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From Diversion to Subversion

Games, Play, and Twentieth-century Art

By: David Getsy

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From Diversion to Subversion

Games, Play, and Twentieth-century Art

By: David Getsy

Examines the wide-ranging influence of games and play on the development of modern art in the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher.

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240

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Penn State Press

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ISBN 10

0271037032

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9780271037035

Van Gogh's Bedrooms

By: Louis van Tilborgh,David J. Getsy

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Van Gogh's Bedrooms

By: Louis van Tilborgh,David J. Getsy

Catalogus bij de tentoonstelling van schilderijen die Van Gogh maakte van de slaapkamers in de 37 huizen waar hij gedurende zijn leven woonde.

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163

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Yale University Press

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0300214863

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9780300214864

Abstract Bodies

Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender

By: David J. Getsy

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Abstract Bodies

Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender

By: David J. Getsy

Original and theoretically astute, Abstract Bodies is the first book to apply the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies to the discipline of art history. It recasts debates around abstraction and figuration in 1960s art through a discussion of gender’s mutability and multiplicity. In that decade, sculpture purged representation and figuration but continued to explore the human as an implicit reference. Even as the statue and the figure were left behind, artists and critics asked how the human, and particularly gender and sexuality, related to abstract sculptural objects that refused the human form. This book examines abstract sculpture in the 1960s that came to propose unconventional and open accounts of bodies, persons, and genders. Drawing on transgender and queer theory, David J. Getsy offers innovative and archivally rich new interpretations of artworks by and critical writing about four major artists—Dan Flavin (1933–1996), Nancy Grossman (b. 1940), John Chamberlain (1927–2011), and David Smith (1906–1965). Abstract Bodies makes a case for abstraction as a resource in reconsidering gender’s multiple capacities and offers an ambitious contribution to this burgeoning interdisciplinary field.

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201

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Yale University Press

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030019675X

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9780300196757

David Smith

Collected Writings, Lectures, and Interviews

By: David Smith

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David Smith

Collected Writings, Lectures, and Interviews

By: David Smith

This comprehensive sourcebook is destined to become a lasting and definitive resource on the art and aesthetic philosophy of the American artist David Smith (1906-1965). A pioneer of twentieth-century modernism, Smith was renowned for the expansive formal and conceptual ambitions of his broadly diverse and inventive welded-steel abstractions. His groundbreaking achievements drew freely on cubism, surrealism, and constructivism, profoundly influencing later movements such as minimalism and environmental art. By radically challenging older conventions of monolithic figuration and refuting arbitrary distinctions between painters and sculptors, Smith asserted sculpture's equal role in advancing modern art. A compilation of Smith's poems, sketchbook notes, essays, lectures, letters to the editor, reviews, and interviews, these previously unpublished texts underscore the varied ways in which his writing functioned as a means to examine and articulate his private identity and to promote the social ideals that made him a key participant in contemporary discourses surrounding modernism, art and politics, and sculptural aesthetics. All the documents in David Smith: collected writings, lectures, and interviews have been newly corrected against the original manuscripts, typescripts, and audiotapes. Each text in this collection is annotated with historical and contextual information that reflects Smith's own process of continually reviewing and revising his writings in response to his evolving aspirations as a visual artist."--Provided by publisher.

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Univ of California Press

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0520291875

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9780520291874

The Place of Sculpture in Daily Life

By: Edmund Gosse,David Getsy

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The Place of Sculpture in Daily Life

By: Edmund Gosse,David Getsy

Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Art. Edited with an introduction by Martina Droth. Afterword by David J. Getsy. Author, translator, librarian, and scholar Edmund Gosse (1849-1928) was one of the most important art critics writing about sculpture in late- nineteenth century Britain. In 1895, he published the THE PLACE OF SCULPTURE IN DAILY LIFE, a quirky, four-part series of essays that ran in the Magazine of Art under the headings "Certain Fallacies," "Sculpture in the House," "Monuments," and "Decoration." Often cited but never before reprinted, Gosse's essays sought to demystify sculpture and to promote its patronage and appreciation. Martina Droth's introduction and commentary contextualize the essays within their era, providing insight into the world of late-Victorian sculpture. David J. Getsy's afterword connects the essays' themes to the present, offering a resonant perspective on the sculpture of today.

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From Diversion to Subversion

From Diversion to Subversion

Van Gogh's Bedrooms

Van Gogh's Bedrooms

Abstract Bodies

Abstract Bodies

David Smith

David Smith

The Place of Sculpture in Daily Life

The Place of Sculpture in Daily Life

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