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Photography, temporality, and modernity: time warped
eBook. English.
Published
London: Routledge, 2019
This book examines the photography's unique capacity to represent time with a degree of elasticity and abstraction. Part object-study, part cultural/philosophical...
The decision between us: art and ethics in the time of scenes
eBook. English.
Published
Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2014
Combines an inventive reading of Jean-Luc Nancy with queer theoretical concerns to argue that while scenes of intimacy are spaces of sharing, they are...
A companion to contemporary art since 1945
eBook. English.
Published
Malden, Mass.; Oxford: Blackwell, 2006
This text features a grand survey of the historical, social, and aesthetic issues relevant to the development of contemporary art since 1945. This ambitious...
Arts of wonder: enchanting secularity--Walter de Maria, Diller + Scofidio, James Turrell, Andy Goldsworthy
eBook. English.
Published
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013
Kosky focuses on a handful of artists - Walter De Maria, Diller + Scofidio, James Turrell, and Andy Goldsworthy - to show how they introduce spaces hospitable...
The Doppelgaenger
eBook. English.
Published
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Edition, 2016
New edition
Features essays that explore the phenomenon of the double in multiple aspects of German visual culture, from traditional art forms like painting and classical...
Photography and ontology: unsettling images
eBook. English.
Published
London: Routledge, 2018
This edited collection explores the complex ways in which photography is used and interpreted: as a record of evidence, as a form of communication, as...
Caspar David Friedrich and the subject of landscape
eBook. English.
Published
London: Reaktion, 2009
2nd ed
Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), the greatest painter of the Romantic movement in Germany, was perhaps Europe's first truly modern artist. Here, Joseph...
Limited edition: prototypes, one-offs and design art furniture
eBook. English.
Published
Basel: Birkhauser, c2009
Limited edition is the new buzzword in furniture design. This title pursues this new trend in furniture design and uncovers its background in meticulous...
Textiles, community and controversy: the knitting map
eBook. English.
Published
London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019
Taking a major textile artwork, The Knitting Map, as a central case study, this book interrogates the social, philosophical and critical issues surrounding...
Postmodernism, or, The cultural logic of late capitalism
eBook. English.
Published
Durham, [N.C.]: Duke University Press, 1991
Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson's most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of "postmodernism". Jameson's inquiry looks at the postmodern...
