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Martinique : snake charmer - André Breton ; with text and illustrations by André Masson ; translated by David W. Seaman ; introduction by Franklin Rosemont
ISBN/ISSN: 0292717652
In 1941, as the Vichy regime consolidated its control of France, André Breton left the country for the island of Martinique. A poet and the principal founder of surrealism, Breton did not stay long, but his visit inspired the essays and poems of this book. Martinique: Snake Charmer is one of surrealism's most important texts, and it has been called "the most beautiful of all books" about the island. (Martinique: Snake Charmer also includes nine evocative drawings by the surrealist André Masson, a companion of Breton's during his stay on the island.) This is the first English translation.
Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia - Jennifer Mundy (ed.)
ISBN/ISSN: 1854377310
Examines the work of Duchamp, Man Ray, and Picabia, three pioneering figures in the history of modernism. It explores the points of convergence and the parallels in their development throughout their careers. Central to this is their response to photography and film, and to the challenges posed to fine art by the development of mass production.
Magritte : attempting the impossible - Siegfried Gohr
ISBN/ISSN: 1933045930
The ongoing relevance of Belgian painter Rene Magritte may lie in the semiotic character of his work and its ability to create chasms between the world, its surfaces and the signs we use to occupy it. Magritte's paintings offer a space for the viewer to contemplate the emptiness of signs and to locate that emptiness in a world we recognize--indeed, the artist relies on the props of normalcy in order to upend, invert and collapse them into the terra incognita where life leaves off and art begins. "The mind loves the unknown," he avowed, "it loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown." Attempting the Impossible is a new definitive Magritte monograph.
Le Corbusier and the occult - J.K. Birksted
ISBN/ISSN: 0262026481
Traces the structure of Le Corbusier's brand of modernist spatial and architectural ideas based on startling new documents in hitherto undiscovered family and local archives. Le Corbusier and the Occult thus answers the conundrum set by Reyner Banham (Birksted's predecessor at the Bartlett School of Architecture) who, fifty years ago, wrote that Le Corbusier's book Towards a New Architecture "was to prove to be one of the most influential, widely read and least understood of all the architectural writings of the twentieth century.
The prints of Isoda Koryūsai : floating world culture and its consumers in eighteenth-century Japan - Allen Hockley
ISBN/ISSN: 0295983019
Refuting outmoded paradigms of connoisseurship and challenging the assumptions of conventional print scholarship, Hockley elevates this important figure from the status of a minor Edo-period artist. He argues that Koryusai excelled by the most significant measure--he was a highly successful creator of popular commodities.
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Is art history global? - James Elkins (ed.)
ISBN/ISSN: 0415977851
Globalism is arguably the most pressing issue facing art criticism and art history. As the number of art history departments continues to grow, there is a danger art history will become a uniform practice around the world and may soon settle to a global standard. This book stages an international conversation among art historians and critics on the subject of the practice and responsibility of global thinking within the discipline. The topics are political, economic, philosophic, linguistic, and personal. Should Chinese art be discussed using Western methods such as psychoanalysis or deconstruction? Is it best to use words like "space" and "time" to describe non-Western art, or should historians try to employ the words used in different cultures? How is art history taught without books, slides, or artworks? What relevance does the Western narrative of art have for art history students in Argentina, South Africa, Indonesia, or Tibet? Is Art History Global? is essential reading on one of the thorniest questions facing the discipline today.
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- The Abu Ghraib effect / Stephen F. Eisenman
- Along the riverbank : Chinese paintings from the C.C. Wang family collection / Maxwell K. Hearn, Wen C. Fong
- Alvar Aalto : architecture, modernity, and geopolitics / Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen
- The artistic furniture of Charles Rohlfs / Joseph Cunningham
- The arts and crafts movement in the Pacific Northwest / Lawrence Kreisman and Glenn Mason
- Avoiding myth & message : Australian artists and the literary world / [curator, Glenn Barkley]
- Bakst in Greece / Charles Spencer
- Chinese art : a guide to motifs and visual imagery / Patricia Bjaaland Welch
- Cracked media : the sound of malfunction / Caleb Kelly
- Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia / edited by Jennifer Mundy
- Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun : the odyssey of an artist in an age of revolution / Gita May
- The English virtuoso : art, medicine, and antiquarianism in the age of Empiricism / Craig Ashley Hanson
- Envisioning the Tale of Genji : media, gender, and cultural production / edited by Haruo Shirane
- The human house / text and photographs by Tony Watkins
- Ingres : la réforme des principes, 1806-1834 : essai / Sébastien Allard et Marie-Claude Chaudonneret ; postface de Andrew Carrington Shelton
- Ingres and his critics / Andrew Carrington Shelton
- Is art history global? / edited by James Elkins
- The judicious eye : architecture against the other arts / Joseph Rykwert
- Le Corbusier and Britain : an anthology / edited by Irena Murray and Julian Osley
- Le Corbusier and the occult / J.K. Birksted
- Len Lye / edited by Taylor Cann & Wystan Curnow
- The lure of illustration in the nineteenth century : picture and press / edited by Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor
- Magritte : attempting the impossible / Siegfried Gohr
- The man in the hat [DVD] / Blair Wakefield Productions
- Manet Manette / Carol Armstrong
- Marti Friedlander / Leonard Bell
- Martinique : snake charmer / André Breton ; with text and illustrations by André Masson ; translated by David W. Seaman ; introduction by Franklin Rosemont
- Nature as model : Salomon de Caus and early seventeenth-century landscape design / Luke Morgan
- New Zealand on canvas / compiled by Denis Robinson
- Pacific pattern / Susanne Küchler, Graeme Were ; photographs by Glenn Jowitt
- The painted face : portraits of women in France, 1814-1914 / Tamar Garb
- Painting the frontier : the art of New Zealand's pioneers / David Filer
- The prints of Isoda Koryūsai : floating world culture and its consumers in eighteenth-century Japan / Allen Hockley
- Skyscraper cinema : architecture and gender in American film / Merrill Schleier
- Telling stories / Janice Gill ; introduction by Brian Easton
- Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese : rivals in Renaissance Venice / [edited by] Frederick Ilchman with contributions by Linda Borean ... [et al.]
- The Tlingit encounter with photography / Sharon Bohn Gmelch
- Victorian architecture : diversity & invention / James Stevens Curl
- Voir l'Italie et mourir : photographie et peinture dans l'Italie du XIXe siècle ; sur une idée d'Ulrich Pohlmann et de Guy Cogeval
- Words & pictures : writers, artists and a peculiarly British tradition / Jenny Uglow
- The World of WearableArt / photography by Craig Potton, Martin de Ruyter, Neil Price
Recently-added art titles: Macmillan Brown Library
- Etiquette for the homesick: Genevieve Packer & Caroline McQuarrie : 2 May - 8 June, 2008, Michael Hirschfeld Gallery at City Gallery Wellington, Civic Square
- Die Kunst Ozeaniens : Mit 160 Aufnahmen und 10 Farbtafeln von Objekten im Besitz des Ethnographischen Museums in Budapest / Tibor Bodrogi
- Night of the tiki : the art of Shag, Schmaltz and selected primitive Oceanic carvings / introduction, compilation and photography by Douglas A. Nason ; curated by Greg Escalante ; essays by Jeff Fox and Doug Harvey
- Of deities or mortals : 16 November 2007 -10 February 2008, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu / [exhibition curator and catalogue essay, Ken Hall]
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Recent new books
Ingres and his critics - Andrew Carrington Shelton
ISBN/ISSN: 0521842433
The painted face : portraits of women in France, 1814-1914 - Tamar Garb
ISBN/ISSN: 0300111185
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ISBN/ISSN: 386521858X
The stained glass of A.W.N. Pugin - Stanley A. Shepherd
ISBN/ISSN: 1904965202
Impressionism and the modern landscape : productivity, technology, and urbanization from Manet to Van Gogh - James H. Rubin
ISBN/ISSN: 0520248015
Creative industries : contracts between art and commerce - Richard E. Caves
ISBN/ISSN: 0674008081
Friendship and loss in the Victorian portrait : May Sartoris by Frederic Leighton - Malcolm Warner
ISBN/ISSN: 0300121350
The modernist response to Chinese art : Pound, Moore, Stevens - Zhaoming Qian
ISBN/ISSN: 0813921767
Late Titian and the sensuality of painting - Sylvia Ferino-Pagden (ed.)
ISBN/ISSN: 8831794124
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