Sentences with phrase «artists in history books»

The problem today lies in how to address the omission of female artists in history books.

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We welcome Maureen Cummins, a visual artist and writer whose current work, including her book - in - progress, explores the gendered history of «mental health» in America; Beverly Donofrio, the author of Riding in Cars with Boys, Looking for Mary, and Astonished; and Denise Ranaghan who has been working in the mental health field for 16 years.

American Film Institute: AFI is America's promise to preserve the history of the motion picture, to honor the artists and their work and to educate the Batman begins making a name for himself just as the flamboyant Joker takes over the Mafia in director Tim Burton's adaptation of the comic book.

In this book about artist José Guadalupe Posada, Tonatiuh juxtaposes his own artwork with Posada's iconic Día de Muertos illustrations and life, telling the story of a remarkable man and time in Mexican historIn this book about artist José Guadalupe Posada, Tonatiuh juxtaposes his own artwork with Posada's iconic Día de Muertos illustrations and life, telling the story of a remarkable man and time in Mexican historin Mexican history.

Not only are paintings, religious iconography and books being published online, but also letters by from important historical figures, drawings and notes by artists and scientists such as Michelangelo and Galileo, as well as treaties from all eras in history.

Of course, the story will be much easier to follow if the reader has a sense of these artists, but for those who are not up on their art history, the book is loaded with full - color reproductions of some of the great works of art that are mentioned in the story.

Holladay proved that the majority of these artists had in fact been forgotten: they were not exhibited in museums nor even mentioned in art history books.

Sonny Liew took home three awards for his graphic novel history of Singapore The Art of Charlie Chan Hoc Chye (Best U.S. Edition of International Material — Asia, Writer / Artist, and Publication Design), while Jill Thompson collected three trophies (Best Single Issue for Dark Horse's Beasts of Burden: What the Cat Dragged In, Best Painter for that issue and the DC graphic novel Wonder Woman: The True Amazon, and Best Graphic Album — New for the Wonder Woman book).

The reality seems to be simply that their interests run parallel; for example, before they even met, she did her Oxford thesis on compulsive collector - artist Joseph Cornell, and Foer created a poetry anthology inspired by Cornell's work; and both their family histories are rooted in the Holocaust, but they are both uncomfortable with having their books pigeonholded as «Jewish fiction».

In a statement, the festival attributed this shortcoming to a lack of female artists in comic - book historIn a statement, the festival attributed this shortcoming to a lack of female artists in comic - book historin comic - book history.

The sales decrease was largely due to lower traffic, as well as the decline in coloring books and artist supplies — a reversal of last year's phenomenon — and the comparison to last year's best - selling album by Adele — the largest selling CD in our history — which combined accounted for approximately one third of the sales decline.

Crichton is the only creative artist in history to have works simultaneously chart at No. 1 in U.S. television, film and books sales.

The bare rooms and closed spaces of Yves Klein, Robert Barry, Art & Language, Maria Eichhorn, and many other artists are ensconced in art history books and, in... Read More

These are artists who are often talked about in the history books and by other artists.

I had researched SoHo's history for my book Illegal Living: 80 Wooster Street and the Evolution of SoHo and knew that there was a sprinkling of artists living in rented SoHo lofts by the 1950s.

In Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the American Abstract Artists featured the work of 70 members of the organization as well as books, posters, and other ephemera representing some of the group's past history.

THIS YEAR»S SELECTION of the Best Black Art Books includes 12 volumes that in various ways are reframing art history — from scholarly works shedding light on major cultural moments and volumes of groundbreaking photography, to exhibition catalogs surveying broadly the work of important artists such as Kerry James Marshall and Alma Thomas.

This intimate, immersive film hub space will feature three chambers; beginning with an extensive library, engaging in film history and theory, curated attentively by participating artists from their personal book collections and intended for browsing and perusing; leading further on to a single screen darkroom, a pulsating digital heart, showcasing a sequence of 115 imaginative short films programmed to play on a continuous loop; and on to the final imaginary space, the Virtual Reality port which will evolve over time in collaboration with various artists.

«Students will be able to research using this unique archive that includes artists» books, digital recordings of performance art, and other ephemeral material that really documents the history of the avant - garde movement in this country,» he added.

Group Activities - New York Artist Union, the WPA, and the Art Workers Coalition Teach - in - Working Conditions Seminar with Precarious Workers Brigade (London), UKK (Young Art Workers, Copenhagen) and a representative of the Chilean Ministry of Culture - Ongoing discussions with representatives from local unions and working centers such as UWA, IWW, Teamster, Writer's Guild of America East, New York Taxi Workers Alliance, and others - Monthly book club on labor law, organizing, workplace occupations, and radical history - End Sotheby's Lockout Solidarity Action at the Whitney Biennial with Occupy Museums, Occupy Sotheby's and Arts & Culture - Joining other OWS labor affiliated working groups such as Labor Outreach Committee, Occupy Your Workplace, and 99 Pickets, as part of the Labor Alliance cluster

Soul of a Nation surveys this crucial period in American art history, bringing to light previously neglected histories of 20th - century black artists, including Sam Gilliam, Melvin Edwards, Jack Whitten, William T. Williams, Howardina Pindell,... go to book page >>

Publishers include Gato Negro, an art and poetry press based in Mexico City; Dorothy, a publishing project, a St. Louis - based publisher dedicated to prose works by women; Haymarket, a publisher of progressive political theory and social history; and Primary Information, a specialist in facsimile reproductions of artists books and writings from the 1960s and 1970s.

Inequality in almost every area of the art world was obvious: male artists dominated both historic collections and also exhibitions of contemporary art; women were excluded or absent from major art history books; almost all the staff in art institutions and universities were men; and work by female artists had less commercial value.

And as a viewer immersed in his storytelling, one can not help but question whether the specifics come from the artist's mind or straight from the history books.

In addition to supporting year - round AiB programming, Making History is the first step in preparation of a commemorative book, in which each artist who donates work to the exhibition will be featureIn addition to supporting year - round AiB programming, Making History is the first step in preparation of a commemorative book, in which each artist who donates work to the exhibition will be featurein preparation of a commemorative book, in which each artist who donates work to the exhibition will be featurein which each artist who donates work to the exhibition will be featured.

She has also authored several books on China's contemporary art scene and its history including As Seen 2011: Notable Artworks by Chinese Artists (Beijing World Publishing Corp., 2012 / Commercial Press 2012) and Nine Lives: The Birth of Avant - Garde Art in New China (Scalo, 2006, Timezone 8, 2008).

Following each biennial, we self - publish a 350 - page book that provides an overview of current performance practices in contemporary art using the structure of the biennial, as well as the history and geography of the participating artists and collaborating organizations, alternative spaces, and performance sites as a framework.

New York, NY... Since the 1970s, Los Angeles - based artist Raymond Pettibon has been metabolizing America — its history, literature, sports, religion, politics, and sexuality — in a barrage of drawings and paintings in a style born of comic books and the «do - it - yourself» aesthetic of Southern California punk rock album - covers, concert flyers, and fanzines.

Nick Thurston is the author or co-author of four books plus some twenty journal articles and artists» pages, and is an academic in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds.

He began by creating paintings which investigated the history of art by reproducing artists» work found in books, catalogues and online.

Eddie Chambers is the author of the new book Black Artists in British Art: A History from 1950 to the Present, and is associate professor in the department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin.

Pieces of the history have been gathered before, most notably in Joellen Bard's «Tenth Street Days: The Co-ops of the 50's,» a small 1977 book about the formation of the D.I.Y and at times gonzo gallery district near Cooper Union largely built by artists banding together against commercial and critical indifference.

Rednecks, like many works in this exhibition of an artist well on his way back into the history books, will take your breath away.

This important book traces the longer, subtler history of the development of modernism in relation to American artists than is typically described in art history.

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Mallonee Republican American, March 1, Coney Island R us by Tracey O'Shaughnessy Hyperallergic, Feb. 24, Mapplethorpe's Other Man by Larissa Archer WNPR, Feb. 24, Where We Live: The Lore and Lure of Coney Island by Betsy Kaplan and John Dankosky The Boston Globe, Feb. 24, Frame by Frame: Behind «Agbota,» an artist's irony and imagination by Sebastian Smee Real Simple, March 2015, A Life in Full Antiques and the Arts Weekly, Feb. 20, Step RigArtist Pokes Fun At «Great Chain Of Being» With New Wadsworth Exhibit by Susan Dunne The Economist, Oct. 1, Temple of Delight by Miles Unger Hartford Courant, Oct. 1, Renewed Atheneum a Cultural Tourism Spark Op - Ed by William Hosley Art in America, October 2015, Coney Island Forever by Jonathan Weinberg The Boston Globe, Sept. 19, European marvels await in Hartford at refurbished Atheneum by Sebastian Smee The Hartford Courant, Sept. 19, Wadsworth Atheneum Reopens To Line Of Visitors Saturday by Kristin Stoller The Hartford Courant, Sept. 19, Editorial: Wadsworth Atheneum Makeover is a Triumph Hyperallergic, Sept. 18, A Worthy Renovation for the Wadsworth Atheneum's European Art Galleries by Benjamin Sutton The New York Times, Sept. 17, Review: Wadsworth Atheneum, a Masterpiece of Renovation by Roberta Smith WNPR, Sept. 17, Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum Unveils Newly Renovated Galleries by Diane Orson The Art Newspaper, Sept. 16, Wadsworth relives Gilded Age glory days in grand reopening by Julia Halperin The Hartford Courant, Sept. 13, Wadsworth Atheneum Unveils Final Phase of Years - Long Renovation by Susan Dunne Fox CT, Sept. 11, The art of a reopening at the Wadsworth by Jim Altman Apollo Magazine, Sept. 5, J.P. Morgan: The Man Who Bought the World by Rachel Cohen The Art Newspaper, September 2015, Wadsworth relives Gilded Age glory days in grand reopening by Julia Halperin The New York Times, Aug. 31, The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford Puts Final Touches on a Comeback by Ted Loos The Independent, Aug. 28, Warhol and Mapplethorpe capture each other by Charlotte Cripps The Hartford Courant, Aug. 18, Three «Aspects of Portraiture» at Wadsworth by Susan Dunne The Hartford Courant, July 16, Vibrant Paintings of Modernist Peter Blume at Wadsworth by Susan Dunne The Boston Globe, June 30, Hank Willis Thomas's slick image masks a closed door by Sebastian Smee The Boston Globe, June 25, Bradford enters MATRIX at Wadsworth Atheneum by Sebastian Smee Hartford Courant, June 25, Artist Creates Site - Specific «Pull Painting» at Atheneum by Susan Dunne Observer, June 16, A Peek Inside Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum as It Preps for a Grand Reopening by Alanna Martinez The Wall Street Journal, June 5, Madrid's Thyssen Offers the Dark Religiosity of Zurbarán by J.S. Marcus Art New England, May / June 2015, Reviving the Grande Dame by Susan Rand Brown Humanities, May / June 2015, The Coney Island Exhibition That Captures Its Highs and Lows by Tom Christopher The Magazine Antiques, May / June 2015, Visions of Coney Island by Robin Jaffee Frank The New York Times, April 19, An American Dreamland, From the Beginning by Sylviane Gold Artes Magazine, April 16, At Hartford's Atheneum: «Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861 - 2008» by Richard Friswell Hartford Courant, April 9, Sideshow Mind Game at Atheneum by Susan Dunne Hyperallergic, March 4, Two Exhibitions Examine the Art of the American Side Show by Laura C. Mallonee Republican American, March 1, Coney Island R us by Tracey O'Shaughnessy Hyperallergic, Feb. 24, Mapplethorpe's Other Man by Larissa Archer WNPR, Feb. 24, Where We Live: The Lore and Lure of Coney Island by Betsy Kaplan and John Dankosky The Boston Globe, Feb. 24, Frame by Frame: Behind «Agbota,» an artist's irony and imagination by Sebastian Smee Real Simple, March 2015, A Life in Full Antiques and the Arts Weekly, Feb. 20, Step RigArtist Creates Site - Specific «Pull Painting» at Atheneum by Susan Dunne Observer, June 16, A Peek Inside Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum as It Preps for a Grand Reopening by Alanna Martinez The Wall Street Journal, June 5, Madrid's Thyssen Offers the Dark Religiosity of Zurbarán by J.S. Marcus Art New England, May / June 2015, Reviving the Grande Dame by Susan Rand Brown Humanities, May / June 2015, The Coney Island Exhibition That Captures Its Highs and Lows by Tom Christopher The Magazine Antiques, May / June 2015, Visions of Coney Island by Robin Jaffee Frank The New York Times, April 19, An American Dreamland, From the Beginning by Sylviane Gold Artes Magazine, April 16, At Hartford's Atheneum: «Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861 - 2008» by Richard Friswell Hartford Courant, April 9, Sideshow Mind Game at Atheneum by Susan Dunne Hyperallergic, March 4, Two Exhibitions Examine the Art of the American Side Show by Laura C. Mallonee Republican American, March 1, Coney Island R us by Tracey O'Shaughnessy Hyperallergic, Feb. 24, Mapplethorpe's Other Man by Larissa Archer WNPR, Feb. 24, Where We Live: The Lore and Lure of Coney Island by Betsy Kaplan and John Dankosky The Boston Globe, Feb. 24, Frame by Frame: Behind «Agbota,» an artist's irony and imagination by Sebastian Smee Real Simple, March 2015, A Life in Full Antiques and the Arts Weekly, Feb. 20, Step Rigartist's irony and imagination by Sebastian Smee Real Simple, March 2015, A Life in Full Antiques and the Arts Weekly, Feb. 20, Step Right Up!

On the occasion of its 50th Anniversary in 2013, the Foundation published Artists for Artists: Fifty Years of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, a 208 - page scholarly book about its history.

On the occasion of the publication of the new book The Big Picture:: Contemporary Art in 10 Works by 10 Artists, author Matthew Israel, and influential museum curators and directors Nicholas Baume, Adrienne Edwards, and Jens Hoffman discuss contemporary art's relation to art history and examine the place of contemporary art in museums as well as the future projects and programming at each panelist's institution.

On the occasion of its 50th Anniversary in 2013, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts published a scholarly book about its history entitled Artists for Artists: Fifty Years of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

Housed within the pages of the book, McCabe will lead participants through a series of lectures, performances, and workshops in collaboration with visiting artists and scholars that seek to restore this history and also enact it as a living archive for relational practice and for conversation in the present.

Featuring around seventy paintings spanning the entire length of her career, this handsome book accompanies a major retrospective of her work, and reveals her underlying interest in the history of photography, German painting of the 1920s, and other artists, such as Van Gogh and Cézanne, all of which provided an important precedent for the veracity and raw emotional intensity of her figurative works.

The first artist explored in Eddie Chambers» fascinating book, Black Artists in British Art: A History from 1950 to the Present, is a great surprise: Joseph Johnson, a seaman in the Merchant Navy until he was wounded, discharged and became a busker nicknamed «Black Joe».

Curated by Elena Ochoa Foster, founder and CEO of Ivorypress in collaboration with the Ivorypress team, the exhibition is dedicated to artists» books and their role in the history of art until the present time.

The book accompanies the reader through an imaginary and real itinerary, between history and trickeries, from the installation and performance Hiding the Elephant — referring to the people who «mysteriously» disappeared, who were exiled or persecuted during the Cold War — to the last works of the series Untitled Views — digital prints on mirror in which the artists experiment the theatrical effects of colored smoke bombs.

Venues from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Studio Museum in Harlem to Artist Space Books & Talks in Tribeca and the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., provide bases for engagement and resources for a fuller telling of the American story.

What / Why: «Walden, revisited features works by contemporary artists inspired by Walden — the pond; the book published in 1854 by natural history philosopher, social critic, and early environmentalist Henry David Thoreau; and the connection and disconnection between the two.

Borrowing its title from Greil Marcus» 1997 book The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes, this publication is produced in conjunction with an exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, which considers the work of 16 artists who explore American folk imagery and history from the time of European settlement to the 1960s.

The artist, who currently lives and works in Chicago, is known for chronicling the African American experience, confronting racial stereotypes, and questioning history through comic book - style drawings, paintings, and installations, as well as collage, video, and photography.

But the women artists who taught, studied, and made groundbreaking work with them are often remembered in history books as wives of their male counterparts or, worse, not at all.

It is an endearing mixture of high and low culture that leaves you puzzled for a bit, as you're not sure whether to like it or not, but when it comes to their execution, there is no doubt that the artist took figurative painting to a whole new level, and one that we certainly haven't seen in a while too — if we don't take art history books into consideration.

The book is a beauty... There is, throughout Ms. Jones's essay and the book as a whole, voluminous documentation of work by major artists who still rarely figure in most histories of American postwar art, like Betye Saar, who made intricate figurative drawings on covered glass windows; Senga Nengundi, who was conjuring unusual forms from sand and pantyhose before Ernesto Neto was even a teenager; and John Outterbridge, whose multifarious assemblages took on a gamut of styles.