Empathic Vision: Affect, Trauma, and Contemporary Art (Bennett Jill)(Paperback)

Empathic Vision: Affect, Trauma, and Contemporary Art (Bennett Jill)(Paperback)

This book analyzes contemporary visual art produced in the context of conflict and trauma from a range of countries, including Colombia, Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Australia. It focuses on what makes visual language unique, arguing that the 'affective' quality of art contributes to a new

Art Therapy with Military Veterans: Trauma and the Image (Lobban Janice)(Paperback)

Art Therapy with Military Veterans: Trauma and the Image provides a comprehensive framework for understanding and applying art therapy with former and serving armed forces personnel who have Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This book brings together experienced contributors in one volume to

What's Next?: Eco Materialism and Contemporary Art (Weintraub Linda)(Paperback)

By paying tribute to matter, materiality and materialisation, the examples of contemporary art assembled in What's Next? Eco Materialism and Contemporary Art challenge the social, cultural and ethical norms that prevailed in the twentieth century. This significant frontier of contemporary culture

Return to the Place: The Magic, Meditation, and Mystery of Sefer Yetzirah (Hammer Jill)(Paperback)

Rabbi Jill Hammer has taken ancient Jewish mystical text and transformed it into a contemporary guide for meditative practice. In Return to the Place, Rabbi Hammer guides the reader through the story of creation as the ancient text of the Sefer Yetzirah draws readers in and invites them to become

Contemporary Art. Art Essentials series - Natalie Rudd

A plain speaking, jargon-free account of contemporary art that identifies key themes and approaches, providing the reader with a clear understanding of the contexts in which art is being made today. Since the 1960s contemporary art has overturned the accepted historical categorizations of what

Cartwright Plays One (Various)(Paperback)

Road: 'A surreal vision of the contemporary urban landscape...uncomfortable and magical, funny and bitter. It is a northern Under Milk Wood, high on pills and booze' (Sunday Times). Bed: 'Cartwright writes better about old people than anyone I know, except perhaps Beckett. This is an odd, harrowing

Planting Design Essentials (Anderson Jill)(Paperback)

'Planting Design Essentials' helps you to interpret your vision, understand growing conditions and organize information in a clear and accessible way for all styles and types of

Who's Afraid of Contemporary Art? (An Kyung)(Paperback)

What is contemporary art? What makes it contemporary? Who is it for? And why is it so expensive?From museums and the art market to biennials and the next big thing, Who's Afraid of Contemporary Art? offers concise and pointed insights into today's art scene, decoding artspeak, explaining what

The Temperament God Gave Your Kids: Motivate, Discipline, and Love Your Children (Bennett Art)(Paperback)

Reflections: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa (Porter Venetia)(Paperback)

Reflections: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa brings together an extraordinary collection of work from the British Museum for the first time. The contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa is rich and vibrant. Whether living in their countries of birth or in diaspora,

Contemporary Cinema and the Philosophy of Iris Murdoch (Bolton Lucy)(Paperback)

Opens a dialogue between contemporary film and Iris Murdoch's thinking on art, goodness and existentialism Iris Murdoch was not only one of post-war Britain's most celebrated and prolific novelists - she was also an influential philosopher, whose work was concerned with the question of the good and

Contemporary African Art: Second Edition (Kasfir Sidney Littlefield)(Paperback)

Contemporary African art has grown out of the diverse histories and cultural heritage of the African continent and its diaspora. It is not characterized by one particular style, technique, or theme, but by a bricolage-like attitude toward art making, incorporating and building upon the structures

Bound Together: Leather, sex, archives, and contemporary art (Campbell Andy)(Paperback)

This book examines US gay and lesbian leather archives alongside contemporary artistic practices that reframe and renegotiate historical source material, creating a queer politics of the

Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life (Kaprow Allan)(Paperback)

Allan Kaprow's 'happenings' and 'environments' were the precursors to contemporary performance art, and his essays are some of the most thoughtful, provocative, and influential of his generation. His sustained inquiry into the paradoxical relationship of art to life and into the nature of meaning

After Modern Art: 1945-2017 (Hopkins David)(Paperback)

Contemporary art can be baffling and beautiful, provocative and disturbing. This pioneering book presents a new look at the controversial period between 1945 and 2015, when art and its traditional forms were called into question. It focuses on the relationship between American and European art, and

Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art (Buszek Maria Elena)(Paperback)

Contemporary artists such as Ghada Amer and Clare Twomey have gained international reputations for work that transforms ordinary craft media and processes into extraordinary conceptual art, from Amer's monumental stitched paintings to Twomey's large, ceramics-based installations. Despite the amount

Contemporary Megaprojects: Organization, Vision, and Resistance in the 21st Century (Schindler Seth)(Paperback)

Contemporary megaprojects have evolved from the discreet, modernist projects undertaken in the past by centralized authorities to encompass everything from large-scale construction to space exploration. Contemporary Megaprojects explores how these projects have been impacted by cutting-edge

Working Aesthetics: Labour, Art and Capitalism (Child Danielle)(Paperback)

Working Aesthetics is about the relationship between art and work under contemporary capitalism. Whilst labour used to be regarded as an unattractive subject for art, the proximity of work to everyday life has subsequently narrowed the gap between work and art. The artist is no longer considered

Boredom and Art: Passions of the Will to Boredom (Haladyn Julian Jason)(Paperback)

Boredom and Art examines the use of boredom as a strategy in modern and contemporary art to resist or frustrate the effects of consumerism and capitalism. This book traces the emergence of what Haladyn terms the will to boredom in which artists, writers and philosophers actively attempt to use the

Art, EcoJustice, and Education - Intersecting Theories and Practices(Paperback / softback)

Emphasizing the importance of contemporary art forms in EcoJustice Education, this book examines the interconnections between social justice and ecological well-being, and the role of art to enact change in destructive systems. Artists, educators, and scholars in diverse disciplines from around the

The Art of Contemporary China (Jiehong Jiang)(Paperback)

Fulfilling a need for an accessible, affordable introduction to a subject of sustained and growing significance in contemporary culture, this volume in the World of Art series redefines contemporary Chinese art in the last forty years since the end of China's Cultural Revolution, placing it in the

In the Mind But Not from There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art (Moreno Gean)(Paperback)

Artists and critics explore the concept of Real Abstraction to help understand contemporary cultural production In the Mind, But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art considers how the Marxian concept of Real Abstraction--originally developed by Alfred Sohn Rethel, and recently

Abstract Video: The Moving Image in Contemporary Art (Jennings Gabrielle)(Paperback)

Offering historical and theoretical positions from a variety of art historians, artists, curators, and writers, this groundbreaking collection is the first substantive sourcebook on abstraction in moving-image media. With a particular focus on art since 2000, Abstract Video addresses a longer

Art Objects - Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

Winterson's own passionate vision of art is presented here, provocatively and personally, in pieces on Modernism, autobiography, style, painting, the future of fiction, in two essays on Virginia Woolf, and more intimately in pieces where she describes her relationship to her work and the books that