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“david kastan”

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  • On Color

    by David Kastan ...
    Ranging from Homer to Picasso, and from the Iranian Revolution to The Wizard of Oz , this "sparkling and informative" book awakens us to the role of color ( Wall Street Journal ).Our lives are saturated by color. We live in a world of vivid colors, and color marks our psychological and social existence. But for all color's inescapability, we don't know much about it. Now authors ... ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The World According to Color

    A Cultural History

    by James Fox ...
    A kaleidoscopic exploration that traverses history, literature, art, and science to reveal humans' unique and vibrant relationship with color.We have an extraordinary connection to color—we give it meanings, associations, and properties that last millennia and span cultures, continents, and languages. In The World According to Color, James Fox takes seven elemental colors—black, red, yellow, blue, ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • From Bauhaus to Our House

    by Tom Wolfe ...
    After critiquing―and infuriating―the art world with The Painted Word, the award-winning author Tom Wolfe shares his less-than-favorable thoughts about modern architecture in From Bauhaus to Our House.In this examination of the strange saga of twentieth-century architecture, Wolfe takes such European architects as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Bauhaus art school founder Walter Gropius ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Art Theory

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Cynthia Freeland ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this Very Short Introduction 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, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder

    Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Techno logy

    by Lawrence Weschler ...
    Finalist for Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionFinalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionPronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers through an intellectual hall of mirrors, Lawrence Weschler revisits the 16th-century "wonder cabinets" ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Paper

    An Elegy

    by Ian Sansom ...
    From the author of The Bad Book Affair comes a witty, personal, and entertaining meditation on the history and significance of paper—an international cultural study and a series of personal reflections on the meaning of this essential product.Let us suppose for a moment that paper were to disappear. Would anything be lost? Everything would be lost.Paper surrounds us. Not only as books, letters and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Translation

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Matthew Reynolds ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Translation is everywhere, and matters to everybody. Translation doesn't only give us foreign news, dubbed films and instructions for using the microwave: without it, there would be no world religions, and our literatures, our cultures, and our languages would be unrecognisable. In this Very Short Introduction, Matthew Reynolds gives an authoritative and thought-provoking account of the field, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Past Is a Foreign Country – Revisited

    by David Lowenthal ...
    The past remains essential - and inescapable. A quarter-century after the publication of his classic account of man's attitudes to his past, David Lowenthal revisits how we celebrate, expunge, contest and domesticate the past to serve present needs. He shows how nostalgia and heritage now pervade every facet of public and popular culture. History embraces nature and the cosmos as well as humanity. ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • How It Feels to Be Alive

    Encounters with Art and Our Selves

    by Megan O'Grady ...
    A vital testament to how art makes us who we are—and offers new ways of seeing our world and our lives.Barbara Kruger once defined art as the ability “to show and tell, through a kind of eloquent shorthand, how it feels to be alive.” Testing that claim, Megan O’Grady takes us on a journey to explore art’s intimate effects and how it might help us find clarity in an uncertain world.When O’Grady was ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Women, Art, and Society

    by Whitney Chadwick ...
    Series series World of Art
    A new edition of the groundbreaking book by Whitney Chadwick maps the complete history of women artists from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to today.Art historian Whitney Chadwick’s acclaimed bestselling study challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule who “transcended” their gender to produce major works of art. While introducing some of the many women ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • ArtQuake

    The Most Disruptive Works in Modern Art

    by Susie Hodge ...
    Series series Culture Quake
    Discover art that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when artists take tradition and rip it up.ArtQuake tells the stories of 50 pivotal works that shook the world, telling the fascinating stories behind their creation, reception and legacy.The books begin with the rebels who struck out against Victorian conformism, daring painters and ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Contemporary Painting (World of Art)

    by Suzanne Hudson ...
    Series Book 0 - World of Art
    This international survey of contemporary painting by a leading author features artwork from over 250 renowned artists whose ideas and aesthetics characterize the painting of our time.The twentieth century brought radical changes in art—including the shift from modernism to postmodernism—which were accompanied by fierce debates regarding the place of painting in contemporary culture. Contemporary ... Read more

    $15.99 USD