Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
National Gallery of Art
Author: Worlds Away
Author: Andrew BlauveltPublisher:
ISBN: 9780935640908
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Edited by Andrew Blauvelt. Text by John Archer, David Brooks, Robert Bruegmann, Beatriz Colomina, Malcolm Gladwell.
WALKER ART GALLERY
Author: Walker Art GalleryThe Walker Art Galleries, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Author: Walker Art Galleries (Minneapolis, Minn.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Question the Wall Itself
Author: Adrienne EdwardsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781935963158
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Question the Wall Itself, curated by Fionn Meade with Jordan Carter and organized by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis"--Colophon.
Seeing the Unspeakable
Author: Gwendolyn DuBois ShawPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822386208
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
One of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur “genius” grant, Kara Walker, an African American artist, is best known for her iconic, often life-size, black-and-white silhouetted figures, arranged in unsettling scenes on gallery walls. These visually arresting narratives draw viewers into a dialogue about the dynamics of race, sexuality, and violence in both the antebellum South and contemporary culture. Walker’s work has been featured in exhibits around the world and in American museums including the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, and the Whitney. At the same time, her ideologically provocative images have drawn vociferous criticism from several senior African American artists, and a number of her pieces have been pulled from exhibits amid protests against their disturbing representations. Seeing the Unspeakable provides a sustained consideration of the controversial art of Kara Walker. Examining Walker’s striking silhouettes, evocative gouache drawings, and dynamic prints, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw analyzes the inspiration for and reception of four of Walker’s pieces: The End of Uncle Tom and the Grand Allegorical Tableau of Eva in Heaven, John Brown, A Means to an End, and Cut. She offers an overview of Walker’s life and career, and contextualizes her art within the history of African American visual culture and in relation to the work of contemporary artists including Faith Ringgold, Carrie Mae Weems, and Michael Ray Charles. Shaw describes how Walker deliberately challenges viewers’ sensibilities with radically de-sentimentalized images of slavery and racial stereotypes. This book reveals a powerful artist who is questioning, rather than accepting, the ideas and strategies of social responsibility that her parents’ generation fought to establish during the civil rights era. By exploiting the racist icons of the past, Walker forces viewers to see the unspeakable aspects of America’s racist past and conflicted present.
WALKER ART GALLERY: Plates
Author: Walker Art GalleryA Kestrel for a Knave
Author: Barry HinesPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014190383X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a disillusioned teenager growing up in a small Yorkshire mining town. Violence is commonplace and he is frequently cold and hungry. Yet he is determined to be a survivor and when he finds Kes, a kestrel hawk he discovers a passion in life. Billy identifies with her proud silence and she inspired in him the trust and love that nothing else can. Intense and raw and bitingly honest, A KETREL FOR A KNAVE was first published in 1968 and was also madeinto a highly acclaimed film, 'Kes', directed by Ken Loach.
The Tudors
Author: Charlotte BollandPublisher: National Portrait Gallery
ISBN: 9781855145986
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Situating the Tudor dynasty, their court, and the country, in an international context, this book will be highly illustrated and feature contemporary research in an accessible way. It will provide an overview of the ways in which the Tudors engaged with the world and were impacted by broader currents: the internationalism of court culture, religious shifts, trade, naval conflict and the expansion in the Americas. The introductory text will consider the legacies of the Tudors, as the monarchs who reigned during the tumultuous years of the Reformation and the emergence of the transatlantic slave trade and English colonialism. Taking a thematic and biographical approach, the book will feature some of the most famous royal and court figures from the sixteenth century, from Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell, to Elizabeth I and Walter Ralegh. The works shown will be explored from a multitude of perspectives, looking at the sitters' impact at home and abroad in Europe and the Americas. The international impact of the Tudors will be very evident the portraits featured, the artists of which came from Netherlands, Germany, France and Italy. Artworks will be arranged by the key themes of: court culture, religion, queenship, conflict, empire, piracy and trade, and translation. Each theme will feature an opening text from a range of voices exploring the historical contexts of the works and new research on the topics. It will include biographical sketches of individuals whose role in Tudor history has often been overlooked, such as the trumpeter John Blanke.
Kara Walker
Author: Kara Elizabeth WalkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Text by Philippe Vergne, Sander Gilman, Thomas McEvilley, Robert Storr, Kevin Young, Yasmil Raymond.