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Kandinsky: Incarnating Beauty
Häftad, 2022
114 kr
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A teacher to Jacques Lacan, André Breton, and Albert Camus, Kojève defined art as the act of extracting the beautiful from objective reality. His poetic text, “The Concrete Paintings of Kandinsky,” endorses nonrepresentational art as uniquely manifesting beauty. Taking the paintings of his renowned …
Oh, To Be a Painter!
Häftad, 2021
142 kr
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Virgina Woolf’s collection of writings on visual arts offer a whole new perspective on the revolutionary author.Despite wide interest in Woolf's writings, her circle, and her relationship with the visual arts, there is no accessible edition or selection of essays dedicated to her writings on art. …
Blue
Av Derek Jarman
Häftad, 2023
131 kr
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Derek Jarman’s Blue weaves a sensory tapestry that serves as both a political call to action and a meditation on illness, dying, and love. “For Blue there are no boundaries or solutions.” —Derek Jarman Originally released as a feature film in 1993, the year before the acclaimed artist and filmmaker …
My Morandi
Häftad, 2026
117 kr
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The Italian painter Giorgio Morandi is recounted as a friend and artist in this memoir by Luigi Magnani, an art historian and devoted collector of Morandi’s work. One of the most beloved and critically acclaimed artists of the twentieth century, Giorgio Morandi painted serial and permutational …
Hebdomeros: A Novel
Häftad, 2025
131 kr
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This seminal 1929 surrealist novel by the painter Giorgio de Chirico merges the realms of dream and reality.In the artist’s only novel, de Chirico invites the reader into a world where language, time, space, and meaning are fluid, highlighting themes of mystery, myth, and the uncanny. Following the …
Cathedral is Dying
Av Auguste Rodin, Rachel Corbett
Häftad, 2020
97 kr
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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 excerpts from the famous sculptor’s book Cathedrals of France, first …
Psychology of an Art Writer
Av Vernon Lee
Häftad, 2018
117 kr
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An openly lesbian, feminist writer, Vernon Lee—a pseudonym of Violet Paget—is the most important female aesthetician to come out of nineteenth century England. Though she was widely known for her supernatural fictions, Lee hasn’t gained the recognition she so clearly deserves for her contributions …
Pissing Figures
Häftad, 2017
127 kr
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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. Lebensztejn is one of France’s best-kept secrets. A world-class …
Salon of 1846
Av Charles Baudelaire, Michael Fried
Häftad, 2021
113 kr
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In his introduction to Charles Baudelaire’s Salon of 1846, the renowned art historian Michael Fried presents a new take on the French poet and critic’s ideas on art, criticism, romanticism, and the paintings of Delacroix.Charles Baudelaire, considered a father of modern poetry, wrote some of the …
28 Paradises
Av Patrick Modiano, Dominique Zehrfuss
Häftad, 2019
108 kr
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28 Paradises is a rare book: it reveals not only the individual talents of the authors, Modiano and Zehrfuss, but also the depth of the couple’s creative union. Sensitively translated into English for the first time by Damion Searls, 28 Paradises captures the exquisite sadness of waking from a …
Critic as Artist
Av Oscar Wilde
Häftad, 2019
142 kr
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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. Subtitled Upon the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything, …
Two Cities
Häftad, 2020
108 kr
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From acclaimed poet and New Yorker writer Cynthia Zarin comes a deeply personal meditation on two cities, Venice and Rome—each a work of art, both a monument to the past—and on how love and loss shape places and spaces.Here we encounter a writer deeply engaged with narrative in situ—a traveler …
Balthus Notebook
Av Guy Davenport, Judith Thurman
Häftad, 2020
108 kr
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In his 1989 book on Balthus—the storied and controversial artist who worked in Paris throughout the twentieth century—Guy Davenport gives one of the most nuanced, literary, and compelling readings of the work of this master. Reading it today highlights the change in perspectives on sexuality and …
Photography and Belief
Häftad, 2020
127 kr
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In this exploration of contemporary photography, David Levi Strauss questions the concept that “seeing is believing.”Identifying a recent shift in the dominance of photography, Strauss looks at the power of the medium in the age of Photoshop, smartphones, and the internet, asking important …
Dix Portraits
Av Gertrude Stein, Lynne Tillman
Häftad, 2022
97 kr
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Originally published in 1930 in an edition of 100 copies, Gertrude Stein’s Dix Portraits pairs her singular literary style with original lithographs by Pablo Picasso and other artists in Stein’s circle to create an exceptional artist’s book exploring written and visual portraiture.Written between …
Something Close to Music
Av John Ashbery, Monica de la Torre
Häftad, 2022
117 kr
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An intimate and unique collection of the work of John Ashbery—a prolific poet and art critic—pairing poetry and art writings with playlists of music from his personal library.This book places poetry by Ashbery (1927–2017), gathered from his later collections, in conversation with a selection of …
Strange Impressions
Häftad, 2022
117 kr
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Most known for her bold and darkly painted portraits, Brooks was revolutionary in her feminist renderings of women in resistance. Openly queer, she challenged conceptions of gender and sexuality in her art, which also served as her refuge. While many of her male counterparts were disfiguring and …
Mad about Painting
Häftad, 2023
131 kr
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Best known for his iconic print Under the Wave off Kanagawa, also known as the Great Wave, Katsushika Hokusai was a revolutionary printmaker. His mastery of ukiyo-e in the nineteenth century has inspired generations of artists since, and his works exposed the world to the delicate beauty and power …
My Friend Van Gogh
Häftad, 2024
144 kr
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An intimate testament to the power of friendship between two creative forces—available again in English after more than a century. “I exaggerate, I sometimes make changes to the subject, but I still don’t invent the whole of painting; on the contrary, I find it ready-made, but to be untangled, in …
Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic
Av Larry Neal
Häftad, 2024
117 kr
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A comprehensive and inspiring collection of essays by Larry Neal, a founder of the seminal Black Arts Movement. "The Black Arts Movement is radically opposed to any concept of the artist that alienates him from his community. Black Art is the aesthetic and spiritual sister of the Black Power …
That Still Moment: Poetry and Essays on Dance
Av Edwin Denby
Häftad, 2024
117 kr
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The newest volume in the beloved ekphrasis series focuses on dance and poetry through the eyes of one of the twentieth century’s greatest critics “I am interested at the moment in recalling to you how it looks when one sees dancing as non-professionals do, in the way you yourselves I suppose look …
Souvenirs: From a Memoir
Av Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
Häftad, 2025
121 kr
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A selection from the memoir of Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, the renowned eighteenth-century French portraitist and one of the most important women painters in art historyIn her memoir, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun offers a candid and thoroughly enjoyable account of her life and art. She …
Marguerite Yourcenar: A Dream of Stone
Häftad, 2025
117 kr
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A selection of texts on art and artists by the Belgian French novelist and essayist Marguerite YourcenarBest known for her seminal novel Memoirs of Hadrian (1951), an imagined autobiography of the Roman emperor, Yourcenar brings the same depth of inquiry and inventive speculation to her lyric prose …
Intuition
Häftad, 2026
114 kr
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Intuition by R. Buckminster Fuller is a profound, lyrical celebration of the human mind, highlighting the necessary value of intuition in uniting and advancing the sciences and the arts, and in guiding humanity as a whole.Knowledge is of the brain,wisdom is of the mind,and there is herewith …
Imagining Color
Häftad, 2027
117 kr
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Acclaimed theorist and scholar Elaine Scarry uncovers profound connections between color, memory, time, and mortality through readings of works by Proust, Woolf, and Murasaki, offering fresh insights into the interplay between language and perception.How do writers summon color into being—not only …
Forms, Forces, Functions
Essays on Architecture and Planning
Häftad, 2027
117 kr
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Denise Scott Brown is a preeminent figure in twentieth-century architecture and urban planning, but her influence extends far beyond these fields. Her groundbreaking, deeply humanist approach to design considers the built environment as a shared, lived-in space, shaped by cultural, social, and …
Ramblings of a Wannabe Painter
Av Paul Gauguin
Häftad, 2016
97 kr
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“Criticism is our censorship . . .” So begins one of the greatest invectives against criticism ever written by an artist. Paul Gauguin wrote “Racontars de rapin” only months before he died in 1903, but the essay remained unpublished until 1951. Through discussions of numerous artists, both his …
Chardin and Rembrandt
Marcel Proust
Häftad, 2016
131 kr
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Long overlooked in Proust’s posthumously published writings, Chardin and Rembrandt , written when he was only twenty-four years old, not only reemphasizes the importance of visual art to his development, but contains the seeds of his later work. Proposed in 1895 by Proust to the newspaper Revue …
Degas and His Model
Häftad, 2017
97 kr
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There are many myths about the artist Edgar Degasfrom Degas the misanthrope to Degas the deviant, to Degas the obsessive. But there is no single text that better stokes the fire than Degas and His Model , a short memoir published by Alice Michel, who purportedly modeled for Degas. Never before …
Letters to a Young Painter
Häftad, 2017
117 kr
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Never before translated into English, Rainer Maria Rilke’s fascinating Letters to a Young Painter , written toward the end of his life between 1920 and 1926, is a surprising companion to his infamous Letters to a Young Poet , earlier correspondence from 1902 to 1908. While the latter has become a …
