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Sifting the Trash: A History of Design Criticism
Alice Twemlow Hardcover | 18.75 x 2.34 x 23.65 cm | 312 pp MIT Press | 2017 | 9780262035989 This book looks at how product design criticism has rescued some products from the trash and consigned others to the landfill. Product design criticism operates...- £12.50
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ON&BY Andy Warhol
Gilda Williams & Iwona Blazwick Softcover | 14.61 x 1.91 x 20.96 cm | 240 pp MIT Press | 2016 | 9780262528689 Writings about Andy Warhol by critics, artists, cultural theorists, and Factory associates together with archival material, interviews, and texts by Warhol himself. The impact...- £10.00
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Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There: How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America
David Hepworth Softcover | 12.7 x 2.29 x 19.84 cm | 336 pp Black Swan | 2021 | 9781784166410 The Beatles landing in New York in February 1964 was the opening shot in a cultural revolution nobody predicted. Suddenly the youth of the richest, most...- £5.00
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Images In Transition: Wirephoto 1938-1945
David Pace & Stephen Wirtz Hardcover 24 x 1.3 x 30 cm | 136 pp Schlit Publishing | 2019 | 9789053309162 Wirephoto is the sending of photographs by telegraph, telephone or radio. David Pace and Stephen Wirtz manipulate and transform wirephotos transmitted during World War...- £25.00
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Pleasuring Painting: Matisse's Feminine Representations
John Elderfield Hardcover | 15.5 x 1 x 21.7 cm | 64 pp Thames & Hudson | 1996 | 9780500550281 In 1913, outraged by Matisse's painterly violations of the female body, students of the Art Institute of Chicago found him guilty of "artistic murder"...- £10.00
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Come Together: The Rise of Cooperative Art and Design
Francesco Spampinato Softcover | 21 x 2.5 x 26 cm | 256 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2014 | 9781616892685 The past twenty years have seen a resurgence of artists working together in small groups and larger collectives to explore new avenues of art,...- £15.00
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Musical Truth: A Musical Journey Through Modern Black Britain in 28 Songs
Jeffrey Boakye & Ngade Smart Hardcover | 12.9 x 1.8 x 19.8 cm | 206 pp Faber & Faber | 2021 | 9780571366484 Lord Kitchener, Neneh Cherry, Smiley Culture, Stormzy . . . Groundbreaking musicians whose songs have changed the world. But how? This exhilarating...- £7.00
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The Remarkable Tale of Radio 1: The History of the Nation's Favourite Station 1967-95
Robert Sellers Hardcover | 15.88 x 3.56 x 23.5 cm | 352 pp Omnibus Press | 2021 | 9781913172121 For most people in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s, Radio 1 provided the soundtrack to their lives. Commanding up to 24 million listeners a...- £10.00
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Roy Lichtenstein (October Files #7)
Edited by Graham Badert Softcover | 15.4 x 1.22 x 23 cm | 202 pp | b&w illustrations MIT Press | 2009 | 9780262512312 The most comprehensive collection on Lichtenstein, from the earliest reviews to recent reassessments, including several hard-to-find and previously unpublished pieces. Roy...- £10.00
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Nothing is Real: Why The Beatles Were Underrated And Other Sweeping Statements About Pop
David Hepworth Softcover | 12.7 x 1.5 x 19.8 cm | 240 pp Black Swan | 2019 | 9781784166205 Pop music’s a simple pleasure. Is it catchy? Can you dance to it? Do you fancy the singer?But what’s fascinating about pop is our relationship...- £5.00
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Richard Hamilton (October Files #10)
Edited by Hal Foster Softcover | 15.4 x 1 x 23 cm | 165 pp | b&w illustrations MIT Press | 2010 | 9780262513722 As an original member of the legendary Independent Group in London in the 1950s, Richard Hamilton organised or participated in groundbreaking exhibitions...- £10.00
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Bruce Nauman (October Files #22)
Edited by Taylor Walsh Softcover | 15.1 x 1.4 x 23 cm | 222 pp | b&w illustrations MIT Press | 2018 | 9780262535670 This volume collects essential texts on the work of Bruce Nauman (b. 1941), an artist of exceptional range whose work continues to...- £10.00
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Art: A Beginner's Guide
Laurie Schneider Adams Softcover | 12.95 x 2.29 x 19.81 cm | 240 pp Oneworld Publications | 2012 | 9781851688531 From Stone Age statuettes to twenty first-century video art, Laurie Schneider Adams unravels the extraordinary story of Western art in this fast-paced introduction. Reining in the isms'...- £5.00
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William Kentridge (October Files #21)
Edited by Rosalind Krauss Softcover | 15.4 x 1 x 23 cm | 187 pp | b&w illustrations MIT Press | 2017 | 9780262533454 Critical texts and interviews that explore the drawings, animations, and theatrical work of the South African artist William Kentridge. Since...- £10.00
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LAND (Photographs That Make You Think)
Henry Carroll Softcover | 12.7 x 2.16 x 17.65 cm | 144 pp Abrams | 2022 | 9781419751479 How do the most diverse and relevant voices of contemporary photography respond to the urgent issues of today? Henry Carroll, the bestselling photography writer of the last...- £7.00
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Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of Architecture
Paul Goldberger Hardcover | 27.31 x 2.86 x 25.72 cm | 288 pp Monacelli Press | 2009 | 9781580932646 The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao by Frank Gehry, the CCTV Headquarters by Rem Koolhaas, the Getty Center by Richard Meier, the Times Building by Renzo Piano: Pulitzer Prize...- £10.00
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The "Public" Life of Photographs
Hardcover | 18.42 x 2.13 x 23.83 cm | 300 pp MIT Press | 2016 | 9780262035194 The first of the RIC Books series co-published by the MIT Press and The Image Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University, explores the relationship between how photographs are made available...- £18.00
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Chatter: Architecture Talks Back
Karen Kice Softcover | 21.6 x 13.7 x 1 cm | 88 pp Yale University Press | 2015 | 9780300210637 A bold, theoretical look at an emerging generation of architects, this volume is devoted to five contemporary practices-Bureau Spectacular, Erin Besler, Fake Industries Architectural Agonism, Formlessfinder,...- £7.00
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Dan Graham: Rock My Religion - Writings and Projects 1965-1990
Softcover | 19.2 x 1.91 x 26.82 cm | 348 pp MIT Press | 1994 | 9780262571067 Dan Graham's artworks and critical writings have had a significant influence on the course of contemporary art over the past quarter century. Rock My Religion collects 18...- £15.00
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Teenage: The Creation of Youth, 1875-1945
Jon Savage Softcover | 13.5 x 4.1 x 21.6 cm | 592 pp Faber & Faber | 2021 | 9780571366774 he acclaimed history of the century-and-a-half of ferment, folly and angst that resulted in the arrival of 'the teenager' in 1945.Ringing with music, from...- £6.50
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