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Encountering the spiritual in contemporary art
\"The spiritual in contemporary art is everywhere evident, yet rarely examined in scholarly research. Encountering the Spiritual in Contemporary Art addresses the subject in depth for the first time since Maurice Tuchman's seminal 1986 The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985. It significantly broadens the scope of previous scholarship to include new media and non-Western and Indigenous art in addition to that of the West. Encountering the Spiritual presents art from diverse cultures with equal status, promotes its cultural specificity, and moves beyond previous notions of \"center and periphery,\" celebrating the plurality and global nature of contemporary art today. This unprecedented book--a valuable reference for years to come--integrates different ways of exploring the spiritual in art. Essays based on cultural affinities are rhythmically interspersed with thematic categories. These themes demonstrate greater diversity and hybridity of artists' sources of inspiration and their emphasis on art-making as spiritual process. Finally, selected artists' statements further expand the knowledge of an academic and general audience\"-- Provided by publisher.
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An American view
Thomas Otter's painting of wagons crossing the prairie, above, and George Caleb Bingham's \"Canvassing For a Vote\" are part of the 1850's section of the gallery. Special activities run all day today with dance, music, tours and more to honor the opening of the new galleries, along with the opening of the new \"George Segal: Street Scenes\" exhibit. Learn more at www.nelson-atkins.org 1913: The significance of the 1913 Armory Show was this: Art began to spill outside of any prior definition set for it. Although the [Nelson-Atkins Musuem] keeps a few Duchamp holdings -- the artist's avant-garde \"Nude Descending a Staircase\" became the Armory Show's iconic work -- in the modern and contemporary galleries, this gallery shows a proliferation of new styles from other artists working in the early part of the century. Some artists stolidly continued working with tradition -- Benton's early portrait of his sister and several still-life paintings show this -- while others, inspired by European modernism, moved into more experimental and abstract forms, like Marsden Hartley's riot of color called \"Himmel.\" Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Images Thomas Otter's painting of wagons crossing the prairie, above, and George Caleb Bingham's \"Canvassing For a Vote\" are part of the 1850's section of the gallery. Special activities run all day today with dance, music, tours and more to honor the opening of the new galleries, along with the opening of the new \"George Segal: Street Scenes\" exhibit. Learn more at www.nelson-atkins.org
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Impressionist France : visions of nation from Le Gray to Monet
\"Between 1850 and 1880, Impressionist landscape painting and early forms of photography flourished within the arts in France. In the context of massive social and political change that also marked this era, painters and photographers composed competing visions of France as modern and industrialized or as rural and anti-modern. Impressionist France explores the resonances between landscape art and national identity as reflected in the paintings and photographs made during this period, examining and illustrating in particular the works of key artists such as âEdouard Baldus, Gustave Le Gray, the Bisson Freres, âEdouard Manet, Jean-Franًcois Millet, Claude Monet, Charles Negre, and Camille Pissarro. This ambitious premise focuses on the whole of France, exploring the relationship between landscape art and the notion of French nationhood across the country's varied and spectacular landscapes in seven geographical sections and four scholarly essays, which provide new information regarding the production and impact of French Impressionism. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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Napoleon : the imperial household
The dazzling splendors of the court of Napoleon I (1769-1821) reflected the grandeur and ambitions of the greatest empire of the day. This luxurious volume re-creates the ambiance and captures the spirit that prevailed in the French court during the empire through the material manifestations of the Imperial Household. The imperial household, a key institution during Napoleon's reign, was responsible for the daily lives of the imperial family. It consisted of six departments, each headed by a high-ranking dignitary of the empire: the grand chaplain, grand master of ceremonies, grand marshal of the palace, grand master of the hunt, grand chamberlain, and grand equerry - each intimately involved with every moment of pageantry in the court. Featured here are more than 250 works of fine and decorative art, the visual magnificence of which was part of a calculated and deliberate effort to fashion a monarchic identity for the new emperor.
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Eugene Richards : the run-on of time
The first publication to situate the work of Richards in the long photographic tradition that merges personal artistic vision with documentary practice. Eugene Richards (b. 1944) is a documentary photographer known for his powerful, unflinching exploration of contemporary social issues from the early 1970s to the present. This handsome book is the first comprehensive and critical look at Richards's lifelong achievements. Reproduced in tritone and color, the extraordinary images in this volume explore complicated and controversial subjects, including racism, poverty, drug addiction, cancer, aging, the effects of war and terrorism, and the erosion of rural America. The authors of the book situate Richards's work in the long photographic tradition that merges personal artistic vision with documentary practice, following in the tradition of W. Eugene Smith and Robert Frank.
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