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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.

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An original readable, understandable (and brief) discussion of the need for arts, one of the great philosophical mysteries, and one which offers a persuasive and satisfying answer.

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What happens when we look at a painting What do we think about What do we imagine How can we explain, even to ourselves, what we see or think we see And how can art historians interpret with any seriousness what they observe This title deals with these questions.

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An essential text in the history of Marxist art theory, available in English for the first time

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A study of contradictions in the visual arts from one of America's art critics, this work examines the pivotal conflict between expressionistic art and the pursuit of abstract purity. Through argument and illustrations, Donald Kuspit investigates opposition between a host of central figures.

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A highly original and wide-ranging study of 'the end' in art.

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Ruskin offers criticism, appreciation and instruction for artists. The text covers principles of drawing and painting from the Tuscan masters. A biographical note and introduction by Bill Beckley is included.

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The author combines a lifetime of anthropological research with the most recent neurological insights in this text. Illuminating glimpses into the ancient mind are interwoven with the self-evolving story of modern-day cave discoveries and research.

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Sets out an ordered system of the arts - music, painting, sculpture, narrative, poetry and tragedy - based on the precepts of German Idealism.

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This collection features selected writings over two decades from America's leading feminist art critic. It traces her thinking on such topics as the ever-evolving definitions of "women's art", political and activist art, and the contributions of feminist art theory to the politics of identity.

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Exposes the charlatanry that fuels academic art history and leaks into the art world generally.

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"Frances Guerin argues that painters select grey to respond to a key question of modernist art: What is painting Presenting an impressive range of canonical paintings across centuries, this book is a treatise on color that allows us to see something entirely new in familiar paintings and encourages our appreciation for the innovation and dynamism of the color grey"--

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Unites solo and group interviews with five women artists, who for various reasons no longer live and work in their native countries. This work exposes section by section layers, which - viewed as a whole - reveal what is special about each artist's work as well as the links between them.

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An anthology of essays about beauty in art. It encompasses Meyer Schapiro's sceptical argument on perfection, contributions from artists such as Louise Bourgeois and Agnes Martin, and reflections of critics, curators and philosophers on the problems of beauty and relativism.

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Explores colour through time, using never-before-seen infographics and other visuals.

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In this publication artistic objects are presented as articulating function in the process of self-organisation, the quintessence of creativity, work methods and trigger events in design processes. An ideas bonanza.

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