Trish Cashen,Hazel Gardiner
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015059234164

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Digital Art History by Anna Bentkowska-Kafel,Trish Cashen,Hazel Gardiner Pdf

This book looks at the transformation that Art and Art history is undergoing through engagement with the digital revolution. Since its initiation in 1985, CHArt (Computers and the History of Art) has set out to promote interaction between the rapidly developing new Information Technology and the study and practice of Art. It has become increasingly clear in recent years that this interaction has led, not just to the provision of new tools for the carrying out of existing practices, but to the evolution of unprecedented activities and modes of thought. This collection of papers represents the variety, innovation and richness of significant presentations made at the CHArt Conferences of 2001 and 2002. Some show new methods of teaching being employed, making clear in particular the huge advantages that IT can provide for engaging students in learning and interactive discussion. It also shows how much is to be gained from the flexibility of the digital image 'Äì or could be gained if the road block of copyright is finally overcome. Others look at the impact on collections and archives, showing exciting ways of using computers to make available information about collections and archives and to provide new accessibility to archives. The way such material can now be accessed via the internet has revolutionized the search methods of scholars, but it has also made information available to all. However the internet is not only about access. Some papers here show how it also offers the opportunity of exploring the structure of images and dealing with the fascinating possibilities offered by digitisation for visual analysis, searching and reconstruction. Another challenging aspect covered here are the possibilities offered by digital media for new art forms. One point that emerges is that digital art is not some discreet practice, separated from other art forms. It is rather an approach that can involve all manner of association with both other art practices and with other forms of presentation and enquiry, demonstrating that we are witnessing a revolution that affects all our activities and not one that simply leads to the establishment of a new discipline to set alongside others.

Author : Barry Lord
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781933253947

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Art & Energy by Barry Lord Pdf

In Art & Energy, Barry Lord argues that human creativity is deeply linked to the resources available on earth for our survival. By analyzing art, artists, and museums across eras and continents, Lord demonstrates how our cultural values and artistic expression are formed by our efforts to access and control the energy sources that make these cultures possible.

Author : Anastasia Lazaridou,Vyzantino Mouseio (Athens, Greece)
Publisher : Onassis Foundation USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Archaeology and art
ISBN : 0981966624

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Transition to Christianity by Anastasia Lazaridou,Vyzantino Mouseio (Athens, Greece) Pdf

The vibrant and complex life of the eastern Mediterranean during a time of reinvention and renewal is the subject of the exhibition Transition to Christianity and this accompanying catalogue, which explore a period of extraordinary creativity and reveal new and largely unknown aspects of the Greek world of Late Antiquity. The exhibition is jointly organized by the Onassis Foundation (USA) and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture - Byzantine and Christian Museum, with the academic support of an advisory committee from the Program in Hellenic Studies at Princeton University.

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588394576

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Byzantium and Islam by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

This magnificent volume explores the epochal transformations and unexpected continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the 7th to the 9th century. At the beginning of the 7th century, the Empire's southern provinces, the vibrant, diverse areas of North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean, were at the crossroads of exchanges reaching from Spain to China. These regions experienced historic upheavals when their Christian and Jewish communities encountered the emerging Islamic world, and by the 9th century, an unprecedented cross- fertilization of cultures had taken place. This extraordinary age is brought vividly to life in insightful contributions by leading international scholars, accompanied by sumptuous illustrations of the period's most notable arts and artifacts. Resplendent images of authority, religion, and trade—embodied in precious metals, brilliant textiles, fine ivories, elaborate mosaics, manuscripts, and icons, many of them never before published— highlight the dynamic dialogue between the rich array of Byzantine styles and the newly forming Islamic aesthetic. With its masterful exploration of two centuries that would shape the emerging medieval world, this illuminating publication provides a unique interpretation of a period that still resonates today.

Author : Kalling Heck
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781978806986

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After Authority by Kalling Heck Pdf

Authority year zero : on Germany year zero -- The image that waits : on Satantango -- The end of authority, the end of democracy : on woman on the beach -- Force, hope, and death : on medium cool -- Coda : political modernism and the possibility for action.