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A leading philosopher presents a radical manifesto for the future of art and film.

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This influential collection of texts & discussions cuts into & across a broad range of specific practices: artistic, critical, theoretical, ... More

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This choice collection of essays scrutinizes the aesthetic developments of the last twenty-five years, from Abstract Expressionism to the most recent ... More

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Pastiche Cultural Memory in Art, Film, Literature Ingeborg Hoesterey Traces the rise of the pastiche in the arts and popular culture. In the last two ... More

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Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Yves Klein, and Marcel Duchamp form an unlikely quartet, but they each played a singular role in shaping a new avant-garde ... More

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A collection of essays on the relationship between moral and aesthetic ideas. The book brings together some of Sontag's best critical writing of the ... More

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The aim of this book is to provide an account of modernist painting--from Pollock to Ryman--that follows on from the aesthetic theory of Theodor W. ... More

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This book traces the challenge posed to the academic canon by the emergent avant-garde of the early and mid-nineteenth century, the significant shies ... More

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This clear, lively book approaches its subject using the traditional methods of cultural anthropology--in-depth interviews with "native" informants, ... More

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Following World War I, a new artistic-social avant-garde emerged with the ambition to engage the artist in the building of social life. Focusing on ... More

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Situating the Gesamtkunstwerk at the heart of European modernism.

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Stephen Eric Bronner revisits the modernist project's groundbreaking innovations, itsexperimental imagination, and its utopian politics. Reading the ... More

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This is the first sustained phenomenological approach to modern art, taking a new approach and drawing upon an unusual selection of thinkers. As a ... More

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Steele examines how Alfred Orage, co-founder of the Leeds Arts Club--possibly the only genuine manifestation of Expressionism in pre-Second World War ... More

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In the eighteenth century the category of the aesthetic sought to bridge the gap between the prevalent dualities of Cartesian thought: art and ... More

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How critical conceptions of gender and sexuality helped to advance the artistic careers of the Alfred Stieglitz Circle and influenced American ... More

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The long-awaited publication in English of the definitive book on Paris Dada.

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Convinced that all aspects of modern culture have been affected by avant-garde art, Poggioli explores the relationship between the avant-garde and ... More

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Discussing an aspect of the European avant-garde that has often been neglected-its relationship to the embodied experience of food, its sensation, ... More

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The lavishly illustrated Regarding Beauty surveys late twentieth-century Western art to address why the timeless notion of beauty has recently been ... More

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