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  • The Curator's Handbook: Museums, Commercial Galleries, Independent Spaces

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    A step-by-step guide to every aspect of putting on an art exhibition, with tips from a range of influential curators.The Curator’s Handbook is the essential handbook for curators and curatorial students, mapping every stage of the process of putting on an exhibition, no matter how traditional the venue, from initial idea to final installation.An introduction explores curatorial work from its ... Leer más

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  • How to See

    Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art

    de David Salle ...
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  • The Museum of Broken Relationships

    In the spirit of Humans of New York and PostSecret, ths is a gorgeous gift book celebrating the objects that outlast love: a poignant, funny, sometimes bizarre and always delightful window into modern love and loss."Leave[s] your heart feeling full and connected." -- Frank Warren, PostSecretA postcard from a childhood sweetheart. A wedding dress sealed in a jar. A roll of undeveloped film. An axe ... Leer más

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  • The Miracle of Analogy

    or The History of Photography, Part 1

    The Miracle of Analogy is the first of a two-volume reconceptualization of photography. It argues that photography originates in what is seen, rather than in the human eye or the camera lens, and that it is the world's primary way of revealing itself to us. Neither an index, representation, nor copy, as conventional studies would have it, the photographic image is an analogy. This principle ... Leer más

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  • Photography and the Art of Chance

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    Photography has a unique relationship to chance. Anyone who has wielded a camera has taken a picture ruined by an ill-timed blink or enhanced by an unexpected gesture or expression. Although this proneness to chance may amuse the casual photographer, Robin Kelsey points out that historically it has been a mixed blessing for those seeking to make photographic art. On the one hand, it has weakened ... Leer más

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  • The Story of Looking

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    The acclaimed author and filmmaker's investigation into the human gaze through history, art and science, paints an illuminating portrait of our culture.Looking can be an act of empathy or aggression. It can provoke desire or express it. And from the blurry, edgeless world we inhabit as infants to the landscape of screens we grow into, looking can define us.In The Story of Looking, filmmaker and ... Leer más

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    Intertwining art history, aesthetic theory, and Latin American studies, Aarnoud Rommens challenges contemporary Eurocentric revisions of the history of abstraction through this study of the Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres-García. After studying and painting (for decades) in Europe, Torres-García returned in 1934 to his native home, Montevideo, with the dream of reawakening and revitalizing what he ... Leer más

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  • Surpassing the Spectacle

    Global Transformations and the Changing Politics of Art

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  • Photography and Failure

    One Medium's Entanglement with Flops, Underdogs and Disappointments

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