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Art rethought: the social practices of art
eBook. English.
Published
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017
We engage with works of art in many ways, yet almost all modern philosophers of art have focused entirely on one mode of engagement: disinterested attention...
Art as organism: biology and the evolution of the digital image
eBook. English.
Published
London: I.B. Tauris, 2016
What if modernism had been characterised by evolving, interconnected and multi-sensory images rather than by the monolithic objects often described by...
Anywhere or not at all: philosophy of contemporary art
eBook. English.
Published
London: Verso, 2013
Contemporary art is the object of inflated and widely divergent claims. But what kind of discourse can open it up effectively to critical analysis? This...
Colour, art and empire: visual culture and the nomadism of representation
eBook. English.
Published
London: I.B. Tauris, 2013
Colour wreaks havoc with western expectations of biological determinism, objectivity and eugenics. Beyond the cracks of such discursive practice, colour...
Collaborative art in the twenty-first century
eBook. English.
Published
New York: Routledge, 2016
Collaboration now transforms not only artistic practices but also the development of cultural institutions, communities and personal lifestyles. This...
Immanence and immersion: on the acoustic condition in contemporary art
eBook. English.
Published
New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017
"A critique of immersive aesthetics in the arts, with particular emphasis placed upon sound and new media art"-- Immersion is the new orthodoxy. Within...
Design as art
eBook. English.
Published
London: Penguin, 2008
Bruno Munari was among the most inspirational designers of all time, described by Picasso as 'the new Leonardo'. Munari insisted that design be beautiful...
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...
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...
Counter-memorial aesthetics: refugee histories and the politics of contemporary art
eBook. English.
Published
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
Restrictive border protection policies directed toward managing the flow of refugees coming into neoliberal democracies (and out of failing nation-states...
