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  • Understanding Cultural Diplomacy and International Cultural Relations

    Edited by Jonathan Vickery, Stuart MacDonald, Nicholas J. Cull ...
    Series series Understanding series
    This compelling book provides a comprehensive overview of cultural diplomacy, examining history, theory, practice and real world examples from an array of spheres and institutions. Leading scholars and practitioners discuss the role of culture within international affairs, exploring how it can be used as a channel for addressing foreign policy issues.Organised into three parts, each of which ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Art

    Key Contemporary Thinkers

    Edited by Jonathan Vickery, Diarmuid Costello ...
    The last few decades have witnessed an explosion in ideas and theories on art. Art itself has never been so topical, but much recent thinking remains inaccessible and difficult to use. This book assesses the work of those thinkers (including artists) who have had a major impact on making, criticizing and interpreting art since the 1960s. With entries by leading international experts, this book ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • The Spiritual in Art

    Enriched edition.

    by Wassily Kandinsky, Camille Bishop ...
    Wassily Kandinsky's book, 'The Spiritual in Art,' delves into the abstract, non-representational nature of art and its spiritual possibilities. Kandinsky explores the idea of art as a form of expression that transcends the physical world, tapping into the realm of the spiritual and emotional. His writing style is reflective and introspective, drawing on his own experiences as a pioneering abstract ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Film

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Wood ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Film is considered by some to be the most dominant art form of the twentieth century. It is many things, but it has become above all a means of telling stories through images and sounds. The stories are often offered to us as quite false, frankly and beautifully fantastic, and they are sometimes insistently said to be true. But they are stories in both cases, and there are very few films, even in ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • Ruins of Modernity

    by Julia Adams, George Steinmetz ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs, natural disasters, or factory closings, but the way we see and understand ruins is not raw or unmediated. Rather, looking at ruins, writing about them, and representing them are acts framed by a long tradition. This unique interdisciplinary collection traces discourses about and representations of ruins from a richly contextualized ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • 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

    $20.99 CAD

  • Landscapes

    John Berger on Art

    by John Berger ...
    “Essential reading”—n+1Creative and political art criticism on landscape works from the Renaissance to the present from a “master” storyteller (Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things)In this brilliant collection of diverse pieces—essays, short stories, poems, translations—which spans a lifetime’s engagement with art, John Berger reveals how he came to his own unique way of seeing. He ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Art and Phenomenology

    Edited by Joseph Parry ...
    Philosophy of art is traditionally concerned with the definition, appreciation and value of art. Through a close examination of art from recent centuries, Art and Phenomenology is one of the first books to explore visual art as a mode of experiencing the world itself, showing how in the words of Merleau-Ponty ‘Painting does not imitate the world, but is a world of its own’.An outstanding series of ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • The State of Art Criticism

    Edited by James Elkins, Michael Newman ...
    Series series The Art Seminar
    Art criticism is spurned by universities, but widely produced and read. It is seldom theorized and its history has hardly been investigated. The State of Art Criticism presents an international conversation among art historians and critics that considers the relation between criticism and art history and poses the question of whether criticism may become a university subject.Contributors include ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Travels in Intermediality

    ReBlurring the Boundaries

    Edited by Bernd Herzogenrath ...
    How do fiction, film, music, the Internet, and plastic, performative, and fine arts negotiate their shapes, formats, and contents in our contemporary world? More important, how does their interaction shape their techniques of representation, strategies of communication, and forms of reception? In the light of these ongoing interactive (and intermedial) processes, the fields of cultural studies and ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Systems We Have Loved

    Conceptual Art, Affect, and the Antihumanist Turn

    by Eve Meltzer ...
    By the early 1960s, theorists like Lévi-Strauss, Lacan, Foucault, and Barthes had created a world ruled by signifying structures and pictured through the grids of language, information, and systems. Artists soon followed, turning to language and its related forms to devise a new, conceptual approach to art making. Examining the ways in which artists shared the structuralist devotion to systems of ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Images of History

    Kant, Benjamin, Freedom, and the Human Subject

    by Richard Eldridge ...
    Developing work in the theories of action and explanation, Eldridge argues that moral and political philosophers require accounts of what is historically possible, while historians require rough philosophical understandings of ideals that merit reasonable endorsement. Both Immanuel Kant and Walter Benjamin recognize this fact. Each sees a special place for religious consciousness and critical ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD