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Oscar Wilde 16 October 1854 30 November 1900 was an extremely popular Irish writer and poet who wrote in different forms throughout his career and became one of Londons most popular playwrights in the early 1890s Today he is remembered for his epigrams plays and the strange circumstances of his imprisonment followed by his early death At the turn of the 1890s Wilde refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays and incorporated themes of decadence duplicity and beauty into his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray 1890 The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely and combine them with larger social themes drew Wilde to write drama He wrote Salome 1891 in French in Paris but it was refused a license Unperturbed Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London Wilde reached the height of his fame and success with The Importance of Being Earnest 1895
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An indispensable resource for any visual arts lover this anthology of original writings covers modern American art and culture from mid1940s abstract expressionism and the Cold War right through to the late 1990s with its proliferation of video and technological developments in telecommunications and biotechnologygiving readers a firm understanding of the evolution of artistic development within the context of major political cultural and sociological trends and ideas that have emerged in the United States since World War II Presents writings from post WWII through the 1990s and organizes them around ten central areas of discussion American avantgarde the beat generation objectivityreductionformalism process and materials sculpture politics the return of painting image and identity and the body and technology Divides chapter writings into three categoriesartists critics and contextgiving readers clear insight into the major issues that the artists work raises and helping them connect the words of artists with criticisms about the art they created exhibition reviews and museum catalog essays Includes selections from outside the visual arts to establish relationships between the issues and impulses raised by the work of these artists to trends and ideas that were gaining prominence within the broader culture at the time that the art was being created For general readers of modern art history and theory andor postwar American culture ideal for museum bookstores
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John Rewald the internationally acclaimed Cezanne scholar presents here for the first time a full account of how the artists reputation and influence became established in America between 1891 and 1921 and of how some of the worlds largest collections of Cezannes works were formed in the United States Recounted in Rewalds characteristically urbane and masterly style this is the fascinating story of enthusiastic young American artists who took up Cezannes cause after they discovered him in Paris It is also the story of the discerning early American collectors of his workLeo and Gertrude Stein the Havemeyers and John Quinn among othersmany of whom made their first purchases from Cezannes wily dealer Vollard or from the dealer Alfred Stieglitz in America and of the beginning of the famous collection of Dr Albert C BarnesRewald discusses the exhibitions at which Cezannes works were first shown and describes the outraged reactions of all but a few of the American critics Several chapters are devoted to the important Armory Show of 1913 Throughout the text runs a compelling narrative in which all the actors revolve around the absent protagonist Cezanne Each chapter is copiously illustrated not only with Cezannes works but also with portraits of collectors and critics and with previously unpublished pages from diaries dealers ledgers and Cezannes own correspondence
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Herschel B Chipps Theories of Modern Art A Source Book By Artists and Critics is a collection of texts from letters manifestos notes and interviews Sources include as the title says artists and criticssome expected like van Gogh Gauguin Apollinaire Mondrian Greenberg just to name a fewand some less so Trotsky and Hitler in the section on Art and Politics The book is a wonderful resource and insight into the way artists think and work
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The description for this book French Painting Between the Past and Present Artists Critics and Traditions from 1848 to 1870 will be forthcoming
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Despite the plethora of writing about jazz little attention has been paid to what musicians themselves wrote and said about their practice An implicit division of labor has emerged where for the most part black artists invent and play music while white writers provide the commentary Eric Porter overturns this tendency in his creative intellectual history of African American musicians He foregrounds the oftenignored ideas of these artists analyzing them in the context of meanings circulating around jazz as well as in relationship to broader currents in African American thought Porter examines several crucial moments in the history of jazz the formative years of the 1920s and 1930s the emergence of bebop the political and experimental projects of the 1950s 1960s and 1970s and the debates surrounding Jazz at Lincoln Center under the direction of Wynton Marsalis Louis Armstrong Anthony Braxton Marion Brown Duke Ellington WC Handy Yusef Lateef Abbey Lincoln Charles Mingus Archie Shepp Wadada Leo Smith Mary Lou Williams and Reggie Workman also feature prominently in this book The wealth of information Porter uncovers shows how these musicians have expressed themselves in print actively shaped the institutional structures through which the music is created distributed and consumed and how they aligned themselves with other artists and activists and how they were influenced by forces of class and gender What Is This Thing Called Jazz challenges interpretive orthodoxies by showing how much black jazz musicians have struggled against both the racism of the dominant culture and the prescriptive definitions of racial authenticity propagated by the musics supporters both white and black
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Although known primarily as the irreverent but dazzlingly witty playwright who penned The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde was also an able and farsighted critic He was an early advocate of criticism as an independent branch of literature and stressed its vital role in the creative process Scholars continue to debate many of Wildes critical positionsIncluded in Richard Ellmanns impressive collection of Wildes criticism The Artist as Critic is a wide selection of Wildes book reviews as well as such famous longer works as The Portrait of Mr WH The Soul Man under Socialism and the four essays which make up Intentions The Artist as Critic will satisfy any Wilde fans yearning for an essential reading of his critical workWilde emerges now as not only brilliant but also revolutionary one of the great thinkers of dangerous thoughtsWalter Allen New York Times Book ReviewThe best of Wildes nonfictional prose can be found in The Artist as CriticMichael Dirda Washington Post Book World
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A digital copy of What is This Thing Called Jazz African American Musicians as Artists Critics and Activists by Eric Porter Download is immediately available upon purchase
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Provides a critical perspective on the entirety of Anne Sextons work through reviews and essays by such writers as Denise Levertov James Dickey and Jane McCabe
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These essays on abstract painting by eleven of its most incisive critics trace the development of such critical issues as hardedge painting deductive and serial structure monochrome abstraction the psychological analogy regionalism and the death of painting in Postmodernism The introduction and commentary by Frances Colpitt situates the essays historically and examines their philosophical sources and influences from formalism and phenomenology to structuralism and poststructuralism What emerges is a coherent and optimistic picture of abstract paintingthe definitive contribution of modern art
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In Critical Condition Eleanor Heartney examines the art world from 1985 to 1994 a tumultuous period that ushered in the art boom and bust the emergence and in some cases disappearance of developments like Appropriation NeoGeo and multiculturalism and the ongoing attack on art by the religious right and political conservatives Chronicling events that took place during this decade with a particular focus on public art Heartney also examines the mechanisms of the gallery and media system especially as they relate to the practice of art criticism as well as the complexities of the debate on art and pornography Written during a pivotal period of contemporary art Heartneys essay provides a picture of a culture in a crisis of values which has yet to be resolved
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Signs of Psyche in Modern and PostModern Art examines the psychological dimension of visual culture in the twentieth century Analysing the ways in which psychoanalysis can be used to understand art and culture Donald Kuspit argues that modern art affirms subjectivity whereas postmodern art which is characterised as cynical and glamorous denies it while paradoxically being unable to escape it Assessing the depthpsychological implications of works by among others Paul Gauguin Henri Matisse André Breton Anselm Kiefer and Gerhard Richter this study persuasively demonstrates how the methods of psychoanalysis can be used to probe art works created at critical junctures of this century
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This selection of essays by a prominent art historian critic and curator of modern art examines the art and artists of the twentieth century who have operated outside the established art world In a lucid and accessible style Peter Selz explores modern art as it is reflected and has had an impact on the tremendous transformations of politics and culture both in the United States and in Europe An authoritative overview of a neglected phenomenon his essays explore the complex relationship between art at the periphery and art at the putative center and how marginal art has affected that of the mainstream
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New This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published 325
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Anselm Kiefer and the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger is a work of cultural history that situates the art works of one of the most important contemporary painters in relation to the existential phenomenological and hermeneutic philosophy of Heidegger Analyzing the development of Kiefers art in terms of subjectivity intersubjectivity history and technology Matthew Biro demonstrates that the artists subjects reflect and transform the philosophers theoretical interests and intellectual development The works of Kiefer and Heidegger Biro argues present a constellation of issues that unite German art and theory for most of the twentieth century Showing the aesthetic relevance of the three stages of Heideggers philosophical thought to Kiefers work this book also demonstrates the impact of Kiefers art works on contemporary art and theory
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By casting designers as authors cultural critics activists entrepreneurs and global cartographers Essin tells a story about scenic images on the page stage and beyond that helped American audiences see the everyday landscapes and exotic destinations from a modern perspective
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Book is in UsedVeryGood condition Pages and cover are clean and intact Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting 325
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Between 1982 and 1987 Andy Warhol created 503 works composed of blackandwhite photographic prints stitched together with thread Indebted to his earlier silkscreen paintings these works were also the result of lifelong photographic exploration and a prolific decade when the artist shot over 124000 frames In an effort to interpret Warhols enigmatic photographic series this study contextualizes them within the history of photography and the art world of the 1980s William Ganis demonstrates how Warhol manipulates the tenets of modern art photography to create ambiguity in the perception of the images
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