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1. |  | Title: Monster/beauty: building the body of loveAuthor: Frueh, Joanna Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Art | Art Theory | Gender Studies | Art Theory | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: 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 performa . . . [more]Similar Items | 2. |  | Title: Gilles Deleuze and the ruin of representationAuthor: Olkowski, Dorothea Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Philosophy | Art TheoryPublisher's Description: Dorothea Olkowski's exploration of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze clarifies the gifted French thinker's writings for specialists and nonspecialists alike. Deleuze, she says, accomplished the "ruin of representation," the complete overthrow of hierarchic, organic thought in philosophy, politics, ae . . . [more]Similar Items | 3. |  | Title: Parables of sun light: observations on psychology, the arts, and the restAuthor: Arnheim, Rudolf Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Art | Art TheoryPublisher's Description: For many years Rudolf Arnheim, known as the leading psychologist of art, has been keeping notebooks in which to jot down observations, ideas, questions, and even (after a stay in Japan for a year) poems in the haiku pattern. Some of these notes found their way into his books - known and prized the w . . . [more]Similar Items | 4. |  | Title: Essays on the blurring of art and lifeAuthor: Kaprow, Allan Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Art | Art Criticism | Art TheoryPublisher'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: Recording conceptual art: early interviews with Barry, Huebler, Kaltenbach, LeWitt, Morris, Oppenheim, Siegelaub, Smithson, Weiner, by Patricia NorvellAuthor: Barry, Robert 1936- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art TheoryPublisher's Description: Recording 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 contribut . . . [more]Similar Items | 6. |  | Title: Telematic embrace: visionary theories of art, technology, and consciousnessAuthor: Ascott, Roy Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Art | Art Theory | Electronic MediaPublisher's Description: Long before e-mail and the Internet permeated society, Roy Ascott, a pioneering British artist and theorist, coined the term "telematic art" to describe the use of online computer networks as an artistic medium. In Telematic Embrace Edward A. Shanken gathers, for the first time, an impressive compil . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. |  | Title: The ones that are wanted: communication and the politics of representation in a photographic exhibitionAuthor: Kratz, Corinne Ann 1953- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | African Studies | Photography | Art TheoryPublisher's Description: The Okiek people of Kenya's forested highlands have a long history of hunting, honey gathering, and trading with their Maasai and Kipsigis neighbors; several decades ago, they also began farming and herding. This book follows a traveling exhibition of anthropologist Corinne Kratz's photographs of th . . . [more]Similar Items | 8. |  | Title: Destination culture: tourism, museums, and heritageAuthor: Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art | Art Theory | Popular Culture | Cultural Anthropology | TravelPublisher's Description: Destination Culture takes the reader on an eye-opening journey from ethnological artifacts to kitsch. Posing the question, "What does it mean to show?" Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett explores the agency of display in a variety of settings: museums, festivals, world's fairs, historical re-creations, m . . . [more]Similar Items | 9. |  | Title: Endless night: cinema and psychoanalysis, parallel historiesAuthor: Bergstrom, Janet 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Art Theory | PsychologyPublisher's Description: The "endless night" that film theory and psychoanalysis share is the darkness that these two disciplines face in their quest for the logics of intelligibility. This collection emphasizes the history of theory to demonstrate that film theory must be written with a strong sense of historical conscious . . . [more]Similar Items | 10. |  | Title: Fluxus experienceAuthor: Higgins, Hannah 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Theory | Art CriticismPublisher'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 | 11. |  | Title: The philosopher's gaze: modernity in the shadows of enlightenment Author: Levin, David Michael 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Philosophy | Gender Studies | Art History | Art TheoryPublisher's Description: David Michael Levin's ongoing exploration of the moral character and enlightenment-potential of vision takes a new direction in The Philosopher's Gaze . Levin examines texts by Descartes, Husserl, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Benjamin, Merleau-Ponty, and Lévinas, using our culturally dominant . . . [more]Similar Items | 12. |  | Title: Symbolist art theories: a critical anthologyAuthor: Dorra, Henri 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Theory | Art CriticismPublisher'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 | 13. |  | Title: A fable of modern art Author: Ashton, Dore Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Theory | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: Dore Ashton's masterly analysis of modern art grows out of a consideration of Balzac's brilliant and little known 'philosophic' story The Unknown Masterpiece in which the concerns of Cézanne, Picasso, and the abstract expressionists are strikingly prefigured. Balzac's fable is discussed not only wit . . . [more]Similar Items | 14. |  | 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 StudiesPublisher'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 | 15. |  | Title: The death of authentic primitive art and other tales of progressAuthor: Errington, Shelly 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Art History | Architectural History | Art TheoryPublisher's Description: In this lucid, witty, and forceful book, Shelly Errington argues that Primitive Art was invented as a new type of art object at the beginning of the twentieth century but that now, at the century's end, it has died a double but contradictory death. Authenticity and primitivism, both attacked by cult . . . [more]Similar Items | 16. |  | Title: Erotic faculties Author: Frueh, Joanna Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | Art TheoryPublisher's Description: The erotic and the intellectual come together to create a new kind of criticism in the lushly written work of Joanna Frueh. Addressing sexuality in ways that are usually hidden or left unsaid, Frueh - a noted performance artist and art historian - explores subjects such as aging, beauty, love, sex, . . . [more]Similar Items | 17. |  | Title: Postmodernism and the postsocialist condition: politicized art under late socialismAuthor: Erjavec, Aleš Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Theory | Intellectual History | Russian and Eastern European StudiesPublisher's Description: The Berlin Wall was coming down, the Soviet Union was dissolving, Communist China was well on its way down the capitalist path; the world was witnessing political and social transformations without precedent. Artists, seeing it all firsthand, responded with a revolution of their own. What form this . . . [more]Similar Items | 18. |  | Title: Downcast eyes: the denigration of vision in twentieth-century French thoughtAuthor: Jay, Martin 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Philosophy | Intellectual History | French Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | Art TheoryPublisher's Description: Long considered "the noblest of the senses," vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture. These critics of vision, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have challenged its allegedly superior capacity to p . . . [more]Similar Items | 19. |  | Title: Late modernism: politics, fiction, and the arts between the world wars Author: Miller, Tyrus 1963- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Literature | Fiction | Art Theory | Cinema and Performance Arts | Politics | Political Theory | HistoryPublisher's Description: Tyrus Miller breaks new ground in this study of early twentieth-century literary and artistic culture. Whereas modernism studies have generally concentrated on the vital early phases of the modernist revolt, Miller focuses on the turbulent later years of the 1920s and 1930s, tracking the dissolution . . . [more]Similar Items | 20. |  | |
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