Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art,...
ART / Criticism & Theory
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Auteur:Ducornet, RikkiSommaire:Included in Library Journal's "25 Key Indie Fiction Titles, Fall 2014-Winter 2015" Within the writer's life, words and things acquire power. For Borges it is the tiger and the color red, for CortAzar a pair of...
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Auteur:Frye, NorthropSommaire:"Any publication by Northrop Frye is an important literary event; this one is of the highest importance to Canadian literature." - Globe and Mail Originally published by Anansi in 1971, The Bush Garden features Northrop Frye's timeless...
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Auteur:Fox, Dan.Sommaire:Pretentiousness is for anyone who has braved being different, whether that's making a stand against artistic consensus or running the gauntlet of the last bus home dressed differently from everyone else. It's an essential...
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Auteur:Williamson, MargauxSommaire:"Like all my favorite art, these paintings bring out that covetous feeling. I want to wear them, dance to them, show them off as an example of how life feels to me: dirty, dumb, terrifying, spiritual, and so funny."-Miranda...
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Auteur:Hobsbawm, EricSommaire:Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age. Through his work, he observed the great twentieth-century confrontation between bourgeois fin de siEcle culture and myriad new...
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Auteur:Johnson, JeanSommaire:The craft of craft, the art of craft - here in Canada we're just starting to really talk about these things. In March 1999, Jean Johnson, who runs Toronto's Craft Studio at Harbourfront Centre, organized a wildly successful symposium on...
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Auteur:Balzer, DavidSommaire:"Now that we 'curate' even lunch, what happens to the role of the connoisseur in contemporary culture' 'Curate' is now a buzzword applied to everything from music festivals to artisanal cheese. Inside the...
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Auteur:Raicovich, LauraSommaire:Walter De Maria's "Lightning Field" is 400 stainless steel poles, positioned 220 feet apart, in the desert of central New Mexico. Over the course of several visits, it becomes, for Raicovich, a site for confounding and...
