"Work by black artists today is almost uniformly understood in terms of its "blackness," with audiences often expecting or requiring it to "represent" the race. In How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness, Darby English shows how severely such expectations limit the scope of our knowledge about this work and how different it looks when approached on its own terms. ... [details]
"Institutional Critique" is an artistic practice that reflects critically on its own housing in galleries and museums and on the concept and social function of art itself. Such concerns have always been a part of modern art but took on new urgency at the end of the 1960s, when—driven by the social upheaval of the time and enabled by the tools and techniques of conceptual art—institutional critique emerged as a genre. ... [details]
Book of photography by Karl Blossfeldt. Edited by Ann and Jürgen Wilde. Introduction by Ulrike Meyer Stump. Includes notes, bibliography, and list of plates. Printed in black-and-white and color. [details]
"This is the first scholarly and critical study of Le Corbusier's work as a whole. It organizes his ideas in terms of the basic themes - intellectual, artistic, and ideological - that characterize his contribution to modern art and architecture and illustrates these with over 200 line drawings and halftones. ... [details]
Critical text by Le Corbusier, translated into English by James Dunnett. "Among the most famous of Le Corbusier's works, this book first came out in 1925 as a companion volume to Towards a New Architecture and The City of Tomorrow, two of the most influential writings on architecture and town planning Le Corbusier produced. ... [details]
First volume in a four volume series highlighting the collected sketches of the Swiss-French architect, Le Corbusier. Preface by André Wogenscky, introduction by Maurice Besset, and notes by Françoise de Franclieu. ... [details]
Second volume in a four volume series highlighting the collected sketches of the Swiss-French architect, Le Corbusier. Notes by Françoise de Franclieu. "Second in the four-volume series of Le Corbusier Sketchbooks, this book contains notes and sketches Le Corbusier made in the 1950s, a particularly rich period in his career. ... [details]
Third volume in a four volume series highlighting the collected sketches of the Swiss-French architect, Le Corbusier. Notes by Françoise de Franclieu. "Unlike the carefully-edited books Le Corbusier published on his works, the sketchbooks reveal a man more interested in nature than in mechanization or functionalism, a human being capable of profound religious feelings despite his dry profession of agnosticism - in short, a more intuitive, sensuous personality than is usually assumed. ... [details]
Fifth volume in a four volume series highlighting the collected sketches of the Swiss-French architect, Le Corbusier. Notes by Françoise de Franclieu. "In these last sketchbooks the government complex at the new capital, Chandigarh, nears completion. ... [details]
Collection of critical essays on Marcel Duchamp. Introduction by Rudolf E. Kuenzli, with texts by Beatrice Wood, Arturo Schwarz, Francis M. Naumann, Thierry de Duve, William A. Camfield, Peter Read, Carol P. ... [details]