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Offering a new view of nineteenth-century American landscape painting, this book focuses on the praxis of open-air painting and its distinctive role in generating and invigorating a new conceptualiz……続きを見る

What is the position of art in contemporary culture, where it is threatened by an ever-greater diversity of media, discourses, practices, genres and forms? Contemporary Art and Other Obstructions se……続きを見る

First published in 2013, Queer Style was ahead of its time. It was the first book to address the cultural, political, and material histories of clothes as signs and markers of gender and sexual iden……続きを見る

This expanded second edition of Reclaiming Artistic Research explores artistic research in dialogue with 24 artists worldwide, reclaiming it from academic associations of the term. Embracing artists……続きを見る

EDITORIAL: Liebe Leserinnen und Leser, willkommen zur neuen Ausgabe von Poettschkes Post, dem E-Magazin für Kunst, Kultur, Politik und Gesellschaft. Ich bin Christopher Doemges, alias Tork Pöttschke……続きを見る

DER AUTOR: Christopher Doemges alias Tork Poettschke wurde anno 1980 in der Westfalenmetropoly Dortmund geboren. Nach Besuch des Gymnasiums leben und arbeiten in eiserner Junggeselligkeit am legendä……続きを見る

Dieses ist die erste Ausgabe von POETTSCHKES POST im dritten Jahr ihres Erscheinens. Es geht ergo noch. Thema ist wie stets das Leben, Gott und seine Politik. Auch wenn der Inhalt möglicherweise, vi……続きを見る

An illuminating exploration of the meaning of abstract art by acclaimed art historian Kirk Varnedoe "What is abstract art good for? What's the useーfor us as individuals, or for any societyーof pict……続きを見る

Constructivist and sculptor Naum Gabo’s personal account of his development as an artist A leading exponent of the modern art movement known as Constructivism, Russian-born Naum Gabo was one of the ……続きを見る

There is a new form of design practice within the contemporary fashion industry which is active in complex forms of social commentary and critique. While fashion in the modernist era has shown signs……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

Artificial bodies constructed in human likeness, from uncanny automatons to mechanical dolls, have long played a complex and subtle role in human identity and culture. This book takes a range of the……続きを見る

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

The history of modern art is often told through aesthetic breakthroughs that sync well with cultural and political change. From Courbet to Picasso, from Malevich to Warhol, it is accepted that art t……続きを見る

Von Ovid bis Freud, von Canetti bis Deleuze/Guattari – Achim Geisenhanslüke setzt sich mit den seit der Antike überlieferten Figuren der Wolfsmänner auseinander und entwickelt eine Theoriegeschichte……続きを見る

Gone are the days when fashion relied on a runway launch with coinciding press promotions to show a couturier's new range. Today, design houses are thinking beyond traditional methods of display to ……続きを見る

Fashionable Masculinities explores the expression of masculinities through constructions of fashion, identity, style and appearance as the third decade of the new millennium begins: a contradictory ……続きを見る

Combining transnationalism and exoticism, transorientalism is the new orientalism of the age of globalization. With its roots in earlier times, it is a term that emphasizes alteration, mutation, and……続きを見る

Nominated for the 2016 Art in Literature: Mary Lynn Kotz Award, Library of Virginia Owing to digitization, globalization and mass culture, what is deemed 'desirable' and 'of the moment' in art has i……続きを見る