Arts
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A Book of Surrealist Games
$17.95 Read moreThis delightful collection allows everyone to enjoy firsthand the provocative methods used by the artists and poets of the Surrealist school to break through conventional thought and behavior to a dee… [more below]
- Author: Brotchie, Alistair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 04 1995
- ISBN10: 1570620849
- Language: English
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Chroma: A Book of Color
$18.95 Add to cartChroma: A Book of Color is a meditation on the color spectrum by Britain’s most controversial filmmaker. From the explosions of image and color in Edward II, The Last of England, The Garden, and Wittg… [more below]
- Author: Jarman, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 22 2010
- ISBN10: 0816665931
- Language: English
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After the Nazis: The Story of Culture in West Germany
$35.00 Read moreA wide-ranging, insightful history of culture in West Germany–from literature, film, and music to theater and the visual arts
After World War II a mood of despair and impotence pervaded the arts in- Author: Kater, Michael H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0300259247
- Language: English
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Chroma: A Book of Color
$18.95 Read moreChroma: A Book of Color is a meditation on the color spectrum by Britain’s most controversial filmmaker. From the explosions of image and color in Edward II, The Last of England, The Garden, and Wittg… [more below]
- Author: Jarman, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 22 2010
- ISBN10: 0816665931
- Language: English
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Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image
$38.00 Read moreEuropean narratives of the Atlantic New World tell stories of people and things: strange flora, wondrous animals, and sun-drenched populations for Europeans to mythologize or exploit. Yet between 1500
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Heuer, Christopher P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1942130147
- Language: English
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Théâtre de la Mode: Fashion Dolls: The Survival of Haute Couture
$29.95 Add to cartHarnessing the romance of the world of fashion and high art, this fascinating story of a collection of miniature mannequins describes the birth of Theatre de la Mode, the Theater of Fashion. Full of s… [more below]
- Author: Charles-Roux, Edmond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0935278567
- Language: English
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100 Essential Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know about Math and the Arts
$16.95 Add to cartAt first glance, the worlds of math and the arts might not seem like comfortable neighbors. But as mathematician John D. Barrow points out, they have a strong and natural affinity–after all, math is … [more below]
- Author: Barrow, John D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 18 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352226
- Language: English
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Studies in the History of the Renaissance
$11.95 Add to cartThrough his highly idiosyncratic readings of some of the finest paintings, sculptures, and poems of the French and Italian Renaissance, Walter Pater in Studies in the History of the Renaissance redefi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Pater, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0199535078
- 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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Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
$22.00 Read moreIn Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first visits the old stories–Hermes in Greec
- Author: Hyde, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 17 2010
- ISBN10: 0374532559
- Language: English
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Surrealism Beyond Borders
$65.00 Add to cartA completely new way of looking at and understanding Surrealism, with a focus on the worldwide sweep of the movement
“The variety of discoveries, detailed with exceptional scholarship in a ravishing k- Author: D’Alessandro, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1588397270
- Language: English
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In the Black Fantastic
$39.95 Add to cartA richly illustrated exploration of Black culture at its most wildly imaginative, artistically ambitious, and politically urgent.
A richly illustrated exploration of Black culture at its most wildly i- Author: Eshun, Ekow
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 026204725X
- Language: English
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The Roots of Romanticism: Second Edition
$12.95 Add to cartA brilliant brief account of romanticism and its influence from one of the most important philosophers and intellectual historians of the twentieth century
In The Roots of Romanticism, one of the twen- Series: Bollingen #45
- Author: Berlin, Isaiah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 02 2013
- ISBN10: 0691156204
- Language: English
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Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays
$22.00 Add to cartHere is a dazzling collection from Joan Acocella, one of our most admired cultural critics: thirty-one essays that consider the life and work of some of the most influential artists of our time (and t… [more below]
- Author: Acocella, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 12 2008
- ISBN10: 0307275760
- Language: English
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Black Art: A Cultural History
$29.95 Add to cartThe African diaspora–a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade and Western colonialism–has generated a wide array of artistic achievements, from blues and reggae to the paintings of the pione
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Powell, Richard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 26, 2021
- ISBN10: 0500204667
- Language: English
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The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters
$33.98 Add to cartDuring the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy’s most cherished possession–but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stono… [more below]
- Author: Saunders, Frances Stonor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1595589147
- Language: English
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The Black Joy Project
$35.00 Add to cartNAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary Work
Featuring 117 full-color photos and eight breathtaking essays on a force that fuels Black life all around the globe, this is Humans of New York
- Author: Cruz, Kleaver
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0358588758
- Language: English
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Black Mountain Poems
$16.95 Add to cartBlack Mountain College had an explosive influence on American poetry, music, art, craft, dance, and thought; it’s hard to imagine any other institution that was so utopian, rebellious, and experimenta… [more below]
- Author: Creasy, Jonathan C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 26 2019
- ISBN10: 0811228975
- Language: English
