The Art Of Maria Tomasula

Author : Soo Y. Kang
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527590496
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Maria Tomasula written by Soo Y. Kang and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Tomasula’s still life paintings are absolutely captivating, dramatizing luscious objects of saturated colors and meticulous details through the spotlight effect against a dark backdrop. Beyond their immediate appeal, however, the still lifes usually contain disturbing features such as flowers being sharply pierced by hooks and nails or isolated body parts such as bones and organs that seem to be fiercely alive. Although the pictures are materialistically appealing due to the illusionistic style of the artist, they lend themselves to a depth of iconography that has not been accounted for in previous writings on her art. This book is the first comprehensive monograph on Tomasula (b. 1958), unraveling her complex iconography that is founded on her Mexican American heritage and Catholicism, but also tracing the European still life tradition. It shows that her paintings reflect her feminist and philosophical leanings influenced by various intellectuals including Baruch Spinoza, Gilles Deleuze, and the proponents of New Materialism. Her still life converges the old with new interests: it pays tribute to traditional Mexican and European motifs, but also reflects ideas and mannerism that speak to the contemporary audience. This research evidences the complexity of the Mexican American experience which merges divergent cultural and ideological perspectives from Latin America, North America, and Europe in varied ways for different and unique individuals.

Author : Soo Y. Kang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781527590489
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Maria Tomasula written by Soo Y. Kang and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Tomasula's still life paintings are absolutely captivating, dramatizing luscious objects of saturated colors and meticulous details through the spotlight effect against a dark backdrop. Beyond their immediate appeal, however, the still lifes usually contain disturbing features such as flowers being sharply pierced by hooks and nails or isolated body parts such as bones and organs that seem to be fiercely alive. Although the pictures are materialistically appealing due to the illusionistic style of the artist, they lend themselves to a depth of iconography that has not been accounted for in previous writings on her art. This book is the first comprehensive monograph on Tomasula (b. 1958), unraveling her complex iconography that is founded on her Mexican American heritage and Catholicism, but also tracing the European still life tradition. It shows that her paintings reflect her feminist and philosophical leanings influenced by various intellectuals including Baruch Spinoza, Gilles Deleuze, and the proponents of New Materialism. Her still life converges the old with new interests: it pays tribute to traditional Mexican and European motifs, but also reflects ideas and mannerism that speak to the contemporary audience. This research evidences the complexity of the Mexican American experience which merges divergent cultural and ideological perspectives from Latin America, North America, and Europe in varied ways for different and unique individuals.

Author : David Banash
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1628923679
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steve Tomasula: The Art and Science of New Media Fiction written by David Banash and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Tomasula's work exists at the cutting edges of scientific knowledge and literary techniques. As such, it demands consideration from multiple perspectives and from critics who can guide the reader through the formal innovations and multimedia involutions while providing critical scientific, aesthetic, historical, and technical contexts. This book, the first of its kind, provides this framework, showing readers the richness and relevance of the worlds Tomasula constructs. Steve Tomasula's work is redefining the form of the novel, reinventing the practice of reading, and wrestling with the most urgent questions raised by massive transformations of media and biotechnologies. His work not only charts these changes, it formulates the problems that we have making meaning in our radically changing technological contexts. Vast in scope, inventive in form, and intimate in voice, his novels, short stories, and essays are read and taught by a surprisingly diverse array of scholars in fields ranging from contemporary experimental writing and literary criticism to the history of science, biotechnology and bioart, book studies, and digital humanities.

Author : Committee on Institutional Cooperation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Committee on Institutional Cooperation written by Committee on Institutional Cooperation and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maria Tomasula
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maria Tomasula written by Maria Tomasula and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steve Tomasula
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 1573661767
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Once Human written by Steve Tomasula and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning new collection of stories by a master fictionist, Once Human shows the ways to go beyond standard maps of simple understanding

Author : Laura Dassow Walls
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022659937X
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry David Thoreau written by Laura Dassow Walls and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Walden. Yesterday I came here to live." That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to "live deliberately" in a small woods at the edge of his hometown of Concord has been a touchstone for individualists and seekers since the publication of Walden in 1854. But there was much more to Thoreau than his brief experiment in living at Walden Pond. A member of the vibrant intellectual circle centered on his neighbor Ralph Waldo Emerson, he was also an ardent naturalist, a manual laborer and inventor, a radical political activist, and more. Many books have taken up various aspects of Thoreau's character and achievements, but, as Laura Dassow Walls writes, "Thoreau has never been captured between covers; he was too quixotic, mischievous, many-sided." Two hundred years after his birth, and two generations after the last full-scale biography, Walls renews Henry David Thoreau for us in all his profound, inspiring complexity. Drawing on Thoreau's copious writings, published and unpublished, Walls presents a Thoreau vigorously alive, full of quirks and contradictions: the young man shattered by the sudden death of his brother; the ambitious Harvard College student; the ecstatic visionary who closed Walden with an account of the regenerative power of the Cosmos. We meet the man whose belief in human freedom and the value of labor made him an uncompromising abolitionist; the solitary walker who found society in nature, but also found his own nature in the society of which he was a deeply interwoven part. And, running through it all, Thoreau the passionate naturalist, who, long before the age of environmentalism, saw tragedy for future generations in the human heedlessness around him. "The Thoreau I sought was not in any book, so I wrote this one," says Walls. The result is a Thoreau unlike any seen since he walked the streets of Concord, a Thoreau for our time and all time.--Dust jacket.

Author : Maria Soto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781649907714
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Artful Journeys written by Maria Soto and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features 13 current artists pursuing varying mediums of art, exploring their individual processes and their journeys into the art world specific to them. As a photographer, author Maria Soto chose to showcase her own work while documenting the artwork of these 13 talented artists who have inspired her on her journey. She hopes these fascinating journeys will inspire all artists, both new and those in varying stages of their art career. The premise of her book was to encourage artists in their continued quest for creating art, and that each story will give direction and confidence to artists who may be questioning the current stage of their career.

Author : Joe Amato
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under Virga written by Joe Amato and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. "'An ingenious gathering of poignant leapfrogging...a muscular memorializing...a sly haunting.' This is the book that's everything Amato says it is and is not. It bounces on water, refuses to be paraphrased, and invites itself to dinner. Buy it by the case while there's still time"--Cole Swensen. Joe Amato is the author of Symptoms of a Finer Age and Bookend: Anatomies of a Virtual Self. His poems and critical essays have appeared in numerous journals, including 88, Chain, Jacket, Bombay Gin, Denver Quarterly, New American Writing, Postmodern Culture, Notre Dame Review, Nineteenth Century Studies and electronic book review. He teaches writing and literature at Illinois State University.

Author : Norma Liliana Valdez
Publisher : Vinyl 45
ISBN 13 : 9781936919765
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preparing the Body written by Norma Liliana Valdez and published by Vinyl 45. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: