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Artist-biographies: Raphael. Leonardo da Vinci. Michael Angelo
Moses Foster Sweetser
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Artist Biographies: Sir Joshua Reynolds. Turner. Landseer
Moses Foster Sweetser
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Artist Biographies: Dürer. Rembrandt. Van Dyck
Moses Foster Sweetser
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Artist Biographies: Fra Angelico. Murillo. Washington Allston
Moses Foster Sweetser
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Artist Biographies: Titian. Guido Reni. Claude Lorraine
Moses Foster Sweetser
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The Absolute Artist
The Historiography of a Concept
Catherine M. Soussloff
Analyzing the myth of the artist in western culture, this work considers the social construction of the artist from the 15th century to the present.
The Oxford Dictionary of American Art & Artists
Ann Lee Morgan
This new edition of The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists has been fully revised and updated as well as including dozens of new entries offering an insightful and informative view of America's artistic heritage. An indispensable biographical and critical guide to American art from colonial times to contemporary postmodernism, this valuable resource provides readers with a wealth of factual detail and perceptive analysis of America's leading artists. This new edition has been updated to include a number of entries on prevailing topics such as body art, light and space, Indian-American art, scatter art, and transactional art, and features many new or greatly expanded biographical entries on artists such as Ida Applebroog, Guerilla Girls, Peter Hujar and Shirin Neshat. Morgan offers readers a wealth of authoritative information as well as well-informed analysis and criticism of artists and their work. Filled with fascinating historical background and penetrating insight, The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists is an essential resource for art lovers everywhere.
Hill's Album of Biography and Art
Containing Portraits and Pen-sketches of Many Persons who Have Been and are Prominent ... Together with Chapters Relating to History, Science, and Important Work in which Prominent People Have Been Engaged at Various Periods of Time
Thomas Edie Hill
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The Life & the Work
Art and Biography
Charles G. Salas
Sumario: Introduction : the essential myth? / Charles G. Salas -- Who comes after the subject? / Rosalind Kraus -- Leonardo's modernity : subjectivity as symptom / Robert Williams -- Paul Cézanne's primitive self and related fictions / Paul Smith -- Biography, brush, and tools : historicizing subjetctivity; the case of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin / Debora L. Silverman -- Partial accounting : Art & Language / Charles Harrison -- Lives of allegory in the Pop 1960s: Andy Warhol and Bob Dylan / Thomas Crow.
Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury
Jordan Troeller
How a group of artist-mothers in postwar San Francisco refused the centuries-old belief that a woman could not make art while also raising children. For most of modern history, to be an artist and a mother was to embody a contradiction in terms. This “awful dichotomy,” as painter Alice Neel put it, pitted artmaking against caretaking and argued that the best art was made at the expense of family and futurity. But in San Francisco in the 1950s and 1960s, a group of artists gathered around Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) began to reject this dominant narrative. In Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury, Jordan Troeller analyzes this remarkable moment. Insisting that their labor as mothers fueled their labor as artists, these women redefined key aesthetic concerns of their era, including autonomy, medium specificity, and originality. Delving into the archive, where the traces of motherhood have not yet been erased from official history, Troeller reveals Ruth Asawa’s personal and professional dialogue with several other artist-mothers, including Merry Renk, Imogen Cunningham, and Sally Woodbridge. For these women, motherhood was not an essentialized identity, but rather a means to reimagine the terms of artmaking outside of the patriarchal policing of reproduction. This project unfolded in three broad areas, which also structure the book’s chapters: domesticity and decoration; metaphors for creativity; and maternal labor in the public sphere, especially in the public schools. Drawing on queer theory and feminist writings, Troeller argues that in belatedly accounting for the figure of the artist-mother, art history must reckon with an emergent paradigm of artmaking, one predicated on reciprocity, caretaking, and futurity.
The Biography Book
A Reader's Guide To Nonfiction, Fictional, and Film Biographies of More Than 500 of the Most Fascinating Individuals of all Time
Daniel S. Burt
From Marilyn to Mussolini, people captivate people. A&E's Biography, best-selling autobiographies, and biographical novels testify to the popularity of the genre. But where does one begin? Collected here are descriptions and evaluations of over 10,000 biographical works, including books of fact and fiction, biographies for young readers, and documentaries and movies, all based on the lives of over 500 historical figures from scientists and writers, to political and military leaders, to artists and musicians. Each entry includes a brief profile, autobiographical and primary sources, and recommended works. Short reviews describe the pertinent biographical works and offer insight into the qualities and special features of each title, helping readers to find the best biographical material available on hundreds of fascinating individuals.
Beyond Art: A Third Culture
A Comparative Study in Cultures, Art and Science in 20th Century Austria and Hungary
Peter Weibel
A new theory of culture presented with a new method achieved by comparing closely the art and science in 20th century Austria and Hungary. Major achievements that have influenced the world like psychoanalysis, abstract art, quantum physics, Gestalt psychology, formal languages, vision theories, and the game theory etc. originated from these countries, and influence the world still today as a result of exile nurtured in the US. A source book with numerous photographs, images and diagrams, it opens up a nearly infinite horizon of knowledge that helps one to understand what is going on in today’s worlds of art and science.
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography
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Ethnographic Experiments with Artists, Designers and Boundary Objects
Exhibitions as a research method
Francisco Martínez
Ethnographic Experiments with Artists, Designers and Boundary Objects is a lively investigation into anthropological practice. Richly illustrated, it invites the reader to reflect on the skills of collaboration and experimentation in fieldwork and in gallery curation, thereby expanding our modes of knowledge production. At the heart of this study are the possibilities for transdisciplinary collaborations, the opportunity to use exhibitions as research devices, and the role of experimentation in the exhibition process. Francisco Martínez increases our understanding of the relationship between contemporary art, design and anthropology, imagining creative ways to engage with the contemporary world and developing research infrastructures across disciplines. He opens up a vast field of methodological explorations, providing a language to reconsider ethnography and objecthood while producing knowledge with people of different backgrounds.
Mary Nohl Inside & Outside
Biography of the Artist
Barbara Manger
Outsider artist, sophisticated naïf, and witch are all labels that have described Mary Nohl (1914-2001), creator of a magical and mysterious site on the shore of Lake Michigan near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mary Nohl: Inside and Outside offers the first comprehensive look into the unusual life of a remarkable artist whose surroundings stand as a monument to her creative personality.