Criticism & Theory
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The Failed Painter: Or: Unchained by Material Anxiety
$20.00 Read more“Ian Lynam is the Hunter S. Thompson of design writing.” -Sereina Rothenberger
A personal book about material anxiety in creative work, The Failed Painter discusses singular and multiple production pro
- Author: Lynam, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 9083318826
- Language: English
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‘Race Is Everything’: Art and Human Difference
$43.00 Read moreA timely and revealing look at the intertwined histories of science, art, and racism.
‘Race Is Everything’ explores the spurious but influential ideas of so-called racial science in the nineteenth an- Author: Bindman, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1789146968
- Language: English
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On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
$27.00 Read moreNamed 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1644450623
- Language: English
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Molecular Revolution
$26.95 Read moreMolecular Revolution comprises a series of articles from radical French philosopher and psychoanalyst, Felix Guattari, originally published in two separate French editions, of 1977 and 1980 – each bea
- Author: Guattari, Felix
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1472596676
- Language: English
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Art, Second Edition: A Visual History
$32.00 Read more“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” Edgar Degas
Covering every era and over 650 artists, this comprehensive, illustrated guide offers an accessible yet expansive view of art histo- Series: DK Ultimate Guides
- Author: Cumming, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 074402367X
- Language: English
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See/Saw: Looking at Photographs
$24.00 Read moreA lavishly illustrated history of photography in essays by the author of Otherwise Known as the Human Condition
See/Saw shows how photographs frame and change our perspective on the world. Taking in p- Author: Dyer, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1644450445
- Language: English
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Signs and Images: Writings on Art, Cinema and Photography
$20.00 Read moreA major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback.
Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constan- Series: French List
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1803092742
- Language: English
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Why Art?
$14.99 Read moreWhat is “Art”? It’s widely accepted that art serves an important function in society. But the concept falls under such an absurdly large umbrella and can manifest in so many different ways. Art can be… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1683960823
- Language: English
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An Oblique Autobiography
$20.00 Read moreEssays and reminiscences by one of the preeminent art historians of our time, spanning more than four decades.
An Oblique Autobiography assembles a new collection of essays and reminiscences by one of- Author: Bois, Yve-Alain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1949484084
- Language: English
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Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays
$17.95 Read moreRanging from Ta-Nehisi Coates’s case for reparations to Toni Morrison’s revolutionary humanism to D’Angelo’s simmering blend of R&B and racial justice, Jesse McCarthy’s bracing essays investigate with
- Author: McCarthy, Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1324091479
- Language: English
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The Impossibility of Silence: Writing for Designers, Artists & Photographers
$20.00 Read moreHow to write about your work–an expert’s guide to the craft
Ian Lynam’s The Impossibility of Silence is a book for artists, photographers and designers interested in approaching writing about their vo
- Author: Lynam, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 9083270688
- Language: English
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The Guardians of Art: Conversations with Major Collectors
$33.00 Read moreThe world’s leading collectors describe their singular passion for acquiring and sharing contemporary art
In The Guardians of Art, DC-based collector Dani Levinas brings together 34 of the most outstan
- Author: Levinas, Dani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 8418934646
- Language: English
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Oh, to Be a Painter!
$15.00 Read moreThe twentieth volume in the renowned ekphrasis series, this collection of Virginia Woolf’s writings on the visual arts offers a whole new perspective on the revolutionary author.
Despite wide interest- Series: Ekphrasis
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1644230585
- Language: English
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If These Apples Should Fall: Cézanne and the Present
$39.95 Read moreFor many artists and writers, the art of Paul Cézanne represents the key to modernity. His paintings were a touchstone for writers such as Samuel Beckett as much as for artists such as Henri Matisse.
- Author: Clark, T. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0500025282
- Language: English
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The Painted Word
$17.00 Read more“America’s nerviest journalist” (Newsweek) trains his satirical eye on Modern Art in this “masterpiece” (The Washington Post)
Wolfe’s style has never been more dazzling, his wit never more keen. He ad- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0312427581
- Language: English
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Productive Archiving: Artistic Strategies, Future Memories & Fluid Identities
$29.95 Read moreHow artists have devised creative solutions to the taxonomic constraints of the archive
This critical anthology addresses three often-overlooked issues facing archival organizations: the question of in
- Author: Van Alphen, Ernst
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 9493246167
- Language: English
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How to Understand Art (Art Essentials)
$16.95 Read moreThe visual arts enrich our lives in so many ways, presenting beauty, emotion, and ideas–but sometimes looking at art is confusing and challenging. This new volume in the Art Essentials series, How to
- Series: Art Essentials #15
- Author: Benton, Janetta Rebold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0500295832
- Language: English
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Slow Spatial Reader: Chronicles of Radical Affection
$29.95 Read moreHow to dissent from enforced temporalities: essays from artists, theorists and more
The essays in this volume chronicle projects and ideas that analyze the nuances of spatial experience: reaching into
- Author: Strauss, Carolyn F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 9492095971
- Language: English
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How to Not Fuck Up Your Art-World Happiness
$14.95 Read moreA light-hearted effort to make the art world a little bit happier, from the cofounder of Larry’s List
After living and working in the art world for the past 15 years, Christoph Noe brought pen to paper
- Author: Noe, Christoph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 3903439703
- Language: English
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Marcel Duchamp
$125.00 Read moreDuchamp’s historic 1959 catalogue raisonn?-cum-artist’s book now back in print in a facsimile edition
A New York Times critics’ pick Best Art Books 2021
Marcel Duchamp, the artist’s first legendary mon- Author: Duchamp, Marcel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 3906915514
- Language: English
