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Whether its horror at plastic littering the worlds beaches, or despair at the melting of the polar ice caps, the world is gradually waking up to the impending climate disaster. In The Green Imperati……続きを見る

This book bridges the gap between the many insights into art provided by research in evolutionary theory, psychology and neuroscience and those enduring normative issues best addressed by philosophy……続きを見る

«Un libro muy documentado pero al mismo tiempo ameno, cuando no directamente descacharrante, como en algunas notas a pie de página», Pepe Cruz Novillo Jr. Descubre por qué las marcas son tan importa……続きを見る

Estéticas del desajuste. Cine chileno 2010-2020 recopila ensayos que abordan el estado del cine chileno en un periodo de profundas transformaciones y giros, a la luz del cine producido en la década ……続きを見る

This book is devoted to the concept of horizontal art historyーa proposal of a paradigm shift formulated by the Polish art historian Piotr Piotrowski (1952–2015)ーthat aims at undermining the hegemo……続きを見る

A cultural history of the face in Western art, ranging from portraiture in painting and photography to film, theater, and mass media This fascinating book presents the first cultural history and ant……続きを見る

Contemporary art exhibitions appeal to cognition as well as the senses, modeling a new and expansive understanding of global aesthetics. In this original work of aesthetic theory, James Voorhies arg……続きを見る

Craig Martin addresses the transgressive or deviant aspects of design: design that straddles the divide between the licit and illicit, the legal and illegal, in a variety of ways. Martin argues that……続きを見る

Building/Object addresses the space in between the conventional objects of design and the conventional objects of architecture, probing and reassessing the differences between the disciplines of des……続きを見る

This book is aimed to explain the creation of artworks and their evaluation, and offers a new concept of aesthetics and beauty of artworks. Following and reconstructing Peircean realist epistemology……続きを見る

This volume explores how Italian institutions, dealers, critics, and artists constructed a modern national identity for Italy by exporting – literally and figuratively – contemporary art to the Unit……続きを見る

A guidebook to the institutional transformation of design theory and practice by restoring the long-excluded cultures of Indigenous, Black, and People of Color communities. From the excesses of worl……続きを見る

In "Four Masters of Etching," Frederick Sir Wedmore meticulously explores the lives and works of four pivotal figures in the realm of etching: Rembrandt, Whistler, Meryon, and Lepère. The book is cr……続きを見る

If you are into construction project management, this book is certainly for you. This is creative non-fiction. Travel through times and spaces. Meet with historic world leaders. Work alongside the w……続きを見る

This searingly intimate literary debut from top Irish art critic Cristín Leach weaves words and art with an unravelling of self that comes when a marriage breaks. In a series of layered essays, art ……続きを見る

Die Mega Square Ausgabe Schuhe präsentiert die Geschichte dieses Kleidungsstückes und erhebt es zu einem Kunstwerk. Der Autor ist ein führender Experte in diesem Gebiet und Kurator des französischen……続きを見る

What does it mean to look? How does looking relate to damage? These are the fundamental questions addressed in Overlooking Damage. From the Roman triumph to the iconoclasm of ISIS and the Taliban to……続きを見る

This volume critically investigates how art historians writing about Central and Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries engaged with periodization. At the heart of much ……続きを見る

Drawing on an interdisciplinary panel of contributors, this book presents a stimulating dialogue between economics and art theory and considers how this might aid our understanding of both areas of ……続きを見る

This study addresses the question of artistic identity and the myth of the artist as it has been shaped by the artists themselves. While the term artist is to be understood in a broad sense, the foc……続きを見る

This volume surveys the key histories, theories and practice of artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, architects and technologists that have worked and continue to work with visual material in ……続きを見る

This volume uses the art of Rome to help us understand the radical historical break between the fundamental ancient pre-supposition that there is a natural world or cosmos situating human life, and ……続きを見る

Lo poético cinematográfico: la imagen luciérnaga de Gustavo S. Fontán se inserta en el creciente interés por las formas que adopta “lo poético” en el cine. Dentro del panorama actual del cine argent……続きを見る

This interdisciplinary book critically studies the processes of making art and creative arts education in the post-digital era. Drawing from fields such as Philosophy and Pedagogy, it demarcates a m……続きを見る

THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER - A VITAL GUIDE TO CREATIVITY, OVERCOMING OBSTACLES AND MAKING YOUR WORK NO MATTER WHAT 'Filled with insights that every artist and creator needs to hear' JAMES CLEAR 'I've ……続きを見る

Ars factiva è arte efficace, produttiva. È arte che dialoga con il mondo delle imprese, della tecnologia, dell’educazione, della società, ma che sa produrre se stessa in maniera creativa e innovativ……続きを見る

"No todas las imágenes se ven. Algunas pasan tiempo escondidas, aunque acechen. Otras se camuflan o se exponen desafiantes. A veces son visibles pero apenas se perciben. Al ser producto de miradas f……続きを見る

The first book-length examination of the prominent contemporary philosopher William Desmond's approach to aesthetics, art, and literature. William Desmond argues that philosophy, religion, and art b……続きを見る

This book demonstrates how artists have radically revisited the genre of the self-portrait by using a range of technologies and media that mark different phases in what can be described as a history……続きを見る

The Impossible Arises explores the life and work ofOscar Reutersvärd (1916–2002), founder of the Impossible Figures movement. The movement began in Stockholm in 1934 when eighteen-year-old Reutersvä……続きを見る