Art & Water

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SKU: 9780300293098
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Volume 2

Series: Art &

Brief Description

Essays, personal meditations, and images that explore water in all its renewing, destructive, corrosive, and connecting power Water and its transmutations link the contributions in Art & Water, the second volume in the series Art & from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts... Read More

Format: Paperback / softback

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Description

Essays, personal meditations, and images that explore water in all its renewing, destructive, corrosive, and connecting power

Water and its transmutations link the contributions in Art & Water, the second volume in the series Art & 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.

The 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.

Water 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.

Distributed for the National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780300293098

Publisher: Yale University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 June 2026

Country: United States

Imprint: Yale University Press

Illustration: 30 color illus.

Contributors:

Contributions by Roberto Tejada
Contributions by Kimia Shahi
Potiguara Nation Eliane Potiguara
Edited by Kaira M. Cabañas
Contributions by Sugata Ray
Contributions by Justin M. Brown
Contributions by Beate Fricke
Contributions by Aline Motta

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 165.0mm

Height: 222.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 144

Collections

Arts & Culture Education & Reference Non-Fiction Science & Nature Series: Art &

About the Author

Kaira M. Cabañas is associate dean for academic programs and publications at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.