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About Lookingby John BergerISBN 0679736557 (0-679-73655-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Accidental Masterpiece: On The Art Of Life And Vice Versaby Michael KimmelmanISBN 1594200556 (1-59420-055-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Pr
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Aestheticby Benedetto CroceISBN 0879232552 (0-87923-255-2)
Softcover, David R Godine Pub
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Aesthetic: As Science of Expression & General Linguisticby Benedetto Croce, Douglas AinslieISBN 1560008180 (1-56000-818-0)
Softcover, Transaction Pub
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Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracyby Dave HickeyISBN 0963726455 (0-9637264-5-5)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Picturesby John WilmerdingISBN 0810917882 (0-8109-1788-2)
Softcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures'Book summary:The Helga pictures first galvanized public attention in 1986, when numerous articles appeared in the press about a large cache of work by Wyeth, previously unknown not only to the art world but even to the artist's wife. At first, great attention was given to Wyeth's private project - depicting the same subject in secrecy from 1971 to 1985. Away from the extensive publicity that accompanied the debut of these works, they remain a striking, thoughtful study of an individual who evolved as a model from stranger to acquaintance to friend. The works in Andrew Wyeth's Helga Pictures may also be appreciated for their artistic strengths and for their place within Wyeth's continuing career as a keen observer of the people and places around his residences in Pennsylvania and Maine. Ultimately, Andrew Wyeth's Helga Pictures is a telling tale of a persistence of vision and technique from a perspective that is both objective and personal. From a distinguished artistic family, Andrew Wyeth (born 1917) is a talented painter and draftsman who developed under the watchful eye of his father, the artist/illustrator N. C. Wyeth. One of America's most celebrated artists, Wyeth is famous for his tight style of drybrush painting and recognizable subject matter. Dedicated to a characteristic realism in both style and approach to subject matter, Wyeth finds resonance and universal meaning in the most commonplace details of the world around him. [via]
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Apollinaire on Art: Essays and Reviews, 1902-1918by Guillaume Apollinaire, Leroy C. Breunig, Roger Shattuck, Susan SuleimanISBN 0878466266 (0-87846-626-6)
Softcover, Museum of Fine Arts Boston
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Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representationby Brian WallisISBN 0879235632 (0-87923-563-2)
Hardcover, David R Godine Pub
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Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representationby Marcia Tucker, Brian WallisISBN 0879236329 (0-87923-632-9)
Softcover, David R Godine Pub
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Art and Culture Critical Essays: Critical Essaysby Clement GreenbergISBN 0807066818 (0-8070-6681-8)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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Art and Objecthood: Essays and Reviewsby Michael FriedISBN 0226263193 (0-226-26319-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Art in Theory 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideasby Charles Harrison, Paul WoodISBN 0631165754 (0-631-16575-4)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Art in Theory 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas'Book summary:Current debates about the status of Modernism have led to an increasing interest in critical and aesthetic theories, and to a questioning of some of the traditional assumptions and limits of art history. The aim of this substantial anthology is to equip the student, teacher and interested general reader with the necessary materials for an up-to-date understanding of twentieth-century art.
Beside the writings of the century's major artists, Art in Theory includes relevant texts by critics, philosophers, politicians and literary figures. It is organised into eight sections, from the legacy of Symbolism at the turn of the century to contemporary debates about the Postmodern. Each section is prefaced by a brief essay. There are introductions for all of the 300-plus texts, which serve to place theories and critical approaches in context. The result is both a comprehensive collection of documents on twentieth-century art and an encylopaedic history of relevant theory. [via]More editions of Art in Theory 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas:
Art of the Postmodern Era: From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990sby Irving SandlerISBN 0813334330 (0-8133-3433-0)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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Brushes With History: Writing on Art from the Nation, 1865-2001by Peter G. Meyer, Arthur C. DantoISBN 1560253290 (1-56025-329-0)
Softcover, Nation Books
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The Caliph's Designby Wyndham LewisISBN 0876856644 (0-87685-664-4)
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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photographyby Roland BarthesISBN 0809033402 (0-8090-3340-2)
Hardcover, Hill and Wang
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Challenging Art: Artforum 1962-1974by Amy NewmanISBN 1569473528 (1-56947-352-8)
Softcover, Soho Pr Inc
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Clement Greenberg: A Lifeby Florence RubenfeldISBN 0816644357 (0-8166-4435-7)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Clement Greenberg: A Life'Book summary: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. His championing of abstract expressionist painters such as Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and David Smith put the United States on the international art map. His support for color-field painters Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland dramatically accelerated their careers. The intellectual power of his polemical essays helped bring about the midcentury shift in which New York replaced Paris as the art capital of the Western world; his aggressive personality and fierce involvement in the New York art scene triggered a backlash so potent that one critic termed it a "patricide." [via]
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Clement Greenberg Between the Lines: Including a Previously Unpublished Debate With Clement Greenbergby Thierry De Duve, Brian HolmesISBN 2906571539 (2-906571-53-9)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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Concerning the Spiritual in Artby Wassily KandinskyISBN 0486234118 (0-486-23411-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Concerning the Spiritual in Art'Book summary:Wassily Kandinsky was one of the most influential painters of the twentieth century, and this text, in which he laid out the tenets of painting as he saw them and made the case for nonobjective artistic forms, is universally recognized as an essential document of Modernist art theory. A brilliant philosophical treatise and an emphatic avant-garde tract, it provides the theoretical underpinnings for Kandinsky's own work and that of his associates in the Blaue Reiter movement. While Michael Sadler's masterful translation has been available and authoritative since its original publication in 1914, what hasn't been published until now is the significant correspondence between the translator and the artist, who followed the progress of his book's transformation closely, and who offered numerous insights into and explanations of its meanings. These letters, from the archives of Tate Britain, have here been appended to Kandinsky's text to provide the first comprehensively annotated edition of this seminal work. This volume, which supersedes any previous edition, includes the letters, Kandinsky's prefaces and prose poems relating to the period in which the book was written and Sadler's selected writings on art. It is more than an expanded edition--it is a major event, the first full account of a remarkable literary collaboration. [via]
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art and Painting in Particularby Wassily KandinskyISBN 0815000324 (0-8150-0032-4)
Softcover, Wittenborn Art Books
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Criticizing Art: Understanding the Contemporaryby Terry BarrettISBN 1559341475 (1-55934-147-5)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Criticizing Art: Understanding the Contemporary'Book summary:Criticizing Art: Understanding the Contemporary helps students of art and art history better understand and appreciate contemporary art by studying the principles of art criticism and applying them to contemporary forms of American art. This book provides a framework for critically considering contemporary art through describing, interpreting, evaluating, and theorizing. The diverse perspectives of contemporary critics such as Douglas Crimp, Arthur Danto, Elizabeth Heartney, Donald Kuspit, Lucy Lippard, Peter Plagens, and Arlene Raven on the work of Leon Golub, Jenny Holzer, Frida Kahlo, Elizabeth Murray, Martin Puryear, William Wegman, and many other artists help readers develop their own critical positions. Chapter 5, "Theory and Art Criticism, " offers clear definitions of modernism, post-modernism, feminism, and multiculturalism, enabling readers to understand the critical milieu in which twentieth century critics have been operating. An entire chapter (Chapter 6) devoted to writing and talking about contemporary art leads readers through the process of preparing thoughtful, well-constructed critical analyses. Two student papers provide useful examples of the principles discussed throughout the text. Guidelines for constructive group criticism are also included. [via]
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Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of Americaby Robert HughesISBN 1860466370 (1-86046-637-0)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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The End of Artby Donald B. KuspitISBN 0521832527 (0-521-83252-7)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The End Of Artby Kuspit DonaldISBN 052154016X (0-521-54016-X)
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High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990sby Julian StallabrassISBN 1859843182 (1-85984-318-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s'Book summary:The recent controversy surrounding the Brooklyn Museum of Art's Sensation! Show has further inflated the already burgeoning media profiles of British artists like Damien Hirst, Chris Ofili, Sarah Lucas, Jake and Dino Chapman, Rachel Whiteread and Tracey Emin. British art has reinvented itself and successfully courted wider attention than it has ever received before. On the face of it, much of their art has looked like simple bad behaviour - using chopped-up animals, pornography and sexually explicit mannequins as its material, or building up the features of a child murderer using tiny hand-prints. Yet their art has been both accessible and sophisticated, appealing to the mass media and to the elite art world alike. But has it done so at the price of dumbing art down, reducing it to the level of any other consumer enterprise, and losing what is distinctive about art? Other than as publicity-fodder how seriously does it take the new audience that is so effectively courted? In this accessible book, Julian Stallabrass has written a sustained analysis of the British art scene, exploring the reasons for its popularity, the altered structure of the art world, and examining in detail the work of the leading figures. He also explores the reasons for art criticism's so far limited purchase on this art. Previous books about this subject have been either collections of essays or fan books, which try to aid acolytes hoping to navigate the art world. High Art Lite is the first sustained analysis of British art in the 1990s, and Stallabrass shows that, whatever we might think of the art itself, it raises fascinating questions about the relation of art to mass culture, the role of art in consumer society, the character of a national art, and the end of postmodernism. [via]
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It Hurts: New York Art from Warhol to Nowby Ian MacMillan, Matthew CollingsISBN 1901785033 (1-901785-03-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'It Hurts: New York Art from Warhol to Now'Book summary:What hurts British painter and art critic Matthew Collings these days is the current state of contemporary art. Critical theory, that heavy brick of densely packed ideas accessible only to a small group of overly educated artists and critics, is the building block of much of today's art, and Collings believes it builds a nearly impenetrable wall between art and its viewers. Unlike earlier periods when the masses simply didn't get it--the rise of impressionism for instance--it is Collings's view that today the artists themselves are responsible for whatever misunderstandings may arise in those great white boxes of SoHo and Chelsea. Having already tackled the current London art scene in his book Blimey! Collings lunges at New York's galleries with the exacting eye of someone who knows exactly the difference between what he likes and what displeases him immensely. Readers might expect It Hurts then to be a cranky tirade against the contemporary art scene. But Collings is a true art lover, and he writes of artists like Frank Stella, Alex Katz, Jules Olitski, Andy Warhol, Bruce Nauman, Donald Judd, and many, many others with intelligence, deep interest, and occasional awe. Dealers, auction houses, and collectors don't escape his attention--with this set, however, he is considerably less generous. Collings takes readers along on a romp through New York City's galleries and artist studios and shares with them his incredible knowledge of the subject in a loose, chatty manner that is refreshingly free of jargon and art-speak. He has a definite point of view, but he puts it forth with such wit that, rather than take offense, those who disagree with him might want to ask him out for a drink to talk it over. --Anna Baldwin [via]
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Just Looking: Essays on Artby John UpdikeISBN 0878465774 (0-87846-577-4)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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LA Chambre Claireby Roland BarthesISBN 207020541X (2-07-020541-X)
Softcover, Midwest European Pub
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The Life of Forms in Artby Henri FocillonISBN 0942299574 (0-942299-57-4)
Softcover, Zone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life of Forms in Art'Book summary:In this beautiful meditation on the history of art and the problem of style, Henri Focillon (1881-1943) describes how art forms change over time. Although he argues that the development of art is reducible to external political, social, or economic determinants, one of his great achievements was to lodge a concept of autonomous and organic artistic creation within the shifting domain of materials and techniques. Focillon emphasizes the universal presence of contradictory tendencies that give all styles manifold, stratified character.
The Life of Forms remains one of the most brilliant and important applications of biological metaphors to the study of art. It has been superbly translated by Yale art historian George Kubler, whose book The Shape of Time was strongly influenced by Focillon. [via]More editions of The Life of Forms in Art:
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The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspiredby Francine ProseISBN 1854109448 (1-85410-944-8)
Hardcover, Aurum Press
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Marcel Duchamp: Appearance Stripped Bareby Octavio PazISBN 1559701382 (1-55970-138-2)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Meaning in the Visual Artsby Erwin PanofskyISBN 0879510242 (0-87951-024-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Meditations on a Hobby Horse: And Other Essays on the Theory of Artby E. H. GombrichISBN 0714832456 (0-7148-3245-6)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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Mondrian : On the Humanity of Abstract Paintingby Meyer SchapiroISBN 0807613703 (0-8076-1370-3)
Softcover, Braziller Incorporated, George
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Nothing If Not Criticalby Robert HughesISBN 1860466524 (1-86046-652-4)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nothing If Not Critical'Book summary:A selection of essays on art and artists, this text presents the authors arguments for the real values of art and outlines the way ahead for artist in the 1990s. He tackles the lives and works of over 80 artists, from Old Masters to his contemporaries, exploring their achievements (or lack of it). [via]
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Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artistsby Robert HughesISBN 014016524X (0-14-016524-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Workby Germaine GreerISBN 1860646778 (1-86064-677-8)
Softcover, Tauris Parke Paperbacks
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On Being a Photographer: A Practical Guideby David Hurn, Bill JayISBN 1888803061 (1-888803-06-1)
Softcover, Lenswork Pub
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On Photographyby Susan SontagISBN 0312420099 (0-312-42009-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Photography'Book summary:Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism (1977), this is "a brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images have made in our way of looking of the world and ourselves over the lost 140 years."-Washington Post BOOK WORLD [via]
The Painted Wordby Tom WolfeISBN 0553380656 (0-553-38065-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Painted Word'Book summary:In 1975, after having put radical chic and '60s counterculture to the satirical torch, Tom Wolfe turned his attention to the contemporary art world. The patron saint (and resident imp) of New Journalism couldn't have asked for a better subject. Here was a hotbed of pretension, nitwit theorizing, social climbing, and money, money, money--all Wolfe had to do was sharpen his tools and get to work. He did! Much of The Painted Word is a superb burlesque on that modern mating ritual whereby artists get to despise their middle-class audience and accommodate it at the same time. The painter, Wolfe writes, "had to dedicate himself to the quirky god Avant-Garde. He had to keep one devout eye peeled for the new edge on the blade of the wedge of the head on the latest pick thrust of the newest exploratory probe of this fall's avant-garde Breakthrough of the Century.... At the same time he had to keep his other eye cocked to see if anyone in le monde was watching."
The other bone Wolfe has to pick is with the proliferation of art theory, particularly the sort purveyed by postwar colossi like Harold Rosenberg, Clement Greenberg, and Leo Steinberg. Decades after the heyday of abstract expressionism, these guys make pretty easy targets. What could be more absurd, after all, than endless Jesuitical disputes about the flatness of the picture plane? So most of them get a highly comical spanking from the author. It's worth pointing out, of course, that Wolfe paints with a broad (as it were) brush. If he's skewering the entire army of artistic pretenders in a single go, there's no room to admit that Jasper Johns or Willem DeKooning might actually have some talent. But as he would no doubt admit, The Painted Word isn't about the history of art. It's about the history of taste and middlebrow acquisition--and nobody has chronicled these two topics as hilariously or accurately as Tom Wolfe. --James Marcus [via]
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The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essaysby Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan MayneISBN 0714833657 (0-7148-3365-7)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays'Book summary:Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) was a leading poet and novelist in nineteenth who also devoted a considerable amount of his time to criticism. Indeed it was with a Salon review that he made his literary debut: and it is significant that even at this early stage - in 1845 - he was already articulating the need for a painter who could depict the heroism of modern life. This he was to find in Constantin Guys, whom he later celebrated in the famous essay which provides the title-piece for this collection. Other material in this volume includes important and extended studies of three of Baudelaire's contemporary heroes - Delacroix, Poe and Wagner - and some more general articles, such as those on the theory and practice of caricature, and on what Baudelaire, with intentional scorn, called philosophic art. This last article develops views only touched on in Baudelaire's other writings. This volume is extensively illustrated with reproductions of works referred to in the text and otherwise relevant to it. It provides a survey of some of the most important ideas and individuals in the critical world of the great poet who has been called the father of modern art criticism. [via]
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Post to Neo: The Art World of the 1980sby Calvin TomkinsISBN 080500663X (0-8050-0663-X)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetryby Walter PaterISBN 1596054840 (1-59605-484-0)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry'Book summary:Pater's graceful essays discuss the achievements of Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and other artists. The book concludes with an uncompromising advocacy of hedonism, urging readers to experience life as fully as possible. His cry of "art for art's sake" became the manifesto of the Aesthetic Movement, and his assessments of Renaissance art have influenced generations of readers.[via]More editions of The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry:
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The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetryby Adam Phillips, Walter PaterISBN 019281737X (0-19-281737-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry'Book summary:Oscar Wilde called this collection of essays the "holy writ of beauty." Published to great acclaim in 1837, it examines the work of Renaissance artists such as Winckelmann and the then neglected Botticelli, and includes a celebrated discussion of the Mona Lisa in a study of Da Vinci. The book strongly influenced art students and aesthetes of the day and is still valuable for the insights it offers and the beauty of the writing. [via]
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The Renaissance, Studies in Art and Poetryby Walter Horatio PaterISBN 140432836X (1-4043-2836-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Renaissance, Studies in Art and Poetry'Book summary:Oscar Wilde called this collection of essays the "holy writ of beauty." Published to great acclaim in 1837, it examines the work of Renaissance artists such as Winckelmann and the then neglected Botticelli, and includes a celebrated discussion of the Mona Lisa in a study of Da Vinci. The book strongly influenced art students and aesthetes of the day and is still valuable for the insights it offers and the beauty of the writing. [via]
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The Renaissance; Studies in Art and Poetry: London, Macmillan, 1910by Walter PaterISBN 0384450814 (0-384-45081-4)
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Seeing Out Loudby Jerry SaltxISBN 1930589174 (1-930589-17-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seeing Out Loud'Book summary:Cultural Writing. Art. In SEEING OUT LOUD, Saltz critically engages with notable works of art by over 100notable artists ranging from Picasso, Matisse, and Warhol to Matthew Barney, Gerhard Richter, and Chris Ofili. These reviews appeared in the Village Voice between November 1998 and winter 2003. "Jerry Saltz is the best informed and hair-trigger liveliest of contemporary art critics, tracking pleasure and jump-starting intelligence on the fly. Jerry's fast takes usually stand up better in retrospect than other people's long views"---Peter Schjedahl. "Jerry Saltz looks at art from the perspective of the viewer, the ignorant, the lover, and the enemy. His writing is overwhelmingly passionate, yet without sentimentality. His words pierce the content and beauty of each work of art to test its endurance in time and memory"---Francesco Bonami, Curator, 2003 Venice Biennale. [via]
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Selected Essaysby John Berger, Geoff DyerISBN 0375713182 (0-375-71318-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Essays'Book summary:On the occasion of his seventy-fith birthday, Pantheon is publishing a gathering of John Berger's most insightful and provocative writings on art over the past forty years.
Selected Essays brings together a comprehensive array of writings from Berger's previous collections: Toward Reality, The Moment of Cubism, The Look of Things, About Looking, The Sense of Sight, and Keeping a Rendezvous. From Piero to Pollock, from Kokoschka to La Tour, from mass demonstrations to museumsthe ideas in these essays are as fresh and compelling as they were when first published. Polemical, meditative, radical, always original, they display a remarkable continuity of thoughtful inquiry and political engagement. [via] -
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinsonby Camille PagliaISBN 0300091273 (0-300-09127-3)
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The Shock of the Newby Robert HughesISBN 0070311277 (0-07-031127-7)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shock of the New'Book summary:A beautifully illustrated hundred-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-guard. More than 250 color photos. [via]
A Short Guide To Writing About Artby Sylvan BarnetISBN 0823049604 (0-8230-4960-4)
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Still Looking: Essays on American Artby John UpdikeISBN 1400044189 (1-4000-4418-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Still Looking: Essays on American Art'Book summary:When, in 1989, a collection of John Updikes writings on art appeared under the title Just Looking, a reviewer in the San Francisco Chronicle commented, He refreshes for us the sense of prose opportunity that makes art a sustaining subject to people who write about it. In the sixteen years since Just Looking was published, he has continued to serve as an art critic, mostly for The New York Review of Books, and from fifty or so articles has selected, for this richly illustrated book, eighteen that deal with American art.
After beginning with early American portraits, landscapes, and the transatlantic career of John Singleton Copley, Still Looking then considers the curious case of Martin Johnson Heade and extols two late-nineteenth-century masters, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. Next, it discusses the eccentric pre-moderns James McNeill Whistler and Albert Pinkham Ryder, the competing American Impressionists and Realists in the early twentieth century, and such now-historic avant-garde figures as Alfred Stieglitz, Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, and Elie Nadelman. Two appreciations of Edward Hopper and appraisals of Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol round out the volume.
America speaks through its artists. As Updike states in his introduction, The dots can be connected from Copley to Pollock: the same tense engagement with materials, the same demand for a morality of representation, can be discerned in both.
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Some of these essays are marvelous examples of critical explanation, in which the psychological concerns of the novelist drive the eye from work to work in an exhibition until a deep understanding of the art emerges.
Arthur Danto, The New York Times Book Review
These are remarkably elegant little essays, dense in thought and perception but offhandedly casual in style. Their brevity makes more acute the sense of regret one feels to see them end. Jeremy Strick, Newsday [via]More editions of Still Looking: Essays on American Art:
Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissanceby Erwin PanofskyISBN 0844626961 (0-8446-2696-1)
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Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artistsby Herschel B. ChippISBN 0520052560 (0-520-05256-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists'Book summary:Gathers interviews, articles, letters, and manifestos dealing with Postimpressionism, symbolism, fauvism, Expressionism, and cubism. [via]
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Ways of Seeingby John BergerISBN 0140135154 (0-14-013515-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ways of Seeing'Book summary:[via]John Bergers Classic Text on Art
John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings . . . he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has.
"Berger has the ability to cut right through the mystification of the professional art critics . . . He is a liberator of images: and once we have allowed the paintings to work on us directly, we are in a much better position to make a meaningful evaluation" Peter Fuller, Arts Review
"The influence of the series and the book . . . was enormous . . . It opened up for general attention to areas of cultural study that are now commonplace" Geoff Dyer in Ways of Telling
Winner of the 1972 Booker Prize for his novel, G., John Peter Berger (born November 5th, 1926) is an art critic, painter and author of many novels including A Painter of Our Time, From A to X and Bentos Sketchbook.More editions of Ways of Seeing:
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What Happened to Art Criticism?by James ElkinsISBN 0972819630 (0-9728196-3-0)
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Writing About Artby Henry M. SayreISBN 0131945602 (0-13-194560-2)
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