One of fifty new books at 1.00 pound each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry – all complete, standalone works, some never published in Penguin Modern Classics before.

Explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly – and what the troubling social and political implications of this are.

Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject.Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhe ..

Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art, published as part of the Penguin on Design series in Penguin Modern Classics.'Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before ..

INTRODUCTION Synthesis and analysis The difference between static and dynamic symmetry Sources for the study of dynamic symmetryTHE DYNAMIC SYMMETRY OF THE PLANT The summation series How dynamic symmetry was discovered The logarithmic s ..

"Nell'odierna storiografia artistica si tende a sorvolare sull'idea di progresso. Č un'idea che abbiamo superato, insieme a quella di decadenza. Qualunque universitario al primo anno sa giŕ che Michelangelo non vale piů di Giotto, bensě č soltanto di ..

In Chroma, Derek Jarman explains the use of colour in Medieval painting through the Renaissance to the modernists and draws on the great colour theorists from Pliny to Leonardo. He also talks about the meaning of colours in literature, science, philo ..

It was not long after Halloween when Stephen King received a telephone call from his editor. ‚Why don't you do a book about the entire horror phenomenon as you see it? Books, movies, radio, TV, the whole thing.‘ The result is this unique combination ..

What is the function of art in the era of digital globalization?How can one think of art institutions in an age defined by planetary civil war, growing inequality, and proprietary digital technology? The boundaries of such institutions have g

The world comes to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations as it does in our surroundings, as this scintillating book reveals. Each chapter immerses the reader in a single colour, drawing together stories from the histories of art ..

Kniha Art Monsters autora Lauren Elkin vydaná v nakladatelství Random House v roce 2024, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, ISBN-13: 9781529922554, zařazení do kategorie: Teorie umění.

An overview of the theories of color from antiquity to the present. An indispensable study for all who work with color including artists, glazers, architects, decorators, designers, ceramic and textile artists, and the student of color theory.