Quick view Salon Culture in Japan Making Art, 1750 - 1900 MSRP: Now: $45.00 Was: In early modern Japan, cultural salons were creative spaces for people of all ages and social levels to pursue painting, poetry, and other artistic endeavors as serious but amateur practitioners. All using a pen- or art-name, individuals were able... MSRP: Now: $45.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Pissing Figures 1280 - 2014 - Ekphrasis Series MSRP: Now: $15.00 Was: Jean-Claude Lebensztejn’s history of the urinating figure in art, Pissing Figures 1280–2014, is at once a scholarly inquiry into an important visual motif, and a ribald statement on transgression and limits in works of art in general... MSRP: Now: $15.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Salon of 1846 by Charles Baudelaire - Ekphrasis Series MSRP: Now: $15.00 Was: Charles Baudelaire, considered a father of modern poetry, wrote some of the most daring and influential prose of the nineteenth century. Prior to publishing the international bestseller Les Fleurs du mal (1857), he was already notable as a forthright... MSRP: Now: $15.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view On Contemporary Art by César Aira - Ekphrasis Series MSRP: Now: $15.00 Was: Translated into English for the first time, On Contemporary Art, a speech by the renowned novelist César Aira, was delivered at a 2010 colloquium in Madrid dedicated to bridging the gap between writing and the visual arts. On... MSRP: Now: $15.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view An Opinionated Guide to Photography MSRP: Now: $20.00 Was: In a world of infinite images here is a guide to 65 of the best ever taken. From early experiments with light and form through Leica masterpieces and now artificially generated images, take it or leave it, this is our opinion as to why these particular... MSRP: Now: $20.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view An Opinionated Guide to Women Painters MSRP: Now: $20.00 Was: For as long as there’s been paint, there have been women painters – these are the painters you may not have heard of who have shaped the way we see. From artists at the forefront of the Dutch Golden Age to avant-garde radicals in Soviet Russia and... MSRP: Now: $20.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Lucy R. Lippard on Pop Art MSRP: Now: $16.95 Was: Explore the dynamic world of 1960s pop art through Lucy Lippard's insightful analysis of this groundbreaking international art movement. Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series presents timeless works by... MSRP: Now: $16.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Acts of Resistance: The Power of Art to Create a Better World MSRP: Now: $17.99 Was: What is the purpose of art in a world on fire? Can it be a genuine form of political resistance? What is the purpose of art in a world on fire? In this exhilarating and deeply inspiring work, Amber Massie-Blomfield considers the work of artists,... MSRP: Now: $17.99 Was: Quick view
Quick view The Critic as Artist by Oscar Wilde Ekphrasis Series MSRP: Now: $15.00 Was: In The Critic as Artist, arguably the most complete exploration of his aesthetic thinking, and certainly the most entertaining, Oscar Wilde harnesses his famous wit to demolish the supposed boundary between art and criticism... MSRP: Now: $15.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Cathedral is Dying by Rodin Ekphrasis Series MSRP: Now: $15.00 Was: Master sculptor Auguste Rodin’s illuminating writings on cathedrals in France are especially relevant and significant following the recent fire at Notre Dame. In this volume, the writer and Rodin scholar Rachel Corbett selects... MSRP: Now: $15.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Ways of Seeing MSRP: Now: $17.00 Was: John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in... MSRP: Now: $17.00 Was: Quick view