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Art in Theory 1900 - 2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas
Wiley-Blackwell, 2002
A valuable reference book
+ A book of diverse opinions
+ Good Overview
Had I read the reviews about this book, I wouldn't have bought it.
I had to though, for my "Art: Language and Theory" class, in my second year of Graphic Design major. I was shocked with it at first, it's almost 1300 pages, with not a single image in it! It looked extremely dull. But the thing is, ...
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Relational Aesthetics
Nicolas Bourriaud
Les Presse Du Reel,Franc, 1998
An exciting and thought provoking book
+ unortodox
+ Excellent
This is an excellent book for anyone interested in performative and relational art. The translation is a little dodgy at times but the book is well worth it's price for provocative ideas, critical insight, and inspiration.
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Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting
Barry Schwabsky
Phaidon Press, 2004
Daily Requirement
+ Painters delight
Everybody needs a dose of Vitamin P if you're a painter. Cutting edge. Includes almost all the painters you want to see and some you don't. Informative and knowledgeable. Highly recommended . A must for painters stuck in the '50s and '60. The only negative is that the print is tiny and ...
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Saatchi Gallery: The Triumph of Painting (v. 3)
Meghan Dailey, Inka Essenhigh, ...
Walther Konig, Koln, 2006
This third volume documenting Saatchiís substantial collection of twentieth and twenty-first century painting includes Matthias Weischerís echoing architectural grids, Eberhard Havekostís barrenly unpeopled snapshots, Dexter Dalwoodís midcentury-inspired interiors, Dana Schutzís emotions personified, Michael Raedeckerís dark fairytale suburbs, and Inka Essenhighís otherworldly whorls. With a ...
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Cabinet
Immaterial Incorporated
For the astute discerning reader
+ Intellectual, Artistic, Esoteric
+ Art History made interesting, funny, and cool
+ Great literary magazine about the arts!
+ Cabinet is a treat for eye and mind
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Painter's Handbook: Revised and Expanded
Mark David Gottsegen
Watson-Guptill, 2006
You make it so easy for me to shop.
+ Clear, Concise, accurate
+ outstanding resource for artists!
+ A good reference book
+ Very Good and atualized
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Picasso and American Art
Michael FitzGerald
Yale University Press, 2006
A catalogue better than the exhibition it illustrates
+ Picasso & American Art - great show, great catalog!
The exhibition "Picasso and American Art" was very much criticized because of its tendency to mixing everything that counts in modern American art (or rather, in New York art) and linking it somewhat arbitrarily to Picasso, which, in a way, is stating the obvious.
Now what remains of it is this ...
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Maurizio Cattelan (Supercontemporanea)
Francesco Manacorda
Trans-Atlantic Publications, Inc., 2006
Good Series Good Book
+ Cattelan, Quater the Size Double the fun
This is a good series from Phaidon and Cattelan is a good choice for inclusion. There's lots of information here on his early work from the days before he became an 'art star.'
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The Politics of Aesthetics
Jacques Ranciere
Continuum, 2006
Blinging It Post Althusserian Marxist-Structuralist Style!!!
I have found this book entirely engrossing, despite some of the author's arcane writing style. The subtitle, The Distribution of the Sensible, is the major focus of the book,which is central to the author's ouevre. I find instances where he is building on both the notions of Foucault's power and ...
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After the End of Art
Arthur C. Danto
Princeton University Press, 1998
Art and Individuation
+ Thoughtful introduction into Modern history of Art
+ The artist in Chapter 11 responds
+ A pale book about the pale of history in art
+ Stimulating
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Think with the Senses Feel with the Mind Art in the Present Tense: La Biennale di Venezia (International ...
Rizzoli, 2007
Curated by the esteemed former MOMA curator Robert Storr, the goal of the 52nd International Exhibition of Visual Arts is to define the new century-110 years after the first Biennale. This year's exhibition is a presentation of the art and artists of developing countries viewed in combination with the art of artists from the more established cultures of the world.One hundred artists have been ...
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Painting at the Edge of the World
Kathy Halbreich, Midori Matsui
Walker Art Center, 2001
With the hotly discussed resurgence of painting at the dawn of the new century, it is clear that reports of the medium's death have been greatly exaggerated. "Painting at the Edge of the World" explores the possibilities of a redefinition and ''hybridization'' of painting begun in the 1960s, examining the manifestations of these new artistic vistas in the present day. This full-color catalogue ...
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The Rembrandt Book
Gary Schwartz
"Harry N. Abrams, Inc.", 2006
A core addition
+ The Rembrandt Book
+ The best general introduction to Rembrandt
Compiled and written by one of the world's leading experts on the life and work of Rembrandt von Rijn as part of the 400th anniversary of his birth, "The Rembrandt Book" is a 384-page compendium of biography and history of the Dutch master's life and art. Beautifully and visually enhanced with 700 ...
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Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism
Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, ...
Thames & Hudson, 2005
Great Survey
+ here come the grownups
+ better than Sudoku!
Forget Gardener, these four giants of art history compile an international picture. Each year is represented by an article. One can read the book chronologically, topically, or by author. If you have to read a survey of art history, this is it.
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Painting as Model
Yve-Alain Bois
The MIT Press, 1993
Informed by both structuralism and poststructuralism, these essays by art critic and historian Yve Alain Bois seek to redefine the status of theory in modernist critical discourse. Warning against the uncritical adoption of theoretical fashions and equally against the a priori rejection of all theory, Bois argues that theory is best employed in response to the specific demands of a ...
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