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Bibliography of Meyer Schapiro by Lilian Milgram Schapiro 9780807613870
Booksplease Price: $15.82Apologies 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
Booksplease Price: $21.18Described 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: $67.08Booksplease Price: $59.15The 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... -
Throne of Wisdom by Ilene H. Forsyth 9780691655741
RRP: $67.08Booksplease Price: $65.05The wooden statue of the Mother and Child enthroned, known as sedes sapientiae, the Seat or Throne of Wisdom, reached the brilliant culmination of its development as a genre of religious sculpture in... -
Whose Muse?: Art Museums and the Public Trust by James Cuno 9780691127811
Booksplease Price: $50.48During the economic boom of the 1990s, art museums expanded dramatically in size, scope, and ambition. They came to be seen as new civic centers: on the one hand as places of entertainment, leisure,... -
Jet Lag by Christopher J. Lee
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.02Object 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: $36.11Booksplease Price: $31.68What 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: $38.70Booksplease Price: $28.19A 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: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.14We 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: $20.63Booksplease Price: $18.37With 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... -
Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World by Jonathan Crary
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.17Selected 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.3424/7: 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: $54.18Booksplease Price: $47.64An 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...