Theory, Criticism & Philosophy

John Berger & Yves Berger Hardcover | 16.97 x 1.5 x 20.7 cm | 104 pp Pantheon Books | 2024 | 9780553387575 John Berger (1926-2017) was an art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment...

Hardcover | 19.3 x 2.1 x 27.5 cm | 288 pp OBJECTIF | 2016 | 9781526204738 Lapwing & Fox is a series of conversations in the form of letters and small books sent between two friends, writer and critic John Berger and artist and...

David Carrier & Joachim Pissarro Hardcover | 15.24 x 2 x 20.32 cm | 240 pp Pennsylvania State University Press | 2018 | 9780271081137 “Wild Art” refers to work that exists outside the established, rarified world of art galleries and cultural channels. It encompasses...

Simon Morley Hardcover | 14.99 x 2.29 x 21.84 cm | 256 pp Thames & Hudson | 2019 | 9780500021620 A unique guide to making sense of modern and contemporary art through seven different approaches (or keys), focusing on 20 major artworks from around...

Edited by Nicholas Smith Hardcover | 16.8 x 2.2 x 23.7 cm | 172 pp Relief Press | 2016 | 97811911549000 Is the exhibition now made for the photograph? Image of an Exhibition examines this question through a series of commissioned works, writing, panel...

Chantal Pontbriand Softcover | 14.99 x 2.03 x 20.83 cm | 222 pp JRP Ringier | 2013 | 9783037641965 In 1975, a small group of enterprising, discontented members of the international art community in Montreal posed the following question: “What do we know of contemporary...

John Molyneux Softcover | 15.24 x 2.03 x 22.61 cm | 300 pp Haymarket Books | 2020 | 9781642591316 To the question of "what is art?", it is often simply responded that art is whatever is produced by the artist. For John Molyneux, this clearly...

Paul D. Miller Softcover | 14 x 0.8 x 19 cm | 130 pp MIT Press | 2004 | 9780262632874 Includes free CD -  Rhythm Science: Excerpts and Allegories from the Sub Rosa Archives Rare & Collectible Paul D. Miller, known as DJ Spooky...

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...

The Pocket Essentials series started in 1999 as a niche list providing inexpensive pocket guides to interesting areas of history, film, literature and philosophy. This three-book set includes the following titles: Jackie Chan Michelle Le Blanc &  Colin Odell Softcover | 11 x 0.7 x...

Carlo Vannicola Softcover |  24 x 1.65 x 16 cm | 208 pp Forma Edizioni | 2024 | 9788855211581 Text in English and Italian Just Enough: Design Microstories offers a collection of insights, a series of hypotheses about the transversality and interdisciplinarity that characterise the...

Jeffrey Boakye & Ngade Smart Hardcover | 12.9 x 1.8 x 19.8 cm | 206 pp Faber & Faber | 2021 | 9780571366484 Lord Kitchener, Neneh Cherry, Smiley Culture, Stormzy . . . Groundbreaking musicians whose songs have changed the world. But how? This exhilarating...

Softcover | 13.97 x 1.27 x 20.96 cm | 176 pp The New Press | 2011 | 9781595586254  Viktor Koretsky (1909–1998) was a leading Soviet artist and the acknowledged master of the Soviet photographic poster. With a long and prolific career that spanned the...

Stephen Bayley & Robert Bargery  Hardcover | 20.98 x 0.58 x 20.98 cm | 112 pp Unicorn | 2022 | 9781914414862 We all consume architecture – it’s the one art-form we can’t avoid. So it’s hardly surprising that the finest writers have applied their minds to...

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...

Frederick Jameson Hardcover | 15.93 x 2.11 x 24.05 cm | 272 pp Verso | 2020 | 9781784783983  The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's major works and a great number of his shorter book reviews, notes and letters. It's premise...

Edited by Doro Globus & Karsten Schubert Softcover | 15.24 x 4.57 x 22.35 cm | 600 pp Ridinghouse | 2022 | 9781909932296 About Bridget Riley, represents a monumental body of research and analysis by some of the most important art historians of today. It also offers...

Walter Curt Behrendt Softcover | 17.53 x 1.52 x 25.15 cm | 176 pp Getty Publications | 2006 | 9780892365630 This book - Behrendt's principle theoretical work in German and the precursor to Modern Building - presents a revisionist concept of style that places equal emphasis on...

Chris Fujiwara Softcover | 15.3 x 3.7 x 23.4 cm | 528 pp Faber & Faber | 2023 | 9780571381241 Otto Preminger was one of Hollywood's first truly independent producer/directors. Blazing a trail in the examination of controversial issues such as drug addiction (The Man...

Gareth Stapleton Softcover | 15.24 x 2.54 x 20.96 cm | 256 pp Unicorn Press | 2025 | 9781917458023 The Architect’s Edge is a bold exploration of architecture, leadership and business, offering invaluable insights for creative entrepreneurs and industry leaders. Gareth Stapleton, an award-winning architect...