Theory of art books

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Hans Haacke und Pierre Huyghe: Non-Human Living Sculptures seit den 1960er-Jahren

Hans Haacke und Pierre Huyghe: Non-Human Living Sculptures...

Author: Ursula Ströbele
ISBN: 9783111027111
Format: Paperback
$186.30

Since the 1960s, artists have questioned the traditional idea of opposition between art and nature. They have incorporated...  Read More >>

Zeitfenster. Stephan Balkenhol trifft Alte Meister

Zeitfenster. Stephan Balkenhol trifft Alte Meister

Author: Peter Forster
ISBN: 9783422802094
Format: Hardback
$81.51

"Internationally renowned as a sculptor, here Stephan Balkenhol opens a unique window in time for us. Some of the...  Read More >>

The Minjian Avant-Garde: Art of the Crowd in Contemporary China

The Minjian Avant-Garde: Art of the Crowd in Contemporary...

Author: Chang Tan
ISBN: 9781501773181
Format: Hardback
$123.95

"""This book studies how Chinese artists appropriated from and interacted with the broad public in the post-Mao...  Read More >>

The Complex Answer: On Art as a Non-Binary Intelligence

The Complex Answer: On Art as a Non-Binary Intelligence...

Author: Chus Martinez
ISBN: 9781915609175
Format: Paperback
$49.99

The Complex Answer- On Art as a Non-Binary Intelligence presents a series of entangled essays on the question on...  Read More >>

Art and Society 1972-2022-2072: On the Art for the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 for Artistic Design Concepts of the Twenty-First Century

Art and Society 1972-2022-2072: On the Art for the Olympic...

Author: Anton Biebl ,  Elisabeth Hartung
ISBN: 9783775754927
Format: Hardback
$98.32

Since the advent of modernity, art has been associated with freedom, provocation and courage. In 1972, art was to...  Read More >>

Militant Aesthetics: Art Activism in the 21st Century

Militant Aesthetics: Art Activism in the 21st Century...

Author: Dr Martin Lang
ISBN: 9781350346741
Format: Hardback
$170.00

In 2008 an Iraqi artist was waterboarded as performance art. In 2010 artists upturned police cars in Russia. But...  Read More >>

Where Words and Images Meet

Where Words and Images Meet

Author: Prof. Ludmilla Jordanova (Durham University, UK) ,  Dr. Florence Grant (Independent Scholar, USA)
ISBN: 9781350300552
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Bringing together a fascinatingly diverse yet closely related group of subjects, Where Words and Images Meet asks...  Read More >>

Walking

Walking

Author: Tom Jeffreys
ISBN: 9780854883165
Format: Paperback
$51.75

Walking surveys the proliferation of pedestrian practices across contemporary art, taking an avowedly political...  Read More >>

Under Blue Cup

Under Blue Cup

Author: Rosalind E. Krauss (Editor, October magazine / Professor, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780262551236
Format: Paperback
$82.00

A personal journey leads a celebrated critic to discover “knights of the medium,” contemporary artists who battle...  Read More >>

Bild-Raum-Wissenschaft: Studies on Spatially Embedded Art

Bild-Raum-Wissenschaft: Studies on Spatially Embedded...

Author: Christina Strunck
ISBN: 9783422801240
Format: Paperback
$153.96

"As space conditions perception, the analysis of relationships between image and space is highly significant. The...  Read More >>

Robert Motherwell, Abstraction, and Philosophy

Robert Motherwell, Abstraction, and Philosophy

Author: Robert Hobbs (Virginia Commonwealth University)
ISBN: 9780367511425
Format: Paperback
$41.99

Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this book breaks new ground by considering how Robert Motherwell’s abstract...  Read More >>

Reportage Drawing: Vision and Experience

Reportage Drawing: Vision and Experience

Author: Louis Netter (University of Portsmouth, UK)
ISBN: 9781350253087
Format: Paperback
$39.99

How does drawing shape the truth and our understanding of the visual world? Why has the act of reportage drawing...  Read More >>

Art, Observation, and an Anthropology of Illustration

Art, Observation, and an Anthropology of Illustration...

Author: Dr Max Carocci ,  Dr Stephanie Pratt
ISBN: 9781350248472
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Art, Observation, and an Anthropology of Illustration examines the role of sketches, drawings and other artworks...  Read More >>

Reportage Drawing: Vision and Experience

Reportage Drawing: Vision and Experience

Author: Louis Netter (University of Portsmouth, UK)
ISBN: 9781350253094
Format: Hardback
$130.00

How does drawing shape the truth and our understanding of the visual world? Why has the act of reportage drawing...  Read More >>

Edgar Wind: Art and Embodiment

Edgar Wind: Art and Embodiment

Author: Katia Pizzi ,  Jaynie Anderson
ISBN: 9781800799523
Format: Paperback
$124.20

Edgar Wind (1900–1971) was a cosmopolitan scholar who made important contributions to many disciplines, including...  Read More >>

William Blake's Universe

William Blake's Universe

Author: David Bindman (University College London) ,  Esther Chadwick (Courtauld Institute)
ISBN: 9781781301272
Format: Hardback
$69.99

A unique look into Blake's past, present and future artistic conceptions.  Read More >>

Impressions from Paris: Women Creatives in Interwar Years France

Impressions from Paris: Women Creatives in Interwar...

Author: Sylvie Eve Blum-Reid
ISBN: 9781648899249
Format: Paperback
$142.56

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Bilder unter Verdacht: Praktiken der Bildforensik

Bilder unter Verdacht: Praktiken der Bildforensik

Author: Roland Meyer
ISBN: 9783111085203
Format: Paperback
$69.86

"Nicht erst seit den Diskussionen um „Deepfakes"" und generative KI stehen digitale Bilder unter Manipulationsverdacht....  Read More >>

Probelauf: Performative Szenen zum parlamentarischen Betrieb

Probelauf: Performative Szenen zum parlamentarischen...

Author: Parlamentsdirektion ,  Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien
ISBN: 9783111337166
Format: Paperback
$106.09

The Parliament – a mise-en-scène To mark the return of parliamentary business to the renovated Austrian parliament...  Read More >>

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