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“robert e d'souza”

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  • India's Biennale Effect

    A politics of contemporary art

    Edited by Robert E. D'Souza, Sunil Manghani ...
    India’s Kochi-Muziris Biennale has been described as one of the most significant newly emergent biennales, alongside Shanghai, Sharjah and Dakar. However, there have been few sustained and critical studies of these events as specific sites of production and reception of contemporary art.This book, engaging with the Kochi Biennale, provides detailed examination of what the editors term as the ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

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  • Katsushika Hokusai and artworks

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    Without a doubt, Katsushika Hokusai is the most famous Japanese artist since the middle of the nineteenth century whose art is known to the Western world. Reflecting the artistic expression of an isolated civilisation, the works of Hokusai - one of the first Japanese artists to emerge in Europe - greatly influenced the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters, such as Vincent van Gogh. ... Read more

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  • Disarmed

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  • Installation Art and the Practices of Archivalism

    by David Houston Jones ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
    On the leading edge of trauma and archival studies, this timely book engages with the recent growth in visual projects that respond to the archive, focusing in particular on installation art. It traces a line of argument from practitioners who explicitly depict the archive (Samuel Beckett, Christian Boltanski, Art & Language, Walid Raad) to those whose materials and practices are archival ... Read more

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  • Impressions of Ukiyo-E

    Floating world prints of Japan’s golden age

    by Woldemar von Seidlitz, Dora Amsden ...
    Ukiyo-e (‘pictures of the floating world’) is a branch of Japanese art which originated during the period of prosperity in Edo (1615-1868). Characteristic of this period, the prints are the collective work of an artist, an engraver, and a printer. Created on account of their low cost thanks to the progression of the technique, they represent daily life, women, actors of kabuki theatre, or even ... Read more

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  • Falling for Gravity

    Invisible Forces in Contemporary Art

    by Catherine James ...
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  • China's Porcelain Capital

    The Rise, Fall and Reinvention of Ceramics in Jingdezhen

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    by D.J. Huppatz ...
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    Edited by Deborah S. Hutton, Rebecca M. Brown ...
    Place plays a fundamental role in the structuring of the discipline of Art History. And yet, place also limits the questions art historians can ask and impairs analysis of objects and locations in the interstices of established, ossified categories. The chapters in this interdisciplinary volume investigate place in all of its dynamism and complexity: several call into question traditional ... Read more

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  • Art Hats In Renaissance City: Reflections & Aspirations Of Four Generations Of Art Personalities

    by Renee Foong Ling Lee ...
    Art Hats in Renaissance City is an anthology of the personal reflections and aspirations of four generations in the new ecostructure in Singapore, from those who help formulate policies to that of the individual artists, who have helped develop and build an exciting arts and cultural scene from scratch and into a viable economic model. As evidenced by the professions featured in this anthology, ... Read more

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