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| | Digital Art | £9.95 |  |
– Art Monthly
– The Sunday TimesNot only have traditional forms of art such as printing, painting, photography and sculpture been transformed by digital techniques and media, but entirely new forms such as net art, software art, digital installations and virtual reality have emerged as recognized artistic practices, collected by major museums, institutions and private collectors the world over. Christiane Paul surveys the developments in digital art from its appearance in the 1980s up to the present day, and looks ahead to what the future may hold. |  |
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| | Colour in Art | £9.95 |  |
A much anticipated addition to the World of Art library by John Gage, author of the seminal books 'Colour and Culture' and 'Colour and Meaning: Art, Science and Society'. Colour in Art is concerned with the history of colour, but is not itself a history; instead each chapter develops a theme from a different scientific discipline, but seen from the viewpoint of artists such as Kandinsky, van Gogh and Anish Kapoor. | |
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| | American Art and Architecture | £9.95 |  |
An accessible, concise, and beautifully written survey of American art and architecture from 1600 to the latest installation and video work.
The author, Michael J. Lewis, is Professor of Art History at Williams College in Massachusetts. | |
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| | New Media in Art | £8.95 |  |
– The World of Interiors
Artists have radically extended conventional media into film-making and video, happenings, performance and installation art, digitally manipulated photography and virtual reality. This expanded and revised edition of a pioneering book (originally published as 'New Media in Late 20th-Century Art') discusses the most influential artists internationally and those seminal works which have transformed world art. | |
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| | The Photograph as Contemporary Art | £9.95 |  |
– The Independent
From conceptual art’s use of the banal and ‘artless’ snapshot to the carefully constructed tableaux of Jeff Wall, this book considers the full range of ways that today’s artists engage with photography to make art – an ideal introduction to the twenty-first century’s dominant art form. | |
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