Library: HUM 1160: Music and Art Since 1945: History and Criticism

Music

Music since 1945 by Elliott Schwartz; Daniel Godfrey
Call Number: 780.904 S399m
ISBN: 0028730402
Publication Date: 1993
Overview of the development of art and avant-garde music since 1945.
Reflections on American Music by James R. Heintze (Editor); Michael Benton Saffle (Editor); College Music Society Staff (Contribution by)
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9781576470701
Publication Date: 2000
A collection of essays and interviews with great musicians and critics about the present and future of American music.
The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music by Pwll Ap Sion; Keith Poetter; Kyle Gann
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9781409435495
Publication Date: 2013
Critical essays on minimalist and post-minimalist music.
The Invention of 'Folk Music' and 'Art Music' by Matthew Gelbart
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9780521863032
Publication Date: 2007
This study considers the origins and implications of the way in which we categorize music. Whereas earlier ways of classifying music were based on its different functions, for the past two hundred years we have been obsessed with creativity and musical origins, and classify music along these lines.
Ways of Listening by Eric F. Clarke
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9780195151947
Publication Date: 2005
In Ways of Listening, musicologist Eric Clarke explores musical meaning, music's critical function in human lives, and the relationship between listening and musical material. Clarke outlines an "ecological approach" to understanding the perception of music, arguing that the way we hear and understand music is not simply a function of our brain structure or of the musical "codes" given to us by culture, but must be considered within the physical and social contexts of listening.
Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz since 1945 by Elizabeth West Marvin; Richard Hermann (Editor)
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9780585229478
Publication Date: 1996
The essays in this volume present current research into a wide range of Western music, disregarding barriers between different kinds of music, and drawing on modern musical-analytical techniques to draw together the varied subjects they explore.

Visionaries: Ana Mendieta

[A Silueta by Ana Mendieta, 1976. This earthwork was constructed on a beach, and Mendieta documented the slow dissolution of the piece as the tide rose.]

Ana Mendieta was a Cuban émigré who worked in a wide variety of media: earthworks, film, photo-etchings, and even performance art. Mendieta explored both personal themes (such as her relationship with her own body, or her relationship with natural forces) and political themes, mostly through a feminist lens. Mendieta died violently during an argument with her husband on September 8, 1985.

DVD and Streaming Media

Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
Call Number: DVD 770.92 B6279
Publication Date: 2008
Explores the relationship between art collector Sam Wagstaff and controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, as well as their influence on the New York art scene.
Exit Through the Gift Shop by Banksy
Call Number: DVD 751.73 E9639
Publication Date: 2010
A brief documentary about street art. Although it ignores modern street art's roots in hip-hop culture, it is a fascinating glimpse at some of the more famous graffiti artists currently practicing.
Comic Book Confidential
Call Number: DVD 741.5 C7331
Publication Date: 2002
Combines historical footage, interviews, animation, and live action to trace the history of comic books from 1933 to 1988. Twenty-two significant comic artists and writers are discussed: Lynda Barry, Charles Burns, Sue Coe, Robert Crumb, Will Eisner, Al Feldstein, Shary Flenniken, William M. Gaines, Bill Griffith, Jaime Hernandez, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, Stan Lee, Paul Mavrides, Frank Miller, Victor Moscoro, Francoise Mouly, Dan O'Neill, Harvey Pekar, Gilbert Shelton, Spain, Art Spiegelman.

Visual and Performance Art

Art of the 20th Century by Ingo F. Walter (Editor); Karl Ruhrberg
Call Number: 709.04 A784
ISBN: 3822885762
Publication Date: 1998
An overview in two volumes, this set discusses painting, sculpture, photography, and "new media."
Graffiti and Street Art by Anna Waclawek
Call Number: 751.73 W115gr
ISBN: 9780500204078
Publication Date: 2011
Graffiti and street art provoke passionate debate. This is the first comprehensive popular survey of the art movement around the world. It explores the origins of the movement and its evolution, the relationship between street art and the urban environment, its interactions with (or rejection of) the market and the world of commercial galleries, and the culture of street art online.
American Self-Taught Art by Florence Laffal; Julius Laffal
Call Number: 745 L163a
ISBN: 0786416696
Publication Date: 2003
A brief overview of outsider and folk art, with short biographies of artists.
Modern Women by Cornelia Butler; Griselda Pollock (Introduction by); Alexandra Schwartz (Editor)
Call Number: 704.042 M6898
ISBN: 9780870707711
Publication Date: 2010
This anthology examines the collection of feminist art in the Museum of Modern Art. It features essays presenting a range of generational and cultural perspectives.
Art of the Postmodern Era by Irving Sandler
Call Number: 709.045 S217a
ISBN: 0064385094
Publication Date: 1996
Sandler discusses the major and minor artists and their works, movements, ideas, attitudes, and styles, and places them in the social and cultural context of the period. He also covers Postmodernist art theory, the art market, and consumer society.
Pop Art by Marco Livingstone
Call Number: 709.04071 L788p
ISBN: 0810937077
Publication Date: 1990-09-01
Pop art brilliantly blended the banal and the mythic, creating the most genuinely popular movement in modern art. Marco Livingstone's comprehensive history charts the international development of Pop from its origins in the 1950s and 1960s, and illustrates the work of more than 130 artists, much of which was previously unpublished.