Believing Is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art by Staniszewski, Mary Anne

Believing Is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780140168242)

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Believing Is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art by Staniszewski, Mary Anne

Believing Is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art

$25.00
Believing Is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art by Staniszewski, Mary Anne

Believing Is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art

$25.00
Format: Paperback
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Why are the paleolithic Venus of Willendorf, Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes, and Marcel Duchamp's ready-made urinal all considered works of art? Why, strictly speaking, is a Cindy Sherman photograph more art-like than a Da Vinci portrait? How did the painters and sculptors of the Renaissance see their creations? And who decides what art is today? In the tradition of Marshall McLuhan and John Berger, this learned and deliciously subversive book gives us a new way of seeing our artistic heritage. Believing Is Seeing is a work of multicultural scope and glittering intelligence that bridges the gulf between classical Japanese painting and the films of Spike Lee, between high theory and pop culture. Probing beyond the rhetorical surface of standard art histories and drawing on a panoramic array of illustrative material, Mary Anne Staniszewski throws a fresh light on individual works and the often mystifying criteria by which they are valued.

Author: Mary Anne Staniszewski
ISBN-10: 0140168249
ISBN-13: 9780140168242
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1995
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.50h x 6.00w x 1.10d
By Mary Anne Staniszewski
By Mary Anne Staniszewski
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Mary Anne Staniszewski studies culture and art in relation to political and social notions. Her books are Believing Is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art and The Power of Display: A History of Exhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern Art .Staniszewski organized a symposium on contemporary slavery at Exit Art in New York. Staniszewski holds a PhD in Art History from the Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, and is a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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