{"title":"Series: Art \u0026","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"art-histories-9780300290387","title":"Art \u0026 Histories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs the first volume in the new series Art \u0026amp;, this book signals a bold new vision for a more dynamic study of art\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEach essay in this groundbreaking volume—the first in an exciting new series from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts—engages aesthetic and cultural debates that situate research on the arts at the intersection of various disciplines, including architecture, film, literature, curatorial and museum studies, and the arts of performance. Reflecting the series’ goal to engage with different cultural contexts and time periods, newly commissioned essays from emerging and established scholars address subjects ranging from medieval dance and ancient Assyrian reliefs to expressions of gender embodiment and the art of the Afro-Atlantic. First-person narratives ground theoretical considerations of the theme.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReflecting a commitment to embracing the book form as a space for art itself, the book includes a detachable accordion-fold insert with a work from Miami-based artist Glexis Novoa. One of his signature horizon lines unites Washington, DC, and the artist’s native Havana. Meticulous drawings executed on travertine marble entangle the two cities and their monuments, symbolizing both violent and triumphant histories and their ideological reversals.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47238202851564,"sku":"9780300290387","price":47.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/288ff3630f45ee5fd63fb052bf9bee49.jpg?v=1769046500"},{"product_id":"art-water-9780300293098","title":"Art \u0026 Water","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEssays, personal meditations, and images that explore water in all its renewing, destructive, corrosive, and connecting power\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWater and its transmutations link the contributions in \u003cem\u003eArt \u0026amp; Water\u003c\/em\u003e, the second volume in the series \u003cem\u003eArt \u0026amp;\u003c\/em\u003e from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art. The series situates the study of art at the intersection of various disciplines—here, they include modernist literature, poetry, film, and both natural and built environments. Essayists use water to address hydrolatry practices in India; ritual objects and practices of enslaved Afro-Surinamers; traces of millstones in the architecture of Seville; and visualisations of sea-level change in the nineteenth-century United States. Their research places art within broader conversations in the humanities, considering a water-oriented rather than terrestrial historical framework.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is enlivened by first-person narratives that examine deeply embedded meanings of water. Continuing the series' tradition of exciting book design, an enclosed poster from Brazilian multimedia artist Aline Motta addresses ancestry, memory, and belonging across the Black Atlantic while compellingly conjuring water's capacity to transform, bring together, and renew.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWater as a connective theme offers a fitting lens to advance understandings of how art, as both material object and practice, remains entangled with the natural, supernatural, and scientific—and, like water, remains inseparable from our daily lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDistributed for the National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47650530099436,"sku":"9780300293098","price":47.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780300293098-art-water.jpg?v=1779325502"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/series-art-1.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}