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This book describes in detail the materials and techniques used by medieval iconographers. It offers information about the natural sources, the raw materials, the tools and the technologies involved……続きを見る

The late 1870s and early 1880s were watershed years in the history of French painting. As outgoing economic and social structures were being replaced by a capitalist, measured time, Impressionist ar……続きを見る

From a world-renowned painter, an exploration of creativity’s quintessentialーand often overlookedーrole in the spiritual life Written over thirty years of painting and creating in his studio, this ……続きを見る

For skeptics, art lovers, and the millions of us who visit art galleries every yearーand are confusedーWhat Are You Looking At? by former director of London’s Tate Gallery Will Gompertz is a wonderf……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

Leading theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art-the exform. He argues that the great theoretical battl……続きを見る

While much has been written on Marcel Duchamp - one of the twentieth century's most beguiling artists - the subject of his flirtation with architecture seems to have been largely overlooked. Yet, in……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

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

Harry Berger, Jr., has long been one of our most revered and respected literary and cultural critics. Since the late nineties, a stream of remarkable and innovative publications have shown how very ……続きを見る

Jim Henson’s creations have inspired generations with characters that are among the world’s most recognizable cultural icons. From Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and their Muppet friends to the legenda……続きを見る

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's 'The Philosophy of Fine Art' is a seminal work that delves into the intricate relationship between art and philosophy. Written with Hegel's characteristic dialectical……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

Heavy makeup, gaudy jewelry, dramatic hairstyles, and clothes that are considered cheap, fake, too short, too tight, or too masculine: working-class Black and Latina girls and women are often framed……続きを見る

This is the definitive guide to writing engagingly about the art of our time. Invaluable for students, arts professionals and other writers, it brims with practical tips that range across the full s……続きを見る

Le premier homme qui songea à se couvrir inventa le vêtement ; celui qui changea de vêtement inventa la mode. Puis vint celui qui décida de mettre son nom sur sa création : il inventa la haute coutu……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

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In Reimagining Life, Raihan Kadri presents a pioneering critical history of the epistemological and theoretical origins of the Surrealist movement and its subsequent legacy. The book contains extens……続きを見る

What happens when art and pornography meet? By providing a plurality of disciplinary approaches and theoretical perspectives this essay collection will give the reader a fuller and deeper understand……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

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

**Includes simple and accessible instructions for how to cut your own patterns** Following on from her successful first book, Sew Over It Vintage is a brand new collection of fabulous projects from ……続きを見る

Since the 1990s, critics and curators have broadly accepted the notion that participatory art is the ultimate political art: that by encouraging an audience to take part an artist can promote new em……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

* AWARDED BEST ANTHOLOGY BY THE ART ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND * How has Asia been imagined, represented and transferred both literally and visually across linguistic, geopolitical and……続きを見る

An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicaments In this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks th……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

Philosophers say what art is and then scientists and then other scholars study how we are equipped, cognitively and socially, to make art and appreciate it. This time-honoured approach will not work……続きを見る

This substantial and ambitious dictionary explores the languages and cultures of visual studies. It provides the basis for understanding the foundations and motivations of current theoretical and ac……続きを見る