Criticism & Theory
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Pidginization as Curatorial Method: Messing with Languages and Praxes of Curating
$15.95 Read moreA new vision for activist curatorial practice.
In Pidginization as Curatorial Method: Messing with Languages and Praxes, renowned curator and director Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung proposes Pidgin la- Series: Sternberg Press / Thoughts on Curating
- Author: Ndikung, Bonaventure Soh Beje
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1915609089
- Language: English
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Elements of Art: Ten Ways to Decode the Masterpieces
$19.99 Read moreThe Elements of Art deconstructs great works of art into manageable components so that you can better understand and appreciate them.
Knowing how to interpret art is one of the biggest issues facing c- Author: Hodge, Susie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0711286655
- Language: English
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The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art
$18.95 Add to cartA poet and post-punk heroine writes on subjects ranging from Bj rk to Robert Smithson, from traveling in Iceland to walking in Thoreau’s footsteps on Cape Cod
Poet and post-punk heroine Eileen Myles ha
- Series: Semiotext(e) Native Agents
- Author: Myles, Eileen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1584350660
- Language: English
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Richard Shiff: Writing After Art: Essays on Modern and Contemporary Artists
$45.00 Read moreA broad and deep anthology of critic and art historian Richard Shiff’s most influential writings, which have shaped our understanding of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art.
“Elegantly designed as- Author: Shiff, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1644230488
- Language: English
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Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartContemporary art has never been so popular – but the art world is changing. In a landscape of increasing globalization there is growing interest in questions over the nature of contemporary art today,… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Stallabrass, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198826621
- Language: English
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The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society
$44.99 Add to cartIn The Lure of the Local Lucy R. Lippard weaves together cultural studies, history, geography, and contemporary art to provide a fascinating examination of our multiple senses of place.
Divided into f
- Author: Lippard, Lucy R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1565842480
- Language: English
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Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays
$20.00 Add to cartThis third essay collection by America’s leading essayist brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980, in which she explores some of the most influential artists and thinkers
- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0312420080
- Language: English
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Glitch Theory: Art and Semiotics
$30.00 Add to cartWhat do glitches reveal about the normally invisible processes behind our interpretations?
Glitches and Glitch Art illuminate the unseen assumptions, ideology of dialectical thinking, and role of est
- Author: Betancourt, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0979321557
- Language: English
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Let’s See Pa
$24.95 Add to cartDistinguished critic at The New Yorker since 1998, Peter Schjeldahl has been described as America’s most influential writer on art. Blessed with an unerring eye, he tackles a myriad of subjects with w… [more below]
- Author: Schjeldahl, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0500740100
- Language: English
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Visual Culture
$15.95 Add to cartHow to think about what it means to look and see: a guide for navigating the complexities of visual culture.
The visual surrounds us, some of it invited, most of it not. In this visual environment, eve
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Boylan, Alexis L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0262539365
- Language: English
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How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art
$17.99 Add to cartHow does art work? How does it move us, inform us, challenge us? Internationally renowned painter David Salle’s incisive essay collection illuminates these questions by exploring the work of influenti
- Author: Salle, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0393354962
- Language: English
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Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
$18.00 Add to cartNo philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects – despite living in the German golden age of Goethe, Mozart and Schiller. For … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 04 1994
- ISBN10: 014043335X
- Language: English
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Sensing Earth: Cultural Quests Across a Heated Globe
$28.95 Read moreEssays, manifestos and more on the ecological complexities and contradictions of the art industry
Through essays, interviews, poetry, manifestos, choreographic prompts, speculative fiction and case stu
- Author: Dietachmair, Philipp
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 9493246248
- Language: English
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Art Can Help
$16.00 Read moreA collection of inspiring essays by the photographer Robert Adams, who advocates the meaningfulness of art in a disillusioned society
In Art Can Help, the internationally acclaimed American photograp- Author: Adams, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: August 24 2021
- ISBN10: 0300260245
- Language: English
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Art and Artist: Creative Urge and Personality Development
$32.99 Add to cartAlong with Adler and Jung, Otto Rank was one of the intellectual giants in the inner circle around Sigmund Freud. Art and Artist, his major statement on the relationship of art to the individual and s… [more below]
- Author: Rank, Otto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 532
- Publish Date: March 13 2009
- ISBN10: 0393305740
- Language: English
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Heretical Aesthetics: Pasolini on Painting
$24.95 Read moreFirst collection on filmmaker and poet Pasolini’s passion for painting
One of Europe’s most mythologized Marxist intellectuals of the 20th century, Pier Paolo Pasolini was not only a poet, filmmaker,- Author: Giammei, Alessandro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1804291285
- Language: English
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Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?: 50th Anniversary Edition
$14.95 Add to cartMany scholars have called Linda Nochlin’s seminal essay on women artists the first real attempt at a feminist history of art. In her revolutionary essay, Nochlin refused to answer the question of why
- Author: Nochlin, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0500023840
- Language: English
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Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light
$19.99 Add to cartArt interprets the visible world. Physics charts its unseen workings. The two realms seem completely opposed. But consider that both strive to reveal truths for which there are no words–with physicis
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Shlain, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0061227978
- Language: English
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Fear Not!
$19.00 Add to cartWhy would anyone want to watch horror movies? Why would Christians, in particular, bother with the genre? In Fear Not!, critic Josh Larsen makes the case that monster movies, creature features, slashe… [more below]
- Series: Reel Spirituality Monograph
- Author: Larsen, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1666738522
- Language: English
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Art Needs No Justification
$10.95 Add to cartArtists often agonize over their work, even to the point of despair, in the modern world. This booklet by one of the twentieth century’s most incisive art historians and cultural critics is a propheti… [more below]
- Author: Rookmaaker, Hans R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 63
- Publish Date: April 21 2010
- ISBN10: 1573834416
- Language: English
