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The MIT Press, 1999. - 623 Pages. These two compilations, one a show catalog, the other an anthology of artists' writings, review one of the most contested movements in 20th-century art. While the editors may quibble over certain key points A such as the founding moment of conceptualism A their works largely complement rather than contradict each other. In Conceptual Art, art history professors Alberro and Stimson present a rich history of the A...

DK ADULT, 2005. - 513 pages. Taking an original photographic approach to look in detail at certain topics, these four fascinating books provide deeper understanding and richer enjoyment of the worlds of architecture, art, famous artists, and myths and legends. AUTHOR BIO: Robert Cumming has been the chairman of Christie's Education, London, studied art history at Cambridge University, and his books have won several international awards and inclu...

Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. - 310 pages. When the French edition of Confronting Images appeared in 1990, it won immediate acclaim because of its far-reaching arguments about the structure of images and the histories ascribed to them by scholars and critics working in the tradition of Vasari and Panofsky. According to Didi-Huberman, visual representation has an "underside" in which seemingly intelligible forms lose their clarity a...