Criticism & Theory

The image of a tortured genius working in near isolation has long dominated our conceptions of the artist's studio. Examples are abound: think Jackson Pollock dripping resin on a cicada carcass in his shed in the Hamptons. But times have changed; ever...

In 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956793950Author Alex ColesFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 200mm * 125mm *...

This book explores the universal human existential trauma of "original loss," a trauma the author describes as arising from our primal, human evolutionary loss of experiencing ourselves as innately belonging to, and instinctively at home within, the...

The book explores British art in relation to British India. It examines the aesthetic interactions initiated by the Anglo-Indian colonial encounter across the disciplines of painting, print-making, design, photography and architecture. It also considers...

Take 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142005125Author David HockneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Avery Publishing Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037645284Author Peter SchneemannFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier

A radical re-examination of 2,500 years of European art, deconstructing and demystifying its long history from ancient to present How has art evolved from the pursuit of the 'ideal' human form to a black square on a white canvas? Why is a banana...

From the pencil to the puppet to the drone--the humanities and the social sciences continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different...

Artistic labour was exemplary for Utopian Socialist theories of 'attractive labour', and Marxist theories of 'nonalienated labour', but the rise of the anti-work movement and current theories of 'fully automated luxury communism' have seen art topple...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565844643Author Hal FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 965g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262581837Author Robert HarbisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm * 10mm

In this intellectually wide-ranging book John Roberts develops a labor theory of culture as a model for explaining the dynamics of avant-garde art and the expansion of artistic authority in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.From Duchamp to Warhol,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956794872Author Jacob LundFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934105238Author John KelseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 666gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 121mm *...

The Image of Christ in Modern Art explores the challenges presented by the radical and rapid changes of artistic style in the 20th century to artists who wished to relate to traditional Christian imagery. In the 1930s David Jones said that he and his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906948023Author Hito SteyerlFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint MayFlyPublisher MayFly

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095459Author Ernst Van AlphenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 165mm * 23mm

Dada magazines made Dada what it was: diverse, non-hierarchical, transnational, and defiant of the most fundamental artistic conventions. This book, the first of its kind to critically examine the place of Dada periodicals within the art movement,...

We live in an age of the mobile image. The world today is absolutely saturated with images of all kinds circulating around the world at an incredible rate. The movement of the image has never been more extraordinary than it is today. This recent kinetic...

This is the first 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 unique anthology brings together material from 38 well-known writers, artists, and scientists who attempt to describe the process by which original ideas come to them. Contributors include Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Amy Lowell,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621389880Author Ananda K. CoomaraswamyFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico Press

Charting over 45 years of feminist debate on the significance of gender in the making and understanding of art, the long-anticipated new edition of Feminism-Art-Theory has been extensively updated and reworked. Completely revised, retaining only...

The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been characterised as the 'age of speed' but they also witnessed a reanimation of still life across different art forms. This book takes an original approach to still life in modern literature and...

Intertitles is an anthology of work situated at the intersection of writing and the visual arts. The anthology aims to explore their confluence and is conceived in response to a twofold observation: the increased presence of written, spoken and performed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544924Author Michalis PichlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

As we head towards the 21st century, as we try to confront and adapt to deepening global ecological and social problems, what meaning can art have, and can it survive as we know it? This book addresses these and other questions, exploring through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956792816Author Geoff CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 666gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 121mm *...

Dedicated to an articulation of the earth from broadly ecological perspectives, eco art is a vibrant subset of contemporary art that addresses the widespread public concern with rapid climate change and related environmental issues. In Landscape into Eco...

In his engaging and penetrating observations of major modern and contemporary visual art, Shiff has written about an impressive range of artists, including Willem de Kooning, Marlene Dumas, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Barnett Newman, Pablo Picasso,...

This book features a crystalline new translation of one of art history's most influential works-published on its one-hundredth anniversary. Principles of Art History by Heinrich Wolfflin (1864-1945), a revolutionary attempt to construct a science of art...

"Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneer artists, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with impressionism into t field with impressionism into t field where language, thought and vision act upon one another,...

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956793646Author Jon K ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 666gDimensions(mm) 197mm * 127mm *...

An authoritative re-definition of the social, cultural and visual history of the emergence of the "avant-garde" in Paris and London Over the past fifty years, the term "avant-garde" has come to shape discussions of European culture and modernity,...

In this exciting, innovative work, Polish feminist philosopher Ewa Majewska maps the creation of feminist counterpublics around the world-spaces of protest and ideas, community and common struggle, that can challenge the emergence of fascist states as...

Sexuality in its many guises has preoccupied Western artists from Michelangelo to Picasso, Rubens to Robert Mapplethorpe. Almost every form of the subject has been portrayed, whether covert or overt, crude or highly sophisticated. Edward Lucie-Smith...

A renowned art critic of the 1960s, Carla Lonzi abandoned the art world in 1970 to found Rivolta Femminile, a pioneering feminist collective in Italy. Rather than separating the art world luminary from the activist, however, this book looks at the two...