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Soft cover. Condition: New. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap, which has opened, not enough to remove the book. According to WorldCat, this volume has 360 p. and is illustrated. Contents: The absconded subject of pop / Thomas Crow -- Enlivening the soul in Chinese tombs / Wu Hung -- On the "true body" of Huineng: The matter of the miracle / Michele Matteini -- Apparition painting / Yukio Lippit -- Immanence out of sight: formal rigor and ritual function in Carl Einstein's Negerplastik / Joyce Cheng -- Absconding in plain sight: The Ghanaian Receptacles of Proverbs revisited / Roberta Bonetti -- Ancient Maya sculptures of Tikal, seen and unseen / Megan E. O'Neil -- Style and substance, or why the Cacaxtla paintings were buried / Claudia Brittenham -- The Parthenon frieze: Degrees of visibility / Clemente Marconi -- Roma sotterranea and the biogenesis of New Jerusalem / Irina Oryshkevich -- Out of sight, yet still in place: On the use of Italian Renaissance portrait medals as building deposits / Minou Schraven -- Behind closed doors: Distributed bodies, hidden interiors, and corporeal erasure in Vierge ouvrante sculpture / Melissa R. Katz -- Moving eyes: Surface and shadow in the Byzantine mixed-media relief icon / Bissera V. Pentcheva -- "A secret kind of charm not to be expressed or discerned": On Claude Mellan's insinuating lines / Rebecca Zorach -- Ivory towers: Obscuring obsolescence in the revolutionary museum / Richard Taws -- Boxed in: Imagining the unseen in Roberto Matta's cube constructions / Miranda Lash -- A concrete experience of nothing: Paul Sharit's flicker films / William S. Smith -- Believing in art: The votive structures of conceptual art / Irene V. Small -- Repositories of the unconditional: Gino De Dominicis' Mirror and the work of art as model of immortality -- Lectures, documents and discussion: From miro/macrocosm to the aesthetics of ruins and wast-bodies / Jeanette Zwingenberger -- Are shadows transparent? An investigation on white, shadows, and transparency in pictures / Roberto Casati -- Invisibility of the digital: Religion, ritual, immortality / Boris Groys -- Des formes et des catégories: Apostille à la proposition de Jonathan Hay, Wu Hung, et Francesco Pellizzi -- Further comments on "Absconding" / Francesco Pellizzi. Oversize [otob nr frnc rm (2); otob: 27]. …

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Paperback. Condition: New. Time, media, and visuality are watchwords of modernity across science, culture and the arts. At which point in history, though, did they decisively intersect? Identifying the year 1789 - or the beginning of the French Republic - as the radical moment at which science and the arts came together through radical innovation, this volume questions the reigning teleologies of modern art. Uniting two key areas of 19th-century European art - the French Revolution and 19th-century technological and reproductive experimentation - this novel volume highlights the dual impact these developments had on the art of the period. In doing so, it opens up new and distinctive lines of inquiry around French visual culture, all the while mapping an expanded terrain of art objects, along with makers, consumers and situations of art.Considering a remarkably broad range of media and practices through an interdisciplinary lens, this diverse collection of essays brings together both eminent and emerging scholars in 18th- and 19th-century French visual culture and enriches our understanding of the period. The essays provide thought-provoking insights on the temporal dimension of art, challenging oversimplified views of artistic progress in modernity. They question teleological narratives, emphasizing the complexity of influences shaping the modern artist. As such, the book offers a new account of the story of French art's modernity by exploring the work of genre painters and miniaturists, sign-painters and animal artists, landscapists, architects, and restorers, as they worked out what it meant to be "post-revolutionary." As a result, the book promises appeal to academic audiences both within and beyond the discipline of art history.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Time, media, and visuality are watchwords of modernity across science, culture and the arts. At which point in history, though, did they decisively intersect? Identifying the year 1789 or the beginning of the French Republic as the radical moment at which science and the arts came together through radical innovation, this volume questions the reigning teleologies of modern art. Uniting two key areas of 19th-century European art the French Revolution and 19th-century technological and reproductive experimentation this novel volume highlights the dual impact these developments had on the art of the period. In doing so, it opens up new and distinctive lines of inquiry around French visual culture, all the while mapping an expanded terrain of art objects, along with makers, consumers and situations of art.Considering a remarkably broad range of media and practices through an interdisciplinary lens, this diverse collection of essays brings together both eminent and emerging scholars in 18th- and 19th-century French visual culture and enriches our understanding of the period. The essays provide thought-provoking insights on the temporal dimension of art, challenging oversimplified views of artistic progress in modernity. They question teleological narratives, emphasizing the complexity of influences shaping the modern artist. As such, the book offers a new account of the story of French arts modernity by exploring the work of genre painters and miniaturists, sign-painters and animal artists, landscapists, architects, and restorers, as they worked out what it meant to be post-revolutionary. As a result, the book promises appeal to academic audiences both within and beyond the discipline of art history. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Condition: New. These essaysexplore the relationship between artistic and technological advances from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution. Together they provide a broad definition of technology for this period and address the influence of technological shifts on the history of early modern art. Series: Art History Special Issues. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; 3J; ABA; ACN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 277 x 16. Weight in Grams: 860. . 2016. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . .…

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. A riveting exploration of the relationship between art and telegraphy, and its implications for understanding time and history in nineteenth-century France.A riveting exploration of the relationship between art and telegraphy, and its implications for understanding time and history in nineteenth-century France.In Time Machines Richard Taws examines the relationship between art and telegraphy in the decades following the French Revolution. The optical telegraph was a novel form of visual communication developed in the 1790s that remained in use until the mid-1850s. This pre-electric telegraph, based on a semaphore code, irrevocably changed the media landscape of nineteenth-century France. Although now largely forgotten, in its day it covered vast distances and changed the way people thought about time. It also shaped, and was shaped by, a proliferating world of images. What happens, Taws asks, if we think about art telegraphically?Placed on prominent buildings across France-for several years there was one on top of the Louvre-the telegraph's waving limbs were a ubiquitous sight, shifting how public space was experienced and represented. The system was depicted by a wide range of artists, who were variously amused, appalled, irritated, or seduced by the telegraph's intractable coded messages and the uncanny environmental and perceptual disruption it caused. Clouds, architecture, landscapes, and gestures: all signified differently in the era of telegraphy, and the telegraph became a powerful means to comprehend France's technological and political past. While Paris's famous arcades began to crisscross the city at ground level, a more enigmatic network was operating above. Shifting attention from the streets to the skies, this book shows how modern France took shape quite literally under the telegraph's sign. "Time Machines examines the relationship between art and technology in the decades following the French Revolution, focusing on optical telegraphy, a novel form of visual communication developed in the 1790s that remained in use until the mid-1850s"-- Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Illustrated from black and white photographs, drawings. Stapled wrappers. Small quarto. 39pp. Fine. Poetry, photos, and essays by Richard Broadman, Ronny Gelfond, Thomas Darington, Jonathan Hay, Diana Swartz, David Ferleger, Lana Yurchyshyn, Cin Bourgeault, Lou Guida, L.E. Kramer, Penny Taws, Peter Mullin, Jeffrey Sterling, and C.F.A. …

Condition: New. These essaysexplore the relationship between artistic and technological advances from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution. Together they provide a broad definition of technology for this period and address the influence of technological shifts on the history of early modern art. Series: Art History Special Issues. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; 3J; ABA; ACN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 277 x 16. Weight in Grams: 860. . 2016. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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