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  • Dada & Surrealism For Beginners

    by Elsa Bethanis, Peter Bethanis ...
    Series series For Beginners
    What kind of artists put a mustache on the Mona Lisa? Enter a urinal in an art competition? Declare their own independent republic? Hijack a ship?Dadas!And what happens in such a movement? With Dada, many of the artists declared their own “Pope” and continued their journey (with no destination) into Surrealism, creating burning giraffes, “amoebic” dogs, and lobster telephones – some of the most ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • The Lost Michelangelos

    by Antonio Forcellino ...
    Translated by Lucinda Byatt ...
    Translated by Lucinda ByattThis book tells the remarkable story of a rare discovery: the uncovering of two lost paintings by the great Renaissance artist Michelangelo.Like many stories of artistic loss, this one begins in a library in Italy, where Antonio Forcellino - a distinguished Michelangelo scholar and restorer - stumbled across some unpublished letters among the papers of Cardinal Ercole ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Circulations in the Global History of Art

    Edited by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Catherine Dossin, Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel ...
    Series series Studies in Art Historiography
    The project of global art history calls for balanced treatment of artifacts and a unified approach. This volume emphasizes questions of transcultural encounters and exchanges as circulations. It presents a strategy that highlights the processes and connections among cultures, and also responds to the dynamics at work in the current globalized art world. The editors’ introduction provides an ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Arcimboldo and artworks

    by Liana De Girolami Cheney ...
    If, as the famous saying goes, you really are what you eat, then Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593) was a consummate painter of the human soul. This artist was a master draftsman whose finely wrought canvases captured the imagination of his generation. In this fascinating book, Liana De Girolami Cheney takes a closer look at the critical history of Arcimboldo’s work, from his initial popularity and ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Draw Animals and Birds

    by A. W. Browne ...
    This work by A. W. Browne was originally published in the early 20th century and we are now republishing it for the modern reader. 'How to Draw Animals and Birds' is an informative work that instructs the reader in the best methods of artistically representing animals. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Persistent Ruskin

    Studies in Influence, Assimilation and Effect

    by Keith Hanley ...
    Examining the wide-ranging implications of Ruskin's engagement with his contemporaries and followers, this collection is organized around three related themes: Ruskin's intellectual legacy and the extent to which its address to working men and women and children was realised in practice; Ruskin's followers and their sites of influence, especially those related to the formation of collections, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • ORLAN

    A Hybrid Body of Artworks

    Edited by Simon Donger, Simon Shepherd ...
    ORLAN: A Hybrid Body of Artworks is an in-depth academic account of ORLAN's pioneering art in its entirety. The book covers her career in performance and a range of other art forms. This single accessible overview of ORLAN's practices describes and analyses her various innovative uses of the body as artistic material.Edited by Simon Donger with Simon Shepherd and ORLAN herself, the collection ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Bauhaus Weaving Theory

    From Feminine Craft to Mode of Design

    by T’ai Smith ...
    The Bauhaus school in Germany has long been understood through the writings of its founding director, Walter Gropius, and well-known artists who taught there such as Wassily Kandinsky and László Moholy-Nagy. Far less recognized are texts by women in the school’s weaving workshop. In Bauhaus Weaving Theory, T’ai Smith uncovers new significance in the work the Bauhaus weavers did as writers.From ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Shakespeare | Cut

    Rethinking cutwork in an age of distraction

    by Bruce R. Smith ...
    Series series Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures
    In distracted times like the present, Shakespeare too has been driven to distraction. Shakespeare | Cut considers contemporary practices of cutting up Shakespeare in stage productions, videogames, book sculptures, and YouTube postings, but it also takes the long view of how Shakespeare's texts have been cut apart in creative ways beginning in Shakespeare's own time. The book's five chapters ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • River of Ink

    [An Illustrated History of Literacy]

    by Thomas Christensen ...
    With its title harkening back to the sack of Baghdad in 1258—when the Tigris ran black with the ink of books flung into the water by Mongol invaders—River of Ink is a collection of essays that range widely across time and cultures to illuminate the role of literature and art throughout history. Christensen draws from a panoply of subjects, from the writings of prehistoric Chinese cultures known ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Foucault on the Arts and Letters

    Perspectives for the 21st Century

    Edited by Catherine M. Soussloff ...
    Series series Global Aesthetic Research
    As one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, Michel Foucault’s reputation today rests on his political philosophy in relation to the contemporary subject in a neo-liberal and globalized society. This book offers insight into the role of the arts in Foucault’s thought as a means to better understanding his contribution to larger debates concerning contemporary existence.Visual ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Stanford White

    Decorator in Opulence and Dealer in Antiquities

    by Wayne Craven ...
    The designer of such landmarks as the Washington Square Arch, the New York Herald and Tiffany Buildings, and the homes of captains of American industry, Stanford White is a legendary figure in the history of American architecture. Yet while the exteriors and floor plans of his designs have been extensively studied and written about, no book has fully examined the other aspect of his career, which ... Read more

    $58.49 USD