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Weldon Kees and the Arts at Midcentury by Daniel A. Siedell (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Born in 1914 in Beatrice, Nebraska, and presumed dead in 1955 (when he apparently leapt from the Golden Gate Bridge), Weldon Kees has become one of the better-known "unknown" American poets of the twentieth century, his fiction and poetry largely kept alive by other poets. But Kees was also that rare ar ...Show more
The Pre-Raphaelite Dream by William Gaunt
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Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Everything is Happening: Journey into a Painting by Michael Jacobs
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Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Michael Jacobs was haunted by Velazquez's enigmatic masterpiece Las Meninas from first encountering it in the Prado as a teenager. In Everything is Happening Jacobs searches for the ultimate significance of the painting by following the trails of associations from each individual character in the pictur ...Show more
We Weren't Modern Enough - Women Artists and the Limits of German Modernism by Marsha Meskimmon
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Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: good-very good
Marsha Meskimmon furnishes a fresh perspective on the art of women in the Weimar Republic and in the process reclaims the lost history of a number of artists who have not received adequate attention-not only because they were women but also because they continued to align themselves with the modes of re ...Show more
The Eclipse of Art - Tackling the crisis in art today by Julian Spalding
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Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
One of the art world's most outspoken critics explores the modern public's alienation from contemporary art, and makes a powerful plea for the revival of communication, accessibility, and traditional skills in this field.
The Age of Patronage - The Arts in England 1660-1750 by Michael Foss
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Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: good-very good
American Artists on Art - From 1940 To 1980 by Ellen H. Johnson (ed.)
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Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
From the Preface:The fact that so much of modern art has devoted itself to the exploration and assertion of its own identity is reflected in, but does not explain, the increasing amount of writing and talking on the part of contemporary artists. Rather, the whole history of the changing role of art and ...Show more
Australian Women Artists, 1840-1940 by Janine Burke
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Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: good-very good
Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art by Michele H. Bogart
$35.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory
Norman Rockwell and Andy Warhol, J. C. Leyendecker and Georgia O'Keeffe, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Pepsi-Cola, the avant garde and the Famous Artists Schools, Inc.: these are some of the unexpected pairings encountered in Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art. In the first interdisciplin ...Show more
The Oxford Dictionary of Art by Ian Chilvers (Editor); Harold Osborne (Editor); Denis Farr (Editor)
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Ideal for students, picture researchers, and enthusiasts of all kinds, this third edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Art reaffirms the unrivalled position held by this authoritative one-volume guide to the art of the Western world. Covering Western art from the ancient world to the present day, the Dic ...Show more
What's Wrong With Contemporary Art? by Peter Timms
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Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
In this provocative book, Timms asks confronting questions. Why is contemporary art so in thrall to spruikers and promoters, and why do their extravagant claims so rarely match the reality? Why does the market have such power, and how does it dictate the sort of art we are allowed to see?
Making Representations - Museums in the Post-Colonial Era by Moira G. Simpson
$25.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Responses to controversial exhibitions in recent years have demonstrated the dissatisfaction felt by many indigenous peoples and ethnic groups at the ways in which the western museum traditionally represented their cultures and excluded them from the process of interpretation and display. Native America ...Show more