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  • The Handy Art History Answer Bookby Madelynn Dickerson

    Visible Ink Press 2013; US$ 18.99

    The major art pieces, most important artists, and significant artistic movements from 35,000 BCE to today are collected together in this easy to read resource on art history. Continuing in the tradition of the standout Handy Answer Book reference series, this book not only the covers the development of Western art, but also the history of art across... more...

  • African Art, Interviews, Narrativesby Joanna Grabski; Carol Magee

    Indiana University Press 2013; US$ 23.99

    Joanna Grabski and Carol Magee bring together a compelling collection that shows how interviews can be used to generate new meaning and how connecting with artists and their work can transform artistic production into innovative critical insights and knowledge. The contributors to this volume include artists, museum curators, art historians, and anthropologists,... more...

  • Bas Jan Aderby Alexander Dumbadze

    University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 27.50

    On July 9, 1975, Dutch-born artist Bas Jan Ader set sail from Chatham, Massachusetts, on a thirteen-foot sailboat. He was bound for Falmouth, England, on the second leg of a three-part piece titled In Search of the Miraculous . The damaged boat was found south of the western tip of Ireland nearly a year later. Ader was never seen again.   ... more...

  • Who's Afraid of Conceptual Art?by Peter Goldie; Elisabeth Schellekens

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 31.95

    What is conceptual art? Is it really a kind of art in its own right? Is it clever ? or too clever? Of all the different art forms it is perhaps conceptual art which at once fascinates and infuriates the most. In this much-needed book Peter Goldie and Elisabeth Schellekens demystify conceptual art using the sharp tools of philosophy. They explain... more...

  • Development and the Artsby Margery B. Franklin; Bernard Kaplan

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 94.95

    This volume's unifying theme is the question: Is a concept of development relevant to art? Bringing together contributions from the perspectives of philosophical aesthetics, psychoanalysis, architecture and design, and the practicing artist, as well as developmental theory in psychology, this volume provides a unique assembly of voices from different... more...

  • Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Art, V.2by Mary M. Gedo

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 66.95

    This new hardcover annual offers a unique scholarly format, an interdisciplinary dialogue that, it is hoped, will foster the development of a sound, useful methodology for applying psychoanalytic insight to art and artists.  The series provides a medium for those who study art, those who interpret it, and occasionally those who create it, formally... more...

  • Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Art, V. 3by Mary M. Gedo

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 79.95

    This new hardcover annual offers a unique scholarly format, an interdisciplinary dialogue that, it is hoped, will foster the development of a sound, useful methodology for applying psychoanalytic insight to art and artists.  The series provides a medium for those who study art, those who interpret it, and occasionally those who create it, formally... more...

  • The Next Thingby Pablo Baler

    Fairleigh Dickinson 2013; US$ 64.99

    The Next Thing: Art in the Twenty-first Century is an illustrated collection of commissioned essays that attempt to anticipate, through current artistic productions, the aesthetic sensibility that will define our times. more...

  • Affairs of the Artby Katrina Strickland

    Melbourne University Publishing 2013; Not Available

    The reputations of artists are curious things, influenced by factors beyond the quality of the work. Affairs of the Art explores the role those left behind play in burnishing an artist?s reputation after he or she dies. Through interviews with those handling the estates of artists including Fred Williams, Brett Whiteley, John Brack, Howard Arkley,... more...

  • Art in Psychoanalysisby Gabriela Goldstein

    Karnac Books 2013; US$ 25.95

    A revolution is brewing in psychoanalysis: after a century of struggle to define psychoanalysis as a science, the concept of psychoanalysis as an art is finding expression in an unconventional 'return to Freud' that reformulates the relationship between art and psychoanalysis and in this process, discovers and explores uncharted routes through art... more...