Criticism & Theory

Liberated from the constraints of tradition, the Pre-Raphaelites of mid-Victorian England produced distinctive representations of nature and society in paintings remarkable for their compositional vitality and hallucinatory effects of color. This...

Queer lives give rise to a vast array of objects: the things we fill our houses with, the gifts we share with our friends, the commodities we consume at work and at play, the clothes and accessories we wear, and the analogue and digital technologies we...

Remains-Tomorrow: Themes in Contemporary Latin American Abstraction offers a thought-provoking perspective on the dynamic field of contemporary abstraction in Latin America. It proposes abstraction as an expanded field of reality in direct dialogue with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960989011Author Angela Y. DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,GermanyPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung...

This catalogue examines the ways in which Modern British artists of the interwar period engaged with private and public spaces. The publication begins by exploring the private realms of artists, as many retreated to planting and painting their own...

This book could easily be called 'A Guide for the Modern Muslim', for someone to whom the sentiments of his or her ancestors resonate but who cannot accept the canonised formulas of a stultified education. Charfi spells out what, for him, is the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789949015252Author Tania SanchezFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Perfuumista OuPublisher Perfuumista OuWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Learn about key movements like impressionism, cubism and symbolism in The Art Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Art in this overview guide to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130505Author Romy GolanFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 668gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 159mm * 27mm

Once the manufacturing powerhouse of the nation, Detroit has become emblematic of failing cities everywhere-the paradigmatic city of ruins-and the epicenter of an explosive growth in images of urban decay. In Beautiful Terrible Ruins, art historian Dora...

Stuart Hall’s work on culture, politics, race, and media is familiar to readers throughout the world. Equally important was his decades-long commitment to visual art. As the first collection to bring together Hall’s work on the visual, this volume...

The pursuit of antiquity was important for scholarly artists in constructing their knowledge of history and cultural identity in late imperial China. By examining versatile trends within paintings in modern China, this book questions the extent to which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798988013389Author Roy ChristopherFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Impeller PressPublisher Impeller PressWeight(grams) 68g

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 9783907582589Author Nikki ColumbusFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Parkett VerlagPublisher Parkett VerlagWeight(grams) 1043gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 211mm...

Public Art acknowledges the trend among contemporary museums to promote participatory and processual exhibition strategies meant to elicit subjective experience. At the same time it valorizes the object-oriented tradition that has long differentiated...

Public Art acknowledges the trend among contemporary museums to promote participatory and processual exhibition strategies meant to elicit subjective experience. At the same time it valorizes the object-oriented tradition that has long differentiated...

Art is produced, circulated, consumed and disseminated within an economic system - it depends on money for its creation, for the livelihood of its makers, and for its distribution. In this sense, art can be understood as an enterprising activity...

The works covered in college art history classes frequently depict violence against women. Traditional survey textbooks highlight the impressive formal qualities of artworks depicting rape, murder, and other violence but often fail to address the violent...

Stuart Hall’s work on culture, politics, race, and media is familiar to readers throughout the world. Equally important was his decades-long commitment to visual art. As the first collection to bring together Hall’s work on the visual, this volume...

The works covered in college art history classes frequently depict violence against women. Traditional survey textbooks highlight the impressive formal qualities of artworks depicting rape, murder, and other violence but often fail to address the violent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547468Author Kit WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736507919Author Mira DayalFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Paper MonumentPublisher Paper MonumentWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788867495993Author Ester Martin BergsmarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Mousse PublishingPublisher Mousse PublishingWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956796593Author Jacqueline FrancisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 201g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501199585Author Simon GarfieldFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria Books

This book is aimed to explain the creation of artworks and their evaluation, and offers a new concept of aesthetics and beauty of artworks. Following and reconstructing Peircean realist epistemology, Aesthetics is one of the three normative sciences,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956795374Author Adnan MadaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 369g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783907509920Author Weiner Rach LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Parkett Verlag,SwitzerlandPublisher Parkett Verlag,SwitzerlandWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783865604989Author Hans Ulrich ObristFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Buchhandlung Walther Konig GmbH & Co. KG. Abt. VerlagPublisher Buchhandlung...

This is the sixth edition of the BBVA's annual series, dedicated to exploring and disseminating the key issues of our time. Esteemed scholars from around the world examine the internet as an agent of change, incorporating the most current knowledge on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786185039141Author Robert GoberFormat PaperbackPage Count 79Imprint Kentro SynchronisPublisher Kentro Synchronis

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782940271054Author John MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint JRP EditionsPublisher JRP Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783907509647Author GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Parkett Verlag,SwitzerlandPublisher Parkett Verlag,Switzerland

No one has been more influential in the contemporary practice of art history than Erwin Panofsky, yet many of his early seminal papers remain virtually unknown to art historians. As a result, Michael Ann Holly maintains, art historians today do not have...

The symbolic meaning of plants, their relevance for religion and the metaphorical provocations in the order of knowledge, culture and political power underline the role of plants as something more than passive objects. Current theoretical and artistic...

What does art know? This expanded second edition of Reclaiming Artistic Research explores artistic research in dialogue with 24 artists worldwide, reclaiming it from academic associations of the term. Embracing artists’ dynamic engagement with other...

This book contains analysis of different domains of contemporary art in China seen through the lens of the epistemological changes described in China Pluperfect I: Epistemology of Past and Outside in Chinese Art. It first looks at the concept of "ink...

A hybrid inquiry into Australia's experimental, radical, artist-run initiatives Excavating a shared history of independent practice stretching back to the 1980s, Permanent Recession situates new research into artist-run initiatives within a rich...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783944669632Author Estelle BlaschkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector BooksWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 160mm...