Art
Djief Hunters
Following the hunting of the Djief forest wallaby, this reference offers a unique perspective on sustainable hunting in prehistory and provides intriguing insights into hunter-gatherer existence from the late Pleistocene.
How to Buy and Sell Art
The art world can be an intimidating one for the experienced buyer let alone the aspiring collector, but with this handbook to the world of collecting, Michael Reid arms buyers with a no-nonsense, informative map to the issues surrounding the buying and selling of art.
Threads
Designers are great white sharks, and we roam the waters ourselves. We often pretend to like and admire each other, but sometimes we don't even bother to fake it.
Pop Art and the Origins of Post-Modernism
Harrison's study examines the critical reception of Pop Art, comparing the ideas of its New York-based critics with the strikingly similar body of thought now associated with deconstructive post-modernism.
Subtle Bodies
Throughout the course of Byzantine history, Christian doctrine taught that angels have a powerful place in cosmology. It also taught that angels were immaterial, bodiless, invisible beings.
Orientalist Aesthetics
Lavishly illustrated with exotic images ranging from Renoir's forgotten Algerian oeuvre to the abstract vision of Matisse's Morocco and beyond, this book is the first history of Orientalist art during the period of high modernism.
Fluxus Experience
In this groundbreaking work of incisive scholarship and analysis, Hannah Higgins explores the influential art movement Fluxus. Daring, disparate, contentious--Fluxus artists worked with minimal and prosaic materials now familiar in post-World War II art.
Recording Conceptual Art
Recording Conceptual Art features a highly provocative series of previously unpublished interviews conducted in early 1969 with some of the most dynamic, daring, and innovative artists of the tumultuous 1960s.
In Other Los Angeleses
Performance art and Los Angeles, two subjects spectacularly resistant to definitions, illuminate each other in this searching study by Meiling Cheng.
Contemporary Theory of Conservation
Classical theories of conservation are well known in the heritage community, but in the last two decades thinking has shifted, and classical theory has faced increasing criticism.