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35978 results in Art

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Art and Anti-Racism in Latin America

Letterworlds in Late Nineteenth-Century France
  • The Epistolary Culture of Mallarmé, Morisot, Van Gogh, Cézanne, and Zola
  • Susan Harrow
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    October 2025
    Print publication:
    31 October 2025
  • Today's world of e-mails, text messages, and social media posts reminds us that letter-writing is an age-old practice that has continually re-invented itself culturally and contextually, connecting individuals and creating communities that may be local or global, personal or public, purposeful or playful, actual or virtual. Yet we have barely begun to explore why letter-writing matters: how it teaches us important lessons, across historical, cultural, and geographical boundaries, about being human. Letterworlds turns to the past – to the late nineteenth century – in order to explore questions of crucial relevance to our present: questions of subjectivity, solitude, and community, physical and mental wellbeing, ethics, and the everyday. Using a fresh holistic and thematic methodology, Susan Harrow examines how such issues suffuse and animate the letter-writing of a group of writers and artists whose contributions are seminal in the development of Western aesthetic modernity: Mallarmé, Morisot, Van Gogh, Cézanne, and Zola.

My Own Past
  • Afrodescendant Contributions to Cuban Art
  • Alejandro de la Fuente, Cary Aileen García Yero
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    September 2025
    Print publication:
    31 August 2025
  • In late eighteenth-century Havana, residents frequently referred to the existence of large communities of negros and pardos as 'officers in the trade of painter' and the authors of 'exquisite works.' But who are these artists, and where can we find their works? What sort of works did they produce? Where were they trained, and how did they master their crafts with such perfection? By centering the artistic production and social worlds of artists of African descent in Cuba since the colonial period, this revisionist history of Cuban art provides compelling answers to these questions. Carefully researched and cogently argued, the book explores the gendered racial biases that have informed the constitution of the Cuban art canon; exposes how the ideologues of the slave owning planter class institutionalized the association between 'fine arts' and key attributes of whiteness; and examines how this association continues to shape art historical narratives in Cuba.

Relief in Greek, Roman, and Late Antique Art
  • Edited by Jas' Elsner, Milette Gaifman, Nathaniel B. Jones
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2025
    Print publication:
    31 August 2025
  • The artistic category of relief has long dominated scholarly discussions of ancient Greco-Roman art for good reason: images in relief pervaded ancient visual culture from the rise of the Greek city-state through to the Christian era. They are witnessed in public and private contexts; terracotta, bronze, and stone media; techniques as varied as incision, modelling, or repoussé; and scales from the miniature to the monumental. Precisely because of the ubiquity and fluidity of ancient relief, the category as such has not been given full consideration in own right, and many questions have remained under-theorized. Boasting an international cast of contributors, this volume addresses key questions about relief across the geographic and temporal scope of the ancient world, including how relief was conceptualized within antiquity, what role materials and techniques played in its creation, and what the relations were between relief media and their effects on viewers.

Wall Painting, Civic Ceremony, and Sacred Space in Early Renaissance Italy
  • Jean K. Cadogan
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    July 2025
    Print publication:
    31 July 2025
  • Wall Painting, Civic Ceremony and Sacred Space in Early Renaissance Italy investigates how mural paintings affirmed civic identities by visualizing ideas, experiences, memory, and history. Jean Cadogan focuses on four large mural decorations created by celebrated Florentine artists between 1377 and 1484. The paintings adorn important sacred spaces- the chapel of the Holy Belt in the cathedral of Prato, the monumental cemetery in Pisa's cathedral square, and the cathedral of Spoleto -- yet extoll civic virtues. Building on previously unpublished archival documents, primary sources, and recent scholarship, Cadogan relates the architectural and institutional histories of these sites, reconstructs the ceremonies that unfolded within them, and demonstrates how these sacred spaces were central to the historical, institutional, and religious identities of the host cities. She also offers new insights into the motives and mechanics of patronage and artistic production. Cadogan's study shows how images  reflected and shaped civic identity, even as they impressed through their scale and artistry.

The Art of Queenship in the Hellenistic World
  • Patricia Eunji Kim
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    July 2025
    Print publication:
    30 June 2025
  • In The Art of Queenship in the Hellenistic World, Patricia Eunji Kim examines the visual and material cultures of Hellenistic queens, the royal and dynastic women who served as subjects and patrons of art. Exploring evidence in the interconnected eastern Mediterranean and western Asia from the fourth to second centuries BCE, Kim argues that the arts of queenship were central to expressions of dynastic (and sometimes even imperial) consolidation, continuity, and legitimacy. From gems, coins, and vessels to monuments and sculpture, the visual and material cultures of queenship appeared in a range of sacred settings, public spaces, royal courts, and domestic domains. Encompassing several dynasties, including the Hecatomnids, Argeads, Ptolemies, Seleucids, and Attalids, Kim inaugurates new methods for comparing and interpreting visual articulations of queenship and ideal femininity from distinct yet culturally entangled contexts, thus illuminating the ways that women had an impact art and politics in the ancient world.

The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Medieval Italy
  • Art, Devotion, and Liturgy in Orvieto
  • Sara Nair James
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    July 2025
    Print publication:
    24 July 2025
  • Late medieval Italy witnessed the widespread rise of the cult of the Virgin, as reflected in the profusion of paintings, sculptures, and fresco cycles created in her honor during this period. The cathedral of papal Orvieto especially reflects the strong Marian tradition through its fresco and stained-glass window narrative cycles. In this study, Sara James explores its complex narrative programs. She demonstrates how a papal plan for the cathedral to emulate the basilica of S. Maria Maggiore in Rome, together with Dominican and Franciscan texts, determined the choices and arrangement of scenes. The result is a tour de force of Marian devotion, superior artistry, and compelling story-telling. James also shows how the narratives promoted agendas tied to the city's history and principal religious feasts. Not only are these works more interesting, sophisticated, and theologically rich than previously realized, but, as James argues, each represents the acme in their respective media of their generation in central Italy.

The Embodiment and Transmission of Ghanaian Kete Royal Dance
  • From Palace to Academy
  • Emmanuel Cudjoe
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    17 June 2025
    Print publication:
    12 November 2024
  • The Kete dance form, once exclusive to royal courts, carries intricate movements, symbolic gestures, and rhythms that mirror Ghanaian history and values. It embodies storytelling, often depicting tales of bravery, unity, or significant historical events. These dances were traditionally reserved for specific occasions within the royal setting, symbolizing prestige, honor, and tradition.

    With the passage of time, the transmission of Kete royal dance has transcended its original palace context, finding its way into academic domains. Universities and cultural institutions now extend the legacies of this dance form and even act as custodians of this art form, where scholars, dancers, and enthusiasts collaborate to study, preserve, and teach Kete dance.

    Through meticulous documentation, research, and practice, the academy endeavors to honor the Kete dance while making it accessible to a broader audience. This transmission from palace to academy serves as a testament to the resilience and adaptability of cultural traditions. It ensures the continuity of Ghanaian heritage and allows future generations, both within and beyond Ghana, to appreciate and learn from this profound dance form from an Afrocentric perspective.

African Cinema and Urbanism
  • Marie-Paule Macdonald
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    17 June 2025
    Print publication:
    03 December 2024
  • The changing nature of African landscapes, from rural to urbanized spaces, has been a pre-occupation of African media producers since the beginnings of the African film industry in the 1960s. The authors bring together several examples of African documentary and fiction screen media that present, evaluate and criticize urban and rural landscapes, and the rural and urban dynamic of development, in relation to contemporary issues, from biodiversity, sustainability and deforestation, to inequity, women's rights, political instability, to climate change-related themes of water and food supply, security and sovereignty. These works, comprising multi-platform cinema, streamed moving images and especially documentaries, depict the situations and open the door to rethinking and eventually to the possibilities of proposals responding to the situations portrayed.

Art's Visionary Moment
  • Personal Encounters with Works That Last a Lifetime
  • Edited by Sidney Homan
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    17 June 2025
    Print publication:
    04 February 2025
  • The collection Art's Visionary Moment: Personal Encounters with Works That Last a Lifetime was inspired by T. S. Eliot's observation in his 'Dante' (1929): 'The experience of a poem is the experience both of a moment and of a lifetime. … There is a first, or an early moment which is unique, … which can never be forgotten, but … is never repeated integrally; and yet which would become destitute of significance if it did not survive in a larger whole of experience.' In this collection, scholars and artists from a variety of fields speak in personal terms, but with what one has called 'intellectual passion,' of a work of art (poem, play, novel, film, visual art, among others) that, as Dante suggest, has had an immediate effect on them (the 'Visionary Moment' from the title) yet survives 'in a larger whole of experience' (that 'Last a Lifetime' in the collection's sub-title). Some of the titles of essays already submitted show the range of this inquiry: 'Conversations with the Dead'; 'Playing Richard III: The Experience of a Moment and a Lifetime'; 'Picasso's 'Three Musicians''; 'Poetry Meets Power: Tamburlaine the Great'; 'Pleasant Dreaming with 'Thanatopsis''; 'From Madness to Miracle: An Encounter with Shakespeare's Winter's Tale'; 'Fight the Power' Spike Lee's Visionary Moment'; and 'Plastic Art Moment'.

Poetry of the Civil Rights Movements in Australia and the United States, 1960s-1980s
  • Ameer Chasib Furaih
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    14 June 2025
    Print publication:
    03 September 2024
  • This book examines the poetries of two Aboriginal Australian poets, namely Oodgeroo Noonuccal (formerly Kath Walker; 1920-1993) and Lionel Fogarty (1958-) and two African American Black Arts poets , namely Amiri Baraka (formerly Everett LeRoi Jones; 1934-2014) and Sonia Sanchez (1943-) to demonstrate their role in the struggle for civil and human rights of their peoples from the 1960s. The book demonstrates commonalities and differences in the strategies of these poets' literary and political resistance. These poet-activists, though ethnically diverse and geographically dispersed, share comparable socio-political concerns and aspirations. Their activism is not a reflection of a single ideological current, but a bricolage of many ideologies and perspectives. They have engaged in trans-Pacific political movements and transgressed the borders of any one ideological territory. It is important to establish Aboriginal and African American trans-Pacific communication because these poets have collaborated and engaged in global politics (whether in the form of Garveyism or the 'transnation'). Their poetries are characterized by an irresistible drive towards international rhizomatic collaboration and engagement. This is a transcontinental literary influence exerted by African American poets on Aboriginal poets during the 1960s and beyond.

Lebanon and the Split of Life
  • Bearing Witness through the Art of Nabil Kanso
  • Meriam Soltan
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    12 June 2025
    Print publication:
    14 May 2024
  • This scholarly biography traces the life and art of Lebanese-American neo-expressionist, Nabil Kanso (1940-2019). It explores key moments across the artist's transnational career by foregrounding his longest-running, internationally toured exhibition, the Journey of Art for Peace (1985-1993). More specifically, it traces the historical trajectory of his 10 × 28 mural-scale painting, Lebanon, from the circumstances of its production at the height of the Lebanese Civil War in 1983, through its short-lived exhibition history with the Split of Life series in the few years that followed. The book scaffolds an understanding of the artist as an activist and works toward offering distinctly spatial readings of his painterly practice, of which the act of bearing witness is highlighted as permeating the entirety of his oeuvre. It concludes with a contemporary recontextualization of Lebanon in the country's current social, political, and cultural climate, and emphasizes the artist's work as essential to the theorization of larger traditions of political and protest art.

    The first of its kind and the result of a research fellowship wherein the author was invited to be the first to work through the artist's unpublished archive, this book lays the groundwork for scholarship on the art of Nabil Kanso. It draws extensively on primary source material, including personal notes, diaries, sketchbooks, correspondences, paintings, watercolors, photographs, recorded interviews, and the like.

Timber!
  • How Wood Can Help Save the World from Climate Breakdown
  • Paul Brannen
  • Published by:
    Agenda Publishing
    Published online:
    04 June 2025
    Print publication:
    27 June 2024
  • The carbon emissions generated by concrete and steel construction are well-known. Why then are we not using more carbon-friendly building materials? In a passionate and compelling argument Paul Brannen advocates the use of timber in buildings wherever possible. His controversial and counterintuitive argument is clear: planting trees is not enough to reduce carbon, we also have to chop them down and use more wood in our buildings and cities.

    This is the first book to take timber from the margins to the mainstream, from the forests to the cities. The book tackles head-on questions about sustainability, safety, the biodiversity of commercial forests and the pressures on land use. The case for timber as a construction material is persuasively made - the creation of new engineered timbers with the structural strength of steel and concrete enable us for the first time to build wooden skyscrapers - and draws on the latest developments in engineering and material science. In addition to the familiar forestry models, the book advocates alternatives such as wood farming and agroforestry that bring with them added biodiversity gains for farms.

    With the built environment currently responsible for forty per cent of the world's carbon emissions, Brannen's message is unequivocal: we must change how we build. Timber! offers fresh and inventive ideas that over time could see our expanding cities storing more carbon than our expanding forests.

  • 2 - Artists and the Art Market

  • John Henry Merryman, Stanford Law School, Stephen K. Urice, University of Miami School of Law, Simon J. Frankel, Superior Court of California and Stanford Law School
  • Book:
    Law, Ethics, and the Visual Arts
    Published online:
    01 May 2025
    Print publication:
    29 May 2025, pp 29-95

  • Summary

    What legal rules govern how artists live and create artworks and sell those works to collectors and others? This chapter first addresses how artists live and work. It then turns to legal and ethical issues of the primary market for artists’ works, including: how artists sell their works, particularly through dealers; the legal rules that govern consignments, the predominant way artists sell works through dealers; the artist/dealer relationship (for example, what happens when the artist or dealer terminates the relationship, and who bears the loss when works not yet sold by the dealer are damaged or destroyed); statutory protection for artists’ consignments; and the commissioning of an artist to create a work of art.

  • 7 - Art and Armed Conflict

  • John Henry Merryman, Stanford Law School, Stephen K. Urice, University of Miami School of Law, Simon J. Frankel, Superior Court of California and Stanford Law School
  • Book:
    Law, Ethics, and the Visual Arts
    Published online:
    01 May 2025
    Print publication:
    29 May 2025, pp 624-724

  • Summary

    For centuries, art has been one of the spoils of war, often taken by the victor--and often destroyed in combat. What rules govern how art is treated in and after times of armed conflict? This chapter considers practical and ethical challenges of protecting art and antiquities in times of war and how attitudes toward protection of cultural property have evolved, leading to the Hague Convention of 1954; how art has been treated as part of war reparations; legal and ethical issues applicable to the recovery of art in the aftermath of World War II, particularly in light of the Holocaust and the Third Reich’s historically unprecedented, large-scale dispossession of art; and international efforts to coordinate the return of art wrongfully taken in the years prior to and during World War II

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