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  • Hunting the Killer Idea: Capturing the Creative ProcessHunting the Killer Idea: Capturing the Creative Process
    Carpet Bombing Culture

    Hunting the Killer Idea: Capturing the Creative Process

    Nick McFarlane Softcover | 18.5 x 1.5 x 25 cm | 200 pp Carpet Bombing Culture | 2016 | 9781908211347 Killer Ideas. They're out there. Wild, unpredictable and dangerous. So powerful they can stop a person in their tracks, turn a life around, start a...
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  • Instagrammable: What art tells us about social mediaInstagrammable: What art tells us about social media
    Hannibal Publishers

    Instagrammable: What art tells us about social media

    Koenraad Jonckheere Hardcover | 17 x 2.67 x 23 cm | 304 pp Hannibal Publishers | 2024 | 9789464941531 How are the Holy Trinity and social media related? Why do we love colour filters so much? What makes hashtags so powerful? And why do we...
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  • Beyond the Architect's Eye: Photographs and the American Built EnvironmentBeyond the Architect's Eye: Photographs and the American Built Environment
    University of Pennsylvania Press

    Beyond the Architect's Eye: Photographs and the American Built Environment

    Mary N. Woods Softcover | 17.78 x 3.18 x 25.4 cm | 368 pp University of Pennsylvania Press | 2009 | 9780812223095 Typical architectural photography freezes buildings in an ideal moment and rarely captures what photographer Berenice Abbott called the medium's power to depict "how...
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  • Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the BodyLike Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body
    Yale University Press

    Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body

    Hardcover | 20.32 x 3.18 x 30.48 cm | 312 pp Yale University Press | 2018 | 9781588396440 Seven hundred years of sculptural practice—from fourteenth-century Europe to the global present—are examined anew in this catalogue of the groundbreaking 2018 exhibition presented at The Met, New York....
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  • Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism (Rare edition)Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism (Rare edition)
    University of Washington Press

    Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism (Rare edition)

    Softcover | 20.96 x 0.64 x 29.21 cm | 72 pp University of Washington Press | 2003 | 9780295983257 Social Realism was first labeled as a definable art movement in the 1920s, when art and propaganda merged during the Russian Revolution. Much of today's...
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  • Rhetorical Image (Rare edition)Rhetorical Image (Rare edition)
    New Museum of Contemporary Art

    Rhetorical Image (Rare edition)

    Softcover | 22.23 x 1.27 x 29.85 cm | 98 pp New Museum of Contemporary Art | 1990 | 9780915557714 Rhetorical Image examines how artists of different backgrounds and generations use their work to respond to political conditions. Guest Curator Milena Kalinvoska invited an...
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  • Art Unpacked: 50 Works of Art Uncovered, Explored, ExplainedArt Unpacked: 50 Works of Art Uncovered, Explored, Explained
    Thames & Hudson

    Art Unpacked: 50 Works of Art Uncovered, Explored, Explained

    Matthew Wilson Hardcover | 23.37 x 2.54 x 27.43 cm | 240 pp Thames & Hudson | 2023 | 9780500025673 For beginners, art history might seem a daunting subject with complex rules and impenetrable technical language. Even for more seasoned art lovers the question of...
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  • The Power of ArtThe Power of Art
    The Bridge Street Press

    The Power of Art

    Caroline Campbell Hardcover | 16.2 x 5 x 23.6 cm | 512 pp The Bridge Street Press | 2023 | 9780349128481 To read most histories of art, you might be forgiven for supposing that great artists are superhuman, and the knowledge of different movements, periods...
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  • Looking at PhotographyLooking at Photography
    Damiani

    Looking at Photography

    Stephen Frailey Hardcover | 20.83 x 2.29 x 24.89 cm | 200 pp Damiani | 2020 | 9788862087025 Inspired by John Szarkowski’s 1973 Looking at Photographs, and paying homage to it's concept of one hundred images with a page of text for each, Stephen Frailey...
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  • Encounters with ArtistsEncounters with Artists
    Thames & Hudson

    Encounters with Artists

    Richard Cork & Cornelia Parker Hardcover | 16.51 x 3.3 x 24.38 cm | 280 pp Thames & Hudson | 2023 | 9780500025109 Leading art critic and writer Richard Cork tells the stories of his personal encounters with some of the world’s most influential...
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  • The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century (Non-mint)The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century (Non-mint)
    Thames & Hudson

    The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century (Non-mint)

    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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  • Voyaging Out: British Women Artists From Suffrage to the SixtiesVoyaging Out: British Women Artists From Suffrage to the Sixties
    Thames & Hudson

    Voyaging Out: British Women Artists From Suffrage to the Sixties

    Carolyn Trant  Hardcover 16.26 x 3.3 x 24.13 cm | 304 pp Thames & Hudson | 2019 | 9780500021828 Consider for a moment the history of modern art in Britain; you may struggle to land on a narrative that features very many women. On this...
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  • Relief: Issue 1 - ClassRelief: Issue 1 - Class
    Relief Press

    Relief: Issue 1 - Class

    Edited by Nicholas Smith Softcover | 19 x 0.7 x 24 cm | 106 pp Relief Press | 2013 Relief Journal is a project that documents the space between making and exhibiting, concentrating on the intersection of art and curatorial practice with politics. Each...
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  • Scaling InfrastructureScaling Infrastructure
    Princeton Architectural Press

    Scaling Infrastructure

    Softcover | 16.8 x 23.2 cm | 160 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2016 | 9781616894160 The question of infrastructure pervades global cities, especially those whose populations have grown and shrunk in the wake of evolving social, political, and economic shifts. The Center for Advanced...
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  • Infinite SuburbiaInfinite Suburbia
    Princeton Architectural Press

    Infinite Suburbia

    Alan Berger & Joel Kotkin Hardcover | 21.3 x 5.1 x 26 cm | 784 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2017 | 9781616895501 Infinite Suburbia is the culmination of the MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism's year-long study of the future of suburban development....
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  • American City X: Syracuse After the Master Plan (Non-mint)American City X: Syracuse After the Master Plan (Non-mint)
    Princeton Architectural Press

    American City X: Syracuse After the Master Plan (Non-mint)

    Mark Robbins Hardcover | 19.05 x 1.91 x 24.13 cm | 160 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2013 | 9781616891060 Exploring the intersection of architecture, landscape, infrastructure and planning in the redevelopment of the civic realm, American City X looks at the impact of strategic...
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  • Rethinking The Modular: Adaptable Systems in Architecture and DesignRethinking The Modular: Adaptable Systems in Architecture and Design
    Thames & Hudson

    Rethinking The Modular: Adaptable Systems in Architecture and Design

    Burkhard Meltzer & Tido von Oppeln Softcover | 16.76 x 2.29 x 24.13 cm | 298 pp Thames and Hudson | 2016 | 9780500292358 The modular did not have to be invented: it can be found everywhere. We divide surfaces into grids, spaces into parts, and...
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  • Victory of the New Building StyleVictory of the New Building Style
    Getty Publications

    Victory of the New Building Style

    Walter Curt Behrendt Softcover | 17.53 x 1.52 x 25.15 cm | 176 pp Getty Publications | 2006 | 9780892365630 This book - Behrendt's principle theoretical work in German and the precursor to Modern Building - presents a revisionist concept of style that places equal emphasis on...
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  • Bernard Tschumi: Event-Cities 4 | Concept - Form (Rare edition)Bernard Tschumi: Event-Cities 4 | Concept - Form (Rare edition)
    MIT Press

    Bernard Tschumi: Event-Cities 4 | Concept - Form (Rare edition)

    Bernard Tschumi Softcover | 16.84 x 4.95 x 23.01 cm | 640 pp MIT Press | 2010 | 9780262512411 In Event-Cities 4 Tschumi introduces the "concept-form": a concept generating a form, or a form generating a concept.  The book documents recently built and theoretical...
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  • Olgiati: LectureOlgiati: Lecture
    Birkhäuser

    Olgiati: Lecture

    Valerio Olgiati Softcover | 15.24 x 0.64 x 14.61 cm | 108 pp Birkhäuser | 2011 | 9783034607834 In the form of a well illustrated essay, the architect Valerio Olgiati explains how he develops his projects, the parameters that influence his design process, and the intellectual...
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