Art Reinterprets Art

Art Reinterprets Art
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Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages : 686
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ISBN-10 : 1477638407
ISBN-13 : 9781477638408
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Art Reinterprets Art by : Ram K. Piparaiya

The volume is a study of the evolution of art from the perspectives of chronology and thematic considerations. It attempts to show the ability of art to constantly reinvent itself to reflect the changing worldviews. The chronological perspective examines the factors behind transformation of art from traditional art to modern art to post-modern or contemporary art. The thematic perspectives are concerned with changes in depiction of society, sex, the artist's psyche and the power of money in art. It examines the historic controversies in western art and impact of other cultures on Indian art. It also explores the link between art and spirituality, draws parallels between modern art and modern physics. It deals with some serious issues like the impact of art on society and the significance of modern art in particular—whether it represents progress or is a kind of hoax.0.

Painting and Reinterpreting the Masters

Painting and Reinterpreting the Masters
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Publisher : The Crowood Press
Total Pages : 516
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ISBN-10 : 9781785006746
ISBN-13 : 1785006746
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis Painting and Reinterpreting the Masters by : Sara Lee Roberts

For centuries, artists have learnt from the art that came before them. This book explains how to make paint meaningful and imaginative responses to the works of the masters. There are step by step examples to illustrate how to get started and how to use thumbnail pencil sketches. Advice is given on how to make larger and slower drawings, and then oil-sketch copies of the masters' work. The author studies the composition, rhythms and colours of the masters and uses their work as a source to practise and understand paintings, and as a springboard for your own discovery and invention. This book explores how a brave and imaginative use of colour can reinterpret paintings to achieve a greater and more expressive effect. Images from the earliest art to the twentieth century are included to feed your creative imagination, and examples of contemporary interpretations to show you the way. With over two hundred inspiring images, it is a unique guide to developing your own artistic voice while studying and enjoying some of the art world's greatest treasures.

Contemporary Art and Classical Myth

Contemporary Art and Classical Myth
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Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages : 414
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ISBN-10 : 0754669742
ISBN-13 : 9780754669746
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis Contemporary Art and Classical Myth by : Isabelle Loring Wallace

Contemporary art is deeply engaged with the subject of classical myth. Yet within the literature on contemporary art, little has been said about this provocative relationship. Composed of fifteen original essays, Contemporary Art and Classical Myth addresses this scholarly gap, exploring, and in large part establishing, the multifaceted intersection of contemporary art and classical myth.

Semiotics for Art History

Semiotics for Art History
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : 9781527522787
ISBN-13 : 1527522784
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Semiotics for Art History by : Lian Duan

Reading art from a semiotic perspective, this book offers a new interpretation of the development of Chinese landscape painting and outlines a new framework for contemporary semiotics and critical theory. It will appeal to those interested in visual art, Chinese studies, critical theory, semiotics, and other relevant fields, and will allow the reader to learn how to put theory into the practice of studying art, how to give new life to an important theory, and how to acquire a new point of view in appreciating and enjoying art with a certain critical theory.

Modern Art & the Remaking of Human Disposition

Modern Art & the Remaking of Human Disposition
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 352
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ISBN-10 : 9780226745183
ISBN-13 : 022674518X
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Modern Art & the Remaking of Human Disposition by : Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen

How artists at the turn of the twentieth century broke with traditional ways of posing the bodies of human figures to reflect modern understandings of human consciousness. With this book, Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen brings a new formal and conceptual rubric to the study of turn-of-the-century modernism, transforming our understanding of the era’s canonical works. Butterfield-Rosen analyzes a hitherto unexamined formal phenomenon in European art: how artists departed from conventions for posing the human figure that had long been standard. In the decades around 1900, artists working in different countries and across different media began to present human figures in strictly frontal, lateral, and dorsal postures. The effect, both archaic and modern, broke with the centuries-old tradition of rendering bodies in torsion, with poses designed to simulate the human being’s physical volume and capacity for autonomous thought and movement. This formal departure destabilized prevailing visual codes for signifying the existence of the inner life of the human subject. Exploring major works by Georges Seurat, Gustav Klimt, and the dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky— replete with new archival discoveries—Modern Art and the Remaking of Human Disposition combines intensive formal analysis with inquiries into the history of psychology and evolutionary biology. In doing so, it shows how modern understandings of human consciousness and the relation of mind to body were materialized in art through a new vocabulary of postures and poses.

Ink Art

Ink Art
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Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages : 210
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ISBN-10 : 9781588395047
ISBN-13 : 1588395049
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Ink Art by : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

"Featuring 70 works in various media--paintings, calligraphy, photographs, woodblock prints, video, and sculpture--that were created during the past three decades, Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China will demonstrate how China's ancient pattern of seeking cultural renewal through the reinterpretation of past models remains a viable creative path. Although all of the artists have transformed their sources through new modes of expression, visitors will recognize thematic, aesthetic, or technical attributes in their creations that have meaningful links to China's artistic past. The exhibition will be organized thematically into four parts and will include such highlights as Xu Bing's dramatic Book from the Sky (ca. 1988), an installation that will fill an entire gallery; Family Tree (2000), a set of vivid photographs documenting a performance by Zhang Huan in which his facial features--and his identity--are obscured gradually by physiognomic texts that are inscribed directly onto his face; and Map of China (2006) by Ai Weiwei, which is constructed entirely of wood salvaged from demolished Qing dynasty temples." --

Here, Now

Here, Now
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Publisher : Hirmer Verlag GmbH
Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : 3777438421
ISBN-13 : 9783777438429
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Here, Now by : John P. Lukavic

Two hundred masterpieces of Indigenous art from North America, accompanied by essays on the collection and the current issues affecting Indigenous communities. Here, Now: Indigenous Arts of North America at the Denver Art Museum features two hundred of the Denver Art Museum's most notable Indigenous artworks. Aimed at both longtime fans of Indigenous arts and those coming to them for the first time, this expansive book reinterprets the collection and offers new insights into the historic and contemporary work of Indigenous artists. The artworks--covering a range of media, artistic traditions, and time periods--are organized geographically and invite readers to make connections between the artworks and the places they were produced. The book also includes contributions by Indigenous authors reflecting on the collection and the current issues that affect contemporary Indigenous communities. Contributors include John P. Lukavic, Dakota Hoska (Oglála Lakȟóta), and Christopher Patrello; with Kathleen Ash-Milby (Navajo), Susan Billy (Hopland Band of Pomo Indians), Jeffrey Chapman (White Earth Ojibwe), Jordan Poorman Cocker (Kiowa/Tongan), Jasha Lyons Echo-Hawk (Seminole/Pawnee), Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit/ Unangax̂), Joe Horse Capture (A'aniiih), Terrance Jade (Oglála Lakȟóta), Zachary R. Jones, Sascha Scott, Rose Simpson (Santa Clara), Daniel C. Swan, and Norman Vorano. The book opens with a contribution from United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo.

The End of Art

The End of Art
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 220
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ISBN-10 : 0804744246
ISBN-13 : 9780804744249
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis The End of Art by : Eva Geulen

Since Hegel, the idea of an end of art has become a staple of aesthetic theory. This book analyzes its role and its rhetoric in Hegel, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Adorno, and Heidegger in order to account for the topic's enduring persistence. In addition to providing a general overview of the main thinkers of post-Idealist German aesthetics, the book explores the relationship between tradition and modernity. For despite the differences that distinguish one philosopher's end of art from another's, all authors treated here turn the end of art into an occasion to thematize and to reflect on the very thing that modernism cannot or should not be: tradition. As a discourse, the end of art is one of our modern traditions.

Extra/Ordinary

Extra/Ordinary
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9780822347620
ISBN-13 : 0822347628
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis Extra/Ordinary by : Maria Elena Buszek

Artists, critics, curators, and scholars develop theories of craft in relation to art, chronicle how fine art institutions understand and exhibit craft media, and offer accounts of activist crafting.

Post-specimen Encounters Between Art, Science and Curating

Post-specimen Encounters Between Art, Science and Curating
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ISBN-10 : 1789383129
ISBN-13 : 9781789383126
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Post-specimen Encounters Between Art, Science and Curating by : Edward Juler

Examines how scientific objects in museums and other collections act as inspiration to contemporary art practice, its histories, curating and aesthetics. Cross-disciplinary essays from leading arts professionals explore how scientific encounters in museums provoke new modes of creative thinking about art, science and curating. 84 col. illus.