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Uma reveladora jornada pela vida e a obra de 31 artistas geniais que compartilham uma qualidade essencial: o olhar. Frida Kahlo nos ajuda a ver através da dor. Rembrandt dá uma aula sobre autopercepção. David Hockney abre nossos olhos para a luminosidade da natureza. Jean-Michel Basquiat nos...

Bloomsbury presents The Politics of Aesthetics by Jacques Ranciere, read by Charles Armstrong. The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "aesthetics" from the narrow confines it is often reduced to. Jacques Rancière reveals its intrinsic link to...

A heart-stopping family memoir about art, obsession, and love as the author searches for the spectacular jeweled egg that consumed her father’s dreams and spelled her family’s downfall. "An extraordinary family story and a strange, poignant portrait of obsession." —Sophie Elmhirst, New...

Con la obra que tiene entre sus manos conocerá la «Ocultura» que rodea a la historia del arte. A través de estas páginas, el autor presenta una serie de temas apasionantes, con interesantes datos, diversos misterios y teorías que giran en torno a ellos, así como algunas de sus posibles teorías. Todo ello con la finalidad de que el lector encuentre respuestas; pero, sobre todo, para que comience a formularse ciertas preguntas.

Artists are expert lookers: they have learned to pay attention. The rest of us spend most of our time on autopilot, rushing from place to place, our overfamiliarity blinding us to the marvelous, life-affirming phenomena of our world. But that doesn't have to be the case. In his inimitable engaging style, Will Gompertz takes us into the minds of artists—from contemporary stars to old masters, the well-known to the lesser-so, and from around the world—to show us how to look and experience the world with their heightened awareness.

An informative, fun and rather charming essay on the nature and history of one of life’s most desirable assets, Charm, by renowned culture and design critic, Stephen Bayley. Aiming to wound, a schoolmaster wrote on future design-guru Stephen Bayley’s last ever school report “Charm alone...

The essential guide for anyone looking to find a job in the professional art sector, or make a career change into the industry. Ever been told that your plan to work in art is a pipe dream? Or that the art world is far too opaque and nepotistic to break into? This book breaks down the barriers...

A New York Times Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book of 2026 A story-driven meditation on one of the oldest art forms and what it reveals about memory, creativity, and being human Why have we always made sculpture? What draws us to carve, cast, and mold forms from the materials around us? What do...

The first Manifesto of Surrealism was a rejection of the logical and the rational, and a call to explore the untainted functioning of the mind. The results of its study led to many of the 20th century's great artworks, and founded a movement that permeates every aspect of contemporary art. 21st Century Surrealism attempts to update the principles of the art of the unconscious. This book is a treatise in aesthetics, viewed through the lens of history. It is an examination of the meaning and purpose of art, and why the art of the unconscious remains the most vital spark in creativity.

'From classical painting to video games, this survey of the taboo and the twisted won't let you look away . . . A timely and punchy new book' Guardian 'Skips with panache across periods and genres, connecting disparate ideas and artworks . . . Even at its most provocative, Dixon's book remains...

There's more to Banksy than the painting on the wall: the first in-depth investigation into the mysteries of the world's most famous living artist. Banksy is the world's most famous living artist, yet no one knows who he is. For more than twenty years, his wryly political and darkly humorous spray paintings have appeared mysteriously on urban walls around the globe, generating headlines and controversy.

A dazzling journey through 500 years of art, ideas and human imagination, told through one of the most enduring and versatile artistic mediums ever created - the woodcut. At its simplest, a woodcut begins with a piece of wood, a cutting tool, ink and paper. Yet from these humble materials...

A first-hand account of art, survival and resistance in wartime Ukraine Charlotte Higgins never imagined she would report on a war. But in the autumn of 2022, seven months into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she travelled there to find out how artists and writers were reflecting the...

Connecting to your own authentic core will fill you and your work with strength and relevance. To those engaged in making art, an authentic voice is the most crucial yet most difficult ability to come by. Why does so much conspire to hide what is ultimately the closest, simplest thing of all? Creative Authenticity outlines 16 principles that will help you peel back the fears, misconceptions, "shoulds" and confusion around courageous creative expression.

In The Politics of Collecting, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of United States museum collections and conceptual art forms. Investigating historical legal and property claims, she argues that regimes of expropriation—rather than merit or good...

Like Paris in the 1920s, New York City in the 1960s was a cauldron of avant-garde ferment and artistic innovation. Boundaries were transgressed and new forms created. Drawing on interviews, memoirs, and the alternative press, Everything Is Now chron­icles this collective drama as it was played...

Andrés Amorós, uno de los escritores y críticos taurinos más reconocidos, realiza en este ensayo un recorrido riguroso por la historia de la fiesta, desde los orígenes del toro como protagonista de ceremonias y celebraciones, hasta la evolución del festejo durante los siglos XX y XXI.

The Biennale Book: Ten Foundations of Contemporary Art explores ten of the world’s most influential biennales, revealing how these exhibitions became the places where art, politics, and society meet. From Venice’s historic pavilions to Berlin’s radical experiments, from Gwangju’s democratic spirit to Sharjah’s postcolonial conversations, each chapter uncovers the stories, tensions, and breakthroughs that reshaped how we see art today. A global tour through Venice, São Paulo, Berlin, Havana, Istanbul, Sharjah, Sydney, Gwangju, Liverpool, and New York.

Artist Harriet Burden, consumed by fury at the lack of recognition she has received from the New York art establishment, embarks on an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts who exhibit her work as their own. And yet, even after she has unmasked herself, there are those who...

In Art as Information Ecology, Jason A. Hoelscher offers not only an information theory of art but an aesthetic theory of information. Applying close readings of the information theories of Claude Shannon and Gilbert Simondon to 1960s American art, Hoelscher proposes that art is information in its aesthetic or indeterminate mode—information oriented less toward answers and resolvability than toward questions, irresolvability, and sustained difference. In this way, art constitutes information that remains in formation---a difference that makes a difference that keeps on differencing.