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  • Quotational Practices

    Repeating the Future in Contemporary Art

    by Patrick Greaney ...
    Literature and art have always depended on imitation, and in the past few decades quotation and appropriation have become dominant aesthetic practices. But critical methods have not kept pace with this development. Patrick Greaney reopens the debate about quotation and appropriation, shifting away from naïve claims about the death of the author. In interpretations of art and literature from the ... Read more

    $19.79 USD

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    Van Gogh, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty

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  • Bento's Sketchbook

    by John Berger ...
    Series series The Essential John Berger
    A deeply moving exploration of the relationship between thinking and drawing, from the author of the groundbreaking Ways of SeeingThe seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza (a.k.a. Bento) spent the most intense years of his short life writing. He also carried with him a sketchbook. After his sudden death, his friends rescued letters, manuscripts, notes—but no drawings.For years, without ... Read more

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  • Looking is an Art

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    Learn the artistic eye. Learn to teach the practice of the artistic eye, the practice of continuously renewed interest and pleasure in your everyday visual experience. ... Read more

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  • Walter Benjamin's Concept of the Image

    by Alison Ross ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
    In this book, Alison Ross engages in a detailed study of Walter Benjamin’s concept of the image, exploring the significant shifts in Benjamin’s approach to the topic over the course of his career. Using Kant’s treatment of the topic of sensuous form in his aesthetics as a comparative reference, Ross argues that Benjamin’s thinking on the image undergoes a major shift between his 1924 essay on ... Read more

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  • The Pebble Chance

    Feuilletons and Other Prose

    by Marius Kociejowski ...
    Marius is an antiquarian bookseller in London who has travelled widely; while ostensibly a collection of essays and reflections on the art of poetry (and in some cases, music and the visual arts), these essays are also biographical, and include dozens of anecdotes about his encounters with poets, novelists, and artistsIncludes stories of time spent as apprentice at distinguished UK antiquarian ... Read more

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  • Posthuman Glossary

    Edited by Maria Hlavajova, Professor Rosi Braidotti ...
    Series series Theory in the New Humanities
    If art, science, and the humanities have shared one thing, it was their common engagement with constructions and representations of the human. Under the pressure of new contemporary concerns, however, we are experiencing a “posthuman condition”; the combination of new developments-such as the neoliberal economics of global capitalism, migration, technological advances, environmental destruction on ... Read more

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  • Irrational Judgments

    Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, and 1960s New York

    by Kirsten Swenson ...
    Irrational Judgments examines the close friendship and significant exchange of ideas between Eva Hesse (1936–1970) and Sol LeWitt (1928–2007) in New York City during the 1960s. Taking its title from LeWitt’s statement “Irrational judgments lead to new experience,” this book examines the breakthroughs of the artists’ intertwined careers, offering a new understanding of minimal, post-minimal, and ... Read more

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  • My Fair Ladies

    Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves

    by Julie Wosk ...
    Runner-up for the 2015 Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Book PrizeThe fantasy of a male creator constructing his perfect woman dates back to the Greek myth of Pygmalion and Galatea. Yet as technology has advanced over the past century, the figure of the lifelike manmade woman has become nearly ubiquitous, popping up in everything from Bride of Frankenstein to Weird Science to The Stepford ... Read more

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  • Contemporary British Artists of African Descent and the Unburdening of a Generation

    by Monique Kerman ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores the notable roles that contemporary British artists of African descent have played in the multicultural context of postwar Britain. In four key case studies— Magdalene Odundo, Veronica Ryan, Mary Evans, and Maria Amidu—Monique Kerman charts their impact through analysis of works, activities, and exhibitions. The author elucidates each of the artists’ creative response to their ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Vox Populi

    The Perils and Promises of Populism

    Edited by Roger Kimball ...
    The rise of populist movements across the political spectrum poses a vital question: what role should populism play in modern democracy? In ten trenchant essays, the writers of The New Criterion examine the perils and promises of populism in Vox Populi, a new collection that marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of this critical journal.Beginning with a reflection on the problems of populism for ... Read more

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