This book outlines the life and intellectual thought of the English surrealist artist and psychoanalyst, Dr Grace Pailthorpe (1883-1971). It gathers her published and unpublished writings, providing an in-depth study of the importance of surrealism...Daugiau...
The original research in this book analyzes the artistic activity of Santi Gucci (1533-c. 1600), a Florentine sculptor active in Poland in the second half of the sixteenth century, and his workshop....Daugiau...
This book explores the ways Robert Smithsons art revealed and defamiliarized the constructs of rational reality in order to allow radically speculative alternatives to emerge....Daugiau...
Thirty years after the debut of her photo-portraits, this book chronicles the early career of Iranian-American artist Shirin Neshat. In its first twenty years, Neshats work weaved viewers into complex readings of women and power in Iran. Yet her ima...Daugiau...
Robert Seymour and Nineteenth Century Print Culture is the first book length study of the original illustrator of Dickenss Pickwick Papers....Daugiau...
This study about the British artist Roy Ascott, one of the first cybernetic artists, with a career spanning seven decades to date. The book focuses on his early career, exploring the evolution of his early interests in communication in the context o...Daugiau...
This book considers the historical reception of Thomas Gainsboroughs Blue Boy (c. 1770) from its creation to manifestations of its image in contemporary art and visual culture....Daugiau...
In A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tannings Chasm, Catriona McAra offers the first critical study of the literary work of the celebrated American painter and sculptor Dorothea Tanning (19102012). McAra fills a major gap in the scholarship, rep...Daugiau...
This book represents the first book-length, critical study of the art of Emile Gallé. It thus promises not only to revolutionize our understanding of his work but also to reframe the study of Art Nouveau by relocating the movement within the deeply...Daugiau...
Intertwining art history, aesthetic theory, and Latin American studies, Aarnoud Rommens challenges contemporary Eurocentric revisions of the history of abstraction through this study of the Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres-García....Daugiau...
Focusing on the fate and meaning of the two altarpiece paintings commissioned by the Oratorians from Peter Paul Rubens, this study offers the first comparative study of Jesuit and Oratorian images of their respective would-be saints, and the controv...Daugiau...
This book makes the claim that Magrittes painting is about vision and the act of viewing, of perception itself, and the process of how we see and experience things in the world, including paintings as things....Daugiau...
This title was first published in 2000: In their stunning simplicity, George Romneys portraits of eighteenth-century gentry and their children are among the most widely recognised creations of his age....Daugiau...
This book investigates Jimmie Durhams community-building process of making and display in four of his projects in Europe: Something Perhaps a Fugue, or an Elegy (2005); two Neapolitan nativities (2016 and ongoing); The Middle Earth (with Maria Ther...Daugiau...
