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  • The New Fiction

    (A Protest against Sex-Mania) And Other Papers

    by J.A. Spender ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This collection of essays attempts to analyse common assumptions about art, literature and criticism at the time of publication in 1895. Taking the position of ‘a Philistine’ , Spender argues against the ‘new’ art and fiction and encourages the average member of the public to state their opinion and give validation that the average view is just as worthy as the ‘new’ criticism which tended toward ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

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  • And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos

    by John Berger ...
    'Those who read or listen to our stories see everything as though through a lens. This lens is the secret of narration, and it is ground anew in every story, ground between the temporal and the timeless ... In our brief mortal lives, we are grinders of these lenses'.When John Berger wrote this apparently unclassifiable book, it was to become a sensation, translated into nine languages and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Art and Culture

    Critical Essays

    by Clement Greenberg ...
    "Clement Greenberg is, internationally, the best-known American art critic popularly considered to be the man who put American vanguard painting and sculpture on the world map. . . . An important book for everyone interested in modern painting and sculpture."—The New York Times ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • Looking at Mindfulness

    25 Ways to Live in the Moment Through Art

    by Christophe Andre ...
    A book to help you achieve mindfulness and practice meditation while looking at the world's greatest works of art.Psychiatrist and leading meditation practitioner Christophe André guides you through the art of mindfulness, beginning with art itself. Looking at Mindfulness collects classic and esoteric paintings, from Rembrandt to Hopper to Magritte, and offers a lucid commentary on the inner ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Singularities

    Dance in the Age of Performance

    by Andre Lepecki ...
    How does the production of performance engage with the fundamental issues of our advanced neo-capitalist age?André Lepecki surveys a decade of experimental choreography to uncover the dual meaning of ‘performance’ in the twenty-first century: not just an aesthetic category, but a mode of political power. He demonstrates the enduring ability of performance to critique and subvert this power, ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Studio Art Therapy

    Cultivating the Artist Identity in the Art Therapist

    by Catherine Hyland Moon ...
    Series series Arts Therapies
    Arguing that the profession of art therapy has its roots in the studio environment, Catherine Moon proposes that it is now time to reclaim these roots, and make art once again central to art therapy. She suggests that there has been a tendency for art therapy not merely to interact with and be enriched by other perspectives - psychological, social, anthropological and transpersonal - but to be ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture

    Edited by Liedeke Plate, Anneke Smelik ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture. The authors take their cue from the observation that art and popular culture enact memory and generate processes of memory. They do memory, and in this doing of memory new questions about the cultural dimensions of memory arise: How do art objects and ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Deleuze and Futurism

    A Manifesto for Nonsense

    by Helen Palmer ...
    This book is an original exploration of Deleuze's dynamic philosophies of space, time and language, bringing Deleuze and futurism together for the first time. Helen Palmer investigates both the potential for creative novelty and the pitfalls of formalism within both futurist and Deleuzian linguistic practices. Through creative and rigorous analyses of Russian and Italian futurist manifestos, the ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Concerning the Spiritual—and the Concrete—in Kandinsky’s Art

    by Lisa Florman ...
    This book examines the art and writings of Wassily Kandinsky, who is widely regarded as one of the first artists to produce non-representational paintings. Crucial to an understanding of Kandinsky's intentions is On the Spiritual in Art, the celebrated essay he published in 1911. Where most scholars have taken its repeated references to "spirit" as signaling quasi-religious or mystical concerns, ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Manifold Mirrors

    The Crossing Paths of the Arts and Mathematics

    by Felipe Cucker ...
    Most works of art, whether illustrative, musical or literary, are created subject to a set of constraints. In many (but not all) cases, these constraints have a mathematical nature, for example, the geometric transformations governing the canons of J. S. Bach, the various projection systems used in classical painting, the catalog of symmetries found in Islamic art, or the rules concerning poetic ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Routledge Revivals: In Modernity's Wake (1989)

    The Ameurunculus Letters

    by Michael Phillipson ...
    First published in 1988, this book attempts to tackle the problem of how to write about art, culture, and the issues of postmodernism in a style appropriate to what is being claimed. The letters are written on art’s behalf to a range of institutions and individuals, and have as their recurring concern the relation between art, culture and representation — both art as representation and how art is ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

  • The Subject of Minimalism

    On Aesthetics, Agency, and Becoming

    by Thomas Phillips ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Utilizing a wide range of theoretical and creative texts, Phillips offers an examination of subjectivity as considered, enacted, and embodied, through the frame of minimalist aesthetics. Provocatively, he makes the claim that lived experience is capable of being refined according to the paradoxically rich parameters of a minimalist aesthetic. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD