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The grove book of art writing
Discussing the visual arts successfully in words is often held to be an impossible task. In fact it is merely difficult. And since the days of the ancient Greeks, many writers of all kinds have taken up the challenge -- not only art critics but novelists, poets, gossips, artists, and essayists. I...
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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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The object as a process
This volume is dedicated to the object as a process in order to offer new insights into the ways the object - broadly construed, comprising digital and other non-classical objects - becomes an active element in artistic practice.
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The politics of perception and the aesthetics of social change
Connecting Hegelian aesthetics with contemporary cultural politics, Jason Miller argues that both the aesthetic and political value of art are found in the reflexive self-awareness that it enables. The significance of art in modern life is that it shows us both the particular element in humanity ...
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The possibility of a world
Jean-Luc Nancy discusses his life’s work with Pierre-Philippe Jandin. As Nancy looks back on his philosophical texts, he thinks anew about democracy, community, jouissance, love, Christianity, and the arts.
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The scandal of susan sontag
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) spoke of the promiscuity of art and literaturethe willingness of great artists and writers to scandalize their spectators through critical frankness, complexity, and beauty. Sontag's life and thought were no less promiscuous. She wrote deeply and engagingly about a range...
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The social organization of arts
The authors critically discuss seven major theories of the social organization of arts in Western societies, with the aim of encouraging further research and theoretical developments.
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The society of the spectacle
The Society of the Spectacle is a carefully considered effort to clarify the most fundamental tendencies and contradictions of the society in which we find ourselves—in order to facilitate its overthrow. Guy Debord was the founder of the Situationist International, the notorious avant-garde group...
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The work of art
Art making as a way of mediating between inner and outer realities.
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Thinking of space relationally
Xiaoxue Gao takes relational spatial theories as “travelling conceptual knowledge,” distinguishes them, and reflects on the epistemic fallacy that arises from recontextualising them uncritically in studying contemporary urban space in China.
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Transitional territories
Ayse Güngör investigates art practices between art and anthropology in Turkey, as well as the implications of contemporary art for those disciplines.
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Turning social
How can music mediation foster social cohesion and dialogue? A critical exploration of its social-transformative potential.
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Virtual photography
This book discusses the latest photographic technologies, and how we can now take photos in computer games, interpolate them in Virtual Reality platforms, or synthesize them via Artificial Intelligence.
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When i was that age did art exist?
This is a big bundle of essays and written talks, put down over a long number of years: Kelman hopes some of them make you smile. James Kelman began as a writer of fiction and became a writer of nonfiction in the bargain. He had a short story set for his first ever publication that the printer re...
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When was modernism
A commitment to modernity is the underlying theme of this volume. Through interpretive and theoretical essays, Geeta Kapur seeks to situate the modern in contemporary cultural practice. The essays here propose resistance to the depoliticization of narratives and affirm an open-ended engagement wi...
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Why only art can save us
Santiago Zabala declares that in an age where the greatest emergency is the absence of emergency, contemporary art's ability to create new realities is fundamental to democracy. He advances a new aesthetics that draws on Martin Heidegger's distinction between works of art that rescue us from emer...
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Why the assembly disbanded
Pushing the boundaries of Latinx literature and what constitutes a borderlands poetics.Throughout Roberto Tejada’s body of work, the renowned poet and celebrated critic has explored themes of Latinx culture, politics, history, language, and ecologies. In his latest collection, Why the Assembly Di...
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Worlding and storying forced displacement
How are art's worldmaking and storytelling capacities activated in contemporary artistic representations of forced displacement?
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