Theory, Criticism & Philosophy

This illustrated, edited collection of 30 essays brings together for the first time some of the pioneering art historian Linda Nochlin’s most important writings on modernism and modernity from across her six-decade career. Before the publication of her seminal tract on feminism in art,...

“Wild Art” refers to work that exists outside the established, rarified world of art galleries and cultural channels. It encompasses uncatalogued, uncommodified art not often recognised as such, from graffiti to performance, self-adornment, and beyond. Picking up from their breakthrough book on the subject, Wild...

A unique guide to making sense of modern and contemporary art through seven different approaches (or keys), focusing on 20 major artworks from around the world.In a world where artists place a premium on self-expression and innovation, obtuse intellectualism and outrage for outrage’s sake,...

Is the exhibition now made for the photograph? Image of an Exhibition examines this question through a series of commissioned works, writing, panel discussions and interviews that took place over a number of events in 2015. The publication documents this process providing insight into...

In the 1940s and 1950s, hundreds of art documentaries were produced, many of them being highly personal, poetic, reflexive and experimental films that offer a thrilling cinematic experience. With the exception of Alain Resnais’s Van Gogh (1948), Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Le Mystère Picasso (1956) and a few others, most...

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 art outside of Quebec, in Canada or abroad? Do we even know what contemporary art exists in Montreal?...

John Berger (1926-2017) was an art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to the BBC series of the same name, is hugely culturally influential and continues to be widely read today. Compelling and...

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 film-maker John Christie.  As well as the close scrutiny of works by Giacometti, Modigliani, Frank Auerbach...

Screen Deep is a book about the immense potential of screen storytelling to defeat an evil both historic and urgently topical: racism. Everyone watches TV and movies. Everyone has an interest in building a more just and equitable world. Screen Deep goes beyond the many...

Includes free CD -  Rhythm Science: Excerpts and Allegories from the Sub Rosa Archives Rare & Collectible Paul D. Miller, known as DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, is a New York-based conceptual artist, composer, and writer known for mixing electronic music, multimedia, and literature...

In Acts of Resistance, Amber Massie-Blomfield writes about the artists who have treated the protest site as their canvas and contributed to movements that have transformed history - from the musicians in Auschwitz to the four-year Siege of Sarajevo, from the to ACT UP's...

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 Store" has not just transformed how we buy books; it has affected what we buy, and even...

A highly entertaining read for anyone with even a passing interest in art and art history, This myth-busting book takes you on a great ride through the lives of starving (and not so starving) artists, unusual exhibitions and painting blunders throughout history. In the...

Few places have been as nostalgised, or as maligned, as malls. Since their birth in the 1950s, they have loomed large as temples of commerce, the agora of the suburbs. In their prime, they proved a powerful draw for creative thinkers such as Joan...

Punctuated by works in Britain's national collection of art, Look Again: Complicity is an insightful meditation on how art can help us reckon with a dark history and an uncertain future. Bookended by visits to Henry Tate's mausoleum and the tomb of Lord Mayor...

In Look Again: Fashion, esteemed academic and broadcaster Shahidha Bari guides us through the surprising insights that come of these questions - and reveals that thinking about dress can take us into the heart of society, culture, and politics. How we dress can be...

Written by Marta Weiss, Curator of Photographs at the V&A, Making It Up: Photographic Fictions shows how, throughout its history, photography has been used to depict fiction as well as fact. With over 130 photographs supported by extended commentaries and an introduction, Making It Up: Photographic Fictions illustrates...

The western is America's definitive contribution to cinema, a bullet-spattered blueprint for the nation's image of itself and its place in the world. To watch a western is to witness the birth of a nation, overseen by square-jawed sheriffs and steel-nerved gunfighters, armed with...

This dictionary provides a stimulating and categorical foundation for a serious international discourse on design. It is a handbook for everyone concerned with design in career or education, who is interested in it, enjoys it, and wishes to understand it. 110 authors from Japan, Austria,...

From the court of Louis XIV to Tik Tok's Avant Apocalypse, psychoanalyst and clothes lover Anouchka Grose takes an unexpected look at fashion to unpick the hold it has on so many of us. But rather than insisting we give up on the thrills...