Brings together historians, philosophers, critics, postcolonial theorists, and curators to ask how contemporary global art is conceptualized. Issues discussed include globalism and globalization, internationalism and nationality, empire and capitalism.
Those who love art are guaranteed to further expand their knowledge of this form of expression when using this comprehensive 3-panel (6-page)guide, which examines in detail each type of artafrom printmaking to photographyathat currently exists. Key definitions, historical periods and lists of well-known art pieces are included for easy access.
A Historical Guide to Public Art in the Monumental City
In the first half of the nineteenth century, the most impressive sculptural monuments in America were under construction in Baltimore. Before New York, Philadelphia, and even Washington, D.C., the city built a monument to George Washington, and Baltimore commissioned the country's first public monument dedicated to those killed in battle. After ......
Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence
Courageous artists working in conflict regions describe exemplary peacebuilding performances and groundbreaking theory on performance for transformation of violence. Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict is a two-volume work describing peacebuilding performances in regions beset by violence and internal ......
A 4-volume study of Russian painter Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935) is founded on many decades of research in Russia, Western Europe and the US. It uncovers many documents, and sheds a new light on Malevich's pivotal role in the development of modern art, offering a radially different interpretation.
A preeminent Orwell scholar's lifetime of work on the icon of modern literature.This remarkable volume collects, for the first time, essays representing more than four decades of scholarship by one of the world's leading authorities on George Orwell. In clear, energetic prose that exemplifies his indefatigable attention to Orwell's life work, ......
Financial Episodes in Late Nineteenth-Century American Art
In Taxing Visions, Leo Mazow and Kevin Murphy explore taxes, rents, economic depression, and financial inequity as subject matter in several visually provocative paintings and works on paper. Although this period is often identified artistically with leisure-laden impressionist landscapes, flowing-with-abundance still-life paintings, ......
Collecting Italian Renaissance paintings during America's Gilded Age was fraught with uncertainty, about both the true identity of the artists and the conflicting interests of dealers. In no other relationship is this more evident than that of Henry Walters, founder of the legendary Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, and Bernard Berenson, the era's ......
