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Frederic Church (1826–1900), the most celebrated painter in the United States during the mid-19th century, created monumental landscapes of North and South America, the Arctic, and the Middle East. ……続きを見る

John Berger, one of the world's most celebrated storytellers and writers on art, tells a personal history of art from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to 21st century conceptual artist……続きを見る

Images, Ethics, Technology explores the changing ethical implications of images and the ways they are communicated and understood. It emphasises how images change not only through their modes of rep……続きを見る

Since the publication of Edward Said's groundbreaking work Orientalism 35 years ago, numerous studies have explored the West's fraught and enduring fascination with the so-called Orient. Focusing th……続きを見る

In De Gustibus Peter Kivy deals with a question that has never been fully addressed by philosophers of art: why do we argue about art? We argue about the 'facts' of the world either to influence peo……続きを見る

In this collection of excerpts from his essays, notebooks, and letters, pre-eminent modern poet Rainer Maria Rilke meditates on subjects as varied as a dolls, walking among trees, and the great scul……続きを見る

Scholars and practitioners from management and design address the challenges and issues of designing business from a design perspective. Designing Business and Management combines practical models a……続きを見る

WHAT thoughtful man has not been perplexed by problems relating to art? An estimable and charming Russian lady I knew, felt the charm of the music and ritual of the services of the Russo-Greek Churc……続きを見る

Consumer Product Innovation and Sustainable Design follows the innovation and evolution of consumer products from vacuum cleaners to mobile phones from their original inventions to the present day. ……続きを見る

Irrational Judgments examines the close friendship and significant exchange of ideas between Eva Hesse (1936–1970) and Sol LeWitt (1928–2007) in New York City during the 1960s. Taking its title from……続きを見る

Art therapy and all of the other creative arts therapies have promoted themselves as ways of expressing what cannot be conveyed in conventional language. Why is it that creative arts therapists fail……続きを見る

70 Jahre nach dem Tod eines Künstlers werden seine Werke zu öffentlichem Eigentum. Das bietet neue Perspektiven im digitalen Zeitalter. Beiträge von Daniel Boos, Leonhard Dobusch, Villö Huszai, Mari……続きを見る

This book explores the persona of the artist in Archaic and Classical Greek art and literature. Guy Hedreen argues that artistic subjectivity, first expressed in Athenian vase-painting of the sixth ……続きを見る

Richard Wollheim's classic reflection on art considers central questions regarding expression, representation, style, the significance of the artist's intention and the essentially historical nature……続きを見る

The years since 1989 have seen a complete untethering of what art can be, who makes it and where it can be found, which has been matched by a reassessment of art's appropriate place in society and t……続きを見る

From the winner of the Booker Prize: A ravishing book that opens a window into the lives, designs, and passions of Mariano Fortuny and William Morris, two remarkable artists who themselves are passi……続きを見る

Each of the five volumes in the Stone Art Theory Institutes series brings together a range of scholars who are not always directly familiar with one another’s work. The outcome of each of these conv……続きを見る

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Moins connue que son œuvre littéraire, l’activité de critique d’art de Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) occupe une place importante ……続きを見る

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Les quinze Discours sur la peinture, prononcés par sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) entre 1769 et 1790, publiés au fur et à mesure, tr……続きを見る

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis La première ébauche d’une étude entièrement vouée à la couleur remonte à l’année 1904, alors que Kandinsky (1866-1944) était établi à……続きを見る

Extrait :"Ce n'est pas l'histoire des origines de la Renaissance que je présente au lecteur : retracer quelques-uns des épisodes qui caractérisent le mieux la reprise des études classiques, ces étud……続きを見る

Carol Becker, preeminent arts educator and contributor to leading art magazines, offers a beautifully poignant meditation on the role of place in artistic creativity. She focuses on place as a histo……続きを見る

Throughout the history of psychoanalysis, the study of creativity and fine art has been a special concern. Psychoanalytic Studies of Creativity, Greed and Fine Art: Making Contact with the Self make……続きを見る

Since the 1990s, artists and art writers around the world have increasingly undermined the essentialism associated with notions of "critical practice." We can see this manifesting in the renewed rel……続きを見る

The Quarry presents new and pivotal Susan Howe prose pieces. A powerful selection of Susan Howe's previously uncollected essays, The Quarry moves backward chronologically, from her brand-new "Vagran……続きを見る

'A terrific and important book . . . it's a great, fresh take on how the 21st century is transforming the way we select everything from food to music' David Bodanis, author of E=MC2 In the past two ……続きを見る

The museum of contemporary art might be the most advanced recording device ever invented. It is a place for the storage of historical grievances and the memory of forgotten artistic experiments, soc……続きを見る

Is there such a thing as contemporary art history? The contemporary, after allーas much as we may want to consider it otherwiseーis being made history as it happens. By what means do we examine this……続きを見る

What is kitsch? What is behind its appeal? More important, what is wrong with kitsch? Though central to our modern and postmodern culture, kitsch has not been seriously and comprehensively analyzed;……続きを見る

Design Objects and the Museum brings together leading design historians, curators, educators and archivists to consider the place of contemporary design objects within museums. Contributors draw on ……続きを見る