Provenance

Gail Feigenbaum

• Paperback | Engels | Issues & Debates
• This book goes beyond the narrow definition of the term provenance, which addresses only the bare facts of ownership and transfer, to explore ideas ab... Lees meer

Surrealism in Latin America

• Paperback | Engels | Issues & Debates
• This collection of essays--the first major account of surrealism in Latin America that covers both literary and visual production--explores the role t... Lees meer

World Antiquarianism

. Schnapp

• Paperback | Engels | Issues & Debates
• The term antiquarianism refers to engagement with the material heritage of the past--an engagement that preceded the modern academic discipline of arc... Lees meer

Harry Smith

. Perchuck

• Paperback | Engels | Issues & Debates
• Filmmaker, musicologist, painter, ethnographer, graphic designer, mystic, and collector of string figures and other patterns, Harry Smith (1923-1991) ... Lees meer

Censorship and Silencing

Robert Post

• Paperback | Engels | Issues & Debates
• Censorship was once a predictable topic, dividing liberals and conservatives down the middle on issues like obscenity and national security. Today, th... Lees meer

Purity Is a Myth

Zanna Gilbert, Pia Gottschaller, Tom Learner, Andrew Perchuk

• Paperback | Engels | Issues & Debates
• Presenting new scholarship, this publication is an innovative technical study of the Concrete art movement in Latin America. Purity Is a Myth presents... Lees meer

Canons and Values

Kevin Terraciano

• Paperback | Engels | Issues & Debates
• A critical rethinking of the way canons are defined, constructed, dismantled, and revised. A century ago, all art was evaluated through the lens of Eu... Lees meer

London and the Emergence of a European Art Market, 1780-1820

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• Showcasing diverse methodologies, this volume illuminates London's role in the development of a European art market at the turn of the nineteenth cent... Lees meer

Collecting Mesoamerican Art Before 1940

• Paperback | Engels | Issues & Debates
• The untold chronicles of the looting and collecting of ancient Mesoamerican objects. This book traces the fascinating history of how and why ancient M... Lees meer

Situating El Lissitzky

. Perloff

• Paperback | Engels | Issues & Debates
• Situating El Lissitzky reassesses the complex career of one of the most influential yet controversial experimental artists of the early twentieth cent... Lees meer

Persian Cultures of Power and the Entanglement of the Afro-Eurasian World

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• A cutting-edge analysis of 2,500 years of Persian visual, architectural, and material cultures of power and their role in connecting the world. With t... Lees meer

Encounters in Video Art in Latin America

Elena Shtromberg, Glenn Phillips

• Paperback | Engels | Issues & Debates
• With insightful essays and interviews, this volume examines how artists have experimented with the medium of video across different regions of Latin A... Lees meer

Seeing Rothko

• Paperback | Engels | Issues & Debates
• A collection of essays that explore the profound and varied responses elicited by Rothko's most compelling creations, plus a facsimile of Rothko's "Sc... Lees meer

Visualizing Empire

Rebecca Peabody, Stephen Nelson, Dominic Thomas

• Paperback | Engels | Issues & Debates
• An exploration of how an official French visual culture normalized France's colonial project and exposed citizens and subjects to racialized ideas of ... Lees meer

Cultural Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean

Erich S. Gruen

• Paperback | Engels | Issues & Debates
• Cultural identity is a slippery and elusive concept. When applied to the collective self-consciousness among peoples or nations, it becomes all the mo... Lees meer