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  • Situation (Documents of Contemporary Art)Situation (Documents of Contemporary Art)
    MIT Press

    Situation (Documents of Contemporary Art)

    Edited by Claire Doherty Softcover | 15.24 x 2.34 x 18.42 cm | 238 pp MIT Press | 2009 | 9780262513050 Part of the acclaimed Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art series of anthologies which collect writing on  major themes and ideas in contemporary art. A unique set of...
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  • Fictions of Art HistoryFictions of Art History
    Yale University Press

    Fictions of Art History

    Mark Ledbury  Softcover | 256 pp Yale University Press | 2013 | 9780300191929 Fictions of Art History addresses art history’s complex relationships with fiction, poetry, and creative writing. Inspired by a 2010 conference, the volume examines art historians’ viewing practices and modes of writing. How, the...
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  • Radio Benjamin
    Verso

    Radio Benjamin

    Walter Banjamin Softcover | 12.9 x 2.79 x 19.81 cm | 432 pp Verso | 2021 | 9781839764165 Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. From 1927-33, he wrote and presented...
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  • The Dialectics of ArtThe Dialectics of Art
    Haymarket Books

    The Dialectics of Art

    John Molyneux Softcover | 15.24 x 2.03 x 22.61 cm | 300 pp Haymarket Books | 2020 | 9781642591316 To the question of "what is art?", it is often simply responded that art is whatever is produced by the artist. For John Molyneux, this clearly...
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  • Methods & Theories of Art History (Second Edition)Methods & Theories of Art History (Second Edition)
    Laurence King

    Methods & Theories of Art History (Second Edition)

    Anne D'Alleva Softcover | 13.97 x 1.27 x 20.96 cm | 192 pp Laurence King | 2012 | 9781856698993 This book provides an accessible introduction to the range of critical theories used in analysing art. It covers a broad range of approaches, presenting individual arguments,...
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  • Futurist ManifestosFuturist Manifestos
    Museum Of Fine Arts Boston

    Futurist Manifestos

    Umbro Apollonio Softcover | 14.76 x 1.8 x 21.06 cm | 240 pp Museum of Fine Arts Boston | 2001 | 9780878466276 On February 20th, 1909, a belligerent manifesto announcing the birth of the Futurist movement appeared on the front page of the Paris newspaper Le...
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  • Beyond the Face: New Perspectives on PortraitureBeyond the Face: New Perspectives on Portraiture
    D Giles

    Beyond the Face: New Perspectives on Portraiture

    Wendy Wick Reaves Hardcover | 24.38 x 3.56 x 26.67 cm | 328 pp D Giles | 2018 | 9781911282204 Is there more to portraiture than eyes meeting eyes? Beyond the Face: New Perspectives on Portraiture presents sixteen essays by leading scholars who explore...
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  • Contemporary Art DecodedContemporary Art Decoded
    Ilex

    Contemporary Art Decoded

    Jessica Cerasi Hardcover | 20.7 x 2.54 x 26.04 cm | 208 pp Ilex | 2021 | 9781781577455 What is contemporary art, and how did art come to be what it is today? How can we understand what a work of art means; and...
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  • Thinking the Contemporary LandscapeThinking the Contemporary Landscape
    Princeton Architectural Press

    Thinking the Contemporary Landscape

    Christophe Girot & Dora Imhof Softcover | 15.24 x 2.22 x 22.86 cm | 288 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2016 | 9781616895204 Thinking the Contemporary Landscape compiles essays by an international roster of eminent landscape architects, art historians, philosophers, and social scientists tackling current...
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  • Sensations: The Story of British Art from Hogarth to BanksySensations: The Story of British Art from Hogarth to Banksy
    Laurence King

    Sensations: The Story of British Art from Hogarth to Banksy

    Jonathan Jones Hardcover | 18.4 x 3.8 x 26 cm | 368 pp Laurence King | 2019 | 9781786272973 The best-selling Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones presents a radical new story of British art. What is the artistic impulse uniting Robert Hooke's drawings of insects, George Stubbs's studies...
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  • What Comes After Farce?: Art and Criticism at a Time of DebacleWhat Comes After Farce?: Art and Criticism at a Time of Debacle
    Verso

    What Comes After Farce?: Art and Criticism at a Time of Debacle

    Hal Foster Hardcover | 14.73 x 1.78 x 21.84 cm | 224 pp Verso | 2020 | 9781788738118 Surveying the artistic and cultural scene in the era of Trump, What Comes After Farce? comments on shifts in art, criticism, and fiction in the face of...
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  • Top This and Other Parables of Design: Selected Writings by Phil PattonTop This and Other Parables of Design: Selected Writings by Phil Patton
    Cooper-Hewitt Museum

    Top This and Other Parables of Design: Selected Writings by Phil Patton

    Softcover | 10.92 x 2.03 x 17.53 cm | 296 pp Cooper-Hewitt Museum | 2017 | 9781942303152 In September 2015 the world lost Phil Patton – prolific design writer, teacher and tantalising wordsmith. Patton’s insatiable curiosity, sense of humour and keen eye made for the...
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  • Making the Americas Modern: Hemispheric Art 1910-1960 (Non-mint)Making the Americas Modern: Hemispheric Art 1910-1960 (Non-mint)
    Laurence King

    Making the Americas Modern: Hemispheric Art 1910-1960 (Non-mint)

    Edward J. Sullivan  Hardcover | 17.78 x 3.18 x 24.77 cm | 336 pp Laurence King | 2018 | 9781786271556 This book presents an audacious account of the ways in which the arts in the Americas were modernised during the first half of the twentieth...
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  • Has Modernism Failed? (Revised Edition)Has Modernism Failed? (Revised Edition)
    Thames & Hudson

    Has Modernism Failed? (Revised Edition)

    Suzi Gablik Softcover | 15.75 x 1.27 x 23.62 cm | 168 pp Thames & Hudson | 2004 | 9780500284841 In 1984, Suzi Gablik's Has Modernism Failed? was one of the first books to confront the social situation of contemporary art. In describing a world whose central...
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  • Slow Manifesto: Lebbeus Woods BlogSlow Manifesto: Lebbeus Woods Blog
    Princeton Architectural Press

    Slow Manifesto: Lebbeus Woods Blog

    Softcover | 17.8 x 1.9 x 25.4 cm | 288 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2015 | 9781616893347 From the fall of 2007 until the summer of 2012, architect and educator Lebbeus Woods kept a blog. In more than three hundred entries, he wrote about art...
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  • Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art (Non-mint)
    Dia Art Foundation

    Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art (Non-mint)

    Softcover | 13.21 x 1.78 x 20.07 cm | 176 pp Dia Art Foundation | 2014 | 9780944521809 From 1992 to 2004, Dia Art Foundation presented the Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art, in which a distinguished array of scholars, critics and cultural historians engaged in...
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  • Modernism′s Masculine Subjects: Matisse, the New York School, and Post–Painterly AbstractionModernism′s Masculine Subjects: Matisse, the New York School, and Post–Painterly Abstraction
    MIT Press

    Modernism′s Masculine Subjects: Matisse, the New York School, and Post–Painterly Abstraction

    Marcia Brennan Softcover | 17.3 x 1.2 x 22 cm | 240 pp MIT Press | 2006 | 9780262524681 PLEASE NOTE: This title has been remainder marked by the publisher - a small black stamp on the lower edge.  How postwar abstract modernist paintings came...
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  • There is No F in ART (is there?) - SignedThere is No F in ART (is there?) - Signed
    A Sven Dali Press

    There is No F in ART (is there?) - Signed

    Eli Castelli Softcover | 17.7 x 1 x 12.1 cm | 2018 A Sven Dali Press | 2018 | 9781527229150 Signed copies When does art become ART? WHO says it is art? - Should we believe THEM? Can cultural appreciation be bought at auction? Is art...
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  • In the Mind But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary ArtIn the Mind But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art
    Verso

    In the Mind But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art

    Gean Moreno Softcover | 14.05 x 2.16 x 20.98 cm | 336 pp Verso | 2019 | 9781788730693 In the Mind, But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art considers how the Marxian concept of Real Abstraction - originally developed by Alfred Sohn...
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  • The Contemporary Condition: Notes on the Type, Time, Letters & SpiritsThe Contemporary Condition: Notes on the Type, Time, Letters & Spirits
    Sternberg Press

    The Contemporary Condition: Notes on the Type, Time, Letters & Spirits

    Dexter Sinister Softcover | 11.94 x 0.51 x 18.8 cm | 64 pp Sternberg Press | 2017 | 9783956793455 PLEASE NOTE: This title has been remainder marked by the publisher - a small black marker pen dot on the lower edge.  Three interconnected palimpsest essays...
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