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“joseph beuys”

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  • What is Money?

    A Discussion Featuring Joseph Beuys

    by Joseph Beuys, Ulrich Rosch ...
    The world of finance exerts a huge influence over our lives, being responsible for economic turmoil and seemingly interminable peaks and crashes. Whereas money was once a simple means of exchange, today it is a commodity in itself and as 'capital' exerts power over individuals, degrading work to tradable labour. Can we find a new way of understanding money today, so that we can begin to overcome ... Read more

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  • What is Art?

    Conversation with Joseph Beuys

    by Joseph Beuys, Volker Harlan ...
    Joseph Beuys's work continues to influence and inspire practitioners and thinkers all over the world, in areas from organizational learning, direct democracy and new money forms to new art pedagogies and ecological art practices. Here, in dialogue with Volker Harlan - a close colleague, whose own work also revolves around understandings of substance and sacrament that are central to Beuys - the ... Read more

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  • Think Like an Artist

    And Lead a More Creative, Productive Life

    by Will Gompertz ...
    Learn how to jump-start your imagination to conjure up innovative, worthwhile ideas with help from some of the greatest artists in the world.How do artists think? Where does their creativity originate? How can we, too, learn to be more creative? BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz seeks answers to these questions in his exuberant, intelligent, witty, and thought-provoking style. Think Like an Artist ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • New Art City

    Manhattan at Mid-Century

    by Jed Perl ...
    In this landmark work, Jed Perl captures the excitement of a generation of legendary artists–Jackson Pollack, Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauschenberg, and Ellsworth Kelly among them–who came to New York, mingled in its lofts and bars, and revolutionized American art. In a continuously arresting narrative, Perl also portrays such less well known figures as the galvanic teacher Hans Hofmann, the lyric ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Art and Phenomenology

    Edited by Joseph Parry ...
    Philosophy of art is traditionally concerned with the definition, appreciation and value of art. Through a close examination of art from recent centuries, Art and Phenomenology is one of the first books to explore visual art as a mode of experiencing the world itself, showing how in the words of Merleau-Ponty ‘Painting does not imitate the world, but is a world of its own’.An outstanding series of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Memory Arts in Renaissance England

    A Critical Anthology

    Edited by William E. Engel, Rory Loughnane, Grant Williams ...
    This is the first critical anthology of writings about memory in Renaissance England. Drawing together excerpts from more than seventy writers, poets, physicians, philosophers and preachers, and with over twenty illustrations, the anthology offers the reader a guided exploration of the arts of memory. The introduction outlines the context for the tradition of the memory arts from classical times ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Abjection and Representation

    An Exploration of Abjection in the Visual Arts, Film and Literature

    by R. Arya ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Abjection and Representation is a theoretical investigation of the concept of abjection as expounded by Julia Kristeva in Powers of Horror (1982) and its application in various fields including the visual arts, film and literature. It examines the complexity of the concept and its significance as a cultural category. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Art and Agency

    An Anthropological Theory

    by Alfred Gell ...
    Alfred Gell puts forward a new anthropological theory of visual art, seen as a form of instrumental action: the making of things as a means of influencing the thoughts and actions of others. He argues that existing anthropological and aesthetic theories take an overwhelmingly passive point of view, and questions the criteria that accord art status only to a certain class of objects and not to ... Read more

    $115.19 USD

  • Travels in Intermediality

    ReBlurring the Boundaries

    Edited by Bernd Herzogenrath ...
    How do fiction, film, music, the Internet, and plastic, performative, and fine arts negotiate their shapes, formats, and contents in our contemporary world? More important, how does their interaction shape their techniques of representation, strategies of communication, and forms of reception? In the light of these ongoing interactive (and intermedial) processes, the fields of cultural studies and ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Aesthetic Revolutions and Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements

    Edited by Aleš Erjavec ...
    This collection examines key aesthetic avant-garde art movements of the twentieth century and their relationships with revolutionary politics. The contributors distinguish aesthetic avant-gardes —whose artists aim to transform society and the ways of sensing the world through political means—from the artistic avant-gardes, which focus on transforming representation. Following the work of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Pocket Universal Principles of Art

    100 Key Concepts for Understanding, Analyzing, and Practicing Art

    by John A Parks ...
    The Pocket Universal Principles of Art is a portable but still comprehensive reference for all artists, and a companion volume to Rockport Publishers' best-selling Universal Principles of Design.This new, pocket volume of The**Pocket Universal Principles of Art provides a handy, portable, reference for art enthusiast, art students, and any artist on the go. This is the same excellent info... ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • I Think You're Totally Wrong

    A Quarrel

    by David Shields, Caleb Powell ...
    An impassioned, funny, probing, fiercely inconclusive, nearly-to-the-death debate about life and art—beers included.Caleb Powell always wanted to become an artist, but he overcommitted to life (he’s a stay-at-home dad to three young girls), whereas his former professor David Shields always wanted to become a human being, but he overcommitted to art (he has five books coming out in the next year ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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