The Beauty of Belief
The Beauty of Belief sheds new light on Lutheran relationships with ecclesiastical decoration in southwest Germany following the Duchy of W羹rttemberg's Reformation in 1534. Based on extensive original archival research and engagement with surviving images and objects, R籀is穩n Watson compellingly demonstrates how Lutherans moved away from initial acts of iconoclasm and towards embracing the possibilities of the religious image in their devotional routines. She explores the interactions of W羹rttemberg rulers, pastors, and congregations with their ecclesiastical spaces across the political upheavals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In doing so, this book tells not only the story of the visual culture of the Reformation, but an account of W羹rttemberg's Reformation itself.
The Four Seasons
This collection of woodblock prints celebrates the seasons and is designed as a Japanese-style accordion-fold book with open binding and slipcased with a booklet for the text. Embracing seasonal change is an important part of Japan's native belief system and an enduring theme of its creative expression. Japanese artists--including Hokusai, Hiroshige, Harunobu, and many others--have long celebrated the endless cycle and rhythm of nature and the fleeting transience and beauty of the seasons, depicting common customs from picnics welcoming spring under blossoming cherry trees to ritual offerings made to the autumnal harvest moon. The seasonal iconography includes recurring plant and wildlife elements: plum blossoms, irises, morning glories, cranes, geese flying in migratory formation. Some pictorial compositions focus upon a single time of year, but many encompass all four seasons together. This beautiful and elegant collection makes the ideal gift for anyone interested in the art and culture of Japan. The classic woodblocks in this collection express essential truths about the natural world and the evanescence of human experience in a visual idiom that, while distinctively Japanese, has great universal appeal.
Films That Spill
Films That Spill is a comprehensive study of the Cinema of Transgression, a hitherto underexamined moment in US underground film culture. Reconsidering the concept of transgressive cinema not only as a description of the intentionally provocative content of the films but also as a feature of a cross-disciplinary practice, Marie Sophie Beckmann explores how filmmaking in the context of the vibrant and intermingling art, music, performance, and film scenes in 1980s Lower Manhattan spilled over the boundaries of artistic disciplines, media formats, and content concepts. This study not only provides a microhistory of these scenes and insight into their afterlife in archives and exhibitions but also represents an innovative contribution to debates within film, media, and visual culture about the methodological and historiographical challenges posed by the expansion of film beyond the discursive boundaries of cinema.
Senga Nengudi
A celebration of five decades of multimedia artist Senga Nengudi's creative practice. Radically expanding our understanding of Senga Nengudi's art, this book publishes never before seen drawings, prints, photographs, performance scores, and poetry, spanning five decades of her practice. When Senga Nengudi's sculptural installation RSVP debuted at Just Above Midtown in 1977, the works quickly became icons of the Black Arts movement. During her five-decade-long career, Nengudi has realized a remarkable body of work that blurs the boundaries between sculpture and performance, fine art and ritual, individual authorship and collective energy. Made of everyday materials, Nengudi's installations are at once proxies for bodies and sites for performance. Characteristic of her openness to multiplicity, the artist, born Sue Ellen Irons, has assumed pseudonyms that inflect her creative identities as sculptor (Senga Nengudi), painter (Harriet Chin), photographer (Propecia Leigh), and writer (Lily Bea Moor). This publication is devoted to all of her creative identities.
El Mundo de Los Vivos the Real World
Art. Literary Nonfiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Essays by Alejandro Robles, Carol Damian, Emilio Garcia Montiel, and Marilu Menendez. This first book of Cuban American artist Ofill Echevarr穩a (La Habana, 1972) is presented in collaboration with Un-Gyve Limited. Debuting as a member of Grupo Arte Calle in 1988, a graduate of la Academia San Alejandro, Ofill Echevarr穩a has since exhibited his work in galleries and museums internationally. He lives and works in New York City, the urban reality of which is vividly depicted in EL MUNDO DE LOS VIVOS THE REAL WORLD.
The Human Shutter
New perspectives on photography and binocular vision. This book explores how binocular rivalry, termed "the human shutter," provokes a reexamination of the standard chronology of cinema. The role of the human shutter is demonstrated here with a preliminary taxonomy of astonishing images excavated from the photographic archive. The book first looks at how photographic stillness, depth, and motion emerged en masse, departing from the gradualist narratives familiar in histories of photography and film. Next, the book addresses the role of binocular vision in the history of painting and photography. It further examines the rich history of early stereoviews that constitute the origins of photographic cinema and other instances of temporality. Last, the work explores what happens after light arrives at the retina, employing the stereoscope as a metaphor for critical thinking. In addition to these new perspectives, the book contains significant original research on early photographers who explored motion with binocular vision, especially Antoine Claudet and Giorgio Sommer. The volume also takes into consideration the work of modern and contemporary artists and experimental filmmakers who have focused on stereoscopic spaces, including Marcel Duchamp, Robert Smithson, Lucy Raven, Ken Jacobs, Alfons Schilling, Arakawa and Gins, and OpenEndedGroup.
Modern Iran and the Avant-Gardes
When tradition meets global modernism: masterworks from Iran. Modern Iran and the Avant-Gardes, 1948-78 explores how the complex cultural tensions of the nation's period between 1948 and 1978 led to artistic innovation. As Iran became modern, modernism became distinctly Iranian. Iranian artists created a unique form of modernism that addressed the tension between commitments to innovate and an engagement with traditional Iranian ideas and cultural forms. Heavily illustrated, this publication features thirty artists who worked during the pivotal modernism period and practiced in a range of media from painting and sculpture to printmaking, drawing, and architecture. Featuring an introductory essay by exhibition curator Pantea Haghighi that surveys the range of artistic and political influences on the emergence of Iranian modernisms and a selection of focused essays by scholars and curators Fereshteh Daftari, Davood Madadpoor, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Ali Bakhtiari, Modern Iran and the Avant-Gardes, 1948-78 is a timely addition to the scholarship on both alternate modernisms and the history of Iranian art. Featured artists include: Hossein Amanat, Massoud Arabshahi, Siah Armajani, Iran Darroudi, Kamran Diba, Seyed Mohammad Ehsaey, Parvaneh Etemadi, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Abdol-Aziz Farmanfarmaian, Mansour Ghandriz, Marcos Grigorian, Nahid Hagigat, Farideh Lashai, Reza Mafi, Leyly Matine-Daftary, Sirak Melkonian, Ardeshir Mohasses, Bahman Mohasses, Nicky Nodjoumi, Ruyin Pakbaz, Faramarz Pilaram, Behjat Sadr, Abolghassem Saidi, Sohrab Sepehri, Masoumeh Seyhoun, Houshang Seyhoun, Jazeh Tabatabai, Parviz Tanavoli, Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam, Hossein Zenderoudi, and Jalil Ziapour.
From Dawn Till Dusk
How did shadow arrive in art? A visual journey at play with light and darkness. It is always with us: our shadow. But when it comes to art, what role does this constant companion play? Richly illustrated and vividly narrated, this publication reveals the wide range of approaches and levels of meaning that shadow has in contemporary painting and photography, and in video art and installations Symbol of death and emblem of the uncanny, metaphor for beings that exist at the fringes, the shadow is a multifaceted, and frequently political, presence in contemporary art. Through stunning images, this volume portrays the emancipation of shadow as an autonomous element in contemporary art while offering astonishing discoveries in relation to classical artworks. In this generous survey, the shadow itself steps out of the shadows, revealing itself as a unique element of artistic style. Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Christian Boltanski, Koen van den Broek, David Claerbout, Marlene Dumas, ?lafur Eliasson, Hans Peter Feldmann, Vadim Fishkin, Lee Friedl瓣nder, Ralph Gibson, J.J Grandville, Jenna Gribbon, Janice Guy, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, William Kentridge, E.L. Kirchner, J羹rgen Klauke, Astrid Klein, Farideh Lashai, Zilla Leutenegger, Adolf Luther, Duane Michals, Johanna Monkiewitsch, Edvard Munch, Claudio Parmiggiani, Sophia Pomp矇ry, Markus Raetz, Gerhard Richter, Miguel Rothschild, Thomas Ruff, Regina Silveira, Juergen Staack, Dorothea Tanning, Javier Tellez, Umbo, Kara Walker, Jeff Wall, Sue Webster / Tim Noble, and Robert Wiene.
Reflections on Art and Culture
Reflections on Art and Culture: From Diderot's Salons to Panodyssey and Art Explora offers a series of art reviews of some of the most exciting and artistically diverse trends in contemporary painting, sculpture and photography, presented in light of art history, aesthetics and intellectual history.
Pan-Judah!
Beginning in the 1920s, a man named Julius Streicher published a small weekly German newspaper called Der St羹rmer. Its mission was straightforward: to warn the German people about the threats posed by foreign and domestic Jews. The dangers were very real, and Streicher's stories gave a blunt and direct account of them.A key feature of Der St羹rmer was its political cartoons. The cover of almost every issue, and several interior pages, displayed cartoons depicting various Jewish dangers, in a most striking and graphic form. The lead cartoonist was a man named 'Fips' Rupprecht. His cartoons quickly became the signature feature of the newspaper. With the demise of National Socialist Germany, Der St羹rmer and Fips' cartoons were largely forgotten. Recently, though, a skilled digital artist named Robert Penman rediscovered the forgotten images. He carefully restored, colorized, and reissued them. Here, in Volume Three of this series, he presents another 250 images as they have never been seen before.Penman has done a masterful job. The images are sharp, crisp, and compelling. The colors are stunningly vivid and the effect is astonishing. Fips' cartoons, originally printed in black and white on cheap newsprint, come alive for the first time. Every image is a small masterpiece. And each one tells a story-a story with relevance for the present day.
Line, Form, Qi: Calligraphic Art from the Fondation Ink Collection
Exquisite works of contemporary Asian calligraphy and the written wordPublished with Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Featuring more than 30 artists, Line, Form, Qi highlights contemporary works that range from the traditional to the deeply experimental. The publication features predominantly Chinese artists, along with Vietnamese, Taiwanese, Japanese and Korean artists working mainly with Chinese characters. The themes reflect significant trends and innovations in contemporary calligraphic art, including abstraction of the character, performance and phenomenological practice, and the exploration of alternative or nontraditional materials and calligraphy methods such as incense burn drawing and lithography. This publication also addresses different through lines from premodern calligraphy to contemporary practice, reflecting the evolution of the Chinese language from pictograph to ideograph and beyond.
The Spirit Within / El Esp穩ritu Inherente
This volume, coinciding with the opening of permanent Art of the Americas galleries at the Walters Art Museum in 2025, examines how, for people in the Indigenous Americas, materials had and continue to have a life of their own.Ancient and modern craftspeople shaped jade, gold, feathers, and clay into exquisite artworks, but the meanings of those objects are intertwined with the living essence of the raw materials themselves.Thirty-five highlights, ancient to contemporary, provide a window into the spiritual and intellectual context in which these objects were understood by the Indigenous people who made and used them.Este tomo, que coincide con la apertura de las galer穩as permanentes Arte de las Am矇ricas en 2025, examina c籀mo, para los pueblos ind穩genas de las Am矇ricas, los materiales ten穩an y siguen teniendo vida propia.Al igual que lo hac穩an los artesanos de la antig羹edad, los de hoy dan forma al jade, al oro, a las plumas o a la arcilla para crear exquisitas obras de arte cuyo significado en tanto objetos est獺 entrelazado tambi矇n con la esencia viva de las propias materias primas.Son 35 las piezas destacadas de la colecci籀n de las Am矇ricas, tanto antiguas como contempor獺neas, que permiten apreciar el contexto espiritual e intelectual en el que fueron concebidos estos objetos por los pueblos ind穩genas que los fabricaron y emplearon.
Georgia O'Keeffe
An unprecedented examination of the underexplored late work of the iconic American modernist Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) has long been celebrated for her paintings, photographs, and contributions to American modernism in the 1930s and early 1940s, yet her work from the end of World War II through the early 1980s has been largely neglected. In this groundbreaking study, Randall C. Griffin focuses on the major pictorial series that O'Keeffe produced throughout her later career--mysterious abstract depictions of her house in Abiquiu, New Mexico, and its surrounding landscape; voluptuous aerial representations of rivers, skies, and canyons in Arizona; Buddhist-informed depictions of clouds; and daring and enigmatic portrayals of the Washington Monument. Drawing from previously overlooked photographs, letters, objects, and paintings, Griffin reveals how these works reflect O'Keeffe's evolving artistic interests and ambitions while also engaging with contemporary issues such as race, class, gender, indigeneity, spirituality, and ecology. Firmly situating O'Keeffe within the larger cultural and political milieu, this volume offers a new understanding of these visionary works and shows how they were informed by, and enriched, the American postwar artistic landscape.
Veil of Frost, Vow of Fire
Veil of Frost, Vow of Fire is an epic tale of love, sacrifice, and revolution set in a world where the elements of fire and frost have long been enemies. Kael, a fierce Fireborn warrior, and Isolde, a powerful Frost Witch, are fated enemies, born to fulfil a prophecy that promises their destruction. But when the prophecy unravels, and the two are forced to join forces, they discover that their combined power might be the key to saving their war-torn world-or destroying it.As they fight to unite their people and overthrow the corrupt council that has divided them for centuries, Kael and Isolde discover that their bond is far more than magical. It is the key to their shared future, but the price of that future may be higher than either of them could have ever imagined. Isolde's sacrifice sets Kael on a path of rebellion, determined to build a kingdom where fire and frost no longer clash.Kael must confront the cost of love and leadership in the final battle. The war is far from over, but the fight for unity has begun. Frost and Fire United explores themes of redemption, the power of choice, and the unyielding strength of love and sacrifice. It is a tale of hope in the face of insurmountable odds and a world reborn from the ashes of its past.
Yokai Ghosts
Discover the wonderfully eerie supernatural beings of Japanese lore in this magnificent hardcover edition which features an elegant silk coating as well as coloured edges and closing straps. Yōkai ghosts are a significant aspect of Japanese culture. In turns terrifying, playful and mischievous, they can take the form of malevolent spirits, seeking a place in the afterlife, or shapeshifters tricking humans with wisdom and sometimes cruelty. This unique book includes 150 striking images by Hokusai, Hiroshige, Utamaro and others, that capture the essence of yōkai folklore with stunning detail and evocative imagery. Filled with colored reproductions, each of the book's chapters focuses on a specific spirit or type. There's the specter of Oiwa, her face distorted by poison, as depicted by Hokusai; Toyohara Kunichika's haunting interpretation of Okiku, a tragic ghost with a tale of betrayal and revenge; and Yoshitoshi's dramatic image of a samurai bravely confronting a hideous ghost. Throughout the book, readers will discover how the intricate details of woodblock prints allowed artists to exaggerate features and create dramatic effects that enhanced the portrayal of yōkai. These prints also reveal aspects of daily life, folklore, and spiritual beliefs of the period, offering a window into Japan's history and pointing to the origins of manga, horror films, and literature. Fans of Japanese folklore, supernatural art, and anime enthusiasts alike will delight in this beautiful edition that features a special Japanese binding, coloured edges and closing straps.
Eco-Psyche, The Intersection of Mental Health, Nature, and Creative Vision
The Green Imagination, How Art and Psychology Can Save the Planet
A Love Written in Gold
A Love Written in Gold is a gripping billionaire romance that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Amelia Carter, a driven financial analyst, has spent her life climbing the corporate ladder, believing that success is measured in wealth and status. But when she meets Jasper Gold, a mysterious billionaire with a passion for philanthropy, everything she thought she knew about ambition, love, and power is called into question.As their connection deepens, Amelia is torn between the life she's built and the life Jasper offers-a life rooted in integrity, love, and sacrifice. But when a golden opportunity promises unimaginable wealth, the temptation to compromise their values becomes too great to ignore.With secrets unraveling, a hidden betrayal lurking in the shadows, and the stakes higher than ever, Amelia and Jasper must decide whether love can truly conquer all-or if the price of ambition is too steep to pay.In A Love Written in Gold, nothing is as it seems, and trust is the most dangerous currency of all. Will their love survive the test of power, or will the allure of gold destroy everything they've built?
Soul of the Soil, A Journey Through Art, Mental Health, and Ecological Awakening
Mindscapes and Landscapes, Exploring the Psychological Roots of Environmental Art
The Masked Heartbeat
The Masked Heartbeat is a compelling and suspenseful story of love, loss, and dark secrets. When Emma Sullivan becomes entangled with Lucas Rutherford, a mysterious and reclusive man with a hidden past, she's drawn into a whirlwind romance that she never expected. As their bond deepens, Emma begins to uncover disturbing truths that shake her to her core.Just when she thinks she knows the man she's fallen for, a life-altering revelation changes everything. Lucas disappears, leaving behind unanswered questions and an unshakable void. In the wake of his loss, Emma is left to confront not only her grief but a trail of secrets that refuse to stay buried.As she searches for answers, Emma must decide whether the love she shared with Lucas was worth the cost of the truth. What she discovers may change everything she thought she knew about the man-and about herself.In The Masked Heartbeat, love and deception collide in a story where nothing is what it seems, and every heartbeat could be the last. Prepare for a journey full of twists and turns that will leave you questioning the price of true love.
Fail Better
From the distinguished art critic and historian, vital essays on key artists and critics, revealing how they redefined art and criticism over the last six decades. "Serious art anticipates the future as much as it reflects the present," Hal Foster remarked in a 2015 interview. "By the same token serious art history is driven by the present as much as it is informed by the past." In Fail Better, Foster, an art critic and historian whose influential work spans disciplines and decades, brings this peripatetic perspective to contemporary art, art criticism, art history, and his own work over the past 50 years. In these 40 texts, Foster reviews artists from Richard Hamilton and Jasper Johns to Gerhard Richter and Ed Ruscha; considers contemporaries from Louise Lawler and Cindy Sherman to Jeremy Deller and Adam Pendleton; and traces the development of criticism since the early 1960s, with essays on such influential figures as Susan Sontag and Rosalind Krauss and institutions like Artforum magazine and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Taking his title from Beckett--"try again, fail again, fail better"--Foster notes that, etymologically, an essay is always an attempt, more or less failed. Critics fail artworks, because there can never be a definitive reading; art fails its historical moment, because it cannot resolve the contradictions that prompt it. But in these failures Foster finds historical consciousness, and with it the promise of future work, future illumination. In his "reckonings" he turns his own long history of criticism to account, and succeeds in conveying shifting concepts of art and criticism, the work of key artists and critics, and the relationships between criticism, theory, history, and politics over the last six decades.
The Symphony of Survival, Blending Art, Psychology, and Ecology for a Sustainable Future
Thinking in Watercolor
A 30-day masterclass in the art of using watercolor to tell your own stories. Unlike most watercolor instruction books based on rote copying of classic watercolor subjects, Thinking in Watercolor encourages readers to use art as a means of self-expression. Author and in-demand illustrator Jessie Kanelos Weiner encourages readers through foundational watercolor techniques and shows how to adapt them to share their personal experiences over the course of several days. On Day 10 they'll illustrate a family recipe; on Day 14 they'll go on a scavenger hunt through a local museum--and so forth. As both a commercial illustrator and professional art instructor, Jessie is uniquely poised to offer readers insider tips and clever visualizations of the creative process--and she brings each lesson to life with her vivid illustrations and stories from her life as an ex-pat in Paris. It all adds up to a volume that's at once inspiring, charming, and informative--the perfect gift for anyone looking to begin or reignite a personal art practice.
The Artist's Side Hustle
Turn your creative passion into sustainable income with just five hours a week in this road map from the founder of side-hustle-turned-multimillion-dollar-business Gingiber. Are you dreaming of a career as an artist but unsure how to monetize it? Or have you already started your side hustle but are struggling to make it sustainable, both in your bandwidth and as income? Stacie Bloomfield asked herself the same questions. Now, she's using her experience of starting stationery company Gingiber to give you just the advice you need to start a successful side hustle doing what you love. After graduating college, she found a job as a coffee shop manager. But she soon found herself yearning to reconnect with her artistic voice. And what started as an artistic side hustle turned into a thriving multimillion-dollar business. Whether you want to maintain a side hustle or grow your business into something larger, you will need the same solid foundation. With Stacie as your guide, you'll learn: 13 ways to monetize art and the secret to business growth in the art world The 4 essential components of an art portfolioA road map for generating consistent side income as an artistHow to use 5 hours a week to create your art businessThis is your chance to rediscover your unique voice, generate income from your art, and gain the confidence you need to showcase your creativity to the world.
Science and Sensibility
In an outer arm of the spiralling Milky Way galaxy can be seen an insignificant speck. This is our home, planet Earth. Its skies, clouds, lands and seas, and indeed life itself have long drawn the interest of scientists and artists alike. Our cultural and scientific history is evidence enough that curiosity and wonder are the twin drivers of both scientific and artistic imaginations. In Science and Sensibility, David Howe unveils the stories of the scientists who helped to make sense of the stars, clouds, life, rocks, and the elements, and weaves their tales with the thoughts and feelings of artists who found meaning as they experienced nature's beauty, grandeur and mystery. Scientific greats such as James Hutton, Charles Darwin, Dmitri Mendeleev, Gregor Mendel and Annie Jump Cannon all the way up to today's leading scientists are complemented by the literary insights of people such as William Wordsworth, Jorge Luis Borges and Iris Murdoch. Readers are encouraged to embrace what the sciences and the arts can reveal together. In doing so, the earth below and the heavens above become brighter and richer. The wonder and curiosity embodied in Science and Sensibility could perhaps take us a step closer to holding 'Infinity in the palm of your hand / and Eternity in an hour'.
Culinary Code, The Fusion of Robotics, Sociology, and the Art of Eating
