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Trade Paperback : $24.99 Buy	Michelangelo A Biography George Bull St. Martin's Griffin Much has been written about the paintings and sculptures of Michelangelo, arguably the greatest artist of the Renaissance. But what about the man? In this...

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The Desire of My Eyes

The Life & Work of John Ruskin

Wolfgang Kemp; Translated by Jan Van Heurck Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

This "tour de force of analysis" (Joel Agee) examines the life and work of the prolific, visionary writer, painter and critic. Kemp finds in Ruskin's life --...

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Trade Paperback : $49.00 Buy	Modernism in Art, Design and Architecture Christopher Crouch Palgrave Macmillan The cultural processes of the Enlightenment and the subsequent development of industrial cultures informed the early ideas of Modernism and led to a world of...

Trade Paperback : $35.00 Buy	Portraiture Facing the Subject Critical Introductions to Art Edited by Joanna Woodall Manchester University Press Portraiture occupies a central position in the history of Western art. It has been the most popular genre of painting and has been crucial to the construction...

Trade Paperback : $39.00 Buy	Black Visual Culture Modernity and Post-Modernity Gen Doy I.B. Tauris Black Visual Culture presents a critical introduction to the work of contemporary black American and British artists, including Chris Ofili, Isaac Julien,...

Trade Paperback : $24.95 Buy	Desire By Design Body, Territories and New Technologies The Cutting Edge Women's Research Group I.B. Tauris Desire by Design is a celebration and analysis of the possibilities offered by emerging new technologies to cut across conventional disciplinary boundaries...

Trade Paperback : $33.00 Buy	Art Beyond Representation The Performative Power of the Image Barbara Bolt I.B. Tauris Refuting the assumption that art is a representational practice, Bolt's striking argument engages with the work of Heidegger, Deleuze and Guattari, C.S.Peirce...

Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	Art and Science Art and... Series Siân Ede I.B. Tauris While demonstrating how science is affecting the creation and interpretation of contemporary art, this book proposes that artistic insights are as important on...

Trade Paperback : $27.00 Buy	Art and Laughter Art and... Series Sheri Klein I.B. Tauris This is the first book to take seriously (though not too seriously) the surprisingly neglected role of humour in art. Art and Laughter looks back to comic...

Trade Paperback : $27.00 Buy	Art and Obscenity Art and... Series Kerstin Mey I.B. Tauris Explicit material is more widely available in the internet age than ever before, yet the concept of "obscenity" remains as difficult to pin down as it is to...

Trade Paperback : $27.00 Buy	Art and War Art and... Series Laura Brandon I.B. Tauris This is a truly encyclopaedic survey of artists’ responses -- both "official" and personal -- to "the horrors of war." Art and War reveals the sheer diversity...

Hardcover : $52.00 Buy	Engaged with the Arts Writings from the Frontline John Tusa I.B. Tauris John Tusa, celebrated broadcaster and journalist, and Managing Director of London's Barbican Centre for the arts, has written this selection of passionately...

Trade Paperback : $29.00 Buy	Claude Cahun A Sensual Politics of Photography Gen Doy I.B. Tauris The first full-length title in English on the celebrated photographer Claude Cahun whose work was rediscovered in the 1980s. This lively and original book...

Trade Paperback : $26.00 Buy	Derrida Reframed Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts Contemporary Thinkers Reframed K. Malcolm Richards I.B. Tauris Are your students baffled by Baudrillard? Dazed by Deleuze? Confused by Kristeva? Other beginners’ guides can feel as impenetrable as the original texts to...

Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	Digital and Other Virtualities Renegotiating the Image New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts Edited by Anthony Bryant and Griselda Pollock I.B. Tauris If virtuality is being celebrated as heralding a radically new era, rich with new possibilities and futures hitherto unimagined through cybernetics, networking...

Trade Paperback : $28.00 Buy	Art and Sex Art and... Series Gray Watson I.B. Tauris This "no-holds barred" volume surveys the vast array of images of sex and sexuality in contemporary art, finding sex in some surprising places and drawing some...

Trade Paperback : $28.00 Buy	Art and Death Art and... Series Chris Townsend I.B. Tauris This highly sensitive and beautifully written book looks closely at the way contemporary Western artists negotiate death, both as personal experience and in...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Leonardo da Vinci and the Ethics of Style Edited by Claire Farago Manchester University Press Leonardo da Vinci and the Ethics of Style brings together a distinguished group of experts on Leonardo and the Renaissance, examining the ethical underpinnings...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	The Encompassing City Streetscapes in Early Modern Art and Culture Stuart M. Blumin Manchester University Press The streetscape--the closely observed, faithfully rendered view of the city’s streets, squares, canals, buildings and people--was a new artistic genre of the...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	The Body and the Arts Edited by Corinne Saunders, Ulrika Maude and Jane Macnaughton Palgrave Macmillan The Body and the Arts focuses on the dynamic relation between the body and the arts: the body as inspiration, subject, symbol and medium. Contributors from a...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Technologies of Memory in the Arts Edited by Liedeke Plate and Anneke Smelik Palgrave Macmillan In this collection of essays, a range of scholars from different disciplines look through the prism of technology at the much-debated notion of cultural...

Trade Paperback : $24.00 Buy	The Real Split in the International Theses on the Situationist International and Its T Situationist International and John McHale Pluto Press First official English translation of cult philosophy title by French Situationists featuring Guy Debord.

Trade Paperback : $32.00 Buy	Art and Celebrity John A. Walker Pluto Press A lively and accessible study of what happens when the ‘serious’ world of art collides with celebrity.

Trade Paperback : $31.00 Buy	Surrealism Against The Current Tracts and Declarations Michael Richardson Krzystof Fijalkowski Pluto Press 'Includes some sixty manifestoes, tracts and declarations from the 1920's to the 1960's. It is a rich treasure trove.' David Macey, Radical Philosophy

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