Location
1st Edition
Published on 3. May 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-4051-4694-4 (ISBN)
Description
A collection of essays by art historians, anthropologists and commentators on contemporary visual culture on the theme of 'Location'.
Explores the theme of 'Location', including transatlantic exchanges and global connections, and the nature of hospitality that arises in acknowledging migration and diaspora
Questions how important location is in producing, understanding and curating art.
Contributors consider such topics as site-specificity, examinations of the trans-national/trans-cultural, how images/visual forms migrate, and the repositioning of ownership
Explores the theme of 'Location', including transatlantic exchanges and global connections, and the nature of hospitality that arises in acknowledging migration and diaspora
Questions how important location is in producing, understanding and curating art.
Contributors consider such topics as site-specificity, examinations of the trans-national/trans-cultural, how images/visual forms migrate, and the repositioning of ownership
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 243 mm
Width: 173 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
626 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-4694-4 (9781405146944)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Deborah Cherry is Professor of the History of Art at the University of the Arts, London.
Fintan Cullen is Professor of Art History at the University of Nottingham.
Fintan Cullen is Professor of Art History at the University of Nottingham.
Content
On location: Deborah Cherry and Fintan Cullen. The errant image: Rogier van derWeyden's Deposition from the Cross and its copies: Amy Powell.
Signposts of invention: artists' signatures in Italian Renaissance art: Patricia Rubin.
Locating 'China' in the arts of sixteenth-century Japan: Andrew M. Watsky.
Georgianism and the tenements, Dublin 1908-1926: Mark Crinson.
Statues in the square: hauntings at the heart of empire: Deborah Cherry.
The Buddha goes global: some thoughts towards a transnational art history: Clare Harris.
Rebecca Belmore and James Luna on location at Venice: the allegorical Indian redux: Charlotte Townsend-Gault.
Author biographies.
Index
Signposts of invention: artists' signatures in Italian Renaissance art: Patricia Rubin.
Locating 'China' in the arts of sixteenth-century Japan: Andrew M. Watsky.
Georgianism and the tenements, Dublin 1908-1926: Mark Crinson.
Statues in the square: hauntings at the heart of empire: Deborah Cherry.
The Buddha goes global: some thoughts towards a transnational art history: Clare Harris.
Rebecca Belmore and James Luna on location at Venice: the allegorical Indian redux: Charlotte Townsend-Gault.
Author biographies.
Index