Criticism & Theory

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782914563475Author Pierre SengesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dis VoirPublisher Dis Voir

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891273063Author Rebecca SolnitFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Artspace Books,U.S.Publisher Artspace Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998632643Author Julie AultFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Dancing Foxes PressPublisher Dancing Foxes Press

This book focuses mainly on the Jakarta-based artists' initiative ruangrupa, and to a lesser degree on a number of other Indonesian artists and initiatives, as case studies of how Indonesian artists organise and manifest themselves individually as well...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783981812848Author Klaus HumpertFormat HardbackPage Count 122Imprint Esefeld, Jorg u. Traub, Johannes. edition esefeld & traubPublisher Esefeld, Jorg u...

Praise for Bill Berkson:"Wonderful. . . . Fifty years of slow-dawning epiphany." -San Francisco Bay Guardian"I'd like to thank Bill Berkson for: epitomizing objectivity & subjectivity; amusedly living in the cerulean blue, alizarin crimson mixed with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734681734Author Joshua Chambers-LetsonFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint DabaPublisher Daba

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997852455Author Gregg BordowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Triple CanopyPublisher Triple Canopy

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783944669083Author Luis CamnitzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector Books

On the occasion of its fortieth anniversary, The New Criterion has brought together a plump chrestomathy of essays demonstrating its range and acuity as America's foremost review of culture and the arts. With contributions by Bruce Bawer, Anthony...

Dimensions of Originality investigates the issue of conceptual originality in art criticism of the seventeenth century, a period in which China dynamically reinvented itself. In art criticism, the term which was called upon to indicate conceptual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734681765Author Matana RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint DabaPublisher Daba

Sex and art, we're told, are sacred, two spheres that ought to be kept separate from the ravages of the marketplace. Yet both prop up two incredibly lucrative industries, built on the commodification of creativity and desire, authenticity and intimacy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997874426Author Julia EckhardtFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Errant BodiesPublisher Errant BodiesWeight(grams) 454g

30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we live in a time of globalization and free trade. Nevertheless, 70 new border walls have been built in this period - put together, they would cover the total circumference of the Earth. While governments offer...

What is the logic of the design process? Departing from this question and focusing on processes of invention and discovery, Tiago da Costa e Silva investigates the characteristic feature of every projective activity, for instance, in architecture,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101873373Author Julian BarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint VintagePublisher VintageWeight(grams) 635g

Internationally renowned as one of the most significant and influential sculptors working today, Gormley has long expressed his admiration and interest in the works of German sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck for their inwardness, sense of poise and calm, and...

Art historians have in the past narrowly defined primitivism, limiting their inquiry to examples of direct stylistic borrowing from African, Oceanic, or Native American imagery. The drawbacks of such an approach have become increasingly apparent, the...

In Adorno's Theory of Philosophical and Aesthetic Truth, Owen Hulatt undertakes an original reading of Theodor W. Adorno's epistemology and its material underpinnings, deepening our understanding of his theories of truth, art, and the nonidentical...

Forgeries are an omnipresent part of our culture. They are closely related to historically and culturally informed ideas of authenticity, legality, authorship, creativity, tradition, and innovation. Based on the concept of mimesis, this volume...

The 21st century is unthinkable without its past of unrestricted scaling in almost any way of life. A key driver of technological progress is mankind's ability to imagine things at a larger, or smaller, scale; processes at higher, or slower, speed, or to...

M/E/A/N/I/N/G brings together essays and commentary by over a hundred artists, critics, and poets, culled from the art magazine of the same name. The editors-artists Susan Bee and Mira Schor-have selected the liveliest and most provocative pieces from...

Non-conformist, non-linear, unruly thought and action have always led to great works of art, pathbreaking inventions and forward-looking perspectives. But how can this precious good find its way into our everyday working life to help us deal with social,...

In 2001, Freestyle, a survey exhibition curated by Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum in Harlem, introduced both a young generation of artists of African descent and the ambitious yet knowingly opaque term post-black to a pre 9-11 and pre-Obama world. In...

The proliferation of digital technology has changed our visual perception and the way we interpret terms such as "representation," "immersion," and "virtuality." Kresimir Purgar examines some of the topics fundamental to an...

Ways of Seeing is a key art-historical work that continues to provoke widespread debate. It is comprised of seven different essays, three of which are pictorial and the other containing texts and images. Berger first examines the relationship between...

Felt provides a nonlinear look at the engagement of the postwar avant-garde with Eastern spirituality, a context in which the German artist Joseph Beuys appears as an uneasy shaman. Centered on a highly publicized yet famously inconclusive 1982 meeting...

An exploration of the personal and artistic connections between two icons of twentieth-century art Keith Haring (1958-1990) and Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) changed the art world of the 1980s through their idiosyncratic imagery, radical ideas, and...

Most known for her bold and darkly painted portraits, Brooks was revolutionary in her feminist renderings of women in resistance. Openly queer, she challenged conceptions of gender and sexuality in her art, which also served as her refuge. While many of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956793097Author Omar KholeifFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 666gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 127mm...

Occult topics have long fascinated artists, and the subject of witches-their imagined bodies and fantastic rituals-was a popular one for painters and printmakers in early modern Europe. Focusing on several artists in depth, Linda C. Hults probes the...

In recent decades curators and artists have shown a distinct interest in religion, its different traditions, manifestations in public life, gestures and images. Breaking Resemblance explores the complex relationship between contemporary art and religion...

A diverse range of leading scholars, activists, archivists and artists explore the histories, practices and concerns of women making film and video across the world, from the pioneering German animator Lotte Reiniger, to the influential African American...

Clement Greenberg is widely recognized as the most influential and articulate champion of modernism during its American ascendency after World War II, the period largely covered by these highly acclaimed volumes of _The Collected Essays and Criticism_...

Selected writings from a leading critic of modern art, "the best art writer of his generation" (Art Newspaper) Michael Peppiatt, guest curator of the Royal Academy of Arts' 2021 exhibition 'Francis Bacon: Man and Beast', has for more than 50 years...

Art criticism was once passionate, polemical, and judgmental; now critics are more often interested in ambiguity, neutrality, and nuanced description. And while art criticism is ubiquitous in newspapers, magazines, and exhibition brochures, it is also...

What happens when we look at a painting? What do we think about? What do we imagine? How can we explain, even to ourselves, what we see or think we see? And how can art historians interpret with any seriousness what they observe? In six engaging, short...

This book is about the destruction of art, both in terms of objects that have been destroyed - lost in fires, floods or vandalism - and the general concept of art operating through object and form. Through re-examinations of such events as the Momart...

The landscape of contemporary art has changed dramatically during the last hundred years. We have seen a painting of a single black square on a white ground, Kazimir Malevich's Black Square (1915), and a hand-signed porcelain urinal, Marcel Duchamp's...