The End of Diversity in Art Historical Writing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The End of Diversity in Art Historical Writing write by James Elkins. This book was released on 2020-12-07. The End of Diversity in Art Historical Writing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The End of Diversity in Art Historical Writing is the most globally informed book on world art history, drawing on research in 76 countries. In addition some chapters have been crowd sourced: posted on the internet for comments, which have been incorporated into the text. It covers the principal accounts of Eurocentrism, center and margins, circulations and atlases of art, decolonial theory, incommensurate cultures, the origins and dissemination of the "October" model, problems of access to resources, models of multiple modernisms, and the emergence of English as the de facto lingua franca of art writing.
Horizontal Art History and Beyond
Horizontal Art History and Beyond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Horizontal Art History and Beyond write by Agata Jakubowska. This book was released on 2022-07-08. Horizontal Art History and Beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is devoted to the concept of horizontal art history—a proposal of a paradigm shift formulated by the Polish art historian Piotr Piotrowski (1952–2015)—that aims at undermining the hegemony of the discourse of art history created in the Western world. The concept of horizontal art history is one of many ideas on how to conduct nonhierarchical art historical analysis that have been developed in different geopolitical locations since at least the 1970s, parallel to the ongoing process of decolonization. This book is a critical examination of horizontal art history which provokes a discussion on the original concept of horizontal art history and possible methods to extend it. This is an edited volume written by international scholars who acknowledge the importance of the concept, share its basic assumptions and are aware both of its advantages and limitations. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, art historiography and postcolonial studies.
Why Art Cannot Be Taught
Why Art Cannot Be Taught - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Art Cannot Be Taught write by James Elkins. This book was released on 2001-05-17. Why Art Cannot Be Taught available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. He also addresses the phenomenon of art critiques as a microcosm for teaching art as a whole and dissects real-life critiques, highlighting presuppositions and dynamics that make them confusing and suggesting ways to make them more helpful. Elkins's no-nonsense approach clears away the assumptions about art instruction that are not borne out by classroom practice. For example, he notes that despite much talk about instilling visual acuity and teaching technique, in practice neither teachers nor students behave as if those were their principal goals. He addresses the absurdity of pretending that sexual issues are absent from life-drawing classes and questions the practice of holding up great masters and masterpieces as models for students capable of producing only mediocre art. He also discusses types of art--including art that takes time to complete and art that isn't serious--that cannot be learned in studio art classes.
Towards a Film Theory from Below
Towards a Film Theory from Below - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Towards a Film Theory from Below write by Jiri Anger. This book was released on 2024-05-30. Towards a Film Theory from Below available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Operating between film theory, media philosophy, archival practice, and audiovisual research, Jiri Anger focuses on the relationship between figuration and materiality in early films, experimental found footage cinema, and video essays. Would it be possible to do film theory from below, through the perspective of moving-image objects, of their multifarious details and facets, however marginal, unintentional, or aleatory they might be? Could we treat scratches, stains, and shakes in archival footage as speculatively and aesthetically generative features? Do these material actors have the capacity to create “weird shapes” within the figurative image that decenter, distort, and transform the existing conceptual and methodological frameworks? Building on his theoretical as well as practical experience with the recently digitized corpus of the first Czech films, created by Jan Kríženecký between 1898 and 1911, the author demonstrates how technological defects and accidents in archival films shape their aesthetic function and our understanding of the materiality of film in the digital age. The specific clashes between the figurative and material spheres are understood through the concept of a “crack-up.” This term, developed by Francis Scott Fitzgerald and theoretically reimagined by Gilles Deleuze, allows us to capture the convoluted relationship between figuration and materiality as inherent to the medium of film, containing negativity and productivity, difference and simultaneity, contingency and fate, at the same time, even within the tiniest cinematic units.
Pictures and Tears
Pictures and Tears - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pictures and Tears write by James Elkins. This book was released on 2005-08-02. Pictures and Tears available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This deeply personal account of emotion and vulnerability draws upon anecdotes related to individual works of art to present a chronicle of how people have shown emotion before works of art in the past.
