Pliny sketches a theory of advancing moral decline and extravagance, in the course of which he gives a detailed account of six centuries of classical art and a fascinating sketch of the world of the rich Roman collector. Isager's is the first full treatment of this subject for over a hundred years.
L'Oeuvre d'Art Aujourd'hui (L'Universite Des Arts, #3)
by Klincksieck
"100 Years of Now" and the Temporality of Curatorial Research
by Olga Von Schubert
Logic and the Art of Memory (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers)
by Paolo Rossi
The Space that Separates: A Realist Theory of Art (Routledge Studies in Critical Realism)
by Nick Wilson
The Space that Separates: A Realist Theory of Art radically challenges our assumptions about what art is, what art does, who is doing it, and why it matters. Rejecting the modernist and market-driven misconception that art is only what artists do, Wilson instead presents a realist case for living artfully. Art is defined as the skilled practice of giving shareable form to our experiences of being-in-relation with the real; that is to say, the causally generative domain of the world that extends...
This brilliant blend of history, biography, and criticism explores the seminal figures of twentieth-century French art Matisse, Picasso, Derain, Leger, Dufy, Braque, Giacometti, Balthus, and Helion and the vital art world in which they thrived. The ten interlocking essays in this important book include radical new evaluations of Derain, Leger, and Dufy, and penetrating studies of the final works of Picasso and Braque. Paris Without End, Jed Perl's first book, is now celebrating its twenty-fifth...
Renaissance in Italy (Renaissance in Italy, #3) (Anglistica & Americana S., #98)
by John Addington Symonds
The Place of the Symbolic - Essays on Art and Politics (Reiner Schurmann Selected Writings and Lecture Notes)
by Reiner Schurmann, Malte Fabian Rauch, and Nicolas Schneider
This book weaves together Reiner Schurmann's work on art and politics, drawing on a range of the most important thinkers and poets of the twentieth century and beyond. The Place of the Symbolic gathers Reiner Schurmann's essays on the nexus of art and politics. In keeping with his translation of the destruction of metaphysics into an an-archic philosophy of practice, Schurmann develops a radical theory of the place of symbols, irreducible either to idealist theories of symbols or structuralist...
Rigorous Holes - Perspectives on Psychoanalytic Theory in Art and Performance Research
Iteration
This edited volume considers the ways in which multiple stages, phases, or periods in an artistic or design process have served to arrive at the final artifact, with a focus on the meaning and use of the iteration. To contextualize iteration within artistic and architectural production, this collection of essays presents a range of close studies in art, architectural and design history, using archival and historiographical research, media theory, photography, material studies, and critical theor...
Six plein-air painters in Oakland, California, joined together in 1917 to form an association that lasted nearly fifteen years. The Society of Six--Selden Connor Gile, Maurice Logan, William H. Clapp, August F. Gay, Bernard von Eichman, and Louis Siegriest--created a color-centered modernist idiom that shocked establishment tastes but remains the most advanced painting of its era in Northern California. Nancy Boas's well-informed and sumptuously illustrated chronicle recognizes the importance of...