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Extraordinary Aesthetes
The fin de siècle not only designated the end of the Victorian epoch but also marked a significant turn towards modernism. Extraordinary Aesthetes critically examines literary and visual artists from England, Ireland, and Scotland whose careers in poetry, fiction, and illustration flourished during the concluding years of the nineteenth century.
This collection draws special attention to the exceptional contributions that artists, poets, and novelists made to the cultural world of the late 1880s and 1890s. The essays illuminate a range of established, increasingly acknowledged, and lesser-known figures whose contributions to this brief but remarkably intense cultural period warrant close attention. Such figures include the critically neglected Mabel Dearmer, whose stunning illustrations appear in Evelyn Sharp’s radical fairy tales for children. Equally noteworthy is the uncompromising short fiction of Ella D’Arcy, who played a pivotal role in editing the most famous journal of the 1890s, The Yellow Book . The discussion extends to a range of legendary writers, including Max Beerbohm, Oscar Wilde, and W.B. Yeats, whose works are placed in dialogue with authors who gained prominence during this period. Bringing women’s writing to the fore, Extraordinary Aesthetes rebalances the achievements of artists and writers during the rapidly transforming cultural world of the fin de siècle.
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13 art movements children should know
Introduces major movements in art history, from Romanesque to pop art, and includes visual spreads, detailed descriptions, and a timeline that places key art works in their historical contexts.
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Flying under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force
The Royal Chicano Air Force produced major works of visual art, poetry, prose, music, and performance during the second half of the twentieth century and first decades of the twenty-first. Materializing in Sacramento, California, in 1969 and established between 1970 and 1972, the RCAF helped redefine the meaning of artistic production and artwork to include community engagement projects such as breakfast programs, community art classes, and political and labor activism. The collective’s work has contributed significantly both to Chicano/a civil rights activism and to Chicano/a art history, literature, and culture. Blending RCAF members’ biographies and accounts of their artistic production with art historical, cultural, and literary scholarship, Flying under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force is the first in-depth study of this vanguard Chicano/a arts collective and activist group. Ella Maria Diaz investigates how the RCAF questioned and countered conventions of Western art, from the canon taught in US institutions to Mexican national art history, while advancing a Chicano/a historical consciousness in the cultural borderlands. In particular, she demonstrates how women significantly contributed to the collective’s output, navigating and challenging the overarching patriarchal cultural norms of the Chicano Movement and their manifestations in the RCAF. Diaz also shows how the RCAF’s verbal and visual architecture—a literal and figurative construction of Chicano/a signs, symbols, and texts—established the groundwork for numerous theoretical interventions made by key scholars in the 1990s and the twenty-first century.
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Splat! : the most exciting artists of all time
Splat! traces art history through its key turning points and helps to map important art movements from the Renaissance and Impressionism to Surrealism and contemporary art. At the beginning, a spread explores how early peoples represented animals and everyday life. Then brief sections explore the stories of particular artists who helped to make important artistic innovations, including Michelangelo and the High Renaissance; Bruegel and his paintings of everyday peasant life; Manet and the shock of Impressionism; and Duchamp and the Dada revolution. You can read the real-life stories of artists, such as Caravaggio, Jan Vermeer, Henri Rousseau, Vincent Van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky and Frida Kahlo, who dared to imagine new ways of depicting the world. The achievements of these artists and the challenges, difficulties and dangers they faced are excitingly brought to life.
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Kalki's Ponniyin Selvan: Tamil Modernity, Revivalism and the Popular Historical Novel
The Ponniyin Selvan (Ponni's Son) novels by Kalki, serialized from 1950 to 1954 and set during the medieval ages in the Tamil country against the backdrop of a power struggle between and within the two South Indian dynasties of the Cholas and the Pandyas, during the reign of Parantaka II (also known as Sundara Chola) roughly from 958 CE to 973 CE, represent a format of the historical novel that addressed the post-independence anxieties about language, tradition and regional identity within popular Tamil print culture in the 1940s and 1950s. Kalki's historical romances were written amidst specific socio-political movements that gained momentum in the early and mid-twentieth century. This article situates the revivalist and reformist agendas espoused by nationalists such as Kalki in the twentieth century within the context of the ideological shifts and turbulences in Tamil political and public spheres concerning Tamil language and literary history, through an analysis of the Ponniyin Selvan series as a representative text of this shifting context of Tamil identity formation, as a popular historical novel and a collective memory text.
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Wirtschaftsarchitektur des Jugendstils in Österreich: Ein Beitrag zur industriearchäologischen Forschung in Mitteleuropa
Der Jugendstil stellt eine Kunstströmung an der Wende vom 19. zum 20. Jahrhundert dar, welche vor allem im deutschsprachigen Raum breiten Niederschlag fand und auch auf die Wirtschafts- und Industriearchitektur ihren Einfluss auszuüben vermochte. Die Jugendstilfabrik galt mancherorts als architektonische Alternative zum \"Industrieschloss\" mit seiner meist strengen historistischen Konzeption, wobei neben der charakteristischen geschwungenen Form insbesondere innovative Baustoffe wie Beton, Eisen, Glas oder Aluminium ihre Verwendung fanden. Das im Jugendstil gestaltete Wasserkraftwerk fiel weniger durch seine optische Wirkung als durch seinen Versuch einer optimalen baulichen Integration in den Naturraum auf. Die Jugendstilbrücke schließlich besaß zumeist eine eher schlichte, auf höchstmögliche Funktionalität ausgerichtete Form, deren Ornamentik vornehmlich aus floralen Elementen, bogen-förmigen Komponenten und Reliefs bestand. Die Monografie widmet sich jenen wirtschaftlichen Bauwerken Österreichs, welche mit mehr oder weniger hoher Intensität in der Formensprache des Jugendstils errichtet wurden und die architektonische Landschaft bis zum heutigen Tage prägen. Für jedes hier beschriebene Objekt gelangen neben dem historischen Werdegang eine detaillierte Abhandlung der Architektur und industriearchäologische Wertanalyse zur Darstellung. Die aus der Untersuchung gewonnenen Erkenntnisse werden einer abschließenden Diskussion zugeführt.
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Art that changed the world
Each section features a double-page image of an influential painting that defines each artistic style. Seminal works of genius are portrayed in their historical context, with attention paid to the culture of the time and the lives of their creators.
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The Mitki and the Art of Postmodern Protest in Russia
During the late Soviet period, the art collective known as the Mitki emerged in Leningrad. Producing satirical poetry and prose, pop music, cinema, and conceptual performance art, this group fashioned a playful, emphatically countercultural identity with affinities to European avant-garde and American hippie movements.
More broadly, Alexandar Mihailovic shows, the Mitki pioneered a form of political protest art that has since become a centerpiece of activism in post-Soviet Russia, most visibly today in groups such as Pussy Riot. He draws on extensive interviews with members of the collective and illuminates their critique of the authoritarian state, militarism, and social strictures from the Brezhnev years to the present.
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