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Author | : Michael Kammen |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2009-04-22 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0307548775 |
In this lively narrative, award-winning author Michael Kammen presents a fascinating analysis of cutting-edge art and artists and their unique ability to both delight and provoke us. He illuminates America’s obsession with public memorials and the changing role of art and museums in our society. From Thomas Eakins’s 1875 masterpiece The Gross Clinic, (considered “too big, bold, and gory” when first exhibited) to the bitter disputes about Maya Lin’s Vietnam War Memorial, this is an eye-opening account of American art and the battles and controversies that it has ignited.
Author | : Glenn Peers |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780271047485 |
Sacred Shock attempts to lay bare the inner workings of Byzantine art by looking closely at the marginal or subsidiary areas in works of art.
Author | : Dorothée Brill |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1584659173 |
A groundbreaking analysis of two movements of the historical avant-garde
Author | : G. Wood |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137068094 |
Already in the century before photography's emergence as a mass medium, a diverse popular visual culture had risen to challenge the British literary establishment. The bourgeois fashion for new visual media - from prints and illustrated books to theatrical spectacles and panoramas - rejected high. Romantic concepts of original genius and the sublime in favor of mass-produced images and the thrill of realistic effects. In response, the literary elite declared the new visual media an offense to Romantic idealism. 'Simulations of nature,' Coleridge declared, are 'loathsome' and 'disgusting.' The Shock of the Real offers a tour of Romantic visual culture, from the West End stage to the tourist-filled Scottish Highlands, from the panoramas of Leicester Square to the photography studios of Second Empire Paris. But in presenting the relation between word and image in the late Georgian age as a form of culture war, the author also proposes an alternative account of Romantic aesthetic ideology - as a reaction not against the rationalism of the Enlightenment but against the visual media age being born.
Author | : Richard Howells |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 2019-03-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1509518819 |
This is a book about how to read visual images: from fine art to photography, film, television and new media. It explores how meaning is communicated by the wide variety of texts that inhabit our increasingly visual world. But, rather than simply providing set meanings to individual images, Visual Culture teaches readers how to interpret visual texts with their own eyes. While the first part of the book takes readers through differing theoretical approaches to visual analysis, the second part shifts to a medium-based analysis, connected by an underlying theme about the complex relationship between visual culture and reality. Howells and Negreiros draw together seemingly diverse methodologies, while ultimately arguing for a polysemic approach to visual analysis. The third edition of this popular book contains over fifty illustrations, for the first time in colour. Included in the revised text is a new section on images of power, fear and seduction, a new segment on video games, as well as fresh material on taste and judgement. This timely edition also offers a glossary and suggestions for further reading. Written in a clear, lively and engaging style, Visual Culture continues to be an ideal introduction for students taking courses in visual culture and communications in a range of disciplines, including media and cultural studies, sociology, and art and design.
Author | : Keith Ridgway |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2021-07-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0811230864 |
Ever since Keith Ridgway published his landmark cult novel Hawthorn & Child, his ardent fans have yearned for more Finally, Ridgway gives us A Shock, his thrilling and unsparing, slippery and shockingly good new novel. Formed as a rondel of interlocking stories with a clutch of more or less loosely connected repeating characters, it’s at once deracinated yet potent with place, druggy yet frighteningly shot through with reality. His people appear, disappear, and reappear. They’re on the fringes of London, clinging to sanity or solvency or a story by their fingernails, consumed by emotions and anxieties in fuzzily understood situations. A deft, high-wire act, full of imprecise yet sharp dialog as well as witchy sleights of hand reminiscent of Muriel Spark, A Shock delivers a knockout punch of an ending. Perhaps Ridgway’s most breathtaking quality is his scintillating stealthiness: you can never quite put your finger on how he casts his spell—he delivers the shock of a master jewel thief (already far-off and scot-free) stealing your watch: when at some point you look down at your wrist, all you see is that in more than one way you don’t know what time it is…
Author | : Lewis Pyenson |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 666 |
Release | : 2020-10-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9004325735 |
In The Shock of Recognition, Lewis Pyenson examines art and science together to shed new light on common motifs in Picasso’s and Einstein’s education, in European material culture, and in the intellectual life of one nation-state, Argentina.
Author | : Christopher Kenworthy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 133 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Cinematography |
ISBN | : 9781615932320 |
Martin Scorsese directs films that range from the subtlest studies of relationships to violent gangster movies, with characters who are driven to the extremes of their personality. This book looks at Scorsese's key techniques, showing how he uses space, framing, and a strong sense of direction, to en-sure that your films are brimming with tension, shock, and emotion.
Author | : Anton Kaes |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0691008507 |
'Shell Shock Cinema' shows how classical German cinema of the Weimar Republic was haunted by the horrors of World War I & the trauma of Germany's humiliating defeat. Anton Kaes argues that even films which do not depict war reveal a wounded nation in post-traumatic shock.
Author | : William Henry Pickering |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Comets |
ISBN | : |