Aesthetics, Applications, Artistry and Anarchy: Essays in Prehistoric and Contemporary Art

Aesthetics, Applications, Artistry and Anarchy: Essays in Prehistoric and Contemporary Art
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Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages : 182
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ISBN-10 : 9781784919993
ISBN-13 : 1784919993
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Synopsis Aesthetics, Applications, Artistry and Anarchy: Essays in Prehistoric and Contemporary Art by : Jillian Huntley

This volume, in honour of John Kay Clegg, consists of papers by rock art researchers from around the world on topics such as aesthetics, the application of statistical analyses, frontier conflict and layered symbolic meanings, the deliberate use of optical illusion, and the contemporary significance of ancient and street art.

Aesthetics, Applications, Artistry and Anarchy: Essays in Prehistoric and Contemporary Art

Aesthetics, Applications, Artistry and Anarchy: Essays in Prehistoric and Contemporary Art
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Publisher : Archaeopress Archaeology
Total Pages : 190
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ISBN-10 : UCBK:C121139578
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Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Aesthetics, Applications, Artistry and Anarchy: Essays in Prehistoric and Contemporary Art by : Jillian Huntley

This volume, in honour of John Kay Clegg, consists of papers by rock art researchers from around the world on topics such as aesthetics, the application of statistical analyses, frontier conflict and layered symbolic meanings, the deliberate use of optical illusion, and the contemporary significance of ancient and street art.

Rock Art Studies: News of the World VI

Rock Art Studies: News of the World VI
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Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages : 370
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ISBN-10 : 9781789699630
ISBN-13 : 1789699630
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Rock Art Studies: News of the World VI by : Paul G. Bahn

Like previous series entries, this volume covers rock art research and management all over the world over a 5-year period, in this case 2015-19. Contributions once again show the wide variety of approaches that have been taken in different parts of the world and reflect the expansion and diversification of perspectives and research questions.

The Annotated Mona Lisa

The Annotated Mona Lisa
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Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages : 220
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ISBN-10 : 0740768727
ISBN-13 : 9780740768729
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis The Annotated Mona Lisa by : Carol Strickland

Like music, art is a universal language. Although looking at works of art is a pleasurable enough experience, to appreciate them fully requires certain skills and knowledge." --Carol Strickland, from the introduction to The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern * This heavily illustrated crash course in art history is revised and updated. This second edition of Carol Strickland's The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern offers an illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to post-modern art from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media. * Featuring succinct page-length essays, instructive sidebars, and more than 300 photographs, The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern takes art history out of the realm of dreary textbooks, demystifies jargon and theory, and makes art accessible-even at a cursory reading. * From Stonehenge to the Guggenheim and from Holbein to Warhol, more than 25,000 years of art is distilled into five sections covering a little more than 200 pages.

Ngaut Ngaut

Ngaut Ngaut
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Total Pages : 29
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ISBN-10 : 098738340X
ISBN-13 : 9780987383402
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Synopsis Ngaut Ngaut by : Amy Roberts

History and archaeology of the Ngaut Ngaut Conservation Park (Devon Downs).

High & Low

High & Low
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Publisher : ABRAMS
Total Pages : 468
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ISBN-10 : MINN:31951P00296450M
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Synopsis High & Low by : Kirk Varnedoe

Readins in high & low

Aesthetics and World Politics

Aesthetics and World Politics
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 278
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ISBN-10 : 9780230244375
ISBN-13 : 0230244378
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Aesthetics and World Politics by : R. Bleiker

This book presents one of the first systematic assessments of aesthetic insights into world politics. It examines the nature of aesthetic approaches and outlines how they differ from traditional analysis of politics. The book explores the potential and limits of aesthetics through a series of case studies on language and poetics.

When was Modernism

When was Modernism
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Total Pages : 439
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ISBN-10 : 8189487248
ISBN-13 : 9788189487249
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Synopsis When was Modernism by : Geeta Kapur

A commitment to modernity is the underlying theme of this volume. Through essays that are interpretive and theoretical, the author seeks to situate the modern in contemporary cultural practice. She sets up an ideological vantage point to view modernism along its multiple tracks in India and the third world.The essays divide into three sections. The first two sections, Artists and ArtWork and Film/Narratives, raise questions of authorship, genre, and contemporary features of national culture that materialize into an aesthetic in the Indian context. The last section, Frames of Reference, formalizes the polemical options developed across the book. The essays here propose resistance to the depoliticization of narratives, and affirm an open-ended engagement with the avant-garde. They explore the possibility of art practice finding its own signifying space that is still a space for radical transformation.Geeta Kapur is an independent art critic and curator living in New Delhi. Her extensive publications on modern Indian art include the book Contemporary Indian Artists (Delhi, 1978), exhibition catalogues and monographs on artists. She is currently writing a monograph on Tyeb Mehta. Her essays on cultural criticism have been widely presented in forums of art history and cultural studies. Her curatorial work includes the show Bombay/Mumbai 1992 2001 in the multi-part exhibition titled Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis , at Tate Modern, London, in 2001. Geeta Kapur is a founder-editor of the Journal of Arts & Ideas and advisory editor to Third Text. She has held research fellowships at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, and Clare Hall, Cambridge University. For the past three decades, [Geeta Kapur s] has been the singular dominant presence in the field to a point that her writings alone seem to have constituted the whole field of modern Indian art theory and criticism. Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Biblio (Delhi), May June 2001. Geeta Kapur is a magisterial presence in the sphere of modern Indian art. [The] insistence on the primacy of bearing witness to creative practice has been the leitmotif of Kapur s work. . . . Kapur s contribution . . . is best understood by reflection on the radical change that her activity has brought about in Indian art criticism. Ranjit Hoskote, Art India (Mumbai), Vol. VI, 1, 2001. When Was Modernism is a book of essays: imaginative, interpretive, argumentative, polemical, political and, in the combined sense of all these, historical. . . . [It] provides an instance of passionate engagement that, at its best moments, verges on the poetic. Chaitanya Sambrani, ART AsiaPacific (Australia), Issue 30, 2001.

The Archaeology of Rock-Art

The Archaeology of Rock-Art
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 398
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ISBN-10 : 0521576199
ISBN-13 : 9780521576192
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis The Archaeology of Rock-Art by : Christopher Chippindale

Pictures, painted and carved in caves and on open rock surfaces, are amongst our loveliest relics from prehistory. This pioneering set of sparkling essays goes beyond guesses as to what the pictures mean, instead exploring how we can reliably learn from rock-art as a material record of distant times: in short, rock-art as archaeology. Sometimes contact-period records offer some direct insight about indigenous meaning, so we can learn in that informed way. More often, we have no direct record, and instead have to use formal methods to learn from the evidence of the pictures themselves. The book's eighteen papers range wide in space and time, from the Palaeolithic of Europe to nineteenth-century Australia. Using varied approaches within the consistent framework of informed and proven methods, they make key advances in using the striking and reticent evidence of rock-art to archaeological benefit.

Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design

Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design
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Publisher : Chronicle Books
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 9781616890711
ISBN-13 : 1616890711
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design by : Michael Bierut

Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design brings together the best of designer Michael Bierut's critical writing—serious or humorous, flattering or biting, but always on the mark. Bierut is widely considered the finest observer on design writing today. Covering topics as diverse as Twyla Tharp and ITC Garamond, Bierut's intelligent and accessible texts pull design culture into crisp focus. He touches on classics, like Massimo Vignelli and the cover of The Catcher in the Rye, as well as newcomers, like McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and color-coded terrorism alert levels. Along the way Nabakov's Pale Fire; Eero Saarinen; the paper clip; Celebration, Florida; the planet Saturn; the ClearRx pill bottle; and paper architecture all fall under his pen. His experience as a design practitioner informs his writing and gives it truth. In Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design, designers and nondesigners alike can share and revel in his insights.