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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...
A companion to public art
eBook. English.
Published
Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2016
A Companion to Public Art is the only scholarly volume to examine the main issues, theories, and practices of public art on a comprehensive scale. Edited...
Recomposing Art and Science: artists-in-labs
eBook. English.
Published
Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016
Printed edition includes a DVD
The interfaces between art and the scientific disciplines of biology, environmental science, neuroscience, and physics pose interdisciplinary questions...
Time to play: action and interaction in contemporary art
eBook. English.
Published
London: I.B. Tauris, 2014
Katarzyna Zimna links the theory and history of 20th and 21st century art with ideas developed within play, game and leisure studies, and the philosophical...
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...
After criticism: new responses to art and performance
eBook. English.
Published
Oxford: Blackwell, 2005
Addressing the changing nature of art production, interpretation and spectatorship in contemporary art, this collection focuses on key developments that...
Understanding a photograph
eBook. English.
Published
London: Penguin Books, 2013
John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the 20th century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously...
Alternative art and anthropology: global encounters
eBook. English.
Published
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017
While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among scholars...
Art after appropriation: essays on art in the 1990s
eBook. English.
Published
Amsterdam: G+B Arts International, 2001
Beginning with an account of the discourse of appropriation that dominated the art world in the late 1970s and 1980s, this study creates a matrix of inflections...
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...
