Seams
Melville has applied the tools developed by Derrida and Lacan to the problems of contemporary...
EAN: 9789057010217
Camp
Addresses the multi-layered issue of camp, whose inexhaustible breadth of reference and...
EAN: 9780748611713
Introduction to Iconography
This text explains the ways artists use references and allusions to create meaning. It presents...
EAN: 9782881246012
Art: History: Visual: Culture
This innovative collection of essays offers exciting new research and thoughtful reflection on...
EAN: 9781405119658
Visual Culture
Visual Culture: The Reader provides an invaluable resource of over 30 key statements from a wide...
EAN: 9780761962489
Red and the Black
The Red and the Black covers the history of Greek pottery production, both figured and plain, as...
EAN: 9780415126618
Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages
A summary of mediaeval aesthetic ideas, by Italian novelist and playwright Umberto Eco....
EAN: 9780300093049
Art and Agency
Completed just before Alfred Gell's death in January 1997, this book embodies the characteristics...
EAN: 9780198280149
Postmodernism
Postmodernism has been a buzzword of contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be...
EAN: 9780192802392
Open Work
This book is significant for its concept of “openness”—the artist's decision to leave...
EAN: 9780674639768
Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity
A radical interpretation of Heidegger's later philosophy, developing his argument that art can...
EAN: 9780521172493
Blindness
Blindness explores the fascinating paradoxes in the Western representation of blindness,...
EAN: 9780415927437
Modern Art Culture
Contains articles that exemplify important interventions from the 1960s onwards: Histories,...
EAN: 9780415231527
Experience or Interpretation
An account of the changing attitudes to the way art is presented in the modern museum of art. It...
EAN: 9780500282168
Art Question
With help of carefully chosen illustrations and photographs, from Cezanne and Van Gogh to Francis...
EAN: 9780415174909
Postmodernism and the En-Gendering of Marcel Duchamp
A critical analysis of postmodernism in the visual arts since the 1960s, this focuses primarily...
EAN: 9780521456548
Poetics of Perspective
Perspective has been a divided subject, orphaned among various disciplines from philosophy to...
EAN: 9780801483790
About Michael Baxandall
A distinguished group of art historians reflect on the work of Michael Baxandall, in terms of its...
EAN: 9780631211914
Six Years
This work documents the network of ideas that has been labelled conceptual art. Including texts...
EAN: 9780520210134
Art in Theory 1648-1815
Art in Theory (1648-1815) provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of documents on...
EAN: 9780631200642
Tradition Of The New
Harold Rosenberg was undoubtedly the most important American art critic of the twentieth century....
EAN: 9780306805967
Nothing If Not Critical
A generous selection of forthright essays on art and artists. Hughes tackles the lives and works...
EAN: 9781860468599
Walter Benjamin, Religion and Aesthetics
Walter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics is an innovative and creative attempt to unsettle and...
EAN: 9780415969918
Critical Terms for Art History, Second Edition
In addition to the 22 original essays, this edition includes 9 new ones as well as new...
EAN: 9780226571683
