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Madonnas & miracles : the holy home in Renaissance Italy / by Corry, Maya,1984-editor.(CARDINAL)354845; Howard, Deborah,1946-editor.(CARDINAL)155612; Laven, Mary,1969-editor.(CARDINAL)354846; Fitzwilliam Museum,host institution.(CARDINAL)158775;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-191) and index.Introduction -- Family life -- The Madonna, Christ and the saints -- Practices of prayers -- Miracles and pilgrimage -- Reform and renewal.Madonnas and Miracles exposes a hidden world of religious devotion in the Italian Renaissance home. Challenging the idea of the Renaissance as an age of increasing worldliness, it shows how religion remained a powerful force that coloured every aspect of daily life. Across the length and breadth of Italy, houses were filled with decorative objects and works of art with spiritual significance, designed to aid members of the family in their devotional lives. A wide range of religious activities, from routine prayers to extraordinary experiences such as miracles and exorcisms, took place within the home, where they were adapted to key moments in the life-cycle, including birth, marriage, sickness and death. This illustrated publication explores a variety of devotional objects and images, from luxury items to everyday household goods. Bringing together jewellery and ceramics, manuscripts and printed books, sculpture and paintings, the book offers a vivid encounter with Renaissance spirituality and domesticity. The result is a new vision of a period in which the material world was charged with sacred power. Exhibition: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK (Spring 2017).Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England, March 7 - June 4, 2017.
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Art.; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; Christian art and symbolism; Devotional objects; Home; Miracles in art; Renaissance;
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Architectural Ornamentalism : Detailing in the Craft Tradition / by Kemp, Jim.(CARDINAL)180548; Perron, Robert,photographer.(CARDINAL)755322;
Includes bibliographical references (page 169) and index."This groundbreaking book presents a comprehensive look at a new direction in home design: the incorporation of hand-crafted detailing into the very structure of domestic spaces. Doors, windows, gates, stairs, floors, walls, and ceilings all become decorative elements of detailing in the hands of a new breed of artisans. Working in the classic craft media of wood, glass, fiber, metal, and ceramics and masonry, these craftspeople pay respect to tradition with their skilled workmanship, while personalizing environments with details that have a contemporary sensibility - and adding to the intrinsic value of the houses. Architectural Ornamentalism begins with a close look at two outstanding examples of houses filled with thoroughly integrated detailing to give an overview of the uses of various types of ornamentalism. Next, five key chapters - each featuring a different medium - illustrate individual details. More than sixty artisans and one hundred projects are showcased, offering professionals and homeowners a wealth of inspiring models. Among the innovative projects presented is a wood staircase that turns into a slide, a stained glass window that is an abstract interpretation of a family tree, an elegant punched-metal front door, a historically inspired floor-cloth that appears to be real terra cotta tiles, and a classically influenced ceramic doorway that is decorated with contemporary geometric forms. Full-color photographs show the details in their actual settings, illustrating the many options available for tailoring living spaces to reflect personal aesthetics. The comprehensive text gives illuminating information on how the detail is incorporated into the room, how its design is approached by the craftsperson, how it is made, and what materials are used. So that readers can implement similar projects in their clients' or their own homes, Architectural Ornamentalism features a section that tells how to locate suitable craftspeople; explains fee schedules, contracts, and the responsibilities of both artisan and clients; and gives advice from professionals about how to assess the quality of crafted pieces. Also included is a complete sources list of craftspeople, supplemented with the names and addresses of architectural salvage yards and manufacturers of new details, as well as museums and publications that specialize in architectural crafts. Architectural Ornamentalism is more than a showcase of contemporary details. It is an authoritative overview of architectural crafts today, and a fresh, new look at a loved and honored tradition." --
Subjects: Architecture; Decoration and ornament, Architectural; Interior architecture; Architecture; Decoration and ornament, Architectural; Bauornament;
© 1987., Whitney Library of Design,
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Past perfect [audio-enabled device] by Steel, Danielle,author.(CARDINAL)341853; Frangione, James,narrator.(CARDINAL)350287; Findaway World, LLC.(CARDINAL)345268; Playaway Digital Audio.(CARDINAL)565887;
Narrated by Jim Frangione."Sybil and Blake Gergory have established a predictable, well-ordered Manhattan life-- she is a cutting-edge design authority and museum consultant, he in high-tech investments-- raising their teenagers Andrew and Caroline and six-year-old Charlie. But everything changes when Blake is offered a dream job he can't resist as CEO of a start-up in San Francisco. He accepts it without consulting his wife and buys a magnificent, irresistably underpriced Pacific Heights mansion as their new home."--Container.Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Domestic fiction.; Fiction.; Apparitions; Mansions; Moving, Household;
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The domestic scene (1897-1927) : George M. Niedecken, interior architect / by Robertson, Cheryl.(CARDINAL)158408; Niedecken, George M.,1878-1945.(CARDINAL)290444; Milwaukee Art Museum.(CARDINAL)158646;
Includes bibliographical references (page 111) and index.Foreword to the second edition / Daniel T. Keegan -- Foreword to the first edition / Gerald Nordland -- Acknowledgments / Cheryl Robertson -- Introduction / Cheryl Robertson -- Niedecken as decorative designer / Terrence Marvel. Milwaukee art background ; Exposure to continental Art Nouveau -- Niedecken as furniture craftsman / Cheryl Robertson. Arts and crafts sources ; Secession influences ; Technical mastery -- Niedecken as interior architect / Cheryl Robertson. Relationships with architects and clients ; Three case studies: Adam J. Mayer residence, Robert G. Hayssen residence, Henry J. Allen residence -- Relationship of decorator, architect and client / George M. Niedecken -- Niedecken and his clients: quiet revolutionaries in Milwaukee / John C. Eastberg -- Chronology -- Checklist of the exhibition.
Subjects: Niedecken, George M., 1878-1945.; Design;
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Colonialism and the object : empire, material culture, and the museum / by Barringer, T. J.,editor,writer of introduction,contributor.(CARDINAL)224546; Flynn, Tom,1956-editor,writer of introduction,contributor.(CARDINAL)855815; Pagani, Catherine,contributor.(CARDINAL)773935; Clunas, Craig,contributor.(CARDINAL)179475; Swallow, Deborah,1948-contributor.(CARDINAL)682947; Ata-Ullah, Naazish,contributor.(CARDINAL)855814; Layton, Rachel E.C.,contributor.; Kettering, Karen L.,1966-contributor.(CARDINAL)855813; Poovaya-Smith, Nima,contributor.(CARDINAL)855812; Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean,1945-contributor.(CARDINAL)324803; Allen, Ngapine,contributor.; Cannizzo, Jeanne,1947-contributor.(CARDINAL)202318; Mirzoeff, Nicholas,1962-contributor.(CARDINAL)264566; Routledge (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)764271;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-216) and index.
Subjects: Art, Colonial.; Art, Colonial; Colonies;
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Modern women : women artists at the Museum of Modern Art / by Butler, Cornelia H.(CARDINAL)217397; Schwartz, Alexandra.(CARDINAL)264688;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- The feminist present: women artists at MoMA / Cornelia Butler -- The missing future: MoMA and modern women / Griselda Pollock -- "Float the boat!": finding a place for feminism in the museum / Aruna D'Souza -- Early modern : Julia Margaret Cameron / Susan Kismaric ; Käthe Kollwitz / Sarah Suzuki ; Lillian Gish / Jenny He ; Sonia Delaunay-Terk / Jodi Hauptman ; Asta Nielsen / Jytte Jensen ; Georgia O'Keeffe / Anne Umland ; Sybil Andrews / Judith B. Hecker ; Frida Kahlo / Anne Umland ; Women on paper / Carol Armstrong ; Crossing the line: Frances Benjamin Johnston and Gertrude Käsebier as professionals and artists / Sarah Hermanson Meister ; Women artists and the Russian avant-garde book, 1912-1934 / Starr Figura ; A collective and its individuals: the Bauhaus and its women / Tai Smith ; Domestic reform and European modern architecture: Charlotte Perriand, Grete Lihotzky, and Elizabeth Denby / Mary McLeod ; Women and photography between feminism's "waves" / Sally Stein -- With, or without you: the ghosts of modern architecture / Beatriz Colomina -- Midcentury : Ida Lupino / Anne Morra ; Elizabeth Catlett / Emily Talbot ; Agnes Martin / Romy Silver ; Lee Bontecou / Lilian Tone ; Anne Truitt / Samantha Friedman ; Bridget Riley / Jennifer Field ; Eva Hesse / Ann Temkin ; Diane Arbus / Susan Kismaric ; Denise Scott Brown, Lella Vignelli / Pat Kirkham and Yenna Chan ; Agnès Varda :Laurence Kardish ; Louise Bourgeois / Deborah Wye ; Women, MoMA, and midcentury design / Juliet Kinchin ; Maya Deren's legacy / Sally Berger ; Abstraction, organism, apparatus: notes on the penetrable structure in the work of Lygia Clark, Gego, and Mira Schendel / Luis Pérez-Oramas ; Performativity in the work of female Japanese artists in the 1950s-1960s and the 1990s / Yuko Hasegawa ; From video to intermedia: a personal history / Barbara London -- Contemporary : Adrian Piper / Esther Adler ; Lynda Benglis / Nora Lawrence ; Hanna Darboven / Christophe Cherix ; Nan Goldin / Eva Respini ; Ana Mendieta / Ester Adler ; Zaha Hadid / Andres Lepik ; Cady Noland / Christian Rattemeyer ; Irma Boom / Paola Antonelli ; LIn Tianmiao / Sarah Suzuki ; Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller / Paulina Pobocha ; Mind, body, sculpture: Alice Aycock, Mary Miss, Jackie Winsor in the 1970s / Alexandra Schwartz ; Fundamental to the image: feminism and art in the 1980s / Johanna Burton ; Riot on the page: thirty years of zines by women / Gretchen L. Wagner ; From face to mask: collage, montage, and assemblage in contemporary portraiture / Roxana Marcoci ; In the wake of the Negress / Huey Copeland ; How to install art as a feminist / Helen Molesworth -- Modern women: a partial history / Michelle Elligott.
Subjects: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.); Art, Modern; Art, Modern; Women artists.;
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Cellophane bricks : a life in visual culture / by Lethem, Jonathan,author.(CARDINAL)342243;
"Many know Jonathan Lethem as one of our most celebrated and eclectic writers, whose iconic novels--Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude, Chronic City, among many others--play with genres and storytelling modes like a DJ mixing music. But Lethem grew up in his father's studio, went to art school, and, in his own words, "made hundreds if not thousands of drawings, collages, paintings, hand-drawn comics, and even two animated shorts" before diverting, at nineteen, to prose. The surreal and form-defying panoply of his stories, essays, and novels celebrates--and mourns--this forsaken world of the visual and plastic arts. That leap, between the cellophane ephemerality of language and the brick-like tangibility of visual art, which operates as a sublimated wellspring for Lethem's writing, is the subject of this book. Cellophane Bricks mortars together Lethem's fictions in response to (and in exchange for) artworks by his friends with dozens of original essays. Here we tour his meditations on comics and graffiti art; his collaborations with artists and interventions into visual culture; and his portrait of the museum that was and continues to be his home, untethered from geography. Unique in Lethem's kaleidoscopic oeuvre, Cellophane Bricks comprises a kind of stealth memoir of his parallel life in visual culture. Gorgeously designed, with stunning, full-color images from the author's own collection and elsewhere, Cellophane Bricks is a ravishing assemblage for story lovers of all kinds." -- Jacket flap copy.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Lethem, Jonathan.; Authors, American; Art.; Comic books, strips, etc.; Art in literature.; Graffiti.;
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Tecla Tofano : this body of mine / by Tofano, Tecla,artist.(CARDINAL)883109; Anid, Audrée,curator, writer of introduction.(CARDINAL)898724; Cohan, James H.,writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)882948; Farías, Luis Felipe,editor,contributor.(CARDINAL)872230; Gaxiola, Lucía Hinojosa,translator.; Rangel, Gabriela,curator,editor,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)821546; Distributed Art Publishers,distributor.(CARDINAL)784868; James Cohan Gallery,publisher,host institution.(CARDINAL)222409;
Includes bibliogrpahical references."Tecla Tofano: This Body of Mine foregrounds Tofano as a critical figure in the history of feminist art and the broader canon of postwar global modernism. Curated by Gabriela Rangel and Audrée Anid, this exhibition features over thirty ceramics from the 1960s and 70s as well as a selection of drawings from Evas al desnudo (Naked Eves), her series from 1972. Tofano channeled her ideas most notably through ceramics, though she was also an adept draftswoman, a metalsmith, and a voracious writer. In Rangel's words, "...the feminist impulse empowered her to examine, in both her art and writing, the female body as a tactical space of confrontation." Tofano's meditations in clay were often infused with her biting sense of humor, though they also maintained a poignant and personal undertone. The artist's initial foray into pottery in the 1950s began with throwing utilitarian objects on the wheel under the tutelage of Miguel Arroyo, a figurehead of Venezuela's nascent craft movement. By the 1960s and into the '70s, she shifted to hand-modeling body parts as well as domestic items ranging from food and books to totemic figures, flora, and fauna. Unabashed in her choice of subject matter, Tofano embraced ugliness, hand-modeling ceramics that celebrated the grotesque. Her visual language stood in direct opposition to a refined geometric abstraction and kineticism that was popular among her peers. Tofano embraced rough, hand-built surfaces, as evidenced in this exhibition's uncompromising works, which range from carved and extruding phalluses to disembodied tongues. The artist's work revealed the cracks in an extremist sociopolitical system in Venezuela, Tofano's home of over forty years. Her left-leaning activist views were a direct response to the volatile dictatorial climate that engulfed the country in the 1950s and to the oil boom of the 1960s and '70s. She embedded her work with social commentary to explore issues of class, gender construction and sexism. The female body is specifically addressed in Tofano's visual art and writing as an affront to pervasive machismo and a reflection of her personal traumas. Her suite of forty-four pencil drawings, Evas al desnudo (Naked Eves), 1972, for example, directly referenced social stigmas and expectations imposed on women, particularly those involving reproductive and domestic labor. In Tofano's narrative, Eve, the archetypal woman, is pictured in a multitude of scenarios, from the quotidian to the fantastical. Towards the end of the 1970s, Tofano felt that she had exhausted the possibilities of visual art and refocused her energy and activist rhetoric on writing. The titular phrase, "This Body of Mine" is borrowed from Epílogos (Epilogues), her 1987 book of poetry. Tecla Tofano's corporeal ruminations across ceramics, drawings and writing underscore the artist's deeply-rooted commitment to vocalizing the unspoken paradoxes of womanhood and to rendering visible what was once considered taboo. To accompany this exhibition, James Cohan has published the first-ever monograph dedicated to the artist, co-edited by Gabriela Rangel and Luis Felipe Farías. It features an essay by Rangel, a detailed chronology by Farías, and translations of Tofano's poetry and writing by Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola."-- Provided by Gallery"Tecla Tofano was born in Naples, Italy, on March 5, 1927. In 1952, she moved to Caracas, Venezuela, where she studied ceramics at the School of Plastic and Applied Arts. Tofano was an outspoken public intellectual and influential activist who taught at the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas from 1959 to 1980. Beginning in the 1960s, she wrote for the newspaper El Nacional and authored several books of fiction and poetry including Quien inventó la silla (Who Invented The Chair?), 1968 and Yo misma me presento (I Introduce Myself), 1974. Tofano presented her work in exhibitions at numerous galleries and institutions in Caracas including the Museo de Bellas Artes and the Galería de Arte Nacional. She was awarded the Premio Oficial de Artes Aplicadas at the 19th Salón Oficial, Museo de Bellas Artes (Caracas, 1958); gold medal at the International Exhibition of Contemporary Ceramics (Prague, 1961); and silver medal at the Exposición Internacional de Cerámica (Buenos Aires, 1962). In recent years, Tofano's work has been featured in group exhibitions including the 2015-2016 exhibition, MODERNO, Design for living in Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela, 1940-1978 at the Americas Society, New York and the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas and the pivotal 2017 exhibition, Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985, which traveled from Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, to the Brooklyn Museum, New York and Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil. Her ceramics were included in Cecilia Alemani's exhibition, The Milk of Dreams at the 2022 Venice Biennale. She is represented in the collections of Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. Tecla Tofano died in Caracas on October 20, 1995."-- Biography from:
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Tofano, Tecla; Art, Modern; Art, Venezuelan; Feminism in art; Potters; Pottery;
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The beach at Painter's Cove : a novel / by Noble, Shelley,author.(CARDINAL)347116;
The Whitaker family's Connecticut mansion, Muses by the Sea, has always been a haven for artists, a hotbed of creativity, extravagances, and the occasional scandal. Art patrons for generations, the Whitakers supported strangers but drained the life out of each other. Now, after being estranged for years, four generations of Whitaker women find themselves once again at The Muses. Leo, the Whitaker matriarch, lives in the rambling mansion crammed with artwork and junk. She plans to stay there until she joins her husband Wes on the knoll overlooking the cove and meadow where they first met. Her sister-in-law Fae, the town eccentric, is desperate to keep a secret she has been hiding for years. Jillian, is a jet setting actress, down on her luck, and has run out of men to support her. She thinks selling The Muses will make life easier for her mother, Leo, and Fae by moving them into assisted living. The sale will also bring her the funds to get herself back on top. Issy, Jillian's daughter, has a successful life as a museum exhibit designer that takes her around the world. But the Muses and her grandmother are the only family she's known and when her sister leaves her own children with Leo, Issy knows she has to step in to help. Steph, is only twelve-years-old and desperately needs someone to fire her imagination and bring her out of her shell. What she begins to discover at the Muses could change the course of her future. As Issy martials the family together to restore the mansion and catalogue the massive art collection, a surprising thing happens. Despite storms and moonlight dancing, diva attacks and cat fights, trips to the beach and flights of fancy, these four generations of erratic, dramatic women may just find a way to save the Muses and reunite their family.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Mansions; Beaches; Families; Secrecy; Secrecy.;
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Her past around us : interpreting sites for women's history / by Kaufman, Polly Welts,1929-(CARDINAL)271860; Corbett, Katharine T.(CARDINAL)271861;
Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Who walked before me? Creating women's history trails / Polly Welts Kaufman -- 2. Immortalizing women : finding meaning in public sculpture / Eileen Eagen -- 3. Spider woman's grand design : making native American women visible in southwestern history sites / Tara Travis -- 4. Women's voices : reinterpreting historic house museums / Bonnie Hurd Smith -- 5. Sunlight and shadow : free space/slave space at White Haven / Pamela K. Sanfilippo -- 6. The servant slant : Irish women domestic servants and historic house museums / Margaret Lynch-Brennan -- 7. She's in the garden : four turn-of-the-century women and their landscapes / Nancy Mayer Wetzel -- 8. Called home : finding women's history in nineteenth-century cemeteries / Katherine T. Corbett -- 9. Revisiting main street : uncovering women entrepreneurs / Candace A. Kanes -- 10. "Our territory" : race, place, gender, space and African American women in the urban south / Leslie Brown and Anne M. Valk -- 11. Reinterpreting public events : the impact of women's history on public celebrations / Barbara J. Howe
Subjects: Women; Women; Local history.; Historic sites.; Local geography.; Women.; Womyn.;
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