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VA18-60-5 Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Part 5: Biogs, 5-Vols/Set.
  / 9780826491138
 
 
VA18-60-3 Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Part 3: Genres, 6-Vols/Set.
  / 9780826480446
 
 
PA18-3 Bawdy Songbooks of the Romantic Period, 4-Vols/Set.
  Spedding, Patrick/ 9781848930292
 
  One of the popular metropolitan pastimes of the nineteenth century was the singing of ribald songs. These songs, forced off the streets by the Society for the Suppression of Vice, were sung by professional actors and singers in theatres, music halls, gardens and other public venues. But they were also sung by amateurs in cider and coal-hole cellars, coffee-houses and gentlemen’s clubs. Because almost no songbooks survive from the first half of the nineteenth century, this species of popular entertainment has, until recently, been almost completely overlooked in favour of the rural and street ballads which were collected by respectable gentlemen-scholars. The songbooks of the 1830s and 1840s contain no printed music. Collections like Nancy Dawson’s Cabinet of Choice Songs or Fanny Hill’s Bang-up Reciter were printed in tiny numbers, and on the sly, for ‘flash gentlemen’ and ‘rummy coves’ (so their titles tell us) who were already familiar with the tunes used and with the songs parodied. These booklets were printed in a small format so they could be hidden in a pocket, memorized and then passed around or thrown away. Collectors have long sought ‘these priceless chapbooks’, but only recently a collection of forty-nine songbooks, amounting to about one thousand individual song texts, has come to light. This reset collection therefore represents almost all of the known songbooks from the period. The reprinting of these songs represents a golden opportunity for scholars interested in popular music, London theatre and music halls, as well as the slang and flash-language of the period.
PA18-2 On Paper: The Description and Analysis of Handmade Laid Paper.
  Hailey, R. Carter/ 9781851966455
 
  The study of handmade laid paper is – or should be – an invaluable resource for the bibliographic scholar. During the twentieth century a number of important finds were made using such analysis, including W W Greg’s 1908 discovery that the Pavier quartos of Shakespeare's plays had been falsely dated. Yet despite such revelatory powers, bibliographic scholars have been unable to agree on a set of standards and procedures for collecting and displaying watermark evidence, or even which features of handmade laid paper are most usefully described. Hailey’s study is designed to fill a distinct gap in the literature by providing a practical guide for the bibliographic scholar. His system of ‘mug shot and fingerprint’ involves a detailed look at watermarks (always twins) and an analysis of the wirelines and chainlines left by the mould during the sieving process. Whilst all Hailey’s examples come from English printed books of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the stability of the paper-making process makes this study applicable to printed books produced in any Western country up until the late eighteenth century.
VA18-75 Continuum Companion to Aesthetics.
  Ribeiro, Anna Christina/ 9781847063700
 
 
SA18-388 Art, Word and Image: 2,000 Years of Visual/Textual Interaction.
  Hunt, John D./ 9781861895202
 
  Art, Word and Image is constructed around three wide-ranging essays by John Dixon Hunt, David Lomas and Michael Corris. The essays chart the use and significance of words in art – from Classical Greece and Assyria, through to the middle Ages and the Renaissance, to modern times and today’s digital media, and moreover the questions this intersection poses for contemporary artists. These essays deal with a variety of movements and artists including the Pre-Raphaelites, Duchamp, Picasso, Ernst, Twombly, Michaux and Warhol. The volume also includes ‘spotlight’ essays on artists whose work engages substantially with questions of Word and Image: Blake, Klee, Schwitters, Haack, Pettibon, McCahon and Walla.
VA18-74 Broadway: An Encyclopedia of Theater and American Culture, 2-Vols/set.
  Greenfield, Thomas A./ 9780313342646
 
  Broadway: An Encyclopedia of Theater and American Culture is the first major reference work to explore just how much the “Great White Way” illuminates our national character. In two volumes spanning the era from the mid-19th century to the present, it offers nearly 200 entries on a variety of topics, including spotlights on 30 landmark productions—from Shuffle Along to Oklahoma! to Oh Calcutta! to The Producers—that not only changed American theater but American culture as well. In addition, Broadway offers thirty extended thematic essays gauging the powerful impact of theater on American life, with entries on race relations, women in society, sexuality, film, media, technology, tourism, and off-Broadway and noncommercial theater. There are also 110 profile entries on key persons and institutions—from the famous to the infamous to the all but forgotten—whose unique careers and contributions impacted Broadway and its place in the American landscape.
VA18-73 Icons of Beauty: Art, Culture, and the Image of Women, 2-Vols/set.
  Mancoff, Debra N./ 9780313338212
 
  What gives beauty such fascinating power? Why is beauty so easy to recognize but so hard to define? Across cultures and continents and over the centuries the standards of beauty have changed but the desire to portray beauty, to praise beauty, and to possess beauty has never diminished. Icons of Beauty offers an enthralling overview of the most revered icons of female beauty in world art from pre-history to the present. From images of Eve to Cindy Sherman's self-portraits, from Cleopatra to Madonna, from ancient goddesses to modern celebrities, this interdisciplinary set offers fresh insight as to how we can use perceptions of beauty to learn about world cultures, both past and present. Each chapter looks at an individual work of art to pose a question about the power of beauty. What makes beauty modern? What is the influence of celebrities? How do women portray their own beauty in a different manner than men? In-depth profiles of the icons reveal how specific ideas about beauty were developed and expressed, offering a full analysis of their history, cultural significance, and lasting influence. In addition to renowned works of art, Icons of Beauty also looks at icons in literature, film, politics, and contemporary entertainment. Interdisciplinary and multicultural in its approach, chapters inside this set also feature sidebars on provocative topics and issues, such as foot binding and body adornment; myths and practices; opinions and interpretations; and even related films, songs, and even comic book characters. Generously illustrated, this rich set encompasses history, politics, society, women's studies, and art history, making it an indispensable resource for high school and college students as well as general readers.
VA18-72 Art and Architecture of the World's Religions, 2-Vols/Set.
  Ross, Leslie/ 9780313342868
 
  Beginning with the ancient worlds of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome and moving forward through time, Art and Architecture of the World's Religions explores the major faiths from countries and continents around the globe, helping readers better understand the creations their beliefs have inspired. After tracing the history and development of a religion, the book provides a general overview of its principal beliefs and key practices. It then offers specific examples of how works of art/architecture reflect that religion's values. The focus of each chapter is on the temples, churches, and religious buildings, statues, paintings, and other works of art and architecture created by believers. Each representative work of art or architecture is examined in terms of its history, materials, symbols, colors, and patterns, as its significance is explained to the reader. With extensive illustrations, these volumes are the definitive reference work on art and architecture of the world's religions. Title Features: * 200 illustrations, including floor plans of churches, synagogues, and temples bring the discussions of art and architecture to life * An extensive bibliography enables further research
SA18-388 In the Shadow of Yalta: Art and the Avant-Garde in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989.
  Piotrowski, Piotr/ 9781861894380
 
  Beginning with an analysis of Surrealism in Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary, Piotrowski then examines the evolution of Modernism against the backdrop of the decline of Stalinism. He follows with an account of the neo-avant-garde experience: the body art and conceptual art made during the volatile political circumstances of the 1970s, the times of ‘real Socialism’. The book concludes with an epilogue describing the end of the Communist system in East-Central Europe, and the art that served witness to that end. Alongside the portrayal of the frequently challenging art that was made in response to such difficult circumstances, the common threads that emerge from the narrative are the erosion of ideology, the rise of consumerism and the emergence of political pragmatism. Featuring more than 220 images by artists frequently unfamiliar to an English-speaking audience, In the Shadow of Yalta is a fascinating portrait of the art made in an area and during a time of crucial importance to the development of Europe as we know it today. The book will have much to say to art historians, art critics, and students of art history interested in Central and Eastern European art, as well as general historians of the region.
SA18-388 Outsider Art: From the Margins to the Marketplace.
  Maclagan, David/ 9781861895219
 
  Behind the polemic and the commercial hype lies a cluster of assumptions about creative drives, the expression of inner worlds, radical originality and the artist’s social or psychological eccentricity. Although Outsider art is often presented as a recent discovery, these ideas belong to a tradition that goes back to the Renaissance, when the modern image of the artist began to take shape. If Outsiders are in some way ‘outside’ the conventional art world, what happens to them, and to the works they create, when they are introduced to it? David Maclagan has been writing on Outsider art for over twenty-five years, and this book sets out to challenge many of the received ideas in the field. This book will be of interest to the growing number of people interested in the field of Outsider art, and all those studying concepts of artistic creativity and their cultural background.
SA18-383 Stones from Other Mountains: Chinese Painting Studies in Postwar America.
  Kuo, Jason C./ 9780981865485
 
 
SA18-381 Bauhaus, 1919-1933.
  Siebenbrodt, Michael/ 9781859956267
 
  ts syllabus was a combination of creative training, basic artistic knowledge, productive workshop production, and learning to work as a team. Animated by a social awareness, the Bauhaus would soon combine its creativity with industrialisation and mass production and conceive numerous products which were not only beautiful but durable, useful and affordable. In 1933, the Nazis closed the Bauhaus, triggering the emigration of many of its members, many choosing America, and thus the ideas of the Bauhaus were spread worldwide. This book features an overview of the history of the Bauhaus, served by a rich image documentation, and sheds light on its evolution and connection with other movements, and renders the Bauhaus traceable and understandable to the reader.
SA18-369 Contemporary Crafts.
  Racz, Imogen/ 9781845203092
 
  The book ranges across both urban and rural crafts and analyses how the country/city dichotomy creates differing approaches, practices and objects. Analysed in the context of their environment and its localised history, crafted objects are shown to embody or critique particular urban/rural myths and traditions. Covering both traditional and cutting-edge crafts from the small-scale domestic to large outdoor works, Contemporary Crafts demonstrates how craftspeople today are responding to the changing creative contexts of culture and history.
SA18-369 Contemporary Crafts.
  Racz, Imogen/ 9781845203085
 
  The book ranges across both urban and rural crafts and analyses how the country/city dichotomy creates differing approaches, practices and objects. Analysed in the context of their environment and its localised history, crafted objects are shown to embody or critique particular urban/rural myths and traditions. Covering both traditional and cutting-edge crafts from the small-scale domestic to large outdoor works, Contemporary Crafts demonstrates how craftspeople today are responding to the changing creative contexts of culture and history.
PA18-1 William Blake and the Art of Engraving.
  Sung, Mei-Ying/ 9781851969586
 
  Sung closely examines William Blake’s extant engraved copper plates, a previously under-used resource, and arrives at a new interpretation of his working process. Thirty-nine engraved copper plates survive, including twenty-two for illustrations for the Book of Job. Sung argues that hammer marks to the reverse of the plates point to high levels of repoussage, suggesting that Blake revised and corrected his work more than was previously thought. This belies the Romantic ideal that the acts of conception and execution are simultaneous in the creative process.
Pier Paolo Pasolini: In Living Memory.
  Lawton, Ben/ 9780981865416
 
 
Artists with PhDs: On the New Doctoral Degree in Studio Art.
  Elkins, James/ 9780981865454
 
 
Self-Portraits by Women Painters.
  Cheney, Liana De Girolami/ 9780982386736
 
 
1000 Monuments of Genius.
  Pearson, Christopher E./ 9781844844630
 
  This work, featuring 1000 monuments chosen from around the globe, retraces human history, the techniques, styles and philosophies necessary for the construction of so many splendours over the centuries, providing a panorama of the most celebrated monuments while evoking the passion of their makers. The reader can explore the changing values of humanity through the edifices it has built and understand these structures as triumphs of humankind.
American Graffiti.
  Thompson, Margo/ 9781844845613
 
  This book gives a new analysis of the intersections between graffiti art and the work of Basquiat. Not only are there few existent writings on the subject, but the book will also appeal to a very large public. This original analysis aims for the first time to combine Jean-Michel Basquiat’s art and the art of graffiti. The author analyses the similar backgrounds of the graffiti artists and Basquiat, while also drawing the distinctions which propelled Basquiat to international renown, while most of the graffiti artists remained anonymous.
American Realism.
  Souter, Gerry/ 9781844845750
 
  This book presents a cross-section of American Realist artists spanning more than 100 years of art. It begins as some artists struggle with the influences of Europe and other home-grown painters bring their nineteenth-century American scenes to life, and ends as today's generation of Realist painters co-exist with American Modernism and absorb this new freedom into the latest incarnation of their art.
Pop Art.
  Shanes, Eric/ 9781844846191
 
  This book offers a radically new perspective on the so-called ‘Pop Art’ creative dynamic that has been around since the 1950s. It does so by enhancing the term ‘Pop Art’ which has always been recognised as a misnomer, for it obscures far more than it clarifies. Instead, the book connects all the art in question to mass-culture which has always provided its core inspiration. Above all, the book suggests that this Mass-Culture Art has created a new Modernist tradition which is still flourishing. The book traces that tradition through the forty or more years since Pop/Mass-Culture Art first came into being in the 1950s, and locates it within its larger historical context.
Byzantine Art.
  Bayet, Charles/ 9781844846207
 
  In power for more than a thousand years before its demise in 1453, the Byzantine Empire inherited the splendor and artistic tradition of the Roman Empire. A dazzling civilisation, the Byzantine Empire spread from Italy, through Northern Africa, to the Near East. The magnificence of this culture’s palaces, churches, paintings, enamels, ceramics, and mosaics never stops beckoning to us. The extraordinary power of this tradition guaranteed its survival long after the dissolution of the empire that gave it life.
Baroque Art.
  Carl, Klaus H./ 9781844846214
 
  The Baroque period lasted from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century. Baroque art was the response by artists to the Catholic Church’s demand for solemn grandeur following the Council of Trent, and through its monumentality and grandiloquence it seduced the great European courts. Amongst the Baroque arts, architecture has, without doubt, left the greatest mark in Europe; the continent is dotted with magnificent Baroque churches and palaces, commissioned by patrons at the height of their power. The works of Gian Lorenzo Bernini of the Southern School and Peter Paul Rubens of the Northern School alone show the importance of this artistic period. Rich in images encompassing the arts of painting, sculpture and architecture, this work offers a complete insight into this passionate period in the history of art.
Arts & Crafts.
  Triggs, Oscar L./ 9781844846221
 
  This quote alone from William Morris could summarise the ideology of Arts & Crafts, a unique movement which triggered a veritable reform in the applied arts in England. Founded by John Ruskin, then put into practice by William Morris, the Arts & Crafts Movement promoted revolutionary ideas in Victorian England. In the middle of the “soulless” Industrial Era, when objects were standardised, the Arts & Crafts Movement proposed a return to the aesthetic at the core of production. The work of artisans and design thus became the heart of this new ideology, which influenced styles throughout the world, translating the essential ideas of Arts & Crafts into design, architecture and painting.
Nabis, The.
  Kostenevitch, Albert/ 9781844846238
 
  Pierre Bonnard was the leader of a group of Post-Impressionist painters who called themselves the Nabis, from the Hebrew word meaning ‘prophet’. Influenced by Odilon Redon and Puvis de Chavannes, as well as by popular imagery and Japanese etchings, this post-impressionist group was, above all, a close circle of friends who shared the same cultural background and interests. Bonnard, Vuillard, Roussel and Denis were the most distinguished of the Nabis, but an increasing individualism in their art often threatened the group’s unity, and although tied together by a common philosophy, their work clearly diverged. This publication lets us compare and put into perspective the artists within this fascinating group.
Antoni Gaudi.
  Roe, Jeremy/ 9781844846344
 
  Spanish architect and designer Antoni Gaudi' (1852-1926) is an important and influential figure in the history of contemporary Spanish art. His use of colour, application of different materials and introduction of movement in his constructions were an innovation in the realm of architecture. In his journal, Gaudi' freely expressed his own feelings on art, “the colours used in architecture have to be intense, logical and fertile.” The author, Jeremy Roe, is interested in a wide range of photography and architectural detail. This interest drives the author and enables him to reveal the context of the art of Barcelona while he guides us through an introduction to Antoni Gaudi', master of some of the most famous constructions, design objects and greatest works in Spanish architecture. This book offers a great insight into Gaudi'’s work.
Remington.
  Remington, Frederic/ 9781844846375
 
  Frederic Remington (1861-1909) was one of the last American artists to offer his contemporaries a vision of the American Old West, that wild terrain with its immense prairies, herds of bison and the last American Indians. A painter, but above all an illustrator popular in his time, Remington skilfully captivated the public's attention by presenting a realistic view of this primitive way of life on the brink of submitting to invading civilisation. Authentically capturing its roughness, force and also its colours, Remington quickly became the representative of American painting in the eyes of the world. Though he mainly concentrated on the attitudes of his characters and animals and not on his landscapes, his photographic style, with a nearly impressionist touch, renewed a genre and lent an added realism to his subjects. Painter and sculptor, Remington also knew how to sculpturally express the ardour of these strong men and wild animals battling with the evolution of a new continent. The galloping horse, still recognized today as his signature subject, magnificently illustrates the power of freedom emanating from these masterpieces.
Botticelli.
  Gebhart, Mile/ 9781844846436
 
  The Medici court painter Botticelli is one of the unequivocal artists of the Italian Renaissance alongside Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael. Favouring feminine portraits, Botticelli stands apart through the finesse of his lines and the unbridled sensuality of his paintings. Between religious and private commissions this Florentine artist introduced the profane into art through works of complex mythological subjects, such as the incontrovertibly masterful Primavera and The Birth of Venus, and knew how to delight the erudite patrons of art. The Madonna of the Magnificat remains one of the most beautiful examples of the Virgin ever achieved. Between the delicacy of the Renaissance and the exuberance of Mannerism, the richness and refinement of the works of Botticelli delight today more than ever.
 

 

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