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After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of Historyby Arthur DantoISBN 0691002991 (0-691-00299-1)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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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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Ariame Belovedby DupereISBN 0312904924 (0-312-90492-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ariame Beloved'Book summary:Revised edition of Betty Edwards' drawing instruction book, in large format with colour illustrations. [via]
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Art & Fear: Observations on the Perilsby David Bayles, Ted OrlandISBN 0884963799 (0-88496-379-9)
Softcover, Consortium Book Sales & Dist
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils'Book summary:[via]"This is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all art not made by Mozart. After all, art is rarely made by Mozart-like people; essentiallystatistically speakingthere aren't any people like that. Geniuses get made once-a-century or so, yet good art gets made all the time, so to equate the making of art with the workings of genius removes this intimately human activity to a strangely unreachable and unknowable place. For all practical purposes making art can be examined in great detail without ever getting entangled in the very remote problems of genius."
-from the IntroductionArt & Fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. The book's co-authors, David Bayles and Ted Orland, are themselves both working artists, grappling daily with the problems of making art in the real world. Their insights and observations, drawn from personal experience, provide an incisive view into the world of art as it is expeienced by artmakers themselves.
This is not your typical self-help book. This is a book written by artists, for artists - it's about what it feels like when artists sit down at their easel or keyboard, in their studio or performance space, trying to do the work they need to do. First published in 1994, Art & Fear quickly became an underground classic. Word-of-mouth response alonenow enhanced by internet postinghas placed it among the best-selling books on artmaking and creativity nationally.
Art & Fear has attracted a remarkably diverse audience, ranging from beginning to accomplished artists in every medium, and including an exceptional concentration among students and teachers. The original Capra Press edition of Art & Fear sold 80,000 copies.
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Today, more than it was however many years ago, art is hard because you have to keep after it so consistently. On so many different fronts. For so little external reward. Artists become veteran artists only by making peace not just with themselves, but with a huge range of issues. You have to find your work...
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Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (And Rewards) of Artmakingby David Bayles, Ted OrlandISBN 0961454733 (0-9614547-3-3)
Softcover, Image Continuum Pr
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Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictoral Representationby E. H. GombrichISBN 0691070008 (0-691-07000-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representationby Ernst Hans Josef GombrichISBN 0691017506 (0-691-01750-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation'Book summary:Considered a great classic by all who seek for a meeting ground between science and the humanities, Art and Illusion examines the history and psychology of pictorial representation in light of present-day theories of visual perception information and learning. Searching for a rational explanation of the changing styles of art, Gombrich reexamines many ideas on the imitation of nature and the function of tradition. In testing his arguments he ranges over the history of art, noticing particularly the accomplishments of the ancient Greeks, and the visual discoveries of such masters as Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt, as well as the impressionists and the cubists. Gombrich's triumph in Art and Illusion arises from the fact that his main concern is less with the artists than with ourselves, the beholders.
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Art Fundamentals: Theory and Practiceby Otto G. OcvirkISBN 0072862335 (0-07-286233-5)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Art History and Its Methods: A Critical Anthologyby E. C. FernieISBN 0714829919 (0-7148-2991-9)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Art History and Its Methods: A Critical Anthology'Book summary:Approaches to the history of art are probably more varied - and more debated - than in any other branch of history, and a study of different historical approaches is becoming an increasingly important component of many academic courses. This anthology of art-historical writings from the Renaissance to the present day has a particular focus, for key texts have been chosen in which the authors themselves reflects on the nature of their subject and on their own methods of inquiry. Included are texts by Vasari, Winckelmann, Burckhardt, Wolfflin, Panofsky, Gombrich and Pollock, among others. The introduction gives a summary of art-historical methods, and each of the texts is accompanied by a brief commentary which places it in context and discusses the issues it raises. Also provided is a critical glossary of art-historical terms, a brief biography of each of the historians, and a select bibliography. [via]
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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:
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Art in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideasby Charles Harrison, Paul WoodISBN 0631227083 (0-631-22708-3)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthologyby Donald PreziosiISBN 0192842420 (0-19-284242-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology'Book summary:The history of art has been written and rewritten since classical antiquity. Since the foundation of the modern discipline of art history in Germany in the late eighteenth century, debates about art and its histories have intensified. Historians, philosophers, psychologists, and anthropologists among others have changed our notions of what art history has been, is, and might be.
The Art of Art History is a unique guide to understanding art history through a critical reading of the field's most innovative and influential texts over the past two centuries. Each section focuses on a key issue: aesthetics, style, history as an art, iconography and semiology, gender, modernity and postmodernity, deconstruction and museology. More than thirty readings from writers as diverse as Winckelmann, Kant, Gombrich, Warburg, Panofsky, Heidegger, Lisa Tickner, Meyer Schapiro, Jacques Derrida, Mary Kelly, Michel Foucault, Rosalind Krauss, Louis Marin, Margaret Iversen, and Nestor Canclini are brought together, and Donald Preziosi's introductions to each topic provide background information, bibliographies, and critical elucidations of the issues at stake. His own concluding essay is an important and original contribution to scholarship in the field. [via]More editions of The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology:
The Art of Describingby Svetlana AlpersISBN 0226015130 (0-226-01513-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Arby Robert HenriISBN 0064301389 (0-06-430138-9)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Ar'Book summary:In this book are the essential beliefs and theories of a great teacher and American artist, Robert Henri. While it embodies the entire system of his teaching, with much technical advice and critical comment for the student, it also contains inspiration for those to whom the happiness to be found through all the arts is important.No other American painter attracted such a large, intensely personal group of followers as Henri, whose death in 1929 brought to an end a life that has been completely devoted to art. He was an inspired artist and teacher who believed that everyone is vitally concerned in the happiness and wisdom to be found through the arts. Many of his paintings have been acquired by museums and private collectors. Among them are the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Wichita Art Museum, and Yale University Art Gallery.[via]More editions of The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Ar:
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The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art Generally, and on Appreciationby Robert Henri, Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress), Margery RyersonISBN 0397001215 (0-397-00121-5)
Hardcover, Lippincott
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Art Theory: A Very Short Introductionby Cynthia A. FreelandISBN 0192804634 (0-19-280463-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction'Book summary:In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this Very Short Introduction Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many fascinating examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, museums, sex, and politics, clarifying contemporary and historical accounts of the nature, function, and interpretation of the arts. Freeland also propels us into the future by surveying cutting-edge web sites, alongside the latest research on the brain's role in perceiving art. This clear, provocative book engages with the big debates surrounding our responses to art and is an invaluable introduction to anyone interested in thinking about art. [via]
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Art Worldsby Howard S. BeckerISBN 0520052188 (0-520-05218-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativityby Julia CameronISBN 1585421464 (1-58542-146-4)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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This book links creativity to spirituality by showing how to connect with the creative energies of the universe, and has, in the four years since its publication, spawned a remarkable number of support groups for artists dedicated to practicing the exercises it contains. [via]
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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativityby Mark Bryan, Julia CameronISBN 0874776945 (0-87477-694-5)
Softcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity'Book summary:With the basic principle that creative expression is the natural direction of life, Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan lead you through a comprehensive twelve-week program to recover your creativity from a variety of blocks, including limiting beliefs, fear, self-sabotage, jealousy, guilt, addictions, and other inhibiting forces, replacing them with artistic confidence and productivity.
This book links creativity to spirituality by showing how to connect with the creative energies of the universe, and has, in the four years since its publication, spawned a remarkable number of support groups for artists dedicated to practicing the exercises it contains. [via]
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The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragonby Julia Cameron, Catherine Allen, Mark A. BryanISBN 0688166350 (0-688-16635-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon'Book summary:Adapting their techniques for fostering creativity as a means to spiritual fulfillment for the workplace, the authors of The Artist's Way at Work have shown that people can thrive at their jobs when they take time to nurture their spirit and listen to their thoughts. The book features psychological guidance, anecdotes, and exercises to assist the reader in sorting out the multitude of happenings, commitments, and choices in one's life. Again, these authors of the enormously successful The Artist's Way recommend their fundamental technique of "morning pages"--a kind of free-form journaling--to unravel thoughts and feelings, focus energy, and direct action. The beautiful surprise of this deceivingly simple exercise is that it actually works! It's making the time to do morning pages that's the real battle. But, if you, like so many others, feel swept up by the tidal wave of our fast-paced, noisy culture, then the authors' slow and steady steps toward reclaiming the spiritual self are invaluable. Some of the suggestions and exercises are a bit out of touch with the complex, and often emotionally-charged, political maneuverings of corporate culture, but the aim of cultivating an individual's ingenuity and resourcefulness is effective and expertly structured. Overall, the authors' philosophy boils down to change that begins with a constantly emerging self. With this book's help, you'll not only find how that new self spawns clarity and grace, but how widely their effects can reverberate throughout the workplace. --Karen Karleski [via]
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The Artist's Way Creativity Kitby Julia CameronISBN 0811826368 (0-8118-2636-8)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Artist's Way Creativity Kit'Book summary:Like the book on which it is based, The Artist's Way Creativity Kit is an empowering tool for aspiring and working artists alike. The elements within this exquisite box are designed to encourage the establishment of a personal ritual surrounding your creative time. The words of Julia Cameron, author of the best-selling book The Artist's Way, will set you on your way. Inside you will find a contemplative writing journal featuring quotations from creative souls from Shakti Gawain to Leo Tolstoy on the nature of creativity and accompanying questions that allow you apply their wisdom to your life, 75 cards with creative tasks geared toward spontaneity and play, and a packet of sandalwood incense. [via]
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But Is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theoryby Cynthia A. FreelandISBN 0192853678 (0-19-285367-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'But Is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory'Book summary:But Is It Art? is not only a fine little book but an important big question. Cynthia Freeland's informed and informative essay addresses, in seven pointed chapters, this central poser about modern art today. A multitude of odd, disturbing, weird, pointless-looking pictures, sculptures and things make up the products that we see inside--and out of--our galleries, that make up the art in the art world, and it is difficult to know both how to judge them and from what perspective. Modern art seems to get ever more popular but also gives rise to ever bigger controversies: do any of us really know if something is or is not art?
"This is a book about what art is, what it means and why we value it ... [art] theory is more than a definition; it is a framework that supplies an orderly explanation of observed phenomena." Freeland starts with the shocking and looks at the role of blood in modern art and performance pieces. She contextualises it and then, through the chapter and the rest of the book, looks at different theories of art (ritual theory, theories of taste and beauty, imitation theory, theories that emphasise communication), the role of money, politics, new media and the thoughts of some important thinkers: Walter Benjamin, Marshall McLuhan and arch postmodernist Jean Baudrillard. Freeland evaluates how successful philosophers and critics have been in dealing with the art they interrogate. But this is not a dry book, indeed one possible criticism to be made is that it is rather shallow in its judgements of a number of theories and rarely gets below the surface of much of the work it discusses. That would be too harsh, however. Freeland has not set out to have the last word--and indeed her gentle, politically correct egalitarianism would probably not perceive there to be such a thing. This is a useful, compact, bright introduction to the perplexing issues around modern art today and, like the works of Matthew Collings, one that empowers the reader and viewer into understanding that their confusion in the face of certain works is okay, that the naive questions they might ask are the right ones.--Mark Thwaite [via]
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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photographyby Roland BarthesISBN 0374521344 (0-374-52134-4)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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Concepts of Modern Artby Nikos StangosISBN 0500202680 (0-500-20268-0)
Softcover, Thames & Hudson
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Concerning the Spiritual in Artby Wassily KandinskyISBN 0486234118 (0-486-23411-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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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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The Critical Historians of Artby Michael PodroISBN 0300032404 (0-300-03240-4)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brainby Betty EdwardsISBN 0874770874 (0-87477-087-4)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidenceby Betty EdwardsISBN 0874770882 (0-87477-088-2)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence'Book summary:Edwards uses the latest in brain research to explain how anyone can learn to draw more accurately and creatively. This edition contains a new illustrated section in color, several fully revised chapters, new sample drawings, and a new section on handwriting. [via]
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German and Austrian Art of the 15th and 16th Centuriesby Otto BeneschISBN 0714815063 (0-7148-1506-3)
Hardcover, Phaidon
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In Praise of Shadowsby Junichiro TanizakISBN 0918172020 (0-918172-02-0)
Softcover, Leete's Island Books
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Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Artby Peter Vergo, Wassily Kandinsky, Kenneth Clement LindsayISBN 0306805707 (0-306-80570-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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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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Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Societyby Lucy R. LippardISBN 1565842480 (1-56584-248-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society'Book summary:The classic exploration of our multiple senses of place, by one of America's most influential art writers.
In The Lure of the Local Lucy R. Lippard weaves together cultural studies, history, geography, and contemporary art to provide a fascinating examination of our multiple senses of place.
Divided into five partsAround Here; Manipulating Memory; Down to Earth: Land Use; The Last Frontiers: Cities and Suburbs; and Looking Aroundthe book extends far beyond the confines of the art worlds, including issues of community, land use, perceptions of nature, how we produce the landscape, and how the landscape affects our lives. Praised by critics and readers alike, she consistently makes unexpected connections between contemporary art and its political, social, and cultural contexts. [via]More editions of Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society:
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Meaning in the Visual Artsby Erwin PanofskyISBN 0226645517 (0-226-64551-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Meaning in the Visual Arts'Book summary:Since its original publication, Erwin Panofsky's Meaning in the Visual Arts has been standard reading for students of art history. It is both an introduction to the study of art and, for those with more specialized interests, a profound discussion of art and life in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Panofsky's historical technique reveals an abundance of detail, detail he skillfully relates to the life and work of individual painters and their times.[via]
The papers in this volume represent a cross-section of Panofsky's major work. Included are selections from his well-known Studies in Iconology and The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer, plus an introduction and an epilogue"The History of Art as a Humanistic Discipline" and "Three Decades of Art History in the United States: Impressions of a Transplanted European"as well as pieces written especially for this collection. All display Panofsky's vast erudition and deep commitment to a humanistic conception of art and art history.More editions of Meaning in the Visual Arts:
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The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brainby Betty Edwards, Jeremy P. TarcherISBN 0874774241 (0-87477-424-1)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain'Book summary:[via]When Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain was first published in 1979, it hit the New York Times bestseller list within two weeks and stayed there for more than a year. In 1989, when Dr. Betty Edwards revised the book, it went straight to the Times list again. Now Dr. Edwards celebrates the twentieth anniversary of her classic book with a second revised edition.
Over the last decade, Dr. Edwards has refined her material through teaching hundreds of workshops and seminars. Truly The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, this edition includes:
- the very latest developments in brain research
- new material on using drawing techniques in the corporate world and in education
- instruction on self-expression through drawing
- an updated section on using color
- detailed information on using the five basic skills of drawing for problem solving
Translated into thirteen languages, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the world's most widely used drawing-instruction guide. People from just about every walk of lifeartists, students, corporate executives, architects, real estate agents, designers, engineershave applied its revolutionary approach to problem solving. The Los Angeles Times said it best: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is "not only a book about drawing, it is a book about living. This brilliant approach to the teaching of drawing . . . should not be dismissed as a mere text. It emancipates."More editions of The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain:
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The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Mythsby Rosalind E. KraussISBN 0262610469 (0-262-61046-9)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths'Book summary:Co-founder and co-editor of October magazine, a veteran of Artforum of the 1960s and early 1970s, Rosalind Krauss has presided over and shared in the major formulation of the theory of postmodernism.In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally appeared in October, she explores the ways in which the break in style that produced postmodernism has forced a change in our various understandings of twentieth-century art, beginning with the almost mythic idea of the avant-garde. Krauss uses the analytical tools of semiology, structuralism, and poststructuralism to reveal new meanings in the visual arts and to critique the way other prominent practitioners of art and literary history write about art. In two sections, "Modernist Myths" and "Toward Postmodernism," her essays range from the problem of the grid in painting and the unity of Giacometti's sculpture to the works of Jackson Pollock, Sol Lewitt, and Richard Serra, and observations about major trends in contemporary literary criticism.Rosalind E. Krauss is Professor of Art History at Hunter College.
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Patterns of Intention: On the Historical Explanation of Picturesby Michael BaxandallISBN 0300037635 (0-300-03763-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Photograph As Contemporary Artby Charlotte CottonISBN 0500203806 (0-500-20380-6)
Softcover, Thames & Hudson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Photograph As Contemporary Art'Book summary:A short illustrated survey of the use of photography in contemporary art since the mid-1980s. The work of approximately 150 of the best-known artist-photographers are featured: Andreas Gursky, Nan Goldin, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Richard Billingham, Juergen Teller, Thomas Demand, Yinka Shonibare, Thomas Ruff, JeffWall, Wolfgang Tillmans, and many more. Themed chapters consider subjects such as narrative and storytelling in art photography, photographing the everyday and the insignificant, the use of photography in conceptual art, and the cool, detached, objective aesthetic prevalent in current art photography. [via]
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Principles of Art History the Problem of the Developmentby H. WolfflinISBN 0844632058 (0-8446-3205-8)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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Principles of Art History; The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art.by Heinrich W”OlfflinISBN 0486202763 (0-486-20276-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Principles of Art History; The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art.'Book summary:[via]Originally published in Germany during the 1920s, this now-classic study surveys the works of 64 major artists in terms of style, quality, and mode of representation. A brilliant contribution to the methodology or art criticism, it features 120 black-and-white illustrations of works by Botticelli, Durer, Holbein, Rembrandt, Velasquez, Vermeer, and others.More editions of Principles of Art History; The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art.:
Rembrandtby Otto BeneschISBN 0714813656 (0-7148-1365-6)
Hardcover, Phaidon
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The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seuratby Martin KempISBN 0300052413 (0-300-05241-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat'Book summary:In this illustrated book, Martin Kemp examines the major optically oriented examples of artistic theory and practice, from Brunelleschi's invention of perspective and its exploitation by Leonardo and Duerer to the beginnings of photography. In a discussion of colour theory, Kemp traces two main traditions of colour science - the Aristotelian tradition of primary colours and Newton's prismatic theory that influenced Runge, Turner and Seurat. His book provides information for all those interested in the interaction between science and art. [via]
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Studies in Iconology Humanistic Themes in the Artby E. PanofskyISBN 0064300250 (0-06-430025-0)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissanceby Erwin PanofskyISBN 0844626961 (0-8446-2696-1)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writingsby Peter Selz, Kristine StilesISBN 0520202538 (0-520-20253-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings'Book summary:Ambitious and interdisciplinary, this long-awaited collaboration is a landmark presentation of the writings of contemporary artists. These influential essays, interviews, and critical and theoretical comments provide bold and fertile insights into the construction of visual knowledge. Featuring a wide range of leading and emerging artists since 1945, the collection--while comprehensive and authoritative--offers the reader some eclectic surprises as well.[via]
Included here are texts that have become pivotal documents in contemporary art, along with writings that cover unfamiliar ground. Some are newly translated, others have never before been published. Together they address visual literacy, cultural studies, and the theoretical debates regarding modernism and postmodernism. The full panoply of visual media is represented, from painting and sculpture to environments, installations, performance, conceptual art, video, photography, and virtual reality. Thematic concerns range from figuration and process to popular culture, art and technology, and politics and the media. Contemporary issues of gender, race, class, and sexuality are also addressed.
Kristine Stiles's general introduction is a succinct overview of artists' theories in the evolution of contemporary discourse around art. Introductions to each chapter provide synopses of the cultural contexts in which the texts originated and brief biographies of individual artists. The text is augmented by outstanding photographs, many of artists in their studios, and vivid, contemporary art images.
Reflecting the editors' shared belief that artists' own theories provide unparalleled access to visual knowledge, this book, like its distinguished predecessors, Hershel Chipp's Theories of Modern Art (with Peter Selz and Joshua Taylor) and Joshua Taylor's Nineteenth-Century Theories of Art, will be an invaluable resource for anyone interested in contemporary art.
"In New York in 1915 I bought at a hardware store a snow shovel on which I wrote 'in advance of the broken arm.' It was around that time that the word 'readymade' came to mind to designate this form of manifestation."--Marcel Duchamp (1961)
"Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women made often spoke in a secret language, bore a covert imagery. When we read these images in needlework, in paintings, in quilts, rugs and scrapbooks, we sometimes find a cry for help, sometimes an allusion to a secret political alignment, sometimes a moving symbol about the relationships between men and women."--Miriam Schapiro and Melissa Meyer (1978)
"I want to create a fusion of art and life, Asia and America, Duchampiana modernism and Levi-Straussian savagism, cool form and hot video, dealing with all of those complex problems, spanning the tribal memory of the Nomadic Asians who crossed over the Bering Strait over 10,000 years ago."--Shigeko Kubota (1976)
"Black for me is a lot more peaceful and gentle than white. White marble may be very beautiful, but you can't read anything on it. I wanted something that would be soft on the eyes, and turn into a mirror if you polished it. The point is to see yourself reflected in the names. Also the mirror image doubles and triples the space."--Maya Lin (1983)
"Artists often depend on the manipulation of symbols to present ideas and associations not always apparent in such symbols. If all such ideas and associations were evident there would be little need for artists to give expression to them. In short, there would be no need to make art."--Andres Serrano (1989)More editions of Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings:
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Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artistsby Herschel B. ChippISBN 0520052560 (0-520-05256-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Understanding Comicsby Scott McCloudISBN 1563895579 (1-56389-557-9)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Understanding Comics'Book summary:216 page paperback written in comic book form about the world's most misunderstood artform. [via]
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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Artby Scott McCloudISBN 0613027825 (0-613-02782-5)
Hardcover, Micro Data Base Systems, Incorporated (m d b s)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art'Book summary:As all good card-carrying comic-book fans know, their sheer passion will never overcome narrow-minded critics and their baying cries of derision. There is far more to this perpetually underrated medium than a mix of art and prose. With this indispensable, spellbinding tome, writer/artist Scott McCloud rises to the challenge of dissecting what remains the most enigmatic of art forms. After all, says McCloud, "No other art form gives so much to its audience while asking so much from them as well". Over the course of 215 impeccably formed pages, McCloud joyously exposes and deconstructs a hidden world of icons in a most literate and valid manner. His charming guidance finds a place where Time and Space is effortlessly malleable and the reader is both a willing accomplice and necessary vessel for comics' singular magic. Cunningly presented in comic form, McCloud (or his comic equivalent) conducts a journey that spans thousands of years, taking in art from Prehistoric Man to the Egyptians to Van Gogh to Jack Kirby. Never has psychological and cultural analysis been so understandably clear, beautifully aided by clever visuals and his truly infectious love for the medium. By the end of this funny, charming, rare and exciting book, you'll not doubt the notion that a comic book "...is a vacuum into which our identity and awareness are pulled ... an empty shell that we inhabit which enables us to travel to another realm". A fine exchange for a little faith and a world of imagination. --Danny Graydon [via]
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Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophersby Leonard KorenISBN 1880656124 (1-880656-12-4)
Softcover, Stone Bridge Pr
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Ways of Seeingby John BergerISBN 0140135154 (0-14-013515-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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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 Great Paintings Sayby Rose-Marie Hagen, Rainer HagenISBN 3822813729 (3-8228-1372-9)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Great Paintings Say'Book summary:Masterpieces under the microscope: from ancient Egyptian papyrus scrolls to 20th century works Did the Greek gods play tennis? What is the ambassador from the land of Alchemy telling us? What secrets are being told on the shores of the Island of Venus? What is a monk doing on the Ship of Fools? What Great Paintings Say has the answers to these and many other burning questions asked about the most important and famous paintings of all time. In two volumes, a selection of history's greatest masterpieces is presented chronologically, including works by Botticelli, Breughel, Chagall, Courbet, Degas, Delacroix, D?rer, Goya, Monet, Raphael, Rembrandt, Renoir, Rubens, Tiepolo, Titian, and many others. Each chapter focuses on one painting, with enlarged details and in-depth texts describing their significance. Taking apart each painting and then reassembling it again like a huge jigsaw puzzle, the authors reveal the history of art as a lively panorama of forgotten worlds.[via]More editions of What Great Paintings Say:
What Great Paintings Say: Masterpieces in Detailby Rose-Marie Hagen, Rainer HagenISBN 3822882704 (3-8228-8270-4)
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What Great Paintings Say: Old Masters in Detailby Rose-Marie Hagen, Rainer Hagen, Iain GalbraithISBN 3822889040 (3-8228-8904-0)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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Arte y percepcion visual / Art and Visual Perception: Psicologia del ojo creador/ Psychology of the Creative Eyeby Rudolf ArnheimISBN 8420678740 (84-206-7874-0)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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Historia de la Belleza / The History of Beautyby Umberto EcoISBN 8426414680 (84-264-1468-0)
Hardcover, Random House Mondadori
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Pero Esto Es Arte / But, Is It Art ?: An Introduction to Art Theoryby Cynthia FreelandISBN 8437620465 (84-376-2046-5)
Hardcover, Catedra Ediciones
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Storia Della Bellezzaby Umberto EcoISBN 8845232492 (88-452-3249-2)
Hardcover, Bompiani
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Les Manifestes du Surrealismeby Andre BretonISBN 2070322793 (2-07-032279-3)
Hardcover, Flammarion et Cie
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Illuminationen: Ausgew. Schriftenby Walter BenjaminISBN 3518068458 (3-518-06845-8)
Hardcover, Suhrkamp
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