"Covering more than 5,000 years, this book, lavishly illustrated with photographs, manuscripts, and paintings from the collections of the British Library and other museums worldwide, presents an overall picture of the history and cultures of the Silk Road. ... [details]
In 1969 Patricia Norvell sat down individually with Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Stephen Kaltenbach, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Dennis Oppenheim, Seth Siegelaub, Robert Smithson, Lawrence Weiner [as well as Carl Andre and Joseph Kosuth] and conduced fresh and engaging interviews that are untainted by jargon, fetish, or much critical distance from the beginning of the Conceptual Art movement. ... [details]
Critical theory by Andrew Graham-Dixon. "... Graham-Dixon argues decisively against the preconception that the British are not a visual people. Starting with a revelatory account of the almost unknown masterpieces of the Catholic Middle Ages, [Dixon] celebrates the beauty and the brilliance of Britain's artistic heritage - from Thomas Gainsborough to Damien Hirst, William Hogarth to David Hockney, John Constable to Henry Moore. ... [details]
"The fashion for 'art and revolution' continues, and so does the effort to prove, more or less a priori, that art has nothing to do with politics. Mr. Clark has written a study of the art of Gustave Courbet in the years directly after the 1848 revolution. ... [details]
"The Louvre, founded in the final years of the Enlightenment - with the greatest collection of Old Master paintings and antique sculpture assembled under one roof - became the model for all state art museums subsequently established. ... [details]
Reprint of 1983 Routledge & Kegan Paul edition. Edited by Sabine Breitwieser. Foreword by Lucy Lippard. Texts by the artist, Andrea Fraser, Laura Mulvey, Paul Smith & others. Bibliography, biography. Illus. [details]
"Victor Burgin recalls some of the cities he has known in a way familiar to all who have travelled, by showing photographs and telling anecdotes. 'Some Cities' gathers places and moments along a life route that the author has taken from the north of England to his present home in northern California. ... [details]
Large-scale compendium of artists' writings edited by Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz. Artists include Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Louise Bourgeois, Alfred H. ... [details]
Collection of essays that examine the Modernist practices of California artists working in the first half of the Twentieth century. Contributers include: Paul J. Karlstrom, Richard Cándida Smith, Susan Landauer, Gray Brechin, Peter Selz, Margarita Nieto, David Gebhard, Bram Dijkstra, Susan M. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, UCLA, California, April 24 - August 18, 1996. With essays by Amelia Jones, Laura Meyer, Nancy Ring, Anette Kubitza, Susan Kandel, and Laura Cottingham. ... [details]
