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  • The End of the American Avant Garde

    American Social Experience Series

    by Stuart D. Hobbs ...
    "By 1966, the composer Virgil Thomson would write, "Truth is, there is no avant-garde today." How did the avant garde dissolve, and why? In this thought-provoking work, Stuart D. Hobbs traces the avant garde from its origins to its eventual appropriation by a conservative political agenda, consumer culture, and the institutional world of art. ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • Art

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Laurie Schneider Adams ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    A beautifully crafted overview of Western artistic tradition OR An exhilarating tour through Western artistic traditionArt has existed for as long as humankind, but defining it is famously difficult. In this whirlwind tour spanning from prehistory up to the present day and beyond, Laurie Schneider Adams explores how art, and our views on it, have evolved. Delving into fascinating issues such as ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Abstraction and Empathy

    A Contribution to the Psychology of Style

    by Wilhelm Worringer ...
    Wilhelm Worringer's landmark study in the interpretation of modern art, first published in 1908, has seldom been out of print. Its profound impact not only on art historians and theorists but also for generations of creative writers and intellectuals is almost unprecedented. Starting from the notion that beauty derives from our sense of being able to identify with an object, Worringer argues that ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Fashion

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Rebecca Arnold ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Fashion is a dynamic global industry that plays an important role in the economic, political, cultural, and social lives of an international audience. It spans high art and popular culture, and plays a significant role in material and visual culture. This book introduces fashion's myriad influences and manifestations. Fashion is explored as a creative force, a business, and a means of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Destruction of Art

    Iconoclasm and Vandalism since the French Revolution

    by Dario Gamboni ...
    In January 2006, a man tried to break Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain sculpture with a small hammer. The sculpted foot of Michelangelo’s David was damaged in 1991 by a purportedly mentally-ill artist. With each incident, artists and intellectuals must confront the unsettling dynamic between destruction and art. Renowned art historian Dario Gamboni is the first to tackle this weighty issue in depth, ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Art Since 1989 (World of Art)

    by Kelly Grovier ...
    Series Book 0 - World of Art
    An extensive, accessible guide to the most groundbreaking and influential art from 1989 to the presentThe years since the collapse of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 have seen the rise of a new freedom to define art—Who makes it? Where can it be found? What is its commercial value?—and, consequently, the reevaluation of art’s place in society.Kelly Grovier surveys the dynamic developments in art ... Read more

    $13.89 USD

  • The A to Z of Animation and Cartoons

    by Nichola Dobson ...
    Series series The A to Z Guide Series
    Animation was once a relatively simple matter, using fairly primitive means to produce rather short films of subjects that were generally comedic and often quite childish. However, things have changed, and they continue changing at a maddening pace. One new technique after another has made it easier, faster, and above all cheaper to produce the material, which has taken on an increasing variety of ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Art, Religion, Amnesia

    The Enchantments of Credulity

    by Donald Preziosi ...
    Art, Religion, Amnesia addresses the relationship between art and religion in contemporary culture, directly challenging contemporary notions of art and religion as distinct social phenomena and explaining how such Western terms represent alternative and even antithetical modes of world-making.In this new book, Professor Preziosi offers a critique of the main thrust of writing in recent years on ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Subversive Imagination

    The Artist, Society and Social Responsiblity

    by Carol Becker ...
    In The Subversive Imagination , professional writers, artists and cultural critics from around the world offer their views on the issue of the artist's responsibility to society. The contributors look beyond censorship and free speech issues and instead emphasize the subject of freedom. More specifically, the contributors question the ethical, mutual responsibilities between artists and the ... Read more

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  • Fashion and Art

    Edited by Adam Geczy, Vicki Karaminas ...
    For at least two centuries, fashion and art have maintained a competitive love-hate relationship. Both fashion and art construct imaginary worlds, and use a language of style to invigorate beliefs, perceptions and ideas.Until now the crossovers of fashion and art have received only scattered treatment and suffered from a dearth of theorization. As an attempt to theorize the area, this collection ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Michelangelo: Selected Readings

    Edited by William Wallace ...
    Michaelangelo: Selected Readings is the long-awaited condensation of the five volume English article collection of Michaelangelo's life. Selections include: Life and Early Works; The Sistine Chapel; San Lorenzo; Tomb of Julius II and Other Works in Rome; and Drawings, Poetry and Miscellaneous Studies. ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • The Homoerotics of Orientalism

    by Joseph Boone ...
    One of the largely untold stories of Orientalism is the degree to which the Middle East has been associated with "deviant" male homosexuality by scores of Western travelers, historians, writers, and artists for well over four hundred years. And this story stands to shatter our preconceptions of Orientalism.To illuminate why and how the Islamicate world became the locus for such fantasies and ... Read more

    $40.49 USD