FW: New Titles in The Arts
Ana Buigues
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Subject: New Titles in The Arts
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Three Philosophical Filmmakers
Irrational Modernism
Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment
Aby Warburg and the Image in Motion
Chronophobia
Rhythm Science
Metacreation
New Philosophy for New Media
Minor Histories
Pioneers of Modern Typography
The Cinema Effect
Defaced
African Arts
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Three Philosophical Filmmakers
Hitchcock, Welles, Renoir
By Irving Singer
Examining the work of Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, and Jean Renoir a=
s it
expresses their disparate visions of the human condition.
May 2004 ISBN 0-262-19501-1 $32.95/£21.95 (CLOTH)
TABLE OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE
Irrational Modernism
A Neurasthenic History of New York Dada
By Amelia Jones
A revisionist history of New York Dada, with appearances by Baroness El=
sa as
the embodiment of irrational modernism.
April 2004 ISBN 0-262-10102-5 $39.95/£25.95 (CLOTH)
TABLE OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE
Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment
By Angela Ndalianis
Tracing the logic of media history, from the baroque to the neo-baroque=
,
from magic lanterns and automata to film and computer games.
April 2004 ISBN 0-262-14084-5 $34.95/£22.95 (CLOTH)
TABLE OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE
Aby Warburg and the Image in Motion
By Philippe-Alain Michaud; Translated by Sophie Hawkes
The purposeful discontinuities and juxtapositions of Aby Warburg's
iconography and how they can be used to analyze other imagery.
March 2004 ISBN 1-890951-39-0 $33.00/£21.95 (CLOTH)
TABLE OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE
Chronophobia
On Time in the Art of the 1960s
By Pamela M. Lee
An examination of the pervasive anxiety about and fixation with time se=
en in
1960s art.
March 2004 ISBN 0-262-12260-X $34.95/£22.95 (CLOTH)
TABLE OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE
Rhythm Science
By Paul D. Miller aka Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid
The art of the mix creates a new language of creativity.
March 2004 ISBN 0-262-63287-X $17.95/£11.95 (PAPER)
TABLE OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE
Metacreation
Art and Artificial Life
By Mitchell Whitelaw
The first detailed examination of a-life art, where new media artists a=
dopt,
and adapt, techniques from artificial life.
March 2004 ISBN 0-262-23234-0 $32.95/£21.95 (CLOTH)
TABLE OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE
New Philosophy for New Media
By Mark B.N. Hansen
A philosophy of new media that defines the digital image as the process=
by
which the body filters information to create images.
March 2004 ISBN 0-262-08321-3 $34.95/£22.95 (CLOTH)
TABLE OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE
Minor Histories
Statements, Conversations, Proposals
By Mike Kelley; Edited by John C. Welchman
The second volume of writings by Los Angeles artist Mike Kelley, focusi=
ng on
his own work.
March 2004 ISBN 0-262-61198-8 $27.95/£18.95 (PAPER)
TABLE OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE
Pioneers of Modern Typography
Revised Edition
By Herbert Spencer
A revised edition of the standard guide to the avant-garde origins of m=
odern
graphic design and typography, illustrated with many iconic examples.
March 2004 ISBN 0-262-69303-8 $29.95/£19.95 (PAPER)
TABLE OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE
The Cinema Effect
By Sean Cubitt
A history of images in motion that explores the "special effect" of cin=
ema.
March 2004 ISBN 0-262-03312-7 $39.95/£25.95 (CLOTH)
TABLE OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE
Defaced
The Visual Culture of Violence in the Late Middle Ages
By Valentin Groebner
Understanding late medieval pictorial representations of violence.
January 2004 ISBN 1-890951-37-4 $26.00/£16.95 (CLOTH)
TABLE OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE
Marla C. Berns, Donald J. Cosentino, Allen F. Roberts, Mary Nooter Robe=
rts
and Doran H. Ross, Editors
African Arts is published quarterly by the James S. Coleman African Stu=
dies
Center, UCLA and distributed by The MIT Press.
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Founded: 1967
ISSN 0001-9933
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