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Cover of The Mother of All Arts: Agrarianism and the Creative Impulse
by Gene Logsdon
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007

When Gene Logsdon realized that he experienced the same creative joy from farming as he did from writing, he suspected that agriculture itself was a form of art. Thus began his search for the origins of the artistic impulse in the agrarian lifestyle. The Mother of All Arts is the culmination of Logsdon"s...
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What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet?

Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire

by Madina Tlostanova
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018

In What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet? Madina Tlostanova traces how contemporary post-Soviet art mediates this human condition. Observing how the concept of the happy future—which was at the core of the project of Soviet modernity—has lapsed from the post-Soviet imagination, Tlostanova shows...
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by Bernard Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015

A wry and beautifully observed memoir about coming of age in the era of conceptual art. Growing up in the suburbs—confused about his sexuality, about his consumer-oriented world, about the death of his older brother—Bernard Cooper falls in love with Pop art and sets off for the California...
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The Next Thing

Art in the Twenty-first Century

by Pablo Baler
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013

The Next Thing: Art in the Twenty-first Century is a highly visual collection of essays about the future of art and the art of the future. This anthology brings together writings by world-renown theorists, artists, critics, novelists and philosophers, all of them engaged in current discussions about...
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by Victor I. Stoichita
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1997

In this original and lucid account of how Spanish painters of the 16th and 17th centuries dealt with mystic visions in their art, and of how they attempted to "represent the unrepresentable", Victor Stoichita aims to establish a theory of visionary imagery in Western art in general, and...
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Art Objects

Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

by Jeanette Winterson
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013

In these ten intertwined essays, one of our most provocative young novelists proves that she is just as stylish and outrageous an art critic. For when Jeanette Winterson looks at works as diverse as the Mona Lisa and Virginia Woolf's The Waves, she frees them from layers of preconception and restores...
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Antinomies of Art and Culture

Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity

by Antonio Negri, Geeta Kapur, Rosalind Krauss
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009

In this landmark collection, world-renowned theorists, artists, critics, and curators explore new ways of conceiving the present and understanding art and culture in relation to it. They revisit from fresh perspectives key issues regarding modernity and postmodernity, including the relationship between...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007

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...
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The Insistence of Art

Aesthetic Philosophy after Early Modernity

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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017

Philosophers working on aesthetics have paid considerable attention to art and artists of the early modern period. Yet early modern artistic practices scarcely figure in recent work on the emergence of aesthetics as a branch of philosophy over the course the eighteenth century. This book addresses...
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The Nazi Perpetrator

Postwar German Art and the Politics of the Right

by Paul B. Jaskot
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012

Who was responsible for the crimes of the Nazis? Party leaders and members? Rank-and-file soldiers and bureaucrats? Ordinary Germans? This question looms over German disputes about the past like few others. It also looms over the art and architecture of postwar Germany in ways that have been surprisingly...
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Art of Suppression

Confronting the Nazi Past in Histories of the Visual and Performing Arts

by Pamela M. Potter
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016

This provocative study asks why we have held on to vivid images of the Nazis’ total control of the visual and performing arts, even though research has shown that many artists and their works thrived under Hitler. To answer this question, Pamela M. Potter investigates how historians since 1945 have...
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by María Fernández
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013

Since the colonial era, Mexican art has emerged from an ongoing process of negotiation between the local and the global, which frequently involves invention, synthesis, and transformation of diverse discursive and artistic traditions. In this pathfinding book, María Fernández uses the concept of...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013

This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture. The authors take their cue from the observation that art and popular culture enact memory and generate processes of memory. They do memory, and in this doing...
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Art from a Fractured Past

Memory and Truth-Telling in Post-Shining Path Peru

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Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014

Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission not only documented the political violence of the 1980s and 1990s but also gave Peruvians a unique opportunity to examine the causes and nature of that violence. In Art from a Fractured Past, scholars and artists expand on the commission's work, arguing for...
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