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Restless InfectionsPublic Art and a Transforming City
Restless Infections is a collection of critical essays exploring artistic interventions in urban spaces, focusing on place-making and the politics of space in South Africa. The writers examine seminal artworks by South African artists, addressing diverse forms of expression such as site-specific performances, immersive installations, film, photography, and online performances. The book is divi…
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A Dream DeferredThe Art and Activism of Edwin Augustus Harleston
The first full-length biography of one of South Carolina's most significant African American visual artists Excluded from the Charleston Renaissance because of his race and pushed to the edges of the Harlem Renaissance by geography and circumstance, Edwin Augustus Harleston was an artist caught between worlds. Despite being marginalized within his hometown of Charleston, South Carolina, during…
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LandschaftKultur-, Natur-, Wirtschafts- und Erfahrungsräume
In this volume, various manifestations of landscape provide the basis for questions regarding how it is identified, constructed, and shaped. A look is thus taken at how landscape is quasi mediated medially as an archive, as well as at the activities, values, and meanings inscribed in it and these revealing modes of perception. Understood as an environment in the broadest sense, it assumes a con…
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Memoria y comunidadPensar la cultura en la ciudad
Esta obra nos propone un original acercamiento a los temas de la memoria y la comunidad desde la perspectiva de la cultura y en un contexto urbano. Se trata de pensar la ciudad, lo local, lo comunitario y el arte a partir de las experiencias, testimonios y recuerdos de los habitantes de un enclave particular. Nos referimos a una pequeña localidad ubicada en la alcaldía Iztapalapa, en la Ciuda…
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The Art Market and the MuseumInstitutional Collecting, Display and Patronage …
This book considers how art market stakeholders, including art dealers, collectors and agents, have shaped museum collections and affected exhibition practices since the mid-nineteenth century. Based on new archival research and data analysis, it explores the role of dealers not only in selling directly to museums, but in influencing museum collecting priorities, as well as potential donors. It…
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The Art Market and the MuseumInstitutional Collecting, Display and Patronage …
This book considers how art market stakeholders, including art dealers, collectors and agents, have shaped museum collections and affected exhibition practices since the mid-nineteenth century. Based on new archival research and data analysis, it explores the role of dealers not only in selling directly to museums, but in influencing museum collecting priorities, as well as potential donors. It…
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Lillie P. BlissCollector, Advocate, and Visionary Benefactor of the Museum of…
She helped found MoMA and pioneered the promotion of work of American and French modern artists at the turn of the 20th century, but until now, her life and legacy remain woefully under examined. An early pioneer and patron of French and American modernism, Lillie P. Bliss (1864-1931) was one of three female cofounders of MoMA in 1929, and went on to furnish the museum with one of the finest co…
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L'Art africain contemporain (1989-2019)Une nouvelle ère ?
Toutes les clés pour fluidifier l'identification, la lecture, la compréhension, l'analyse sémantique et l'évaluation marchande de l'œuvre d'art africain (moderne et) contemporain dans le contexte local et mondial, pour permettre ainsi au spectateur, à l'amateur, de facilement situer l'artiste et pour comprendre l'œuvre telle qu'elle se présente à lui.À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR Jean-Philippe…
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Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity
A richly illustrated new exploration of the painting, photography, and illustration of the politically progressive American artist Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity offers a fresh and wide-ranging account of the work of Ben Shahn (1898–1969), a Jewish immigrant from Russian-controlled Lithuania who became one of America’s most prominent and prolific “social viewpoint” artists…
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Lineamenti di storia dell'arte medievale. (Dall'età tardo-antica al primo Qu…
Ormai da qualche anno, complice l'esplosione di una vera e propria febbre divulgativa, il Medioevo sembra godere di una popolarità mai sperimentata. Tuttavia, nonostante lo spazio crescente nelle abitudini culturali del pubblico italiano, il primo approccio alle testimonianze artistiche di questo periodo continua a rappresentare un problema per centinaia di studenti e appassionati. D'altra par…
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