Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists

From Holbein to Hockney, from Norman Rockwell to Pablo Picasso, from sixteenth-century Rome to Nineteen Eighties SoHo, Robert Hughes appears with love, loathing, heat, wit and authority at a variety of artwork and artists, stable, undesirable, prior and present.   As artwork critic for Time journal, across the world acclaimed for his learn of contemporary artwork, The surprise of the recent, he's probably America’s most generally learn and favourite author on paintings.

Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings (Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz)

For jazz historians, Louis Armstrong's sizzling 5 and sizzling Seven recordings mark the 1st revolution within the heritage of a tune riven by way of upheaval. but few lines of this revolution are available within the old list of the overdue Twenties, whilst the discs have been made. Even black newspapers lined Armstrong as only one identify between many, and outlines of his enjoying, whereas laudatory, undergo little resemblance to these of this present day.

Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media

What's the position of materiality—the expression or of actual substance—in our visible age of speedily altering fabrics and media? How is it shaped within the arts or manifested in digital types? In floor, cultural critic and theorist Giuliana Bruno deftly explores those questions, trying to comprehend materiality within the modern international.

Extreme Poetry: The South Asian Movement of Simultaneous Narration (South Asia Across the Disciplines)

Starting within the 6th century C. E. and carrying on with for greater than 1000 years, a rare poetic perform was once the trademark of a massive literary move in South Asia. Authors invented a unique language to depict either the obvious and hidden facets of disguised or twin characters, after which used it to relate India's significant epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, concurrently.