It is the only guide to the subject written specifically for undergraduates. The authors draw upon many years of teaching experience in this field. The coverage is systematic, and the writing accessible.
It is the only guide to the subject written specifically for undergraduates. The authors draw upon many years of teaching experience in this field. Th...
The vibrant fine arts and mass culture that the US exported to Britain in the postwar period had a powerful and far-reaching impact on many British artists, art students and critics. In a social and cultural history covering the period from the 1940s to the 1990s, but with emphasis on the 1950s and 1960s, John Walker offers an account of America's Cold War cultural offensive and the role played by American artists living in Britain.
The vibrant fine arts and mass culture that the US exported to Britain in the postwar period had a powerful and far-reaching impact on many British ar...
John A. Walker vividly situates radical art in 1970s Britain in the context of left-wing politics and major social movements. Left Shift details, year by year, contending factions in the art world, and the artists, curators, critics, organizations, key exhibitions, galleries, and magazines that were part of the radical art movement.
John A. Walker vividly situates radical art in 1970s Britain in the context of left-wing politics and major social movements. Left Shift detail...
John A. Walker vividly situates radical art in 1970s Britain in the context of left-wing politics and major social movements. Left Shift details, year by year, contending factions in the art world, and the artists, curators, critics, organizations, key exhibitions, galleries, and magazines that were part of the radical art movement.
John A. Walker vividly situates radical art in 1970s Britain in the context of left-wing politics and major social movements. Left Shift detail...
An essential overview as well as a theoretical critique for all students of design history. Walker studies the intellectual discipline of Design History and the issues that confront scholars writing histories of design. Taking his approach from a range of related fields, he discusses the problems of defining design and writing history. He considers the different methods that leading scholars have used in the absence of a theoretical framework, and looks critically at a number of histories of design and architecture.
An essential overview as well as a theoretical critique for all students of design history. Walker studies the intellectual discipline of Design Hi...
When art hits the headlines, it is usually because it has caused offence or is perceived by the media to have shock-value. Over the last fifty years many artists have been censored, vilified, accused of blasphemy and obscenity, threatened with violence, prosecuted and even imprisoned. Their work has been trashed by the media and physically attacked by the public. In "Art & Outrage," John A. Walker covers the period from the late 1940s to the 1990s to provide the first detailed survey of the most prominent cases of art that has scandalised. The work of some of Britain s leading, and less...
When art hits the headlines, it is usually because it has caused offence or is perceived by the media to have shock-value. Over the last fifty years m...
