Art in California

Art in California
Author: Jenni Sorkin
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Total Pages: 475
Release: 2021-09-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 050077613X

An introduction to the rich and diverse art of California, this book highlights its distinctive role in the history of American art, from early-20th-century photography to Chicanx mural painting, the Fiber Art Movement and beyond. Shaped by a compelling network of geopolitical influences including waves of migration and exchange from the Pacific Rim and Mexico, the influx of African Americans immediately after World War II, and global immigration after quotas were lifted in the 1960s, California is a centre of artistic activity whose influence extends far beyond its physical boundaries. Furthermore, California was at the forefront of radical developments in artistic culture, most notably conceptual art and feminism, and its education system continues to nurture and encourage avant-garde creativity. Organized chronologically and thematically with illustrations throughout, this attractive study stands as an important reassessment of Californias contribution to modern and contemporary art in the United States and globally.

Look at This Blue

Look at This Blue
Author: Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2022-03-29
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1566896290

Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award in Poetry! Interweaving elegy, indictment, and hope into a love letter to California, Look at This Blue examines America’s genocidal past and present to warn of a future threatened by mass extinction and climate peril. Truths about what we have lost and have yet to lose permeate this book-length poem by American Book Award winner and Fulbright scholar Allison Adelle Hedge Coke. An assemblage of historical record and lyric fragments, these poems form a taxonomy of threatened lives—human, plant, and animal—in a century marked by climate emergency. Look at This Blue insists upon a reckoning with and redress of America’s continuing violence toward Earth and its peoples, as Hedge Coke’s cataloguing of loss crescendos into resistance.

Essential Art

Essential Art
Author: Brian Bibby
Publisher: Heyday Books
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2012
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781597141697

A treasury of selected pieces from the California Indian Heritage Center, this collection reflects the scale and scope of baskets created by nearly every weaving tradition in Cali-fornia over the last century . This book conveys the dual nature of beauty and practicality that baskets presented as a part of daily life and as a growing example of unique art - a careful selection of the best, beautifully presented.

Blues and Greens

Blues and Greens
Author: Alan Chong Lau
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2000-04-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780824823238

Alan Chong Lau’s poetic memoir of his days as a produce worker in Seattle’s Chinatown reveals a microcosm of grassroots, working-class Asian America—a world where customers, workers, and fruits and vegetables intersect in exchanges that crackle with energy and brim over with humor. With the simple profundity of a Zen koan, the poems bear witness to people’s humanity. Lau portrays in words and pictures a community in constant flux as it moves to the push and pull of immigration. Blues and Greens has a lot to say about Asian Americans. What emerges is an acutely observed, nuanced critique of where Asian Americans—native-born, refugee, and migrant—are today.

All Over Coffee

All Over Coffee
Author: Paul Madonna
Publisher: City Lights Books
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2007-04-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780872864566

A new voice and vision for art as comics and comics as art -- and poetry.

Art as Social Practice

Art as Social Practice
Author: xtine burrough
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2022-03-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1000546144

With a focus on socially engaged art practices in the twenty-first century, this book explores how artists use their creative practices to raise consciousness, form communities, create change, and bring forth social impact through new technologies and digital practices. Suzanne Lacy’s Foreword and section introduction authors Anne Balsamo, Harrell Fletcher, Natalie Loveless, Karen Moss, and Stephanie Rothenberg present twenty-five in-depth case studies by established and emerging contemporary artists including Kim Abeles, Christopher Blay, Joseph DeLappe, Mary Beth Heffernan, Chris Johnson, Rebekah Modrak, Praba Pilar, Tabita Rezaire, Sylvain Souklaye, and collaborators Victoria Vesna and Siddharth Ramakrishnan. Artists offer firsthand insight into how they activate methods used in socially engaged art projects from the twentieth century and incorporated new technologies to create twenty-first century, socially engaged, digital art practices. Works highlighted in this book span collaborative image-making, immersive experiences, telematic art, time machines, artificial intelligence, and physical computing. These reflective case studies reveal how the artists collaborate with participants and communities, and have found ways to expand, transform, reimagine, and create new platforms for meaningful exchange in both physical and virtual spaces. An invaluable resource for students and scholars of art, technology, and new media, as well as artists interested in exploring these intersections.