Criticism & Theory
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Eyes to See: Approaching the Spiritual in World Art
$35.00 Add to cartInviting you to explore and contemplate the great art of the world
“Somewhere, sometime in the course of casual encounters with art, an icon may emerge and claim its person: an image that startles and
- Author: Lipsey, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1966608098
- Language: English
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Beautiful Madness: Art Writing as Art Curating
$28.90 Add to cartThirty years of reflections on the intertwined disciplines of art curating and art writing
Exhibition curating and art writing are closely related disciplines. Both practices construct a meaningful, pu
- Author: Kremer, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 9493246361
- Language: English
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How It Feels to Be Alive: Encounters with Art and Our Selves
$29.00 Read moreA vital testament to how art makes us who we are–and offers new ways of seeing our world and our lives.
Barbara Kruger once defined art as “the ability to show and tell, through a kind of eloquent sh- Author: O’Grady, Megan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 037461332X
- Language: English
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I’m Not an Artist: Reclaiming Creativity in the Age of Infinite Content
$22.95 Read moreRomanticized notions of how one becomes an “artist” have long been questioned, so why do we still fetishize them in popular culture, turning a blind eye to the politics of exclusionism that characteri
- Author: Aloi, Giovanni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1350418773
- Language: English
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Planetary Realism: Art Against Apocalypse
$27.95 Add to cartTraditions of realism are brought together with the decolonial and ecological concept of “planetarity” to understand a new realism in contemporary art.
The devastation left in the wake of modernity an- Author: Berry, Josephine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1915609232
- Language: English
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A Dream of Stone
$15.00 Add to cartA selection of texts on art and artists by the Belgian French novelist and essayist Marguerite Yourcenar
Best known for her seminal novel Memoirs of Hadrian (1951), an imagined autobiography of the Ro- Series: Ekphrasis
- Author: Yourcenar, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1644231719
- Language: English
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Native Visual Sovereignty: A Reader on Art and Performance
$45.00 Read moreAn essential resource for curators, Native and non-Native artists, scholars, students and teachers
Published with Forge Project, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Mackenzie Art Gallery, and
- Author: Hopkins, Candice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1954947119
- Language: English
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What Is Art For?: Contemporary Artists on Their Influences, Inspirations and Disciplines
$39.95 Add to cartTacita Dean, Arthur Jafa, Roni Horn and other leading contemporary artists rhapsodize on the discipline’s greater significance
Writer and broadcaster Ben Luke conceived and launched the A brush with…
- Author: Luke, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1911736175
- Language: English
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A Tree: A Reader on Arboreal Kinship
$19.00 Read moreArtistic practices that share intimate, speculative and queer observations of tree kinship
Plants make the world; they literally create soil, shape landscapes and regulate the climate to some extent. T
- Author: Van Der Loo, Marjolein
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 9493382079
- Language: English
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Believing Is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art
$25.00 Add to cartWhy are the paleolithic Venus of Willendorf, Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescoes, and Marcel Duchamp’s ready-made urinal all considered works of art? Why, strictly speaking, is a Cindy Sherman phot… [more below]
- Author: Staniszewski, Mary Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0140168249
- Language: English
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The Art of Dying: Writings, 2019-2022
$30.00 Read moreNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by the New Yorker.
The complete last essays of acclaimed writer Peter Schjeldahl, the great New Yorker art critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist.
“Sensitive and m… [more below]- Author: Schjeldahl, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1419773240
- Language: English
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A Little Book about Art: Quotes for the Aesthete in Your Life
$8.95 Add to cart“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable…” – Cesar A. Cruz
Across the centuries, art has held up a mirror to humanity’s evolving culture and creativity. Ancient civilizations lef- Author: Orange Hippo!
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1800693842
- Language: English
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How to Write about Contemporary Art
$24.95 Add to cartHow to Write About Contemporary Art is the definitive guide to writing engagingly about the art of our time. Invaluable for students, arts professionals and other aspiring writers, the book first navi… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Gilda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0500291578
- Language: English
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Informatics of Domination
$38.93 Add to cartInformatics of Domination is an experimental collection addressing formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the twenty-first century. The volume t… [more below]
- Author: Blas, Zach
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 147803100X
- Language: English
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Arte Anotado (Art, Annotated): La Historia del Arte En 500 Obras
$50.00 Add to cartTransp?rtate a una galer?a de arte en este recorrido por m?s de 3000 a?os de pintura, escultura y grabados.
Lleno de informaci?n e im?genes, y organizado cronol?gicamente, este libro de arte presenta- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0593969766
- Language: Spanish
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Wicked Arts Education: Designing Creative Programmes
$25.00 Add to cartA hands-on, practical guide to designing fun and accessible art curricula for all ages
Following the blockbuster success of Wicked Arts Assignments, Wicked Arts Education helps teachers and creatives d
- Author: Bremmer, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9493246388
- Language: English
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Hands on Research for Artists, Designers & Educators
$23.00 Read moreA user-friendly manual to research methods in art and design practices
This volume presents the Circle of Doing Research: a model to get you started in art and design research. Conceived within the co
- Author: Staal, Harma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9083404161
- Language: English
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On Ruben Slikk: A Manifesto on the Purpose of Art and the Value of Transgression
$15.00 Add to cartOn Ruben Slikk: An Manifesto on the Purpose of Art and the Value of Transgression is a philosophical and critical inquiry into the modern musical landscape, using the obscure, prolific, transgressive
- Author: True, Caleb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1088156738
- Language: English
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Worlding Ecologies: Art, Science and Activism Towards Climate Justice
$32.00 Add to cartTactics for art world members to advance systemic and just climate solutions
How can art, science and institutional practices counteract the negative consequences of climate and ecological breakdown? W
- Author: Lekkerkerk, Niekolaas Johannes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: December 24 2024
- ISBN10: 9493246345
- Language: English
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Feint of Heart: Art Writings: 1982-2002
$45.00 Read more“Dave Hickey’s writing is an atomic bomb of wild styling, brilliant insight, philosophical leaps of a visionary imagination, and astral projections of sixth-sense taste. A perfect combination of Billy… [more below]
- Author: Hickey, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1644231271
- Language: English
