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This text brings together Moira Roth's articles, lectures and interviews on two men who embodied the spirit of the avant-garde - Marcel Duchamp and John Cage. With their gradual transformation into "classical" figures, Roth aims to reconsider and re-evaluate them.
Bringing together 29 of Lawrence Alloway's essays in one volume, this collection provides useful perspectives on the art and visual culture of the second half of the 20th- century. The essays examine the context, content and role of the critic in art and visual culture. This book will be useful for art and visual culture students.
In this collection of essays and interviews, Mark Poster looks in detail at several aspects of "internet culture", including virtuality and democracy, and the effect of the internet on our idea of the self.
Bringing together 29 of Lawrence Alloway's essays in one volume, this collection provides useful perspectives on the art and visual culture of the second half of the 20th-century. The essays examine the context, content and role of the critic in art and visual culture. This book will be useful for art and visual culture students.
McLuhan's essays collected here describe the processes in which the new electronic media produce a synthesis of time and space and also shows how they reinvigorate/reinvent communications by transforming the realm of the senses and that of language.
John Rahn's is prolific as a composer-theorist-teacher, inventor of computer sound-synthesis software. this book charts his intellectual development.
These critical essays examine various facets of Riegl's work , offering a re-engagement with the ideas of one of the most important and neglected art historians of the twentieth century.
Arthur C. Danto has been increasingly concerned with the implications of the demise of modernism, and out of the wake of modernist art has suggested that a radically pluralistic art world has emerged. His essays here discuss his vision of the art world and the implications it has for criticism.
A study of England and its aesthetes. The essayists are John Ruskin, Walter Pater and Adrian Stokes. David Carter provides the commentary, and writes of these three aesthetes' concern with "perception as a way of knowing".
This collection of essays aims to present a translation from the medium of choreography to the written text. They investigate the possibilities of written language as invention, and use text as a means to illustrate specific tenets or describe choreographic projects.
Presents a collection of David Goldblatt's essays, and uses the metaphor of ventriloquism to help understand the art world phenomena. This work examines how the vocal vacillation between ventriloquist and dummy, works as a conveyance to the audience of the performer's intentions. It is aimed at students of cultural studies, art, and philosophy.
A voice contributing to the discourse on contemporary ethical issues in art and design, this text addresses the relationship of ethics to art and design practice, and the ability of the arts to "matter" in the 20th century "fin de siecle".
Preziosi's latest collection of essays, including a critical commentary by Lamoureux, suggests multiple interpretations and hidden resonances in each text, opening up alternatives to contemporary discourses on art history and visual culture.
This book focuses on Aby Warburg (1866-1929), one of the legendary figures of twentieth century cultural history, whose collection is housed in the University of London. It includes translations of his key essays and lectures.
Melville has applied the tools developed by Derrida and Lacan to the problems of contemporary art. With his roots in Kant, Hegel and Heidegger, he reopens the questions of art's reception, interpretation and commentary. Gilbert-Rolfe provides an insight into his work.
In these essays, Nicholas Zurbrugg charts the developments in late 20th-century multimedia art. He challenges accounts of postmodern techno-culture, and interweaves literary and cultural theory and visual studies to demonstrate the neutering of mass-media culture and the exceptions to it.
A selection of essays by Griselda Pollock, engaging areas of contemporary theory, especially sexed subjectivities, post-colonialism and Marxist-informed history. Penny Florence's commentary places Pollock's critique within the context of developments that have taken place since the 1970s.
In McEvilley's view modernism's present was the future, and post-modernism's present is the past. Denson brings insight to McEvilley's writings, addressing the issues of pragmatism, historicism and cultural relativism.
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