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  • Art Czar: The Rise and Fall of Clement GreenbergArt Czar: The Rise and Fall of Clement Greenberg
    MFA Publications

    Art Czar: The Rise and Fall of Clement Greenberg

    Alice Goldfarb Marquis Hardcover | 15.04 x 3.02 x 21.69 cm | 336 pp MFA Publications | 2006 | 9780878467013 In the years of his greatest dominance, Clement Greenberg almost single-handedly established Jackson Pollock and the New York School at the centre of the American...
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  • Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of ProtestCulture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest
    Verso

    Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest

    Laura Raicovich Hardcover | 14.48 x 2.03 x 21.59 cm | 224 pp Verso | 2021 | 9781839760501  Leading activist museum director Laura Raicovich explains why museums are at the centre of a political storm and how they can be reimagined. In an age of protest,...
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  • ArtBrands: when dogs eat BeuysArtBrands: when dogs eat Beuys
    Hatje Cantz

    ArtBrands: when dogs eat Beuys

    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...
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  • Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American TelevisionRevolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television
    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...
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  • Digital Design Theory: Readings from the FieldDigital Design Theory: Readings from the Field
    Princeton Architectural Press

    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...
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  • Liberation Begins in the Imagination: Writings on Caribbean-British ArtLiberation Begins in the Imagination: Writings on Caribbean-British Art
    Tate Publishing

    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...
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  • Access All Areas: The Diversity Manifesto for TV and Beyond
    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...
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  • The Fashion Reader (Third Edition)The Fashion Reader (Third Edition)
    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...
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  • The Empire of Non-Sense: Art in the Technological SocietyThe Empire of Non-Sense: Art in the Technological Society
    Papadakis

    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...
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  • Adhocism: The Case for ImprovisationAdhocism: The Case for Improvisation
    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...
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  • View Finder: Mark Klett, Photography, and the Reinvention of LandscapeView Finder: Mark Klett, Photography, and the Reinvention of Landscape
    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...
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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)What's So Great About the Eiffel Tower?: 70 Questions That Will Change the Way You Think about Architecture (Non-mint)
    Laurence King

    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...
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  • Lori Waxman: 60 wrd/min Art CriticLori Waxman: 60 wrd/min Art Critic
    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....
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  • Blind Handshake: David Humphrey - Art Writing & Art 1990-2008Blind Handshake: David Humphrey - Art Writing & Art 1990-2008
    Periscope

    Blind Handshake: David Humphrey - Art Writing & Art 1990-2008

    David Humphrey Softcover | 15.2 x 1.7 x 22.8 cm | 239 pp Periscope | 2009 | 9781934772324 This anthology presents the art criticism of the painter David Humphrey not as archival documents, but as the starting point for a book that acknowledges and...
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  • Louise Lawler: Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (looking back)Louise Lawler: Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (looking back)
    MIT Press

    Louise Lawler: Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (looking back)

    Softcover | 19.05 x 1.6 x 25.4 cm | 192 pp MIT Press | 2006 | 9780262622066 For decades Louise Lawler (b. 1947) has been taking photographs of art in situ, from small poignant black-and-white images of art in people's homes to large format...
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  • Misère: The Visual Representation of Misery in the 19th CenturyMisère: The Visual Representation of Misery in the 19th Century
    Thames & Hudson

    Misère: The Visual Representation of Misery in the 19th Century

    Linda Nochlin Hardcover | 16.26 x 2.54 x 24.38 cm | 176 pp Thames & Hudson | 2018 | 9780500239698  The coming of the Industrial Revolution in the early 19th century witnessed unprecedented changes in society as rapid economic progress went hand-in-hand with appalling working...
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  • Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud
    Thames & Hudson

    Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud

    Martin Gayford Softcover | 12.95 x 2.54 x 19.81 cm | 192 pp Thames & Hudson | 2019 | 9780500295182  Lucian Freud (1922–2011), widely regarded as the greatest figurative painter of our time, spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford....
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  • Look Again: How to Experience the Old MastersLook Again: How to Experience the Old Masters
    Thames & Hudson

    Look Again: How to Experience the Old Masters

    Ossian Ward Softcover | 15.49 x 2.03 x 20.32 cm | 176 pp Thames & Hudson | 2019 | 9780500239674  The art of the past can seem very far away, obscured both by time and by knotty academic theory. Foregrounding the experience of the contemporary...
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  • 100 Ideas that Changed Art100 Ideas that Changed Art
    Laurence King

    100 Ideas that Changed Art

    Michael Bird Softcover | 17.02 x 1.78 x 21.59 cm | 216 pp Laurence King | 2019 | 9781786273888  From the earliest cave paintings through to the internet and street art, this inspiring book chronicles the 100 most influential ideas that have shaped the world...
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  • Design Dictionary: Perspectives on Design TerminologyDesign Dictionary: Perspectives on Design Terminology
    Birkhäuser

    Design Dictionary: Perspectives on Design Terminology

    Softcover | 17.86 x 3.81 x 22.48 cm | 472 pp Birkhäuser  | 2008 | 9783764377397 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...
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