'We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks'In this series of remarkable pieces from across his career, John Berger celebrates and dissects the close links between art and society and the individual.
From the bestselling author of Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts, a captivating account of the last surviving relic of Thomas BecketThe assassination of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170 is one of the most famous events in European history.
'A gay man could read this book as if his life depended on it - and perhaps it does' Andrew Holleran, author of Dancer from the Dance'Poignant and achingly beautiful' The New York Times Even in our modern progressive world, it's not easy to be a gay man.
'I have never read such a stimulating short guide to art' Lynn Barber, Sunday Times Now Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art (after all, there is a reason he's called this book Playing to the Gallery and not 'Sucking up to an Academic Elite').
A unique opportunity to learn about the lives and creativity of the world's leading artistsHans Ulrich Obrist has been conducting ongoing conversations with the world's greatest living artists since he began in Switzerland, aged 19, with Fischli and Weiss.
Reality Hunger is a manifesto for a burgeoning group of interrelated but unconnected artists who, living in an unbearably artificial world, are breaking ever larger chunks of 'reality' into their work.
In this remarkable collection of 100 manifestos from the last 100 years, Alex Danchev presents the cacophony of voices of such diverse movements as Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Feminism, Communism, Destructivism, Vorticism, Stridentism, Cannibalism and Stuckism, taking in along the way film, architecture, fashion, and cookery.
In Still Looking, John Updike has collected together his thoughts and observations on American art to produce an eye-opening follow-up to his 1989 art criticism classic Just Looking.
During his decades of world fame as a novelist, Tolstoy also wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion.
Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architectureAdolf Loos, the great Viennese pioneer of modern architecture, was a hater of the fake, the fussy and the lavishly decorated, and a lover of stripped down, clean simplicity.
Both madcap cookbook and manifesto on Futurism, Marinetti's exuberant and entertaining book has been described as one of 'the best artistic jokes of the century'No other cultural force except the early twentieth-century avant-garde movement Futurism has produced a provocative work about art disguised as an easy-to-read cookbook.
A leading art historian presents a new grammar for understanding the meaning and significance of printIn process and technique, printmaking is an art of physical contact.
Jeff Goins dismantles the myth that being creative is a hindrance to success by revealing how an artistic temperament is a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
The international controversy over who "e;owns"e; antiquities has pitted museums against archaeologists and source countries where ancient artifacts are found.
How the practice of titling paintings has shaped their reception throughout modern historyA picture's title is often our first guide to understanding the image.
Physics in the Arts is a concise, 288-page four-color entry in the Complementary Science Series, designed for science enthusiasts and liberal arts students requiring or desiring a well-developed discussion of physical phenomena, particularly with regard to sound and light.
Lleno de consejos prácticos y motivación para todo profesional de ventas, Zig Ziglar Ventas es una completa guía de referencia para cualquier profesional en este campo.
Neu ins Deutsche übersetzt von Victoria Lorini sowie von Hana Gründler (Sogliani, Morto da Feltre und Andrea di Cosimo Feltrini, Ridolfo, Davit und Benedetto Ghirlandaio) und Katja Burzer (Fra Giocondo, Liberale und andere Veroneser Künstler)Herausgegeben, kommentiert und eingeleitet von Katja Burzer (Raffaellino del Garbo, Simone Mosca), Sabine Feser (Domenico Puligo, Francia Bigio, Francesco Granacci, Marcantonio Raimondi und andere Holzschnitzer und Kupferstecher, Giovanni Antonio Lapoli, Niccolò Soggi, Giuliano Bugiardini, Francesco Primaticcio), Hana Gründler (Sogliani, Morto da Feltre und Andrea di Cosimo Feltrini, Ridolfo, Davit und Benedetto Ghirlandaio), Berthold Hub (Cronaca), Christina Irlenbusch (Lorenzo di Credi, Alfonso Lombardi, Michelangelo da Siena, Girolamo Santacroce und die Dossi, Pordenone und andere Maler des Friaul, Girolamo da Treviso, Bagnacavallo und andere Maler der Romagna, Girolamo und Bartolomeo Genga, Benedetto Garofalo und Girolamo da Carpi, Battista Franco, Leone Leoni, Italienische und flämische Künstler), Daniel Mädler (Marco Calabrese [mit Sabine Feser]), Christina Posselt-Kuhli (Fra Giocondo, Liberale und andere Veroneser Künstler) und Kim Westphal (Baccio d'Agnolo; Einleitung: Mauro Mussolin)
This study deals with the development of Islamic art in Egypt and not in other countries included in the Arab Empire, given that the history of Islamic art in Egypt has episodes and eras, and each of these has its own distinguishing characteristics.
ZERO PIRANESIGiovanni Battista Piranesi's engravings, Campo Marzio dell'antica Roma of 1762, have a peculiar position within the discipline of ar- chitecture.
This is the first book to bring together the work of a modern motion picture film laboratory together with the specialist techniques for preservation and restoration of archival film.
CULINARY LESSONS - The Space of Food is based on a series of events, Culinary Lessons, which were hosted by the Stadelschule Architecture Class and which engaged with the relation between food, art and architecture.
Mit der Suche nach dem im elterlichen Garten vergrabenen Gorilla beginnt Valérie Favres Reise in die Welt der Imagination, der Fantasien, Alpträume, Erinnerungen und Werke der Kunstgeschichte.
William Morris - one of the most influential designers of the 19th century and an important figure in the Arts and Crafts movement - revisited in this inspirational interior design guide.
A beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color blue throughout the agesBlue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world.
A revisionist reading of modern art that examines how artworks are captured as property to legitimize powerIn this provocative new account, David Joselit shows how art from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries began to function as a commodity, while the qualities of the artist, nation, or period themselves became valuable properties.
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.
As museums worldwide shuttered in 2020 because of the coronavirus, New York-based cultural strategist Andras Szanto conducted a series of interviews with an international group of museum leaders.
Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit den Versuchen der Menschen, durch ästhetische Praxis über den Tod hinaus weiter zu existieren, und beschreibt die Sackgassen und Abgründe, die Fallstricke und Selbsttäuschungen, denen sie dabei ausgesetzt sind.
