[PDF] Visual Metaphor And The Contemporary Artist eBook

Author : Mark Staff Brandl
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,30 MB
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1350073849

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Metaphor, which allows us to talk about things by comparing them to other things, is one of the most ubiquitous and adaptable features of language and thought. It allows us to clarify meaning, yet also evaluate and transform the ways we think, create and act. While we are alert to metaphor in spoken or written texts, it has, within the visual arts, been critically overlooked. Taking into consideration how metaphors are inventively embodied in the formal, technical, and stylistic aspects of visual artworks, Mark Staff Brandl shows how extensively artists rely on creative metaphor within their work. Exploring the work of a broad variety of artists – including Dawoud Bey, Dan Ramirez, Gaëlle Villedary, Raoul Deal, Sonya Clark, Titus Kaphar, Charles Boetschi, and more– he argues that metaphors are the foundation of visual thought, are chiefly determined by bodily and environmental experiences, and are embodied in artistic form. Visual artistic creation is philosophical thought. By grounding these arguments in the work of philosophers and cultural theorists, including Noël Carroll, Hans Georg Gadamer, and George Lakoff, Brandl shows how important metaphor is to understanding contemporary art. A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art takes a neglected feature of the visual arts and shows us what a vital role it plays within them. Bridging theory and practice, and drawing upon a capacious array of examples, this book is essential reading for art historians and practitioners, as well as analytic philosophers working in aesthetics and meaning.

Author : Daniel Serig
Publisher : VDM Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 33,47 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783836470919

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"Investigates the practice and exhibition of contemporary artists to understand how they create meaning. This study determines a conceptual structure to the creation of visual metaphors by these artists that closely aligns with the cognitive view of metaphor." - Book cover.

Author : Charles M. Dorn
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 22,98 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 0805830782

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Art educ. text presents philosophical & psych. theories dealing w/ art cog., vision, & perception; discusses how these theories are evidenced in both mature artists and K-12 students; examines how they may be used to shape school art learning environment

Author : K. E. Gover
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 25,27 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 0198768699

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'Art and Authority' explores the sources, nature, and limits of artistic freedom. The author draws upon real-world cases and controversies in contemporary visual art to offer a better understanding of artistic authorship and authority. Each chapter focuses on a case of dispute over the rights of an artist with respect to his or her artwork.

Author : Gregory Minissale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 50,78 MB
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 110701932X

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This book examines how contemporary artworks can affect our psychology, producing immersive experiences.

Author : Catherine Kyle
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 49,46 MB
Release : 2016
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Sarah Oleksyk’s Ivy, I. Merey’s a+e 4ever, David Small’s Stitches, Craig Thompson’s Blankets, and Ellen Forney’s Marbles are five contemporary U.S. long-form comics that demonstrate what I call branched metaphoric monstration—the presence of illustrations that represent at least two narrative positions that contain visual metaphor. Given that all five of these texts are also semi autobiographical stories and memoirs that focus on the maturation of emerging visual artists, branched metaphoric monstration serves, in each of them, to comment on the developing cognition of young creators. The insights these texts provide individually and collectively shed light on some of the pressures young artists face, the way artists navigate these obstacles, and the relationships between thought, perception, emotion, memory, and visual art. Drawing from cognitive metaphor theory, comics studies, film studies, critical theory, queer theory, and other discourses, I supply literary analyses of these texts with attention to the themes of emptiness and denial in Ivy, gender and sexuality in a+e 4ever, physical illness in Stitches, religious anxiety in Blankets, and mental illness in Marbles. I argue that comics displaying branched metaphoric monstration are helping to usher in a new generation of Künstlerroman narratives, one heavily influenced by postmodern thought that still reveals traces of the genre’s Romantic heritage.

Author : Lance Esplund
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,76 MB
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 0465094678

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A veteran art critic helps us make sense of modern and contemporary art The landscape of contemporary art has changed dramatically during the last hundred years: from Malevich's 1915 painting of a single black square and Duchamp's 1917 signed porcelain urinal to Jackson Pollock's midcentury "drip" paintings; Chris Burden's "Shoot" (1971), in which the artist was voluntarily shot in the arm with a rifle; Urs Fischer's "You" (2007), a giant hole dug in the floor of a New York gallery; and the conceptual and performance art of today's Ai Weiwei and Marina Abramovic. The shifts have left the art-viewing public (understandably) perplexed. In The Art of Looking, renowned art critic Lance Esplund demonstrates that works of modern and contemporary art are not as indecipherable as they might seem. With patience, insight, and wit, Esplund guides us through the last century of art and empowers us to approach and appreciate it with new eyes. Eager to democratize genres that can feel inaccessible, Esplund encourages viewers to trust their own taste, guts, and common sense. The Art of Looking will open the eyes of viewers who think that recent art is obtuse, nonsensical, and irrelevant, as well as the eyes of those who believe that the art of the past has nothing to say to our present.

Author : Irving Sandler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 37,59 MB
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 0429981821

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Sandler discusses the major and minor artists and their works; movements, ideas, attitudes, and styles; and the social and cultural context of the period. He covers post-modernist art theory, the art market, and consumer society. American and European art and artists are included.

Author : Simonetta Moro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,28 MB
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 0429576749

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Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art defines a new cartographic aesthetic, or what Simonetta Moro calls carto-aesthetics, as a key to interpreting specific phenomena in modern and contemporary art, through the concept of poetic cartography. The problem of mapping, although indebted to the "spatial turn" of poststructuralist philosophy, is reconstructed as hermeneutics, while exposing the nexus between topology, space-time, and memory. The book posits that the emergence of "mapping" as a ubiquitous theme in contemporary art can be attributed to the power of the cartographic model to constitute multiple worldviews that can be seen as paradigmatic of the post-modern and contemporary condition. This book will be of particular interest to scholars in art history, art theory, aesthetics, and cartography.

Author : Terry E. Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 32,70 MB
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226764311

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Who gets to say what counts as contemporary art? Artists, critics, curators, gallerists, auctioneers, collectors, or the public? Revealing how all of these groups have shaped today’s multifaceted definition, Terry Smith brilliantly shows that an historical approach offers the best answer to the question: What is Contemporary Art? Smith argues that the most recognizable kind is characterized by a return to mainstream modernism in the work of such artists as Richard Serra and Gerhard Richter, as well as the retro-sensationalism of figures like Damien Hirst and Takashi Murakami. At the same time, Smith reveals, postcolonial artists are engaged in a different kind of practice: one that builds on local concerns and tackles questions of identity, history, and globalization. A younger generation embodies yet a third approach to contemporaneity by investigating time, place, mediation, and ethics through small-scale, closely connective art making. Inviting readers into these diverse yet overlapping art worlds, Smith offers a behind-the-scenes introduction to the institutions, the personalities, the biennials, and of course the works that together are defining the contemporary. The resulting map of where art is now illuminates not only where it has been but also where it is going.