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9.5 theses on art and class
Ben Davis draws the curtain back on the contemporary art world to assail its commodified roots.
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A general theory of visual culture
What is cultural about vision--or visual about culture? In this ambitious book, Whitney Davis provides new answers to these difficult and important questions by presenting an original framework for understanding visual culture. Grounded in the theoretical traditions of art history, A General Theo...
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A history of art history
An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicamentsIn this authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher S. Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through the rise of the modern scholarly disc...
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A lateral view
A revealing look at the Japanese through the window of their contemporary culture.
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Adorno's theory of philosophical and aesthetic truth
Owen Hulatt undertakes an original reading of Theodor W. Adorno’s epistemology, deepening our understanding of his theories of truth, art, and the nonidentical. Hulatt’s interpretation casts Adorno’s theory of philosophical and aesthetic truth as substantially unified, supporting his claim that b...
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Aesthetic temporalities today
Contributions from various disciplines examine the present and its plural conditions and meanings. They provide insights with special emphasis on the global present as well as on art and aesthetics from the eighteenth century until today.
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Aesthetics and the cinematic narrative
‘Aesthetics and the Cinematic Narrative’ examines the manner in which disparate Aesthetic traditions inform the conception, creation and reception of cinematic narrative while placing film, as an art form, in a wider historical and aesthetic context.
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After art
How digital networks are transforming art and architectureArt as we know it is dramatically changing, but popular and critical responses lag behind. In this trenchant illustrated essay, David Joselit describes how art and architecture are being transformed in the age of Google. Under the dual pre...
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After institutions
After Institutions expands upon an Institutional Critique to look beyond what cultural institutions were to what they are and what they might become.
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After the end of art
The classic and provocative account of how art changed irrevocably with pop art and why traditional aesthetics can’t make sense of contemporary artA classic of art criticism and philosophy, After the End of Art continues to generate heated debate for its radical and famous assertion that art ende...
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After uniqueness
A historical-conceptual perspective on the concept of "the political"
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Against morality
Rosanna McLaughlin investigates the consequences of this moralizing approach to creative work. She invites us to rethink the connection between political values and art—and to ask whether a relationship between them should exist at all.
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An anthropology of images
A compelling theory that places the origin of human picture making in the bodyIn this groundbreaking book, renowned art historian Hans Belting proposes a new anthropological theory for interpreting human picture making. Rather than focus exclusively on pictures as they are embodied in various med...
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Art after liberalism
Art after Liberalism is an account of creative practice at a moment of converging social crises. It is also an inquiry into emergent ways of living, acting, and making art in the company of others.
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Art and illusion
A groundbreaking account of perception and art, from one of the twentieth century’s most important art historiansE. H. Gombrich is widely considered to be one of the most influential art historians of the twentieth century, and Art and Illusion is generally agreed to be his most important book. B...
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Art and posthistory
From the 1990s until just before his death, the legendary art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto carried out extended conversations about contemporary art with the prominent Italian critic Demetrio Paparoni. Art and Posthistory presents these rich dialogues and correspondence, testifying to t...
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Art and value
Art and Value is the first comprehensive analysis of art's political economy throughout classical, neoclassical and Marxist economics.
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Art history as social praxis
The key writings of one of the most important and unorthodox Marxists to study modern art.
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Art in the after-culture
Essential essays on art in our current era from one of the most important art critics writing today.
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Art intelligence
Jan Svenungsson investigates what AI might do for art, and what it might change, circling the core issue of what it is in human art-making that cannot be replaced.
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Art was never there
Mitch Speed asks whether contemporary art is doomed to become an obsolete curiosity, or if it can act as a site of resistance against an algorithmically driven culture industry.
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Artaud the moma
In 1996 Jacques Derrida gave a lecture at the Museum of Modern Art on Antonin Artaud. Artaud the Moma reveals the challenge that Artaud posed to Derrida—and to art and its institutional history. It is a powerful interjection into the museum halls, a crucial moment in Derrida’s thought, and an ins...
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Artistic transfer
Ursula Bertram contends that when artistic thought is circulated and probed in nonartistic fields, a crucial pattern called artistic transfer emerges.
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Audiovisual disruption
Pedro Ferreira examines aesthetics in contemporary audiovisual arts as reactions to our post-digital condition.
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Beyond the mirror
Susanne von Falkenhausen reveals the concepts of seeing as scholarly act that underwrite competing approaches to visuality and society. In close readings of key texts spanning from the early twentieth century to the present, she crosses between American, German, and British versions of art histor...
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Bio-art
The book discusses the divide between human and non-human animals, between culture and nature.
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Black
The story of the color black in art, fashion, and culture—from the beginning of history to the twenty-first centuryBlack—favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists—has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and hol...
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Blue
A beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color blue throughout the agesBlue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. The ancient Greeks scorned it as ugly and barbaric, but most Americans and Europeans now cite it as their favorite color. In this fascinatin...
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Border wall aesthetics
Is there a deeper significance in the artistic encounter with border walls? Elisa Ganivet revisits the history of border wall aesthetics and compares more recent border-related works by artists including Joseph Beuys, Banksy, and Frida Kahlo.
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Bound together
This book examines US gay and lesbian leather archives alongside contemporary artistic practices that reframe and renegotiate historical source material, creating a queer politics of the present.
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Breaking resemblance
The book explores the complex relationship between contemporary art and religion. It focuses on the ways artists re-appropriate religious motifs as a means to reflect critically on our desire to believe in images, on the history of seeing them, and on their double power – iconic and political.
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Caring infrastructures
Theories and methods for transforming the arts through feminist care ethics, fostering support and equity for art workers and caregivers.
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Cat is art spelled wrong
The most interesting writers we know, all asking and answering the same question: why can't we stop watching cat videos?
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Changing time – shaping world
To re-create meaning is an interdisciplinary cross-sectional task of our zeitgeist in a civil society. Our international guests represent key roles in relevant philosophical, technical or economic debates, non-university community art & design projects or companies.
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China pluperfect
This book contains analysis of different domains of contemporary art in China seen through the lens of the epistemological changes described in the first volume.
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Cold war modernists
Cold War Modernists documents how the CIA, the State Department, and private cultural diplomats transformed modernist art and literature into pro-Western propaganda during the first decade of the Cold War.
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Collected writings
This collection brings together three interrelated volumes by Michael Fried, one of the most influential and distinguished scholars currently at work in the humanities
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Common image
Ingrid Hoelzl and Rémi Marie develop the notion of the common image—a multisensory perception and common ethics that transcend species-bound ways of living. Highlighting the notion of the common as opposed to the immune, the authors ultimately advocate otherness as a common ground for a larger th...
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Contact: art and the pull of print
A leading art historian presents a new grammar for understanding the meaning and significance of printIn process and technique, printmaking is an art of physical contact. From woodcut and engraving to lithography and screenprinting, every print is the record of a contact event: the transfer of an...
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Cubism and futurism
At its inception, the cinema was understood by many to be an electric art, akin to X-rays, coloured light, and sonic energy. This book examines the two movements’ engagement with the Faraday and Maxwell’s new science of energy, and shows energy came to be understood as a spiritual phenomenon and ...
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De-globalizing the art world
This book examines documenta fifteen (2022) as a turning point in global art politics, from ruangrupa’s Indonesian lumbung model to Palestinian cultural infrastructures. It traces how debates over collectivity, decolonization, and memory politics reveal the contradictions of globalization, financ...
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Degas, manet, morisot
A collection of Valéry’s writings on the visual arts, including his book on his friend Degas and his personal recollection of RenoirPaul Valéry spent as much of his life among painters as writers—in a house filled with the memory and works of Berthe Morisot and her friends Manet, Degas, and Renoi...
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Dictionary poetics
Dictionary Poetics analyses book-length poems from a number of writers who have used particular editions of specific dictionaries to structure their work. Authors include Louis Zukofsky , George Oppen, Clark Coolidge, Bernadette Mayer, Tina Darragh, and Harryette Mullen.
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Documentary theatre in india
An exploration of the political significance of documentary theatre in India – blending history, creative insights, and exercises.
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Doing aesthetics with arendt
Constructs an Arendtian theory of aesthetics from the philosopher’s fragmentary writings on art and perception.
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Doing time
Kristian Vistrup Madsen deliberates on his correspondence with an inmate in a California prison named Michael.
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