An Art Of Desire

Download An Art Of Desire full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online An Art Of Desire ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

An Art of Desire

Author : Bernd Herzogenrath
Publisher : Rodopi Bv Editions
ISBN 13 : 9789042004535
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis An Art of Desire by : Bernd Herzogenrath

Download or read book An Art of Desire written by Bernd Herzogenrath and published by Rodopi Bv Editions. This book was released on 1999 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Art of Desire. Reading Paul Auster is the first book-length study solely devoted to the novels of Paul Auster. From the vantage-point of poststructuralist theory, especially Lacanian psychoanalysis and Derridean deconstruction, this book explores the relation of Auster's novels City of Glass, In the Country of Last Things, Moon Palace, and The Music of Chance to the rewriting and deconstruction of genre conventions; their connections to concepts such as catastrophe theory, the sublime, Freud's notion of the 'death drive; ' as well as the philosophical underpinnings of his work. At the focus of this study, however, is the concept of desire, an important concept in the writings of both Auster and Lacan, and the various manifestations of this concept in Auster's novels. Auster's novels always emphasize a kind of outside of the text (chance, the real, the unsayable), a kind of hope for a 'transparent language, ' a hope, however, that is exactly posited as impossible to fulfill. The relation of Daniel Quinn, Anna Blume, Marco Fogg and Jim Nashe to this lack is the motor of their desire, the driving force for the subject that has always already left the real and has been inscribed into the representational system called 'reality.' It is here, in its relation to the signifier, that the subject's desire is played out, that its experience is ordered, interpreted, and articulated. It is their ability to make connections, to proliferate, to 'affirm free-play, ' their ability 'not to bemoan the absence of the centre' that ultimately decides over success or failure of Auster's subjects - whether they partake in the 'joyous errance of the sign, ' or whether their fate is that of the 'unfortunatetraveler.'

Classical Greece and the Birth of Western Art

Author : Andrew Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521853214
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Classical Greece and the Birth of Western Art by : Andrew Stewart

Download or read book Classical Greece and the Birth of Western Art written by Andrew Stewart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses the 'Classical Revolution' in Greek art, its contexts, aims, achievements, and impact.

Desire and Excess

Author : Jonah Siegel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691049144
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (491 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Desire and Excess by : Jonah Siegel

Download or read book Desire and Excess written by Jonah Siegel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating look at the creative power of institutions, Jonah Siegel explores the rise of the modern idea of the artist in the nineteenth century, a period that also witnessed the emergence of the museum and the professional critic. Treating these developments as interrelated, he analyzes both visual material and literary texts to portray a culture in which art came to be thought of in powerful new ways. Ultimately, Siegel shows that artistic controversies commonly associated with the self-consciously radical movements of modernism and postmodernism have their roots in a dynamic era unfairly characterized as staid, self-satisfied, and stable. The nineteenth century has been called the Age of the Museum, and yet critics, art theorists, and poets during this period grappled with the question of whether the proliferation of museums might lead to the death of Art itself. Did the assembly and display of works of art help the viewer to understand them or did it numb the senses? How was the contemporary artist to respond to the vast storehouses of art from disparate nations and periods that came to proliferate in this era? Siegel presents a lively discussion of the shock experienced by neoclassical artists troubled by remains of antiquity that were trivial or even obscene, as well as the anxious aesthetic reveries of nineteenth-century art lovers overwhelmed by the quantity of objects quickly crowding museums and exhibition halls. In so doing, he illuminates the fruitful crises provoked when the longing for admired art is suddenly satisfied. Drawing upon neoclassical art and theory, biographies of early nineteenth-century writers including Keats and Scott, and the writings of art critics such as Hazlitt, Ruskin, and Wilde, this book reproduces a cultural matrix that brings to life the artistic passions and anxieties of an entire era.

Imaging Desire

Author : Mary Kelly
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262611411
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Imaging Desire by : Mary Kelly

Download or read book Imaging Desire written by Mary Kelly and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1970s, Kelly's transgressive projects helped to instigate conceptual art's second phase; her daring critiques of the female body as a fetishized, allegorized, commodified site were debated long after they were first seen in galleries and discussed in catalogues, and long before the debut of the "bad girls" in the 1990s. In fact, the debates currently surrounding Kelly's work are a necessary and defining element of theoretical discourse about art today.

The Aesthetics of Desire and Surprise

Author : Jadranka Skorin-Kapov
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498518478
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Aesthetics of Desire and Surprise by : Jadranka Skorin-Kapov

Download or read book The Aesthetics of Desire and Surprise written by Jadranka Skorin-Kapov and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aesthetics of Desire and Surprise: Phenomenology and Speculation covers issues central to contemporary continental philosophy (desire, expectations, excess, rupture, transcendence, immanence, surprise). The proposed term desire||surprise captures the phenomenological-speculative character of the pair not yet and no longer. Non-obvious parallels between different thinkers are drawn, and the argumentation is organized around philosophical figures relevant in the sequence desire – excess –pause (rupture, break) – recuperation (surprise). The works of Levinas, Žižek, Bataille, Blanchot, Foucault, and Ricoeur are interpreted and positioned according to the proposed template of desire - excess - pause. The consideration of limit experiences involves authors fascinated by transgression, and the question of whether excess is immanent or transcendent. This discussion considers works by Nietzsche, Deleuze, Žižek, and Foucault. The analysis of surprise and the beginning of recovery after the pause considers works by Fink, Merleau-Ponty, Nancy, Lyotard, Dufrenne, Bachelard, and Seel. The provocative argument elaborated in this work is that surprise starts with indifference. Furthermore, the argument is that surprise begins where the concept reaches its ending, hence that the limit of speculative thinking at its ending is the limit of aesthetics at its beginning. The work of Hegel, Schelling and Jaspers are discussed in order to argue for the beginning of aesthetics there where knowledge ends. Philosophical thematic is contextualized via sections on artists such as Duchamp and Mondrian, and on some films, provoking interest of aestheticians working in art history and cultural studies departments.

Romantic Desire in (Post)modern Art and Philosophy

Author : Jos De Mul
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791442173
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (421 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Romantic Desire in (Post)modern Art and Philosophy by : Jos De Mul

Download or read book Romantic Desire in (Post)modern Art and Philosophy written by Jos De Mul and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-07-16 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this erudite and wide-ranging discussion of postmodernism and romanticism in twentieth-century art and philosophy, Jos de Mul sheds a fascinating light on the ambivalent character of our present culture, which oscillates between modern enthusiasm and postmodern irony. Along the way, he engages the work of such thinkers as Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Habermas, Lacan, Barthes, and Derrida; visual artists Magritte and Stella; poets Georg and Coleridge; and composers Schonberg, Cage, and Reich, among others, providing a sort of intellectual history of Romantic, Modernist, and Postmodernist "tempers."

Art & Fear

Author : David Bayles
Publisher : Souvenir Press
ISBN 13 : 1800815999
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Art & Fear by : David Bayles

Download or read book Art & Fear written by David Bayles and published by Souvenir Press. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I always keep a copy of Art & Fear on my bookshelf' JAMES CLEAR, author of the #1 best-seller Atomic Habits 'A book for anyone and everyone who wants to face their fears and get to work' DEBBIE MILLMAN, author and host of the podcast Design Matters 'A timeless cult classic ... I've stolen tons of inspiration from this book over the years and so will you' AUSTIN KLEON, NYTimes bestselling author of Steal Like an Artist 'The ultimate pep talk for artists. ... An invaluable guide for living a creative, collaborative life.' WENDY MACNAUGHTON, illustrator Art & Fear is about the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. Drawing on the authors' own experiences as two working artists, the book delves into the internal and external challenges to making art in the real world, and shows how they can be overcome every day. First published in 1994, Art & Fear quickly became an underground classic, and word-of-mouth has placed it among the best-selling books on artmaking and creativity. Written by artists for artists, it offers generous and wise insight into what it feels like to sit down at your easel or keyboard, in your studio or performance space, trying to do the work you need to do. Every artist, whether a beginner or a prizewinner, a student or a teacher, faces the same fears - and this book illuminates the way through them.

Sex Objects

Author : Jennifer Doyle
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816645268
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (452 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Sex Objects by : Jennifer Doyle

Download or read book Sex Objects written by Jennifer Doyle and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The declaration that a work of art is “about sex” is often announced to the public as a scandal after which there is nothing else to say about the work or the artist-controversy concludes a conversation when instead it should begin a new one. Moving beyond debates about pornography and censorship, Jennifer Doyle shows us that sex in art is as diverse as sex in everyday life: exciting, ordinary, emotional, traumatic, embarrassing, funny, even profoundly boring. Sex Objects examines the reception and frequent misunderstanding of highly sexualized images, words, and performances. In chapters on the “boring parts” of Moby-Dick, the scandals that dogged the painter Thomas Eakins, the role of women in Andy Warhol's Factory films, “bad sex” and Tracey Emin's crudely evocative line drawings, and L.A. artist Vaginal Davis's pornographic parodies of Vanessa Beecroft's performances, Sex Objects challenges simplistic readings of sexualized art and instead investigates what such works can tell us about the nature of desire. In Sex Objects, Doyle offers a creative and original exploration of how and where art and sex connect, arguing that to proclaim a piece of art “about sex” reveals surprisingly little about the work, the artist, or the spectator. Deftly interweaving anecdotal and personal writing with critical, feminist, and queer theory, she reimagines the relationship between sex and art in order to better understand how the two meet-and why it matters. Jennifer Doyle is associate professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. She is coeditor, with Jonathan Flatley and Jos Esteban Muoz, of Pop Out: Queer Warhol.

Edge of Desire

Author : Chaitanya Sambran
Publisher : Philip Wilson Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Edge of Desire by : Chaitanya Sambran

Download or read book Edge of Desire written by Chaitanya Sambran and published by Philip Wilson Publishers. This book was released on 2005-05-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents a decade-long perspective on contemporary visual practices in India, with stunning visuals and insightful essays by leading intellectuals in the field. Engaging with a diversity of art practices and creative conditions, the publication (and exhibition) questions cultural structures that segregate visual practices, making a case for a polycentric aesthetic. In this argument for an inclusive and non-hierarchical consideration of visual culture, Edge of Desire presents a new contribution from the sub-continent to the debate on the nature and purpose of art practices and art histories. At the same time, it offers a visually exciting and intellectually stimulating array of new art from India generated through an intermingling of influences and traditions.

Abject Art

Author : Jack Ben-Levi
Publisher : Whitney Museum of American Art
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Abject Art by : Jack Ben-Levi

Download or read book Abject Art written by Jack Ben-Levi and published by Whitney Museum of American Art. This book was released on 1993 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Making of an Artist

Author : Kristin G. Congdon
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781783208517
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (85 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Making of an Artist by : Kristin G. Congdon

Download or read book The Making of an Artist written by Kristin G. Congdon and published by Intellect (UK). This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What drives an artist to create? And are there common traits that successful artists possess? In The Making of an Artist, Kristin G. Congdon draws on her years of studying and teaching art at all levels--from universities to correctional settings--to identify three traits that are regularly found in successful artists: desire, courage, and commitment. In this collection Congdon explores each of those traits, as well as giving ethnographic case studies of six visual artists from diverse backgrounds and locations whose practices embody them. Marrying the work of biography, journalism, sociology, and psychology, the book opens up the often mysterious process of making art, showing us how those characteristics play into it, as well as how other factors, such as trauma, madness, class, and gender, affect the ways that people approach the creative process. Powerfully insightful and fully accessible, The Making of an Artist will be an invaluable resource for practicing artists, those just setting out on artistic careers, and art teachers alike.

The Art Of Seduction

Author : Robert Greene
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847651402
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Art Of Seduction by : Robert Greene

Download or read book The Art Of Seduction written by Robert Greene and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-09-03 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which sort of seducer could you be? Siren? Rake? Cold Coquette? Star? Comedian? Charismatic? Or Saint? This book will show you which. Charm, persuasion, the ability to create illusions: these are some of the many dazzling gifts of the Seducer, the compelling figure who is able to manipulate, mislead and give pleasure all at once. When raised to the level of art, seduction, an indirect and subtle form of power, has toppled empires, won elections and enslaved great minds. In this beautiful, sensually designed book, Greene unearths the two sides of seduction: the characters and the process. Discover who you, or your pursuer, most resembles. Learn, too, the pitfalls of the anti-Seducer. Immerse yourself in the twenty-four manoeuvres and strategies of the seductive process, the ritual by which a seducer gains mastery over their target. Understand how to 'Choose the Right Victim', 'Appear to Be an Object of Desire' and 'Confuse Desire and Reality'. In addition, Greene provides instruction on how to identify victims by type. Each fascinating character and each cunning tactic demonstrates a fundamental truth about who we are, and the targets we've become - or hope to win over. The Art of Seduction is an indispensable primer on the essence of one of history's greatest weapons and the ultimate power trip. From the internationally bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, Mastery, and The 33 Strategies Of War.

Technology and Desire

Author : Rania Gaafar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783201679
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Technology and Desire by : Rania Gaafar

Download or read book Technology and Desire written by Rania Gaafar and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology and Desire argues that innovations in digital media technology are behind a growing shift toward digitally enhanced realism in the arts and, in particular, the art of the moving image. It provides insights into the rapidly expanding field of film and media studies, and presents a philosophy of new technology in the arts.

Forms of Desire

Author : Doris Kloster
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466879998
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Forms of Desire by : Doris Kloster

Download or read book Forms of Desire written by Doris Kloster and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the trend of S/M and fetishism in art that Doris Kloster helped popularize with her first self-titled book, Kloster remains the only prominent female photographer to do significant work. Now, with her new book Forms of Desire, Kloster transcends that genre and utilizes her unique position to examine a broader range of erotic expression, pointedly exploring female sexuality in all of its various guises. With this collection of nudes and portraits, all shot on location, Kloster invites the viewer to experience the rich and varied sexuality of a multi-racial group of strong, adventurous women. The result is nothing less than a compendium of female sexual expression, exploring different facets of women's sexual natures - from fetishism and role-playing to the use of toys and gender-bending. As co-founder and editorial director of FAD magazine, Kloster has been walking the cultural edge for over ten years, photographing sex radicals and capturing women's sexual power with her lens. Forms of Desire is her most accomplished work to date; her strongest statement on sexuality, power, and gender.

Essential Desires

Author : Brian Curtin
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781789142938
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (429 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Essential Desires by : Brian Curtin

Download or read book Essential Desires written by Brian Curtin and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential Desires: Contemporary Art in Thailand is the first major, fully illustrated survey of Thai art in thirty years. Brian Curtin shows how Thai artists negotiated their emergence on the global art stage while dealing with pan-Asian regionalism and nationalism at home. This book traces the influences on contemporary Thai artists, from the impact of consumerism in Bangkok in the 1990s to the waning legacies of tradition, and their relationship to the nation's often-volatile political stage. Curtin, in his exploration of Thailand's fascinating art scene, shows how Thai artists are generating new ideas about their country.

The Age of Desire

Author : Jennie Fields
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 0143123289
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Age of Desire by : Jennie Fields

Download or read book The Age of Desire written by Jennie Fields and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of The Paris Wife, a sparkling glimpse into the life of Edith Wharton and the scandalous love affair that threatened her closest friendship They say that behind every great man is a great woman. Behind Edith Wharton, there was Anna Bahlmann—her governess turned literary secretary and confidante. At the age of forty-five, despite her growing fame, Edith remains unfulfilled in a lonely, sexless marriage. Against all the rules of Gilded Age society, she falls in love with Morton Fullerton, a dashing young journalist. But their scandalous affair threatens everything in Edith’s life—especially her abiding ties to Anna. At a moment of regained popularity for Wharton, Jennie Fields brilliantly interweaves Wharton’s real letters and diary entries with her fascinating, untold love story. Told through the points of view of both Edith and Anna, The Age of Desire transports readers to the golden days of Wharton’s turn-of-the century world and—like the recent bestseller The Chaperone—effortlessly re-creates the life of an unforgettable woman.

Objects of Desire

Author : Margit Rowell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781853321689
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (216 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Objects of Desire by : Margit Rowell

Download or read book Objects of Desire written by Margit Rowell and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this text re-evaluates the genre of still life in terms of both subject matter and style. Margit Rowell, Chief Curator of The Museum of Modern Art's Department of Drawings, explains the qualities which have made the genre so attractive and enduring to artists such as Matisse, Picasso, Oldenburg and Christo. Questioning the common view of the still life as a minor art form, Rowell demonstrates how the paintings offer a unique index of their maker's interests, formal concerns and times.