This thesis examines changes in gender attitudes between the years 1962 and 1967 as seen through the activities of a group of female volunteers at a regional community center, specifically the Fine Arts committee of the Arts Council at the Young Men's and Women's Hebrew Associat…
Existing scholarship on the Brazilian 1960s has prioritized the participatory art of Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Clark, emphasizing their transcendence of the discrete and static art object as the epitome of Brazilian modernism. What is less recognized is the role figurative artist…
In the decades after the Cuban Revolution of 1959, state-commissioned posters articulated and shaped official models of socialist feminine citizenship. Drawing on graphic propaganda practices of the Eastern Bloc, Cuban posters of the early 1960s mobilized the aesthetics of Socia…
The book, as a means of artistic expression, has been explored since the beginning of editorial practices. Design, music, theatre, literature, cinema, among other forms of creative expression, are parts of a whole that constitute book art and independent publishing, whose expres…
"A decade of revisionism has challenged the entrenched view of Pop Art as a largely Anglo-American movement and exposed its international reach. Pop Art and Beyond is the first scholarly exploration of the role of gender, race and class, and their intersection in the production,…
"A decade of revisionism has challenged the entrenched view of Pop Art as a largely Anglo-American movement and exposed its international reach. Pop Art and Beyond is the first scholarly exploration of the role of gender, race and class, and their intersection in the production,…
"In a work of great wisdom and insight, art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto delivers a compact, masterful tour of Andy Warhol's personal, artistic, and philosophical transformations. Danto traces the evolution of the pop artist, including his early reception, relationships w…
From the Publisher: In the summer of 1962, Andy Warhol unveiled 32 Soup Cans in his first solo exhibition at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles-and sent the art world reeling. The responses ran from incredulity to outrage; the poet Taylor Mead described the exhibition as "a brilli…
From the Publisher: In the summer of 1962, Andy Warhol unveiled 32 Soup Cans in his first solo exhibition at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles-and sent the art world reeling. The responses ran from incredulity to outrage; the poet Taylor Mead described the exhibition as "a brilli…