Criticism & Theory

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903083284Author Andrew BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Clinamen Press LtdPublisher Clinamen Press Ltd

This special issue is dedicated to the memory of Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019), the first African and Black curator and director of documenta11 (2002) and the 56th Venice Biennale (2015). The articles and personal tributes collected here recognize the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262518727Author Rosalind E. KraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 708gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm *...

In Technocrats of the Imagination John Beck and Ryan Bishop explore the collaborations between the American avant-garde art world and the military-industrial complex during the 1960s, in which artists worked with scientists and engineers in universities,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095237Author Barbara CuetoFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 168mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543095Author Justin BealFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

A companion volume to Art and Illusion, The Image & the Eye provides a comprehensive and intriguing overview of art and our perception of its different dimensions. In a series of landmark papers and lectures, Professor Gombrich presents his thoughts and...

Continuing her feminist reconceptualisation of the ways we can experience and study the visual arts, world renowned art historian and cultural analyst, Griselda Pollock proposes a series of new encounters through virtual exhibitions with art made by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539364Author Alexis L. BoylanFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Harald Szeemann is associated with some of the most important artistic developments of the postwar era. A passionate advocate of avant-garde movements like conceptualism and post minimalism, he collaborated with artists such as Joseph Beuys, Bruce...

This book tells two stories about the full-length mirror. One story, through time and space, crisscrosses the globe to introduce a broad range of historical actors: kings and slaves, artists and writers, merchants and craftsmen, courtesans and commoners...

'Approaching the different and manifold sequences in this book...one will gradually come to realise that metamorphosis can become an ideal for knowledge, a guiding path for self-knowledge and knowledge of the world - as intuitive contemplation and as...

The view from above, or the 'bird's-eye' view, has become so ingrained in contemporary visual culture that it is now hard to imagine our world without it. It has risen to pre-eminence as a way of seeing, but important questions about its effects and...

Melancholy is not only about sadness, despair, and loss. As Renaissance artists and philosophers acknowledged long ago, it can engender a certain kind of creativity born from a deep awareness of the mutability of life and the inevitable cycle of birth...

At a time where there are repeated claims of the impending demise of art criticism, The Ends of Art Criticism seeks to dispel these myths by arguing that the lack of a single dominant voice in criticism is not, as some believe, a weakness, but a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956794636Author Maria LindFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789078088776Author Liesbeth HuybrechtsFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 28mm

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...

The Family of Man is the most widely seen exhibition in the history of photography. The book of the exhibition, still in print, is also the most commercially successful photobook ever published. First shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789381986Author David BateFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint IntellectPublisher Intellect

The first complete, scholarly English-language biography of Ibn Khaldun. Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406) is one of the most influential and important Muslim thinkers in history, inspiring at least as much interest among modern scholars as his immediate...

Elusive, subtle and atmospheric, Lost in Translation was one of the indie hits of 2004, earning widespread critical praise, awards and success at the box office. But what was the basis of its appeal and how exactly is the film marked as a distinctly...

As Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a decade, Thomas Hoving brought art to a new level of public awareness by pioneering such blockbuster shows as the King Tut exhibit. Early in his career, Hoving was introduced to the "curator's game."...

Originally published in 1930 in an edition of 100 copies, Gertrude Stein's Dix Portraits pairs her singular literary style with original lithographs by Pablo Picasso and other artists in Stein's circle to create an exceptional artist's book exploring...

The work of German cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg (1866-1929) has had a lasting effect on how we think about images. This book is the first in English to focus on his last project, the encyclopedic Atlas of Images: Mnemosyne. Begun in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999368067Author Michael ParaskosFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint Orage PressPublisher Orage PressWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

A critical reexamination of Carpeaux's bust Why Born Enslaved! and other nineteenth-century antislavery images-this book interrogates the treatment of the Black figure as a malleable political symbol and locus of exoticized beauty This critical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581152036Author Thomas McEvilleyFormat HardbackPage Count 768Imprint Allworth Press,U.S.Publisher Allworth Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 1021gDimensions(mm)...

Hailed as a masterpiece by Jean Genet, Marguerite Duras, and Jean-Paul Sartre, Tropisms is considered one of the defining texts of the nouveau roman movement. Nathalie Sarraute has defined her work as the "movements that are hidden under the commonplace,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250798794Author William DeresiewiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)...

Explicit material is more widely available in the internet age than ever before, yet the concept of 'obscenity' remains as difficult to pin down as it is to approach without bias: notions of what is 'obscene' shift with societies' shifting mores, and our...

The experimental approach of science applied to artistic research. We don't know what we don't know. This makes it difficult to imagine research that will produce truly new knowledge. In the sciences, the experimental approach has proved its worth in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493246058Author Helen WestgeestFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 165mm * 38mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400076055Author Peter SteinhartFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 246gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262515948Author Carol ArmstrongFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 953gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 21mm

Highlighting intersections of gender, race, and class and their explosive encounters with Pop Art during the Long Sixties, this book offers a new critical reading of Pop for the 21st century. 'a brilliant and important corrective to much writing on...

Mark C. Taylor's latest book is a philosophy of silence for our nervous, chattering age. How do we find silence--and more importantly, how do we understand it--amid the incessant buzz of the networks that enmesh us? Have we forgotten how to listen to...

For thirty years, until 2015, Richard Dorment was the art critic of the Daily Telegraph. Writing almost every week it was his job to introduce, to explain and to criticise for a popular newspaper the most significant current art exhibitions, mainly in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666738520Author Josh LarsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Cascade BooksPublisher Cascade BooksWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 7mm

In this stimulating book, a leading authority on the Spanish master Diego Velazquez discusses this enigmatic artist and explores the mysteries presented by his paintings. The essays collected here, written over the course of Jonathan Brown's...