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To Life!: Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet
ISBN: 9780520273627 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To Life Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns, from Ant Farm s anti-consumer antics in the 1970s to Marina Zurkow s 2007 animation that anticipates the havoc wreaked upon the planet by global warming. This text is the first international survey of twentieth and twenty-first-century artists who are transforming the global challenges facing humanity and the Earth s diverse living systems. Their pioneering explorations are situated at today s cultural,...
To Life Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic re...
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Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art
ISBN: 9780520275942 / Angielski / Miękka / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Some of the most innovative art of the past decade has been created far outside conventional galleries and museums. In a parking garage in Oakland, California; on a pleasure boat on the Lake of Zurich in Switzerland; at a public market in Chiang Mai, Thailandartists operating at the intersection of art and cultural activism have been developing new forms of collaboration with diverse audiences and communities. Their projects have addressed such issues as political conflict in Northern Ireland, gang violence on Chicago's West Side, and the problems of sex workers in Switzerland. Provocative,...
Some of the most innovative art of the past decade has been created far outside conventional galleries and museums. In a parking garage in Oakland, Ca...
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The Religious Art of Pablo Picasso
ISBN: 9780520276291 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first critical examination of Pablo Picasso's use of religious imagery and the religious import of many of his works with secular subject matter. Though Picasso was an avowed atheist, his work employs spiritual themesand, often, traditional religious iconography. In five engagingly written, accessible chapters, Jane Daggett Dillenberger and John Handley address Picasso's cryptic 1930 painting of the Crucifixion; the artist's early life in the Catholic church; elements of transcendence in Guernica; Picasso's later, fraught relationship with the church, which commissioned him...
This is the first critical examination of Pablo Picasso's use of religious imagery and the religious import of many of his works with secular subject ...
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175,29 |
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London, Modernism, and 1914
ISBN: 9780521195805 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The outbreak of the First World War coincided with the beginnings of high modernism in literature and the visual arts to make 1914 a pivotal moment in cultural as in national history. Yeats, Wyndham Lewis, Gaudier-Breszka, Sickert, Epstein and many other avant-garde artists were at work in London during 1914, responding to urgent political as well as aesthetic problems. London was the setting for key exhibitions of high modernist paintings and sculptures, and home to a number of important movements: the Bloomsbury Group, the Whitechapel Boys and the Vorticists among them. The essays in this...
The outbreak of the First World War coincided with the beginnings of high modernism in literature and the visual arts to make 1914 a pivotal moment in...
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442,46 |
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The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
ISBN: 9780571228621 / Angielski / Miękka / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the prize winning author of 'William Morris' comes a new biography of Edward Burne-Jones, the greatest British artist of the second half of the nineteenth century. The angels on our Christmas cards, the stained glass in our churches, the great paintings in our galleries: Edward Burne-Jones's work is all around us.
From the prize winning author of 'William Morris' comes a new biography of Edward Burne-Jones, the greatest British artist of the second half of the n...
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125,80 |
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The Prints of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: A Complete Catalogue
ISBN: 9780853319696 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on new research, and drawing on information contained in her numerous diaries, The Prints of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham incorporates a complete illustrated catalogue of all of the artist's known work in etching, linocut, lithography, screenprinting and monotype, from 1946 to 2007. This book will prove an invaluable resource for museum curators, students of British art and 20th-century abstraction, and all those seeking to learn more about this aspect of the career of one of Britain's most important artists of the late 20th century.
Based on new research, and drawing on information contained in her numerous diaries, The Prints of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham incorporates a complete ill...
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251,36 |
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Charles Reiffel: An American Post-Impressionist
ISBN: 9780937108505 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charles Reiffel (1862-1942) is widely regarded today as one of the foremost figures of the California plein air school of landscape painting. This book, accompanying an exhibition of the same name at The San Diego Museum of Art and San Diego History Center, aims to reevaluate Reiffel as a leading practitioner of Post-Impressionism in the United States. Charles Reiffel trained as a lithographer and traveled, worked, and studied in Europe before establishing himself as an independent artist in Silvermine, Connecticut. He finally settled in San Diego in 1925. There, he... Charles Reiffel (1862-1942) is widely regarded today as one of the foremost figures of the California plein air school of landscape painting... |
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The Cubist Painter: Apollinaire and Cubism
ISBN: 9780946311125 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Guillaume Apollinaire's only book on art, 'The Cubist Painters' was first published in 1913. This collection of essays and reviews explores the theory and psychology of cubism, featuring noted exponents of the oeuvre, such as Picasso, Braque, Metzinger and Duchamp.
Guillaume Apollinaire's only book on art, 'The Cubist Painters' was first published in 1913. This collection of essays and reviews explores the theory...
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107,75 |
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New Perspectives on Brücke Expressionism: Bridging History
ISBN: 9781409412038 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers the reassessment in English of the importance of the Brucke group to German modernism specifically and to international modernism more generally. This title challenges, and interrogates existing orthodoxies in the field of Brucke studies by deploying research combined with interpretative approaches.
Offers the reassessment in English of the importance of the Brucke group to German modernism specifically and to international modernism more generall...
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Contemporary Art: 1989 to the Present
ISBN: 9781444338607 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An engaging account of today's contemporary art world that features original articles by leading international art historians, critics, curators, and artists, introducing varied perspectives on the most important debates and discussions happening around the world.
An engaging account of today's contemporary art world that features original articles by leading international art historians, critics, curators, a... |
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Visualizing Feeling: Affect and the Feminine Avant-garde
ISBN: 9781780767093 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is late modern art 'anti-aesthetic'? What does it mean to label a piece of art 'affectless'? These traditional characterizations of 1960s and 1970s art are radically challenged in this subversive art history. By introducing feeling to the analysis of this period, Susan Best acknowledges the radical and exploratory nature of art in late modernism. The book focuses on four highly influential female artists: Eva Hesse, Lygia Clark, Ana Mendieta and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and it explores how their art transformed established avant-garde protocols by introducing an affective dimension. This aspect...
Is late modern art 'anti-aesthetic'? What does it mean to label a piece of art 'affectless'? These traditional characterizations of 1960s and 1970s ar...
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Claude Cahun – The Soldier with No Name
ISBN: 9781780990446 / Angielski / Miękka / 38 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Claude Cahun is the most important artist you've never heard of - until now. Writer, photographer, lesbian; revolutionary activist, surrealist, resistance fighter - Cahun witnessed the birth of the Paris avant-garde, lived through two World Wars and, as 'Der Soldat ohne Namen', risked death by inciting mutiny on Nazi-occupied Jersey. And yet, she's until recently been merely a peripheral figure in these world-shaping events, relegated by academics to the footnotes in the history of art, sexual politics and revolutionary movements of the last century. Now more so than ever, Cahun demands a...
Claude Cahun is the most important artist you've never heard of - until now. Writer, photographer, lesbian; revolutionary activist, surrealist, resist...
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The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond
ISBN: 9781844677078 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the ruins of communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. Interpreting totalitarian art and literature in the context of cultural history, this brilliant essay likens totalitarian aims to the modernists' goal of producing world-transformative art. In this new edition, Groys revisits the debate that the book has stimulated since its first publication.
From the ruins of communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its fou...
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Investigating Sex: Surrealist Discussions
ISBN: 9781844677122 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Records various aspects of sexual love, cataloguing preferences and positions, quality and quantity. This is a fundamental text for understanding the surrealist movement and, for all its idiosyncrasies, a document that still retains an extraordinary vitality."
Records various aspects of sexual love, cataloguing preferences and positions, quality and quantity. This is a fundamental text for understanding the ...
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Art
ISBN: 9781845203207 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The last few decades have witnessed an explosion in ideas and theories on art. Art itself has never been more popular, but much recent thinking remains inaccessible and difficult to use. This book assesses the work of leading thinkers (including artists) who are having a major impact on making, criticizing and interpreting art. Each entry, written by a leading international expert, presents a concise, critical appraisal of a thinker and their contribution to thought about art and its place in the wider cultural context. A guide to the key thinkers who shape today's world of art, this book... The last few decades have witnessed an explosion in ideas and theories on art. Art itself has never been more popular, but much recent thinking rem... |
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Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art
ISBN: 9781848220560 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now available for the first time in paperback, this book remains the definitive survey of the life and work of Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), providing a fascinating overview of this intriguing artist's life and rich body of work. Carrington's preoccupation with alchemy and the occult, and the influence of indigenous Mexican culture and beliefs on her production are all explored.
Now available for the first time in paperback, this book remains the definitive survey of the life and work of Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington (1...
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Art & Visual Culture 1850–2010: Modernity to Globalisation
ISBN: 9781849760973 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in this volume engage directly with topical issues around art and gender, globalization, cultural difference, and curating, as well as explorations of key artists and movements and some less well-documented work by contemporary artists.
The essays in this volume engage directly with topical issues around art and gender, globalization, cultural difference, and curating, as well as expl...
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100,60 |
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Life With Picasso
ISBN: 9781853812330 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Life With Picasso', Gilot's account of her extraordinary years with the painter, is filled with intimate and astonishing revelations about the man, his work, his thoughts and his friends.
'Life With Picasso', Gilot's account of her extraordinary years with the painter, is filled with intimate and astonishing revelations about the man, h...
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British Posters of the Second World War
ISBN: 9781904897927 / Angielski / Miękka / 87 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Keep calm and carry on." In 1939, Britain's Ministry of Information produced this now-ubiquitous reminder to its citizens in the event of widely predicted air attacks. But in the six consecutive years before Germany's surrender to Allied forces, the British public would feel keenly both the physical and moral hardships of war. To boost morale and raise awareness of how citizens' efforts might help--or hinder--the wartime effort, one of the most effective forms the British government had at its disposal was the poster.
British Posters of the Second World War presents one hundred... "Keep calm and carry on." In 1939, Britain's Ministry of Information produced this now-ubiquitous reminder to its citizens in the event of widely pred...
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50,28 |
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Becoming Picasso: Paris 1901
ISBN: 9781907372452 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fully illustrated catalog, with essays by leading and emerging scholars in the field of Picasso studies, tells the remarkable story of Pablo Picasso's breakthrough year 1901 as an artist. It brings together an extraordinary group of paintings to explore his rapid artistic development during this single year, which launched his career and reputation in Paris. These major paintings will be reunited from public and private collections internationally, making the catalogue a unique opportunity to experience Picasso's very first masterpieces."
This fully illustrated catalog, with essays by leading and emerging scholars in the field of Picasso studies, tells the remarkable story of Pablo Pica...
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