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How Art Made the World DVD
As part of BBC’s agenda to generate public awareness about art history’s relevance to contemporary culture, the documentary series How Art Made the World is a landmark. Host Dr. Nigel Spivey, a Classical Archaeology professor from Cambridge, asserts, over five episodes, that not only have cultures thrived according to their abilities to communicate visually, but [...] |
Inside the Photograph
Peter C. Bunnell has been a major force in shaping the discourse about photography. During his 30-some years as an influential professor and curator at Princeton University, he has written extensively. This classic collection of texts, available for the first time in paperback and selected from work published throughout his career, makes a significant contribution [...]
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The Eye’s Mind: Bridget Riley Collected Writings 1965 – 2009
Bridget Riley, one of the leading abstract painters of her generation, holds a unique position in contemporary art. She has developed and extended the range of her interests ever since her first success in the 1960s, creating a body of work which is both consistent and highly varied. This volume, now fully revised and updated, [...]
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Michael Fried: Why Photography Matters As Never Before
From the late 1970s onward, serious art photography began to be made at large scale and for the wall. Michael Fried argues that this immediately compelled photographers to grapple with issues centering on the relationship between the photograph and the viewer standing before it that until then had been the province only of painting. Fried [...]
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Roy Lichtenstein
The most comprehensive collection on Lichtenstein, from the earliest reviews to recent reassessments, including several hard-to-find and previously unpublished pieces.
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Van Gogh and the Colours of the Night
Co-published by MoMA and the Van Gogh Museum in conjunction with the first exhibition to focus on Vincent van Gogh’s depictions of nocturnal and twilight scenes, Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night examines the artist’s night landscapes, interior scenes, and representations of the effects of both gaslight and natural light on their surroundings. [...]
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Art Today
A seminal survey of the visual arts from the 1960s to the present, written by a leading authority on the subject Navigates the reader through this period of extraordinary creativity and controversy The work of more than 500 key artists is analyzed and illustrated in full colour Internationally recognized as an indispensable introduction to contemporary [...]
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The Life and Death of Images – Ethics and Aesthetics
From the 1970s to the early-1990s, the discourse surrounding aesthetics largely disappeared from the study of art history, theory and cultural studies. Claims for the aesthetic value of art-works were thought of as elitist and politically regressive. The 1990s witnessed a return to aesthetics, but one that stressed the independent claims of beauty, in reaction [...]
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Real Spaces
Major theoretical work that presents a fresh approach to thinking about art and its history Replaces the notion of the ‘visual arts’ with that of the ‘spatial arts’, comprising two fundamental categories: ‘real space’ and ‘virtual space’ Traces the development of human skill from the first hominid tools to the sophisticated universal three-dimensional grid of [...]
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The Story of Art
The Story of Art (Pocket Edition) A new, compact edition of the most popular art book ever written. Pocket Edition E.H. Gombrich A new pocket-sized edition of one of the world’s most famous and popular books on art A worldwide bestseller for over half a century Professor Gombrich’s text combines knowledge and wisdom with a [...]
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