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Offers a subtle, yet uncompromising analysis of the iconic photographs of torture from the prison at Abu Ghraib.

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A book of essays that focus on the political power of art not only to convey or interpret historic or current events but transform them as well.

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Art and Value is the first comprehensive analysis of art's political economy throughout classical, neoclassical and Marxist economics.

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This text offers a provocative critique of beauty in interaction with the contemporary notion of the sublime. Refuting established views, the author considers beauty as glamor, related to a sublime now found in technology and capitalism rather than in nature.

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The most interesting writers we know, all asking and answering the same question: why can't we stop watching cat videos

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Clement Greenberg was a colossus of twentieth-century American art, achieving a degree of authority almost unimaginable for a critic today. This essential volume is the first collection of his writing for the period from 1970-1990, and includes five interviews in which Greenberg illuminates the progression of his thought.

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Love him or hate him, admire him or revile him, there is no doubt that Clement Greenberg was the most influential critic of modern art in the second half of the twentieth century.

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"Herwath Walden's Der Sturm--the journal, gallery, performance venue, press, theater, bookstore, and art school in Berlin (1910-1932)--has never before been the subject of a book-length study in English. In Four Metaphors of Modernism, Jenny Anger positions Der Sturm at the center of the avant-garde and as an integral part of Euro-American modern art, theory, and practice"--

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A fascinating and unprecedented look at how illumination and darkness shape our experiences across history and space

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Can painting transform philosophy This title looks at Neapolitan art around 1700 through the eyes of the philosopher Giambattista Vico. It presents the masterpieces of late Baroque painting in early eighteenth-century Naples from an entirely new perspective.

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LA+ Green explores the green spectrum from plants to politics and from art to science. Includes an interview with Noam Chomsky.

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This work explores the relation of art to religion, morals and practicality, as well as the significance of line, light and colour. An introduction by Bill Beckley has been added to this new edition.

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Why do painters sometimes wish they were poets - and why do poets sometimes wish they were painters What happens when Rembrandt spells out Hebrew in the sky or Poussin spells out Latin on a tombstone What happens when Virgil, Ovid, or Shakespeare suspend their plots to describe a fictitious painting This title answers these questions.

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Drawing on a range of images from Antiquity to the 20th century, which includes paintings, sculptures, prints, cartoons, postage stamps, medals, documents and photographs, this title investigates the genre as a particular phenomenon in Western art that is especially sensitive to changes in the perceived nature of the individual in society.

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The first in-depth examination of the meaning of colour in fairy tales. Text in English and German.

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Translation of: Rouge: histoire d'une couleur.

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A collection of essays chronicling the voice of one of America's art critics in the last 25 years of the 20th century. Donald Kuspit's reflections on art, artists and art criticism are eclectic, exploring the ways in which art and its criticism influenced 20th-century thought and psychology.

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On the spiritual prestige of art, various theorists have discussed how art has an aura or indefinable magic. This book explains how, when and why it gained its spiritual properties, and reveals how the mysteries of religious practice are abstracted and saved through all stages of secularization in European culture.