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Major survey of the 50-year career of one of New Zealand's best-loved artists
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A consideration of the role of the design object within contemporary museum practice.
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Charles Munch is well known in the American Midwest for his bold, luminously colored paintings of people and animals in expansive landscapes. This book reveals Munch's transition from the poetic realism of his early work to the semi-abstraction, as well as the personal and artist...ic crisis at the heart of that transformation.
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An intelligent, authoritative and generously illustrated survey of contemporary curating.
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The Female Body in the Looking-Glass makes a refreshing, radical intervention into art theory and cultural studies by offering new theoretical concepts such as 'the mirror' and 'genderland' (inspired by Alice's adventures in Wonderland) as critical tools with which we can analyse... and explain recent developments in women's art.
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Bioart Kitchen builds toward an inclusive, expansive history of biological art organized around three moments in time: the simultaneous emergence of home economics, tissue culture methodologies, and domestic computing in the early twentieth century; feminist art of the 1970s, wit...h a focus on food art; and contemporary artistic engagements with bio
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Under the Skin examines contemporary women's art from the Middle East and North Africa, introducing the latest scholarship on art production, histories and methods in approaching modern and contemporary visual culture.
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Exploring works by Djuna Barnes, David Jones, F.T. Prince, Denise Riley, Paul Muldoon, and Ted Hughes, this volume traces the relationship between twentieth-century poetry and art to question the role of art in society.
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A crucial resource for specialists and students seeking to enrich their understanding of the relationship between gender politics and visual culture.
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In the German speaking language area, three major web-based subject gateways focusing on Contemporary History have been built up during the last ten years. This book provides a comparative analysis of www.zeitgeschichte-online.de, www.vl-zeitgeschichte.de and zis.uibk.ac.at as th...ree major examples of German-speaking web-based subject gateways on Contemporary History embedded in the context of applied Historical Information Science. Following basic information about the three web-based subject gateways at issue, generic technical web-page evaluation methods are discussed. Subsequently, a framework for specific analyses of web-pages and subject gateways is introduced and applied to the three subject gateways along several analysis vectors. It can be shown that approaching historical content by analyzing its secondary , i.e. formal aspects, can prepare the grounds for new insights about the content itself, and that such analysis can enrich the discussion about the current status and prospects of a whole discipline.
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