Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture
Imagining the Present: Context, Content, and the Role of the Critic
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By Richard Kalina
March 30, 2006
Bringing together twenty-nine of Lawrence Alloway’s most influential essays in one volume, this fascinating collection provides valuable perspectives on the art and visual culture of the second half of the twentieth century. Lawrence Alloway ranks among the most important critics of his time, and ...
In the Aftermath of Art: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics
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By Donald Preziosi, Johanne Lamoureux
December 15, 2005
By juxtaposing issues and problems, Donald Preziosi's latest collection of essays, In the Aftermath of Art, opens up multiple interpretive possibilities by bringing to the surface hidden resonances in the implications of each text. In re-reading his own writings, Preziosi opens up alternatives to ...
Art and Ventriloquism
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By David Goldblatt
November 10, 2005
This exciting collection of David Goldblatt's essays, available for the first time in one volume, uses the metaphor of ventriloquism to help understand a variety of art world phenomena. It examines how the vocal vacillation between ventriloquist and dummy works within the roles of artist, artwork ...
Information Subject
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By Mark Poster, Stanley Aronowitz
May 01, 2001
First Published in 2001. In this collection of essays and interviews, Mark Poster examines theoretical approaches and develops his own position on our information based society. He contends that new communications media disrupt and transfigure the way identities are constituted in cultural ...
Framing Formalism: Riegl's Work
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By Richard Woodfield
March 01, 2001
Alois Riegl (1858-1905) was one of the founding fathers of modern formalist criticism. As a member of the Vienna School of Art Historians, he shared their range of interests in the decorative arts, art in transition, conservation and monuments. This collection of critical essays examines various ...
Looking In: The Art of Viewing
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By Mieke Bal, Norman Bryson
March 01, 2001
Mieke Bal is one of Europe's leading theorists and critics. Her work within feminist art history and cultural studies provides a fascinating alternative to prevailing thinking in these fields. The essays in this collection include Bal's brilliant analyses of the: Myth of Rembrandt Imagery of ...
Art History as Cultural History: Warburg's Projects
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By Richard Woodfield
February 28, 2001
This book focuses on Aby Warburg (1866-1929), one of the legendary figures of twentieth century cultural history. His collection, which is now housed in the Warburg Institute of the University of London bears witness to his idiosyncratic approach to a psychology of symbolism, and explores the ...
Looking Back to the Future: 1990-1970
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By Penny Florence, Griselda Pollock
June 01, 2000
In this selection of recent essays, Pollock insightfully engages all major areas of contemporary theory, especially focusing on sexed subjectivities, post-colonialism and Marxist-informed history. In her commentary, Penny Florence places Pollock's critique of modernism, art history, and criticism ...
Music Inside Out: Going Too Far in Musical Essays
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By John Rahn, Benjamin Boretz
March 01, 2000
John Rahn's prolific activities as a composer-theorist-teacher, inventor of computer sound-synthesis software, editor of Perspectives of New Music during the 1980s and 90s, and author of an exemplary text on atonal theory are conspicuously in the foreground of the academic music-intellectual world....
Critical Vices: The Myths of Postmodern Theory
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By Nicholas Zurbrugg, Warren Burt
February 01, 2000
This book of Nicholas Zurbrugg's challenging and provocative essays charts the most exciting developments in late 20th-century multimedia art. Zurbrugg challenges Jean Baudrillard's, Fredric Jameson's, and Achille Bonito-Oliva's unfavorable accounts of postmodern techno-culture. Interweaving ...
England and its Aesthetes: Biography and Taste
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By David Carrier
November 01, 1998
First Published in 1999. John Ruskin (1819-1900), Walter Pater (1839-1894), and Adrian Stokes (1902-1972) represent three generations of English aesthetes whose writings have transformed art history and the formations of museums as we know them. They are three great writers in a distinctively ...
Difference / Indifference: Musings on Postmodernism, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage
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By Moira Roth, Jonathan D Katz
October 01, 1998
First Published in 1999. For the first time gathered together in book form, here are the influential writings of Moira Roth-articles, lectures, and interviews-on the two men who for so long embodied the very spirit of the avantgarde, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage. For almost thirty years Duchamp ...