- About Looking
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
A collection of essays covering a wide range of topics from photographs and media, to zoos and forests, grouped around the theme of how people look at things.
- Anarchism
A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas
Resource Type: Book
- Anarchy and Art
From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
- Antonio Gaudi: Modernismo in Barcelona
30 Postcards
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- Art and Aesthetics on the Left
An interview with Andrew Hemingway
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Andrew Hemingway is an art historian and Professor Emeritus at University College London. His books include Artists on the Left. American Artists and the Communist Movement 1926-1956 (Yale University Press, 2002) and The Mysticism of Money: Precisionist Painting and Machine Age America (Periscope Publishing, 2013).
- Art And Community
Community Arts Group
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- Art and Labour
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1884
Says Morris: "By art, I do not mean only pictures and sculpture, nor only these and architecture, that is beautiful building properly ornamented; these are only a portion of art, which comprises, as I understand the word a great deal more; beauty produced by the labour of man both mental and bodily, the expression of the interest man takes in the life of man upon the earth with all its surroundings, in other words the human pleasure of life is what I mean by art."
- Art and Mankind: Larousse Encyclopdeia of Modern Art
From 1800 to the Present Day
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
- Art and Sexual Politics
Why Have There No Great Women Artists?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
Examines cultural and ideological biases about female artists
- Art and Socialism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1884
Morris sees work as a necessity of human life, not merely as a means of obtaining a livelihood. Morris insists that only socialism can restore work to its proper, central position.
- Art is a Way of Knowing
A Guide to Self-Knowledge and Spiritual Fulfillment through Creativity
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
Making art -- giving form to the images that arise in our mind's eye, our dreams, and our everyday lives -- is a form of spiritual practice through which knowledge of ourselves can ripen into wisdom.
- The Art of AIDS
From Stigma to Conscience
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Examines AIDS as an increasingly common theme in drama, dance, music, film,television, painting, photography and theatre. Reveals not only the expected themes of death and dying, but also the issues of spirituality and healing, political and social action, sexuality and responsibility, isolation and community, racism and heterosexism.
- The Art of Robert Bateman
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
- Art, Politics, and the Imagination
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1996
The work of our best artists throws into sharp relief what is painfully missing from most activists' work: a fusion of living experience with political insight.
- Art Under Plutocracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1884
Morris asks "What kind of an account shall we be able to give to those who come after us of our dealings with the earth, which our forefathers handed down to us still beautiful, in spite of all the thousands of years of strife and carelessness and selfishness?"
- Art, Wealth, and Riches
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1883
A lecture by William Morris, delivered in Manchester in 1883. Morris poses the question "Is art to be limited to a narrow class who only care for it in a very languid way, or is it to be the solace and pleasure of the whole people?"
- Artscape
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Blue Book
Resource Type: Book
- Brandon University
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Artists and art resource directory - Artists In Canada
Resource Type: Website
A national directory of Canadian artists, art galleries, associations and art resources. Websites related to the visual arts in Canada.
- The City in History
Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1961
Beginning with an interpretation of the origin and nature of the city, Mumford follows the city's development from Egypt and Mesopotamia through Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages to the modern world.
- The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Courbet
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
- Crayons of Askalan
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2011
In 1975, at the age of fifteen, Palestinian artist Zuhdi Al Adaw is sentenced and confined in the high security prison of Askalan, Israel for fifteen years. With the help of his fellow prisoners and their families, he manages to stay alive by smuggling in colour crayons and smuggling out his allegorical artwork done on pillowcases, so it finds its way to the outside world.
- Creative Collage Techniques
A ste-by-step guide including 52 demonstrations and the work of over 60 artists
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
- Critical Theory
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
Essays by the founder of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt.
- Culture of Complaint
The Fraying of America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Propaganda-talk, euphemism, and evasion are so much a part of American usage today that they cross all party lines and ideological divides. The art of not answering the question, of cloaking unpleasant realities in abstraction or sugar, is so perfectly endemic that we expect nothing else.
- Dada
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature, poetry, art manifestoes, art theory, theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works.
- Dada, Surrealism, and Their Heritage
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
A survey of Dada and Surrealism, describing their birth and development, their philosophies, the works of art they prodcued, and their contribution to the art of the present.
- Decline of the English Murder
And Other Essays
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
A collection of essays by George Orwell.
- Dictionary of Art
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
- Docs Populi
Documents for the public
Resource Type: Website
Dedicated to documenting and publishing oppositional artwork of the late 20th century.
- Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
- Early Days on the Great Lakes
The Art of William Armstrong
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
Paintings and sketches of the Great Lakes and the poeple who lived there, most of them from the 1850s to 1870s.
- Elaine Farragher's Website
The Art of Elaine Farragher
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2008
- Encyclopedia of Themes and Subjects in Painting
Resource Type: Book
- Encyclopedia of World Art
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
- Excellence at the National Gallery of Canada
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Terms like #the good# and #excellent# have been used to exclude minorities and perpetuate a dominant monoculture. NGC#s current mandate of #excellence# raises serious questions about its ability to represent a culturally diverse nation.
- Eye in the Sky
Surveillance and the Art of Arnold Mesches
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Round about the turn of this century Arnold Mesches, who is neither monk nor medievalist nor Christian, began illuminating manuscripts from the world that long since had killed God but appropriated or accommodated to a version of His all-seeing eye. The manuscripts in question: Mesches’ FBI file, 1945 to 1972.
- The Female Body in Western Culture
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
The female body has occupied a central place in the Western imagination, inspiriing both attraction and fear, seen as both beautiful and unclean, alluring and dangerous, a source of pleasure and evil. In this book, twenty-three scholars and critics explore these representations and their implications for contemporary art and culture.
- Film as a Subversive Art
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
Analyzes how aesthetic, sexual and ideological subversives use film to change and demystify.
- Five Hundred Self-Portraits
Resource Type: Book
- Forged
Why Fakes are the Great Art of Our Age
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Keats uncovers what forgeries -- and our reactions to them -- reveal about changing conceptions of creativity, identity, authorship, integrity, authenticity, success, and how we assign value to works of art.
- George Grosz
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
- Great Paintings of All Time
100 Masterpieces from the Early Renaissance to Abstract Expressionism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
- The Group of Seven
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
Paintings, commentary, and history of the Group of Seven.
- H. Zille
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1966
- Inocente
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
Inocente is both a timeless story about the transformative power of art and a timely snapshot of the new face of homelessness in America: children.
- John Reed Clubs and Proletarian Art - Part I
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The writings of Marx and Engels provide no support for the idea, frequently associated with Marxism, that the movement of the working class to emancipate itself from capitalism and build a classless society requires a proletarian or revolutionary art as an aid to its struggles.
- Kaethe-Kollwitz-Museum, Berlin
Resource Type: Website
- Kandinsky
A Revolution in Painting
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
- Kingston Field Naturalists Sponsor Celebration of Nature
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Kingston Field Naturalists today announced sponsorship of Celebration of Nature, an art show and sale celebrating its 60th anniversary. The show and sale will be held at Sydenham St. United Church on May 2nd, between 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
- Knaurs Mal- und Zeichenbuch
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
- Light and Shade for the Artist
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
- The Lives of Amiri Baraka
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A tribute to the life of author and poet Amiri Baraka who was active in the American Black Arts movement.
- Lost, Stolen or Shredded
Stories of Missing Works of Art and Literature
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Gekoski explores in depth the greater questions tremendous losses of art raise - such as the rights artists and authors have over their own work, the importance of the search for perfection in creativity, and what motivated people to queue to see the empty space where the Mona Lisa once hung in the Louvre.
- Ludwig Richter
Künster-Monographien
Resource Type: Book
- Make Art! Change the World! Starve!
The Fallacy of Art as Social Justice - Part I
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
- Max Ernst
Retrospektive zum 100. Geburtstag
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
- Morris, William - Internet Archive - Index
Resource Type: Article
- The Natural Way to Draw
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1941
- On Creating Revolutionary Literature and Art
Speech to Workers in the Field of Literature and Art, November 7, 1964
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
- Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Other Conundrums
Race, Culture, and Canadian Art
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
A collection of essays on Canadian art.
- People's Aesthetics
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1995
An essay on self-proclaimed "progressives" and their hypocritical defense of cultural hierarchies and consumption of popular or lower middle class culture for camp value. He opines that the distinction between craft and art is class based.
- Perspective Without Pain
Volume 1, Part 1 - The Basics
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- Perspective Without Pain
Volume 2, Part 1 - Curves and Inclines
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- Picasso: The Artist of Century
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
- Radical Perspectives in the Arts
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
An anthology of Marxist literary and cultural criticism.
- Rembrandt Radierungen
Resource Type: Book
- Revolutionary Soviet Film Posters
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- Sex, Art and American Culture
Resource Type: Book
Sex, Art and American Culture are a series of essays that first appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Esquire and elsewhere. Her thoughts on sex and most other things are shaped by the 60's. The writings are insightful, witty and lucid. The writings are insightful, witty and lucid but then overshadowed by her dogmatism , hubris and lack of common sense.
- Stilkunde
Von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
- Technics and Civilization
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1963
A history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization.
- Tokyo National Museum
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Toronto Artists Protest Koffler Fundraiser
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Toronto Artists Protest Koffler Fundraiser: Silence Tastes Badâ## Put Free Speech on the Menu.
Artists and supporters speak out for freedom of association at the launch of the Koffler Gallery fundraiser, ARTFUL DISH, Thursday, June 4, 10 AM.
- The 20th Century Artbook
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
500 full-page colour plates of twentieth century art works. Each image is accompanied by a brief text commenting on the work and its creater.
- The Uses of Literacy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1957
In this partly autobiographical book Hoggart observes the loss of an authentic popular culture and denounces the imposition of mass culture by the culture industries.
- Ways of Seeing
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
Seeing establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it.
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