{"title":"Thomas Crow","description":"\u003cp\u003eThomas Crow’s work delves into the intricate intersections of art and society, exploring how creative movements reflect and shape cultural moments. His insightful narratives uncover hidden histories and nuanced perspectives within the world of modern art and counterculture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful examinations that blend biography with cultural critique, offering a rich understanding of artists and their contexts. 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I would take peyote and walk out in the streets.\" He vividly channelled those experiences into his art while making his mark on every facet of the psychedelic movement—from the mountains of Mexico with Timothy Leary to the rock ballrooms of San Francisco to the gilded excesses of the New Hollywood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Artist in the Counterculture\u003c\/i\u003e, Thomas Crow tells the story of California art from the 1960s to the 1980s—some of the strongest being made anywhere at the time—and why it cannot be understood apart from the new possibilities of thinking and feeling unleashed by the rebels of the counterculture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCrow reevaluates Conner and other key figures—from Catholic activist Corita Kent to Black Panther Emory Douglas to ecological witness Bonnie Ora Sherk—as part of a generational cohort galvanized by resistance to war, racial oppression, and environmental degradation. Younger practitioners of performance and installation carried the mindset of rebellion into the 1970s and 1980s, as previously excluded artists of colour moved to the forefront in Los Angeles. 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In this fascinating book, Thomas Crow traces the radical legacy of a painting that has been called the \u003cem\u003ePiet\u003c\/em\u003e of the French Revolution, showing how David's masterpiece captures the saga of that violent era in the single figure of Marat, and how it reveals itself anew today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCrow begins by describing how the painting's enduring power came to the fore during the countercultural tumult of the 1960s, discussing how his vocation as a scholar arose out of his own encounter with the work. He then takes readers back to 1793, telling the story of the painting's creation through the eyes of David, his subject, and Marat's charismatic assassin, Charlotte Corday. Charting the history of its impact across more than two centuries, Crow shows how this multilayered portrait surfaced in succeeding waves of political dissent as an enduring talisman of popular insurgency.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeautifully illustrated, \u003cem\u003eMurder in the Rue Marat\u003c\/em\u003e is an art historian's disarmingly personal account of a painting whose hidden complexities bear witness to the promise and peril of revolution in Marat's time and our own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47420742729964,"sku":"9780691274447","price":57.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/81LUG8PFc9L._SL1500.jpg?v=1774394121"},{"product_id":"the-hidden-mod-in-modern-art-by-thomas-crow-9781913107130","title":"The Hidden Mod in Modern Art","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn investigation of the outsized influence of the Mod subculture on key figures of the 1960s London art scene\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBonding over matters of taste and style, the 'Mods' of late 1950s London recognised in one another shared affinities for Italian-style suits, tidy haircuts, espresso bars, Vespa scooters and the latest American jazz. In this groundbreaking book, leading art historian Thomas Crow argues that the figure of the Mod exerted an influence beyond its assumed social boundaries by exemplifying the postwar metropolis in all of its excitement and complexity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCrow examines the works of key figures in the London art scene of the 1960s, including Robyn Denny, David Hockney, Pauline Boty, Bridget Riley and Bruce McLean, who shared and heightened aspects of this new and youthful urbanity. 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