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Performing Bodies in Pain The urgent debate about torture in public discourse of the twenty-first century thrusts pain into the foreground while research in neuroscience is transforming our understanding of this fundamental …
Renaissance And Renascences In E. Panofsky’s book about the antique reviewal is excellent reading by the leading art historian. The book is based on the lectures he held after the war.Our concept of renaissance is still based on …
Street Art and the The collection of art in the book isn’t bad, but the way it is presented and the captions accompanying the works leave a lot to be desired. I am not a Bush supporter, but i don’t want to have a …
The Repeating Image Multiples Today serial imagery dominates all forms of visual media, from advertising to conceptual sculpture. In this innovative project, the authors show that the phenomenon of repetition appears as a …
The Manifesta Decade Debates Manifesta, the first itinerant European Biennial for Contemporary Art, emerged in a post-wall, globalizing Europe. Founded in 1993, it organized traveling exhibitions aimed at providing a new …
Practical Art Criticism Unique features: criticism as a sequential process; forming an interpretation; separating interpretation from judging; critical errors; the critics ethics; criteria for judging greatness. …
Short History of the Victor I. Stoichita untangles the history of one of the most enduring challenges to beset Western artiststhe depiction and meaning of shadows. This compelling account of the shadow in Western …
Modernism in Dispute Art This, the final volume in this series discusses how American art evolved from the social realism prevalent during the 1930s to a predominantly abstract art after the war, relates this change to …
The Art of the I read this wounderful Graham Howes’ book with pleasure and delightness. A masterpiece in the sociology of art. The author has a deep knowledge of the subject. At the same time, his book is clear …