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Throughout his career, Henri Matisse used imagery as a means of engaging critically with poetry and prose by a diverse range of authors. Kathryn Brown offers a groundbreaking account of Matisse's po……続きを見る

Part-Architecture presents a detailed and original study of Pierre Chareau’s Maison de Verre through another seminal modernist artwork, Marcel Duchamp’s Large Glass. Aligning the two works materiall……続きを見る

Hilton Kramer, well known as perhaps the most perceptive, courageous, and influential art critic in America, is also the founder and co-editor (with Roger Kimball) of The New Criterion. This compreh……続きを見る

This title was first published in 2002. 'Memory and Desire' is a lavishly illustrated account of the art world in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. It calls upon rich resources of contem……続きを見る

Expanding upon longstanding concerns in cultural history about the relation of text and image, this book explores how ideas move across and between expressive forms. The contributions draw from art ……続きを見る

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The veil can be an instrument of feminist empowerment, and veiled anonymity can confer powe……続きを見る

This book examines the importance of the animal in modern art theory, using classic texts of modern aesthetics and texts written by modern artists to explore the influence of the human-animal relati……続きを見る

The last few decades have witnessed an explosion in ideas and theories on art. Art itself has never been so topical, but much recent thinking remains inaccessible and difficult to use. This book ass……続きを見る

The relevance of painting has been questioned many times over the last century, by the arrival of photography, installation art and digital technologies. But rather than accept the death of painting……続きを見る

The state of emergency, according to thinkers such as Carl Schmidt, Walter Benjamin, and Giorgio Agamben, is at the heart of any theory of politics. But today the problem is not the crises that we d……続きを見る

Stanislaw Przybyszewskis Werk 'Das Werk des Edvard Munch - Beiträge von Stanislaw Przybyszewski' bietet einen faszinierenden Einblick in das Schaffen des renommierten Künstlers Edvard Munch. Przybys……続きを見る

This study is a fresh and original attempt to liberate the theory of criticism from the limitations of connoisseurship, and the assumptions of aesthetics from the difficulties and paradoxes of aesth……続きを見る

In Visual Culture the 'visual' character of contemporary culture is explored in original and lively essays. The contributors look at advertising, film, painting and fine art journalism, photography,……続きを見る

Short-listed for the Art and Christian Enquiry/Mercers' International Book Award 2009: 'a book which makes an outstanding contribution to the dialogue between religious faith and the visual arts'. W……続きを見る

The history of art from the early nineteenth century on- ward is commonly viewed as a succession of conflicts between innovatory and established styles that culminated in the formalism and aesthetic……続きを見る

For most of the last century the methodology of art history has followed a positivist approach, emphasizing form and style, fact and history as the means of studying works of art. By contrast the ph……続きを見る

A must-have guide for bargain-hunting fashionistas looking to make a statement without sabotaging their budgets. With this easy-to-use resource, savvy shoppers can cultivate upscale, upcycled wardro……続きを見る

Für Kunstliebhaber, die sich für die philosophischen und spirituellen Aspekte der Kunst interessieren, ist Wassily Kandinskys "Über das Geistige in der Kunst" ein unverzichtbares Lektüre. Seine radi……続きを見る

The explosion of minimalism into the worlds of visual arts, music and literature in the mid-to-late twentieth century presents one of the most radical and decisive revolutions in aesthetic history. ……続きを見る

Queen Alexandra used clothes to fashion images of herself as a wife, a mother and a royal: a woman who both led Britain alongside her husband Edward VII and lived her life through fashion. Inside th……続きを見る

The scientific analysis of design thinking continues to burgeon and is of considerable interest to academic scholars and design practitioners across many disciplines. This research tradition has gen……続きを見る

Les contribucions recollides en aquest volum mostren el rebuig a una consideració de l?art i de l?estètica com a camps de treball tancats en si mateixos, i es centren, particularment, en interrogant……続きを見る

Dieses essential bietet eine ideengeschichtliche Erkundung des modernen Begriffs von Kunst. Es leistet eine theoretische Unterscheidung zwischen dem alten und neuen Kunstbegriff („Kultwert“ und „Aus……続きを見る

Whether you're a type nerd, an illustrator or a professional designer, The Book Of Ornamental Alphabets is the perfect sourcebook. FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1858, Freeman Delamotte's Ornamental Alphabets A……続きを見る

A New York Times bestsellerーa dazzling and inspirational survey of how art can be found and appreciated in everyday life Michael Kimmelman, the prominent New York Times writer and a regular contrib……続きを見る

Gleichgültig, wie spannend ein Thema ist: Die Art der Vermittlung entscheidet darüber, ob es verstanden wird. Museen stehen dabei vor einem grundlegenden Dilemma: Sie müssen einerseits wissenschaftl……続きを見る

Interpreting Visual Art explores the psychological and cognitive mechanisms that underlie one's interpretation of art. After the brain encodes visual information, this encoding is then processed by ……続きを見る

Arts Reviewing: A Practical Guide is an accessible introduction to the world of arts criticism. Drawing on professional expertise and a range of cultural reviews from music, film, theatre, visual ar……続きを見る

In this landmark text by one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Gilles Deleuze takes the paintings of Francis Bacon as his object of his study. The book presents a deep e……続きを見る

Once textos de introducción al arte ideales para cualquier artista en formación. Se trata de las lecciones transcritas de Adolfo Winternitz, uno de los personajes más gravitantes en el desarrollo de……続きを見る