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Foundations of Oriental Art & Symbolism
This fascinating edited collection of art historian Titus Burckhardt''s most important writings on Hindu, Buddhist, and Taoist art is lavishly illustrated with 140 superb examples of Oriental art, architecture, statuary, and painting.
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Art of Islam, Language and Meaning
Known as an expert on Islam, Sufism, and Islamic arts & crafts, Burckhardt presents in-depth analyses of seminal examples of Islamic architecture, from Spain and Morocco to Persia and India. He examines Koranic calligraphy and illumination, arabesque, carpets and rugs, Persian miniatures, and much more while making illuminating comparisons with Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist art. Beautifully il…
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Partitioning Bazaar ArtPopular Visual Culture of India and Pakistan around 1947
Offers insight into the links between the development of print culture and the many dynamic strains of nationalism in dialogue during the Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. How did inexpensive posters influence nationalism in the decades leading up to and succeeding the Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947? If mechanically reproduced images that occupy public spaces re…
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The Artist ProjectTheories and Practices of the Contemporary Art Project 1968…
Possiamo parlare del progetto artistico come di una categoria specifica con un proprio statuto, riconoscibile e definibile? Considerando l'importanza che il documento e la documentazione hanno assunto nel sistema dell'arte dopo gli anni Sessanta, è lecito attribuire alla progettazione un valore specifico? Attraverso i contributi di sette ricercatori e la voce di otto protagonisti del mondo del…
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Becoming Animal
An unveiling of the presence of captivating figures and creatures throughout history. In this gripping philosophical and cultural exploration, Teresa Präauer sets out to investigate figures of transformation, transmission, and translation—across languages, cultures, genres, media, species, and spaces. Hybrids, chimeras, monsters, and liminal creatures of all sorts inhabit these pages, as in…
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Programa de desorden absolutoDescolonizar el museo
El museo occidental es un campo de batalla ideológico, político y económico. Mientras que hoy día casi todo el mundo quiere "repensar el museo", pocos tienen la audacia de cuestionar los presupuestos mismos del museo universal, producto de la Ilustración y del colonialismo, de una Europa que se presenta como guardiana del patrimonio de toda la humanidad.Recorriendo la historia del Louvre, …
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Imágenes sagradas y predicación visual en el Siglo de Oro
"Dada la voluntad de difusión y acción eficaz que hizo ostensible la religiosidad del Siglo de Oro, puede entenderse naturalmente su fascinación por los instrumentos audiovisuales de adoctrinamiento y la función óptica de la comprensión. El acto de ver o mirar una pintura devota no era simplemente algo que le sucedía a la obra después de su ejecución por parte del artista, sino que és…
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Diversity of Aesthetics
Critical conversations and reflections about lessons learned at the intersection of social movements and artist production. Diversity of Aesthetics collects powerful and timely conversations among leading cultural critics, artists, and organizers to connect the threads between some of the most pressing social struggles and conflicts of our time: policing, war, borders and migration, economic …
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WondersA Literary History of the Deep Sea
In the mid-19th century, intrepid explorers began to shine a light on the darkness of the deep. The mystique of what lay beneath the surface of the vast oceans inspired awe in aquarium enthusiasts, Decadent artists, and authors, including Jules Verne and Hans Christian Andersen. Ever since, books, films and visual arts have invited us to contemplate the sea as both the wellspring of all life an…
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What Art DoesUsing Philosophy of Technology to Talk about Art
We derive a great deal of cognitive pleasure from asking what artworks mean. And yet, despite the seriousness with which we approach these questions, they all too often rely on theories of art that fail to adequately explain how art conveys meaning. This book proposes a new theory. In contrast to more conventional definitions of art, What Art Does defends the claim that artworks constitute a c…
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