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Ingres Then, And Now
By: Rifkin, Adrian
Published by: Routledge
This is an unusually fine and intelligent study, which will prove compelling to anyone thinking about the nature of modern art and the situation of the modern artist in 19th and 20th century France. Rifkin offers the reader an array of brilliant and unexpected insights--at times focused on Ingres, at others opening out onto new ways of thinking about modernity and the fabric of modern artistic culture Alex Potts, University of Reading
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Price: $30.95
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Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance
By: Rugg, Judith (ed.); Sedgwick, Michèle (ed.)
Published by: Intellect
Explores developments in electronic art, art/science collaboration, nongallery spaces, and 'virtual' fields. This volume examines issues surrounding the curation of art and performance exhibitions. It covers original theories and expanded concepts of curating contemporary art.
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Price: $60.00
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John Stuart Mill
By: Capaldi, Nicholas
Published by: Cambridge University Press
Nicholas Capaldi's biography of John Stuart Mill traces the ways in which Mill's many endeavors are related and explores the significance of Mill's contribution to metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, social and political philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of education.
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Price: $36.00
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Key Writers On Art: The Twentieth Century
By: Murray, Chris
Published by: Taylor & Francis Ltd
A unique and authoritative guide to modern responses to art. Featuring 48 essays, and written by a panel of expert contributors, it introduces readers to the key approaches and analytical tools of contemporary art study and debate.
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Price: $24.95
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Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World
By: Hoffman, Eva R. (ed.)
Published by: Blackwell Publishing, Ltd
Offering a fresh approach to early Christian-Byzantine visual arts, this book comprises of essays that integrate contemporary and historical research into 'a canon' of established scholarship. It exposes the historical, geographical, and cultural continuities and interactions in the visual arts of the late antique and medieval Mediterranean world.
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Price: $44.95
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The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired
By: Prose, Francine
Published by: HarperCollins US
In a brilliant, wry, and provocative new book, National Book Award finalist Francine Prose explores the complex relationship between the artist and his muse. In so doing, she illuminates with great sensitivity and intelligence the elusive emotional wellsprings of the creative process. There is no ideal muse, but rather as many variations on the theme as there are individual women who have had the luck, or misfortune, to find their destiny conjoined with that of a particular artist ...
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Metonymy in Contemporary Art
By: Green, Denise
Published by: University of Minnesota Press
Denise Green develops an original approach to art criticism and modes of creativity inspired by aspects of Australian Aboriginal and Indian thought. Interweaving her own evolution as an artist with critiques of Clement Greenberg and Walter Benjamin as well as commentary on artists such as Mark Rothko and Frank Stella, Green explores the concept of metonymic thinking and its relevance to contemporary painting.
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Price: $40.00
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Modern Art
By: Cottington, David
Published by: Oxford University Press
As public interest in modern art continues to grow, there is a real need for a book that will engage general readers, offering them not only information and ideas about modern art, but also explaining its contemporary relevance and its history. This book does just that.
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Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s
By: Kelly, Katherine E.
Published by: Routledge
Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s offers the first direct evidence that women playwrights helped create the movement first known as Modern Drama. It contains twelve plays by women from the Americas, Europe and Asia.
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Price: $44.95
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Monster/Beauty
By: Frueh, Joanna
Published by: University of California Press
This daring, intensely personal book challenges both conventional and feminist ideas about beauty by asking us to take pleasure in beauty without shame, and to see and feel the erotic in everyday life. Bringing together her varied experiences as a poet, art historian, bodybuilder, and noted performance artist, Joanna Frueh shows us how to move beyond society's equation of youth with beauty toward an aesthetic for the fully erotic human being.
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Price: $15.95
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