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  • Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of ArchitectureBuilding Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of Architecture
    Monacelli Press

    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...
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  • The "Public" Life of PhotographsThe "Public" Life of Photographs
    MIT Press

    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...
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  • Chatter: Architecture Talks BackChatter: Architecture Talks Back
    Yale University Press

    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,...
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  • Dan Graham: Rock My Religion - Writings and Projects 1965-1990Dan Graham: Rock My Religion - Writings and Projects 1965-1990
    MIT Press

    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...
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  • Teenage: The Creation of Youth, 1875-1945
    Faber & Faber

    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...
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  • The Architecture of Error: Matter, Measure, and the Misadventures of PrecisionThe Architecture of Error: Matter, Measure, and the Misadventures of Precision
    MIT Press

    The Architecture of Error: Matter, Measure, and the Misadventures of Precision

    Francesca Hughes Softcover | 18.11 x 2.69 x 25.4 cm | 320 pp MIT Press | 2014 | 9780262526364 When architects draw even brick walls to six decimal places with software designed to cut lenses, it is clear that the logic that once organised...
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  • Constructing an Avant-Garde: Art in Brazil, 1949-1979Constructing an Avant-Garde: Art in Brazil, 1949-1979
    MIT Press

    Constructing an Avant-Garde: Art in Brazil, 1949-1979

    Sérgio B. Martins Hardcover | 19.05 x 2.54 x 26.67 cm | 248 pp MIT Press | 2013 | 9780262019262 How Brazilian postwar avant-garde artists updated modernism in a way that was radically at odds with European and North American art historical narratives. Brazilian...
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  • Hogarth's LegacyHogarth's Legacy
    Yale University Press

    Hogarth's Legacy

    Hardcover | 22.86 x 3.18 x 27.94 cm | 272 pp Yale University Press | 2016 | 9780300215618 The legacy of graphic artist William Hogarth (1697-1764) remains so emphatic that even his last name has evolved into a common vernacular term referring to his characteristically...
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  • Studying German Cinema
    Auteur Publishing

    Studying German Cinema

    Maggie Hoffgen Softcover | 23.98 x 1.78 x 17.81 cm | 256 pp Auteur Publishing |  2017 | 9781906733001 Taking a text-led, chronological approach, Studying German Cinema is directed at non-specialists such as students of German, Film Studies, and the general reader with an...
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  • Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV Milestones)
    Wayne State University Press

    Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV Milestones)

    Marcia Landy Softcover | 12.75 x 0.81 x 18.54 cm | 130 pp Wayne State University Press | 2005 | 9780814331033 One of the most innovative comedic programs to air on television, Monty Python’s Flying Circus was a mix of the carnivalesque and the critical....
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  • The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930sThe Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s
    MFA Publications

    The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s

    Hardcover | 23.62 x 2.54 x 24.64 cm | 208 pp MFA Publications | 2012 | 9780878467693  Modernity took many forms in 1930s Japan, but in the tumultuous years before militarism pushed the country toward global aggression, it was most visibly associated with a...
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  • Why You Like This Photo: The Science of PerceptionWhy You Like This Photo: The Science of Perception
    Ilex

    Why You Like This Photo: The Science of Perception

    Brian Dilg Hardcover | 16.83 x 1.91 x 20.96 cm | 160 pp Ilex Press | 2018 | 9781781573747 There's a lot going on behind the scenes when you like a photograph. Maybe something is tricking your brain into believing a static image is...
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  • Bewitched (TV Milestones)
    Wayne State University Press

    Bewitched (TV Milestones)

    Walter Metz Softcover | 13.34 x 1.27 x 17.78 cm | 160 pp Wayne State University Press | 2007 | 9780814332313 The classic situation comedy Bewitched chronicled the everyday lives of Samantha, a witch, and Darrin Stephens, her mortal husband, dramatising the often humorous...
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  • Face Time: A History of the Photographic PortraitFace Time: A History of the Photographic Portrait
    Thames & Hudson

    Face Time: A History of the Photographic Portrait

    Philip Prodger Hardcover | 24.13 x 2.79 x 28.45 cm | 256 pp Thames & Hudson | 2022 | 9780500544914 From the daguerreotype to the digital age, Face Time is an accessible introduction to one of photography’s most popular subjects: ourselves.With over 250 illustrations, it presents...
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  • Jan Tschichold and the New Typography: Graphic Design Between the World WarsJan Tschichold and the New Typography: Graphic Design Between the World Wars
    Yale University Press

    Jan Tschichold and the New Typography: Graphic Design Between the World Wars

    Paul Stirton Softcover | 17.78 x 3.18 x 22.86 cm | 272 pp Yale University Press | 2019 | 9780300243956 Richly illustrated with images from Jan Tschichold’s little-known private collection of design ephemera, this important book explores a legendary figure in the history of modern...
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  • The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth CenturyThe World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century
    Thames & Hudson

    The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century

    Timothy Hyman Hardcover | 20.07 x 2.79 x 26.92 cm | 256 pp Thames & Hudson | 2016 | 9780500239452 In this passionate reappraisal of figurative painting, the distinguished writer and artist Timothy Hyman cuts a new path through the tangle of twentieth century art....
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  • Adrian Villar Rojas: The Theater of Disappearance (The Roof Garden Commission)Adrian Villar Rojas: The Theater of Disappearance (The Roof Garden Commission)
    Yale University Press

    Adrian Villar Rojas: The Theater of Disappearance (The Roof Garden Commission)

    Softcover | 11.3 x 0.3 x 18.34 cm | 64 pp | 68 illustrations Yale University Press | 2017 | 9781588396211 Celebrated Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas is known for his site-specific sculptural installations. For The Theater of Disappearance, the artist mines The Met's...
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  • The Listening Service: 101 Journeys through the Musical Universe
    Faber & Faber

    The Listening Service: 101 Journeys through the Musical Universe

    Tom Service Hardcover | 13.5 x 2.2 x 21.6 cm | 320 pp Faber & Faber | 2022 | 9780571342952 Based on his critically-acclaimed BBC Radio 3 programme The Listening Service, in which Tom Service takes an idea on an ear-opening and mind-expanding walk through...
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  • Bauhaus FuturesBauhaus Futures
    MIT Press

    Bauhaus Futures

    Hardcover | 18.75 x 2.92 x 23.65 cm | 376 pp MIT Press | 2019 | 9780262042918 Essays, photo-essays, interviews, manifestos, diagrams, and a play explore the varied legacies, influences, and futures of the Bauhaus. What would keep the Bauhaus up at night if...
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  • Beuys & Duchamp: Artists of the FutureBeuys & Duchamp: Artists of the Future
    Hatje Cantz

    Beuys & Duchamp: Artists of the Future

    Hardcover | 22 x 28 cm | 248 pp Hatje Cantz | 2021 | 9783775750684 In conversations and interviews Joseph Beuys mentioned Marcel Duchamp more than any other artist, and hardly anyone else seems to have challenged him more than this artist from the...
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