Criticism & Theory

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 Biennial...

Between animate and inanimate matter This book presents artistic and theoretical positions that deal with the dynamics of and points of transition between animate and inanimate matter. Following on from the exhibition Holobiont: Life Is Other...

This book considers the sculpture of Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) in light of psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott's (1896-1971) radical ideas regarding transitional objects, potential space, and play, offering a model for exploring the complex and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736359426Author Prem KrishnamurthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Washington Project for the ArtsPublisher Washington Project for the Arts

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262552356Author Hal FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493246348Author Niekolaas Johannes LekkerkerkFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 160mm *...

A fascinating discussion of Gandhi's moral values and art stance, providing contemporary ethical reflections. In Discovering Each Other and Other Essays, K. G. Subramanyan reflects on Gandhi's political and cultural role in India and what lessons can be...

In Why Draw?, Carol Hendrickson explores the potential of drawing within the context of ethnographic fieldwork. The book aims to inspire readers to immerse themselves in the generative process of thinking while seeing while drawing. To foster visual...

Jill Carrick's Nouveau Realisme, 1960s France, and the Neo-avant-garde provides the first in-depth historical analysis of the "New Realism" movement and the critical and theoretical debates it engaged. This text makes available a new corpus of material -...

In Why Draw?, Carol Hendrickson explores the potential of drawing within the context of ethnographic fieldwork. The book aims to inspire readers to immerse themselves in the generative process of thinking while seeing while drawing. To foster visual...

The Vorticists, a rebellious cohort of young artists in early twentieth-century England, defied the conventions of the art world with their distinctive abstract creations. Despite the brevity of their existence, from 1911 to 1913, their...

Since the 1960s, British multi-media artist Peter Greenaway has shocked and intrigued audiences with his avant-garde approach to filmmaking and other artistic ventures. From early experimental films to provocative features, Greenaway has deployed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593844090Author DKFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 2512gDimensions(mm) 287mm *...

This unique collection of essays focuses on various aspects of Plato's Philosophy of Art, not only in The Republic , but in the Phaedrus, Symposium, Laws and related dialogues. The range of issues addressed includes the contest between philosophy and...

This book explores how psychoanalytic ideas and thinking enhance our understanding and engagement with the creative arts and contemporary life. Many of us love to read poetry and novels and enjoy the performing arts. All of us take part in contemporary...

This book explores how psychoanalytic ideas and thinking enhance our understanding and engagement with the creative arts and contemporary life. Many of us love to read poetry and novels and enjoy the performing arts. All of us take part in contemporary...

New framework for the aesthetic representation of the sea.We are no strangers today to visual representations of human suffering at sea: the refugee crisis that continues to play out in the seascape between Europe and Africa (and not only there) yields...

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...

The hassle-free, no-frills instruction manual for commercial success in the art world In her 25 years of working with artists at all stages of their careers, Amy Davila has formulated the answer to the quintessential question of the modern art world:...

A rich, thought-provoking collection of essays, critiques and interviews from the influential author of Ain't I a Woman and All About Love'If one could make a people lose touch with their capacity to create, lose sight of their will and their power to...

Starting from the premise that after modernism and postmodernism - in the Anthropocene - an artwork cannot rest upon its separation from the planet, this volume develops new ethical practice and thought with respect to art, philosophy and moving images...

The art of Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) is usually viewed as quite distinct from Surrealism, a movement which the artist himself displayed some hostility towards. However, Rauschenberg had a very positive reception among Surrealists, particularly...

In centuries past, sexual body-parts and same-sex desire were un men tionables de barred from polite conver sa tion and printed discourse. Yet one scientific discipline-ana to my-had license to rep re sent and nar rate the in timate details of the human...

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...

In centuries past, sexual body-parts and same-sex desire were un men tionables de barred from polite conver sa tion and printed discourse. Yet one scientific discipline-ana to my-had license to rep re sent and nar rate the in timate details of the human...

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...

In a new era of global virology that requires novel methodologies to improve the comprehension of viruses and viral phenomena, Viral Behaviors explores the cultural, material, and artistic significance of viral agents. Across a rich variety of case...

This pioneering account of Modern Spiritualism in late 19th and early 20th-century Scotland is a compelling history of the international movement's cultural impact on Scottish art. From spirit-mediums creating seance art to mainstream artists of the...

Dialogues with Degas demonstrates the ongoing relevance of Edgar Degas to 20th- and 21st-century ideas and art practices. The first in-depth examination of this major artist's impact on contemporary art, this book explores how contemporary...

An edited collection of contributions to conversations about the climate crisis and its role in critical discourse. The climate change crisis has become part of aesthetic discourse and critical research in culture and the arts. Future-oriented,...

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) 68gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Through reading the early work of Walter Benjamin - up to and including the Trauerspiel book, Monad Rrenban brings forth a cohesive conception of the wild, unforgettable form, philosophy, as inherent in everything. Somewhat on the basis of existing...

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 9781934389478Author Richard OsborneFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798988178521Author Farah AlqattanFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint Rwh Publishing LLCPublisher Rwh Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The latest volume in the Metropolitan Museum Journal series. Founded in 1968, the Metropolitan Museum Journal is a blind, peer-reviewed scholarly journal published annually that features original research on the history, interpretation, conservation, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782492650147Author Estelle HoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint After 8 booksPublisher After 8 books

As the last generation of underground artists in the Soviet Union and the first on the post-Soviet scene, Moscow conceptualists provide a unique point of view on the breakup of the USSR, the changing role of unofficial art in a repressive state, and the...

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...