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“oonagh stranksy”

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  • Beauty and the Inferno

    Essays

    by Roberto Saviano ...
    Translated by Oonagh Stranksy ...
    Essays on art, politics and life from the best-selling author of GomorrahGomorrah, Roberto Saviano’s 2006 exposé of Naples’s Camorra mafia, was an international bestseller and became an award-winning film. But the death threats that followed forced the author into hiding. Saviano was ostracized by his countrymen and went on the run, changing his location every few months and compelled to keep ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

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    by Mark Twain ...
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  • Picture This

    How Pictures Work

    Molly Bang's brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise is now revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary. Bang's powerful ideas—about how the visual composition of images works to engage the emotions, and how the elements of an artwork can give it the power to tell a story—remain unparalleled in their simplicity and genius. Why are diagonals dramatic? Why are curves calming? Why does red ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Art

    Key Contemporary Thinkers

    Edited by Jonathan Vickery, Diarmuid Costello ...
    The last few decades have witnessed an explosion in ideas and theories on art. Art itself has never been so topical, but much recent thinking remains inaccessible and difficult to use. This book assesses the work of those thinkers (including artists) who have had a major impact on making, criticizing and interpreting art since the 1960s. With entries by leading international experts, this book ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Writing on Drawing

    Essays on Drawing Practice and Research

    Edited by Steve Garner ...
    Series series Readings in Art and Design Education
    An increased public and academic interest in drawing and sketching, both traditional and digital, has allowed drawing research to emerge recently as a discipline in its own right. In light of this development, Writing on Drawing presents a collection of essays by leading artists and drawing researchers that reveal a provocative agenda for the field, analysing the latest work on creativity, ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Every Force Evolves a Form

    Twenty Essays

    by Guy Davenport ...
    Guy Davenport demonstrates his unparalleled critical vision as he interprets art, literature, and cultureIn this collection of 20 essays, Guy Davenport applies his insightful gaze and critical wisdom to topics including modern art and the effects of the automobile on contemporary society. His work ranges from "What Are Those Monkeys Doing?" in which he links the paintings of Rousseau to the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Miracle of Analogy

    or The History of Photography, Part 1

    by Kaja Silverman ...
    The Miracle of Analogy is the first of a two-volume reconceptualization of photography. It argues that photography originates in what is seen, rather than in the human eye or the camera lens, and that it is the world's primary way of revealing itself to us. Neither an index, representation, nor copy, as conventional studies would have it, the photographic image is an analogy. This principle ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Imagining Resistance

    Visual Culture and Activism in Canada

    Edited by J. Keri Cronin, Kirsty Robertson ...
    Series series Cultural Studies
    Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada offers two separate but interconnected strategies for reading alternative culture in Canada from the 1940s through to the present: first, a history of radical artistic practice in Canada and, second, a collection of eleven essays that focus on a range of institutions, artists, events, and actions. The history of radical practice is spread ... Read more

    $44.79 CAD

  • Tropisms

    by Nathalie Sarraute ...
    Translated by Maria Jolas ...
    Nathalie Sarraute's stunning debut—vignettes of "inner movements"—foreshadowed the rise of the nouveau roman.Hailed as a masterpiece by Jean Genet, Marguerite Duras, and Jean-Paul Sartre, Tropisms is considered one of the defining texts of the nouveau roman movement. Nathalie Sarraute has defined her work as the “movements that are hidden under the commonplace, harmless instances of our everyday ... Read more

    $14.09 CAD

  • What Do Artists Know?

    Edited by James Elkins ...
    Series series The Stone Art Theory Institutes
    Each of the five volumes in the Stone Art Theory Institutes series, and the seminars on which they are based, brings together a range of scholars who are not always directly familiar with one another’s work. The outcome of each of these convergences is an extensive and “unpredictable conversation” on knotty and provocative issues about art. This third volume in the series, What Do Artists Know?, ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

  • Photography: Theoretical Snapshots

    Edited by J.J. Long, Andrea Noble, Edward Welch ...
    Over the past twenty-five years, photography has moved to centre-stage in the study of visual culture and has established itself in numerous disciplines. This trend has brought with it a diversification in approaches to the study of the photographic image.Photography: Theoretical Snapshots offers exciting perspectives on photography theory today from some of the world’s leading critics and ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • The Mother of All Arts: Agrarianism and the Creative Impulse

    by Gene Logsdon ...
    When Gene Logsdon realized that he experienced the same creative joy from farming as he did from writing, he suspected that agriculture itself was a form of art. Thus began his search for the origins of the artistic impulse in the agrarian lifestyle. The Mother of All Arts is the culmination of Logsdon"s journey, his account of friendships with farmers and artists driven by the urge to create. He ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD