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  • The (Moving) Pictures Generation

    The Cinematic Impulse in Downtown New York Art and Film

    by V. Dika ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Beginning in the late 1970s, a number of visual artists in downtown New York City returned to an exploration of the cinematic across mediums. Vera Dika considers their work within a greater cultural context and probes for a deeper understanding of the practice. ... 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

  • 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 Politics under Modern Dictatorships

    A Comparison of Chile and Romania

    by Caterina Preda ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book analyzes the relationship between art and politics in two contrasting modern dictatorships. Through a detailed look at the Chilean and Romanian dictatorships, it compares the different ways in which political regimes convey their view of the world through artistic means. It examines how artists help \ convey a new understanding of politics and political action during repressive regimes ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The Poetics of Waste

    Queer Excess in Stein, Ashbery, Schuyler, and Goldsmith

    by C. Schmidt ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Modernist debates about waste - both aesthetic and economic - often express biases against gender and sexual errancy. The Poetics of Waste looks at writers and artists who resist this ideology and respond by developing an excessive poetics. ... Read more

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  • 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

    $80.99 USD

  • The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine

    by Corinne Saunders, David Fuller ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • “Voi Altri Pochi”

    Ezra Pound and his Audience, 1908–1925

    by Mark Kyburz ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Critical tradition has established a certain way of reading Ezra Pound, one that places the meanings of the words on the page at the centre of interest and neglects poetic communication. The present study contributes to the recent challenge to this critical orthodoxy, which has led to his canonization as a "difficult" poet, by investigating the pragmatic dimension of Pound's work. In its effort to ... Read more

    $49.49 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

  • 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

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  • Representing Realists in Victorian Literature and Criticism

    by Daniel Brown ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is about the historical moment when writers and critics first used the term “realism” to describe representation in literature and painting. While scholarship on realism tends to proceed from an assumption that the term has a long-established meaning and history, this book reveals that mid-nineteenth-century critics and writers first used the term reluctantly, with much confusion over ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Emergence in Interactive Art

    by Jennifer Seevinck ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book is concerned with emergence, interaction, art and computing. It introduces a new focus for emergence in interactive art: the emergent experience. Emergence literature is discussed and an organising framework, the Taxonomy of Emergence in Interactive Art (TEIA) is provided together with case studies of digital, interactive art systems that facilitate emergence. Evidence from evaluations ... Read more

    $89.09 USD