Art & Politics
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Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today
$19.95 Read moreHow technology and the attention economy shape contemporary art and performance
The reception of art and performance is changing. Smartphones and social media have troubled the old model of individual- Author: Bishop, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1804296732
- Language: English
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How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI
$24.95 Read moreWe once looked at pictures. Then, with the advent of computer vision and machine learning, pictures started looking at us. By the award-winning artist, filmmaker and thinker.
Today our world is under- Author: Paglen, Trevor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1836742169
- Language: English
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Who Owns Beauty?
$29.95 Add to cartBeauty belongs to no one. But what about the objects that museums celebrate as great works of art: to whom do they belong? Do they belong to the places where they originated? To the cultures whose gen… [more below]
- Author: Savoy, Bénédicte
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1509568611
- Language: English
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On Censorship
$15.95 Add to cartAi Weiwei is one of contemporary art’s greatest practitioners. He has been a voice for artistic and personal freedom of expression for decades within his native China and around the world.
This publica
- Series: Pocket Perspectives
- Author: Weiwei, Ai
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0500030820
- Language: English
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Rethinking American Art: Collectors, Critics, and the Changing Canon
$55.00 Add to cart“For all those who want to understand American art and the art world, written by the best person to tell the story.”–Dr. Kathleen Foster, Curator, Philadelphia Museum of Art
A sweeping history of ch- Author: Stebbins Jr, Theodore E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 156792834X
- Language: English
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Permanent Red: Essays in Seeing
$19.95 Add to cartWhy should an artist’s way of looking at the world have any meaning for us? Any artwork reflects the artist’s intentions, but also its times: therefore all art is political
In Permanent Red, John Berg- Series: The Essential John Berger
- Author: Berger, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1804298476
- Language: English
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Evergreen Review: Dispatches from the Literary Underground: Covers & Essays 1957-1973
$34.99 Add to cartFrom the late 1950s to the mid-70s, work by contributors like Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Amiri Baraka, Eldridge Cleaver, Tim Leary, Dennis Hopper, Jean Genet, Jerry Rubin, Bernadette Devlin, a… [more below]
- Author: Thomas, Pat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 9798875000676
- Language: English
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Medium Hot: Images in the Age of Heat
$24.95 Add to cartWHAT IS THE FUTURE OF THE IMAGE IN THE AGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?
Hito Steyerl is one of the most celebrated artists of our time. Her work, both as an artist and a writer, has- Author: Steyerl, Hito
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1804298026
- Language: English
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Those Passions: On Art and Politics
$50.00 Add to cartThose Passions unpicks the nature of capitalist societies since the fifteenth century and the art produced within them. It evaluates the central politics of appearance–the building of “consumerism,”
- Author: Clark, T. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0500025266
- Language: English
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What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory
$19.95 Read moreWhy do we need art?
What Art Does is an invitation to explore this vital question. It is a chance to understand how art is made by all of us. How it creates communities, opens our worlds, and can tra- Author: Eno, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0571395511
- Language: English
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Frieze Frame: How Poets, Painters, and Their Friends Framed the Debate Around Elgin and the Marbles of the Parthenon
$17.95 Read more“Frieze Frame is a lucidly brilliant, learned read that wears its learning lightly, inviting the reader into a coterie of artists and intellectuals, traced and uncovered with a poet’s touch.”
–Times L- Author: Stallings, A. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 235
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1589882008
- Language: English
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The War of Art: A History of Artists’ Protest in America
$29.95 Add to cartHow artists have changed America through direct action
Artists in America have long battled against injustices, believing that art can in fact “do more.” The War of Art tells this history of artist-le- Author: O’Neill-Butler, Lauren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1804296333
- Language: English
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The Disenlightenment: Politics, Horror, and Entertainment
$32.99 Add to cartOne of America’s greatest living literary legends invites you think for yourself in this compelling narrative of manipulation, power, and the human condition.
“Government, like Circe, turns men into s
- Author: Mamet, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 63455099
- Language: English
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Art on My Mind: Visual Politics
$18.99 Add to cartThe canonical work of cultural criticism by the “profoundly influential critic” (Artnet), in a beautiful thirtieth-anniversary edition, featuring a new foreword by esteemed visual artist Mickalene Tho
- Author: Hooks, Bell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1620979268
- Language: English
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But: Life Isn’t Like That, Is It?
$19.95 Add to cartLife’s stories are always prone to disruption and digression, thwarting the neat storybook narrative we love so much.
Almost all of our stories follow the same basic pattern: beginning, middle, end: e
- Author: Whalley, Boff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9798887440897
- Language: English
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Protest Art (Art Essentials)
$18.95 Add to cartA well-researched, concise guide to protest art, exploring what happens when artists join forces with radical political movements to foster change. The works and movements discussed in this book emerg
- Series: Art Essentials #20
- Author: Lack, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0500296685
- Language: English
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Acts of Resistance: The Power of Art to Create a Better World
$17.99 Add to cartWhat is the purpose of art in a world on fire? In this exhilarating and deeply inspiring work, Amber Massie-Blomfield considers the work of artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers–such as Gran Fu
- Author: Massie-Blomfield, Amber
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1324078758
- Language: English
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The Art of Protest: Political Art and Activism
$60.00 Read moreThanks to art’s ability to communicate and influence, it has always had a charged relationship with activism and politics. And, given the tumultuous times in which we live, with traditional democracie… [more below]
- Author: Gestalten
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 3967040119
- Language: English
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Gender: A History of Sexual Roles in Art Sexual Identity and Art Sexual Expression in Art
$15.00 Read moreGender is a polyphonic portrait of the representation of gender in art, from acclaimed, award-winning playwright and artist Travis Alabanza.
Gender is performance. Think of the acts of drama that go- Series: Look Again
- Author: Alabanza, Travis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1849767157
- Language: English
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Posters for Change: Tear, Paste, Protest: 50 Removable Posters
$27.50 Read more“Posters for Change is the kind of project that the world needs right now.” – Shepard Fairey
Make your voice heard with this collection of 50 tear-out posters created by designers from around the glob- Author: Princeton Architectural Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1616896922
- Language: English
