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 to be like with love, loathing, heat, wit and authority at quite a lot of artwork and artists, stable, undesirable, prior and present.   As paintings critic for Time journal, the world over acclaimed for his learn of contemporary paintings, The surprise of the hot, he's possibly America’s most generally learn and sought after author on artwork.

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

For jazz historians, Louis Armstrong's scorching 5 and scorching Seven recordings mark the 1st revolution within the historical past of a song riven by way of upheaval. but few strains of this revolution are available within the historic checklist of the overdue Twenties, whilst the discs have been made. Even black newspapers coated Armstrong as only one identify between many, and outlines of his taking part in, whereas laudatory, endure little resemblance to these of this 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 quickly 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, looking to comprehend materiality within the modern global.

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 one thousand years, a rare poetic perform used to be the trademark of a tremendous literary stream in South Asia. Authors invented a different language to depict either the plain and hidden facets of disguised or twin characters, after which used it to relate India's significant epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, concurrently.