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  • The Mountains in Art History

    Edited by Peter Mark, Peter Helman, Penny Snyder ...
    The Mountains in Art History is the first English-language work to focus on mountains as subject matter and source of aesthetic and spiritual inspiration for painters. This collection of original essays is written entirely by Wesleyan University students of art history. The essays examine how artistic representation of mountains has varied through the lens of specific depictions in English and ... Read more

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  • Unnatural Wonders

    Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life

    by Arthur C. Danto ...
    Arthur C. Danto's essays not only critique bodies of work but reflect upon art's conceptual evolution as well, drawing for the reader a kind of "philosophical map" indicating how art and the criteria for judging it has changed over the twentieth century. In Unnatural Wonders the renowned critic finds himself at a point when contemporary art has become wholly pluralistic, even chaotic-with one ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • On Craftsmanship

    Towards a New Bauhaus

    by Christopher Frayling ...
    Series series Oberon Masters Series
    'Craftsmanship has again become fashionable in high places, just as it did in the last few recessions.'The concept of craftsmanship has never been as relevant and timely as it is today. Assailed on all sides by – among many other tendencies - flexible working, short-termism, portfolio careers, quick-fix training and the cult of celebrity, it has recently re-entered public debate with a new sense ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Playing to the Gallery

    Helping Contemporary Art in Its Struggle to Be Understood

    by Grayson Perry ...
    Grayson Perry’s book will overturn everything you thought you knew about “art”Now Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art (after all, there is a reason he’s called this book Playing to the Gallery and not Sucking Up to the Academic Elite). This funny, personal journey through the art world answers the basic questions that ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Wartime Kiss

    Visions of the Moment in the 1940s

    by Alexander Nemerov ...
    Series series Essays in the Arts
    A deeply personal meditation on the haunting power of American photos and films of the 1940sWartime Kiss is a personal meditation on the haunting power of American photographs and films from World War II and the later 1940s. Starting with a stunning reinterpretation of one of the most famous photos of all time, Alfred Eisenstaedt's image of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J Day, ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Stateless: Diary of a Spirited Boy at Napho Camp

    by Sanva Saephan ...
    Displaced by the Secret War in Laos from 1963 to 1975, tens of thousands of highland Laotians, Mienh and Hmong people made the perilous journey across the Mekong River to seek temporary refuge in various camps scattered across Thailand. Many harbored hopes of returning to their home land, while some opted for a new start in foreign countries that would grant them a place under the sun. The author ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Why Art Photography?

    by Lucy Soutter ...
    The second edition of Why Art Photography? is an updated, expanded introduction to the ideas behind today’s striking photographic images. Lively, accessible discussions of key issues such as ambiguity, objectivity, fiction, authenticity, and photography’s expanding field are supplemented with new material around timely topics such as globalization, selfie culture, and photographers’ use of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Re-Enchantment

    Edited by James Elkins, David Morgan ...
    Series series The Art Seminar
    The near-absence of religion from contemporary discourse on art is one of the most fundamental issues in postmodernism. Artists critical of religion can find voices in the art world, but religion itself, including spirituality, is taken to be excluded by the very project of modernism. The sublime, "re-enchantment" (as in Weber), and the aura (as in Benjamin) have been used to smuggle religious ... Read more

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  • Culture and Contestation in the New Century

    Edited by Marc James Léger ...
    Cultural production as we know it has been undergoing significant restructuring. In an effort to compensate for the global decline in economic growth, governments and corporations have begun to seriously consider the creative fields as markets that can be stimulated through venture capital and regional development initiatives. Along with the neoliberalization of cultural institutions, a ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • All the Art That's Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn't)

    Inside The New York Times Op-Ed Page

    by Jerelle Kraus ...
    From the New York Times's former Op-Ed art director, the true story of the world's first Op-Ed page, a public platform that prefigured the blogosphere.Jerelle Kraus, whose thirteen-year tenure as Op-Ed art director far exceeds that of any other art director or editor, unveils a riveting account of working at the Times. Her insider anecdotes include the reasons why artist Saul Steinberg hated the ... Read more

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  • Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure?

    by A. D. Nuttall ...
    Why does tragedy give pleasure? Why do people who are neither wicked nor depraved enjoy watching plays about suffering or death? Is it because we see horrific matter controlled by majestic art? Or because tragedy actually reaches out to the dark side of human nature? A. D. Nuttall's wide-ranging, lively and engaging book offers a new answer to this perennial question. The 'classical' answer to the ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Art of Champa

    Sacred sculpture and temples of ancient Vietnam

    by Jean-François Hubert ...
    In the 5th century, the Champa kingdom held sway over a large area of today’s Vietnam. Several magnificent structures still testify to their former presence in the Nha Trang region. Cham sculpture was worked in a variety of materials, principally sandstone, but also gold, silver and bronze. It was primarily used to illustrate themes from Indian mythology. The kingdom was gradually eroded during ... Read more

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