From Point to Pixel: A Genealogy of Digital Aesthetics
A timely reconsideration of digital aesthetics
View ArticleThe Pleasure in Drawing
Originally written for an exhibition Nancy curated at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon in 2007, the text addresses the medium of drawing in light of form in its formation, of form as a formative force,...
View ArticleSensible Life: A Micro-ontology of the Image
This book is a rehabilitation sensibility. It defines what we call sensibility or sensible life by defining the ontological status of images. It shows that images have an intermediate ontological...
View ArticleConstructed Situations: A New History of the Situationist International
A ground-breaking rethink of the radical Situationist art movement drawn from a life's worth of research.
View ArticleCosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art
In the rapidly changing world of the early Middle Ages, depictions of the cosmos represented a consistent point of reference across the three dominant states-the Frankish, Byzantine, and Islamic...
View ArticleInterpretation of Visual Arts Across Societies and Political Culture:...
It is thought that every work of art possesses multiple interpretations, depending on each viewer. Analyzing personal assessments of artwork can help enable us to gain an understanding of one another,...
View ArticleAshcan Art, Whiteness, and the Unspectacular Man
Arriving in New York City in the first decade of the twentieth century, six painters-Robert Henri, John Sloan, Everett Shinn, Glackens, George Luks, and George Bellows, subsequently known as the Ashcan...
View ArticleBeyond Critique: Contemporary Art in Theory, Practice, and Instruction
Critique has long been a central concept within art practice and theory. Since the emergence of Conceptual Art, artists have been expected by critics, curators, and art school faculty to focus their...
View ArticleA Massive Swelling: Celebrity Re-Examined As a Grotesque, Crippling Disease...
Whether you lust after it, loathe it, or feign apathy toward it, fame is in your face. Cintra Wilson gets to the heart of our humiliating fascination with celebrity and all its preposterous trappings...
View ArticlePsychology, Art, and Antifascism: Ernst Kris, E. H. Gombrich, and the...
<B>A vivid portrait of two remarkable twentieth-century thinkers and their landmark collaboration on the use and abuse of caricature and propaganda in the modern world</B><p>In 1934,...
View ArticleActs of Undressing: Politics, Eroticism, and Discarded Clothing
The act of undressing has a multitude of meanings, which vary dramatically when this commonly private gesture is presented for public consumption. This ground-breaking book explores the significance of...
View ArticleThe New Philistines: (Provocations)
<p>Contemporary art is obsessed with the politics of identity. Visit any contemporary gallery, museum or theatre, and chances are the art on offer will be principally concerned with race, gender,...
View ArticleWriting about Visual Art
Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic...
View ArticlePicture This: How Pictures Work
Molly Bang's brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise is now revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary. Bang's powerful ideas??"about how the visual composition of images works to engage the...
View ArticleA Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney (Revised Edition)
<p>âSumptuously illustrated, this radiant volume encapsulates what it truly means to be a visual artist.â
View ArticleArt as a Hidden Message: A Guide to Self-Realization
An uplifiting blueprint the future of art that shows how creativity gives energy and meaning to our existence. Topics include: the needs for the arts, the partnership of art and science, secrets of...
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