Criticism & Theory
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Oh, to Be a Painter!
$15.00 Read moreThe twentieth volume in the renowned ekphrasis series, this collection of Virginia Woolf’s writings on the visual arts offers a whole new perspective on the revolutionary author.
Despite wide interest- Series: Ekphrasis
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1644230585
- Language: English
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Art and Solidarity Reader: Radical Actions, Politics and Friendships
$35.00 Read moreCase studies on strategies for survival and solidarity beyond the art industry, from the Zapatistas to FESTAC ’77
Looking beyond East/West and North/South divisions, the Art and Solidarity Reader asks:
- Author: Garcia-Anton, Katya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: November 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 9493246027
- Language: English
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Drunken Silenus
$19.00 Add to cartThe Drunken Silenus is a book that is as hard to categorize as it is to put down–an enlightening and mesmerizing blend of philosophy, history, and art criticism. Morgan Meis begins simply enough, wit… [more below]
- Series: Three Paintings Trilogy
- Author: Meis, Morgan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: April 09 2020
- ISBN10: 163982054X
- Language: English
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Some Styles of Masculinity
$19.95 Read moreAn intimate, urgent and riotous account of masculinity, whiteness, queerness and belief in America
In winter 2018, Gregg Bordowitz performed a three-part lecture series at the New Museum as part of Tri
- Author: Bordowitz, Gregg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0997852453
- Language: English
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because art: Commentary, Critique, & Conversation
$20.00 Add to cartEssays, speeches, and conversations by artist, arts administrator, and Vermont state legislator, John R. Killacky.
Highlights include:
- Cultural, social, and political commentary on leadership, disabil
- Author: Killacky, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: August 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1949066851
- Language: English
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Unlicensed: Bootlegging as Creative Practice
$28.95 Add to cartIn-depth discussions on bootlegging and its myriad definitions in the creative world
Over the last few decades, the term “bootlegging”–a practice once relegated to smugglers and copyright infringers–
- Author: Schwartz, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 9493246299
- Language: English
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Pidginization as Curatorial Method: Messing with Languages and Praxes of Curating
$15.95 Add to cartA new vision for activist curatorial practice.
In Pidginization as Curatorial Method: Messing with Languages and Praxes, renowned curator and director Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung proposes Pidgin la- Series: Sternberg Press / Thoughts on Curating
- Author: Ndikung, Bonaventure Soh Beje
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1915609089
- Language: English
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Elements of Art: Ten Ways to Decode the Masterpieces
$19.99 Read moreThe Elements of Art deconstructs great works of art into manageable components so that you can better understand and appreciate them.
Knowing how to interpret art is one of the biggest issues facing c- Author: Hodge, Susie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0711286655
- Language: English
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The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art
$18.95 Read moreA poet and post-punk heroine writes on subjects ranging from Bj rk to Robert Smithson, from traveling in Iceland to walking in Thoreau’s footsteps on Cape Cod
Poet and post-punk heroine Eileen Myles ha
- Series: Semiotext(e) Native Agents
- Author: Myles, Eileen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1584350660
- Language: English
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Futurism
$23.33 Add to cartWith motion and machines as its most treasured tropes, Futurism was founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, along with painters Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carr?, and Gino Severini. W
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Martin, Sylvia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 30 2017
- ISBN10: 3836505835
- Language: English
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Richard Shiff: Writing After Art: Essays on Modern and Contemporary Artists
$45.00 Read moreA broad and deep anthology of critic and art historian Richard Shiff’s most influential writings, which have shaped our understanding of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art.
“Elegantly designed as- Author: Shiff, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1644230488
- Language: English
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Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartContemporary art has never been so popular – but the art world is changing. In a landscape of increasing globalization there is growing interest in questions over the nature of contemporary art today,… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Stallabrass, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198826621
- Language: English
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The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society
$44.99 Add to cartIn The Lure of the Local Lucy R. Lippard weaves together cultural studies, history, geography, and contemporary art to provide a fascinating examination of our multiple senses of place.
Divided into f
- Author: Lippard, Lucy R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1565842480
- Language: English
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Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays
$20.00 Add to cartThis third essay collection by America’s leading essayist brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980, in which she explores some of the most influential artists and thinkers
- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0312420080
- Language: English
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Glitch Theory: Art and Semiotics
$30.00 Add to cartWhat do glitches reveal about the normally invisible processes behind our interpretations?
Glitches and Glitch Art illuminate the unseen assumptions, ideology of dialectical thinking, and role of est
- Author: Betancourt, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0979321557
- Language: English
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Let’s See Pa
$24.95 Add to cartDistinguished critic at The New Yorker since 1998, Peter Schjeldahl has been described as America’s most influential writer on art. Blessed with an unerring eye, he tackles a myriad of subjects with w… [more below]
- Author: Schjeldahl, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0500740100
- Language: English
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Visual Culture
$15.95 Read moreHow to think about what it means to look and see: a guide for navigating the complexities of visual culture.
The visual surrounds us, some of it invited, most of it not. In this visual environment, eve
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Boylan, Alexis L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0262539365
- Language: English
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How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art
$17.99 Add to cartHow does art work? How does it move us, inform us, challenge us? Internationally renowned painter David Salle’s incisive essay collection illuminates these questions by exploring the work of influenti
- Author: Salle, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0393354962
- Language: English
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Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
$18.00 Add to cartNo philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects – despite living in the German golden age of Goethe, Mozart and Schiller. For … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 04 1994
- ISBN10: 014043335X
- Language: English
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Sensing Earth: Cultural Quests Across a Heated Globe
$28.95 Read moreEssays, manifestos and more on the ecological complexities and contradictions of the art industry
Through essays, interviews, poetry, manifestos, choreographic prompts, speculative fiction and case stu
- Author: Dietachmair, Philipp
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 9493246248
- Language: English
