Across the world, walking is a vital way to assert one's presence in public space and discourse. Walking maps the terrain of contemporary walking practices, foregrounding work by Black artists, Indigenous artists and artists of colour, working-class artists, LGBTQI+ artists, disabled artists and neurodiverse artists, as well as many more who are frequently denied the right to take their places …
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…
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…
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…
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…
"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…
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…
Rosario ha bisogno (e queste pagine lo dimostrano con grande vividezza) di interrogarsi sulle ragioni della propria "inattualità"; e quindi del proprio disagio. Del proprio non sentirsi mai a casa in un mondo destinato a vedere il disegno e il "figurativo" quasi come colpe da espiare. - Massimo Donà Per quanto mi riguarda, soprattutto lavorando su artisti come de Chirico e De Dominicis mi son…
The first biography of an extraordinary woman and architect who left her mark on world capitals and reshaped modern design Ella Briggs (1880–1977) was a talented architect, designer, and writer whose influence was felt on both sides of the Atlantic. She trained with the Viennese Secessionists and brought their radical ideas to Gilded Age New York. She designed modernist housing for the m…
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 …