The Return of the Real – The Avant–Garde at the End of the Century

In The Return of the Real Hal Foster discusses the development of art and theory since 1960, and reorders the relation between prewar and postwar a...

Examines the influence of twentieth-century avant-garde movements on the contemporary architectural landscape through the work of "disruptors" such...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Simon (Saint Louis Art Museum, USA) KellyIllustration(s): 8 colour & 64 bw illusNumber of pages: 272...

Multi-layered, subtle, insightful short stories from the inimitable Booker-prize winning author, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

DescriptionThe Greek island sequence montaged by L szl Moholy-Nagy into his legendary documentary Architects' Congress can be interpreted, like his...

Explore the influence of Impressionism on Russian painters at the end of the 19th century and early 20th century. In the late 19th century, numerou...

This collection categorizes aesthetic avant-garde art as art that seeks to politically transform society and argues that such art is essential for ...

This collection categorizes aesthetic avant-garde art as art that seeks to politically transform society and argues that such art is essential for ...

A landmark work of cultural history that tells the story of how four young poets, John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch, rei...

Traces the Nazarene "art of the concept" from its Romantic inception to its academic transformation in the 1830s. Arguing that the Nazarenes, despi...

Reducere. The story of French impresario, dandy and anarchist F lix F n on's extraordinary influence on early modernism"It would not be a commonplace portrai...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Based on meticulous research in the archives of some of the most prominent Italian avant-garde writers, Poetry on Stage examines the literary and i...

Why is it that our current twenty-first century A.D. is so similar to the twenty-first century B.C.? Is history destined to repeat itself?Will bibl...

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Avant-Garde Museology presents essays documenting the wildly encompassing progressivism of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Russia.

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Peter BurgerNumber of pages: 192Collection: Theory and History of LiteraturePublication date: 19...

Wonderful photographs documenting the local rail scene from the late 1980s to the early twenty-first century, featuring a range of trains and locom...

An authoritative re-definition of the social, cultural and visual history of the emergence of the "avant-garde" in Paris and LondonPublisher: Yale ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Alex KitnickIllustration(s): 56 halftonesNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2021Dimensions:...

Reducere. Expanded cinema: avant-garde moving image works that claim new territory for the cinematic, beyond the bounds of familiar filmmaking practices and ...

How cubism and Dada radically reimagined the social nature of language, following the utopian poetic vision of St phane Mallarm .At the outset of t...

The concept of the avant garde is highly contested, whether one consigns it to history or claims it for present-day or future uses. The first volum...

We Americans love our food. It's part of what has made this nation great. Our fertile farmlands and the abundance and variety of our agricultural o...

The first in-depth study of diverse and radical innovation in Arab musicPublisher: Wesleyan University PressIllustration(s): 19 music examples, 2 f...

A science fiction mystery about the final two surviving members of the human race. Features an inclusive cast of characters and advocacy of the val...

Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press LtdAuthor(s): Sergy V. LyubichankovskiyNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 210 x 210 x 21Cover t...

Reducere. One summer, while exploring the town during their annual stay at Grandma's house, two siblings and their cousin come across a creepy old house. The...

Part two of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy of five. Featuring additional material from the Adams archives, and an introduction from M...

If Daria Demarest didn't have ice water in her veins, like her coalminer father taught her, life might look bleak. She's divorcing successful but u...

This study boldly argues for Acker's revolutionary significance. It situates her within a historical avant-garde and examines how she took moments ...

Reducere. Called "hallucinatory and lyrical" (Publishers Weekly), The Return of the Caravels -- selected as a New York times Summer Reading title -- is a pow...

Reducere. Can the cinema imagine a different way of developing, using, and living in the city? Is it possible to do so using images of the extant city? Seein...

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DescriptionExperience the glamor and excitement of the Jazz Age, through the lives of the women who defined it It was a time of unimagined new free...

John Beck and Ryan Bishop explore the 1960s interdisciplinary art and technology collaborations between American avant-garde artists and the milita...

A comprehensive examination of the origins of Vancouver photo-conceptualism. The book employs discourse analysis, feminist critique and settler-col...