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On Reflection
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In this volume, Jonathan Miller investigates the pictorial representation of sheen, shine, glimmer and gleam through a selection of paintings and photographs drawn from the National Gallery, London and other...
Tense Conditions (Bilingual edition): A Presentation of the
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...
Like This (Bilingual edition): Natural Intelligence As Seen by Art
LIKE THIS. Natural Intelligence As Seen by Art brings together a series of specific commissions by ten internationally renowned artists for der TANK, the exhibition space of the Institute Art...
Only Connect: Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance
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This work makes a plea for a more engaged reading of art works of the Italian Renaissance, one that will recognize the presuppositions of Renaissance artists about their viewers. The...
Design and Crime (And Other Diatribes)
In these diatribes on the marketing of culture and the branding of identity, the development of spectacle-architecture and the rise of global cities, Hal Foster surveys our new political economy...
Tomaso da Modena
This is the definitive study of one of the greatest artists of the fourteenth century, Tomaso de Modena. His work was remarkable for its vivid expression and its varied imagery,...
Where Colour Plays a Distinctive Role: Sikkens Award
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The book titled Where Colour Plays a Distinctive Role: Sikkens Award by the author Petra Timmer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Colourscape
With this invaluable handbook. Michael Lancaster seeks to clarify the place and meaning of colour in our surroundings. The complex subject matter is explored thoroughly - from the biological nature...
Russell Drysdale: The Drawings
The year 2012 is the centenary of the birth of Russell Drysdale, one of the greatest Australian painters of the twentieth century. This book celebrates his achievement as a draughtsman....
Victorian Taste
The book titled Victorian Taste by the author John Steegman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Oxford Companion to Western Art
This work replaces Harold Osborne's Oxford Companion to Art (1970), which has been continuously in print for thirty years. Though originally commissioned as a new edition of Osborne's book, it...
Contemporary Australian Printmaking
The book titled Contemporary Australian Printmaking by the author Sasha Grishin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Image and the Eye: Further Studies in the Psychology of Pictorial
The book titled The Image and the Eye: Further Studies in the Psychology of Pictorial by the author Ernst H. Gombrich. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...
The Intimate Philosophy of Art
There is no access to art except in private - in looking, thinking and feeling in the presence of an individual work. In this book, the author describes the resources...
The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to
In this pathbreaking and richly illustrated book, Martin Kemp examines the major optically oriented examples of artistic theory and practice from Brunelleschi's invention of perspective and its exploitation by Leonardo...
A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger
John Berger was one of the most influential thinkers and writers of postwar Europe. As a novelist, he won the Booker Prize in 1972, donating half his prize money to...
Colour Consulting: Colourists in the Design and Fine Arts
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Bringing together contributions from architecture, interior and graphic design and fine art, this volume is a international survey of colourists' work. The book explores the achievements of colourists in such...
The Power of Feminist Art: Emergence, Impact and Triumph of the
Since its inception nearly 25 years ago, the feminist art movement has transformed the art world. Now, co-editors Norma Broude and Mary D. Gaffard, professors of art history at the...
Amitie et creativites collectives (French edition)
A characteristic of 20th- and 21st-century artistic production is that casual acquaintances and close intimates, friends, lovers, or sometimes even rivals come together to work collaboratively on the realization of...
Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow
Database Aesthetics examines the database as cultural and aesthetic form, explaining how artists have participated in network culture by creating data art. The essays in this collection look at how...
Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in its Struggle to Be
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...
Jari Silomaki: Atlas of Emotions
Jari Silomaki's Atlas of Emotions is the result of an elaborate research process. For this, the artist-who is primarily known as a photographer-studied the stories of people who actively participate...
Women in the Picture: Women, Art and the Power of Looking
'I'm glad this book was written because it felt like the scales were falling from my eyes as I read it. Women will continue to be objectified in art and...
A Poet Can Survive Everything But a Misprint
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books \"All art,\" Oscar Wilde once announced, \"is quite useless.\" Selected here are some of his finest prose works on the subject...
Open 11: Public Agency in Hybrid Space
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Laptops in the park, Bluetooth alerts at the bar, microchips under the dog's skin: wireless technologies like WiFi, GPS, and RFID are changing public space. The world is increasingly traversed...
The Value of Art: Money. Power. Beauty. (New, Expanded Edition)
On the tenth anniversary of its publication, this upated edition of a work ARTNews hailed as "one of the best books ever published on the art world" features new material...
What Now?: The Politics of Listening
What Now? The Politics of Listening reflects on the 2015 symposium of the same title, organized by Art in General in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and...
Materializing New Media
In Materializing New Media, Anna Munster offers an alternative aesthetic genealogy for digital culture. Eschewing the prevailing Cartesian aesthetic that aligns the digital with the disembodied, the formless, and the...
Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art and the Myth of
In this volume the authors argue that, contrary to Donald Norman's famous dictim, we do not always want our computers to be invisible "information appliances". They say that a computer...
Golden Section: Nature's Greatest Secret
What was the golden secret known to Leonardo da Vinci, Kepler, Plato and the ancient magicians? Can there really be a key to nature and life itself? In this small...
Rendez-vous with Art
Beginning with a fragment of yellow jasper - all that is left of the face of an Egyptian woman who lived 3,500 years ago, more enigmatic even than the Mona...
Private & Public: Finding the Modern British Garden
This catalogue examines the ways in which Modern British artists of the interwar period engaged with private and public spaces. The publication begins by exploring the private realms of artists,...
Tell Me About Yesterday Tomorrow: About the Future of the Past
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
A landmark feminist intervention- a dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them. 'Destined to become a new classic' Chris Kraus A...
Ornament and Crime
$26.99 AUD
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...
The Futurist Cookbook
$26.99 AUD
One of 'the best artistic jokes of the century', this is both madcap cookbook and Futurist manifesto Part manifesto, part artistic joke, Fillippo Marinetti's Futurist Cookbook is a provocative work...
Intersection: Art & Life
Art can seem very separate from our daily lives today, and, as our society careens its way through change and conflict, it may seem increasingly irrelevant. Art advocate Kevin Wallace,...
Doing Research in Design
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Skin in the Game: Conversations on Risk and Contention
No Going BackSkin in the Game follows on from the acclaimed fieldwork diary, The Metabolic Museum. In this new book written in a conversational style, Clementine Deliss expands on how...
Oh, To Be a Painter!
Virgina Woolf's collection of writings on visual arts offer a whole new perspective on the revolutionary author.Despite wide interest in Woolf's writings, her circle, and her relationship with the visual...
Types and Shadows: Diaries 2004-2015
'Roy Strong's diaries are a treasure . . . magnificently readable' THE TIMES'Essential reading' TATLER'When it comes to viperish high-society gossip, Roy Strong is in a class of his own'...
Amy Goldin: Art in a Hairshirt
Amy Goldin's critical writing inspired many artists of the 1960s and '70s. Her unconventional acceptance of the new art forms emerging during the time and her challenge to the traditional...
The Seductions of Darwin: Art, Evolution, Neuroscience
The surge of evolutionary and neurological analyses of art and its effects raises questions of how art, culture, and the biological sciences influence one another, and what we gain in...
Paper Revolutions: An Invisible Avant-Garde
The experimental practices of a group of artists in the former East Germany upends assumptions underpinning Western art's postwar histories. The experimental practices of a group of artists in the...
Amitie et creativites collectives (French edition)
Author: Blandine ChavanneFormat: Hardback, 190mm x 260mm, 1040g, 304 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022A characteristic of 20th- and 21st-century artistic production is that casual acquaintances and close intimates, friends, lovers,...
Eduardo Terrazas (Spanish Edition): Cosmos
Author: Marcus Du SautoyFormat: Hardback, 280mm x 280mm, 2340g, 336 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022"Cosmos" offers new approaches on the stunning art works of Eduardo Terrazas (* 1936). Four well...
Majalah Lumbung (Bilingual edition): A Magazine on Harvesting and Sharing
Author: ruangrupaFormat: Paperback, 200mm x 260mm, 620g, 320 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022As part of documenta fifteen, ruangrupa publishes two issues of a magazine, "majalah," in Indonesia exploring the exhibition's...
Eric Alliez: Diagramm 3000 [Worte]
Author: Eric AlliezFormat: Paperback, 150mm x 211mm, 60g, 32 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2012In his contribution, philosopher Eric Alliez visually translates his planned book on diagrammatic thought and its implications...