Criticism & Theory

In Zizek and Politics, Geoff Boucher and Matthew Sharpe go beyond standard introductions to spell out a new approach to reading Zizek, one that can be highly critical as well as deeply appreciative. They show that Zizek has a raft of fundamental...

Leonardo da Vinci and the ethics of style brings together a distinguished group of experts on Leonardo and the Renaissance, examining the ethical underpinnings of art history. The seven essays articulate the complexity of ways in which style involved...

TWO-VOLUME SET! Buy volume 4, I & 4, II together and receive EURO 20 discount. You only pay EURO109 instead of EURO 129! >Ce second tome du quatrieme volume rassemble trente-neuf textes de Lyotard qui concernent vingt-six artistes contemporains...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462701373Author Volkmar MuhleisFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Leuven University PressPublisher Leuven University PressWeight(grams) 285g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783863357443Author Stephan EggerFormat HardbackPage Count 158Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037644188Author Chantal PontbriandFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782940271689Author Bob NickasFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint JRP EditionsPublisher JRP Editions

The concept of the avant garde is highly contested, whether one consigns it to history or claims it for present-day or future uses. The first volume of The Idea of the Avant Garde - And What It Means Today provided a lively forum on the kinds of radical...

Launched in 1999, Afterall is a journal of contemporary art that offers in-depth analysis of artists' work, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Its academic format differentiates it from popular review magazines. In...

In this intimate investigation of the artistic process, Lezli Rubin-Kunda explores the nuanced path of creative work and the way artists make sense of home and place within their art practice and their lives. Rubin-Kunda is a multidisciplinary artist who...

Almost more than artists, art critics today form an elite class that legislates cultural tastes. The Crisis of Criticism is a collection of brilliantly argued, provocative essays that address the problematic nature of the critic's authority and...

By the late 1960s cartographic formats and spatial information had become a regular feature in many conceptual artworks. This volume offers a rich study of conceptualisms’ mapping practices that includes more expanded forms of spatial representation.The...

“If this book of shocking intelligence and moral hope is read widely and above all well, word for word, it will help the world.” —Peter Schjeldahl An expanded edition of Hickey’s controversial and exquisitely written apologia for beauty—championed by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944521809Author Lynne CookeFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dia Art Foundation,U.S.Publisher Dia Art Foundation,U.S.

This book is devoted to the concept of horizontal art history—a proposal of a paradigm shift formulated by the Polish art historian Piotr Piotrowski (1952–2015)—that aims at undermining the hegemony of the discourse of art history created in the Western...

Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this book breaks new ground by considering how Robert Motherwell’s abstract expressionist art is indebted to Alfred North Whitehead’s highly original process metaphysics. Motherwell first encountered Whitehead and...

This outstanding collection of hitherto unpublished work, written over the last fifteen years of the author's life, reveals the development and maturation of his ideas about sociology and art, and specifically about the relationship between them. Grafia...

Explores cities of exile from different perspectives and presents different methods and sources for exile and urban studies. The essays are written by internationally recognized scholars, and contain a wide range of themes including mapping, oral...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944521786Author Karen KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Dia Art Foundation,U.S.Publisher Dia Art Foundation,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974364827Author Lawrence RinderFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Urban BooksPublisher Kensington Publishing

In Surrealist sabotage and the war on work, art historian Abigail Susik uncovers the expansive parameters of the international surrealist movement's ongoing engagement with an aesthetics of sabotage between the 1920s and the 1970s, demonstrating how...

Through painting, performance, sculpture and design, New York-based artist Kerstin Bratsch (born 1979) depicts the mutation of images over time, and the volatility of data consumption. This book includes an essay by Massimiliano Gioni on her engagement...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037645284Author Peter SchneemannFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier

Leo Tolstoy is one of the most celebrated novelists of all time. As well as writing literary classics such as Anna Karenina and War and Peace he was also the author of some hugely influential critical and philosophical works. First published in 1898 his...

This volume presents three of Meyer Schapiro's finest essays on Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). Given that we esteem artists whose work epitomizes particular styles, how can we likewise value Picasso, an artist who demonstrates a wide range of artistic...

In The Artist-Philosopher and New Philosophy, Smith argues that Western Metaphysics has indeed come to what Heidegger describes as "an end." That is hardly to say philosophy as such is over or soon to disappear; rather, its purpose as a medium of...

Critical Themes in World Music is a reader of nine short essays by the authors of the successful Excursions in World Music, Eighth Edition, edited by Timothy Rommen and Bruno Nettl. The essays introduce key and contemporary themes in...

Drawing on a rich legacy of pictorial evidence, Images of Childhood examines historical constructions of childhood and how they reinforce or challenge the prevailing view of childhood as a state of innocence. Each chapter explores how visual...

Drawing on a rich legacy of pictorial evidence, Images of Childhood examines historical constructions of childhood and how they reinforce or challenge the prevailing view of childhood as a state of innocence. Each chapter explores how visual elements...

An acclaimed art historian explains how to identify excellence in artIn this book, Jakob Rosenberg takes up the timeless problem of how to make a valid judgment about artistic quality. In his search for criteria of excellence in art, Rosenberg examines...

Michael Ann Holly asserts that historical interpretation of the pictorial arts is always the intellectual product of a dynamic exchange between past and present. Recent theory emphasizes the subjectivity of the historian and the ways in which any...

Why do painters paint? Obviously, there are numerous possible reasons. They paint to create images for others’ enjoyment, to solve visual problems, to convey ideas, and to contribute to a rich artistic tradition. This book argues that there is yet...

By inviting a ‘conversation’ between them, this book offers a nuanced introduction both to Cézanne—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...

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 practitioners...

Dismembers and remembers the sensual and spiritual body of Lady Justice in a wholly novel interpretation of the optical allegory of Iustitia Presents an original theory of the blindfold on Justice Includes case studies of the allegorical significance...

This open access book takes a queer, feminist, and decolonial technoscience approach to the ecologies that emerge from our entanglements with nonhumans (air, rocks, algae, trees, soil and plants) and computational hard/software. In Plants by Numbers,...

In this collection of ideas and musings on art and the creative process, Dr Fabola brings the reader scintillating stories and tales from his everyday highs and lows as an independent artist, along with ideas from psychology and scientific literature on...

Is artificial intelligence (AI) becoming more and more expressive, or is human thought adopting more and more structures from computation? What does it mean to perform oneself through AI, or to construct one's subjectivity through AI? How does AI...

A holistic and systematic analysis of Ernst Gombrich as theorist Offers the first holistic and systematic analysis of Gombrich's theoretical ideas and interrogation of their sources Examines both the history of art and architecture and its current...

This book focuses on the reconfiguration of aesthetic anthropology into an anthropological problem of cogitation, opening up a fascinating new dialogue between the domains of anthropology, philosophy, and art. Tarek Elhaik embarks on an inquiry composed...