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  • Hiding Making - Showing Creation

    The Studio from Turner to Tacita Dean

    Edited by Rachel Esner, Sandra Kisters, Ann-Sophie Lehmann ...
    The artist, at least according to Honoré de Balzac, is at work when he seems to be at rest; his labor is not labor but repose. This observation provides a model for modern artists and their relationship to both their place of work-the studio-and what they do there. Examining the complex relationship between process, product, artistic identity, and the artist's studio-in all its various ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Early Women Curators

    Making the Museum in the Twentieth Century

    Edited by Laia Anguix-Vilches, Rachel Esner ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions
    Without women’s curatorial work, the twentieth-century museum would never have developed as it did. Between the 1890s and 1970s, women began accessing decision-making roles in museums worldwide. This volume provides a transnational exploration of the contributions of pioneering female curators with regard to museum practice, collection-making, and display design.As scholarship begins unearthing ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Mediatization of the Artist

    Edited by Sandra Kisters, Rachel Esner ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book offers trans-historical and trans-national perspectives on the image of “the artist” as a public figure in the popular discourse and imagination. Since the rise of notions of artistic autonomy and the simultaneous demise of old systems of patronage from the late eighteenth century onwards, artists have increasingly found themselves confronted with the necessity of developing a public ... Read more

    $102.49 CAD

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  • René Magritte

    by Patricia Allmer ...
    Series Book 92 - Critical Lives
    The Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte redefined the way we think about art. Famous for his men in bowler hats, Magritte’s witty and provocative work inspired generations of later artists, from Andy Warhol to Jasper Johns. In this illuminating new biography, Patricia Allmer radically repositions Magritte’s work in relation to its historical and cultural circumstances. Allmer explores the ... Read more

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  • The Story of Art Without Men

    by Katy Hessel ...
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  • Parallel Presents

    The Art of Pierre Huyghe

    by Amelia Barikin ...
    The first book-length art historical examination of a major contemporary French artist.Over the past two decades, French artist Pierre Huyghe has produced an extraordinary body of work in constant dialogue with temporality. Investigating the possibility of a hypothetical mode of timekeeping—“parallel presents”—Huyghe has researched the architecture of the incomplete, directed a puppet opera, ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Thinking Contemporary Curating

    by Terry Smith ...
    What is contemporary curatorial thought? Current discourse on the topic is heating up with a new cocktail of bold ideas and ethical imperatives. these include: cooperative curating, especially with artists; the reimagination of museums; curating as knowledge production; the historicization of exhibitionmaking; and commitment to extra-artworld participatory activism. Less obvious, but increasingly ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Cézanne and the End of Impressionism

    A Study of the Theory, Technique, and Critical Evaluation of Modern Art

    by Richard Shiff ...
    Drawing on a broad foundation in the history of nineteenth-century French art, Richard Shiff offers an innovative interpretation of Cézanne's painting. He shows how Cézanne's style met the emerging criteria of a "technique of originality" and how it satisfied critics sympathetic to symbolism as well as to impressionism. Expanding his study of the interaction of Cézanne and his critics, Shiff ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women, Art, and Society

    by Whitney Chadwick ...
    Series series World of Art
    A new edition of the groundbreaking book by Whitney Chadwick maps the complete history of women artists from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to today.Art historian Whitney Chadwick’s acclaimed bestselling study challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule who “transcended” their gender to produce major works of art. While introducing some of the many women ... Read more

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  • Thinking Out of Sight

    Writings on the Arts of the Visible

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Jacques Derrida remains a leading voice of philosophy, his works still resonating today—and for more than three decades, one of the main sites of Derridean deconstruction has been the arts. Collecting nineteen texts spanning from 1979 to 2004, Thinking out of Sight brings to light Derrida's most inventive ideas about the making of visual artworks.The book is divided into three sections. The first ... Read more

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  • Cafes and Bars

    The Architecture of Public Display

    Edited by Christoph Grafe, Franziska Bollerey ...
    Series series Interior Architecture
    The design of bars and cafes has played an important role in the development of architecture in the twentieth century. This influence has been felt particularly strongly over the past thirty years, in a time when these social spaces have contributed significantly to the rediscovery and reinvention of cities across Europe and North America.This volume presents and examines this significant urban ... Read more

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