Canvas Detroit

Author : Julie Pincus,Nichole Christian
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780814338803

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Canvas Detroit by Julie Pincus,Nichole Christian Pdf

Detroit’s unique and partly abandoned cityscape has scarred its image around the world for decades. But in the last several years journalists have begun to view the city through a different lens, focusing on the wide range of contemporary artists finding inspiration amid the emptiness and adding a more complex chapter to the story of a city long labeled as a haunting symbol of U.S. economic decline. In Canvas Detroit, Julie Pincus and Nichole Christian combine vibrant full-color photography of the city’s much-buzzed-about art scene with thoughtful narrative that explores the art and artists that are re-creating Detroit. Canvas Detroit captures hundreds of pieces of artwork in many forms—including large-scale and small-scale murals, sculptures, portraits, light projections, wearable art, and installations (made with wood, glass, living plants, fiber, and fabric). Works are situated in both obvious and more hidden spaces, including on and in houses, garages, factories, alleyways, doors, and walls, while some structures have been entirely transformed into art. Pincus and Christian profile internationally known figures like Banksy, Matthew Barney, and Tyree Guyton; prominent Detroit artists such as Scott Hocking, Jerome Ferretti, and Robert Sestock; and collectives like Power House Productions, Hygenic Dress League, the Empowerment Plan, and Theatre Bizarre. Canvas Detroit also features contributions by Marion Jackson, John Gallagher, Michael H. Hodges, Rebecca R. Hart, and Linda Yablonsky that contextualize the current artistic moment in the city. This beautifully designed and informative volume showcases the stunning breadth and depth of artwork currently being done in Detroit. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in arts and culture in the city.

Author : Paul Dobraszczyk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781786732408

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The Dead City by Paul Dobraszczyk Pdf

The Dead City unearths meanings from such depictions of ruination and decay, looking at representations of both thriving cities and ones which are struggling, abandoned or simply in transition. It reveals that ruination presents a complex opportunity to envision new futures for a city, whether that is by rewriting its past or throwing off old assumptions and proposing radical change. Seen in a certain light, for example, urban ruin and decay are a challenge to capitalist narratives of unbounded progress. They can equally imply that power structures thought to be deeply ingrained are temporary, contingent and even fragile. Examining ruins in Chernobyl, Detroit, London, Manchester and Varosha, this book demonstrates that how we discuss and depict urban decline is intimately connected to the histories, economic forces, power structures and communities of a given city, as well as to conflicting visions for its future.

Author : Barbara Madgy Cohn,Patrice Rafail Merritt
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780814342336

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The Detroit Public Library by Barbara Madgy Cohn,Patrice Rafail Merritt Pdf

For the last century, the Detroit Public Library has ranked as one of the most beautiful buildings in Detroit — an important landmark as well as a significant monument serving generations of Detroiters. The Detroit Public Library: An American Classic was born out of “Discover the Wonders,” an art and architectural tour of the main library that began in December 2013. Since the tour’s inception, around seven thousand people have visited this structural gem. The Detroit Public Library was the result of numerous requests for a book that showcases the library’s many artistic and architectural wonders. As the photographs in this book reveal, the Detroit Public Library stands as an enduring symbol of the public library, one of the most democratic institutions in America. The design of the Detroit Public Library was Cass Gilbert’s vision for Detroit’s Early Italian Renaissance-style library. This book honors his work with a chronological and photographic timeline of the conception and building of the 1921 Woodward Avenue Library, the 1963 Cass Avenue addition, and the library as it is today. The book goes through the library’s transformative years, documenting the contributions of local and national artists such as Mary Chase Perry Stratton, Gari Melchers, and John Stephens Coppin, and includes photographs of the rooms they have decorated with murals, mosaics, painted windows, bronze works, architectural elements, and ornamentation. In preparing The Detroit Public Library, the authors had two fundamental desires, as they note in their preface. The first was to celebrate the main library’s design using both historic and contemporary images, the latter contributed by a number of photographers presently working in Detroit. The second was “to share with the world the beauty and elegance of a grand building in a great city that, even through the most difficult times, has sustained one of the most magnificent neo-classical buildings in the country.” The Detroit Public Library unites the interests of history buffs, art enthusiasts, library lovers, and Detroit-area locals with a tribute to one of the city’s most impressive structures. This book will appeal to those looking to learn about the builders, the history, and the stories that brought the Detroit Public Library to fruition.

Author : Dora Apel
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780813574097

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Beautiful Terrible Ruins by Dora Apel Pdf

Once the manufacturing powerhouse of the nation, Detroit has become emblematic of failing cities everywhere—the paradigmatic city of ruins—and the epicenter of an explosive growth in images of urban decay. In Beautiful Terrible Ruins, art historian Dora Apel explores a wide array of these images, ranging from photography, advertising, and television, to documentaries, video games, and zombie and disaster films. Apel shows how Detroit has become pivotal to an expanding network of ruin imagery, imagery ultimately driven by a pervasive and growing cultural pessimism, a loss of faith in progress, and a deepening fear that worse times are coming. The images of Detroit’s decay speak to the overarching anxieties of our era: increasing poverty, declining wages and social services, inadequate health care, unemployment, homelessness, and ecological disaster—in short, the failure of capitalism. Apel reveals how, through the aesthetic distancing of representation, the haunted beauty and fascination of ruin imagery, embodied by Detroit’s abandoned downtown skyscrapers, empty urban spaces, decaying factories, and derelict neighborhoods help us to cope with our fears. But Apel warns that these images, while pleasurable, have little explanatory power, lulling us into seeing Detroit’s deterioration as either inevitable or the city’s own fault, and absolving the real agents of decline—corporate disinvestment and globalization. Beautiful Terrible Ruins helps us understand the ways that the pleasure and the horror of urban decay hold us in thrall.

Author : Judith Hamera
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199348596

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Unfinished Business by Judith Hamera Pdf

Unfinished Business argues that American deindustrialization cannot be separated from issues of race, specifically from figurations of, and performances by and about, African Americans that represent or resist normative or aberrant relationships to work and capital in transitional times.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428992788

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To war on tubing and canvas a case study... by Anonim Pdf

Author : AndaleebBadiee Banta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351544894

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The Enduring Legacy of Venetian Renaissance Art by AndaleebBadiee Banta Pdf

Venetian artistic giants of the sixteenth century, such as Giorgione, Vittore Carpaccio, Titian, Jacopo Sansovino, Jacopo Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, and their contemporaries, continued to shape artistic development, tastes in collecting, and modes of display long after their own practices ended. The robust reverberation of the Venetian Renaissance spread far beyond the borders of the lagoon to inform and influence artists, authors, and collectors who spent very little or even no time in Venice proper. The Enduring Legacy of Venetian Renaissance Art investigates the historical resonance of Venetian sixteenth-century art and explores its afterlife and its reinvention by artists working in its shadow. Despite being a frequently acknowledged truism, the pervasive legacy of Venetian sixteenth-century art has not received comprehensive treatment in recent publication history. The broad scope of the topics covered in these essays, from Titian's profound influence on the development of landscape painting to the effects of Carpaccio's historical paintings on early twentieth-century fashion, illustrates the persistence and adaptability of the Venetian Renaissance's legacy. In addition to analyzing the effects of individual artists on each other, this volume offers insight into the shifting characterizations and reception of Venice as a center for artistic innovation and inspiration throughout the early modern period, providing a nuanced and multifaceted view of the singular lagoon city and its indelible imprint on the history of art.

Author : Brian Doucet
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447327905

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Why Detroit Matters by Brian Doucet Pdf

Detroit has come to symbolise deindustrialization and the challenges, and opportunities, it presents. As many cities struggle with urban decline, racial and ethnic tensions and the consequences of neoliberal governance and political fragmentation, Detroit’s relevance grows stronger. Why Detroit Matters bridges academic and non-academic responses to this extreme example of a fractured and divided, post-industrial city. Contributions from many of the leading scholars on Detroit are joined by influential writers, planners, artists and activists who have contributed chapters drawing on their experiences and ideas. The book concludes with interviews with some of the city’s most important visionaries who are engaged in inspiring practices which provide powerful lessons for Detroit and other cities around the world. The book will be a valuable reference for scholars, practitioners and students from across disciplines including geography, planning, architecture, sociology, urban studies, history, American studies, and economics.

Author : Michigan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Elections
ISBN : UCLA:L0059595751

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Primary Election ... Official Canvas by Michigan Pdf

Author : Gert Oostindie,Jessica V. Roitman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004271319

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Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800 by Gert Oostindie,Jessica V. Roitman Pdf

This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access. Dutch Atlantic Connections reevaluates the role of the Dutch in the Atlantic between 1680-1800. It shows how pivotal the Dutch were for the functioning of the Atlantic sytem by highlighting both economic and cultural contributions to the Atlantic world.

Author : Jill Berk Jiminez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135959142

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Dictionary of Artists' Models by Jill Berk Jiminez Pdf

The first reference work devoted to their lives and roles, this book provides information on some 200 artists' models from the Renaissance to the present day. Most entries are illustrated and consist of a brief biography, selected works in which the model appears (with location), a list of further reading. This will prove an invaluable reference work for art historians, librarians, museum and gallery curators, as well as students and researchers.

Author : Sarah E. Betzer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Portrait painting
ISBN : 0271048751

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Ingres and the Studio by Sarah E. Betzer Pdf

An exploration of the portrait art of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, focusing on his studio practice and his training of students.

Author : Arne Neset
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 1433102978

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Arcadian Waters and Wanton Seas by Arne Neset Pdf

The nineteenth century was the great age of landscape painting in Europe and America. In an era of rapid industrialization and transformation of landscape, pictures of natural scenes were what people wanted most to display in their homes. The most popular and marketable pictures, often degenerating into kitsch, showed a wilderness with a pond or a lake in which obtrusive signs of industry and civilization had been edited out. Inspired by Romantic ideas of the uniqueness of the nation, pictorial and literary art was supposed to portray the «soul» of the nation and the spirit of place, a view commonly adopted by cultural and art historians on both sides of the Atlantic. Arcadian Waters and Wanton Seas argues that nationalistic or exceptionalist interpretations disregard deep-rooted iconological traditions in transatlantic culture. Depictions and ideas of nature go back to the classical ideas of Arcadia and Eden in which fountains, ponds, lakes, rivers, and finally the sea itself are central elements. Following their European colleagues, American artists typically portrayed the American Arcadia through the classical conventions. Arcadian Waters and Wanton Seas adopts the interdisciplinary and comparative methodological perspectives that characterize American studies. The book draws on art history, cultural history, literature, and the study of the production and use of visual images, and will serve well as a textbook for courses on American studies or cultural history of the Western world.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 966 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119497613

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Industrialists
ISBN : UOM:39015084927261

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The Directory of Michigan Manufacturers by Anonim Pdf