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  • Cézanne and the End of Impressionism

    A Study of the Theory, Technique, and Critical Evaluation of Modern Art

    by Richard Shiff ...
    Drawing on a broad foundation in the history of nineteenth-century French art, Richard Shiff offers an innovative interpretation of Cézanne's painting. He shows how Cézanne's style met the emerging criteria of a "technique of originality" and how it satisfied critics sympathetic to symbolism as well as to impressionism. Expanding his study of the interaction of Cézanne and his critics, Shiff ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Doubt

    by Richard Shiff ...
    Series series Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts
    In an age where art history’s questions are now expected to receive answers, Richard Shiff presents a challenging alternative. In this essential new addition to James Elkins’s series Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts, Richard Shiff embraces doubt as a critical tool and asks how particular histories of art have come to be.Shiff’s turn to doubt is not a retreat to relativism ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Critical Terms for Art History, Second Edition

    Edited by Robert S. Nelson, Richard Shiff ...
    "Art" has always been contested terrain, whether the object in question is a medieval tapestry or Duchamp's Fountain. But questions about the categories of "art" and "art history" acquired increased urgency during the 1970s, when new developments in critical theory and other intellectual projects dramatically transformed the discipline. The first edition of Critical Terms for Art History both ... Read more

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    Interviews with the French American progenitor of conceptual art, revealing in his own words his artistic journey and commitment to avant-garde art.Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp is a collection of in-depth interviews with the artist, covering his transition from painting to conceptual art, the creation of the Large Glass, his invention of “readymades,” and his preference for art that is ... Read more

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  • Cubism

    The revolutionary art movement of Picasso, Braque, and beyond

    by Guillaume Apollinaire, Dorothea Eimert ...
    Les Demoiselles d’Avignon: five young women that changed modern art forever. Faces seen simultaneously from the front and in profile, angular bodies whose once voluptuous feminine forms disappear behind asymmetric lines - with this work, Picasso revolutionised the entire history of painting. Cubism was thus born in 1907. Transforming natural forms into cylinders and cubes, painters like Juan Gris ... Read more

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  • Cezanne

    A Life

    by Alex Danchev ...
    With 32-pages of full-color inserts, and black-and-white illustrations throughout.Alex Danchev gives us the first comprehensive assessment of the revolutionary work and restless life of Paul Cézanne to be published in decades. One of the most influential painters of his time and beyond, Cézanne was the exemplary artist-creator of the modern age who changed the way we see the world.With brisk ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Style and Civilization

    Realism

    by Linda Nochlin ...
    Setting Realism in its social and historical context, the author discusses the crucial paradox posed by Realist works of art - notably in the revolutionary paintings of Courbet, the works of Manet, Degas and Monet, of the Pre-Raphaelites and other English, American, German and Italian Realists. ... Read more

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  • Architecture in Words

    Theatre, Language and the Sensuous Space of Architecture

    by Louise Pelletier ...
    What if the house you are about to enter was built with the confessed purpose of seducing you, of creating various sensations destined to touch your soul and make you reflect on who you are? Could architecture have such power? This was the assumption of generations of architects at the beginning of modernity.Exploring the role of theatre and fiction in defining character in architecture, Louise ... Read more

    $163.99 CAD

  • In Praise of Theatre

    by Alain Badiou ...
    In Praise of Theatre is Alain Badiou’s latest work on the ‘most complete of the arts,’ the theatrical stage. This book, certain to be of great interest to scholars and theatre practitioners alike, elaborates the theory of the theatre developed by Badiou in works such as Rhapsody for the Theatre and the ‘Theses on Theatre’ and enquires into the status of a theatre that would be adequate to our ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Brain-Eye

    New Histories of Modern Painting

    Translated by Robin Mackay ...
    by Eric Alliez ...
    A detailed and inventive study of the thinking at work in modern painting, drawing on a formidable body of scholarly evidence to challenge modernist and phenomenological readings of art history, The Brain-Eye presents a series of interlinked ‘case studies’ in which philosophical thought encounters the hallucinatory sensations unleashed by ‘painter-researchers.’Rather than outlining a new ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • René Magritte

    Selected Writings

    by René Magritte ...
    Translated by Jo Levy ...
    Available for the first time in an English translation, this selection of René Magritte’s writings gives non-Francophone readers the chance to encounter the many incarnations of the renowned Belgian painter—the artist, the man, the aspiring noirist, the fire-breathing theorist—in his own words. Through whimsical personal letters, biting apologia, appreciations of fellow artists, pugnacious ... Read more

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  • Manet

    A Symbolic Revolution

    by Pierre Bourdieu ...
    Translated by Peter Collier, Margaret Rigaud-Drayton ...
    What is a 'symbolic revolution'? What happens when a symbolic revolutions occurs, how can it succeed and prevail and why is it so difficult to understand? Using the exemplary case of Édouard Manet, Pierre Bourdieu began to ponder these questions as early as the 1980s, before making it the focus of his lectures in his last years at the Collége de France. This second volume of Bourdieu's previously ... Read more

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