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“valeska becker”

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  • Bodies of Clay

    On Prehistoric Humanised Pottery

    Edited by Heiner Schwarzberg, Valeska Becker ...
    Since the earliest use of pottery, vessels have been associated with both the general shape and specific parts of the human body. The production of human-shaped pottery might be understood as one element of the spectrum of figural art in prehistoric communities. The idea of studying anthropomorphic pottery and the return of human beings into a body made of clay, which forms the core theme of this ... Read more

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    by James Elkins ...
    Stories of Art is James Elkins's intimate history of art. Concise and original, this engaging book is an antidote to the behemoth art history textbooks from which we were all taught. As he demonstrates so persuasively, there can never be one story of art. Cultures have their own stories - about themselves, about other cultures - and to hear them all is one way to hear the multiple stories that art ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • How Ancient Europeans Saw the World

    Vision, Patterns, and the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times

    by Peter S. Wells ...
    The peoples who inhabited Europe during the two millennia before the Roman conquests had established urban centers, large-scale production of goods such as pottery and iron tools, a money economy, and elaborate rituals and ceremonies. Yet as Peter Wells argues here, the visual world of these late prehistoric communities was profoundly different from those of ancient Rome's literate civilization ... Read more

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  • Shanzhai

    Deconstruction in Chinese

    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    Translated by Philippa Hurd ...
    Series Book 8 - Untimely Meditations
    Tracing the thread of “decreation” in Chinese thought, from constantly changing classical masterpieces to fake cell phones that are better than the original.Shanzhai is a Chinese neologism that means “fake,” originally coined to describe knock-off cell phones marketed under such names as Nokir and Samsing. These cell phones were not crude forgeries but multifunctional, stylish, and as good as or ... Read more

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  • H20 and the Waters of Forgetfulness

    by Ivan Illich ...
    Philosopher and social analyst Ivan Illich, one of the most influential thinkers of second half of this century, directs his attention to waterm the 'stuff' of purity and the creative force of the imagination without which life in unthinkable. He deals with the dual nature of water, as life-giving material substance and as the wellspring of forml, on which are founded the most basic myths and ... Read more

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  • Eleven Exercises in the Art of Architectural Drawing

    Slow Food for the Architect's Imagination

    by Marco Frascari ...
    This book deals with the critical nature and crucial role of architectural drawings. A manual which is essentially not a manual; it is an elucidation of an elegant manner for practising architecture.Organized around eleven exercises, the book does not emphasize speed, nor incorporate many timesaving tricks typical of drawing books, but rather proposes a slow, meditative process for construing ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Cultures of Collecting

    Edited by Roger Cardinal, John Elsner ...
    Series series Critical Views
    with essays by Jean Baudrillard, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Nicholas Thomas, Mieke Bal, John Forrester, John Windsor, Naomi Schor, Susan Stewart, Anthony Alan Shelton, Jaś Elsner, Roger Cardinal and an interview with Robert Opie.This book traces the psychology, history and theory of the compulsion to collect, focusing not just on the normative collections of the Western canon, but also on ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Meanings of Abstract Art

    Between Nature and Theory

    Edited by Paul Crowther, Isabel Wünsche ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
    Traditional art is based on conventions of resemblance between the work and that which it is a representation "of". Abstract art, in contrast, either adopts alternative modes of visual representation or reconfigures mimetic convention. This book explores the relation of abstract art to nature (taking nature in the broadest sense—the world of recognisable objects, creatures, organisms, processes, ... Read more

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  • Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape, Second Edition

    by Joseph Leo Koerner ...
    Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), the greatest painter of the Romantic movement in Germany, was perhaps Europe’s first truly modern artist. His melancholy landscapes, often peopled by lonely wanderers, represent experiments towards a radically subjective art, one in which, as Friedrich wrote, the painter depicts not ‘what he sees before him, but what he sees within him.’ Yet in their awesome ... Read more

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  • Uncontrollable Beauty

    Toward a New Aesthetics

    by David Shapiro ...
    In this acclaimed art anthology, a prestigious group of artists, critics, and literati offer their incisive reflections on the questions of beauty, past, present, and future, and how it has become a domain of multiple perspectives.Here is Meyer Schapiro’s skeptical argument on perfection . . . contributions from artists as profound as Louise Bourgeois and Agnes Martin . . . and reflections of ... Read more

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  • The Sympathy of Things

    Ruskin and the Ecology of Design

    by Lars Spuybroek ...
    'If there is one thing we can learn from John Ruskin, it is that each age must find its own way to beauty' writes Lars Spuybroek in The Sympathy of Things, his ground-breaking work which proposes a radical new aesthetics for the digital era.Spuybroek argues that we must 'undo' the twentieth century and learn to understand the aesthetic insights of the nineteenth-century art critic John Ruskin, ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • A Short History of the Shadow

    by Victor I. Stoichita ...
    Series series Essays in Art and Culture
    In this investigative tour de force, Victor I. Stoichita untangles the history of one of the most enduring technical and symbolic challenges to beset Western artists - the depiction and meanings of shadows. The representation of shadow, and especially of cast shadow, is as old as art itself, for according to classical writers art was born when the outline of a human shadow thrown onto a wall was ... Read more

    $20.49 USD