Art and its Responses to Changes in Society
Title | Art and its Responses to Changes in Society PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Germ |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2016-08-17 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1443898074 |
Art and its Responses to Changes in Society brings together studies of young researchers dealing with the topics of decline, transformation, and rebirth from various points of view, characteristic of several different fields of the humanities and social sciences, in order to yield new insights into the analyzed subjects. The topics discussed here are diverse: on the one hand, several chapters deal with the metamorphosis of particular pictorial or architectural motifs and concepts, while on the other, studies are included that are dedicated to the analysis of the opera of individual artists, to various periods in architecture and landscape architecture, and to national and state commissions in art, as well as representations of WW2 atrocities in Yugoslavia and attempts to artistically reaffirm Christian symbolism after the end of socialism. As such, the book entails diverse scientific perceptions of art and society, from antiquity to modernity, from architecture to moving picture, from the USA to Yugoslavia, and from research on an object to observations on a concept.
Art and Social Change
Title | Art and Social Change PDF eBook |
Author | Will Bradley |
Publisher | Tate |
Pages | 494 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Art |
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"This reader gathers together an international selection of artists' proposals, manifestos, theoretical texts and public declarations that focus on the question of political engagement and the possibility of social change"--Back cover.
A Restless Art
Title | A Restless Art PDF eBook |
Author | François Matarasso |
Publisher | |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Art and society |
ISBN | 9781903080207 |
From the contents:00I. Participatory art now01. The normalisation of participatory art 0II. What is participatory art?02. Concepts03. Defnitions04. The intentions of participatory art 05. The art of participatory art 06. The ethics of participatory art 0III. Where does participatory art come from?07. Making history 08. Deep roots 09. Community art and the cultural revolution (1968 to 1988) 010. Participatory art and appropriation (1988 to 2008).
British Art and the Environment
Title | British Art and the Environment PDF eBook |
Author | Charlotte Gould |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 2021-07-21 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1000408213 |
This book explores the nature of Britain-based artists’ engagement with the transformations of their environment since the early days of the Industrial Revolution. At a time of pressing ecological concerns, the international group of contributors provide a series of case studies that reconsider the nature–culture divide and aim at identifying the contours of a national narrative that stretches from enclosed lands to rising seas. By adopting a longer historical view, this book hopes to enrich current debates concerning art’s engagement with recording and questioning the impact of human activity on the environment. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, contemporary art, environmental humanities, and British studies.
When the Machine Made Art
Title | When the Machine Made Art PDF eBook |
Author | Grant D. Taylor |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2014-04-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1623565618 |
Considering how culturally indispensable digital technology is today, it is ironic that computer-generated art was attacked when it burst onto the scene in the early 1960s. In fact, no other twentieth-century art form has elicited such a negative and hostile response. When the Machine Made Art examines the cultural and critical response to computer art, or what we refer to today as digital art. Tracing the heated debates between art and science, the societal anxiety over nascent computer technology, and the myths and philosophies surrounding digital computation, Taylor is able to identify the destabilizing forces that shape and eventually fragment the computer art movement.
Art and Politics
Title | Art and Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Claudia Mesch |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2014-10-10 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0857734105 |
Contemporary art is increasingly concerned with swaying the opinions of its viewier. To do so, the art employs various strategies to convey a political message. This book provides readers with the tools to decode and appreciate political art, a crucial and understudied direction in post-war art. From the postwar works of Pablo Picasso and Alexander Deineka to thie Border Film Project and web-based works of Beatriz da Costa, Art and Politics: a Small History of Art for Social Change after 1945 considers how artists visual or otherwise have engaged with major political and grassroots movements, particularly after 1960. With its broad definition of the political, this book features chapters on postcolonialism, feminism, the anti-war movement, environmentalism, gay rights and anti-globiliaztion. It charts how individual artworks reverberated with enormous idealogical shifts. While emphasising the West, Art and Politics takes global developments into account as well - looking at art production practiced by postcolonial African, Latin American and Middle Eastern artists. Its case-study approach to the subject provides the reader with an overview of a most complex subject. This book will also challenge its readers to consider often devalued and marginalised political artworks as properly part of the history of modern and contemporary art.
Art and the Moving Image
Title | Art and the Moving Image PDF eBook |
Author | Tanya Leighton |
Publisher | Tate |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008-10-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9781854376251 |
"This book traces the story from early spatial experiments with film and video technologies to the current widespread use of projected images in museums and galleries."--BOOK JACKET.