Portraits And Masks

Author : Jonathan C. H. King
Publisher : London : Thames and Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500060063
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portrait Masks from the Northwest Coast of America written by Jonathan C. H. King and published by London : Thames and Hudson. This book was released on 1979 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes illustrations of Kwakiutl, Nootkan, Haida, Tsimshian and Tlingit masks.

Author : Martin Stott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781838463021
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wear a Mask! written by Martin Stott and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vladimir Pistalo
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555973329
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tesla: A Portrait with Masks written by Vladimir Pistalo and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An electric novel of the extraordinary life of one of the twentieth century's most prodigious and colorful inventors Nikola Tesla was a man forever misunderstood. From his boyhood in what is present-day Croatia, where his father, a Serbian Orthodox priest, dismissed his talents, to his tumultuous years in New York City, where his heated rivalry with Thomas Edison yielded triumphs and failures, Tesla was both demonized and lionized. Tesla captures the whirlwind years of the dawn of the electrical age, when his flair for showmanship kept him in the public eye. For every successful invention—the alternating current electrical system and wireless communication among them—there were hundreds of others. But what of the man behind the image? Vladimir Pistalo reveals the inner life of a man haunted by the loss of his older brother, a man who struggled with flashes of madness and brilliance whose mistrust of institutional support led him to financial ruin. Tesla: A Portrait with Masks is an impassioned account of a visionary whose influence is still felt today.

Author : M. L. Bierbrier
Publisher : British Museum Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portraits and Masks written by M. L. Bierbrier and published by British Museum Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of a major colloquium on burial customs in Roman Egypt, these papers cover the reasons behind the development of mummy portraits and the society from which they emerged, as well as the artistic techniques employed.

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Publisher : Guggenheim Museum
ISBN 13 : 9780892075584
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks written by and published by Guggenheim Museum. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From prescient proto-selfies to COVID and AI: the democratic portraiture of Gillian Wearing One of the most influential conceptual artists of her generation, Gillian Wearing first gained recognition in the 1990s for groundbreaking photographs and videos that recorded the confessions and interactions of ordinary people she befriended through chance encounters. In its candor and psychological intensity, her work extends the traditions of portraiture initiated by Sander, Weegee and Arbus. Yet in her ongoing attention to technology's role in the presentation of self, Wearing has presciently identified defining aspects of contemporary visual culture, from reality television to the rise of the selfie. Published for Wearing's first North American retrospective, Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks traces the acclaimed artist's practice from her earliest Polaroids and videos to her most recent production, including large-scale photographic self-portraits of Wearing in the guise of other artists; a more intimate body of self-portraits titled Lockdown; and installations and commissioned public sculpture. Essays by co-curators Jennifer Blessing and Nat Trotman provide an overview of Wearing's oeuvre, and a "self-interview" by Wearing offers a revealing firsthand account of the artist's practice, including her ongoing project Your Views (2013-), in which she has recently responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, and her exploration of AI technology in the video work Wearing, Gillian (2018). Gillian Wearing (born 1963) became associated with the Young British Artists (YBAs) after graduating from Goldsmiths College in 1990, and went on to win the Turner Prize in 1997. She works equally in photography, video, sculpture, installation and, most recently, painting. Wearing became well known early on for her now-landmark piece Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say (1992-93), for which she photographed almost 200 strangers with placards of their own making.

Author : Inge Morath
Publisher : Viking Pr
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saul Steinberg masquerade written by Inge Morath and published by Viking Pr. This book was released on 2000-10-26 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting the photographer's unique collection of "paper bag" images from the 1950s and 1960s, this series of individual and group portraits recaptures the whimsy and humor of this period in photography. 17,500 first printing.

Author : Phyllis Galembo
Publisher : Radius Books/D.A.P.
ISBN 13 : 9781942185574
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phyllis Galembo written by Phyllis Galembo and published by Radius Books/D.A.P.. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A showcase of Phyllis Galembo's extraordinary photographs of the costume, ritual and traditions of masquerade Mexico Phyllis Galembo has travelled all over the globe to sites of ritual masquerade. In Africa, the Caribbean, and now Mexico, she captures cultural performances with a subterranean political edge. Using a direct, unaffected portrait style, Galembo captures her subjects informally posed but often strikingly attired in traditional or ritualistic dress. Attuned to a moment's collision of past, present and future, Galembo finds the timeless elegance and dignity of her subjects. Masking is a complex, mysterious, and profound tradition in which the participants transcend the physical world and enter the spiritual realm. In her vibrant images, Galembo exposes an ornate code of political, artistic, theatrical, social and religious symbolism and commentary. Galembo highlights the creativity of the individuals morphing into a fantastical representation of themselves, having cobbled together materials gathered from the immediate environment to idealize their vision of mythical figures. While still pronounced in their personal identity, the subject's intentions are rooted in the larger dynamics of religious, political and cultural affiliation. Establishing these connections is a hallmark of Galembo's work.

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271044608
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stanze of Angelo Poliziano written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hans Belting
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691244596
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Face and Mask written by Hans Belting and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural history of the face in Western art, ranging from portraiture in painting and photography to film, theater, and mass media This fascinating book presents the first cultural history and anthropology of the face across centuries, continents, and media. Ranging from funerary masks and masks in drama to the figural work of contemporary artists including Cindy Sherman and Nam June Paik, renowned art historian Hans Belting emphasizes that while the face plays a critical role in human communication, it defies attempts at visual representation. Belting divides his book into three parts: faces as masks of the self, portraiture as a constantly evolving mask in Western culture, and the fate of the face in the age of mass media. Referencing a vast array of sources, Belting's insights draw on art history, philosophy, theories of visual culture, and cognitive science. He demonstrates that Western efforts to portray the face have repeatedly failed, even with the developments of new media such as photography and film, which promise ever-greater degrees of verisimilitude. In spite of sitting at the heart of human expression, the face resists possession, and creative endeavors to capture it inevitably result in masks—hollow signifiers of the humanity they're meant to embody. From creations by Van Eyck and August Sander to works by Francis Bacon, Ingmar Bergman, and Chuck Close, Face and Mask takes a remarkable look at how, through the centuries, the physical visage has inspired and evaded artistic interpretation.

Author : David Ross Smith
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masks of Wedlock written by David Ross Smith and published by Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: