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The Multimedia Works of Contemporary Latin American Women Writers and Artists

The Multimedia Works of Contemporary Latin American...

Author: Dr Jane Elizabeth Lavery ,  Dr Sarah Bowskill
ISBN: 9781855663947
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Latin American female writers and artists use their work to voice dissent against social issues including neo-liberal...  Read More >>

Dirk Lauwaert. Selected Writings, 1983-2008

Dirk Lauwaert. Selected Writings, 1983-2008

Author: Dirk Lauwaert ,  Herman Asselberghs
ISBN: 9789462703858
Format: Paperback
$87.98

First introduction to English-reading audiences of the seminal writings of a key Belgian writer and critic.  Read More >>

The Aestheticization of History and the Butterfly Effect: Visual Arts Series

The Aestheticization of History and the Butterfly Effect:...

Author: Nancy Wellington Bookhart
ISBN: 9781648897450
Format: Hardback
$285.12

This book introduces the audience to philosophical concepts that broach the beginning of the history of Western...  Read More >>

Cinematic Art and Reversals of Power: Deleuze via Blanchot

Cinematic Art and Reversals of Power: Deleuze via Blanchot...

Author: Eugene B. Young (Le Moyne College, Syracuse, USA)
ISBN: 9781350272408
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Bringing together Deleuze, Blanchot, and Foucault, this book provides a detailed and original exploration of the...  Read More >>

Fashion: Seductive Play

Fashion: Seductive Play

Author: Eugen Fink (Late of University of Freiburg, Germany) ,  Professor or Dr. Stefano Marino (Associate Professor of Aesthetics, University of Bologna, Italy)
ISBN: 9781350200388
Format: Hardback
$170.00

In Germany, 1969, Eugen Fink's Fashion: Seductive Play was published. This first English language edition, updated...  Read More >>

Reclaiming and Redefining American Exhibitions of Russian Art

Reclaiming and Redefining American Exhibitions of Russian...

Author: Roann Barris (Radford University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032157160
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book examines the history of American exhibitions of Russian art in the twentieth century in the context of...  Read More >>

Die Freiheit der Linie: Callot, Della Bella, Castiglione und die Radierung im 17. Jahrhundert

Die Freiheit der Linie: Callot, Della Bella, Castiglione...

Author: Maria Aresin ,  Marion Heisterberg
ISBN: 9783422801134
Format: Hardback
$103.50

Etching, the origins of which as an intaglio technique can be traced back to the beginning of the 16th century,...  Read More >>

Signaturen: Auktoriale Präsenz zwischen Schrift und Bild, 1400–1700

Signaturen: Auktoriale Präsenz zwischen Schrift und...

Author: Alessandro Della Latta ,  Karin Gludovatz
ISBN: 9783110613926
Format: Hardback
$163.01

Signaturen auf Kunstwerken zeichnen sich durch Vielseitigkeit aus. Sie bestehen aus Buchstaben und haben zugleich...  Read More >>

The Revival of Beauty: Aesthetics, Experience, and Philosophy

The Revival of Beauty: Aesthetics, Experience, and Philosophy...

Author: Catherine Wesselinoff (University of Notre Dame, Australia)
ISBN: 9781032480756
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book provides original descriptive accounts of two schools of thought in the philosophy of beauty: the 20th-century...  Read More >>

Transmissibility: Writing Aesthetic History

Transmissibility: Writing Aesthetic History

Author: Jae Emerling (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA)
ISBN: 9780367859015
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book examines transmissibility to remind us why the vitality and epistemic significance of an artwork is anachronistic...  Read More >>

Painting as an Art

Painting as an Art

Author: Richard Wollheim
ISBN: 9780691252292
Format: Paperback
$89.99

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The Mediation of Ornament

The Mediation of Ornament

Author: Oleg Grabar
ISBN: 9780691252766
Format: Paperback
$105.60

This illustrated volume uses the art of Islamic ornamentation to demonstrate how ornament in general enables a direct,...  Read More >>

The Rhythmic Event: Art, Media, and the Sonic

The Rhythmic Event: Art, Media, and the Sonic

Author: Eleni Ikoniadou
ISBN: 9780262548878
Format: Paperback
$69.99

An investigation into the affective modes of perception, temporality, and experience enabled by experimental new...  Read More >>

Dissolve into Comprehension: Writings and Interviews, 1964-2004

Dissolve into Comprehension: Writings and Interviews,...

Author: Jack Burnham ,  Melissa Ragain (Associate Professor, Montana State University)
ISBN: 9780262548809
Format: Paperback
$69.99

"Influential writings by the legendary art critic and theorist Jack Burnham-a pioneer in new media systems aesthetics...  Read More >>

Re-Connect: Art and Conflict in Brotherland

Re-Connect: Art and Conflict in Brotherland

Author: Marcus Andrew Hurttig ,  Sithara Weeratunga
ISBN: 9783777441139
Format: Paperback
$85.00

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Images of Childhood: A Visual History From Stone to Screen

Images of Childhood: A Visual History From Stone to...

Author: Professor Emeritus Paul Duncum (University of Illinois, USA, and University of Tasmania, Australia.)
ISBN: 9781350299948
Format: Paperback
$49.99

By surveying historical constructions of childhood, this book explores how representations of the child in visual...  Read More >>

Images of Childhood: A Visual History From Stone to Screen

Images of Childhood: A Visual History From Stone to...

Author: Professor Emeritus Paul Duncum (University of Illinois, USA, and University of Tasmania, Australia.)
ISBN: 9781350299931
Format: Hardback
$150.00

By surveying historical constructions of childhood, this book explores how representations of the child in visual...  Read More >>

Voiceless Vanguard: The Infantilist Aesthetic of the Russian Avant-Garde

Voiceless Vanguard: The Infantilist Aesthetic of the...

Author: Sara Pankenier Weld ,  Irina Znayesheva
ISBN: 9798887193472
Format: Hardback
$54.99

Offers a new approach to the Russian avant-garde. It argues that central writers, artists, and theorists of the...  Read More >>

Diffracting New Materialisms: Emerging Methods in Artistic Research and Higher Education

Diffracting New Materialisms: Emerging Methods in Artistic...

Author: Annouchka Bayley ,  JJ Chan
ISBN: 9783031186066
Format: Hardback
$475.17

This edited book considers the vital position of artistic research in the landscapes and ecosystems of new materialism(s)...  Read More >>

C.C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction

C.C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction

Author: Wen-Shing Chou ,  Daniel M. Greenberg
ISBN: 9783777441030
Format: Hardback
$80.00

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Weak Painting After Modernism: Material Strategies 1968-1978

Weak Painting After Modernism: Material Strategies 1968-1978...

Author: Craig Staff (University of Northampton)
ISBN: 9781032066417
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This book examines the terms upon which painting in the United States sought to negotiate with the legacy of American...  Read More >>

Sahara: A Thousand Paths Into the Future

Sahara: A Thousand Paths Into the Future

Author: Kateryna Botanova ,  Yarri Kamara
ISBN: 9781915609205
Format: Paperback
$81.71

Sahara- A Thousand Paths Into the Future is devoted to the ideas, images, poetics, politics, fictions, and movements...  Read More >>

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