From 1925 until his death in 1929, the great German art theorist and cultural scholar Aby Warburg worked on an ambitious, unprecedented project he called the Mnemosyne Atlas: a series of 63 large themed panels, >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775746939
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Clth, 17 x 25 in. / 176 pgs / 63 color.
Pub Date: 05/26/2020 Out of stock

In 1985, Indian scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (born 1942) published what would become a landmark essay in the academic study of colonialism. “Can the Subaltern Speak?” interrogates the obstructions that prevent certain subjects from being >>more
Walther König, Köln/Afterall Books
ISBN 9783960989004
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 148 pgs / 20 color.
Pub Date: 06/08/2021 Out of stock

What role does architecture and trade play in creating civilized societies? How can we create urban environments where the individual can flourish? These questions have taken on a new significance as COVID-19 has reshaped the >>more
Bokförlaget Stolpe
ISBN 9789189069145
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Clth, 7 x 9.75 in. / 140 pgs / 19 color / 6 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/03/2022 In stock

The admonition that we should learn from history is a well-known truism, but what does that actually mean? In other words, what is history? This anthology compiles the best-known discussions of the topic. From Thucydides’ >>more
Bokförlaget Stolpe
ISBN 9789189425064
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Hbk, 8.75 x 10.75 in. / 200 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/25/2023 Awaiting stock

What is the role of the curator when organizing digital art exhibitions in offline and online spaces? Analyzing the influence and impact of curating digital art through more than 20 interviews with artists and curators >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789493246010
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Pbk, 5.5 x 9.5 in. / 256 pgs / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/23/2021 In stock

Acclaimed author Alice Rawsthorn revises her bestselling field guide to design in the wake of a pandemic, technological change and the escalating climate emergency.
Four years after its initial release, Alice Rawsthorn's bestselling book is >>more
JRP|Editions
ISBN 9783037645826
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 224 pgs / 28 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/27/2022 In stock

Edited by artist, curator, writer and editor Julie Ault, Hidden in Plain Sight brings together essential writings by the trailblazing art historian and curator Karin Higa (1966–2013). The selected essays, written between 1992 and 2011, >>more
Dancing Foxes Press
ISBN 9781954947023
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Hbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 416 pgs / 150 color / 80 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/03/2023 In stock

Collecting interviews, critical essays and artist portfolios, Lastgaspism considers matters of life and death in relation to breath, both allegorical and literal. Bringing into mutual proximity the ecological, political, public health and spiritual crises of >>more
Soberscove Press
ISBN 9781940190310
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 200 pgs / 39 color / 5 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2022 In stock

Aiming to encourage the study of art beyond national constraints and cultural domination, Mix & Stir proposes a voyage similar to that of culinary discovery, to arrive at a true “world art studies.” Contributions are >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789493246058
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Pbk, 6.25 x 9 in. / 432 pgs / 90 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/08/2022 In stock

A beloved cult classic of surrealism, pataphysics and Gurdjieffian mysticism, René Daumal’s Mount Analogue is the allegorical tale of an expedition to a mountain whose existence can only be deduced, not observed. As its numerous >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972439
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 160 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/17/2019 In stock

Gathering together fresh perspectives from more than 25 leading art and museum figures—including artists, architects, curators and museum directors—from all over the world, this collection of interviews and contributions shares idiosyncratic views, feedback and visions >>more
JRP|Editions
ISBN 9783037645697
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 208 pgs / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/15/2022 In stock

This unprecedented collection compiles the writings of artist and poet Jesse Murry (1948–93), an extraordinary thinker who believed in the capacity of painting to hold the complexity of human meaning. Painting Is a Supreme Fiction >>more
Soberscove Press
ISBN 9781940190303
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Pbk, 6.5 x 8 in. / 312 pgs / 15 color / 11 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/28/2021 In stock

The "auto-ethnographic turn" in design is emerging from a growing recognition of design’s capacity to make sense of one’s world. This book’s first section, Ideas and Dialogues, compiles reflections and conversations between theorists, educators and >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789493246041
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 336 pgs / 150 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2022 In stock

2020 ushered in a new decade and with it a series of unforeseen events that have reoriented the future. As the coronavirus forced businesses and institutions to close all over the world, museums likewise shuttered. >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775748278
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Pbk, 4.75 x 7.5 in. / 320 pgs / 30 color.
Pub Date: 01/12/2021 In stock

Immensely influential and beloved by artists, writers and theorists alike, Adrian Stokes (1902–72) was the last of the great British amateur art historians in the tradition of Ruskin and Berenson, and—as the first art theorist >>more
Ridinghouse
ISBN 9781909932487
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Pbk, 6 x 8.5 in. / 592 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/21/2020 In stock

First published in 2013 and quickly going out of print, Molly Nesbit’s The Pragmatism in the History of Art traces the questions that modern art history and theory has used to make sense of the >>more
Inventory Press
ISBN 9781941753279
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Hbk, 6 x 9 in. / 128 pgs / 15 color / 17 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/04/2020 In stock

For many years, relatively few people knew of spiritualism’s impact on the birth of abstract art. But when the Finnish art historian Sixten Ringbom’s book The Sounding Cosmos was published in 1970, the writing of >>more
Bokförlaget Stolpe
ISBN 9789189425354
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Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 350 pgs / 100 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/21/2022 In stock

First edited and published by Marcel Marien in 1968 in a limited edition of 230 copies, half a year after Paul Nougé’s death, The Subversion of Images is a miniature classic in both the photobook >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663474
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 58 pgs / 19 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/21/2020 In stock

In 2017, the Whitney Biennial included a painting by a white artist, Dana Schutz, of the lynched body of a young black child, Emmett Till. In 1979, anger brewed over a show at New York’s >>more
Badlands Unlimited
ISBN 9781943263141
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 160 pgs.
Pub Date: 05/22/2018 In stock

This reader puts into conversation a diverse range of perspectives in art theory and history, with texts from the 18th century to the present. Editors Beate Söntgen and Julia Voss have invited art theorists from >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775750745
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 464 pgs / 30 color.
Pub Date: 06/28/2022 In stock