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Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art Edited by Cornelia Butler, Alexandra Schwartz. Introductions by Cornelia Butler, Griselda Pollock, Aruna D'Souza. This landmark survey represents the first effort by a major North American museum to examine its collection by highlighting the production of modern and contemporary women artists. Featuring essays by nearly 50 writers, including both >>more The Museum of Modern Art, New York ISBN 9780870707711 US $65.00 CAN $78.00 TRADE Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 512 pgs / 400 color. Pub Date: 06/30/2010 Active/In stock	The Power of Pro Bono Edited by John Cary, Public Architecture. Foreword by Majora Carter. Preface by John Peterson. A first-of-its-kind book, equally representing the voices of architects and their clients, The Power of Pro Bono presents 40 pro bono design projects across the country. The clients include grassroots community organizations like the Homeless >>more Metropolis Books ISBN 9781935202189 US $40.00 CAN $48.00 TRADE Hbk, 8 x 10 in. / 288 pgs / 250 color. Pub Date: 10/31/2010 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock	Green Dream Text by Winy Maas, John Thackara. Green Dream investigates what "green" means in practical terms for design, architecture and urbanism. Led by The Why Factory, the global urbanist thinktank headed by Winy Maas, experts in the field debate what is currently >>more NAi Publishers ISBN 9789056627416 US $45.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 408 pgs / 300 color. Pub Date: 09/30/2010 Active/Awaiting stock
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A Brief History of Curating Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Part of JRP|Ringer's innovative Documents series, published with Les Presses du Réel and dedicated to critical writings, this publication comprises a unique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist mapping the development of the curatorial >>more JRP|Ringier ISBN 9783905829556 US $24.95 CAN $30.00 TRADE Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 200 pgs. Pub Date: 10/01/2008 Active/In stock	Air Guitar Text by Dave Hickey. The 23 essays (or "love songs") that make up the now classic volume Air Guitar trawl a "vast, invisible underground empire" of pleasure, through record stores, honky-tonks, art galleries, jazz clubs, cocktail lounges, surf shops >>more Art Issues Press ISBN 9780963726452 US $19.95 CAN $24.00 TRADE Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 208 pgs / 1 color / 15 b&w. Pub Date: 08/02/1997 Active/In stock	André Breton: Surrealism And Painting Introduction by Mark Polizzotti. Originally published in 1928 and augmented throughout the author's life, Surrealism and Painting is the single most important statement ever written on Surrealist art. While many pages have been devoted to visual Surrealism, this is >>more MFA Publications ISBN 9780878466283 US $29.95 CAN $36.00 TRADE Paperback, 8.25 x 10.5 in. / 448 pgs / 34 b&w. Pub Date: 09/02/2002 Active/In stock
Between the Eyes: Essays On Photography And Politics By David Levi Strauss. Edited by Diana C. Stoll. Introduction by John Berger. David Levi Strauss is a writer whose visual and intellectual sensibilities are both acute and expansive. His trenchant writings on photography and photographers have been collected for this volume from a broad range of magazines, >>more Aperture ISBN 9781931788885 US $17.95 CAN $22.00 TRADE Paperback, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 208 pgs / 28 color / 19 duotone. Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Active/In stock	Broken Screen: Expanding The Image, Breaking The Narrative Edited by Noel Daniel. Broken Screen is comprised of informal conversations between artist Doug Aitken and a roster of 26 carefully chosen artists, filmmakers, designers and architects. Part guidebook and part manifesto, the book takes a fresh look at >>more D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. ISBN 9781933045269 US $40.00 CAN $48.00 TRADE Paperback, 7 x 9.5 in. / 288 pgs / 310 color / 65 b&w. Pub Date: 11/15/2005 Active/In stock	Concerning the Spiritual in Art By Wassily Kandinsky. Translation by Michael T.H. Sadler with a new introduction by Adrian Glew. Wassily Kandinsky was one of the most influential painters of the twentieth century, and this text, in which he laid out the tenets of painting as he saw them and made the case for nonobjective >>more MFA Publications ISBN 9780878467020 US $27.50 CAN $33.00 TRADE Clothbound, 6.25 x 8.5 in. / 192 pgs / 18 b&w. Pub Date: 07/01/2006 Active/In stock
Considering Forgiveness Edited by Aleksandra Wagner with Carin Kuoni, Matthew Buckingham. Contributions by Anne Aghion, Ayreen Anastas, Gregg Bordowitz, Omer Fast, Rene Gabri, Andrea Geyer, Mark Godfrey, Sharon Hayes, Sandi Hilal with Alessandro Petti and Eyal Weizman, Susan Hiller, Julia Kristeva, Lin & Lam, Jeffrey K. Olick, Brian D. Price, Jane Taylor, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl. Why forgiveness, and why now? Forgiveness emerges from the pages of this book--the first in a new series that examines political issues through a variety of distinct practices--as a political, psychological and aesthetic strategy. Featuring >>more Vera List Center for Art and Politics ISBN 9780982174500 US $24.00 CAN $29.00 TRADE Pbk, 6.5 x 10.5 in. / 272 pgs / 90 color. Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Active/In stock	Crisis of the Real By Andy Grundberg. We are pleased to announce Aperture's reissue of Crisis of the Real, Andy Grundberg's classic collection of writings on photography—an essential work for anyone seeking clarity and insight into photography's place in today's world. Known >>more Aperture ISBN 9781597111409 US $19.95 CAN $24.00 TRADE Pbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 292 pgs / 44 b&w. Pub Date: 04/30/2010 Active/In stock	Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris Edited by Leah Dickerman. Preface by Earl A. Powell. Text by Leah Dickerman, Dorothea Dietrich, Brigid Doherty, Sabine T. Kriebel, Janine Mileaf, Michael R. Taylor, Matthew S. Witkovsky. Now available in paperback, this lavishly illustrated and astonishingly comprehensive volume stands as the definitive study of the influential but deliberately elusive international Dada movement of the early twentieth century. Organized according to the >>more National Gallery of Art, Washington/D.A.P. ISBN 9780894683138 US $29.95 CAN $36.00 TRADE Paperback, 8.5 x 12 in. / 536 pgs / 403 color / 217 b&w Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock
Design Like You Give A Damn: Architectural Responses To Humanitarian Crises Edited by Cameron Sinclair and Kate Stohr. The greatest humanitarian challenge we face today is that of providing shelter. Currently, one in seven people lives in a slum or refugee camp, and more than 3,000,000,000 people--nearly half the world's population--do not have >>more Metropolis Books ISBN 9781933045252 US $35.00 CAN $42.00 TRADE Paperback, 8 x 8 in. / 336 pgs / 350 color. Pub Date: 01/15/2006 Active/In stock	Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People By Emily Pilloton. Foreword by Allan Chochinov. In January of 2008, with a thousand dollars, a laptop and an outsized conviction that design can change the world, rising San Francisco-based product designer and activist Emily Pilloton launched Project H Design, a radical >>more Metropolis Books ISBN 9781933045955 US $34.95 CAN $42.00 TRADE Pbk, 8 x 8 in. / 304 pgs / 250 color. Pub Date: 10/31/2009 Active/In stock	Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, 2nd Revised Edition Preface by Fritz Haeg. Text by Will Allen, Diana Balmori, Rosalind Creasy, Fritz Haeg, Michael Pollan, Eric W. Sanderson, Lesley Stern, et al. Since the first edition of Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn was published in 2008, interest in edible gardening has exploded across the United States and abroad. Even First Lady Michelle Obama is doing >>more Metropolis Books ISBN 9781935202127 US $24.95 CAN $30.00 TRADE Pbk, 8.5 x 8.5 in. / 176 pgs / 86 color / 85 b&w. Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/In stock
Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism Edited by Bryan Bell and Katie Wakeford. Foreword by Thomas Fisher. Texts by Steve Badanes, Roberta M. Feldman, Sergio Palleroni, John Peterson, Katie Swenson, et al. Expanding Architecture presents a new generation of creative design carried out in the service of the greater public and the greater good. Questioning how design can improve daily lives, editors Bryan Bell and Katie Wakeford >>more Metropolis Books ISBN 9781933045788 US $34.95 CAN $42.00 TRADE Paperback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 288 pgs / 120 color / 30 b&w. Pub Date: 10/01/2008 Active/In stock	The Family Of Man Edited by Edward Steichen. Prologue by Carl Sandburg. Hailed as the most successful exhibition of photography ever assembled, The Family of Man opened at The Museum of Modern Art, New York in January 1955. This book, the permanent embodiment of Edward Steichen's monumental >>more The Museum of Modern Art, New York ISBN 9780870703416 US $19.95 CAN $24.00 TRADE Paperback, 8.25 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 503 duotone. Pub Date: 07/02/2002 Active/In stock	Global Art Edited by Irene Gludowacz, Silvia von Bennigsen, Susanne van Hagen. Through nearly 40 interviews with art world luminaries from North and South America, Europe and Asia--including John Baldessari, Eli Broad, Maurizio Cattelan, Lisa Dennison, Ingvild Goetz, Dakis Joannou, Anish Kapoor, Thomas Krens, Oleg Kulik, Ernesto >>more Hatje Cantz ISBN 9783775722018 US $60.00 CAN $72.00 TRADE Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 312 pgs / 91 color. Pub Date: 01/31/2010 Active/In stock
Hans Ulrich Obrist: Interviews Interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist with artists including Vito Acconci, Olafur Eliasson, Matthew Barney, Daniel Buren, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Mario Merz, Yoko Ono, Gerhard Richter, Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid and others. It is not an exaggeration to write that Hans Ulrich Obrist is everywhere, has curated everything and has interviewed everyone. If “peripatetic” is the word most overused to describe him, it is not inappropriate. The >>more Charta/Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery ISBN 9788881584314 US $59.95 CAN $72.00 TRADE Paperback, 5.5 x 8 in. / 968 pgs. Pub Date: 08/02/2003 Active/In stock	Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century Text by Peter Galassi. Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) is one of the most influential and beloved figures in the history of photography. His inventive work of the early 1930s helped define the creative potential of modern photography. Following World War >>more The Museum of Modern Art, New York ISBN 9780870707780 US $75.00 CAN $90.00 TRADE Clth, 9.75 x 12.25 in. / 376 pgs / 75 color / 360 duotone. Pub Date: 04/30/2010 Active/In stock	High Times, Hard Times Edited by Katy Siegel. Essays by Dawoud Bey, Anna Chave, Robert Pincus-Witten, Katy Siegel and Marcia Tucker. Foreword by Judith Richards. Introduction by David Reed. In the late 1960s, the New York art world was, famously, an exhilarating place to be. New forms, including performance and video art, were making their debuts, and sculpture was developing in startling ways. In >>more Independent Curators International, New York/D.A.P. ISBN 9781933045399 US $29.95 CAN $36.00 TRADE Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 50 color and 30 b&w. Pub Date: 09/15/2006 Active/In stock
In the Making By Linda Weintraub. From the first page to the last, from Thomas Kinkaid (really!) to Matthew Barney, this book serves as a launching pad. Conclusions are perpetually delayed. Resolutions are continually postponed. The text is written for takeoff, >>more D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. ISBN 9781891024597 US $35.00 CAN $42.00 TRADE Paperback, 8 x 10 in. / 415 pgs / 120 color. Pub Date: 07/02/2003 Active/In stock	Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present Edited by Klaus Biesenbach. Text by Arthur C. Danto, Chrissie Iles, Nancy Spector, Jovana Stokic. Since the beginning of her career, in Belgrade in the late 1960s, Marina Abramovic has been a pioneer of performance art, creating some of the most important works in the field. Marina Abramovic: The Artist >>more The Museum of Modern Art, New York ISBN 9780870707476 US $50.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 224 pgs / 375 color / Audio CD. Pub Date: 04/30/2010 Active/In stock	Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art Edited by Cornelia Butler, Alexandra Schwartz. Introductions by Cornelia Butler, Griselda Pollock, Aruna D'Souza. This landmark survey represents the first effort by a major North American museum to examine its collection by highlighting the production of modern and contemporary women artists. Featuring essays by nearly 50 writers, including both >>more The Museum of Modern Art, New York ISBN 9780870707711 US $65.00 CAN $78.00 TRADE Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 512 pgs / 400 color. Pub Date: 06/30/2010 Active/In stock
Organized Networks: Media Theory, Collective Labour, New Institutions By Ned Rossiter. The celebration of network cultures as open, decentralized and horizontal all too easily overshadows their political dimensions. In Organized Networks, Ned Rossiter, the author of Politics of a Digital Present and Refashioning Pop Music >>more NAi Publishers ISBN 9789056625269 US $29.95 CAN $36.00 TRADE Paperback, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 240 pgs. Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Active/In stock	Painting People Edited by Charlotte Mullins. Now available in paperback! After a century in which the lexicon of artists' materials expanded from the classic oil, canvas, stone and plaster to include photography, film, performance, found objects and concepts, the spotlight has >>more D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers ISBN 9781933045832 US $29.95 CAN $36.00 TRADE Paperback, 9 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 150 color. Pub Date: 07/01/2008 Active/In stock	Photography After Frank by Philip Gefter. In Photography After Frank, former New York Times writer and picture editor Philip Gefter narrates the tale of contemporary photography, beginning at the pivotal moment when Robert Frank commenced his seminal works of the 1950s. >>more Aperture ISBN 9781597110952 US $29.95 CAN $36.00 TRADE Hbk, 6 x 8.5 in. / 224 pgs / 30 color / 45 b&w. Pub Date: 06/01/2009 Active/In stock
Photography Speaks: 150 Photographers On Their Art Edited by Brooks Johnson. From Matthew Brady to Cindy Sherman, 150 artists are represented in this new, combined volume of Photography Speaks, spanning the entire history of the medium. This compendium contains biographical information and an original statement from >>more Aperture ISBN 9781931788502 US $29.95 CAN $36.00 TRADE Paperback, 6.75 x 10 in. / 320 pgs / 159 reproductions throughout. Pub Date: 06/15/2005 Active/In stock	Reading the American Landscape Edited by Anne Hoogewoning, Lex ter Braak, David Hamers, Erik de Jong. From high-rise to desert, urban sprawl to empty canyons, the American landscape is incredibly various: how does one even begin to take stock of its endlessly proliferating cityscapes and vast horizons? Reading the American Landscape >>more NAi Publishers ISBN 9789056627034 US $65.00 CAN $78.00 TRADE Pbk, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 928 pgs / 6500 color. Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/In stock	Right About Now Edited by Margriet Schavemaker, Mischa Rakier. Text by Jennifer Allen, Sophie Berrebi, Claire Bishop, Beatrice von Bismarck, Maaike Bleeker, Jeroen Boomgaard, Nicolas Bourriaud, Deborah Cherry, Hal Foster, Vít Havránek, Marc Spiegler, Olav Velthuis, Kitty Zijlmans. Video art, the Internet, globalization, nomadism, itinerant curators and biennale artists, Installation and Process art, PowerPoint presentations, multiculturalism, design, magazines, fashion, lounges, the DJ, VJ and house culture, blockbuster exhibition >>more Valiz ISBN 9789078088172 US $29.95 CAN $36.00 TRADE Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 184 pgs. / 14 b&w. Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock
Sia Figiel: They Who Do Not Grieve By Sia Figiel. Sia Figiel's powerful, poetic skills weave together the voices of three generations of women from two Samoan families. Their dream worlds and realities intermingle, just as the histories of each generation run through the next. >>more Kaya/Muae ISBN 9781885030337 US $14.95 CAN $18.00 TRADE Paperback, 5.25 x 7.25 in. / 246 pgs. Pub Date: 11/02/2003 Active/In stock	The History of Photography By Beaumont Newhall. Since its first publication in 1937, this lucid and scholarly chronicle of the history of photography has been hailed as the classic work on the subject. No other book and no other author have managed >>more The Museum of Modern Art, New York ISBN 9780870703812 US $39.95 CAN $48.00 TRADE Pbk, 8 x 11 in. / 320 pgs / 17 color / 287 duotone. Pub Date: 01/31/2010 Active/In stock	The Photographer's Eye By John Szarkowski. The Photographer's Eye by John Szarkowski is a twentieth-century classic--an indispensable introduction to the visual language of photography. Based on a landmark exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in 1964, and originally published in >>more The Museum of Modern Art, New York ISBN 9780870705274 US $24.95 CAN $30.00 TRADE Paperback, 8.5 x 9 in. / 156 pgs / 173 duotone. Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Active/In stock
The Printed Picture By Richard Benson The Printed Picture traces the changing technology of picture-making from the Renaissance to the present, focusing on the vital role of images in multiple copies. The book surveys printing techniques before the invention of photography; >>more The Museum of Modern Art, New York ISBN 9780870707216 US $60.00 CAN $72.00 TRADE Hardback, 8 x 10.5 in. / 308 pgs / 326 color. Pub Date: 10/01/2008 Active/In stock	Things As They Are: Photojournalism in Context Since 1955 Text by Christian Caujolle, Mary Panzer. This paperback edition of the bestselling and award-winning survey, Things as They Are presents the story of photojournalism over 50 years, from 1955 until today. It takes us from the golden era of the illustrated >>more Aperture ISBN 9781597110365 US $39.95 CAN $48.00 TRADE Paperback, 9 x 11.75 in. / 384 pgs / 500 color. Pub Date: 06/01/2007 Active/In stock	World Art Studies Edited by Wilfried van Damme, Kitty Zijlmans. Text by Richard L. Anderson, Elisabeth de Bièvre, Jean Borgatti, Donald Brown, John Clark, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Wilfried van Damme, Ellen Dissanayake, James Elkins, Paula Ben Amos Girshick, Marlite Halbertsma, John Onians, Ulrich Pfisterer, Colin Rhodes, Ben-Ami Scharfstein, Yiqiang Cao, Kitty Zijlmans. This timely volume challenges the narrow Western-centrism of most art historical models. Archaeologists have found that, for tens of thousands of years, all human cultures have shared a desire for visual representation or expression. Yet >>more Valiz ISBN 9789078088226 US $39.95 CAN $48.00 TRADE Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 464 pgs / 42 b&w. Pub Date: 10/01/2008 Active/In stock
Arcana Edited by John Zorn. Answering a need for critical attention towards experimental and avant-garde music, Arcana is a ground-breaking work--as far-ranging and dynamic as the current generation of musicians. Through manifestoes, scores, interviews, notes and critical pap >>more Granary Books ISBN 9781887123273 US $34.95 CAN $42.00 TRADE Paperback, 7 x 10 in. / 320 pgs / 70 b&w. Pub Date: 01/02/2000 Active/In stock	Arcana II: Musicians on Music Edited by John Zorn. Texts by Yamataka Eye, J. G. Thirlwell, Butch Morris, Evan Parker, Marina Rosenfeld, Ned Rothenberg, Sylvie Courvoisier, Steve Coleman, Dave Douglas, Annie Gosfield, Jim O'Rourke, Milford Graves, Zeena Parkins, Bill Laswell and Uri Caine, et. al. In his preface to the first Arcana: Musicians on Music (2000), avant-garde composer and saxophone player John Zorn wrote: "This book exists to correct an unfortunate injustice, the incredible lack of insightful critical writing about >>more Hips Road/Tzadik ISBN 9780978833763 US $34.95 CAN $42.00 TRADE Paperback, 6.5 x 10 in. / 300 pgs. Pub Date: 09/01/2007 Active/In stock	Arcana III: Musicians on Music Edited by John Zorn. Arcana III is the third groundbreaking collection of critical writings on avant-garde and experimental music put together by editor (and experimental music legend) John Zorn. In this volume, 30 distinguished composer/performers illuminate and spec >>more Hips Road/Tzadik ISBN 9780978833770 US $34.95 CAN $42.00 TRADE Pbk, 6.5 x 10 in. / 256 pgs / 35 b&w. Pub Date: 09/01/2008 Active/In stock
Arcana IV: Musicians on Music Edited by John Zorn. Now in its fourth installment, with a fifth in preparation, John Zorn's acclaimed Arcana series provides insight into the work and methodologies of some of the most creative musical minds of our time. Rather than >>more Hips Road/Tzadik ISBN 9780978833787 US $34.95 CAN $42.00 TRADE Pbk 6.5 x 10 in. / 408 pgs / 85 b&w. Pub Date: 09/30/2009 Active/In stock	Beat Takeshi vs. Takeshi Kitano Essay by Casio Abe. Foreword by Daisuke Miyao. Introduction by Lawrence Chua. Afterword by William Gardner. Called “the world's most original action auteur” by the Village Voice, Takeshi Kitano is already legendary in Japan, where he is known both for his inventive films and for his legendarily caustic alter ego, comedian >>more Kaya Press ISBN 9781885030405 US $22.50 CAN $27.00 TRADE Paperback, 5.5 x 7 in. / 272 pgs / 40 b&w. Pub Date: 11/02/2004 Active/In stock	Film as a Subversive Art By Amos Vogel. Foreword by Scott MacDonald. A classic returns! The original edition of Amos Vogel's seminal book, Film as a Subversive Art was first published in 1974, and has been out of print since 1987. According to Vogel--founder of Cinema 16, >>more D.A.P./C.T. Editions ISBN 9781933045276 US $25.00 CAN $30.00 TRADE Paperback, 6.25 x 8.25 in. / 344 pgs / 300 color. Pub Date: 09/15/2005 Active/In stock
On Curating: Interviews with Ten International Curators By Carolee Thea. Edited by Thomas Micchelli. Foreword by Hans Ulrich Obrist. On Curating, Carolee Thea's second volume of interviews with ten of today's leading curators, explores the intellectual convictions and personal visions that lay the groundwork for the most prestigious and influential exhibitions in the world >>more D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers ISBN 9781935202004 US $29.95 CAN $36.00 TRADE Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / 50 color. Pub Date: 01/31/2010 Active/In stock	Pre-Specifics Edited by Vera Bühlmann, Martin Wiedmer. Text by Anthony Dunne, Greg Lynn. The demand for design competence crosses almost all disciplinary boundaries, making the designers of today particularly ubiquitous in their influence. Pre-Specifics argues that the most promising strategies for the design disciplines of tomorrow c >>more JRP|Ringier ISBN 9783905829303 US $35.00 CAN $42.00 TRADE Paperback, 6.5 x 8.75 in. / 390 pgs / 1 color. Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Active/In stock	Robert Adams: Why People Photograph Text and essays by Robert Adams. A now classic text on the art, Why People Photograph gathers a selection of essays by the great master photographer Robert Adams, tackling such diverse subjects as collectors, humor, teaching, money and dogs. Adams also >>more Aperture ISBN 9780893816032 US $14.95 CAN $18.00 TRADE Paperback, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 189 pgs / 29 reproductions throughout. Pub Date: 06/15/2005 Active/In stock
Robert Venturi: Complexity And Contradiction In Architecture Foreword by Arthur Drexler. Introduction by Vincent Scully. First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has become an essential document of architectural literature. A "gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture," Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in A >>more The Museum of Modern Art, New York ISBN 9780870702822 US $19.95 CAN $24.00 TRADE Paperback, 11 x 8.5 in. / 136 pgs / 35 reproductions. Pub Date: 07/02/2002 Active/In stock	Warren Neidich: Blow-Up Introduction by Norman Bryson. In Blow-Up, a collection of essays that tackle aesthetics from the angle of neuroscience, Warren Neidich proposes a different and wholly original paradigm for thinking through cultural history and the philosophy of the human subject. >>more D.A.P./UCR/California Museum of Photography ISBN 9781891024801 US $27.50 CAN $33.00 TRADE Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 192 pgs / 22 color. Pub Date: 10/02/2003 Active/In stock	Zalmaï: Silent Exodus Introduction by Khaled Hosseini. In early 2008, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported that an estimated 4.4 million Iraqis had been displaced from their homes as a result of the war. While nearly half were uprooted internally, >>more Aperture/UNHCR ISBN 9781597110778 US $25.00 CAN $30.00 TRADE Paperback, 6.25 x 8 in. / 96 pgs / 55 color. Pub Date: 10/01/2008 Active/In stock