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Critical Terms for Art History 2ed

by Robert S Nelson, Richard Shiff University of Chicago Press
Pub Date:
04/2003
ISBN:
9780226571683
Format:
Pb+ 540 pages

"Art" has always been contested terrain, whether the object in question is a medieval tapestry or Duchamp's Fountain. But questions...

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Robert Ryman: Used Paint

by Suzanne P Hudson The MIT Press
Pub Date:
04/2009
ISBN:
9780262012805
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Hbk 336 pages

In this first book-length study of Robert Ryman, Suzanne Hudson traces the artist's production from his first paintings in the...

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Failure

by Lisa Le Feuvre The MIT Press
Pub Date:
10/2010
ISBN:
9780262514774
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Pbk 238 pages

Amid the global uncertainties of our times, failure has become a central subject of investigation in recent art. Celebrating failed...

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Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?

by Jean Baudrillard University of Chicago Press
Pub Date:
10/2009
ISBN:
9781906497408
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Hb+ 72 pages

`Behind every image, something has disappeared. And that is the source of its fascination,` writes French theorist Jean Baudrillard...

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Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre and the Language of Rupture

by Marjorie Perloff University of Chicago Press
Pub Date:
12/2003
ISBN:
9780226657387
Format:
Pbk 336 pages

Marjorie Perloff's stunning book was one of the first to offer a serious and far-reaching examination of the momentous flourishing...

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Ruins

by Brian Dillon The MIT Press
Pub Date:
08/2011
ISBN:
9780262516372
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Pbk 240 pages

The "ruins" of the modern era are the landmarks of recent art’s turn toward site and situation, history and memory. The abiding...

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Education

by Felicity Allen The MIT Press
Pub Date:
08/2011
ISBN:
9780262516365
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Pbk 240 pages

This book will be an original and indispensable resource for all who believe in the importance of art in the wider educational...

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Ed Ruscha's Los Angeles

by Alexandra Schwartz The MIT Press
Pub Date:
03/2010
ISBN:
9780262013642
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Hbk 336 pages

Ed Ruscha was born in Nebraska and raised in Oklahoma, but he belongs to Los Angeles in a way few other artists do. Since the...

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Whose Culture?: The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities

by James Cuno Princeton University Press
Pub Date:
04/2012
ISBN:
9780691154435
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Pb+ 232 pages

The international controversy over who "owns" antiquities has pitted museums against archaeologists and source countries where...

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Clement Greenberg Between the Lines: Including a Debate with Clement Greenberg

by Thierry de Duve University of Chicago Press
Pub Date:
04/2010
ISBN:
9780226175164
Format:
Pbk 160 pages

Clement Greenberg (1909–94), champion of abstract expressionism and modernism - of Pollock, Miró, and Matisse - has been esteemed...

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Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded

by Dave Hickey University of Chicago Press
Pub Date:
09/2012
ISBN:
9780226333199
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Pb+ 152 pages

The Invisible Dragon made a lot of noise for a little book When it was originally published in 1993 it was championed by artists...

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Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life

by Jacquelynn Baas University of Chicago Press
Pub Date:
04/2011
ISBN:
9780226033594
Format:
Pbk 144 pages

Fluxus—from the Latin, meaning “to flow”—was a radical, international network of artists, composers, and designers in the 1960s...

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Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy

by Erin Manning The MIT Press
Pub Date:
05/2009
ISBN:
9780262134903
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Hb+ 280 pages

With Relationscapes, Erin Manning offers a new philosophy of movement challenging the idea that movement is simple displacement...

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Tokyo Vertigo: Extreme-City

by Stephen Barber Solar Book
Pub Date:
11/2011
ISBN:
9780983248026
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Pbk 120 pages

From the narrow alleyways of the Golden Gai to the flashing ads and jumbotrons of the Shibuya street crossings to the skyscrapers...

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Art of Insanity: An Analysis of Ten Schizophrenic Artists

by Hans Prinzhorn Solar Book
Pub Date:
10/2011
ISBN:
9780983248002
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Pbk 160 pages

Hans Prinzhorn (1886–1933) was a German psychiatrist and art historian. While working at the psychiatric hospital of the University...

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