Category: Art History/Theory

This group of essays and interviews offers a wide-ranging interdisciplinary inquiry into the nature of contemporary art and thought through the lens of a trend toward asceticism that Charles A. Riley II views as a fundamental component of the psychological and ethical dimensions of the artistic and philosophical life. The views, practices, and works of artists like Brice Marden, Peter Halley, Jasper Johns, and Agnes Martin, composers including Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and Tan Dun, and writers such as Walter Abish and Seamus Heaney are intermingled with those of choreographers such as Pina Ba...
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The secular spirit: life and art at the end of the Middle Ages (A Dutton visual book)

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Dutton : January 1975

Seller ID: 450573

ISBN-13: 9780870990960

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Space Between: Collected Writings

By: Bracewell, Michael

Price: $21.98

Publisher: Ridinghouse : October 2011

Seller ID: 384274

ISBN-13: 9781905464388

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Michael Bracewell approaches visual art through its cultural context, the lens of the recent past and prolonged looking. He focuses on detailed descriptions of artworks, expanding their interpretation to include media, politics, music, poetry and other areas of cultural production. Together, the texts read as a history of the UK and British art from 1959 to the present day, featuring artists such as Richard Hamilton, Bridget Riley, Gilbert & George and Damien Hirst. Each essay is accompanied by an illustration selected by Bracewell himself. The collection concludes with a body of recent autobi...
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The Temptation: Edgar Tolson and the Genesis of Twentieth-Century Folk Art

By: Ardery, Julia S.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press : April 1998

Seller ID: 285205

ISBN-13: 9780807847008

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Why, beginning in the late 1960s, did expressive objects made bypoor people come to be regarded as twentieth-century folk art, increasingly sought after by the middle class and the wealthy?Julia Ardery explores that question through the life story ofKentucky woodcarver Edgar Tolson (1904-1984) and the evolvingpublic reception of his poplar dolls. The Temptation presents a vivid chronicle of folk art'sascendancy in the late twentieth century, enlivened by the voicesand opinions of diverse participants in the folk art scene.Drawing on in-depth interviews with collectors and dealers, museum and a...
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The Transformation of Nature in Art: Theories of Art in Indian, Chinese, and European Medieval Art; Iconography, Ideal Representation, Perspective and Space Relations

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.

Seller ID: 448935

ISBN: B005WEIZVA

Binding: Unknown

Condition: Used - Good

The Voices of Silence

By: Malraux, Andre

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Princeton University Press : October 1978

Seller ID: 454302

ISBN-13: 9780691018218

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The description for this book, The Voices of Silence: Man and his Art. (Abridged from The Psychology of Art), will be forthcoming.

The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City - New Edition

By: Currid-Halkett, Elizabeth

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Princeton University Press : October 2008

Seller ID: 476431

ISBN-13: 9780691138749

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Pages unmarked, light reading wear to the edges.
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Touched with Fire

By: Jamison, Kay redfield

Price: $7.48

Publisher: Free Press : June 1994

Seller ID: 413824

ISBN-13: 9780029160039

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Tributes: Interpreters of Our Cultural Tradition

By: Gombrich, E. H.

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr : January 1984

Seller ID: 454766

ISBN-13: 9780801417030

Binding: Hardcover

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Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays

By: Acocella, Joan

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Pantheon : February 2007

Seller ID: 293697

ISBN-13: 9780375424168

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

From one of our most admired cultural critics ("A marvelous, canny writer"--Terry Castle, "London Review of Books"), thirty-one essays on some of the most influential artists of our time--writers, dancers, choreographers, sculptors--and two saints of all time, Joan of Arc and Mary Magdalene. Among the people discussed: Italo Svevo, Stefan Zweig, Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Yourcenar, Joseph Roth, Vaslav Nijinsky, Lincoln Kirstein, Jerome Robbins, Martha Graham, Bob Fosse, H. L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, Susan Sontag, and Philip Roth. What unites the book is Acocella's interest in the making ...
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UNCONTROLLABLE BEAUTY (Aesthetics Today)

By: Beckley, Bill, Shapiro, David

Price: $12.48

Publisher: Allworth Press : January 1998

Seller ID: 290360

ISBN-13: 9781880559901

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

This volume contains essays examining the role of beauty in 20th-century art and culture, by artists, critics and literati. It aims to help redefine beauty for a new generation of artists and writers.
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Voicing Today's Visions: Writings by Contemporary Women Artists

By: Witzling, Mara R.

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Universe Publishing : September 1994

Seller ID: 444313

ISBN-13: 9780876636404

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A compelling anthology in which 14 contemporary women artists articulate with great imaginative power the personal and aesthetic issues that shape their lives and works. Each artist is introduced by a representative work of art and brief biographical sketch that examines her place in the history of
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What Good Are the Arts?

By: Carey, John

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press : January 2006

Seller ID: 303970

ISBN-13: 9780195305548

Binding: Hardcover

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Hailed as "exhilarating and suggestive" (Spectator), "thought-provoking and entertaining" (David Lodge, Sunday Times), and "incisive and inspirational" (Guardian), What Good are the Arts? offers a delightfully skeptical look at the nature of art. John Carey--one of Britain's most respected literary critics--here cuts through the cant surrounding the fine arts, debunking claims that the arts make us better people or that judgments about art are anything more than personal opinion. But Carey does argue strongly for the value of art as an activity and for the superiority of one art in particular:...
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When Art Worked: The New Deal, Art, and Democracy

By: Kennedy, Roger G.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Rizzoli : November 2009

Seller ID: 363169

ISBN-13: 9780847830893

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

What artists and their work did for the United States during the Depression, thanks to New Deal initiatives, is the subject of this masterfully produced book. When Art Worked focuses on the consequences of the art and architecture created and its efficacy in enhancing the nation's sense of itself during this debilitating time. With an astoundingly high unemployment rate in the country--at 25 percent--New Deal policies provided food, work, and, with the aid of art, hope grounded in common purposes. Art became a vital tool in rallying pride, illuminating common necessities, arousing an awareness...
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Why Duchamp: An Essay on Aesthetic Impact

By: Baruchello, Gianfranco,Martin, Henry

Price: $9.98

Publisher: McPherson : November 1985

Seller ID: 449041

ISBN-13: 9780914232735

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Women, Art, and Society (World of Art)

By: Chadwick, Whitney

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Thames & Hudson : March 2007

Seller ID: 444221

ISBN-13: 9780500203934

Binding: Trade Paperback

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This expanded edition incorporates recent developments in contemporary art. Chadwick addresses the turn toward autobiography in much recent women's art. She considers issues such as the personal versus the political and the private versus the public, and analyzes the differences between women's art today and the seminal feminist work of the 1970s and 1980s.
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Writings on Art

By: Winckelmann, Johann Joachim

Price: $19.99

Publisher: Phaidon : January 1972

Seller ID: 470086

ISBN-13: 9780714815084

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Pages unmarked, DJ tattered.
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Category: Art History/Theory

The Rediscovery of Ireland's Past: The Celtic Revival, 1830-1930

The Saints of Modern Art: The Ascetic Ideal in Contemporary Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Music, Dance, Literature, and Philosophy

The secular spirit: life and art at the end of the Middle Ages (A Dutton visual book)

The Space Between: Collected Writings

The Temptation: Edgar Tolson and the Genesis of Twentieth-Century Folk Art

The Transformation of Nature in Art: Theories of Art in Indian, Chinese, and European Medieval Art; Iconography, Ideal Representation, Perspective and Space Relations

The Voices of Silence

The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City - New Edition

Touched with Fire

Tributes: Interpreters of Our Cultural Tradition

Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays

UNCONTROLLABLE BEAUTY (Aesthetics Today)

Voicing Today's Visions: Writings by Contemporary Women Artists

What Good Are the Arts?

When Art Worked: The New Deal, Art, and Democracy

Why Duchamp: An Essay on Aesthetic Impact

Women, Art, and Society (World of Art)

Writings on Art

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