Visual Arts Practice and Affect brings together a group of artist scholars to explore how visual arts can offer unique insights into the understanding of place, memory and affect.
Legendary philosopher and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) developed concepts which are bywords within poststructuralist and new historicist literary criticism and philosophy yet have been under-utilised by artists, art historians and art critics.
The post humanist movement which currently traverses various disciplines in the arts and humanities, as well as the role that the thought of Deleuze and Guattari has had in the course of this movement, has given rise to new practices in architecture and urban theory.
Over the past years, studies have begun not only to identify the factors that impeded the full participation of women artists in French cultural life, such as women's limited access to professional art education, but also to bring to light the considerable artistic accomplishments of women occluded by historians for over a century.
In this landmark work, Jed Perl captures the excitement of a generation of legendary artists–Jackson Pollack, Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauschenberg, and Ellsworth Kelly among them–who came to New York, mingled in its lofts and bars, and revolutionized American art.
As millions of Jews immigrated to the United States from Eastern Europe starting in the 1870s, they brought with them not only their religious heritage but also a definitive idea of the place and value of art and aesthetics in society.
Latin American History through its Art and Literature uses 2,000 years of Latin American history as the organizing theme, and then explores that history through the words of the writer, the brush of the painter, the pen of the cartoonist, and the lens of the photographer.
Public Art acknowledges the trend among contemporary museums to promote participatory and processual exhibition strategies meant to elicit subjective experience.
A rich, thought-provoking collection of essays, critiques and interviews from the influential author of Ain't I a Woman and All About Love There must be a revolution in the way we see, the way we look'In a collection of essays, critiques and interviews, bell hooks responds to the ongoing dialogues about producing, exhibiting and criticising art and aesthetics in a world increasingly concerned with identity politics.
Contemporary Art Therapy with Adolescents offers practical and imaginative solutions to the multifaceted challenges that clinicians face when treating young people.
Reflecting the increasing recognition of the importance of the spiritual in healing, Spirituality and Art Therapy is an exciting exploration of the different ways in which the spiritual forms an essential, life-enhancing component of a well-rounded therapeutic approach.
Arguing that the profession of art therapy has its roots in the studio environment, Catherine Moon proposes that it is now time to reclaim these roots, and make art once again central to art therapy.
Reflections on Art and Culture: From Diderot's Salons to Panodyssey and Art Explora offers a series of art reviews of some of the most exciting and artistically diverse trends in contemporary painting, sculpture and photography, presented in light of art history, aesthetics and intellectual history.
Although the arts are often thought to be closer to the rim of education than to its core, they are, surprisingly, critically important means for developing complex and subtle aspects of the mind, argues Elliot Eisner in this engrossing book.
Reflections on Art and Culture: From Diderot's Salons to Panodyssey and Art Explora offers a series of art reviews of some of the most exciting and artistically diverse trends in contemporary painting, sculpture and photography, presented in light of art history, aesthetics and intellectual history.
Contemporary Art Therapy with Adolescents offers practical and imaginative solutions to the multifaceted challenges that clinicians face when treating young people.
Cada persona que intenta comprender el mundo actual puede encontrar en Antonio Gramsci reflexiones útiles y adaptables a su propio tiempo y a sus circunstancias; sin embargo, para quien se adentra en su estudio –en especial en cuestiones de arte y literatura–, sus artículos periodísticos y los 'Cuadernos de la cárcel', que conforman el núcleo de su obra, redactados sin recursos de investigación y concebidos desde una perspectiva marxista más que como una teoría sistemática, pueden parecer un conjunto laberíntico de ideas sobre la relación entre los artistas, la historia y la sociedad que requiere contextualización.
Estetica de las ausencias es un ensayo que indaga en el significado filosofico y cultural de aquello que no esta, de lo que falta o ha sido borrado de la representacion.
Cada persona que intenta comprender el mundo actual puede encontrar en Antonio Gramsci reflexiones útiles y adaptables a su propio tiempo y a sus circunstancias; sin embargo, para quien se adentra en su estudio –en especial en cuestiones de arte y literatura–, sus artículos periodísticos y los 'Cuadernos de la cárcel', que conforman el núcleo de su obra, redactados sin recursos de investigación y concebidos desde una perspectiva marxista más que como una teoría sistemática, pueden parecer un conjunto laberíntico de ideas sobre la relación entre los artistas, la historia y la sociedad que requiere contextualización.
Como indica el editor en la introducción que precede al texto, Antal analiza el arte de Italia Central del siglo XVI a partir de un fenómeno específico: la "coexistencia" de manierismo y clasicismo.
A pesar de ser considerados dos gigantes intelectuales del siglo xx, la complicidad artística y literaria de John Berger y Susan Sontag, así como su profunda amistad, sigue siendo hoy prácticamente desconocida.
Emerging from the shadows of empire and memory, this groundbreaking study reveals how contemporary Eastern European film and television use neo-noir to confront unresolved trauma, power, and injustice in the post-Soviet world.
Inteligencia artificial en todas partes, crisis climática, líderes autoritarios y democracias en cuestión, guerras, precariedad social: ¿hay algo que siga en pie en este presente sísmico?
La obra reune una coleccion de ensayos que tienen la intencion de aproximar al lector a la obra grafica que Toledo realizo entre 1959 y 1972, para ello la autora -poeta y ensayista- recurre a una prosa fluida y admirable, llena de imagenes y sensibilidad, en la que tambien aparecen reflexiones sobre otros pintores (desde el Bosco hasta Antonio Ruiz).
Este texto que el lector tiene en sus manos plantea algunas reflexiones sobre las relaciones entre arte y literatura, poniendo el acento en varios conceptos centrales como ecfrasis, narracion, vision, imagen y figuracion, entre otros.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE BREAD AND ROSES AWARD FOR RADICAL PUBLISHING 'Irreverent, provocative and funny' Dazed'This book might change the way you look at art, or change the way you feel it' Daisy Hildyard'A full-throated defence of the inherent value of making, experiencing and talking about art' Frieze'Let me stay there, let me paint.
Between animate and inanimate matter This book presents artistic and theoretical positions that deal with the dynamics of and points of transition between animate and inanimate matter.
This volume seeks to explain the notion of control artists possess, and given they are changed by the action, the sense in which they can claim an artwork as theirs.
This volume seeks to explain the notion of control artists possess, and given they are changed by the action, the sense in which they can claim an artwork as theirs.
Kunst als experimentelle und reflexive kommunikative Praxis Die Publikation prasentiert und dokumentiert 16 Jahre kunstlerische Lehre und Forschung an der Abteilung Kunst und kommunikative Praxis der Universitat fur angewandte Kunst Wien.
