Art History As Social Praxis (Historical Materialism Book, #139)
by David Craven
Art History as Social Praxis: The Collected Writings of David Craven brings together more than thirty essays that chart the development of Craven s voice as an unorthodox Marxist who applied historical materialism to the study of modern art. This book demonstrates the range and versatility of David Craven's praxis as a 'democratic socialist' art historian who assessed the essential role the visual arts play in imagining more just and equitable societies.
John Cage (October Files)
John Cage (1912--1992) defined a radical practice of composition that changed the course of modern music and shaped a new conceptual horizon for postwar art. Famous for his use of chance and "silence" in musical works, a pioneer in electronic music and the nonstandard use of instruments, Cage was one of the most influential composers of the last century. This volume traces a trajectory of writings on the artist, from the earliest critical reactions to the scholarship of today. If the first writi...
Is this my country 'tis of thee sweet land of diversity?
by Creighton Berry
Advocating Creatively
by Carolyn Chernoff, Jessica Hammer, and John Stavropolous
"Escaping easy categorization, Marion von Osten is an artist as much as a curator, an organizer-facilitator as much as a theorist, a teacher as much as an editor. In all these fields, her practice is distinctly process-oriented and collaborative. Marion von Osten : Once We Were Artists (A BAK Critical Reader in Artists' Practice) critically maps the political commitment of von Osten's influential work to feminism, theories of labor, knowledge production, education, and (post)coloniality. The con...
He Is My Secret (Love Diaries, Relationship Journals & Bride Notebooks, #14)
by Blank Journals
The Private John Singer Sargent (CV/Visual Arts Research, #206)
by Edward Lucie-Smith
This volume brings Continental philosophical interpretations of Van Gogh into dialogue with one another to explore how for Van Gogh, art places human beings in their world, and yet in other ways displaces them, not allowing them to belong to that world.
Bill Beckley is an American conceptual artist and one of the first artists to use photography as a means of artistic expression. In the early 1970s he was part of a loose-knit group of conceptual artists that used images and fictional texts in a form that came to be known as Narrative Art. I was basically writing a story and taking pictures at the same time. The text evolved with the photos, he says. In the 1980s he experimented with various materials and his work became more sculptural and p...
You Make My Heart Beat Faster (Love Diaries, Relationship Journals & Bride Notebooks, #17)
by Blank Journals
I'm Much More Me When I'm with You (Love Diaries, Relationship Journals & Bride Notebooks, #9)
by Blank Journals