Criticism category: 58377 books
Critical Fashion Practice
From Westwood to Van Beirendonck
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
There is a new form of design practice within the contemporary fashion industry which is active in complex forms of social commentary and critique. While fashion in the modernist era has shown signs of criticism and subversion, these were either in the form of subcultures or perversions, such as punk...
Ways of Being Male
Representing Masculinities in Children's Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Given the substantial impact of feminism on children’s literature and culture during the last quarter century, it comes as no surprise that gender studies have focused predominantly on issues of female representation. The question of how the same patriarchal ideology structured representations of...
by Gail Pool
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
For more than two hundred years, book reviewers have influenced American readers, setting our literary agenda by helping us determine not only what we read but also what we think about what we read. And for nearly as long, critics of these critics have lambasted book reviews for their overpraise,...
Crossing Paths
Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2002
In Crossing Paths, John Daverio explores the connections between art and life in the works of three giants of musical romanticism. Drawing on contemporary critical theory and a wide variety of nineteenth-century sources, he considers topics including Schubert and Schumann's uncanny ability to evoke...
Blues & Chaos
The Music Writing of Robert Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Now in paperback, the definitive anthology from a writer who “set the standard for newspaper pop-music criticism” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), the New York Times’ first chief pop music critic and Rolling Stone contributor Robert Palmer.
Robert Palmer’s extraordinary knowledge and boundless...
by Greil Marcus
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Unlike all previous versions of rock ’n’ roll history, this book omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the storied events and turning points that everyone knows. Instead, in a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects ten songs recorded between 1956 and 2008, then proceeds to dramatize how each...
Higher Gossip
Essays and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Here is the collection of nonfiction pieces that John Updike was compiling when he died in January 2009. It opens with a self-portrait of the writer in winter, a Prospero who, though he fears his most dazzling performances are behind him, reveals himself in every sentence to be in deep conversation...
Hugging the Shore
Essays and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
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“Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea,” writes John Updike in his Foreword to this collection of literary considerations. But the sailor doth protest too much: This collection...
Critical Mass
Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
A career-spanning collection of critical essays and cultural journalism from one of the most acute, entertaining, and sometimes acerbic (but in a good way) critics of our time
From his early-seventies dispatches as a fledgling critic for The Village Voice on rock ’n’ roll, comedy, movies,...
Massive Pissed Love
Nonfiction 2001–2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
An incisive, snarky, and brilliant collection of arts, music, and literary criticism by a post-punk legend.
Richard Hell may best be known as a punk icon, a founding member of seminal bands Television, the Heartbreakers, and The Voidoids, but for decades he’s been a prominent voice in American...
The Triumph of Modernism
The Art World, 1987–2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative art critic of his generation, Hilton Kramer advanced his comments and judgments largely in the form of essays and short pieces. Thus this first collection of his work to appear in twenty years is a signal event for the art world and for criticism generally.
The...
Great Pretenders
My Strange Love Affair with '50s Pop Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2006
February 1964: The Beatles step onto the tarmac at JFK International Airport and turn the country on its head. It's the advent of rock and roll's uninterrupted reign, youthful rebellion, and overt teenage sex. It's also the deathblow for the pop music of another generation -- the songs of Pat Boone...
The Broken Estate
Essays on Literature and Belief
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
This book recalls an era when criticism could change the way we look at the world. In the tradition of Matthew Arnold and Edmund Wilson, James Wood reads literature expansively, always pursuing its role and destiny in our lives. In a series of essays about such figures as Melville, Flaubert, Chekhov,...
by Lois Keidan, Aaron Wright, Harriet Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
The Live Art Almanac Volume 4 is a collection of ‘found’ writings about and around Live Art that were
originally published, shared, sent, spread and read between January 2012 and December 2014. Selected through recommendations and an open call for submissions, Volume 4 reflects the dynamic,...