Criticism & Theory
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Art in Detail: 100 Masterpieces
$34.95 Read moreGreat paintings cannot be fully understood in a single encounter; there is always more to be derived from them. Art lovers may revisit and reconsider the masterpieces throughout their lives, but a dee
- Author: Hodge, Susie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0500296413
- Language: English
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Breaking Into Song: Why You Shouldn’t Hate Musicals
$17.95 Read more“This book is a fascinating cri de coeur and made me question
everything I think about musicals” Alan CummingA book for those who can’t stand musicals, those who love them, and every theatregoer, aca
- Author: Lenson, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1914228022
- 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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Willem de Kooning: The Breakthrough Years, 1945-50
$45.00 Add to cartA fascinating examination of a formative time in the iconic artist’s career
In 1948, Willem de Kooning held his first solo exhibition, at age forty-four, at the Charles Egan Gallery in New York City.- Series: Publications of the Art Museum, Princeton University
- Author: Elderfield, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0691973962
- 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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Black Art Notes
$20.00 Add to cartA prescient document of art-industry and museum critique from Black artists and writers, now in facsimile
A collection of essays edited by artist and organizer Tom Lloyd and first published in 1971, Bl
- Author: Lloyd, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1734489758
- Language: English
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Lynne Tillman: Paying Attention: Essays on Art and Culture
$45.00 Add to cartFrom award-winning novelist and cultural critic Lynne Tillman, Paying Attention is the first collection of essays devoted to her incisive, provocative, and singular reflections on art and culture.
“A- Author: Tillman, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1644231743
- Language: English
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Color Theory for Artists
$26.99 Add to cartA thoroughly practical guide to using color no artist can be without.
Full of beautiful, intricate hand-painted color wheels and practical advice on using and mixing colour, this book is a must-have- Author: Goldsmith, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1781579148
- 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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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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Seeing Making: Room for Thought
$32.50 Read moreRenowned philosopher Susan Buck-Morss collaborates with Boot Boyz Biz’s Kevin McCaughey and Inventory Press’ Adam Michaels on this experimental image-text update of McLuhan and Benjamin
Renowned philos
- Author: Buck-Morss, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1941753531
- Language: English
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Indian Art
$45.00 Read moreThe Indian subcontinent offers an extraordinary visual feast. Considering Indian art within a chronological framework, Vidya Dehejia analyses the great cities of the Indus civilization, the serene Bud… [more below]
- Series: Art & Ideas
- Author: Dehejia, Vidya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 17 1997
- ISBN10: 0714834963
- Language: English
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Enfleshed: Ecologies of Entities and Beings
$26.00 Read moreA wide-ranging collection of works from Eurasian artists and thinkers exploring multispecies ecologies
Evolving from multifaceted, polyvocal, long-term research and a series of exhibitions curated by F
- Author: Deng, Zoénie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 9493148947
- 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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Japan’s Anime Revolution!: Twenty Animated Films That Changed the World
$19.99 Add to cartTwenty pivotal moments in anime filmmaking–and the untold drama behind them. From secret production battles to box-office triumphs, Japan’s Anime Revolution reveals how each landmark film transformed… [more below]
- Author: Clements, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 4805319240
- Language: English
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Vermeer’s Afterlives
$39.95 Add to cartHow a once-forgotten Dutch painter inspired generations of artists, writers, and filmmakers
Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) is one of the most beloved painters in the world. But when an enterprising Fren- Author: Yeazell, Ruth Bernard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 23 2026
- ISBN10: 0691277826
- Language: English
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Eyes to See: Approaching the Spiritual in World Art
$35.00 Add to cartInviting you to explore and contemplate the great art of the world
“Somewhere, sometime in the course of casual encounters with art, an icon may emerge and claim its person: an image that startles and
- Author: Lipsey, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1966608098
- Language: English
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Beautiful Madness: Art Writing as Art Curating
$28.90 Read moreThirty years of reflections on the intertwined disciplines of art curating and art writing
Exhibition curating and art writing are closely related disciplines. Both practices construct a meaningful, pu
- Author: Kremer, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 9493246361
- Language: English
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The Emancipated Spectator
$19.95 Add to cartThe theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, both artists and thinkers have sought to transform the spectator into an active… [more below]
- Author: Ranciere, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1788739647
- Language: English
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The Female Body in Art
$40.00 Add to cartFrom the Renaissance to the present day, this is the history of art told through the female form, with over 80 works of art.
A cultural mirror of the times, the female body has captivated both artists- Author: Dempsey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1399626736
- Language: English
