New Library Books - November 19, 2007
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Need a good read in between classes? Why not check out one of the following books:
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Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s |
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The abstract art movement Op art came to international attention in the mid-1960s, an era of global social and technological change. The movement, which placed emphasis on viewer perception by exploring optical effects in painting, sculpture and light installation, quickly gained in popularity but met with considerable criticism. This important book, published to accompany the first major Op art exhibition by an American museum in twenty-five years, examines the development of the movement, its cultural context and its widespread impact on advertising, fashion and film-making. Featuring visually stunning works by such key figures as Josef Albers, Bridget Riley and Victor Vasarely, Optic Nerve offers a timely reappraisal of this highly influential movement. [Book description and image from Amazon.com] Click here to see if this book is available at ECI Library today |
Italian Art Ceramics, 1900-1950 |
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Beautifully illustrated and well documented with detailed technical entries, this volume surveys the production of Italian ceramic art through 500 objects. The essays examine the stylistic trends from the brilliant floral decorativism of the Tuscan ceramics by Galileo Chini, the extraordinary period of the 1920s and 1930s, as represented by Gio Ponti, Guido Andloviz, Giovanni Gariboldi, Pietro Meandri and Francesco Nonni, and the contamination by contemporary painting and sculpture, from the Futurists up to the first Informal pieces at the end of the second World War through the early works of Fontana, Leoncillo and Melotti. The book is filled with valuable information including biographical profiles of the artists, detailed descriptions of the manufacturers, a cataloguing of their back stamps, an up-to-date bibliography, and a technical glossary.Comprehensive and engrossing, the book is essential reading for collectors, antique experts, art scholars, students and anyone interested in ceramics. [Book description and image from Amazon.com] Click here to see if this book is available at ECI Library today |
The Moving Images of Tracey Moffatt |
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The Moving Images is the first comprehensive monograph on the film work of the Australian-born, New York-based artist Tracey Moffatt, revealing and discussing in depth her working methods and practice. Storyboards, film stills, film notes and on-location photographs are reproduced, from Moffatt's early work of the late 80s to her most recent. Moffatt's work in film and photography is characterized by a keen political and conceptual consistency, specifically in its preoccupation with marginalizing gestures of any sort--for example, her 1999 film, Lip, combines clips of black servants in Hollywood movies talking back to their bosses. Other works have investigated Hollywood portrayals of artists and the provocative discomfort of the female gaze. This essential volume, which features text by the Australian scholar and performance artist, Dr. Catherine Summerhayes, focuses on Moffat's important contemporary cinematic oeuvre, approaching it as simultaneously film, performance art, documentation and photography. [Book description and image from Amazon.com] Click here to see if this book is available at ECI Library today |
Jake and Dinos Chapman: Bad Art for Bad People |
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Though the media has often focused exclusively on the shock value and use of horror effects in the work of Dinos and Jake Chapman, the artists have continued to address some of the most pertinent and controversial issues of our time: the endless human capacity for war, genetic manipulation, plastic surgery, cloning; the assumed asexuality and innocence of children; and the instability of moral and ideological belief systems. In this major exhibition catalogue is a more balanced critical response, including a variety of interpretations from leading writers and critics across different fields. Illustrating well-known and iconic works such as Disasters of War (1993) and Great Deeds Against the Dead (1994), the book also includes works that have rarely been reproduced before plus a number of new works created specifically for the accompanying Tate exhibition. [Book description and image from Amazon.com] Click here to see if this book is available at ECI Library today |
Signage Design Manual |
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In an entertaining and straightforward way, Edo Smitshuijzens Signage Design Manual leads the reader step by step through the individual phases of signal design. More than nine hundred illustrations guide him or her through this demanding process. Both in-depth and comprehensive, this book is a unique publication. It not only contains information on traditional methods, design questions, and materials, but even touches on future developments, such as navigational aids for mobile devices and other futuristic equipment. The combination of wide coverage and precise, detailed information makes this book accessible to a broad spectrum of readers, from information and graphic designers to design students and professionals of every stripe who are involved with signal design on any level. With the publication of Smitshuijzens Signage Design Manual, the canon of signaletics finally has its own engaged textbook. [Book description and image from Amazon.com] Click here to see if this book is available at ECI Library today |
