Henry Moore Institute Essays on Sculpture: 79
by Jon Wood and Michael Newman
As the Opium War unfolded in Guangdong Province, the painter Su Renshan (1814- c.1850) exploded onto the art scene with a bold, paradigm-turning new voice. A Defiant Brush takes a fresh look at this underappreciated artist in the context of a nascent Chinese modernism. In 1839 Guangzhou shifted from a cosmopolitan trading centre with a diverse art world into a place of violence. During the following decade, one voice of discontent and defiance rang out above all others: Su Renshan's. His provoc...
Experiment Marathon
by Hafa Or Yngvason, Julia Peyton-Jones, and Hans Ulrich Obrist
In 2007, Serpentine Gallery Co-Director Hans Ulrich Obrist and artist Olafur Eliasson invited more than 100 leading artists, architects, filmmakers, academics and scientists--including Peter Cook, Simon Baron-Cohen, Gloria Friedmann, Neil Turok, Kim Gordon, Spartacus Chetwynd, Simon Forti, Fia Backstrom and Joseph Grigely--to expand the notion of experimentation for their 24-Hour Experiment Marathon, held in the Rem Koolhaas-designed Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. In the tradition of Obrist's now-...
Digitale Korper, Geschlechtlicher Raum: Das Medizinisch Imaginare Des -Visible Human Project-
by Claudia Reiche
Viennese architect Adolf Loos was one of the most important pioneers of the European Modern Movement. Born in 1870, he was an early opponent of the decorative trends of Art Nouveau, believing instead that architecture devoid of ornament represented pure and lucid thought. His rationalist design theories were put into practice in the Karntner Bar, Vienna (1907), Steiner House, Vienna (1920), and Villa Muller, Prague (1930). Surprisingly, there is no other monograph on Loos in English currently av...
A detailed and inventive study of the thinking at work in modern painting, drawing on a formidable body of scholarly evidence to challenge modernist and phenomenological readings of art history, The Brain-Eye presents a series of interlinked 'case studies' in which philosophical thought encounters the hallucinatory sensations unleashed by 'painter-researchers.' Rather than outlining a new 'philosophy of art,' The Brain-Eye details the singular problems pursued by each of its protagonists. Striki...
Is it the Art that Speaks - Heiner Friedrich in Conversation with Corinna Thierolf
First Under Heaven (The Hali Annual S., 4th)
Presents 12 articles, each exploring the diversity of ideas and images found within Asian art. The contributions - from scholars, dealers and curators - analyze a range of media, including painting, calligraphy, carpets, textiles, frescos, furniture, metalwork, ceramics and temple architecture.
What is art? What counts as an aesthetic experience? Does art have to beautiful? Can one reasonably dispute about taste? What is the relation between aesthetic and moral evaluations? How to interpret a work of art? Can we learn anything from literature, film or opera? What is sentimentality? What is irony? How to think philosophically about architecture, dance, or sculpture? What makes something a great portrait? Is music representational or abstract? Why do we feel terrified when we watch a hor...
The Western Humanities, Complete
by Roy Matthews, DeWitt Platt, Noble Thomas, and Thomas Noble
This chronologically organized introduction to the Western humanities (art, music, history, literature, and drama) establishes the historical context of each era before the arts are discussed. More than 600 illustrations appear throughout the text, "Personal Perspectives" boxes bring to life the events of the day, and brief sections at the end of each chapter describe the cultural legacy of the era discussed. The Western Humanities is also available in two volumes: Volume I covers prehistory thr...
Bonington (Chaucer Library of Art S.)
by Aubrey Noakes and Christopher Wright
Inside this charming carry-along music box, which plays a happy tune when it's opened, you'll find five sturdy books and an adorable "Friends Forever" magnet. Each storybook contains a whimsical tale featuring your favorite characters from the Hundred-Acre Wood. Join Tigger and Roo on a bouncety adventure, go on a search for honey with Pooh, help the whole gang find Eeyore's tail--and more!
Invalid Format - an Anthology of Triple Canopy, Vol. 2
by Triple Canopy
Twenty-five years after the publication of A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes, the distinguished critic and arts historian Richard Kostelanetz returns to his favorite subject for a third edition. Rewriting earlier entries, adding hundreds of new ones, Kostelanetz provides intelligence and information unavailable anywhere else, no less in print than online, about a wealth of subjects and individuals. Focused upon what is truly innovative and excellent, he ranges widely with insight and surprise, in...
This book is a study of the phenomena of shadows, meant in a broader sense as "symbolic forms". The shadow is a less real, "surface" replica of some more real form. From the Platonic point of view, empirical objects are "shadows of ideas", while from the modern "natural" point of view, shadows are seen and conceived primarily as "weaker" replicas of bodies, which give evidence of their material reality. In the first three essays here, several topics from the Ancient Egypt and Greece to modern ar...
The Principles of Form in Ornamental Art (Classic Reprint)
by Charles Martel