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Calling on a wide range of her father's collaborators and fellow travelers, from James Franco to William Friedkin, to read from his autobiography, the filmmaker Samantha Fuller evokes the inimitable voice and spirit of her father, the legendary writer-director Sam Fuller. Shot entirely within "The Shack," as Fuller called the backyard writing refuge he filled with notes for future projects, the film follows Fuller on his path from New York tabloid journalist to Hollywood hyphenate including his formative experiences as an infantryman in World War II.

During the seven years chronicled in LLYN FOULKES ONE MAN BAND, artist and musician Llyn Foulkes creates, destroys, and recreates a pair of large-scale paintings - one of which costs him his marriage - until he is at last rediscovered by the international art world at age 77. With interviews from 1960's art scene vets Dennis Hopper and George Herms, and an appearance on The Tonight Show, the film reconstructs fifty years of his uncompromising, largely forgotten career. With music written and performed by Llyn Foulkes on his massive, fanciful, self-invented instrument called "The Machine."

For this entertainingly intimate documentary portrait of renowned Israeli writer Etgar Keret, filmmaker Gur Bentwich accompanies his longtime friend on a whirlwind book tour to the Big Apple. Between readings and interviews, Keret ruminates on his life as a writer and the recent death of his father; he also hangs with New York pals including author Nathan Englander and *This American Life's* Ira Glass. By turns poignant, absurd and hilarious, WHAT ANIMAL ARE YOU? is a personal and playful journey with one of world literature's most original voices.

One great auteur pays loving tribute to another in this film by Ettore Scola about his decades-long friendship with Federico Fellini. Official Selection at the **Venice Film Festival**.

A trippy, cinematic sleighride into the strange & sublime universe of alternative & underground Xmas music, featuring The Flaming Lips, Run-DMC, The Free Design, Low, Miles Davis & Bob Dorough, Clarence Carter, John Waters, and many more. Official Selection at the **San Francisco Documentary Film Festival** and **DOC NYC**.

A fascinating documentary on one of the 20th century's most beloved street photographers, Saul Leiter. A contemporary of Diane Arbus and Richard Avedon, Leiter could have been celebrated as the great pioneer of color photography long ago (his fashion work was published in Harper's Bazaar and Esquire), but he was never driven by the lure of conventional success. Instead he preferred to drink coffee and photograph in his own way, amassing an archive of gorgeous work piled high in his New York City apartment. Intimate and beautifully rendered, IN NO GREAT HURRY follows Saul as he deals with the triple burden of clearing a houseful of memories, becoming world-famous in his eighties, and fending off a pesky filmmaker. Official Selection at the **DOC NYC Festival**. *"If the film at times seems only a tender profile of a quiet and quirky individual, it is also a meditation of a private life at its end." - Daniel M. Gold, **The New York Times***

Cultural theorist superstar Slavoj Zizek re-teams with director Sophie Fiennes (*The Pervert's Guide to Cinema*) for another wildly entertaining romp through the crossroads of cinema and philosophy. With infectious zeal and a voracious appetite for popular culture, Zizek literally goes inside some truly epochal movies, all the better to explore and expose how they reinforce prevailing ideologies. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. Nominated for the Viewfinders Grand Jury Prize at **DOC NYC**. Nominated for the Depth of Field Competition at **DocAviv Film Festival**. *"Zizek's associative thinking and understanding of the applicability of psychoanalysis make this a lecture like no other." - Zachary Wigon, **Village Voice***

• Preface; 1 The Power of One; 2 Before the Widow Comes the Wife; 3 The Crimson Line; 4 The F Word; 5 Boom Times; 6 The Gold Standard; 7 Contemporary by Nature; 8 Copyright Wars; 9 Immortality; Notes; Select Bibliography; Cast of Characters; Interviews; Acknowledgements; Index.

The reputations of artists are curious things, influenced by factors beyond the quality of the work. Affairs of the Art explores the role those left behind play in burnishing an artist?s reputation after he or she dies. Through interviews with those handling the estates of artists including Fred Williams, Brett Whiteley, John Brack, Howard Arkley, Bronwyn Oliver, George Baldessin and Albert Tucker, as well as a raft of art dealers, academics, curators and auctioneers, Strickland traverses the strange alleyways of the art market, where power resides with those who hold the best stock, and highl.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: The Work of Interviews / Carol Magee and Joanna Grabski
• 1. Talking to People about Art / Patrick McNaughton
• 2. Ghostly Stories: Interviews with Artists in Dakar and the Productive Space around Absence / Joanna Grabski
• 3. Can the Artist Speak? Hamid Kachmar's Subversive Redemptive Art of Resistance / Joseph Jordan
• 4. Photography, Narrative Interventions, and (Cross) Cultural Representations / Carol Magee
• 5. Narrating the Artist: Seyni Camara and the Multiple Constructions of the Artistic Persona / Silvia Forni
• 6. Interview--Akinbode Akinbiyi / Akinbode Akinbiyi
• 7. Inter-Weaving Narratives of Art and Activism: Sandra Kriel's Heroic Women / Kim Miller
• 8. Politics of Narrative at the African Burial Ground in NYC: The Final Monument / Andrea E. Frohne
• 9. Who Owns the Past: Constructing an Art History of a Malian Masquerade / Mary Jo Arnoldi
• 10. Framing Practices: Artists' Voices and the Power of Self-Representation / Christine Mullen Kreamer
• 11. Undisciplined Knowledge / Allan deSouza and Allyson Purpura Appendix: Interlocutors
• Contributors
• Index.
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Joanna Grabski and Carol Magee bring together a compelling collection that shows how interviews can be used to generate new meaning and how connecting with artists and their work can transform artistic production into innovative critical insights and knowledge. The contributors to this volume include artists, museum curators, art historians, and anthropologists, who address artistic production in a variety of locations and media to question previous uses of interview and provoke alternative understandings of art.
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• Art nouveau
• Mucha
• Works
• Graphic works
• Biography.

Born in 1860 in a small Czech town, Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) was an artist on the forefront of Art Nouveau, the modernist movement that swept Paris in the 1910s, marking a return to the simplicity of natural forms, and changing the world of art and design forever. In fact, Art Nouveau was known to insiders as the "Mucha style" for the legions of imitators who adapted the master's celebrated tableaux. Today, his distinctive depictions of lithe young women in classical dress have become a pop cultural touchstone, inspiring album covers, comic books, and everything in between. Patrick Bade and Victoria Charles offer readers an inspiring survey of Mucha's career, illustrated with over one hundred lustrous images, from early Parisian advertisements and posters for Sandra Bernhardt, to the famous historical murals painted just before his death, at the age of 78, in 1939

• Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction
• Chapter 1: Art as Sociocultural Representation
• Chapter 2: Concepts and Practices in Artistic Residence
• Chapter 3: Art in Taiwan: The Quest for Identity
• Chapter 4: Artistic Residence in Taiwan
• Chapter 5: Towards a New Genre of Artistic Residence Conclusion Bibliography About the Authors.
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Artistic residency has become widely adopted in Western countries while only recently having become popular and well-supported within Taiwan. This book explores the challenges that this form of art practice faced in contemporary Taiwan from the revocation of Martial Law in 1987 to the 2000s-arguably one of the most exciting periods in the sociocultural history of the island. Case studies show what is at stake politically, historically, and socially in artists' endeavors to give shape to a sense of Taiwanese identity.
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• Contributors include: Alessandra Beccarisi, Robert Bees, Riccardo Dottori, Paolo Fedeli, Wilfried Gruhn, Hans-Christian Gunther, Bengt Jangfeldt, Rolf Kuhn, Salvatore Lavecchia, Detlef Liebs, Luigi Magarotto, Giusy Margagliotta, John Kevin Newman, Dominic O'Meara, Riccardo Pozzo, Donald Rayfield, Bertram Schefold, Max Scherberger, Harro von Senger, Christophe Sirodeau, Matthias Stadelmann, Alessandro Stavru, Antonella Tedeschi, Wolfgang Graf Vitzthum, Johann Peter Vogel.
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The volume explores the relationship of artists and intellectuals from ancient Greece to modern times. Special attention is paid to Plato, Augustan poets (including the reception), Soviet art (Mayakowsky) and Jewish intellectuals. Non European contexts (China, Turkey) are treated as well.
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• Acknowledgements Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors List of Illustrations
• Introduction: Close and Extensive Reading among Artists in the Early Modern Period
• HEIKO DAMM, MICHAEL THIMANN, CLAUS ZITTEL
• I. THE POSSESSION OF BOOKS AND INDIVIDUAL READING
• 1. Jacopo Pontormo: A Scholarly Craftsman
• CECILE BEUZELIN 2. Reading with acutezza: Lorenzo Lippi's Literary Culture
• EVA STRUHAL 3. Gillis van Coninxloo. Der Kunstler als Leser
• MARTIN PAPENBROCK 4. Pieter Lastman als Leser. Eine Kunstlerbibliothek und ihre Nutzung
• CHRISTIAN TICO SEIFERT
• 5. The President as a Reader: Sir Joshua Reynolds and Book
• IRIS WENDERHOLM
• II. THE THEORISATION OF READING AND ITS EFFECT ON IMAGES
• 6. Artists and Knowledge in Sixteenth-century Venice
• ELSJE VAN KESSEL 7. Reading Rhetoric: Oratory in Gian Paolo Lomazzo's Treatises on the Art of Painting
• LEX HERMANS 8. Hondius meets Van Mander: The Cultural Appropriation of the First Netherlandish Book on the Visual Arts System of Knowledge in a Series of Artist's Portraits
• ANETTE DE VRIES 9. Catonem narrare: Charles Le Brun as Reader and Painter of a Stoic's Suicide
• ECKHARD LEUSCHNER 10. The Collaborative Authorship of Pictorial Invention in Seventeenth-century Italy: Artist, Adviser, and Patron at Palazzo Carignano
• HUUB VAN DER LINDEN
• III. BEYOND THE STUDIO
• 11. Peripatetici pariter et Platonici: Poliziano and Pico della Mirandola and the Library of the Badia Fiesolana
• ANGELA DRESSEN 12. Nascentes morimur: Francisco da Holanda as Artist, Reader and Writer
• MARIA BERBARA 13. Commonplaces, and Technical Knowledge: The Architect-Engineer as Reader
• ALEXANDER MARR
• 14. Bach - Mattheson. Zwei deutsche Komponisten und ihre Bucher
• RAINER BAYREUTHER 15. An Evangelist of Taste: The Book Collection of Jeronimo Antonio Gil
• KELLY DONAHUE WALLACE
• Index Nominum.
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Reading is apparently the greatest proof of refinement when viewed within the context of the social climb of the visual artist. It is only as reader that the artist can participate in the exclusive culture of clerics, humanists, rulers and courtiers. How did it come about that such a figure was integrated into the general history-of-knowledge context of research on the early modern period - in order to outline what artists' reading specifically entails. Based on the history of knowledge, the contributions to this volume will then correspondingly elucidate various aspects of how, in the early modern period, artists' education, knowledge, reading and libraries were related to the ways in which they presented themselves.The volume endeavours at long last to go beyond merely publishing inventories by investigating the problem of artists' libraries with a fundamentally stronger emphasis on a discourse-analytical and history-of-knowledge approach. Contributors include: Rainer Bayreuther, Maria Berbara, Cecile Beuzelin, Heiko Damm, Annette de Vries, Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Angela Dressen, Lex Hermans, Eckhard Leuschner, Alexander Marr, Martin Papenbrock, Tico Seifert, Eva Struhal, Michael Thimann, Huub van der Linden, Elsje van Kessel, Iris Wenderholm, and Claus Zittel.
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• Falling; 1; 2; 3; 4; Representing; 5; 6; 7; 8; Trading; 9; 10; 11; 12; Sailing; 13; 14; 15; 16; Dying; 17; 18; 19; 20; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index.

On July 9, 1975, Dutch-born artist Bas Jan Ader set sail from Chatham, Massachusetts, on a thirteen-foot sailboat. He was bound for Falmouth, England, on the second leg of a three-part piece titled "In Search of the Miraculous." The damaged boat was found south of the western tip of Ireland nearly a year later. Ader was never seen again.aSince his untimely death, Ader has achieved mythic status in the art world as a figure literally willing to die for his art. Considering the artistOCOs legacy and concise oeuvre beyond the romantic and tragic associations that accompany his peculiar end, Alexander Dumbadze resituates AderOCOs art and life within the conceptual art world of Los Angeles in the early 1970s and offers a nuanced argument about artistic subjectivity that explains AderOCOs tremendous relevance to contemporary art.a"Bas Jan Ader "blends biography, theoretical reflection, and archival research to draw a detailed picture of the world in which AderOCOs work was rooted: a vibrant international art scene populated with peers such as Ger van Elk, William Leavitt, and Allen Ruppersberg. Dumbadze looks closely at AderOCOs engagement with questions of free will and his ultimate success in creating art untainted by mediation. The first in-depth study of this enigmatic conceptual artist, "Bas Jan Ader" is a thoughtful reflection on the necessity of the creative act and its inescapable relation to death.".
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"Bas Jan Ader disappeared at sea in 1975 while attempting to sail from the east coast of the United States to Europe as part of a project titled In Search of the Miraculous. The circumstances of his disappearance have led many interpreters to identify Ader with the role of the tragic romantic hero. This identification has obscured the fact that Ader's art was a critical investigation of precisely those romantic motives his persona has now come to be associated with. In this book, Jan Verwoert highlights the specific ways in which Ader's cycle of works explores those motives with an artistic approach that is as conceptual and analytic as it is poetic and existential."-- provided by distributor

Jon Reiss and his crew travel to Asia, Australia, the Middle East and beyond, exploring the local graffiti scenes and artists. Follow-up to the groundbreaking street art documentary Bomb It!

• Early life in England and New York
• Gaining recognition as an illustrator and watercolor painter
• Poetry and picturesque America
• Years abroad; Picturesque Europe and Picturesque Palestine
• New clients, new technologies, and a new home; the 1880s
• Challenges and triumphs; the 1890s and beyond
• Continuity and change; 1900/1911, and an assessment
• Appendix 1. List of additional Fenn illustrations
• Appendix 2. Fenn's works included in exhibitions.

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter One. Introduction: Creating from the Margins
• Chapter Two. The Geography of Somewhere: The Suburbs
• Chapter Three. (Un)usual Suburbanites? Explorations and Interventions at the Cultural Frontier
• Chapter Four. Why (Not) Here? Valuing the Intermediate Landscape
• Chapter Five. Suburban Cultural Infrastructure Planning Formulas: From District to Multiplex
• Chapter Six. The Creative Art of Place Complexity in Suburbia
• Chapter Seven. Networked Geographies of Suburban Cultural Workers
• Chapter Eight. Conclusion: Culture from the Outside In
• Appendix: The Arbour Lake Sghool
• Notes
• References
• Index

Suburbs can be incubators of creativity: innovative and complex, but all too often underappreciated. In Creative Margins, Alison L. Bain documents the unique role of Canadian artists and cultural workers in suburban place-formation and dismantles mischaracterizations of suburbs as cultural wastelands. Creative Margins interweaves stories of the challenges and opportunities presented by the creation of culture in suburbs, focusing on Etobicoke and Mississauga outside Toronto, and Surrey and North Vancouver outside Vancouver. The book investigates whether the creative process unfolds differently for suburban and urban cultural workers, as well as how this process is affected by the presence or absence of cultural infrastructure and planning initiatives. Bain shows how suburban culture can enhance a city-region's vitality and sustainability. This book firmly debunks the myth of culture as a solely urban phenomenon and demonstrates the social and economic merits of investing in suburban art and culture.
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• List of illustrations Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1 Introduction: creating from the margins
• Chapter 2 The geography of somewhere: the suburbs
• Chapter 3 (Un)usual suburbanites? Explorations and interventions at the cultural frontier
• Chapter 4 Why (not) here? Valuing the intermediate landscape
• Chapter 5 Suburban cultural infrastructure planning formulas: from district to multiplex
• Chapter 6 The creative art of place complexity in suburbia
• Chapter 7 Networked geographies of suburban cultural workers
• Chapter 8 Conclusion: culture from the outside in
• Appendix 1 Notes References.
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Suburbs can be incubators of creativity: innovative and complex, but all too often underappreciated. In Creative Margins, Alison L. Bain documents the unique role of Canadian artists and cultural workers in suburban place-formation and dismantles mischaracterizations of suburbs as cultural wastelands. Creative Margins interweaves stories of the challenges and opportunities presented by the creation of culture in suburbs, focusing on Etobicoke and Mississauga outside Toronto, and Surrey and North Vancouver outside Vancouver. The book investigates whether the creative process unfolds differently for suburban and urban cultural workers, as well as how this process is affected by the presence or absence of cultural infrastructure and planning initiatives. Bain shows how suburban culture can enhance a city-region's vitality and sustainability. This book firmly debunks the myth of culture as a solely urban phenomenon and demonstrates the social and economic merits of investing in suburban art and culture.
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• W.H. Auden
• Francis Bacon
• Simone de Beauvoir
• Thomas Wolfe
• Patricia Highsmith
• Federico Fellini
• Ingmar Bergman
• Morton Feldman
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Soren Kierkegaard
• Voltaire
• Benjamin Franklin
• Anthony Trollope
• Jane Austen
• Frédéric Chopin
• Gustave Flaubert
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
• Thomas Mann
• Karl Marx
• Sigmund Freud
• Carl Jung
• Gustav Mahler
• Richard Strauss
• Henri Matisse
• Joan Miró
• Gertrude Stein
• Ernest Hemingway
• Henry Miller
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• William Faulkner
• Arthur Miller
• Benjamin Britten
• Ann Beattie
• Günter Grass
• Tom Stoppard
• Haruki Murakami
• Toni Morrison
• Joyce Carol Oates
• Chuck Close
• Francine Prose
• John Adams
• Steve Reich
• Nicholson Baker
• B.F. Skinner
• Margaret Mead
• Jonathan Edwards
• Samuel Johnson
• James Boswell
• Immanuel Kant
• William James
• Henry James
• Franz Kafka
• James Joyce
• Marcel Proust
• Samuel Beckett
• Igor Stravinsky
• Erik Satie
• Pablo Picasso
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• T.S. Eliot
• Dmitry Shostakovich
• Henry Green
• Agatha Christie
• Somerset Maugham
• Graham Greene
• Joseph Cornell
• Sylvia Plath
• John Cheever
• Louis Armstrong
• W.B. Yeats
• Wallace Stevens
• Kingsley Amis
• Martin Amis
• Umberto Eco
• Woody Allen
• David Lynch
• Maya Angelou
• George Balanchine
• Al Hirschfeld
• Truman Capote
• Richard Wright
• H.L. Mencken
• Philip Larkin
• Frank Lloyd Wright
• Louis I. Kahn
• George Gershwin
• Joseph Heller
• James Dickey
• Nikola Tesla
• Glenn Gould
• Louise Bourgeois
• Chester Himes
• Flannery O'Connor
• William Styron
• Philip Roth
• P.G. Wodehouse
• Edith Sitwell
• Thomas Hobbes
• John Milton
• Rene Descartes
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Friedrich Schiller
• Franz Schubert
• Franz Liszt
• George Sand
• Honoré de Balzac
• Victor Hugo
• Charles Dickens
• Charles Darwin -- Herman Melville
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Leo Tolstoy -- Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky
• Mark Twain
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Vincent van Gogh
• N.C. Wyeth
• Georgia O'Keeffe
• Sergey Rachmaninoff
• Vladimir Nabokov -- Balthus
• Le Corbusier
• Buckminster Fuller
• Paul Erdos
• Andy Warhol
• Edward Abbey
• V.S. Pritchett
• Edmund Wilson
• John Updike
• Albert Einstein
• L. Frank Baum
• Knut Hamsun
• Willa Cather
• Ayn Rand
• George Orwell
• James T. Farrell
• Jackson Pollock
• Carson McCullers
• Willem de Kooning
• Jean Stafford
• Donald Barthelme
• Alice Munro
• Jerzy Kosinski
• Isaac Asimov
• Oliver Sacks
• Anne Rice
• Charles Schulz
• William Gass
• David Foster Wallace
• Marina Abramovic
• Twyla Tharp
• Stephen King
• Marilynne Robinson
• Saul Bellow
• Gerhard Richter
• Jonathan Franzen
• Maira Kalman
• Georges Simenon
• Stephen Jay Gould
• Bernard Malamud

• Preface
• Introduction
• 1889-1913
• 1913-1918
• 1918-1919
• 1920-1927
• 1927-1952
• Index.
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This book is dedicated to the great Georgian modern artist David Kakabadze (1889-1952). This book compares the importance of David Kakabadze's creative work against the background of world avant-garde art of the beginning of the 20th century. This book is of interest for art historians and other experts, studying Georgian and Soviet art/culture, modern art and, especially, abstract art.
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• Introduction : art, culture, democracy / Nancy S. Love and Mark Mattern
• Photo-activism in the digital age : visions from Rio de Janeiro / Frank Möller
• Framing the Obama political cartoons : injury or democracy? / Sushmita Chatterjee
• The moral economy : doing democracy via public day of the dead rituals / Regina Marchi
• The national D-Day memorial : an American military monument as "doing democracy" / Timothy W. Luke
• The message in the medium : poetry slam as democratic practice / Mark Mattern
• Tragedy and democracy : the fate of liberal democratic values in a violent world / Wairimu Njoya
• "You're an American rapper, so what do you know?" : the political uses of British and US popular culture by first-time voters in the UK / Sanna Inthorn and John Street
• Playing with hate : white power music and the undoing of democracy / Nancy S. Love
• Betrayed by democracy : verbatim theatre as prefigurative politics / Mark Chou and Roland Bleiker
• Political actors : performance as democratic protest in anti-apartheid theatre / Emily Beausoleil
• Art in the house : cultural democracy in a neighborhood / Bruce Baum
• Democracy despite government : African American parading and democratic theory / Peter G. Stillman and Adelaide H. Villmoare
• Conclusion : activist arts, community development, and democracy / Mark Mattern and Nancy S. Love.

This book demonstrates how activists and others use art and popular culture to strive for a more democratic future. -- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: art, culture, democracy / Nancy S. Love and Mark Mattern
• Photo-activism in the digital age: visions from Rio de Janeiro / Frank Möller
• Framing the Obama political cartoons: injury or democracy? / Sushmita Chatterjee
• The moral economy: doing democracy via public day of the dead rituals / Regina Marchi
• The national D-Day memorial: an American military monument as "doing democracy" / Timothy W. Luke
• The message in the medium: poetry slam as democratic practice / Mark Mattern
• Tragedy and democracy: the fate of liberal democratic values in a violent world / Wairimu Njoya
• "You're an American rapper, so what do you know?": the political uses of British and US popular culture by first-time voters in the UK / Sanna Inthorn and John Street
• Playing with hate: white power music and the undoing of democracy / Nancy S. Love
• Betrayed by democracy: verbatim theatre as prefigurative politics / Mark Chou and Roland Bleiker
• Political actors: performance as democratic protest in anti-apartheid theatre / Emily Beausoleil
• Art in the house: cultural democracy in a neighborhood / Bruce Baum
• Democracy despite government: African American parading and democratic theory / Peter G. Stillman and Adelaide H. Villmoare
• Conclusion: activist arts, community development, and democracy / Mark Mattern and Nancy S. Love.

"Demonstrates how activists and others use art and popular culture to strive for a more democratic future"--Provided by publisher.

• Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1
• Chapter 1 The Self in Group Portraiture 19 In Homage 21 Moi et Delacroix 39 Manet: "One in a thousand, or alone" 56 Degas: Relational Portraiture 61
• Chapter 2 A Crisis of Pride 68 Mutual Admiration Society 70 Courbet's Studio 74 To Truth! 79 Mirror, Mirror 82
• Chapter 3 Studio of the Self 105 Solitary Confinement 111 Velazquez's Mirror 131 Bazille's Studio 144 Secret Societies 149
• Chapter 4 Deviance and Disappearance 156 Les Vilains Bonshommes 160 Courbet / Fantin / Pelletan 178 In Absentia 189 Manet's Crowd 193 Rimbaud the Bourgeois 198
• Chapter 5 The Irregularists 203 Renoir's Society 206 An Impressionist's Studio 215 Degas, Odd Man In 217 Conclusion 228 Notes 243 Selected Bibliography 309 Index 323.
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Focusing on the art of Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) and his colleagues Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Frdric Bazille, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Fellow Men argues for the importance of the group as a defining subject of nineteenth-century French painting. Through close readings of some of the most ambitious paintings of the realist and impressionist generation, Bridget Alsdorf offers new insights into how French painters understood the shifting boundaries of their social world, and reveals the fragile masculine bonds that made up the avant-garde. A dedicated realist who veered between extremes of sociability and hermetic isolation, Fantin-Latour painted group dynamics over the course of two decades, from 1864 to 1885. This was a period of dramatic change in French history and art--events like the Paris Commune and the rise and fall of impressionism raised serious doubts about the power of collectivism in art and life. Fantin-Latour's monumental group portraits, and related works by his friends and colleagues from the 1850s through the 1880s, represent varied visions of collective identity and test the limits of association as both a social and an artistic pursuit. By examining the bonds and frictions that animated their social circles, Fantin-Latour and his cohorts developed a new pictorial language for the modern group: one of fragmentation, exclusion, and willful withdrawal into interior space that nonetheless presented individuality as radically relational.
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• The art: Seeing Snow / Will South
• The land: Art and place / David Kranes
• Drama of the land: V. Douglas Snow in retrospect / Shawn Rossiter
• The man: Douglas Snow and the white Navajo / Katie Lee
• Notes on the artist / Edward Lueders
• The visual evangelist: Doug Snow as teacher, mentor, and inspiration / Teresa Jordan.

The motivating force behind Final Light was to document Snow's "visual language"-forged early in his career from abstract expressionist influences typified by Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, and Franz Kline, among others. Final Light represents the first book to examine the legacy of this significant Utah educator and painter. Renowned scholars, writers, and activists who are familiar with Snow's work-and many of whom were close friends with him-recount personal experiences with the artist and delve into his motives, methods, and reputation. The volume not only offers their commentaries, but also contains more than 80 exquisite full-colour reproductions of Snow's paintings, dating from the 1950s until 2009, when he died in an auto accident at the age of eighty-two. A nationally recognised artist, Snow chose to stay in Utah where, when not teaching at the University of Utah, he roamed the southern Utah desert gaining inspiration from the red rock formations, especially the Cockscomb outside his studio near Capitol Reef National Park. Snow said, "Every artist probably wonders if he or she made the right decision to dig in to a certain place." He dug into the landscape in and around Southern Utah and never regretted it. Just as it did "Tennessee Williams's South, William Faulkner's Mississippi, [or] John Steinbeck's West Coast, " the desert lands of the Colorado Plateau informed Snow's work. Their sense of place, "without provincialism, " said Snow "is what gives their art its enduring power." Final Light will appeal to art historians and art lovers, especially those interested in abstract expressionism and the art of Utah, the West, and the Southwest.
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• The art: Seeing Snow / Will South
• The land: Art and place / David Kranes
• Drama of the land: V. Douglas Snow in retrospect / Shawn Rossiter
• The man: Douglas Snow and the white Navajo / Katie Lee
• Notes on the artist / Edward Lueders
• The visual evangelist: Doug Snow as teacher, mentor, and inspiration / Teresa Jordan.

The motivating force behind Final Light was to document Snow's "visual language"-forged early in his career from abstract expressionist influences typified by Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, and Franz Kline, among others. Final Light represents the first book to examine the legacy of this significant Utah educator and painter. Renowned scholars, writers, and activists who are familiar with Snow's work-and many of whom were close friends with him-recount personal experiences with the artist and delve into his motives, methods, and reputation. The volume not only offers their commentaries, but also contains more than 80 exquisite full-colour reproductions of Snow's paintings, dating from the 1950s until 2009, when he died in an auto accident at the age of eighty-two. A nationally recognised artist, Snow chose to stay in Utah where, when not teaching at the University of Utah, he roamed the southern Utah desert gaining inspiration from the red rock formations, especially the Cockscomb outside his studio near Capitol Reef National Park. Snow said, "Every artist probably wonders if he or she made the right decision to dig in to a certain place." He dug into the landscape in and around Southern Utah and never regretted it. Just as it did "Tennessee Williams's South, William Faulkner's Mississippi, [or] John Steinbeck's West Coast, " the desert lands of the Colorado Plateau informed Snow's work. Their sense of place, "without provincialism, " said Snow "is what gives their art its enduring power." Final Light will appeal to art historians and art lovers, especially those interested in abstract expressionism and the art of Utah, the West, and the Southwest.
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• Introduction: Propaganda in the Manchukuo Context, 1932-45
• 1 Laying the Groundwork for the Japanese Avant-Garde Propagandists
• 2 Literature in Service of the State: Yamada Seizaburo and Right-Wing Proletarianism, 1931-43
• 3 Surrealism in Service of the State: Fukuzawa Ichiro and Associates, 1935-36
• 4 The Lure of Artistic Vision and Commercial Prerogative: Ai Mitsu and the Burden of Representation, 1935 and 1943
• 5 Reflections of Labour and the Construction of the New State: Fuchikami Hakuyo and Manchuria Graph, 1933-41
• 6 The Manchukuo Publicity and News Bureau's War of Words and Images: Muto Tomio and the Discourse of Culture, 1938-43
• 7 The Legitimization of a Multi-Ethnic Literary Culture in Manchukuo: Kawabata Yasunari's Promotion of Manchurian Literature, 1941-44 Conclusion: The Reflected Utopia Darkens: Manchukuo, Imperial Japan's Surrender, and Postwar Issues Notes Bibliography Index.
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In the 1930s and '40s, Japanese rulers in Manchukuo enlisted writers and artists to promote imperial Japan's modernization program. Ironically, the cultural producers chosen to spread the imperialist message were previously left-wing politically. In Glorify the Empire, Annika A. Culver explores how these once anti-imperialist intellectuals produced avant-garde works celebrating the modernity of a fascist state and reflecting a complicated picture of complicity with, and ambivalence toward, Japan's utopian project. A groundbreaking work, this book magnifies the intersection between politics and art in a rarely examined period of Japanese history.
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• The Life and Afterlives of Hanabusa Itchō, Artist-Rebel of Edo; Dedication; Contents; Preface; INTRODUCTION; Peak Generational Moments; Legend and Biography; School and Genre; Itchō as Haiga Artist; Itchō, "Founder of Giga"; Itchō and Ukiyo-e; PART ONE: A LIFE; 1 MULTIPLE NAMES FOR MANY PERSONAS; Mapping Itchō's Personas in Time and Place; Becoming a Kanō Painter: Yasuo/Shūrinsai; Playful Paintings, Playfully Painted; In the Floating World: Waō; In the World of Haikai Poetry: Gyōun; Autonomous: Fuji Nobuka and Taga Chōko; The Elegant and Vulgar at Play in an Album.

• Fuji Nobuka's Accidental Meetings2 ISLAND ITCHŌ; Island Patrons; Poetic Communications from Exile; Island Paintings; Coda: The Sociability of a Summer Kimono; 3 HANABUSA ITCHŌ: HEAD OF THE STUDIO; The Kyōhō Era; The Sage at the Northern Window; Three Monumental Works; What Four Accomplishments?; The Visual Antics of Itchō; Best-Loved Motifs; Familiar Themes in the Hanabusa-School Repertoire; Painterly Poetics; Itchō's Inscription into Art History; The Itchō Legacy; PART TWO: AFTERLIVES; 4 TANGLED IN SCANDAL: MANUSCRIPT CULTURE; Print versus Manuscript Culture; The Vagaries of the Case.

• A Record of Rumor: Sands of EdoAn Embellished Drama: Ryūkei's Tale; Made Transgressive: Edo Hearsay in Recent Times; 5 POETICALLY EVOKED: SONGS, POEMS, AND PICTURES IN PRINT; Itchō the Songwriter: Unattributed and Fleetingly Lauded; Paintings in Print: Publishing in the Name of the Master; 6 OBJECTIVITY AND ATMOSPHERE: BIOGRAPHIES TO JOURNALS; Kyōden's Embedded Account; The Broader Context: Biographies, 1790s-1850s; Itchō's Gradual Marginalization; 7 GOSSIP AFLOAT: THE PROMISCUITY OF THE ASAZUMA BOAT; Meanings Accrued; A Question of Attribution; Kyōden's Facts; Kyōden's Playfulness.

• On the Kabuki Stage and in Ukiyo-eEPILOGUE; Endnotes; Bibliography; Illustration Credits; List of Characters; Index.

Miriam Wattles recounts the making of Hanabusa Itcho¿¿ (1652-1724), painter, haikai-poet, singer-songwriter, and artist subversive, in The Life and Afterlives of Hanabusa Itcho¿¿, Artist-Rebel of Edo . Translating literary motifs visually to encapsulate the tensions of his time, many of Itcho¿¿¿́¿s original works became models emulated by ukiyo-e and other artists. A wide array of sources reveals a lifetime of multiple personas and positions that are the source of his multifarious artistic reincarnations. While, on the one hand, his legend as seditious exile appears in the fictional cross-media worlds of theater, novels, and prints, on the other hand, factual accounts of his complicated artistic life reveal an important figure within the first artists¿́¿ biographies of early modern Japan.

• 1. The Witch's House;
• 2. Childhood Adventures;
• 3. Learning to Be an Artist;
• 4. Danny Diver;
• 5. The Art of Teaching;
• 6. Loving Clay and Silver;
• 7. Paintings Galore;
• 8. Inside Mary's House;
• 9. Outside Mary's House;
• 10. Leaving the Lakeshore; Appendixes; Mary's Time Line; Gallery of Mary's Art; Glossary; Reading Group Guide and Activities; To Learn More about Being an Artist; Acknowledgments; Illustration Credits.; Index.

From her home on the shores of Lake Michigan, artist Mary Nohl created a world of whimsical figures, odd sculptures, and brightly-colored oil paintings - many made from "found" objects that other people might think of as junk, like driftwood, bedsprings, and sand that she made into concrete. With hundreds of sculptures populating her yard, her lake property became known in her later years as "The Witch's House."

• Paul McCarthy : making car crashes
• Mike Kelley : a history of civilization
• Raymond Pettibon : a democracy of split personalities
• Bending gender
• Sex panic
• The kids aren't alright.

Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, and Raymond PettibonOCothese Southern California artists formed a OC bad boyOCO trifecta. Early purveyors of abject art, the trio produced work ranging from sculptures of feces to copulating stuffed animals, and gained notoriety from being perverse. Showing how their work rethinks transgressive art practices in the wake of the 1960s, " Pay for Your Pleasures" argues that their collaborations as well as their individual enterprises make them among the most compelling artists in the Los Angeles area in recent years.aCary Levine focuses on KelleyOCOs, McCarthyOCOs, and PettibonOCOs work from the 1970s through the 1990s, plotting the circuitous routes they took in their artistic development. Drawing on extensive interviews with each artist, he identifies the diverse forces that had a crucial bearing on their developmentOCosuch as McCarthyOCOs experiences at the University of Utah, KelleyOCOs interest in the Detroit-based White Panther movement, PettibonOCOs study of economics, and how all three participated in burgeoning subcultural music scenes. Levine discovers a common political strategy underlying their art that critiques both nostalgia for the 1960s counterculture and Reagan-era conservatism. He shows how this strategy led each artist to create strange and unseemly images that test the limits of not only art but also gender roles, sex, acceptable behavior, poor taste, and even the gag reflex that separates pleasure from disgust. As a result, their work places viewers in uncomfortable situations that challenge them to reassess their own values.aThe first substantial analysis of Kelley, McCarthy, and Pettibon, "Pay for Your Pleasures" shines new light on three artists whose work continues to resonate in the world of art and politics.".
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• "Sensation of sensations"
• The Spanish gaze
• The notary's son
• Bohemian Paris
• Little cubes
• Modernist tide
• The Armory Show
• The return to order
• A Parisian in America
• Surrealist bridges
• Europe's chessboards
• Flight of the avant-garde
• Art in revolt
• The readymade
• Picasso's last stand
• The Duchampians
• Year of Picasso, age of Duchamp.

In the fateful year of 1913, events in New York and Paris launched a great public rivalry between the two most consequential artists of the twentieth century, Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp. The New York Armory Show art exhibition unveiled Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, a "sensation of sensations" that prompted Americans to declare Duchamp the leader of cubism, the voice of modern art. In Paris, however, the cubist revolution was reaching its peak around Picasso. In retrospect, these events form a crossroads in art history, a moment when two young bohemians adopted entirely opposite views of the artist, giving birth to the two opposing agendas that would shape all of modern art. Today, the museum-going public views Pablo Picasso as the greatest figure in modern art. Over his long lifetime, Picasso pioneered several new styles as the last great painter in the Western tradition. In the rarefied world of artists, critics, and collectors, however, the most influential artist of the last century was not Picasso, but Marcel Duchamp: chess player, prankster, and a forefather of idea-driven dada, surrealism, and pop art. Picasso and the Chess Player is the story of how Picasso and Duchamp came to define the epochal debate between modern and conceptual art-a drama that features a who's who of twentieth-century art and culture, including Henri Matisse, Gertrude Stein, AndreBreton, Salvador Dali, and Andy Warhol. In telling the story, Larry Witham weaves two great art biographies into one tumultuous century.
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• Part Two. 1956, October
• Speaking in a Foreign Language
• 1960
• Four Years After the Hamlet
• 22 November 1963
• 1964, Early Morning
• End of the Seventies, Autumn
• Central Park, Start of the Eighties
• Manhattan, a Morning in June
• Y2K
• Final Prayer
• After Everything That Ever Happened.

• Part One. Saturday Day One
• Sunday Day Two
• Monday Day Three
• Tuesday Day Four
• Wednesday Day Five
• Thursday Day Six
• Friday Day Seven
• Saturday Day Eight
• Sunday Day Nine
• After the Hamlet

Magie Dominics first memoir , The Queen of Peace Room, was shortlisted for the Canadian Womens Studies Award, ForeWord magazines Book of the Year Award, and the Judy Grahn Award. Told over an eight-day period, the book captured a lifetime of turbulent memories, documenting with skill Dominics experiences of violence, incest, and rape. But her story wasnt finished. Street Angel opens to the voice of an eleven-year-old Dominic. Shes growing up in Newfoundland. Her mother suffers from terrifying nighttime hallucinations. Her fathers business is about to collapse. She layers the world she hears on radio and television onto her family, speaking in paratactic prose with a point-blank delivery. She finds relief only in the glamour of Hollywood films and the majesty of Newfoundlands wilderness. Revealing her life through flashbacks, humour, and her signature self-confidence, Dominic takes readers from 1950s Newfoundland to 1960s Pittsburgh, 1970s New York, and the end of the millennium in Toronto. Capturing the long days of childhood, this book questions how important those days are in shaping who we become as we age and time seems to speed up. With quick brush-stroke chapters Dominic chronicles sixty years of a complex, secretive family in this story about violence, adolescence, families, and forgiveness.
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