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Making Representations - Museums in the Post-Colonial Era by Moira G. Simpson
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Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Responses to controversial exhibitions in recent years have demonstrated the dissatisfaction felt by many indigenous peoples and ethnic groups at the ways in which the western museum traditionally represented their cultures and excluded them from the process of interpretation and display. Native America ...Show more
What Is Deconstruction? by Christopher Norris; Andrew Benjamin
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Category: History & Theory | Series: What Is?? Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Norris provides a comprehensive documentation of Deconstruction theory and its root in modern literature, while Benjamin produces a thorough and well justified explanation. This is a vial guide to understanding Deconstruction in contemporary art and architecture and its relationship to modern critical m ...Show more
The Genius of Venice 1500-1600 by Royal Academy Staff
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Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Double Vision: Art Histories and Colonial Histories in the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas (Editor); Diane Losche (Editor)
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Category: Maori & Pacific | Reading Level: very good
Taking as its departure point Bernard Smith's classic study, European Vision and the South Pacific (1960), Double Vision explores the ambivalences of European perceptions of the Pacific and juxtaposes them with the indigenous visual cultures that challenge Western assumptions about art and representatio ...Show more
Possessions: Indigenous Art/Colonial Culture by Nicholas Thomas
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Category: History & Theory | Series: Interplay S. | Reading Level: very good
Tribal art has been one of the great inspirations of 20th-century Western art. Europeans such as Picasso, Matisse, Ernst and Brancusi created their own responses to masks, sculpture and other forms of African, Oceanic and American art. But is this a cross-cultural discovery to be celebrated, or just one ...Show more
Early Netherlandish Painting: Volume One, Text by John Oliver Hand; Martha Wolff; National Gallery of Art (U.S.) Staff
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Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: good
Masterpieces of early Netherlandish painting such as Jan van Eyck's Annunciation, Rogier van der Weyden's Saint George and the Dragon, and Gerard David's Rest on the Flight into Egypt--among the greatest examples of northern Renaissance panel painting in North America--are included in this volume. The s ...Show more
Movements in Art since 1945 by Edward Lucie-Smith
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Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This classic account of the history of the visual arts from the end of World War II to the new millennium has now been completely rewritten, revised, expanded, and updated.
Saying What You See : How to Talk and Write About Art by Alison Annals; Abby Cunnane; Sam Cunnane
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Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Artworks are a form of communication. The communications of an artist, like all other forms of communication, are often mysterious and complex, but each artistÂs works are the best way he or she knows to say those things. If it could be easily expressed in words, the artist would do it that way with mu ...Show more
The High Renaissance & Mannerism by Linda Murray
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Category: History & Theory | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: very good
The principal elements of High Renaissance art, first formulated by Leonardo da Vinci in the 1490s, came to their true flowering in the brilliant achievements of Bramante, Raphael and Michelangelo in Rome, of Michelangelo in Florence and Giorgione and Titian in Venice. After the death of Raphael in 1520 ...Show more
The Sport of Life and Death: The Mesoamerican Ballgame by E. Michael (EDT) Whittington
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Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
The Olmec began playing ballgames around 1800 BC, an activity that soon became an important part of Mesoamerican life. This book accompanies an exhibition at the Mint Museum of Art in North Carolina and includes 11 essays from the world's leading authorities on Mesoamerican art and culture. The contribu ...Show more
Eye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery by Wendy Wick Reaves; Bernard F. Reilly Jr.
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Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Conventional wisdom suggests that portraiture lost its relevance in the twentieth century, that it was too tied to representation and biographical narrative to compete. Why then, the vitality of the the National Portrait Gallery's twentieth-century images in "Eye Contact?" Far from confirming a moribund ...Show more
The Obstacle Race - The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work by Germaine Greer
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Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
If men and women are equally capable of genius, why have there been no female artists of the stature of Leonardo, Titian or Poussin? In seeking to answer this question, Germaine Greer introduces us to major but underestimated figures in the history of Western painting--Angelica Kauffmann, Natalia Goncha ...Show more