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Writing about Visual Art

David Carrier

David Carrier examines the history and practice of art writing and reveals its importance to the art museum, the art gallery, and aesthetic theory.

Principles of Art History Writing

David Carrier

Lt.-Com. Max Miller

Here is the way the men of the carrier think and feel, from the moment of leaving port, through the long days of zigzagging into enemy waters, the mounting tension as the moment of battle draws near, the furious hours of attack, the losses ...

Down the Colorado: Travels on a Western Waterway

Jim Carrier

In this itinerant diary, illustrated by 30 maps and produced in a nonstop, season-long journey, Carrier finds unexpected adventures, hidden gems and outrageous characters who bring the river’s story alive.

Here We Are: The History, Meaning, and Magic of GPS

Jim Carrier

Here, from New York Times and National Geographic contributor Jim Carrier, is the fascinating, little-known story of the discovery, development, and future of GPS, the greatest advance in navigation ever fielded and a mighty electronic glue ...

New Theatre Quarterly 61: Volume 16

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Frances Babbage The Past in the Present? A Response to Stan's Cafe's Revival of 'The Carrier Frequency' The premiere of The Carrier Frequency took place in 1984, the result of a collaboration between Leeds-based Impact Theatre ...

All You Can Eat: (A seafood fantasy)

Jim Carrier

An ancient, abundant protein source, shrimp are no longer ÒseaÓ food, but a commodity raised in seawater Òfarms.Ó In this telling journey, Jim Carrier wades into the romantic but tortured history of shrimp fishing and farming.

Here We Are: The History, Meaning, and Magic of GPS

Jim Carrier

Jim Carrier, a veteran science writer and filmmaker, contributor to the New York Times and the National Geographic, a transatlantic sailor, and a GPS entrepreneur, provides the first primer on the fascinating history and vital importance of ...

England and its Aesthetes: Biography and Taste

David Carrier

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Artwriting

David Carrier

'Artwriting' is concerned with texts of recent art critics. The analysis draws on Arhtur Danto's theory of interpretation and upon three connected conceptual points.

Sean Scully

David Carrier

This book is an illustrated monograph to present an account of the artist’s entire life and career, from his childhood in 1950s London, via New York and Barcelona, to the present day in Munich.

The Contemporary Art Gallery: Display, Power and Privilege

David Carrier

The basic purpose of this book is to enliven the reader’s latent knowledge of galleries, including architectural motifs, the intended impression that is conveyed to the visitor, and human interactions within them.

Rosalind Krauss and American Philosophical Art Criticism: ...

David Carrier

Studies the work of the most original and influential present-day art critic, tracing her development from her formalist writings in the 1960s through the post-structuralism of the current academic climate.

Proust/Warhol: Analytical Philosophy of Art

David Carrier

Proust/Warhol concludes with a discussion of an issue of particular importance for Warhol, the relationship between art and fashion.

Daimōn: Revista de filosofía

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Amy M. Schmitter: Picturing Power: Representation and Las Meninas. Arment. Marsoobian: Saying, Singing, or Semiotics: "Prima la Música e poi le Parole" Revisited. Discussion: David Carrier: Gombrich and Dante on Defining Art. Kathleen ...

Text, Body and Indeterminacy: Doppelgänger Selves in Pater ...

Anna Budziak

For instance, Pater's impact on modernism has been indicated by F. C. McGrath, Terence S. Brown, R. J. Green, Stuart Y. McDougal, Sharon Bassett, Allan D. Perlis, Adeline Tintner, David Carrier, Jerome Bump, Paul West, Richard Dellamora, ...

To the soil of So IL: I'm from southern Illinois : Tanner, ...

Betty Field Renshaw

He married (1) Rosie Reynolds in Carrier Mills, IL... He married (2) Jamima Smith in Carrier Mills, IL... Children of Gary Farthing and Rosie Reynolds are: 49 i. Brad' Farthing. + 50 ii. Chad Farthing. Children of Gary Farthing and Jamima Smith ...

Art International

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... Beaumont (London) Alice Bellony-Rewald (Paris) Dominique Billier ( Scandinavia) David Carrier (New York) Jean Clair (Paris) Victoria Combalia ( Barcelona] Philip Conisbee (Los Angeles) Fiona Dunlop (Paris) Gregory Galligan (New York) ...

The owl: a Carrier Indian legend

Bernadette Rossetti

The Bones of a Bulk Carrier: The History and Archaeology of ...

Bradley A. Rodgers

High Art: Charles Baudelaire and the Origins of Modernist ...

David Carrier

The great poet Charles Baudelaire (1821&–1867) was also an extremely influential art critic. High Art relates the philosophical issues posed by Baudelaire's art writing to the theory and practice of modernist and postmodernist painting.