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Centre for the Study of Language & Information Fantasia Apocalyptica Illustrated
Book SynopsisArtist Duane R. Bibby brings Donald E. Knuth’s computer-assisted musical “translation” of the biblical Book of Revelation to life in this illustrated edition of Knuth’s multimedia work for pipe organ and video, Fantasia Apocalytica. Each of Bibby’s hand-painted illustrations captures an associated passage from Revelation, providing not only a vibrant and captivating complement to Knuth’s music, but also to the mysticism and drama of the Bible. Fantasia Apocalyptica Illustrated is a marvelous addition to the collection of any bibliophile or contemporary music aficionado.
£36.00
Bucknell University Press,U.S. Between Market and Myth: The Spanish Artist Novel
Book SynopsisIn its early transition to democracy following Franco’s death in 1975, Spain rapidly embraced neoliberal practices and policies, some of which directly impacted cultural production. In a few short years, the country commercialized its art and literary markets, investing in “cultural tourism” as a tool for economic growth and urban renewal. The artist novel began to proliferate for the first time in a century, but these novels—about artists and art historians—have received little critical attention beyond the descriptive. In Between Market and Myth, Vater studies select authors—Julio Llamazares, Ángeles Caso, Clara Usón, Almudena Grandes, Nieves Herrero, Paloma Díaz-Mas, Lourdes Ortiz, and Enrique Vila-Matas—whose largely realist novels portray a clash between the myth of artistic freedom and artists’ willing recruitment or cooptation by market forces or political influence. Today, in an era of rising globalization, the artist novel proves ideal for examining authors' ambivalent notions of creative practice when political patronage and private sector investment complicate belief in artistic autonomy. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. Trade Review"Between Market and Myth covers a fascinating topic which allows for the exploration of questions central to the cultural production of the period and of the changing, at times contradictory, role of the artist. The topic is exciting and timely, and Vater presents a provocative frame for the discussion." -- Elizabeth Drumm * author of Painting on Stage: Visual Art in Twentieth-Century Spanish Theater *"The book makes a compelling case for the effects that neoliberalism has on cultural capital and supports its convincing argument with an all-encompassing literary analysis that masterfully interprets the primary texts in their historical and geographical context." * Hispania *"Is the value of an artist and her product intrinsic or extrinsic to society? Katie Vater’s intriguing study engages this question through an analysis of several Spanish literary works produced between 1992 and 2014." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *"Between Market and Myth covers a fascinating topic which allows for the exploration of questions central to the cultural production of the period and of the changing, at times contradictory, role of the artist. The topic is exciting and timely, and Vater presents a provocative frame for the discussion." -- Elizabeth Drumm * author of Painting on Stage: Visual Art in Twentieth-Century Spanish Theater *"The book makes a compelling case for the effects that neoliberalism has on cultural capital and supports its convincing argument with an all-encompassing literary analysis that masterfully interprets the primary texts in their historical and geographical context." * Hispania *"Is the value of an artist and her product intrinsic or extrinsic to society? Katie Vater’s intriguing study engages this question through an analysis of several Spanish literary works produced between 1992 and 2014." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The Weight of Fame: Memory in Two Contemporary Künstlerromane by Ángeles Caso and Julio Llamazares 2 The Postfeminist Turn in the Artist Novel by Women: The Case of Almudena Grandes, Clara Usón, and Nieves Herrero 3 The Art Historian as Neoliberal Subject in Lourdes Ortiz’s Las manos de Velázquez and Paloma Díaz-Mas’s El sueño de Venecia 4 Affiliation Anxiety: Avant-Garde Identity at dOCUMENTA(13) in Enrique Vila-Matas’s Kassel no invita la lógica Conclusion Bibliography Index
£28.90
Bucknell University Press,U.S. Between Market and Myth: The Spanish Artist Novel
Book SynopsisIn its early transition to democracy following Franco’s death in 1975, Spain rapidly embraced neoliberal practices and policies, some of which directly impacted cultural production. In a few short years, the country commercialized its art and literary markets, investing in “cultural tourism” as a tool for economic growth and urban renewal. The artist novel began to proliferate for the first time in a century, but these novels—about artists and art historians—have received little critical attention beyond the descriptive. In Between Market and Myth, Vater studies select authors—Julio Llamazares, Ángeles Caso, Clara Usón, Almudena Grandes, Nieves Herrero, Paloma Díaz-Mas, Lourdes Ortiz, and Enrique Vila-Matas—whose largely realist novels portray a clash between the myth of artistic freedom and artists’ willing recruitment or cooptation by market forces or political influence. Today, in an era of rising globalization, the artist novel proves ideal for examining authors' ambivalent notions of creative practice when political patronage and private sector investment complicate belief in artistic autonomy. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. Trade Review"Between Market and Myth covers a fascinating topic which allows for the exploration of questions central to the cultural production of the period and of the changing, at times contradictory, role of the artist. The topic is exciting and timely, and Vater presents a provocative frame for the discussion." -- Elizabeth Drumm * author of Painting on Stage: Visual Art in Twentieth-Century Spanish Theater *"The book makes a compelling case for the effects that neoliberalism has on cultural capital and supports its convincing argument with an all-encompassing literary analysis that masterfully interprets the primary texts in their historical and geographical context." * Hispania *"Is the value of an artist and her product intrinsic or extrinsic to society? Katie Vater’s intriguing study engages this question through an analysis of several Spanish literary works produced between 1992 and 2014." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *"Between Market and Myth covers a fascinating topic which allows for the exploration of questions central to the cultural production of the period and of the changing, at times contradictory, role of the artist. The topic is exciting and timely, and Vater presents a provocative frame for the discussion." -- Elizabeth Drumm * author of Painting on Stage: Visual Art in Twentieth-Century Spanish Theater *"The book makes a compelling case for the effects that neoliberalism has on cultural capital and supports its convincing argument with an all-encompassing literary analysis that masterfully interprets the primary texts in their historical and geographical context." * Hispania *"Is the value of an artist and her product intrinsic or extrinsic to society? Katie Vater’s intriguing study engages this question through an analysis of several Spanish literary works produced between 1992 and 2014." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The Weight of Fame: Memory in Two Contemporary Künstlerromane by Ángeles Caso and Julio Llamazares 2 The Postfeminist Turn in the Artist Novel by Women: The Case of Almudena Grandes, Clara Usón, and Nieves Herrero 3 The Art Historian as Neoliberal Subject in Lourdes Ortiz’s Las manos de Velázquez and Paloma Díaz-Mas’s El sueño de Venecia 4 Affiliation Anxiety: Avant-Garde Identity at dOCUMENTA(13) in Enrique Vila-Matas’s Kassel no invita la lógica Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Kane/Miller Book Publishers I Like Art ... What Jobs Are There?
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Lulu.com DIjwI' vuD
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HarperCollins Letters to Malcolm Chiefly on Prayer
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HarperCollins The Path to Paradise
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Earth to Moon
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HarperCollins Dancing on My Own
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Dirty Version
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HarperCollins What Christians Believe
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Typewriter Beach
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Taylor & Francis Caravaggio
Book SynopsisCaravaggio was one of the most important Italian painters of the 17th century. He was, in fact, the wellspring of Baroque painting. In Hibbard's words, Caravaggio's paintings speak to us more personally and more poignantly than any others of the time. In this study, Howard Hibbard evaluates the work of Caravaggio: notorious as a painter-assassin, hailed by many as an original interpreter of the scriptures, a man whose exploration of nature has been likened to that of Galileo.Table of ContentsIntroduction; finding the way; Egregius In Urbe Pictor; The End Of The Road; notes to the illustrations. Appendix I: other paintings attributed to Caravaggio. Appendix II: old reports about Caravaggio, in the original and in translation.
£52.24
Taylor & Francis The Renaissance Artist At Work From Pisano To
Book SynopsisThis book gives the necessary background for the study and appreciation of Italian painting and sculpture from about 1250 to 1550. It tells how the artists learned their craft, the organization of their workshops, and the guilds they belonged to; how their customers or patrons treated them and where their work was displayed?churches, civic buildings, or private homes. The book discusses how art was made?tempera, oil, panel, canvas, fresco; it surveys the characteristic types of Renaissance art?altarpieces, portraits, tombs, busts, doors fountains, medals, etc.Table of Contents* Introduction * The Artist in Society * The Materials of Renaissance Art * The Types of Renaissance Art
£43.99
Taylor & Francis Women Art And Power And Other Essays
Book SynopsisWomen, Art, and Power--seven landmark essays on women artists and women in art history--brings together the work of almost twenty years of scholarship and speculation.Table of Contents* Introduction * Women, Art, and Power (1988) * Morisots Wet Nurse: The Construction of Work and Leisure in Impressionist Painting (1989) * Lost and Found: Once More the Fallen Woman (1978) * Some Women Realists (1974) * Florine Stettheimer: Rococo Subversive (1980) * Eroticism and Female Imagery in Nineteenth-Century Art (1972) * Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? (1971)
£47.49
Taylor & Francis The Politics Of Vision
Book SynopsisA leading critic and historian of nineteenth-century art and society explores in nine essays the interaction of art, society, ideas, and politics.Table of Contents* The Invention of the Avant-Garde: France, 18301880 * Courbet, Oller, and a Sense of Place: The Regional, the Provincial, and the Picturesque in 19th-Century Art * The Imaginary Orient * Camille Pissarro: The Unassuming Eye * Manets Masked Ball at the Opera * Van Gogh, Renouard, and the Weavers Crisis in Lyons * Lon Frdric and The Stages of a Workers Life * Degas and the Dreyfus Affair: A Portrait of the Artist as an Anti-Semite * Seurats La Grande Jatte: An Anti-Utopian Allegory
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Taylor & Francis The Expanding Discourse
Book SynopsisA sequel to the pioneering volume, Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany, published in 1982, The Expanding Discourse contains 29 essays on artists and issues from the Renaissance to the present, representing some of the best feminist art-historical writing of the past decade. Chronologically arranged, the essays demonstrate the abundance, diversity, and main conceptual trends in recent feminist scholarship.Table of Contents* Introduction: The Expanding Discourse Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard. * The Virgins One Bare Breast: Nudity, Gender, and Religious Meaning in Tuscan Early Renaissance Culture Margaret R. Miles. * Women in Frames: The Gaze, the Eye, the Profile in Renaissance Portraiture Patricia Simons. * Leonardo da Vinci: Female Portraits, Female Nature M. D. Garrard. * The Taming of the Blue: Writing Out Color in Italian Renaissance Theory Patricia L. Reilly. * Botticellis Primavera: A Lesson for the Bride * Lilian Zirpolo. * Titians Sacred and Profane Love and Marriage Rona Goffen. * The Loggia dei Lanzi: A Showcase of Female Subjugation Yael Even. * The Erotics of Absolutism: Rubens and the Mystification of Sexual Violence Margaret D. Carroll. * The Muted Other: Gender and Morality in Augustan Rome and Eighteenth-Century Europe Natalie Boymel Kampen. * Secluded Vision: Images of Feminine Experience in Nineteenth-Century Europe Anne Higonnet. * Disagreeably Hidden: Construction and Constriction of the Lesbian Body in Rosa Bonheurs Horse Fair James M. Saslow. * LArt Fminin: The Formation of a Critical Category in Late Nineteenth-Century France Tamar Garb. * Morisots Wet Nurse: The Construction of Work and Leisure in Impressionist Painting Linda Nochlin. * Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity Griselda Pollock. * Edgar Degas and French Feminism, ca1880: The Young Spartans, the Brothel Monotypes, and the Bathers Revisited N. Broude. * Renoir and the Natural Woman T. Garb. * Going Native: Paul Gauguin and the Invention of Primitivist Modernism * Abigail Solomon-Godeau. * Gauguins Tahitian Body Peter Brooks. * The MoMAs Hot Mamas Carol Duncan. * Constructing Myths and Ideologies in Matisses Odalisques Marilynn Lincoln Board. * Ladies Shot and Painted: Female Embodiment in Surrealist Art Mary Ann Caws. * Culture, Politics, and Identity in the Paintings of Frida Kahlo Jaine Helland. * Egalitarian Vision, Gendered Experience: Women Printmakers and the WPA/FAP Graphic Arts Project Helen Langa. * Lee Krasner as LK Anne M. Wagner. * Georgia OKeeffe and Feminism: A Problem of Position Barbara Buhler Lynes. * Judy Chicagos Dinner Party: A Personal Vision of Womens History Josephine Withers. * Race RiotsCocktail PartiesBlack PanthersMoon Shots and Feminists: Faith Ringgolds Observations of the 1960s in America Lowery S. Sims. * Afrofemcentrism and Its Fruition in the Art of Elizabeth Catlett and Faith Ringgold Freida High W. Tesfagiorgis. * The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism Craig Owens.
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McGraw-Hill Education Living with Art Bb Art
Book SynopsisLiving with Art fosters each studentâs unique path to appreciation through immersion in the vocabulary of art (for understanding) and through guided tools to talk about art (for analysis). Its targeted learning resources bring art to life within a personalized learning path that visually engages students in course skills and concepts. In doing so, Living with Art provides the foundation for a life-long appreciation of art, as well as critical thinking skills that will benefit students far beyond the classroom, into their chosen careers.
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OUP India Art for Everyone
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Oxford University Press Inc Art Matters
Book SynopsisMake your Art Appreciation course as inspiring as the rich world of art that it covers. Art Matters enables students to experience art actively and meaningfully, weaving together innovative pedagogy and compelling stories about a wide assortment of artworks and artists to show students that art is everywhere, art is vibrant, and art matters. Art Matters presents a contemporary approach to art appreciation, offering a compelling narrative, a wide range of works created by numerous artists from around the world, and an active and meaningful learning experience. Through stories, examples, thoughtful pedagogy, and in-depth discussions of process and history, Art Matters motivates students to experience art actively and meaningfully. By asking questions and exposing students to different viewpoints and ideas, the author gives them the tools to speak, write, think critically, and form conclusions about what they see in familiar and unfamiliar works. Important updates to the second edition inTrade Review[Art Matters] is thorough, interactive, and forward-thinking - meaning it is very much moving toward the global approach to art appreciation that so many institutions strive for. . . . The "Practice Art Matters" [activities] I believe reach a broad range of students, and should make them think practically and maybe emotionally about some works of art. In a course with an overwhelming number of nonmajors, this type of info and approach is critical." - Alice Jackson, University of Alabama at Birmingham[Art Matters] really connects students to the importance of art and helps them appreciate the way art reflects its time and culture. Starting with the controversy of Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial [in Chapter 1] really intrigues all of the students and sets them up for understanding different points of view with art right away." - Julie Sawyer, University of Massachusetts, LowellTable of ContentsPart 1 Introduction Chapter 1 Art Matters HOW ART MATTERS Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial 1.1 Art's Central Place in Our Lives Art Matters Art Is Everywhere Practice ART MATTERS 1.1 Discuss a Work That Is Important to You Art Is a Characteristically Human Endeavor Art Is an Inner Calling Art Is a Sensation to Which We are Drawn 1.2 Art's Strong Support Government Support International Support Individual Support DELVE DEEPER Conserving Art 1.3 Art's Impact on Society Art Education Art Therapy General Support Awareness of Important Causes Influence and Propaganda Censorship and the Destruction of Art Illegal Trafficking of Art Practice ART MATTERS 1.2 Explain Why a Memorial Shows How Art Matters 1.4 Art's Role in Religion and Spirituality A Wondrous Space An Intermediary A Representation of the Divine A Tool for Ritual 1.5 Art's Role in Politics and the Social Order Promoting the Social Order Protesting the Social Order Practice ART MATTERS 1.3 Figure Out the Purpose of a Work of Art 1.6 Art's Role in Recording and Communicating Information Documenting Life Reflecting the World Relaying Messages Recounting Past Events Manipulating Depictions Practice ART MATTERS 1.4 Judge Whether an Image Is Reliable 1.7 Art's Role in Decorating the Everyday World Embellishing Spaces and Objects Adorning People 1.8 Art's Role in Expression Capturing an Emotion Looking Inward Imagining Another World HOW ART MATTERS A Look Back at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Chapter 2 Understanding and Defining Art HOW ART MATTERS Barnett Newman's Voice of Fire 2.1 Seeing Art Subject Matter and Form Practice ART MATTERS 2.1 Describe a Work so a Peer Could Draw It Type 2.2 Contextualizing Art Context Practice ART MATTERS 2.2 Consider How Context Creates Meaning Iconography Style Theme 2.3 Experiencing Art Personal Experience Perception Bias 2.4 Defining Art Art as a Physical Object Made from Artistic Materials Art as a Work Crafted with Skill Art as a Work That Has Meaning Practice ART MATTERS 2.3 Figure Out the Content of a Work Art as an Object of Value Art as an Aesthetic Experience Art as Part of the Canon Art as a Creative Work HOW ART MATTERS A Look Back at Voice of Fire Part 2 The Language of Art Chapter 3 The Visual Elements of Art HOW ART MATTERS Vincent van Gogh's Letters and Art 3.1 Line The Character of Lines The Direction of Lines Actual and Implied Lines The Different Uses of Lines Practice ART MATTERS 3.1 See How Lines Draw Attention 3.2 Shape and Mass The Character and Direction of Shapes Geometric and Organic Shapes Positive and Negative Shapes Overall Shapes The Character and Direction of Masses Geometric and Organic Masses Mass and Negative Space Practice ART MATTERS 3.2 Explore the Masses of a Sculpture 3.3 Texture Actual and Simulated Texture in Two-Dimensional Works Actual and Simulated Texture in Three-Dimensional Works 3.4 Light and Value Light Value Light Hitting Three-Dimensional Opaque Objects Chiaroscuro Value to Heighten Expression Light as a Material 3.5 Color The Visible Spectrum Why We See Color The Subtractive and Additive Color Systems The Color Wheel The Properties of Color DELVE DEEPER The Additive Color System Practice ART MATTERS 3.3 Recognize the Hues, Values, and Intensities of Color Color Schemes Practice ART MATTERS 3.4 Analyze the Color in a Work The Characteristics of Color 3.6 Space Three-Dimensional Space Two-Dimensional Space 3.7 Time HOW ART MATTERS A Look Back at Vincent van Gogh's Letters and Art Chapter 4 The Principles of Design HOW ART MATTERS The Taj Mahal 4.1 Unity and Variety 4.2 Balance Symmetrical Balance Asymmetrical Balance Practice ART MATTERS 4.1 Identify Why a Shape Is Heavy Radial Balance 4.3 Emphasis and Subordination Practice ART MATTERS 4.2 Determine What Emphasizes or Subordinates an Object 4.4 Scale 4.5 Proportion 4.6 Rhythm Practice ART MATTERS 4.3 Consider How Size Affects a Cartoon DELVE DEEPER The Golden Section Practice ART MATTERS 4.4 Analyze the Rhythm in a Work HOW ART MATTERS A Look Back at the Taj Mahal Part 3 The Media Chapter 5 Drawing HOW ART MATTERS Pablo Picasso's Guernica Drawings 5.1 What Drawing Is An Intense Way to See A Way to Understand the Creative Process A Way to Take Notes A Finished Work of Art 5.2 Drawing Surfaces and Tools Practice ART MATTERS 5.1 Use Different Surfaces and Tools 5.3 Dry Media Graphite Charcoal Chalk Crayon Conté Crayon 5.4 Liquid Media Pen and Ink Pen and Wash Practice ART MATTERS 5.2 Consider How Altering the Medium Changes a Work Brush and Ink Brush and Wash DELVE DEEPER Mixed Media 5.5 New Directions in Drawing HOW ART MATTERS A Look Back at the Guernica Drawings Chapter 6 Painting HOW ART MATTERS Faith Ringgold's For the Women's House 6.1 What Painting Is Types of Traditional Painting The Technical Process of Painting A Message to Viewers 6.2 Traditional Painting Media Fresco Practice ART MATTERS 6.1 Consider the Characteristics of Fresco in a Painting of a Modern Artist Encaustic Tempera Practice ART MATTERS 6.2 Compare the Effects of Encaustic and Fresco Paint Oil Transparent Watercolor Gouache Practice ART MATTERS 6.3 Recognize the Medium of a Painting 6.3 Acrylics 6.4 New Directions in Painting HOW ART MATTERS A Look Back at For the Women's House Chapter 7 Printmaking HOW ART MATTERS The Prints of Honoré Daumier 7.1 What Printmaking Is An Indirect, Two-Dimensional Art A Collaborative Process An Art of Multiple Originals An Art Form A Technical Process Practice ART MATTERS 7.1 Experience a Printmaker's Expression 7.2 Relief Woodcut Wood Engraving Linocut DELVE DEEPER Color Woodcut 7.3 Intaglio Engraving Drypoint Etching Aquatint Practice ART MATTERS 7.2 Compare an Aquatint and an Etching 7.4 Planographic 7.5 Stencil 7.6 New Directions Nontraditional Matrices Innovative Formats Digital Printmaking HOW ART MATTERS A Look Back at the Prints of Honoré Daumier Chapter 8 Photography, Film, and Video HOW ART MATTERS D. W. Griffith's Film The Birth of a Nation 8.1 What Photography Is The Image-Making Properties of Light The First Photographs Still Cameras An Art of Multiples A Record or a Manipulation of the Truth A Biased Presentation Practice ART MATTERS 8.1 Figure Out Whether an Image Has Been Manipulated A Series of Artistic Decisions 8.2 Different Types of Photographs Landscape Portrait Photojournalism Documentary Artistic Expression 8.3 What Film Is The Roots of Film Movie Cameras A Series of Artistic Decisions A Collaborative and Individual Process A Mass Medium A Record or Manipulation of the Truth Practice ART MATTERS 8.2 See How a Film Helped Make a Difference 8.4 Different Types of Films Narrative versus Experimental Films Scripted versus Documentary Films Live-Action versus Animated Films Films of Different Genres 8.5 What Video Is A Technical Process A Record or Manipulation of the Truth An Art Form HOW ART MATTERS A Look Back at The Birth of a Nation Chapter 9 Graphic Design HOW ART MATTERS The Graphic Design for the 2020 U.S. Census 9.1 What Graphic Design Is A Client's Message to a Specific Audience A Straightforward and Multiple Form of Communication An Art Form DELVE DEEPER The Ancient Art of Graphic Design 9.2 Components of Graphic Design Images Type Layout Practice ART MATTERS 9.1 Consider the Type on a Candy Package 9.3 Different Types of Graphic Design Signs, Publications, and Packaging Corporate, Nonprofit, and Government Identities Motion Graphics and Interactive Digital Media Practice ART MATTERS 9.2 Compare an Updated Logo with the Original HOW ART MATTERS A Look Back at the Graphic Design for the 2020 U.S. Census Chapter 10 Sculpture HOW ART MATTERS Akua'mma Sculptures 10.1 What Sculpture Is A Three-Dimensional Work of Art An Art Form Created from Tangible Materials Practice ART MATTERS 10.1 Examine How Gold Affects a Sculpture A Meaningful Expression 10.2 Different Types of Sculptures Freestanding Sculptures Relief Sculptures Earthworks Installations Practice ART MATTERS 10.2 Consider the Changing Nature of Earthworks 10.3 Traditional Sculpture Techniques Carving Modeling Casting Constructing and Assembling DELVE DEEPER Casting Toys Practice ART MATTERS 10.3 Explore a Sculpture Formed from Multiple Processes 10.4 New Directions in Sculpture HOW ART MATTERS A Look Back at Akua'mma Sculptures Chapter 11 Traditional Craft Media HOW ART MATTERS The Pottery of Maria Martinez 11.1 Conflicting Definitions of Craft Skill versus Intellect Utility versus Appearance Individuality versus Mass Production Practice ART MATTERS 11.1 Consider Whether Mass-Produced Pots Are Art Handmade Feel versus Perfection Reflections of Societies versus Lone Visions Craft and Art Practice ART MATTERS 11.2 Explore How a Work Defies Definition 11.2 Clay Clay Bodies Forming Clay Works Finishing and Firing Clay Works 11.3 Glass Hot Glass Techniques Cold Glass Techniques 11.4 Metal Casting Cold Working Hot Working 11.5 Wood 11.6 Fiber Weaving Carpet Making Basket Making Quilting Creating Works with a Surface Design 11.7 New Directions in Craft HOW ART MATTERS A Look Back at the Pottery of Maria Martinez Chapter 12 Architecture HOW ART MATTERS The Pantheon 12.1 What Architecture Is A Functional Place A Three-Dimensional Work A Work in an Environment A Collaborative and Individual Art Form An Art Form Structured to Withstand Forces 12.2 Shell Construction Methods Load-Bearing and Corbel Post-and-Lintel and Cantilever Practice ART MATTERS 12.1 Explain Why a Paper Lintel Falls Down DELVE DEEPER The Three Orders Arch, Vault, and Dome Practice ART MATTERS 12.2 Determine the Forces That Act on a Paper Arch Practice ART MATTERS 12.3 Explore the Effect of a Cup's Continuous Surface Reinforced Concrete Construction 12.3 Skeleton-and-Skin Construction Methods Frame Construction Suspension Practice ART MATTERS 12.4 Consider the Two Forces That Act on a Necklace 12.4 Recent Innovations in Structures and Materials HOW ART MATTERS A Look Back at the Pantheon Part 4 The History of Art Chapter 13 The Art of Prehistory and Ancient Civilizations in Europe and the Mediterranean HOW ART MATTERS The Parthenon Sculptures 13.1 The Paleolithic Period Wall Paintings Portable Sculptures 13.2 The Neolithic Period 13.3 Mesopotamia Sumer Akkad Babylonia Assyria Practice ART MATTERS 13.1 Compare a Contemporary Leader with an Akkadian Ruler 13.4 Egypt The Role of Art in Promoting the Rule of the Pharaoh Traditional Egyptian Art Akhenaten's Revolution Practice ART MATTERS 13.2 Compare Sculptures of Elite and Non-elite People A Return to Tradition 13.5 Greece The Greek Sense of Individual Identity and Status The Role of Art in Promoting the Status of Different People The Geometric Period The Archaic Period The Classical Period The Hellenistic Period Practice ART MATTERS 13.3 Describe the Ways That Status is Present in a Grave Stele 13.6 Rome Roman Inclusion and Multiculturalism The Role of Art in Creating an Inclusive Roman World Art in the Roman Republic Art in the Roman Empire HOW ART MATTERS A Look Back at the Parthenon Sculptures Connections Power, Servitude, and Ambition Chapter 14 Early Jewish and Christian, Byzantine, and Medieval Art HOW ART MATTERS The Lindisfarne Gospels 14.1 The Late Roman Empire The Diverse Roman World Christianity in the Period of Persecution Christianity under Constantine Practice ART MATTERS 14.1 Explore What Makes a Space Feel Sacred 14.2 The Byzantine Empire The Emperor Justinian and the Empress Theodora Icons and Iconoclasm Practice ART MATTERS 14.2 Compare Images on a Chalice and an Icon 14.3 Early Medieval The Art of Germanic People in Western Europe Art in Charlemagne's Holy Roman Empire 14.4 Romanesque Art in Feudal Europe The Triumph of Christianity and the Romanesque Church DELVE DEEPER Relics and Reliquaries Romanesque Architectural Sculpture Romanesque Book Illustration 14.5 Gothic The Gothic Cathedral Practice ART MATTERS 14.3 Contrast Romanesque and Gothic Churches Gothic Architectural Sculpture 14.6 Toward the Renaissance Changes in Italy Changes in the North HOW ART MATTERS A Look Back at the Lindisfarne Gospels Connections The Divine, Sacred Spaces, and Prayers Chapter 15 Renaissance and Baroque Art HOW ART MATTERS Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Paintings 15.1 The Renaissance 15.2 The Early Renaissance in Italy Painting Sculpture Practice ART MATTERS 15.1 Consider How a Work Fits with the Renaissance Mentality Architecture 15.3 The High Renaissance in Italy Leonardo Michelangelo Raphael The Renaissance in Venice Mannerism 15.4 The Renaissance and Reformation in Northern Europe Religious Art Self-Portraits The Reformation and Art Practice ART MATTERS 15.2 Explore the Symbolism in a Painting 15.5 The Baroque 15.6 The Baroque in Italy Painting Practice ART MATTERS 15.3 Recognize Baroque Ideas in a Work Architecture Sculpture and Functional Art 15.7 The Baroque in Catholic Countries outside of Italy Spain and Flanders France 15.8 The Baroque in the Dutch Republic Portraits Still Lifes Genre Scenes HOW ART MATTERS A Look Back at the Sistine Chapel Paintings Connections War, Death, and Remembrance Chapter 16 The Art of Africa and Islam HOW ART MATTERS The Great Mosque in Djenné, Mali 16.1 Early Africa Rock Art Nok 16.2 Traditional Africa Baule Practice ART MATTERS 16.1 Identify the Features of Traditional African Art in a Work Bwa Fang Yoruba Benin Asante Nguni 16.3 Islam and Art The Principles of Islam Common Characteristics of Islamic Art 16.4 Early Islam The Umayyads The Abbasids 16.5 Medieval Islam The Mamluks Practice ART MATTERS 16.2 Describe the Characteristics of Islamic Art in a Lamp The Nasrids 16.6 Later Islam The Ottomans The Safavids HOW ART MATTERS A Look Back at the Great Mosque in Djenné, Mali Connections Love, Birth, and Growing Up Chapter 17 The Art of the Pacific and the Americas HOW ART MATTERS Hawaiian Featherwork 17.1 Australia 17.2 The Pacific Islands Melanesia Practice ART MATTERS 17.1 Consider the Nature of a Shield Polynesia 17.3 North America The Eastern Woodlands The Great Plains The Southwest The Northwest Coast 17.4 Mesoamerica Olmec Teotihuacán Maya Aztec Practice ART MATTERS 17.2 Determine the Features of Aztec Society in a Work 17.5 South America Chavín Nazca Inca Practice ART MATTERS 17.3 Explore the Role of Context in a Tunic HOW ART MATTERS A Look Back at Hawaiian Featherwork Connections Wildlife, the Land, and the Environment Chapter 18 The Art of Asia HOW ART MATTERS The Japanese Tea Ceremony 18.1 The Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia The Early Indian Subcontinent Buddhism on the Indian Subcontinent and in Southeast Asia Hinduism in India Practice ART MATTERS 18.1 Consider How You Can Classify a Work Islam in India 18.2 China and Korea Early China and Korea Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, and Their Offshoots in China Practice ART MATTERS 18.2 Identify the Philosophy that Influenced a Work Later China 18.3 Japan Classical Japan Medieval Japan Practice ART MATTERS 18.3 Describe Where You See the Influence of Two Religions on a Work Early Modern Japan HOW ART MATTERS A Look Back at the Japanese Tea Ceremony Connections Work, Play, and Relaxation Chapter 19 Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Art in the West HOW ART MATTERS Edouard Manet's The Luncheon on the Grass 19.1 The Eighteenth Century 19.2 The Rococo Decorative Objects A Lighthearted Painting A Rococo Queen 19.3 Neoclassicis A Model of Classical and Academic Subject Matter and Style Practice ART MATTERS 19.1 Identify the Neoclassical Features in a Work Consistency and Changes in Later Neoclassicism Neoclassicism in Architecture and Objects 19.4 The Nineteenth Century 19.5 Romanticism Uncontrollable Current Events Practice ART MATTERS 19.2 Contrast Neoclassical and Romantic Images "Exotic, Violent" Cultures Mysterious, Awe-Inspiring Landscapes Combined Subject Matters 19.6 Realism The Downtrodden Ordinary Life Animals 19.7 Impressionism Focused on What We Actually See The Name "Impressionism" Composition, Light, and Shadow Japanese Influence Practice ART MATTERS 19.3 Consider Japanese Influence in a Work 19.8 Post-Impressionism and Art Nouveau Post-Impressionism Art Nouveau HOW ART MATTERS A Look Back at The Luncheon on the Grass Connections Art, the Artist, and the Inner Mind Chapter 20 Modern Art in the Twentieth-Century Western World HOW ART MATTERS The Earth-Body Works of Ana Mendieta 20.1 Expressionist Movements Fauvism German Expressionism 20.2 Cubism Analytic Cubism Synthetic Cubism DELVE DEEPER Responses to Analytic Cubism 20.3 European Art after World War I Dada Surrealism Practice ART MATTERS 20.1 Explain Why a Work Is Classified as Dada De Stijl The Bauhaus The International Style Practice ART MATTERS 20.2 Consider a Work in the "Degenerate Art" Exhibition 20.4 Art in the United States Regionalism Social Realism The Harlem Renaissance 20.5 The New York School Action Painting Color Field Painting Practice ART MATTERS 20.3 Explore the Work of a Color Field Artist 20.6 Art and Reality Assemblages Environments/Installations Happenings Pop Art 20.7 Pushing the Boundaries of Art Minimalism Conceptual Art Performance Art Earthworks 20.8 Combatting Prejudice Feminist Art Black Protest Art HOW ART MATTERS A Look Back at the Earth-Body Works of Ana Mendieta Connections Suffering, Health, and Survival Chapter 21 Art Since 1980 HOW ART MATTERS The Art of Yinka Shonibare MBE 21.1 The Postmodern Period 21.2 Art of Different Media Architecture Painting Diverse Media Practice ART MATTERS 21.1 Explain Why an Installation Is Postmodern 21.3 Protest Art Art That Protests Social, Political, and Environmental Concerns Art That Looks at How Images and Words Establish Power Practice ART MATTERS 21.2 Explore How Museums Influence Our Views 21.4 Art That Draws on Prior Work Art That Directly Appropriates Prior Art Art That Uses Prior Work as a Point of Departure 21.5 The Contemporary Global World 21.6 Art of Diverse People Referencing Diverse Identities Defying Stereotypes Addressing Social Issues 21.7 Art of a Global World Representing Global Communities Practice ART MATTERS 21.3 Describe How a Work Represents Global Communities Illustrating Our Connected World Giving a Voice to Global Issues and Concerns HOW ART MATTERS A Look Back at the Art of Yinka Shonibare MBE Connections Identity, Discrimination, and Social Ties Glossary Endnotes Credits Index
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press Wicked Intelligence Visual Art and the Science
Book SynopsisIn late seventeenth-century London, the most provocative images were produced not by artists, but by scientists. This book reveals that these natural philosophers shaped Restoration London's emergent artistic cultures by forging collaborations with court painters, penning art theory, and designing triumphs of baroque architecture.Trade Review"No study in recent years on the arts in early modern Britain is as intelligent and inventive as Wicked Intelligence. Always attuned to the elusiveness of objects and their capacity to stimulate unexpected thoughts, Matthew C. Hunter follows Latourian hybrids as they circulate through Restoration experimental culture and brilliantly articulates the material intelligence at work in the Royal Society. Hunter's writing is compelling and witty, and this book exemplifies the very wicked intelligence that he traces through Restoration experimental philosophy." -Michael Gaudio, University of Minnesota"
£48.45
The University of Chicago Press Radical Coherency Selected Essays on Art and
Book SynopsisPresents the essays that range from front-line interventions in debates on poetics to fugitive pieces from the '60s and '70s. From Andy Warhol to Allan Kaprow, Mark Rothko to Ludwig Wittgenstein, this title takes the reader on an idiosyncratic, personal journey through twentieth-century culture.Trade Review"Ever since he began publishing in the mid-sixties, David Antin has been a remarkably interesting and intelligent poet." -New York Times "A decade before he became the seminal 'talk poet' we all know, David Antin was already writing some of the best art criticism in America. In the waning days of Abstract Expressionism, Antin introduced other ways of thinking about art that looked ahead to twenty-first-century modes of conceptualism, performance, and digital poetics. This superb selection from his writings, which brings together essays-some of them already classics-and a number of talk-pieces from the last forty years, is a real treasure." -Marjorie Perloff"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Van Gogh on Demand
Book SynopsisIn the Guangdong province in southeastern China lies Dafen, a village that houses thousands of workers who paint Van Goghs, Da Vincis, and Warhols. The author shows how Dafen's workers force us to reexamine our expectations about the cultural function of creativity and imitation, and the role of Chinese workers in redefining global art.
£31.35
The University of Chicago Press Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance
Book SynopsisBaker perceives the Harlem Renaissance as a crucial moment in a movement, predating the 1920's, when Afro-Americans embraced the task of self-determination and in so doing gave forth a distinctive form of expression that still echoes in a broad spectrum of 20th-century Afro-American arts.
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press Of What One Cannot Speak Doris Salcedos
Book SynopsisDoris Salcedo, a Colombian-born artist, addresses the politics of memory and forgetting in work that embraces fraught situations in dangerous places. This title leads us into intimate encounters with Salcedo's art, encouraging us to consider each work as a 'theoretical object' that invites certain kinds of considerations about history and grief.Trade Review"Of What One Cannot Speak is the next innovative and brilliant book that will once again push the field of visual studies into unexplored areas.... Bal does not simply take Doris Salcedo's work as her starting point, and neither does she argue that the violence of the political is somehow merely 'reflected' in it. Instead, she embarks on a much more ambitious and original project - initiating a discourse by allowing a work of art to take the lead." - Hanneke Grootenboer, University of Oxford"
£78.76
The University of Chicago Press A Mieke Bal Reader
Book SynopsisMieke Bal has had a significant impact on every field she has touched. This work reflects the fields that Bal has most profoundly influenced: literary study, interdisciplinary methodology, visual analysis, and postmodern theology. This work brings together a collection of her work that distills her broad interests and areas of expertise.Trade Review"Quoting Caravaggio "Stimulating and intelligently written.... [Quoting Caravaggio] is very interesting to read, and is a useful additional example of contemporary artists' and critics' identification with the Baroque as a world of sensuality in pre-Enlightenment modernity." - Art Book Louise Bourgeois' "Spider" "Bal is exceptionally skilled at close reading, and the subjects she chooses to take on are commensurate in complexity to that skill." - Common Knowledge"
£38.00
The University of Chicago Press Switching Codes
Book SynopsisThe profound impact of information technology on intellectual and cultural life is universally acknowledged. This book considers how the precipitous growth of digital information and its associated technologies transform the ways we think and act.
£91.00
The University of Chicago Press Switching Codes
Book SynopsisThe profound impact of information technology on intellectual and cultural life is universally acknowledged. This title brings together American and European scholars, scientists, and artists to consider how the precipitous growth of digital information and its associated technologies transform the ways we think and act.
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press Bas Jan Ader
Book SynopsisOn July 9, 1975, Dutch-born artist Bas Jan Ader set sail from Chatham, Massachusetts, on a thirteen-foot sailboat. The damaged boat was found south of the western tip of Ireland nearly a year later. Ader was never seen again. The author resituates Ader's art and life within the conceptual art world of Los Angeles in the early 1970s.Trade Review"Alexander Dumbadze is a wonderfully engaging writer. He concentrates tremendous psychological energy in the telling of a taut and revealing story. This is one of the most compelling pieces of art writing that I have yet encountered." (Matthew Jesse Jackson, University of Chicago)"
£76.00
University of Chicago Press Art from Start to Finish Jazz Painting Writing
Book SynopsisGathers a unique group of contributors from the worlds of sociology, musicology, literature, and communications - many of them practicing artists in their own right - to discuss how artists from jazz musicians to painters work: how they coordinate their efforts, how they think, how they start, and, of course, how they finish their productions.
£80.00
The University of Chicago Press Art History after Modernism Emersion Emergent
Book SynopsisBelting examines how art is made, viewed, and interpreted today. Arguing that contemporary art has burst out of the frame that art history had built for it, Belting calls for an entirely new approach to thinking and writing about art.
£76.95
University of Chicago Press Art History after Modernism
Book SynopsisIn this title, Belting examines how art is made, viewed, and interpreted today. Arguing that contemporary art has burst out of the frame that art history had built for it, Belting calls for an entirely new approach to thinking and writing about art.
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press Reading Zen in the Rocks The Japanese Dry
Book SynopsisReading Zen in the Rocks is a handsome addition to the library of anyone interested in gardening, Eastern philosophy, and the combination of the two that the karesansui so superbly represents.
£21.00
The University of Chicago Press Permissions A Survival Guide
Book SynopsisHow can you determine whether an artwork is copyrighted? How do you procure a high-quality reproduction of an image? Is it ever legitimate to use the work of an artist without permission? Exploring intellectual property law as it pertains to visual imagery, this title discusses the uncertainties that plague writers who work with images.Trade Review"Approachable, engaging, and authoritative, Permissions, A Survival Guide is a clear and convincing guide to the world of picture reproduction and permissions." - Adrian Johns, author of The Nature of the Book"
£17.66
The University of Chicago Press A Social History of Modern Art V 1 Art in an Age
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£36.00
The University of Chicago Press The Colorful Apocalypse Journeys in Outsider Art
Book SynopsisBeginning in Georgia with a trip to Finster's famous Paradise Gardens, this title provides a look into the lives and visionary works of some of Finster's contemporaries: the self-taught evangelical artists whose beliefs and oeuvres occupy the gray area between madness and Christian ecstasy.Trade Review"In The Colorful Apocalypse, Greg Bottoms explores the frontier between inspiration and psychosis with the expressive power, the passionate fervor, and the faithfully unflinching honesty for which his work is deservedly known. This book is incisive, startling, and often genuinely moving." - Madison Smartt Bell, author of All Souls' Rising"
£29.45
The University of Chicago Press The Colorful Apocalypse Journeys in Outsider Art
Book SynopsisLooking at the lives and works of some of Finster's contemporaries: the self-taught evangelical artists whose beliefs and neuvres occupy the gray area between madness and Christian ecstasy, this book includes biographical portraits, and a profound meditation on the chaos of despair and the ways in which creativity can help order our lives.Trade Review"Bottoms is impassioned, curious, relentless, and angry, but never cynical, least of all about the power of creative expression to salve one's longings." (Los Angeles Times)
£16.72
The University of Chicago Press Picturing Time
Book SynopsisA complete, illustrated survey of Etienne-Jules Marey's work that investigates the far reaching effects of her inventions on stream-of-consciousness literature, psychoanalysis, Bergsonian philosophy, and the art of cubists and futurists.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Pt. 1: Marey and His Work 1: Brains in His Fingertips 2: The Writing of Life: The Graphic Method 3: Reinventing the Camera: The Photographic Method 4: Animating Images: The Cinematographic Method 5: The Last Work Pt. 2: Marey's Legacy 6: Marey, Muybridge, and Motion Pictures 7: Marey, Modern Art, and Modernism 8: Marey and the Organization of Work Conclusion: Inventing the Inventor Catalog 1: Photographic Negatives and Prints Catalog 2: Original Chronophotographic and Photographic Experiments Catalog 3: Films Notes Bibliography of Works by Marey Index
£42.75
The University of Chicago Press Ecce Homo
Book SynopsisImages of suffering male bodies permeate Western culture, from Francis Bacon's paintings and Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs to the battered heroes of action movies. Drawing on perspectives from a range of disciplines, this title explores the complex, ambiguous meanings of the enduring figure of the male-body-in-pain.Trade Review"Imagine a book that treats religion and eroticism not as sworn enemies or cycling debaters but as twin arts. A book for which images of sexed bodies are not records or replacements so much as devices of an ecstatic redemption. You have found that book. In it, Kent Brintnall retells the Christian saga of male suffering through Hollywood action films, Mapplethorpe's most scandalous photographs, and the gurgling paintings of Francis Bacon." (Mark D. Jordan, Harvard University)"
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press Edouard Manet Rebel In A Frock Coat
Book SynopsisA detailed, informed biography of Edouard Manet, this study attempts to expose the character of an artist who maintained a sharply-defined duality between his public and private personas. Weaving his art, life and history into a smooth tapestry, the author offers a portrait of a complex artist.
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press What Did the Romans Know An Inquiry into Science
Book SynopsisThis study explores three of Bernini's baroque chapels to show how he achieved his effects. It examines the ways in which the artist integrated the architecture, painting and sculpture into a coherent space for devotion, and shows how this accomplishment was understood by religious practitioners.Table of ContentsForeword Hubert Damisch Introduction 1: The Fonseca Chapel 2: The Albertoni Chapel 3: The Altar of Sant' Andrea al Quirinale Conclusion: Flights of Love Notes Index
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press The Way of the Shovel On the Archaeological
Book SynopsisA catalog that accompanies an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in the fall of 2013, in which, the author gathers a diverse range of international artists to explore the theme of melding archival and experiential modes of storytelling - what he calls "the archaeological imaginary" - particularly in the wake of 9/11.
£32.30
The University of Chicago Press Outside the Box Interviews with Contemporary
Book SynopsisWe are living in a golden age of cartoon art. This book includes discussions with twelve of the most prominent artists and writers in comics to reveal a creative community that is richly interconnected yet fiercely independent, its members sharing many interests and approaches while working with wildly different styles and themes.
£29.92
The University of Chicago Press Museums Matter
Book SynopsisThe concept of an encyclopedic museum was born of the enlightenment, a manifestation of European society's growing belief that the spread of knowledge, promotion of intellectual inquiry, and trust in individual agency were crucial to human development and the future of a rational society. This title takes us on a brief tour of the modern museum.Trade Review"Elegantly composed and provocative.... Persuasive." (Publishers Weekly)"
£17.66
The University of Chicago Press Folklore and Folklife An Introduction Emersion
Book SynopsisAlthough the niche concept has fallen into disfavour among ecologists in recent years, Jonathan M. Chase and Mathew A. Leibold argue that the niche is an ideal tool with which to unify disparate research and theoretical approaches in contemporary ecology.
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press Enabling Creative Chaos
Book SynopsisFounded on a commitment to expression and community, the annual weeklong festival event Burning Man at Nevada's Black Rock Desert presents challenges to its organizers. This title tracks how a small, underfunded group of organizers transformed into an unconventional corporation with a ten-million-dollar budget and two thousand volunteers.
£76.95
The University of Chicago Press Enabling Creative Chaos
Book SynopsisFounded on a commitment to expression and community, the annual weeklong festival event Burning Man at Nevada's Black Rock Desert presents challenges to its organizers. This title tracks how a small, underfunded group of organizers transformed into an unconventional corporation with a ten-million-dollar budget and two thousand volunteers.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Melancholias Dog Reflections on Our Animal
Book SynopsisAn attempt to understand human attachment to the canis familiaris in terms of reciprocity and empathy, this title tackles such difficult concepts as intimacy and kinship with dogs, the shame associated with identification with their suffering, and the reasons for the profound mourning over their deaths.Trade Review"Melancholia's Dog reminds us of how much we share with the beasts around us, how much of our 'mortality and vulnerability' speaks to theirs. It is a lesson that transcends boundaries, both of species and professional idiom, and Alice A. Kuzniar does her audience a distinct service by reminding us of it." (Modern Philology) "This is probably the first time that a scholar of Alice A. Kuzniar's ability has shown the courage to tackle the deeper aspects of our relationship with dogs.... Our dogs are metaphors for ourselves, something that many of us may have long suspected, but because the idea had never been articulated, or not fully, perhaps we did not appreciate the fact. Or perhaps we didn't want to face it. Thanks to Kuzniar, we know it now." (London Review of Books)"
£19.00
