Published: February 2009
Publisher: Norton
Published: February 2009
Publisher: University of California Press
An appealing hybrid of autobiography and cultural history, this broad-strokes memoir describes the life of the New Museum’s founding director and the tumultuous art worlds in which it transpired.
Published: February 2009
Publisher: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Richard Brody, a New Yorker editor and film critic, whose first book this is, contends that the late-period films are magisterial culminations of Jean-Luc Godard’s lifelong dedication to cinema. Brody is right.
Published: November 1999
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Books on theory are rarely urgent reading foranyone but other theorists. The exception iswhen the field they cover happens to be in crisis.Then they are voraciously consumed in a search fora solution to whatever ails the field. For that reason, two books on craft, Howard Risatti’s A Theoryof Craft: Function and Aesthetic Expression andGlenn Adamson’s Thinking Through Craft, are likelyto garner attention as this community wrestles withits most challenging identity crisis in over a century.
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