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From the winner of the Booker Prize: A ravishing book that opens a window into the lives, designs, and passions of Mariano Fortuny and William Morris, two remarkable artists who themselves are passi……続きを見る

Each of the five volumes in the Stone Art Theory Institutes series brings together a range of scholars who are not always directly familiar with one another’s work. The outcome of each of these conv……続きを見る

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Moins connue que son œuvre littéraire, l’activité de critique d’art de Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) occupe une place importante ……続きを見る

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Les quinze Discours sur la peinture, prononcés par sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) entre 1769 et 1790, publiés au fur et à mesure, tr……続きを見る

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis La première ébauche d’une étude entièrement vouée à la couleur remonte à l’année 1904, alors que Kandinsky (1866-1944) était établi à……続きを見る

Extrait :"Ce n'est pas l'histoire des origines de la Renaissance que je présente au lecteur : retracer quelques-uns des épisodes qui caractérisent le mieux la reprise des études classiques, ces étud……続きを見る

Carol Becker, preeminent arts educator and contributor to leading art magazines, offers a beautifully poignant meditation on the role of place in artistic creativity. She focuses on place as a histo……続きを見る

Throughout the history of psychoanalysis, the study of creativity and fine art has been a special concern. Psychoanalytic Studies of Creativity, Greed and Fine Art: Making Contact with the Self make……続きを見る

Since the 1990s, artists and art writers around the world have increasingly undermined the essentialism associated with notions of "critical practice." We can see this manifesting in the renewed rel……続きを見る

The Quarry presents new and pivotal Susan Howe prose pieces. A powerful selection of Susan Howe's previously uncollected essays, The Quarry moves backward chronologically, from her brand-new "Vagran……続きを見る

'A terrific and important book . . . it's a great, fresh take on how the 21st century is transforming the way we select everything from food to music' David Bodanis, author of E=MC2 In the past two ……続きを見る

The museum of contemporary art might be the most advanced recording device ever invented. It is a place for the storage of historical grievances and the memory of forgotten artistic experiments, soc……続きを見る

Is there such a thing as contemporary art history? The contemporary, after allーas much as we may want to consider it otherwiseーis being made history as it happens. By what means do we examine this……続きを見る

What is kitsch? What is behind its appeal? More important, what is wrong with kitsch? Though central to our modern and postmodern culture, kitsch has not been seriously and comprehensively analyzed;……続きを見る

Design Objects and the Museum brings together leading design historians, curators, educators and archivists to consider the place of contemporary design objects within museums. Contributors draw on ……続きを見る

Originally published in 1905, Bosanquet’s translation of Hegel’s Philosophy of Fine Art brings Hegel’s commentary and analysis of what constitutes beauty and fine art to an English audience as well ……続きを見る

Phenomenology has played a decisive role in the emergence of the discourse of place, now indispensable to many disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, and the contribution of Merleau-Pont……続きを見る

For artists, scholars, researchers, educators and students of arts theory interested in culture and the arts, a proper understanding of the questions surrounding ‘interculturality’ and the arts requ……続きを見る

Before he joined the staff of Punch and designed its iconic front cover, illustrator Richard “Dicky” Doyle was a young man whose father (political caricaturist John Doyle) charged him with sending a……続きを見る

Extrait : "– Parce que je ne veux pas ! – Mais pourquoi ne veux-tu pas ? – Parce que je ne veux pas. – Ma foi ! voilà un raisonnement auquel je ne trouve rien à répliquer ! Et une voix, pleine de ri……続きを見る

De Essays in duodecimo (1952) zijn niet alleen bondige kritische artikelen over beroemde schrijvers als Dickens of Lawrence, Goethe of Pascal. Simon Vestdijk ontvouwt stukje bij beetje zijn levens- ……続きを見る

Arthur Dove, often credited as America’s first abstract painter, created dynamic and evocative images inspired by his surroundings, from the farmland of upstate New York to the North Shore of Long I……続きを見る

Este libro se mueve entre dos planos. En el primero, una historia de la representación del artista en el paisaje. Cuatrocientos años de pintura occidental ーcontemplados a través de la obra de Brueg……続きを見る

An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking wh……続きを見る

Through a series of provocative conversations, Frederick Luis Aldama and Herbert Lindenberger, who have written widely on literature, film, music, and art, locate a place for the discomforting and t……続きを見る

Against Ambience diagnoses - in order to cure - the art world's recent turn toward ambience. Over the course of three short months - June to September, 2013 - the four most prestigious museums in Ne……続きを見る

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, ……続きを見る

Although usually associated with the 1920s and the '30s, in fact the Art Deco style had begun to emerge in France prior to the advent of the First World War. But it was during the interwar years tha……続きを見る

The 1960s witnessed a sustained period of economic growth, consumer spending and stable employment. This hitherto unknown prosperity enabled a market growth in levels of owner occupation and a subse……続きを見る

Hailed as a brilliant theoretician, Voldemārs Matvejs (best known by his pen name Vladimir Markov) was a Latvian artist who spearheaded the Union of Youth, a dynamic group championing artistic chang……続きを見る