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Unity of Picasso's Art by Meyer Schapiro 9780807614792
RRP: $59.50Booksplease Price: $42.08Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Bibliography of Meyer Schapiro by Lilian Milgram Schapiro 9780807613870
Booksplease Price: $29.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807613870Author Lilian Milgram SchapiroFormat HardbackPage Count 104 -
Meyer Schapiro’s Critical Debates: Art Through a Modern American Mind by C. Oliver O’Donnell 9780271084657
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $25.54Described in the New York Times as the greatest art historian America ever produced, Meyer Schapiro was both a close friend to many of the famous artists of his generation and a scholar who engaged... -
The Mind's Eye: Art and Theological Argument in the Middle Ages by Jeffrey F. Hamburger 9780691124766
RRP: $123.76Booksplease Price: $109.12The Mind's Eye focuses on the relationships among art, theology, exegesis, and literature--issues long central to the study of medieval art, yet ripe for reconsideration. Essays by leading scholars... -
Blake's Composite Art: A Study of the Illuminated Poetry by W. J. T. Mitchell 9780691613567
RRP: $119.00Booksplease Price: $99.86Can poem and picture collaborate successfully in a composite art of text and design? Or does one art inevitably dominate the other? W.J.T. Mitchell maintains that Blake's illuminated poems are an... -
Happening Pedagogy: Allan Kaprow's Experiments in Instruction by Emily Ruth Capper 9780226846095
Booksplease Price: $96.94How Allan Kaprow's happenings fused modernist pedagogy with an emerging college culture. In Happening Pedagogy, art historian Emily Ruth Capper argues that Allan Kaprow's famed invention of the... -
Myths of Venice: The Figuration of a State by David Rosand 9780807856635
Booksplease Price: $110.05Over the course of several centuries, Venice fashioned and refined a portrait of itself that responded to and exploited historical circumstance. Never conquered and taking its enduring independence... -
The Pragmatism in the History of Art by Molly Nesbit 9781941753279
RRP: $64.26Booksplease Price: $44.34Molly Nesbit shows how American pragmatism has informed art theory from Meyer Schapiro to T.J. Clark and Linda Nochlin First published in 2013 and quickly going out of print, Molly Nesbit's The... -
How to Sleep: The Art, Biology and Culture of Unconsciousness by Matthew Fuller 9781474288705
Booksplease Price: $63.31Sleep is quite a popular activity, indeed most humans spend around a third of their lives asleep. However, cultural, political, or aesthetic thought tends to remain concerned with the interpretation... -
Jet Lag by Christopher J. Lee
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $20.33Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Jet lag is a momentary condition resulting from the human body and its inner clock being... -
Thinking with Things: Toward a New Vision of Art by Esther Pasztory
RRP: $66.62Booksplease Price: $58.45What is "art"? Why have human societies through all time and around the globe created those objects we call works of art? Is there any way of defining art that can encompass everything from... -
If These Apples Should Fall: Cezanne and the Present by T. J. Clark
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $52.00A Financial Times Book of the Year 2022A penetrating analysis of the work of one of the most influential painters in the history of modern art by one of the world's most respected art historians. ... -
Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality Federico Campagna (Independent Scholar, UK) 9781350044029
RRP: $64.24Booksplease Price: $49.03We take for granted that only certain kind of things exist - electrons but not angels, passports but not nymphs. This is what we understand as 'reality'. But in fact, 'reality' varies with each era... -
Insurrections: Education in an Age of Counter-Revolutionary Politics by Henry A. Giroux
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $33.89With this book Henry A. Giroux argues that insurrection has become a dominant motif for the USA and other countries torn between the promises and ideals of democracy and an emergent authoritarianism... -
Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work by Abigail Susik 9781526155016
RRP: $202.30Booksplease Price: $146.63In 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... -
Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World by Jonathan Crary
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.75Selected as one of LitHub's 38 Favorite Books of 2022Finalist for the 2022 Big Other Book Award for NonfictionIn this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality:... -
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep Jonathan Crary 9781804298404
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.2324/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-century capitalism. The marketplace now operates through... -
A History of Art History by Christopher Wood
RRP: $99.96Booksplease Price: $87.89An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicamentsIn this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the...