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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

    $62.99 USD

  • 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

    $80.99 USD

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    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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  • 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

    $25.99 USD

  • 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

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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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  • Gustave Courbet

    (Grove Art Essentials)

    by Klaus Herding ...
    Series series Grove Art Essentials Series
    An artist assessed as much by his personality as by his work, French painter and writer Gustave Courbet's renown centers on his paintings of peasants and labourers of the mid-nineteenth century and his presentation of himself as a passionate social commentator. Motivated by strong political views, Courbet's art formed a paradigm of Realism: a consciously democratic attempt to objectively represent ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Realism in the Age of Impressionism

    Painting and the Politics of Time

    by Marnin Young ...
    The late 1870s and early 1880s were watershed years in the history of French painting. As outgoing economic and social structures were being replaced by a capitalist, measured time, Impressionist artists sought to create works that could be perceived in an instant, capturing the sensations of rapidly transforming modern life. Yet a generation of artists pushed back against these changes, ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Undoing Art

    by Mary Ann Caws, Michel Delville ...
    Series series Elements
    «Here is, we think, the point. It doesn't matter for what reason the writer or painter or lover destroys the creation: the real point is that destruction itself, like a gigantic statement. It is, in fact, something of an excitation, a stimulation to further thought: what is this ACTION about?» What do Stéphane Mallarmé, Antonin Artaud, Meret Oppenheim, Asger Jorn, Yoko Ono, Tom Phillips and Martin ... Read more

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  • What is Architectural History?

    by Andrew Leach ...
    Series series What is History?
    What is Architectural History? considers the questions and problems posed by architectural historians since the rise of the discipline in the late nineteenth century. How do historians of architecture organise past time and relate it to the present? How does historical evidence translate into historical narrative? Should architectural history be useful for practicing architects? If so, how? Leach ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Vermeer’s Wager

    Speculations on Art History, Theory and Art Museums

    by Ivan Gaskell ...
    Series series Essays in Art and Culture
    Vermeer’s Wager stands at the intersection of art history and criticism, philosophy and museology. Using a familiar and celebrated painting by Johannes Vermeer as a case study, Ivan Gaskell explores what it might mean to know and use a work of art. He argues that art history as generally practised, while successfully asserting certain claims to knowledge, fails to take into account aspects of the ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Cubism and Abstract Art

    by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1936, in this classic account of the development of abstract art Alfred Barr analyses the many diverse abstract movements which emerged with bewildering rapidity in the early years of the twentieth century, and which had an impact on every major form of art.Barr traces the history of nonrepresentational art from its antecedents in late nineteenth-century painting in France ... Read more

    $49.99 USD