Revealing Art
ISBN: 9780415278539 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Revealing Art' is a revealing book about why art is important and the role of the imagination in art, illustrated with colour and black-and-white plates of examples from Michaelangelo to Matisse and from Poussin to Pollock.
'Revealing Art' is a revealing book about why art is important and the role of the imagination in art, illustrated with colour and black-and-white pla...
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693,51 zł |
Writing Back to Modern Art : After Greenberg, Fried and Clark
ISBN: 9780415324281 / Angielski / Twarda / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Writing Back to Modern Art" assesses the "critical modernisms" of the three leading art writers of the second half of the twentieth century: Clement Greenberg, Michael Fried, and T.J. Clark. With a focus on the issues of aesthetic evaluation, subjectivity, and meaning in art and art writing, this book examines key discourses in art criticism and art history. In the first full-length study of its kind, Harris identifies points of significant agreement and sharp intellectual disjunction between these critics in their respective accounts of modernism in the visual arts since the 1860s....
"Writing Back to Modern Art" assesses the "critical modernisms" of the three leading art writers of the second half of the twentieth century: Clement ...
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693,51 zł |
Writing Back to Modern Art: After Greenberg, Fried, and Clark
ISBN: 9780415324298 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here for the first time is a full-length study of the 'critical modernisms' of the three leading art writers of the second half of the twentieth century, which helps us build a better understanding of the development of modern art writing and its relation to the 'post-modern' in art and society since the 1970s. Focusing on canonical modern artists such as Manet, Cezanne, Picasso and Pollock, this book provides an important understanding of writing and criticism in modern art for all students and scholars of art theory and art history. Mainstay issues discussed include aesthetic... Here for the first time is a full-length study of the 'critical modernisms' of the three leading art writers of the second half of the twentieth ce... |
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190,02 zł |
Thinking Through Art : Reflections on Art as Research
ISBN: 9780415364775 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Art and thought, what is the nature of this relationship? What kind of thought comes from art and how do we define it?
When the art in question is academic research, how is it situated both in terms of higher education and art practice in a wider sense? "Thinking Through Art" takes an innovative look at artists' experiences of undertaking doctorates. If the making of art is not simply the formulation of an object but is also the formation of complex ideas then what effect does academic enquiry have on art practice? The artists, philosophers, art historians and cultural theorists... Art and thought, what is the nature of this relationship? What kind of thought comes from art and how do we define it?
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693,51 zł |
Imagining the Present: Context, Content, and the Role of the Critic
ISBN: 9780415391467 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together twenty-nine of Lawrence Allowaya (TM)s most influential essays in one volume, this fascinating collection provides valuable perspectives on the art and visual culture of the second half of the twentieth century. Lawrence Alloway ranks among the most important critics of his time, and his contributions to the spirited and contentious dialogue of his era make for fascinating reading. These twenty-nine provocative essays from 1956 to 1980 from the man who invented the term a ~pop arta (TM) bring art, film, iconography, cybernetics and culture together for analysis and... Bringing together twenty-nine of Lawrence Allowaya (TM)s most influential essays in one volume, this fascinating collection provides valuable persp... |
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693,51 zł |
Imagining the Present: Context, Content, and the Role of the Critic
ISBN: 9780415391672 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lawrence Alloway ranks among the most important critics of his time, and his contributions to the spirited and contentious dialogue of his era make for fascinating reading. This collection of twenty-nine provocative essays from 1956 to 1980 provides readers with valuable perspectives on the art and visual culture of the second half of the 20th century. Lawrence Alloway was born in London in 1926 and died in New York in 1990, where he had taken up permanent residence in 1960 just prior to his appointment as Curator at the Guggenheim Museum. Critic, curator, editor, and teacher, Alloway wrote...
Lawrence Alloway ranks among the most important critics of his time, and his contributions to the spirited and contentious dialogue of his era make fo...
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225,98 zł |
Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum : Time, Space and the Archive
ISBN: 9780415413732 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In an innovative and experimental format, Griselda Pollock provides another new impetus in ways of thinking and writing about the visual arts.
Neither cybernetic nor etherised, Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum is a poetic laboratory breaking the museums rigid rules to create encounters with and between images by and about women as they engaged with and were defined by modernity. Tracking the complex relays between femininity, modernity and representation by means of a sequence of virtual exhibitions, this book reframes art in the twentieth century with women in mind.... In an innovative and experimental format, Griselda Pollock provides another new impetus in ways of thinking and writing about the visual arts.
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693,51 zł |
Freud's Art - Psychoanalysis Retold
ISBN: 9780415415675 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Freud's Art Psychoanalysis Retold Janet Sayers provides a refreshing new introduction to psychoanalysis by retelling its story through art. She does this by bringing together experts from psychoanalysis, art history, and art education to show how art and psychoanalysis illuminate each other. Freud's Art begins with major founders of psychoanalysis - Freud, Jung, Spielrein and Klein. It then details art-minded developments of their ideas by Adrian Stokes, Jacques Lacan, Marion Milner, Anton Ehrenzweig, Donald Winnicott, and Wilfred Bion before... In Freud's Art Psychoanalysis Retold Janet Sayers provides a refreshing new introduction to psychoanalysis by retelling its stor... |
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667,83 zł |
Freud's Art - Psychoanalysis Retold
ISBN: 9780415415682 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Freud's Art Psychoanalysis Retold Janet Sayers provides a refreshing new introduction to psychoanalysis by retelling its story through art. She does this by bringing together experts from psychoanalysis, art history, and art education to show how art and psychoanalysis illuminate each other. Freud's Art begins with major founders of psychoanalysis - Freud, Jung, Spielrein and Klein. It then details art-minded developments of their ideas by Adrian Stokes, Jacques Lacan, Marion Milner, Anton Ehrenzweig, Donald Winnicott, and Wilfred Bion before... In Freud's Art Psychoanalysis Retold Janet Sayers provides a refreshing new introduction to psychoanalysis by retelling its stor... |
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220,85 zł |
The Subversive Imagination: The Artist, Society and Social Responsiblity
ISBN: 9780415905923 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cultural critics from around the world offer their views on the issue of the artist's responsibility to society. The contributors to this collection look beyond censorship and free speech issues to emphasize the subject of freedom. More specifically, they question the ethical, mutual responsibilities between artists and the societies in which they live. Their essays address an eclectic range of subjects: censorship, multiculturalism, the transition from communism to capitalism in Eastern Europe, postmodernism, Salman Rushdie, and the responsibility of young black film-makers to the black...
Cultural critics from around the world offer their views on the issue of the artist's responsibility to society. The contributors to this collection l...
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200,30 zł |
Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?: On the Modern Origins of Pictorial Complexity
ISBN: 9780415919425 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With bracing clarity, Elkins explores why images are taken to be more intricate and hard to describe in the 20th century than they had been in any previous century. 50 illustrations.
With bracing clarity, Elkins explores why images are taken to be more intricate and hard to describe in the 20th century than they had been in any pre...
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190,02 zł |
Our Beautiful, Dry and Distant Texts: Art History as Writing
ISBN: 9780415926638 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts examines art historical writing as an expressive medium, capable of emotion and reflection - and therefore deserving of serious consideration for its own sake, as the testament of art history and of individual historians. Elkins asks such questions as: How do various art historical approaches represent works of art? What can they see, and what must they miss? And what insight does such writing offer us about ourselves? Drawing on analyses of texts by Derrida, Deleuze and other leading critics, as well as illustrations of artworks from various...
Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts examines art historical writing as an expressive medium, capable of emotion and reflection - and theref...
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128,37 zł |
Georg Simmel: Rembrandt: An Essay in the Philosophy of Art
ISBN: 9780415926706 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1916 in German, this important work has never been translated into English--until now. Simmel attacks such questions as "What do we see in a work of Art?" and "What do Rembrandt's portraits tell us about human nature?" This is a major work by a major thinker concerning one of the world's most important painters.
First published in 1916 in German, this important work has never been translated into English--until now. Simmel attacks such questions as "What do we...
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246,53 zł |
Blindness : The History of a Mental Image in Western Thought
ISBN: 9780415927420 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study of how Western culture has imagined what it is like to be blind, especially as it is represented in that most visual of arts, painting. Art historian Moshe Barasch here draws upon not only the span of art history from antiquity to the 18th century but also the classical and biblical traditions that underpin so much of artistic representation: Blind Homer, the healing of the blind, blind musicians, blindness as a punishment, blindness as a special mark.
A study of how Western culture has imagined what it is like to be blind, especially as it is represented in that most visual of arts, painting. Art hi...
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667,83 zł |
Blindness: The History of a Mental Image in Western Thought
ISBN: 9780415927437 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study of how Western culture has imagined what it is like to be blind, especially as it is represented in that most visual of arts, painting. Art historian Moshe Barasch here draws upon not only the span of art history from antiquity to the 18th century but also the classical and biblical traditions that underpin so much of artistic representation: Blind Homer, the healing of the blind, blind musicians, blindness as a punishment, blindness as a special mark.
A study of how Western culture has imagined what it is like to be blind, especially as it is represented in that most visual of arts, painting. Art hi...
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Master Narratives and their Discontents
ISBN: 9780415972697 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this bracing engagement with the many versions of art history, James Elkins argues that the story of modernism and postmodernism is almost always told in terms of four narratives. Works of art are either seen as modern or postmodern, or praised for their technical skill or because of the politics they appear to embody. These are master narratives of contemporary criticism, and each leads to a different understanding of what art is and does. Both a cogent overview of the state of thinking about art and a challenge to think outside the art historical box, Master Narratives and their... In this bracing engagement with the many versions of art history, James Elkins argues that the story of modernism and postmodernism is almost alway... |
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693,51 zł |
Master Narratives and Their Discontents
ISBN: 9780415972703 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this bracing engagement with the many versions of art history, James Elkins argues that the story of modernism and postmodernism is almost always told in terms of four narratives. Works of art are either seen as modern or postmodern, or praised for their technical skill or because of the politics they appear to embody. These are master narratives of contemporary criticism, and each leads to a different understanding of what art is and does. Both a cogent overview of the state of thinking about art and a challenge to think outside the art historical box, Master Narratives and... In this bracing engagement with the many versions of art history, James Elkins argues that the story of modernism and postmodernism is almost alway... |
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184,88 zł |
The State of Art Criticism
ISBN: 9780415977869 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Art criticism is spurned by universities, but widely produced and read. It is seldom theorized and its history has hardly been investigated. The State of Art Criticism presents an international conversation among art historians and critics that considers the relation between criticism and art history and poses the question of whether criticism may become a university subject. Contributors include Dave Hickey, James Panero, Stephen Melville, Lynne Cook, Michael Newman, Whitney Davis, Irit Rogoff, Guy Brett and Boris Groys. Art criticism is spurned by universities, but widely produced and read. It is seldom theorized and its history has hardly been investigated. Th... |
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693,51 zł |
Artistic Citizenship: A Public Voice for the Arts
ISBN: 9780415978651 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Artistic Citizenship asks the question: how do people in the creative arts prepare for, and participate in, civic life? This volume, developed at NYU's Tisch School, identifies the question of artistic citizenship to explore civic identity - the role of the artist in social and cultural terms. With contributions from many connected to the Tisch School including: novelist E.L. Doctorow, performance artist Karen Finley, theatre guru Richard Schechner, and cultural theorist Ella Shohat, this book is indispensable to anyone involved in arts education or the creation of public... Artistic Citizenship asks the question: how do people in the creative arts prepare for, and participate in, civic life? This volume, devel... |
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770,57 zł |
Artistic Citizenship: A Public Voice for the Arts
ISBN: 9780415978668 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Artistic Citizenship asks the question: how do people in the creative arts prepare for, and participate in, civic life? This volume, developed at NYU 's Tisch School, identifies the question of artistic citizenship to explore civic identity the role of the artist in social and cultural terms. With contributions from many connected to the Tisch School including: novelist E.L. Doctorow, performance artist Karen Finley, theatre guru Richard Schechner, and cultural theorist Ella Shohat, this book is indispensable to anyone involved in arts education or the creation of public policy for the... Artistic Citizenship asks the question: how do people in the creative arts prepare for, and participate in, civic life? This volume, developed at N... |
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220,85 zł |