Criticism & Theory
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Pidginization as Curatorial Method: Messing with Languages and Praxes of Curating
$15.95 Add to cartA new vision for activist curatorial practice.
In Pidginization as Curatorial Method: Messing with Languages and Praxes, renowned curator and director Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung proposes Pidgin la- Series: Sternberg Press / Thoughts on Curating
- Author: Ndikung, Bonaventure Soh Beje
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1915609089
- Language: English
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40 Conversations with the Prophet: On Art and the Creative Process
$15.00 Add to cartThis book is a collection of Qur’anic verses, prophetic narrations and statements by Muslim scholars and saints that are catered for Muslim artists to grow in their craft and creative process.
It shou… [more below]
- Author: Hussain, Ali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: September 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1737306158
- Language: English
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How to Be Drawn
$27.00 Add to cartA finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award
In How to Be Drawn, his daring fifth collection, Terrance Hayes explores how we see and are seen. While many of t- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Hayes, Terrance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 31 2015
- ISBN10: 0143126881
- Language: English
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Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood
$39.95 Read moreLong taboo, lived experience of motherhood–and all that accompanies it–has become the subject of urgent discussions within the art world. Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood proposes the artist … [more below]
- Author: Judah, Hettie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0500027862
- Language: English
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Elements of Art: Ten Ways to Decode the Masterpieces
$19.99 Read moreThe Elements of Art deconstructs great works of art into manageable components so that you can better understand and appreciate them.
Knowing how to interpret art is one of the biggest issues facing c- Author: Hodge, Susie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0711286655
- Language: English
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Everything is Personal: Notes on Now
$18.00 Add to cartEverything is Personal, Notes on Now is a collage of hybrid narratives that begin with the stunning events of November 2016 and challenge Stone to feel good when everything is bad. Freely jumping betw
- Author: Stone, Laurie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1732932824
- Language: English
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The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art
$18.95 Read moreA poet and post-punk heroine writes on subjects ranging from Bj rk to Robert Smithson, from traveling in Iceland to walking in Thoreau’s footsteps on Cape Cod
Poet and post-punk heroine Eileen Myles ha
- Series: Semiotext(e) Native Agents
- Author: Myles, Eileen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1584350660
- Language: English
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Graphic Liberation: Image Making and Political Movements
$20.00 Read moreFrom the fight against the AIDS crisis to the struggle for Black liberation and international solidarity, Graphic Liberation! digs deep into the history, present, and future of revolutionary political
- Author: MacPhee, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1942173873
- Language: English
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Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art
$40.00 Add to cartContemporary artists such as Ghada Amer and Clare Twomey have gained international reputations for work that transforms ordinary craft media and processes into extraordinary conceptual art, from Amer’… [more below]
- Author: Buszek, Maria Elena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0822347628
- Language: English
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Bonnard
$26.95 Add to cartBonnard found early fame among the Nabis, the radical young disciples of Gauguin, and went on with Vuillard to create a new intimist art of psychologically charged interiors. But from 1900 he turned b… [more below]
- Series: World of Art
- Author: Hyman, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: October 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0500203105
- Language: English
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100 Essential Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know about Math and the Arts
$16.95 Add to cartAt first glance, the worlds of math and the arts might not seem like comfortable neighbors. But as mathematician John D. Barrow points out, they have a strong and natural affinity–after all, math is … [more below]
- Author: Barrow, John D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 18 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352226
- Language: English
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art
$8.70 Add to cartKandinsky in this book defines the three types of painting; impressions, improvisations and compositions. While impressions are based on an external reality that serves as a starting point, improvisat… [more below]
- Author: Kandinsky, Wassily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: December 30 2020
- ISBN10: 8027309689
- Language: English
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Futurism
$23.33 Add to cartWith motion and machines as its most treasured tropes, Futurism was founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, along with painters Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carr?, and Gino Severini. W
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Martin, Sylvia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 30 2017
- ISBN10: 3836505835
- Language: English
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Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility
$52.95 Read moreEssays, conversations, and archival investigations explore the paradoxes, limitations, and social ramifications of trans representation within contemporary culture.
The increasing representation of tr- Series: Critical Anthologies in Art and Culture
- Author: Gossett, Reina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 026254489X
- Language: English
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Richard Shiff: Writing After Art: Essays on Modern and Contemporary Artists
$45.00 Read moreA broad and deep anthology of critic and art historian Richard Shiff’s most influential writings, which have shaped our understanding of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art.
“Elegantly designed as- Author: Shiff, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1644230488
- Language: English
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Wrong Is Not My Name: Notes on (Black) Art
$17.95 Add to cartA dazzling hybrid of personal memoir and criticism, considering the work of Black visual artists as a means to explore loss, legacy, and the reclamation of life through art.
At the age of twenty-one, E… [more below]
- Author: Cardwell, Erica N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1558613811
- Language: English
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Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartContemporary art has never been so popular – but the art world is changing. In a landscape of increasing globalization there is growing interest in questions over the nature of contemporary art today,… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Stallabrass, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198826621
- Language: English
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The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society
$44.99 Add to cartIn The Lure of the Local Lucy R. Lippard weaves together cultural studies, history, geography, and contemporary art to provide a fascinating examination of our multiple senses of place.
Divided into f
- Author: Lippard, Lucy R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1565842480
- Language: English
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Letters on Cézanne
$17.00 Add to cartRilke’s prayerful responses to the french master’s beseeching art
For a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes. Virtually every day in the fall of 1907, Rainer Maria Rilke returne- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 15 2002
- ISBN10: 086547639X
- Language: English
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Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays
$20.00 Add to cartThis third essay collection by America’s leading essayist brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980, in which she explores some of the most influential artists and thinkers
- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0312420080
- Language: English
