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The University of Alabama Press The Productive Tension of Hawthornes Art
Book SynopsisA solid,... well-written contribution to Hawthorne criticism... The author is thoroughly in control of what has been written about Hawthorne and skillfully places her own work in the context of this scholarship and criticism. So far as I know, she is the first critic to consider the probable influence of the perfectionists' on Hawthorne's art. - Roy R. Male, University of Oklahoma
£23.36
The University of Chicago Press Transfigurements On the True Sense of Art
Book SynopsisDevelops a framework for thinking about art through innovative readings of some of the most important philosophical writing on the subject by Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger. This title exposes fresh layers in their texts and theories while also marking their limits.Trade Review"Deft and patient, Sallis presents essentially a hermeneutical history of the philosophy of art. This is an irreplaceable contribution to the philosophy of art and to philosophy itself because it shows the transition to a philosophy beyond metaphysics." (Choice) "The character of Sallis's scholarship in this volume is matched throughout by clarity of thought.... A lasting contribution to the philosophy of art." (Notre Dame Philosophical Review)"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Substance of Shadow
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The University of Alabama Press Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer and the Creation of a Modern Jewish Orthodoxy Judaic Studies
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The University of Chicago Press Hilma af Klint
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Despite her many notebooks, she left behind no personal diaries, and we know little about her thoughts beyond her art and spiritualist interests. Voss does a good job of filling in the gaps with detective work and speculation, although in places the conditional does a lot of heavy lifting. Her biggest achievement is to establish a context for af Klint’s work, upending popular assumptions that she was a mystical outsider who floated free of her historical and social milieu.” * London Review of Books *“Voss has produced an extraordinarily rich portrait of a radically unusual, but not eccentric, modern artist. . . . Voss’s biography makes af Klint so much more than an artist simply to be inserted into a more gender-inclusive canon of ‘abstract art’. It saves af Klint from art history while sending us deeper into her world. Reading it was a revelation, and it has changed my understanding of the artist, the woman, and her times.” * Literary Review *"It would be easy, in our rationalist times, to think of af Klint as a kook. One of the many praiseworthy things about Julia Voss’s excellent new biography of her is that it does not even entertain the thought." * Times Literary Supplement *"The woman who emerges in Voss's exacting portrait is strong-willed, purposeful, and confident—ahead of her time and perhaps ours too. What's interesting, the author suggests, isn't that af Klint, in a century awash with spiritual fads, heard voices. It's that, as far as her genius was concerned, those voices weren't wrong." * Observer (UK) *"Julia Voss’s biography of Af Klint is the first full life of the painter and shows her growth from working in the traditional genres of portraiture and landscape into far more radical fields. She explains not just Af Klint’s beliefs, but her relations with the occultist and reformer Rudolf Steiner and her efforts to exhibit some of her work to fellow spiritualists. Af Klint thought of her paintings as dictations from the astral plane. Voss’s scholarship shows how remarkable the woman was who transcribed them." * New Statesman *"[A] pioneering biography. . . . Voss marshals as much of the personal detail as the painter’s surviving notes would divulge and has filled out an account that will surely remain the standard for years to come." * Art Newspaper *"Julia Voss’s dazzling and timely biography of Hilma af Klint explores not only the life of this extraordinary artist but highlights the important contributions of both mysticism and women artists—so long excluded from the art-historical canon—to the story of modern art. I couldn’t put it down." -- Jennifer Higgie"Julia Voss’s biography is the indispensable resource for anyone interested in pioneering artist Hilma af Klint. With her thousands of pages of notebooks in Swedish, af Klint remained beyond the reach of scholars without the ability to read Swedish. By mastering Swedish and doing superb archival research on af Klint and the women around her, Voss reveals a Hilma we did not know, including a gender fluidity that underlies many of her motifs. Voss has also recovered the cosmopolitan culture of Stockholm in this period—from art exhibitions and science expositions to the robust interest in spiritualism that parallels that in Berlin. Written in lively prose, Voss’s book is a pleasure to read in the translation by Anne Posten." -- Linda Henderson, University of Texas at Austin"A fascinating book on the exhilarating life and work of Hilma af Klint. Julia Voss has been instrumental in bringing her story to the forefront and tells her life with such sensitivity, generosity, and insight. A must read!" -- Katy Hessel, author of The Story of Art without Men"As well as shining a light on an exceptional talent, this book provides a rare window on the struggle of a woman artist to find a new language in a world where idealism was fading fast." * World of Interiors *"A rich and illuminating portrait of the artist." * Air Mail *Table of ContentsA Note from the Translator Chronology Introduction Part I. Family, Childhood, and Youth in Stockholm 1. Mary Wollstonecraft Visits Sweden and Is Upset 2. Birth 3. School and Religion 4. An Exhibition in London 5. Bertha Valerius and the Dead 6. Kerstin Cardon’s Painting School 7. Hermina’s Death Part II. Study at the Academy and Independent Work 1. The Academy 2. Guardian Spirit 3. The Prize 4. Anna Cassel 5. “My First Experience with Mediumship” 6. The Young Artist 7. Dr. Helleday and Love 8. The Five 9. Art from the Orient 10. Rose and Cross 11. At the Veterinary Institute 12. Children’s Books and Decorative Art 13. Italy 14. Genius Part III. Paintings for the Temple 1. Old Images 2. Revolution 3. Primordial Chaos 4. Eros 5. Medium 6. The Ten Largest 7. “I Was the Instrument of Ecstasy” 8. Rudolf Steiner Visits Sweden 9. The Young Ones 10. Sigrid Lancén 11. The Association of Swedish Women Artists 12. Frank Heyman 13. Island Kingdom in Mälaren 14. First Exhibition with the Theosophists 15. Tree of Knowledge 16. The Kiss 17. Singoalla 18. The Baltic Exhibition 19. War 20. Saint George 21. Kandinsky in Stockholm 22. Parsifal and Atom 23. The Studio on Munsö 24. Thomasine Anderson Part IV. Dornach, Amsterdam, and London 1. The Suitcase Museum 2. Flowers, Mosses, and Lichens 3. First Visit to the Goetheanum 4. “Belongs to the Astral World According to Doctor Steiner” 5. The Fire and the Letter 6. Amsterdam 7. London Part V. Temple and Later Years 1. The Temple and the Spiral 2. +x 3. A Temple in New York 4. The London Blitz 5. Future Woman 6. National Socialism 7. Lecture in Stockholm 8. “Degenerate” Art in Germany and Abstract Art in New York 9. Tyra Kleen and the Plan for a Museum 10 Last Months 11. Conclusion Afterword by Johan af Klint Afterword by Ulrika af Klint Appendix 1. Hilma af Klint’s Travels and Places of Residence Appendix 2. The Library of Hilma af Klint Acknowledgments Illustration Sources Notes Bibliography Index
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Chronicle Books The Art of Elemental
Book SynopsisThe Art of Elemental showcases the art and making of the next animated film from Pixar Animation Studios. The Art of Elemental presents the story behind the newest film from Pixar Animation Studios. It highlights the stunning artwork from the film's creation-including character designs, storyboards, color scripts, and much more-and features exclusive interviews from the creative team along with behind-the-scenes details. The next in this fan-favorite, collectible series of Art of titles, this book is the perfect gift for aspiring artists, animators, aspiring film buffs, and fans alike. Copyright (C)2023 Disney Enterprises, Inc. and Pixar. All rights reserved. EXCLUSIVE BEHIND-THE-SCENES DETAILS: Fans will want to delve into and explore this new Pixar Animation film through production art, stories, and making-of details exclusive to this book. PART OF THE FAN-FAVORITE SERIES: The collectible Art of series from Disney and Pixar are perfect for animation enthusiasts, filmmakers, students, and fans of Disney and Pixar alike. Add it to the shelf with other bestselling books like The Art of Turning Red, The Art of Encanto, and The Art of Strange World. For animation fans, Pixar fans, Disney fans, students, aspiring animators and filmmakers.
£24.00
The Catholic University of America Press The Moral Philosophy of Dietrich von Hildebrand
Book SynopsisOffers the first full-fledged monograph on Dietrich von Hildebrand's moral philosophy available to date. This book will serve as a very good introduction not just to von Hildebrand´s moral philosophy but to his thought in general.
£57.38
The University of Chicago Press Into the Light of Things The Art of the
Book SynopsisThis revision of avant-garde history traces a direct line back from John Cage, pop and conceptual art to the work of Whitman, Emerson, Ruskin, Carlyle and Wordsworth, showing how the art of everyday objects, often thought to be a contemporary phenomenon, actually began as far back as 1800.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments I: The End of Art? II: The Status of the Art Object Relative to Mere Real Things Before 1800 III: Confronting the Art Object: The Simple Produce of the Common Day A: William Wordsworth: The Simple Produce of the Common Day B: Thomas Carlyle: Natural Supernaturalism C: John Ruskin IV: Leaving the Raft Behind: John Cage A: Recontextualizing Cage: Industrial Supernaturalism, Suzukian Zen, and the Buddha's Raft B: The Simple Produce Changes: The Industrial Revolution and the Crisis of Natural Supernaturalism C: On the Buddha's Raft D: The Ultimate Object E: Ecology: 24'00" Epilogue Notes Index
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press Philosophies of Art and Beauty
Book SynopsisThis anthology is remarkable not only for the selections themselves, among which the Schelling and the Heidegger essays were translated especially for this volume, but also for the editors' general introduction and the introductory essays for each selection, which make this volume an invaluable aid to the study of the powerful, recurrent ideas concerning art, beauty, critical method, and the nature of representation. Because this collection makes clear the ways in which the philosophy of art relates to and is part of general philosophical positions, it will be an essential sourcebook to students of philosophy, art history, and literary criticism.
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The University of Chicago Press Nonliterary Fiction Art of the Americas under
Book SynopsisExplores a new form of fiction that emerged in late-twentieth-century visual art across the Americas. With Non-literary Fiction, Esther Gabara examines how contemporary art produced across the Americas has reacted to the rising tide of neoliberal regimes, focusing on the crucial role of fiction in daily politics. Gabara argues that these fictions depart from familiar literary narrative structures and emerge in the new mediums and practices that have revolutionized contemporary art. Each chapter details how fiction is created through visual art formsin performance and body art, posters, mail art, found objects, and installations. For Gabara, these fictions comprise a type of art that asks viewers to collaborate in the creation of the work and helps them to withstand the brutal restrictions imposed by dominant neoliberal regimes. During repressive regimes of the 1960s and 1970s and free trade agreements of the 1990s, artists and critics consistently said no to economic privatization, political deregulation, and reactionary social logic as they rejected inherited notions of visual, literary, and political representation. Through close analyses of artworks and writings by leading figures of these two generations, including Indigenous thinkers, Gabara shows how negation allows for the creation of fiction outside textual forms of literature. Trade Review"Gabara’s thoughtful intervention will be of interest to scholars in the visual arts, cultural, literary and media studies. It demonstrates the contemporaneity and contributions of Amerindian thought to canonical artistic practices, shedding light on how the latter may or may not allegorically negate neoliberal transformations, by way of collaborative inventions or non-literary fictions that blur the distinction between the literary and the visual." * Visual Studies *"Gabara takes us into an erudite exploration to answer what seems to be a simple, straightforward question: what is fiction in art? How are works of art fictions? The answer unfolds in five chapters, an introduction, and an epilogue in which the author composes a theory of visual fiction, devoid of the narrative conventions that typically dominate discussions on the matter from both literary and art historical perspectives." * Hispanic Review *“Gabara’s powerful critical lens is as broad as the Americas and as precise as a single performance or found object. Non-literary Fiction is a major contribution to our understanding of how art refutes the neoliberal Thatcherism ‘There is no alternative.’ Gabara’s extraordinary study shows there is always an alternative.” -- Diana Taylor, New York University“Gabara presents a compellingly hemispheric case for non-literary fiction, negation, and Amerindian thought as central to a distinctive turn in artistic practice since the late 1950s. This tour de force is a must-read for anyone interested in new critical terms for studying how artistic form and thought have engaged the violence of a prevailing social order.” -- Chon Noriega, Distinguished Professor, UCLATable of ContentsList of Figures Negating: An Introduction Chapter One. Line: Making Fiction in Word and Image Chapter Two. Motif: Recurrent Images of Walking Chapter Three. Gesture: Signals in Motion Chapter Four. Corpus: Telling Bodies, Living and Dead Chapter Five. Color: Taken In by Realism Epilogue: A Refuge Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£84.00
The University of Chicago Press The Conflagration of Community Fiction before and
Book SynopsisChallenges Theodor Adorno's famous statement about aesthetic production after the Holocaust, arguing for the possibility of literature to bear witness to extreme collective and personal experiences. This title considers how novels about the Holocaust relate to fictions written before and after it.
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The University of Chicago Press Modern Art and the Remaking of Human Disposition
Book SynopsisHow artists at the turn of the twentieth century broke with traditional ways of posing the bodies of human figures to reflect modern understandings of human consciousness. Trade Review"Butterfield-Rosen's strategy of examining the disposition of poses in order to contribute to histories of the self is nothing short of a brilliant, and her discussion of the trafficking between abstract concepts and concrete practices is rigorous, original, and convincing. This is an area in which the discipline of art history is in a privileged position to contribute to a broader history of ideas, and she makes skillful use of the weapons in an art historian's arsenal, including formal and iconographic analysis." --Zeynep Celik Alexander, author of Kinaesthetic Knowing: Aesthetics, Epistemology, Modern Design "Modern Art and the Remaking of Human Disposition is original, creative, erudite, soundly argued, and convincingly substantiated. It constitutes an important intervention in the history of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century European art, offering a subtle linkage between aesthetic theory and socio-psychological conceptions of selfhood."--Juliet Bellow, author of Modernism on Stage: The Ballets Russes and the Parisian Avant-GardeTable of ContentsIntroduction One Figures of Thought: Poseuses and the Controversy of the Grande Jatte Two Beethoven’s Farewell: The Creative Genius “in the Claws of the Secession” Three The Mise-en-scène of Dreams: L’Après-midi d’un faune Acknowledgments Notes Index
£45.60
The University of Chicago Press The Scandal of Pleasure Art in an Age of
Book SynopsisSurveys a wide range of cultural controversies, from the Mapplethorpe affair to Salman Rushdie's death sentence. This book seeks to show that the fear and outrage these events inspired were the result of dangerous misunderstandings about the relationship between art and life.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Making TheoryConstructing Art On the Authority of
Book SynopsisThis text examines and critiques the norms, assumptions, historical conditions and institutions that have framed the development and uses of art theory. It looks at the work of major figures in the avant-garde movement, such as John Cage, Jean-Francois Lyotard and Andy Warhol.
£38.00
Oratia Media Hundertwasser in New Zealand: The Art of Creating
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Hirmer Verlag National Museum of Women in the Arts: Highlights
Book SynopsisDiscover women artists and make connections across time, medium and genre. The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. – the first museum in the world solely dedicated to championing women through the arts – has a collection spanning five centuries and featuring artists from six continents. This book shares recent acquisitions and longtime favourites; its thematic organisation leads readers to new discoveries. NMWA’s new collection highlights catalogue helps readers make connections across art history and discover women artists. Lush imagery features key artworks by Louise Bourgeois, Lalla Essaydi, Frida Kahlo, Hung Liu, Clara Peeters, Faith Ringgold, Niki de Saint Phalle, Amy Sherald, Alma Woodsey Thomas, and many others. In spotlight essays, writers from the museum – alongside more than thirty guest artists and scholars – share stories that illuminate the unique works and mission of NMWA.
£43.20
Oxford University Press The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen
Book SynopsisThis is the second volume in what will be a translation with full scholarly apparatus of the entire correspondence of St. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179). The translation follows Van Acker''s definitive new edition of the Latin text, which is being published serially in Belgium by Brepols. As in that edition, the letters are organized according to the rank of the addressees. The first volume included ninety letters to and from the highest ranking prelates in Hildegard''s world: popes, archbishops, and bishops. Volume II comprises letters 91-217, in which Hildegard addresses lower-ranking spiritual leaders (abbots and abbesses, for the most part) offering advice and consolation, and is particularly noteworthy for the correspondence with Guilbert of Gembloux, who provides a wealth of information about the saint and her spiritual gift.Trade ReviewThe two already published volumes are exemplary. The translations read well, the notes are helpful, and the brief bibliography and indexes enhance the readability of the text. * Commonweal *The appearance of the second volume of translations of Hildegard's letters...is an event to be welcomed. It makes accessible, in readable and accurate translations, another tranche of Hildegard's correspondence. * Catholic Historical Review *
£147.25
Ize Press The Horizon, Vol. 3
Book Synopsis The boy and the girl walk on and on, past the desolate landscape and broken people, past their own trauma and grief. But all roads must come to an end. What awaits them at the conclusion of their journey?
£15.19
WW Norton & Co The Art of C. G. Jung
Book SynopsisA lavishly illustrated volume of C.G. Jung’s visual work, from drawing to painting to sculpture.Trade Review"For a book called The Art of C. G. Jung ever to be published is remarkable and, finally, allows us to present the substantial corpus of Jung's creative work in the context of his intellectual and personal development." -- Mind Body Spirit
£71.25
Taschen GmbH Erotica Universalis
Book SynopsisFrom the dawn of time, ever since Adam and Eve, all artists of every age—whether the Egyptian, Greek, or Roman artists of Antiquity, or more recent famous names such as Rembrandt, Courbet, Degas, or Picasso—have succumbed to their fantasies, obsessions, and libido and produced erotic works that the censors have taken good care to keep from the public. For Erotica Universalis, we surface from the subterranean realms of the museums to enter those of our national and private libraries. Here we discover that not only most of our famous writers, such as Ovid, Aretino, Voltaire, Verlaine, or Maupassant, wrote erotic texts that bordered on indecency, but also that great artists like Boucher, Fragonard, Dalí, or Matisse were inspired to provide suitable illustrations for these naughty books. For this new hardcover edition of the classic 1995 best seller, we have culled highlights from our Erotica Universalis collection.Trade Review“Icons—from Egypt’s Golden Empire to present day—with a knack for translating sexual fantasies into master works of art.” * The Huffington Post *“…it’s possibly the only place you’ll see Rembrandt alongside Robert Crumb, and expert editing means the collection never strays into the predictable Erotic Print Society territory.” * Arena *“It's tasteful in an arty kind of way, which means you won't have to endure red-hot cheeks at the checkout counter. Once home with the lights dimmed, you're sure to be inspired by the sexy visuals.” * Cosmopolitan *
£24.04
American School of Classical Studies at Athens The Art of Antiquity
Book SynopsisThe archives of the American School excavations in the Athenian Agora contain a remarkable series of watercolours and drawings (well over 400) by Piet de Jong, one of the best-known, most distinctive, and influential archaeological illustrators of the 20th century.Trade ReviewThis volume is a treasure-trove of beautiful drawings. It is more than a record of the finds from the ASCSA excavations from the 1930s; it is a way of seeing and observing the objects.[...]Over the decades these drawings have brought the Athenian Agora to vivid life--and will continue to do so through this collection.' -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsThe Art of Antiquity: Piet de Jong and the Athenian Agora (John Papadopoulos); Le style c'est l'homme: Piet de Jong as Artist (Anne Hooton); Topography and Architecture (John Camp); Neolithic through Middle Helladic Pottery (Walter Gauss); The Mycenaean Era in the Athenian Agora (Jessica Langenbucher); The Athenian Agora from the End of the Bronze Age through the Protoattic Period (John Papadopoulos); Archaic and Classical Odds and Ends (John Papadopoulos, with Susanne Ebbinghaus and James Sickinger); Athenian Black-Figured and Black-Glazed Pottery (Kathleen Lynch); Attic Red-Figured and White-Ground Pottery (Kathleen Lynch); Bronzes and Bronze Sculpture (Carol Mattusch); Ivory and Terracotta Sculpture (Carol Lawton); Hellenistic Pottery (Susan Rotroff); Terracotta and Faience Figurines (Susan Rotroff and Margaret Rothman); Roman Pottery, Lamps, and Glass (John Papadopoulos and Marianne Stern); Roman Mosaics (Barbara Tsakirgis); The Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Pottery (Camilla MacKay); Late Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Frescoes from Ayios Spyridon (Camilla MacKay); The Art of Labeling: Piet de Jong's Signatures and Various Labels on Watercolors (John Papadopoulos).
£60.32
The University of Alabama Press The Critical Double Figurative Meaning in
Book SynopsisOver 25 centuries ago, the Greek philosopher Protagoras declared: on every question there are two opposing answers, including this one. This work sets out to demonstrate that Protagoras' statement constitutes one of the fundamental principles of aesthetic and rhetorical theory.
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The University of Chicago Press Making Theory Constructing Art On the Authority
Book SynopsisArtists and critics regularly enlist theory in the creation and assessment of artworks, but few have scrutinized the art theories themselves. Here, Daniel examines and critiques the norms, assumptions, historical conditions, and institutions that have framed the development and uses of art theory. Spurred by the theoretical claims of Arthur Danto, a leader in the philosophy of the avant-garde, Herwitz reexamines the art and theory of major figures in the avant-garde movement including John Cage, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard, and Andy Warhol.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: What We Have Inherited Pt. I: Studies in Avant-Garde Art 1: Setting the Stage: Arthur Danto's Reading of the Avant-Garde 2: Constructivism's Descartes 3: Constructivism's Utopian Game with Theory 4: Mondrian's Plato 5: John Cage Pt. 2: The Legacy of the Avant-Garde 6: Reading Arthur Danto's Theory 7: Reading Arthur Danto's Reading of the Object 8: Andy Warhol without Theory 9: The Uses of Theory in the Contemporary Artworld Notes Index
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art
Book SynopsisAn interpretation of the political and cultural history of the early cold war years. The author argues that art is part of the general culture, not autonomous or above it.
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University of California Press Seeing Through Clothes
Book SynopsisThis is an illustrated study of the representation of the body and clothing in Western art, from Greek sculpture and vase painting, through medieval and Renaissance portraits, to contemporary films and fashion photography.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface I DRAPERY II NUDITY III UNDRESS I IV COSTUME 2 v DRESS VI MIRRORS Sources for Illustrations Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Scholars Art
Book SynopsisFor Jerome McGann, the purpose of scholarship is to preserve and pass on cultural heritage, a feat accomplished through discussion among scholars and interested nonspecialists. In this collection of thirteen essays, McGann both addresses and exemplifies that discussion and the vocation it supports.Trade Review"Jerome McGann is an internationally influential critic, with a long career not only of scholarly labor but of setting the agenda for critical adventures, theoretical reflection, and editorial precision, low-tech and hi-tech. The engaging array of informal, essayistic conversations in The Scholar's Art holds interest for everyone, from newcomers to those who have long been following and learning from his work, with illumination and gratitude." - Susan J. Wolfson, Princeton University"
£76.00
Phaidon Press Ltd Art
Book SynopsisA fresh and unconventional approach to exploring 6,000 years of art history through 800 masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of ArtTrade Review'The new book Art= is a stream of creative consciousness that leaps around the globe and across 6,000 years of art history.' – Artnet News'If you're too afraid to visit the Met, sit home and read Art=, the museum's enormous coffee table book.' – New York Magazine'Interesting categorisation in this engaging tribute to the Metropolitan Museum of Art provides a different way to think about and see art.' – Trebuchet Magazine'Big, bold, and interesting.' – The Art Newspaper
£47.96
The University of Chicago Press Theory of Form
Book SynopsisA pragmatist conception of artistic form, through a study of the painter Gerhard Richter. In this study of the practice of contemporary painter Gerhard Richter, Florian Klinger proposes a fundamental change in the way we think about art today. In reaction to the exhaustion of the modernist-postmodernist paradigm's negotiation of the essence of art, he takes Richter to pursue a pragmatist model that understands artistic form as action. Here form is no longer conceived according to what it saysas a vehicle of expression, representation, or realization of something other than itselfbut strictly according to what it does. Through its doing, Klinger argues, artistic form is not only more real but also more shared than non-artistic reality, and thus enables interaction under conditions where it would otherwise not be possible. It is a human practice aimed at testing and transforming the limits of shared reality, urgently needed in situations where such reality breaks down or turns precarious. Drawing on pragmatist thought, philosophical aesthetics, and art history, Klinger's account of Richter's practice offers a highly distinctive conceptual alternative for contemporary art in general. Trade Review“In this extraordinarily illuminating book, Klinger builds on a painstaking consideration of Richter’s artistic practice to derive a pragmatist theory of artistic form and of form’s ultimate purpose. In addition to its exciting philosophical and art historical interventions, Klinger’s analysis delineates a practical ethics of art-making that deserves to be read by anyone interested in the theory and practice of art in today’s crisis of world-sharing.” -- Whitney Davis, University of California at Berkeley “Theory of Form is a twofold triumph: it presents the most original study of Richter’s aesthetics in recent years, and it is also a groundbreaking contribution to theorizing contemporary art. Remarkably linking form to reaction, judgment, and transformation, it is essential reading for anyone interested in art’s capacity to profoundly touch us and to partake in shaping our world.” -- Amir Eshel, author of Poetic Thinking Today“Klinger’s Theory of Form combines astute philosophical thought with a fascinating close analysis of Richter’s practice, yielding a new understanding of historical time and contemporaneity. It raises the theory of form to another level – indeed, it makes one see how form in art ought to be thought today.” -- Rahel Villinger, author of Kant und die Imagination der Tiere (Kant and the Imagination of Animals)Table of ContentsI Response to a Contemporary Challenge II Morphological Question: Form as Reaction III Poetological Question: Form as Judgment IV Eschatological Question: Form as Transformation V Form as Paradigm? Acknowledgments Notes Index
£72.20
The University of Chicago Press Imagining the Penitentiary Fiction and the
Book SynopsisThis brilliant and insightful contribution to cultural studies investigates the role of literatureparticularly the noveland visual arts in the development of institutions. Arguing the attitudes expressed in narrative literature and art between 1719 and 1779 helped bring about the change from traditional prisons to penitentiaries, John Bender offers studies of Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, The Beggar's Opera, Hogarth's Progresses, Jonathan Wild, and Amelia as well as illustrations from prison literature, art, and architecture in support of his thesis.
£34.20
The New York Review of Books, Inc Hill
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The University of Chicago Press The Art of Criticism
Book SynopsisIn The Art of Criticism, William Veeder and Susan M. Griffin have brought together for the first time the best of the Master's critical work: the most important of his Prefaces, which R. P. Blackmur has called the most sustained and I think the most eloquent and original piece of literary criticism in existence; his studies of Hawthorne, George Eliot, Balzac, Zola, de Maupassant, Turgenev, Sante-Beuve, and Arnold; and his essays on the function of criticism and the future of the novel. The editors have provided what James himself emphasized in his literary criticismthe text's context. Each selection is framed by an editorial commentary and notes which give its biographical, bibliographical, and critical background and cite other references in James' work to the topic discussed. This framework, along with the editors' introduction, gives the reader a sense of the place of these pieces in the history of criticism.
£45.60
Oxford University Press The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works An Essay in the Philosophy of Music
Trade ReviewEditor: Suzanne Ryan "In my opinion, this is the most important book on music aesthetics to appear in the last several decades.... Goehr does not seek a universal definition for music and its meanings but instead traces the history of the 'work concept' in Western music. She both reveals the developments that cemented the notion of the musical work in the 19th century and also examines the limits of that notion."--Susan McClary, Professor of Musicology, University of California -- Los Angeles"This book is not only a major contribution to the philosophy of music, but is also vitally important to understanding music history and performance practice. Further, those interested in rethinking the conventions of today's classical music world should not miss it."--Bernard Sherman, Iowa Public Radio, author of Inside Early Music: Conversations with Performers, co-editor of Performing BrahmsTable of ContentsFOREWORD; INTRODUCTORY ESSAY: HIS MASTER'S CHOICE; INTRODUCTION; PART I. THE ANALYTIC APPROACH; PART II. THE HISTORICAL APPROACH; BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED; INDEX
£53.20
The University of Chicago Press Theory of Form
Book SynopsisTrade Review“In this extraordinarily illuminating book, Klinger builds on a painstaking consideration of Richter’s artistic practice to derive a pragmatist theory of artistic form and of form’s ultimate purpose. In addition to its exciting philosophical and art historical interventions, Klinger’s analysis delineates a practical ethics of art-making that deserves to be read by anyone interested in the theory and practice of art in today’s crisis of world-sharing.” -- Whitney Davis, University of California at Berkeley “Theory of Form is a twofold triumph: it presents the most original study of Richter’s aesthetics in recent years, and it is also a groundbreaking contribution to theorizing contemporary art. Remarkably linking form to reaction, judgment, and transformation, it is essential reading for anyone interested in art’s capacity to profoundly touch us and to partake in shaping our world.” -- Amir Eshel, author of Poetic Thinking Today“Klinger’s Theory of Form combines astute philosophical thought with a fascinating close analysis of Richter’s practice, yielding a new understanding of historical time and contemporaneity. It raises the theory of form to another level – indeed, it makes one see how form in art ought to be thought today.” -- Rahel Villinger, author of Kant und die Imagination der Tiere (Kant and the Imagination of Animals)Table of ContentsI Response to a Contemporary Challenge II Morphological Question: Form as Reaction III Poetological Question: Form as Judgment IV Eschatological Question: Form as Transformation V Form as Paradigm? Acknowledgments Notes Index
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press The Scholars Art Literary Studies in a Managed
Book SynopsisFor Jerome McGann, the purpose of scholarship is to preserve and pass on cultural heritage, a feat accomplished through discussion among scholars and interested nonspecialists. In this collection of thirteen essays, McGann both addresses and exemplifies that discussion and the vocation it supports.Trade Review"Jerome McGann is an internationally influential critic, with a long career not only of scholarly labor but of setting the agenda for critical adventures, theoretical reflection, and editorial precision, low-tech and hi-tech. The engaging array of informal, essayistic conversations in The Scholar's Art holds interest for everyone, from newcomers to those who have long been following and learning from his work, with illumination and gratitude." - Susan J. Wolfson, Princeton University"
£28.00
The University of North Carolina Press Art of the State Celebrating the Visual Art of
Book SynopsisIllustrates the vitality and importance of North Carolina’s contemporary art scene, showcasing the creation, collection, and celebration of art in all its richness and diversity. Featuring profiles of individual artists, interviews, and colour photography, this book tells the story of the state’s evolution through the lens of its art world.
£45.00
The University of Chicago Press The Pensive Image
Book SynopsisTrade Review"What does it mean to say a painting thinks? The central claim of this invigorating book is not that a painting can show thought happening, as in depictions of melancholics musing, head on hand; nor that it can illustrate philosophical concepts. Nor does Hanneke Grootenboer want to argue that a painting is a way of working out a philosophical conundrum; nor even that it can prompt theorisation about the nature of reality, artifice and representation. She argues, instead, for something weirder–and more suggestive. . . . she asks: 'Do we, as viewers, find ourselves pondering these things, or is the painting as such pensive?' Grootenboer wants to affirm the latter." -- Kathryn Murphy * Apollo *"Ideas in Grootenboer’s sense are arresting, Benjaminian, and, therefore, fit for the still medium of painting, where, in her beautiful examples, they crystallize into dangling ribbons, inverted flowers, sliding dewdrops, and teetering gooseberries. . . . Though this book is full of beauty and pleasure, the adjective “pensive” is not, finally, the happiest to attach to the thinking subject—a person or work of art. In Grootenboer’s own words, the pensive image gives rise to an 'uneasy and indeterminate state of openness that allows for the unthought to surface.' As such, the pensive image extends an invitation to take a hard look at things." -- Amy Knight Powell * CAA Reviews *"This deeply thoughtful and compact book, like a self-aware image, also stimulates in its own right, prompting a reader toward unpredictable, wide-ranging pathways during engagement with it. Every sentence, every reference, gives pause, leading to other thoughts or thinkers about art, including contemporary art." -- Larry Silver * Sixteenth Century Journal *"Grootenboer opens up innumerable possible directions in which the reader’s mind could fruitfully err, juxtaposing different viewpoints and insights whose encounters incessantly ignite exciting intellectual sparks . . . one is then mesmerized by the exquisite profundity of some paintings, by the beauty of thinking crystallized into images and then 'melting' once again into a stream of contemplation, and by the lofty level of thinking attained through the collaboration, over centuries and continents, between a few brilliant artists and an attentive, insightful viewer who chose to work as an art historian, transforming visual thought into fine discursive language." -- Itay Sapir * Inquiries into Art, Art History, and the Visual *“Grootenboer’s book provides an accessible, clear, and innovating means of thinking about being by revealing a new philosophical subject: artworks.” * Phenomenological Reviews *“Is there a kind of thinking that painting, or photography, can do, which ‘thinking in words’ cannot? What kind of realm do viewers enter when they go somewhere with an image? Are there pictures that are especially good to think with? These are the questions of Grootenboer’s unflinching, generous book, and her conclusion is pungent: ‘Philosophy . . . needs art to say what it cannot say.’” -- T. J. Clark, author of Heaven on Earth: Painting and the Life to Come“Thinking with Grootenboer is an unequivocal delight. The Pensive Image recuperates the vibrant invitations to contemplate and reflect that lurk in the quiet corners of Dutch art. Grootenboer’s philosophical insight and deft eye for the unexamined detail meld in a book that is refreshingly original and truly engaging at every turn.” -- Marisa Bass, author of Insect Artifice: Nature and Art in the Dutch Revolt“It’s wonderful to finally have this book. For nearly a century now, the history and philosophy of art have been gathering ideas about how pictures seem to embody thought, rather than simply announce narratives or messages. The literature on this subject is bewilderingly diverse, and this is the first book to bring together compatible insights from writers as diverse as Diderot, Winckelmann, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, Damisch, Deleuze, Clark, Rancière, Marin, Mitchell, and Barthes. The result is a coherent account of the thought that sounds in ‘stilled images’ of all kinds.” -- James Elkins, coauthor of Visual Worlds: Looking, Images, Visual DisciplinesTable of ContentsArt as a Form of Thinking Part I | Defining the Pensive Image Chapter 1 | Theorizing Stillness Chapter 2 | Tracing the Denkbild Part II | Painting as Philosophical Reflection Chapter 3 | Room for Reflection: Interior and Interiority Chapter 4 | The Profundity of Still Life Chapter 5 |Painting as a Space for Thought Painting’s Wonder Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£19.00
Art Gallery of Ontario Julian Schnabel: Art and Film
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The Catholic University of America Press A Model for the Christian Life
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This work offers the most complete examination of Hilary’s mature thought in any language. There are books on Hilary’s Trinitarian theology, but none that considers the way Hilary conceives the Christian life, nor how he developed theologically and pastorally after his exile. Although scholars have long had a sense that Hilary was important to the course of Latin theology, this book is the first to suggest how and why he was so important. A first-rate work of scholarship.”—Mark Weedman, professor of biblical and historical theology, Crossroads College
£49.30
The University of Chicago Press The Aesthetics of Visual Poetry 19141928
Book SynopsisA full-length study of the visual poetry of the early twentieth century. Bohn illuminates the works of Apollinaire, Josep-Maria Junow, Guillermo de Torre, and others.
£28.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Good Will A Study in the Coherence Theory of Goodness Muirhead Library of Philosophy
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The University of Chicago Press The Verge of Philosophy
Book SynopsisPresents an examination of three sites in Derrida's thought: his interpretation of Heidegger regarding the privileging of the question; his account of the Platonic figure of the good; and his interpretation of Plato's discourse on the crucial notion of the chora, the originating space of the universe.Trade Review"All of John Sallis's work is essential, but this book in particular is remarkable.... Sallis shows better than anyone I have ever read what it means to practice philosophy on the verge." - Walter Brogan, Villanova University "Sallis has written a unique work that combines philosophical analysis with a heartfelt reflection on his friendship with Derrida." - Library Journal"
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The University of Chicago Press Art on the Edge Creators and Situations
Book SynopsisAs a stylist, in his descriptions of art and movements and books, Rosenberg has no equal. . . . One is grateful for [this] essay collection. To my mind, his piece on art criticism and the distinction between it and art history is alone worth the price of the book. Corinne Robins, New York Times Book Review
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press The Art of Describing
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The University of Chicago Press The Book of the Heart
Book SynopsisIn this text, Eric Jager traces the history and psychology of the self-as-text concept from antiquity to the late 20th century. He focuses on the Middle Ages, when the metaphor of a book of the heart modelled on the manuscript codex attained its most vivid expressions in literature and art.
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The Mathematical Association of America The G. H. Hardy Reader
Book SynopsisG. H. Hardy ranks among the great mathematicians of the twentieth century, doing essential research in number theory and analysis. This book is a feast of Hardy's writing, featuring articles ranging from the serious to the humorous. The G. H. Hardy Reader is a worthy introduction to an extraordinary individual.Trade Review'The editors are to be congratulated on putting together this beautiful 'reader' with material from so many different sources, which illustrates so well the life, character and work of one of the great mathematicians of the twentieth century, Godfrey Harold Hardy (1877-1947). Even if you are familiar with Hardy's masterpiece A Mathematician's Apology or his book on Ramanujan, Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work you will find a wealth of new and fascinating material in this 'reader' about Hardy.' Kenneth S. Williams, Canadian Mathematical Society NotesTable of ContentsPart I. Biography: 1. Hardy's life; 2. The letter from Ramanujan to Hardy, 16 January 1913; 3. A letter from Bertrand Russell to Lady Ottoline Morrell, 2 February 1913; 4. The Indian mathematician Ramanujan; 5. Epilogue from the man who knew infinity; 6. Posters of 'Hardy's years at Oxford'; 7. A glimpse of J. E. Littlewood; 8. A letter from Freeman Dyson to C. P. Snow, 22 May 1967, and two letters from Hardy to Dyson; 9. Miss Gertrude Hardy; Part II. Writings by and about G. H. Hardy: 10. Hardy on writing books; 11. Selections from Hardy's writings; 12. Selections from what others have said about Hardy; Part III. Mathematics: 13. An introduction to the theory of numbers; 14. Prime numbers; 15. The theory of numbers; 16. The Riemann zeta-function and lattice point problems; 17. Four Hardy gems; 18. What is geometry?; 19. The case against the mathematical tripos; 20. The mathematician on cricket; 21. Cricket for the rest of us; 22. A mathematical theorem about golf; 23. Mathematics in war-time; 24. Mathematics; 25. Asymptotic formulæ in combinatory analysis (excerpts) with S. Ramanujan; 26. A new solution of Waring's problem (excerpts), with J. E. Littlewood; 27. Some notes on certain theorems in higher trigonometry; 28. The Integral _∞0sin xx dx and further remarks on the integral _∞0sin xx dx; Part IV. Tributes: 29. Dr. Glaisher and the 'messenger of mathematics'; 30. David Hilbert; 31. Edmund Landau (with H. Heilbronn); 32. Gösta Mittag-Leffler; Part V. Book Reviews: 33. Osgood's calculus and Johnson's calculus; 34. Hadamard: the psychology of invention in the mathematical field; 35. Hulburt: differential and integral calculus; 36. Bôcher: an introduction to the study of integral equations.
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The University of Chicago Press The Great Cat and Dog Massacre The Real Story of
Book SynopsisThe tragedies of World War II are well known. But at least one has been forgotten: in September 1939, four hundred thousand cats and dogs were massacred in Britain. The government, vets, and animal charities all advised against this killing. So why would thousands of British citizens line up to voluntarily euthanize household pets? In The Great Cat and Dog Massacre, Hilda Kean unearths the history, piecing together the compelling story of the life and death of Britain's wartime animal companions. She explains that fear of imminent Nazi bombing and the desire to do something to prepare for war led Britons to sew blackout curtains, dig up flower beds for vegetable patches, send their children away to the countryside and kill the family pet, in theory sparing them the suffering of a bombing raid. Kean's narrative is gripping, unfolding through stories of shared experiences of bombing, food restrictions, sheltering, and mutual support. Soon pets became key to the war effort, providing emot
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The University of Chicago Press Spiral Jetta A Road Trip through the Land Art of
Book SynopsisErin Hogan hit the road in her Volkswagen Jetta and headed west from Chicago in search of the monuments of American land art. Her journey took her through the states of Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. It also took her through the states of anxiety, drunkenness, and heat exhaustion. This title presents a chronicle of this journey.Trade Review"The reader emerges enlightened and even delighted.... Casually scrutinizing the artistic works... while gamely playing up her fish-out-of-water status, Hogan delivers an ingeniously engaging travelogue-cum-art history." - Atlantic "Smart and unexpectedly hilarious." - Kevin Nance, Chicago Sun-Times "One of the funniest and most entertaining road trips to be published in quite some time." - June Sawyers, Chicago Tribune "Hogan ruminates on how the work affects our sense of time, space, size, and scale. She is at her best when she reexamines the precepts of modernism in the changing light of New Mexico, and shows how the human body is meant to be a participant in these grand constructions." - New Yorker "I was never quite sure what Hogan was looking for when she set out... or indeed whether she found it. But I loved the ride. In Spiral Jetta, an unshamedly honest, slyly uproarious, ever-probing book, art doesn't magically have the power to change lives, but it can, perhaps no less powerfully, change ways of seeing." - Tom Vanderbilt, New York Times Book Review"
£17.66
The University of Chicago Press The Verge of Philosophy
Book SynopsisPresents an examination of three sites in Derrida's thought: his interpretation of Heidegger regarding the privileging of the question; his account of the Platonic figure of the good; and his interpretation of Plato's discourse on the crucial notion of the chora, the originating space of the universe.Trade Review"All of John Sallis's work is essential, but this book in particular is remarkable.... Sallis shows better than anyone I have ever read what it means to practice philosophy on the verge." - Walter Brogan, Villanova University "Sallis has written a unique work that combines philosophical analysis with a heartfelt reflection on his friendship with Derrida." - Library Journal"
£76.00
