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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...
The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction
eBook. English.
Published
London: Penguin, 2008
One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences...
Griselda Pollock's vision and difference: feminism, femininity and histories of art
eBook. English.
Published
London: Routledge, 2018
Vision and Difference, published in 1988, is one of the most significant works in feminist visual culture arguing that feminist art history of is a political...
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...
Abstraction matters: contemporary sculptors in their own words
eBook. English.
Published
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019
From the archaic funerary and sacred stones to the most recent three-dimensional objects, sculpture has been determined by a dualistic tension between...
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...
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 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...
Portraits: John Berger on artists
eBook. English.
Published
London; New York: Verso, 2015
One of the world's most celebrated art writers, John Berger takes us through centuries of art in this distinctive history that will enlighten and inspire...
