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A hunger for aesthetics
For decades, aesthetics has been subjected to a variety of critiques, often concerning its treatment of beauty or the autonomy of art. Collectively, these complaints have generated an anti-aesthetic stance prevalent in the contemporary art world. Yet if we examine the motivations for these critiq...
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A true american
This book argues that nativism, the hostility especially to Catholic immigrants that led to the organization of political parties like the Know-Nothings, affected the meaning of nineteenthcentury American art in ways that have gone unrecognized. In an era of industrialization, nativism’s erection...
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Art and labour
Deutscher Prize winning artist and writer Dave Beech turns his attention to what it means to view Art as work.
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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 international
This definitive anthology gathers the magazine’s most original and influential writing—along with artists’ manifestoes, correspondence, and rare critical texts unseen for decades.
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Black lives under nazism
This groundbreaking book explores a range of largely overlooked literary and artistic works that challenge the invisibility of Black wartime history.
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Chromatic modernity
Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe provide a revelatory history of how the use of color in film led the way in creating a chromatically vibrant culture. Focusing on the final decade of silent film, Chromatic Modernity portrays the 1920s as a pivotal and profoundly chromatic period of cosmopolitan ex...
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Cinema by design
Cinema by Design traces Art Nouveau’s long history in films from various decades and global locales, appreciating the movement’s enduring avant-garde aesthetics. Lucy Fischer explains why an art movement embedded in modernist sensibilities can flourish in contemporary film through its visions of ...
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Classical new york
This book examines the reception and appropriation of Classical (Greco-Roman) Art and Architecture in New York from 1830–1940, including Pennsylvania Station, Rockefeller Center, the Gould Memorial Library, the proposed Civic Center (Foley Square), Federal Hall, as well as on the use of inscripti...
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Crowds and democracy
Spanning aesthetics, cultural studies, intellectual history, and political theory, this volume unpacks the significance of the shadow agent known as “the mass” during a critical period in European history.
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Duchamp and the aesthetics of chance
Marcel Duchamp is often viewed as an "artist-engineer-scientist," a kind of rationalist who relied heavily on the ideas of the French mathematician and philosopher Henri Poincaré. Yet a complete portrait of Duchamp and his multiple influences draws a different picture. In his 3 Standard Stoppages...
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Essays on art and science
This book presents essays by Eric R. Kandel. They vary widely in subject matter, but each essay focuses on the interaction of art and science.
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Ethnography and folklore in print
This book unveils alternative contexts and dimensions of early ethnographic knowledge production, providing insights into a history of social knowledge that surpasses disciplinary, national, and genre-related boundaries.
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Humbug!
Mines the more than 300 newspapers published in New York City before the Civil War for art criticism, in order to trace the changing political positions of artists, artworks, and authors.
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Lasting impressions
Jesse Matz considers its two legacies—positive and negative—to explain impressionism’s true contemporary significance.
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Montmartre
An entirely fresh study of how, at the end of the nineteenth century, the neighborhood of Montmartre nurtured a vital, innovative and unique community of artists who revolutionized Western art.After the 1871 Paris Commune, Montmartre played a significant artistic role; its unique geographical, po...
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On slowness
A counterintuitive take on the deceleration of time and its function in contemporary art and culture.
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Reductionism in art and brain science
The Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel shows how science can inform the way we experience a work of art and seek to understand its meaning. He illustrates how reductionism—distillation of larger scientific or aesthetic concepts into smaller components—has been used by scientists an...
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Spirals
Nico Israel argues that spirals illuminate the torsions of history and geopolitics within modernity. Taking the form of the spiral not only as his topic but as inspiration for his method, Israel challenges familiar, discipline-based approaches to modernism and its aftermaths and gives twenty-firs...
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The american art-union
The first comprehensive treatment in seventy years of the American Art-Union’s remarkable rise and fallFor over a decade, the New York–based American Art-Union shaped art creation, display, and patronage nationwide. Boasting as many as 19,000 members from almost every state, its meteoric rise and...
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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 ethnic avant-garde
The Ethnic Avant-Garde remaps global modernism and interwar literary, political, and art history along minority and Soviet-centered lines. Steven S. Lee details an absorbing collage of writers and artists who cohered around experimental techniques of montage, fragment, and interruption, advancing...
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The met
New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s greatest cultural institutions. Its holdings encompass a vast range—including paintings, sculptures, costumes, instruments, and arms and armor—and span millennia, from ancient Egypt and Greece to Islamic art to European Old Masters ...
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