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The Future Is PresentArt, Technology, and the Work of Mobile Image
In The Future Is Present, Philip Glahn and Cary Levine tell the fascinating history of the visionary art group Mobile Image—founded by Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz in 1977—which appropriated emerging technologies, from satellites to electronic message platforms. Based in Los Angeles, this under-studied collective worked amid urban crisis, a techno-boom, consolidating media power, and…
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White SightVisual Politics and Practices of Whiteness
White supremacy is not only perpetuated by laws and police but also by visual culture and distinctive ways of seeing. Nicholas Mirzoeff argues that this form of "white sight" has a history. By understanding that white sight was not always common practice, we can devise better ways to dismantle it. Spanning centuries across this wide-ranging text, Mirzoeff connects Renaissance innovations—from…
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Procreate Landscapes on the iPad
Procreate Landscapes on the iPad explains how to use this ingenious package to paint powerful landscapes at the press of the Apple pencil. By breaking down painting a landscape into different steps, it shows how Procreate can help an artist find their direction and try new techniques to create more expressive work. Referencing the work of Masters throughout, Philip Tyler shows how digital paint…
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Entre la academia y la críticaLa construcción discursiva y disciplinar de l…
Este libro busca comenzar a saldar una deuda de la disciplina con su propia historia y apunta a reflexionar y poner en valor la historia del arte en el contexto de las ciencias sociales y humanas, y del análisis cultural general. Resulta un punto de partida y un estímulo para la discusión de la historiografía artística, a fin de preguntarse por los modos en que la historia del arte local h…
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Incomodar la miradaMuseos, artes visuales y memoria
"La construcción de la mirada recorre las reflexiones que descubren a los materiales museográficos y de las artes visuales que Guillermina Fressoli elige para entrometerse en el recuerdo de sujetos particulares y colectivos, que señalan y rememoran, en sus obras, las figuras desdichadas del tiempo y el espacio acontecido como puente para la reflexión de lo sensible. La mirada y la experienc…
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Beverly McIverStories of an African American Painter Raised in the South
What can the lived experience of acclaimed painter Beverly McIver teach us about life as an African American woman artist raised in the American South, and what insights can we glean about the wider art world? Expanding on their original conversation stemming from the artists' retrospective exhibition, Full Circle, painter Beverly McIver and curator Kim Boganey delve into Beverly's life journe…
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Artwashing the PastContext Matters
Artwashing the Past: Context Matters contributes to the wider discussion about the appropriate due diligence process that should be conducted prior to the acquisition of cultural objects. The chapters were written as museums in Europe and North America were facing a series of claims on recently acquired objects in their collections in the light of the photographic dossiers that had been seized …
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The RescuersThe Remarkable People Who Saved World Heritage
This book profiles some of the handful of people who rescued significant cultural treasures that would or may have been otherwise lost to humankind. Some, like Dr. Assad, were on a noble mission, but that is not always the case. Some are motivated by profit, fame, gratitude, or personal advancement. The act of rescue may not be straightforward: even the most heroic ones can be tainted, suspect,…
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Aesthetic ExpertiseAn Exploration and Defense
In this first ever book-length study of aesthetic expertise, Ole Martin Skilleås outlines the nature and purpose of aesthetic expertise, with particular emphasis on the direction of attention, and examines how aesthetic expertise manifests across diverse roles within aesthetic practices. He discusses the foundations of aesthetic trust via the concept of calibration, thereby developing an outli…
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Fenollosa’s Legacy in Late Nineteenth-Century JapanAn American Scholar’s …
Fenollosa's Legacy in Late Nineteenth Century Japan: An American Scholar's Role in Resurrecting the Art of Japan makes a critical assessment of American art theorist Ernest F. Fenollosa's work in Meiji Japan. Ernest F. Fenollosa was first hired as a Tokyo University professor of political philosophy in 1878 but became an art theorist and policymaker for Japan's Education Ministry. His illustrio…
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