6,633円 How artists created an aesthetic of “positive barbarism” in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb In Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian Hal Foster explores how postwar artists and writers searched for a new foundation of culture after the massive devastation...

5,632円 The faking of Native American art objects has proliferated as their commercial value has increased, but even a century ago experts were warning that the faking of objects ranging from catlinite pipes to Chumash sculpture was rampant. Through a series of historical and contemporary case studies, J...

1,050円 Out of the Delta is a collection of true stories by Arkansas native Zeek Taylor. He takes us on a journey through the Midsouth that includes stops in a Delta cotton patch, Beale Street in Memphis, and a final stop in the Ozark Mountain town of Eureka Springs, AR. A storyteller and writer, he has ...

1,600円 Questo libro è il tentativo, forse «folle e disperato», di raccontare la poesia di John Ford. Per provarci, Alberto Crespi ha inventato un percorso che non è cronologico, né di genere (i western e i non-western). Un percorso tematico partendo da un film: "Ombre rosse", il film dove tutto è cominc...

1,300円 El presente libro es un estudio histórico sobre la producción de imágenes, imaginaciones y sentidos en la Buenos Aires de la década de 1860. El análisis de una serie de pinturas permite ahondar en las formas del sentir y el pensar de una comunidad, empleando la trayectoria artística de Prilidiano...

8,623円 An essential examination of how emigration and resettlement defined modernism In the fraught years leading up to World War II, many modern artists and architects emigrated from continental Europe to the United States and Britain. The experience of exile infused their modernist ideas with new urge...

950円 "Negro é o modelo, branca é a moldura": assim Françoise Vergès resume a condição atual de boa parte dos museus e instituições culturais, em que saberes, objetos e produções artísticas de populações marginalizadas são expostos, narrados e rentabilizados em benefício da manutenção e ampliação do po...

6,626円 The Brodsky Center at Rutgers: Three Decades, 1986-2017, chronicles the history and artists involved with an internationally acclaimed print and papermaking studio at Rutgers University. Judith K. Brodsky conceived, founded, and directed the atelier, which, from its onset, provided state-of-the-a...

2,818円 From 2001 to 2007, the world-renowned Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, underwent an ambitious expansion project that reorganized the spatial design of the museum and allowed for additional exhibition space. Coinciding with the completion of this large construction project were a series of celebrati...

6,343円 Parkas are part of a living tradition in southwest Alaska. Some are ornamented with tassels, beads, and elaborate stitching; others are simpler fur or birdskin garments. Although fewer fancy parkas are sewn today, many people still wear those made for them by their mothers and other relatives. "P...

14,329円 In Praying to Portraits, art historian Adam Jasienski examines the history, meaning, and cultural significance of a crucial image type in the early modern Hispanic world: the sacred portrait. Across early modern Spain and Latin America, people prayed to portraits. They prayed to “true” effigies o...

1,100円 "El elemento central que atraviesa a los artistas que figuran en este libro es que han sido transformados por la guerra", subraya el periodista y editor de CNN en Español, Germán Padinger, y completa: "sus transformaciones han sido públicas y han tenido un impacto en sus comunidades y en sus obra...