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| | | Course Adoption Titles |  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 $19.95 TRADE Paperback, 11 x 8.5 in. / 136 pgs / 35 reproductions. Pub Date: 07/02/2002 Active/In stock
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|  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 $19.95 TRADE Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 208 pgs / 1 color / 15 b&w. Pub Date: 08/02/1997 Active/In stock
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|  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 $35.00 TRADE Paperback, 8 x 10 in. / 415 pgs / 120 color. Pub Date: 07/02/2003 Active/In stock
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|  Art On the Edge...and Over In this highly accessible introduction to American art since the 1970s, Linda Weintraub offers art lovers a readable exploration of some of the most important artists and movements of the past three decades. Today artists >>more Art Insights,Inc. ISBN 9780965198813 US $24.95 CAN $24.95 TRADE Paperback, 6.75 x 9 in. / 264 pgs / 114 b&w / 28 color. Pub Date: 01/02/1997 Active/In 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 $24.95 TRADE Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 200 pgs. Pub Date: 10/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  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 $16.95 CAN $16.95 TRADE Paperback, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 189 pgs / 29 reproductions throughout. Pub Date: 06/15/2005 Active/In stock
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|  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 $39.95 TRADE Pbk, 8 x 11 in. / 320 pgs / 17 color / 287 duotone. Pub Date: 01/31/2010 Active/In stock
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|  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 $24.95 TRADE Paperback, 8.5 x 9 in. / 156 pgs / 173 duotone. Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Active/In stock
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|  Design with the Other 90%: Cities Text by Cynthia E. Smith. Half the world's population now resides in cities, which are expanding at an unprecedented rate. Close to one billion people live in crowded, unhealthy, informal settlements--commonly referred to as slums--many of which lack security of >>more Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution ISBN 9780910503839 US $29.95 CAN $29.95 TRADE Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 234 pgs / 250 color. Pub Date: 11/30/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Core Curriculum By Tod Papageorge. Core Curriculum: Writings on Photography is the long-awaited collection of essays, reviews and lectures by Tod Papageorge, one of the most influential voices in photography today. As a photographer and the Walker Evans Professor of >>more Aperture ISBN 9781597111720 US $29.95 CAN $29.95 TRADE Flexi, 6 x 8.5 in. / 208 pgs / 3 color / 33 b&w. Pub Date: 07/31/2011 Active/In stock
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|  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 $34.95 TRADE Paperback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 288 pgs / 120 color / 30 b&w. Pub Date: 10/01/2008 Active/In stock
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