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Hardcover | 24.89 x 2.79 x 31.5 cm | 146 pp Wienand | 2007 | 9783879098910 Christoph Loos has been involved in an ongoing dialogue with the element of wood since the very beginning of his artistic career, and has examined it through the...

Vershawn Ashanti Young Softcover | 15.34 x 2.11 x 23.09 cm | 394 pp Wayne State University Press | 2011 | 9780814334683 In From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances, editor Vershawn Ashanti Young and assistant editor Bridget Harris Tsemo collect a diverse assortment of pieces...

Mark McGurl Hardcover | 16.03 x 2.59 x 24.05 cm | 336 pp Verso | 2021 | 9781839763854 What has happened to fiction in the age of platform capitalism? Since it was first launched in 1994, Amazon has changed the world of literature. The "Everything...

Hannah Feldman Softcover | 17.78 x 1.91 x 25.4 cm | 336 pp Duke University Press | 2014 | 9780822353713 From a Nation Torn provides a powerful critique of art history's understanding of French modernism and the historical circumstances that shaped its production and reception. Within...

Maureen Ryan Hardcover | 15.24 x 2.92 x 22.86 cm | 400 pp Mariner Books | 2023 | 9780063269279  In this spectacular, news-making exposé that has the entertainment industry abuzz and on its heels, Vanity Fair's Maureen Ryan blows the lid off patterns of harassment and...

Peter Gay Hardcover | 13.34 x 1.75 x 19.69 cm | 224 pp Yale University Press | 2015 | 9780300144291  Why the Romantics Matter is a renowned scholar’s reflections on the romantic period, its disparate participants, and our unacknowledged debt to them. With his...

Jay McKean Fisher & William S. Lieberman Softcover | 17 x 0.9 x 21.5 cm | 90 pp American Federation of Arts | 2009 | 9781885444387 The catalogue of the first comprehensive exhibition on the printmaking of the great French artist Henri Matisse.  The...

Sylvia Wolf Hardcover | 19.5 x 1.8 x 24 cm | 192 pp Prestel | 2010 | 9783791343181 The rise of digital photography is perhaps the most manifest legacy of the digital revolution in art. Through the use of sophisticated software and scanners, artists...

Hardcover | 15.6 x 1.7 x 23.39 cm | 152 pp Faber & Faber | 2023 | 9780571383207 The book of the screenplay of Asteroid City - Wes Anderson's 2023 theatrical ensemble character piece; a poetic meditation on the meaning of life. Also included...

Ian Ritchie Hardcover | 16.8 x 1.1 x 14.5 cm | 64 pp Unicorn Press | 2023 | 9781911397755 Light is the material of Architecture. Ian Ritchie is one of the UK’s most visionary architects, and remarkable for synthesising multiple creative disciplines to bring the...

Jonathan Allen & Sally O'Reilly  Softcover | 17.78 x 0.64 x 24.13 cm | 115 pp Hayward Gallery | 2009 | 9781853322815 Published in conjunction with a 2009 Hayward Gallery exhibition, Magic Show demonstrates how visual artists adopt the perception-shifting tactics of the theatrical magician to explore...

Softcover | 19.05 x 2.29 x 23.5 cm | 151 pp Hayward Gallery | 2008 | 9781853322662 Laughing in a Foreign Language explores the role of laughter and humour in contemporary art through the work of over 30 international artists working in a range...

Hardcover board book | 21 x 2 x 29.5 cm | 14 pp Edizioni Corraini | 2005 | 9788875700713 Rare & Collectible Martí Guixé tackles a serious subject with his trademark light-heartedness and humour, providing us with a handbook that shows you how to...

Nick Fraser Softcover | 15.24 x 2.54 x 23.5 cm | 416 pp Faber & Faber | 2019 | 9780571329564 Documentary films are the rock and roll of our times. Why are they made? Who are in the tribe of documentary film-makers? Do their films really...

Nicole Trevillian Softcover | 15.24 x 0.64 x 20.96 cm | 112 pp Edizioni Charta | 2009 | 9788881587513 Nicole Trevillan's London Club is a series of fashion photographs from influential new-music nightclubs in London between 2000 and 2010. The club night Trash, founded in...

Hardcover | 16.5 x 2.7 x 24 cm | 320 pp Prestel | 2012 | 9783791352350 Published to accompany the exhibition at Minneapolis Institute of Arts featuring work by 28 international artists including Thomas Demand, Ai Weiwei, Mark Dion, Sharon Lockhart, Jonathan Monk, Trevor Paglen, Mary Temple...

Softcover | 21.6 x 2.5 x 28 cm | 296 pp JRP Editions | 2007 | 9783905770056 Electronic communications have had a transformative effect on the public discourse on contemporary art by removing temporal and geographical barriers to the flow of information and, for...

Stephen Westfall, Lilly Wei & Rene Paul Barilleaux Hardcover |  21.84 x 2.03 x 30.23 cm | 144 pp East of Borneo | 2014 | 9780615864518 Beauty Reigns focuses on exoticism, exuberance and optimism in contemporary painting through the work of 13 emerging and mid-career abstract painters. Common  characteristics include...

Softcover | 21.59 x 1.91 x 27.94 cm | 144 pp Black Dog Publishing | 2009 | 9781906155780 Incorporating research in the fields of psychical research, psychology, physiology, photography and optical viewing, Susan MacWilliam's work explores ideas about the visible and the invisible, about...

Hardcover | 20.5 x 1.02 x 25.5 cm | 224 pp Yale University Press | 2016 | 9780300220124 This book peers into Troubleyn / Laboratorium, the workspace, collective art space, and creative incubator of Belgian multidisciplinary artist Jan Fabre (b. 1958), whose performances, staged...