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  • African Art Reframed

    Reflections and Dialogues on Museum Culture

    by Bennetta Jules-Rosette, J.R. Osborn ...
    Once seen as a collection of artifacts and ritual objects, African art now commands respect from museums and collectors. Bennetta Jules-Rosette and J.R. Osborn explore the reframing of African art through case studies of museums and galleries in the United States, Europe, and Africa.The authors take a three-pronged approach. Part One ranges from curiosity cabinets to virtual websites to offer a ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Messages of Tourist Art

    An African Semiotic System in Comparative Perspective

    by Bennetta Jules-Rosette ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Tourist art may be a billion dollar business. Nevertheless, such art is despised. What is worse, the "bad" culture is seen as driving out the "good. " Commer cialization is assumed to destroy traditional arts and crafts, replacing them with junk. The process is seen as demeaning to artists in the traditional societies, who are seduced into a type of whoredom: unfeeling production of false beauty ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Conceptual Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Art

    by David W. Galenson ...
    From Picasso's Cubism and Duchamp's readymades to Warhol's silkscreens and Smithson's earthworks, the art of the twentieth century broke completely with earlier artistic traditions. A basic change in the market for advanced art produced a heightened demand for innovation, and young conceptual innovators – from Picasso and Duchamp to Rauschenberg and Warhol to Cindy Sherman and Damien Hirst – ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Critical Studies in Art and Design Education

    Edited by Richard Hickman ...
    Series series Readings in Art and Design Education
    This book reviews past practice and theory in critical studies and discusses various trends; some papers keenly advocate a re-conceptualisation of the whole subject area, while others describe aspects of current and past practice which exemplify the 'symbiotic' relationship between practical studio work and critical engagement with visual form. Rod Taylor, who has done much to promote and develop ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Computers and Art

    Computers and Art

    by Stuart Mealing ...
    Insightful perspectives on the use of the computer as a tool for artists. The approaches taken vary from its historical, philosophical and practical implications to the use of computer technology in art practice. The contributors include an art critic, an educator, a practicing artist and a researcher. The Editor's contribution will look at the potential for future developments in the field, ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Hogarth’s Art of Animal Cruelty

    Satire, Suffering and Pictorial Propaganda

    by P. Beirne ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book analyses the animal images used in William Hogarth's art, demonstrating how animals were variously depicted as hybrids, edibles, companions, emblems of satire and objects of cruelty. Beirne offers an important assessment of how Hogarth's various audiences reacted to his gruesome images and ultimately what was meant by 'cruelty'. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • A Fractured Landscape of Modernity

    Culture and Conflict in the Isle of Purbeck

    by J. Wilkes ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book uses the contradictions, fractures and coincidences of a twentieth-century rural landscape to explore new methods of writing place beyond 'new nature writing'. In doing so it opens up new ways of reading modernist artists and writers such as Vanessa Bell, Mary Butts and Paul Nash. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Latin American Neo-Baroque

    Senses of Distortion

    by Pablo Baler ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    PabloBaler studies the ruptures and continuities linking the de-centered dynamics of the 17thcentury to the logic of instability that permeates 20th century visual and literary production in Latin America. Bringing philosophy, literary interpretation, art criticism, and a poetic approach to the history of ideas, Baler offers a new perspective from which to understand the uncanny phenomenon of ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Drawings of Raymond Lafage

    by Nathan T. Whitman ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    List of Illustrations xiii The Life I The Style 19 Contents The Drawings 40 Appraisal and Evaluation 64 Bibliography 79 Notes 82 Index 90 Illustrations vii The French seventeenth century remains at the present moment one of the few areas in the history of later western art which still needs intensive study. Even the work of Pous sin, its most outstanding painter and the object of a continu ous ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The Spiritual Dynamic in Modern Art

    Art History Reconsidered, 1800 to the Present

    by C. Spretnak ...
    This book demonstrates that numerous prominent artists in every period of the modern era were expressing spiritual interests when they created celebrated works of art. This magisterial overview insightfully reveals the centrality of an often denied and misunderstood element in the cultural history of modern art. ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Psychology and Philosophy of Abstract Art

    Neuro-aesthetics, Perception and Comprehension

    by Paul M.W. Hackett ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book examines how we perceive and understand abstract art in contrast to artworks that represent reality. Philosophical, psychological and neuroscience research, including the work of philosopher Paul Crowther, are considered and out of these approaches a complex model is developed to account for this experience. The understanding embodied in this model is rooted in facet theory, mapping ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Sketching the Moon

    An Astronomical Artist's Guide

    by Richard Handy, Deirdre Kelleghan, Thomas McCague, Erika Rix, Sally Russell ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    For anyone artistically inclined, observing the Moon and attempting to sketch or paint it can easily become a passion. The Moon presents a broad array of tone, texture, and form. Capturing this in a painting or sketch at the eyepiece of a telescope – or even with binoculars – develops observational skills, leaves a record of the observation, and can also be a delightful and rewarding pastime. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD