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Text\Werk (German edition): Lektüren zu Hito Steyerl

Text\Werk (German edition): Lektüren zu Hito Steyerl...

Author: Lilian Haberer ,  Philipp Hohmann
ISBN: 9783775751889
Format: Paperback
$45.00

The reader TEXT\WERK brings together scholarly contributions on the artistic and academic-essayistic works of the...  Read More >>

John Ruskin: Selected Writings

John Ruskin: Selected Writings

Author: Richard Lansdown (University of Groningen)
ISBN: 9780192868022
Format: Paperback
$43.95

This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection...  Read More >>

Iconography Beyond the Crossroads: Image, Meaning, and Method in Medieval Art

Iconography Beyond the Crossroads: Image, Meaning, and...

Author: Pamela A. Patton (Director of Index of Medieval Art, Princeton University, Index of Medieval Art) ,  Catherine A. Fernandez (The Index of Medieval Art)
ISBN: 9780271090566
Format: Hardback
$231.00

A collection of essays by leading medievalists assessing the challenges, and potential, of current approaches to...  Read More >>

Ökologien des Ausdrucks

Ökologien des Ausdrucks

Author: Frank Fehrenbach ,  Matthew Vollgraff
ISBN: 9783110619621
Format: Hardback
$120.00

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Slow Painting: Contemplation and Critique in the Digital Age

Slow Painting: Contemplation and Critique in the Digital...

Author: Helen Westgeest (Leiden University, Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781350283572
Format: Paperback
$61.99

The abundance of images in our everyday lives- and the speed at which they are consumed seems to have left us unable...  Read More >>

Practice as Research in the Arts (and Beyond): Principles, Processes, Contexts, Achievements

Practice as Research in the Arts (and Beyond): Principles,...

Author: Robin Nelson
ISBN: 9783030905415
Format: Hardback
$64.66

This project addresses the contexts of Practice as Research and how to undertake it. A comparison is made between...  Read More >>

Feminism and Art History Now: Radical Critiques of Theory and Practice

Feminism and Art History Now: Radical Critiques of Theory...

Author: Victoria Horne (Northumbria University, UK) ,  Lara Perry (University of Brighton, UK)
ISBN: 9781350270930
Format: Paperback
$52.99

To what extent have developments in global politics, artworld institutions and local cultures reshaped the critical...  Read More >>

Irma Stern and the Racial Paradox of South African Modern Art: Audacities of Color

Irma Stern and the Racial Paradox of South African Modern...

Author: LaNitra M. Berger (George Mason University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350187535
Format: Paperback
$52.99

South African artist Irma Stern (1894–1966) is one of the nation’s most enigmatic modern figures. Stern held conservative...  Read More >>

Asylum in the Mind: Liberation and Constraint

Asylum in the Mind: Liberation and Constraint

Author: Warren Holston ,  Christy Laneri
ISBN: 9781667844244
Format: Hardback
$92.40

Original art and poetry combined to illustrate the darkness humanity experiences and how we drift between the difficult...  Read More >>

Dix Portraits

Dix Portraits

Author: Gertrude Stein ,  Lynne Tillman
ISBN: 9781644230541
Format: Paperback
$17.99

Originally published in 1930 in an edition of 100 copies, Gertrude Stein's Dix Portraits pairs her singular literary...  Read More >>

Something Close to Music

Something Close to Music

Author: John Ashbery ,  Monica de la Torre
ISBN: 9781644230701
Format: Paperback
$17.99

An intimate and unique collection of the work of John Ashbery-a prolific poet and art critic-pairing poetry and...  Read More >>

Beate Söntgen & Julia Voss: Why Art Criticism? A Reader

Beate Söntgen & Julia Voss: Why Art Criticism? A Reader...

Author: Beate Sontgen ,  Julia Voss
ISBN: 9783775750745
Format: Paperback
$55.00

How is art criticism to be understood within an expanding artistic field? A look at its history and its manifestations...  Read More >>

Carl Einstein: Die Fabrikation der Fiktionen: 1. und 2. Fassung

Carl Einstein: Die Fabrikation der Fiktionen: 1. und...

Author: Klaus H. Kiefer
ISBN: 9783662647677
Format: Hardback
$263.97

Die neue Edition von Carl Einsteins unveröffentlichtem Werk Die...  Read More >>

Toxic Temple: An Artistic and Philosophical Adventure into the Toxicity of the Now

Toxic Temple: An Artistic and Philosophical Adventure...

Author: Anna Lerchbaumer ,  Kilian Jörg
ISBN: 9783110769142
Format: Hardback
$89.50

On the toxicity of the immediate What changes when we religiously worship the toxic? In this era of catastrophe,...  Read More >>

Stone Masters: Power Encounters in Mainland Southeast Asia

Stone Masters: Power Encounters in Mainland Southeast...

Author: Holly High
ISBN: 9789813251700
Format: Paperback
$84.48

Features city pillars, statues, megaliths, termite mounds, mountains, rocks found in forests, and stones that have...  Read More >>

Imagine Buildings Floating like Clouds: Thoughts and Visions on Contemporary Architecture from 101 Key Creatives

Imagine Buildings Floating like Clouds: Thoughts and...

Author: Vladimir Belogolovsky
ISBN: 9781864709087
Format: Hardback
$49.99

An invaluable, thought-provoking collection of conversations with leading creatives from around the globe, including...  Read More >>

Humanities through the Arts ISE

Humanities through the Arts ISE

Author: Lee Jacobus ,  F. David Martin
ISBN: 9781265188153
Format: Paperback
$159.95

The Humanities Through the Arts examines how values are revealed in the arts while keeping in mind a basic question:...  Read More >>

How Art Can Change Your Life

How Art Can Change Your Life

Author: Susie Hodge
ISBN: 9780500024935
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Offering helpful guidance, this illustrated handbook introduces new ways of viewing art and shows how anyone can...  Read More >>

Transitional Territories: Confluence of Art and Anthropology in the Practices of Contemporary Artists from Turkey

Transitional Territories: Confluence of Art and Anthropology...

Author: Ayse Gungor
ISBN: 9783837660319
Format: Paperback
$90.95

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Wasser im Jugendstil: Heilsbringer und Todesschlund

Wasser im Jugendstil: Heilsbringer und Todesschlund...

Author: Peter Forster
ISBN: 9783422988453
Format: Hardback
$50.46

Das Wasser: Metapher für heilendes Element oder Symbol für zerstörerische Urkraft? In den Werken des Jugendstils...  Read More >>

The Philosophy of Curatorial Practice: Between Work and World

The Philosophy of Curatorial Practice: Between Work...

Author: Sue Spaid (Independent Scholar, USA)
ISBN: 9781350184015
Format: Paperback
$61.99

This book walks us through the process of how artworks eventually get their meaning, showing us how curated exhibitions...  Read More >>

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