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Since the modernist period, waste has functioned as a potent symbol of cultural decline and environmental damage, in artworks ranging from T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land' to Pixar's Wall-E. In The Poetics of Waste: Queer Excess in Stein, Ashbery, Schuyler,...

A collection of essays on art and culture by sculptor Edward Augustus Brackett, originally published in 1890.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work...

Dans cet essai, l'écrivain et occultiste français Joséphin Péladan explore la question de l'inspiration artistique et de la relation entre le sujet et l'objet. Il y expose sa théorie du symbolisme et défend l'importance de la dimension spirituelle de...

Un compte rendu de l'exposition de peintures au salon de 1812, avec des remarques critiques et philosophiques sur les oeuvres affichées.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of...

Questo libro raccoglie i giudizi della critica d'arte contemporanea sull'opera scultorea "Gruppo del Bombardamento" di Salvatore Grita, una delle testimonianze più significative del bombardamento di Palermo del 1860. Il libro offre una panoramica...

Phillips' book is a treatise on the importance of art in our lives. He argues that art has the power to enchant and transform us, providing a deeper understanding of ourselves and the world around us. Drawing on a wealth of examples from different art...

This is a guidebook for art students at the college level (BA, BFA, MFA, PhD). Compared to other books on critique, this book is more colorful, more engaging, and less formal."James Elkins is one of the world's leading educators in the visual arts. In...

'To you From you II: Calm Waters' has been written with the intention to help people see the human experience optimistic.While seeded in inspiration, it encourages each reader to spend a moment of reflection with aims to enhance awareness, uplift, and...

Das Werk bietet aktuelle Diskurse der Medienkunst im internationalen Kontext und ist gleichzeitig das Buch zur Onlineplattform www.medienkunstnetz.de. Thematische Schwerpunkte lokalisieren die Schnittstellen zwischen den Medien...

This book explores the work of artists based in the global south whose practices and methods interrogate and explore the residue of Empire. In doing so, it highlights the way that contemporary art can assist in the un-forgetting of colonial violence and...

It was in a Nazi prison camp during World War II that 22-year-old Hans Rookmaaker read the Bible and became a Christian. It was there too he received his first instruction in the Neo-Calvinist philosophy of Dooyeweerd by an older fellow prisoner, J.P.A...

God's Hand in HistoryInterviews and the L'Abri lecturesHans Rookmaaker:An Open Life, by Laurel GasqueRookmaaker was a man of many contrasts: provocative and gentle, rough-hewn and refined, playful yet profoundly serious, reserved yet close to many. This...

Modern Art and the Death of a Culture; Art and the Public Today; Twentieth-century arts and artists - articles and reviewsRookmaaker's analysis of modern art offers an insightful perspective on the cultural turmoil of the past century and...

Western art from the Middle Ages through the nineteenth century; Art Needs No Justification; Miscellaneous articles and reviews.Was Pieter Bruegel the Elder a gnostic? Is that why Jesus is often reduced to an insignificant detail in his paintings?...

Art and Entertainment; The Creative Gift; Articles on history, faith and culture, lifestyle, scholarship, and the Westminster discussions Through his early work, Art and Entertainment (1962), made available in English for the first time in this...

Artorious' Raw Dialogues And Insights In The Art World As a contemporary art dealer, I have always wanted to make a coffee table book about contemporary art. However, I do not want to make another coffee table book only with enlarged artwork images...

L'un des premiers traités sur l'esthétique et le goût, l'Analyse de la beauté de Hogarth propose une théorie novatrice de l'art et de la beauté basée sur le concept de la ligne de beauté. C'est un livre fascinant pour les amateurs d'art et pour tous ceux...

This beautifully illustrated and thoughtfully written work explores the ways in which art can shape and inform the taste of its viewers. Drawing on examples from a range of historical periods and artistic styles, the authors argue that art has the power...

In this collection of essays, Thomas Gambier Parry explores the ways in which the fine arts contribute to the happiness of life. He discusses various arts, including painting, sculpture, music, and architecture, and shows how they can enrich our lives...

Avec son style d'écriture poétique, Mille explore le monde de l'art et de la créativité dans cette œuvre fascinante. Il examine les thèmes de l'inspiration, de la beauté et de l'esthétique, à travers des exemples tirés de l'art chinois et occidental. Une...

This insightful address delivered by Sir Charles Lock Eastlake to the students of the Royal Academy offers an illuminating look at the intersection of art and culture. Ranging from reflections on the nature of beauty to discussions of the role of the...

This extensive collection features the works of John Ruskin, the renowned philosopher, writer, and art critic. Edited by Alexander Dundas Ogilvy Wedderburn and Edward Tyas Cook, this edition includes some of Ruskin's most influential works, including...

This extensive collection features the works of John Ruskin, the renowned philosopher, writer, and art critic. Edited by Alexander Dundas Ogilvy Wedderburn and Edward Tyas Cook, this edition includes some of Ruskin's most influential works, including...

In Luchino Visconti and the Fabric of Cinema, Joe McElhaney situates Visconti's films as privileged and deeply expressive instances of a trope that McElhaney identifies as the "cinema of fabric": a reoccurrence in film in which textiles-clothing,...

In Search of the Book as a Work of Art asks questions about how we understand the words 'art' and 'book' and what happens when we put them together. It argues that the categories by which we have distinguished different kinds of books no...

What would it mean to substitute care for economics as the central concern of politics? This anthology invites analysis, reflections and speculations on how contemporary artists and creative practitioners engage with, interpret, and enact care in...

In this study, Josefine Wikström challenges a concept of performance that makes no difference between art and non-art and argues for a new concept. This book confronts and criticises the way in which the dominating concept of performance has been used in...

In this collection of essays, a range of scholars from different disciplines look through the prism of technology at the much-debated notion of cultural memory, analyzing how the past is shaped or unsettled by cultural texts including visual art,...

This is the first major response to the new challenge of neuroscience to religion. There have been limited responses from a purely Christian point of view, but this takes account of eastern as well as western forms of religious experience. It challenges...

If the advancement toward the administered world is nearing completion, if spectacularised societies, industrialised cultures, and reified consciousness have taken control, then, Adorno and Art shows how radical and revolutionary Adorno's aesthetic...

In his third book this year, Matt Brand explores themes of ephemerality and reflection, turning a book of poems into an exhibition space of impressionistic tableaus. As in the author's prior collections, time and our relationship to it still take center...

In the twilight of life, a black ribbon emerges from a frame and coils itself inside the mind of one of the great French chroniclers of the internal. Across the world, a young girl stares at an image in a book: a woman, naked but for slippers, jewels,...

ବିଖ୍ୟାତ ବଙ୍ଗଳା ଲେଖକ ଶରତଚନ୍ଦ୍ର କହିଥିଲେ, 'ପାଦ ନଥିଲେ ଚାଲି ହୁଏ, କିନ୍ତୁ ହାତ ଥିଲେ ଲେଖି ହୁଏ ନାହିଁ ।' ଏଠି ଶରତଚନ୍ଦ୍ର ଯେଉଁ ଉଦ୍ଦେଶ୍ୟ ରଖି 'ଲେଖିବା' ଶଦ୍ଦ ବ୍ୟବହାର କରିଥିଲେ ତାହା ହେଲା ଅର୍ଥପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣ ଲେଖା ଲେଖିବା, ନିଜର ଭାବକୁ ସମର୍ଥ ଢଙ୍ଗରେ ପ୍ରକାଶ କରିବା । ସମର୍ଥ ଲେଖା ପାଇଁ କେବଳ...

Parks, maps, and mapping technologies like the GPS are objects of visual and material culture that rely on the interplay of text, context, image, and space to guide our interpretations of the world around us. LOCATING VISUAL-MATERIAL RHETORICS: THE MAP,...

""Experimental Researches Concerning The Philosophy Of Permanent Colors V1: And The Best Means Of Producing Them, By Dying, Calico Printing, Etc."" is a book written by Edward Bancroft and first published in 1814. The book is a detailed account of...

""Asthetische Faktoren der Raumanschauung"" ist ein Buch von Theodor Lipps, das im Jahr 1891 ver������ffentlicht wurde. In diesem Werk besch�����ftigt sich der Autor mit der �����sthetischen Wahrnehmung von R�����umen und untersucht die Faktoren, die...

""Tipograf������a Espa�����ola, o Historia de la Introducci������n, Propagaci������n y Progresos del Arte de la Imprenta en Espa�����a"" es un libro escrito por Francisco M�����ndez en el a�����o 1861. Esta obra es una detallada cr������nica sobre la...

Le livre ""Tableau Historique Et Pittoresque De Paris V2 (1830)"" de De Saint-Victor, Jacques Benjamin est une �����uvre qui pr�����sente une description compl�����te et d�����taill�����e de Paris au XIXe si�����cle. Cette deuxi�����me �����dition du...

Philosophie Des Beaux-Arts est un livre �����crit par Jean David Sutter en 1858. Dans ce livre, l'auteur explore la philosophie des beaux-arts et examine leur r�����le dans la soci�����t�����. Il aborde des sujets tels que la beaut�����, l'�����motion,...

What is depiction? A new answer is given to this venerable question by providing a syncretistic theory of depiction that tries to combine the merits of the previous theories on the matter while dropping their defects. Thus, not only perceptual, but also...

Following the previous installment (Earthly Surfacing), Antennae: Earthly Mattering continues our journey deeper into the strata of knowledge and matter that define our existence as earthlings. Among all the extremely valuable contributions to...

In this tour de force of art criticism, Charles Henry Caffin explores the evolution of painting from the Rococo period to the early modern era. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of art history and aesthetics, Caffin offers readers a series of insightful...

During the 1920s and 1930s, black artists and writers achieved something totally unprecedented: they created a new image of African Americans that truly reflected their times as well as their history. In so doing, they set the artistic agenda of the...

Pollock and After: The Critical Debate brings together key writings on debates about Abstract Expressionism and Modernist art history. It is an essential resource for understanding post-war American art and culture. The second edition has been fully...