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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 twentieth 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...
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...
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...
