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The rise of the image: essays on the history of the illustrated art book
Hardback. English.
Published
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003
Focusing primarily upon books devoted to Renaissance and Baroque art this collection of edited papers addresses the issues raised by the illustration...
The Studio Reader: On the Space of Artists
eBook. English.
Published
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2010
The image of a tortured genius working in near isolation has long dominated our conceptions of the artist's studio. Examples abound: think Jackson Pollock...
Design history: a students' handbook
eBook. English.
Published
London: Routledge, 1992
Hazel Conway introduces the student new to the subject to different areas of design history and shows some of the ways in which it can be studied and...
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...
Re-envisioning the contemporary art canon: perspectives in a global world
eBook. English.
Published
London: Routledge, 2016
Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon: Perspectives in a Global World seeks to dissect and interrogate the nature of the present-day art field, which...
Photography and the body
Paperback. English.
Published
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995
The first major paperback original books on art in almost two decades, aimed at the general reader and students and reflecting the most recent developments...
Art and psychoanalysis
eBook. English.
Published
London: I.B. Tauris, 2013
Often derided as unscientific and self-indulgent, psychoanalysis has been an invaluable resource for artists, art critics and historians throughout the...
A companion to modern art
eBook. English.
Published
Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018
Presents a series of original essays by international and interdisciplinary authors who offer a comprehensive overview of the origins and evolution of...
Design, history and time: new temporalities in a digital age
eBook. English.
Published
London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019
Design, History and Time reflects on the nature of time in relation to design, in both past and contemporary contexts. In contrast to a traditional design...
Burning the box of beautiful things: the development of a postmodern sensibility
Paperback. English.
Published
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995
In this book Alex Seago argues that it was art and design students who were among the first to be aware of and to articulate the social implications of...
