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  • Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of AmazonEverything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon
    Verso

    Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon

    Mark McGurl Hardcover | 16.03 x 2.59 x 24.05 cm | 336 pp Verso | 2021 | 9781839763854 What has happened to fiction in the age of platform capitalism? Since it was first launched in 1994, Amazon has changed the world of literature. The "Everything...
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  • Joseph Beuys: The ReaderJoseph Beuys: The Reader
    MIT Press

    Joseph Beuys: The Reader

    Claudia Mesch, Viola Michely & Authur C. Danto Softcover | 15.57 x 1.78 x 23.34 cm | 352 pp MIT Press | 2007 | 9780262633512 Twentieth-century artist Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) - legendary and self-mythologising, enigmatic and controversial - remains an important influence on artists...
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  • The Nazi Perpetrator: Postwar German Art and the Politics of the RightThe Nazi Perpetrator: Postwar German Art and the Politics of the Right
    University of Minnesota Press

    The Nazi Perpetrator: Postwar German Art and the Politics of the Right

    Paul B. Jascot Softcover | 17.78 x 2.29 x 25.4 cm | 288 pp University of Minnesota Press | 2012 | 9780816678259 This book presents a fundamental reevaluation of pivotal developments in postwar German art and architecture against the backdrop of contentious contemporary debates over the Nazi past...
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  • Red Alert: Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema
    Wayne State University Press

    Red Alert: Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema

    Ewa Mazierska & Alfredo Suppia  Softcover | 15.24 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm | 270 pp Wayne State University Press | 2016 | 9780814340110 In Red Alert: Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema, editors Ewa Mazierska and Alfredo Suppia argue that Marxist philosophy, science fiction, and...
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  • Phenomenal Difference: A Philosophy of Black British Art
    Liverpool University Press

    Phenomenal Difference: A Philosophy of Black British Art

    Leo Wainwright Softcover | 23.11 x 1.52 x 15.49 cm | 240 pp Liverpool University Press | 2017 | 9781781384176 Phenomenal Difference grants new attention to contemporary black British art, exploring its critical and social significance through attention to embodied experience, affectivity, the senses...
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  • Murder and the Movies
    Yale University Press

    Murder and the Movies

    David Thomson Hardcover | 13.97 x 2.22 x 21.59 cm | 240 pp Yale University Press | 2020 | 9780300220018 How many acts of murder have each of us followed on a screen? What does that say about us? Do we remain law-abiding citizens...
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  • Freud: Berggasse 19 – The Origin of PsychoanalysisFreud: Berggasse 19 – The Origin of Psychoanalysis
    Hatje Cantz

    Freud: Berggasse 19 – The Origin of Psychoanalysis

    Monika Pessler, Daniela Finzl & Siri Hustvedt  Hardcover | 16.51 x 3.56 x 24.64 cm | 384 pp Hatje Cantz | 2020 | 9783775747356 sheds light on Freud’s life and work and is amply supplemented with a presentation of the museum’s art collection. The insightful essays...
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  • Regenerating Culture and Society: Architecture, Art and Urban Style within the Global Politics of City BrandingRegenerating Culture and Society: Architecture, Art and Urban Style within the Global Politics of City Branding
    Liverpool University Press

    Regenerating Culture and Society: Architecture, Art and Urban Style within the Global Politics of City Branding

    Jonathan Harris & Dr. Richard Williams Softcover | 21.59 x 2.03 x 17.02 cm | 336 pp Liverpool University Press | 2011 | 9781846316401 This collection is an essential guide to, and critique of, visual arts regeneration strategies mobilised by local and national governments...
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  • On the Wings of Hypothesis: Collected Writings on Soviet Cinema
    MIT Press

    On the Wings of Hypothesis: Collected Writings on Soviet Cinema

    Annette Michelson Hardcover | 18.75 x 1.88 x 23.83 cm | 256 pp MIT Press | 2020 | 9780262044493 This posthumous volume gathers Annette Michelson's erudite and incisive readings of the revolutionary films of Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, giving readers the opportunity to track...
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  • Screening Sex
    Duke University Press

    Screening Sex

    Linda Williams Softcover | 15.57 x 2.69 x 23.5 cm | 424 pp Duke University Press | 2008 | 9780822342854 PLEASE NOTE: Features explicit pornographic images For many years, kisses were the only sexual acts to be seen in mainstream American movies. Then, in the...
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  • Beyond Document: Essays on Nonfiction Film
    Wesleyan University Press

    Beyond Document: Essays on Nonfiction Film

    Charles Warren Softcover | 15.21 x 2.69 x 22.68 cm | 396 pp Wesleyan University Press | 1996 | 9780819562906 In essays by eleven of America's foremost writers, critics, and filmmakers, Beyond Document explores the full spectrum of nonfiction film and its creative possibilities. In...
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  • Disseminating Dress: Britain's Fashion Networks, 1600–1970Disseminating Dress: Britain's Fashion Networks, 1600–1970
    Bloomsbury

    Disseminating Dress: Britain's Fashion Networks, 1600–1970

    Serena Dyer Softcover | 15.6 x 1.85 x 23.4 cm | 322 pp Bloomsbury | 2022 | 9781350181021 Fashion travels. Every new shape of sleeve, each novel method of cutting and any innovation in fabric has spread through complex networks of makers, retailers and consumers....
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  • The Project of Autonomy: Politics and Architecture Within and Against CapitalismThe Project of Autonomy: Politics and Architecture Within and Against Capitalism
    Princeton Architectural Press

    The Project of Autonomy: Politics and Architecture Within and Against Capitalism

    Softcover | 14.29 x 1.27 x 21.59 cm | 120 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2012 | 9781616891008 A challenging and polemical argument about the Autonomia movement in Italy, a group of Italian intellectuals who produced a powerful and rigorous critique of capitalism and work...
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  • Jacking In To the Matrix Franchise: Cultural Reception and Interpretation
    Continuum Books

    Jacking In To the Matrix Franchise: Cultural Reception and Interpretation

    Matthew Wilhelm Kapell Softcover | 15.24 x 1.23 x 22.86 cm | 230 pp Continuum | 2006 | 9780826415882 The Matrix films, along with the video games, animé and toys inspired by them, are rich with philosophical, religious and social references that cry out for interpretation. Here...
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  • The Big Idea: Criticality and Practice in Contemporary ArchitectureThe Big Idea: Criticality and Practice in Contemporary Architecture
    Balcony Press

    The Big Idea: Criticality and Practice in Contemporary Architecture

    Scott Johnson Softcover | 16 x 1.8 x 21.3 cm | 120 pp Balcony Press | 2006 | 9781890449384 Taking an applied look at big theoretical ideas, this is an accessible read of complex philosophical ideas. It includes a bibliographic reference of critical architectural thinkers -...
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  • Assembling the Architect: The History and Theory of Professional PracticeAssembling the Architect: The History and Theory of Professional Practice
    Bloomsbury

    Assembling the Architect: The History and Theory of Professional Practice

    George Barnett Johnston Softcover | 15.93 x 1.83 x 23.14 cm | 320 pp Bloomsbury | 2020 | 9781350126862 Assembling the Architect explores the origins and history of architectural practice. It unravels the competing interests that historically have structured the field and cultivates a deeper understanding...
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  • Michelangelo's Design Principles, Particularly in Relation to Those of Raphael
    Princeton University Press

    Michelangelo's Design Principles, Particularly in Relation to Those of Raphael

    Erwin Panofsky Hardcover | 15.88 x 3.81 x 22.86 cm | 408 pp Princeton University Press | 2020 | 9780691165264 The first English translation of Erwin Panofsky's long-lost work on Michelangelo.In 2012, a manuscript by renowned art historian Erwin Panofsky was rediscovered in a...
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  • What Was Contemporary Art?What Was Contemporary Art?
    MIT Press

    What Was Contemporary Art?

    Richard Meyer Hardcover | 18.42 x 3.18 x 24.13 cm | 360 pp MIT Press | 2013 | 9780262135085 Contemporary art in the early twenty-first century is often discussed as if the very idea of art that is contemporary is new. Yet all works...
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  • Mysteries of the Mall and Other Essays (Non-mint)
    Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    Mysteries of the Mall and Other Essays (Non-mint)

    Witold Rybczynski Hardcover | 14.7 x 2.5 x 21.6 cm | 336 pp Farrar, Straus & Giroux | 2015 | 9780374269937 A deep exploration of modern life that examines our cities, public places, and homes.In Mysteries of the Mall, Witold Rybczynski, the author of How Architecture Works,...
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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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