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Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline?: Toward a Critical Historiography by Benjamin Anderson
RRP: $44.00$39.12Is Byzantine Studies a colonialist discipline? Rather than provide a definitive answer to this question, this book defines the parameters of the debate and proposes ways of thinking about what it would mean to engage seriously with the field's political... -
Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why by Ellen Dissanayake
RRP: $50.38$43.76"Dissanayake argues that art was central to human evolutionary adaptation and that the aesthetic faculty is a basic psychological component of every human being. In her view, art is intimately linked to the origins of religious practices and to... -
Against the Anthropocene - Visual Culture and Environment Today by Thomas J. Demos
$36.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956792106Author Thomas J. DemosFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 666gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World by Keller Easterling
RRP: $31.48$26.36Everyone is a designer. But while many practitioners may be looking for solutions or ideological certainties, Easterling argues that solutions are mistakes and ideologies are unreliable markers. Instead, Medium Design speaks to anyone looking for... -
Atmospheres of Projection: Environmentality in Art and Screen Media by Giuliana Bruno
RRP: $75.60$63.78Bringing together cultural history, visual studies, and media archaeology, Bruno considers the interrelations of projection, atmosphere, and environment. Projection has long been transforming space, from shadow plays to camera obscuras and magic... -
Sculpture Vertical, Horizontal, Closed, Open by Dr. Penelope Curtis
RRP: $73.50$64.20By taking simple ways of looking at sculpture, this book uncovers unexpected affinities between works of very different periods and types. From sundials to mirrors, from graves to way-markers, from fountains to contemporary art, a wide range of... -
Contemporary Photography and Theory: Concepts and Debates Sally Miller 9781350003316
RRP: $54.58$48.36Contemporary Photography and Theory offers an essential overview of some of the key critical debates in fine art photography today. Building on a foundational understanding of photography, it offers an in-depth discussion of five topic areas: identity,... -
To Be Determined: Photography and the Future Duncan Wooldrige 9781916041233
$28.83How photography transforms the future as much as the past This book proposes a radical concept: that the photograph is as much an object of the future as it is of the past. Exploring a familiar medium through a new lens, the book asserts that... -
The Great Image Has No Form, or on the Nonobject Through Painting by Francois Jullien
RRP: $75.60$73.14In premodern China, elite painters used imagery not to mirror the world around them, but to evoke unfathomable experience. Considering their art alongside the philosophical traditions that inform it, "The Great Image Has No Form" explores the "nonobject"... -
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III: From the "Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition, Part 2: Europe and the World Beyond by David Bindman
RRP: $186.80$153.64In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art. Highlights from her collection appeared in three large-format volumes that quickly became... -
Art and Its Worlds: Exhibitions, Institutions and Art Becoming Public by Maria Berrios 9783960989172
$56.53Apologies 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 -
Surface Tensions: Surface, Finish and the Meaning of Objects by Glenn Adamson 9780719087516
RRP: $189.00$166.34Surfaces are often held to be of lesser consequence than 'deeper' or more 'substantive' aspects of artworks and objects. Yet it is also possible to conceive of the surface in more positive terms: as a site where complex forces meet. Surfaces can be... -
Van Gogh and Music: A Symphony in Blue and Yellow Natascha Veldhorst 9780300228335
RRP: $57.75$48.91"Ah! . . . to make of painting what the music of Berlioz and Wagner has been before us . . . a consolatory art for distressed hearts!"-Vincent van Gogh This engaging book is the first in-depth investigation of the influential role that music and sound... -
9.5 Theses On Art And Class: And Other Writings by Ben Davis 9781608462681
RRP: $35.68$25.39Ben Davis is the editor of Artinfo, one of the world's most popular resources for information and discussion on arts and culture. As a critic, he has become painfully aware of the role that class plays in art. 9.5 Theses on Art and Class seeks to show... -
Visual Culture: The Reader by Jessica Evans 9780761962489
RRP: $107.08$87.61`This collection of classic essays in the study of visual culture fills a major gap in this new and expanding intellectual field. Its major strength is its insistence on the importance of three central aspects of the study of visual culture: the sign,... -
The Surviving Image: Phantoms of Time and Time of Phantoms: Aby Warburg's History of Art by Georges Didi-Huberman 9780271072098
RRP: $73.40$66.34The Surviving Image, originally published in French in 2002, is the result of Georges Didi-Huberman's extensive research into the life and work of foundational art historian Aby Warburg. Warburg envisioned an art history that engaged with anthropology,... -
The Way of the Shovel: On the Archaeological Imaginary in Art by Dieter Roelstraete
RRP: $71.40$70.08Contemporary art is often obsessed with the new, but it has recently begun to turn to projects centering on research and delving into archives, all in the name of seeking and questioning historical truth. From filmmakers to sculptors to conceptualists,... -
Caspar David Friedrich: Nature and the Self by Nina Amstutz
RRP: $115.50$98.05A 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... -
The Thames & Hudson Introduction to Art by Debra J. DeWitte
RRP: $83.90$58.44This is a bestselling and comprehensive introductory textbook that uses a four-part structure to cover all aspects of the visual arts, including: how art is designed - the visual language of art; how art is made - the media and processes, covering... -
Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs by Omar Kholeif
RRP: $62.90$47.02A leading figure in the world of networked culture explores the artists and events that defined the mass medium of our time Since 1989, the year the World Wide Web was born, the art world has grappled with the rise of networked culture. This... -
Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum: Time, Space and the Archive by Griselda Pollock
RRP: $98.68$86.04Continuing her feminist reconceptualisation of the ways we can experience and study the visual arts, world renowned art historian and cultural analyst, Griselda Pollock proposes a series of new encounters through virtual exhibitions with art made by... -
Certain Welsh Artists by Iwan Bala 9781854112514
RRP: $41.90$30.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854112514Format HardbackPage Count 200Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 760g -
Real Life Magazine: Selected Writing and Projects 1979-1994 Thomas Lawson 9780978869700
RRP: $42.00$39.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978869700Author Thomas LawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Primary InformationPublisher Primary Information -
The Century of Artists' Books by Johanna Drucker 9781887123693
RRP: $56.70$38.62"From codex to document, from performance to self-image, the world of artists' books is made available to student and teacher, collector and connoisseur." -Paula Frosch, Metropolitan Museum of Art Library, Library Journal Now Back in Print! Johanna... -
Take Care of Your Self: The Art and Cultures of Care and Liberation by Sundus Abdul Hadi
RRP: $25.18$16.80Take care of yourself. How many times a week do we hear or say these words? If we all took the time to care for ourselves, how much stronger will we be? More importantly how much stronger will our communities be? In Take Care of Your Self, Iraqi artist... -
The Situationist International: A Critical Handbook by Alastair Hemmens 9780745338897
RRP: $58.78$45.30From 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... -
Italian Maiolica and Europe: Medieval and Later Italian Pottery in the Ashmolean Museum Timothy Wilson 9781910807163
RRP: $126.00$87.05This book is the culmination of nearly thirty years' work in caring for, studying, and developing the collections in this Museum by Timothy Wilson, long-time Keeper of Western Art. Wilson is well-known as a specialist in the study of European Renaissance... -
In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance by Amelia Jones 9780367533762
RRP: $67.18$60.33This volume is a study of the connected ideas of "queer" and "gender performance" or "performativity" over the past several decades, providing an ambitious history and crucial examination of these concepts while questioning their very bases.Addressing... -
Network Aesthetics by Patrick Jagoda
RRP: $50.40$48.36The term "network" is now applied to everything from the Internet to terrorist-cell systems. But the word's ubiquity has also made it a cliche, a concept at once recognizable yet hard to explain. Network Aesthetics, in exploring how popular culture... -
History of Pictures by David Hockney 9781419750281
RRP: $62.98$43.05A compact edition of Hockney and Gayford&;s brilliantly original book, with updated material and brand-new pieces of art Informed and energized by a lifetime of painting, drawing, and making images with cameras, David Hockney, in collaboration with... -
Photography and Collaboration: From Conceptual Art to Crowdsourcing Daniel Palmer 9781350008311
RRP: $60.88$52.69Photography 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... -
The Materials of the Artist and Their Use in Painting by Max Doerner 9780156577168
RRP: $39.88$29.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156577168Author Max DoernerFormat PaperbackPage Count 435Imprint Harcourt Brace InternationalPublisher Harcourt Brace InternationalWeight(grams)... -
Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis: Perspectives from Analyst-Artists George Hagman 9781138859128
RRP: $92.38$80.72Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis: Perspectives from Analyst-Artists collects personal reflections by therapists who are also professional artists. It explores the relationship between art and analysis through accounts by practitioners who identify... -
Bad Infinity: Selected Writings by Aria Dean
RRP: $34.65$27.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956796470Author Aria DeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 189mm * 121mm *... -
Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture by Mira Schor
RRP: $50.38$41.24Taking aim at the mostly male bastion of art theory and criticism, Mira Schor brings a maverick perspective and provocative voice to the issues of contemporary painting, gender representation, and feminist art. Writing from her dual perspective of a... -
Seen from Behind: Perspectives on the Male Body and Renaissance Art by Patricia Lee Rubin
RRP: $115.50$99.31Renaissance bodies, dressed and undressed, have not lacked attention in art historical literature, but scholarship on the male body has generally concentrated on phallic-oriented masculinity and been connected to issues of patriarchy and power. This... -
The Antechamber: Toward a History of Waiting by Helmut Puff 9781503637023
RRP: $50.38$43.76Helmut Puff invites readers to visit societies and spaces of the past through the lens of a particular temporal modality: waiting. From literature, memoirs, manuals, chronicles, visuals, and other documents, Puff presents a history of waiting anchored in... -
Joseph Beuys by Claudia Mesch 9781780237350
RRP: $35.60$25.75Joseph 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:... -
The Truth Is Always Grey: A History of Modernist Painting by Frances Guerin
RRP: $50.38$43.76Changing how we look at and think about the color grey Why did many of the twentieth century's best-known abstract painters often choose grey, frequently considered a noncolor and devoid of meaning? Frances Guerin argues that painters (including Jasper... -
A General Theory of Visual Culture by Whitney Davis
RRP: $88.20$70.22What is cultural about vision--or visual about culture? In this ambitious book, Whitney Davis provides new answers to these difficult and important questions by presenting an original framework for understanding visual culture. Grounded in the...