Criticism & Theory
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75 Masterpieces Every Christian Should Know: The Fascinating Stories Behind Great Works of Art, Literature, Music and Film
$24.99 Add to cartLet Your Faith Be Moved by the Masterpieces
Art becomes a masterpiece when it stands the test of time and challenges its viewers to see the world from a new perspective. The vast legacy of human expres
- Author: Glaspey, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0802420877
- Language: English
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Shadows: In Nature, Life & Art
$7.95 Add to cartWhat’s the difference between a cast shadow and a form shadow? Why do shadows become increasingly important in Western art? Can we only ever see shadows, not objects themselves, as Plato claimed? In t… [more below]
- Series: Wooden Books North America Editions
- Author: Vaughan, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 195217824X
- Language: English
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Fear Not!
$19.00 Add to cartWhy would anyone want to watch horror movies? Why would Christians, in particular, bother with the genre? In Fear Not!, critic Josh Larsen makes the case that monster movies, creature features, slashe… [more below]
- Series: Reel Spirituality Monograph
- Author: Larsen, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1666738522
- Language: English
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Blue: The History of a Color
$45.00 Add to cartA beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color blue throughout the ages
Blue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. The ancient Greeks scorned it as ugly and- Author: Pastoureau, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0691181365
- Language: English
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Art Needs No Justification
$10.95 Add to cartArtists often agonize over their work, even to the point of despair, in the modern world. This booklet by one of the twentieth century’s most incisive art historians and cultural critics is a propheti… [more below]
- Author: Rookmaaker, Hans R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 63
- Publish Date: April 21 2010
- ISBN10: 1573834416
- Language: English
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The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery
$18.99 Add to cartFrom celebrated art historian, curator, and teacher Sarah Lewis, a fascinating examination of how our most iconic creative endeavors–from innovation to the arts–are not achievements but conversions,… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 17 2015
- ISBN10: 1451629249
- Language: English
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Seven Days in the Art World
$17.95 Add to cartSarah Thornton’s vivid ethnography–an international hit, now available in twenty translations–reveals the inner workings of the sophisticated subcultures that make up the contemporary art world. In
- Author: Thornton, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 039333712X
- Language: English
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Idolatry Restor’d: Witchcraft and the Imaging of Power
$16.95 Read moreThe translation of magical power to a created image is a matter well understood in so-called ‘archaic’ sorcery, in which a mutual embodiment of re-presentation and represented occurs. The carved fetis… [more below]
- Author: Schulke, Daniel A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1945147423
- Language: English
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Forty-one False Starts
$24.00 Add to cartA National Book Critics Circle Finalist for Criticism
A deeply Malcolmian volume on painters, photographers, writers, and critics. Janet Malcolm’s In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murd- Author: Malcolm, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 13 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534586
- Language: English
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New Realities: The Comics of Dash Shaw
$24.95 Add to cartDash Shaw is one of the most restless cartoonists of recent decades, constantly evolving in how he approaches the comics page. In the years since his breakthrough graphic novel Bottomless Belly Button… [more below]
- Author: Hunter, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1941250475
- Language: English
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In the Land of the Cyclops: Essays
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of the My Struggle series comes a collection of ambitious, remarkably erudite essays on art, literature, culture, and philosophy.
In the Land of the Cyclops- Author: Knausgaard, Karl Ove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0374265607
- Language: English
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Socialist Realism
$18.00 Add to cartMoving west-from Singapore to America, from New York to California-a woman examines the myth of “finding home” even as she comes to terms with its impossibilities.
- Series: Emily Books
- Author: Low, Trisha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1566895510
- Language: English
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More to Say: Essays and Appreciations
$17.95 Read more“Earnest, amusing, and contemplative….though Beattie is known for her fiction, her nonfiction has just as much to offer.”–Publishers Weekly
“Shimmering prose and critical acumen on display in an ec- Series: Nonpareil Books #4
- Author: Beattie, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1567927521
- Language: English
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How Art Can Change Your Life
$19.95 Read moreEnlightening, challenging, and informative, visual art can also be therapeutic, reducing anxiety and stress levels, and offering perspective on the challenges that we all face in our lives. How Art Ca
- Author: Hodge, Susie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0500024936
- Language: English
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Borealis
$14.95 Add to cartArt about glaciers, queer relationships, political anxiety, and the meaning of Blackness in open space–Borealis is a shapeshifting logbook of Aisha Sabatini Sloan’s experiences moving through the Ala
- Series: Spatial Species
- Author: Sabatini Sloan, Aisha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1566896193
- Language: English
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Looking at Mindfulness: Twenty-Five Paintings to Change the Way You Live
$21.00 Add to cartA book to help you achieve mindfulness and practice meditation while looking at the world’s greatest works of art.
Psychiatrist and leading meditation practitioner Christophe Andr guides you through- Author: Andre, Christophe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0399575944
- Language: English
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Black: The History of a Color
$35.00 Add to cartThe story of the color black in art, fashion, and culture–from the beginning of history to the twenty-first century
Black–favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion desig- Author: Pastoureau, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 16 2008
- ISBN10: 069113930X
- Language: English
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Who Stole the Arms of the Venus de Milo?
$20.00 Add to cartWho Stole the Arms of the Venus de Milo? is an exhilarating, course-correcting account about one of the most iconic sculptures ever created.
Carved by an obscure Greek sculptor, Alexandros of Antioch,
- Author: Cousineau, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 442
- Publish Date: December 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798868926587
- Language: English
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Jim Henson and Philosophy: Imagination and the Magic of Mayhem
$29.93 Add to cartJim Henson’s creations have inspired generations with characters that are among the world’s most recognizable cultural icons. Henson’s legacy endures because he never shied away from exploring deep qu… [more below]
- Author: Dale, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1442246642
- Language: English
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Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
$28.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST – NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – ONE OF TIME‘S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE – A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly orig… [more below]
- Author: Hong, Cathy Park
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1984820362
- Language: English
