Theory, Criticism & Philosophy

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,...

Mike Roberts Softcover | 15.56 x 2.54 x 23.5 cm | 224 pp Tate Publishing | 2018 | 9781849761321 From dada to Gaga and beyond, How Art Made Pop examines the intertwined histories of pop music and the visual arts from the late 1950s...

Softcover | 12.9 x 1.57 x 19.81 cm | 240 pp Pushkin Press | 2023 | 9781805330516 Writings on people and places, theatre and film, in a portfolio of essays and photographs informing Wes Anderson's film Asteroid City. Featuring eight newly commissioned pieces alongside more...

Gerhard Richter Softcover | 14.1 x 2.5 x 22.7 cm | 304 pp MIT Press | 2022 | 9780262544146 Through nine essays Gerhard Richter explores the relation between two worlds: the world in which an artwork is created, that is, a world that over...

Simon Cutts Hardcover | 15 x 1 x 14.7 cm | 40 pp Coracle | 2026 | 978096630686 Pyclets are round savoury griddle cakes, made with flour, yeast and buttermilk, not dissimilar from crumpets and the kind of oatcake made in other parts of...

Nick McFarlane Hardcover | 16 x 3.3 x 21.59 cm | 384 pp Carpet Bombing Culture | 2025 | 9781908211941 The world is currently teetering on the edge of chaos, buckling under the weight of greed and corruption, dark undercurrents of power twisting noble intentions...

Softcover | 21.6 x 2.5 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...

Graham Bader Hardcover | 17.78 x 2.06 x 22.86 cm | 296 pp MIT Press | 2010 | 9780262026475 In Hall of Mirrors, Graham Bader traces the development of Roy Lichtenstein's art into, through, and beyond his classic pop oeuvre of the 1960s. Bader charts the trajectory...

Edited by Branden W. Joseph Softcover | 15.4 x 1.27 x 23 cm | 163 pp | b&w illustrations MIT Press | 2003 | 9780262600491 From the moment art historian Leo Steinberg championed his work in opposition to Clement Greenberg's rigid formalism, Robert Rauschenberg has...

Jacques Rancière Hardcover | 13.61 x 1.37 x 20.5 cm | 144 pp Verso | 2022 | 9781839763199 In this book philosopher Jacques Rancière (b.1940) radicalises his critique of modernism and its postmodern appendix. He contrasts their unilinear and exclusive time with the interweaving of...

Eric Schaffer Softcover | 15.24 x 2.6 x 23 cm | 480 pp Duke University Press | 2014 | 9780822356547 Sex Scene suggests that what we have come to understand as the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s was actually a media revolution....

Mark Nicholls Softcover | 18 x 1.1 x 23.5 cm | 191 pp Indiana University Press | 2005 | 9781864031560 Martin Scorsese is the most influential director of his generation and, with his work regularly included among the top 20 films of all time, his...

Peter Salmon Hardcover | 14.58 x 2.44 x 21.64 cm | 320 pp Verso | 2020 | 9781788732802  Who was Jacques Derrida, and why does he have such a towering, and foreboding reputation across modern philosophy? For some he is the source of the crisis...

Joanne Morra Softcover | 21.54 x 2.51 x 21.31 cm | 320 pp I B Tauris | 2017 | 9781780762074 Sigmund Freud spent the final year of his life at 20 Maresfield Gardens, London, surrounded by all his possessions, in exile from the Nazis. The...

Erwin Panofsky Hardcover | 15.88 x 3.81 x 22.86 cm | 408 pp Princeton University Press | 2020 | 9780691165264 The first English translation of Erwin Panofsky's long-lost work on Michelangelo.In 2012, a manuscript by renowned art historian Erwin Panofsky was rediscovered in a...

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...

Monika Pessler, Daniela Finzl & Siri Hustvedt  Hardcover | 16.51 x 3.56 x 24.64 cm | 384 pp Hatje Cantz | 2020 | 9783775747356 Sigmund Freud himself was certainly aware of the significance of psychoanalysis when he founded it: he saw it on the same level...

Michael Findlay Hardcover | 18.11 x 2.69 x 24.77 cm | 240 pp Prestel | 2022 | 9783791389073 Internationally renowned dealer and market expert Michael Findlay offers a lively and authoritative look at the financial and emotional value of art throughout history. In this newly...

Bill Peel Softcover | 12.95 x 1.52 x 19.81 cm | 200 pp Repeater Books | 2023 |  9781914420368 A radical re-writing of the history and politics of black metal music, Tonight It’s a World We Bury explores a range of tendencies central to black...

Hardcover | 15.3 x 2.1 x 23.4 cm | 304 pp Faber & Faber | 2018 | 9780571348411  For thousands of years, humans have built walls and assaulted them, admired walls and reviled them. Great Walls have appeared on nearly every continent, the handiwork...