Criticism & Theory
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Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art
$24.95 Add to cartOver the course of a career that spanned fifty years, Agnes Martin’s austere, serene work anticipated and helped to define Minimalism, even as she battled psychological crises and carved out a solitar
- Author: Princenthal, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 0500294550
- Language: English
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Pretentiousness: Why It Matters
$18.00 Add to cartPretentiousness is the engine oil of culture; the essential lubricant in the development of all arts, high, low, or middle.
- Author: Fox, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 156689428X
- Language: English
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Leonardo’s Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master
$23.99 Add to cartLeonardo’s Notebooks is a biography of the genius in his own words, connecting moments of his life to artistic accomplishments through his writings, drawings, and intimate thoughts.
Leonardo da Vinci- Series: Notebook
- Author: Da Vinci, Leonardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 1579129463
- Language: English
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On Alchemy: Essential Practices and Making Art as Alchemy
$18.95 Add to cart“There’s no sounder or more sage guide to alchemy – the practice and the philosophy – than Brian Cotnoir. This wise, lucidly-written book … offers explanations and exercises that will be of immeasur… [more below]
- Author: Cotnoir, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1786787709
- Language: English
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Wicked Arts Assignments: Practising Creativity in Contemporary Arts Education
$25.00 Add to cartFun, poetical and inspiring challenges for teaching the arts–for students of all ages and teachers of all disciplines
The almost 100 arts assignments compiled in this instructive new volume are design
- Author: Heijnen, Emiel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 02, 2021
- ISBN10: 9492095750
- Language: English
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Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAbout the Series: Oxford’s Very Short Introductions offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects–from Islam to Sociology, Politics to Classics, and Literary Theory to Histor… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Freeland, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: December 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0192804634
- Language: English
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The Artist’s Reality: Philosophies of Art
$22.00 Add to cartMark Rothko’s classic book on artistic practice, ideals, and philosophy, now with an expanded introduction and an afterword by Makoto Fujimura
Stored in a New York City warehouse for many years after- Author: Rothko, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0300269870
- Language: English
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Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto
$14.95 Add to cartA New York Times Best Art Book of 2020
A new manifesto for cyberfeminism: finding liberation in the glitch between body, gender, and technology The divide between the digital and the real world no l- Author: Russell, Legacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1786632667
- Language: English
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On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
$17.00 Add to cartNamed a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month by: NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture * Women’s Wear Daily * Bustle * LitHub * The Millions * Vogue * Nylon * Shondaland * Chicago Revi
- Author: Nelson, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1644452022
- Language: English
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Ways of Seeing
$21.00 Add to cart“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled” — so opens John Berger’s revolutionary million-copy bestseller on how to look at art
John Berger’s Ways of Seeing is one of the mo- Author: Berger, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0140135154
- Language: English
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Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
$12.95 Add to cartThis is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all art not made by Mozart. After all, art is rarely made by Mozart-like people; essentially–statistically speaking–
- Author: Bayles, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0961454733
- Language: English
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Nature’s Palette: A Color Reference System from the Natural World
$42.00 Add to cartA gorgeous expanded edition of Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours, a landmark reference book on color and its origins in nature
First published in 1814, Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours is a taxonomical- Author: Baty, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0691217041
- Language: English
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Art and Faith: A Theology of Making
$28.00 Add to cartFrom a world-renowned painter, an exploration of creativity’s quintessential–and often overlooked–role in the spiritual life
“Makoto Fujimura’s art and writings have been a true inspiration to me. I- Author: Fujimura, Makoto
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0300254148
- Language: English
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The Society of the Spectacle
$9.99 Add to cart‘The Debordian analysis of modern life resonates more deeply and darkly than perhaps even its creator thought possible…’ – The New Yorker
‘Never before has Debord’s work seemed quite as relevant as i
- Series: Critical Editions
- Author: Debord, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 01, 2021
- ISBN10: 1922491284
- Language: English
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How to Be an Artist
$24.00 Add to cartInstant New York Times Bestseller
“Inspiration leaps off the pages from Jerry Saltz’s new book on creativity. . . . This book is for the artist or non-artist, for the person who gets plain English, fo- Author: Saltz, Jerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0593086465
- Language: English
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The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
$17.99 Add to cartWriting in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Elaine Scarry, Maggie Nelson has emerged as one of our foremost cultural critics with this landmark work about representations of cruelty and violence in a
- Author: Nelson, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 13, 2012
- ISBN10: 0393343146
- Language: English
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A Little History of Art
$25.00 Read moreA thrilling journey through 100,000 years of art, from the first artworks ever made to art’s central role in culture today
“This lively volume is ideal for the precocious high-schooler, the lazy colle- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Mullins, Charlotte
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0300253664
- Language: English
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Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
$32.00 Read moreFrom the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of How to Be an Artist a deliciously readable survey of the art world in turbulent times
Jerry Saltz is one of our most-watched writers about art- Author: Saltz, Jerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 059308649X
- Language: English
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Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
$17.99 Add to cartIn this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty-fir
- Author: Laing, Olivia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0393867390
- Language: English
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Like Love: Essays and Conversations
$32.00 Read moreA career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists
Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson’s brilliant work. These- Author: Nelson, Maggie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1644452812
- Language: English
