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  • Global Modernists on Modernism

    An Anthology

    Series series Modernist Archives
    Winner of the Modernist Studies Association (MSA) Edited Volume PrizeBringing together works by writers from sub-Saharan Africa, Turkey, central Europe, the Muslim world, Asia, South America and Australia – many translated into English for the first time – this is the first collection of statements on modernism by writers, artists and practitioners from across the world.Annotated throughout, the ... Leer más

    $186.99 USD

  • Invisible Terrain

    John Ashbery and the Aesthetics of Nature

    Series series Oxford English Monographs
    In his debut collection, Some Trees (1956), the American poet John Ashbery poses a question that resonates across his oeuvre and much of modern art: 'How could he explain to them his prayer / that nature, not art, might usurp the canvas?' When Ashbery asks this strange question, he joins a host of transatlantic avant-gardists--from the Dadaists to the 1960s neo-avant-gardists and beyond--who have ... Leer más

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    Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism

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    Experience the creative explosion that transformed American art—in the words of the artists, writers, and critics who were thereIn the quarter century after the end of World War II, a new generation of painters, sculptors, and photographers transformed the face of American art and shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New York. Signaled by the triumph of abstraction and the ascendancy ... Leer más

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  • Living by Fiction

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    "Everyone who timidly, bombastically, reverently, scholastically--even fraudulently--essays to 'live the life of the mind' should read this book. It's elegant and classy, like caviar and champagne, and like these two items, it's over much too soon." — Los Angeles TimesPulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's classic work of literary criticismLiving by Fiction is written for—and dedicated to ... Leer más

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  • The Rape of the Masters

    How Political Correctness Sabotages Art

    de Roger Kimball ...
    Colleges and universities used to teach art history to encourage connoisseurship and acquaint students with the riches of our artistic heritage. But now, as Roger Kimball reveals in this witty and provocative book, the student is less likely to learn about the aesthetics of masterworks than to be told, for instance, that Peter Paul Rubens' great painting Drunken Silenus is an allegory about anal ... Leer más

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  • Venus in Exile

    The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-century Art

    de Wendy Steiner ...
    Whereas previous eras had celebrated beauty as the central aim of art, the modernist avant-garde were deeply suspicious of beauty and its perennial symbols, woman and ornament, preferring instead the thrill and alienation of the sublime. They rejected harmony, empathy, and femininity in a denial still reverberating through art and social relations today. Exploring this casting of Venus, with all ... Leer más

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  • Philip Guston

    The Studio

    de Craig Burnett ...
    Series series Afterall Books / One Work
    An illustrated examination of Philip Guston's comic and complex painting The Studio.Throughout his career, Philip Guston's work metamorphosed from figural to abstract and back to figural. In the 1950s, Guston (1913–1980) produced a body of shimmering abstract paintings that made him—along with Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Franz Kline—an influential abstract expressionist of the ... Leer más

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  • After Modern Art

    1945-2017

    de David Hopkins ...
    Series series Oxford History of Art
    Contemporary art can be baffling and beautiful, provocative and disturbing. This pioneering book presents a new look at the controversial period between 1945 and 2015, when art and its traditional forms were called into question. It focuses on the relationship between American and European art, and challenges previously held views about the origins of some of the most innovative ideas in art of ... Leer más

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  • Other Things

    de Bill Brown ...
    From the pencil to the puppet to the drone—the humanities and the social sciences continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines? Other Things explores this question by considering a wide assortment of objects—from beach glass to cell phones, sneakers to skyscrapers—that ... Leer más

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  • Longer Views

    Extended Essays

    Six essays from the critic and award-winning author exploring topics such as theater, LGBTQ+ scholarship, cyborgs, metaphors, and Star Wars."Reading is a many-layered process—like writing," observes Samuel R. Delany, a Nebula and Hugo Award–winning author and a major commentator on American literature and culture. In this collection of six extended essays, Delany challenges what he calls "the hard ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Women, Art, And Power And Other Essays

    de Linda Nochlin ...
    Women, Art, and Power?seven landmark essays on women artists and women in art history?brings together the work of almost twenty years of scholarship and speculation. ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Windows and Doors

    A Poet Reads Literary Theory

    de Natasha Saje ...
    Series series Poets On Poetry
    Windows and Doors is a poetry handbook that places poststructuralist and postmodern ways of thinking alongside formalist modes, making explicit points of overlap and tension that are usually tacit. Each of Natasha Sajé’s nine essays addresses a topic of central concern to readers and writers of poetry while also making an argument about poetic language and ideology. Foundational topics—diction, ... Leer más

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