Red Grooms And The Heroism Of Modern Life
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Red Grooms and the Heroism of Modern Life
Author | : Red Grooms,Joyce Henri Robinson |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0911209484 |
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Red Grooms is a cross between Marcel Duchamp and P. T. Barnum. Working in a brash, freewheeling style, Grooms has explored the raucous spectacle of life around him since his career began in the 1950s. This catalogue, which accompanied an exhibition of the same name at the Palmer Museum of Art, brings together forty of his works to demonstrate that even his most whimsical creations have serious implications. Many of the mixed-media constructions in Red Grooms and the Heroism of Modern Life reflect upon America's love affair with sports, business, and celebrity. The mixture of parody and homage in Grooms's portraits of such stars as Pablo Picasso and Fats Domino charges all his depictions of American popular culture, from bulky football players and haggard shoppers to a brightly colored Ferris wheel. In her essay for this catalogue, Joyce Henri Robinson contends that Grooms should be should be considered a contemporary counterpart to Charles Baudelaire's Parisian flaneur. Much like this famed character, she observes, Grooms approaches the world around him as a spectacle filled with novel forms of heroism. In this regard, the key work in the catalogue is an installation centered upon a full-scale version of a New York City bus. Grooms's Bus tempers revelation of the gritty realities of urban life with humor and flashes of poetry.
Red Grooms
Author | : Red Grooms |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105123675691 |
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September 25 - October 27, 2007
Acts of Possession
Author | : Leah Dilworth |
Publsiher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 0813532728 |
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The success of internet auction sites like eBay and the cult status of public television's Antiques Roadshow attest to the continued popularity of collecting in American culture. Acts of Possession investigates the ways cultural meanings of collections have evolved and yet remained surprisingly unchanged throughout American history. Drawing upon the body of theoretical work on collecting and focusing on individual as opposed to museum collections, the contributors investigate how, what, and why Americans have collected and explore the inherent meanings behind systems of organization and display. Essays consider the meanings of Thomas Jefferson's Indian Hall at Monticello; the pedagogical theories behind nineteenth-century children's curiosity cabinets; collections of Native American artifacts; and the ability of the owners of doll houses to construct meaning within the context of traditional ideals of domesticity. The authors also consider some darker aspects of collecting-hoarding, fetishism, and compulsive behavior-scrutinizing collections of racist memorabilia and fascist propaganda. The final essay posits the serial killer as a collector, an investigation into the dangerous objectification of humans themselves. By bringing fresh, interdisciplinary critical perspectives to bear on these questions, Dilworth and her coauthors weave a fascinating cultural history of collecting in America.
Nineteenth century Studies
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : UVA:X006091905 |
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Notable Acquisitions 1984 1985
Author | : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) |
Publsiher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780870994388 |
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All that is Solid Melts Into Air
Author | : Marshall Berman |
Publsiher | : Verso |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0860917851 |
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The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and architecture are brilliantly integrated in this account.
Inventing Reality
Author | : Therese Dolan |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : UOM:39015040999529 |
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This lavish monograph traces the career of a leading realist painter from his early still lifes of objects in his studio to city, suburban, and industrial sites: Technically dazzling, formally structured canvases of red locales transformed by the artist's eye. 52 colour & 37 b/w illustrations
Book Reports
Author | : Robert Christgau |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2019-04-04 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781478002123 |
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In this generous collection of book reviews and literary essays, legendary Village Voice rock critic Robert Christgau showcases the passion that made him a critic—his love for the written word. Many selections address music, from blackface minstrelsy to punk and hip-hop, artists from Lead Belly to Patti Smith, and fellow critics from Ellen Willis and Lester Bangs to Nelson George and Jessica Hopper. But Book Reports also teases out the popular in the Bible and 1984 as well as pornography and science fiction, and analyzes at length the cultural theory of Raymond Williams, the detective novels of Walter Mosley, the history of bohemia, and the 2008 financial crisis. It establishes Christgau as not just the Dean of American Rock Critics, but one of America's most insightful cultural critics as well.