Criticism 24

Humans have engaged in artistic and aesthetic activities since the appearance of our species. Our ancestors have decorated their bodies, tools, and utensils for over 100,000 years. The expression of……続きを見る

Over the course of a career that spanned fifty years, Agnes Martin's austere, serene work anticipated and helped to define Minimalism, even as she battled psychological crises and carved out a solit……続きを見る

British Design brings together leading international scholars, designers and journalists to provide new perspectives on British design in the last sixty years, and how it at once looked back to the ……続きを見る

Each of the five volumes in the Stone Art Theory Institutes series, and the seminars on which they are based, brings together a range of scholars who are not always directly familiar with one anothe……続きを見る

Each of the five volumes in the Stone Art Theory Institutes series, and the seminars on which they are based, brings together a range of scholars who are not always directly familiar with one anothe……続きを見る

From Pop art to Op art, plastic furniture to bubble-gum paint colours, the Sixties saw a new wave of interior design that was closely linked to popular culture and fashion, becoming increasingly you……続きを見る

Décryptez l’art de Paul Klee en moins d’une heure ! Membre actif du Bauhaus, Paul Klee marque profondément le début du XXe siècle en prenant part à l’avènement de l'art abstrait. Avec plus de 9 000 ……続きを見る

Décryptez l'oeuvre de Giorgione en moins d'une heure de lecture ! Maître de Titien, qui sera fortement influencé par son professeur, Giorgione est aujourd'hui moins connu que son élève, mais sa prod……続きを見る

This book, first published in 1947, is collection of critical essays by Herbert Read that had not been previously published in book form. The essays cover several different subject areas, including ……続きを見る

Décryptez l’art de Piero Della Francesca en moins d’une heure ! Acteur majeur du Quattrocento italien, Piero Della Francesca est un artiste aux multiples talents. Peintre érudit et passionné de géom……続きを見る

On the New looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern culture's key sites: the intellectual marketplace and the archive. As ideas move from one context to another, newness is……続きを見る

By the end of the 1960s, the Hollywood West of Tom Mix, Randolph Scott, and even John Wayne was passéーor so the story goes. Many film historians and critics have argued that movies portraying a myt……続きを見る

American Civil War–era art critics James Jackson Jarves, Clarence Cook, and William J. Stillman classified styles and defined art in terms that have become fundamental to our modern periodization of……続きを見る

Have we completely missed the point of the modern western revolution in the arts? Hugh Moss thinks so, and here he presents a refreshingly original and thought-provoking new approach to understandin……続きを見る

Otl Aicher (1922 –1991) war einer der herausragenden Vertreter des modernen Designs, er war Mitbegründer der legendären Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm (HfG). Der heute geläu_ ge Begriff der visuellen……続きを見る

In this highly illustrated survey, art historian and critic James Hall brilliantly maps the history of self-portraiture, from the earliest myths of Narcissus to the prolific self-image-making of con……続きを見る

Interest in the relationship between psychoanalysis and art - and other disciplines - is growing. In his new book Reflections on the Aesthetic: Psychoanalysis and the uncanny,Gregorio Kohon examines……続きを見る

In A Brief History of the Artist from God to Picasso, Paul Barolsky explores the ways in which fiction shapes history and history informs fiction. It is a playful book about artistic obsession, abou……続きを見る

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The phone booth exists as a fond but distant memory for some people, and as a strange and d……続きを見る

No pictorial device in nineteenth-century French painting more clearly represented the free-ranging self than the loose brushstroke. From the romantics through the impressionists and post-impression……続きを見る

A noted comics artist himself, Santiago García follows the history of the graphic novel from early nineteenth-century European sequential art, through the development of newspaper strips in the Unit……続きを見る

Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative art critic of his generation, Hilton Kramer advanced his comments and judgments largely in the form of essays and short pieces. Thus this first collecti……続きを見る

Décryptez l’art de William Hogarth en moins d’une heure ! Considéré comme le père de l'art anglais, celui que ses contemporains surnomment le Shakespeare de la peinture lutte avec ferveur, toute sa ……続きを見る

The book presents a range of articles and discussions that offer critical insights into the development of contemporary Chinese art, both within China and internationally. It brings together selecte……続きを見る

Designing the French Interior traces France's central role in the development of the modern domestic interior, from the pre-revolutionary period to the 1970s, and addresses the importance of various……続きを見る

The “biennale culture” now determines much of the art world. Literature on the worldwide dissemination of art assumes nationalism and ethnic identity, but rarely analyzes it. At the same time there ……続きを見る

Bad New Days examines the evolution of art and criticism in Western Europe and North America over the last twenty-five years, exploring their dynamic relation to the general condition of emergency i……続きを見る

The photograph is not just an image but an event, one in the longer sequence of a photographic moment. Challenging given definitions of photography and of the political, Ariella A�sha Azoulay calls ……続きを見る

Since the decidedly bleak beginning of the twenty-first century, art practice has become increasingly politicized. Yet few have put forward a sustained defence of this development. Revolutionary Tim……続きを見る

Theodor W. Adorno's aesthetics has dominated discussions about art and aesthetic modernism since World War II, and continues to inform contemporary theorizing. Situating Adorno's aesthetic theory in……続きを見る