Redraws the contours of Asian American art, attempting to free it from a categorization that stifles more than it reveals. Charting its historical conditions and the expansive contexts of its emergence, Susette Min challenges the notion of Asian American art as a site of reconciliation or as a way for marginalized artists to enter into the ......
Redraws the contours of Asian American art, attempting to free it from a categorization that stifles more than it reveals. Charting its historical conditions and the expansive contexts of its emergence, Susette Min challenges the notion of Asian American art as a site of reconciliation or as a way for marginalized artists to enter into the ......
The Imperialism of the Copy in Iranian and Parsi Architecture
One of the most heated scholarly controversies of the early twentieth century, the Orient-or-Rome debate turned on whether art historians should trace the origin of all Western-and especially Gothic-architecture to Roman ingenuity or to the Indo-Germanic Geist. Focusing on the discourses around this debate, Talinn Grigor considers the Persian ......
Shows how, once an art work is seen and understood, communicative function is effectively added to the work. This book also shows a range of language in art - from the magical to impious, from the ambiguous to the didactic, from the scientific to the propagandistic. It includes over one hundred illustrations as an integral part of the discussion.
Painter and art educator Eric Atkinson taught on the Basic Course at Leeds College of Art in the 1950s and 60s. David Lewis was one of his students. This volume contains a spirited exchange of letters between them, and an insight into the creative processes at the heart of art education.
Presents a theory that explains the nature of all kinds of artworks in a unified way - whether paintings, novels, or musical and theatrical performances. This book states that all representational artworks involve a stage in which a concrete artefact represents an artwork, and another, in which that artwork in turn represents its subject matter.
In 1944 a battle in the art world was knocking World War II off front pages. Angry and disappointed contestant, Mary Edwards, launched a Supreme Court attack on famous innovator, William Dobell, and the judges who gave him the Archibald Prize—world’s richest portrait prize.
Art, always a daughter of the Divine, has become estranged from her parent...We should not mock scientific materialism and naturalistic art. These have their place in human culture. But the starting point for a new life of art can come only through direct stimulation from the spiritual realm. We must become artists, not by developing symbolism or ......
