Robert Smithson Land Art And Speculative Realities

Author : Rory O'Dea
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000969368

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Robert Smithson, Land Art, and Speculative Realities by Rory O'Dea Pdf

This book explores the ways Robert Smithson’s art revealed and defamiliarized the constructs of rational reality in order to allow radically speculative alternatives to emerge. In this way, his art is conceived as a true fiction that eradicates a false reality. By tracing the web of correspondences between Smithson and science fictional, speculative and mystical modes of thought, Rory O’Dea explores the aesthetic encounters engendered by his art as a means to warp the contours of reality and loosen the boundaries of being human. Given the current and impending catastrophes of the Anthropocene, which represents the ever-expanding planetary shadow cast by humanism, the possibility of being other-than-human posited by Smithson’s art is a matter of urgent concern. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, contemporary art, American studies and environmental humanities.

Author : George Thomas Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : MINN:31951D02539947N

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Robert Smithson by George Thomas Baker Pdf

This book is devoted to the masterpiece earthwork of Robert Smithson.

Author : Sarina Miller
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781648897429

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Perspective: Selected Essays on Space in Art and Design by Sarina Miller Pdf

'Perspective: Selected Essays on Space in Art and Design' explores the ways in which visual and physical space have been designed and experienced in different cultures. This book amplifies the significance of space as a design element by examining its implications in various contexts through a global perspective of art and design.

Author : Maria Teresa Chicote Pompanin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781003831617

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Art Patronage and Conflicting Memories in Early Modern Iberia by Maria Teresa Chicote Pompanin Pdf

This volume investigates the mechanisms (artworks, treatises, and other forms of cultural patronage) that the Marquises of Villena and their opponents used to operate in the cultural battlefield of the time with the aim of understanding how their conflicting historical memories were constructed and manipulated. Concentrating on the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, the book examines these two aristocrats and demonstrates that political tensions led not only to military conflicts during this period but also to conflicts fought on cultural grounds, through the promotion of artistic, religious, and literary programmes. Maria Teresa Chicote Pompanin investigates why the Marquises of Villena lost in both the military and cultural battlefields and explains how the negative historical memories forged by their opponents in the late fifteenth century managed to become the official historical truth that has remained unchallenged to this day. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, cultural history, medieval studies, Renaissance studies, Iberian studies, literary studies, and patronage studies.

Author : Nadja Rottner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000998894

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Claes Oldenburg's Theater of Vision by Nadja Rottner Pdf

In four chronologically organized chapters, this study traces the conceptual dependence and deep connectivity among Claes Oldenburg’s poetry, sculpture, films, and performance art between 1956 and 1965. This research-intensive book argues that Oldenburg’s art relies on machine vision and other metaphors to visualize the structure and image content of human thought as an artistic problem. Anchored in new oral history interviews and extensive archival material, it brings together understudied visual and concrete poetry, experimental films, fifteen group performances (commonly referred to as happenings), and a close analysis of his well-known installations of The Street (1960) and The Store (1961–62), effectively setting in place a reexamination of Oldenburg’s pop art from the street, store, home, and cinema years. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, film studies, performance studies, literature, intermedia studies, and media theory.

Author : Víctor Mínguez,Inmaculada Rodríguez-Moya
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781003806776

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The Visual Legacy of Alexander the Great from the Renaissance to the Age of Revolution by Víctor Mínguez,Inmaculada Rodríguez-Moya Pdf

This is an analysis of the diverse facets of Alexander the Great’s image from the Renaissance era through the Baroque into the nineteenth century. Perceived as the first sovereign ruler of the world, for centuries Alexander became an exemplar for the most ambitious kings and emperors. This cultural phenomenon flourished above all in the Renaissance while extending into the nineteenth century. Early modern monarchs’ identification with Alexander associated them with ideas of kingly wisdom. Yet this admiration waned on occasions. Napoleon was Alexander of Macedonia’s most ardent critic. During the nineteenth century, the Macedonian hero was viewed as an individual who won control of the Achaemenid empire, but also underwent a progressive moral decline that converted him into a tyrant. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history and iconography.

Author : Stijn Bussels,Bram Van Oostveldt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781003803492

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The Sublime in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic by Stijn Bussels,Bram Van Oostveldt Pdf

Contrary to what Kant believed about the Dutch (and their visual culture) as “being of an orderly and diligent position” and thus having no feeling for the sublime, this book argues that the sublime played an important role in seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture. By looking at different visualizations of exceptional heights, divine presence, political grandeur, extreme violence, and extraordinary artifacts, the authors demonstrate how viewers were confronted with the sublime, which evoked in them a combination of contrasting feelings of awe and fear, attraction and repulsion. In studying seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture through the lens of notions of the sublime, we can move beyond the traditional and still widespread views on Dutch art as the ultimate representation of everyday life and the expression of a prosperous society in terms of calmness, neatness, and order. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, architectural history, and cultural history.

Author : Joana Cunha Leal,Mariana Pinto dos Santos
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781003833291

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The Primitivist Imaginary in Iberian and Transatlantic Modernisms by Joana Cunha Leal,Mariana Pinto dos Santos Pdf

Taking into account politics, history, and aesthetics, this edited volume explores the main expressions of primitivism in Iberian and Transatlantic modernisms. Ten case studies are thoroughly analyzed concerning both the circulations and exchanges connecting the Iberian and Latin American artistic and literary milieus with each other and with the Parisian circles. Chapters also examine the patterns and paradoxes associated with the manifestations of primitivism, including their local implications and cosmopolitan drive. This book opens up and deepens the discussion of the ties that Spain and Portugal maintained with their imperial pasts, which extended into European twentieth-century colonialism, as well as the nationalist and folk aesthetics promoted by the cultural industry of Iberian dictatorships. The book significantly rethinks long-established ideas about modern art and the production of primitivist imagery. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Iberian studies, Latin American studies, colonialism, and modernism. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Sherry C. M. Lindquist
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781003822110

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The Book of Hours and the Body by Sherry C. M. Lindquist Pdf

This book explores our corporeal connections to the past by considering what three theoretical approaches - somaesthetics, posthumanism, and the uncanny - may reveal about both premodern and postmodern terms of embodiment. It takes as its point of departure a selection of fifteenth-century northern European Books of Hours - evocative objects designed at once to inscribe social status, to strengthen religious commitment, to entertain, to stimulate emotions, and to encourage discomfiting self-scrutiny. Studying their kaleidoscopically strange, moving, humorous, disturbing, and imaginative pages not only enables a window into relationships among bodies, images, and things in the past but also in our own internet era, where surprisingly popular memes drawn from such manuscripts constitute a part of our own visual culture. In negotiating theoretical, post-theoretical, and historical concerns, this book aims to contribute to an emerging and much-needed intersectional social history of art. It will be of interest to scholars working in art history, medieval studies, Renaissance/early modern studies, gender studies, the history of the book, posthumanism, aesthetics, and the body.

Author : George Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:2005052874

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Robert Smithson by George Baker Pdf

Author : Ron Graziani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521827558

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Robert Smithson and the American Landscape by Ron Graziani Pdf

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Author : Robert Smithson,Eugenie Tsai,Cornelia H. Butler,Thomas E. Crow,Alexander Alberro,Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.),Moira Roth,Whitney Museum of American Art
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520244095

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Robert Smithson by Robert Smithson,Eugenie Tsai,Cornelia H. Butler,Thomas E. Crow,Alexander Alberro,Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.),Moira Roth,Whitney Museum of American Art Pdf

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Author : Robert Smithson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1996-04-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520203853

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Robert Smithson by Robert Smithson Pdf

Robert Smithson (1938-1973), one of the most important artists of his generation, produced sculpture, drawings, photographs, films, and paintings in addition to the writings collected here.

Author : Eugenie Tsai,Robert Smithson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN : 0231072597

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Robert Smithson Unearthed by Eugenie Tsai,Robert Smithson Pdf

Robert Smithson Unearthed: Drawings, Collages, Writings, the first full survey of this artist's work, reevaluates its larger resonance and its place in the historical development of recent art. Eugenie Tsai's re-presentation of the work of Smithson expands our understanding of his achievement. Looking beyond the Minimalist structures and the earthworks for which she is best known, she explores his intellectual and aesthetic roots, his early imaginings, and discovers a richer range of personal affect in Smithson's art than we had been led to expect.

Author : Robert Smithson,Ann Reynolds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Maps in art
ISBN : UCSD:31822035573286

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Robert Smithson by Robert Smithson,Ann Reynolds Pdf