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The Art of Reflection: Women Artists' Self-Portraiture in the

The Art of Reflection: Women Artists' Self-Portraiture in the

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A debate on the work of women who have used self-portraiture in the visual arts to challenge male-centred definitions of the genre. Using the feminist critiques of autobiography developed in...
Interpreting Contemporary Art

Interpreting Contemporary Art

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The interpretation of contemporary art has always presented the critic with the hardest challenge; yet today, as new and often bewildering trends and movements come to the fore with dizzying...
Art in Theory, 1900-90: An Anthology

Art in Theory, 1900-90: An Anthology

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Since it was first published in 1992, this book has become one of the leading anthologies of art theoretical texts in the English-speaking world. This expanded edition includes the fruits...
The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century

The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century

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In The Return of the Real Hal Foster discusses the development of art and theory since 1960, and reorders the relation between prewar and postwar avant-gardes. Opposed to the assumption...
Art in Theory 1900 - 2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas

Art in Theory 1900 - 2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas

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This popular anthology of twentieth-century art theoretical texts has now been expanded to take account of new research, and to include significant contributions to art theory from the 1990s. New...
Precolumbian Art and the Post-Columbian World: Ancient American

Precolumbian Art and the Post-Columbian World: Ancient American

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An original study of the influence of American art on art of the 20th century and the works of such people as Paul Gauguin, Frank Lloyd Wright, Diego Rivera, Henry...
Art and Fear

Art and Fear

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Art and Fear is compulsory reading for anyone still wondering where art has gone and where science is taking us. Paul Virilio traces the twin development of art and science...
Tense Conditions (Bilingual edition): A Presentation of the

Tense Conditions (Bilingual edition): A Presentation of the

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In its new presentation of the collection, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart establishes a dialogue between works from the private Scharpff-Striebich collection and works from its own stocks. Contemporary positions and works...
Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in its Struggle to Be

Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in its Struggle to Be

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Grayson Perry's irreverent, acclaimed look at the art world, now published in paperback Now Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that...
Ornament and Crime

Ornament and Crime

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Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architecture 'But art has nothing to do with forgery, with lies. The paths of...
How to Write About Contemporary Art

How to Write About Contemporary Art

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Author: Gilda WilliamsFormat: Paperback, 140mm x 210mm, 420g, 264 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014How to Write About Contemporary Art is the definitive guide to writing, engagingly about...