Penn State University Press: 456 books
by Daniel Levy, Natan Sznaider
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Memories of historical events like the Holocaust have played a key role in the internationalization of human rights. Their importance lies in their ability to bridge the universal and the particular—the universality of human values and the particularity of memories rooted in local human experiences....
by René Brimo, Kenneth Haltman
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The Evolution of Taste in American Collecting is a new critical translation of René Brimo’s classic study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century patronage and art collecting in the United States. Originally published in French in 1938, Brimo’s foundational text is a detailed examination of collecting...
Baroque Seville
Sacred Art in a Century of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Baroque art flourished in seventeenth-century Seville during a tumultuous period of economic decline, social conflict, and natural disasters. This volume explores the patronage that fueled this frenzy of religious artistic and architectural activity and the lasting effects it had on the city and its...
Buying Baroque
Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Although Americans have shown interest in Italian Baroque art since the eighteenth century—Thomas Jefferson bought copies of works by Salvator Rosa and Guido Reni for his art gallery at Monticello, and the seventeenth-century Bolognese school was admired by painters Benjamin West and John Singleton...
The Politics of the Provisional
Art and Ephemera in Revolutionary France
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
In revolutionary France the life of things could not be assured. War, shortage of materials, and frequent changes in political authority meant that few large-scale artworks or permanent monuments to the Revolution’s memory were completed. On the contrary, visual practice in revolutionary France...
All About Process
The Theory and Discourse of Modern Artistic Labor
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
In recent years, many prominent and successful artists have claimed that their primary concern is not the artwork they produce but the artistic process itself. In this volume, Kim Grant analyzes this idea and traces its historical roots, showing how changing concepts of artistic process have played...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
The “biennale culture” now determines much of the art world. Literature on the worldwide dissemination of art assumes nationalism and ethnic identity, but rarely analyzes it. At the same time there is extensive theorizing about globalization in political theory, cultural studies, postcolonial...
A Greene Country Towne
Philadelphia’s Ecology in the Cultural Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
An unconventional history of Philadelphia that operates at the threshold of cultural and environmental studies, A Greene Country Towne expands the meaning of community beyond people to encompass nonhuman beings, things, and forces.
By examining a diverse range of cultural acts and material...
Landscape into Eco Art
Articulations of Nature Since the ’60s
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Dedicated to an articulation of the earth from broadly ecological perspectives, eco art is a vibrant subset of contemporary art that addresses the widespread public concern with rapid climate change and related environmental issues. In Landscape into Eco Art, Mark Cheetham systematically examines...
Hope in Hard Times
Norvelt and the Struggle for Community During the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Of the many recipients of federal support during the Great Depression, the citizens of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, stand out as model reminders of the vital importance of New Deal programs. Hoping to transform their desperate situation, the 250 families of this western Pennsylvania town worked with the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Each of the five volumes in the Stone Art Theory Institutes series, and the seminars on which they are based, brings together a range of scholars who are not always directly familiar with one another’s work. The outcome of each of these convergences is an extensive and “unpredictable conversation”...
by Allison Morehead
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
This provocative study argues that some of the most inventive artwork of the 1890s was strongly influenced by the methods of experimental science and ultimately foreshadowed twentieth-century modernist practices.
Looking at avant-garde figures such as Maurice Denis, Édouard Vuillard, August...
Critical Shift
Rereading Jarves, Cook, Stillman, and the Narratives of Nineteenth-Century American Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
American Civil War–era art critics James Jackson Jarves, Clarence Cook, and William J. Stillman classified styles and defined art in terms that have become fundamental to our modern periodization of the art of the nineteenth century. In Critical Shift, Karen Georgi rereads many of their well-known...
by Jonathan Strom
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
August Hermann Francke described his conversion to Pietism in gripping terms that included intense spiritual struggle, weeping, falling to his knees, and a decisive moment in which his doubt suddenly disappeared and he was “overwhelmed as with a stream of joy.” His account came to exemplify Pietist...