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Spheres of Action: Art & Politics
Peter Osborne & Eric Alliez Softcover | 15.5 x 1.1 x 23.3 cm | 160 pp Tate Publishing | 2013 | 9781854379757 A snapshot of current debates about the relationship of politics to contemporary art, with original writings by major European thinkers. This collection of essays...- £10.00
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documenta: Politics and Art
Softcover | 17.15 x 2.69 x 24.13 cm | 304 pp Prestel | 2021 | 9783791379203 Every few years since 1955, the creators of documenta set themselves the task of providing an insight into current trends in art and of capturing the zeitgeist of...- £10.00
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The Social and the Real: Political Art of the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere
Softcover | 17.78 x 3.1 x 24.13 cm | 384 pp Pennsylvania State University Press | 2006 | 9780271026916 During the 1930s, American artists such as Ben Shahn developed a mode of representation generally known as Social Realism. This term is given broad new...- £10.00
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The Berlin Masterpieces in America: Paintings, Politics and the Monuments Men
Peter J Bell & Kristi A Nelson Hardcover | 19.56 x 2.79 x 24.13 cm | 224 pp D Giles | 2020 | 9781911282631 The story of some of the paintings rescued by the the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives (MFAA) organisation, the so-called "Monuments Men." In December...- £17.50
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Vendor:Kerber
Raul Walch: It's a great pressure to be here
20.83 x 2.29 x 27.94 cm | 240 pp Kerber Verlag | 2020 | 9783735606105 Raul Walch is a sculptor and conceptual artist. Yet, in his site-specific interventions, he turns into a critical investigator, performer, and activist as well. Aside from being a survey...- £18.00
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Ai Weiwei: Human Flow - Stories from the Global Refugee Crisis
Softcover | 16.51 x 3.18 x 22.86 cm | 400 pp Princeton University Press | 2020 | 9780691207049 In the course of making Human Flow, his epic feature documentary about the global refugee crisis, the artist Ai Weiwei and his collaborators interviewed more than 600...- £12.50
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Russia Accursed!: Red Terror through the eyes of an artist
Hardcover | 27.94 x 4.06 x 27.94 cm | 335 pp Unicorn Press | 2021 | 9781913491369 The Russian Revolution and Civil War – as never seen before! Packed with jaw-dropping, at times blood-curdling images, Russia Accursed! showcases the reaction of Ivan Vladmirov (1869-1947)...- £30.00
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Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power
Susan E. Cahan Hardcover | 19.05 x 3.18 x 26.04 cm | 360 pp Duke University Press | 2016 | 9780822358978 In Mounting Frustration Susan E. Cahan investigates the strategies African American artists and museum professionals employed as they wrangled over access to and the direction of...- £20.00
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The Nazi Perpetrator: Postwar German Art and the Politics of the Right
Paul B. Jascot Softcover | 17.78 x 2.29 x 25.4 cm | 288 pp University of Minnesota Press | 2012 | 9780816678259 This book presents a fundamental reevaluation of pivotal developments in postwar German art and architecture against the backdrop of contentious contemporary debates over the Nazi past...- £8.50
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Networking the Bloc: Experimental Art in Eastern Europe 1965-1981
Klara Kemp-Welch Hardcover | 23.11 x 18.29 x 3.05 cm | 480 pp MIT Press | 2019 | 9780262038300 he story of the experimental zeitgeist in Eastern European art, seen through personal encounters, pioneering dialogues, collaborative projects, and cultural exchanges. Throughout the 1970s, a network...- £20.00
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Vendor:MIT Press
Parallel Public: Experimental Art in Late East Germany
Sara Blaylock Hardcover | 18.54 x 2.84 x 23.5 cm | 296 pp MIT Press | 2022 | 9780262046633 Experimental artists in the final years of the German Democratic Republic did not practice their art in the shadows, on the margins, hiding away from the...- £17.50
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Emil Nolde: The Artist During the Third Reich
Bernhard Fulda Hardcover | 23.5 x 3.66 x 30.48 cm | 320 pp Prestel | 2019 | 9783791358949 Emil Nolde created some of the most powerful works of the Expressionist movement. Despite the fact that his art was represented more prominently than anyone else's...- £30.00
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Vendor:Phaidon
Visual Impact: Creative Dissent in the 21st Century
Liz McQuiston Softcover | 19.05 x 1.91 x 27.31 cm | 240 pp Phaidon | 2015 | 9780714869704 Visual Impact is an accessible and richly illustrated exploration of how art and design have driven major social and political change in the 21st century. Richly...- £15.00
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Vendor:Yale University Press
Ai Weiwei: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
Nicholas Baume, Daniel S. Palmer & Katerina Stathopoulou Hardcover | 21.08 x 3.3 x 31.24 cm | 304 pp Yale University Press | 2019 | 9780300243796 In 2017 Internationally renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) transformed over 300 sites across New York City into a compelling,...- £25.00
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Hogarth's Legacy
Hardcover | 22.86 x 3.18 x 27.94 cm | 272 pp Yale University Press | 2016 | 9780300215618 The legacy of graphic artist William Hogarth (1697-1764) remains so emphatic that even his last name has evolved into a common vernacular term referring to his characteristically...- £30.00
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Vendor:Black Dog Publishing
Kevin Gaffney: Unseen by My Open Eyes
Softcover | 17.78 x 1.27 x 23.5 cm | 96 pp Black Dog Publishing | 2017 | 9781911164128 Featuring four films by the young Irish filmmaker Kevin Gaffney, Unseen By My Open Eyes is the first publication on the artist's work, exploring the psychological landscapes he...- £4.00
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Koto Bolofo: The Prison
Koto Bolofo & Claudia Van Ryssen-Bolofo Hardcover | 29.8 x 1.9 x 38.1 cm | 112 pp Steidl | 2014 | 9783869306001 Having left South Africa at the age of four as a political refugee with his parents, photographer Koto Bolofo returned to his home country with...- £20.00
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Come Together: The Rise of Cooperative Art and Design
Francesco Spampinato Softcover | 21 x 2.5 x 26 cm | 256 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2014 | 9781616892685 The past twenty years have seen a resurgence of artists working together in small groups and larger collectives to explore new avenues of art, design, performance...- £15.00
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Nobody's Property: Art, Land, Space
Hardcover | 23.5 x 1.9 x 28.6 cm | 136 pp Princeton University Art Museum | 2010 | 9780300149289 This generously illustrated volume surveys a new chapter in the history of environmental art, one in which space, geopolitics, human relations, urbanism, and utopian dreamwork play as...- £15.00
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The Project of Autonomy: Politics and Architecture Within and Against Capitalism
Softcover | 14.29 x 1.27 x 21.59 cm | 120 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2012 | 9781616891008 A challenging and polemical argument about the Autonomia movement in Italy, a group of Italian intellectuals who produced a powerful and rigorous critique of capitalism and work...- £12.50
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