Larry Shiner: The Invention of Art: a Cultural History (2001)
Filed under book | Tags: · 1700s, 1800s, aesthetics, art, art history, history
“With The Invention of Art, Larry Shiner challenges our conventional understandings of art and asks us to reconsider its history entirely, arguing that the category of fine art is a modern invention—that the lines drawn between art and craft resulted from key social transformations in Europe during the long eighteenth century.”
Publisher University of Chicago Press, 2001
ISBN 0226753425, 9780226753423
xix+362 pages
Interview (Platypus Review, 2014)
Review: Mitch Avila (JAAC 2003).
Commentary: Luis Puelles Romero (Contrastes ES 2005), David Clowney (Contemporary Aesthetics 2008).
PDF (18 MB, updated on 2023-5-19)
Comment (0)Jeffrey Kastner, Brian Wallis (eds.): Land and Environmental Art (1998)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, architecture, art, art history, art theory, ecology, environment, land art, landscape, nature, sculpture
“The traditional landscape genre was radically transformed in the 1960s when many artists stopped merely representing the land and made their mark directly in the environment. Drawn by the vast uncultivated spaces of the desert and mountain as well as post-industrial wastelands, artists such as Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson moved the earth to create colossal primal symbols. Others punctuated the horizon with man-made signposts, such as Christo’s Running Fence or Walter de Maria’s Lightning Field. Journeys became works of art for Richard Long while Dennis Oppenheim and Ana Mendieta immersed their bodies in the contours of the land.
This book traces early developments to the present day, as artists are exploring eco-systems and the interface between industrial, urban and rural cultures.”
Edited by Jeffrey Kastner
Survey by Brian Wallis
Publisher Phaidon Press, 1998
ISBN 0714835145, 9780714835143
304 pages
Review: Boettger (CAA.Reviews, 1999).
PDF (117 MB, no OCR)
For more on land art see Monoskop wiki (includes a select bibliography and collection of links to online documentation of the works by early land artists).
Comment (0)Fionnghuala Sweeney, Kate Marsh (eds.): Afromodernisms: Paris, Harlem, Haiti and the Avant-garde (2013)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, africa, afromodernism, art, art history, avant-garde, black people, blackness, body, colonialism, dance, futurism, jazz, modernism, music, politics, racism, sexuality, surrealism
“This collection of ten essays makes a persuasive case for a black Atlantic literary renaissance and its impact on modernist studies. The chapters stretch and challenge current canonical configurations of modernism in two ways: by considering the centrality of black artists, writers and intellectuals as key actors and core presences in the development of a modernist avant-garde; and by interrogating ‘blackness’ as an aesthetic and political category at critical moments during the twentieth century. This is the first book-length publication to explore the term ‘Afromodernisms’ and the first study to address together the cognate fields of modernism and the black Atlantic.”
Publisher Edinburgh University Press, 2013
ISBN 074864640X, 9780748646401
264 pages
Review: Dominic Thomas (French Studies, 2013).
PDF (updated on 2020-6-9)
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