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Cet ouvrage est un véritable coach de la pratique artistique qui fait rimer art et développement personnel. Pratiquer les arts fait peur. Beaucoup d'artistes en herbe arrêtent en chemin, insatisfait……続きを見る

Museums and Photography combines a strong theoretical approach with international case studies to investigate the display of death in various types of museumsーhistory, anthropology, art, ethnograph……続きを見る

This book is about the historical moment when writers and critics first used the term “realism” to describe representation in literature and painting. While scholarship on realism tends to proceed f……続きを見る

The Evolution of Taste in American Collecting is a new critical translation of René Brimo’s classic study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century patronage and art collecting in the United States. Ori……続きを見る

To Ellen Dissanayake, the arts are biologically evolved propensities of human nature: their fundamental features helped early humans adapt to their environment and reproduce themselves successfully ……続きを見る

Contestation et défense de la tyrannique " loi des complémentaires". Il semble que la question de l’harmonie colorée, pour les théoriciens, les enseignants et les spécialistes des sciences humaines,……続きを見る

In recent years, many prominent and successful artists have claimed that their primary concern is not the artwork they produce but the artistic process itself. In this volume, Kim Grant analyzes thi……続きを見る

There used to be a time when designers were trained in the history of composition. Now you just buy a fuckin' piece of software and now you've become a designer. "Art Chantry . . . Is he a Luddite?"……続きを見る

Part of JRP|Ringier's innovative Documents series, published with Les Presses du Réel and dedicated to critical writings, this publication comprises a unique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich ……続きを見る

Art has never been as culturally and economically prominent as it is today. How can artists themselves shape the social relevance and impact of their work? In How to Do Things with Art, German art h……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

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

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

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

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

Dreaming of Michelangelo is the first book-length study to explore the intellectual and cultural affinities between modern Judaism and the life and work of Michelangelo Buonarroti. It argues that Je……続きを見る

By the author of THE DESIGN OF EVERYDAY THINGS. For decades, Don Norman has spoken the language of gadgets, explaining how the things we see every day are made and made better. In this smart, sharp,……続きを見る

By the author of THE DESIGN OF EVERYDAY THINGS. Insightful and whimsical, profoundly intelligent and easily accessible, Don Norman has been exploring the design of our world for decades, exploring t……続きを見る

This book takes a new, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing modern Viennese visual culture, one informed by Austro-German theater, contemporary medical treatises centered on hysteria, and an orig……続きを見る

Para los antiguos griegos, el descubrimiento de la belleza coincidió con la intuición del universo. El mundo se mostró, ante sus ojos sorprendidos, en todo el esplendor de un kósmos, es decir, de un……続きを見る

Palabras en la sesión inaugural de la Cátedra Hibridación y confluencias Jaime Franky Rodríguez Marta Traba, intelectual latinoamericana Luz Teresa Gómez de Mantilla 1957: un año movido Jorge Orland……続きを見る

Making Homes: Anthropology and Design is a strong addition to the emerging field of design anthropology. Based on the latest scholarship and practice in the social sciences as well as design, this i……続きを見る

In recent decades curators and artists have shown a distinct interest in religion, its different traditions, manifestations in public life, gestures and images. Breaking Resemblance explores the com……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

Die Anthologie 'Venus und Tannhäuser' vereint die prägnanten Werke von Franz Blei und Aubrey Beardsley unter einem thematischen Dach, das Erotik und ästhetische Reflexionen über mythologische und hi……続きを見る

Art, Death and Lacanian Psychoanalysis examines the relationship between art and death from the perspective of Lacanian psychoanalysis. It takes a unique approach to the topic by making explicit ref……続きを見る

At the turn of the twenty-first century, many felt sceptical or confused about paintings on-going cultural relevance. In this context, Julian Bells What is Painting? provided an accessible and inspi……続きを見る

In her provocative study of Gertrude Stein, G.F. Mitrano argues that Stein's particular take on modernity has special relevance for today. Tracing what she describes as Stein's deeply modernist stor……続きを見る

In Hammer, Sickle, and Soil, Jonathan Daly tells the harrowing story of Stalin's transformation of millions of family farms throughout the USSR into 250,000 collective farms during the period from 1……続きを見る

This book explores the notable roles that contemporary British artists of African descent have played in the multicultural context of postwar Britain. In four key case studiesー Magdalene Odundo, Ve……続きを見る