Criticism & Theory
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Glitch Theory: Art and Semiotics
$30.00 Add to cartWhat do glitches reveal about the normally invisible processes behind our interpretations?
Glitches and Glitch Art illuminate the unseen assumptions, ideology of dialectical thinking, and role of est
- Author: Betancourt, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0979321557
- Language: English
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Let’s See Pa
$24.95 Add to cartDistinguished critic at The New Yorker since 1998, Peter Schjeldahl has been described as America’s most influential writer on art. Blessed with an unerring eye, he tackles a myriad of subjects with w… [more below]
- Author: Schjeldahl, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0500740100
- Language: English
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Last Light: How Six Great Artists Made Old Age a Time of Triumph
$35.00 Read moreOne of the nation’s top art critics shows how six great artists made old age a time of triumph by producing some of the greatest work of their long careers–and, in some cases, changing the course of … [more below]
- Author: Lacayo, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1501146580
- 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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How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art
$17.99 Add to cartHow does art work? How does it move us, inform us, challenge us? Internationally renowned painter David Salle’s incisive essay collection illuminates these questions by exploring the work of influenti
- Author: Salle, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0393354962
- Language: English
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Diary of a Genius: Salvador Dali’ S Autobiography: 1952-1963
$17.95 Read moreDIARY OF A GENIUS stands as one of the seminal texts of Surrealism, revealing the most astonishing and intimate workings of the mind of Salvador DalÃ, the eccentric polymath genius who became the liv… [more below]
- Author: Dali, Salvador
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1840686847
- Language: English
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Why the Museum Matters
$18.00 Add to cartA powerful reflection on the universal art museum, considering the values critical to its history and anticipating its evolving place in our cultural future
Art museums have played a vital role in ou- Series: Why X Matters
- Author: Weiss, Daniel H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0300276850
- Language: English
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Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
$18.00 Add to cartNo philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects – despite living in the German golden age of Goethe, Mozart and Schiller. For … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 04 1994
- ISBN10: 014043335X
- Language: English
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Green: The History of a Color
$42.00 Add to cartIn this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of Blue and Black presents a fascinating and revealing history of the color green in European societies from prehistoric times to to
- Author: Pastoureau, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 24 2014
- ISBN10: 069115936X
- Language: English
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Sensing Earth: Cultural Quests Across a Heated Globe
$28.95 Read moreEssays, manifestos and more on the ecological complexities and contradictions of the art industry
Through essays, interviews, poetry, manifestos, choreographic prompts, speculative fiction and case stu
- Author: Dietachmair, Philipp
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 9493246248
- Language: English
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Ways of Drawing: Artists’ Perspectives and Practices
$45.00 Read moreDrawing is among the most direct ways of engaging with the world; a way not just of seeing, but of understanding what you see. At once inspirational and instructive, Ways of Drawing collects a rich va
- Author: Royal Drawing School, The
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 0500021902
- Language: English
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Art Can Help
$16.00 Read moreA collection of inspiring essays by the photographer Robert Adams, who advocates the meaningfulness of art in a disillusioned society
In Art Can Help, the internationally acclaimed American photograp- Author: Adams, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: August 24 2021
- ISBN10: 0300260245
- Language: English
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Art and Artist: Creative Urge and Personality Development
$32.99 Add to cartAlong with Adler and Jung, Otto Rank was one of the intellectual giants in the inner circle around Sigmund Freud. Art and Artist, his major statement on the relationship of art to the individual and s… [more below]
- Author: Rank, Otto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 532
- Publish Date: March 13 2009
- ISBN10: 0393305740
- Language: English
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Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life
$35.00 Add to cartOne of the greatest and most admired artists of the twentieth century, Georgia O’Keeffe led a life rich in intense relationships–with family, friends, and especially with fellow artist Alfred Stiegli… [more below]
- Author: Robinson, Roxana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 679
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1684580323
- Language: English
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Heretical Aesthetics: Pasolini on Painting
$24.95 Read moreFirst collection on filmmaker and poet Pasolini’s passion for painting
One of Europe’s most mythologized Marxist intellectuals of the 20th century, Pier Paolo Pasolini was not only a poet, filmmaker,- Author: Giammei, Alessandro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1804291285
- Language: English
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Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?: 50th Anniversary Edition
$16.95 Add to cartMany scholars have called Linda Nochlin’s seminal essay on women artists the first real attempt at a feminist history of art. In her revolutionary essay, Nochlin refused to answer the question of why
- Author: Nochlin, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0500023840
- Language: English
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Frida Kahlo: The Paintings
$34.99 Add to cart“[Herrera’s] expressive and fluid prose is able to keep pace with Kahlo’s riveting canvases and adds to the experience of viewing them. . . . A superb tribute.” — Booklist
In small, stunningly rendere
- Author: Herrera, Hayden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 04 2002
- ISBN10: 0060923199
- Language: English
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Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light
$19.99 Add to cartArt interprets the visible world. Physics charts its unseen workings. The two realms seem completely opposed. But consider that both strive to reveal truths for which there are no words–with physicis
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Shlain, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0061227978
- Language: English
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Anni Albers: Selected Writings on Design
$30.00 Read moreThe only source in print of the key essays of a pioneer of modernist design.
Anni Albers (1899 – 1994) was one of the most influential textile designers of the 20th century. Born in Berlin, in 1922 she
- Author: Albers, Anni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: April 16 2001
- ISBN10: 0819564478
- Language: English
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Global Objects: Toward a Connected Art History
$52.00 Read moreA bold reorientation of art history that bridges the divide between fine art and material culture through an examination of objects and their uses
Art history is often viewed through cultural or natio- Author: Cooke, Edward S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0691184739
- Language: English
