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Brutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg by Hal Foster
Category: No Category | Series: The\A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Ser.
How artists created an aesthetic of 'positive barbarism' in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb In Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian and critic Hal Foster explores how postwar artists and writers searched for a new foundation of culture after the mass devastatio ...Show more
Chinese Art and Dynastic Time by Wu Hung
Category: Art | Series: The\A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Ser.
A sweeping look at Chinese art across the millennia that upends traditional perspectives and offers new pathways for art history Throughout Chinese history, dynastic time--the organization of history through the lens of successive dynasties--has been the dominant mode of narrating the story of Chine ...Show more
Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica by T. J. Clark
Category: Art | Series: The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
"Picasso and Truth" offers a breathtaking and original new look at the most significant artist of the modern era. From Pablo Picasso's early "The Blue Room" to the later "Guernica", eminent art historian T. J. Clark offers a striking reassessment of the artist's paintings from the 1920s and 1930s. Why w ...Show more
The Thief Who Stole My Heart - The Material Life of Sacred Bronzes from Chola India, 855-1280 by Vidya Dehejia
Category: No Category | Series: The\A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Ser.
The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India's Chola dynasty in social context From the ninth through the thirteenth century, the Chola dynasty of southern India produced thousands of statues of Hindu deities, whose physical perfection was meant to reflect spiritual beauty and ...Show more
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern by Mary Beard
Category: History | Series: The\A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Ser.
What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book — against a background of today’s 'sculpture wars' — Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits of the rich, powerful, and fam ...Show more
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