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Writings About Art
by Calo, Carole Gold (Edited by)
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Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993. viii, 367 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps. Another copy available. An interesting anthology. Sections on "Art and Religion," "Art Patronage," "Art and Politics," "Women and Art," "Issues Concerning Race and Ethnicity," "Public Art," and "Controversies Over Government Funding and Censorship." CONTENTS: Images of gods, by Albert Elsen; The sacred mountain in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Aegean, by Vincent Scully; The interpretation of the second commandment, by Avram Kampf; Northern romanticism and the resurrection of God and transcendental abstraction, by Robert Rosenblum; The mechanics of seventeenth-century patronage, by Francis Haskell; A matter of taste: the monumental and exotic in the Qianlong reign, by Harold Kahn; Katherine Dreier: art patron with a social vision, by Carole Gold Calo; The structure of the SoHo art market, by Charles H. Simpson; Art and freedom in quattrocento Italy, by Frederick Hartt; The disasters of war, by Fred S. Licht; The birth of socialist realism from the spirit of the avant-garde, by Boris Groys; Can political passion inspire great art?, by Michael Brenson; The mother and child in African sculpture, by Herbert Cole; The end of the century: conflicting fantasies of feminity, by Susan P. Casteras; Why have there been no great women artists?, by Linda Nochlin; How wide is the gender gap?, by Eleanor Heartney; Race and representation, by Guy McElroy; Inventing "the Indian", by Julie Schimmel; And/or : Hispanic art, American culture, by John Beardsley; Naming, by Lucy Lippard; The public realm, by Spiro Kostoff; The malignant object : thoughts on public sculpture, by Douglas Stalker and Clark Glymour; The commissioning of a work of public sculpture, by Judith Balfe and Margaret Wyszomirski; Vietnam Veterans Memorial, by Nicholas Capasso; The senses and censorship, by David Freedberg; The obscenity trial: how they voted to acquit, by Robin Cembalist; Is art above the laws of decency?, by Hilton Kramer; The NEA: a misunderstood patron, by Elaine King. CONTENTS: Images of gods, by Albert Elsen; The sacred mountain in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Aegean, by Vincent Scully; The interpretation of the second commandment, by Avram Kampf; Northern romanticism and the resurrection of God and transcendental abstraction, by Robert Rosenblum; The mechanics of seventeenth-century patronage, by Francis Haskell; A matter of taste: the monumental and exotic in the Qianlong reign, by Harold Kahn; Katherine Dreier: art patron with a social vision, by Carole Gold Calo; The structure of the SoHo art market, by Charles H. Simpson; Art and freedom in quattrocento Italy, by Frederick Hartt; The disasters of war, by Fred S. Licht; The birth of socialist realism from the spirit of the avant-garde, by Boris Groys; Can political passion inspire great art?, by Michael Brenson; The mother and child in African sculpture, by Herbert Cole; The end of the century: conflicting fantasies of femininity, by Susan P. Casteras; Why have there been no great women artists?, by Linda Nochlin; How wide is the gender gap?, by Eleanor Heartney; Race and representation, by Guy McElroy; Inventing "the Indian", by Julie Schimmel; And/or: Hispanic art, American culture, by John Beardsley; Naming, by Lucy Lippard; The public realm, by Spiro Kostoff; The malignant object: thoughts on public sculpture, by Douglas Stalker and Clark Glymour; The commissioning of a work of public sculpture, by Judith Balfe and Margaret Wyszomirski; Vietnam Veterans Memorial, by Nicholas Capasso; The senses and censorship, by David Freedberg; The obscenity trial: how they voted to acquit, by Robin Cembalist; Is art above the laws of decency?, by Hilton Kramer; The NEA: a misunderstood patron, by Elaine King.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.
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- Title
- Writings About Art
- Author
- Calo, Carole Gold (Edited by)
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- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0137617011
- ISBN 13
- 9780137617012
- Publisher
- Prentice Hall
- Place of Publication
- Englewood Cliffs, NJ
- Date Published
- 1993
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Aesthetics; Art Instruction;
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