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A stylistically brilliant look at the male-dominated art world, madness, and identity. 続きを見る

Partez à la découverte du néo-classicisme avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! La définition que les dictionnaires usuels donnent du terme néo-classicisme est assez évasive. « Tendance artistique et ……続きを見る

Une introduction à un peintre de génie. C'est en 1894 que la Revue des Deux Mondes publia l'ambitieuse étude sur Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) qui constitue le cœur de ce volume. Profond tout en resta……続きを見る

The 23 essays (or "love songs") that make up the now classic volume Air Guitar trawl a "vast, invisible underground empire" of pleasure, through record stores, honky-tonks, art galleries, jazz clubs……続きを見る

Art has a way of raising questions. Since 2009 the Guggenheim Forum has pondered how themes from art affect life outside the museum’s walls: What is the role of spirituality in contemporary life? Wh……続きを見る

Curator and historian, gallerist and writer: Klaus Kertess has long been a decisive and forward-thinking presence in the art world. He founded the Bykert Gallery in 1966, where he represented artist……続きを見る

What is contemporary curatorial thought? Current discourse on the topic is heating up with a new cocktail of bold ideas and ethical imperatives. these include: cooperative curating, especially with ……続きを見る

'Art is not a luxury. Art is a basic social need to which everyone has a right'. This extraordinary collection of 100 artists' manifestos from across the globe over the last 100 years brings togethe……続きを見る

This book describes a holistic study of the porcelain manufactured at Nantgarw and Swansea in the first quarter of the 19th Century, using both scientific analytical data and historical provenancing……続きを見る

This book is concerned with emergence, interaction, art and computing. It introduces a new focus for emergence in interactive art: the emergent experience. Emergence literature is discussed and an o……続きを見る

This book pairs close readings of some of the classic writings of existentialist philosophers with interpretations of films that reveal striking parallels to each of those texts, demonstrating their……続きを見る

Ecology has become one of the most urgent and lively fields in both the humanities and sciences. In a dramatic widening of scope beyond its original concern with the coexistence of living organisms ……続きを見る

This book develops a philosophy of aesthetic experience through two socially significant philosophical movements: early German Romanticism and early critical theory. In examining the relationship be……続きを見る

En interrogeant le comment plutôt que le pourquoi, l'historiographie a bien souvent permis d'étoffer la connaissance que nous pouvions avoir d'une discipline intellectuelle. Éminemment précieuse, ce……続きを見る

First published in 1988, this book attempts to tackle the problem of how to write about art, culture, and the issues of postmodernism in a style appropriate to what is being claimed. The letters are……続きを見る

Public Art acknowledges the trend among contemporary museums to promote participatory and processual exhibition strategies meant to elicit subjective experience. At the same time it valorizes the ob……続きを見る

This book is an important addition to the discourse on contemporary ethical issues in art and design. Beauty is Nowhere makes a timely contribution to the necessary explanation of the relationship o……続きを見る

A fascinating exploration of the way in which animals are 'framed' - contextualized, decontextualized - in contemporary visual culture. Written in a highly engaging style, this book challenges the f……続きを見る

Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues ……続きを見る

There are as many meanings to drawing and painting as there are cultural contexts for them to exist in. But this is not the end of the story. Drawings and paintings are made, and in their making emb……続きを見る

Stuart Walker’s design work has been described as life-changing, inspiring, disturbing and ferocious. Drawing on an extraordinarily diverse range of sources and informed by creative practice, Design……続きを見る

Related to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has been debated for centuries amongst writers, artists, philosophers and theorists and has become a complex yet cr……続きを見る

Unprecedented challenges await the future of the world's cities. Accelerating population pressure, climate change, food insecurity, poverty and geopolitical instability – in the face of such problem……続きを見る

The Taste of Art offers a sample of scholarly essays that examine the role of food in Western contemporary art practices. The contributors are scholars from a range of disciplines, including art his……続きを見る

Global biennials have proliferated in the contemporary art world, but artists’ engagement with large-scale international exhibitions has a much longer history that has influenced the present in impo……続きを見る

A finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award In How to Be Drawn, his daring fifth collection, Terrance Hayes explores how we see and are seen. While many of……続きを見る

**An extraordinary collection of essays on the great masters of nineteenth- and twentieth-century artーfrom the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending. “An engaging and e……続きを見る

This book analyses the animal images used in William Hogarth's art, demonstrating how animals were variously depicted as hybrids, edibles, companions, emblems of satire and objects of cruelty. Beirn……続きを見る

This book examines the art and writings of Wassily Kandinsky, who is widely regarded as one of the first artists to produce non-representational paintings. Crucial to an understanding of Kandinsky's……続きを見る

What is a woman? What is a man? How do theyーand how should theyーrelate to each other? Does our yearning for "wholeness" refer to something real, and if there is a Whole, what is it, and why do we ……続きを見る