6,964円 With his 95 Theses, Martin Luther advanced the radical notion that all Christians could enjoy a direct, personal relationship with Godーshattering years of Catholic tradition and obviating the need for intermediaries like priests and saints between the individual believer and God. The text of the...

4,239円 First published in Spanish in 2010, Art beyond Itself is Néstor García Canclini's deft assessment of contemporary art. The renowned cultural critic suggests that, ideally, art is the place of imminence, the place where we glimpse something just about to happen. Yet, as he demonstrates, defining c...

3,575円 In Hold It Against Me, Jennifer Doyle explores the relationship between difficulty and emotion in contemporary art, treating emotion as an artist's medium. She encourages readers to examine the ways in which works of art challenge how we experience not only the artist's feelings, but our own. Dis...

5,306円 Collaborative and collective art practices have proliferated around the world over the past fifteen years. In The One and the Many, Grant H. Kester provides an overview of the broader continuum of collaborative art, ranging from the work of artists and groups widely celebrated in the mainstream a...

18,231円 Intended for scholars in the fields of philosophy, history of science and music, this book examines the legacy of the historical coincidence of the emergence of science and opera in the early modern period. But instead of regarding them as finished products or examining their genesis, or `common ...

12,767円 This book links two fields of interest which are too seldom considered together: the production and critique of art in public space and social behaviour in the public realm. Whilst most writing about public art has focused on the aesthetic, cultural and political intentions and processes that sha...

5,073円 Dominic McIver Lopes articulates and defends a 'buck passing theory of art', namely that a work of art is nothing but a work in one of the arts. Having traced philosophical interest in theories of art to a reaction to certain puzzle cases of avant-garde art, he argues that none of the theories th...

6,905円 This is a long-awaited reissue of Jerrold Levinson's 1990 book Music, Art, and Metaphysics, which gathers together the writings that made him a leading figure in contemporary aesthetics. Most of the essays are distinguished by a concern with metaphysical questions about artworks and their propert...

1,326円 What makes people creative? How does a culture create timeless art? Is there an underlying creative energy that transcends the daily, ordinary way most people live, and can this power be tapped to transform a person’s life? These are the fundamental questions that Every Ripple on the Water addres...

1,335円 The definitive statement on aesthetics and the history of modernism from one of France's most renowned philosophers. Composed of a series of scenes that defined modernism, Aisthesis takes its reader from Dresden in 1764 to New York in 1941. Along the way, we view the Belvedere Torso with Winckelm...

1,396円 Landscapes are one of the most popular painting subjects among amateur artists and oils is the traditional painting medium. Melanie Cambridge’s paintings are attractive and accessible and in this book she demonstrates all the basic techniques for painting successful landscapes in oils.There are m...

5,955円 Through a highly original and detailed analysis of the memoirs, interviews and other life writings of Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli, this book explores changing notions of femininity in the early decades of the twentieth century, when the democratization of fashion began. Examining the idea of mo...