The Brillo Box Archive
Author: Michael J. Golec
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781584657019
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of the iconic Brillo box through the theories of design, aesthetics, and art
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A General Theory of Visual Culture
Author: Whitney Davis
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2022-06-14
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1400836433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is cultural about vision--or visual about culture? In this ambitious book, Whitney Davis provides new answers to these difficult and important questions by presenting an original framework for understanding visual culture. Grounded in the theoretical traditions of art history, A General Theory of Visual Culture argues that, in a fully consolidated visual culture, artifacts and pictures have been made to be seen in a certain way; what Davis calls "visuality" is the visual perspective from which certain culturally constituted aspects of artifacts and pictures are visible to informed viewers. In this book, Davis provides a systematic analysis of visuality and describes how it comes into being as a historical form of vision. Expansive in scope, A General Theory of Visual Culture draws on art history, aesthetics, the psychology of perception, the philosophy of reference, and vision science, as well as visual-cultural studies in history, sociology, and anthropology. It provides penetrating new definitions of form, style, and iconography, and draws important and sometimes surprising conclusions (for example, that vision does not always attain to visual culture, and that visual culture is not always wholly visible). The book uses examples from a variety of cultural traditions, from prehistory to the twentieth century, to support a theory designed to apply to all human traditions of making artifacts and pictures--that is, to visual culture as a worldwide phenomenon.
Art + Archive
Author: Sara Callahan
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2022-01-25
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1526156849
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArt + Archive provides an in-depth analysis of the connection between art and the archive at the turn of the twenty-first century. The book examines how the archive emerged in art writing in the mid-1990s and how its subsequent ubiquity can be understood in light of wider social, technological, philosophical and art-historical conditions and concerns. Deftly combining writing on archives from different disciplines with artistic practices, the book clarifies the function and meaning of one of the most persistent artworld buzzwords of recent years, shedding light on the conceptual and historical implications of the so-called archival turn in contemporary art.
The Supermodel and the Brillo Box
Author: Don Thompson
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2014-05-27
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1137279087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA look at the contemporary art market and the economics and psychology that first produced a market crash, and then two years later resulted in astronomical prices
A Conspiracy of Images
Author: John J. Curley
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013-12-03
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 0300188439
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn important new look at Cold War art on both sides of the Atlantic
Art and Design in 1960s New York
Author: Amanda Gluibizzi
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2021-02-26
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1785276662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArt and Design in 1960s New York explores the mutual influence between fine art and graphic design in New York City during the long decade of the 1960s. Beginning with advertising's "creative revolution" and its relationship to pop artists, the book traces design and art's developing interest in responses to civic problems such as the proliferation of billboards, navigation through the city's streets and subways, and issues of deteriorating infrastructure. The strategies exploited by these artists and designers resulted in similar approaches to visual imagery and shared techniques for thinking about and responding to the city in which they lived.
A is for Archive
Author: Matt Wrbican
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2019-01-01
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 0300233442
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShowcasing the artist's vast and personal archive, this carefully researched book unveils an eclectic selection of objects including artworks, fashion, photographs, and ephemera--everything from "Autograph" to "Zombies."
3D Warhol
Author: Thomas Morgan Evans
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-02-28
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 085772827X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRain machines; alarmed kosher pickle jars filled with gemstones; replica corn flakes boxes; 'disco decor'; time capsules; art bombs; birthday presents; perfume bottles and floating silver pillows that are clouds; paintings that are also films; museum interventions; collected and curated projects; expanded performance environments; holograms. This is a book about the vast array of sculptural work made by Andy Warhol between 1954 and 1987 - a period that begins long before the first Pop paintings and ends in the year of his death. In 3D Warhol, Thomas Morgan Evans argues that Warhol's engagement with sculpture, and traditional notions of sculpture, produced 'trespasses', his sculptural work bisected the expectations, allegiances and values within art historical, and ultimately social sites of investitute (or territories). This groundbreaking, original book brings to the forefront a major, but overlooked aspect of Warhol's oeuvre, providing an essential new perspective on the artist's legacy.
Bridge of Light
Author: J. Hoberman
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 1584658703
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Art of the Ordinary
Author: Richard Deming
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-05-15
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 1501720163
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCutting across literature, film, art, and philosophy, Art of the Ordinary is a trailblazing, cross-disciplinary engagement with the ordinary and the everyday. Because, writes Richard Deming, the ordinary is always at hand, it is, in fact, too familiar for us to perceive it and become fully aware of it. The ordinary he argues, is what most needs to be discovered and yet is something that can never be approached, since to do so is to immediately change it. Art of the Ordinary explores how philosophical questions can be revealed in surprising places—as in a stand-up comic’s routine, for instance, or a Brillo box, or a Hollywood movie. From negotiations with the primary materials of culture and community, ways of reading "self" and "other" are made available, deepening one’s ability to respond to ethical, social, and political dilemmas. Deming picks out key figures, such as the philosophers Stanley Cavell, Arthur Danto, and Richard Wollheim; poet John Ashbery; artist Andy Warhol; and comedian Steven Wright, to showcase the foundational concepts of language, ethics, and society. Deming interrogates how acts of the imagination by these people, and others, become the means for transforming the alienated ordinary into a presence of the everyday that constantly and continually creates opportunities of investment in its calls on interpretive faculties. In Art of the Ordinary, Deming brings together the arts, philosophy, and psychology in new and compelling ways so as to offer generative, provocative insights into how we think and represent the world to others as well as to ourselves.
