Product Description: Spring was turning into summer. I stood where the waves crashed, waiting for Della in the late afternoon by the sea. Birds rested on the swelling crests, fluttered up from their closing grip, then rested again. The waves poured closer, the sun sank down, and the birds screeched on in their game of death...read more

Product Description: Spring was turning into summer. I stood where the waves crashed, waiting for Della in the late afternoon by the sea. Birds rested on the swelling crests, fluttered up from their closing grip, then rested again. The waves poured closer, the sun sank down, and the birds screeched on in their game of death...read more

Presents a view of Samaras' art as developed over the last 20 years including panoramas, photo transformations, boxes, the mirrored corridor, bronzes, chairs, and dot and disc paintings

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Product Description: In the wake of a disappearing “Modernism” and with an unpredictable “post-Modernism” confounding the art establishment, a world-renowned critic proposes a new vision for the critical enterprise. Thomas McEvilley confronts, in these six straightforward essays, the ideas and philosophies which have exalted art above constructive involvement in the world for two centuries...read more

Product Description: Directly following the internationally acclaimed Art & Discontent, Thomas McEvilley argues in Art & Otherness for an advanced anthropological perspective that contravenes conventional thinking in the visual arts, and leads to a concept of artistic globalization...read more

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'Why do people cry, how do we manage horror, what do facial expressions tell us about a person? The answers to these questions and many more can be found in the Encyclopedia of Human Emotions, which brings to gether what is known about the nature, causes, expressions, and societal role of emotions. The 146 alphabetically arranged articles are sprinkled with photos, illustrations, and references to literature. Also covered are biographies, emotions that have been the subject of scientific study, and how emotions relate to society (e.g., hate crimes). The plain language of this unique encyclopedia makes it accessible to high-school students and the general user, while the level of scholarship makes this a useful resource to researchers as well.'--'Outstanding reference sources 2000', American Libraries, May 2000. Comp. by the Reference Sources Committee, RUSA, ALA.Studies the causes and societal roles of emotion throughout history and across history, and discusses the biological, medical, and physical aspects of emotions. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This volume, reproducing in colour 77 of Pat Steir's paintings, surveys her entire career, with emphasis on her recent work. Steir is known for pictures that quote the history of art, but since 1986 has moved into a more fluid abstractionism, using techniques such as throwing paint at the canvas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Abramovic, Marina, Goldberg, Roselee, McEvilley, Thomas, Elliott, David

Product Description: In this highly accessible introduction to American art since the 1970s, Linda Weintraub offers art lovers a readable exploration of some of the most important artists and movements of the past three decades. Today artists routinely dissolve the old boundaries of art by creating works that neither hang on walls nor adorn pedestals, and often willfully overturn conventions of aesthetic value, permanence and optical reward...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: Alongside such figures as Nam June Paik, Les Levine is regarded as a pioneer of vidoe and media art. Levine exploits the language of advertising to reveal the state of art and culture. This catalogue presents a comprehensive view of this artist. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Framed in a lucid discussion of the intellectual issues surrounding the postmodern movement, the essays in this book re-examine the course of twentieth-century art through the work of twenty-five major sculptors. McEvilley masterfully traces the evolution of modern sculpture from the readymades of Marcel Duchamp to the anti-painting statements of the 1960s to the spiritualism and conceptualism of the 1980s and 1990s...read more

Product Description: William Anastasi had a profound effect on the art of his generation, influencing such artists as Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Eva Hesse, Robert Smithson and others. A pioneer of conceptual art, he continues to produce work to this day, recently focusing on pieces that contain the word "Jew...read more