Secondhand Art History & Theory Bargain Book Box SP2970

Secondhand Art History & Theory Bargain Book Box SP2970

Sixteen books for serious students and lovers of art history — covering modern art, aesthetics, Vuillard, Ottoman art, Courbet, feminist art history, Edie Sedgwick, and Samuel Beckett. A collection that rewards the dedicated reader.

1. Modern Art and the Object — Ellen H. Johnson — Johnson's analysis of how modern artists have used, transformed, and interrogated the physical object as subject and material.
2. The Triangle of Representation — Christopher Prendergast — A theoretical study of the relationship between literature, painting, and the problem of representation.
3. Edouard Vuillard 1868–1940 — The major monograph or exhibition catalogue on Vuillard: the Nabi painter of interiors, patterns, and the private world of domestic space.
4. Gainsborough & Reynolds: Contrasts in Royal Patronage — A study of the two dominant portraitists of eighteenth-century Britain and their very different relationships with the royal court.
5. Realism and Social Vision in Courbet & Proudhon — James Henry Rubin — A Farington Essay examining the relationship between Courbet's realism and the anarchist social philosophy of Proudhon, and what they meant for the politics of art.
6. Problems in Aesthetics (Second Edition) — A philosophical introduction to the central questions of aesthetics: what is art, what is beauty, and how do we make aesthetic judgements.
7. Critical Condition: American Culture at the Crossroads — Eleanor Heartney — A survey of the culture wars of the 1980s and 90s: the debates over funding, censorship, and what American art was for.
8. EDIE — Jean Stein, edited with George Plimpton — The oral biography of Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol's superstar, assembled from interviews with everyone who knew her: one of the great documents of the 1960s New York art world.
9. The World of Ottoman Art — Michael Levey — Levey's survey of Ottoman visual culture from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century: tiles, textiles, calligraphy, and the imperial arts of Istanbul.
10. Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany — ed. Norma Broude & Mary D. Garrard — The foundational anthology of feminist art history, collecting the essays that rewrote the discipline.
11. Max Neuhaus — A monograph on the American sound artist, published by Giorgio Persano: the creator of Times Square's permanent underground sound installation.
12. The Birth and Rebirth of Pictorial Space — John White — White's influential study of the development of perspective and pictorial space from Byzantine mosaics through the Italian Renaissance.
13. Visions of Culture — Karl J. Weintraub — A study in the philosophy of history, examining thinkers from Voltaire to Ortega y Gasset and how each understood the relationship between culture and civilization.
14. Samuel Beckett: A Biography — Deirdre Bair — The first and still the most thorough biography of Beckett, written with his cooperation and covering his life from Dublin to Paris.
15. Neo-Classicism — Hugh Honour — Honour's landmark study in the Style and Civilization series: the Neo-Classical movement in art and architecture from Rome to the French Revolution.
16. Monash University Museum of Art: Change of Art — Exhibition catalogue from Monash University's art museum, documenting a significant survey exhibition.