Hilma Af Klint - Notes and Methods by Hilma af Klint; Iris Müller-Westermann (Introduction by, Commentaries by)
$115.00 AUD
Category: Art & Photography
At the turn of the twentieth century, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) created a body of work that left visible reality behind, exploring the radical possibilities of abstraction years before Vasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, or Piet Mondrian. Many consider her the first trained artist to cre ...Show more
The Endless Periphery - Toward a Geopolitics of Art in Lorenzo Lotto's Italy by Stephen J. Campbell
$129.00 AUD
Category: Art & Photography | Series: Louise Smith Bross Lecture Ser.
While the masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance are usually associated with Italy's historical seats of power, some of the era's most characteristic works are to be found in places other than Florence, Rome, and Venice. They are the product of the diversity of regions and cultures that makes up the co ...Show more
After the Beautiful - Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism by Robert B. Pippin
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Category: Art & Photography
In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibility--the expression of a distinct collective self-understanding that develops through historical time. Hegel's approach to art has been influential in a number of different contexts, but in a twist ...Show more
Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects by Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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Category: Art & Photography
From world-renowned curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects offers a unique opportunity to learn about the lives and creativity of the world's leading artists Hans Ulrich Obrist has been conducting ongoing conversations with the world's greatest living artists since he ...Show more
Ornament and Crime by Adolf Loos
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Category: Art & Photography
Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architecture Adolf 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. He was also a wr ...Show more
The Futurist Cookbook by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
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Category: Art & Photography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Part manifesto, part artistic joke, Fillippo Marinetti's Futurist Cookbook is a provocative work about art disguised as an easy-to-read cookbook. Here are recipes for ice cream on the moon; candied atmospheric electricities; nocturnal love feasts; sculpted meats. Marinetti also sets out his argument for ...Show more
100 Artists' Manifestos - From the Futurists to the Stuckists by Danchev Alex
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Category: Art & Photography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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, architect ...Show more
POPism Warhol Sixties by Andy Warhol
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Category: Art & Photography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A cultural storm swept through the 1960s - Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies - and at its centre sat a bemused young artist with silver hair: Andy Warhol. Andy knew everybody (from the cultural commissioner of New York to drug-driven drag queens) and everybody knew Andy. His studio, th ...Show more
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol by Andy Warhol
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Category: Art & Photography
In his autobiography, published in 1975, the private Andy Warhol talks about love, sex, food, beauty, fame, work, money, success; about New York and America; and about himself - his childhood in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, good times and bad times in the Big Apple, the explosion of his career in the Sixti ...Show more
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
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Category: Penguin Modern Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." "But, there is also another sense in whi ...Show more
Lives Of The Artists (Volume I) by Giorgio Vasari
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Category: Art & Photography | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their immortal works, are brought vividly to life, as Vasari depicts the young Giotto scratching his first dra ...Show more
Camera Lucida - Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes
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Category: Art & Photography | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposit ...Show more