scholarly journals Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard (eds.), Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany. New York, Harper & Row Publishers, 1982. 358 pp., 309 illus., $24.95 (paper) Estella Lauter, Women as Mythmakers: Poetry and Visual Art by Twentieth-Century Women. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1984. 267 pp., 15 illus., $16.95 (paper)

1986 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Janice Helland
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Art History ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Indiana University

Moving Pictures and Renaissance Art History

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Emison
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Art History ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Renaissance Art ◽  
Word And Image ◽  
Visual Composition ◽  
Moving Pictures ◽  
And Gender

Film, like the printed imagery inaugurated during the Renaissance, spread ideas---not least the idea of the power of visual art---across not only geographical and political divides but also strata of class and gender. Moving Pictures and Renaissance Art History examines the early flourishing of film, 1920s-mid-60s, as partly reprising the introduction of mass media in the Renaissance, allowing for innovation that reflected an art free of the control of a patron though required to attract a broad public. Rivalry between word and image, narrative and visual composition shifted in both cases toward acknowledging the compelling nature of the visual. The twentieth century also saw the development of the discipline of art history; transfusions between cinematic practice and art historical postulates and preoccupations are part of the story told here.

Dancing Marines and Pumping Gasoline

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer L. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Homosexual Behavior ◽  
Integrated Method ◽  
Filling Station ◽  
Time Table ◽  
Depression Era

This essay offers close readings of two of Depression-era ballets that arts impresario Lincoln Kirstein developed for his troupe The Ballet Caravan. Because of Kirstein’s integrated method of ballet creation, pairings of ballet components, specifically dance and visual art and dance and music, should be closely evaluated for their queer semiotic freight, and so the chapter examines Filling Station and Time Table, teasing out the queering of masculine codes that occurs within these pieces. Furthermore, it argues that in these works the interplay between working-class characters, cartoonish costumes, suggestive choreography, and campy burlesque music alludes to an underlying subtext that reflected aspects of homosexual behavior as practiced in New York during the first half of the twentieth century.

Significant Form and Aesthetic Emotion

2019 ◽  
pp. 336-352
Author(s):  
Mark Hussey
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Art History ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Artistic Creativity ◽  
Bloomsbury Group ◽  
Neural Organization ◽  
Semir Zeki ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Spectator

The early twentieth-century revolution in visual art that came to be known in England as post-impressionism emphasized the view that artistic creativity resides not only in the making of the artwork, but also in the interaction between the artwork and the spectator, an orientation which the contemporary discipline of neuroaesthetics holds in our time. Clive Bell’s theory of “significant form” provided an approachable way for the British public to integrate their understanding of the new art into existing notions of art history and led to a severely diminished role for representation in visual art. Bell’s theory is identifiable as one manifestation of pervasive changes in the understanding of creativity and perception that were sweeping through Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Bell could not say why certain combinations of lines and colors led to the experience of an “aesthetic emotion,” only that they did. Contemporary researchers in neuroaesthetics, such as Semir Zeki, have returned to Bell’s notion to ask whether the experience of aesthetic emotion might be due to some common neural organization. This chapter points to commonalities between the speculations of Bell and other members of the Bloomsbury Group, such as Virginia Woolf and Roger Fry, and those of contemporary researchers into brain processes.

scholarly journals THE PROJECTION AND PERFORMANCE OF GHANAIAN NATIONHOOD - Jeffrey S. Ahlman. Living with Nkrumahism: Nation, State, and Pan-Africanism in Ghana (New African Histories). Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2017. vi + 322 pp. Illustrations. Acknowledgements. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $32.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-821-42293-9. - Harcourt Fuller. Building the Ghanaian Nation-State: Kwame Nkrumah’s Symbolic Nationalism (African Histories and Modernities). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. xxvii + 262 pp. Illustrations. Foreword. Acknowledgements. Timeline. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $90.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-137-44858-3. - Jacob U. Gordon, editor. Revisiting Kwame Nkrumah: Pathways for the Future. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press, 2017. xv + 330 pp. Illustrations. Preface. Appendices. Index. $39.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-569-02478-2. - Bianca Murillo. Market Encounters: Consumer Cultures in Twentieth-Century Ghana (New African Histories). Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2017. xv + 248 pp. Illustrations. Acknowledgements. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $32.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-821-42289-2. - Paul Schauert. Staging Ghana: Artistry and Nationalism in State Dance Ensembles (African Expressive Cultures). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. xvi + 342 pp. Illustrations. Preface. Acknowledgements. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $30.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-253-01742-0. - Jesse Weaver Shipley. Trickster Theatre: The Poetics of Freedom in Urban Africa (African Expressive Cultures). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. xii + 284 pp. Illustrations. Acknowledgements. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $35.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-253-01653-9. - Kate Skinner. The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland: Literacy, Politics and Nationalism, 1914–2014 (African Studies). New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xv + 298 pp. Illustrations. Acknowledgements. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $85.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-107-07463-7.

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 181-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin N. Lawrance
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Ohio University ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Kwame Nkrumah ◽  
Pan Africanism ◽  
Urban Africa ◽  
And Performance

Resonance in Dhvani Aesthetics and the Deleuzian Logic of Sensation

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-44
Author(s):  
Srajana Kaikini
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Normative Theory ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Literary Interpretation ◽  
Sanskrit Poetics ◽  
Comparative Framework ◽  
Time Image

This paper undertakes an intersectional reading of visual art through theories of literary interpretation in Sanskrit poetics in close reading with Deleuze's notions of sensation. The concept of Dhvani – the Indian theory of suggestion which can be translated as resonance, as explored in the Rasa – Dhvani aesthetics offers key insights into understanding the mode in which sensation as discussed by Deleuze operates throughout his reflections on Francis Bacon's and Cézanne's works. The paper constructs a comparative framework to review modern and classical art history, mainly in the medium of painting, through an understanding of the concept of Dhvani, and charts a course of reinterpreting and examining possible points of concurrence and departure with respect to the Deleuzian logic of sensation and his notions of time-image and perception. The author thereby aims to move art interpretation's paradigm towards a non-linguistic sensory paradigm of experience. The focus of the paper is to break the moulds of normative theory-making which guide ideal conditions of ‘understanding art’ and look into alternative modes of experiencing the ‘vocabulary’ of art through trans-disciplinary intersections, in this case the disciplines being those of visual art, literature and phenomenology.

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