"There exists a series of contemporary artists who continually defy the traditional role of the artist/author, including Art & Language, Guerrilla Girls, Bob and Roberta Smith, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd and LuckyPDF. In Death of the Artist, Nicola McCartney explores their work and us…
There exists a series of contemporary artists who continually defy the traditional role of the artist/author, including Art & Language, Guerrilla Girls, Bob and Roberta Smith, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd and Lucky PDF. In Death of the Artist, Nicola McCartney explores their work and us…
The work of art has often been a battleground - its decorative and formal aspects positioned against its nature as an embodiment of cognitive acts. Leonardo da Vinci's claim that art be a "cosa mentale" is winning at last: recent debates around art schools and their methods, of …
A historical construction. Copycat Japan -- The West and the invention of creation -- The denial, rejection, and sublimation of imitation -- No poaching -- Seen from Japan -- The logic of reflection in Nakai Masakazu -- A new place for imitation. Kishida Ryusei's portraits of Re…
"The central point of this book is the realization that the creative work of Alban Berg, which in recent years has moved to the forefront of scholarly interest, is largely rooted in autobiography, so that therefore one can gain access to the music by studying the inner biography…
Conceptualizing the artist's labor prior to the nineteenth century -- Art, craft, and industrialization -- The artist's process from the academic to the modern -- New conceptions of the artist's process -- The artist's process as a means of self-realization -- The artist's proce…
In recent years, many prominent and successful artists have claimed that their primary concern is not the artwork they produce but the artistic process itself. In this volume, Kim Grant analyzes this idea and traces its historical roots, showing how changing concepts of artistic…
Die in diesem Band zusammengestellten Aufsätze präsentieren kunsthistorische Methoden zur Untersuchung der Entstehungsbedingungen mittelalterlicher und frühneuzeitlicher Buchmalerei. Die Berücksichtigung der verschiedenen Faktoren, die beim Herstellungsprozess der Bücher und bei…
"Don DeLillo has spent his career reflecting upon the creative processes of artists. In recent years he has become increasingly drawn to spectators and how they project and indulge their own private obsessions through art. The Self-Reflexive Art of Don DeLillo is the first book …
"Don DeLillo has spent his career reflecting upon the creative processes of artists. In recent years he has become increasingly drawn to spectators and how they project and indulge their own private obsessions through art. The Self-Reflexive Art of Don DeLillo is the first book …
From the mid-1950s through the 1960s, Hungarian composer György Ligeti went through a remarkable period of stylistic transition, from the emulation of his fellow countryman Béla Bartók to his own individual style at the forefront of the Western-European avant-garde. Through care…
