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En interrogeant le comment plutôt que le pourquoi, l'historiographie a bien souvent permis d'étoffer la connaissance que nous pouvions avoir d'une discipline intellectuelle. Éminemment précieuse, ce……続きを見る

First published in 1988, this book attempts to tackle the problem of how to write about art, culture, and the issues of postmodernism in a style appropriate to what is being claimed. The letters are……続きを見る

Public Art acknowledges the trend among contemporary museums to promote participatory and processual exhibition strategies meant to elicit subjective experience. At the same time it valorizes the ob……続きを見る

A fascinating exploration of the way in which animals are 'framed' - contextualized, decontextualized - in contemporary visual culture. Written in a highly engaging style, this book challenges the f……続きを見る

Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues ……続きを見る

There are as many meanings to drawing and painting as there are cultural contexts for them to exist in. But this is not the end of the story. Drawings and paintings are made, and in their making emb……続きを見る

Stuart Walker’s design work has been described as life-changing, inspiring, disturbing and ferocious. Drawing on an extraordinarily diverse range of sources and informed by creative practice, Design……続きを見る

Related to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has been debated for centuries amongst writers, artists, philosophers and theorists and has become a complex yet cr……続きを見る

Unprecedented challenges await the future of the world's cities. Accelerating population pressure, climate change, food insecurity, poverty and geopolitical instability – in the face of such problem……続きを見る

The Taste of Art offers a sample of scholarly essays that examine the role of food in Western contemporary art practices. The contributors are scholars from a range of disciplines, including art his……続きを見る

Global biennials have proliferated in the contemporary art world, but artists’ engagement with large-scale international exhibitions has a much longer history that has influenced the present in impo……続きを見る

A finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award In How to Be Drawn, his daring fifth collection, Terrance Hayes explores how we see and are seen. While many of……続きを見る

**An extraordinary collection of essays on the great masters of nineteenth- and twentieth-century artーfrom the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending. “An engaging and e……続きを見る

This book analyses the animal images used in William Hogarth's art, demonstrating how animals were variously depicted as hybrids, edibles, companions, emblems of satire and objects of cruelty. Beirn……続きを見る

This book examines the art and writings of Wassily Kandinsky, who is widely regarded as one of the first artists to produce non-representational paintings. Crucial to an understanding of Kandinsky's……続きを見る

What is a woman? What is a man? How do theyーand how should theyーrelate to each other? Does our yearning for "wholeness" refer to something real, and if there is a Whole, what is it, and why do we ……続きを見る

Dreaming of Michelangelo is the first book-length study to explore the intellectual and cultural affinities between modern Judaism and the life and work of Michelangelo Buonarroti. It argues that Je……続きを見る

In the 1950s and 60s, Martin Heidegger turned to sculpture to rethink the relationship between bodies and space and the role of art in our lives. In his texts on the subjectーa catalog contribution ……続きを見る

Music, Art and Diplomacy shows how a vibrant field of cultural exchange between East and West was taking place during the Cold War, which contrasts with the orthodox understanding of two divided and……続きを見る

The principle of personalisation appears in a range of current debates among design professionals, healthcare providers and educationalists about the implications of new technologies and approaches ……続きを見る

A permanent state of emergency: a neo-aesthetic view on contemporary politics and art Miško Šuvaković describes his experience of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as a "permanent state of em……続きを見る

Das Urheberrecht ist im Digitalzeitalter in eine fundamentale Krise geraten. Dabei ist Kreativität in der immateriellen Ökonomie der wesentliche Wertschöpfungsfaktor geworden. Doch wer ist heute kre……続きを見る

»Willkommen im Anthropozän« – so titelte der »Economist« 2011 und stieß damit eine neue klimapolitische Debatte über den Menschen und das neue »Menschenzeitalter« an. Mittlerweile wandert dieser Beg……続きを見る

Das Internet der Dinge wird als neue Stufe der Digitalisierung und Zukunft unseres computergestützten Weltzugangs angepriesen: Unsichtbar, smart, miniaturisiert und allgegenwärtig sollen Gadgets und……続きを見る

Die »Macht der Vielen« hat die Tektonik der Gegenwartskultur maßgeblich verschoben. Der Alltagsgebrauch der Sozialen Medien hat eine neuartige Beteiligungs- und Vernetzungskultur hervorgebracht – mi……続きを見る

Alle machen Hirnforschung. Kaum eine Wissenschaftsdisziplin kann sich wehren, mit dem Vorsatz »Neuro-« zwangsmodernisiert und mit der Aura vermeintlicher experimenteller Beweisbarkeit veredelt zu we……続きを見る

This book takes a new, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing modern Viennese visual culture, one informed by Austro-German theater, contemporary medical treatises centered on hysteria, and an orig……続きを見る

The two years before he wrote Crime and Punishment (1866) had been bad ones for Dostoyevsky. His wife and brother had died; the magazine he and his brother had started, Epoch, collapsed under its lo……続きを見る

A riveting and superbly illustrated account of the enigmatic House Beautiful editor’s profound influence on mid-century American taste  From 1941 to 1964, House Beautiful magazine’s crusading editor……続きを見る

This book theorizes the baroque as neither a time period nor an artistic style but as a collection of bodily practices developed from clashes between governmental discipline and artistic excess, mov……続きを見る