Shamoon Zamir: 2 books
The Gift of the Face
Portraiture and Time in Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian is the most ambitious photographic and ethnographic record of Native American cultures ever produced. Published between 1907 and 1930 as a series of twenty volumes and portfolios, the work contains more than two thousand photographs intended to document...
Imperfect Fit
Aesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing since 1950
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Imperfect Fit: Aesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing since 1950 is an expansive and incisive examination of the patterns of connectedness in contemporary art and poetry. Allen Fisher—a highly accomplished poet, painter, critic, and art historian as well as a key figure in...