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Proximity and distance in northern landscape photography
Northern landscapes are both real places and representations—notions that are bound to collide in landscape photography. In this book, photographers, academics, curators, and archivists examine the interpretation, experience, and appropriation of landscape in northern Europe, Canada, northern Eng...
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Queer art
A queer theory of visual art – based on extensive readings of art works Queer Art traces the question of how strategies of denormalization initiated by visual arts can be continued through writing. In the book's three chapters art theoretical debates are combined with queer theory, post-colonial ...
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Queer formalism: the return
Queer Formalism: The Return is a new kind of queer art writing that considers love and regret in their many forms.
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Raphaela vogel
In this conversation, Rafael and Vogel contemplate the potential of putting artistic mediums in dialogue with one another, proffering a new vision of what form can achieve.
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Rationalist empiricism
Rationalist Empiricism is a study of the dialectical relation between reason and experience in ancient, modern, and contemporary philosophy, engaging as well with political theory, the science of measurement, and experimental photography. Across these fields, it shows that coordinating th...
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Reading sideways
Reading Sideways explores the role various art forms played in American literary fiction in direct relation to the politics of gender and sexuality at the turn of the century. Each chapter takes a different art form as its object: sculpture, portraiture, homecraft, and opera, which appear in the ...
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Reference and contemporaneity in architecture
An interdisciplinary approach to the complicated history of the relationship between contemporaneity and reference in architecture.
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Scale and the incas
A groundbreaking work on how the topic of scale provides an entirely new understanding of Inca material cultureAlthough questions of form and style are fundamental to art history, the issue of scale has been surprisingly neglected. Yet, scale and scaled relationships are essential to the visual c...
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Secrets of beauty
As well as throwing new light on the author’s own creative achievement, Secrets of Beauty is a vital contribution to aesthetic theory.
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Sensible life
This book is a rehabilitation sensibility. It defines what we call sensibility or sensible life by defining the ontological status of images. It shows that images have an intermediate ontological status and exist in an autonomous sphere. It also explores our interactions with images in dream, fas...
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Sensing and making sense
Through a genealogy of photosensitive elements in media devices and artworks, this book investigates three dichotomies that impoverish debates and proposals in media art: material/immaterial, organic/machinic, and theory/practice.
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Seven years to zero
A couple grapples with urban immersion and the meaning of art in a pre-apocalyptic world over seven years in New York City
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Shared habitats
The interactions among artistic, technical, scientific, living, and nonliving things have inspired new artistic approaches. The contributors to this volume either relate to theoretical discourses raised by artworks, show how young artists today approach cultural issues, or develop situations of l...
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Shielding
This collection offers conceptual approaches towards bodies becoming shields by addressing the idea of bodily integrity, both in a material sense and with regard to the symbolic and ethical relations that a body entangles.
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Sound formations
Rémy Bocquillon reflects on the process-oriented character of sociology as an experimental science by including aesthetic practices of sounding and listening as constitutive for the making of sociological theory. Featuring an audio chapter, »feeding-back« the sonic experimentations at the core of...
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Speculation as a mode of production
An essential and detailed theorisation of capital's drive to self-expansion and the role of speculation in the shaping of subjectivity by value relations.
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Speculative taxidermy
Giovanni Aloi maps the discourses and practices that have enabled the emergence of taxidermy in contemporary art. Speculative Taxidermy contextualizes the resilient presence of animal skin, bones, and feathers in gallery spaces, films, and fashion as a productive opportunity to rethink ethical an...
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Speech acts
Speech Acts contains select interviews that annotate Geeta Kapur’s contributions to modern Indian art criticism and trace her interrogations of the contemporary through various historical conjunctures
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Sprezzatura
Paolo D’Angelo traces the history of concealing art—which Italian calls sprezzatura—from ancient rhetoric to our own times. Finding the precept that art must be hidden from cosmetics to interior design, politics to poetry, the English garden to shabby chic, Sprezzatura is an erudite and surprisin...
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Sting in the tale
An illustrated survey of artist hoaxes, including impersonations, fabula, cryptoscience, and forgeries, researched and written by an expert “fictive-art” practitioner. In her groundbreaking book, internationally recognized multimedia artist and writer Antoinette LaFarge reflects on the most urgen...
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Subjectivity and synchrony in artistic research
Johanna Schindler examines the collaborative practices of two artistic research projects in the fields of digital musical instrument design and responsive environments. She suggests concrete measurements that can be utilized to adapt research environments, funding structures, and evaluation crite...
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Sweet little cunt
Julie Doucet, one of the most influential women in comics finally receives a full-length critical overview.
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Take care of your self
Artist Sundus Abdul Hadi’s reflections on self-care as a community act depicts care as crucial to creating a just society.
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Taking stakes in the unknown
In 2001, Freestyle, a survey exhibition curated by Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum in Harlem, introduced both a young generation of artists of African descent and the ambitious yet knowingly opaque term post-black to a pre-9/11 and pre-Obama world. Nana Adusei-Poku contextualizes the term post...
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Teaching artistic strategies
This collection strengthens new communities of educators and researchers in arts and design, whose practices are built on the concept of care as empathetic knowledge production.
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Temporality and aesthetic regimes in the ›black atlantic‹ 1
Part of a two-volume exploration of philosophical notions and aesthetic forms of temporality in the Black Atlantic, this first one focuses on how Black artists discussed and transcended modern ideas of time.
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Temporality and aesthetic regimes in the ›black atlantic‹ 2
Part of a two-volume exploration of philosophical notions and aesthetic forms of temporality in the Black Atlantic, this second one focuses on how blackness and temporality have impacted the arts and culture in the US.
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The beauty of choice
The renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner offers a dazzling new account of aesthetics grounded in female agency. Through a series of linked meditations on canonical and contemporary literature and art, she casts women’s taste as the engine of liberal values.
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The best art in the world
Founded in 2005, Whitehot Magazine has become one of the leading channels for contemporary art criticism. On the occasion of its upcoming 20th anniversary, founder Noah Becker and contributor Michael Maizels are compiling a critical anthology of the magazine’s writings, including writing from Don...
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The blind man
The Blind Man: A Phantasmography examines the complicated forces of perception, imagination, and phantasms of encounter in the contemporary world. In considering photographs he took while he was traveling in France, anthropologist and writer Robert Desjarlais reflects on a few pictures that show ...
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The communicating vessels
For the first time available in English, two portraits of grief by Friederike Mayröcker, one of the significant European writers of our time. Friederike Mayröcker met Ernst Jandl in 1954, through the experimental Vienna Group of German writers and artists. It was an encounter that would alter th...
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The conspiracy of modern art
Internationally renowned Brazilian critic and art-historian Luiz Renato Martins presents an innovative new account of modern art from David to Abstract Expressionism.
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The crisis of ugliness
An essential text in the history of Marxist art theory, available in English for the first time
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The cultural space of the arts and the infelicities of reductionism
Joseph Margolis, known for his considerable contributions to the philosophy of art and aesthetics, pragmatism, and American philosophy, has focused primarily on the troublesome concepts of culture, history, language, agency, art, interpretation, and the human person or self. For Margolis, the sig...
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The culture of people's democracy
The first volume in an effort to make available to an english speaking audience the full breadth of Luckács work
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The cultures of entanglement
This book examines the symbolic meaning of plants, their relevance and how culture and they are something more than passive objects.
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The dialectics of art
In a sweeping survey of art from the dawn of the bourgeois era to the present day, John Molyneux explains what makes artistic production under capitalism unique, moving, and possibly revolutionary.
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The ecological eye
This book synthesises a variety of approaches to the visual, drawn from politics, theory, feminism and activism, in order to provide the blueprint for an ecocritical art history.
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The entanglement
Why human nature is an aesthetic phenomenon—and why we need art and philosophy to understand ourselvesIn The Entanglement, philosopher Alva Noë explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosophy, arguing that we have greatly underestimated what this entangled reality means for understanding...
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The frontier within
Abe Kobo (1924–1993) was one of Japan's greatest postwar writers, widely recognized for his imaginative science fiction and plays of the absurd. However, he also wrote theoretical criticism for which he is lesser known, merging literary, historical, and philosophical perspectives into keen reflec...
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The full story
A collaboration between writer Chips Hardy and illustrator Oscar Grillo, The Full Story offers a genre-defying sequence of one-page narratives—each a glimpse into a life, a death, a joke, or an epiphany.
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The hawthorn archive
Creatively explores the utopian elements found in a variety of resistive and defiant activity in the past and in the present, with a focus on the Black Radical Tradition.
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The instant and its shadow
Via the story of two images separated by a century, Jean-Christophe Bailly’s The Instant and Its Shadow is a poetic and theoretical reflection on the origins of photographic technique, the imaginative power of montage, and the relation of photography to time itself.
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The last days of mankind
The Great War drama by Viennese satirist Karl Kraus, restaged by Sengl in "stunning display" of taxidermied rat-actors, with commentary.
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The logic of design process
What is the logic of design process? Departing from this question, Tiago da Costa e Silva investigates the characteristic feature of every projective activity, for instance, in architecture, design, engineering design, and in the arts. In opposition to predominant views that understand design pro...
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The long roots of formalism in brazil
The present studies on Brazilian modern art seek to specify some of the dominant contradictions of capitalism’s combined but uneven development as these appear from the global ‘periphery’.
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The lumière galaxy
Travels from the remote corners of film history and theory to the most surprising sites on the internet and in our cities to prove the ongoing relevance of cinema
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The nude
A landmark study of the nude in art—from the ancient Greeks to Henry Moore—by a towering figure in art historyIn this classic book, Kenneth Clark, one of the most eminent art historians of the twentieth century, examines the ever-changing fashion in what constitutes the ideal nude as a basis of h...
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