Subject Guide
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Subjects: Art and Art History
Featured new books in the Zabar Art Library
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Among others : Blackness at MoMA Among Others: Blackness at MoMA begins with an essay that provides a rigorous and in-depth analysis of MoMA's history regarding racial issues. It also calls for further developments, leaving space for other scholars to draw on particular moments of that history. It takes an integrated approach to the study of racial blackness and its representation: the book stresses inclusion and, as such, the plate section, rather than isolating black artists, features works by non-black artists dealing with race and race- related subjects. As a collection book, the volume provides scholars and curators with information about the Museum's holdings, at times disclosing works that have been little documented or exhibited. The numerous and high-quality illustrations will appeal to anyone interested in art made by black artists, or in modern art in general.Call Number: N8232 .E565 2019ISBN: 9781633450349 -
The Medici : portraits and politics, 1512-1570 Between 1512 and 1570, Florence underwent dramatic political transformations. As citizens jockeyed for prominence, portraits became an essential means not only of recording likeness but also of conveying a sitter's character, social position, and cultural ambitions. This book explores the ways that painters, including Jacopo Pontormo, Agnolo Bronzino, and Francesco Salviati, sculptors such as Benvenuto Cellini, and others, endowed Florentine portraiture with the erudite and self-consciously stylish character that made it so distinctive. Although the Medici family had ruled Florence since 1434, Cosimo I de Medici, who became the second Duke of Florence in 1537, demonstrated a particularly shrewd use of culture as a political tool to transform Florence into a dynastic duchy and give Florentine art the central position it has held ever since. Featuring 100 paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and medals, this volume presents an exploration of a crucial and vibrant period in Italian art.Call Number: N5273.2.M43 M43 2021 (Zabar Art Library New Books)ISBN: 9781588397300Publication Date: 2021 -
Michelangelo's Inner Anatomies by Examines Michelangelo's understanding of internal anatomy and demonstrates its effect on the artist's representations of the body in painting, sculpture, poetry, and architecture.Call Number: N6923.B9 K47 2020 (Zabar Art Library New Books)ISBN: 9780271083780Publication Date: 2020 -
Surrealism Beyond Borders by A completely new way of looking at and understanding Surrealism, with a focus on the worldwide sweep of the movement. This groundbreaking book challenges conventional narratives of Surrealism, tracing its impact and legacy from the 1920s to the late 1970s in places as diverse as Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Japan, Mexico, the Philippines, Romania, Syria, Thailand, and Turkey. In doing so, it presents a more inclusive and accurate understanding of the fundamentally international character and lasting significance of the revolutionary artistic, literary, and philosophical movement. Vibrantly illustrated with more than 300 works of art.Call Number: NX456.5.S8 D35 2021 (Zabar Art Library New Books)ISBN: 9781588397270Publication Date: 2021 -
Vida Americana - Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945 An in-depth look at the transformative influence of Mexican artists on their U.S. counterparts during a period of social change The first half of the 20th century saw prolific cultural exchange between the United States and Mexico, as artists and intellectuals traversed the countries' shared border in both directions. For U.S. artists, Mexico's monumental public murals portraying social and political subject matter offered an alternative aesthetic at a time when artists were seeking to connect with a public deeply affected by the Great Depression. The Mexican influence grew as the artists José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros traveled to the United States to exhibit, sell their work, and make large-scale murals, working side-by-side with local artists, who often served as their assistants, and teaching them the fresco technique. Vida Americana examines the impact of their work on more than 70 artists, including Marion Greenwood, Philip Guston, Isamu Noguchi, Jackson Pollock, and Charles White. It provides a new understanding of art history, one that acknowledges the wide-ranging and profound influence the Mexican muralists had on the style, subject matter, and ideology of art in the United States between 1925 and 1945.Call Number: ND2644 .V53 2020 (Zabar Art Library New Books)ISBN: 9780300246698 -
Working together : Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop Exhibition and catalogue draw works and archival material from Louis H. Draper, 1935-2002, and includes work from the Komoinge Workshop and it's founding members including Louis Draper, Anthony Barboza, Adger Cowens, Danny Dawson, Al Fennar, Ray Francis, Herman Howard, Jimmie Mannas, Herb Randall, Herb Robinson, Beuford Smith, Ming Smith, Shawn Walker, and Calvin Wilson.Call Number: TR647 .E26 2020 (Zabar Art Library New Books)ISBN: 9781934351178Publication Date: 2020
Recent faculty publications in the Zabar Art Library
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Visual Typologies from the Early Modern to the Contemporary by Call Number: N8222 .M36 V57 2019ISBN: 9781138200135
