Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture
Footnotes: Six Choreographers Inscribe the Page
1st Edition
By Elena Alexander, Jill Johnston, Douglas Dunn, Marjorie Gamso, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Kenneth King, Yvonne Meier, Sarah Skaggs
July 01, 1998
The writings of six choreographers are assembled in this book and the leap they have taken to go from the medium of choreography into written text constitutes a form of translation. Some of the texts investigate the possibilities of written language as invention, others use it as a means to ...
Music and Ideology: Resisting the Aesthetic
1st Edition
Edited
By Adam Krims
July 01, 1998
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
Beauty is Nowhere: Ethical Issues in Art and Design
1st Edition
Edited
By Susan King Roth, Saul Ostrow, Susan King Roth
June 01, 1998
This book is an important addition to the discourse on contemporary ethical issues in art and design. Beauty is Nowhere makes a timely contribution to the necessary explanation of the relationship of ethics to art and design practice, and the ability of the arts to matter as we approach the ...
Wake of Art: Criticism, Philosophy, and the Ends of Taste
1st Edition
By Arthur C. Danto, Gregg Horowitz, Tom Huhn, Saul Ostrow
June 01, 1998
Since the mid-1980s, Arthur C. Danto has been increasingly concerned with the implications of the demise of modernism. Out of the wake of modernist art, Danto discerns the emergence of a radically pluralistic art world. His essays illuminate this novel art world as well as the fate of criticism ...
Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By Michel Moos, Marshall McLuhan
November 01, 1997
Herbert Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) received his PhD in English literature from Cambridge University and taught in the United States and Canada. He is best known, however, as the founding father of media studies. McLuhan was Director of the Center for Culture and Technology at the University of ...
Capacity: The History, the World, and the Self in Contemporary Art and Criticism
1st Edition
By Thomas McEvilley
December 01, 1996
G. Roger Denson brings singular insight to Thomas McEvilley's writings. As an art writer he has explored similar territory, but from the point of view of a nomadic ideologist. His approach matches that of his subject. He addresses the issues of pragmatism, historicism, and cultural relativism. In ...
Seams: Art as a Philosophical Context
1st Edition
By Stephen Melville, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
December 01, 1996
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe brings to Melville's work the insight not only of an art critic and theorist, but of a practicing artist as well. Navigating through the complexity of contemporary thought and philosophy, Gilbert-Rolfe unravels the Gordian knot of the diverse discourses that circumscribe ...