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Colours of Art - The Story of Art in 80 Palettes (Hardcover): Chloe Ashby Colours of Art - The Story of Art in 80 Palettes (Hardcover)
Chloe Ashby
R646 Discovery Miles 6 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Colours of Art takes the reader on a journey through history via 80 carefully curated artworks and their palettes. For these pieces, colour is not only a tool (like a paintbrush or a canvas) but the fundamental secret to their success. Colour allows artists to express their individuality, evoke certain moods and portray positive or negative subliminal messages. And throughout history the greatest of artists have experimented with new pigments and new technologies to lead movements and deliver masterpieces. But as something so cardinal, we sometimes forget how poignant colour palettes can be, and how much they can tell us. When Vermeer painted The Milkmaid, the amount of ultramarine he could use was written in the contract. How did that affect how he used it? When Turner experimented with Indian Yellow, he captured roaring flames that brought his paintings to life. If he had used a more ordinary yellow, would he have created something so extraordinary? And how did Warhol throw away the rulebook to change what colour could achieve? Structured chronologically, Colours of Art provides a fun, intelligent and visually engaging look at the greatest artistic palettes in art history - from Rafael's use of perspective and Vermeer's ultramarine, to Andy Warhol's hot pinks and Lisa Brice's blue women. Colours of Art offers a refreshing take on the subject and acts as a primer for artists, designers and art lovers who want to look at art history from a different perspective.

Arts Features International, July-September 2019, Facing the Future (Hardcover): Ruth Skilbeck Arts Features International, July-September 2019, Facing the Future (Hardcover)
Ruth Skilbeck
R1,349 R1,118 Discovery Miles 11 180 Save R231 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Between Film, Video, and the Digital - Hybrid Moving Images in the Post-Media Age (Hardcover): Jihoon Kim Between Film, Video, and the Digital - Hybrid Moving Images in the Post-Media Age (Hardcover)
Jihoon Kim
R4,246 Discovery Miles 42 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Encompassing experimental film and video, essay film, gallery-based installation art, and digital art, Jihoon Kim establishes the concept of hybrid moving images as an array of impure images shaped by the encounters and negotiations between different media, while also using it to explore various theoretical issues, such as stillness and movement, indexicality, abstraction, materiality, afterlives of the celluloid cinema, archive, memory, apparatus, and the concept of medium as such. Grounding its study in interdisciplinary framework of film studies, media studies, and contemporary art criticism, Between Film, Video, and the Digital offers a fresh insight on the post-media conditions of film and video under the pervasive influences of digital technologies, as well as on the crucial roles of media hybridity in the creative processes of giving birth to the emerging forms of the moving image. Incorporating in-depth readings of recent works by more than thirty artists and filmmakers, including Jim Campbell, Bill Viola, Sam Taylor-Johnson, David Claerbout, Fiona Tan, Takeshi Murata, Jennifer West, Ken Jacobs, Christoph Girardet and Matthias Muller, Hito Steyerl, Lynne Sachs, Harun Farocki, Doug Aitken, Douglas Gordon, Stan Douglas, Candice Breitz, among others, the book is the essential scholarly monograph for understanding how digital technologies simultaneously depend on and differ film previous time-based media, and how this juncture of similarities and differences signals a new regime of the art of the moving image.

Natural Way to Draw - A Working Plan for Art Study (Hardcover): Kimon Nicolaides Natural Way to Draw - A Working Plan for Art Study (Hardcover)
Kimon Nicolaides
R835 Discovery Miles 8 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Shakespeare's Philosophy Illustrated - Quaternary teaching aids - Charts and diagrams plus an illustrated essay to... Shakespeare's Philosophy Illustrated - Quaternary teaching aids - Charts and diagrams plus an illustrated essay to facilitate the appreciation of Shakespeare's nature-based philosophy (Hardcover)
Roger Peters
R1,709 R1,407 Discovery Miles 14 070 Save R302 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
How To Tutor - Your Step By Step Guide To Tutoring (Hardcover): Howexpert How To Tutor - Your Step By Step Guide To Tutoring (Hardcover)
Howexpert
R768 Discovery Miles 7 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Shotgun, the Invisible Rail, and the Spectacled Tyrant (Paperback): Ludovica Carbotta The Shotgun, the Invisible Rail, and the Spectacled Tyrant (Paperback)
Ludovica Carbotta
R598 Discovery Miles 5 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Cosmopolitan Ambassadors: International exhibitions, cultural diplomacy and the polycentral museum (Hardcover): Lee Davidson Cosmopolitan Ambassadors: International exhibitions, cultural diplomacy and the polycentral museum (Hardcover)
Lee Davidson
R1,853 Discovery Miles 18 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The New Politics of the Handmade - Craft, Art and Design (Hardcover): Anthea Black, Nicole Burisch The New Politics of the Handmade - Craft, Art and Design (Hardcover)
Anthea Black, Nicole Burisch
R2,708 Discovery Miles 27 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Contemporary craft, art and design are inseparable from the flows of production and consumption under global capitalism. The New Politics of the Handmade features twenty-three voices who critically rethink the handmade in this dramatically shifting economy. The authors examine craft within the conditions of extreme material and economic disparity; a renewed focus on labour and materiality in contemporary art and museums; the political dimensions of craftivism, neoliberalism, and state power; efforts toward urban renewal and sustainability; the use of digital technologies; and craft's connections to race, cultural identity and sovereignty in texts that criss-cross five continents. They claim contemporary craft as a dynamic critical position for understanding the most immediate political and aesthetic issues of our time.

Against Value in the Arts and Education (Paperback): Sam Ladkin, Robert McKay, Emile Bojesen Against Value in the Arts and Education (Paperback)
Sam Ladkin, Robert McKay, Emile Bojesen
R1,518 Discovery Miles 15 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Against Value in the Arts and Education proposes that it is often the staunchest defenders of art who do it the most harm, by suppressing or mollifying its dissenting voice, by neutralizing its painful truths, and by instrumentalizing its ambivalence. The result is that rather than expanding the autonomy of thought and feeling of the artist and the audience, art's defenders make art self-satisfied, or otherwise an echo-chamber for the limited and limiting self-description of people's lives lived in an "audit culture", a culture pervaded by the direct and indirect excrescence of practices of accountability. This book diagnoses the counter-intuitive effects of the rhetoric of value. It posits that the auditing of values pervades the fabric of people's work-lives, their education, and increasingly their everyday experience. The book uncovers figures of resentment, disenchantment and alienation fostered by the dogma of value. It argues instead that value judgments can behave insidiously, and incorporate aesthetic, ethical or ideological values fundamentally opposed to the "value" they purportedly name and describe. The collection contains contributions from leading scholars in the UK and US with contributions from anthropology, the history of art, literature, education, musicology, political science, and philosophy.

Unshelfmarked - Reconceiving the Artists' Book (Paperback): Michael Hampton Unshelfmarked - Reconceiving the Artists' Book (Paperback)
Michael Hampton
R428 Discovery Miles 4 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Painter's Guide to Color (Latest Edition) (Hardcover, Reprint ed.): Stephen Quiller Painter's Guide to Color (Latest Edition) (Hardcover, Reprint ed.)
Stephen Quiller
R1,683 Discovery Miles 16 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Elephant Art (Hardcover): Christina Strickland Elephant Art (Hardcover)
Christina Strickland; Illustrated by Melissa Bailey
R502 Discovery Miles 5 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
When the Machine Made Art - The Troubled History of Computer Art (Hardcover): Grant D. Taylor When the Machine Made Art - The Troubled History of Computer Art (Hardcover)
Grant D. Taylor
R4,242 Discovery Miles 42 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Considering how culturally indispensable digital technology is today, it is ironic that computer-generated art was attacked when it burst onto the scene in the early 1960s. In fact, no other twentieth-century art form has elicited such a negative and hostile response. When the Machine Made Art examines the cultural and critical response to computer art, or what we refer to today as digital art. Tracing the heated debates between art and science, the societal anxiety over nascent computer technology, and the myths and philosophies surrounding digital computation, Taylor is able to identify the destabilizing forces that shape and eventually fragment the computer art movement.

How to Sleep - The Art, Biology and Culture of Unconsciousness (Hardcover): Matthew Fuller How to Sleep - The Art, Biology and Culture of Unconsciousness (Hardcover)
Matthew Fuller
R3,197 Discovery Miles 31 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Sleep is quite a popular activity, indeed most humans spend around a third of their lives asleep. However, cultural, political, or aesthetic thought tends to remain concerned with the interpretation and actions of those who are awake. How to Sleep argues instead that sleep is a complex vital phenomena with a dynamic aesthetic and biological consistency. Arguing through examples drawn from contemporary, modern and renaissance art; from literature; film and computational media, and bringing these into relation with the history and findings of sleep science, this book argues for a new interplay between biology and culture. Meditations on sex, exhaustion, drugs, hormones and scientific instruments all play their part in this wide-ranging exposition of sleep as an ecology of interacting processes. How to Sleep builds on the interlocking of theory, experience and experiment so that the text itself is a lively articulation of bodies, organs and the aesthetic systems that interact with them. This book won't enhance your sleeping skills, but will give you something surprising to think about whilst being ostensibly awake.

Thinking Art - Materialisms, Labours, Forms (Paperback): Peter Osborne Thinking Art - Materialisms, Labours, Forms (Paperback)
Peter Osborne
R433 Discovery Miles 4 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Create Dangerously (Paperback): Albert Camus Create Dangerously (Paperback)
Albert Camus 1
R80 R74 Discovery Miles 740 Save R6 (7%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

"To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing."

Camus's powerful lecture, as relevant today as ever, argues against 'art for art's sake', while his Nobel Prize speech brilliantly sets out his vision of the artist's role and responsibilities.

Georges Bataille and Contemporary Thought (Hardcover): Will Stronge Georges Bataille and Contemporary Thought (Hardcover)
Will Stronge
R4,245 Discovery Miles 42 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Georges Bataille's influence upon 20th-century philosophy is hard to overstate. His writing has transfixed his readers for decades - exerting a powerful influence upon Foucault, Blanchot and Derrida amongst many others. Today, Bataille continues to be an important reference for many of today's leading theorists such as Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, Jean-Luc Nancy and Adrianna Caverero. His work is a unique and enigmatic combination of mystical phenomenology, politics, anthropology and economic theory - sometimes adopting the form of literature, sometimes that of ontology. This is the first book to take Bataille's ambitious and unfinished Accursed Share project as its thematic guide, with individual contributors isolating themes, concepts or sections from within the three volumes and taking them in different directions. Therefore, as well as providing readings of Bataille's key concepts, such as animality, sovereignty, catastrophe and the sacred, this collection aims to explore new terrain and new theoretical problems.Georges Bataille and Contemporary Thought acts simultaneously as a companion to Bataille's three-volume secular theodicy and as a laboratory for new syntheses within his thought.

Between Discipline and a Hard Place - The Value of Contemporary Art (Hardcover): Alana Jelinek Between Discipline and a Hard Place - The Value of Contemporary Art (Hardcover)
Alana Jelinek
R2,858 Discovery Miles 28 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Written from the perspective of a practising artist, this book proposes that, against a groundswell of historians, museums and commentators claiming to speak on behalf of art, it is artists alone who may define what art really is. Jelinek contends that while there are objects called 'art' in museums from deep into human history and from around the globe - from Hans Sloane's collection, which became the foundation of the British Museum, to Alfred Barr's inclusion of 'primitive art' within the walls of MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art - only those that have been made with the knowledge and discipline of art should rightly be termed as such. Policing the definition of art in this way is not to entrench it as an elitist occupation, but in order to focus on its liberal democratic potential. Between Discipline and a Hard Place describes the value of art outside the current preoccupation with economic considerations yet without resorting to a range of stereotypical and ultimately instrumentalist political or social goods, such as social inclusion or education. A wider argument is also made for disciplinarity, as Jelinek discusses the great potential as well as the pitfalls of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary working, particularly with the so-called 'creative' arts. A passionate treatise arguing for a new way of understanding art that forefronts the role of the artist and the importance of inclusion within both the concept of art and the art world.

Art - For Whom and for What? (Paperback): Brian Keeble Art - For Whom and for What? (Paperback)
Brian Keeble; Illustrated by Samuel Palmer
R455 Discovery Miles 4 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Showing Off! - A Philosophy of Image (Hardcover): Jorella Andrews Showing Off! - A Philosophy of Image (Hardcover)
Jorella Andrews
R3,382 Discovery Miles 33 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Drawing on art, media, and phenomenological sources, Showing Off!: A Philosophy of Image challenges much recent thought by proposing a fundamentally positive relationship between visuality and the ethical. In philosophy, cultural studies and art, relationships between visuality and the ethical are usually theorized in negative terms, according to the dyadic logics of seeing on the one hand, and being seen, on the other. Here, agency and power are assumed to operate either on the side of those who see, or on the side of those who control the means by which people and things enter into visibility. To be seen, by contrast - when it occurs outside of those parameters of control- is to be at a disadvantage; hence, for instance, contemporary theorist Peggy Phelan's rejection of the idea, central to activist practices of the 1970's and 80's, that projects of political emancipation must be intertwined with, and are dependent on, processes of 'making oneself visible'. Acknowledgment of the vulnerability of visibility also underlies the realities of life lived within increasingly pervasive systems of imposed and self-imposed surveillance, and apparently confident public performances of visual self display. Showing Off!: A Philosophy of Image is written against the backdrop of these phenomena, positions and concerns, but asks what happens to our debates about visibility when a third term, that of 'self-showing', is brought into play. Indeed, it proposes a fundamentally positive relationship between visuality and the ethical, one primarily rooted not in acts of open and non-oppressive seeing or spectating, as might be expected, but rather in our capacity to inhabit both the risks and the possibilities of our own visible being. In other words, this book maintains that the proper site of generosity and agency within any visual encounter is located not on the side of sight, but on that of self-showing - or showing off!

Cricut Guide For Beginners - Getting Started! The Complete Guide To Your First Projects (Hardcover): Sienna Tally Cricut Guide For Beginners - Getting Started! The Complete Guide To Your First Projects (Hardcover)
Sienna Tally
R806 Discovery Miles 8 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Georg Lukacs: The Fundamental Dissonance of Existence - Aesthetics, Politics, Literature (Hardcover, New): Timothy Bewes,... Georg Lukacs: The Fundamental Dissonance of Existence - Aesthetics, Politics, Literature (Hardcover, New)
Timothy Bewes, Timothy Hall
R4,239 Discovery Miles 42 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The end of the Soviet period, the vast expansion in the power and influence of capital, and recent developments in social and aesthetic theory, have made the work of Hungarian Marxist philosopher and social critic Georg Lukcs more vital than ever. The very innovations in literary method that, during the 80s and 90s, marginalized him in the West have now made possible new readings of Lukcs, less in thrall to the positions taken by Lukcs himself on political and aesthetic matters. What these developments amount to, this book argues, is an opportunity to liberate Lukcs's thought from its formal and historical limitations, a possibility that was always inherent in Lukcs's own thinking about the paradoxes of form. This collection brings together recent work on Lukcs from the fields of Philosophy, Social and Political Thought, Literary and Cultural Studies. Against the odds, Lukcs's thought has survived: as a critique of late capitalism, as a guide to the contradictions of modernity, and as a model for a temperament that refuses all accommodation with the way things are.

The Ancient Mediterranean Sea in Modern Visual and Performing Arts - Sailing in Troubled Waters (Hardcover): Rosario Rovira... The Ancient Mediterranean Sea in Modern Visual and Performing Arts - Sailing in Troubled Waters (Hardcover)
Rosario Rovira Guardiola
R4,595 Discovery Miles 45 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

When thinking about the Mediterranean, Fernand Braudel's haunting words resound like an echo of the sea and its millenary history. From Prehistory until today, the Mediterranean has been setting, witness and protagonist of mythical adventures, of encounters with the Other, of battles and the rise and fall of cultures and empires, of the destinies of humans. Braudel's appeal for a long duree history of the Mediterranean challenged traditional views that often present it as a sea fragmented and divided through periods. This volume proposes a journey into the bright and dark sides of the ancient Mediterranean through the kaleidoscopic gaze of artists who from the Renaissance to the 21st century have been inspired by its myths and history. The view of those who imagined and recreated the past of the sea has largely contributed to the shaping of modern cultures which are inexorably rooted and embedded in Mediterranean traditions. The contributions look at modern visual reinterpretations of ancient myths, fiction and history and pay particular attention to the theme of sea travel and travellers, which since Homer's Odyssey has become the epitome of the discovery of new worlds, of cultural exchanges and a metaphor of personal developments and metamorphoses.

The Philosophy of Mannerism - From Aesthetics to Modal Metaphysics (Hardcover): Sjoerd Van Tuinen The Philosophy of Mannerism - From Aesthetics to Modal Metaphysics (Hardcover)
Sjoerd Van Tuinen
R3,028 Discovery Miles 30 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Sjoerd van Tuinen argues for the inseparability of matter and manner in the form of a group portrait of Leibniz, Bergson, Whitehead, Souriau, Simondon, Deleuze, Stengers, and Agamben. Examining afresh the 16th-century style of mannerism, this book synthesizes philosophy and aesthetics to demonstrate not only the contemporary relevance of artists such as Michelangelo or Arcimboldo but their broader significance as incorporating a form of modal thinking and perceiving. While looking at mannerism as a style that spurned the balance and proportion of earlier Renaissance models in favour of compositional instability and tension, this book also conceives of mannerism a-historically to investigate what it can tell us about continental modal metaphysics. Whereas analytical metaphysics privileges logical essence and asks whether something is possible, real, contingent, or necessary, continental philosophy privileges existence and counts as many modes as there are ways of coming-into-being. In three main parts, van Tuinen first explores the ontological, aesthetic, and ethical ramifications of this distinction. He then develops this through an extended study of Leibniz as a modal and indeed mannerist philosopher, before outlining in the final part a (neo)-mannerist aesthetics that incorporates diagrammatics, alchemy, and contemporary technologies of speculative design.

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