Author: Hannah Higgins
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: arts, book, fine, murphy, experience, ahmanson, fluxus
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-12-02
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0520228677
ISBN-13: 9780520228672
In this groundbreaking work of incisive scholarship and analysis, Hannah Higgins explores the influential art movement Fluxus. Daring, disparate, contentious--Fluxus artists worked with minimal and prosaic materials now familiar in post-World War II art. Higgins describes the experience of Fluxus for viewers, even experiences resembling sensory assaults, as affirming transactions between self and world.Fluxus began in the 1950s with artists from around the world who favored no single style or medium but displayed an inclination to experiment. Two formats are unique to Fluxus: a type of perform
Author: Walter S. Gibson
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: fine, arts, books, murphy, ahmanson, bruegel, art, laughter, pieter
Number of Pages: 287
Published: 2006-02-01
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0520245210
ISBN-13: 9780520245211
Pieter Bruegel (ca. 1525-1569), generally considered the greatest Flemish painter of the sixteenth century, was described in 1604 by his earliest biographer as a supremely comic artist, few of whose works failed to elicit laughter. Today, however, we approach Bruegel’s art as anything but a laughing matter. His paintings and drawings are thought to conceal profound allegories best illuminated with scholarly erudition. In this delightfully engaging book, Walter S. Gibson takes a new look at Bruegel, arguing that the artist was no erudite philosopher, but a man very much in the world, and
Author: Evonne Levy
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: fine, arts, imprint, murphy, ahmanson, jesuit, baroque, propaganda
Number of Pages: 353
Published: 2004-04-14
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0520233573
ISBN-13: 9780520233577
In this provocative revisionist work, Evonne Levy brings fresh theoretical perspectives to the study of the "propagandistic" art and architecture of the Jesuit order as exemplified by its late Baroque Roman church interiors. The first extensive analysis of the aims, mechanisms, and effects of Jesuit art and architecture, this original and sophisticated study also evaluates how the term "propaganda" functions in art history, distinguishes it from rhetoric, and proposes a precise use of the term for the visual arts for the first time. Levy begins by looking at Nazi architecture as a gateway
Author: Anthony Alofsin
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: fine, arts, book, murphy, ahmanson, lloyd, wright, europe, frank
Number of Pages: 294
Published: 1999-10-26
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0520211162
ISBN-13: 9780520211162
Ask Americans to think of a famous architect and the person they are most likely to name is Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright’s work, his reputation, and his long and colorful career have made him an icon of modern American architecture. But despite his status as America’s most celebrated architect, his influence throughout an active practice spanning the years 1896 to 1959 is so wide and complex that it has been difficult to grasp fully. The essays in this book look not at the United States, the context usually associated with Wright, but at countries around the globe. Anthony
Author: Sarah Handler
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: murphy, fine, arts, book, ahmanson, furniture, luminosity, chinese, classical, austere
Number of Pages: 425
Published: 2001-10-01
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0520214846
ISBN-13: 9780520214842
Chinese classical furniture is esteemed throughout the world for its beauty, functionalism, and influence on contemporary design aesthetics. Sarah Handler’s stunningly illustrated volume traces Chinese hardwood furniture from its tenth-century origins to the present. She offers a fascinating and poetic view of Chinese furniture as functional sculpture, a fine art alongside the other Chinese arts of calligraphy, architecture, painting, and literature. Handler, a widely respected scholar of Chinese furniture, uses her knowledge of Chinese social, political, and economic hi
Author: Rebecca Zurier
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: murphy, fine, arts, books, ahmanson, school, city, urban, vision, ashcan, picturing
Number of Pages: 418
Published: 2006-09-06
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0520220188
ISBN-13: 9780520220188
Picturing the City takes an innovative look at the group of urban realists known as the Ashcan School, and at the booming cultures of vision and representation in early twentieth-century New York. Offering fresh insights into the development of modern cities and modern art in America, Rebecca Zurier considers what it meant to live in a city where strangers habitually watched each other and public life seemed to consist of continual display, as new classes of immigrants and working women claimed their places in the metropolis. Through her study of six artists--George Bellows, William Glackens,
Author: Wanda Cor
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: murphy, fine, arts, books, ahmanson, identity, thing, modern, art, national, american
Number of Pages: 470
Published: 2001-10-03
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0520231996
ISBN-13: 9780520231993
Wanda M. Corn’s long-awaited new book proposes a remarkable revisioning of the history of American modern art between the two world wars. Moving away from issues of style and abstraction, she bases her work on a broad examination of culture and on discourses of national identity. Corn argues that the key questions for interwar modernists in New York and Paris were whether or not it was possible to create an art that was both American and modern, and if it was, what such an art would look like. Both European and American artists debated these questions and made art that responded to them.
