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Art & Otherness: Crisis in Cultural IdentityISBN 0929701488 (0-929701-48-8)
Softcover, McPherson & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Art & Otherness: Crisis in Cultural Identity'Book summary:Directly following the internationally acclaimed Art & Discontent, Thomas McEvilley argues in Art & Otherness for an advanced anthropological perspective that contravenes conventional thinking in the visual arts, and leads to a concept of artistic globalization. The description of western culture as superior and in opposition to other cultures of the world preoccupied our aesthetic philosophy for at least 200 years, whether or not explicitly stated. That argument was undertaken in various guises, especially as the historical determinism of Hegel which proposed to quantify human "progress." Recently, however, the term "multiculturalism" has come to signify a post-Modern understanding of how visual arts transgress artificial boundaries, and of how there may now exist, perhaps for the first time in history, a post-colonial globalism in the arts freed of ethnocentric value judgments. In these ten crucial essays, McEvilley clarifies how the presentation of art can determine its reception, how "influence" can be bi-directional, how "otherness" serves to define "self," and how art need not necessarily lose its meaningfulness when stripped of badges of universality. Once again illustrating his argument by drawing upon an array of sources and cultures, Thomas McEvilley demonstrates that the post-Modern crisis in cultural identity demands an imaginative, integrating response. [via]
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Art and Discontent: Theory at the MillenniumISBN 0929701313 (0-929701-31-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Art and Discontent: Theory at the Millennium'Book summary:In the wake of a disappearing Modernism and with an unpredictable post-Modernism confounding the art establishment, a world-renowned critic proposes a new vision for the critical enterprise. Thomas McEvilley confronts, in these six straightforward essays, the ideas and philosophies which have exalted art above constructive involvement in the world for two centuries. The formalist aesthetics of Clive Bell, Roger Fry, Clement Greenberg, and Susan Sontag are specifically criticized, revealing their buried assumptions and agenda. The persistence of the Romantic idea of Self is discovered at the heart of Modernism along with ideas of Spirit secretly enshrined in the distinction between abstraction and representation. Mr. McEvilley goes on to shed new light on the roots of Modernism, the collapse of the idea of history, and the subsequent development of a global discourse. He brings to Art & Discontent a commanding knowledge of Greek and Egyptian art, Western and non-Western philosophies, and the most avant garde of contemporary art and artists. In explaining why our Modernism was not unique and why it is being superseded, McEvilley suggests the functions that art can perform in a post-Modern culture and offers compelling reasons why the history of art needs to be rewritten from a thoroughly renewed perspective. [via]
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Carl Skelton: Will Is WasISBN 0919153747 (0-919153-74-7)
Hardcover, Art Gallery of Hamilton
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Delight: Helen ChadwickISBN 088454060X (0-88454-060-X)
Softcover, Univ Pennsylvania Inst of
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Dennis Oppenheim: Selected Works 1967-90 And the Mind Grew FingersISBN 0810936623 (0-8109-3662-3)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Dennis Oppenheim: Selected Works, 1967-90 and the Mind Grew FingersISBN 0810924935 (0-8109-2493-5)
Softcover, Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S. 1 Museum, in association with Harry N. Abrams
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The Exile's Return: Toward a Redefinition of Painting for the Post-Modern EraISBN 0521456150 (0-521-45615-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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James CroakISBN 0810963795 (0-8109-6379-5)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Lucas Samaras: Objects and Subjects, 1969-1986ISBN 0896598039 (0-89659-803-9)
Hardcover, Artabras
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Lucas Samaras--Objects and Subjects, 1969-1986ISBN 0896598047 (0-89659-804-7)
Softcover, Abbeville Press
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Meret Oppenheim: Beyond the TeacupISBN 0916365468 (0-916365-46-8)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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North of Yesterday: A NovelISBN 0914232851 (0-914232-85-1)
Softcover, McPherson & Co
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North of Yesterday or Flowers of WazISBN 091423286X (0-914232-86-X)
Hardcover, McPherson & Co
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Objects Performance Video SoundISBN 090583688X (0-905836-88-X)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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Pat SteirISBN 0810944596 (0-8109-4459-6)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pat Steir'Book summary:This volume, reproducing in colour 77 of Pat Steir's paintings, surveys her entire career, with emphasis on her recent work. Steir is known for pictures that quote the history of art, but since 1986 has moved into a more fluid abstractionism, using techniques such as throwing paint at the canvas. [via]
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SapphoISBN 0882145746 (0-88214-574-6)
Softcover, Spring Pubns
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Thornton Dial: Image of the TigerISBN 0810932172 (0-8109-3217-2)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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- The dissolution of traditional "high art" restrictions
- The phenomenon of the African-American self-taught artist
- Dial's cultural tradition
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Triumph of Anti-Art: Conceptual and Performance Art in the Formation of Post-ModernismISBN 0929701674 (0-929701-67-4)
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