Barthes, Writing Degree Zero
Is there any such thing as revolutionary literature? Can literature, in fact, be political at all? These are the questions Roland Barthes addresses ...
Continue Reading →Guattari, Chaosmosis An Ethico Aesthetic Paradigm
Guattari’s final book is a succinct summary of his socio-philosophical outlook. It includes critical reflections on Lacanian psychoanalysis, structuralism, information theory, postmodernism, and ...
Continue Reading →Ackerman, Origins Imitation Conventions Representation in the Visual Arts
This collection contains studies written by art historian James Ackerman over the past decade. Whereas Ackerman’s earlier work assumed a development of the ...
Continue Reading →Giorgio, The Lives of the Artists
Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari’s collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the ...
Continue Reading →Szambien, Les Profets de L’an II
‘The Projects of the Year II: Gathering of Architecture of the Revolutionary Period.’ Drawings and renderings by architects such as Boullée, Ledoux, E.N. ...
Continue Reading →Simonato, Cardinal Gianfrancesco Albani and the arts between Rome and Urbino
The marble bust of Cardinal Gianfrancesco Albani (1648-1721) was sculpted in Rome in 1692 by the Carrarese Domenico Guidi (1625-1701 (and is exhibited ...
Continue Reading →Saisselin, Painting Writing and Primitive Purity
Art history rests upon the perception, knowledge of and about, as well as reflections upon, works of art. But insofar as it uses ...
Continue Reading →Naginski, Sculpture and Enlightenment
This pioneering book chronicles the transformation of public art in eighteenth-century France. As royal and ecclesiastical authority waned under the rule of Louis ...
Continue Reading →Kagan, Urban Images of the Hispanic World
This engrossing book examines the particular importance of cities in Spanish and Hispanic-American culture as well as the different meanings that artists and ...
Continue Reading →Haskell, Patrons and Painters
Fusing the social and economic history with the cultural and artistic achievements of seventeenth and eighteenth century Italy, this book presents a unique ...
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