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In the Flow by Boris Groys
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €17.84In 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... -
On the New by Boris Groys 9781781682920
Booksplease Price: €19.29On the New looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern culture's key sites: the intellectual marketplace and the archive. As ideas move from one context to another, newness is... -
Philosophy of Care by Boris Groys
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.62Our current culture is dominated by the ideology of creativity. One is supposed to create the new and not to care about the things as they are. This ideology legitimises the domination of the... -
Art Power by Boris Groys
Booksplease Price: €33.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner of the 2009 Frank Jewett Mather Award given by the College Art Association (CAA). 2009.Book... -
The Communist Postscript by Boris Groys
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.62Since Plato, philosophers have dreamed of establishing a rational state ruled through the power of language. In this radical and disturbing account of Soviet philosophy, Boris Groys argues that... -
Becoming an Artwork Boris Groys 9781509551972
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €17.23Modern history is a history of aesthetizations - and every aesthetization raises a claim of protection. We aestheticize and want to protect almost everything, including Earth, oceans, the atmosphere,... -
Particular Cases by Boris Groys 9783956792212
Booksplease Price: €23.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956792212Author Boris GroysFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher... -
Russian Cosmism by Boris Groys 9780262552882
Booksplease Price: €38.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262552882Author Boris GroysFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Becoming an Artwork Boris Groys 9781509551965
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €41.08Modern history is a history of aesthetizations - and every aesthetization raises a claim of protection. We aestheticize and want to protect almost everything, including Earth, oceans, the atmosphere,... -
Writings on Art and Politics Boris Groys 9781350457843
Booksplease Price: €34.33To the philosopher Boris Groys, everything technology produces in the modern world ultimately falls into two categories - it's art, or it's garbage. Both are useless, defunctionalized objects that... -
Writings on Art and Politics Boris Groys 9781350457836
Booksplease Price: €91.05To the philosopher Boris Groys, everything technology produces in the modern world ultimately falls into two categories - it's art, or it's garbage. Both are useless, defunctionalized objects that... -
Alexandre Kojève: An Intellectual Biography by Boris Groys 9781804296820
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.66Boris Groys's new book is an intellectual biography of the fascinating and mysterious figure of Alexandre Kojève, discussing his involvement with Hegel's dialectics, his idea of communism and his... -
The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond by Boris Groys
Booksplease Price: €17.45From the ruins of communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. Interpreting totalitarian art and... -
Kandinsky: Incarnating Beauty Alexandre Kojeve 9781644230817
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €9.52A teacher to Jacques Lacan, Andre Breton, and Albert Camus, Kojeve defined art as the act of extracting the beautiful from objective reality. His poetic text, "The Concrete Paintings of Kandinsky,"... -
Everything Has Already Been Written: Moscow Conceptualist Poetry and Performance by Gerald Janecek 9780810139015
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.32In this book, Gerald Janecek provides a comprehensive account of Moscow Conceptualist poetry and performance, arguably the most important development in the arts of the late Soviet period and yet one... -
Ways of Re-Thinking Literature Tom Bishop 9781138675759
Booksplease Price: €50.62Ways of Re-Thinking Literature creates a unique platform where leading literary thinkers and practitioners provide a multiplicity of views into what literature is today.The texts gathered in this... -
After Art by David Joselit 9780691150444
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €28.00Art as we know it is dramatically changing, but popular and critical responses lag behind. In this trenchant illustrated essay, David Joselit describes how art and architecture are being transformed... -
The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin by Caryl Emerson 9780691050492
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €43.49Among Western critics, Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) needs no introduction. His name has been invoked in literary and cultural studies across the ideological spectrum, from old-fashioned humanist to... -
Res Publica 9783775758918
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €40.75Examining the relationship of art and the public todayWhat does "art as a public affair" mean? What is public? And not least what is the relationship between art and public? These are the three... -
The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now by Rudolf Frieling
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €26.30This new survey covers the rich and varied history of participatory art, from early happenings and performances to current practices that demand audience interaction. As the internet mindset -... -
Constellations: Yeh Shih-Chiang, Yeh Wei-Li by Chang Tsong-Zung
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €38.62This remarkable volume presents the extraordinary life and work of one of Taiwan s most reclusive artists, Yeh Shih-Chiang, as curated by renowned curator Chang Tsong-Zung (Johnson Chang), and... -
The State of Art Criticism James Elkins 9780415977876
RRP: €48.78Booksplease Price: €46.16Art criticism is spurned by universities, but widely produced and read. It is seldom theorized and its history has hardly been investigated. The State of Art Criticism presents an international... -
Movement, Time, Technology, and Art by Christina Chau 9789811047046
Booksplease Price: €109.03This book explores the ways in which artists use technology to create different perceptions of time in art in order to reflect on contemporary relationships to technology. By considering the links... -
Sincerity after Communism: A Cultural History by Ellen Rutten 9780300213980
Booksplease Price: €66.95A compelling study of "new sincerity" as a powerful cultural practice, born in perestroika-era Russia, and how it interconnects with global social and media flows The global cultural practice of a... -
Movement, Time, Technology, and Art by Christina Chau 9789811352065
Booksplease Price: €96.94This book explores the ways in which artists use technology to create different perceptions of time in art in order to reflect on contemporary relationships to technology. By considering the links... -
Empowering Aesthetics: Contemporary Art from Post-Socialist Central Europe Dr Denisa Tomková 9781350447226
Booksplease Price: €110.22The artistic strategies explored in this book are essential tools in fostering emancipatory consciousness in marginalized communities. Empowering Aesthetics weaves together case studies from the... -
One and Five Ideas: On Conceptual Art and Conceptualism by Terry Smith
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94In One and Five Ideas eminent critic, historian, and former member of the Art & Language collective Terry Smith explores the artistic, philosophical, political, and geographical dimensions of... -
Socialist Realism without Shores by Thomas Lahusen 9780822319412
Booksplease Price: €46.36Socialist Realism without Shores offers an international perspective on the aesthetics of socialist realism-an aesthetic that, contrary to expectations, survived the death of its originators and the... -
Speculation, Now: Essays and Artwork by Vyjayanthi Venuturupalli Rao 9780822358299
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €32.02Interdisciplinary in design and concept, Speculation, Now illuminates unexpected convergences between images, concepts, and language. Artwork is interspersed among essays that approach speculation... -
The Books that Shaped Art History: From Gombrich and Greenberg to Alpers and Krauss by Richard Shone
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €17.55The Books That Shaped Art History provides an invaluable roadmap of the field by reassessing the impact of the most important texts of art history published during the 20th century. Each of the... -
Wordsworth and the Poetics of Air by Thomas H. Ford
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €36.12Before the ideas we now define as Romanticism took hold the word 'atmosphere' meant only the physical stuff of air; afterwards, it could mean almost anything, from a historical mood or spirit to the... -
Speculation, Now: Essays and Artwork by Vyjayanthi Venuturupalli Rao
RRP: €111.86Booksplease Price: €90.61Interdisciplinary in design and concept, Speculation, Now illuminates unexpected convergences between images, concepts, and language. Artwork is interspersed among essays that approach speculation... -
Bioaesthetics: Making Sense of Life in Science and the Arts by Carsten Strathausen
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.23In recent years, bioaesthetics has used the latest discoveries in evolutionary studies and neuroscience to provide new ways of looking at art and aesthetics. Carsten Strathausen's remarkable... -
Postwar Revisited: A Global Art History Okwui Enwezor 9781478028222
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €96.18Okwui Enwezor's 2016 exhibition, "Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-1965," redefined the history of art produced in those two decades. Nearly a decade later, Postwar Revisited... -
Postwar Revisited: A Global Art History Okwui Enwezor 9781478031451
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94Okwui Enwezor's 2016 exhibition, "Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-1965," redefined the history of art produced in those two decades. Nearly a decade later, Postwar Revisited... -
In The Steps Of Rosa Luxemburg: Selected Writings Of Paul Levi: Historical Materialism, Volume 31 by Paul Levi 9781608462346
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €29.07Paul Levi remains one of the most interesting and controversial figures in the early history of the Communist movement. As leader of the KPD after the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, he... -
The Landscape of Stalinism: The Art and Ideology of Soviet Space by Evgeny Dobrenko 9780295983417
RRP: €41.59Booksplease Price: €39.54This wide-ranging cultural history explores the expression of Bolshevik Party ideology through the lens of landscape, or, more broadly, space. Portrayed in visual images and words, the landscape... -
Utopia or Bust by Benjamin Kunkel
Booksplease Price: €21.06After the financial crash and the Great Recession, the media rediscovered Karl Marx, socialist theory, and the very idea that capitalism can be questioned.But in spite of the publicity, the main... -
Art and Production by Boris Arvatov 9780745337364
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.72Boris Arvatov's Art and Production is a classic of the early Soviet avant-garde. Now nearing a century since its first publication, it is a crucial intervention for those seeking to understand the... -
Superhumanity: Design of the Self by Nick Axel 9781517905217
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.98A wide-ranging and challenging exploration of design and how it engages with the self The field of design has radically expanded. As a practice, design is no longer limited to the world of material...