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    Art & visual culture : a reader / edited by Angeliki Lymberopolou, Pamela Bracewell-Horner, Joel Robinson.

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    • Title:Art & visual culture : a reader / edited by Angeliki Lymberopolou, Pamela Bracewell-Horner, Joel Robinson.
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    • Variant Title:Art and visual culture
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Lymberopoulou, Angeliki.
      Bracewell-Homer, Pamela.
      Robinson, Joel.
      Open University.
    • Published/Created:London : Tate Pub. ; Milton Keynes : Open University, 2012.

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Art--History--Sources.
      Art and society--History.
      Art and popular culture--History.
    • Description:384 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
    • Series:Art & visual culture.
    • Notes:Includes index.
      Published in association with the Open University.
    • ISBN:9781849760485 (pbk.)
      1849760489 (pbk.)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 VISUAL CULTURES OF MEDIEVAL CHRISTENDOM
      Introduction / Angeliki Lymberopoulou
      ch. 1 Sacred art as the `Bible of the Poor' / Kim Woods
      1. Venerable Bede - The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731)
      2. Venerable Bede - On the Temple (c.730)
      3. Bernard of Clairvaux - Apologia: The `Things of Greater Importance' (shortly after 1125)
      4. Lucas, Bishop of Tuy - A polemic against the Albigensians (c.1227-1254)
      5. Nicholas of Cusa - De Visione Dei(1453)
      ch. 2 Sacred architecture, Gothic architecture / Susie West
      1. Giorgio Vasari - `German Work (the Gothic Style)' (1568)
      2. Eugene Viollet-le-Duc - `Rational Building' (1854-68)
      3. Emile Male - The Gothic Image (1898)
      4. Nikolaus Pevsner - `The Early and Classic Gothic Style: c.1150-c.1250'(1943-57)
      5. Erwin Panofsky - Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism (1951)
      6. Rudolf Wittkower - `The Cathedral of Milan: Prelude' (1974)
      ch. 3 Sacred in secular, secular in sacred: the art of Simone Martini / Diana Norman
      1. Inscriptions on pulpits by Nicola and Giovanni Pisano (1260-1311)
      2. Account books recording bequests of Simone Martini (1344)
      3. Attributed to Giovanni de Caulibus - Meditations on the Life of Christ (c 1346/c.1350)
      4. Instructions for a dramatic performance of the Annunciation in the cathedral of Padua (14th Century)
      ch. 4 To the Holy Land and back again: the art of the Crusades / Angeliki Lymberopoulou
      1. Eighty-second Canon, Council in Trullo (692)
      2. Description of amiracle of St George (after 961)
      3. Wilbrand of Oldenburg - An account of Ibelin Palace, Beirut (1212)
      4. Letter from the Papal Sccretariat to Eudes de Chateauroux, Bishop of Tusculum (1253)
      5a. Qadi 'Izz al-Din Muhammad - Description of Jerusalem (1262-3)
      5. b Anonymous - Letter regarding the conquest of Craq des Chevaliers (1270-1)
      6. Bianca Kuhnel - `The Local Character of Crusader Art: A Re-definition' (1994)
      pt. 2 SHIFTING CONTEXTS OF RENAISSANCE ART
      Introduction / Angeliki Lymberopoulou
      ch. 5 Art at court / Kim Woods
      1. Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics (c.350-322 BCE)
      2. Alfonso X (Alfonso the Wise') - Law VI: How images painted or sculpted in the king's likeness should he respected and preserved and the punishment due to those who break them (c.1255-60)
      3. Desiderius Erasmus - The Education of a Christian Prince (1515/1516)
      4. Leone Leoni - Letters to Ferrante Gonzaga (?1546, 1549)
      5. Pietro Aretino - Letter to Leone Leoni (1549)
      6. Leone Leoni - Letter to Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1550)
      7. Bemal Diaz del Castillo - The Conquest of New Spain (1568, pub.1632)
      ch. 6 Botticelli / Piers Baker-Bates
      1. Giorgio Vasari - Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1568)
      2. Walter Pater - `Sandro Botticelli' (1870)
      ch. 7 Did women patrons have a Renaissance? Italy 1420-1520 / Catherine King
      1. Giovanni Dominici - Rule for family management (1416)
      2. Contract between Andrea del Sarto and the Chapter of San Francesco, Florence (1515)
      3. Isabella d'Este - Letter to Pietro Perugino (1503)
      4. Franciscans of Santa Maria di Monteluce, Perugia - Chronicle of Santa Maria di Monteluce (1482-1505)
      5. Anna Bellavitis and Isabelle Chabot- `People and Property in Florence and Venice' (2006)
      ch. 8 From Candia to Toledo: EI Greco and his art / Angeliki Lymberopoulou
      1. Two documents concerning a dispute between the confraternities of painters and sailers on Crete (1579)
      2. Document on the auction of EI Greco's Passion of Christ (1566)
      3. Giulio Clovio - Letter introducing EI Greco to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (1570)
      4. Giulio Cesare Mancini - On El Greco's willingness to repaint Michelangelo's Last Judgement (1619)
      5. Francisco Pacheco - `The Art of Painting. its Antiquity and Glories' (1638)
      6. Giorgio Vasari - Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1568)
      7. Jose de Siguenza - History of the Order of St Jerome, Doctor of the Church (1605)
      8. Roger Fry - Vision and Design (1923)
      pt. 3 CITY AND COUNTRY
      Introduction / Joel Robinson
      ch. 9 Bernini and Baroque Rome / Carol M. Richardson
      1. Filippo Baldinucci - The Life af Bernini (1682)
      2. Report on Bernini's statue of Constantine the Great (c.1670)
      3. Irving Lavin - Bernini and the Unity of the Visual Arts (1980)
      4. Heinrich Wolfflin - Principles of Art History (1915)
      ch. 10 Meaning and Interpretation: Dutch painting of the golden age / Jason Gaiger
      1. Philips Angel - In Praise of Painting (1642)
      2. Svetlana Alpers - `Picturing Dutch Culture' (1994)
      ch. 11 metropolitan urban renaissance: London 1660-1760 / Elizabeth McKellar
      1. John Evelyn - Fumifugium or The lnconvenience of the Aer and Smoak of London Dissipated Together with some Remedies humbly Proposed (1661)
      2. Colcn Campbell - Vitruvius Britannicus (1715)
      3. Jurgen Habermas - Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1962)
      ch. 12 English liuidscapc garden 1680-1760 / Susie West
      1. W.J.T. Mitchell - `Imperial Landscapes' (1994)
      2. John Bonehill - `Estates' (2009)
      3. Bianca Maria Rinaldi - The `Chinese Garden in Good Taste'(2006)
      4. Katherine Myers - `Visual Fields: Theories of Perception and the Landscape Garden' (2006)
      pt. 4 NEW WORLDS OF ART
      Introduction / Joel Robinson
      ch. 13 Painting for the public / Emma Barker
      1. Joshua Reynolds - Discourses (1770, 1771)
      2. Thomas E. Crow - Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris (1985)
      ch. 14 Canova, Neo-classicism and the sculpted body / Linda Walsh
      1. Johann Joachim Winckelmann - `Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks' (1755) and `On Grace' (1759)
      ch. 15 other side of the world / Paul Wood
      1. John Millar - From a lecture on the `Four Stages' of human society (1760s-1770s)
      2. James Cook, William Wales and William Anderson - Aspects of Polynesian art and culture (1769-79)
      3. Peter Gathercole - `Lord Sandwich's Collection of Polynesian Artefacts' (1998)
      ch. 16 Inventing the Romantic artist / Emma Barker
      1. Caspar David Friedrich - `Observations on Viewinga Collection of Paintings Largely by Living or Recently Deceased Artists' (1841)
      2. Richard Shiff - `Originality' (2003)
      pt. 5 ART AND MODERIMITY
      Introduction / Pamela Bracewell-Homer
      ch. 17 Avant-garde and modern world: some aspects of art in Paris and beyond c.1850-1914 / Paul Wood
      1. Charles Baudelaire - `On the Heroism of Modern Life' (from The Salon of 1846) and `Modernity' (from `The Painter of Modern Life', 1863)
      2. Paul Gauguin - NoaNoa (1893-5)
      3. Filippo Tomiriaso Marinetti - `The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism'(1909)
      ch. 18 Victorian Britain: from images of modernity to the modernity of Images / Steve Edwards
      1. John Ruskin - "The Nature of Gothie' (1851-3)
      2. William Morris - `Useful Work versus Useless Toil' (1884)
      3. George Simmel - `The Metropolis and Mental Life' (1903)
      ch. 19 Cubism and Abstract Art revisited / Paul Wood
      1. David Cottington - A.H. Barr and Clement Greenberg on Cubism and abstract art (2004)
      ch. 20 Modernism in architecture and design: function and aesthetic / Tim Benton
      1. Le Corbusier - `Notes a la suite' (1926)
      2. Sigfried Giedion - The new house (1926)
      3. Sigfried Giedion - Building in France, Building in Iron, Building in Ferro-Concrete (1928)
      4. Steen Eiler Rasmussen - `Le Corbusier: The Architecture of the Tomorrow' (1926)
      pt. 6 FROM MODERNISM TO GLOBALISATOIN
      Introduction / Pamela Bracewell-Homer
      ch. 21 Modernism and figuration / Brendan Prenderville
      1. Jean-Paul Sartre - `Giaeometti in Search of Space' (1954)
      2. John Berger - `Why Picasso?' (1954)
      ch. 22 From Abstract Expressionism to Conceptual Art: a survey of New York art 1940-1970 / Michael Carris
      1. Jackson Pollock -`My Painting' (1947-8)
      2. Clement Greenberg - `"American-Type" Painting' (1955, 1961)
      3. Harold Rosenberg - `The American Action Painters' (1952)
      4. Allan Kaprow- `The Legacy of Jackson Pollock' (1958)
      5. Lucy R Lippard and John Chandler - `The Dematerialization of Art' (1968)
      6. Lawrence Weiner - `Statements' (1968)
      ch. 23 Border crossings: installations, locations and travelling artists / Gill Perry
      1. Lucy R. Lippard - `Being in Place' (1997)
      2. Miwon Kwon - One Place after Another (2002)
      ch. 24 Global dissensus: art and contemporary capitalism / Gail Day
      1. Kim Levin - `The CNN Documenta' (2002)
      2. Blake Gopnik - `The Coarse Art of Repudiation' (2002)
      3. Linda Nochlin - `Documented Success' (2002)
      4. Matthew Higgs - `Same Old Same Old' (2002)
      5. James Meyer - `Tunnel Visions' (2002).
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