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  • Portraiture

    by Richard Brilliant ...
    Series series Essays in Art and Culture
    This is the first general and theoretical study devoted entirely to portraiture. Drawing on a broad range of images from Antiquity to the twentieth century, which includes paintings, sculptures, prints, cartoons, postage stamps, medals, documents and photographs, Richard Brilliant investigates the genre as a particular phenomenon in Western art that is especially sensitive to changes in the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Reuse Value

    Spolia and Appropriation in Art and Architecture from Constantine to Sherrie Levine

    Edited by Richard Brilliant, Dale Kinney ...
    This book offers a range of views on spolia and appropriation in art and architecture from fourth-century Rome to the late twentieth century. Using case studies from different historical moments and cultures, contributors test the limits of spolia as a critical category and seek to define its specific character in relation to other forms of artistic appropriation. Several authors explore the ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

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  • Ways of Seeing

    by John Berger ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever."Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we ... Read more

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  • What Art Is

    by Arthur C. Danto ...
    What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex question. Part philosophical monograph and part memoiristic meditation, What Art Is challenges the popular interpretation that art is an indefinable concept, instead bringing to light the properties that constitute universal meaning. Danto argues that despite varied approaches, a work of ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Disclosing Horizons

    Architecture, Perspective and Redemptive Space

    by Nicholas Temple ...
    This study examines the influence of perspective on architecture, highlighting how critical historical changes in the representation and perception of space continue to inform the way architects design.Since its earliest developments, perspective was conceived as an exemplary form of representation that served as an ideal model of how everyday existence could be measured and ultimately judged. ... Read more

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  • Drawing

    Techniques, Styles, Instruments, and Practice

    by Trenton Hamilton ...
    Series series Britannica's Practical Guide to the Arts
    Drawing is the technique of producing images on a surface, usually paper, by means of marks, usually of ink, graphite, chalk, charcoal, or crayon. Although drawings differ in quality, they have a common purposeto give visible form to an idea and to express the artist's feeling about it. Besides the way in which they feel about their subjects, artists reflect in their drawing their individual ... Read more

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  • Portraits and Persons

    by Cynthia Freeland ...
    Portraits have for centuries been one of the most important art forms. But what do portraits tell us? What do they mean? And what makes a picture into a portrait? In this book, leading art philosopher Cynthia Freeland addresses these questions and more. As she shows, portraits have served two fundamental functions throughout the ages. Firstly, they preserve identity, bringing us closer to loved ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Cultures of Collecting

    Edited by Roger Cardinal, John Elsner ...
    Series series Critical Views
    with essays by Jean Baudrillard, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Nicholas Thomas, Mieke Bal, John Forrester, John Windsor, Naomi Schor, Susan Stewart, Anthony Alan Shelton, Jaś Elsner, Roger Cardinal and an interview with Robert Opie.This book traces the psychology, history and theory of the compulsion to collect, focusing not just on the normative collections of the Western canon, but also on ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • The Books that Shaped Art History: From Gombrich and Greenberg to Alpers and Krauss

    by Richard Shone, John-Paul Stonard ...
    An exemplary survey that reassesses the impact of the most important books to have shaped art history through the twentieth centuryWritten by some of today’s leading art historians and curators, this new collection provides an invaluable road map of the field by comparing and reexamining canonical works of art history. From Émile Mâle’s magisterial study of thirteenth-century French art, first ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • A Short History of the Shadow

    by Victor I. Stoichita ...
    Series series Essays in Art and Culture
    In this investigative tour de force, Victor I. Stoichita untangles the history of one of the most enduring technical and symbolic challenges to beset Western artists - the depiction and meanings of shadows. The representation of shadow, and especially of cast shadow, is as old as art itself, for according to classical writers art was born when the outline of a human shadow thrown onto a wall was ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • After the End of Art

    Contemporary Art and the Pale of History - Updated Edition

    by Arthur C. Danto ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    The classic and provocative account of how art changed irrevocably with pop art and why traditional aesthetics can’t make sense of contemporary artA classic of art criticism and philosophy, After the End of Art continues to generate heated debate for its radical and famous assertion that art ended in the 1960s. Arthur Danto, a philosopher who was also one of the leading art critics of his time, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Vermeer’s Wager

    Speculations on Art History, Theory and Art Museums

    by Ivan Gaskell ...
    Series series Essays in Art and Culture
    Vermeer’s Wager stands at the intersection of art history and criticism, philosophy and museology. Using a familiar and celebrated painting by Johannes Vermeer as a case study, Ivan Gaskell explores what it might mean to know and use a work of art. He argues that art history as generally practised, while successfully asserting certain claims to knowledge, fails to take into account aspects of the ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD