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Lawrence Alloway Lucy Bradnock 9781606064429
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.04This incisive book offers a revealing glimpse into the life and thought of a seminal art critic. Lawrence Alloway (1926-1990) was a key figure in the development of modern art in Europe and America... -
Leon Polk Smith: Prairie Moon by Lawrence Alloway
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £26.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947830830Author Lawrence AllowayFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Lisson GalleryPublisher... -
Imagining the Present: Context, Content, and the Role of the Critic Richard Kalina (Fordham University, USA) 9780415391672
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.82Bringing together twenty-nine of Lawrence Alloway's most influential essays in one volume, this fascinating collection provides valuable perspectives on the art and visual culture of the second half... -
Art Criticism and Modernism in the United States Stephen Moonie 9780367565428
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This 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 New Monuments and the End of Man: U.S. Sculpture between War and Peace, 1945-1975 by Robert Slifkin 9780691192529
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.60How 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... -
Brutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg by Hal Foster
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £35.15How 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... -
After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History - Updated Edition by Arthur C. Danto 9780691163895
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.11Originally 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... -
Out of the Ivory Tower: The Independent Group and Popular Culture by Anne Massey 9780719088063
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.61The Independent Group is now the subject of global scholarly interest, and this book, a sequel to The Independent Group: Modernism and mass culture in Britain, 1945-59, explores the Anglo-American... -
Imperfections By Chance: Paul Feeley Retrospective, 1954-1966 by Douglas Dreishpoon 9781907804786
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.34Paul Feeley (19101966) is a towering figure in postwar American modernism. His legendary tenure as head of the art department at Bennington College and resulting associations with the likes of... -
Cultural Offensive: America's Impact on British Art Since 1945 by John A. Walker 9780745313115
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £21.86The 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... -
Pop Art: A Critical History by Steven Henry Madoff
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.32Pop Art: A Critical History chronicles one of the most controversial art movements of the century. The anthology draws from a great range of sources, from the leading art magazines and art historical... -
A Band with Built-In Hate: The Who from Pop Art to Punk by Peter Stanfield 9781789146462
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78'Ours is music with built-in hatred.' - Pete Townshend A Band with Built-In Hate pictures The Who from their inception as the Detours in the mid-sixties to the late seventies, post-Quadrophenia. It... -
The Soul of a Nation Reader: Writings by and about Black American Artists, 1960-1980 Mark Godfrey 9781941366325
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £24.98A comprehensive compendium of artists and writers confronting questions of Black identity, activism and social responsibility in the age of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers, based on the landmark...