Touching Art

Author : Maria Emília Fonseca
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443827997

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Touching Art by Maria Emília Fonseca Pdf

This study focusses on the exhibition of the Tree of Life, a sculpture made in Mozambique of decommissioned, dismantled weapons, created to celebrate peace and commissioned by the British Museum, chosen to be the symbol of the “Africa 2005” season of cultural events and exhibited in its Great Court between February and October 2005. This artwork was first exhibited in Maputo before being dispatched to Britain and it is presently on display at the Sainsbury African Galleries of the British Museum, in London. This dissertation moves along two converging routes: the articulation of the meaning(s) produced within the exhibition and the role of exhibitionary institutions in the creation of social knowledge. A central topic of discussion is the different practices and sites of exhibition of the Tree of Life sculpture in Britain and in Mozambique, in an endeavour to illustrate/establish the differences which determine and/or condition the specific approaches used in the two distinct cultural contexts within which it was exhibited. The discussion evolves towards exploring how a new discourse on the exhibition of contemporary African art questions and challenges both curatorial practices and cultural concepts of collecting, displaying and interpreting art objects and negotiating meaning.

Author : Julie Appel,Amy Guglielmo
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1402735677

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Make Van Gogh's Bed by Julie Appel,Amy Guglielmo Pdf

Invites young readers to touch Impressionist and other nineteenth-century paintings, including Van Gogh's "Starry Night," Degas' "L'Etoile," and Morisot's "The Cradle." On board pages.

Author : Julie Appel,Amy Guglielmo
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1402735685

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Feed Matisse's Fish by Julie Appel,Amy Guglielmo Pdf

Invites young readers to touch twentieth-century paintings, including Matisse's "Goldfish," Grant Wood's "American Gothic," and Chagall's "Birthday." On board pages.

Author : Jan Svankmajer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780857723499

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Touching and Imagining by Jan Svankmajer Pdf

Jan Aevankmajer wrote this remarkable book on tactile art when he stopped directing films after censorship by the Czechoslovakian government and experimented intensively with tactile phenomena and the creative imagination. Illustrated with over 100 images, the book is organised around many reproductions of Aevankmajer's wondrous tactile art objects, tactile poems, experiments and games. It also includes dialogues with, and artworks by, other collaborating artists from the Group of Czech and Slovak Surrealists. Aevankmajer also gathers together as contributors such notable exponents of tactual experience as Edgar Allen Poe, Guillaume Apollinaire, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Meret Oppenheim, Ay-O, and F.T. Marinetti. Michael Havas, producer of some of Aevankmajer's films, says of the book: 'it is typically Aevankmajer: erudite and very consequential. Sometimes also very funny and erotic. Totally unique.'

Author : Julie Appel,Amy Guglielmo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Art appreciation
ISBN : 1402763239

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Count Monet's Lilies by Julie Appel,Amy Guglielmo Pdf

An introduction to famous works of impressionist art, each of which bears a textured element.

Author : Julie Appel,Amy Guglielmo
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1402735693

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Pop Warhol's Top by Julie Appel,Amy Guglielmo Pdf

Invites young readers to touch twentieth-century pop paintings, including Warhol's "Campbell's Soup Can," Roy Lichtenstein's "Girl with Ball," and Wayne Thiebaud's "Cakes." On board pages.

Author : Julie Appel,Amy Guglielmo
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1402735669

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Brush Mona Lisa's Hair by Julie Appel,Amy Guglielmo Pdf

Invites young readers to touch Baroque and Renaissance paintings, including Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa," Botticelli's "Birth of Venus," and Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring." On board pages.

Author : Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781593767358

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Touching the Art by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Pdf

A daringly observant memoir about intergenerational trauma, fine art, and compartmentalization from a returning Soft Skull author and Lambda Literary Award winner A mixture of memoir, biography, criticism, and social history, Touching the Art is queer icon and activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s interrogation of the possibilities of artistic striving, the limits of the middle-class mindset, the legacy of familial abandonment, and what art can and cannot do. Taking the form of a self-directed research project, Sycamore recounts the legacy of her fraught relationship with her late grandmother, an abstract artist from Baltimore who encouraged Mattilda as a young artist, then disparaged Mattilda’s work as “vulgar” and a “waste of talent” once it became unapologetically queer. As she sorts through her grandmother Gladys’s paintings and handmade paperworks, Sycamore examines the creative impulse itself. In fragments evoking the movements of memory, she searches for Gladys’s place within the trajectories of midcentury modernism and Abstract Expressionism, Jewish assimilation and white flight, intergenerational trauma and class striving. Sycamore writes, “Art is never just art, it is a history of feeling, a gap between sensations, a safety valve, an escape hatch, a sudden shift in the body, a clipboard full of flowers, a welcome mat flipped over and back, over and back, welcome.” Refusing easy answers in search of an embodied truth, Sycamore upends propriety to touch the art and feel everything that comes through.

Author : Adrian W. B. Randolph
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : ART
ISBN : 0300204787

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Touching Objects by Adrian W. B. Randolph Pdf

This groundbreaking book spans the fields of art history, material culture, and gender studies in its examination of a range of objects from Italian Renaissance society. Addressing painted and sculpted portraits, marriage and betrothal gifts, and paxes, Adrian W. B. Randolph uses themes such as family and individual memory, windows, perspectival space, and touch to investigate how these items were experienced at the time, particularly by women. Rather than focusing on the social contexts of the objects, this original study deals with the objects themselves, asking how individuals lived with, looked at, and responded to complex things that at the time hovered between the nascent category of art and the everyday. Accompanied by beautiful and engaging accounts and illustrations of late-14th- and 15th-century Italian art, this compelling and thought-provoking argument makes the case for an alternate account of art and experience that challenges many conceptions about Renaissance art.

Author : Hazel Hutchins,Gail Herbert
Publisher : Annick Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781773210452

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Anna at the Art Museum by Hazel Hutchins,Gail Herbert Pdf

Art is for everyone—even a bored little girl. Going to the Art Museum with her mom is no fun at all for Anna. Everything is old and boring and there are so many rules: Don’t Touch! Do Not Enter! Quiet! A vigilant guard keeps a close eye on the energetic little girl, but even so, Anna manages to set off an alarm and almost tip over a vase. A half-open door draws Anna’s attention, but the No Entry sign means yet again that it’s off-limits. This time, however, the guard surprises her by inviting her to go in. Here she finds a “secret workshop” where paintings are being cleaned and repaired. Staring out from one of the canvases is a girl who looks grumpy and bored—just like Anna herself. With the realization that art often imitates life, Anna discovers the sheer joy to be had from the paintings on the wall, especially those that reflect what is happening all around her. Filled with representations of paintings from many world-class galleries, this charming book is the perfect prelude to a child’s first visit to an art museum.

Author : Julie Appel,Amy Guglielmo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art appreciation
ISBN : 1402763247

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Find King Henry's Treasure by Julie Appel,Amy Guglielmo Pdf

An introduction to famous works of art, each of which bears something to feel or flip.

Author : Aaron Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1746
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017669116

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The Art of Acting. Deriving Rules from a New Principle for Touching the Passions in a Natural Manner, Etc. [In Verse.] by Aaron Hill Pdf

Author : Kris Paulsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1041427229

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Here-There by Kris Paulsen Pdf

La “telepresencia” nos permite sentir el presente –a través de la vista, el oído e incluso el tacto- desde una localización remota, por medio de la tecnología de la comunicación en tiempo real. Aparatos conectados a la red, como videocámaras y telerobots extienden nuestra actividad corporal hasta espacios remotos. Kris Paulsen aborda la telepresencia a través de experiencias artísticas contemporáneas, desde el primer video arte a las obras a vista de dron, trazando un arco de intensa actividad, en tanto que las pantallas de video se convierten en espacios de comunicación y de intervención física, táctil. Analiza la obra de artistas que utilizan esas herramientas tecnológicas y cuestiona los aspectos estéticos, sociales y éticos de medios que nos permiten manipular y afectar a personas y entornos lejanos, tocar, metafórica y literalmente, a aquellos que a su vez no nos pueden tocar. Paulsen analiza los videos de Vito Acconci y Joan Jonas en los años setenta, las performances en vivo vía satélite de Kit Galloway y Sherrie Rabinowitz, y las instalaciones de Chris Burden en circuito cerrado de TV. Estas primeras obras, escribe, pueden ayudarnos a sentir la expansión de nuestros sentidos a través de tecnologías que dan prioridad al tiempo real sobre el espacio real, y modelan estrategias de compromiso e interacción con otros mediáticos. Crean así una historia política, estética y tecnológica para trabajos posteriores, que utilizan infraestructuras de cable de TV y la World Wide Web, como las obras telerobóticas de Ken Goldberg y Wafaa Bilal, y los trabajos artísticos sobre drones militares de Trevor Paglen, Omar Fast, Hito Steyerl y otros. Tales obras se convierte en lugares de encuentro aquí y allí.

Author : Danielle Krysa
Publisher : Running Press Adult
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780762463800

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A Big Important Art Book (Now with Women) by Danielle Krysa Pdf

Celebrate 45 women artists, and gain inspiration for your own practice, with this beautiful exploration of contemporary creators from the founder of The Jealous Curator. Walk into any museum, or open any art book, and you'll probably be left wondering: where are all the women artists? A Big Important Art Book (Now with Women) offers an exciting alternative to this male-dominated art world, showcasing the work of dozens of contemporary women artists alongside creative prompts that will bring out the artist in anyone! This beautiful book energizes and empowers women, both artists and amateurs alike, by providing them with projects and galvanizing stories to ignite their creative fires. Each chapter leads with an assignment that taps into the inner artist, pushing the reader to make exciting new work and blaze her own artistic trail. Interviews, images, and stories from contemporary women artists at the top of their game provide added inspiration, and historical spotlights on art "herstory" tie in the work of pioneering women from the past. With a stunning, gift-forward package and just the right amount of pop culture-infused feminism, this book is sure to capture the imaginations of aspiring women artists.

Author : Robin Austin Reed
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-30
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1494329026

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The Art of Touching a Woman by Robin Austin Reed Pdf

The Art of Touching a Woman removes the many misconceptions that hurt men in their pursuit of women. Whether you're looking for the love of your life or to deepen existing business and social relationships, this book will help you with simple and easy to follow steps. Readers will learn how to: create intimacy, understand touch barriers, become more emotionally available, improve personal energy, and develop the self-confidence women love. From the categories of women, their psychology, good manners, and tactile techniques for a wide variety of body parts; this is the ultimate guide for the man who wants to make the right impression and avoid the pitfalls of trial and error.