Theory of art books

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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: 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 >>

The (Im)Possibilities of Art Archives: Theory and Experience in/from Asia: 艺术档案库手册

The (Im)Possibilities of Art Archives: Theory and Experience...

Author: kali cultural
ISBN: 9781803770444
Format: Paperback
$131.97

本书分为三个部分。 第一部分关于新档案库的诞生及其过程。在此我们可以窥见这些独立的亚洲艺术档案库在何种历史背景和动力的驱动下诞生。 第二部分则收录那些使用档案库概念或/ 和内容进行艺术及展览实践的艺术家和策展人的自述,或者是学者对这些作品/...  Read More >>

Is Now the Time for Joyous Rage?

Is Now the Time for Joyous Rage?

Author: Jacqueline Francis ,  Jeanne Gerrity
ISBN: 9783956796593
Format: Paperback
$29.99

On the themes found in the work of Lorraine O'Grady- Black female subjectivity, intersectional feminism, institutional...  Read More >>

Microbiopolitics of Milk

Microbiopolitics of Milk

Author: Inland ,  David Pietro Serrano
ISBN: 9783956796609
Format: Paperback
$45.00

In the context of INLAND's Academy at documenta fifteen, Microbiopolitics of Milk presents the grounding basis for...  Read More >>

Art History, Narratology, and Twentieth-Century Chinese Art

Art History, Narratology, and Twentieth-Century Chinese...

Author: Lian Duan (Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.)
ISBN: 9781032461526
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This study constructs a framework of narratology for art history and rewrites the development of twentieth-century...  Read More >>

Malevich and Interwar Modernism: Russian Art and the International of the Square

Malevich and Interwar Modernism: Russian Art and the...

Author: Éva Forgács (Art Center College of Design, USA)
ISBN: 9781350204218
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This book examines the legacy of international interwar modernism as a case of cultural transfer through the travels...  Read More >>

Restoration as Fabrication of Origins: A Material and Political History of Italian Renaissance Art

Restoration as Fabrication of Origins: A Material and...

Author: Henri de Riedmatten ,  Fabio Gaffo
ISBN: 9783111072272
Format: Paperback
$110.00

Die Publikation widmet sich den Beziehungen zwischen Restaurierung und Politik in der Kunst der italienischen Renaissance....  Read More >>

Romantische Thermodynamik: Dichtung, Natur und die Verwandlung der Kräfte 1770-1830

Romantische Thermodynamik: Dichtung, Natur und die Verwandlung...

Author: Cornelia Zumbusch
ISBN: 9783111252971
Format: Hardback
$171.57

The power of poetry, a topos since Plato, undergoes a radical transformation in literary texts between 1770 and...  Read More >>

Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

Author: Lauren Elkin
ISBN: 9781784742935
Format: Hardback
$55.00

"""A meditation on the role of the female body in art and art-making""--"  Read More >>

The Painting Master’s Shame: Liang Shicheng and the Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings

The Painting Master’s Shame: Liang Shicheng and the...

Author: Amy McNair
ISBN: 9780674293748
Format: Hardback
$86.95

The Painting Master’s Shame describes the remarkable circumstances of the period around 1120, when the Xuanhe Catalogue...  Read More >>

Errant Letters: Jacques Rancière and the Philosophy of Literature

Errant Letters: Jacques Rancière and the Philosophy...

Author: Ryszard Nycz ,  Mikołaj Golubiewski
ISBN: 9783631881644
Format: Hardback
$119.03

Comprehensive presentation of Jacques Rancière’s thought on relations between politics and literature in the context...  Read More >>

Dreamwork for Dramatic Writing: Dreamwrighting for Stage and Screen

Dreamwork for Dramatic Writing: Dreamwrighting for Stage...

Author: David A. Crespy
ISBN: 9789004535954
Format: Hardback
$314.16

Dreamwork for Dramatic Writing: Dreamwrighting for Stage and Screen is a book about how to use your dreams, content,...  Read More >>

Esch2022: PURE EUROPE

Esch2022: PURE EUROPE

Author: cropmark.
ISBN: 9783775752428
Format: Paperback
$60.00

Europe is often defined in either strictly political terms or rather vague cultural notions. But where do these...  Read More >>

Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and Work

Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and...

Author: Prof. Nigel Cross
ISBN: 9781350305069
Format: Paperback
$36.99

A short and very accessible primer explaining how designers think in order to create.  Read More >>

Camille Henrot: Milkyways

Camille Henrot: Milkyways

Author: Camille Henrot ,  Neil Holt
ISBN: 9783775755344
Format: Paperback
$45.00

Milkyways is a collection of essays by artist Camille Henrot, exploring the ambivalence of motherhood and the process...  Read More >>

A Jar of Wild Flowers: Essays in Celebration of John Berger

A Jar of Wild Flowers: Essays in Celebration of John...

Author: Yasmin Gunaratnam ,  Amarjit Chandan
ISBN: 9781350429253
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The first collection of essays dedicated to examining the work of John Berger, with cross-cultural contributions...  Read More >>

Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and Work

Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and...

Author: Prof. Nigel Cross
ISBN: 9781350305021
Format: Hardback
$110.00

A short and very accessible primer explaining how designers think in order to create.  Read More >>

Faith in Art: Religion, Aesthetics, and Early Abstraction

Faith in Art: Religion, Aesthetics, and Early Abstraction...

Author: Professor Joseph Masheck (Hofstra University, USA) ,  David Carrier (University of Pittsburgh USA)
ISBN: 9781350216976
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Metaphysical thought has been excluded from much of the discourse on modern art, especially abstract painting. By...  Read More >>

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