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| 1. |  | Title: Out of Eden: essays on modern art  Author: Di Piero, W. S Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Art | Art Criticism Publisher's Description: Out of Eden presents the rigorous investigations and musings of a poet-essayist on the ways in which modern artists have confronted and transfigured the realist tradition of representation. Di Piero pursues his theme with an autobiographical force and immediacy. He fixes his attention on painters an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: The hydrogen jukebox: selected writings of Peter Schjeldahl, 1978-1990 Author: Schjeldahl, Peter Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | Art Criticism Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: In/different spaces: place and memory in visual culture Author: Burgin, Victor Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art | Art Criticism | Social Science Publisher's Description: Recent discussions about the culture of images have focused on issues of identity - sexual, racial, national - and the boundaries that define subjectivity. In this context Victor Burgin adopts an original critical strategy. He understands images less in traditional terms of the specific institutions . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Essays on the blurring of art and life Author: Kaprow, Allan Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Art | Art Criticism | Art Theory Publisher's Description: As the creator of "Happenings" and "Environments," Allan Kaprow is the prince and prophet of all we call performance art today. He is also known for having written some of the most thoughtful, provocative, and influential essays of his generation. From "The Legacy of Jackson Pollock" in 1958 to "The . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: The Arnolfini betrothal: medieval marriage and the enigma of Van Eyck's double portrait Author: Hall, Edwin 1928- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Criticism | Medieval History Publisher's Description: Commonly known as the "Arnolfini Wedding" or "Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride," Jan van Eyck's double portrait, painted in 1434, is probably the most widely recognized panel painting of the fifteenth century. One of the great masterpieces of early Flemish art, this enigmatic picture has also arouse . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Earthwards: Robert Smithson and art after Babel Author: Shapiro, Gary 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art | Art Criticism | Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: The death of Robert Smithson in 1973 robbed postwar American art of an unusually creative practitioner and thinker. Smithson's pioneering earthworks of the 1960s and 1970s anticipated contemporary concerns with environmentalism and the site-specific character of artistic production. His interrogatio . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: The body/body problem: selected essays Author: Danto, Arthur Coleman 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Philosophy | Art Criticism | Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: The overall subject of the essays in The Body/Body Problem is the traditional one of what our ultimate makeup is, as creatures with minds and bodies. The central thesis is that we are beings who represent - and misrepresent - actual and possible worlds. Addressing philosophical questions of mental r . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Fluxus experience Author: Higgins, Hannah 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Theory | Art Criticism Publisher's Description: In 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 f . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Symbolist art theories: a critical anthology Author: Dorra, Henri 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Theory | Art Criticism Publisher's Description: Henri Dorra, in his comprehensive new book, presents the development and the aesthetic theories of the symbolist movement in art and literature. Included are writings (many never before translated or reprinted) by artists, designers, architects, and critics, along with Dorra's learned commentary. Fi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: A critical study of Philip Guston Author: Ashton, Dore Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Criticism | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Dore Ashton has updated the bibliography and added a new concluding chapter to her classic study of the paintings and drawings of Philip Guston, the only study of his work completely authorized by the artist.Philip Guston (1913-1980) was one of the most independent of the painters whose work was loo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Singular women: writing the artist Author: Frederickson, Kristen 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Criticism | Art Theory | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In this groundbreaking volume, contemporary art historians - all of them women - probe the dilemmas and complexities of writing about the woman artist, past and present. Singular Women proposes a new feminist investigation of the history of art by considering how a historian's theoretical approach a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Beyond recognition: representation, power, and culture Author: Owens, Craig Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Art | Art Theory | Gender Studies | Sociology | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | Art Criticism Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Iconography of power: Soviet political posters under Lenin and Stalin Author: Bonnell, Victoria E Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology | Popular Culture | European Studies | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Politics | Art Criticism | History | European History Publisher's Description: Masters at visual propaganda, the Bolsheviks produced thousands of vivid and compelling posters after they seized power in October 1917. Intended for a semi-literate population that was accustomed to the rich visual legacy of the Russian autocracy and the Orthodox Church, political posters came to o . . . [more] Similar Items |