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  • Fictions of Art HistoryFictions of Art History
    Yale University Press

    Fictions of Art History

    Mark Ledbury  Softcover | 256 pp Yale University Press | 2013 | 9780300191929 Fictions of Art History addresses art history’s complex relationships with fiction, poetry, and creative writing. Inspired by a 2010 conference, the volume examines art historians’ viewing practices and modes of writing. How, the...
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  • Parachute: The Anthology (1975-2000): Vol. IParachute: The Anthology (1975-2000): Vol. I
    JRP Ringier

    Parachute: The Anthology (1975-2000): Vol. I

    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...
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  • Freud: Berggasse 19 – The Origin of PsychoanalysisFreud: Berggasse 19 – The Origin of Psychoanalysis
    Hatje Cantz

    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...
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  • Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood
    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...
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  • Popular Music in Theory: An Introduction
    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...
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  • Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic DesignersExtra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers
    Princeton Architectural Press

    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...
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  • Has Modernism Failed? (Revised Edition)Has Modernism Failed? (Revised Edition)
    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...
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  • Making Design Theory
    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...
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  • Nothing Less Than Literal: Architecture after MinimalismNothing Less Than Literal: Architecture after Minimalism
    MIT Press

    Nothing Less Than Literal: Architecture after Minimalism

    Mark Linder Softcover | 20.32 x 1.91 x 22.86 cm | 282 pp MIT Press | 2005 | 9780262622080 In Nothing Less than Literal, Mark Linder shows how minimalist art of the 1960s was infiltrated by architecture, resulting in a reconfiguration of the disciplines...
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  • Phenomenal Difference: A Philosophy of Black British Art
    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...
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  • From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class PerformancesFrom Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances
    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...
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  • Magic ShowMagic Show
    Hayward Gallery

    Magic Show

    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...
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  • Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran
    MIT Press

    Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran

    Blake Atwood Softcover | 15.24 x 1.55 x 23.01 cm | 320 pp MIT Press | 2021 | 9780262542845 In 1983, the Iranian government banned the personal use of home video technology. In Underground, Blake Atwood recounts how in response to the ban, technology enthusiasts,...
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  • From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945-1962From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945-1962
    Duke University Press

    From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945-1962

    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...
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  • Slow Manifesto: Lebbeus Woods BlogSlow Manifesto: Lebbeus Woods Blog
    Princeton Architectural Press

    Slow Manifesto: Lebbeus Woods Blog

    Softcover | 17.8 x 1.9 x 25.4 cm | 288 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2015 | 9781616893347 In the fall of 2007, Lebbeus Woods, long admired for his visionary architecture and mastery of drawing, began a blog. Part forum and part public journal, the eclectic...
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  • Bauhaus Goes West: Modern Art and Design in Britain and AmericaBauhaus Goes West: Modern Art and Design in Britain and America
    Thames & Hudson

    Bauhaus Goes West: Modern Art and Design in Britain and America

    Alan Powers Hardcover | 16.51 x 3.56 x 24.13 cm | 304 pp Thames & Hudson | 2019 | 9780500519929  Bauhaus Goes West is a story of cultural exchange – between the Bauhaus émigrés in the years following the school’s closure in 1933 and the countries...
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  • Metropolis on the Styx: The Underworlds of Modern Urban Culture, 1800–2001Metropolis on the Styx: The Underworlds of Modern Urban Culture, 1800–2001
    Cornell University Press

    Metropolis on the Styx: The Underworlds of Modern Urban Culture, 1800–2001

    David L. Pike Softcover | 15.7 x 2.5 x 23.5 cm | 378 pp Cornell University Press | 2007 | 9780801473043 In Metropolis on the Styx, David L. Pike considers how underground spaces and their many myths have organised ways of seeing, thinking about, and...
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  • The Modern Architectural LandscapeThe Modern Architectural Landscape
    University of Minnesota Press

    The Modern Architectural Landscape

    Caroline Constant Softcover | 17.78 x 2.03 x 22.86 cm | 344 pp University of Minnesota Press | 2012 | 9780816676354 In The Modern Architectural Landscape Caroline Constant examines diverse approaches to landscape in the work of architects practicing in Europe and the United States between...
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  • Beyond the Supersquare: Art and Architecture in Latin America After ModernismBeyond the Supersquare: Art and Architecture in Latin America After Modernism
    Fordham University Press

    Beyond the Supersquare: Art and Architecture in Latin America After Modernism

    Softcover | 22.61 x 1.27 x 22.61 cm | 138 pp Fordham University Press | 2014 | 9780823260799 Beyond the Supersquare: Art and Architecture in Latin America after Modernism showcases original essays by distinguished Latin American architects, historians, and curators whose research examines architecture...
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  • The Best Surprise Is No SurpriseThe Best Surprise Is No Surprise
    JRP Editions

    The Best Surprise Is No Surprise

    Softcover | 21.6 x 25 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...
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