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An updated and enlarged edition of this book on twentieth-century art. Now Robert Hughes has written a major new chapter on the 1980's which brings ... More

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Current debates about the status of Modernism have led to an increasing interest in critical and aesthetic theories, and to a questioning of some of ... More

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"The writing is superb, the insights come with astonishing and rich rapidity, and the moral and intellectual intelligence behind them strikes me as ... More

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In the domain of visual images, those of fine art form a tiny minority. This original and brilliant book calls upon art historians to look beyond ... More

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Elkins begins by demonstrating the arbitrariness of current criteria used by art historians for selecting images for study. He urges scholars to ... More

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One of the art world's most outspoken critics explores the modern public's alienation from contemporary art, and makes a powerful plea for the ... More

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In Paris in the 1920's a new style was born, rejecting the embellishments of Art Nouveau and Art Deco, it allied the linear proportions of late ... More

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In "From Image to Interaction," Amsterdam-based essayist and media theorist Arjen Mulder retells the past 500 years of visual arts to construe their ... More

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Art Nature Dialogues offers interviews with artists working with, in, and around nature and the environment. The interviews explore art practices, ... More

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Taking its title and cue from the Wordsworth poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, " The Inward Eye assembles together a visceral and enigmatic array ... More

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The Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is regarded, along with Van Gogh and Gauguin, as one of the fathers of Expressionism. This new ... More

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Featuring 50 of the century's greatest artists, this book brings together the best and brightest of the art and literary worlds, with rare interviews ... More

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Without evoking formal theory, these lectures explore and question ideas and fashions that dominate the current art world. Catherine David and Iwona ... More

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Stimuli: Too Much Noise. Too Much Movement unfolds around the same themes of hypnosis and ecstasy explored at Witte de With's recent "Stimuli" ... More

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"Kitsch" is Odd Nerdrum's luxuriously produced "apologia" for the enduring relevance of the old master style. Containing writings and interviews by ... More

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