Discussions of the object as a key to understanding central aspects of modern and contemporary art. Artists increasingly refer to "post-object-based" work while
This new collection of interconnected essays marches to a provocative premise: what if one way to understand your life was to examine the objects within it? Whi
This book draws on the work of anthropologist Alfred Gell to reinstate the importance of the object in art and society. Rather than presenting art as a passive
A study on how our eyes function with our brains examines the irrational elements of physical sight and concludes that human seeing transforms both the viewer a