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Knowledge began to be systematically grounded in observation and display from the Enlightenment. This book contains themed sections that include: Revolt and Revolution; Science and Empiricism; Gaze and Spectacle; Acquisition, Display, and Desire; Conquest, Colonialism, and Globalization; Image and Reality; and, Media and Visual Technologies.

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This revised, second edition develops the creative principles established in the first edition, building particularly on three-dimensional forms, featuring a large number of new images.

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This book analyses how three artists Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero and Mary Kelly worked with the visual dimensions of language in the 1960s and 1970s.

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This book analyses how three artists Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero and Mary Kelly worked with the visual dimensions of language in the 1960s and 1970s.

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An introduction to the work of Alois Riegel (1858-1905), one of the founders of art history as a discipline.

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Proposes an anthropological theory for interpreting human picture making. Refusing to reduce images to their material embodiment yet acknowledging the importance of the historical media in which images are manifested, this book presents a challenging and provocative account of what pictures are and how they function.

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Contemporary art is incresingly concerned with swaying the opinions of its viewier. To do so, the art employs various strategies to convey a political message. This book provides readers with the tools to decode and appreciate political art, a crucial and understudied direction in post-war art.

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Concentrating on scholarship over the past four decades, this multidisciplinary approach to representation considers conceptual issues about representation and applies different theories to various arts.

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Featuring the work of artists such as Damien Hirst, Christine Borland, Bill Viola and Helen Chadwick, and art-science collaborative ventures involving Dorothy Cross, Eduardo Kac and Stelarc, it looks at the way new scientific explanations for the nature of human consciousness can influence our interpretation of art, at the.

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The majority of the art forms that we see in museums and art books that have come from Native America or Africa or Oceania, are objects that were once part of a larger artistic whole from which they have been extracted.

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Art used to be an engagement between artist and materials. But in our media world art has changed, its very materials have changed and have become technologized. This change reflects a broader social shift. Speed and politics have been transformed in the twenty-first century to speed and mass culture. This work puts art at the centre of politics.

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What if modernism had been characterised by evolving, interconnected and multi-sensory images rather than by the monolithic objects often described by its artists and theorists

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This collection is a response to Alex Potts's provocative 2013 book Experiments in modern realism. Twenty essays by leading art historians explore Pott's recasting of realism, providing a new understanding of artworks dating from the eighth to twenty-first centuries and challenging established thinking on art's relation to the everyday. -- .

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A new book by Boris Groys acknowledges the problem and potential of art's complex relationship to power.

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A radical and original book showing how art can provide both practices of communing and a language of anti-capitalist critique.

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A radical and original book showing how art can provide both practices of communing and a language of anti-capitalist critique.

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Examines various approaches to art as ritual, as a form of diagrammatic writing, as a symptom of a cultural moment, as a commodity, and as an agent of change. This book explores what art, in its broadest sense from Aboriginal work to the Western art market, from the role of museums to media interactivity, means today.

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Our understanding of art has undergone several major upheavals over the years. This book explores what art in its broadest sense - from Aboriginal work to the Western art market, from the role of museums to media interactivity, and from the mainstream to the radical. It is suitable for students, practicing artists and general readers alike.

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Assesses the work of those thinkers (including artists) who have had a major impact on making, criticizing and interpreting art since the 1960s. This book presents a concise, critical appraisal of thinkers and their ideas about art and its place in the wider cultural context. It is a guide to the key thinkers who shape the world of art.

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Assesses the work of leading thinkers (including artists) who are having a major impact on making, criticizing and interpreting art. This is a guide to the key thinkers who shape world of art. It is a useful reference for those interested in modern and contemporary art, its history, theory, philosophy and practice.