Criticism & Theory

In this book, the author of Color, Optical Appearance, Physical Phenomenon and Artistic Means of Expression, which has appeared in six languages, gives as overview of the theory of color from antiquity to the present. His study, clarified by numerous B/W...

Land Art and Climate Action: Designing the 21st Century City Park highlights regenerative artworks that respond to this pivotal moment in human history and inspire viewers to embrace the beauty, abundance, and cultural vibrancy of a world that has left...

In Art to Come Terry Smith-who is widely recognized as one of the world's leading historians and theorists of contemporary art-traces the emergence of contemporary art and further develops his concept of contemporaneity. Smith shows that embracing...

Since the turn of the millennium, protests, meetings, schoolrooms, reading groups and many other social forms have been proposed as artworks or, more ambiguously, as interventions that are somewhere between art and politics. This book surveys the...

The 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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912475179Author Avigdor ArikhaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint ERISPublisher ERISWeight(grams) 510gDimensions(mm) 222mm * 145mm * 26mm

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In the decades preceding the Stonewall riots-in the wake of the 1948 publication of Alfred Kinsey's controversial report on male sexuality and in the midst of a cold war culture of suspicion and paranoia-discussions of homosexuality within the New York...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635619065Author Wassily KandinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Echo Point Books & Media, LLCPublisher Echo Point Books & Media, LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493246089Author Geert LovinkFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 147mm * 23mm

"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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299533Author Erwin PanofskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 15mm

"I am the supercommunity, and you are only starting to recognize me. I grew out of something that used to be humanity. Some have compared me to angry crowds in public squares; others compare me to wind and atmosphere, or to software."Invited to exhibit...

This treatise on aesthetics begins by showing that the word "art" is used as a name not only for "art proper" but also for certain things which are "art falsely so called." These are craft or skill, magic, and amusement, each of which, by confusion with...

Through an investigation of the Holloway prison writings of the suffragette Katie Gliddon, Mireille Fauchon explores illustration as a social research tool and creates within this book a model of practice-based enquiry. Illustrative methods and...

A sequel to the pioneering volume, Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany, published in 1982, The Expanding Discourse contains 29 essays on artists and issues from the Renaissance to the present, representing some of the best feminist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532649318Author Aaron RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm)...

'Interviews' collates, in a single volume, the major body of interviews conducted by the revered American critic and curator Robert Storr, encompassing engaging discussions with some of the most renowned names in the artworld over the last two centuries...

In The Story of Looking, Mark Cousins takes us on a lightning-bright tour - in words and images - through how our looking selves develop over the course of a lifetime, and the ways that looking has changed over the centuries. From great works of art to...

To write about works that cannot be sensually perceived involves considerable strain. Absent the object, art historians must stretch their methods to, or even past, the breaking point. This concise volume addresses the problems inherent in studying...

Phenomenal Difference grants new attention to contemporary black British art, exploring its critical and social significance through attention to embodied experience, affectivity, the senses and perception.Featuring attention to works by the following ...

In Unruly Visions Gayatri Gopinath brings queer studies to bear on investigations of diaspora and visuality, tracing the interrelation of affect, archive, region, and aesthetics through an examination of a wide range of contemporary queer visual culture...

The phrase 'War on Terror' has quietly been retired from official usage, but it persists in the American psyche, and our understanding of it is hardly complete. Nor will it be, W. J. T. Mitchell argues, without a grasp of the images that it spawned, and...

On Curating, Carolee Thea's second volume of interviews with ten of today's leading curators, explores the intellectual convictions and personal visions that lay the groundwork for the most prestigious and influential exhibitions in the world today...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901785005Author Matthew CollingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint 21 Publishing LtdPublisher 21 Publishing Ltd

A Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art offers an introductory overview of the art, artists, and artistic movements of this exuberant period in European art, and the social, economic, philosophical, and political debates that helped shape them. Covers both...

The last few decades have witnessed an explosion in ideas and theories on art. Art itself has never been so topical, but much recent thinking remains inaccessible and difficult to use. This book assesses the work of those thinkers (including artists) who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900565677Author Dennis DuncanFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Atlas PressPublisher Atlas PressWeight(grams) 428g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493246027Author Katya Garcia-AntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 1320gDimensions(mm) 277mm * 198mm * 28mm

A strategic reconstruction of modern German thought from the standpoint of aesthetic theory, The Narrowest Path reveals the characteristically modern, revolutionary project of freedom-as-autonomy to be unresolvably antinomic. Basing himself on four...

In this eloquent and passionate volume, Bob Ostertag explores the common ground and points of friction among music, creativity, politics, culture, and technology. In terrain ranging from the guerrilla underground in El Salvador's civil war to the drag...

This book chronicles the history of the visual languages developed in Argentina during Peronism, exploring how art and propaganda interacted with and responded to their historical context. At the heart of this study is the term "intentional citations", a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068498411Author E. K. HulettFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Vision of ArtPublisher Vision of Art

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493246430Author Mieke BalFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 165mm * 33mm

Conversations is a book of interviews with contemporary photographers, conducted by Remi Coignet, photo book critic. Since 2014, when the first volume was published, the aim is to give a prominent place to photographers, so that they can make their...

In The Human in Bits, Kris Cohen examines black abstractionist painting to demonstrate how race and computation are intimately entangled with the personal computer's graphic user interface. He shows how the personal computer and the graphical field of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788477746461Author Autores VariosFormat PaperbackImprint Antonio Machado EdicionesPublisher Antonio Machado Ediciones

The first English translation of a radical and influential theory of art by a leader of Poland's avant-garde After World War II, socialist realism became the official state doctrine of art in Poland, with abstract works deemed counterrevolutionary and...

Thoughtful Images demonstrates that there is a rich tradition of illustrations of philosophy that originated in Ancient Greece, spread throughout Europe, thrived in twentieth century America, and continues to this day. It is the first book to isolate...