Criticism & Theory

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...

Explores the intrinsic relation of life to air, and breathing, through contemporary art In Out of Breath, Caterina Albano examines the cultural significance of breath and air to a wide array of forces in our midst, including economy, politics, infection,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262043526Author Pamela M. LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 30mm

All too often, museums throughout the world label their Roman sculpture and wall paintings as "Roman copy after a Greek original." In this book, Elaine K. Gazda and the contributors question the often too simplistic, deeply ingrained thinking that...

Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806) was one of the most influential artists working in the genre of ukiyo-e, `pictures of the floating world', in late eighteenth-century Japan, and was widely appreciated for his prints of beautiful women. In...

Bringing together cultural history, visual studies, and media archaeology, Bruno considers the interrelations of projection, atmosphere, and environment. Projection has long been transforming space, from shadow plays to camera obscuras and magic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906496999Author Kerstin StakemeierFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Mute BooksPublisher Mute Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916541108Author Andrew C WenausFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Erratum PressPublisher Erratum PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

This book, by one of the most challenging contemporary thinkers, begins with an essay that introduces the principal concern sustained in the four succeeding ones: Why are there several arts and not just one? This question focuses on the point of maximal...

Against the Grain Since its beginnings in Paris in the mid-19th century, the idea of bohemia, an urban community of artists and intellectuals living outside bourgeois norms, has been a potent trope of artistic identity. It was here that the notion of an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913380625Author David ToppFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Goldsmith's PressPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London

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...

What is art? The contributors to Theories of Art Today address the assertion that the term "art" no longer holds meaning. They explore a variety of issues including: aesthetic and institutional theories of art, feminist perspectives on the philosophy of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993327230Author Vilem FlusserFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Metaflux PublishingPublisher Metaflux PublishingWeight(grams) 544g

What is a woman? What is a man? How do they-and how should they-relate to each other? Does our yearning for "wholeness" refer to something real, and if there is a Whole, what is it, and why do we feel so estranged from it? For centuries now, art and...

Philosopher and art historian Georges Didi-Huberman is one of the most innovative and influential critical thinkers writing today. This book is the first English-language study of his writing on images. An image is a form of representation, but what are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789078088851Author Pascal GielenFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 3mm

Artworld Prestige examines the ways in which cultural arguments about value develop: the processes by which some practices, artists, and media in the artworld win and others lose. Timothy Van Laar and Leonard Diepeveen argue that the concept of prestige,...

A Decade of Negative Thinking brings together writings on contemporary art and culture by the painter and feminist art theorist Mira Schor. Mixing theory and practice, the personal and the political, she tackles questions about the place of feminism in...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788195347247Author David RobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Reliable CopyPublisher Reliable Copy

Farah Nayeri addresses the difficult questions plaguing the art world, from the bad habits of Old Masters, to the current grappling with identity politics. For centuries, art censorship has been a top-down phenomenon--kings, popes, and one-party...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635618655Author Tom BrowningFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789078088769Author Nathalie ZonnenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 165mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493148789Author Kris DittelFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint OnomatopeePublisher OnomatopeeWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 163mm * 114mm * 23mm

The book responds to the challenge of the global turn in the humanities from the perspective of art history. A global art history, it argues, need not follow the logic of economic globalization nor seek to bring the entire world into its fold. Instead,...

What happened in art following the consolidation of capitalist globalisation after 1989? Drawing on work in art history, curating, critical theory, political economy and sociology, essays in Economy: Art, Production and the Subject in the 21st Century...

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_...

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

At the end of World War II, Hollywood basked in unprecedented prosperity. Since then, numerous challenges and crises have changed the American film industry in ways beyond imagination in 1945. Nonetheless, at the start of a new century Hollywood's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095749Author Jeroen LuttersFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 163mm * 18mm

Essays by Adorno on art and cinema, available in English for the first time. In Without Model, Theodor W. Adorno strikingly demonstrates the intellectual range for which he is known. Taking the premise of the title as his guiding principle, that...

Artists always react to the times in which they live. They may celebrate them or criticize them, often trying to change them. But this is the first time in history that technology controlled by private companies is offering to replace the work of...

Long recognized as one of the most important 18th-century works on the aesthetics of the visual arts, Johann Gottfried Herder's "Plastik" ("Sculpture", 1778) has never before appeared in a complete English translation. In this landmark essay, Herder...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956795251Author Isabelle GrawFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 122mm...

In the Mind, But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art considers how the Marxian concept of Real Abstraction--originally developed by Alfred Sohn Rethel, and recently updated by Alberto Toscano--might help to define the economic, social,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990605706Author Michelle Marder KamhiFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Pro Arte BooksPublisher Pro Arte Books

Helmut Puff invites readers to visit societies and spaces of the past through the lens of a particular temporal modality: waiting. From literature, memoirs, manuals, chronicles, visuals, and other documents, Puff presents a history of waiting anchored in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854882526Author Tom McDonoughFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Whitechapel GalleryPublisher Whitechapel GalleryWeight(grams) 550g