This book starts at the very beginning and ends with some remarkably profound insights on conductorial subtleties. An experienced conductor is one in whom detection, diagnosis, and remedy take place simultaneously; as he hears the error, he realizes where the fault lies and what to do about it. This book gives valuable hints about these three basic conductorial functions from the viewpoint of chorus and orchestra alike. McElheran leads the student toward mastery of the problems at hand, with firmness and gentle humour.

For decades, aesthetics has been subjected to a variety of critiques, often concerning its treatment of beauty or the autonomy of art. Collectively, these complaints have generated an anti-aesthetic stance prevalent in the contemporary art world. Yet if we examine the motivations for these critiques, Michael Kelly argues, we find theorists and artists hungering for a new kind of aesthetics, one better calibrated to contemporary art and its moral and political demands...

Praised in its original edition for its up-to-date, rigorous presentation of current debates and for the clarity of its presentation, Robert Stecker's new edition of Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art preserves the major themes and conclusions of the original, while expanding its content, providing new features, and enhancing accessibility. Stecker introduces students to the history and evolution of aesthetics, and also makes an important distinction between aesthetics and philosophy of art...

In The Return of the Real Hal Foster discusses the development of art and theory since 1960, and reorders the relation between prewar and postwar avant-gardes. Opposed to the assumption that contemporary art is somehow belated, he argues that the avant-garde returns to us from the future, repositioned by innovative practice in the present. And he poses this retroactive model of art and theory against the reactionary undoing of progressive culture that is pervasive today...

As a novelist, essayist, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of the canons of our civilization. In About Looking he explores our role as observers to reveal new layers of meaning in what we see. How do the animals we look at in zoos remind us of a relationship between man and beast all but lost in the twentieth century? What is it about looking at war photographs that doubles their already potent violence? How do the nudes of Rodin betray the threats to his authority and potency posed by clay and flesh? And how does solitude inform the art of Giacometti? In asking these and other questions, Berger alters the vision of anyone who reads his work.

Co-founder and co-editor of October magazine, a veteran of Artforum of the 1960s and early 1970s, Rosalind Krauss has presided over and shared in the major formulation of the theory of postmodernism...

In essays that span three decades, one of contemporary art's most esteemed critics celebrates artists who have persevered in the service of a medium...

Moving beyond traditional cyberculture studies paradigms in several key ways, this comprehensive collection marks the increasing convergence of cyberculture with other forms of media, and with all aspects of our lives in a digitized world...

A 2018 januárjában megnyílt Közös ügyeink című kiállítás egy négyéves nemzetközi program (CAPP – Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme) eredményeit mutatta be a közönségnek a Ludwig Múzeumban. A projekt célja az volt, hogy megismertesse a művészekkel az együttműködésen alapuló művészeti gyakorlatokat, és olyan, különféle közösségek bevonásával megvalósuló projekteket támogasson, amelyek hatékony megoldást keresnek egy-egy aktuális társadalmi problémára...

Since its publication fifty years ago, this work has established itself as a classic. It casts the visual process in psychological terms and describes the creative way one's eye organizes visual material according to specific psychological premises. In 1974 this book was revised and expanded, and since then it has continued to burnish Rudolf Arnheim's reputation as a groundbreaking theoretician in the fields of art and psychology.

Az Országos Katolikus Gyűjteményi Központ szeretné segíteni azokat, akik érdeklődnek azon műtárgyak iránt, melyek legfőbb célja a liturgia szolgálata. A vallásos jellegű műtárgyakon belül ez egy sajátos csoportot alkot. Jelen kézikönyv összefogja a liturgikus művészet különböző területeit. Mivel azonban az épületek és a benne használatos tárgyak nem érthetők a Katolikus Egyház tanítása, lelkisége, szokásai és gyakorlatai nélkül, ezért szükség mutatkozott egy olyan szemléletű munkára, mely feltételezi ugyan a szakképzett művészettörténész munkáját, de e mellé feltétlenül szükségesek azok a teológiai ismeretek is, melyek a Katolikus Egyház latin rítusának a specialitásához tartoznak...

This long-awaited volume of Kodály’s writings on music education contains articles, speeches and interviews by the world-renowned composer, ethnomusicologist and pedagogue...