Product Description: Layered with quiet emotion, the photographs of Danish artist Trine Søndergaard (born 1972) are celebrated for their intensification of our perception of reality. Søndergaard's new volume brings together three recent series exploring stillness and introspection, in which different historical time periods and materials meet...read more

Product Description: What is a moving image, and how does it move us? In Thinking In Film, celebrated cultural theorist Mieke Bal engages in an exploration – part dialogue, part voyage – with the video installations of Finnish artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila to understand movement as artistic practice and as affect...read more

In Endless Andness, Mieke Bal pioneers a new understanding of the political potential of abstract art which does not passively yield its meaning to the viewer but creates it anew - an art perceived not only through the retina but experienced viscerally.In this book, the third of her companion volumes on art's political agency, Bal explores perception through an intense engagement with the work of Belgian sculptor Ann Veronica Janssens. In a series of vividly-recalled encounters with Janssen's practice over a number of years, Bal presents a new conception of embodied perception – art experienced in a body conjured into participation and transformed by the experience.From Janssens' 'mist room' works and the Corps Noir sculptures through to the fugitive, porous Aerogel, Bal traces an art which eludes the subject-object distinction to alter our ideas about the potential of political art in abstract and figurative forms. Enticing us simultaneously to lose ourselves and to come home, the tenuous materiality of installation art empowers those who live in the permanently lost and migratory condition that characterizes contemporary experience. In celebrating and interrogating the work of this prolific and innovative artist, Mieke Bal transforms our understanding of non-representational art to create a new awareness of perception and performance in the shared spaces of our world.

Product Description: What is a moving image, and how does it move us? In Thinking In Film, celebrated theorist Mieke Bal engages in an exploration - part dialogue, part voyage - with the video installations of Finnish artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila to understand movement as artistic practice and as affect...read more

Product Description: This fantasy story of an English castaway and a remote race of humans has been overshadowed by its predecessors "Gulliver's Travels" and "Robinson Crusoe" , but to Coleridge it was "a work of uncommon beauty". This edition is based on the text of the first edition of 1751.

Product Description: La presente obra aspira a convertirse en un instrumento imprescindible para quienes desean profundizar en el estudio y análisis de los textos narrativos. Como punto de partida, se distinguen tres conceptos: el texto, en el que un agente narra una historia, la historia, determinada presentación de una fábula, fábula, secuen...read more

Product Description: The dictionary. The ubiquitous high-gloss fashion ad. The fraught relationship between artist and critic. Sleeping Beauty ties these disparate strands of our everyday lives together only to strip away everything we thought we knew about each of them...read more

Product Description: Widely considered one of the greatest, and certainly one of the most mysterious and erotically daring, painters of the twentieth century, Balthus, or Balthazar Klossowski, the French/Polish Count de Rola, died in his adopted Switzerland in 2001 at the age of 93...read more

Product Description: When Mieke Bal reread the story of Joseph and Potiphar’s wife as an adult, she was struck by differences between her childhood memories of a moral tale and what she read today. In Loving Yusuf¸ Bal seeks to resolve this clash between memory and text, using the same story, in which Joseph spurns the advance of his master’s wife who then falsely accuses him of rape, as her point of departure...read more