|  A *Co-* Program for Graphic Design By David Reinfurt. Text by Danielle Aubert, Tauba Auerbach, Barbara Glauber, Shannon Harvey, Adam Michaels, Philip Ording, Adam Pendleton. This volume expands David Reinfurt’s uniquely pragmatic and experimental approach to pedagogy into a collaborative project that weaves together a multiplicity of voices to present a polyphonic approach to design history and teaching. Three of >>more
Inventory Press
ISBN 9781941753729
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 256 pgs / 290 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/15/2025 In stock |
|  A New Program for Graphic Design By David Reinfurt. Preface by Adam Michaels. Foreword by Ellen Lupton. A New Program for Graphic Design is the first communication-design textbook expressly of and for the 21st century. Three courses—Typography, Gestalt and Interface—provide the foundation of this book.
Through a series of in-depth historical case studies >>more
Inventory Press/D.A.P.
ISBN 9781941753217
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 256 pgs / 40 color / 180 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/17/2019 In stock |
|  Afro-Atlantic Histories Edited with text by Adriano Pedrosa, Tomás Toledo. Text by Ayrson Heráclito, Deborah Willis, Hélio Menezes, Kanitra Fletcher, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Vivian Crockett. Named one of the best books of 2021 by Artforum
Afro-Atlantic Histories brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries that >>more
DelMonico Books/Museu de Arte de São Paulo
ISBN 9781636810027
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Hbk, 8.25 x 10.75 in. / 400 pgs / 400 color.
Pub Date: 12/07/2021 In stock |
|  Amy Sillman: Faux Pas Edited by Charlotte Houette, François Lancien-Guilberteau, Benjamin Thorel. Foreword by Lynne Tillman. This new edition of Faux Pas, the acclaimed collection of writings by Amy Sillman, comes as an expanded edition, with the addition of new essays, including recent texts on Paul Cézanne, Carolee Schneemann, Elizabeth Murray >>more
After 8 Books
ISBN 9782492650048
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Pbk, 4.75 x 7.25 in. / 288 pgs / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/03/2023 In stock |
|  One overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the "infraordinary": the humdrum, the non-event, the everyday--"what happens," as he put it, "when nothing happens." His choice of locale was Place >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9780984115525
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 72 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2010 In stock |
|  Artists & the Unknown: Art21 Interviews with Artists Edited by Jurrell Lewis. Conversations with Tauba Auerbach, Linda Goode Bryant, Anicka Yi, Matthew Ritchie, Michael Rakowitz, Pierre Huyghe, Jes Fan, Miranda July, Rose B. Simpson, Christine Sun Kim, Song Dong, Amy Sillman, Josephine Halvorson, Diane Severin Nguyen, Sarah Sze, Anish Kapoor, Richard Mosse, Jacolby Satterwhite. The unknown is definitionally indefinable. It is something we encounter in ways big and small every day of our lives. It appears when we wake up and wonder what the day holds, as we watch >>more
Art21
ISBN 9781941366714
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Flexi, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 208 pgs / 85 color.
Pub Date: 03/11/2025 In stock |
|  In Assembling a Black Counter Culture, writer and musician DeForrest Brown, Jr, provides a history and critical analysis of techno and adjacent electronic music such as house and electro, showing how the genre has been >>more
Primary Information
ISBN 9781734489736
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 432 pgs.
Pub Date: 08/23/2022 In stock |
|  Published in three issues between 1978 and 1979, Black Phoenix: Journal of Contemporary Art & Culture in the Third World (the subtitle was changed to Third World Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture for its >>more
Primary Information
ISBN 9781736534670
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Pbk, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 104 pgs / 59 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/10/2022 In stock |
|  Originally published in 1994, Camino Road is the debut novel of acclaimed New York–based artist and writer Renée Green (born 1959). Set between the late 1970s and early 1980s, and combining the genres of road >>more
Primary Information
ISBN 9781734489781
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Pbk, 4 x 7 in. / 120 pgs / 12 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/13/2021 In stock |
|  Our current economic system could not exist without the number systems, coins, banknotes, documents, advertisements, interfaces, typefaces and information graphics that graphic designers have helped to create. Even speculative design and social design play their >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789492095817
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Pbk, 4.25 x 7 in. / 528 pgs / 600 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/02/2021 In stock |
|  A leading figure of the 1970s and ‘80s downtown New York performance scene, Constance DeJong has channeled time and language as her mediums for the last four decades. The artist’s experimental prose, multimedia spoken text >>more
Primary Information
ISBN 9781736534694
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 216 pgs.
Pub Date: 08/09/2022 In 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 |
|  Cyberfeminism Index Edited with introduction by Mindy Seu. Foreword by Julianne Pierce of VNS Matrix. Afterword by Legacy Russell. When learning about internet history, we are taught to focus on engineering, the military-industrial complex and the grandfathers who created the architecture and protocol, but the internet is not only a network of cables, servers >>more
Inventory Press
ISBN 9781941753514
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 608 pgs / 80 color / 450 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/17/2023 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 |
|  Good design, like good storytelling, brings ideas to life. The latest book from award-winning writer Ellen Lupton is a playbook for creative thinking, showing designers how to use storytelling techniques to create satisfying graphics, products, >>more
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
ISBN 9781942303190
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Pbk, 6.25 x 8.5 in. / 160 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 11/21/2017 In stock |
|  Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures Edited with text by Sarah Hermanson Meister. Text by Julie Ault, Kimberly Juanita Brown, River Encalada Bullock, Sam Contis, Jennifer Greenhill, Lauren Kroiz, Sally Mann, Sandra Phillips, Wendy Red Star, Christina Sharpe, Robert Slifkin, Rebecca Solnit, Tess Taylor. Toward the end of her life, Dorothea Lange reflected, “All photographs—not only those that are so-called ‘documentary’... can be fortified by words.” Though Lange's career is widely heralded, this connection between words and pictures has >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633451049
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Clth, 9 x 10.5 in. / 176 pgs / 70 color / 75 duotone.
Pub Date: 02/25/2020 In stock |
|  During the 1960s, as Western notions of endless progress and growth gave way to concerns over industrial pollution, resource depletion and ecological limits, attitudes toward the environment became social, political and ideological. Published to accompany >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633451544
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Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 224 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 09/05/2023 In stock |
|  Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism Edited by Bryan Bell, Katie Wakeford. Foreword by Thomas Fisher. Text 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
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 288 pgs / 120 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/01/2008 In stock |
|  Fantasy By Bruno Munari. Translation and annotations by Jeffrey Schnapp. “But isn’t imagination also fantasy? And can’t fantastic images also assume the form of sounds? Musicians speak of sonic images, sound objects. How does one invent a fish tale, an air-cooled engine, a new plastic? >>more
Inventory Press
ISBN 9781941753705
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 240 pgs / 224 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/31/2024 In stock |
|  The term “artivism” seems to have become a catchword for any woman’s empowerment through the arts. This volume aims to critically dissect this catchword, unveiling the diversity of practices and realities that it comprises.
Representing a >>more
Valiz/Plural Series
ISBN 9789492095725
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 448 pgs / 400 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/19/2020 In stock |
|  Financing Our Common Future Edited with text by Régis Marodon. Preface by Rémy Rioux. Illustrations by Ruedi Baur, Odyssée Khorsandian. Daily bad news about climate change, shrinking resources, global health crises, species extinction and growing inequalities cause tremendous anxiety and insecurity, especially since the COVID pandemic. The ambition of this book is to explain in >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037786680
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Pbk, 4.75 x 6.25 in. / 252 pgs / 210 color.
Pub Date: 01/12/2021 In stock |
|  Georges Perec and the Oulipo: Winter Journeys By Georges Perec, Michèle Audin, Marcel Bénabou, Jacques Bens, Paul Braffort, François Caradec, Frédéric Forte, Paul Fournel, Michelle Grangaud, Jacques Jouet, Etienne Lécroart, Daniel Levin Becker, Harry Mathews, Ian Monk, Hervé Le Tellier, Jacques Roubaud. Introduction by Alastair Brotchie. Translation by John Sturrock, Harry Mathews, Ian Monk. In 1979, Georges Perec (1936–1982) wrote a brief entertainment called “The Winter Journey” for a publisher’s catalogue. It quickly became his most frequently reprinted short story. Set on the eve of World War II, it >>more
Atlas Press
ISBN 9781900565646
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Hbk, 6.75 x 7.5 in. / 344 pgs / 18 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2013 In stock |
|  Get Out By Jordan Peele. Text by Tananarive Due. "Blending race-savvy satire with horror to especially potent effect, this bombshell social critique from first-time director Jordan Peele proves positively fearless."
–Peter Debruge, Variety
"An exhilaratingly smart and scary freak out about a black man in >>more
Inventory Press
ISBN 9781941753286
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Pbk, 4.25 x 7 in. / 224 pgs / 150 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/26/2019 In stock |
|  Groundswell: Women of Land Art Edited with text by Leigh A. Arnold. Text by Scout Hutchinson, Jana La Brasca, Anna Lovatt, Jenni Sorkin, Anne Thompson. Using materials such as earth, wind, water, fire, wood, salt, rocks, mirrors and explosives, American artists of the 1960s began to move beyond the white cube gallery space to work directly in the land. With >>more
DelMonico Books/Nasher Sculpture Center
ISBN 9781636811109
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 256 pgs / 170 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/07/2023 In stock |
|  This volume presents the Circle of Doing Research: a model to get you started in art and design research. Conceived within the contextual setting of the art school, it is holistic, multidisciplinary and prioritizes practice. >>more
Set Margins’ publications
ISBN 9789083404165
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 104 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/11/2025 In stock |
|  Heads Together: Weed and the Underground Press Syndicate, 1965–1973 Edited with text by David Jacob Kramer. Text by David Jacob Kramer, Rembert Browne, Melania Gazzotti. Oral histories by John Sinclair, Ishmael Reed, Marjorie Heins, Mariann Wizard-Vasquez, Abe Peck. The youth uprising now simply known as the Sixties was fed by one of the greatest booms in publishing history. The Underground Press Syndicate (UPS) began as a loose confederation of five papers in 1966, >>more
Edition Patrick Frey
ISBN 9783907236543
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Pbk, 7.5 x 9.75 in. / 566 pgs / 300 color / 150 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/20/2023 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 |
|  In Search of African American Space Edited with text by Jeffrey Hogrefe, Scott Ruff, Carrie Eastman, Ashley Simone. Foreword by Tina M. Campt. Text by Sara Caples, Radiclani Clytus, Yolande Daniels, Ann Holder, Everardo Jefferson, Walis Johnson, Elizabeth Kennedy, Rodney Leon, Marisa Williamson. Richly illustrated with vintage adverts, maps, posters and architectural plans, and organized thematically, this anthology, edited by Jeffrey Hogrefe and Scott Ruff at the Pratt Institute in New York, is divided into three sections. The >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037786338
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 256 pgs / 148 color.
Pub Date: 09/29/2020 In stock |
|  There are few art-world figures as influential—and as little known—as Dick Higgins (1938–98), cofounder of Fluxus, "polyartist," poet, scholar, theorist, composer, performer and, not least, the publisher of the legendary Something Else Press. In 1965 >>more
Siglio
ISBN 9781938221200
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Pbk, 7.25 x 9.75 in. / 336 pgs / 95 color / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/20/2018 In stock |
|  Is Art History? By Svetlana Alpers. Introduction by Richard Meyer. Interview by Ulf Erdmann Ziegler. A definitive volume of writings by one of the most renowned art historians of the past century, Is Art History? brings together Svetlana Alpers’ contributions to the art historical discipline. Her writing spans over six >>more
Hunters Point Press
ISBN 9798218206482
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Clth, 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 420 pgs / 100 color / 74 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/24/2024 In stock |
|  Jack Whitten: Notes from the Woodshed Text by Jack Whitten. Edited by Katy Siegel. Afterword by Glenn Ligon, Matilde Guidelli-Guidi, Zoé Whitley. A Black man who grew up in the Jim Crow South, Jack Whitten arrived in New York in 1959 and began a wide-ranging exploration into the nature of painting and artmaking that would sustain more >>more
Hauser & Wirth Publishers
ISBN 9783907493113
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 568 pgs / 73 color / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/11/2025 In stock |
|  Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces Edited with text by Thomas J. Lax, Lilia Rocio Taboada. Text by Eric Booker, Brandon Eng, Kellie Jones, Yelena Keller, Marielle Ingram, Legacy Russell. Interview with Linda Goode Bryant by Thelma Golden. Just Above Midtown, or JAM, was an art gallery and self-described laboratory for experimentation led by Linda Goode Bryant that foregrounded African American artists and artists of color. Open from 1974 to 1986, it was >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York/The Studio Museum in Harlem
ISBN 9781633451377
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Pbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 184 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 11/01/2022 In stock |
|  Let's Become Fungal! By Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez. Illustrations by Rommy González. The enormous popular interest in the world of fungi and the mycelium testifies to its tremendous resonance as a metaphor for new ways of thinking, new systems and behaviors. Taking its inspiration from this world, >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789493246287
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 336 pgs / 50 color / 80 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/24/2023 In stock |
|  This massive volume comprises over 80 interviews published across a 13-year span of Lauren O’Neill-Butler’s career as a writer, educator, editor and cofounder of November magazine. The majority of the interviews first appeared on Artforum.com’s >>more
Karma Books, New York
ISBN 9781949172539
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 456 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/15/2022 In stock |
|  In 1973, John Szarkowski, the revered director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, published his classic volume Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, >>more
Damiani
ISBN 9788862087025
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Hbk, 6.75 x 8.75 in. / 204 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 04/07/2020 In stock |
|  Originally published in 1983, Writings 1973-1983 on Works 1969-1979, by Los Angeles artist Michael Asher (1943-2012) presents select documentation of 33 works through writings, photographs, architectural floor plans, exhibition announcements and other ephemera.
For most of >>more
Primary Information
ISBN 9781732098640
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Pbk, 8.5 x 12 in. / 230 pgs / 3 color / 297 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/16/2021 In stock |
|  More Than the Eyes By Ellen Mara De Wachter. Edited by Lucy Kingett. In More Than the Eyes, writer Ellen Mara De Wachter considers the ways in which food, when used as a material in contemporary art, confronts, subverts and ultimately brings us to our senses. Focusing on >>more
Atelier Éditions/D.A.P.
ISBN 9781954957046
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.25 in. / 240 pgs / 50 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/07/2025 In stock |
|  Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was an architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome, and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. For more than five decades, he set forth >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037781265
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Pbk, 4.75 x 7.5 in. / 152 pgs / 7 images.
Pub Date: 07/15/2008 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 |
|  Pataphysical Essays By René Daumal. Translated by Thomas Vosteen. Pataphysics: the science of imaginary solutions, of laws governing exceptions and of the laws describing the universe supplementary to this one. Alfred Jarry’s posthumous novel, Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician, first appeared in >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9780984115563
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 116 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/31/2012 In stock |
|  Productive Archiving Edited with introduction by Ernst van Alphen. This critical anthology addresses three often-overlooked issues facing archival organizations: the question of inclusion in or exclusion from the archive; the loss of individuality and specificity in the archive; the danger of homogenization; and the >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789493246164
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 272 pgs / 200 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/13/2023 In stock |
|  Queer Exhibition Histories Edited with text by Bas Hendrikx. Text by Aaron Betsky, Övül Durmusoglu, Aleksandra Gajowy, Halyna Gleba, Jessica Gysel, Valentina Iancu, Ryan Kearney, Katrin Kivimaa, Léon Kruijswijk, Élisabeth Lebovici, Edwin Nasr, François Piron, Sylvia Sadzinski, Kateryna Yakovlenko, Liang-Kai Yu, et al. This anthology gathers case studies from the history of queer art exhibitions and their modes of documentation and archiving. The legacy of these projects often depends on personal archives, and consequently "public" is a relative >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789493246133
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 256 pgs / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/03/2023 In stock |
|  A Los Angeles Times 2021 holiday gift guide pick
The work of R. Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) is among the most extraordinary and inventive in 20th-century design and architecture, not least for its incorporation of a range >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037786093
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 400 pgs / 150 color / 150 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/10/2019 In stock |
|  Radical Fashion Exercises Edited with text by Laura Gardner, Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran. Text by Laura & Deanna Fanning, Kate Fletcher, Nakako Hayashi, Elisa van Joolen, Maria Kley, Martine Rose, Clemens Thornquist, Otto von Busch, et al. This copious collection of bottom-up activities, prompts and workshops designed by contributors from all around the globe explores fashion in an expanded context. Designers, curators, artists, educators, fashion practitioners, DIY home sewers, students and other >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789493246195
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Pbk, 6 x 8.5 in. / 304 pgs / 150 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/03/2023 In stock |
|  Rolling the R's By R. Zamora Linmark. Illuminated by pop fantasies, Donna Summer disco tracks and teen passion, the fiercely earnest characters in Rolling the R’s come to life against a background of burning dreams and neglect in a small 1970s Hawaiian >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030511
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 180 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/22/2016 In stock |
|  Sophie Calle: The Address Book The Address Book, a key and controversial work in Sophie Calle's oeuvre, lies at the epicenter of many layers of reality and fiction. Having found a lost address book on the street in Paris, Calle >>more
Siglio
ISBN 9780979956294
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Hbk, 5.25 x 7.5 in. / 104 pgs / 2 color / 26 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2012 In stock |
|  In 1981 Sophie Calle took a job as a chambermaid for the Hotel C in Venice, Italy. Stashing her camera and tape recorder in her mop bucket, she not only cleans and tidies, but sorts >>more
Siglio
ISBN 9781938221293
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Clth, 6 x 8 in. / 224 pgs / 12 color / 180 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/07/2021 In stock |
|  Soul of a Nation Edited with text by Mark Godfrey, Zoé Whitley. Contributions by Linda Goode Bryant, Susan E. Cahan, David Driskell, Edmund Barry Gaither, Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell, Samella Lewis. In the period of radical change that was 1963–83, young black artists at the beginning of their careers confronted difficult questions about art, politics and racial identity. How to make art that would stand as >>more
D.A.P./Tate
ISBN 9781942884170
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Hbk, 8.5 x 10 in. / 256 pgs / 203 color / 33 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/26/2017 In stock |
|  Organized into chapters that explore the many ways to express dissent (RESIST!, VOTE!, STRIKE!, TEACH! and LOVE!), Strikethrough presents more than 120 signs, posters, publications and ephemera in vivid imagery and incisive prose. From the >>more
Letterform Archive Books
ISBN 9781736863305
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Hbk, 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 280 pgs / 500 color.
Pub Date: 10/18/2022 In stock |
|  Super Normal By Naoto Fukasawa, Jasper Morrison. The designers Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa have compiled 204 everyday objects in search of “super normal design”: alongside examples of anonymous design like the Swiss Rex vegetable peeler or a simple plastic bag, there >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037781067
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Pbk, 5.75 x 7.75 in. / 128 pgs / 264 images.
Pub Date: 04/23/2007 In stock |
|  Surrealism and Anti-fascism: Anthology Edited by Matthias Mühling, Karin Althaus, Adrian Djukic, Stephanie Weber, Ara H. Merjian. The Surrealist movement famously initiated a revolution in visual and written art, but its political engagement is sometimes overlooked. With more than 600 illustrations and contributions from some of the greatest thinkers of the last >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775758772
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Pbk, 8.75 x 11 in. / 680 pgs / 400 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/06/2025 Out of stock |
|  Surrealism through Its Journals 1924–2024 Edited with text by Franca Franchi. Text by Jacques Dürrenmatt, Franca Bruera, Elena Galtsova, Andrea Zucchinali, Gianluca Poldi, Arnaud Maillet, Anna Maria Testaverde, Elena Mazzoleni, Gabriele Gimmelli, Elio Grazioli, Alessandra Violi. Art historian Rosalind Krauss once defined Surrealist journals as "the true Surrealist object." These periodicals are works of art in themselves, ones that challenge conventions and disciplinary boundaries by mixing languages and forms of expression. >>more
SKIRA
ISBN 9788857252940
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 224 pgs / 35 color.
Pub Date: 03/25/2025 In stock |
|  The Book By Stéphane Mallarmé. Introduction and translation by Sylvia Gorelick. The French poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–98) was modernism's great champion of the book as both a conceptual and material entity: perhaps his most famous pronouncement is "everything in the world exists in order to end >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972422
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 240 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/25/2018 In stock |
|  The Book of Monelle By Marcel Schwob. Translation by Kit Schluter. When Marcel Schwob published The Book of Monelle in French in 1894, it immediately became the unofficial bible of the French Symbolist movement, admired by such contemporaries as Stéphane Mallarmé, Alfred Jarry and André Gide. >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9780984115587
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 136 pgs / 2 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2012 In stock |
|  Black Mountain College (BMC) was a wellspring of 20th-century creative unorthodoxy. From its founding in 1933 and over its celebrated 23-year history, the small liberal arts school in rural North Carolina attracted a remarkable number >>more
Atelier Éditions/Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
ISBN 9781954957114
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Pbk, 7 x 9.5 in. / 240 pgs / 2 color / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/17/2024 In stock |
|  Ian Lynam's The Impossibility of Silence is a book for artists, photographers and designers interested in approaching writing about their vocation and culture. Drawing upon decades of experience as a writer, designer, artist and teacher, >>more
Set Margins' publications
ISBN 9789083270685
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Pbk, 4 x 7 in. / 212 pgs / 39 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/05/2023 In stock |
|  The Invisible Dragon By Dave Hickey. Edited with afterword by Gary Kornblau. "If this book of shocking intelligence and moral hope is read widely and above all well, word for word, it will help the world." —Peter Schjeldahl
The 30th anniversary cloth edition brings back into print Dragon's >>more
Art Issues Press
ISBN 9798987596500
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Clth, 5.75 x 9 in. / 160 pgs / 10 color / 4 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/24/2023 In stock |
|  This substantial volume publishes for the first time a series of interviews conducted with seminal East Coast artists and their associates, including Kenneth Noland, Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, Marcella Brenner, Helen Jacobson, Clement Greenberg, Helen >>more
Circle Books/Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 9780578635286
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Pbk, 5 x 7.5 in. / 672 pgs / 399 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2023 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 |
|  In the early years of the 20th century, Charles Burchfield painted mystic and visionary landscapes, and with some of his contemporaries, including Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe and Grant Wood, can be seen to have built >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9781734035148
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Pbk, 6 x 8.5 in. / 200 pgs / 34 color.
Pub Date: 10/17/2023 In stock |
|  The Voyage of Horace Pirouelle By Philippe Soupault. Introduction and translation by Justin Vicari. Conceived in a hospital bed in 1917 and written a few months later after his fateful encounter with Lautréamont’s Maldoror, Philippe Soupault’s novella The Voyage of Horace Pirouelle preceded the author’s involvement with Parisian Dada >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663832
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 72 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/21/2023 In stock |
|  A new ideal of feminine beauty arose in 16th-century Venice, as women acquired new rights of inheritance and more social power. As a result, through the writings of poets and humanists, the construction of the >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857243924
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 368 pgs / 215 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/02/2022 In stock |
|  Drawing on the writings of Wallace Stevens, Marilynne Robinson and other poets, artists, musicians and thinkers, Brooklyn-based photographer Tim Carpenter (born 1968) argues passionately—in one main essay and a series of lively digressions—that photography is >>more
THE ICE PLANT
ISBN 9798985733006
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Pbk, 4.25 x 7 in. / 288 pgs.
Pub Date: 01/24/2023 In stock |
|  Us By Jordan Peele. Text by hannah baer, Theaster Gates, Mary Ping, Shana Redmond, Jared Sexton, Leila Taylor, Jamieson Webster. A masterpiece of identity horror and a dark reflection on America’s past and present, Us presents chilly atmospherics, psychological torment and old-world suspense-building plot twists. Whereas Get Out was considered more a mixture of drama >>more
Inventory Press
ISBN 9781941753330
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Pbk, 4.25 x 7 in. / 208 pgs / 150 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/03/2024 In stock |
|  In focusing on creating preferable conditions, the discipline of design is optimistic by default. And yet, vernacular manifestations of skepticism, dissatisfaction and even resentment toward design abound. Instead of systematically discarding them, can these "sad >>more
Set Margins' Publications
ISBN 9789083350134
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Pbk, 5 x 8 in. / 352 pgs / 75 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/26/2024 In stock |
|  What Is Post-Branding? Edited with text by Jason Grant, Oliver Vodeb. Brands aren’t just intruding on culture, they are our culture: they are the sponsored mechanisms for constructing and manipulating meaning and human identity. But should we cede such a fundamental human need to the market? >>more
Set Margins' publications
ISBN 9789083270678
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Pbk, 9 x 11.75 in. / 264 pgs / 138 color / 29 duotone / 39 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/05/2023 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 |
|  Who Can Afford to Be Critical? Edited with introduction by Afonso Matos. Text by Silvio Lorusso, J. Dakota Brown, Marianela D'Aprile, Evening Class, Somnath Batt, Danielle Aubert, Jack Henrie Fisher, Alan Smart, Greg Mihalko. Design schools increasingly urge students to address social, political and environmental issues in their work. But who can afford to work in this way after graduation?
In a dynamic style that draws from multiple contributors, Who >>more
Set Margins' publications
ISBN 9789083270630
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 92 pgs / 25 duotone.
Pub Date: 09/05/2023 In stock |
|  Wicked Arts Assignments Edited with text by Emiel Heijnen, Melissa Bremmer. Interviews by Pavèl van Houten, Jorge Lucero, Nina Paim, Erik Schrooten, Stephanie Springgay. The almost 100 arts assignments compiled in this instructive new volume are designed to foster cross-disciplinary creativity in the visual arts, performance, theater, music and design. Everyone who teaches the arts knows the value of >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789492095756
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Pbk, 6 x 8.75 in. / 304 pgs / 140 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2021 In stock |
|  Wicked Arts Education Text by Melissa Bremmer, Emiel Heijnen, Folkert Haanstra. Following the blockbuster success of Wicked Arts Assignments, Wicked Arts Education helps teachers and creatives design exciting arts educational programs from scratch. These arts programs foster a meaningful connection between the culture of the student, >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789493246386
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Pbk, 6 x 8.75 in. / 192 pgs / 100 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/04/2025 In stock |
|  Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists Edited with essay by Antwaun Sargent. Text by Graham C. Boettcher, Jessica Bell Brown, Connie H. Choi, Anthony Graham, Lauren Haynes, Jamillah James, Thomas J. Lax, Hallie Ringle, Adeze Wilford, Gordon Dearborn Wilkins, Matt Wycoff. Interview with Bernard Lumpkin by Thelma Golden. A New York Times 2020 holiday gift guide pick
This book surveys the work of a new generation of Black artists, and also features the voices of a diverse group of curators who are on the >>more
D.A.P.
ISBN 9781942884590
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Hbk, 9.5 x 10.5 in. / 256 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 09/22/2020 In stock |
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