Objects in Air
Margareta Ingrid Christian unpacks the ways in which, around 1900, art scholars, critics, and choreographers wrote about the artwork as an actual object in real time and space, surrounded and fluently...
View ArticlePhilosophy by Other Means
Throughout his career, Robert B. Pippin has examined the relationship between philosophy and the arts. With his writings on film, literature, and visual modernism, he has shown that there are aesthetic...
View ArticlePhilosophy by Other Means
Throughout his career, Robert B. Pippin has examined the relationship between philosophy and the arts. With his writings on film, literature, and visual modernism, he has shown that there are aesthetic...
View ArticleThinking Out of Sight
Jacques Derrida remains a leading voice of philosophy, his works still resonating today—and for more than three decades, one of the main sites of Derridean deconstruction has been the arts. Collecting...
View ArticleGathering
This book is distributed by NUS Press for the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), Manila, and ArtAsiaPacific, Hong Kong. Marian Pastor Roces is one of the most original thinkers in Southeast...
View ArticleMyself and My Aims
Kurt Schwitters was a major protagonist in the histories of modern art and literature, whose response to the contradictions of modern life rivals that of Marcel Duchamp in its importance for artists...
View ArticlePensive Image
While the philosophical dimension of painting has long been discussed, a clear case for painting as a form of visual thinking has yet to be made. Traditionally, vanitas still life paintings are...
View ArticleMetropolitan Museum Journal, 2020
The Metropolitan Museum Journal presents richly illustrated studies of works in the Museum's collection, including prominent as well as lesser known pieces, and relating them to works in other...
View ArticleUne Suisse exotique ?
Pourquoi un objet, une œuvre d’art, voire une personne, sont-ils considérés comme « exotiques » ? Comment se construit le regard sur les choses ou les gens qui semblent appartenir à d’autres régions,...
View ArticleExperimental Games
In our unprecedentedly networked world, games have come to occupy an important space in many of our everyday lives. Digital games alone engage an estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide as of 2020, and...
View ArticleExperimental Games
In our unprecedentedly networked world, games have come to occupy an important space in many of our everyday lives. Digital games alone engage an estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide as of 2020, and...
View ArticleGeorg Simmel
Georg Simmel is one of the most original German thinkers of the twentieth century and is considered a founding architect of the modern discipline of sociology. Ranging over fundamental questions of the...
View ArticleCritique
Critique is a form of thinking and acting. Since the end of the 18th century, there has been a dynamization and fluidization of the understanding of form, as concepts such as the break,...
View ArticleMariano
This bilingual catalog accompanies a retrospective exhibition of Cuban modernist painter Mariano Rodríguez (1912–90). The artist, known simply as “Mariano,” explored variations on central themes that...
View ArticleGeorg Simmel
Georg Simmel is one of the most original German thinkers of the twentieth century and is considered a founding architect of the modern discipline of sociology. Ranging over fundamental questions of the...
View ArticleRenaissance and Baroque Art
Leo Steinberg was one of the most original art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretive risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and...
View ArticleAgainst the Avant-Garde
Recognized in America chiefly for his films, Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975) in fact reinvented interdisciplinarity in postwar Europe. Pasolini self-confessedly approached the cinematic image through...
View ArticleManifesto of Artistic Research
Since its beginnings in the 1990s, artistic research has become established as a new format in the areas of educational and institutional policy, aesthetics, and art theory. It has now diffused into...
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