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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2004)
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This richly illustrated book, created to accompany the traveling exhibition of the same name, provides a fascinating critical overview of Ant Farm, the radical architecture collective that brought us Cadillac Ranch, Media Burn, and The ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2004)
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In this thoughtful and penetrating study, Sara Raup Johnson investigates the creation of historical fictions in a wide range of Hellenistic Jewish texts. Surveying so-called Jewish novels, including the Letter of Aristeas, 2 Maccabees, ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2004)
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Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art documents the growing presence of Buddhist perspectives in contemporary culture. This shift began in the nineteenth century and is now pervasive in many aspects of everyday experience. In the arts ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2004)
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Since Peter Stuyvesant greeted with enmity the first group of Jews to arrive on the docks of New Amsterdam in 1654, Jews have entwined their fate and fortunes with that of the United States--a project ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2004)
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In 1928, and again in 1936, parts of a large-scale bronze horse and nearly complete jockey were recovered from the sea off Cape Artemision in Greece, where they went down in a shipwreck. These original ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2004)
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White slave films, dramas documenting sex scandals, films of the controversial African American boxer Jack Johnson, The Birth of a Nation--all became objects of public concern after the proliferation of nickelodeons from 1906 had brought ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2004)
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In this provocative revisionist work, Evonne Levy brings fresh theoretical perspectives to the study of the "propagandistic" art and architecture of the Jesuit order as exemplified by its late Baroque Roman church interiors. The first ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2004)
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Since the early 1980s, the Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz (b. 1930) has gained worldwide acclaim for her role in the revival of figuration in late-twentieth-century sculpture. Her cycles of headless, hollow, and crude burlap crowds ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2004)
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During the 1930s, the era of the Depression and the New Deal, American artists transformed printmaking into one of the decade's most exciting forms of art. As a cheap, vital, and egalitarian means of artistic ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2003)
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Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes chronicles the blossoming of Asian American art and anticipates the growing democratization of American art and culture. Pairing work by twenty-four contemporary Asian American visual artists with responses provocatively drawn from cultural ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2003)
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From the cut-up Cubist collages of Picasso to the monumental filmic narratives of Fiona Banner, and from the schoolboy subversion of Magritte to the demotic scrawl of Cy Twombly, the use of words is one ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2003)
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As E. H. Gombrich once observed, the still life is compelled to challenge and at the same time perpetuate tradition. Without the elements of recognition and comparison, and the discovery of the familiar in the ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2003)
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This beautifully illustrated volume examines the garden as an enduring and evolving cultural resource, in two hundred works by more than one hundred artists. Prints, drawings, photographs, and paintings illuminate the changing aesthetics and uses ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2003)
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Widely recognized as one of the West Coast's most important and critically acclaimed practitioners of conceptual and installation art, David Ireland (born 1930) has taken the concept of art itself as one of his subjects. ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2003)
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Rarely is an artist so closely associated with a single work as is Jay DeFeo with her monumental painting The Rose. Begun in the late 1950s, when DeFeo, a central figure of the Beat generation ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2003)
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This landmark book is the first to capture the diversity of American artistic production of the interwar period in Paris. Assembling works from American and European collections to illustrate the presence of American artists at ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2003)
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The Joy of Life investigates the significance of the idyllic in French painting from the early 1890s to World War I, considering a fascinating series of pastoral, mythic, and utopian landscapes. Responding to rapid artistic ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2003)
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This splendidly illustrated book brings to life the ancient Romans whom modern scholarship has largely ignored: slaves, ex-slaves, foreigners, and the freeborn working poor. Though they had no access to the upper echelons of society, ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2003)
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American or Middle Eastern, Ashkenazi or Sephardi, insular or immersed in modern life--however diverse their situations or circumstances, Jews draw on common traditions and texts when they mark life's momentous events and rites of passage. ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2003)
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The Berlin Wall was coming down, the Soviet Union was dissolving, Communist China was well on its way down the capitalist path; the world was witnessing political and social transformations without precedent. Artists, seeing it ...