Abject Art
Author: Jack Ben-Levi
Publisher: Whitney Museum of American Art
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13:
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Abject Visions
Author: Rina Arya
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780719096280
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn impressive list of authors examine how abjection can be discussed in relation to a host of different subjects, including marginality and gender.
Abject Eroticism in Northern Renaissance Art
Author: Yvonne Owens
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-10-29
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1350190500
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHans Baldung Grien, the most famous apprentice and close friend of German artist Albrecht Dürer, was known for his unique and highly eroticised images of witches. In paintings and woodcut prints, he gave powerful visual expression to late medieval tropes and stereotypes, such as the poison maiden, venomous virgin, the Fall of Man, 'death and the maiden' and other motifs and eschatological themes, which mingled abject and erotic qualities in the female body. Yvonne Owens reads these images against the humanist intellectual milieu of Renaissance Germany, showing how classical and medieval medicine and natural philosophy interpreted female anatomy as toxic, defective and dangerously beguiling. She reveals how Hans Baldung exploited this radical polarity to create moralising and titillating portrayals of how monstrous female sexuality victimised men and brought them low. Furthermore, these images issued from-and contributed to-the contemporary understanding of witchcraft as a heresy that stemmed from natural 'feminine defect,' a concept derived from Aristotle. Offering new and provocative interpretations of Hans Baldung's iconic witchcraft imagery, this book is essential reading for historians of art, culture and gender relations in the late medieval and early modern periods.
Powers of Horror
Author: Julia Kristeva
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2024-03-26
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 0231561415
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, she analyzes the nature of attitudes toward repulsive subjects and examines the function of these topics in the writings of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and other authors. Kristeva identifies the abject with the eruption of the real and the presence of death. She explores how art and religion each offer ways of purifying the abject, arguing that amid abjection, boundaries between subject and object break down.
Abject Performances
Author: Leticia Alvarado
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2018-04-19
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 0822371936
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Abject Performances Leticia Alvarado draws out the irreverent, disruptive aesthetic strategies used by Latino artists and cultural producers who shun standards of respectability that are typically used to conjure concrete minority identities. In place of works imbued with pride, redemption, or celebration, artists such as Ana Mendieta, Nao Bustamante, and the Chicano art collective known as Asco employ negative affects—shame, disgust, and unbelonging—to capture experiences that lie at the edge of the mainstream, inspirational Latino-centered social justice struggles. Drawing from a diverse expressive archive that ranges from performance art to performative testimonies of personal faith-based subjection, Alvarado illuminates modes of community formation and social critique defined by a refusal of identitarian coherence that nonetheless coalesce into Latino affiliation and possibility.
Abject Expressionism
Author: Ron English
Publisher: Last Gasp
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780867196894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive survey covering 20 years of English's career - from staged photography to neo-Surrealist oil paintings to street art - this is an important look at the work of an artist who has been at the forefront of activist art movements in photography, painting and underground music. Ron English has been called the Robin Hood of Madison Avenue for his seminal work in billboard subvertising and is widely considered to be a founding member of the Culture Jamming movement.' #NAME?'
ABJECT ART.
Author: Craig Houser
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 111
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Author: Michael Duncan
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780983587026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUntil recently, the figurative artists who dominated the Los Angeles art scene of the 1940s and 50s had largely been written out of art history. L.A. Raw is an attempt to right that wrong. Bringing together works by 41 artists in a variety of media, it traces a lineage that connects postwar figurative expressionism to the 1960s and 70s investigations of politics, gender and ethnicity in art. The featured artists include John Altoon, Wallace Berman, William Brice, Hans Burckhardt, Chris Burden, Cameron, Judy Chicago, Connor Everts, Llyn Foulkes, Charles Garabedian, David Hammonds, Robert Heinecken, John Paul Jones, Kim Jones, Ed and Nancy Kienholz, Rico Lebrun, Paul McCarthy, Arnold Mesches, Betye Saar, Ben Sakoguchi, Barbara Smith, James Strombotne, Jan Stussy, Edward Teske, Joyce Treiman, Howard Warshaw, June Wayne, Charles White and Jack Zajac.
Abjection and Representation
Author: R. Arya
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-09-11
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 0230389341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbjection and Representation is a theoretical investigation of the concept of abjection as expounded by Julia Kristeva in Powers of Horror (1982) and its application in various fields including the visual arts, film and literature. It examines the complexity of the concept and its significance as a cultural category.
Abject visions
Author: Rina Arya
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2016-05-03
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 1784997722
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