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Design Discourse : History, Theory, Criticism
ISBN: 9780226505145 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Although design infuses every object in the material world and gives form to immaterial processes as well, it is only recently that design itself has become the focus of intellectual debate. In Design Discourse, Victor Margolin gathers together a body of new writing in the emerging field of design studies. The contributors argue in different ways for a rethinking of design in light of its cultural significance and its powerful position in today's society.
Although design infuses every object in the material world and gives form to immaterial processes as well, it is only recently that design itself has ...
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153,47 zł |
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To Destroy Painting
ISBN: 9780226505350 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The work of the eminent French cultural critic Louis Marin (1931-92) is becoming increasingly important to English-speaking scholars concerned with issues of representation. To Destroy Painting, first published in France in 1977, marks a milestone in Marin's thought about the aims of painting in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A meditation on the work of Poussin and Caravaggio and on their milieux, the book explores a number of notions implied by theories of painting and offers insight into the aims and effects of visual representaion.
The work of the eminent French cultural critic Louis Marin (1931-92) is becoming increasingly important to English-speaking scholars concerned with is...
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131,54 zł |
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Henry Ossawa Tanner: American Artist
ISBN: 9780226510064 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Mathews's standard biography of Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937), based on extensive research in archives in this country and family records in France. An important artist in the salons of Paris, Tanner was born and studied in Philadelphia but left America for Europe, where his race would not stand in the way of his ambition. Providing a full account of the artist's life and art, Henry Ossawa Tanner gives readers insight into the art trends of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as well as into the struggle of African Americans of this period. " Tanner] ranks not only as...
Mathews's standard biography of Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937), based on extensive research in archives in this country and family records in France....
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164,43 zł |
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Landscape and Power, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780226532059 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 383 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The first edition of this book, published in 1994, reshaped the direction of landscape studies by considering landscape not simply as an object to be seen or a text to be read, but as an instrument of cultural force, a central tool in the creation of national and social identities. This second edition adds not only a new preface, but five new essays from Edward Said, W. J. T. Mitchell, Jonathan Bordo, Michael Taussig, and Robert Pogue Harrison-extending the scope of the book in remarkable ways.
" The first edition of this book, published in 1994, reshaped the direction of landscape studies by considering landscape not simply as an object to be ...
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153,47 zł |
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The Hindu Temple: An Introduction to Its Meaning and Forms
ISBN: 9780226532301 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. For more than 1500 years, from the Indian subcontinent to the islands of the Indonesian archipelago, the temple has embodied and symbolized the Hindu worldview at its deepest level and inspired the greatest architectural and artistic achievements in Hindu Asia. In The Hindu Temple, considered the standard introduction to the subject, George Michell explains the cultural, religious, and architectural significance of the temple. He illustrates his points with a profusion of photographs, building plans, and drawings of architectural details, making the book a useful guide for travelers to...
For more than 1500 years, from the Indian subcontinent to the islands of the Indonesian archipelago, the temple has embodied and symbolized the Hindu ...
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147,99 zł |
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Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation
ISBN: 9780226532325 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 462 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. What precisely, W. J. T. Mitchell asks, are pictures (and theories of pictures) doing now, in the late twentieth century, when the power of the visual is said to be greater than ever before, and the "pictorial turn" supplants the "linguistic turn" in the study of culture? This book by one of America's leading theorists of visual representation offers a rich account of the interplay between the visible and the readable across culture, from literature to visual art to the mass media.
What precisely, W. J. T. Mitchell asks, are pictures (and theories of pictures) doing now, in the late twentieth century, when the power of the visual...
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164,43 zł |
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Much Maligned Monsters: A History of European Reactions to Indian Art
ISBN: 9780226532394 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this fascinating study, Partha Mitter traces the history of European reactions to Indian art, from the earliest encounters of explorers with the exotic. East to the more sophisticated but still incomplete appreciations of the early twentieth century. Mitter's new Preface reflects upon the profound changes in Western interpretations of non-Western societies over the past fifteen years.
In this fascinating study, Partha Mitter traces the history of European reactions to Indian art, from the earliest encounters of explorers with the ex...
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153,47 zł |
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What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images
ISBN: 9780226532486 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or even lead us astray? According to W. J. T. Mitchell, we need to reckon with images not just as inert objects that convey meaning but as animated beings with desires, needs, appetites, demands, and drives of their own. What Do Pictures Want? explores this idea and highlights Mitchell's innovative and profoundly influential thinking on...
Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were al...
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142,51 zł |
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Ancestral Connections: Art and an Aboriginal System of Knowledge
ISBN: 9780226538662 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "Ancestral Connections" unlocks the inner meaning of Australian Aboriginal bark painting. Drawing on more than ten years of fieldwork among the Yolngu an Aboriginal people of Northeast Arnhem Land and applying both anthropological and art historical methods, Howard Morphy explores systematically the graphic representation of traditional knowledge in Yolngu art. He also charts the role that art has played in Aboriginal society both present and past.
The rich symbolism of Yolngu art links the Yolngu directly with the "Dreaming," the time of world-creation that continues as the spiritual... "Ancestral Connections" unlocks the inner meaning of Australian Aboriginal bark painting. Drawing on more than ten years of fieldwork among the Yolngu...
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235,68 zł |
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Peasants, Warriors, and Wives: Popular Imagery in the Reformation
ISBN: 9780226543925 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Keith Moxey examines woodcut images from the Nuremburg area, arguing that far from being crude representations of popular culture, they in fact represent the means by which the middle and upper classes could disseminate reformed attitudes to a broader audience.
Keith Moxey examines woodcut images from the Nuremburg area, arguing that far from being crude representations of popular culture, they in fact repres...
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153,47 zł |
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Women's Culture: American Philanthropy and Art, 1830-1930
ISBN: 9780226555843 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Kathleen McCarthy here presents the first book-length treatment of the vital role middle- and upper-class women played in the development of American museums in the century after 1830. By promoting undervalued areas of artistic endeavor, from folk art to the avant-garde, such prominent individuals as Isabella Stewart Gardner, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller were able to launch national feminist reform movements, forge extensive nonprofit marketing systems, and "feminize" new occupations.
Kathleen McCarthy here presents the first book-length treatment of the vital role middle- and upper-class women played in the development of American ...
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164,43 zł |
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Law and the Image: The Authority of Art and the Aesthetics of Law
ISBN: 9780226569536 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This highly original collection brings together some of the most important minds in both contemporary art history and theory, and law and legal history. The result is a fascinating discussion of the diverse relationships between law and the artistic image.
The essays draw on the critical procedures of law, art history, and cultural studies in order to create a new interdisciplinary field of visual culture and law. In exploring the hidden interdependence of law and art, the writings refute the generally held conception that law is fixed and rational while the judgment of art is autonomous... This highly original collection brings together some of the most important minds in both contemporary art history and theory, and law and legal histor...
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438,48 zł |
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Law and the Image: The Authority of Art and the Aesthetics of Law
ISBN: 9780226569543 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This highly original collection brings together some of the most important minds in both contemporary art history and theory, and law and legal history. The result is a fascinating discussion of the diverse relationships between law and the artistic image.
The essays draw on the critical procedures of law, art history, and cultural studies in order to create a new interdisciplinary field of visual culture and law. In exploring the hidden interdependence of law and art, the writings refute the generally held conception that law is fixed and rational while the judgment of art is autonomous... This highly original collection brings together some of the most important minds in both contemporary art history and theory, and law and legal histor...
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175,39 zł |
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Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade
ISBN: 9780226571584 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Examining how monuments preserve memory, these essays demonstrate how phenomena as diverse as ancient drum towers in China and ritual whale killings in the Pacific Northwest serve to represent and negotiate time.
Examining how monuments preserve memory, these essays demonstrate how phenomena as diverse as ancient drum towers in China and ritual whale killings i...
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175,39 zł |
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Three American Architects: Richardson, Sullivan, and Wright, 1865-1915
ISBN: 9780226620725 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. O'Gorman discusses the individual and collective achievement of the recognized trinity of American architecture: Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-86), Louis Sullivan (1856-1924), and Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959). He traces the evolution of forms created during these architects' careers, emphasizing the interrelationships among them and focusing on the designs and executed buildings that demonstrate those interrelationships. O'Gorman also shows how each envisioned the building types demanded by the growth of nineteenth-century cities and suburbs the downtown skyscraper and the single-family...
O'Gorman discusses the individual and collective achievement of the recognized trinity of American architecture: Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-86), Lo...
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137,03 zł |
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Meaning in the Visual Arts
ISBN: 9780226645513 / Angielski / Twarda / 1983 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Since its original publication, Erwin Panofsky's "Meaning in the Visual Arts" has been standard reading for students of art history. It is both an introduction to the study of art and, for those with more specialized interests, a profound discussion of art and life in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Panofsky's historical technique reveals an abundance of detail, detail he skillfully relates to the life and work of individual painters and their times.
The papers in this volume represent a cross-section of Panofsky's major work. Included are selections from his well-known "Studies in... Since its original publication, Erwin Panofsky's "Meaning in the Visual Arts" has been standard reading for students of art history. It is both an int...
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180,87 zł |
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The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture
ISBN: 9780226657387 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Marjorie Perloff's stunning book was one of the first to offer a serious and far-reaching examination of the momentous flourishing of Futurist aesthetics in the European art and literature of the early twentieth century. Offering penetrating considerations of the prose, visual art, poetry, and carefully crafted manifestos of Futurists from Russia to Italy, Perloff reveals the Moment's impulses and operations, tracing its echoes through the years to the work of "postmodern" figures like Roland Barthes. This updated edition, with its new preface, reexamines the Futurist Moment in the light of a...
Marjorie Perloff's stunning book was one of the first to offer a serious and far-reaching examination of the momentous flourishing of Futurist aesthet...
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153,47 zł |
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High Art Down Home: An Economic Ethnography of a Local Art Market
ISBN: 9780226670843 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. How do artists, collectors, dealers, and curators whose lives and livelihoods are so intimately affected by the valuation of art manage to cope with such an intangible market?
To answer this question, Stuart Plattner eschews the spotlights and media-hype of glitzy New York galleries, and focuses instead upon the more localized, and much more typical, world of the St. Louis art scene. What emerges is the most comprehensive description ever published of a contemporary regional avant-garde center, where noble aesthetic ambitions compete with the exigencies of economic survival. Plattner's... How do artists, collectors, dealers, and curators whose lives and livelihoods are so intimately affected by the valuation of art manage to cope with s...
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153,47 zł |
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Primitive Art in Civilized Places: Second Edition
ISBN: 9780226680675 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. What is so "primitive" about primitive art? And how do we dare to use our standards to judge it? Drawing on an intriguing mixture of sources-including fashion ads and films, her own anthropological research, and even comic strips like Doonesbury--Price explores the cultural arrogance implicit in Westerners' appropriation of non-Western art.
" Price] presents a literary collage of the Western attitude to other cultures, and in particular to the visual art of the Third and Fourth Worlds. . . . Her book is not about works of 'primitive art' as such, but about the Western construction... What is so "primitive" about primitive art? And how do we dare to use our standards to judge it? Drawing on an intriguing mixture of sources-including...
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131,54 zł |
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building: Myth and Fact
ISBN: 9780226699080 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building has become an icon of modern architecture. And the fact that it was demolished only forty-six years after its 1904 completion makes Jack Quinan's study of the building--which housed a Buffalo, New York, soap company--all the more valuable.
Quinan's history draws on engineering documents, personal accounts of the building, and other papers he acquired from the family of Darwin D. Martin, a Larkin executive who proposed commissioning Wright to design the company's offices. With access to these rare sources, Quinan reveals how a young Wright landed the... Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building has become an icon of modern architecture. And the fact that it was demolished only forty-six years after its 190...
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164,43 zł |
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