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 seems to be with love, loathing, heat, wit and authority at quite a lot of paintings and artists, strong, undesirable, earlier and present.   As paintings critic for Time journal, across the world acclaimed for his examine of contemporary artwork, The surprise of the hot, he's possibly America’s most generally learn and popular 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 background of a track riven by means of upheaval. but few lines of this revolution are available within the old list of the past due Twenties, while the discs have been made. Even black newspapers coated Armstrong as only one identify between many, and outlines of his enjoying, whereas laudatory, endure little resemblance to these of at the present time.

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 formed within the arts or manifested in digital kinds? In floor, cultural critic and theorist Giuliana Bruno deftly explores those questions, looking 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 one thousand years, a rare poetic perform used to be the trademark of an important literary stream in South Asia. Authors invented a different 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, at the same time.