Theory, Criticism & Philosophy (£5 or Less)

Mark Ledbury  Softcover | 17.78 x 1.78 x 24.13 cm | 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...

Umbro Apollonio Softcover | 14.76 x 1.8 x 21.06 cm | 240 pp Museum of Fine Arts Boston | 2001 | 9780878466276 On February 20th, 1909, a belligerent manifesto announcing the birth of the Futurist movement appeared on the front page of the Paris newspaper Le...

Ewa Mazierska & Alfredo Suppia  Softcover | 15.24 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm | 270 pp Wayne State University Press | 2016 | 9780814340110 In Red Alert: Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema, editors Ewa Mazierska and Alfredo Suppia argue that Marxist philosophy, science fiction, and...

Michael Klant Softcover | 21.3 x 1.3 x 23.5 cm | 120 pp Hatje Cantz | 2008 | 9783775721165 Text in German and English Beuys dog food, Goya Vienna sausages, Rembrandt tooth paste, Vermeer woodchippers, Leonardo adhesive tape, Michelangelo knives, Klein bikes, Duchamp wine, Lichtenstein...

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...

Leonardo da Vinci Softcover | 13.92 x 0.99 x 19.99 cm | 128 pp Alma Classics | 2018 | 9781847497697 Found in the Codex Atlanticus of Leonardo da Vinci's writings and drawings, 'The Prophecies' are a collection of enigmatic divinatory pronouncements, some punning and playful,...

Mark Wigan Softcover | 16 x 1.5 x 23 cm | 184 pp AVA | 2009 | 9782940373949 Basics Illustration: Global Contexts is the fourth book in the Basics Illustration series. Comprehensive and inspiring, the book is packed with insightful and thought-provoking commentary. It introduces the...

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...

Hardcover | 13.5 x 1 x 20.5 cm | 64 pp Tate Publishing | 2015 | 9781849763585 Fighting History is the first book to engage with the story of British history painting and its survival into contemporary practice today. Beautifully illustrated with works from...

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...

Marcia Brennan Softcover | 17.3 x 1.2 x 22 cm | 240 pp MIT Press | 2006 | 9780262524681 How postwar abstract modernist paintings came to be seen as metaphorical embodiments of masculine selfhood; an examination of the critical discourse surrounding the work of...

Mary N. Woods Softcover | 17.78 x 3.18 x 25.4 cm | 368 pp University of Pennsylvania Press | 2009 | 9780812223095 Typical architectural photography freezes buildings in an ideal moment and rarely captures what photographer Berenice Abbott called the medium's power to depict "how...

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...

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...

Softcover | 13.21 x 1.78 x 20.07 cm | 176 pp Dia Art Foundation | 2014 | 9780944521809 From 1992 to 2004, Dia Art Foundation presented the Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art, in which a distinguished array of scholars, critics and cultural historians engaged in...

Joshua Paul Dale Hardcover | 14.2 x 3.4 x 21.8 cm | 288 pp Profile Books | 2023 | 9781788162388 Why are some things cute, and others not? What happens to our brains when we see something cute? And how did cuteness go global, from...

Andrew Brown Softcover | 12.7 x 0.64 x 19.69 cm | 144 pp Hesperus Press | 2011 | 9781843919728 Does the success of warts-and-all celebrity biographies betray our prurient, voyeuristic times? Or is a fascination with the lives and struggles of others a facet of...

William Fain Softcover | 15.56 x 1.59 x 20.32 cm | 160 pp Balcony Press | 2012 | 9781890449582 If Cars Could Talk examines urban environments, how they are born, change, and die, and offers fresh approaches to unlocking our cities great potential. More than half...

Mark Robbins Hardcover | 19.05 x 1.91 x 24.13 cm | 160 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2013 | 9781616891060 Exploring the intersection of architecture, landscape, infrastructure and planning in the redevelopment of the civic realm, American City X looks at the impact of strategic...

Beta Tank Softcover | 16 x 2.4 x 21 cm | 160 pp Gestalten | 2011 | 9783899553468 In recent years, the boundaries between art and design have become more and more blurred. It is not the object itself, but rather its economic functionality that...