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  • Algomedia. The Image at the Time of Artificial Intelligence

    Edited by Pietro Conte, Anna Caterina Dalmasso, Maria Giulia Dondero, Andrea Pinotti ...
    Series series Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
    Contemporary media ecosystems are deeply entangled with algorithms, which play an increasingly pervasive role in shaping our environment and mediating our perception of reality. This book aims to provide a critical map of a rapidly evolving mediascape in which humans, machines, and data negotiate forms of agency, cultural imaginaries, and scopic regimes.In particular, the volume addresses the ... Read more

    $179.99 USD

  • Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts

    Edited by Alessandra Violi, Barbara Grespi, Andrea Pinotti, Pietro Conte ...
    If mediatization has surprisingly revealed the secret life of inert matter and the ‘face of things’, the flipside of this has been the petrification of living organisms, an invasion of stone bodies in a state of suspended animation. Within a contemporary imaginary pervaded by new forms of animism, the paradigm of death looms large in many areas of artistic experimentation, pushing the modern body ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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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

    $17.99 USD

  • Art and Illusion

    A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation - Millennium Edition

    by E. H. Gombrich ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    A groundbreaking account of perception and art, from one of the twentieth century’s most important art historiansE. H. Gombrich is widely considered to be one of the most influential art historians of the twentieth century, and Art and Illusion is generally agreed to be his most important book. Bridging science and the humanities, this classic work examines the history and psychology of pictorial ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Atlas of Emotion

    Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film

    by Giuliana Bruno ...
    An award-winning cultural history of how we experience the world through art, film and architectureAtlas of Emotion is a highly original endeavor to map the cultural terrain of spatio-visual arts. In an evocative blend of words and pictures, Giuliana Bruno emphasizes the connections between “sight” and “site” and “motion” and “emotion.” In so doing, she touches on the art of Gerhard Richter and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Conversations on Cinema

    by De Gaetano Roberto, Slavoj Žižek, Paul Schrader, Paolo Jedlowski, Werner Herzog, Roberto Esposito, Jean-Louis Comolli, Julio Bressane, Jacques Rancière, Jean-Luc Nancy, Angela Ricci Lucchi, Yervant Gianikian, Georges Didi-Huberman ...
    Eleven conversations taken from as many issues of Fata Morgana. Eleven conversations which synthesize the project behind the journal which was born in spring 2006. At the time it was decided against having an editorial comment because of the conviction that if the journal was going to succeed it would speak for itself. However, the time has come to say a few words. A journal is first and foremost ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $14.99 USD

  • Context Collapse

    A Poem Containing a History of Poetry

    by Ryan Ruby ...
    **Literary critic Ryan Ruby uncovers the secret history of poetry in a mock-academic verse essay filled with wit and wisdom.One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2024**Prophet. Entertainer. Courtier. Criminal. Revolutionary. Critic. Scholar. Nobody. Epic in sweep, Context Collapse is the secret history of the poet—from Bronze Age Greece and Renaissance Italy to the cafés of Grub Street and the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Pensive Image

    Art as a Form of Thinking

    by Hanneke Grootenboer ...
    Grootenboer considers painting as a form of thinking in itself, rather than a subject of philosophical and interpretive thought.While the philosophical dimension of painting has long been discussed, a clear case for painting as a form of visual thinking has yet to be made. Traditionally, vanitas still life paintings are considered to raise ontological issues while landscapes direct the mind toward ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Uncontrollable Beauty

    Toward a New Aesthetics

    by David Shapiro ...
    In this acclaimed art anthology, a prestigious group of artists, critics, and literati offer their incisive reflections on the questions of beauty, past, present, and future, and how it has become a domain of multiple perspectives.Here is Meyer Schapiro’s skeptical argument on perfection . . . contributions from artists as profound as Louise Bourgeois and Agnes Martin . . . and reflections of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • 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

    $20.99 USD

  • Composition

    Uncover the ideas behind great works of modern art

    by Michael Archer ...
    The rules of composition have changed. Discover the new ideas that shape the art we make today.Art has changed beyond recognition since the principles of harmonious composition were established in classical times. From the invention of photography to the digital revolution, technological and social advances have transformed the way we see the world. This new vision, influenced by changing ... Read more

    $3.99 USD