{"product_id":"secondhand-art-history-theory-bargain-book-box-sp2970","title":"Secondhand Art History \u0026 Theory Bargain Book Box SP2970","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Art History \u0026amp; Theory Bargain Book Box SP2970\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSixteen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eModern 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Triangle of Representation — Christopher Prendergast — A theoretical study of the relationship between literature, painting, and the problem of representation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEdouard Vuillard 1868–1940 — The major monograph or exhibition catalogue on Vuillard: the Nabi painter of interiors, patterns, and the private world of domestic space.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGainsborough \u0026amp; 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRealism and Social Vision in Courbet \u0026amp; 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProblems 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCritical 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEDIE — 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFeminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany — ed. Norma Broude \u0026amp; Mary D. Garrard — The foundational anthology of feminist art history, collecting the essays that rewrote the discipline.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMax Neuhaus — A monograph on the American sound artist, published by Giorgio Persano: the creator of Times Square's permanent underground sound installation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVisions 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSamuel 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNeo-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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMonash University Museum of Art: Change of Art — Exhibition catalogue from Monash University's art museum, documenting a significant survey exhibition.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49186674311387,"sku":"SP2970","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp2970.jpg?v=1787805050","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-art-history-theory-bargain-book-box-sp2970","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}