Art & Politics
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Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist
$19.95 Add to cartA wrenching portrait of the Russian sculptor and a tribute to the potential of political art
John Berger explores the life and work of Ernst Neizvestny, who, after clashing with Khrushchev, was exclud- Series: The Essential John Berger
- Author: Berger, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 180429859X
- 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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I Don’t Think about Being Great: Selected Writings
$45.00 Add to cartThis collection of 100 writings by Robert Rauschenberg reveals the artist’s gift for prose and the importance of his relationship to language
The American artist Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) won a- Author: Rauschenberg, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0300282567
- Language: English
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Derrick Adams
$79.95 Add to cartThe highly anticipated first monograph on one of the most celebrated American contemporary artists
Through portraits, social scenes, photographs, sculptures, and immersive installations, Derrick Adams
- Author: Ringle, Hallie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1580937012
- Language: English
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Pervert or Detective?
$19.95 Add to cartA provocative conversation on the erotic, appropriation, power, and sex.
In Pervert or Detective?, artists Reba Maybury and Lucy McKenzie dissect power, desire, and subversion in a provocative convers- Author: Maybury, Reba
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1949484122
- Language: English
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Textile Protest: Artists, Activism, and the Historical Power of Resistance in Cloth
$50.00 Add to cartArtists, activism, and the historical power of cloth in protest.
A landmark survey of how textiles have been used for political protest in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including banners,- Author: Triston, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1849949077
- Language: English
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Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream…
$50.00 Read moreThrough his work across many media, Houston and Los Angeles-based artist Vincent Valdez bears witness to the world around him, chronicling an America at the margins. Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream… fe
- Author: Valdez, Vincent
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 12 2024
- ISBN10: 9798990698505
- Language: English
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Diversity of Aesthetics
$20.00 Add to cartCritical conversations and reflections about lessons learned at the intersection of social movements and artist production.
Diversity of Aesthetics collects powerful and timely conversations among lead
- Author: Petrossiants, Andreas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1945335319
- Language: English
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The Library of Lost Maps: An Archive of a World in Progress
$40.00 Add to cartJoin renowned geographer James Cheshire on a tour through a forgotten collection of maps that shaped over 200 years of Western history.
Tucked just beyond offices and a lecture hall in the heart of Lo- Author: Cheshire, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1639734287
- Language: English
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The End Is Near, Here
$52.50 Read moreMichael Dressel, born in East Berlin in 1958, is a wanderer between American and German culture. His regular journeys between his home towns on the American West Coast and Berlin have sensitized him t… [more below]
- Author: Dressel, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 31 2024
- ISBN10: 3960701160
- Language: English
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It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
$23.99 Add to cartShortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize
The story of art collective Gran Fury–which fought back during the AIDS crisis through direct action and community-made propaganda–offers lessons in love a- Author: Lowery, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 164503660X
- Language: English
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Mark Twain’s War Prayer
$22.99 Add to cartWritten in 1910 in his 70th year, Mark Twain, having lived through 14 wars waged just by his own country on others, declined to publish this poetic despairing reproof against patriotism. His regular i… [more below]
- Author: Chwast, Seymour
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1683969596
- 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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What Art Can Tell Us about Love
$24.99 Add to cartDiscover the love affairs that inspired art’s greatest masterpieces.
Whether in the throes of passion, enduring the pain of unrequited love, or basking in the joy of a wonderfully supportive friends- Author: Trend, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1399620967
- 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 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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Gran Fury: Art Is Not Enough
$39.95 Add to cartA sweeping look at the history of the artist collective whose graphic poster designs helped define the visual culture of AIDS activism
Gran Fury (1988-95) was a New York-based activist artist collectiv
- Author: Pedrosa, Adriano
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 6557770500
- Language: English
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#Bidenwon: The Art of Recovery
$35.00 Add to cart#BIDENWON: The Art of Recovery depicts the political landscape that shaped the presidency of President Joseph R. Biden.
With tongue planted firmly in cheek, award-winning author illustrator Cathy Hull- Author: Hull, Cathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 196185645X
- Language: English
