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Space and Time in Artistic Practice and Aesthetics
The Legacy of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
When the Enlightenment thinker Gotthold Ephraim Lessing wrote his treatise Laocoön: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry in 1766, he outlined the strengths and weaknesses of each art. Painting was assigned to the realm of space; poetry to the realm of time. Space and Time in Artistic Practice...
by Richard Wollheim
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Richard Wollheim's classic reflection on art considers central questions regarding expression, representation, style, the significance of the artist's intention and the essentially historical nature of art. Presented in a fresh series livery for the twenty-first century, with a specially commissioned...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2005
This groundbreaking text brings together experts in the field of visual art markets to answer some fundamental questions:
Is art a good investment?
Why is the art market dominated by America and Western Europe?
Where are the key emerging markets and what are the next good buys in art?
Providing...
by Allan Brandon Hill
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Show Me Don't Tell Me eBooks are designed to be the digital version of traditional coffee table books. Their modest purpose is to commemorate the work of accomplished artists without excessive verbal commentary; to serve as a handy reference and guide in the intelligent use of color, line, form and...
by Allan Brandon Hill
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Show Me Don't Tell Me eBooks are designed to be the digital version of traditional coffee table books. Their modest purpose is to commemorate the work of accomplished artists without excessive verbal commentary; to serve as a handy reference and guide in the intelligent use of color, line, form and...
Industry and Intelligence
Contemporary Art Since 1820
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
The history of modern art is often told through aesthetic breakthroughs that sync well with cultural and political change. From Courbet to Picasso, from Malevich to Warhol, it is accepted that art tracks the disruptions of industrialization, fascism, revolution, and war. Yet filtering the history...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This volume aims to question, challenge, supplement, and revise current understandings of the relationship between aesthetic and political operations. The authors transcend disciplinary boundaries and nurture a wide-ranging sensibility about art and sovereignty, two highly complex and interwoven dimensions...
Playing with Earth and Sky
Astronomy, Geography, and the Art of Marcel Duchamp
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Playing with Earth and Sky reveals the significance astronomy, geography, and aviation had for Marcel Duchamp—widely regarded as the most influential artist of the past fifty years. Duchamp transformed modern art by abandoning unique art objects in favor of experiences that could be both embodied...
Collective Situations
Readings in Contemporary Latin American Art, 1995–2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
In Collective Situations scholars, artists, and art collectives present a range of socially engaged art practices that emerged in Latin America during the Pink Tide period, between 1995 and 2010. This volume's essays, interviews, and artist's statements—many of which are appearing in English for...
More Travels:
Adventures in India, Africa and Australia in Art and Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
More Travels: India, Africa and Australia in Art and Poetry. Returning from overseas and still searching for direction, Julie Vincent heads north and explores the wonders of Australias top end before heading to India and Africa.
This book follows on from Travels Within: Art and Poetry, which...
By the Skin of Our Teeth
The Art and Design of Morning Breath
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
A lush, full-color, beautifully designed visual history that brings to life the innovative and creative world of Morning Breath Co. Inc., the Brooklyn-based boutique design studio whose collaborators including top musical artists (from Jay Z to the Foo Fighters) as well as such top brands as Vans...
The Idea of Art
Building an International Contemporary Art Collection
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Curator Anthony Bond began building a contemporary international art collection at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney in 1984. The collection now features many important artists, including Anselm Kiefer, Antony Gormley, Francis Bacon, Anish Kapoor, Mike Parr, Doris Salcedo and Janet Laurence....
Seeing Power
Art and Activism in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
In our chaotic world of co-opted imagery, does art still have power?
A fog of images andinformation permeates the world nowadays: from advertising, television, radio, and film to the glut produced by the new economy and the rise of social media . . . where even our friends suddenly seem to...
by Masaccio, Peter Russell
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2018
The first great artist of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance, Masaccio would have an incredible impact on the course of Western art, in spite of his untimely death at the age of twenty-six. He is noted for his skill in imitating nature, recreating lifelike figures and his unprecedented...