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1. The Unmodern Modern.

Subjects
*HISTORY of the arts, *ART, *NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the nonfiction book 'The Preference for the Primitive: Episodes in the History of Western Taste and Art,' by E.H. Gombrich.

Published
2003

3. The Rough Rider.

Author

Wilentz, Sean

Subjects
*HISTORY of the arts, *NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book "American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America," by Robert Hughes.

Published
1997

4. Art.

Author

Danto, Arthur C.

Subjects
*HISTORY of the arts, *ART objects, *ARTISTS
Abstract

In his "Principles of Art History," Heinrich Wölfflin wrote that not everything is possible at every time. Wölfflin had stylistic possibility (and impossibility) in mind, and it was his view that all artists belonging to a given period of art history share certain stylistic attributes, even if they should differ as sharply as the Dutch intimist Gerard Terborch did from his Italian contemporary Gianloreuzo Bernini. Art today has typically to be addressed from a plane different from the one the object itself occupies, so that even if one knows what the object is--a modular room, say--one does not know what the work is until one locates the plane from which it is to be interpreted.

Published
1997

5. Art.

Author

Danto, Arthur C.

Subjects
*EXPRESSIONISM (Art), *HISTORY of the arts, *PAINTING, *ART, *IMPRESSIONISM (Literature), *AESTHETICS
Abstract

Neo-Expressionism generated a relieved excitement, and the belief that the art history we had learned to take for granted was back on course. From the uptown point of view, painting was the primary vehicle of artistic change. From the downtown perspective, painting, if not altogether marginal, is but one of a large number of genres of art-making that combine and recombine in ways the uptown perspective stigmatizes as impure. It was from the uptown perspective that Neo-Expressionism seemed to have brought painting and art history back together.

Published
1996

6. The Transformation of Vernacular Expression in Early Modern Arts.

Author

Silver, Larry

Subjects
*HISTORY of the arts, *EARLY modern history, *NONFICTION
Abstract

The article reviews the book "The Transformation of Vernacular Expression in Early Modern Arts," edited by Joost Keizer and Todd M. Richardson, part of the book series Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture.

Published
2012
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9. Orbiting Thailand.

Author

Galligan, Gregory

Subjects
*21ST century art, *HISTORY of the arts, *NONFICTION
Abstract

A review of the book "Thai Art: Currencies of the Contemporary," by David Teh, is presented.

Published
2018

17. Art.

Subjects
BOOK evaluations, ENGRAVING techniques, PRINTS, GRAPHIC arts, HISTORY of the arts
Abstract

The article provides information on various books on print-production in the U.S. Some of the books are "Etching: A Practical Treatise," by Earl H. Reed; "Etching and Other Graphic Arts," by George T. Plowman; "Prints: A Brief Review of Their Technique and History," by Emil H. Richter. Reed, having furnished a large book, is able to go more in detail in the topic. Plowman finds room for a useful list of dealers in etching tools and printers of etchings in various cities of the United States, as well as in London and Paris, classified, by an oversight, under "Bibliography." The matter of introduction to appreciation of prints, in fact, is a thing by itself, to be left to books already written with this object in view, or to the little volume by Richter, which fulfils this task in a rather summary manner, though with a personal point of view.

Published
1915

19. L’iconographie médiévale.

Author

Carrasco, Magdalena

Subjects
HISTORY of the arts, NONFICTION
Abstract

The article reviews the book "L'iconographie médiévale," by Jérôme Baschet.

Published
2010

24. Art, American-Style.

Author

Gardner, James

Subjects
*HISTORY of the arts, *NONFICTION
Abstract

The article reviews the book "American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America," by Robert Hughes.

Published
1997

26. ART AND LIFE IN AMERICA (Book).

Author

Kirstein, Lincoln

Subjects
ARTS, HISTORY of the arts, NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book "Art and Life in America," by Oliver W. Larkin.

Published
1949

35. Doubt.

Author

Linsley, Robert

Subjects
HISTORY of the arts, NONFICTION
Abstract

The article reviews the book "Doubt," by Richard Shiff.

Published
2008

39. Serpent's Tale.

Author

Oppenheimer, Paul

Subjects
*HISTORY of the arts, *NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book "Mysteries of the Snake Goddess: Art, Desire, and the Forging of History," by Kenneth Lapatin.

Published
2004

45. 30,000 Years of Art, Art & Today.

Author

Farmer, Margaret

Subjects
*HISTORY of the arts, *NONFICTION
Abstract

The article reviews the book "30,000 Years of Art: The Story of Human Creativity Across Time and Space," by Phaidon.

Published
2009

47. Under a Big Top, a Carnival of Lost Souls and Masquerades.

Author

Glueck, Grace

Subjects
*ART exhibitions, *HISTORY of the arts, *MUSEUMS, *AMUSEMENTS
Abstract

The article reviews two art exhibitions based on the history of art "Amusement Park," and Ahistoric Occasion: Artists Making History," which were held at Mass MoCA, Massachusetts.

Published
2006

48. ART AND INTIMACY: How the Arts Began (Book).

Author

Hausman, Jerome J.

Subjects
*HISTORY of the arts, *NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book "Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began," by Ellen Dissanayake.

Published
2004

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