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Transforming Christian Thought in the Visual Arts: Theology, Aesthetics, and Practice

Transforming Christian Thought in the Visual Arts: Theology,...

Author: Sheona Beaumont ,  Madeleine Emerald Thiele
ISBN: 9780367776084
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This volume explores how the visual arts are presenting and responding to Christian theology and demonstrates how...  Read More >>

Visual Art and Self-Construction

Visual Art and Self-Construction

Author: Katrina Mitcheson
ISBN: 9781399511186
Format: Paperback
$54.31

Drawing on the work of a range of visual artists including Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Francis Bacon and Louise...  Read More >>

The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart

The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart

Author: Julia Cameron
ISBN: 9781788164313
Format: Paperback
$39.99

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Becoming Geological

Becoming Geological

Author:
ISBN: 9789082893564
Format: Paperback
$71.16

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Wyndham Lewis's Cultural Criticism and the Infrastructures of Patronage

Wyndham Lewis's Cultural Criticism and the Infrastructures...

Author: Nathan O’Donnell (Nathan O'Donnell is a Research Fellow at the Irish Museum of Modern Art.)
ISBN: 9781802078190
Format: Paperback
$131.97

This is the first book-length study of Wyndham Lewiss cultural criticism, a valuable body of writing which posed...  Read More >>

Ancestors, Goddesses, and Heroes: Sculptures from Asia, Africa, and Europe

Ancestors, Goddesses, and Heroes: Sculptures from Asia,...

Author: Stiftung Humboldt Forum
ISBN: 9783422990906
Format: Paperback
$49.16

"Protecting, healing, or punishing—people of various eras and origins have attributed such powers to the sculptures...  Read More >>

Gegen den Strom: Die Omaha. Francis La Flesche und seine Sammlung

Gegen den Strom: Die Omaha. Francis La Flesche und seine...

Author: Stiftung Humboldt Forum
ISBN: 9783422990753
Format: Paperback
$49.16

Francis La Flesche (1857–1932) lebte zwischen zwei Welten: Als Umoⁿhoⁿ (Omaha) kämpfte er für deren Rechte, als...  Read More >>

Ahnen, Göttinnen und Helden: Skulpturen aus Asien, Afrika und Europa

Ahnen, Göttinnen und Helden: Skulpturen aus Asien, Afrika...

Author: Stiftung Humboldt Forum
ISBN: 9783422990845
Format: Paperback
$49.16

"Beschützen, heilen oder bestrafen – diese Kräfte schrieben Menschen verschiedener Zeiten und Herkünfte den Bildwerken...  Read More >>

The Object as a Process: Essays Situating Artistic Practice

The Object as a Process: Essays Situating Artistic Practice...

Author: Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen ,  German A. Duarte
ISBN: 9783837661149
Format: Paperback
$90.95

This volume is dedicated to the object as a process in order to offer new insights into the ways the object - broadly...  Read More >>

Against the Current: The Omaha. Francis La Flesche and His Collection

Against the Current: The Omaha. Francis La Flesche and...

Author: Stiftung Humboldt Forum
ISBN: 9783422990760
Format: Paperback
$49.16

Francis La Flesche (1857–1932) lived between two worlds: as an Umoⁿhoⁿ (Omaha), he fought for their rights, and...  Read More >>

Datapolis

Datapolis

Author: Paul Cournet ,  Negar Sanaan Bensi
ISBN: 9789462087194
Format: Paperback
$145.20

Essays and visual analyses of the material and conceptual ramifications of data in the urban environment Data is...  Read More >>

Grace Pailthorpe’s Writings on Psychoanalysis and Surrealism

Grace Pailthorpe’s Writings on Psychoanalysis and Surrealism...

Author: Alberto Stefana ,  Lee Ann Montanaro
ISBN: 9781032366470
Format: Paperback
$62.99

This book gathers the published and unpublished writings of Dr Grace Pailthorpe (1883-1971), English surgeon, specialist...  Read More >>

Grace Pailthorpe’s Writings on Psychoanalysis and Surrealism

Grace Pailthorpe’s Writings on Psychoanalysis and Surrealism...

Author: Alberto Stefana ,  Lee Ann Montanaro
ISBN: 9781032366463
Format: Hardback
$252.00

This book gathers the published and unpublished writings of Dr Grace Pailthorpe (1883-1971), English surgeon, specialist...  Read More >>

Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow

Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration...

Author: Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic
ISBN: 9780367701895
Format: Hardback
$263.00

The book examines a version of archival activism that is centred on various practices of documentation and commemoration...  Read More >>

Philosophical Skepticism as the Subject of Art: Maria Bussmann’s Drawings

Philosophical Skepticism as the Subject of Art: Maria...

Author: David Carrier (University of Pittsburgh, USA) ,  David Carrier (University of Pittsburgh USA)
ISBN: 9781350245136
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The artwork of Maria Bussmann, a trained academic German philosopher and a significant visual artist, provides an...  Read More >>

Vox Humana Craftsmanship: Origins, Intersections and Influence on Lithuanian Pipe Organ Building

Vox Humana Craftsmanship: Origins, Intersections and...

Author: Girėnas Povilionis ,  Diego Cannizzaro
ISBN: 9783031102899
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book provides a thorough analysis focused on the sound expression produced by human-crafted musical instrument...  Read More >>

Solitary

Solitary

Author: Tyler Coburn
ISBN: 9783956796395
Format: Paperback
$69.99

"A South Korean wellness center designed as a mock prison- on sensory deprivation, monastic life, the wellness industry,...  Read More >>

Houses To Die In and Other Essays on Art

Houses To Die In and Other Essays on Art

Author: Ina Blom
ISBN: 9783956796319
Format: Paperback
$74.99

"Art critical essays focusing on artworks that, in various ways, convey a sense of unheroic ""trouble."" The undead...  Read More >>

On Letters

On Letters

Author: Prem Krishnamurthy
ISBN: 9781734728583
Format: Paperback
$51.72

On Letters is an epistolary essay, structured as thirteen wide-ranging and personal letters to the late conceptual...  Read More >>

The Didi-Huberman Dictionary

The Didi-Huberman Dictionary

Author: Magdalena Zolkos
ISBN: 9781399500982
Format: Hardback
$219.94

The Didi-Huberman Dictionary is a specialized introduction to the thought of contemporary French philosopher Georges...  Read More >>

The Selfie, Temporality, and Contemporary Photography

The Selfie, Temporality, and Contemporary Photography...

Author: Claire Raymond
ISBN: 9780367765750
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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Barbara Holub – Stiller Aktivismus / Silent Activism

Barbara Holub – Stiller Aktivismus / Silent Activism...

Author: Başak Şenova
ISBN: 9783110790818
Format: Hardback
$115.00

Dialogisches Handeln in der Kunst Barbara Holubs sozial und politisch engagierte Kunstpraxis verknüpft seit dreißig...  Read More >>

Friedl Dicker-Brandeis: Works from the Collection of the University of Applied Arts Vienna

Friedl Dicker-Brandeis: Works from the Collection of...

Author: Stefanie Kitzberger ,  Cosima Rainer
ISBN: 9783110789065
Format: Hardback
$115.00

Bauhaus artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis The work of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis (1898–1944) occupies a key position...  Read More >>

Art, Interpretation, and the Rest of Life: Essays in Aesthetics

Art, Interpretation, and the Rest of Life: Essays in...

Author: Alexander Nehamas
ISBN: 9780674268685
Format: Hardback
$118.80

In these essays, Alexander Nehamas rejects the separation of art from life, which was institutionalized in the eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

Notes on Evil

Notes on Evil

Author: Steven Warwick ,  Aaron Bogart
ISBN: 9783981910872
Format: Paperback
$33.64

Artist and writer Steven Warwick offers a series of notes on the overlapping social architectures that frame our...  Read More >>

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