Theory of art books

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Art History, Narratology, and Twentieth-Century Chinese Art

Art History, Narratology, and Twentieth-Century Chinese...

Author: Lian Duan (Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.)
ISBN: 9781032461526
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This study constructs a framework of narratology for art history and rewrites the development of twentieth-century...  Read More >>

Restoration as Fabrication of Origins: A Material and Political History of Italian Renaissance Art

Restoration as Fabrication of Origins: A Material and...

Author: Henri de Riedmatten ,  Fabio Gaffo
ISBN: 9783111072272
Format: Paperback
$110.00

Die Publikation widmet sich den Beziehungen zwischen Restaurierung und Politik in der Kunst der italienischen Renaissance....  Read More >>

Romantische Thermodynamik: Dichtung, Natur und die Verwandlung der Kräfte 1770-1830

Romantische Thermodynamik: Dichtung, Natur und die Verwandlung...

Author: Cornelia Zumbusch
ISBN: 9783111252971
Format: Hardback
$171.57

The power of poetry, a topos since Plato, undergoes a radical transformation in literary texts between 1770 and...  Read More >>

Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

Author: Lauren Elkin
ISBN: 9781784742935
Format: Hardback
$55.00

"""A meditation on the role of the female body in art and art-making""--"  Read More >>

The Painting Master’s Shame: Liang Shicheng and the Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings

The Painting Master’s Shame: Liang Shicheng and the...

Author: Amy McNair
ISBN: 9780674293748
Format: Hardback
$86.95

The Painting Master’s Shame describes the remarkable circumstances of the period around 1120, when the Xuanhe Catalogue...  Read More >>

Exhibiting Antonio Canova: Display and the Transformation of Sculptural Theory

Exhibiting Antonio Canova: Display and the Transformation...

Author: Christina Ferando
ISBN: 9789463724098
Format: Hardback
$370.01

Exhibiting Antonio Canova: Display and the Transformation of Sculptural Theory argues that the display of Canova’s...  Read More >>

Errant Letters: Jacques Rancière and the Philosophy of Literature

Errant Letters: Jacques Rancière and the Philosophy...

Author: Ryszard Nycz ,  Mikołaj Golubiewski
ISBN: 9783631881644
Format: Hardback
$119.03

Comprehensive presentation of Jacques Rancière’s thought on relations between politics and literature in the context...  Read More >>

Dreamwork for Dramatic Writing: Dreamwrighting for Stage and Screen

Dreamwork for Dramatic Writing: Dreamwrighting for Stage...

Author: David A. Crespy
ISBN: 9789004535954
Format: Hardback
$314.16

Dreamwork for Dramatic Writing: Dreamwrighting for Stage and Screen is a book about how to use your dreams, content,...  Read More >>

Esch2022: PURE EUROPE

Esch2022: PURE EUROPE

Author: cropmark.
ISBN: 9783775752428
Format: Paperback
$60.00

Europe is often defined in either strictly political terms or rather vague cultural notions. But where do these...  Read More >>

Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and Work

Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and...

Author: Prof. Nigel Cross
ISBN: 9781350305069
Format: Paperback
$36.99

A short and very accessible primer explaining how designers think in order to create.  Read More >>

Camille Henrot: Milkyways

Camille Henrot: Milkyways

Author: Camille Henrot ,  Neil Holt
ISBN: 9783775755344
Format: Paperback
$45.00

Milkyways is a collection of essays by artist Camille Henrot, exploring the ambivalence of motherhood and the process...  Read More >>

A Jar of Wild Flowers: Essays in Celebration of John Berger

A Jar of Wild Flowers: Essays in Celebration of John...

Author: Yasmin Gunaratnam ,  Amarjit Chandan
ISBN: 9781350429253
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The first collection of essays dedicated to examining the work of John Berger, with cross-cultural contributions...  Read More >>

Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and Work

Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and...

Author: Prof. Nigel Cross
ISBN: 9781350305021
Format: Hardback
$110.00

A short and very accessible primer explaining how designers think in order to create.  Read More >>

Faith in Art: Religion, Aesthetics, and Early Abstraction

Faith in Art: Religion, Aesthetics, and Early Abstraction...

Author: Professor Joseph Masheck (Hofstra University, USA) ,  David Carrier (University of Pittsburgh USA)
ISBN: 9781350216976
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Metaphysical thought has been excluded from much of the discourse on modern art, especially abstract painting. By...  Read More >>

May Muzaffar: Story of Water and Fire

May Muzaffar: Story of Water and Fire

Author: May Muzaffar
ISBN: 9783775755450
Format: Paperback
$54.99

The Arab art scene from the 1960s to the 1990s. Story of Water and Fire is a captivating account of the joint life...  Read More >>

Oswald Wiener's Theory of Thought: Conversations and Essays on Fundamental Issues in Cognitive Science

Oswald Wiener's Theory of Thought: Conversations and...

Author: Thomas Eder ,  Thomas Raab
ISBN: 9783110659610
Format: Paperback
$46.00

As a versatile and creative thinker, Oswald Wiener (1935—2021) developed from an artist into a researcher out of...  Read More >>

The Belvedere: 300 Years a Venue for Art

The Belvedere: 300 Years a Venue for Art

Author: Stella Rollig ,  Christian Huemer
ISBN: 9783111186313
Format: Hardback
$110.00

Anniversary publication of the Belvedere The Belvedere in Vienna epitomizes the changes that have taken place...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture

The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting...

Author: Noël Carroll ,  Jonathan Gilmore
ISBN: 9781138233812
Format: Hardback
$546.00

The editors have organized the chapters helpfully across eight parts: I: Artforms, II: History, III: Questions of...  Read More >>

Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists

Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of...

Author: Rebecca Bengal ,  Joy Williams
ISBN: 9781597115544
Format: Paperback
$79.07

In Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists, Rebecca Bengal considers the photographers who...  Read More >>

Through the Scope of Life: Art and (Bio)Technologies Philosophically Revisited

Through the Scope of Life: Art and (Bio)Technologies...

Author: María Antonia González Valerio ,  Polona Tratnik
ISBN: 9783031317354
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book offers intriguing philosophical inquiries into biotechnological art and the life sciences, addressing...  Read More >>

Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline?: Toward a Critical Historiography

Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline?: Toward...

Author: Benjamin Anderson (Cornell University) ,  Mirela Ivanova (University of Sheffield)
ISBN: 9780271095264
Format: Paperback
$58.99

A volume of essays by scholars of Byzantine art, history, and literature addressing the entanglements between the...  Read More >>

Please Wait by the Coat Room: Essays on Art, Race, And Culture

Please Wait by the Coat Room: Essays on Art, Race, And...

Author: John Yau
ISBN: 9781574232615
Format: Hardback
$76.43

Please Wait by the Coat Room is for readers interested in the art and artists of color that many mainstream institutions...  Read More >>

Das Werk im Zentrum: Kunstgeschichte mit Objekten aus dem Städel Museum und der Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung

Das Werk im Zentrum: Kunstgeschichte mit Objekten aus...

Author: Berit Wagner ,  Almut Pollmer-Schmidt
ISBN: 9783422800885
Format: Hardback
$175.95

Developing an art-historically relevant and innovative question based on a key object is a complex matter. Each...  Read More >>

Emil Orlik: Das druckgraphische Werk

Emil Orlik: Das druckgraphische Werk

Author: Peter Voss-Andreae ,  Peter Voss-Andreae
ISBN: 9783422988415
Format: Hardback
$465.75

Vier Bände im Schuber Emil Orlik (1870–1932) war Maler, Grafiker, Fotograf, Exlibris-Künstler, Medailleur und...  Read More >>

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