{"product_id":"art-water-volume-2","title":"Art \u0026 Water","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background: white;\"\u003eEssays, personal meditations, and images that explore water in all its renewing, destructive, corrosive, and connecting power\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background: white;\"\u003eWater and its transmutations link the contributions in \u003ci\u003eArt \u0026amp; Water\u003c\/i\u003e, the second volume in the series Art \u0026amp; from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art. The series situates the study of art at the intersection of various disciplines—here, they include modernist literature, poetry, film, and both natural and built environments. Essayists use water to address hydrolatry practices in India; ritual objects and practices of enslaved Afro-Surinamers; traces of millstones in the architecture of Seville; and visualizations of sea-level change in the nineteenth-century United States. Their research places art within broader conversations in the humanities considering a water-oriented rather than terrestrial historical framework.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background: white;\"\u003eThe book is enlivened by first-person narratives that examine deeply embedded meanings of water. Continuing the series’ tradition of exciting book design, an enclosed poster from Brazilian multimedia artist Aline Motta addresses ancestry, memory, and belonging across the Black Atlantic while compellingly conjuring water’s capacity to transform, bring together, and renew. Water as a connective theme offers a fitting lens to advance understandings of how art, as both material object and practice, remains entangled with the natural, supernatural, and scientific—and, like water, remains inseparable from our daily lives.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts\/Distributed by Yale University Press\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKaira M. Cabañas\u003c\/strong\u003e is associate dean for academic programs and publications at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePage count: 144 pgs.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMeasures: 6.5\"x8.75\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"National Gallery of Art Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48735232786571,"sku":"9780300293098","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/9623\/6427\/files\/e9688e90-bf52-4ecd-91f1-c753c818c8a9.jpg?v=1785856634","url":"https:\/\/shop.nga.gov\/products\/art-water-volume-2","provider":"National Gallery of Art Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}