Moholy-Nagy creía que la educación artística era de fundamental importancia, razón por la cual, a pedido de Walter Gropius, trabajó como docente en la Bauhaus en Weimar (1923-1925), en Dessau (1925-1928) y en Chicago, donde se estableció a partir de 1937.
This book is intended as a structured presentation of the major ideas of the most important trends of thought in the Marxist theory of art and is constructed as a map of the field of Marxist aesthetics.
Providing a solid media-philosophical groundwork, Beyond Mimesis contributes to the theory of mimesis and alterity in performance philosophy while serving to stimulate and inspire future inquiries where studies in media and art intersect with philosophy.
Establishing a 'missed link' between the work of Piero Manzoni and Helio Oiticica and their respective cultural contexts, this book sheds new light on overlooked aspects of these two artists' practices, particularly focusing on the shift from painting to performance in the long 1960s.
The hidden life of the greatest surviving work of Inca artThe most celebrated Andean artwork in the world is a five-hundred-year-old Inca tunic made famous through theories about the meanings of its intricate designs, including attempts to read them as a long-lost writing system.
The Invisible Dragon made a lot of noise for a little book When it was originally published in 1993 it was championed by artists for its forceful call for a reconsideration of beauty-and savaged by more theoretically oriented critics who dismissed the very concept of beauty as naive, igniting a debate that has shown no sign of flagging.
In 1806, the Marquess and Marchioness of Stafford opened a gallery at Cleveland House, London, to display their internationally-renowned collection of Old Master paintings to the public.
A seminal text in the history of modern art, from one of the most famous artists of the twentieth century Art is the language that speaks to the soul Why do we make art?
En busca de las palabras reúne los textos críticos y filosóficos sobre literatura y arte escritos por Oscar del Barco a lo largo de más de cuarenta años.
Starting from the premise that after modernism and postmodernism in the Anthropocene an artwork cannot rest upon its separation from the planet, this volume develops new ethical practice and thought with respect to art, philosophy and moving images.
This book explores the contemporary legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki following the passage of three quarters of a century, and the role of art and activism in maintaining a critical perspective on the dangers of the nuclear age.
This book explores the contemporary legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki following the passage of three quarters of a century, and the role of art and activism in maintaining a critical perspective on the dangers of the nuclear age.
En el prólogo a "L'uso dei corpi", Giorgio Agamben retoma la figura de Guy Debord bajo la afectividad de una vida clandestina, o mejor, de una vida privada vivida como clandestina, una vida singular que rehúye y resiste las formas de la legalidad y de lo público.
In diesem Buch werden die Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten des einzelnen Bildes bis hin zu einer komplexen Filmsprache erörtert, der Gebrauch hinsichtlich unterschiedlicher Erzählstile bzw.
In the early 20th century, copying, cutting and pasting entered the Western European avant-garde through collage and readymades, as artists employed found objects and ephemera to create new meaning from existing materials.
THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER - A VITAL GUIDE TO CREATIVITY, OVERCOMING OBSTACLES AND MAKING YOUR WORK NO MATTER WHAT 'Filled with insights that every artist and creator needs to hear' JAMES CLEAR'I've stolen tons of inspiration from this book .
En el presente libro se abordan las construcciones, narraciones y tecnologías históricas, religiosas, filosóficas y científicas del lenguaje y del discurso del «saber» que han determinado la identidad, la función y la constitución psíquica y corporal de las mujeres, así como su inscripción en los roles simbólicos, sociales, sexuales y laborales de género y su exclusión del espacio público.
This book provides a thorough analysis focused on the sound expression produced by human-crafted musical instrument - a pipe organ, in which various components blend into a complex whole to produce a wide range of timbres.
Germany developed a large colonial empire over the last thirty years of the 19th century, spanning regions of the west coast of Africa to its east coast and beyond.
Drawing on a rich legacy of pictorial evidence, Images of Childhood examines historical constructions of childhood and how they reinforce or challenge the prevailing view of childhood as a state of innocence.
Drawing on a rich legacy of pictorial evidence, Images of Childhood examines historical constructions of childhood and how they reinforce or challenge the prevailing view of childhood as a state of innocence.
How artists created an aesthetic of "e;positive barbarism"e; in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bombIn Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian Hal Foster explores how postwar artists and writers searched for a new foundation of culture after the massive devastation of World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb.
Una ecología de los signos recoge siete ensayos dedicados a interrogar las relaciones entre las configuraciones de los modos de experiencia (artística, vital, corporal) y los modos en los que podemos captar su diferenciación y sus declinaciones.
From the Roaring Twenties and the Group of Seven to the Automatistes and the early Cold War, Canadian artists lived through and embodied an era of global tumult and change.
The texts in this volume represent Kristin Ross's attempt to think the question of the everyday across a range of discourses, practices and knowledges, from philosophy to history, from the visual arts to popular fiction, all the way to the forms taken by collective political action in the territorial struggles of today.
