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  • T. J. Clark on Bruegel

    by T. J. Clark ...
    Series Book 8 - Pocket Perspectives
    T. J. Clark offers profound insights into Bruegel's art, where we encounter a reality formed from wholly worldly materials, yet suspended between belief and disbelief.Renowned art historian T. J. Clark unveils the hidden depths of Bruegel the Elder’s work in this captivating analysis of some of the artist's most famous masterpieces. Taking the medieval concept of Schlaraffenland, a whimsical ... Read more

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  • Guy Debord

    by Anselm Jappe ...
    Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith ...
    This is the first and best intellectual biography of Guy Debord, prime mover of the Situationist International (1957–1972) and author of The Society of the Spectacle, perhaps the seminal book of the May 1968 uprising in France. Anselm Jappe offers a powerful corrective to the continual attempts to incorporate Debord’s theoretical work into “French theory.” Jappe’s focus, to the contrary, is on ... Read more

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  • Heretical Aesthetics

    Pasolini on Painting

    by T.J. Clark ...
    First collection on filmmaker and poet Pasolini's passion for paintingOne of Europe's most mythologized Marxist intellectuals of the 20th century, Pier Paolo Pasolini was not only a poet, filmmaker, novelist, and political martyr. He was also a keen critic of painting. An intermittently practicing artist in his own right, Pasolini studied under the distinguished art historian Roberto Longhi, whose ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Painting of Modern Life

    Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers

    by T.J. Clark ...
    From T.J. Clark comes this provocative study of the origins of modern art in the painting of Parisian life by Edouard Manet and his followers.The Paris of the 1860s and 1870s was a brand-new city, recently adorned with boulevards, cafés, parks, Great Exhibitions, and suburban pleasure grounds—the birthplace of the habits of commerce and leisure that we ourselves know as "modern life." A new kind ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Picasso and Truth

    From Cubism to Guernica

    by T. J. Clark ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    A groundbreaking reassessment of Picasso by one of today's preeminent art historiansPicasso and Truth offers a breathtaking and original new look at the most significant artist of the modern era. From Pablo Picasso's early The Blue Room to the later Guernica, eminent art historian T. J. Clark offers a striking reassessment of the artist's paintings from the 1920s and 1930s. Why was the space of a ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Guy Debord

    by Anselm Jappe ...
    Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith ...
    This is the first and best intellectual biography of Guy Debord, prime mover of the Situationist International (1957-1972) and author of The Society of the Spectacle, perhaps the seminal book of the May 1968 uprising in France. Anselm Jappe offers a powerful corrective to the continual attempts to incorporate Debord's theoretical work into French theory. Jappe focuses, to the contrary, on Debord's ... Read more

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  • Illuminations

    Essays and Reflections

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    by Italo Calvino ...
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    The first collection of letters in English by one of the great writers of the twentieth centuryThis is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Italy's most important postwar novelist, Italo Calvino (1923-1985) achieved worldwide fame with such books as Cosmicomics, Invisible Cities, and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. ... Read more

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    Annotated drawings

    by Daniel Coenn ...
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  • What Are You Looking At?

    The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art

    by Will Gompertz ...
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  • Italian Literature: A Very Short Introduction

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