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  • Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the WorldIrresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World
    Profile Books

    Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World

    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...
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  • Serious Play: Design in Midcentury AmericaSerious Play: Design in Midcentury America
    Yale University Press

    Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America

    Hardcover | 25.15 x 2.54 x 28.45 cm | 264 pp Yale University Press | 2018 | 9780300234220 This spirited volume shows how postwar designers and architects embraced whimsy and eclecticism in their work, exploring playfulness as an essential construct of modernity. Following World War...
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  • Shaping the Surface: Materiality and the History of British Architecture 1840-2000Shaping the Surface: Materiality and the History of British Architecture 1840-2000
    Bloomsbury

    Shaping the Surface: Materiality and the History of British Architecture 1840-2000

    Stephen Kite Softcover | 15.75 x 1.91 x 23.37 cm | 336 pp Bloomsbury | 2022 | 9781350320659 Shaping the Surface explores the history of modern British architecture through the lens of surface, materiality and decoration. Picking up on a trait that art historian Nikolaus Pevsner first...
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  • Thinking About Drawing: An Introduction to Themes and ConceptsThinking About Drawing: An Introduction to Themes and Concepts
    Bloomsbury

    Thinking About Drawing: An Introduction to Themes and Concepts

    Simon Grennan Softcover | 13.84 x 1.4 x 21.34 cm | 176 pp Bloomsbury | 2022 | 9781350265936  This accessible book explains the significance of relationships between the body and the mark, visual imitation, drawing and writing and visual storytelling, providing a simple guide...
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  • Why the Romantics Matter
    Yale University Press

    Why the Romantics Matter

    Peter Gay Hardcover | 13.34 x 1.75 x 19.69 cm | 224 pp Yale University Press | 2015 | 9780300144291  Why the Romantics Matter is a renowned scholar’s reflections on the romantic period, its disparate participants, and our unacknowledged debt to them. With his...
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  • The Typographic MediumThe Typographic Medium
    MIT Press

    The Typographic Medium

    Kate Brideau Hardcover | 16 x 2.18 x 23.37 cm | 432 pp MIT Press | 2021 | 9780262045858 Typography is everywhere and yet widely overlooked. When we read type, we fail to see type. In this book, Kate Brideau considers typography not as part...
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  • Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative CultureMaking Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture
    MIT Press

    Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture

    W. Patrick McCray Hardcover | 18.42 x 2.9 x 23.5 cm | 344 pp MIT Press | 2020 | 9780262044257 Artwork as opposed to experiment? Engineer versus artist? We often see two different cultural realms separated by impervious walls. But some fifty years ago, the...
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  • Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black PowerMounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power
    Duke University Press

    Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power

    Susan E. Cahan Hardcover | 19.05 x 3.18 x 26.04 cm | 360 pp Duke University Press | 2016 | 9780822358978 In Mounting Frustration Susan E. Cahan investigates the strategies African American artists and museum professionals employed as they wrangled over access to and the direction of...
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  • The Social and the Real: Political Art of the 1930s in the Western HemisphereThe Social and the Real: Political Art of the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere
    Pennsylvania State University Press

    The Social and the Real: Political Art of the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere

    Softcover | 17.78 x 3.1 x 24.13 cm | 384 pp Pennsylvania State University Press | 2006 | 9780271026916  During the 1930s, American artists such as Ben Shahn developed a mode of representation generally known as Social Realism. This term is given broad new...
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  • Modernism′s Masculine Subjects: Matisse, the New York School, and Post–Painterly AbstractionModernism′s Masculine Subjects: Matisse, the New York School, and Post–Painterly Abstraction
    MIT Press

    Modernism′s Masculine Subjects: Matisse, the New York School, and Post–Painterly Abstraction

    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...
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  • In the Mind But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary ArtIn the Mind But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art
    Verso

    In the Mind But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art

    Gean Moreno Softcover | 14.05 x 2.16 x 20.98 cm | 336 pp Verso | 2019 | 9781788730693 In the Mind, But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art considers how the Marxian concept of Real Abstraction - originally developed by Alfred Sohn...
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  • Pretense Design: Surface Over SubstancePretense Design: Surface Over Substance
    MIT Press

    Pretense Design: Surface Over Substance

    Per Mollerup Hardcover | 16.03 x 1.88 x 26.19 cm | 224 pp MIT Press | 2019 | 9780262039482 PLEASE NOTE: This title has been remainder marked by the publisher - a small marker pen dot on one edge. See images. How some design appears...
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  • Comics and StuffComics and Stuff
    NYU Press

    Comics and Stuff

    Henry Jenkins Softcover | 17.78 x 2.26 x 25.4 cm | 352 pp NYU Press | 2020 | 9781479800933  For most of their history, comics were widely understood as disposable - you read them and discarded them, and the pulp paper they were printed on...
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  • The Benjamin FilesThe Benjamin Files
    Verso

    The Benjamin Files

    Frederick Jameson Hardcover | 15.93 x 2.11 x 24.05 cm | 272 pp Verso | 2020 | 9781784783983  The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's major works and a great number of his shorter book reviews, notes and letters. It's premise...
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  • Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of AmazonEverything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon
    Verso

    Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon

    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...
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  • Joseph Beuys: The ReaderJoseph Beuys: The Reader
    MIT Press

    Joseph Beuys: The Reader

    Claudia Mesch, Viola Michely & Authur C. Danto Softcover | 15.57 x 1.78 x 23.34 cm | 352 pp MIT Press | 2007 | 9780262633512 Twentieth-century artist Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) - legendary and self-mythologising, enigmatic and controversial - remains an important influence on artists...
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  • The Nazi Perpetrator: Postwar German Art and the Politics of the RightThe Nazi Perpetrator: Postwar German Art and the Politics of the Right
    University of Minnesota Press

    The Nazi Perpetrator: Postwar German Art and the Politics of the Right

    Paul B. Jascot Softcover | 17.78 x 2.29 x 25.4 cm | 288 pp University of Minnesota Press | 2012 | 9780816678259 This book presents a fundamental reevaluation of pivotal developments in postwar German art and architecture against the backdrop of contentious contemporary debates over the Nazi past...
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  • Red Alert: Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema
    Wayne State University Press

    Red Alert: Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema

    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...
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  • Murder and the Movies
    Yale University Press

    Murder and the Movies

    David Thomson Hardcover | 13.97 x 2.22 x 21.59 cm | 240 pp Yale University Press | 2020 | 9780300220018 How many acts of murder have each of us followed on a screen? What does that say about us? Do we remain law-abiding citizens...
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  • Regenerating Culture and Society: Architecture, Art and Urban Style within the Global Politics of City BrandingRegenerating Culture and Society: Architecture, Art and Urban Style within the Global Politics of City Branding
    Liverpool University Press

    Regenerating Culture and Society: Architecture, Art and Urban Style within the Global Politics of City Branding

    Jonathan Harris & Dr. Richard Williams Softcover | 21.59 x 2.03 x 17.02 cm | 336 pp Liverpool University Press | 2011 | 9781846316401 This collection is an essential guide to, and critique of, visual arts regeneration strategies mobilised by local and national governments...
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