The Influence of Oriental Thought on Postwar American Painting and Sculpture
Author: David James Clarke
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 650
ISBN-13:
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American Art of the 1960s
Author: John Elderfield
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780870701801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays discuss Ad Reinhardt, Jasper Johns, J.M.W. Turner, Jim Dine, minimalism, Robert Venturi, and Elia Kazan's "Wild River."
Art in the Encounter of Nations
Author: Bert Winther-Tamaki
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780824824006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArt in the Encounter of Nations is the first book-length study of interactions between the Japanese and American art worlds in the early postwar years. It brings to light a rich exchange of opinions and debates regarding the relationship between the art of the two nations. The author begins with an examination of the Japanese margins of American Abstract Expressionism. Taking a contrapuntal approach, he investigates four abstract painters: two Japanese artists who moved to the United States (Okada Kenzo and Hasegawa Saburo) and two European Americans whose work is often associated with Japanese calligraphy (Mark Tobey and Franz Kline). He then looks at the work of two young scions of the calligraphy and pottery worlds of Japan -- Morita Shiryo and Yagi Kazuo -- and argues that their radical innovations in these ancient arts were, in part, provoked by their sense of a threat posed by Euro-American modernity. The final chapter is devoted to the career of Japanese American sculptor and designer Isamu Noguchi, whose feeling of affiliation was directed to both the U.S. and Japan in shifting ratios through a series of public and private places, each posing unique opportunities for exploring national distinctions.
Inspiration: Bacchus and the Cultural History of a Creation Myth
Author: John F. Moffitt
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2005-05-01
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9047407024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law Online offers in-depth articles on issues such as Human Rights, UN organs and Commissions as well as questions of international law in connection with the United Nations. The core of authors proves to be a well balanced mix between young scholars and professors from all over Europe.
Modernism and the Occult
Author: John Bramble
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-03-04
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 1137465786
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study of modernism's high imperial, occult-exotic affiliations presents many well-known figures from the period 1880-1960 in a new light. Modernism and the Occult traces the history of modernist engagement with 'irregular', heterodox and imported knowledge.
Bokujinkai: Japanese Calligraphy and the Postwar Avant-Garde
Author: Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-07-20
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9004437061
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Bokujinkai—or ‘People of the Ink’—was a group formed in Kyoto in 1952 by five calligraphers: Morita Shiryū, Inoue Yūichi, Eguchi Sōgen, Nakamura Bokushi, and Sekiya Yoshimichi. The avant-garde movement they launched aspired to raise calligraphy to the same level of international prominence as abstract painting. To this end, the Bokujinkai collaborated with artists from European Art Informel and American Abstract Expressionism, sharing exhibition spaces with them in New York, Paris, Tokyo, and beyond. The first English-language book to focus on the postwar history of Japanese calligraphy, Bokujinkai: Japanese Calligraphy and the Postwar Avant-Garde explains how the Bokujinkai rerouted the trajectory of global abstract art and attuned foreign audiences to calligraphic visualities and narratives.
An American Sculptor : Seymour Lipton
Author: Lori Verderame
Publisher: Hudson Hills
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9781555951900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the hayday of Abstract Espressionism, Symour Lipton was probably the most admired sculptor.
"American Women Artists, 1935-1970 "
Author: Helen Langa
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1351576763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNumerous American women artists built successful professional careers in the mid-twentieth century while confronting challenging cultural transitions: shifts in stylistic avant-gardism, harsh political transformations, and changing gender expectations for both women and men. These social and political upheavals provoked complex intellectual and aesthetic tensions. Critical discourses about style and expressive value were also renegotiated, while still privileging masculinist concepts of aesthetic authenticity. In these contexts, women artists developed their careers by adopting innovative approaches to contemporary subjects, techniques, and media. However, while a few women working during these decades have gained significant recognition, many others are still consigned to historical obscurity. The essays in this volume take varied approaches to revising this historical silence. Two focus on evidence of gender biases in several exhibitions and contemporary critical writings; the rest discuss individual artists' complex relationships to mainstream developments, with attention to gender and political biases, cultural innovations, and the influence of racial/ethnic diversity. Several also explore new interpretative directions to open alternative possibilities for evaluating women's aesthetic and formal choices. Through its complex, nuanced approach to issues of gender and female agency, this volume offers valuable and exciting new scholarship in twentieth-century American art history and feminist studies.
Westward Dharma
Author: Charles S. Prebish
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2002-12-04
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 0520226259
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Like seeds on the wind, Buddhist teachings continue to reach new lands. This outstanding book brings to light, in rich detail, the current flowering of Buddhism in the West. Long a world religion, Buddhism is now a global one."—Kenneth Kraft, author of The Wheel of Engaged Buddhism "Westward Dharma deserves a place on the growing bookshelf of contemporary Buddhist studies. Prebish and Baumann broaden our horizons from North America to the wider Western world, exploring key aspects of Buddhism's most recent geographical and cultural expansion."—Paul David Numrich, coauthor of Buddhists, Hindus, and Sikhs in America.
Chinese Art and Its Encounter with the World
Author: David Clarke
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Published: 2011-08-01
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9888083066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChinese Art and Its Encounter with the Worldexamines Chinese art from the mid-eighteenth century to the present, beginning with discussion of a Chinese portrait modeler from Canton who traveled to London in 1769, and ending with an analysis of art and visual culture in post-colonial Hong Kong. By means of a series of six closely-focused case studies, often deliberately introducing non-canonical or previously marginalized aspects of Chinese visual culture, it analyzes Chinese art's encounter with the broader world, and in particular with the West. Offering more than a simple charting of influences, it uncovers a pattern of richly mutual interchange between Chinese art and its others. Arguing that we cannot fully understand modern Chinese art without taking this expanded global context into account, it attempts to break down barriers between areas of art history which have hitherto largely been treated within separate and often nationally-conceived frames. Aware that issues of cultural difference need to be addressed by art historians as much as by artists, it represents a pioneering attempt to produce art historical writing which is truly global in approach. David Clarkeis Professor in the Department of Fine Arts, University of Hong Kong.
