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The Total Work of Art provides a broad survey that incorporates many canonical artists into a single narrative. With particular attention to the influence of the Total Work of Art on modern theatre and performance, this brief introduction will also be of interest to students in such fields as film s... More

Unlike most books on painting that rely upon art historians to provide analyses of art, this refreshing book lets those most intimate with the work -- the artists who created them -- speak for themselves. Spanning a full range of painting mediums, artists from many countries display and discuss thei... More

The art and architecture scene in Spain has become the focus of international attention. High points of interest include Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum, Madrid's Reina Sofia, Barcelona's acclaimed revitalization projects, world-class art centers in Badajoz, Caceres, Castellon, Santiago de Compostella, a... More

In this beautifully illustrated and provocative study, Bridget Elliott and Jo-Ann Wallace reassess women's literary and artistic contribution to modernism. Deploying the work of Pierre Bourdieu to identify the cultural field of modernist production, Elliot and Wallace disclose the modernism, emphasi... More

People have been searching for meaning in Islamic art for centuries. This book explores the iconography of Islamic art, presenting a diverse range of approaches to the subject.Despite this variety, there is an overarching theme: the linking of the interpretation of objects to textual sources. This r... More

Pierre Bourdieu is now recognized as one of the key contemporary critics of culture and the visual arts. Art Rules analyses Bourdieu's work on the visual arts to provide the first overview of his theory of culture and aesthetics. Bourdieu's engagement with both postmodernism and the problem of aesth... More

"Linda Montano is the ultimate practitioner of art in life, life in art. These conversations with other artists about four primal aspects of the everyday- sex, food, money, death-uncover the heart, the nerve, and the scar tissue behind some of the late 20th century's edgiest work." --C.Carr, "The Vi... More

An apple. A tube of mascara. A CD. A ski binding. All these things are products for sale -- requiring innovative designs that will imprint the manufacturer or the product in the consumers' mind. But finding a compelling, visual way to do so when working with non-standard design spaces is one of the ... More

The only manuscripts to survive that lead to the production of one of William Blake's published illuminated books are those of the "Songs of Innocence and of Experience," his most accessible and best-loved work. Here, one of the world's foremost authorities on Blake's manuscripts and illuminated pri... More

Surrealism in its late phase often abandoned neutral exhibition spaces in favor of environments that embodied subjective ideologies. These exhibitions offered startled viewers an early version of installation art before the form existed as such. In Displaying the Marvelous, Lewis Kachur explores thi... More

The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix serves as an introduction to one of the most important and most complex artists of the nineteenth century. Providing an overview of his life and career, this volume offers essays by leading authorities on the artist's pictorial practice, the stylistic range over ... More

"Letters from Linda M. Montano" is an anthology of writings by one of the seminal performance artists of the last century. It provides an autobiographical and historical record of Montano's artistic practice over the last thirty years, collecting together stories, fairytales, letters, interviews, ma... More

The English romantic painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) is known and admired for portraying the transcendent power and turbulence of nature in his paintings of landscapes and storms at sea. But, as William S. Rodner's beautifully illustrated book makes clear, Turner also drew inspiration from the swe... More

From its ancient roots in the cities of classical Athenian, Roman and Byzantium empires, to the European Renaissance, public culture shows both a historic continuity and contemporary response to economic and social change. This work examines how and why the cultures have been planned and the extent ... More

Paris is everyone's favorite city, but most visitors are unaware of the wealth of places in and around the capital and throughout the country where one can see extraordinary, innovative works of art and architecture. This unique handbook provides illuminating discussions of notable museums and galle... More

Lawrence Alloway ranks among the most important critics of his time, and his contributions to the spirited and contentious dialogue of his era make for fascinating reading. This collection of twenty-nine provocative essays from 1956 to 1980 provides readers with valuable perspectives on the art and ... More