Criticism & Theory

In Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction, Jaleh Mansoor provides a counternarrative of modernism and abstraction and a reexamination of Marxist aesthetics. Mansoor draws on Marx's concept of prostitution-a conceptual device through which Marx...

This book explores the concept of estrangement from a psychoanalytic perspective, intertwining art and aesthetics to offer a paradigm of the aesthetic experience.Gabriela Goldstein suggests that an unexpected encounter with a work of art may lead to a...

A ground-breaking exploration of how art responds to democratic crisis.Is democracy over? Did we ever really have it? Most people would agree that today democracy finds itself in crisis. As this crisis has intensified, art has emerged as an important...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816621323Author John TaggFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Because theories of visual perception have traditionally concentrated on form, artists have generally dealt with the problem of color through their own observation and intuition. In Color Harmonies, Augusto Garau systematically investigates the role of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788477651871Author Laura ClaridgeFormat PaperbackImprint CircePublisher Circe

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788420670522Author Kenneth LarkFormat PaperbackImprint Alianza (Buenos Aires, AR)Publisher Alianza (Buenos Aires, AR)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788446008569Author Professor Francis FrascinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 301Imprint Akal EdicionesPublisher Akal EdicionesWeight(grams) 975gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782735130573Author Mathilde ArnouxFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Maison des sciences de l'hommePublisher Maison des sciences de l'hommeWeight(grams)...

Madoff rethinks modernism-from Wagner to Duchamp, Dada to the Bauhaus-for our present era of network culture For more than a century, European modernist art has been written about as a profound expression of fragmentation-of an alienated world in pieces...

This anthology presents and discusses current tools, methods, and analytical frameworks to address artistic interventions, taking a multidirectional approach that accounts for the positionality of perspectives and highlights the nondirectional formation...

A collection of essays that think with, against, and beside the intellectual questions that have engaged Michael Ann Holly throughout her storied career American scholar Michael Ann Holly (b. 1944) has devoted a decades-long career to the...

Murals have been an important medium of public expression in Mexico since the Mexican Revolution, and names such as Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Jose Clemente Orozco will forever be linked with this revolutionary art form. Many people,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916642003Author Mary A. JablonskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Archetype Publications LtdPublisher Archetype Publications Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916323476Author Isabella RosnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Common Threads PressPublisher Common Threads Press

Against Ambience diagnoses - in order to cure - the art world's recent turn toward ambience. Over the course of three short months - June to September, 2013 - the four most prestigious museums in New York indulged the ambience of sound and light:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915609526Author Steven Henry MadoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 179mm *...

People engage with authored works all the time. They buy paintings, read books, and download songs. They might even be artists themselves. And yet they tend to take the concept of authorship for granted. The basic idea that an artist as author maintains...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798895043660Author Piers a VaughanFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Kindle Direct PublishingPublisher Kindle Direct PublishingWeight(grams)...

In The Right to Look, Nicholas Mirzoeff develops a comparative decolonial framework for visual culture studies, the field that he helped to create and shape. Casting modernity as an ongoing contest between visuality and countervisuality, or "the right to...

While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among scholars from North America, Europe, and Australia; until now, scholarship and experiences from other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789083404165Author Harma StaalFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Set Margins' publicationsPublisher Set Margins' publicationsWeight(grams)...

Fashion in Fiction examines the ways in which dress 'performs' in a wide range of contemporary and historical literary texts. Essays by North American, European and Australian scholars explore the function of clothing within fictional narratives,...

The full-fledged Russian invasion of Ukraine is a wake-up call. There is no way to ignore the deep seismic waves it has spread beyond the region and throughout the world; its impact will be epoch-making and global. 'A War in the Distance', the 2022...

In this book, curator Michelle White considers the unique and timely implications of how the artist Tacita Dean draws. Covering over three decades of work, from sweeping chalk landscapes to fleeting celestial phenomena on film, White proposes that the...

The Decision Between Us combines an inventive reading of Jean-Luc Nancy with queer theoretical concerns to argue that while scenes of intimacy are spaces of sharing, they are also spaces of separation. John Paul Ricco shows that this tension informs our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995518261Author Ashley EdgeFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint Draw Like a BossPublisher Draw Like a Boss

This book concerns the 'translation' of the paintings and etchings of John Crome (1768–1821), founder of the Norwich School of Artists, into other ‘languages’ or media, verbal and pictorial.

This edited volume uses an interdisciplinary approach to art and design that not only reframes but also repositions agendas and actions to address fragmented global systems. Contributors explore the pluriverse of art and design through epistemological...

Bringing together Deleuze, Blanchot, and Foucault, this book provides a detailed and original exploration of the ideas that influenced Deleuze's thought leading up to and throughout his cinema volumes and, as a result, proposes a new definition of art...

What role do the visual arts play in the emerging commercial spaceflight industry, and vice versa? This book considers the relationship between art practice and space science, presenting new methodologies for art-sci collaboration informed by...

By inviting a 'conversation' between them, this book offers a nuanced introduction both to Cezanne-the 'father of modern art'-and perhaps the most vital body of theory in contemporary psychoanalysis, 'post-Bionian field theory', as it has been evolving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989911733Author Tod LippyFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint EsopusPublisher Esopus

Through a series of provocative conversations, Frederick Luis Aldama and Herbert Lindenberger, who have written widely on literature, film, music, and art, locate a place for the discomforting and the often painfully unpleasant within aesthetics. The...

This long-awaited volume brings together much of Brian O'Doherty's most influential writing, including essays on major figures such as Edward Hopper, Mark Rothko, and Andy Warhol, and a substantial follow-up to his iconic Inside the White Cube. New...

This volume examines the criticism of five influential British writers on the visual arts-John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Roger Fry, Clive Bell, and Sir Herbert Read. Their works span a period in the history of art that "in productivity and significance is...

Okwui Enwezor is widely regarded as a leader among the brilliant curators who emerged in the 1990s to set agendas for understanding the global expansiveness of contemporary art. Among his pathfinding exhibitions were the second Johannesburg Biennale...

Okwui Enwezor is widely regarded as a leader among the brilliant curators who emerged in the 1990s to set agendas for understanding the global expansiveness of contemporary art. Among his pathfinding exhibitions were the second Johannesburg Biennale...

Okwui Enwezor is widely regarded as a leader among the brilliant curators who emerged in the 1990s to set agendas for understanding the global expansiveness of contemporary art. Among his pathfinding exhibitions were the second Johannesburg Biennale...