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“annie pfeifer”

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  • To the Collector Belong the Spoils

    Modernism and the Art of Appropriation

    by Annie Pfeifer ...
    To the Collector Belong the Spoils rethinks collecting as an artistic, revolutionary, and appropriative modernist practice, which flourishes beyond institutions like museums or archives. Through a constellation of three author-collectors—Henry James, Walter Benjamin, and Carl Einstein—Annie Pfeifer examines the relationship between literary modernism and twentieth-century practices of collecting ... Read more

    $45.89 USD

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  • Time of the Magicians

    Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy

    by Wolfram Eilenberger ...
    Translated by Shaun Whiteside ...
    **“[A] fascinating and accessible account . . . In his entertaining book, Mr. Eilenberger shows that his magicians’ thoughts are still worth collecting, even if, with hindsight, we can see that some performed too many intellectual conjuring tricks.” —Wall Street JournalA grand narrative of the intertwining lives of Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Ernst Cassirer, major ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Paul Klee: Creative Confession

    by Paul Klee ...
    Series Book 5 - Artist's Writings
    "Creative Confession" brings together three short critical texts written by Paul Klee, one of the most distinctive artists of the early twentieth century. Reflective and often lyrical, the essays exemplify Klee's artistic thinking and his relationship with the creative process.Entitled "Graphic Art" (published as Creative Confession, 1920), "Ways of Nature Study" (1923) and "Exact Experiments in ... Read more

    $6.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Toward A Minor Architecture

    by Jill Stoner ...
    A major proposal for a minor architecture, and for the making of spaces out of the already built.Architecture can no longer limit itself to the art of making buildings; it must also invent the politics of taking them apart. This is Jill Stoner's premise for a minor architecture. Her architect's eye tracks differently from most, drawn not to the lauded and iconic but to what she calls “the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Introducing Walter Benjamin

    A Graphic Guide

    by Alex Coles, Andrzej Klimowski, Howard Caygill ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    Walter Benjamin is often considered the key modern philosopher and critic of modern art.Tracing his influence on modern aesthetics and cultural history, Introducing Walter Benjamin highlights his commitment to political transformation of the arts as a means to bring about social change.Benjamin witnessed first-hand many of the cataclysmic events of modern European history. He took a critical ... Read more

    $5.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Miracle of Analogy

    or The History of Photography, Part 1

    by Kaja Silverman ...
    The Miracle of Analogy is the first of a two-volume reconceptualization of photography. It argues that photography originates in what is seen, rather than in the human eye or the camera lens, and that it is the world's primary way of revealing itself to us. Neither an index, representation, nor copy, as conventional studies would have it, the photographic image is an analogy. This principle ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Adolf Loos

    The Art of Architecture

    by Professor Joseph Masheck ...
    Series series International Library of Architecture
    Widely regarded as one of the most significant prophets of modern architecture, Adolf Loos was a celebrity in his own day. His work was emblematic of the turn-of-the-century generation that was torn between the traditional culture of the nineteenth century and the innovative modernism of the twentieth. His essay 'Ornament and Crime' equated superfluous ornament and 'decorative arts' with tattooing ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Bauhaus Construct

    Fashioning Identity, Discourse and Modernism

    Edited by Jeffrey Saletnik, Robin Schuldenfrei ...
    Reconsidering the status and meaning of Bauhaus objects in relation to the multiple re-tellings of the school’s history, this volume positions art objects of the Bauhaus within the theoretical, artistic, historical, and cultural concerns in which they were produced and received.Contributions from leading scholars writing in the field today – including Frederic J. Schwartz, Magdalena Droste, and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Other Things

    by Bill Brown ...
    From the pencil to the puppet to the drone—the humanities and the social sciences continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines? Other Things explores this question by considering a wide assortment of objects—from beach glass to cell phones, sneakers to skyscrapers—that ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jan Svankmajer

    by Keith Leslie Johnson ...
    Series series Contemporary Film Directors
    Jan Svankmajer enjoys a curious sort of anti-reputation: he is famous for being obscure. Unapologetically surrealist, Svankmajer draws on the traditions and techniques of stop-motion animation, collage, montage, puppetry, and clay to craft bizarre filmscapes. If these creative choices are off-putting to some, they have nonetheless won the Czech filmmaker recognition as a visionary animator. Keith ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Art and Mourning

    The role of creativity in healing trauma and loss

    by Esther Dreifuss-Kattan ...
    Art and Mourning explores the relationship between creativity and the work of self-mourning in the lives of 20th century artists and thinkers. The role of artistic and creative endeavours is well-known within psychoanalytic circles in helping to heal in the face of personal loss, trauma, and mourning.In this book, Esther Dreifuss-Kattan, a psychoanalyst, art therapist and artist - analyses the ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Distant Reading

    by Franco Moretti ...
    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDHow does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficients? The essays in Distant Reading led to a new and often contested paradigm of literary analysis. In presenting them here Franco Moretti reconstructs his intellectual trajectory, the theoretical influences over his work, and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD