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Bioart -- art that uses either living materials (such as bacteria or transgenic organisms) or more traditional materials to comment...

In the twenty-first century, we are continually confronted with the existential side of technology-the relationships between identity and the mechanizations...

A visual history of the electronic age captures the collision of technology and art—and our collective visions of the future....

Video art emerged as an art form that from the 1960s and onwards challenged the concept of art - hence,...

A wry and beautifully observed memoir about coming of age in the era of conceptual art. Growing up in the...

After World War II, the concept of borders became unsettled, especially after the rise of subaltern and multicultural studies in...

The Vietnam War (1964-1975) divided American society like no other war of the twentieth century, and some of the most...

Museums and museum politics were important elements in the development of the disciplines of Archaeology and Art History in nineteenth-century...

Combining the perspectives of 18 international scholars from Europe and the United States with a critical discussion of the role...

In this key text in the history of art and aesthetics, Karl Rosenkranz shows ugliness to be the negation of...

Multi-media charts the development of multi-media video, installation and performance in a unique dialogue between theoretical analysis and specially commiss......

Displaying the Ideals of Antiquity investigates the study and display of ancient sculpture from archaeological, art historical, and museum studies...

Photography: History and Theory introduces students to both the history of photography and critical theory. From its inception in the...

One of the most influential anthropological works of the last two decades, Alfred Gell's Art and Agency is a provocative...

In his landmark volume Space, Time and Architecture, Sigfried Giedion paired images of two iconic spirals: Tatlin's Monument to the...

In this engaging book, Jeremy Black argues that technology neither acts as an independent variable nor operates without major limitations....

This book focuses on a dimension of art which the philosophical tradition (from Plato to Hegel and even Adorno) has...

Over the last twenty years the educational role of the museum has come to be central to its mission. There...

There is a new form of design practice within the contemporary fashion industry which is active in complex forms of...