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Le musée occidental est un champ de bataille – idéologique, politique et économique. Si à peu près tout le monde veut aujourd’hui « repenser le musée », peu ont pourtant l’audace d’interroger les pr……続きを見る

What human qualities are needed to make scientific discoveries, and which to make great art? Many would point to 'imagination' and 'creativity' in the second case but not the first. This book challe……続きを見る

The story of how Japan adopted and ultimately revived traditional American fashion Look closely at any typically "American" article of clothing these days, and you may be surprised to see a Japanese……続きを見る

No values figure as pervasively and intimately in our lives as beauty and other aesthetic values. They animate the arts, as well as design, fashion, food, and entertainment. They orient us upon the ……続きを見る

由藝術家策劃、群眾來協作 人類對社會系統、存在境遇的另類對峙 一條必須深刻檢視的特殊取徑 參與式藝術對參與者以及觀看者傳達在日常生活裡被壓抑的種種弔詭， 並誘發出變態的、讓人不安的、愉悦的經驗， 讓我們……続きを見る

AMAZON BEST BOOKS OF 2019 PICK FORTUNE WRITERS AND EDITORS' RECOMMENDED BOOKS OF 2019 PICK "User Friendly is a tour de force, an engrossing fusion of scholarly research, professional experience and ……続きを見る

Walter Horatio Pater was an English essayist, literary and art critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists. His works on Renaissance subjects were popular but controversial in ……続きを見る

Art, Research, Philosophy explores the emergent field of artistic research: art produced as a contribution to knowledge. As a new subject, it raises several questions: What is art-as-research? Don’t……続きを見る

The Complete Works of Jane Austen includes all six novels, and Austen's shorter works; Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sandition, and her complete Juvenilia. Jane Austen is famous for her six novels, Sense……続きを見る

This volume brings philosophers, art historians, intellectual historians, and literary scholars together to argue for the philosophical significance of Michael Fried’s art history and criticism. It ……続きを見る

Drawing on the exciting developments that have occurred in the anthropology of art over the last twenty years, this study uses ethnographic methods to explore shifts in the art market and global con……続きを見る

This is a historically informed examination of architecture's perceived absence in surrealist thought, surrealist tendencies in the theories and projects of modern architecture, and the place of sur……続きを見る

In Gertrude Stein's masterpiece, PICASSO (Unabridged), readers are taken on a journey deep into the heart of the relationship between the author and the legendary artist, Picasso. Stein's unique lit……続きを見る

Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana are the most successful design partnership in fashion history. Since they burst on to the scene in Milan in the eighties, their multi-million-dollar women's line, ……続きを見る

The whole of Marx's project confronts the narrow concerns of political philosophy by embedding it in social philosophy and a certain understanding of the aesthetic. From those of aesthetic productio……続きを見る

Contemporary art biennials are sites of prestige, innovation and experimentation, where the category of art is meant to be in perpetual motion, rearranged and redefined, opening itself to the world ……続きを見る

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books ー also known as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colors ー are a series of twelve collections of fairy tales, published between 18……続きを見る

Dada is often celebrated for its strategies of shock and opposition, but in Dada Presentism, Maria Stavrinaki provides a new picture of Dada art and writings as a lucid reflection on history and the……続きを見る

In this new and accessible book, Italy's best known feminist philosopher examines the moral and political significance of vertical posture in order to rethink subjectivity in terms of inclination. C……続きを見る

The Miracle of Analogy is the first of a two-volume reconceptualization of photography. It argues that photography originates in what is seen, rather than in the human eye or the camera lens, and th……続きを見る

Photography is one of the principal filters through which we engage the world. The contributors to this volume focus on Walter Benjamin's concept of the optical unconscious to investigate how photog……続きを見る

Renowned designer, author, critic, co-chair of SVA’s MFA program in design and National Design Award recipient Steven Heller reaches into the most contemplative recesses of his mind to offer an ente……続きを見る

In "History of Sculpture, Painting, and Architecture," J. S. Memes offers an extensive and insightful exploration of the evolution of visual arts across cultures and epochs. The book is meticulously……続きを見る

Doing Research in Design presents new ways of thinking about the relationship between design and research by positioning design as a social as well as a material practice. This approach emphasises t……続きを見る

While manga is now a well known entity in the global publishing scene, the medium's international success has its roots in the realm of eros. Japanese media critic Kimi Rito dives into the history o……続きを見る

While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among scholars from North America, Europe, and Australia;……続きを見る

A partir del surgimiento de Internet -e inmersos en un irreversible proceso de digitalización-, hemos visto emerger toda una serie de dinámicas complejas derivadas del accionar de nuevos agenciamien……続きを見る

This ebook compiles Edgar Allan Poe's greatest writings, including novels, short stories and poems such as "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The T……続きを見る

This book tells, for the first time, the story of the Situationist International’s influence and afterlives in Britain, where its radical ideas have been rapturously welcomed and fiercely resisted. ……続きを見る

David Hockney is possibly the worlds most popular living painter, but he is also something else: an incisive and original thinker on art. Here are the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the probl……続きを見る