Introduction : the Dewey effect -- The Pop effect -- The Sontag effect -- The Richter effect -- The Salcedo effect.
"In this work, which gathers previously uncollected essays and a series of seminars delivered at Bennington in 1971, Greenberg provides his most expansive statement of his views on taste and quality in art, arguing for an esthetic that flies in the face of current art world fash…
"In this work, which gathers previously uncollected essays and a series of seminars delivered at Bennington in 1971, Greenberg provides his most expansive statement of his views on taste and quality in art, arguing for an esthetic that flies in the face of current art world fash…
Although the creative impulse surges in revolt against everyday reality, breaking through its confines, it makes pacts with that reality's essential laws and returns to it to modulate its sense. In fact, it is through praxis that imagination and artistic inventiveness transmute …
"Graphic design... is not good design if it does not co-operate as an instrument in the service of communication." A seminal text of graphic design, Paul Rand's classic treatise is reproduced here for the first time since 1970. Writing at the height of his career, Rand articulat…
"Theodor W. Adorno was a major twentieth-century philosopher and social critic whose writings on oppositional culture in art, music, and literature increasingly stand at the center of contemporary intellectual debate. In this excellent collection, Robert Hullot-Kentor, widely re…
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