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Aftershock: The Ethics of Contemporary Transgressive Art

Aftershock: The Ethics of Contemporary Transgressive...
Author: Kieran Cashell (Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland) ISBN: 9781845115241 Format: Paperback	$52.99
Accused by the tabloid press of setting out to 'shock', controversial artworks are vigorously defended by art critics,... Read More >>

Of an Obscure Disaster: On the End of Truth

Of an Obscure Disaster: On the End of Truth
Author: Alain Badiou ISBN: 9789072076700 Format: Paperback	$38.68
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Employing the Grotesque as a Communication Strategy: The History of an Artistic Style

Employing the Grotesque as a Communication Strategy:...
Author: Myung Choi ISBN: 9780773438446 Format: Hardback	$263.87
Examines the presence of the grotesque in fiction, plastic arts, and films, to interpret the postmodern artistic... Read More >>

Karel Appel, A Gesture of Colour

Karel Appel, A Gesture of Colour
Author: Jean-François Lyotard , Herman Parret ISBN: 9789058677563 Format: Hardback	$130.68
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The Sublime Now

The Sublime Now
Author: Claire Pajaczkowska , Luke White ISBN: 9781443813020 Format: Hardback	$192.69
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Take Place: Photography and Place from Multiple Perspectives

Take Place: Photography and Place from Multiple Perspectives...
Author: Helen W. Westgeest ISBN: 9789078088356 Format: Paperback	$76.43
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Acts Of Seeing: Artists, Scientists and the History of the Visual. (A Volume Dedicated to Martin Kemp)

Acts Of Seeing: Artists, Scientists and the History...
Author: Assimina Kaniari , Marina Wallace ISBN: 9780955485084 Format: Paperback	$25.85
Parallel to Kemp's interest in contemporary science, one of his most consistent themes is the historical exploration... Read More >>

Documenta 12 Education I: Engaging Audiences, Opening Institutions Methods and Strategies in Education at Documenta 12

Documenta 12 Education I: Engaging Audiences, Opening...
Author: Ayse Gulec , Claudia Hummel ISBN: 9783037340813 Format: Mixed media product	$92.40
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Art, Emotion and Ethics

Art, Emotion and Ethics
Author: Berys Gaut (University of St Andrews) ISBN: 9780199571529 Format: Paperback	$92.95
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Rediscovering Art

Rediscovering Art
Author: Bob Craig ISBN: 9781882918294 Format: Paperback	$36.96
Bob Craig is a Western Canadian artist whose path in the fine arts has led him to a unique expression of mood and... Read More >>

Surface Tension Supplement

Surface Tension Supplement
Author: Brandon LaBelle , Ken Ehrlich ISBN: 9780977259434 Format: Paperback	$52.80
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Pascal Gielen: The Murmuring of the Artistic Multitude. Global Art, Memory and Post-fordism

Pascal Gielen: The Murmuring of the Artistic Multitude....
Author: Pascal Gielen ISBN: 9789078088349 Format: Paperback	$76.43
Here, art sociologist Pascal Gielen examines the notion that the global art economy-with its ever-renewable youth... Read More >>

Rethinking Contemporary Art: The Artist, the PhD and the Academy

Rethinking Contemporary Art: The Artist, the PhD and...
Author: John Conomos , Brad Buckley ISBN: 9780919616493 Format: Paperback	$66.00
With great timeliness, Rethinking the Contemporary Art School examines the very basis of the art school and its... Read More >>

Falling in Love with Statues: Artificial Humans from Pygmalion to the Present

Falling in Love with Statues: Artificial Humans from...
Author: George L. Hersey ISBN: 9780226327792 Format: Hardback	$92.95
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The Extreme of the Middle: Writings of Jack Tworkov

The Extreme of the Middle: Writings of Jack Tworkov...
Author: Jack Tworkov , Mira Schor ISBN: 9780300141023 Format: Paperback	$118.80
Jack Tworkov (1900-1982) was a significant figure of the Abstract Expressionist period. This book presents a collection... Read More >>

Tomograph: Interviews with Artists

Tomograph: Interviews with Artists
Author: Vivien Moskaliuk , Vivien Moskaliuk ISBN: 9783897903098 Format: Paperback	$65.00
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The Literate Eye

The Literate Eye
Author: Teukolsky ISBN: 9780195381375 Format: Hardback	$92.40
In Victorian Britain, authors produced a luminous and influential body of writings about the visual arts. From John... Read More >>

Visual Culture and Bioscience: Issues in Cultural Theory, No. 12

Visual Culture and Bioscience: Issues in Cultural Theory,...
Author: Suzanne Anker , JD Talasek ISBN: 9781890761127 Format: Paperback	$52.67
Edited by Suzanne Anker, JD Talasek. Preface by David Yager. Foreword by JD Talasek. Introduction by Suzanne Anker.... Read More >>

Rethinking the Vanguard: Aesthetic and Political Positions in the Modernist Debate, 1917-1962

Rethinking the Vanguard: Aesthetic and Political Positions...
Author: John W. Maerhofer ISBN: 9781443811354 Format: Hardback	$158.37
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Meaning Liam Gillick

Meaning Liam Gillick
Author: Monika Szewczyk (Publications Director, Witte de With) , Stefan Kalmár ISBN: 9780262513517 Format: Paperback	$65.87
The first critical reader on one of today's most pivotal (and perplexing) contemporary artists. Read More >>

Art and Death: A Collection of Prose and Poetry

Art and Death: A Collection of Prose and Poetry
Author: Marcus Reichert ISBN: 9780956103833 Format: Paperback	$25.75
A collection of observation and personal reminiscence on the precarious subject of death, written in language that... Read More >>

Patronage, Art, and Society in Renaissance Italy

Patronage, Art, and Society in Renaissance Italy
Author: F W Kent , Lecturer in Fine Arts Patricia Simons (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor University of Sydney University of Sydney) ISBN: 9781280806377 Format: Electronic book text	$636.90
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The Power of Art

The Power of Art
Author: Simon Schama, CBE ISBN: 9781847921185 Format: Paperback	$75.00
* 'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and... Read More >>

Photography: The Key Concepts

Photography: The Key Concepts
Author: David Bate ISBN: 9781845206673 Format: Paperback	$65.87
Since its introduction nearly 200 years ago, photography has become part of everyday life. Outlining the history... Read More >>

All that Is Solid Melts into Air: Five Reflections on Materialistic Spirituality in Contemporary Art

All that Is Solid Melts into Air: Five Reflections on...
Author: Lannoo International ISBN: 9789020983180 Format: Paperback	$171.60
Does art have or give a meaning? Can contemporary art be a free haven of spirituality and enchantment in a time... Read More >>

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