Art & Politics
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Cultural Capital Doesn’t Pay the Rent: A Queer Memoir
$24.95 Add to cartCultural Capital Doesn’t Pay the Rent is a story about loss, economic survival, and three decades of organizing against the interlocking hellscapes of neoliberalism. Jessica Lawless’s memoir is a quee
- Author: Lawless, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 9798887441689
- Language: English
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Joseph Beuys and History
$37.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking study of one of the most important and influential artists of the postwar period
Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) was one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century–and one of- Author: Spaulding, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0691279543
- Language: English
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9.5 Theses on Art and Class
$19.00 Add to cart9.5 Theses on Art and Class seeks to show how a clear understanding of class makes sense of what is at stake in a broad number of contemporary art’s most persistent debates, from definitions of politi… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 09 2013
- ISBN10: 1608462684
- Language: English
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My City Need Something
$18.00 Add to cartI don’t know what’s going on / But I know that something’s wrong.
Moving between word and image, the call-and-response collaboration between writer Christopher R. Rogers and photographer Karim Brown i- Author: Rogers, Christopher R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1945335505
- Language: English
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Front Lines: A Lifetime of Drawing Resistance
$21.95 Add to cartArt can be more dangerous than words–especially when it marches, masks up, and takes to the streets.
Front Lines: A Lifetime of Drawing Resistance is a vivid, image-rich memoir and archive chronicling
- Author: Bietila, Susan Simensky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 9798887441511
- Language: English
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Depraved: The Story of Dangerous Art
$32.00 Read more“Sparklingly smart. . . For anyone who wants to place the culture wars in their historical and philosophical context.”–Dan Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Plantagenets and Henry V
A b- Author: Dixon, Daisy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 11 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217061846
- Language: English
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Liberties Journal of Culture & Politics: Spring 2026
$18.95 Read moreLiberties features the world’s sharpest minds for readers who are determined to stay curious. The result is a collection of writing about today worth rereading tomorrow.
In the Spring 2026 issue, Micha… [more below]
- Author: Grunwald, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 9798992201024
- Language: English
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What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory
$19.95 Add to cartWhy 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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The Art of Protest: Political Art and Activism
$60.00 Add to cartThanks 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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Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today
$19.95 Add to cartHow 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 Add to cartWe 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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Joseph Grigely: Otherhow: Essays and Documents on Art and Disability, 1985-2024
$30.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed Deaf artist and writer collects decades’ worth of material addressing issues of art and advocacy
American visual artist and scholar Joseph Grigely (born 1956) here brings together writing
- Author: Grigely, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 9798991036719
- Language: English
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Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds
$50.00 Add to cartA new perspective on renowned twentieth-century artist Paul Klee, revealing his enduring creativity in the face of darkness by foregrounding his lesser-known late work
Celebrated for his colorful, fa- Author: Klein, Mason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0300285442
- 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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Rupert Garc?a: The Making of an American Artist, a Testimonio
$34.95 Add to cartThis is the first biography of the renowned American Chicano visual artist and activist Rupert Garc?a, drawing on fifty hours of interviews conducted over thirty years and accompanied by eighty images
- Author: GarcÃa, Mario T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 315
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1978844018
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of Andy Warhol [50th Anniversary Edition]: From A to B and Back Again
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Warhol, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0063418290
- 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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Planetary Realism: Art Against Apocalypse
$27.95 Add to cartTraditions of realism are brought together with the decolonial and ecological concept of “planetarity” to understand a new realism in contemporary art.
The devastation left in the wake of modernity an- Author: Berry, Josephine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1915609232
- Language: English
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Abstract Art: A Global History
$50.00 Add to cartIn his fresh take on abstract art, now available in paperback and expanded to include sixteen new contemporary artists from six continents, noted art historian Pepe Karmel chronicles the movement from
- Author: Karmel, Pepe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0500298386
- Language: English
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How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists
$18.95 Add to cartHow artists make a living and how money changes art
It may not be the worst time in history to get paid to make art, but it certainly is the strangest. The institutions and markets that have been suppo
- Author: Berry, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1552455068
- Language: English
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