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TRIGON 10
BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag 2012; US$ 23.73Hauptbeschreibung ğDer Titel "TRIGON" ist ein sprechendes Symbol. Die Alten bezeichneten damit ein Ballspiel, dessen Teilnehmer in den Ecken eines Dreiecks standen und sich den Ball zuspielten. Zu diesem lebendigen und gegenseitig bereichernden Austausch der drei wesentlichen Erkenntnisweisen unserer Zeit - GLAUBE, WISSENSCHAFT UND KUNST - sucht... more...
Fluxus Experience
University of California Press 2002; US$ 34.95In this groundbreaking work of incisive scholarship and analysis, Hannah Higgins explores the influential art movement Fluxus. Daring, disparate, contentious?Fluxus artists worked with minimal and prosaic materials now familiar in post-World War II art. Higgins describes the experience of Fluxus for viewers, even experiences resembling sensory assaults,... more...
Recording Conceptual Art
University of California Press 2001; US$ 15.95Recording Conceptual Art features a highly provocative series of previously unpublished interviews conducted in early 1969 with some of the most dynamic, daring, and innovative artists of the tumultuous 1960s. The nine individuals--eight artists and one art dealer--are now known as major contributors to Conceptual art. more...
Art Theory
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 9.99Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy, art theory, and many engrossing examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, sex, web sites, and research on the brain's role in perceiving art. more...
Muqarnas
BRILL 2003; US$ 76.00Muqarnas , the well-respected annual of Islamic art and architecture, is sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard U. and MIT. The 20th volume features 12 articles on topics that include geometry in a 9th-century Koran, the defense of alchemy in a Mongol era manuscript, t more...
NanoCulture
Intellect 2004; US$ 10.00Nano denotes a billionth; a nanometer is a billionth of a meter. New instrumentation and techniques have for the first time made possible materials research and engineering at this level, the scale of individual molecules and atoms. Extraordinary visions of material abundance, unprecedented materials, and powerful engineering capabilities have marked... more...
A Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945
Wiley 2009; US$ 150.95A Companion to Contemporary Art is a major survey covering the major works and movements, the most important theoretical developments, and the historical, social, political, and aesthetic issues in contemporary art since 1945, primarily in the Euro-American context. Collects 27 original essays by expert scholars describing the current state of... more...
Eakins Revealed
Oxford University Press 2005; US$ 73.99Examines the dark side of Thomas Eakins' life and work in this biography that changes our understanding of this American icon. Based on close study of hiss work and new research in the Bregler papers, it shows he was not merely uncompromising, but harsh and brutal both in his personal life and in his painting. more...
Opportunities in Visual Arts Careers
McGraw-Hill 2001; US$ 12.95Opportunities in Visual Arts Careers offers job seekers essential information about a variety of careers in the field of visual arts. The book includes training and education requirements, salary statistics, and professional and Internet resources. more...
Ways Around Modernism
Routledge 2006; US$ 18.95In the second volume of Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts Stephen Bann examines the arguments for the centrality of French modernist painting. He begins by focusing particularly on the notion of the modernist break, as it has been interpreted with regard to painters like Manet and Ingres. He argues that ?curiosity?, with its... more...









