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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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  • ArtQuake: The Most Disruptive Works in Modern ArtArtQuake: The Most Disruptive Works in Modern Art
    Frances Lincoln

    ArtQuake: The Most Disruptive Works in Modern Art

    Susie Hodge Softcover | 15.88 x 2.22 x 20.64 cm | 208 pp Frances Lincoln | 2021 | 9780711254763 Discover art that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when artists take tradition and rip it up....
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  • Taxing Art: When Objects TravelTaxing Art: When Objects Travel
    Gestalten

    Taxing Art: When Objects Travel

    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...
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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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  • 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 How some design appears to be something that it is not - by beautifying, amusing, substituting, or deceiving. Pretense design pretends to be something that it...
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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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  • 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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  • On the Wings of Hypothesis: Collected Writings on Soviet Cinema
    MIT Press

    On the Wings of Hypothesis: Collected Writings on Soviet Cinema

    Annette Michelson Hardcover | 18.75 x 1.88 x 23.83 cm | 256 pp MIT Press | 2020 | 9780262044493 This posthumous volume gathers Annette Michelson's erudite and incisive readings of the revolutionary films of Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, giving readers the opportunity to track...
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  • Disseminating Dress: Britain's Fashion Networks, 1600–1970Disseminating Dress: Britain's Fashion Networks, 1600–1970
    Bloomsbury

    Disseminating Dress: Britain's Fashion Networks, 1600–1970

    Serena Dyer Softcover | 15.6 x 1.85 x 23.4 cm | 322 pp Bloomsbury | 2022 | 9781350181021 Fashion travels. Every new shape of sleeve, each novel method of cutting and any innovation in fabric has spread through complex networks of makers, retailers and consumers....
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  • Lee Krasner: The Unacknowledged EqualLee Krasner: The Unacknowledged Equal
    Pollock-Krasner Foundation

    Lee Krasner: The Unacknowledged Equal

    Carter Ratcliff Hardcover | 18.5 x 2 x 23 cm | 128 pp Pollock-Krasner Foundation | 2020 | 9780578726298 Critic and scholar Carter Ratcliff investigates Krasner's life and practice from her early days as Hans Hofmann's student to the production of her late masterworks....
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  • Jacking In To the Matrix Franchise: Cultural Reception and Interpretation
    Continuum Books

    Jacking In To the Matrix Franchise: Cultural Reception and Interpretation

    Matthew Wilhelm Kapell Softcover | 15.24 x 1.23 x 22.86 cm | 230 pp Continuum | 2006 | 9780826415882 The Matrix films, along with the video games, animé and toys inspired by them, are rich with philosophical, religious and social references that cry out for interpretation. Here...
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  • Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Rare edition)Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Rare edition)
    Princeton Architectural Press

    Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Rare edition)

    Ellen Lupton  Softcover | 18.03 x 1.27 x 21.84 cm | 176 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2004 | 9781568984483 Thinking with Type is a straightforward primer that presents practical information about typographic design that can be immediately applied within the context of design history...
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  • Assembling the Architect: The History and Theory of Professional PracticeAssembling the Architect: The History and Theory of Professional Practice
    Bloomsbury

    Assembling the Architect: The History and Theory of Professional Practice

    George Barnett Johnston Softcover | 15.93 x 1.83 x 23.14 cm | 320 pp Bloomsbury | 2020 | 9781350126862 Assembling the Architect explores the origins and history of architectural practice. It unravels the competing interests that historically have structured the field and cultivates a deeper understanding...
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  • What Was Contemporary Art?What Was Contemporary Art?
    MIT Press

    What Was Contemporary Art?

    Richard Meyer Hardcover | 18.42 x 3.18 x 24.13 cm | 360 pp MIT Press | 2013 | 9780262135085 Contemporary art in the early twenty-first century is often discussed as if the very idea of art that is contemporary is new. Yet all works...
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  • Mysteries of the Mall and Other Essays (Non-mint)
    Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    Mysteries of the Mall and Other Essays (Non-mint)

    Witold Rybczynski Hardcover | 14.7 x 2.5 x 21.6 cm | 336 pp Farrar, Straus & Giroux | 2015 | 9780374269937 In Mysteries of the Mall, Witold Rybczynski casts a seasoned critical eye on the modern scene. His subject is nothing less than the broad setting...
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  • Top This and Other Parables of Design: Selected Writings by Phil PattonTop This and Other Parables of Design: Selected Writings by Phil Patton
    Cooper-Hewitt Museum

    Top This and Other Parables of Design: Selected Writings by Phil Patton

    Softcover | 10.92 x 2.03 x 17.53 cm | 296 pp Cooper-Hewitt Museum | 2017 | 9781942303152 In September 2015 the world lost Phil Patton – prolific design writer, teacher and tantalising wordsmith. Patton’s insatiable curiosity, sense of humour and keen eye made for the...
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  • Methods & Theories of Art History (Second Edition)Methods & Theories of Art History (Second Edition)
    Laurence King

    Methods & Theories of Art History (Second Edition)

    Anne D'Alleva Softcover | 13.97 x 1.27 x 20.96 cm | 192 pp Laurence King | 2012 | 9781856698993 This book provides an accessible introduction to the range of critical theories used in analysing art. It covers a broad range of approaches, presenting individual arguments,...
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  • Graphic Design: The New BasicsGraphic Design: The New Basics
    Princeton Architectural Press

    Graphic Design: The New Basics

    Ellen Lupton & Jennifer Cole Phillips Hardcover | 20.96 x 2.54 x 23.5 cm | 248 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2008 | 9781568987705 How do designers get ideas? Many spend their time searching for clever combinations of forms, fonts, and colours inside the design...
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