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The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
Artist/Author: Maggie Nelson | Reference: P3523 | ISBN: 978-0393343144 | Type: Publication

Questions whether or not focusing on representations of cruelty makes us cruel. In a journey through high and low culture, the visual to the verbal, and the apolitical to the political, Nelson offers a model of how one might balance strong ethical convictions with an equally strong appreciation for work that tests the limits of taste, taboo and permissibility.

Abu Ghraib actionism Ana Mendieta Antonin Artaud Brian Evenson captivity Chris Burden Christianity ethics Francis Bacon Franz Kafka George W Bush horror Jacques Rancière Kara Walker Marina Abramović Mike Kelley Oedipal complex Paul McCarthy reality TV Sigmund Freud Simone Weil social order Susan Sontag Sylvia Plath taboo torture war

The Leonardo Question
Artist/Author: Caroline Wiseman | Reference: P2935 | ISBN: 978-0955319426 | Type: Publication

Where can Art go from here and who will be the next modern master? To help answer this question we are taken on an enlightening and entertaining journey through the story of modern cubism to now.

Andy Warhol art history Barney collectors criticism curator Damien Hirst Francis Bacon gallery Gilbert & George Haruki Murakami Jackson Pollock Jeff Koons Marcel Duchamp Pablo Picasso Peggy Guggenheim Tracey Emin visual art

Modern Art Now: From Conception to Consumption
Artist/Author: Caroline Wiseman | Reference: P2934 | ISBN: 978-0955319402 | Type: Publication

Explores the inspiration of 30 UK modern artists and how their works illuminate the homes and lives of their owners.

Antony Gormley Barbara Hepworth Ben Nicholson Bridget Riley Chris Ofili Christopher Le Brun collection conceptual art Craigie Aitchison Damien Hirts David Hockney Elisabeth Frink Elizabeth Blackadder Francis Bacon gallery Gilbert & George Grayson Perry Henry Moore Howard Hodgkin John Hoyland Lucian Freud Mary Fedden Nigel Hall painting Patrick Caulfield Patrick Heron Peter Blake Phillip King photography Sandra Blow sculpture Sean Scully Terry Frost Tracey Emin Victor Pasmore visual art William Scott

Work 2009/10
Artist/Author: Fergus Byrne | Reference: D1574 | Type: DVD
Fergus Byrne Francis Bacon performance lecture performative sculpture The Wrestlers

Art Beyond Representation: The Performative Power of the Image
Artist/Author: Barbara Bolt | Reference: P1492 | ISBN: 1850434115 | Type: Publication

Argues for a performative relationship between art and artist.

academia academic writing C.S. Pierce Catholicism creative process criticism embodied Félix Guattari Francis Bacon Gilles Deleuze image Judith Butler Martin Heidegger Oscar Wilde practice as research representation study of art theory transubstantiation

The Happy Hypocrite - Volatile Dispersal
Editor: Maria Fusco | Reference: P1221 | ISBN: 978-1-906012-11-3 | Type: Publication

Second issue of the journal for and about experimental art writing. A reprint in entirety of A Great Book Primer.

adult education art writing Chicago education Francis Bacon Great Books Foundation José Ortega y Gasset language Michel de Montaigne Mortimer J. Adler peer reading T.S Eliot tradition

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