(Part 2) Best art & photography criticism books according to redditors
We found 922 Reddit comments discussing the best art & photography criticism books. We ranked the 445 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
Never going to happen.
There's a book entitled Loot: The Battle Over Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World which, after many chapters covering Italian, Egyptian, and Greek treasures, puts forward a single, simple argument: if a single major museum were to return ancient treasures, every single museum in the world would be inundated with demands.
Most regional museums don't have the resources to adequately keep, secure, protect, and promote ancient treasures. Cairo, Baghdad, and Addis Ababa, are simply not prepared to shoulder the burden of protecting humanity's history and culture. At least, not yet. Then there's the issue of tourism, in that if the regional museum is too remote and inaccessible, or in a country that tourists won't visit, the ancient treasure will not be seen by the public and will quickly fade from cultural history, becoming a footnote.
Items in London, New York, and Paris, are seen, appreciated, discussed, investigated, and remembered by hundreds of thousands of people every year, many of whom are discovering these items and their stories for the first time. The money earned by those museums goes toward specialized teams that hunt for objects around the world, working in the gray and black markets to recover stolen items, or to find them for the first time.
From a moral perspective, attempting to impose modern museum ethics on items taken in the 1860s is a non-starter. Back then, there was no indication the local governments would ever protect these treasures of humanity - our shared history and culture - and there was a very real risk that, given the region's instability, the items would be looted, disappear, or be destroyed. By all accounts, Ethiopia ought to thank the British for saving and promoting a part of their history and culture. But the British can't say that, as it smacks of cultural superiority (an attitude the British were all too guilty of espousing during the Empire's era) and is frankly insulting. Instead, curators of the largest museums keep their mouths shut, deny almost 99.9% of all requests in order to avoid opening Pandora's Box.
In addition to your own experiences (and corresponding emotional associations) with something, such as a color, the way a society attributes meaning to it also impacts our personal presences. In other words, people respond to, and in turn communicate, social cues when they declare their preferences for a color.
In the US, for instance, more people say blue is their favorite color (one, of many, sources). So, sometimes (maybe or maybe not in your case!) that subtly affects a person's individual preferences, e.g., to also like blue and convey a message of social belonging.
P.S., You may enjoy Blue: The History of a Color, which describes the history of the color blue. It's a lot more involved than you'd expect!
We actually know a fair bit about ancient boxing. I apologize, my book on ancient sports is on campus. However, we do have several accounts and lots of images of ancient boxing.
There are boxing matches in both the Iliad and the Odyssey. The account in the Iliad is more impressionistic, but in the Odyssey (and I have read this in Greek), it sounds like a pretty technical description:
> Irus hurled a fist
at Odysseus' right shoulder as he himself came through with a hook below the ear, pounding Irus' neck, smashing the bones inside (here's the Greek - the hook could be Fagles' embellishment δὴ τότ᾽ ἀνασχομένω ὁ μὲν ἤλασε δεξιὸν ὦμον
Ἶρος, ὁ δ᾽ αὐχέν᾽ ἔλασσεν ὑπ᾽ οὔατος, ὀστέα δ᾽ εἴσω
ἔθλασεν).
Boxing remained a topic of poetry, occurring in Theocritus, The Argonautica, and the Aeneid.
As for pictures: we have [sculptures] (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Thermae_boxer_Massimo_Inv1055.jpg) (there are little Roman models that I couldn't find tonight EDIT: Found one!), and vase paintings ([1]http://ancientolympics.arts.kuleuven.be/picEN/slides/P0011.jpg) , 2), and wall paintings.
To my mind, the images don't seem completely foreign. I think I know what I'm looking at, same for the literary descriptions. We do know the rules were different - They seem to have been much more constrained; the ref would push the fighters together rather than apart, and there's at least one story of a fight going into "overtime" in which each fighter traded one punch at a time in a "sudden death" mode.
I'm sorry my book is on campus. I've given a link if you want to look it up yourself or I can follow up some unspecified time in the future.
I am gonna be that guy...Thom took some poetic license here. He was writing fiction.
Theogenes was a real athlete but he boxed and practiced pankration in Greece. Pankration was kind of less structured. More like MMA. And this statue is from Rome. Greek Rome, but still.
The version where the boxers are strapped down and fight with spiked caestus came from legend, iirc. Most contemporary depictions show them standing. There were no rings, weight classes or anything like that, no rounds. Just surrender or incapacitation. They usually just hit the face and head though.
It is not at all clear that this statue is meant to be Theogenes either. He lived centuries before in Greece. This is a statue from Hellenistic Rome under Greek rule. Quirinal is one of the seven hills in Rome. Its where the modern Italian version of the white house is.
https://youtu.be/FvsSPJoJB3k
Khan Academy has a good video of this.
If you want a more in depth read on these guys, there's a book by Michael Poliakoff worth a look.
https://www.amazon.com/Combat-Sports-Ancient-World-Competition/dp/0300063121
Please don’t touch steel blades with your fingers, that’s what creates rust. Keep the blade oiled.
It's a shamshir, but it depends what you mean by “real damascus.” This looks like a well forged form of pattern welding, but not classical “wootz” crucible steel. Does that mean it’s wrong for this type of sword? I don’t know if that’s necessarily true, especially if it’s a later-period sword (as I suspect this is). This topic is so far outside my primary field that I really don’t know how this sword should be judged. Overall though I’d say the level of fit and finish makes me somewhat optimistic. It does seem like a “real” sword (as opposed to tourist knockoff or purely ceremonial). The koftgari is nice but not masterful. I’d very tentatively guess 18th–19th century.
Sorry I don’t have any more germane knowledge to offer, but congrats in any case.
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FWIW, here are (maddeningly unlabeled) similar examples:
Horse head
Peacock
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If I were you, I’d post it to the Middle Eastern subforum at SFI, where Dr. Khorasani posts (as Manouchehr M.) – as well as other experts. You will get a much more knowledgeable response there than you could ever get on Reddit. But thanks for sharing it with us!
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EDIT: So the more I look, the more pessimistic I become. Although it looks nice enough, the genuine examples I see all have a much tighter form of pattern welding or wootz, whereas examples with this large “whorl” pattern welding are all more recent Indian tourist pieces (and are accordingly much less valuable). Just for example.
I will keep looking, but you really ought to just post them to SFI. Please let us know if you do. Thanks!
It may not be fitting for today's city, but it recognizes San Francisco's historical importance as a strategically located military base while still acknowledging its more well-known peaceful and progressive nature.
There's a great map, Right Wing of the Dove, that depicts "The Bay Area as a conservative/military brain trust" from Rebecca Solnit's Infinite City, which I highly recommend. Each map has an accompanying essay, and it's a great way to learn about the different layers of Bay Area history. I'm on the progressive/liberal end of the political spectrum, but I still find this aspect of the Bay Area really fascinating.
My Mother (either purchased or found) a cool cone shell that contained a crude likeness of the Sierpinski triangle. Always thought it was cool!
I posted it on here years ago.
Due to the way the shell grows and "prints" out a pattern it is not uncommon for cone shells to be covered with awesome geometric designs. There is a very cool book on precisely this subject that I'm sure a few of you have.
I just finished reading Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer and I had a bizarre feeling about his quotes and examples. It wasn't as if they were downright lies - I didn't think it went that far - but it seemed to me like he picked quotes and examples to specifically fit the exact point he was trying to make.
It's chilling to see that he was downright making up quotes and then trying to cover them up by lying about them.
Last time I read anything he writes.
There's a lot of great writing about that in this book
Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas by Rebecca Solnit!
She explores the area thematically — connecting, for example, Eadweard Muybridge's foundation of motion-picture technology with Alfred Hitchcock's filming of Vertigo. Across an urban grid of just seven by seven miles, she finds seemingly unlimited landmarks and treasures: butterfly habitats, queer sites, murders, World War II shipyards, blues clubs, Zen Buddhist centers. She roams the political terrain, both progressive and conservative, and details the cultural geographies of the Mission District, the culture wars of the Fillmore, the South of Market world being devoured by redevelopment, and much, much more.
Also a hoodie. Your friend will need layers. Layer her right on up.
I saw this book in a few museum bookstores recently. One of the key points I picked up from a quick thumb-through is that even if a kid could execute it the same way, they wouldn't do it for the same reasons.
Recommend these books published by Phaidon:
EDIT: a few more.
This is what everyone will be talking about for a few weeks:
And looking back:
I believe, if I recall correctly, that this book is reasonable for Tibetan Buddhist symbolism, and I believe that it covers more general imagery as well, such as the 8 auspicious symbols, the dharmachakra, etc. Alternatively, if you want something even more comprehensive, this one might be for you.
Of note, in the first link, one of the reviewers very specifically points out that these two are not the same - the second one is more comprehensive.
> Same reason someone would drop millions on a Pollock splatter painting when any 5 year old can throw paint at a canvas
Why Your Five-Year-Old Could Not Have Done That: From Slashed Canvas to Unmade Bed, Modern Art Explained https://www.amazon.com/dp/3791347357/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_lVMszbX1ZQ22N
Besides that they're not called "splatter paintings." Sorry to be so short about it, but you have no idea what you're talking about. Like genuinely you're just talking from a place of ignorance and inexperience.
If anyone is interested in reading more in that direction, there's this book.
There is a book called The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells about this.
Not a history book per se but I got great entertainment and insight out of this one:
http://www.amazon.com/Infinite-City-San-Francisco-Atlas/dp/0520262506/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334859545&sr=1-5
I found this book a while ago that I really like, Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That. The author takes a wide sample of modern artwork that does look very simple and explains the cultural context, the author's intent, and why your small child would not have been able to achieve the same effect - even if they could technically produce the same piece of art.
Jackson Pollack was one of the artists in the book, and I can't remember what she had to say about him, but one that stuck out to me was that stupid urinal installation. As far as I can recall: The point was getting a urinal into a museum in the first place, because museums control public perception of art, therefore it's the museum curators who decide what is art and what is not, and the artist submitted the urinal at a time when there was a debate about "what constitutes art" circulating in the art world. That sort of stunt wouldn't be as meaningful right now because that's not where the art world is at.
It's a quick book to get through. I still reserve the right to not like modern art, but at least I have a better understanding of why it exists.
It really depends on what she is interested in, it is a very broad subject. Here are some of the better things I've read in the past few years, trying to make up for a lack of art education in school:
History of Modern Art
Art in Theory 1900 - 2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas
Color in Contemporary Painting: Integrating Practice and Theory
After Modern Art 1945-2000
Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction
Modern Sculpture: A Concise History
Sculpture since 1945
The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers
Aesthetics
The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
There are too many good contemporary painters to name. For an excellent survey, pick up a copy of Vitamin P or the followup. But here's one of my favorites. William Daniels is an incredibly talented contemporary painter whose work is still highly conceptual. The conceptual union of his ideas, his medium, his technique, and his subject matter is really what contemporary art (or contemporary painting) is about.
I had actually just finished 'The Bell Jar'. It was very interesting and sad. I have conflicted opinions on it.
Just started reading On Ugliness, the complementary book to History Of Beauty. Since I have an attraction to grotesque, I love it. Usually there isn't an actual discussion on ugliness, only as contraditction to beauty, so it's incredibly interesting, imo.
Edit: Oh! also fanfiction.
Loot - Its an easy read since its written for the general public and not museologists but it covers the bases of looted antiquities through case studies.
http://www.amazon.com/Loot-Battle-Stolen-Treasures-Ancient/dp/0805090886
Sorry for the wait, delivering!
I recently moved, so most of my books are still in boxes. However, I've already unboxed the best ones, so I'll list them here (note that most of them are not written by anthropologists per se, but are good books nonetheless):
OK, I'll stop here. If you want more recommendations (specially stuff on other languages, like Portuguese, French or Japanese, that I didn't bother listing here), feel free to PM me ;)
The book Writing Arabic: A Practical Introduction, while older, does a decent job of teaching you how to write and read ruq'ah which is what is usually used for handwriting. It might still be difficult, but this is one of the better resources for getting better at this, I think.
I learned to read on the Hanson-Roberts deck. I bought it with my best friend when we were 15 and she spilled wine on it a couple of years ago, unfortunately. ._.
Currently I am using the Russian Tarot of St. Petersburg for my readings. I actually bought it a couple of years ago and started to do a couple of readings with it, but I wasn't ready for it at the time. I found the imagery to be too intense for me. Now, though, I find that it is exactly what I need and I find myself very in tune with this deck.
I bought the Art Nouveau deck at the same time as the St. Petersburg deck, and although I used it at first and I think the cards are beautiful, it does not speak to me whatsoever. I don't really know what to do with the deck since I have already used it, I can't exactly gift it to anyone else, but I have zero communion with the deck and won't be using it again. The symbolism is virtually non-existent for me and I find myself becoming irritated with the cards very easily.
While it's not specifically about modern literature, I would suggest Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor. I would also recommend The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism and finally Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction.
As for stream-of-consciousness, it can be beautiful when executed artfully, but excruciating when done ham-handedly. If you want an excellent example of s-o-c narration, look no further than To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf. No other author so expertly captures the inner life of the mind.
Robert Beer's The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs has been an invaluable resource for me in the way of iconography.
I highly recommend this book.
Don't learn by copying fonts or something similar. Learning from google image is also not the best idea, people write in different styles.
I my opinion you should stick with Ruq'ah. And if you will not be able to find something (certain connections between letters probably) in that book, search for some examples of calligraphy in Ruq'ah style and adapt it. There's many Arabic and Turkish sources, including calligraphy learning books.
Get this: http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Arabic-Practical-Introduction-Script/dp/0198151500
There's no better book for arabic handwriting in English.
And this is probably the only one that treats the subject comprehensively.
Vitamin P and Vitamin P2are really great art books, you could always see if Art 21 makes DVDs and gift him those. Those are really well regarded and interesting to watch. Find out what kind of art he is a fan out or who he is a fan of and buy him one of their books.
In terms of BLM, it might be worth reading some stuff by Ta-Nehisi Coates too; his book Between the World and Me is pretty good but his longform journalism for the Atlantic is better: check out "The Case for Reparations" and "The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration". For a counterpoint, check out RL Stephens's critique of Coates here and in this excellent interview.
It's poetry, but Citizen by Claudia Rankine is quick and examines the ways that structural racism infiltrates people's daily interactions. Here's an excerpt.
Edit: one more, Keeyanga Yamahtta Taylor's From #blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation is excellent!
Here you go.
How so? The handle lengths given in Khorasani, Arms and Armor from Iran seem normal enough, rather than "very short". As long as the hand fits between the pommel and guard, it all works. Median hand breadth for adult military age males is about 9cm, so shamshir hilts seem to be plenty long enough.
The top comments here are good- I’d just add a recommendation that aligns well with this topic and sub: “Why Your Five-Year-Old Could Not Have Done That: From Slashed Canvas to Unmade Bed, Modern Art Explained “ by Hodge.
I took a course on avant-garde art in college and it helped me understand modern art a lot more and question my conception of what art “is” - I still didn’t love all of it of course but it really expanded my critical eye and also made me appreciate performance art and large installation a lot more.
The "Very Short Introduction" series is usually high quality stuff. They can all be read in a sitting and are written by different authors who specialize in whatever the topic is. Some authors will skip the details to make it easy to read, others will make it denser than usual to cram everything into a short package. The overview is enough to understand works referencing the topic, while also teaching you enough to know what else to read for a deeper dive.
Metaphysics
Epistemology
Postmodernism
Along these lines, Umberto Eco's On Ugliness is fantastic.
There is also the companion History of Beauty
If you think pankration is interesting, I recommend this excellent book. It's a work on combat sports in the ancient world, including pankration.
There's also an interesting series of articles that came out recently that discuss 'interpretive' systems like pankration and their place in the martial arts community. Worth a read if you wonder about how and where these 'dead' arts come from.
This book is incredibly thorough and really helpful. It's kind of expensive, so I advise you to check the libraries around you for it (mine had it), but if you don't find it, here's a pdf. I recommend that if you can get a hard copy, get it though.
Part 1
Part 2
The three volumes of Art in Theory: An Anthology of Changing Ideas are great answers to your question:
Yeah I took it this morning. It's a page from this book.
https://www.amazon.com/Combat-Sports-Ancient-World-Competition/dp/0300063121
It's a good read if you're interested in both martial arts and history.
Have your read Eco's History of Beauty?
Or his On Ugliness?
I summarised this from "Arms and Armor of Iran"
https://www.amazon.com/Arms-Armor-Iran-Bronze-Period/dp/3932942221
This page by a Kiel faculty of Engineering student is also useful.
https://www.tf.uni-kiel.de/matwis/amat/iss/kap_a/advanced/ta_4_1.html
This is the paper that lead to the discovery of the importance of vanadium and other carbide formers in wootz:
https://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/9809/Verhoeven-9809.html
And here's a streamlined, updated review
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11837-018-2915-z
If you thought that was cool you might also find this interesting:
["The algorithmic beauty of plants"]
(http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/abop/abop.pdf)
and
"The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells "
and
"Stephen Wolfram - A new kind of science"
I was gonna say Frederik L. Schodt's: Manga! Manga! but you beat me too it. (although as all_my_fish said it might be a bit hard to find it.)
Manga: 60 Years of Japanese Comics and Dreamland Japan aren't too shabby in terms of information on manga (although again you will have to find them first.)
Also A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi is an autobiographic manga about the gekiga movement that took place withing manga (and talks about the history of manga to a certain extent. (It is also a pretty well done manga in and of itself)).
I wish I could help find you some better non-book sources.
Your essay seems ok so far.
Here is a couple of lines from Schodt's book that you might could use:
>The word manga (pronounced "mahngah") can mean caricature, cartoon, comic strip, comic book, or animation. Coined by the Japanese woodblock- print artist Hokusai in 1814, it uses the Chinese ideograms [I don't know how to type these sorry] man ("involuntary" or "in spite of oneself") and [another one chinese character] ga ("picture"). Hokusai was evidently trying to describe something like "whimsical sketches." But it is interesting to note that the first ideogram has a secondary meaning of "morally corrupt." The term manga did not come into popular usage until the beginning of this century. Before that, cartoons were called Toba-e or "Toba pictures," after an 11th-century artist; giga, or "playful pictures"; kyoga, or "crazy pictures"; and, in the late 19th century, ponchi-e, or "Punch pictures," after the British magizine. In addition to manga one also hears today the word gekiga or "drama pictures" to describe the more serious, realistic story-comics. Some Japanese, however, simply adopt an English word to describe their favorite reading matter: komikkusu.
(from page 18 of Manga! Manga!)
there you go a source you can use and quote and make your teacher happy (maybe).
These are few nonfiction books that I've enjoyed reading this year:
Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
America's Constitution: A Biography by Akhil Reed Amar
In the Land of Invented Languages by Arika Okrent
The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
Bitten b Witch Fever was beautiful and fun to read. It’s in between the size of a regular book and a coffee table book.
A little smaller, but equally interesting is A History of Beauty by Umberto Eco
i have a few buddhist themed tattoos all from Robert Beer's excellent, The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs
https://www.amazon.com/Manga-Sixty-Years-Japanese-Comics/dp/1856693910
^^maybe try and find book sources like this too
I'm off my mobile now.
Now to be fair, if we're critisizing things as being "a blog post without any detail" let's see how that wikipedia article backs-up its claim.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/david-wearing/six-problems-with-sarah-ditum%E2%80%99s-article-about-iraq-and-left
Oh...
Are we allowing that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC#Specific_allegations
A whole page of it for BBC...
Here is a better Wings Over Scotland article with more detail:
http://wingsoverscotland.com/the-extraordinary-untruth/
And a followup after their pithy response.
http://wingsoverscotland.com/an-act-of-provocation/
Likewise here is a better media lens link which deals with Andre Marr reporting for the BBC:
http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2010/15-a-journey-unchallenged-andrew-marr-interviews-tony-blair.html
You may not be ideologically inclined with either of these websites. But their source data are always accurate or from legitimate sources (in so far as they don't make up any statements or claims).
Without my university credentials decent academic sources can be tricky so this is a bit from memory:
Here's a book from the academically acclaimed GUMG which deals with BBC and ITN bias, long time since I looked at it though:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0745320619
This looks quiet promising as well:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-Without-Responsibility-Broadcasting-Internet/dp/0415114071
The fact of the matter is, news bias or slack reporting is one of those areas which are pretty well addressed in blogs or columns. Fawning praise is pretty easy to spot likewise false claims and lies unscrutinized are also very clear with hindsight.
If you remain unconvinced that the BBC has issues with bias there's still plenty more places to look. Most courses wouldn't even deal with the idea of something being free from bias, only the nature and extent of it. With the BBC it is endemic and it neuters their standards of reporting state claims.
I don't have the answer to your question but here's A great book suggestion for you.
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Description|Jordan Peele's 'Us' - Everything Explained and Deeper Meaning⤶⤶Chapter Times:⤶⤶00:13 Intro⤶01:22 Plot Synopsis and Ending Explained⤶03:18 Reading the Twist and Trauma Theory⤶04:00 Foreshadowing the Twist⤶07:41 Sci-Fi Tropes, Postcolonialism and Post-Colonial Guilt⤶08:56 White Savior Archetype⤶11:04 'Us' as 'Black Cinema'⤶13:07 Is Jason a tethered?⤶15:37 Kitty/Dahlia - Why doesn't she kill Adelaide?⤶16:29 Jeremiah 11:11 What's up with that?⤶18:26 Mirroring and the visual motif of the Scissors explained.⤶19:06 Deeper Meaning - What, or who do the tethered represent?⤶ 19:35 Probably the right answer⤶ 20:14 Bad Answer⤶ 20:41 Good Answer⤶22:20 Further Racial Commentary⤶23:08 Problematising Black Masculinity⤶24:28 Reoccurring Motif's in Jordan Peele's work.⤶25:28 Outro⤶⤶⤶Resources: ⤶⤶Ash, Erin -- ‘Emotional Responses to Savior Films: Concealing Privilege or Appealing to Our Better Selves?’⤶⤶https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/projections/11/2/proj110203.xml⤶⤶Caruth, Cathy - Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History. ⤶⤶https://www.amazon.co.uk/Unclaimed-Experience-Trauma-Narrative-History/dp/1421421658/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=Unclaimed+Experience%3A+Trauma%2C+Narrative%2C+and+History.&qid=1554213916&s=books&sr=1-1-fkmrnull⤶⤶Froude, J.A. -- The English In The West Indies [Remember this is explicitly an example of Colonial Racism and needs to be understood as such.]⤶⤶https://www.amazon.co.uk/English-Indies-James-Anthony-Froude/dp/1546922687/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+english+in+the+west+indies&qid=1554211922&s=books&sr=1-1 ⤶⤶Lazarus, Neil (ed) -- The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies.⤶⤶https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cambridge-Companion-Postcolonial-Companions-Literature/dp/0521534186⤶⤶Le Guin, Ursula – The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas⤶⤶https://www.amazon.com/Ones-Who-Walk-Away-Omelas-ebook/dp/B01N0PZ35J⤶⤶Newman, Stephanie -- Too Afraid To Protest⤶https://www.writingonglass.com/content/too-afraid-to-protest ⤶⤶Rankine, Claudia – Citizen⤶⤶https://www.amazon.co.uk/Citizen-American-Lyric-Claudia-Rankine/dp/1555976905⤶⤶Rothstein, Richard – The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America⤶⤶https://www.amazon.co.uk/Color-Law-Forgotten-Government-Segregated/dp/1631492853⤶⤶Sharf, Zack - Lupita Nyong’o Used Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Inspiration for ‘Us’ Doppelgänger Voice⤶⤶https://www.indiewire.com/2019/03/lupita-nyongo-us-voice-robert-f-kennedy-jr-1202052716/⤶⤶Tarrant-Reid, Linda – Discovering Black America: From the Age of Exploration to the Twenty-First Century ⤶⤶https://www.amazon.com/Discovering-Black-America-Exploration-Twenty-First/dp/0810970988⤶⤶Touré – Who’s Afraid Of Post-Blackness? : What it Means to be Black Now.⤶⤶https://www.amazon.co.uk/Whos-Afraid-Post-Blackness-Means-Black/dp/1439177562⤶⤶Victims of Crime.org – Black Children Exposed to Violence and Victimization⤶⤶http://victimsofcrime.org/our-programs/other-projects/youth-initiative/interventions-for-black-children's-exposure-to-violence/black-children-exposed-to-violence⤶⤶Vera, Hernan & Gordon, Andrew – Screen Saviors: Hollywood Fictions of Whiteness⤶⤶https://www.amazon.co.uk/Screen-Saviors-Hollywood-Fictions-Whiteness/dp/0847699471⤶⤶Wells, H.G. – The Time Machine⤶⤶https://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Machine-Penguin-Classics/dp/0141439971/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Wells%2C+H.G.+%E2%80%93+The+Time+Machine&qid=1554213879&s=books&sr=1-1⤶⤶YouGov -- Statistics on Black American’s Fear of Police Violence⤶⤶https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2019/03/15/black-americans-police⤶⤶⤶Buy our artwork at Displate.com!⤶https://displate.com/displate/942054?art=2291045ae0750b448c3⤶⤶⤶⤶For a tutorial video for our intro effects check out this video:⤶https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH7jZ...⤶And follow @bloomandglare on Instagram.⤶⤶Audio mixing by Christopher Hall.⤶Follow @christopher_thomas_hall on Instagram! ⤶(Message me for contact information.)
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Proust was A Neuroscientist <--- Amazon link. This is more or less about how Proust and a handful of other artists, poets, and writers had an understanding of how the mind analyzes and retains things before science had even begun to tackle the phenomenon.
Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press does one of these for literally hundreds of persons, places, things, and concepts. I thought this Postmodernism volume was a perfect way to better understand the concept, and it also provides a recommended reading list when finished.
You should check out a book called Proust Was a Neuroscientist. This book talks about Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and the debut night where the people rioted over what they heard. Check out the book for other scientific discoveries made through the arts, decades ahead of scientific discovery.
http://www.amazon.com/Proust-Was-Neuroscientist-Jonah-Lehrer/dp/0618620109
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rite_of_Spring
The reason it was such a big deal was because the people didn't know what they were listening to/watching. While our ears are much more "advanced" now, typical pop music sticks to familiar chord progressions, forms, and even subject matter because it is easy to relate to and understand. Check out this video for a bunch of popular songs that do exactly that.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oOlDewpCfZQ
This isn't exactly what you asked for, but Art as Therapy by Alaine de Botton. It's less broad, but it is an interesting look at one way to interpret art.
"Alain de Botton and art historian John Armstrong propose a new way of looking at familiar masterpieces, suggesting that they can be useful, relevant, and – above all else – therapeutic for their viewers"
A friend gave me an anthology, One Thousand Years of Painting that's laid out well. The paintings are sorted into historical periods and color-coded sections are easy to navigate. I like that it shows several different examples of paintings to convey a broader sense of the styles and artists.
If you're interested in more recent history, try Bad News from Israel
Edit: this is not a history book per se, but its subject regress a lot about Middle Eastern history.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bad-News-Israel-Greg-Philo/dp/0745320619
"Greg Philo, Professor of Communications at Glasgow University, carried out a three year study into the relationship between television and the construction of public knowledge - how we understand foreign events etc. What he found was that 80% rely mainly on TV news, and that people (esp. young people) were very confused about events."
I would probably have to go with Heidegger's essay The Origin of the Work of Art, if only because I'm a big Heidegger fan. He's not as big on aesthetics though, so for that I might go with Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy.
If you're looking for a decent overview, this was the anthology of philosophy of art class used. Was pretty good and hits on all the major thinkers, as well as some less-known ones, so you can follow up wherever you find something interesting. Also for a contemporary art history course, we used this pretty extensively. There are some anthologies that would cover some older material if you're interested and find a period you're drawn to.
I enjoyed Proust was a Neuroscientist quite a lot - essentially about the ways in which artists and philosophers got it right on how the mind works, that neuroscience is now confirming.
Art as Therapy was really good. Promotes a more personal theory of the use of art. Looks like a text book, reads very personally. The author could have been speaking to me instead of dead words.
/u/Magnificrab a critique is not an ideal starting place for someone new to a subject.
PlzFadeMeBro when you are first learning about something it is best to start from a neutral position and then proceed to sophisticated supporters and detractors. To do otherwise is to risk becoming an ignorant and dogmatic ideologue.
Oxford University Press produces a series of books called Very Short Introductions that provide accessible introductions to different topics.
https://www.amazon.ca/Marx-Short-Introduction-Peter-Singer/dp/0192854054
https://www.amazon.ca/Postmodernism-Short-Introduction-Christopher-Butler/dp/0192802399
Original images are from this tarot deck, but the artist seems to have modified them significantly.
check this book if u can: https://www.amazon.com/Blue-History-Color-Michel-Pastoureau/dp/0691090505
short version- Israel is doomed to die for it's usa funded genocide of the arabs in a land that has traditionally been 90% arab.
But if you want the long version-
http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-History-Zionism-Ralph-Schoenman/dp/0929675010/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1212452823&amp;sr=1-7
http://www.amazon.com/Bad-News-Israel-Greg-Philo/dp/0745320619/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1212452542&amp;sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Israel-Lobby-U-S-Foreign-Policy/dp/0374177724/ref=pd_sim_b_img_6
https://www.amazon.com/Loot-Battle-Stolen-Treasures-Ancient/dp/0805090886/
I just found this guys website by accident and it's great, he literally wrote the book on manga and British comics and was the editor of Escape Magazine, the landmark alt comix anthology.
There's so much cool stuff! Look at this: http://www.paulgravett.com/articles/article/keiichi_tanaami
Because you're used to hearing it a certain way. Most people don't have perfect pitch, but the brain is still incredibly responsive to pitch (even non-musicians), so when their favorite song is played in the "wrong" key, they generally notice.
Music is a cultural and societal construct. Up until the early 20th century (basically the premiere of Stravinsky's Rites of Spring) it was thought that the Western diatonic scale was the "natural" way to write music, along with the basic I-V or i-V chord progression.
Of course many Russian composers started to work outside of these boundaries starting in the late 19th century, and Stravinsky basically proved that the only reason Western musical theory seems "right" is because the format hadn't changed for thousands of years. Through repetition of his "discordant" techniques, audiences learned to enjoy his rhythms and harmonies. (Not of course, without a riot.)
If you'd like a better explanation, read the section on Stravinsky in the book Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer.
EDIT: Didn't really read your question, so here's a lot of kind of irrelevant information.
I just finished reading a good book that discussed this kind of thing:
http://www.amazon.com/Proust-Was-Neuroscientist-Jonah-Lehrer/dp/0547085907/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1342805614&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=proust+was+a+neuroscientist