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Faber & Faber The Meaning of Art
Book SynopsisSince its first appearance in 1931 Herbert Read''s introduction to the understanding of art has established itself as a classic of its kind. It provides a basis for the appreciation of paintings, sculpture and art-objects of all periods by defining the elements that went into their making. A compact survey of the world''s art, from primitive cave-drawings to Jackson Pollock, The Meaning of Art explains the persistence of certain principles and aspirations throughout the history of art, and summarizes the essence of such movements as Gothic, Baroque, Impressionism, Expressionism and Surrealism.This new Faber Modern Classics edition features a brand new foreword by Will Gompertz, BBC arts editor.
£10.44
Taschen GmbH Witchcraft. The Library of Esoterica
Book SynopsisInitiating readers in the fascinating and complex history of witchcraft, from the goddess mythologies of ancient cultures to the contemporary embrace of the craft by modern artists and activists, this expansive tome conjures up a breathtaking overview of an age-old tradition. Rooted in legend, folklore, and myth, the archetype of the witch has evolved from the tales of Odysseus and Circe, the Celtic seductress Cerridwen, and the myth of Hecate, fierce ruler of the moonlit night. In Witchcraft we survey her many incarnations since, as she shape-shifts through the centuries, alternately transforming into mother, nymph, and crone—seductress and destroyer. Edited by Jessica Hundley, and co-edited by author, scholar, and practitioner Pam Grossman, this enthralling visual chronicle is the first of its kind, a deep dive into the complex symbologies behind witchcraft traditions, as explored through the history of art itself. The witch has played muse to great artists throughout time, from the dark seductions of Francisco José de Goya and Albrecht Dürer to the elegant paean to the magickal feminine as re-imagined by the Surrealist circle of Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, and Leonor Fini. The witch has spellbound through folktales and dramatic literature as well, from the poison apples of The Brothers Grimm, to the Weird Sisters gathered at their black cauldron in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, to L. Frank Baum’s iconic Wicked Witch of the West, cackling over the fate of Dorothy. Throughout this entrancing visual voyage, we’ll also bear witness to the witch as she endures persecution and evolves into empowerment, a contemporary symbol of bold defiance and potent nonconformity. Featuring enlightening essays by modern practitioners like Kristen J. Sollée and Judika Illes, as well interviews with authors and scholars such as Madeline Miller and Juliet Diaz, Witchcraft includes a vast range of cultural traditions that embrace magick as spiritual exploration and creative catharsis.Trade Review“…takes the fraught history of witches and imbues it with a magic befitting its subject… Witchcraft is a celebration of true, even threatening power—by those who possess it least, and deserve it most.” * W Magazine *“Eye-opening and thought-provoking.” * widewalls.ch *“A lavish coffee-table book. [Witchcraft] surveys the shadow and the light the witch has cast across the Western imagination.” * The New York Times *“A tour de force, taking you all the way through the global history of witchcraft.” * elitedaily.com *“A visually vibrant volume that isn't so much a book as it is a spellbinding tribute to a figure and a practice that are as old as time.” * cnn.com *“Witchcraft offers a deep dive into the many facets of a centuries-old tradition in the Western world.” * cnn.com *“A densely packed book that takes a deep dive into the many archetypes the witch has taken throughout the course of time.” * hypebeast.com *“[This] powerful new book blows away the satanic baby-eating myths.” * The Guardian *“In this compendium of witchy women, from Renaissance paintings to modern Wicca, the caricature of the evil hag is turned upside down.” * The Guardian *“In scouring the history of art to back up their modern-pagan perspective, the editors point to something remarkable.” * The Guardian *“Delves into the witch’s complex history, symbols, and depictions across time...” * hyperallergic.com *“Going so soon? I wouldn’t hear of it. Why, my little party’s just beginning!” * The Wicked Witch of the West, “The Wizard of Oz” *“I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being.” * Yoko Ono *
£27.00
Hardie Grant Books Words from a Fashion Icon Coco Chanel
Book SynopsisThe Fashion Icons Quote Series is a series of gift books full of inspiring and fabulous quotes from fashion icons across the generations.Words from a Fashion Icon: Coco Chanel is a fully illustrated collection of quotes with Megan Hess’ iconic and hugely popular illustrations, profiling one of fashion’s most popular icons. Bringing her trademark wit and warmth alongside her beloved illustrations, this will be a unique insight into the key thoughts and moments surrounding Coco Chanel's life and her impact on the fashion industry.
£9.50
Octopus Publishing Group The Illustrated World of Tolkien
Book SynopsisThe perfect Father''s Day giftTolkien''s works have inspired artists for generations and have given rise to myriad interpretations of the rich and magical worlds he created.The Illustrated World of Tolkien gathers together artworks and essays from expert illustrators, painters and etchers, and fascinating and scholarly writing from renowned Tolkien expert David Day, and is an exquisite reference guide for any fan of Tolkien''s work, Tolkien''s world and the imaginative brilliance his vision inspired.Published to coincide with the 40th Anniversary of the publication of the international bestseller The Tolkien Bestiary, The Illustrated World of Tolkien revisits the work of some of the original illustrators but also features works from artists who have contributed to David Day''s more recent books.This work is unofficial and is not authorized by the Tolkien Estate or HarperCollins Publishers.
£27.00
Batsford Ltd Shirley Trevena Watercolours
Book SynopsisShirley Trevena is a successful and popular watercolourist with a huge international fan base. Throughout her career Shirley has pushed the boundaries of watercolour and is regarded as one of Britain’s most innovative artists in that medium. Shirley’s watercolours are vibrant in colour, visually inspiring and strong in composition. In this book, Shirley shares her thoughts, ideas, stories and sketches of more than 100 paintings to give a valuable insight into the evolving work of a much-loved artist. Shirley breaks the conventional rules of watercolour in many different ways: through her exciting compositions, strange perspectives and above all, the strength and vibrancy of her colour combinations. In this exciting and inspiring book, Shirley gives her personal view of painting and shares her creative process with us.
£21.25
Birmingham Picture Library Discovering Birmingham
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£8.00
Design Studio Press Explorer
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£23.99
Ridinghouse Pirates and Farmers: Essays on Taste
Book Synopsis“As an art critic, [Hickey] doesn’t do what most people want from art criticism. He doesn’t provide his readers with a neat intellectual framework through which to view everything they see, like a Clement Greenberg or a Michael Fried, and he doesn’t really do beautiful description either ... Instead, Hickey gives you intricately structured argument and gorgeous prose ... Reading him you want to forget that the art market is a game of Hungry Hungry Hippos between Ukrainian oligarchs and Qatari princesses ... You want to be the thing you advocate; you want to ride the wave, mount the dais, and speak the truth.” – Los Angeles Review of Books Arguably one of the most astute critics working today, Dave Hickey's multi-decade career as a leading cultural commentator is characterised by his blend of high and mass culture and his fervent critique of the celebrity-driven culture of the 21st-century art world. Following his 2012 announcement of self-imposed exile from art criticism, this new body of essays once again questions and challenges the cultural status quo. With his trademark humour, Hickey has declared that: ‘I miss being an elitist and not having to talk to idiots’ in a field that, he believes, is defined by the commoditisation of art and the self-referential tendencies of criticism itself. This new body of shorter essays by the author of Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy and The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty looks at more contemporary phenomena: super-collectors, the trope of the biennale and the loss of looking.
£14.36
3DTotal Publishing Ltd Master Sketchbooks
Book SynopsisFeaturing eight iconic artists who have captivated science-fiction and fantasy fans for decades, Master Sketchbooks will take you on a journey into magical worlds and endlessly creative minds.These are artists that have created legendary concepts, designs, and creatures for hugely popular movies, books, and video games. Each master artist has their own eye-catching chapter, including sketches, development images, and finished pieces alongside written advice, thoughts, and insights into their unique creative process.The artists featured include John Howe, whose paintings grace the covers of many works by J.R.R. Tolkien, and who was one of the chief conceptual designers on Peter Jackson''s groundbreaking The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies, and Wayne Barlowe, whose otherworldly designs have prowled the big screen in franchises such as Hellboy, Harry Potter, and Avatar. We also have stunning sketches and visual development from Terryl Whitlatch, whose creatures can be seen in the legendary Star Wars films and who is currently a sought-after lecturer and instructor in Creature Design and Animal Drawing.With many more masters to discover inside, Master Sketchbooks is a veritable archive of classic concept art from the most revered artists of a generation.
£27.00
Yale University Press Ethiopia at the Crossroads
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£45.00
Radius Books Wired Contemporary Zulu Telephone Wire Baskets
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£36.54
Princeton University Press Relics of War
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£35.70
New York University Press Style
Book SynopsisAssembles texts, performances, and personae from American culture to assert the elemental natureof styleWhile style is equated with fashion or convention in common parlance, Style: A Queer Cosmology defines the term as a mode of expression that makes us more like ourselves and less like everyone else. Taylor Black's interdisciplinary conceptual analysis assembles texts, performances, and personae from American culture that engage in ethical, creative, and performative modes of what he terms abundant revelation. Moving back and forth through time, this book sketches American cosmologies cultivated by iconic and subterranean American artists like Edgar Allan Poe, Flannery O'Connor, Nikki Giovanni, and Bob Dylan. Presiding throughout is the book's conceptual guide: latter-day American and notorious homosexual Quentin Crisp, resurrected here as a philosopher of style.As a scholarly intervention, Style participates in the critical work of revival anTrade Review"A breathtaking and utterly original exploration of a distinctively American style of becoming more and more oneself, that is, as a way cultivating difference. No longer linked to fashion or popularity, style here is an ongoing mode of self-elaboration, of becoming, of making the most of one’s limits. Taylor Black explores unruly stylists who create unique forms of attunement that enable each to become more than themselves, to unleash new forces larger than themselves, to become cosmic. This book is itself stylish, smart, witty, and wise." -- Elizabeth Grosz, author of The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics and the Limits of Materialism"Engages in revival, attachment, attunement—opening up reading/writing practices to more intensive forms of aesthetic difference, queer world-making, trans-temporal appreciation. Taylor Black’s approach is playfully profound in exposition, capaciously eclectic, bursting with insights, meandering yet guided by crucial preoccupations, pushing to edges of sonic implication and comprising, in effect, a ‘queer utopic’ of perpetually energized becoming. The style of Style itself is everywhere fresh, learned, engaged, funny, recklessly alive, full of unexpected twists, linkages, and masks: in a word, preternaturally smart." -- Rob Wilson, author of Be Always Converting, Be Always Converted: An American Poetic
£25.19
Yale University Press Made in Germany
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£31.50
University of California Press Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan
Book SynopsisArticles crafted from lacquer, silk, cotton, paper, ceramics, and iron were central to daily life in early modern Japan. They were powerful carriers of knowledge, sociality, and identity, and their facture was a matter of serious concern among makers and consumers alike. In this innovative study, Christine M.E. Guth offers a holistic framework for appreciating the crafts produced in the city and countryside, by celebrity and unknown makers, between the late sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Her study throws into relief the confluence of often overlooked forces that contributed to Japan's diverse, dynamic, and aesthetically sophisticated artifactual culture. By bringing into dialogue key issues such as natural resources and their management, media representations, gender and workshop organization, embodied knowledge, and innovation, she invites readers to think about Japanese crafts as emerging from cooperative yet competitive expressive environments involving both human and nonhuTrade Review"This is a book that brings the past into conversation with the present, inspiring the reader with its insights into possibilities for the future." * Monumenta Nipponica *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue Introduction 1. Natural Resources 2. Picturing the Early Modern Craftscape 3. Craft Organizations and Operations 4. Tacit Knowledge 5. Technology, Innovation, and Craft Mastery Conclusion Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
£35.70
Beehive Books The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: An Illuminated
Book SynopsisOscar Wilde's fairy tales are some of his most elegant and charming pieces of writing. He produced two books of fairy tales -- THE HAPPY PRINCE AND OTHER TALES, and A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES . They've rarely been collected in one volume -- and never with stunning artwork by Yuko Shimizu (THE UNWRITTEN, BARBED WIRE BASEBALL, A WILD SWAN), one of the modern masters of illustration and graphic art. Wilde's original fairy tales are moving, sweet, sad and magical -- much like Yuko's artwork. Yuko is one of the most celebrated and admired editorial illustrators in the world, and her work is perfectly aligned with Wilde's witty, rueful voice. The edition also features an original introduction by the Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Michael Cunningham. Illuminated Editions is a series of works of classic fiction, prose, and poetry, beautifully designed and lavishly illustrated in exquisitely produced small-batch editions. These volumes intend to harken back to the lovingly crafted, handsomely bound illustrated books of the Victorian era and the golden age of illustration, re-imagined using modern design sensibilities and the most modern techniques in presentation, book-craft, and printing. Each cloth-bound volume in this series is presented in a die-cut slipcase, printed on high quality wood-free uncoated paper, and powerfully elaborated by one of the finest graphic artists in the world.Trade Review“I feel certain that these stories have waited almost 130 years to find their true, visual mates – to find, in Shimizu's illustration, a gift that actually stands up to Wilde's in its unflinching embrace of the fabulous, complex, magical world in which we have always lived.” THE FAIRY TALES OF OSCAR WILDE has won the Communication Arts Design Competition, and won Bronze and Silver Cubes from the Art Director's club in the categories of Design and Illustration."These editions hearken the illustrious past of bookmaking, while also adding a tantalizing contemporary take." -- Sarah Rose Sharp * Hyperallergic *"Shimuzu’s illustrations are varied, powerful, and often evoke batik and other resist-dyeing techniques. As impressive as the illustrations are, the design of the book matches them with elegance and inspired use of color and pattern to set each story in its own frame...These limited-edition crowd-funded volumes raise the bar to the highest level of quality and artistry." -- Karen Haber * LOCUS Magazine *"Produced in the spirit of the books that Wilde himself saw through the press, [this volume] certainly constitutes one of the most beautiful, artistically designed editions of any of Wilde’s writings." -- Nicholas Frankel * The Wildean *Table of ContentsTHE FAIRY TALES OF OSCAR WILDE THE HAPPY PRINCE AND OTHER TALES I. The Happy Prince II. The Nightingale and the Rose III. The Selfish Giant IV. The Devoted Friend V. The Remarkable Rocket A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES VI. The Young King VII. The Birthday of the Infanta IIX. The Fisherman and his Soul IX. The Star-child
£56.79
ibidem A Cry of Despair
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£20.90
MIT Press Ltd Conjuring the Void
£30.75
Yale University Press Farm to Table
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£38.00
Yale University Press Tamara de Lempicka
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£45.00
The History Press Ltd Who Am I
Book SynopsisA poignant look at the lives, experiences and identity of the asylum seekers and refugees that have come to Britain's shoresTrade ReviewThere should be more books like this out there as Tania has really unearthed something unique and amazing and vitally important – to remind us how precarious life can be ... We need stories like this in these days of greed and fear, as we have to dive into the lives of others to be able to understand who, what, when, where, why -- King Adz, author of THE STUFF YOU CAN'T BOTTLE
£17.00
Pomegranate Communications Inc,US Vincent Van Gogh Coloring Book
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£6.50
Routledge Portraiture Gender and Power in SixteenthCentury Art
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£43.69
LIGHTNING SOURCE INC David K. Merrills Lifetime of Painting
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£23.74
Workman Publishing Food Anatomy: The Curious Parts & Pieces of Our
Book SynopsisBest-selling author and noted illustrator of Nature Anatomy, Julia Rothman takes her pen into the kitchen with this charming, illustrated guide to all things edible around the globe. She focuses her curious eye on the origins, types, tools, traditions, and techniques behind the most popular foods and preparations, from breads to fish to spices and desserts.Get your recommended daily allowance of facts and fun with Food Anatomy, the third book in Julia Rothman's best-selling Anatomy series. She starts with an illustrated history of food and ends with a global tour of street eats. Along the way, Rothman serves up a hilarious primer on short-order egg lingo and a mouth-watering menu of how people around the planet serve fried potatoes - and what we dip them in. Award-winning food journalist Rachel Wharton lends her expertise to this light-hearted exploration of everything food that bursts with little-known facts and delightful drawings. Everyday diners and seasoned foodies alike are sure to eat it up. Also available in this series: Nature Anatomy, Nature Anatomy Notebook, Ocean Anatomy, and Farm Anatomy.
£12.99
Book Jojo Slime-A-Rella
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£33.10
Yellow Pear Press Game Master's Tome: World Builder Journal for
Book SynopsisThe Mythical Game Master JournalWhether you’re an improviser or a planner (or a mix of both), a game master needs a journal to keep track of all the details Dungeon Masters must know to keep their campaigns moving along seamlessly and satisfyingly. Look no further, for Game Master's Tome is the ultimate game master journal for you! Stay organized for your campaign game. This journal keeps you organized by boosting your creative thinking and providing space for tracking unfolding plots, character developments, and your personalized fantasy lands.The game master is the manager of worlds. With all the combat fought, encounters had, and characters met in one campaign, it’s difficult to keep track of it all, but that’s the job of the game master, the ruler of the tabletop RPG. Inside this game master journal you’ll find: Questions to help you nail down your settings, NPCs, bad guys, and more Plenty of space for planning adventures and developing the plot of your mystic quests Sections for tracking long campaigns, characters and their moral alignments, dragon lore, and all other important, magical details Sections for the game master to explore the development of their fictional worlds, test out plot points, and get creative with their storytelling If you liked The Book of Holding, The Game Master’s Book of Non-Player Characters, or The Worldbuilder’s Journal of Legendary Adventures, you’ll love Game Master's Tome.Table of ContentsContents Introduction Part I: Get Started Gather Your Party Where to Start? Figure Out the Basics The First Adventure Part II: Keep Going Connect the Threads Focus on Your Players Big Bad Guys Don't Get Too Attached Keep Combat Engaging ResourcesAbout the Authors
£13.29
Queer Street Press Search History
Book SynopsisSearch History is a cruise through writer Sam Moore's internet browsing log, a horny examination of the web as a site for self-exploration and becoming. Over nine essays, Moore navigates messy digital and social realms, taking direction from influences as broad-ranging as Kenneth Anger, Madonna and John Wayne. It's a testament to how queerness is made from strange, unexpected amalgams of personal, cultural and textual material. It is painstakingly obvious that this essay is supposed to enhance intellectual appearance, performance and/or health' Sam Moore Sam Moore is a writer and editor. They are one of the co-curators of TISSUE, a trans reading series based in London.
£14.25
Rutgers University Press Calling Memory into Place
Book SynopsisHow can memory be mobilized for social justice? How can images and monuments counter public forgetting? And how can inherited family and cultural traumas be channeled in productive ways? In this deeply personal work, acclaimed art historian Dora Apel examines how memorials, photographs, artworks, and autobiographical stories can be used to fuel a process of “unforgetting”—reinterpreting the past by recalling the events, people, perspectives, and feelings that get excluded from conventional histories. The ten essays in Calling Memory into Place feature explorations of the controversy over a painting of Emmett Till in the Whitney Biennial and the debates about a national lynching memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. They also include personal accounts of Apel’s return to the Polish town where her Holocaust survivor parents grew up, as well as the ways she found strength in her inherited trauma while enduring treatment for breast cancer. These essays shift between the scholarly, the personal, and the visual as different modes of knowing, and explore the intersections between racism, antisemitism, and sexism, while suggesting how awareness of historical trauma is deeply inscribed on the body. By investigating the relations among place, memory, and identity, this study shines a light on the dynamic nature of memory as it crosses geography and generations.Trade Review"Calling Memory into Place is written out of a deep conviction in the emancipatory and reparative potentials of memory. Building on the trauma and the resilience inherited from her mother’s survival of the Holocaust, Dora Apel powerfully explores how memorials, visual artworks, and personal narratives of illness and recovery can mobilize us in the struggle for social justice." -- Marianne Hirsch * co-author of School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference *"In this deeply personal and thoughtful book, Dora Apel explores what it means to recall terrible events and what is at stake in forgetting them. She shows us that artworks, memorials and monuments, however fixed they may be in their form, are also malleable in their meaning when they are mobilized by individuals, communities and governments. Whether she is writing about recent attempts to reckon with America’s legacy of racial violence, the dilemmas that arise from efforts to memorialize the Holocaust, or her own struggle with cancer, Apel’s approach is always lucid, empathic and moving." -- Coco Fusco * Cooper Union School of Arts *"An inherently fascinating, thoughtful and thought-provoking series of insightfully informative essays on the role of memory in processing personal, social, cultural and political histories, Calling Memory into Place is an impressive and original work that is nicely illustrated throughout in full color." * Midwest Book Review *"Apel brings it all to bear in this extraordinary book." * PopMatters *"The Best Books of 2020: Non-Fiction" * PopMatters, The Best Books of 2020: Nonfiction *The Library Café interview with Dora Apel * The Library Cafe *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: Passages and Streets 1. A Memorial for Walter Benjamin 2. “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” Part II: Memorials and Museums 3. Why We Need a National Lynching Memorial 4. “Let the World See What I Have Seen” Part III: Hometowns and Homelands 5. Seeing What Can No Longer Be Seen 6. Borders and Walls Part IV: Hospitals and Cemeteries 7. Sprung from the Head 8. Parallel Universes Part V: Body and Mind 9. Reclaiming the Self 10. The Care of Others Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£28.80
Jean Boite editions The Imaginary Sea
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£31.50
Hirmer Verlag GmbH Facing the Elements
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£33.60
Prestel Kandinskys Universe
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£32.00
Prestel Chris Levine
£75.00
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw Zofia Kulik – Methodology, My Love
Book SynopsisZofia Kulik’s rich artistic career has a dual nature. Between 1970 and 1987, she worked alongside Przemysław Kwiek as a member of the duo KwieKulik, after which she began to develop a successful individual career. While KwieKulik’s work has been well established as central to the East European neo-avant-garde art lexicon of the 1970’s and ’80s, Kulik’s solo work has yet to be examined in depth. The first publication devoted solely to her work, this monograph analyzes the themes of her rich and complex oeuvre, addressing the (post)communist condition, artistic labor, intermediality, and the conditions of working as a female artist. The book forms a portrait of Kulik as an artist whose work is both deeply focused and rich in variations that reflect the socio-political shifts in her native Poland. With contributions from leading art historians, including Edit András, Angela Dimitrakaki, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Suzana Milevska, and Tomasz Załuski.
£26.60
Onomatopee Alien Invader Super Baby (Synchromaterialism IV)
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£19.95
Onomatopee Sense & Sensibility
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£14.25
The University of Chicago Press The Channeled Image Art and Media Politics after
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[An] essential, revelatory examination of intermediality and politics in the 1960s. . . Erica Levin’s assured study of artists and experimental filmmakers confronts what she labels the ‘media politics’ of television." * Art History *"The Channeled Image offers keen insights into the artists in the 1960s and how they marshaled a variety of media to both engage with and challenge the norms of commercial and public television. Levin’s clear and forceful critique illuminates the intentions of these artists, their successes, and their failures, drawing attention to a number of works that have received relatively scant scholarly attention and placing those works in conversation with one another. This book will be a boon to the fields of art history and media studies alike." -- Gregory Zinman, author of Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts"The Channeled Image boldly redraws the map of the 1960s, a time when television news mediated social upheaval and artists critically engaged the medium’s power and immediacy. In crisp and assured prose, Levin reveals the era to be messier and more complex than previous studies have allowed it to be. This is a brilliant and necessary book for understanding art’s entanglements with mass media, both then and now." -- Genevieve Yue, author of Girl Head: Feminism and Film MaterialityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Tuning In 1 Network Media/TV Nation 2 Movement Media/War on Television 3 We Interrupt this Program . . . 4 Public Television/Nervous System Conclusion: TV Now? Acknowledgments Notes Index
£84.00
Yale University Press Emma and Edvard Looking Sideways
Book SynopsisIn this compelling publication, two masters come face-to-face when the works of Edvard Munch are juxtaposed against Gustave Flaubert's groundbreaking novel Madame Bovary. Munch's art is presented in stills taken from an elaborate video installation, Madame B (2014), created by Michelle Williams Gamaker and the internationally acclaimed cultural theorist, video artist, and curator Mieke Bal. Emma andEdvard Looking Sideways: Loneliness and the Cinematic explores the filmic aspect of Munch's art by combining contemporary art theory with Bal's own idiosyncratic way of looking at art directly and closely. The reader can reflect upon how we view each other in social situations and question what happens when we are denied visual dialogue. Distributed for MercatorfondsExhibition Schedule:Munch Museum, Oslo (02/04/1704/17/17)
£47.50
University of California Press Speaking Out of Turn
Book SynopsisSpeaking Out of Turn is the first monograph dedicated to the forty-year oeuvre of feminist conceptual artist Lorraine O'Grady. Examining O'Grady's use of language, both written and spoken, Stephanie Sparling Williams charts the artist's strategic use of direct addressthe dialectic posture her art takes in relationship to its viewersto trouble the field of vision and claim a voice in the late 1970s through the 1990s, when her voice was seen as out of turn in the art world. Speaking Out of Turn situates O'Grady's significant contributions within the history of American conceptualism and performance art while also attending to the work's heightened visibility in the contemporary moment, revealing both the marginalization of O'Grady in the past and an urgent need to revisit her art in the present.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Mark My Words 2. "I Am Not a Performance Artist" 3. Manifestos and Mythmaking 4. The Diptych and "Spatial Narrative" Notes Bibliography Index
£35.70
University of California Press Pictures of Belonging
Book SynopsisThis unprecedented exhibition reintroduces three trailblazing Japanese American artists of the preWorld War II generations. Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo brings together over ninety works by three pioneering Japanese American artists from the preWorld War II era. Despite long careers and critical acclaim, Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo have largely been overlooked in traditional American art history. This groundbreaking exhibition reintroduces their work and explores their deep connections with each other for the first time. Through three chronological sections, the exhibition traces the careers of these artists from the 1920s to the 1990s. Faces & Communities presents preWorld War II portraiture and figurative works, while Belongings & (dis)Locations showcases landscapes and still lifes from the prewar and wartime periods. The final section, Explorations & Rediscoveries, features postwar abstractions. Pictures of Belonging foregro
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Wiley A Companion to Art Theory
Book Synopsis* Provides a critical overview of Western visual art theory from a wide range of perspectives. * Helps students to pursue questions about the nature and ambitions of theory in the context of art. * Can be used alongside the three a Art in Theorya anthologies also published by Blackwell. .Table of ContentsPlates ix Notes on Contributors x Preface xvi Part I: Tradition and the Academy 1 Introduction: Alberti and the Formation of Modern Art Theory 3 Carolyn Wilde 1 The Classical Concept of Mimesis 19 Göran Sörbom 2 Medieval Art Theory 29 Hugh Bredin 3 Neoplatonist Aesthetics 40 Suzanne Stern-Gillet 4 Renaissance Art Theories 49 François Quiviger 5 Touch, Tactility, and the Reception of Sculpture in Early Modern Italy 61 Geraldine A. Johnson 6 The Spiritual Exercises of Leonardo da Vinci 75 Robert Williams 7 Academic Theory 1550–1800 88 Paul Duro 8 Rhetorical Categories in the Academy 104 Caroline van Eck 9 The Picturesque and its Development 116 Andrew Ballantyne Part II: Around Modernism 125 10 The Aesthetics of Kant and Hegel 127 Jason Gaiger 11 E. H. Gombrich and the Tradition of Hegel 139 David Summers 12 German Romanticism and French Aesthetic Theory 150 Wendy S. Mercer 13 Expression: Natural, Personal, Pictorial 159 Richard Shiff 14 Reading Artists’ Words 173 Richard Hobbs 15 Nietzsche and the Artist 183 Michael White 16 Wittgenstein, Description, and Adrian Stokes (on Cezanne) 196 Paul Smith 17 Modernism and the Idea of the Avant-Garde 215 Paul Wood 18 On the Intention of Modern(ist) Art 229 Fred Orton 19 Anti-Art and the Concept of Art 244 Paul N. Humble 20 Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades and Anti-Aesthetic Reflex 253 David Hopkins Part III: Critical Theory and Postmodernism 265 21 Marxism and Critical Art History 267 David Craven 22 Walter Benjamin and Art Theory 286 Howard Caygill 23 Bakhtin and the Visual Arts 292 Deborah J. Haynes 24 Peirce’s Visuality and the Semiotics of Art 303 Michael Leja 25 Conceptual Art 317 Charles Harrison 26 Barthes on Art 327 Margaret Iversen 27 Foucault and Art 337 Roy Boyne 28 Derrida and the Parergon 349 Robin Marriner 29 What Consciousness Forgets: Lyotard’s Concept of the Sublime 360 Renée van de Vall 30 Deleuze on Francis Bacon 370 Ian Heywood 31 Feminisms and Art Theory 380 Marsha Meskimmon 32 Psycho-Phallus (Qu’est-ce que c’est?) 397 Mignon Nixon Part IV: Interpretation and the Institution of Art 409 33 The Rules of Representation 411 John Willats 34 Gombrich and Psychology 426 Richard Woodfield 35 Hermeneutics and Art Theory 436 Nicholas Davey 36 Reciprocity and Reception Theory 448 Michael Ann Holly 37 The Paradox of Creative Interpretation in Art 458 Carl Hausman 38 Interdisciplinarity and Visual Culture 467 Charlotte Klonk 39 Against Curatorial Imperialism: Merleau-Ponty and the Historicity of Art 477 Paul Crowther 40 The Institutional Theory of Art: Theory and Antitheory 487 Garry L. Hagberg Index 505
£154.76
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Art and Thought
Book SynopsisThis work explores the relationship between the discipline of art history and important movements in the history of western thought from the Renaissance onwards.Trade Review"Smart and savvy contribution to a list of recent anthologies that work at putting the spirit back into art history. Reading so many lively voices talking about why art still matters is both a serious pursuit and a pleasurable pastime." Michael Ann Holly, Clark Art InstituteTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors. Series Editor's Preface. Editors Introduction. 1. Aristotle, Titian and Tragic Painting (Thomas Puttfarken). 2. Wax, Brick and Bread: Apotheosis of matter and meaning in seventeenth-century philosophy and painting (Jay Bernstein). 3. Kant and Aesthetic Imagination (Michael Podro). 4. Meaning, Identity, Embodiment: The uses of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology in art history (Amelia Jones). 5. Art Works, Utterances and Things (Alex Potts). 6. Art and the Ethical: Modernism and the problem of minimalism (Jonathan Vickery). 7. How can we think the Feminine, Aesthetically (Griselda Pollock). 8. What was Postminimalism (Stephen Melville). 9. Museum as Work in the Age of Technological Display: Reading Heidegger through Tate Modern (Diarmuid Costello). 10. Thought and Art (Adrian Rifkin). Bibliography. Index.
£94.46
Wiley Art and Thought
Book SynopsisThis work explores the relationship between the discipline of art history and important movements in the history of western thought from the Renaissance onwards.Trade Review"Smart and savvy contribution to a list of recent anthologies that work at putting the spirit back into art history. Reading so many lively voices talking about why art still matters is both a serious pursuit and a pleasurable pastime." Michael Ann Holly, Clark Art InstituteTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors. Series Editor's Preface. Editors Introduction. 1. Aristotle, Titian and Tragic Painting (Thomas Puttfarken). 2. Wax, Brick and Bread: Apotheosis of matter and meaning in seventeenth-century philosophy and painting (Jay Bernstein). 3. Kant and Aesthetic Imagination (Michael Podro). 4. Meaning, Identity, Embodiment: The uses of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology in art history (Amelia Jones). 5. Art Works, Utterances and Things (Alex Potts). 6. Art and the Ethical: Modernism and the problem of minimalism (Jonathan Vickery). 7. How can we think the Feminine, Aesthetically (Griselda Pollock). 8. What was Postminimalism (Stephen Melville). 9. Museum as Work in the Age of Technological Display: Reading Heidegger through Tate Modern (Diarmuid Costello). 10. Thought and Art (Adrian Rifkin). Bibliography. Index.
£37.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd After Criticism
Book SynopsisIt has become apparent that criticism has fallen on hard times. This book explores contemporary approaches which have sought to renew criticism's energies in the wake of a 'theatrical turn' in visual arts practice, and the emergence of a 'performative' arts writing over the decade or so.Trade Review"After Criticism is crucial to any discussion regarding the status of criticism and critical theory after post-structuralism and, equally importantly, is one of few texts that is innovative in its illumination of context, history, aesthetic judgement and, rare for an academic text, enjoyable to read." Art Monthly "After Criticism is no doubt the most intriguing collection of performative writing published yet. Being refreshing, entertaining as well as inspiringly confusing, it is essential reading for anyone writing on art who does not only think of what to write, but also how to write it." Contemporary "Though it seems contradictory to write words of praise for a book that deeply interrogates the marketability of praiseful language (in the guise of art criticism), Gavin Butt's collection deserves them. Framed by Butt's astute introduction, these performative essays pulse with vitality. Food for thought, this book makes us think, again, about art and its interpretations in a new way. Critical writing as a kind of performance – delicious." Amelia Jones, University of Manchester "This anthology is an excellent overview of performative critical discourse edited and introduced by one of its leading proponents. All the contributions have an experimental or improvisational edge that preserves a sense of the critical encounter. The book is at the cutting edge of art theory and will be read with enthusiasm by a large number of people engaged with contemporary art practice and criticism." Margaret Iversen, University of EssexTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Notes on Contributors viii Series Editor’s Preface xi Introduction: The Paradoxes of Criticism 1Gavin Butt Part I Performing Art’s Histories 21 1 Solo Solo Solo 23Rebecca Schneider 2 Binding to Another’s Wound: Of Weddings and Witness 48Jane Blocker 3 This is I 65Niru Ratnam Part II Distracted and Bored: The Critic Looks Elsewhere 79 4 The Trouble with Men, or, Sex, Boredom, and the Work of Vaginal Davis 81Jennifer Doyle 5 Utopia’s Seating Chart: Ray Johnson, Jill Johnston, and Queer Intermedia as System 101José Esteban Muñoz 6 Looking Away: Participations in Visual Culture 117Irit Rogoff Part III Critical Response/Performative Process 135 7 Itinerant Improvisations: From “My Favorite Things” to an “agency of night” 137John Seth 8 The Experience of Art as a Living Through of Language 156Kate Love 9 A Transparent Lecture 176Matthew Goulish Selected Bibliography 207compiled by Andrew Walby Index 212
£97.16
John Wiley and Sons Ltd After Criticism
Book SynopsisIt has recently become apparent that criticism has fallen on hard times. Either commodification is deemed to have killed it off, or it has become institutionally routine. This book explores contemporary approaches which have sought to renew criticism''s energies in the wake of a ''theatrical turn'' in recent visual arts practice, and the emergence of a ''performative'' arts writing over the past decade or so. Issues addressed include the ''performing'' of art''s histories; the consequences for criticism of embracing boredom, distraction and other ''queer'' forms of (in)attention; and the importance of exploring writerly process in responding to aesthetic experience. Bringing together newly commissioned work from the fields of art history, performance studies, and visual culture with the writings of contemporary artists, After Criticism provides a set of experimental essays which demonstrate how ''the critical'' might live on as a vital and efficacious force within contTrade Review"After Criticism is crucial to any discussion regarding the status of criticism and critical theory after post-structuralism and, equally importantly, is one of few texts that is innovative in its illumination of context, history, aesthetic judgement and, rare for an academic text, enjoyable to read." Art Monthly "After Criticism is no doubt the most intriguing collection of performative writing published yet. Being refreshing, entertaining as well as inspiringly confusing, it is essential reading for anyone writing on art who does not only think of what to write, but also how to write it." Contemporary "Though it seems contradictory to write words of praise for a book that deeply interrogates the marketability of praiseful language (in the guise of art criticism), Gavin Butt's collection deserves them. Framed by Butt's astute introduction, these performative essays pulse with vitality. Food for thought, this book makes us think, again, about art and its interpretations in a new way. Critical writing as a kind of performance – delicious." Amelia Jones, University of Manchester "This anthology is an excellent overview of performative critical discourse edited and introduced by one of its leading proponents. All the contributions have an experimental or improvisational edge that preserves a sense of the critical encounter. The book is at the cutting edge of art theory and will be read with enthusiasm by a large number of people engaged with contemporary art practice and criticism." Margaret Iversen, University of EssexTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Notes on Contributors viii Series Editor’s Preface xi Introduction: The Paradoxes of Criticism 1Gavin Butt Part I Performing Art’s Histories 21 1 Solo Solo Solo 23Rebecca Schneider 2 Binding to Another’s Wound: Of Weddings and Witness 48Jane Blocker 3 This is I 65Niru Ratnam Part II Distracted and Bored: The Critic Looks Elsewhere 79 4 The Trouble with Men, or, Sex, Boredom, and the Work of Vaginal Davis 81Jennifer Doyle 5 Utopia’s Seating Chart: Ray Johnson, Jill Johnston, and Queer Intermedia as System 101José Esteban Muñoz 6 Looking Away: Participations in Visual Culture 117Irit Rogoff Part III Critical Response/Performative Process 135 7 Itinerant Improvisations: From “My Favorite Things” to an “agency of night” 137John Seth 8 The Experience of Art as a Living Through of Language 156Kate Love 9 A Transparent Lecture 176Matthew Goulish Selected Bibliography 207compiled by Andrew Walby Index 212
£38.90
Princeton University Press Face and Mask
Book Synopsis"First published in Germany under the title Faces: Eine Geschichte des Gesichts."Trade Review"A compelling study."--ApolloTable of ContentsIntroduction: Defining the Subject 1 I Face and Mask: Changing Views 1 Facial Expression, Masks of the Self, and Roles of the Face 17 2 The Cult Origin of the Mask 32 3 Masks in Colonial Museums 42 4 Face and Mask in the Theater 48 5 From the Study of the Face to Brain Research 63 6 Nostalgia for the Face and the Death Mask in Modernity 77 7 Eulogy for the Face: Rilke and Artaud 84 II Portrait and Mask: The Face as Representation 8 The European Portrait as Mask 91 9 Face and Skull: Two Opposing Views 106 10 The "Real Face" of the Icon and the "Similar Face" 118 11 The Record of Memory and the Speech Act of the Face 126 12 Rembrandt's Self-Portraiture: Revolt against the Mask 135 13 Silent Screams in the Glass Case: The Face Set Free 150 14 Photography and Mask: Jorge Molder's Own Alien Face 157 III Media and Masks: The Production of Faces 15 The Consumption of Media Faces 175 16 Archives: Controlling the Faces of the Crowd 192 17 Video and Live Image: The Flight from the Mask 205 18 Ingmar Bergman and the Face in Film 211 19 Overpainting and Replicating the Face: Signs of Crisis 221 20 Mao's Face: State Icon and Pop Idol 229 21 Cyberfaces: Masks without Faces 239 Acknowledgments 247 Notes 249 Literature Cited 263 Index of Names 267
£37.80
Stanford University Press Empathic Vision
Book SynopsisThis book analyzes contemporary visual art produced in the context of conflict and trauma from a range of countries, including Colombia, Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Australia. It focuses on what makes visual language unique, arguing that the affective quality of art contributes to a new understanding of the experience of trauma and loss. By extending the concept of empathy, it also demonstrates how we might, through art, make connections with people in different parts of the world whose experiences differ from our own.The book makes a distinct contribution to trauma studies, which has tended to concentrate on literary forms of expression. It also offers a sophisticated theoretical analysis of the operations of art, drawing on philosophers such as Gilles Deleuze, but setting this within a postcolonial framework.Empathic Vision will appeal to anyone interested in the role of culture in post-September 11 global politics.Trade Review"This is an insightful, timely book....Thought-provoking and at times startling, Empathic Vision opens up new ideas that stay with you long after you have closed its covers." -- Leonardo ReviewsTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:List of Illustrations iii Acknowledgments iii @toc2:Chapter 1: On the Subject of Trauma 000 Chapter 2: Insides, Outsides: Trauma, Affect, and Art 000 Chapter 3: The Force of Trauma 000 Chapter 4: Journeys into Place 000 Chapter 5: Face-to-Face Encounters 000 Chapter 6: Global Interconnections 000 Afterword: Beyond Trauma Culture 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Select Bibliography 000 Index 000
£70.55
John Wiley & Sons Arabs in Turkish Political Cartoons 18761950
Book SynopsisA nuanced and richly detailed study that examines the development of Turkish national identity from the 1908 constitutional revolution to the inclusion of Alexandretta in 1939, using the lens of contemporary political cartoons.
£30.56
