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Visual Narrative and Lacanian Psychoanalysis Efrat Biberman 9781032850771
RRP: $43.85Booksplease Price: $42.43This book analyzes narrativity in painting from a Freudian-Lacanian perspective.Narrativity in painting is prominently discussed through disciplinary laws and lens of art history, art theory, poetics... -
Art and the Nation State: The Reception of Modern Art in Ireland Roisin Kennedy 9781802075403
Booksplease Price: $46.98Art and the Nation State is a wide-ranging study of the reception and critical debate on modernist art from the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922 to the end of the modernist era in the 1970s... -
John Scott: Firestorm John O'Brian 9781773272726
RRP: $41.22Booksplease Price: $28.74Raw, personal and political, John Scott: Firestorm; presents an artist's searing critique of modernity's capacity for industrial warfare and the machines that enable it.Scott produced paintings,... -
The New York Intellectuals Reader Neil Jumonville (Florida State University) 9780415952651
RRP: $67.07Booksplease Price: $63.65In the early 1930's in a small alcove at City College in New York a group of young, passionate, and politically radical students argued for hours about the finer points of Marxist doctrine, the true... -
The Bomb in the Wilderness: Photography and the Nuclear Era in Canada by John O'Brian
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $27.94Photographs link the nuclear past and nuclear present, shaping the public's perception of events. What can they reveal about Canada's nuclear footprint?The Bomb in the Wilderness contends that... -
Anthony Caro by Willard Boepple
RRP: $96.75Booksplease Price: $65.20A comprehensive monograph on the pioneering artist Anthony Caro. Regarded as the greatest British artist of his generation and represented in museum collections all over the world, Anthony Caro... -
In the Flow by Boris Groys
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $19.34In the early 20th century, art and its institutions came under critique from a new democratic and egalitarian spirit. In an age of secularism and materialism, artworks would be understood as merely... -
Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals and Their World by Alexander Bloom 9780195051773
Booksplease Price: $40.57"A herd of independent minds," Harold Rosenberg once labelled his fellow intellectuals. They were, and are, as this book shows, a special and fascinating group, including literary critics Lionel... -
Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes by Danilo Udovicki-Selb 9781474299862
Booksplease Price: $144.65Conventional readings of the history of Soviet art and architecture show modernist utopian aspirations as all but prohibited by 1932 under Stalin's totalitarianism. Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes... -
Enchanted Ground: Andre Breton, Modernism and the Surrealist Appraisal of Fin-de-Siecle Painting by Dr Gavin Parkinson
Booksplease Price: $42.16Enchanted Ground is about the challenge to modernist criticism by Surrealist writers-mainly Andre Breton but also Louis Aragon, Pierre Mabille, Rene Magritte, Charles Estienne, Rene Huyghe and... -
Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes: Architecture and Stalin's Revolution from Above, 1928-1938 Dr Danilo Udovicki-Selb (University of Texas at Austin, USA) 9781350288423
Booksplease Price: $46.80Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes challenges conventional readings of the history of Soviet art and architecture, in which utopian modernism was practically prohibited by 1932 under Stalin's... -
Modernism: Evolution of an Idea by Sean Latham 9781472523778
Booksplease Price: $39.82What exactly is "modernism"? And how and why has its definition changed over time?Modernism: Evolution of an Idea is the first book to trace the development of the term "modernism" from cultural... -
Celine Dion Let's Talk About Love by Carl Wilson
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.02This book is a riveting investigation of what it means to love music and what it means to hate music, both of good and bad taste.Non-fans regard Celine Dion as ersatz and plastic, yet to those who... -
Unflattening by Nick Sousanis
RRP: $28.32Booksplease Price: $23.21The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked, equal partners in meaning-making? Written and drawn entirely as comics, Unflattening... -
Why a Painting Is Like a Pizza: A Guide to Understanding and Enjoying Modern Art by Nancy G. Heller 9780691090528
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.56The first time she made a pizza from scratch, art historian Nancy Heller made the observation that led her to write this entertaining guide to contemporary art. Comparing modern art not only to...