Criticism & Theory

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486847535Author Wassily KandinskyFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

'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...

Inspired by recent approaches to the field, the book reexamines the field of Renaissance art history by exploring the art of this era in the light of global connections. It considers the movement of objects, ideas and technologies and its significance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262526708Author Harold G. NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

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.

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...

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)...

An unprecedented survey of artists in exile from the 19th century through the present day, with notable attention to Asian, Latin American, African American, and female artists This timely book offers a wide-ranging and beautifully illustrated study of...

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...

Perspective determines how we, as viewers, perceive painting. We can convince ourselves that a painting of a bowl of fruit or a man in a room appears to be real by the way these objects are rendered. Likewise, the trick of perspective can prevent us from...

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...

Join the art critic Ben Eastham on a private tour of an extraordinary museum. Let him walk you through a building constructed from memory and filled with a series of bewildering art works, while he delivers a guide comprised of personal...

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

From the lazy, fiddling grasshopper to the sneaky Big Bad Wolf, children's stories and fables enchant us with their portrayals of animals who act like people. But the comparisons run both ways, as metaphors, stories, and images - as well as scientific...

The second revised edition of this classic book integrates text and pictures more clearly than in previous editions. Further illustrations have been added to include more colour diagrams and examples of current work done by students in recent years. The...

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

A new study of the early Renaissance portraitIn fourteenth-century Italy, ever more women and men-not only clergy but also laity-introduced their own portraits into sacred paintings. Images of modern supplicants, submissive and prayerful, shared space...

Walter Benjamin's famous "Work of Art" essay sets out his boldest thoughts-on media and on culture in general-in their most realized form, while retaining an edge that gets under the skin of everyone who reads it. In this essay the visual arts of the...

Leonardo's writings on painting-among the most remarkable from any era-were never edited by Leonardo himself into a single coherent book. In this anthology the authors have edited material not only from his so-called Treatise on Painting but also from...

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...

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...

"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...

* An indispensible publication to understand the keys to art collecting. * Conversations with the great art collectors, men and women from around the world that despite their different circumstances and nationalities, they are strongly united by a...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957122802Author Jonathan SansomFormat PaperbackPage Count 147Imprint Imagework PublishingPublisher Imagework PublishingWeight(grams) 160gDimensions(mm)...

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

In a century that was dominated by science and technology, the wide-ranging artwork of Michael Ayrton (1921-75) is truly a tribute to the enduring power of Greek myth. Theorists often discuss the link between myth and creativity, but rarely does one see...

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...

Master sculptor Auguste Rodin's illuminating writings on cathedrals in France are especially relevant and significant following the recent fire at Notre Dame.In this volume, the writer and Rodin scholar Rachel Corbett selects excerpts from the famous...

"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but...

In A Time of One's Own Catherine Grant examines how contemporary feminist artists are turning to broad histories of feminism ranging from political organizing and artworks from the 1970s to queer art and activism in the 1990s. Exploring artworks from...

Art and Value is the first comprehensive analysis of art's political economy throughout classical, neoclassical and Marxist economics. It provides a critical-historical survey of the theories of art's economic exceptionalism, of art as a merit good, and...

From the ruins of communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. Interpreting totalitarian art and literature in the context of cultural history, this brilliant...

What are the archives of gay and lesbian leather histories, and how have contemporary artists mined these archives to create a queer politics of the present? This book sheds light on an area long ignored by traditional art history and LGBTQ studies,...