Criticism & Theory

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943263141Author Aruna D'SouzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Badlands UnlimitedPublisher Badlands UnlimitedWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner, Trade Typographic Category, 2010 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show. 2010.Book InformationISBN 9780262134934Author Steven Henry MadoffFormat...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493246102Author Marlies de MunckFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 165mm * 114mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991558575Author Edit DeAkFormat PaperbackPage Count 678Imprint Primary InformationPublisher Primary InformationWeight(grams) 1111g

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...

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 *...

In this new and accessible book, Italy's best known feminist philosopher examines the moral and political significance of vertical posture in order to rethink subjectivity in terms of inclination. Contesting the classical figure of homo erectus or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947830656Author Lee UfanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Lisson GalleryPublisher Lisson GalleryWeight(grams) 500g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262540292Author Donis A DondisFormat PaperbackPage Count 2042Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

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)...

During the years following World War II debates about the British landscape fused with questions of national identity as the country reconstructed its sense of self. For better or for worse artists, statesmen, and ordinary citizens saw themselves...

A TLS Book of the Year 2017 In this, the first anthology of Russian contemporary art writing to be published outside Russia, many of the country's most prominent contemporary artists, writers, philosophers, curators and historians come together to...

A selection of letters by the pacifist and noted art critic Clive Bell, expertly annotated by his biographer Illustrates a comprehensive range of Bell's interests and relationships Offers a unique record of a transformative time in the cultural and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981484662Author Leonard KorenFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Imperfect PublishingPublisher Imperfect Publishing

In My View is a collection of reflections by 78 contemporary artists in which each artist reveals the influence and inspiration he or she has found in a particular artwork or artist. Among the artists are John Baldessari, Daniel Buren, Chuck Close,...

John Dewey is known as a pragmatic philosopher and progressive architect of American educational reform, but some of his most important contributions came in his thinking about art. Dewey argued that there is strong social value to be found in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783905829563Author Susan HillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP RingierWeight(grams) 380g

In his introduction to Charles Baudelaire's Salon of 1846, the renowned art historian Michael Fried presents a new take on the French poet and critic's ideas on art, criticism, romanticism, and the paintings of Delacroix. Charles Baudelaire, considered a...

This ground-breaking new history of modern art explores the relationship between art and knowledge from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. Each chapter examines artistic responses to a particular discipline of knowledge, from...

The novelist, writer, curator and cultural commentator Michael Bracewell has written extensively for museums and galleries, along with art publications as diverse as Frieze and The Burlington Magazine, approaching visual art through its cultural context,...

Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology, yet there has been little consensus about how to understand the relationship between landscape and art. This book brings together more...

Alois Riegl (1858-1905) was one of the founding fathers of modern formalist criticism. As a member of the Vienna School of Art Historians, he shared their range of interests in the decorative arts, art in transition, conservation and monuments. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543538Author Benjamin H. D. BuchlohFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Contemporary artists such as Ghada Amer and Clare Twomey have gained international reputations for work that transforms ordinary craft media and processes into extraordinary conceptual art, from Amer's monumental stitched paintings to Twomey's large,...

Originally published in 1930 in an edition of 100 copies, Gertrude Stein's Dix Portraits pairs her singular literary style with original lithographs by Pablo Picasso and other artists in Stein's circle to create an exceptional artist's book exploring...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262043526Author Pamela M. LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 30mm

This concise, precise, and inclusive dictionary contributes to a growing, transforming, and living research culture within both humanities scholarship and professional practices within the creative sectors. Its format of succinct starting definitions,...

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929701486Author Thomas McEvilleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S.Publisher McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S.

Virginia Woolf was a close friend of Roger Fry for many years - after his death she wrote this loving account of his passion for art, his own painting, and his challenging critical theories. Born in 1866, he was primarily responsible for bringing the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934105795Author Brian DillonFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 666gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 121mm...

The Space that Separates: A Realist Theory of Art radically challenges our assumptions about what art is, what art does, who is doing it, and why it matters. Rejecting the modernist and market-driven misconception that art is only what artists do, Wilson...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956794247Author Melissa McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 666gDimensions(mm) 241mm *...

Known for her evocative portraits, Diane Arbus is a pivotal figure in American postwar photography. Undeniably striking, Arbus's black-and-white photographs capture a unique gaze. Criticized as well as lauded for her photographs of people deemed...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023 A critical analysis of contemporary art collections and the value form, this book shows why the nonprofit system is unfit to administer our common collections, and offers solutions for diversity reform and...

How art has addressed and transmuted trauma over the past half-century, from Louise Bourgeois to Glenn Ligon Trauma in all its forms-internal and external, individual and collective-has been an enduring theme in 20th- and 21st-century art. The...

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...