The Making of a Caribbean Avant-Garde (Comparative Cultural Studies)
by Therese Kaspersen Hadchity
Focusing on the Anglophone Caribbean, The Making of a Caribbean Avant-Garde describes the rise and gradual consolidation of the visual arts avant-garde, which came to local and international attention in the 1990s. The book is centered on the critical and aesthetic strategies employed by this avant-garde to repudiate the previous generation's commitment to modernism and anti-colonialism. In three sections, it highlights the many converging factors, which have pushed this avant-garde to the foref...
The world of work is tightly entwined with the world of things. Hot metal illuminates connections between design, material culture and labour between the 1960s and the 1980s, when the traditional crafts of hot-metal typesetting and letterpress were finally made obsolete with the introduction of computerised technologies. This multidisciplinary history provides an evocative rendering of design culture by exploring an intriguing case: a doggedly traditional Government Printing Office in Australia....
7. Coexisting Differences: Women Artists In Contemporary Korean Art
by Whuiyeon Jin
The ten artists featured in this book are addressing, in individual voices, their experiences in Korea, as well as more universal subjects like education and social convention. The first group can be categorized as first- generation feminist artists examining women s lives within the context of Korea s history. The second group is dealing with the ambiguity of boundaries in social convention and art. The third group includes artists who reflect political and artistic realities including religion...
3. Harmonia Koreana : A Short History Of 20thcentury Korean Music
by Choon Mee Kim
To understand 20th century Korean music, it is necessary to examine how Western classical music took root in Korea during the period between the late 19th to the early 20th centuries. Third in the Contemporary Korean Arts Series, Harmonia Koreana: A Short History of 20th-century Korean Music is a brief overview of how Western classical music was introduced and developed in Korea. It tells about the distinguishing features of the Korean composer s musical work in general and goes in to more depth...
The Lives of Lowbrow Artists (The Lives of Lowbrow Artists, #1)
by Fritz K Costa
The Woman's Building and Feminist Art Education 1973-1991
by Marguerite Elliot, Otis College of Art and Design, and Maria Karras
Alec Cobbe (b.1945) established his reputation as a conservator of Old Master paintings before specializing in the redecoration and rearrangement of historic interiors as homes for masterpieces. His list of clients includes H.R.H.The Prince of Wales and the Ritz Hotel. This beautifully illustrated catalogue marks a gift to the V&A of Cobbe's career archive. Three essays explore the subtle art of presenting great paintings in historic houses that are open to visitors and introduce the related ho...
On the disconnect between the colonial impulse to collect, consume, and commodify ecologies and the violent realities of the colonial experience. “Orchidelirium,” the orchid madness that gripped Europe over a century ago, is still alive and well. The Estonian presentation at the 59th Venice Biennale utilizes this moniker to highlight the disjuncture between the colonial impulse to collect, consume, and commodify ecologies and the violent realities of the colonial experiences in both Estonia and...
The Palace of the Republic was opened in 1976 to house East Germany's parliament and to provide a cultural and historical center for the public to enjoy. During its construction, the government commissioned sixteen artists to create paintings in response to the question, "Are Communists allowed to dream?" Artists like Bernhard Heisig, Wolfgang Mattheuer, Willi Sitte, Werner TuÌbke, Walter Womacka, and Hans Vent contributed large-size works. They painted in their personal styles, but still staye...
