Product Description: A lively meditation on the nature of art by one of America's most celebrated art critics What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex question. Part philosophical monograph and part memoiristic meditation, What Art Is challenges the popular interpretation that art is an indefinable concept, instead bringing to light the properties that constitute universal meaning...read more

Product Description: A young man arrives in England in the 1930s, knowing few words of the English language. Yet, two years later he writes a successful English book on Chinese art, and within the following decade publishes more than a dozen others. This is the true story of Chiang Yee, a renowned writer, artist, and worldwide traveler, best known for the Silent Traveller series--stories of England, the United States, Ireland, France, Japan, and Australia--all written in his humorous, delightfully refreshing, and enlightening literary style...read more

Presents essays by the art critic for 'The Nation,' who reviews several artists, including John Currin, Renee Cox, Sol LeWitt, and Joan Mitchell.

Now in its third edition, Narration and Knowledge is a classic work exploring the nature of historical knowledge and its reliance on narrative. Analytical philosopher Arthur C. Danto introduces the concept of "narrative sentences," in which an event is described with reference to later events (for example, "the Thirty Years' War began in 1618") and discusses why such sentences cannot be understood until the later event happens (no one could have said in 1618 that "the Thirty Years' War began today"). Danto compares narrative and scientific explanation and explores the legitimacy of historical laws. He also argues that history is an autonomous and humanist discipline incapable of being reduced to scientific descriptions.Lydia Goehr's new introduction illustrates Danto's main arguments by questioning her very role, first, as an introducer of a book that has not yet been read by readers and, second, as an interpreter of a book written forty years ago. Frank Ankersmit's conclusion revisits the initial impact of the publication of Narration and Knowledge and considers its enduring legacy.

Product Description: June Wayne is widely acknowledged to have significantly influenced the art of the modern print.  Her own lithographs demonstrate how the printed image can evoke a depth and expressive power equal to painting, and her founding and directing the Tamarind Lithography Workshop have made her innovative approaches available to artists and printers worldwide...read more

Product Description: Peter Fischli and David Weiss are Swiss artists who first began working together in the late 1970s. Their sculpture, video and photographic works all generate a unique atmosphere of concentration and relaxed pleasure. The mood of the work ranges from the humorous - a clay figure group of 1981, for example, entitled Mick Jagger and Brian Jones going home satisfied after composing 'I Can't Get No Satisfaction' - to the banal - a photographic series devoted to Airports - and even the apparently invisible - their Untitled installation simulating, through minutely detailed polyurethane sculptures, an unfinished exhibition site...read more

Product Description: Wave Music by photographer Clifford Ross, opens with explosive images of stormy seas and skies--photographs taken on the edge of hurricanes. This series presents gorgeous, formalist slices of nature at her most tempestuous and romantic...read more

A dramatic, richly illustrated retrospective on the work of Red Grooms, the acclaimed American artist who intertwines sculpture and painting, includes drawings, personal photographs, and prints that have never been seen or published, along with a critical discussion of his oeuvre and his influence on modern art.

Product Description: os ensayos sobre arte de Arthur C. Danto, a la vez elegantes y revolucionarios, son la mejor radiografía posible sobre el discurrir de las artes visuales en el mundo de hoy. Y en La madonna del futuro, Danto lleva al lector a la encrucijada en la que coinciden todos los vectores del arte contemporáneo: la pintura tradicional, el pop art, la mezcla de géneros y las instalaciones; las relaciones entre el arte y la filosofía; los especialistas que aterrizan en ese mundo bien provistos de teorías y los aficionados que sólo confían en su propia mirada...read more

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Complemented by more than 170 superlative illustrations and reproductions, this vivid look at African-American vernacular art celebrates the work of twenty-seven self-taught artists whose artistry captures the social, cultural, and spiritual experiences of African Americans in America's South.

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Product Description: The overall subject of the essays in The Body/Body Problem is the traditional one of what our ultimate makeup is, as creatures with minds and bodies. The central thesis is that we are beings who represent―and misrepresent―actual and possible worlds...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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