This inspiring book chronicles the most influential ideas that have shaped industrial and product design. Written by two experts on modern design, it provides both a concise history of the subject, and offers a fascinating resource to dip into for the general reader. From the origins or modern design in the craft movements of the 19th and early 20th century and the changes brought about by mass production, the book traces the most important ideas in design through the modern movement and post-war consumer society to more recent ideas such as Open-Source Design and Biomimicry. Arranged in a broadly chronological order, the ideas are presented through fascinating text and arresting visuals, 100 Ideas that Changed Design explores when each idea first evolved and the subsequent impact it has had up to the present day.
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"Starting with Marcel Duchamp's brilliantly cheeky L.H.O.O.Q., this volume takes you on a year-by-year tour of the most iconic and influential artowrks of the past century. The works are impeccably reproduced in stunning images, alongside analysis from noted art historian Ágnes Berecs. When read in sequence, these entries provide an evocative summary of a hundred years of stylistic innovations, historic events, and ongoing dialogues in the field of art. Including paintings, sculptures, installations, and performance pieces this careful selection showcases diversity not only of form and medium, but also of social and geopolitical context and the level of success enjoyed by the artist during his or her lifetime"--From dust jacket.

An accessible, comprehensive, freshly-updated celebration of the vast range of human artistry from 28,000 BC to today Brought completely up to date for this revised edition and now available in a compact new format, this new edition of Phaidon's groundbreaking book presents art differently from all other compendia by revealing the huge diversity - or in many cases, the similarity - of artistic achievements around the globe. Images of more than 600 works from all periods and regions are arranged in chronological order, each with a short text that puts the work in critical context and explains its contribution to the development of art history.
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• Introduction: Locating global contemporary art in global China
• 1 From the ruins of heaven on earth
• 2 Shanghai's art in fashion
• 3 Biennialization-as-banalization, promotion and resistance
• 4 Installing a world city From Shanghai to New York by way of conclusion Epilogue: forgotten corners Index
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Shanghai, long known as mainland China's most cosmopolitan city, is today a global cultural capital. This book offers the first in-depth examination of contemporary Shanghai-based art and design - from state-sponsored exhibitions to fashionable cultural complexes to cutting edge films and installations. Informed by years of in-situ research, the book looks beyond contemporary art's global hype to reveal the socio-political tensions accompanying Shanghai's transitions from semi-colonial capitalism to Maoist socialism to Communist Party-sponsored capitalism. Case studies reveal how Shanghai's global aesthetic constructs glamorising artifices that mask the conflicts between vying notions of foreign-influenced modernity and anti-colonialist nationalism, as well as the city's repressed socialist past and its consumerist present. -- .
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• Introduction
• Part I: Collaborations Between Art Schools and Their Museums
• 1. The Art Museum and the Art School: Negotiating Collaboration in Chicago Judith Russi Kirshner and Lisa Wainwright
• 2. Encouraging American Genius": Creative Exchange at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Corcoran College of Art + Design Sarah Cash and Lisa Lipinski
• Part II: Dialogues in Museums
• 3. IDEAS: The Art Museum as Laboratory for Learning Rachel Middleman and Deborah Edwards Banerjee
• 4. A Woven History: These Baskets All Started with a Story Gigi Romeo and Jennifer Juan
• 5. The Museum as Classroom: Expanding the Boundaries of EFL Curriculum in Korea Kristina Dziedzic Wright
• Part III: Museums and Interdisciplinarity
• 6. Framing Art History in the Liberal Arts: The Academy and Museum in Interdisciplinary Dialogue Catherine Carter Goebel
• 7. The Museum: Culture, Business and Education Suzanne Bellah, Irina D. Costache, Clare Kunny, and Andrew Morris
• 8.The Art of Attending Arts-Based Observation Training for Health Professions Students at the University of South Florida Megan Voeller
• Part IV: Museum Practices and Audience Engagement
• 9. The Politics of Space and the Critical Role of Art in Historical Museums Bimbola Akinbola
• 10. Exhibitions as a Field of Production Martino Margheri
• 11. Attract, Engage, Partner: Forming Museum-Academic Relationships Peter I. Tokofsky
• Part V: Museums, Artists and The Digital Factor
• 12.The Project Series at Pomona College Museum of Art: Artists in the Academic Context Rebecca McGrew
• 13. The Art Museum as a Generative Site: A Case Study of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Jacqueline Terrassa and Maya Valladares
• 14. A Third Place: the &/ project Sarah Archino, Siofra McSherry and Isabella Streffen.
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Collaboration and interdisciplinary practice in the museum are on the rise. Academics, Artists, and Museums examines twenty-first century partnerships between the museum and higher education sectors, with a focus on art museums and exhibits. The edited volume offers detailed analysis of how innovative curatorial relationships between museums and academia have sought to engage new, younger, audiences through the collaborative transformation of museums and exhibitions. Thematic topics explored include the forming and nature of interdisciplinary partnerships, the integration of museum learning into higher education, audience engagement, and digital technology. With a particular emphasis on practice in the US, the range of projects discussed includes those at both widely recognized and lesser known institutions, from The Met to the Tohono O'odham Nation Cultural Center in the US, to Ewha University Museum in South Korea, and Palazzo Strozzi in Italy. The role of art and the work of the artist are firmly positioned at the core of many of the relationships explored. Academics, Artists, and Museums advocates for the museum as an experimental `laboratory' where academia, art and the museum profession can combine to engage new audiences. It is a useful resource for museum professionals, artists, scholars, and students interested in collaboration and innovative practice.
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• Acknowledgments List of Figures List of Tables Contributors Introduction: Still in Haste Part I: Once Upon a Sun
• 1. Letter To the Select Committee On Small Business of the United States Senate
• 2. A Clear Sky Story on the Evolution of Passive Solar Design: The Source and Multiple Applications of Harold Hay's Roof Pond System
• 3. Harold Hay's influence and the Zomeworks Corporation
• 4. Free Passive Solar Heating for Cold, Cloudy Winters: Designing Molecules and Crystal Structures
• 5. The Empire Strikes Back: When Too Good Becomes Threatening
• 6. Determining Market Demand and Feasibility for Roof Pond Systems in California Part II: Active Repercussions
• 7. Creating the Context for a Solar Future: Two Activists, Two Buildings
• 8. Shade, Mass and Water: Activism by Degrees
• 9. Passive Cooling Systems in Times of Climate Change
• 10. Actively Stretching Passive: Adventures with Night Roof Spray Cooling
• 11. Untapped Potentials in Harold Hay's Roofpond System for Passive Heating in Cold Climate Regions Part III: Necessity and Pleasure
• 12. Building Experience
• 13. Thermal Landscaping of Buildings: Climate-Proofing Design
• 14. Resilience as a Driver of Passive Design
• 15. From Survivability to Thrivability: Finding Joy in Passive Design.
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This edited collection gathers contributions from a diverse range of renowned scholars and professionals to uncover the unique relationship between passive architectural systems and activism. Focusing on the pioneering work of the influential American chemist and inventor, Harold R. Hay (1909-2009), and the environmental awareness events that took hold in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s, the book assembles essays which closely examine Hay's contribution to architecture and the work of those who directly and tangentially were affected by it. The book also offers insights into the role of passive energy design today. Appealing to researchers, architects and students interested in architecture and design technology, Activism in Architecture explores the role of passive environmental inventions as an active agent in shaping socio-political debates.
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• Acknowledgments
• 1. What is a work of art?
• 2. What is a painting?
• 3. The Art World
• 4. Lawrence Carroll Enters the Art World
• 5. Why Painting's History Matters
• 6. An Art History Made for and by Artists
• 7. Interpreting Lawrence Carroll's Artworks
• 8. Why Lawrence Carroll's Paintings Matter Notes Lawrence Carroll: Selected Exhibitions Lawrence Carroll: Selected Collections Bibliography Index.
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Boldly developing the central traditions of American modernist abstraction, Lawrence Carroll's paintings engage with a fundamental issue of aesthetic theory, the nature of the medium of painting, in highly original, frequently extraordinarily successful ways. Aesthetic Theory, Abstract Art, and Lawrence Carroll explains how he understands the medium of painting; shows what his art says about the identity of painting as an art; discusses the place of his paintings in the development of abstraction; and, finally, offers an interpretation of his art. The first monograph devoted to him, this philosophical commentary employs the resources of analytic aesthetics. Art historians trace the development of art, explaining how what came earlier yields to what comes later. Taking for granted that the artifacts they describe are artworks, art historians place them within the history of art. Philosophical art writers define art, explain why it has a history and identify its meaning. Pursuing that goal, Aesthetic Theory, Abstract Art, and Lawrence Carroll roams freely across art history, focused at some points on the story of old master painting and sometimes on the history of modernism, but looking also to contemporary art, in order to provide the fullest possible philosophical perspective on Carroll's work.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781350009561 20181022

• Foreword, Scott Lothes Introduction, H. Roger Grant Chapter 1, Maury Klein Chapter 2, Keith Bryant Chapter 3, Don L. Hofsommer Conclusion, Drake Hokanson.
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Celebrating the sesquicentennial anniversary of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States, After Promontory: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Transcontinental Railroading profiles the history and heritage of this historic event. Starting with the original Union Pacific-Central Pacific lines that met at Promontory Summit, Utah, in 1869, the book expands the narrative by considering all of the transcontinental routes in the United States and examining their impact on building this great nation. Exquisitely illustrated with full color photographs, After Promontory divides the western United States into three regions-central, southern, and northern-and offers a deep look at the transcontinental routes of each one. Renowned railroad historians Maury Klein, Keith Bryant, and Don Hofsommer offer their perspectives on these regions along with contributors H. Roger Grant and Rob Krebs.
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• Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz: Performing the Anti-rape Cycle in the 1970s
• Chapter 2 Performing the Anti-incest Cycle in the Los Angeles Woman's Building, 1977-1985
• Chapter 3 Faith Ringgold: Quilting the Anti-rape and Anti-incest Cycle, 1972-1986
• Chapter 4 Recirculating the Anti-rape and Anti-incest Cycle in Exhibitions, 1980-1993
• Chapter 5 Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman: The Anti-rape and Anti-incest Cycle, 2001-2006
• Chapter 6 Kara Walker: Creating a Third-Wave Anti-rape and Antiincest Cycle in Silhouettes, Videos, and Sculpture Since
• 1994
• Chapter 7 Mapping and Chronicling the Anti-rape and Anti-incest Cycle into the Twenty-First Century
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.
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As part of the feminist movement of the 1970s, female artists began consciously using their works to challenge social conceptions and the legal definitions of rape and incest and to shift the dominant narrative of violence against women. In this dynamic book, Vivien Green Fryd charts this decades-long radical intervention through an art-historical lens. Fryd shows how American artists such as Suzanne Lacy, Leslie Labowitz, Faith Ringgold, Judy Chicago, and Kara Walker insisted on ending the silence surrounding sexual violence and helped construct an anti-rape, anti-incest counternarrative that remains vibrant today. She looks at how second-wave feminist artists established and reiterated the importance of addressing sexual violence against women and how their successors in the third wave then framed their works within that visual and rhetorical tradition. Throughout, Fryd highlights specific themes--rape and incest against white and black female bodies, rape against white and black male bodies, rape and pornography--that intersect with other challenges to and critiques of the sociocultural and political patriarchy from the 1970s through the present day. Featuring dozens of illustrative works and written by an art historian who is a scholar of PTSD and herself a survivor, this groundbreaking and timely project explores sexual violence as a discrete subject of American art with open eyes and unflinching analysis. Against Our Will challenges the reader to serve as witness to the trauma in much the same way as the works Fryd studies.
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• Who were the American Pre-Raphaelites / Linda S. Ferber
• A radical legacy: the British Pre-Raphaelites and global Pre-Raphaelitism / Tim Barringer
• Abolitionism and the American Pre-Raphaelite experiment / Sophie Lynford
• Thought on canvas: American Pre-Raphaelite iconography / Barbara Dayer-Gallati
• A knowing look: the American Pre-Raphaelite still life / Mark K. Mitchell
• "The Perfect Observance of Truth": photography and American Pre-Raphaelitism / Diane Waggoner
• The new path 1863-1865: "He Serves All, Who Dares to Be True" / Janice Simon
• Plates
• Checklist of the exhibition
• Association for the Advancement of Truth in Art: timeline (1863-1865).

Bringing together insights from a distinguished group of scholars, The American Pre-Raphaelites: Radical Realists examines the history and legacy of this often-overlooked group of American artists who were profoundly influenced by John Ruskin (1819-1900), the most influential art critic of the Victorian era, and his call for a revolutionary change in the practice of art--to leave tradition behind, exit the studio, work outdoors, and reproduce nature's "truth" with exacting detail. Published in celebration of Ruskin's two-hundredth birthday, The American Pre-Raphaelites includes some eighty works by Thomas Charles Farrer, Fidelia Bridges, Charles Herbert Moore, Henry Roderick Newman, and William Trost Richards, among others. New research reveals that many of these artists sought reform not only in the practice of art, but also in the broader political arena--many were abolitionists, and Farrer himself had served in the Union army. They followed Ruskin's dictum to record the natural world with strict fidelity, but they also created works of stunning beauty that often include a rich political subtext.--Provided by publisher.