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“mo dodson”

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  • Design and Aesthetics

    A Reader

    Edited by Mo Dodson, Jerry Palmer ...
    Design and Aesthetics: A Reader is a comprehensive student reader on design history and aesthetic theory. It includes contributions from many of the writers whose work has been foundational to these two fields, including classic articles by Raymond Williams and Roger Scruton, and newer articles which provide an overview of current concerns and debates.The role of design in the world today has ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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    by Maggie Nelson ...
    Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . .A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists.Maggie Nelson is the author of numerous books of poetry and nonfiction, including ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

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  • But Is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory

    An Introduction to Art Theory

    by Cynthia Freeland ...
    In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this book, Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many fascinating examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, museums, sex, and politics, clarifying contemporary and historical accounts of the nature, function, and ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • 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 Since 1989 (World of Art)

    by Kelly Grovier ...
    Series Book 0 - World of Art
    An extensive, accessible guide to the most groundbreaking and influential art from 1989 to the presentThe years since the collapse of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 have seen the rise of a new freedom to define art—Who makes it? Where can it be found? What is its commercial value?—and, consequently, the reevaluation of art’s place in society.Kelly Grovier surveys the dynamic developments in art ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Playing to the Gallery

    Helping Contemporary Art in Its Struggle to Be Understood

    by Grayson Perry ...
    Grayson Perry’s book will overturn everything you thought you knew about “art”Now Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art (after all, there is a reason he’s called this book Playing to the Gallery and not Sucking Up to the Academic Elite). This funny, personal journey through the art world answers the basic questions that ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • You and The Arts -- Why Art Matters

    by Ruth Silnes ...
    Did you ever wonder?Why the arts are essential besides the giving of pleasure?What makes an artist function?What do the arts all have in common?Do the arts really help our health, education and economy?The answers are in this bookYOU AND THE ARTS -- Why Art Matters ... Read more

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  • The State of Art Criticism

    Edited by James Elkins, Michael Newman ...
    Series series The Art Seminar
    Art criticism is spurned by universities, but widely produced and read. It is seldom theorized and its history has hardly been investigated. The State of Art Criticism presents an international conversation among art historians and critics that considers the relation between criticism and art history and poses the question of whether criticism may become a university subject.Contributors include ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Whores and Other Feminists

    Edited by Jill Nagle ...
    Whores and Other Feminists fleshes out feminist politics from the perspective of sex workers--strippers, prostitutes, porn writers, producers and performers, dominatrices--and their allies. Comprising a range of voices from both within and outside the academy, this collection draws from traditional feminisms, postmodern feminism, queer theory, and sex radicalism. It stretches the boundaries of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Is Art History Global?

    Edited by James Elkins ...
    Series series The Art Seminar
    This is the third volume in The Art Seminar, James Elkin's series of conversations on art and visual studies.Is Art History Global? stages an international conversation among art historians and critics on the subject of the practice and responsibility of global thinking within the discipline. Participants range from Keith Moxey of Columbia University to Cao Yiqiang, Ding Ning, Cuautemoc Medina, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Women Making Art

    History, Subjectivity, Aesthetics

    by Marsha Meskimmon ...
    Women have been making art for centuries, yet their work has been seen as secondary or has gone unrecognized altogether. Women Making Art asks why this is so, and what it would take for us to realize the extent of women's extraordinary contribution to the arts.Marsha Meskimmon mobilizes contemporary feminist thinking to reconsider how and why women have made art. She examines work by a wide range ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Total Work of Art

    From Bayreuth to Cyberspace

    by Matthew Wilson Smith ...
    The Total Work of Art provides a broad survey that incorporates many canonical artists into a single narrative. With particular attention to the influence of the Total Work of Art on modern theatre and performance, this brief introduction will also be of interest to students in such fields as film studies, music history, history of art, cultural studies, and modern European literatures. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD