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Beschützen, heilen oder bestrafen – diese Kräfte schrieben Menschen verschiedener Zeiten und Herkünfte den Bildwerken...  Read More >>

This book gathers the published and unpublished writings of Dr Grace Pailthorpe (1883-1971), English surgeon, specialist...  Read More >>

The book examines a version of archival activism that is centred on various practices of documentation and commemoration...  Read More >>

This book gathers the published and unpublished writings of Dr Grace Pailthorpe (1883-1971), English surgeon, specialist...  Read More >>

The artwork of Maria Bussmann, a trained academic German philosopher and a significant visual artist, provides an...  Read More >>

This book provides a thorough analysis focused on the sound expression produced by human-crafted musical instrument...  Read More >>

"A South Korean wellness center designed as a mock prison- on sensory deprivation, monastic life, the wellness industry,...  Read More >>

This volume is dedicated to the object as a process in order to offer new insights into the ways the object - broadly...  Read More >>

Art critical essays focusing on artworks that, in various ways, convey a sense of unheroic ""trouble."" Art critical...  Read More >>

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The Didi-Huberman Dictionary is a specialized introduction to the thought of contemporary French philosopher Georges...  Read More >>

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This book is a theoretical examination of the relationship between the face, identity, photography, and temporality,...  Read More >>

Dialogisches Handeln in der Kunst Barbara Holubs sozial und politisch engagierte Kunstpraxis verknüpft seit dreißig...  Read More >>

Bauhaus artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis The work of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis (1898–1944) occupies a key position...  Read More >>

In these essays, Alexander Nehamas rejects the separation of art from life, which was institutionalized in the eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

Artist and writer Steven Warwick offers a series of notes on the overlapping social architectures that frame our...  Read More >>

On the centenary of the fascist party's ascent to power in Italy, Curating Fascism examines the ways in which exhibitions...  Read More >>

Sjoerd van Tuinen argues for the inseparability of matter and manner in the form of a group portrait of Leibniz,...  Read More >>

"""An important examination of fine art's impact upon filmmaking that grapples with the question of authenticity""--"...  Read More >>

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This comprehensive text challenges the taken-for-granted opposition of science and art by combining the fundamental...  Read More >>

This is the first English-language study of the legendary French art historian Georges Didi-Huberman. With clear...  Read More >>