What, After All, Is a Work of Art?
Author | : Joseph Margolis |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0271038683 |
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Author | : Joseph Margolis |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0271038683 |
Author | : Joseph Margolis |
Publisher | : Detroit, Wayne State U. P |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Aesthetics |
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Author | : Sheena Wagstaff |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1588396851 |
Over the course of his acclaimed 60-year career, Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) has employed both representation and abstraction as a means of reckoning with the legacy, collective memory, and national sensibility of post–WWII Germany, in both broad and very personal terms. This handsomely designed book spans the artist’s rich and varied oeuvre from the early 1960s to the present, including photo paintings, portraits, large-scale abstract series, and works on glass. Essays by leading experts on the artist illuminate Richter’s preoccupation with painting in relation to other modes of representation, and emphasize the ongoing importance of the medium’s formal and conceptual possibilities in contemporary art.
Author | : Arthur C. Danto |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2021-06-08 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0691209308 |
The classic and provocative account of how art changed irrevocably with pop art and why traditional aesthetics can’t make sense of contemporary art A classic of art criticism and philosophy, After the End of Art continues to generate heated debate for its radical and famous assertion that art ended in the 1960s. Arthur Danto, a philosopher who was also one of the leading art critics of his time, argues that traditional notions of aesthetics no longer apply to contemporary art and that we need a philosophy of art criticism that can deal with perhaps the most perplexing feature of current art: that everything is possible. An insightful and entertaining exploration of art’s most important aesthetic and philosophical issues conducted by an acute observer of contemporary art, After the End of Art argues that, with the eclipse of abstract expressionism, art deviated irrevocably from the narrative course that Vasari helped define for it in the Renaissance. Moreover, Danto makes the case for a new type of criticism that can help us understand art in a posthistorical age where, for example, an artist can produce a work in the style of Rembrandt to create a visual pun, and where traditional theories cannot explain the difference between Andy Warhol’s Brillo Box and the product found in the grocery store. After the End of Art addresses art history, pop art, “people’s art,” the future role of museums, and the critical contributions of Clement Greenberg, whose aesthetics-based criticism helped a previous generation make sense of modernism. Tracing art history from a mimetic tradition (the idea that art was a progressively more adequate representation of reality) through the modern era of manifestos (when art was defined by the artist’s philosophy), Danto shows that it wasn’t until the invention of pop art that the historical understanding of the means and ends of art was nullified. Even modernist art, which tried to break with the past by questioning the ways in which art was produced, hinged on a narrative.
Author | : T Fleischmann |
Publisher | : Coffee House Press |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2019-06-04 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1566895553 |
W. G. Sebald meets Maggie Nelson in an autobiographical narrative of embodiment, visual art, history, and loss. How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship to our bodies? T Fleischmann uses Felix Gonzáles-Torres’s artworks—piles of candy, stacks of paper, puzzles—as a path through questions of love and loss, violence and rejuvenation, gender and sexuality. From the back porches of Buffalo, to the galleries of New York and L.A., to farmhouses of rural Tennessee, the artworks act as still points, sites for reflection situated in lived experience. Fleischmann combines serious engagement with warmth and clarity of prose, reveling in the experiences and pleasures of art and the body, identity and community.
Author | : David Joselit |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 133 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0691150443 |
How digital networks are transforming art and architecture Art as we know it is dramatically changing, but popular and critical responses lag behind. In this trenchant illustrated essay, David Joselit describes how art and architecture are being transformed in the age of Google. Under the dual pressures of digital technology, which allows images to be reformatted and disseminated effortlessly, and the exponential acceleration of cultural exchange enabled by globalization, artists and architects are emphasizing networks as never before. Some of the most interesting contemporary work in both fields is now based on visualizing patterns of dissemination after objects and structures are produced, and after they enter into, and even establish, diverse networks. Behaving like human search engines, artists and architects sort, capture, and reformat existing content. Works of art crystallize out of populations of images, and buildings emerge out of the dynamics of the circulation patterns they will house. Examining the work of architectural firms such as OMA, Reiser + Umemoto, and Foreign Office, as well as the art of Matthew Barney, Ai Weiwei, Sherrie Levine, and many others, After Art provides a compelling and original theory of art and architecture in the age of global networks.
Author | : Jeanette Winterson |
Publisher | : Vintage Canada |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2014-06-24 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0307363635 |
In ten interlocking essays, the acclaimed author of Written on the Body and Art & Lies reveals art as an active force in the world--neither elitist nor remote, available to those who want it and affecting those who don't. Original, personal, and provocative, these essays are not so much a point of view as they are a way of life, revealing "a brilliant and deeply feeling artist at work" (San Francisco Chronicle).
Author | : David Salle |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2016-10-04 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0393248143 |
“If John Berger’s Ways of Seeing is a classic of art criticism, looking at the ‘what’ of art, then David Salle’s How to See is the artist’s reply, a brilliant series of reflections on how artists think when they make their work. The ‘how’ of art has perhaps never been better explored.” —Salman Rushdie How does art work? How does it move us, inform us, challenge us? Internationally renowned painter David Salle’s incisive essay collection illuminates these questions by exploring the work of influential twentieth-century artists. Engaging with a wide range of Salle’s friends and contemporaries—from painters to conceptual artists such as Jeff Koons, John Baldessari, Roy Lichtenstein, and Alex Katz, among others—How to See explores not only the multilayered personalities of the artists themselves but also the distinctive character of their oeuvres. Salle writes with humor and verve, replacing the jargon of art theory with precise and evocative descriptions that help the reader develop a personal and intuitive engagement with art. The result: a master class on how to see with an artist’s eye.
Author | : Meher McArthur |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 089236999X |
Rhyming text introduces 26 artistic concepts, one for each letter of the alphabet.
Author | : Sinclair Lewis |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2012-07-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1443417602 |
One of Sinclair Lewis’s lesser-known novels, Work of Art follows three generations of the Weagle family through their work in the American hospitality industry. In Work of Art Lewis again delivers memorable characters struggling to better themselves and achieve prosperity against the backdrop of traditional American values and craftsmanship. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.