Remix Theory: The Aesthetics of Sampling is an analysis of Remix in art, music, and new media. Navas argues that Remix, as a form of discourse, affects culture in ways that go beyond the basic recombination of material. His investigation locates the roots of Remix in early forms of mechanical reproduction, in seven stages, beginning in the nineteenth century with the development of the photo camera and the phonograph, leading to contemporary remix culture. This book places particular emphasis o...
Philosophie de l'Art (1912-1914) (L'Esprit Et Les Formes, #5)
by Professor Georg Lukacs
Bilder Des Wandels in Schwarz Und Weiss: Afro-Amerikanische Identitat Im Medium Der Fruhen Fotografie (1880-1930)
by Patricia Stella Edema
Diego Rivera and Juan Rulfo (Visual Culture, #3)
by Lucy O'Sullivan
Antoine Watteau, one of the most mysterious painters who ever lived, is the inspiration for this delightful investigation of the tangled relationship between art and life. Weaving together historical fact and personal reflections, the influential art critic Jed Perl reconstructs the amazing story of this pioneering bohemian artist who, although he died in 1721, when he was only thirty-six, has influenced innumerable painters and writers in the centuries since—and whose work continues to deepen o...
Dali (Maitres d'hier et d'aujourd'hui) (One Hundred Paintings)
by Federico Zeri and Salvador Dali
Ambivalenzen Der Sichtbarkeit (Studien Zur Visuellen Kultur, #7)
by Johanna Schaffer
The Yoruba Artist
Aesthetic of the Cool Afro-Atlantic Art and Music
by Robert Farris Thompson and Lowery Stokes Sims
Yale professor Robert Farris Thompson is a living legend. He started writing about the African heritage in the art and music of the Americas when no one recognized the continuities, when African-American studies did not exist and the Civil Rights Movement still met with violent opposition. This book presents the best of the essays on Afro- Atlantic art and music that Thompson wrote from 1963 to 2006. Edited for this publication, they offer a riveting guide to Afro-Atlantic culture, from the tang...
Tactical Neutralization Techniques
by Gregory J Connor and Matthew Summers
A philosophical essay in support of the argument that progress in art is both possible and necessary.
Thanks to his unsurpassed eye and his fearless willingness to take a stand, Clement Greenberg (1909 1994) became one of the giants of 20th century art criticism a writer who set the terms of critical discourse from the moment he burst onto the scene with his seminal essays Avant Garde and Kitsch (1939) and Towards a Newer Laocoon (1940). In this work, which gathers previously uncollected essays and a series of seminars delivered at Bennington in 1971, Greenberg provides his most expansive statem...
On the occasion of a research project conducted at several art and design schools in Switzerland, this anthology of international scholars sheds new light on the ongoing debate around aesthetic education and aesthetic practices by exploring emerging epistemologies. Bridging perspectives from science and technology studies, aesthetic theory, praxeological approaches, and artistic research, the authors test innovative methodological approaches in order to investigate how the epistemic cultures in...