One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, On Photography first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as “a progress ...
Continue Reading →A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucida was first published in 1979. Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland Barthes presents photography ...
Continue Reading →Erwin Panofsky’s Perspective as Symbolic Form is one of the great works of modern intellectual history, the legendary text that has dominated all art-historical and ...
Continue Reading →“Intended to be prefixed to the Second Volume of the ‘Select Specimens of Ancient Sculpture,’ published by the Society of Dilettanti; but the ...
Continue Reading →In the twenties, Surrealists proclaimed that words had stopped playing around and had begun to make love. Nowhere is this more apparent than ...
Continue Reading →A pioneering work in the movement to free art from its traditional bonds to material reality, this book is one of the most ...
Continue Reading →Schopenhauer’s account of the artistic process is an early contribution to the study of creativity. This account extends his analysis of art beyond ...
Continue Reading →One hundred years ago, architects found in the medium of photography—so good at representing a building’s lines and planes—a necessary way to promote ...
Continue Reading →In Defense of Humanism: Value in the Arts and Letters is a response to the critique of traditional humanism. In simple, clear language, ...
Continue Reading →Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-68) has long been recognized as one of the founders of modern art history and a major force in the ...
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