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Reliable Copy Modernism Murderism
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BIS Publishers B.V. A Spectator is an Artist Too: How we Look at Art,
Book SynopsisIs there anything more entertaining, inspiring and instructive than observing art? Yes, it is watching the people interacting with this art. This book may forever change your approach to art as it urges you to always consider both the work and the response. Because ultimately artists create, but we – the audience – complete the picture.A Spectator is an Artist Too is a visual essay about human behaviour around art: what happens when we are confronted with something immensely beautiful, challenging, or puzzling? Art historians only study objects, but how these objects are received is also worthy of our attention.The book also captures how art museums are changing, as they draw increasingly diverse audiences. The way the museum visitors responds to art is becoming more casual and creative – but also more swift or even banal. This shift is increased by a whole new breed of Instagram-friendly 'museums' worldwide, attracting experience-hungry visitors with immersive exhibitions defined by their Instagrammability.
£14.24
BIS Publishers B.V. Powerful Women Puzzle: Herstory in Pieces:
Book SynopsisExplore the amazing world of art with the 1000-piece Powerful Women Puzzle! It showcases women bringing their stories to life. This puzzle isn't just about putting the pieces together; it's a joyful celebration of women's significant contributions to art history. Inside the package, you'll find a leaflet with fascinating insights into women's remarkable role in shaping the art world. Based on the popular Powerful Women Affirmation Deck, this puzzle highlights the strength and resilience of incredible women. It's a fantastic combination of fun and learning, allowing you to dive into the inspiring journeys of female artists who have impacted the art scene. Whether you're an art lover, a puzzle enthusiast, or searching for a meaningful gift, this puzzle offers a unique and uplifting perspective on the immense impact women have had on the art realm. - Celebrates women in art and their contributions to history. - Includes a leaflet with valuable insights into the remarkable role of women in shaping the art world. - The perfect blend of entertainment and education.
£14.44
Valiz Performing Mourning: Laments in Contemporary Art
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£21.38
Valiz Slow Spatial Reader: Chronicles of Radical
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£23.75
Valiz The Long 1980s: Constellations of Art, Politics
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£26.12
APE We Have Been Meaning To
Book SynopsisPhotographer Marie Déhé and writer Haydée Touitou team up to create We Have Been Meaning To, a book of sculptural poetry and poetic photographs. Words and images balance, push and attract our attention. A sensual softness and quiet passion show us pieces of skin and sky. Déhé and Touitou offer sunbeams through their words and images, making sounds in your head while flipping through the book. Daydreaming is made tangible.
£17.10
Valiz Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet
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£23.75
Valiz Making Matters: A Vocabulary for Collective Arts
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£21.38
Valiz Art and Solidarity Reader: Radical Actions,
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£23.75
Insight Editions The Art and Soul of Dune Part Two
Book SynopsisJourney into the making of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two and discover the incredible creative process that brought this new installment to life.The Art and Soul of Dune: Part Two captures the breathtaking behind-the-scenes journey behind the making of Dune: Part Two, the second film in director Denis Villeneuve’s six-time Oscar-winning film adaptation of author Frank Herbert’s science fiction classic. Written by Dune: Part Two producer Tanya Lapointe (p.g.a.), this visually dazzling exploration of the filmmaking process gives unparalleled insight into the project’s genesis—from its striking environmental designs to its intricate costume concepts and landmark digital effects. The Art and Soul of Dune: Part Two also features exclusive interviews with key members of the cast and crew, including Denis Villeneuve, production designer Patrice Vermette, and many more, delivering a unique
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Rocky Nook David Buschs DJI Mini 3Mini 3 Pro Guide to Drone
Book SynopsisDavid Busch's DJI Mini 3/Mini 3 Pro Guide to Drone Photography is your comprehensive resource and reference guide to capturing high quality photographic still images and high-definition video with the ultra-compact DJI Mini 3 and Mini 3 Pro aircraft.
£26.40
Inanna Publications and Education Inc. Uncommitted Crimes: The Defiance of the Artistic
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£18.04
Orion Publishing Co Art Visionaries
Book SynopsisThis compelling book chronicles 75 of the most influential artists from the dawn of the 20th century to the present, and from around the world. Each entry provides a fascinating insight into the artist and his or her vision of what they were trying to do, while also acknowledging the lasting effect of their work. Arranged in a broadly chronological order, the book gives a sense of the impact each artist has had on the development of art practice over the last 100 years. Key dates in each artist’s career are clearly drawn out in the accompanying timeline. Through a combination of lively text and arresting visuals, this is an inspirational and wholly original guide to the artists whose vision has helped to shape the modern art world.
£18.71
Intellect Books Data Dating: Love, Technology, Desire
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to love with technology? Does data improve our emotional interactions? The collection approaches the query with critical essays and works of new media art to look into the construction of love and its practices in the time of digitally mediated relationships. With expertise coming from recognized researchers, critics and artists in the field of media and cultural studies, it analyses relationship trends and affect cultures that have emerged from technological acceleration. Data Dating: Love, Technology and Desire is a comprehensive study of love and intimacy under digitalism that reflects on the structure of feeling(s) and libido environments in the high-tech and media-bound landscapes of contemporary technocracies. Organized around ten chapters and ten works of new media art, the collection offers an extensive critical analysis of technologized romance (and other emotional relations), as well as provides an insight into the codification, execution, deployment, and evolution of the patterns of togetherness in the so-called Tamagotchi era. The chapters engage in the problems of new material planes that have emerged from the abstraction of networked communication and dispersion of traditional notions of physicality. They close-read the templates of contemporary fantasy, fetish and eroticism, as shaped by platform capitalism, datafication, and new commodity cultures, in which self-promotion for bonding relies on the new possibilities that are coming in with new media self-mediation formats. Central to the analysis is the carbon-silicon dynamics of love’s contemporary DNA and libidinal techne – practiced in the environment where screens, interfaces, algorithms, data protocols and non-organic objects of affection and affect delineate, organize and program the trajectories of encounter, limerence and erotic pleasure. All the chapters are authored by recognized researchers in the field of love, emotion, media, technology and cultural studies, and they critically explore various aspects of love/intimacy under technocracy, approaching them with expertise the goes beyond the typical high-modernist and post-structural reading of the media-ridden life practices and environments. More importantly, the collection includes landmark works of new media art coming from prominent new media artist gathered around 'Data Dating' – new media art exhibition, curated by Valentina Peri (co-editor of the collection) and presented in Paris, Tel Aviv and London. As such, the collection proffers a unique and original critical approach – one that combines artistic practice and cultural criticism – to comment upon the transformation of human relationships and emotional standards under technological development with reference to the social change and cultural condition. The collection of essays, each accompanied by a work of media art, that provides a comprehensive insight into the construction of love and its practices in the time of digitally mediated relationships. Primary readership will be among educators, researcher and students in disciplines including cultural studies, media and communications, philosophy, sociology, psychology and gender, LGBTQ+ and sexual studies. It will be an extremely valuable resource for those in these fields. It will be of interest to other groups including art curators, online platform designers, social media content managers and designers and data specialists.Trade Review'This is not the catalogue of the homonymous exhibition which took place between 2018 and 2022 at Galerie Charlot in Paris and Tel Aviv, at Watermans in London and at iMAL in Brussels. Or rather it is, and much more. Data Dating: Love, Technology, Desire is a collection of ten essays, each one related to an artwork in the exhibition. These are not meant as commentaries on the artworks but rather elaborate on their individual themes. [...] Within the ten chapters, the exhibition expands theoretically through an indirect dialogue, intertwining the artistic and academic. It’s another excellent example of an innovative format and project that celebrates cultural production.' -- NeuralTable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION Introduction: Dating (the) Data and Other Intimacies Ania Malinowska and Valentina Peri 1. WIRED LIMERENCE (feat. Deep Love by Antoine Schmitt) Technology, Commerce and the Intimacy Revolution Lauren Rosewarne 2. LOVE INFO-STRUCTURES (feat. Glaciers by Zach Gage) Romance in a Time of Dark Data Lee McKinnon 3. MEDIATED MATCHMAKING (feat. A Truly Magical Moment by Adam Basanta) Fast Love. Temporalities of Digitized Togetherness Ania Malinowska 4. EMOTIONS WITH THE MACHINE (feat. Ashley Madison Angels at Work by !Mediengruppe Bitnik) ‘Emotoys’: Ethics, Emotions and Empathic Technologies Andrew McStay and Gilad Rosner 5. SELF-FASHIONING DESIRE (feat. Kill Your Darlings by Jeroen van Loon) The Greatest Love of All: Recognition, Self-Love and the Imaging of Desire Derek Conrad Murray 6. DIGITAL ONSCENITIES (feat. Peeping Tom (Porn Version) by Thomas Israel) The New Onscenity. Navigating Digital Desires in the Twenty First Century Pornoscape Lynn Comella 7. LIBIDINAL TECHNO-SCAPES (Webcam Venus by Addie Wagenknecht and Pablo Garcia) The Proxemics of Digital Intimacy Kyle Machulis 8. TOUCHLESS EMBRACES (feat. VR Hug by Tom Galle and Moises Sanabria) Virtual Hugs and the Crises of Touch David Parisi 9. SOUNDS OF FEELING (feat. Digital Synaesthetic E.E.G. Kiss by Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat) I Can Hear Your Feelings Andrew Blanton 10. INTERFACES OF EMOTIONAL SURVEILLANCE (feat. Face Messenger by Tom Galle and John Yuyi) Timestamp Anxieties Kristin Veel and Nanna Bonde Thylstrup Notes on Contributors
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AUP - Arc Humanities Press Book Conservation and Digitization The
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The Lilliput Press Ltd Annaghmakerrig
Book SynopsisThe Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig celebrates a quarter of a century this year and marks this important milestone with the launch of a beautiful volume, ‘Annaghmakerrig‘. The Centre is an artists’ retreat set amid the lakes and drumlins of County Monaghan. An eclectic and varied list of poets, musicians, actors, directors and visual artists use the space to develop what we see on stages, pages and gallery walls throughout the country. The book is a collection and a collage that captures the essence and history of the centre, as well as the stories of its fascinating and somewhat eccentric families, not to mention the creativity of the five thousand artists who have spent time there since it was opened by Brian Friel in 1981. In the book. Eugene McCabe remembers Tony Guthrie the theatre director, while Joseph Hone provides a touching and powerful childhood memoir. Other contributors include Colm Toibin, John Banville, Gerald Barry, Anne Enright, Joseph O’Connor, Paul Muldoon, Patrick Scott, Alice Maher, Rosita Boland, Tim Robinson and Claire Keegan. The book is edited by SHEILA PRATSCHKE, Director of Annaghmakerrig, with works selected by RUAIRI O CUIV (visual art) and EVELYN CONLON (literature).
£28.50
Imprint Academic Culture War: Art, Identity Politics and Cultural
Book SynopsisWhy has identity become so central to judging art today? Why are some groups reluctant to defend free speech within culture? Has state support made artists poorer not richer? How does the movement for social justice influence cultural production? Why is post-modernism dominant in the art world? Why are consumers of comic books so bitterly divided?In Culture War: Art, Identity Politics and Cultural Entryism Alexander Adams examines a series of pressing issues in today''s culture: censorship, Islamism, Feminism, identity politics, historical reparations and public arts policy. Through a series of linked essays, Culture War exposes connections between seemingly unrelated events and trends in high and popular cultures. From fine art to superhero comics, from political cartoons to museum policy, certain persistent ideas underpin the most contentious issues today. Adams draws on history, philosophy, politics and cultural criticism to explain the reasoning of creators, consumers and critics and to expose some uncomfortable truths.
£18.52
Afterall Publishing Afterall: Autumn/Winter 2019, Issue 48
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Afterall Publishing Afterall: Spring/Summer 2021, Issue 51: Volume 51
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Rivers Oram Press Empires, Ruins and Networks: The Transcultural
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etruscan books Epos II : A Song for Alaric
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£10.45
Luath Press Ltd Arts of Resistance: Poets, Portraits and
Book SynopsisArts of Resistance is an original exploration that extends beyond the arts into the context of politics and political change. In three wide-ranging exchanges prompted by American blues singer Linda MacDonald-Lewis, artist Alexander Moffat and poet Alan Riach discuss cultural, political and artistic movements, the role of the artist in society and the effect of environment on artists from all disciplines. Arts of Resistance examines the lives and work of leading figures from Scotland's arts world in the twentieth century, concentrating on poets and artists but also including writers, musicians and architectural visionaries such as Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Patrick Geddes. Poets studied include Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean, Iain Crichton Smith, Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead; artists include William McTaggart, William Johnstone and the Scottish Colourists. The investigation into the connection between the arts and political culture includes historical issues, from British imperialism to a devolved Scotland. Finally, the contribution to poetry and art of each major Scottish city is discussed: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee. Highly illustrated with paintings and poems, Arts of Resistance is a beautifully produced book providing facts and controversial opinions.Trade Review'a landmark book' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'It's a sumptuous book, worth every button.' SCOTTISH REVIEW OF BOOKS 'Breathtaking collection' THE SCOTSMAN 'This is punchy stuff in a memorable and stimulating book.' THE SCOTS MAGAZINE
£15.29
Dent-De-Leone Originalausgabe / Original Issue
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Dent-De-Leone I am la Galerie, You are la Galerie
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Dent-De-Leone Hall of Half-Life
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Dent-De-Leone Mechanical Systems Drawing: Vol. 2
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£15.80
Dent-De-Leone Jomohomo: 2016
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Dent-De-Leone 24 Ter Rue de la Pierre Feuill
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Dent-De-Leone London’s Kitchen
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Dent-De-Leone Despacio: 2019
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Dent-De-Leone Sample Book
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Luath Press Ltd Portfolio: Treasures from the Diploma Collection
Book SynopsisFrom Thomas Hamilton to contemporary artists Tom Normand traces the 200 year history of the Royal Scottish Academy. Featuring both men and women, short summaries precede each reproduction and orient the reader to particular points of interest within each art work. The artist’s history is related side by side with that of the Academy and, as such, they complement descriptions of the paintings. The book chronologically captures different periods as they influenced the style of what was produced in the Academy. Looking forward Normand states that ‘the Academy, in its history, has been a vital part of that international role, freely exhibiting the newest and the best of modern art and respecting the multi-dimensional approaches of contemporary art’. It is this vitality in the Scottish art scene that will sustain its visual culture in the future and place it on the international stage.
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Luath Press Ltd Arts of Independence: The cultural argument and
Book SynopsisThere is only one argument for Scottish independence: the cultural argument. It was there long before North Sea oil was discovered, and it will be here long after the oil has run out… We believe, as teachers, artists, a painter and a poet, both of us travellers in other lands, both of us residents in Scotland, that Scotland should be an independent nation. ALEXANDER MOFFAT AND ALAN RIACHArts of Independence takes a hard look at the most neglected aspect of the argument for Scotland’s distinctive national identity: the arts. The proposition is that music, painting, architecture, and, pre-eminently, literature are the fuel and fire of political change.Following the success of Arts of Resistance, this new work by the same authors takes the argument over Scottish independence out of the hands of politicians and economists and beyond the petty squabbles of party politics.
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Yorkshire Sculpture Park Annie Morris: When a Happy Thing Falls
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Luath Press Ltd Arts and the Nation
Book SynopsisThe latent liability in energy is anarchy, but when it's working in a direction with a sense of purpose like the independence movement, and according to the priorities of the arts, and not violence, there's a lot you can do. There's a lot of self-respect to be regained. There's a lot of fun to be had. There’s a lot to be learned. A panorama of ideas about nationality and culture, Arts and the Nation arose from the conviction that Scotland can never be really democratic until it gives the arts the priority of place and attention they demand. This book is a fresh take on subjects new and old, with multifaceted ideas of nationality and culture. Those featured include: William Dunbar, Duncan Ban MacIntyre and Elizabeth Melville are read alongside international authors such as Wole Soyinka and Edward Dorn. J.D. Fergusson, Joan Eardley and John Bellany are considered with American Alice Neel and the art of the ancient Celts. Composers like John Blackwood McEwen, Cecil Coles and Helen Hopekirk are introduced, amongst discussions of education, politics, social priorities, the mass media and different genres of writing.Trade Review.
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New Documents Give Up Art: Collected Writings (2005-15)
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Cabinet Cabinet 67
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McSweeney's Publishing The Believer, Issue 86: January 2012
Book SynopsisThe Believer is a monthly magazine where length is no object. It features long articles, interviews, and book reviews, as well as poems, comics, and a two-page vertically-oriented Schema spread, more or less unreproduceable on the web. The common thread in all these facets is that The Believer gives people and books the benefit of the doubt (the working title of this magazine was The Optimist).On each issue, Charles Burns''s beautiful illustrations adorn the cover; our regular raft of writers, artists, and photographers fill the pages; and the feel of the Westcan Printing Group’s gorgeous Roland Enviro 100 Natural” recycled acid-free heavy stock paper warms your heart.
£7.60
McSweeney's Publishing The Believer, Issue 94: The Art Issue
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McSweeney's Publishing The Believer, Issue 93
Book SynopsisThe Believer’s mission is to introduce readers to the best and most interesting work in the world of art, culture, and thought—whether that means literature, painting, wrestling, philosophy, or cooking—in an attractive vehicle that’s free from the bugbears of condescension, mustiness, and jargony obfuscation. Its content (including essays, interviews, comics, poetry, and reviews) offers fresh perspectives from editors Heidi Julavits, Vendela Vida, and Andrew Leland. Each issue includes the popular columns “Stuff I’ve Been Reading,” by Nick Hornby; “What the Swedes Read” (a look at Nobel Prize-winners), by Daniel Handler; and “Real Life Rock Top 10,” by Greil Marcus. The July/August Music Issue includes a free CD of new music curated for the magazine, the March/April Film Issue includes a free DVD of otherwise unreleased films, and the November/December Art Issue includes a free, always-changing bonus item.The Believer is a monthly magazine where length is no object. There are book reviews that are not necessarily timely, and that are very often long. There are also interviews that are very long. We will focus on writers and books we like. We will give people and books the benefit of the doubt. The working title of this magazine was The Optimist. --The Editors
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McSweeney's Publishing The Believer, Issue 92
Book SynopsisIntends to introduce readers to the best work in the world of art, culture, and thought - whether that means literature, painting, wrestling, philosophy, or cooking - in an attractive vehicle that's free from the bugbears of condescension, mustiness, and jargony obfuscation.
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McSweeney's Publishing The Believer, Issue 95
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McSweeney's Publishing The Believer, Issue 97
Book SynopsisA monthly magazine where length is no object. It features long articles, interviews, and book reviews, as well as poems, comics, and a two-page vertically-oriented Schema spread, more or less unreproduceable on the web.
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McSweeney's Publishing The Believer, Issue 96
Book SynopsisFeatures long articles, interviews, and book reviews, as well as poems, comics, and a two-page vertically-oriented Schema spread, more or less unreproduceable on the web. This title gives people and books the benefit of the doubt.
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McSweeney's Publishing The Believer, Issue 101
Book Synopsis The Believer is a monthly magazine where length is no object. There are book reviews that are not necessarily timely, and that are very often long. There are also interviews that are very long. Focusing on writers and books they like, The Believer gives people and books the benefit of the doubt. The working title of this magazine was The Optimist.
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McSweeney's Publishing The Believer, Issue 102
Book Synopsis The Believer is a monthly magazine where length is no object. There are book reviews that are not necessarily timely, and that are very often long. There are also interviews that are very long. Focusing on writers and books they like, The Believer gives people and books the benefit of the doubt. The working title of this magazine was The Optimist.
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McSweeney's Publishing The Believer, Issue 100
Book Synopsis The Believer is a monthly magazine where length is no object. It features long articles, interviews, and book reviews, as well as poems, comics, and a two-page vertically-oriented Schema spread, more or less unreproduceable on the web. The common thread in all these facets is that the Believer gives people and books the benefit of the doubt (the working title of this magazine was the Optimist).On each issue, Charles Burns''s beautiful illustrations adorn the cover; our regular raft of writers, artists, and photographers fill the pages; and the feel of the Westcan Printing Group’s gorgeous Roland Enviro 100 Natural” recycled acid-free heavy stock paper warms your heart.
£9.00
