Criticism & Theory

A revelatory look at how the mature work of Caspar David Friedrich engaged with concurrent developments in natural science and philosophy Best known for his atmospheric landscapes featuring contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095756Author Emiel HeijnenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint ValizPublisher Valiz

Art historian and curator Dawn Ades is a leading voice on Dada, Surrealism, abstraction and art from Latin America. This volume collects her important essays for the first time, addressing themes fundamental to the history of modern art and the...

What roles do the speaker and the listener play in communication processes? Providing an overall system view, this innovative textbook explains how those working in the area think about speech. Emphasising contextual and environmental perspectives,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854882359Author Walead BeshtyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Whitechapel GalleryPublisher Whitechapel GalleryWeight(grams) 550g

A Handbook to the Art Market The new look on the history of art and its blind spots, the far-reaching digitization of structures and content, the changing role of museums and art criticism, new forces from influencers to NFTs: Hardly any market system...

'Great art has dreadful manners......The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486623429Author Emil ArtinFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892361793Author . GardnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Getty Education Institute for the Arts,U.S.Publisher Getty Trust PublicationsWeight(grams)...

This is the second of two volumes of the only English edition of Hegel's Aesthetics, the work in which he gives full expression to his seminal theory of art. The substantial Introduction is his best exposition of his general philosophy of art. In Part I...

This classic text presents the life, times, and works of Albrecht Durer. Through the skill and immense knowledge of Erwin Panofsky, the reader is dazzled not only by Durer the artist but also Durer in a wide array of other roles, including mathematician...

Michael Fried's often controversial art criticism defines the contours of late modernism in the visual arts. This volume contains 27 pieces, including the introduction to the catalogue for "Three American Painters," the text of his book "Morris Louis,"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915609083Author Bonaventure Soh Beje NdikungFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 57gDimensions(mm)...

Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs, natural disasters, or factory closings, but the way we see and understand ruins is not raw or unmediated. Rather, looking at ruins, writing about them, and representing them are acts...

Contemporary craft, art and design are inseparable from the flows of production and consumption under global capitalism. The New Politics of the Handmade features twenty-three voices who critically rethink the handmade in this dramatically shifting...

Assessing the dawn of the Anthropocene era, a poet and philosopher asks: How do we live at the end of the world? The end of the Holocene era is marked not just by melting glaciers or epic droughts, but by the near universal disappearance of shared...

In The Future of the Image, Jacques Ranciere develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined. He argues that there is a stark political choice in art: it can...

From its foundation in 1957 to its self-dissolution in 1972, the Situationist International established itself as one of the most radical revolutionary organisations of the twentieth century. This book brings together leading researchers on the SI to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262531993Author Jonathan CraryFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 25mm

Harold Rosenberg was undoubtedly the most important American art critic of the twentieth century. It was he who first coined the term "Action Painters" to refer to the American Abstract Expressionists such as Pollock, Kline, and de Kooning. Rosenberg's...

Perspective has been a divided subject, orphaned among various disciplines from philosophy to gardening. In the first book to bring together recent thinking on perspective from such fields as art history, literary theory, aesthetics, psychology, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788360425Author Alexander AdamsFormat PaperbackImprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 135mm * 15mm

Christian Gauss Award ShortlistWinner of the ASAP Book PrizeA Literary Hub Book of the Year"Makes the case that the gimmick...is of tremendous critical value...Lies somewhere between critical theory and Sontag's best work."-Los Angeles Review of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830846511Author Carol A. BerryFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 362gDimensions(mm)...

The Fine Arts Reduced to a Single Principle (1746) by Charles Batteux was arguably the most influential work on aesthetics published in the eighteenth century. It influenced every major aesthetician in the second half of the century: Diderot, Herder,...

The early twentieth century is usually remembered as an era of rising nationalism and military hostility, culminating in the disaster of the First World War. Yet it was marked also by a vigorous campaign against war, a movement that called into question...

In this stimulating book, a leading authority on the Spanish master Diego Velazquez discusses this enigmatic artist and explores the mysteries presented by his paintings. The essays collected here, written over the course of Jonathan Brown's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960989172Author Maria BerriosFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934105818Author Martha RoslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 666gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 108mm...

Joseph Beuys is arguably the most important and most controversial German artist of the late twentieth century, not least because his persona is interwoven with Germany's fascist past. This book illuminates two defining threads in Beuys's life and art:...

Photography and Collaboration offers a fresh perspective on existing debates in art photography and on the act of photography in general. Unlike conventional accounts that celebrate individual photographers and their personal visions, this book...

In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of the...

"As an art critic, [Hickey] doesn't do what most people want from art criticism. He doesn't provide his readers with a neat intellectual framework through which to view everything they see, like a Clement Greenberg or a Michael Fried, and he doesn't...

Symmetry is a classic study of symmetry in mathematics, the sciences, nature, and art from one of the twentieth century's greatest mathematicians. Hermann Weyl explores the concept of symmetry beginning with the idea that it represents a harmony of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789078088868Author Mark FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 25mm

Arthur C. Danto argues that recent developments in the art world, in particular the production of works of art that cannot be told from ordinary things, make urgent the need for a new theory of art and make plain the factors such a theory can and cannot...

Through various thematic perspectives and a range of media, this book will shed new light on the history of Surrealism. With the idea of the unconscious as a turning point, The Savage Eye traces the roots of Surrealism in Symbolism and shows how the two...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262548809Author Jack BurnhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 454g

This book analyzes contemporary visual art produced in the context of conflict and trauma from a range of countries, including Colombia, Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Australia. It focuses on what makes visual language unique, arguing that the...

From Edison's invention of the phonograph through contemporary field recording and sound installation, artists have become attracted to those domains against which music has always defined itself: noise, silence, and environmental sound. Christoph Cox...