Art Without Borders

Author : Ben-Ami Scharfstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226736112

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Art Without Borders by Ben-Ami Scharfstein Pdf

People all over the world make art and take pleasure in it, and they have done so for millennia. But acknowledging that art is a universal part of human experience leads us to some big questions: Why does it exist? Why do we enjoy it? And how do the world’s different art traditions relate to art and to each other? Art Without Borders is an extraordinary exploration of those questions, a profound and personal meditation on the human hunger for art and a dazzling synthesis of the whole range of inquiry into its significance. Esteemed thinker Ben-Ami Scharfstein’s encyclopedic erudition is here brought to bear on the full breadth of the world of art. He draws on neuroscience and psychology to understand the way we both perceive and conceive of art, including its resistance to verbal exposition. Through examples of work by Indian, Chinese, European, African, and Australianartists, Art Without Borders probes the distinction between accepting a tradition and defying it through innovation, which leads to a consideration of the notion of artistic genius. Continuing in this comparative vein, Scharfstein examines the mutual influence of European and non-European artists. Then, through a comprehensive evaluation of the world’s major art cultures, he shows how all of these individual traditions are gradually, but haltingly, conjoining into a single current of universal art. Finally, he concludes by looking at the ways empathy and intuition can allow members of one culture to appreciate the art of another. Lucid, learned, and incomparably rich in thought and detail, Art Without Borders is a monumental accomplishment, on par with the artistic achievements Scharfstein writes about so lovingly in its pages.

Author : Jérôme Bazin,Pascal Dubourg Glatigny,Piotr Piotrowski
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789633866801

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Art beyond Borders by Jérôme Bazin,Pascal Dubourg Glatigny,Piotr Piotrowski Pdf

This book presents and analyzes artistic interactions both within the Soviet bloc and with the West between 1945 and 1989. During the Cold War the exchange of artistic ideas and products united Europe’s avant-garde in a most remarkable way. Despite the Iron Curtain and national and political borders there existed a constant flow of artists, artworks, artistic ideas and practices. The geographic borders of these exchanges have yet to be clearly defined. How were networks, centers, peripheries (local, national and international), scales, and distances constructed? How did (neo)avant-garde tendencies relate with officially sanctioned socialist realism? The literature on the art of Eastern Europe provides a great deal of factual knowledge about a vast cultural space, but mostly through the prism of stereotypes and national preoccupations. By discussing artworks, studying the writings on art, observing artistic evolution and artists’ strategies, as well as the influence of political authorities, art dealers and art critics, the essays in Art beyond Borders compose a transnational history of arts in the Soviet satellite countries in the post war period.

Author : Laura Hein,Rebecca Jennison
Publisher : U of M Center For Japanese Studies
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781929280636

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Imagination without Borders by Laura Hein,Rebecca Jennison Pdf

Tomiyama Taeko, a Japanese visual artist born in 1921, is changing the way World War II is remembered in Japan, Asia, and the world. Her work deals with complicated moral and emotional issues of empire and war responsibility that cannot be summed up in simple slogans, which makes it compelling for more than just its considerable beauty. Japanese today are still grappling with the effects of World War II, and, largely because of the inconsistent and ambivalent actions of the government, they are widely seen as resistant to accepting responsibility for their nation’s violent actions against others during the decades of colonialism and war. Yet some individuals, such as Tomiyama, have produced nuanced and reflective commentaries on those experiences, and on the difficulty of disentangling herself from the priorities of the nation despite her lifelong political dissent. Tomiyama’s sophisticated visual commentary on Japan’s history—and on the global history in which Asia is embedded—provides a compelling guide through the difficult terrain of modern historical remembrance, in a distinctively Japanese voice.

Author : Brigitte Le Normand
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Foreign workers
ISBN : 9781487525156

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Citizens without Borders by Brigitte Le Normand Pdf

This book examines Yugoslavia's efforts to build and maintain a relationship with its migrant workers in Western Europe through cultural and educational programs.

Author : Stephanie D'Alessandro,Matthew Gale
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588397270

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Surrealism Beyond Borders by Stephanie D'Alessandro,Matthew Gale Pdf

Surrealism Beyond Borders challenges conventional narratives of a revolutionary artistic, literary, and philosophical movement. Tracing Surrealism's influence and legacy from the 1920s to the late 1970s in places as geographically diverse as Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Philippines, Romania, Syria, Thailand, and Turkey, this publication includes more than 300 works of art in a variety of media by well-known figures—including Dalí, Ernst, Kahlo, Magritte, and Miró—as well as numerous artists who are less widely known. Contributions from more than forty distinguished international scholars explore the network of Surrealist exchange and collaboration, artists' responses to the challenges of social and political unrest, and the experience of displacement and exile in the twentieth century. The multiple narratives addressed in this expansive book move beyond the borders of history, geography, and nationality to provocatively redraw the map of Surrealism.

Author : Victoria Averbukh
Publisher : Author House
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781496946928

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Art Without Borders by Victoria Averbukh Pdf

"Art is the great connector, as proven here in the stories these seven Eastern European female artists share about their work, their immigration experiences, and their acclimation into American culture. "Victoria Averbukh, of Russian and Jewish descent, journalist by profession, knows firsthand what these women have faced, having come to the United States and raised American children while successfully keeping their Russian heritage alive. "These seven artists all work in different mediums. Their work could not be more different; however, their shared experiences create a common thread, weaving their Eastern European roots into their American lifestyles. Their work on a whole is vibrant, colorful, and passionate. Victoria has chosen a group of women whose stories are as fascinating and powerful as the work they create. She has chosen well. Each of them makes the world a brighter, more beautiful place, and for that, we all must stand up and applaud!" Nina Seigenfeld Velazquez, visual artist and curator, New York

Author : Eliseo Torres
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1753
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1792457685

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Curanderismo: The Art of Traditional Medicine Without Borders by Eliseo Torres Pdf

Author : Françoise Meltzer,Jas Elsner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226519937

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Saints by Françoise Meltzer,Jas Elsner Pdf

While the modern world has largely dismissed the figure of the saint as a throwback, we remain fascinated by excess, marginality, transgression, and porous subjectivity—categories that define the saint. In this collection, Françoise Meltzer and Jas Elsner bring together top scholars from across the humanities to reconsider our denial of saintliness and examine how modernity returns to the lure of saintly grace, energy, and charisma. Addressing such problems as how saints are made, the use of saints by political and secular orders, and how holiness is personified, Saints takes us on a photo tour of Graceland and the cult of Elvis and explores the changing political takes on Joan of Arc in France. It shows us the self-fashioning of culture through the reevaluation of saints in late-antique Judaism and Counter-Reformation Rome, and it questions the political intent of underlying claims to spiritual attainment of a Muslim sheikh in Morocco and of Sephardism in Israel. Populated with the likes of Francis of Assisi, Teresa of Avila, and Padre Pio, this book is a fascinating inquiry into the status of saints in the modern world.

Author : Martha C. Franks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06
Category : Canon (Literature)
ISBN : 0999305921

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Books Without Borders by Martha C. Franks Pdf

A vivid narrative of education in a classroom in Beijing China, day by day, month by month, the book follows Ms. Franks' experiences teaching a seminar on the topic of change to gifted Chinses high-school students hoping for admission to American colleges and universities. Ms. Franks offers them a concept of education goes beyond knowing the right answers to questions on standardized tests. Instead, she raises questions about the best life, suffering and justice, that are an essential part of the education of a human, humane person. At the same time, Ms. Franks herself as she confronts her own assumptions and pre-suppositions about books and arguments that she has been familiar with her whole adult life. By looking through the eyes of her Chinese students, she sees for the first time the powerful strangeness of many of our Western texts and habits of mind. Reading Chinese classic texts, she engages in a mirror image of what she asked her students to do, bringing the insights gained to bear on her experience of China.

Author : Tara Forrest,Anna Teresa Scheer
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 1841503193

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Christoph Schlingensief by Tara Forrest,Anna Teresa Scheer Pdf

The work of acclaimed German artist Christoph Schlingensief spans three decades and a diverse range of fields, including, film, television, activism, opera, and theatre. Christoph Schlingensief: Art Without Borders is the first book to be published in English on Schlingensief's groundbreaking, politically engaged body of work. Leading scholars in the field offer a critical assessment of Schlingensief's hybrid practice, and an interview with Schlingensief himself provides the reader with insight into past and present projects. The book will be an essential resource for artists, curators, students, and academics in the fields of theater and performance studies, film studies, cultural studies, German studies, political activism, and art history.

Author : Masayo Duus
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691127828

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The Life of Isamu Noguchi by Masayo Duus Pdf

Isamu Noguchi, born in Los Angeles as the illegitimate son of an American mother and a Japanese poet father, was one of the most prolific yet enigmatic figures in the history of twentieth-century American art. Throughout his life, Noguchi (1904-1988) grappled with the ambiguity of his identity as an artist caught up in two cultures. His personal struggles--as well as his many personal triumphs--are vividly chronicled in The Life of Isamu Noguchi, the first full-length biography of this remarkable artist. Published in connection with the centennial of the artist's birth, the book draws on Noguchi's letters, his reminiscences, and interviews with his friends and colleagues to cast new light on his youth, his creativity, and his relationships. During his sixty-year career, there was hardly a genre that Noguchi failed to explore. He produced more than 2,500 works of sculpture, designed furniture, lamps, and stage sets, created dramatic public gardens all over the world, and pioneered the development of environmental art. After studying in Paris, where he befriended Alexander Calder and worked as an assistant to Constantin Brancusi, he became an ardent advocate for abstract sculpture. Noguchi's private life was no less passionate than his artistic career. The book describes his romances with many women, among them the dancer Ruth Page, the painter Frida Kahlo, and the writer Anaïs Nin. Despite his fame, Noguchi always felt himself an outsider. "With my double nationality and my double upbringing, where was my home?" he once wrote. "Where were my affections? Where my identity?" Never entirely comfortable in the New York art world, he inevitably returned to his father's homeland, where he had spent a troubled childhood. This prize-winning biography, first published in Japanese, traces Isamu Noguchi's lifelong journey across these artistic and cultural borders in search of his personal identity.

Author : Irene Tichenor
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1567922864

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No Art Without Craft by Irene Tichenor Pdf

"But it is his skill as a historian as well as a printer that endears his name to the student of typography. His four volumes on the practice of typography are considered classics. In an age when few American scholars were examining early printed books, he made significant scholarly contributions to the study of incunables. When the Grolier Club was founded in 1884, it was not surprising that, as New York's most illustrious printer, he was asked to be one of the founding members and to provide much the Club's early printing."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Brigitte Le Juez,Nina Shiel,Mark Wallace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : ART
ISBN : 161229992X

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(Re)writing Without Borders by Brigitte Le Juez,Nina Shiel,Mark Wallace Pdf

"(Re)Writing Without Borders: Contemporary Intermedial Perspectives on Literature and the Visual Arts gathers twelve essays capturing the most up-to-date interaction between literature and the visual arts from an interdisciplinary perspective"--

Author : Silvia Gaetti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 3422986537

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Cultural Affairs by Silvia Gaetti Pdf

Seit jeher hat sich der Austausch der Kulturen auf die Kunst, das Kunsthandwerk und das Design ausgewirkt. Mit den Menschen reisen und migrieren auch Objekte, welche sich an neue Umgebungen und Kontexte anpassen. Der Katalog präsentiert Schmuck, Mode, Textil, Keramik sowie Grafik- und Industriedesign zeitgenössischer junger Designer/-innen und Künstler/-innen. Geprägt sind diese durch eine oft globale und selbst transkulturelle Herkunft und Biografie. Vorgestellt werden globale Netzwerke und Interpretationen von Techniken und Objekten sowie deren Entwicklungen und Botschaften, die sich durch die Mobilität verändert haben. Der gesetzte Fokus auf das Jetzt und die Zukunft zeigt, dass in der Zeit des kulturellen Pluralismus und der Heterogenität, Kunst und Design ohne transkulturelle Begegnungen nicht denkbar sind.

Author : Charlotte Fitz,Lisa Beth Robinson,Eddie Dominguez,Jose Galvez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Black-and-white photography
ISBN : OCLC:1339097185

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Art Without Borders | Arte Sin Fronteras by Charlotte Fitz,Lisa Beth Robinson,Eddie Dominguez,Jose Galvez Pdf

"'Art without Borders' introduces the work of Latino artists with the goal of building and strengthening ties between the diverse groups that make up our community and between ECU and the broader community in eastern NC."--page 5.