Eighteen Invisible Sculptures

Author : Koranado Artaya Harris
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781483698274

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Eighteen Invisible Sculptures by Koranado Artaya Harris Pdf

I, Koranado Artaya Harris, was born on October 23, 1976 in Montgomery, Alabama. I graduated and received my High School Diploma from Sidney Lanier High School home of the POETS. I continued striving for higher education at the University of Alabama home of the CRIMSON TIDE. I enjoy the arts, especially music and creative writing. I love to debate and brain storm which is probably a result of spending numerous hours at the barber shop. Eventually I did become a barber and a business owner only two and a half years after my college career. Even though Barbering was the focus of my entrepreneurship, I couldn’t seem to find enough extra time to write, draw, paint, and compose music. I discovered that the arts, especially when they are merged together symmetrically, can promote creative thinking and logical reasoning. I have a great appreciation for poetry. I am fascinated at how I can remember, recite, and write poetry more efficiently than any other form of writing. I have created a unique technique in my own personal writing venture that I hope the readers of my literature thoroughly enjoy. I am currently working on dramatic literature, novels, and screen plays. I enjoy reading and viewing materials that are based on true events. I have had the pleasure of reading materials written by world renowned authors that have totally changed my perception of certain aspects of life that worked out to my benefit and I am inspired to do the same in my literature. Thank you for reading.

Author : Michael Yonan,Stacey Sloboda
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501335501

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Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds by Michael Yonan,Stacey Sloboda Pdf

While the connected, international character of today's art world is well known, the eighteenth century too had a global art world. Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds is the first book to attempt a map of the global art world of the eighteenth century. Fourteen essays from a distinguished group of scholars explore both cross-cultural connections and local specificities of art production and consumption in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The result is an account of a series of interconnected and asymmetrical art worlds that were well developed in the eighteenth century. Capturing the full material diversity of eighteenth-century art, this book considers painting and sculpture alongside far more numerous prints and decorative objects. Analyzing the role of place in the history of eighteenth-century art, it bridges the disciplines of art history and cultural geography, and draws attention away from any one place as a privileged art-historical site, while highlighting places such as Manila, Beijing, Mexico City, and London as significant points on globalized map of the eighteenth-century art world. Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds combines a broad global perspective on the history of art with careful attention to how global artistic concerns intersect with local ones, offering a framework for future studies in global art history.

Author : Rochelle Ziskin
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271037851

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Sheltering Art by Rochelle Ziskin Pdf

"Explores the role of private art collections in the cultural, social, and political life of early eighteenth-century Paris. Examines how two principal groups of collectors, each associated with a different political faction, amassed different types of treasures and used them to establish social identities and compete for distinction"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Serena Dyer,Chloe Wigston Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781501349621

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Material Literacy in 18th-Century Britain by Serena Dyer,Chloe Wigston Smith Pdf

The eighteenth century has been hailed for its revolution in consumer culture, but Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain repositions Britain as a nation of makers. It brings new attention to eighteenth-century craftswomen and men with its focus on the material knowledge possessed not only by professional artisans and amateur makers, but also by skilled consumers. This edited collection gathers together a group of interdisciplinary scholars working in the fields of art history, history, literature, and museum studies to unearth the tactile and tacit knowledge that underpinned fashion, tailoring, and textile production. It invites us into the workshops, drawing rooms, and backrooms of a broad range of creators, and uncovers how production and tacit knowledge extended beyond the factories and machines which dominate industrial histories. This book illuminates, for the first time, the material literacies learnt, enacted, and understood by British producers and consumers. The skills required for sewing, embroidering, and the textile arts were possessed by a large proportion of the British population: men, women and children, professional and amateur alike. Building on previous studies of shoppers and consumption in the period, as well as narratives of manufacture, these essays document the multiplicity of small producers behind Britain's consumer revolution, reshaping our understanding of the dynamics between making and objects, consumption and production. It demonstrates how material knowledge formed an essential part of daily life for eighteenth-century Britons. Craft technique, practice, and production, the contributors show, constituted forms of tactile languages that joined makers together, whether they produced objects for profit or pleasure.

Author : Lynn Gamwell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691191058

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Exploring the Invisible by Lynn Gamwell Pdf

How science changed the way artists understand reality Exploring the Invisible shows how modern art expresses the first secular, scientific worldview in human history. Now fully revised and expanded, this richly illustrated book describes two hundred years of scientific discoveries that inspired French Impressionist painters and Art Nouveau architects, as well as Surrealists in Europe, Latin America, and Japan. Lynn Gamwell describes how the microscope and telescope expanded the artist's vision into realms unseen by the naked eye. In the nineteenth century, a strange and exciting world came into focus, one of microorganisms in a drop of water and spiral nebulas in the night sky. The world is also filled with forces that are truly unobservable, known only indirectly by their effects—radio waves, X-rays, and sound-waves. Gamwell shows how artists developed the pivotal style of modernism—abstract, non-objective art—to symbolize these unseen worlds. Starting in Germany with Romanticism and ending with international contemporary art, she traces the development of the visual arts as an expression of the scientific worldview in which humankind is part of a natural web of dynamic forces without predetermined purpose or meaning. Gamwell reveals how artists give nature meaning by portraying it as mysterious, dangerous, or beautiful. With a foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson and a wealth of stunning images, this expanded edition of Exploring the Invisible draws on the latest scholarship to provide a global perspective on the scientists and artists who explore life on Earth, human consciousness, and the space-time universe.

Author : Patrick Eyres
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351549578

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Sculpture and the Garden by Patrick Eyres Pdf

Although the integration of sculpture in gardens is part of a long tradition dating back at least to antiquity, the sculptures themselves are often overlooked, both in the history of art and in the history of the garden. This collection of essays considers the changing relationship between sculpture and gardens over the last three centuries, focusing on four British archetypes: the Georgian landscape garden, the Victorian urban park, the outdoor spaces of twentieth-century modernism and the late-twentieth-century sculpture park. Through a series of case studies exploring the contemporaneous audiences of gardens, the book uncovers the social, political and gendered messages revealed by sculpture's placement and suggests that the garden can itself be read as a sculptural landscape.

Author : Hans Belting
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226042650

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The Invisible Masterpiece by Hans Belting Pdf

The 'invisible masterpiece', then, is an unattainable ideal, an ideal that has both bewitched and bewildered artists." "The Invisible Masterpiece is an unusual reconstruction of the history of the work of art since 1800, in which Hans Belting explores and explains the dreams and fears, the triumphs and failures of modernity's painters and sculptors."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Jennifer Milam,Nicola Parsons
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781644532331

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Making Ideas Visible in the Eighteenth Century by Jennifer Milam,Nicola Parsons Pdf

"This volume considers how ideas were made visible through the making of art and visual experiences occasioned by reception during the long eighteenth century. Contributors consider the approach taken by individual artists and the material formation of concepts in different contexts by asking new questions of artworks that are implicated by the need to see ideas in painted, sculpted, illustrated, designed, and built forms. The first four essays work with ideas about material objects and identity formation, while the last four essays address the intellectual work that can be expressed through or performed by objects. Making Ideas Visible in the Eighteenth Century thus introduces new visual materials and novel conceptual models into traditional accounts of the intellectual history of the Enlightenment."--Cover page 4.

Author : Malcolm Miles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781134500055

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Urban Avant-Gardes by Malcolm Miles Pdf

Urban Avant-Gardes presents original research on a range of recent contemporary practices in and between art and architecture giving perspectives from a wide range of disciplines in the arts, humanities and social sciences that are seldom juxtaposed, it questions many assumptions and accepted positions. This book looks back to past avant-gardes from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries examining the theoretical and critical terrain around avant-garde cultural interventions, and profiles a range of contemporary cases of radical cultural practices. The author brings together material from a wide range of disciplines to argue for cultural intervention as a means to radical change, while recognizing that most such efforts in the past have not delivered the dreams of their perpetrators. Distinctive in that it places works of the imagination in the political and cultural context of environmentalism, this book asks how cultural work might contribute to radical social change. It is equally concerned with theory and practice - part one providing a theoretical framework and part two illustrating such frameworks with examples.

Author : Western Association of Art Museums
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Art, American
ISBN : STANFORD:36105031467561

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Invisible/visible by Western Association of Art Museums Pdf

Author : Jonathan David Gross
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739167670

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The Life of Anne Damer by Jonathan David Gross Pdf

The first biography of Anne Damer since 1908, The Life of Anne Damer: Portrait of a Regency Artist, by Jonathan Gross, draws on previously unpublished letters to explore the life and legacy of England’s first significant female sculptor. This biography will interest historians of Georgian, England, and readers in the fine arts, literature, and history.

Author : Joanna Crosby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350378506

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Apples and Orchards since the Eighteenth Century by Joanna Crosby Pdf

Showing how the history of the apple goes far beyond the orchard and into the social, cultural and technological developments of Britain and the USA, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach to reveal the importance of the apple as a symbol of both tradition and innovation. From the 18th century in Britain, technology innovation in fruit production and orchard management resulted in new varieties of apples being cultivated and consumed, while the orchard became a representation of stability. In America orchards were contested spaces, as planting seedling apple trees allowed settlers to lay a claim to land. In this book Joanna Crosby explores how apples and orchards have reflected the social, economic and cultural landscape of their times. From the association between English apples and 'English' virtues of plain speaking, hard work and resultant high-quality produce, to practices of wassailing highlighting the effects of urbanisation and the decline of country ways and customs, Apples and Orchards from the Eighteenth Century shows how this everyday fruit provides rich insights into a time of significant social change.

Author : David Stephen Calonne
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496831873

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R. Crumb by David Stephen Calonne Pdf

Robert Crumb (b. 1943) read widely and deeply a long roster of authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, J. D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg, as well as religious classics including biblical, Buddhist, Hindu, and Gnostic texts. Crumb’s genius, according to author David Stephen Calonne, lies in his ability to absorb a variety of literary, artistic, and spiritual traditions and incorporate them within an original, American mode of discourse that seeks to reveal his personal search for the meaning of life. R. Crumb: Literature, Autobiography, and the Quest for Self contains six chapters that chart Crumb’s intellectual trajectory and explore the recurring philosophical themes that permeate his depictions of literary and biographical works and the ways he responds to them through innovative, dazzling compositional techniques. Calonne explores the ways Crumb develops concepts of solitude, despair, desire, and conflict as aspects of the quest for self in his engagement with the book of Genesis and works by Franz Kafka, Jean-Paul Sartre, the Beats, Charles Bukowski, and Philip K. Dick, as well as Crumb’s illustrations of biographies of musicians Jelly Roll Morton and Charley Patton. Calonne demonstrates how Crumb’s love for literature led him to attempt an extremely faithful rendering of the texts he admired while at the same time highlighting for his readers the particular hidden philosophical meanings he found most significant in his own autobiographical quest for identity and his authentic self.

Author : Tomas Macsotay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351550543

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"Rome, Travel and the Sculpture Capital, c.1770?825 " by Tomas Macsotay Pdf

The world that shaped Europe's first national sculptor-celebrities, from Schadow to David d'Angers, from Flaxman to Gibson, from Canova to Thorvaldsen, was the city of Rome. Until around 1800, the Holy See effectively served as Europe's cultural capital, and Roman sculptors found themselves at the intersection of the Italian marble trade, Grand Tour expenditure, the cult of the classical male nude, and the Enlightenment republic of letters. Two sets of visitors to Rome, the David circle and the British traveler, have tended to dominate Rome's image as an open artistic hub, while the lively community of sculptors of mixed origins has not been awarded similar attention. Rome, Travel and the Sculpture Capital, c.1770?1825 is the first study to piece together the labyrinthine sculptors' world of Rome between 1770 and 1825. The volume sheds new light on the links connecting Neo-classicism, sculpture collecting, Enlightenment aesthetics, studio culture, and queer studies. The collection offers ideal introductory reading on sculpture and Rome around 1800, but its combination of provocative perspectives is sure to appeal to a readership interested in understanding a modernized Europe's overwhelmingly transnational desire for Neo-classical, Roman sculpture.

Author : Mark Cheetham
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271081427

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Landscape into Eco Art by Mark Cheetham Pdf

Dedicated to an articulation of the earth from broadly ecological perspectives, eco art is a vibrant subset of contemporary art that addresses the widespread public concern with rapid climate change and related environmental issues. In Landscape into Eco Art, Mark Cheetham systematically examines connections and divergences between contemporary eco art, land art of the 1960s and 1970s, and the historical genre of landscape painting. Through eight thematic case studies that illuminate what eco art means in practice, reception, and history, Cheetham places the form in a longer and broader art-historical context. He considers a wide range of media—from painting, sculpture, and photography to artists’ films, video, sound work, animation, and installation—and analyzes the work of internationally prominent artists such as Olafur Eliasson, Nancy Holt, Mark Dion, and Robert Smithson. In doing so, Cheetham reveals eco art to be a dynamic extension of a long tradition of landscape depiction in the West that boldly enters into today’s debates on climate science, government policy, and our collective and individual responsibility to the planet. An ambitious intervention into eco-criticism and the environmental humanities, this volume provides original ways to understand the issues and practices of eco art in the Anthropocene. Art historians, humanities scholars, and lay readers interested in contemporary art and the environment will find Cheetham’s work valuable and invigorating.