As a stylist in his descriptions of art and movements and books Rosenberg has no equal. . . . One is grateful for [this] essay collection. To my mind his piece on art criticism and the distinction between it and art history is alone worth the price of...
The recent announcement that Google will digitize the holdings of several major libraries sent shock waves through the book industry and academe. Google presented this digital repository as a first step towards a long-dreamed-of universal library but...
Competing in the 1986 National College Games of the People s Republic of China Susan Brownell earned both a gold medal in the heptathlon and fame throughout China as the American girl who won glory for Beijing University. Now an anthropologist Brownell...
Cabdrivers and their yellow taxis are as much a part of the cityscape as the high-rise buildings and the subway. We hail them without thought after a wearying day at the office or an exuberant night on the town. And undoubtedly taxi drivers have...
Bringing together nearly one hundred tales translated from fourteen languages Folktales of India opens the vast narrative world of Indian folklore to readers of English. Beck includes oral tales collected from tribal areas peasant groups urban areas...
?It was the best of times it was the worst of times? begins one chapter of critically acclaimed Lee Siegel?s new novel Love and the Incredibly Old Man . ?In the beginning? starts another. What else can a novelist do when hired as a ghostwriter by an...
What do Renaissance poetry and painting have in common? What are the social ideological and aesthetic bases for the links between them? And what role do those links play in creating the humanistic culture that still has power over us today? These are...
Who gets to say what counts as contemporary art? Artists critics curators gallerists auctioneers collectors or the public? Revealing how all of these groups have shaped today s multifaceted definition Terry Smith brilliantly shows that an historical...
In this acclaimed book Torgovnick explores the obsessions fears and longings that have produced Western views of the primitive. Crossing an extraordinary range of fields (anthropology psychology literature art and popular culture) Gone Primitive will...
In our industrialized society it is often difficult to imagine how the objects around us are made. How for example are triple spirals put into the stem of a wine glass or table tops inlaid with whole landscapes of semi-precious stones? This unique...
Are gardens works of art? What is involved in creating a garden? How are gardens experienced by those who stroll through them? In What Gardens Mean Stephanie Ross draws on philosophy as well as the histories of art gardens culture and ideas to explore...
In the fourth and concluding volume of his classic series of essays on the Renaissance Ernst Gombrich focuses mainly on individual artists with illuminating studies of the works of some of the greatest masters - Giotto Leonardo da Vinci Raphael Giulio...
Clement Greenberg (1909-1994) champion of abstract expressionism and modernism--of Pollock Mir and Matisse--has been esteemed by many as the greatest art critic of the second half of the twentieth century and possibly the greatest art critic of all...
Since its original publication Erwin Panofsky s Meaning in the Visual Arts has been standard reading for students of art history. It is both an introduction to the study of art and for those with more specialized interests a profound discussion of art...
Who gets to say what counts as contemporary art? Artists critics curators gallerists auctioneers collectors or the public? Revealing how all of these groups have shaped today?s multifaceted definition Terry Smith brilliantly shows that an historical...
Peter Finch s translation of Wittgenstein s remarks on culture and value presents all entries chronologically with the German text alongside the English and a subject index for reference. It was Wittgenstein s habit to record his thoughts in sequences...
Our era is defined by the model. From Victoria s Secret and America s Next Top Model to the snapshots we post on Facebook and Twitter our culture is fixated on the pose the state of existing simultaneously as artifice and the real thing. In this bold...
