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Clement Greenberg, Late Writings by Clement Greenberg
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.99Clement Greenberg (1909-1994) was a colossus of twentieth-century American art, achieving a degree of authority almost unimaginable for a critic today. For more than thirty years he was both lionized... -
Clement Greenberg, Late Writings by Clement Greenberg 9780816639380
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €47.48The posthumous collection of writings by the seminal American art critic features his observations of Jackson Pollock, Hans Hofmann, Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, and others. (Fine Arts).Book... -
Clement Greenberg Between the Lines: Including a Debate with Clement Greenberg by Thierry de Duve 9780226175164
Booksplease Price: €28.41Clement Greenberg (1909-94), champion of abstract expressionism and modernism - of Pollock, Miro, and Matisse - has been esteemed by many as the greatest art critic of the second half of the... -
Clement Greenberg: A Life by Florence Rubenfeld 9780816644353
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.91The only book-length biography of this controversial critic, now in paperback for the first time! Love him or hate him, admire him or revile him, there is no doubt that Clement Greenberg was the most... -
Rereading Abstract Expressionism, Clement Greenberg and the Cold War by Daniel Neofetou
Booksplease Price: €132.86Since the 1970s, it has been argued that Abstract Expressionism was exhibited abroad by the post-war US establishment in an attempt to culturally match and reinforce its newfound economic and... -
The Harold Letters, 1928-1943: The Making of an American Intellectual by Clement Greenberg 9781582432397
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €17.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582432397Author Clement GreenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint CounterpointPublisher... -
A Complicated Marriage: My Life with Clement Greenberg by Janice Van Horne 9781619021570
Booksplease Price: €18.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619021570Author Janice Van HorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint CounterpointPublisher... -
The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 3: Affirmations and Refusals, 1950-1956 Clement Greenberg 9780226306230
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €31.70Clement 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... -
Collected Essays and Criticism: v. 1: Perceptions and Judgements, 1939-44 by Clement Greenberg 9780226306216
Booksplease Price: €29.51Clement 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... -
The Collected Essays and Criticism: v. 4: Modernism with a Vengeance, 1957-69 by Clement Greenberg 9780226306247
Booksplease Price: €39.56Clement 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... -
Collected Essays and Criticism: v. 2: Arrogant Purpose, 1945-49 by Clement Greenberg 9780226306223
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €32.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226306223Author Clement GreenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint University of Chicago... -
Killing Men & Dying Women: Imagining Difference in 1950s New York Painting by Griselda Pollock 9781526164186
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €23.61What did it mean for painter Lee Krasner to be an artist and a woman if, in the culture of 1950s New York, to be an artist was to be Jackson Pollock and to be a woman was to be Marilyn Monroe? With... -
Killing Men & Dying Women: Imagining Difference in 1950s New York Painting by Griselda Pollock 9781526164179
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €90.38What did it mean for painter Lee Krasner to be an artist and a woman if, in the culture of 1950s New York, to be an artist was to be Jackson Pollock and to be a woman was to be Marilyn Monroe? With... -
![Capitalism as Influencing Factor for Cultural Decay. A Marxist Reading of Clement Greenberg's Essay "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" by Diana Kiesinger 9783656942825](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9437733/10471590/9783656942825__72341.1764572354.jpg?c=1 "Capitalism as Influencing Factor for Cultural Decay. A Marxist Reading of Clement Greenberg's Essay "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" by Diana Kiesinger 9783656942825")
Capitalism as Influencing Factor for Cultural Decay. A Marxist Reading of Clement Greenberg's Essay "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" by Diana Kiesinger 9783656942825
RRP: €26.78Booksplease Price: €21.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783656942825Author Diana KiesingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin... -
Modern Times: Temporality in Art and Politics by Jacques Ranciere
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.38In this book Jacques Ranciere radicalises his critique of modernism and its postmodern appendix. He contrasts their unilinear and exclusive time with the interweaving of temporalities at play in... -
Non-Aligned: Art, Decolonization, and the Third World Project in India Atreyee Gupta 9780300280883
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €61.82A revelatory look at modernism in India, exploring art's role in decolonization and aesthetic discourse across the Global South Modernism's peak in the interwar and postwar decades coincided with... -
Art and Posthistory: Conversations on the End of Aesthetics by Arthur C. Danto
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.55From the 1990s until just before his death, the legendary art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto carried out extended conversations about contemporary art with the prominent Italian critic... -
Radical Coherency: Selected Essays on Art and Literature, 1966 to 2005 by David Antin
Booksplease Price: €33.97'We got to talking' so David Antin begins the introduction to "Radical Coherency", embarking on the pursuit that has marked much of his breathless, brilliantly conversational work. From his position... -
What, After All, Is a Work of Art?: Lectures in the Philosophy of Art by Joseph Margolis 9780271018669
Booksplease Price: €44.49What, After All, Is a Work of Art? directs our attention toward historicity, the inherent historied nature of thinking, and the artifactual, culturally emergent nature of both art and human selves... -
Jewish American Identity and Erasure in Pop Art Melissa L. Mednicov 9781032318028
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €51.27This volume focuses on Jewish American identity within the context of Pop art in New York City during the sixties to reveal the multivalent identities and selves often ignored in Pop scholarship... -
Cultural Offensive: America's Impact on British Art Since 1945 by John A. Walker 9780745313115
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €26.01The vibrant fine arts and mass culture that the United Stated exported to Britain in the postwar period had a powerful and far-reaching impact on many British artists, art students and critics. In a... -
Jewish Identity in Modern Art History by Catherine M. Soussloff 9780520213043
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €33.13In the first comprehensive study of Jewish identity and its meaning for the history of art, eleven influential scholars illuminate the formative role of Jews as subjects of art historical discourse... -
The Art of Interpreting by Susan Scott 9780915773084
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €32.48This work studies the art of interpreting.Book InformationISBN 9780915773084Author Susan ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Pennsylvania State University PressPublisher Pennsylvania State... -
The Curious Humanist: Siegfried Kracauer in America by Johannes Von Moltke 9780520290938
RRP: €70.21Booksplease Price: €62.84During the Weimar Republic, Siegfried Kracauer established himself as a trenchant theorist of film, culture, and modernity, and he is now considered one of the key thinkers of the twentieth century... -
The Curious Humanist: Siegfried Kracauer in America by Johannes Von Moltke 9780520290945
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €33.13During the Weimar Republic, Siegfried Kracauer established himself as a trenchant theorist of film, culture, and modernity, and he is now considered one of the key thinkers of the twentieth century... -
Art Criticism and Modernism in the United States Stephen Moonie 9780367565428
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23This study is an analysis of 'high' and 'late' modernist criticism in New York during the 1960s and early 1970s. Through a close reading of a selection of key critics of the period-which will expand... -
The Materiality of Exhibition Photography in the Modernist Era: Form, Content, Consequence by Laurie Taylor 9780367682798
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23This book challenges the status quo of the materiality of exhibited photographs, by considering examples from the early to mid-twentieth century, when photography's place in the museum was not only... -
Aesthetic Spaces: The Place of Art in Film by Brigitte Peucker 9780810139060
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €29.46Films provide valuable spaces for aesthetic experimentation and analysis, for cinema's openness to other media has always allowed it to expand its own. In Aesthetic Spaces, Brigitte Peucker shows... -
Clyfford Still - The Artists Materials by Susan F. Lake
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €36.94Among the most radical of the great American Abstract Expressionist painters, Clyfford Still has also long been among the least studied. Still severed ties with the commercial art world in the early... -
Modern Art And Modernism: A Critical Anthology by Francis Frascina 9780064301244
RRP: €66.63Booksplease Price: €62.40Modern Art and Modernism offers firsthand material for the study of issues central to the development of modern art, its theory, and criticism. The history of modern art is not simply a history of... -
Brutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg by Hal Foster
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €44.54How artists created an aesthetic of "positive barbarism" in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bombIn Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian Hal Foster explores how... -
Enchantments: Joseph Cornell and American Modernism by Marci Kwon 9780691181400
RRP: €69.02Booksplease Price: €58.16The first major work to examine Joseph Cornell's relationship to American modernismJoseph Cornell (1903-1972) is best known for his exquisite and alluring box constructions, in which he transformed... -
Philosophy and Argumentation in Third-Century China: The Essays of Hsi K'ang by His K'Ang 9780691613383
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €34.53A valuable source of information on third-century Chinese argumentation and thought, the essays are eloquent, clear, and to the point; humorous at times; philosophically subtle; and psychologically... -
The New Monuments and the End of Man: U.S. Sculpture between War and Peace, 1945-1975 by Robert Slifkin 9780691192529
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €39.41How leading American artists reflected on the fate of humanity in the nuclear era through monumental sculptureIn the wake of the atomic bombings of Japan in 1945, artists in the United States began... -
Walker Evans: Starting from Scratch by Svetlana Alpers 9780691222615
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €27.27A magisterial study of celebrated photographer Walker EvansWalker Evans (1903-75) was a great American artist photographing people and places in the United States in unforgettable ways. He is known... -
Walker Evans: Starting from Scratch by Svetlana Alpers
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €35.49A magisterial study of celebrated photographer Walker EvansWalker Evans (1903-75) was a great American artist photographing people and places in the United States in unforgettable ways. He is known... -
After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History - Updated Edition by Arthur C. Danto 9780691163895
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.21Originally delivered as the prestigious Mellon Lectures on the Fine Arts in 1995, After the End of Art remains a classic of art criticism and philosophy, and continues to generate heated debate for... -
Blue Poles: Jackson Pollock, Gough Whitlam and the Painting That Changed a Nation by Thomas McIlroy 9780733651960
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €17.71The captivating story behind the iconic Blue Poles - the painter, the process, the patronage, the politics and the national scandal.In 1973, Blue Poles, the iconic painting by America's great... -
Revolt of the Masscult by Chris Lehmann 9780971757578
Booksplease Price: €15.98We live in an age of "popular culture" - another term, to some, for an organic mess of marketing strategies aimed at giving us the illusion of choice. From Oprah Winfrey's Book Club to presidential... -
After Modernist Painting: The History of a Contemporary Practice Craig Staff 9781350363830
Booksplease Price: €98.81This book presents both a historical survey and a critical re-evaluation of the contested and contingent nature of the medium of painting over the last 60 years. Offering a critical account of...