Social Analysis and the COVID-19 Crisis: A Collective Journal

Politics & Social Sciences

Seed, John

Gupta, Suman

Allen, Richard

Katsarska, Milena

Basu, Maitrayee

Durão, Fabio Akcelrud

Gupta, Ayan-Yue

Schuller, Sebastian

Tu, Peter H.

Social Sciences

Routledge India

This volume contains a collection of essays on the relationship between money, politics and status among the Victorian bourgeoisie through art, patronage, collections and exhibitions, particularly in northern England.

The Culture of Capital: Art, Power and the Nineteenth-Century Middle Class

Wolff, Janet

Manchester Univ Pr

The first major study of the historical writings of religious dissenters in England between the 1690s and the 1790s, this book redefines the way we understand religious and political identities in the eighteenth century.Dissenting Histories provides a synoptic overview of the development of religious dissent in England between the Restoration and the early nineteenth century, using Dissenters' writings to open up new and different perspectives on how the past was perceived in this period. These writings are located within the wider political culture and the author explores how the long shadow of 'the Great Rebellion' of the 1640s stretched across the division between Church and Dissent.The author is not simply concerned with history as a representation of the past, but history also as part of the bitterly divided collective memory of the present. Focusing on the relationship between the history that historians wrote, and the history that men and women experienced, John Seed provides the reader with new perspectives on eighteenth-century England.

Dissenting Histories: Religious Division and the Politics of Memory in Eighteenth-Century England

History

Europe

Edinburgh University Press

Disrupted Realism is the first book to survey the works of contemporary painters who are challenging and reshaping the tradition of Realism. Helping art lovers, collectors, and artists approach and understand this compelling new phenomenon, it includes the works of 38 artists whose paintings respond to the subjectivity and disruptions of modern experience. Widely published author and blogger John Seed, who believes that we are “the most distracted society in the history of the world,” has selected artists he sees as visionaries in this developing movement. The artists’ impulses toward disruption are as individual as the artists themselves, but all share the need to include perception and emotion in their artistic process. Six sections lay out and analyze common themes: "Toward Abstraction," "Disrupted Bodies," "Emotions and Identities," "Myths and Visions," "Patterns, Planes, and Formations," and "Between Painting and Photography." Interviews with each artist offer additional insight into some of the most incisive and relevant painting being created today.

Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Schiffer

Reveals the contemporary art phenomenon of disrupted realism through the paintings of 43 artists at its core.\nProfoundly shaped by the events, forces, and overflow of today's disjointed, social-media-heavy life, these artists' paintings are “disrupted” stylistically, thematically, or sometimes both.\nThey allow us to appreciate how art relates to the "super-fast, simultaneous, almost dizzyingly paced scrolling" of our lives.\n• Foreword by artist Nicholas Wilton, founder of Art2Life 
• Features a special essay on artist Jenny Saville, who has inspired many contemporary representational artists to disrupt their art 
• More than half of the artists are from outside the US; includes women and BIPOC artists 
• Artists' comments presented in an engaging question-and-answer style 
• Artists include Casey Baugh, Jenny Saville, Joseph Lee, Ruprecht von Kaufmann, Justin Mortimer, and dozens more 
• Art writer and curator John Seed is the foremost authority on disrupted realism and is the author of Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World

More Disruption: Representational Art in Flux

It is widely acknowledged that Karl Marx was one of the most original and influential thinkers of modern times. His writings have inspired some of the most important political movements of the past century and still has the power to arouse controversy today.Marx: A Guide for the Perplexed is a clear and thorough account of Marx's thought, his major works and theories, providing an ideal guide to the important and complex ideas of this major figure in the history of political thought. The book introduces key Marxist concepts and themes and examines the ways in which they have influenced philosophical and political thought. Geared towards the specific requirements of students who need to reach a sound understanding of Marx's ideas, the book provides a cogent and reliable survey of some of the most important debates surrounding his often controversial theories. This is the ideal companion to the study of this most influential and challenging of thinkers.

Marx: A Guide for the Perplexed (Guides for the Perplexed)

Philosophy

Continuum

It is widely acknowledged that Karl Marx was one of the most original and influential thinkers of modern times. His writings have inspired some of the most important political movements of the past century and still has the power to arouse controversy today. Marx: A Guide for the Perplexed is a clear and thorough account of Marx's thought, his major works and theories, providing an ideal guide to the important and complex ideas of this major figure in the history of political thought. The book introduces key Marxist concepts and themes and examines the ways in which they have influenced philosophical and political thought. Geared towards the specific requirements of students who need to reach a sound understanding of Marx's ideas, the book provides a cogent and reliable survey of some of the most important debates surrounding his often controversial theories. This is the ideal companion to the study of this most influential and challenging of thinkers.

Interior in the Open Air

Small Pr Distribution

When John Seed first glimpsed the art world, as a Stanford student in the late 1970s, he knew he had found his future. Mentored by Nathan Oliveira, introduced to collecting by Hunk and Moo Anderson and invited over by Richard Diebenkorn, Seed thought he had entered a world of sophistication and grace. Things got messy fast in the early 80s when painter Joan Brown told Seed “You need your ass kicked,” and Seed’s encounters with a young dealer named Larry Gagosian and his bad-boy protégé Jean-Michel Basquiat soon offered a walk on the wild side. Two years of working at the newly-opened Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles wised Seed up even more. Filled with first hand-glimpses—of artists as diverse as Robert Mapplethorpe and Rufino Tamayo—“My Art World” combines Seed’s recollections of his art world coming of age with his later acclaimed critical writings. It concludes with profiles of Bo Bartlett and Margaret Bowland, two contemporary artists whose sense of purpose Seed admires. Free of jargon and conversational in tone, “My Art World,” opens up a noted writer/critic’s private world of art and artists to the broader public.

My Art World: Recollections and Other Writings

Independently published

“If the great European artists of the past were alive today, what kinds of statements would they need to write to explain and justify their work?” In his newly released book, Artist’s Statements of the Old Masters, HuffingtonPost Arts blogger John Seed answers this question for 24 great European works of art, satirizing the language of Postmodern art writing in the process. In Seed’s hilarious sendup, Old Master artists make pretentious comments that sound a lot like those made by today’s postmodern academics and MFA candidates. For example, the 18th century painter Fragonard talks about “investigating the callipygian forms of a complex homosocial nexus in an anti-Lacanian context.” The Northern Renaissance master Hieronymous Bosch “investigates a lexicon of parafictional erotic proclivities." Early Reviews: McArthur Prize winning critic Dave Hickey says: “No young art-historian should be without this book. It fills a gaping hole in Old Master Studies.” Art Dealer and critic Mat Gleason comments: “A great takedown and easily the best art world satire in a decade.” The book contains 24 color images and statements for the following European Masters: Leonardo da Vinci Jan Van Eyck Jean Baptiste Greuze Diego Velázquez Hieronymus Bosch Jean-Honore Fragonard Titian Peter Paul Rubens Frans Hals Raphael Jean-Baptiste Greuze Rachel Ruysch Juan Sánchez Cotán Pieter Aertsen Pieter Claesz Michelangelo Buonarroti Jean-Antoine Watteau Van Dyck Jusepe de Ribera Jacques Louis David Joachim Patinir Jacob Van Ruisdael Rembrandt Van Rijn

Artist's Statements of the Old Masters

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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