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Da sempre l'arte rappresenta una via privilegiata di apertura alla trascendenza. Il cinema, ultimo nato fra le arti nonché arte della modernità, è divenuto un testimone privilegiato sia del dramma d……続きを見る

Arriving in New York City in the first decade of the twentieth century, six painters-Robert Henri, John Sloan, Everett Shinn, Glackens, George Luks, and George Bellows, subsequently known as the Ash……続きを見る

The eighteenth century is recognized as a complex period of dramatic epistemic shifts that would have profound effects on the modern world. Paradoxically, the art of the era continues to be a relati……続きを見る

In The Natural Order and Other Texts, Peter Shield presents the first English translations of the artist Asger Jorn's three philosophical texts - The Natural Order, Value and Economy and Luck and Ch……続きを見る

How did women Surrealists such as Leonora Carrington and Claude Cahun take up the question of female identity in terms of their own aesthetic and intellectual practice? What was the response of wome……続きを見る

This study compares text/image interaction as manifested in emblem books (and related forms) and the modern bande dessinée, or French-language comic strip. It moves beyond the issue of defining the ……続きを見る

In recent years, many prominent and successful artists have claimed that their primary concern is not the artwork they produce but the artistic process itself. In this volume, Kim Grant analyzes thi……続きを見る

Light pervades the world, and when it is not light, darkness emerges and is combated by electric illumination. Despite this globally shared human experience in which spaces appear radically differen……続きを見る

This volume examines the motives behind rejections of beauty often found within contemporary art practice, where much critically acclaimed art is deliberately ugly and alienating. It reflects on the……続きを見る

Membro di quella prima generazione formatasi nell'età dell'oro della storia dell'arte americana tra gli anni Venti e Trenta, Millard Meiss (1904-1975) elaborò un originale e multiforme approccio met……続きを見る

Allan Antliff is the Canada Research Chair at the University of Victoria. He is the author of Anarchist Modernism: Art, Politics and the First American Avant-Garde, has written extensively for the a……続きを見る

Marius is an antiquarian bookseller in London who has travelled widely; while ostensibly a collection of essays and reflections on the art of poetry (and in some cases, music and the visual arts), t……続きを見る

Walter De Maria's "Lightning Field" is 400 stainless steel poles, positioned 220 feet apart, in the desert of central New Mexico. Over the course of several visits, it becomes, for Raicovich, a site……続きを見る

Postcolonial theories have transformed literary, historical and cultural studies over the past three decades. Yet the study of medieval art and visualities has, in general, remained Eurocentric in i……続きを見る

9.5 Theses on Art and Class seeks to show how a clear understanding of class makes sense of what is at stake in a broad number of contemporary art's most persistent debates, from definitions of poli……続きを見る

In The Moderns, we meet the men and women who invented and shaped Midcentury Modern graphic design in America. The book is made up of generously illustrated profiles, many based on interviews, of mo……続きを見る

A revealing look at contemporary Japanese culture. This masterfully written collection of short essays by the acknowledged Western expert on Japanese culture and film spans thirty years and ranges b……続きを見る

A stylistically brilliant look at the male-dominated art world, madness, and identity. 続きを見る

Partez à la découverte du néo-classicisme avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! La définition que les dictionnaires usuels donnent du terme néo-classicisme est assez évasive. « Tendance artistique et ……続きを見る

Une introduction à un peintre de génie. C'est en 1894 que la Revue des Deux Mondes publia l'ambitieuse étude sur Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) qui constitue le cœur de ce volume. Profond tout en resta……続きを見る

The 23 essays (or "love songs") that make up the now classic volume Air Guitar trawl a "vast, invisible underground empire" of pleasure, through record stores, honky-tonks, art galleries, jazz clubs……続きを見る

Art has a way of raising questions. Since 2009 the Guggenheim Forum has pondered how themes from art affect life outside the museum’s walls: What is the role of spirituality in contemporary life? Wh……続きを見る

Curator and historian, gallerist and writer: Klaus Kertess has long been a decisive and forward-thinking presence in the art world. He founded the Bykert Gallery in 1966, where he represented artist……続きを見る

What is contemporary curatorial thought? Current discourse on the topic is heating up with a new cocktail of bold ideas and ethical imperatives. these include: cooperative curating, especially with ……続きを見る

'Art is not a luxury. Art is a basic social need to which everyone has a right'. This extraordinary collection of 100 artists' manifestos from across the globe over the last 100 years brings togethe……続きを見る

This book describes a holistic study of the porcelain manufactured at Nantgarw and Swansea in the first quarter of the 19th Century, using both scientific analytical data and historical provenancing……続きを見る

This book is concerned with emergence, interaction, art and computing. It introduces a new focus for emergence in interactive art: the emergent experience. Emergence literature is discussed and an o……続きを見る

This book pairs close readings of some of the classic writings of existentialist philosophers with interpretations of films that reveal striking parallels to each of those texts, demonstrating their……続きを見る

Ecology has become one of the most urgent and lively fields in both the humanities and sciences. In a dramatic widening of scope beyond its original concern with the coexistence of living organisms ……続きを見る

This book develops a philosophy of aesthetic experience through two socially significant philosophical movements: early German Romanticism and early critical theory. In examining the relationship be……続きを見る