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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Paul Klee & Herbert Read Softcover | 19 x 0.6 x 19 cm | 56 pp Faber & Faber | 9780571066827 Paul Klee on Modern Art, with an introduction by Herbert Read, represents the essential collection of thinking about art from one of the...

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...

Ian Ritchie Hardcover | 16.8 x 1.1 x 14.5 cm | 64 pp Unicorn Press | 2023 | 9781911397755 Light is the material of Architecture. Ian Ritchie is one of the UK’s most visionary architects, and remarkable for synthesising multiple creative disciplines to bring the...

Softcover | 22.23 x 1.27 x 29.85 cm | 98 pp New Museum of Contemporary Art | 1990 | 9780915557714 Rhetorical Image examines how artists of different backgrounds and generations use their work to respond to political conditions. Guest Curator Milena Kalinvoska invited an...

Softcover | 20.96 x 0.64 x 29.21 cm | 72 pp University of Washington Press | 2003 | 9780295983257 Social Realism was first labeled as a definable art movement in the 1920s, when art and propaganda merged during the Russian Revolution. Much of today's...

Maggie Hoffgen Softcover | 23.98 x 1.78 x 17.81 cm | 256 pp Auteur Publishing |  2017 | 9781906733001 Taking a text-led, chronological approach, Studying German Cinema is directed at non-specialists such as students of German, Film Studies, and the general reader with an...

Erin C. Garcia Hardcover | 18.42 x 1.52 x 22.23 cm | 112 pp J. Paul Getty Museum | 2010 | 9781606060315 From as early as 1839, artists began exploring photography's enormous potential for storytelling and often went to great lengths to stage pictures...

Softcover | 11.3 x 0.3 x 18.34 cm | 64 pp | 68 illustrations Yale University Press | 2017 | 9781588396211 Celebrated Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas is known for his site-specific sculptural installations. For The Theater of Disappearance, the artist mines The Met's...

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...