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  • Reflections on Critical Museology

    Inside and Outside Museums

    by J. Pedro Lorente ...
    Series series Museums in Focus
    Reflections on Critical Museology: Inside and Outside Museums offers a reflective and reflexive re-assessment of museum studies and the first wide-ranging account of critical museology.Drawing on an extensive range of examples from museums and across the museological literature, which are purposefully representative of very different cultural backgrounds, the book issues a plea for critical ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Museums of Contemporary Art

    Notion and Development

    by J. Pedro Lorente ...
    Where, how, by whom and for what were the first museums of contemporary art created? These are the key questions addressed by J. Pedro Lorente in this new book. In it he explores the concept and history of museums of contemporary art, and the shifting ways in which they have been imagined and presented. Following an introduction that sets out the historiography and considering questions of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Cathedrals of Urban Modernity

    Creation of the First Museums of Contemporary Art

    by J. Pedro Lorente ...
    First published in 1998, this volume explores the expanding wave of a new kind of museums of contemporary art in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Lorente examines their ‘coming of age’ and the weight of their museological legacy, arguing that the establishment of great national museums of art at London and Paris radiated out, carrying their influence with it. This book emerged as part ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • From Museum Critique to the Critical Museum

    by Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius, Piotr Piotrowski ...
    Since the late nineteenth century, museums have been cited as tools of imperialism and colonialism, as strongholds of patriarchalism, masculinism, homophobia and xenophobia, and accused both of elitism and commercialism. But, could the museum absorb and benefit from its critique, turning into a critical museum, into the site of resistance rather than ritual? This book looks at the ways in which ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Thinking Contemporary Curating

    by Terry Smith ...
    What is contemporary curatorial thought? Current discourse on the topic is heating up with a new cocktail of bold ideas and ethical imperatives. these include: cooperative curating, especially with artists; the reimagination of museums; curating as knowledge production; the historicization of exhibitionmaking; and commitment to extra-artworld participatory activism. Less obvious, but increasingly ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Modern Architecture

    by Alan Colquhoun ...
    Series series Oxford History of Art
    This new account of international modernism explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and failures. The work of the main architects of the movement such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe is re-examined shedding new light on their roles as acknowledged masters. Alan Colquhoun explores the evolution of the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Pioneers of Modern Design

    From William Morris to Walter Gropius

    by Nikolaus Pevsner ...
    One of the most widely read books on modern design, Nikolaus Pevsner's landmark work today remains as stimulating as it was when first published in 1936. This expanded edition of Pioneers of Modern Design provides Pevsner's original text along with significant new and updated information, enhancing Pevsner's illuminating account of the roots of Modernism. The book now offers many beautiful colour ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Style and Civilization

    Realism

    by Linda Nochlin ...
    Setting Realism in its social and historical context, the author discusses the crucial paradox posed by Realist works of art - notably in the revolutionary paintings of Courbet, the works of Manet, Degas and Monet, of the Pre-Raphaelites and other English, American, German and Italian Realists. ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • An Introduction to Architectural Theory

    1968 to the Present

    by Harry Francis Mallgrave, David J. Goodman ...
    A sharp and lively text that covers issues in depth but not to the point that they become inaccessible to beginning students, An Introduction to Architectural Theory is the first narrative history of this period, charting the veritable revolution in architectural thinking that has taken place, as well as the implications of this intellectual upheaval.The first comprehensive and critical history of ... Read more

    $37.00 USD

  • An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Art

    by Michelle Facos ...
    Using the tools of the "new" art history (feminism, Marxism, social context, etc.) An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Art offers a richly textured, yet clear and logical, introduction to nineteenth-century art and culture. This textbook will provide readers with a basic historical framework of the period and the critical tools for interpreting and situating new and unfamiliar works of art ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

  • EMPTY STAGES, CROWDED FLATS. PERFORMATIVITY AS CURATORIAL STRATEGY.

    Performing Urgencies 4

    by Joanna Warsza, Florian Malzacher, Frédérique Aït-Touati, Knut Ove Arntzen, Nedjma Hadj Benchelabi, Claire Bishop, Beatrice von Bismarck, Rui Catalão, Vanessa Desclaux0, Tim Etchells1, Karin Harrasser2, Shannon Jackson3, Ana Janevski4, Lina Majdalanie5, Ewa Majewska6, Maayan Sheleff7, Gerald Siegmund8, Claire Tancons9, Kasia Tórz0, Rachida Triki1, Jelena Vesić2, Catherine Wood3 ...
    Series Book 4 - Performing Urgencies
    During its impressive career over the last decades the term 'performative' has been attributed with many parallel meanings in the humanities, philosophy, arts, or economics. Empty Stages, Crowded Flats additionally applies the notion of the performative to the context of curating with the aim to unfold a potential that so far has been mostly unused. The book is following J. L. Austin, Judith ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Art Nouveau

    Art Nouveau and the Birth of Modern Design

    by Jean Lahor ...
    Art Nouveau gives a name to the decorative and architectural style developed in the 1880s and 1890s in the West. Born in reaction to the Industrial Revolution and to the creative vacuum it left behind, Art Nouveau was at the heart of a “renaissance” in the decorative arts. The primary objective of the movement was the creation of a new aesthetic of nature through a return to the study of natural ... Read more

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