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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Narcissus in Troubled Waters: Francis Bacon, Bill
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£35.00
Brill Anatomy of the Medical Image: Knowledge
Book SynopsisThis volume addresses the interdependencies between visual technologies and epistemology with regard to our perception of the medical body. It explores the relationships between the imagination, the body, and concrete forms of visual representations: Ranging from the Renaissance paradigm of anatomy, to Foucault’s “birth of the clinic” and the institutionalised construction of a “medical gaze”; from “visual” archives of madness, psychiatric art collections, the politicisation and economisation of the body, to the post-human in mass media representations. Contributions to this volume investigate medical bodies as historical, technological, and political constructs, constituted where knowledge formation and visual cultures intersect. Contributors are: Axel Fliethmann, Michael Hau, Birgit Lang, Carolyn Lau, Heikki Lempa, stef lenk, Joanna Madloch, Barry Murnane, Jill Redner, Claudia Stein, Elizabeth Stephens, Corinna Wagner, and Christiane Weller.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Intoduction Axel Fliethmann and Christiane Weller PART 1: The Epistemology of Anatomy and Aesthetics 1 Rembrandt and the Dutch Cartesians: The..Medical Body and the Body of Christ in the Anatomy Lessons Jill Redner 2 Pathologies of Imagination and Medical Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe Axel Fliethmann 3 Re-Imagining the “Birthing Machine:” Art and Anatomy in Obstetric and Anatomical Models Made by Women Elizabeth Stephens 4 The Body in Motion: The Image of Man in Physical Education in Late Eighteenth-Century Schnepfenthal Heikki Lempa PART 2: Identity and Visual (De)Formation 5 Photography, Arrested Development, and the Facial Expression of Emotion Corinna Wagner 6 The Living and the Dead in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Medical Portraiture Joanna Madloch 7 Picturing Pathology: An Affirmative Reading of Lam Qua’s Medical Portraiture Carolyn Lau 8 “The Quickening:” Embryonic Stages in Visualising and Understanding Depression and Anxiety stef lenk PART 3: Power, Consumption and the Pathological Body 9 Capitalism without Desire: Economic Thinking and the Visualisation of the Biomedical Body ca. 1900 Claudia Stein 10 The Pitfalls of Utilitarianism: Capillary Images and Biopolitical Interventionism during the Weimar Republic Michael Hau 11 Sex Murder, Photographic Evidence, and the Weimar Cultural Imagination Birgit Lang 12 Imagining Madness: The Conceptualisation of Mental Illness in Psychiatric Art Collections Christiane Weller 13 Biomedia in the Flesh: Imagining Biomedical Interventions as Horror Barry Murnane Bibliography Index of Names Index of Subjects
£123.12
Peeters Publishers About Stains or the Image as Residue
Book SynopsisA stain is the evidence of something that was. It’s a trace. A stain may be something quite ordinary: the ink stain on my index finger; the mark of your fingers on this book. A stain may also be embarrassing: lipstick on a cheek; sweat rings under the arms; a bloody discharge. A stain may be forensically incriminating. A stain may be kept for sentimental reasons. Moreover, every stain has its own particular texture. Texture denotes the consistency of a surface and the sensory, often tactile imprint that is left on it. The stain may be absorbed in the thing that supports it; then again, it may stay on the surface, something separate. Every stain is unique. In this essay the author deals with seven factors that make the stain into a powerful model for rethinking the visual: the stain as prototype and prefiguration, the stain as relic, the stain of Veronica, the stain as a psycho-energetic symptom, the stain as pars pro toto for the womb, the stain and le désir mimétique and finally the stain as an image paradigm of the residue.
£44.97
Peeters Publishers Three Ladies, Three Medals
Book SynopsisCecilia Gonzaga as Diana; Isabella d’Este as Nemesis; Elisabetta Gonzaga as Danaë. The “all’antica” medal inspired by Roman imperial coins is a Renaissance invention, a new genre that originates from Pisanello’s exquisite art, which focuses on the personal qualities and virtues of the individual represented, thereby enhancing them – on the obverse in form of portrait, on the reverse in allegorical guise. On Renaissance medals not only do we find faces and war ventures of Princes, Dukes, and leaders of the time. We also see – unexpectedly – portraits of brilliant, beautiful young women, educated in Classics, destined to become the protagonists of Italian courts in the fifteenth century.
£85.01
Peeters Publishers The Knife: Temporal Ruptures in Revelation and
Book SynopsisThe Greek sculptor Lysippos of Sicyon (fourth century BCE) represented Kairos carrying a razor in his left hand. According to the epigram dedicated to this statue by Posidippus of Pella (mid-third-century BCE), the Greek divinity of the opportune moment is said to move with a swiftness that is sharper than any razor’s edge. Why does Kairos carry a razor in his hand? And how does the knife relate to opportunity and temporality? This book embarks on a narrative detour to answer these questions. Stories of revelation and transformation are anatomised to discover the moments of the knife pulsating underneath the surface. The sword grasped at the right moment by the Biblical heroine Judith, Abraham’s sacrificial knife, the eucharistic knife from the Castello Sforzesco in Milan, Psyche’s razor, the surgeon’s scalpel, or the apocalyptic double-edged sword each figure as multifaceted imaginations of these kairotic moments. Under the skin of this book lives the question raised by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781) in his Laokoon oder über die Grenzen der Mahlerey und Poesie (1766). Who is best suited to capture the right moment, the painter, or the poet? At the heart of it all is the disruption of time itself. The moment of the knife is the time of the wound in time. Sudden, sharp, and unexpected this moment pierces deep into the human experience, stirring the soul with a swiftness beyond imagination.
£124.78
BIS Publishers B.V. Museum Art cards: Experience Art Like Never
Book SynopsisBesides the overwhelming amount of visual information that can stand in the way of a pleasant museum visit, there’s another trivial matter: meaning. Many of us aim to understand and categorize everything we see, but what do you truly think when looking at a particular artwork? The activities on these cards help you to establish a connection with an artwork yourself, despite any given information. You can do this in each museum, anywhere in the world. Follow the activities from A-Z, choose one randomly or do the ones who appeal to you most.
£16.84
EYTYS AB These Colors Don’t Run
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£29.75
Tara Books Sun and Moon
Book SynopsisPart of everyday life, yet rich in symbolic meaning, renderings of the sun and the moon are present in all folk and tribal art traditions of India. They are always in relationship with each other. Agrarian societies keep track of time by referring to markers in the seasonal variations of the sun, moon, and the planets. Over the course of time, they have also woven wonderful stories and myths around them. Here, for the first time, is a collection of unusual stories and exquisite art from some of the finest living artists, on this most universal of themes.
£21.00
Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Moulding the Void: Mother in the Making
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£46.80
Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd When Seeing is Believing Poetry in Images
Book Synopsis52 poems and 13 haikus by Bina Sarkar Ellias.
£14.25
Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Jangarh Singh Shyam: A Conjuror's Archive
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£23.75
Snoeck Publishers French Sculpture in America: An American Passion
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£40.80
Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij Artists' Conceptions of Money
Book SynopsisIn this book eighty money-artists are presented. The subject of their works of art. Beside using money as a source of inspiration, they have their views on the meaning of money in their artworks as well. Nowadays a growing number of contemporary artists are art in which they critically comment on the meaning of money in our present financialized society. Their artistic comments are useful eye-openers to reconsider the meaning and role of money in modern society. Reinold Widemann published some books on financial affairs and banking, international economics and factors influencing interest rates. He also wrote essays, short stories, and novels. In 2016 Money is a Mind Thing -- On Symbols or Value appeared at Aspekt publishers. He was a lecturer in economics at the HES Amsterdam School of Business.
£15.26
Amsterdam University Press Screening the Art World
Book SynopsisScreening the Art World explores the ways in which artists and the art world more generally have been represented in cinema. Contributors address a rarely explored subject – art in cinema, rather than the art of cinema – by considering films across genres, historical periods, and national cinemas in order to reflect on cinema's fluctuating imaginary of art and the art world. The book examines the intersection of art history with history in cinema; cinema’s simultaneous affirmation and denigration of the idea of art as "truth"; the dominant, often contradictory ways in which artists have been represented on screen; and cinematic representations of the art world's tenuous position between commercial good and cultural capital.Table of ContentsEditor’s Introduction (Temenuga Trifonova) Part I Cinema’s Vision of Art: Aspirational, Satiric, Philosophical 1. Art, Truth, Representation: Lois Weber’s Dumb Girl of Portici (Katherine Manthorne) 2. Avant-Garde and Kitsch: Modern Art and Money on Screen, 1963–1964 (Susan Felleman) 3. Cinema as Philosophy of Art (Temenuga Trifonova) Part II The Aura of Art in (the Age of) Film 4. Ineffability? The Several Vermeers (Brigitte Peucker) 5. The Joker at the Museum in Tim Burton’s Batman: Artistic Vandalism in Hollywood (Pierre-Antoine Pellerin) 6. Chaos ex machina: The Art of Jean Tinguely and the Documentary Image (Des O’Rawe) 7. China’s Van Goghs: Documentary Production, International Taste, and Artistic Labor (A. T. McKenna) Part III Affective Historiography: Negotiating the Past through Screening Art 8. A World Made of Art (Gillian McIver) 9. Art and History in Woman in Gold (2015), The Monuments Men (2014), and Francofonia (2015) (Christine Sprengler) 10. Examining Public Art in Parks and Recreation’s Pawnee, Indiana (Annie Dell’Aria) Part IV The Figure of the Artist: Between Mad Genius and Entrepreneur of the Self 11. Homicidal and Suicidal Artist Figures in Film (Bruce A. Barber) 12. Blood Lust: Realism, Violent Inspiration, and the Artist in Horror Cinema (Kate Robertson) 13. Picturing Picasso : Revisiting Paul Haesaerts’s Visite à Picasso (1950) (Steven Jacobs and Joséphine Vandekerckhove) 14. This Is the End of High Entertainment: Tiny Furniture and This Is the End (Kelly Lloyd) 15. Screening Performance: Curating the Artist Persona (Susan Flynn) 16. Peter Greenaway’s Artist-Entrepreneurs (Marco de Waard) Bibliography Index
£116.85
Meta4Books vzw Big Bang: Imagining the Universe
Book Synopsis“We create the Universe as much as it creates us.” — Stephen Hawking & Thomas Hertog How did the Universe begin? Will it ever end? The cosmos and Man’s place in it have fascinated humans for thousands of years. These mind-bending cosmic questions keep scientists awake at night, but also fuel the imagination and fantasy of artists. This unique book combines the insights of scientists and visual artists, offering a magnificent overview of the visualisation of the Universe from the Neolithic to the present. In addition, dozens of stunning modern and contemporary artworks engage in a dialogue with the Big Bang theory in its various forms. Professor Georges Lemaître formulated his revolutionary theory about the origin of the Universe in 1931 at the University of Leuven. In 2021, our ideas about this Big Bang and the cosmos as a whole are still evolving. Our astonishment and desire to visualise what we are unable to comprehend fully, however, remain unchanged. With enlightening contributions from Barbara Baert, Abdelkader Benali, Thomas Hertog, Hannah Redler Hawes, Jan Van der Stock, Annelies Vogels, and others.Table of ContentsFOREWORD Mohamed Ridouani, Luc Sels, Denise Vandevoort, Bart Raymaekers, Lien De Keukelaere LIGHT IN BLACKNESS Abdelkader Benali IMAGINING THE UNIVERSE Barbara Baert TO THE EDGE OF TIME Thomas Hertog CATALOGUE IMAGINING THE UNIVERSE: ETERNAL WONDER Jan Van der Stock, Hannah Redler Hawes,Thomas Hertog, Annelies Vogels BIBLIOGRAPHY LENDERS COLOPHON
£40.00
Acc Publishing Group Ltd What is Quality in Art
Book SynopsisThat this is a legitimate question, even a necessary one, is argued by Vergara in a pleasurable manner, with the pace and attitude of a peripatetic thinker. There is something here that reminds one of Montaigne or Stendhal.' El PaísIn-depth art-historical reflection on value judgments in art by one of Europe's leading curatorsThroughout history, human beings have excelled at creating art of the highest quality. Aristotle wrote that Homer surpassed all others and Pliny the Elder referred to masterpieces that we never tire of admiring. Velázquez distinguished between portraits made with art and those that were not. What did they all mean exactly? What do we mean when we say that a work of art is good, of high quality? This book is an attempt to explain this central question, which remains surprisingly unexplored.Alejandro Vergara Sharp argues that a deep knowledge of the history of art provides us with the tools to approach this issue objectively. He then invites
£26.96
Onomatopee David Osbaldeston: Inflection Sandwich
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£23.75
Onomatopee Alien Invader Super Baby (Synchromaterialism IV)
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£18.90
Onomatopee Sense & Sensibility
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£13.50
Onomatopee Fashioning Value— Undressing Ornament
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£13.30
Vajra Books Nepal Patan Palace The Restoration of Sundari cok
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£58.89
Marsilio In Venice with Ruskin
Book SynopsisThe story of the famous English critic''s long and fruitful love affair with the city of VeniceJohn Ruskin visited Venice numerous times over the course of his life, starting in 1835, and after long stays in the city he published his three-volume masterpiece The Stones of Venicea gorgeous paean to the beauty, uniqueness and fragility of this city that was destined to become a cornerstone of English culture and mark the beginning of the Gothic Revival. Venice, in Ruskin's drawings and watercolors, is a theater of lost time that builds up traces of historical time even as it is subject to erasure and destruction.In Venice with Ruskin is a meditation on the city, its architecture, its bittersweet relationship with nature, Ruskin's dialogue with the great Venetian artists whose works he reproduced, the curiosity that prompted him to explore it and the imagination with which he captured its essence on paper.
£23.40
Franco Maria Ricci Editore Ugo Celada: A Discovery Hiding in Plain Sight
£50.25
Andrews McMeel Publishing The Legends of Meoshínké
£16.58
