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Vendor:Thames & Hudson
Has Modernism Failed? (Revised Edition)
Suzi Gablik Softcover | 15.75 x 1.27 x 23.62 cm | 168 pp Thames & Hudson | 2004 | 9780500284841 In 1984, Suzi Gablik's Has Modernism Failed? was one of the first books to confront the social situation of contemporary art. In describing a world whose central...- £12.00
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Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste
Nolan Gasser Hardcover | 16.69 x 5.31 x 24.28 cm | 720 pp Flatiron Books | 2019 | 9781250057198 Everyone loves music. But what is it that makes music so universally beloved and have such a powerful effect on us? In this sweeping and authoritative book,...- £17.50
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Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers
Softcover | 15.37 x 2.41 x 22.99 cm | 176 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2021 | 9781616899189 Extra Bold is the inclusive, practical, and informative career handbook for designers that we've all been waiting for. Written collaboratively by a diverse team of authors, the...- £15.00
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Vendor:Yale University Press
Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television
Maurice Berger & Lynn Spigel Hardcover | 26.67 x 19.81 x 2.03 cm | 172 pp Yale University Press | 2015 | 9780300207934 An engaging exploration of the relationship between avant-garde art and American network television from the 1940s through the 1970s. The aesthetics and concepts of modern...- £15.00
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Digital Design Theory: Readings from the Field
Helen Armstrong & Keetra Dean Dixon Softcover | 18.42 x 1.27 x 22.23 cm |152 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2016 | 9781616893088 Digital Design Theory bridges the gap between the discourse of print design and interactive experience by examining the impact of computation on the...- £13.00
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Vendor:MIT Press
Making Design Theory
Johan Redström Hardcover | 22.86 x 16 x 1.52 cm | 192 pp MIT Press | 2017 | 9780262036658 A new approach to theory development for practice-driven research, proposing that theory is something made in and through design. Tendencies toward “academisation” of traditionally practice-based fields...- £15.00
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Liberation Begins in the Imagination: Writings on Caribbean-British Art
Hardcover | 16.4 x 3.7 x 24 cm | 384 pp Tate Publishing | 2021 | 9781849767668 Today, around a million British people are of Caribbean descent, reflecting a history of post-war migration that essentially begins and ends with the Nationality Act of 1948...- £15.00
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Vendor:Faber & Faber
Access All Areas: The Diversity Manifesto for TV and Beyond
Lenny Henry & Marcus Ryder Softcover | 11.1 x 1.3 x 17.8 cm | 192 pp Faber & Faber | 2021 | 9780571365128 Sir Lenny Henry rang up the Office for National Statistics to confirm something he'd been thinking about for a long time. They...- £5.00
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Vendor:Liverpool University Press
Phenomenal Difference: A Philosophy of Black British Art
Leo Wainwright Softcover | 23.11 x 1.52 x 15.49 cm | 240 pp Liverpool University Press | 2017 | 9781781384176 Phenomenal Difference grants new attention to contemporary black British art, exploring its critical and social significance through attention to embodied experience, affectivity, the senses...- £12.50
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Freud: Berggasse 19 – The Origin of Psychoanalysis
Monika Pessler, Daniela Finzl & Siri Hustvedt Hardcover | 16.51 x 3.56 x 24.64 cm | 384 pp Hatje Cantz | 2020 | 9783775747356 sheds light on Freud’s life and work and is amply supplemented with a presentation of the museum’s art collection. The insightful essays...- £30.00
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Vendor:Mariner Books
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood
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...- £12.50
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Vendor:Bloomsbury
The Fashion Reader (Third Edition)
Linda Welters & Abby Lillethun Softcover | 19.05 x 3.05 x 24.51 cm | 520 pp Bloomsbury | 2021 | 9781350059139 In The Fashion Reader, Linda Welters and Abby Lillethun have selected 77 influential articles to offer insight into the critical theories and conversations that surround...- £25.00
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Vendor:Wesleyan University Press
Popular Music in Theory: An Introduction
Kieth Negus Softcover | 15.88 x 2.54 x 23.5 cm | 249 pp Wesleyan University Press | 1997 | 9780819563101 Winner of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) Book Award (1998) Popular Music in Theory is an original introduction to the...- £10.00
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The Empire of Non-Sense: Art in the Technological Society
Jacques Ellul Hardcover | 21.64 x 2.03 x 27 cm | 2014 Papadakis | 2014 | 9781906506407 Translated into English for the first time, Jacques Ellul's ground-breaking Empire of Non-Sense analyses the relation between technology, art, rationality and human freedom. Many modern artists and architects continue...- £15.00
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Vendor:MIT Press
Adhocism: The Case for Improvisation
Charles Jencks & Nathan Silver Softcover | 18.26 x 1.63 x 25.55 cm | 256 pp MIT Press | 2013 | 9780262518444 The triumphant return of a book that gave us permission to throw out the rulebook, in activities ranging from play to architecture...- £15.00
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Vendor:Simon & Schuster
The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, & the Power of Seeing
Damion Searls Hardcover | 15.3 x 3 x 23.4 cm | 416 pp Simon & Schuster | 2017 | 9781471130410 The Inkblots tells the captivating, untold story of Hermann Rorschach and his famous inkblot test, which has shaped our view of human personality and...- £5.00
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Vendor:University of New Mexico
View Finder: Mark Klett, Photography, and the Reinvention of Landscape
William L. Fox Softcover | 19.69 x 1.91 x 24.77 cm | 310 pp University of New Mexico | 2001 | 9780826322203 Mark Klett has been photographing the American West for decades. He directed the Rephotographic Survey Project in the late 1970s, which located...- £7.50
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Vendor:Wayne State University Press
From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances
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...- £7.50
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What's So Great About the Eiffel Tower?: 70 Questions That Will Change the Way You Think about Architecture (Non-mint)
Jonathan Glancey Softcover | 14.61 x 1.59 x 20.32 cm | 176 pp Laurence King | 2017 | 9781780679198 Why do we find the idea of a multi-coloured Parthenon so shocking today? Why was the Eiffel Tower such a target for hatred when it was...- £10.00
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Vendor:Onestar
Lori Waxman: 60 wrd/min Art Critic
Softcover | 13.97 x 1.27 x 21.59 cm | 148 pp Onestar | 2014 | 9782915359442 Operating from a small, single-room structure installed at Documenta 13, art historian and "60 wrd/min art critic" Lori Waxman offered free reviews to any artist who wanted one....- £5.00
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