Art & Politics
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Who Owns Beauty?
$29.95 Add to cartBeauty belongs to no one. But what about the objects that museums celebrate as great works of art: to whom do they belong? Do they belong to the places where they originated? To the cultures whose gen… [more below]
- Author: Savoy, Bénédicte
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1509568611
- Language: English
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Rupert Garc?a: The Making of an American Artist, a Testimonio
$34.95 Add to cartThis is the first biography of the renowned American Chicano visual artist and activist Rupert Garc?a, drawing on fifty hours of interviews conducted over thirty years and accompanied by eighty images
- Author: GarcÃa, Mario T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 315
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1978844018
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of Andy Warhol [50th Anniversary Edition]: From A to B and Back Again
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Warhol, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0063418290
- Language: English
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On Censorship
$15.95 Add to cartAi Weiwei is one of contemporary art’s greatest practitioners. He has been a voice for artistic and personal freedom of expression for decades within his native China and around the world.
This publica
- Series: Pocket Perspectives
- Author: Weiwei, Ai
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0500030820
- 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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Abstract Art: A Global History
$50.00 Add to cartIn his fresh take on abstract art, now available in paperback and expanded to include sixteen new contemporary artists from six continents, noted art historian Pepe Karmel chronicles the movement from
- Author: Karmel, Pepe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0500298386
- Language: English
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How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists
$18.95 Add to cartHow artists make a living and how money changes art
It may not be the worst time in history to get paid to make art, but it certainly is the strangest. The institutions and markets that have been suppo
- Author: Berry, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1552455068
- Language: English
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Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist
$19.95 Add to cartA wrenching portrait of the Russian sculptor and a tribute to the potential of political art
John Berger explores the life and work of Ernst Neizvestny, who, after clashing with Khrushchev, was exclud- Series: The Essential John Berger
- Author: Berger, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 180429859X
- Language: English
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Rethinking American Art: Collectors, Critics, and the Changing Canon
$55.00 Add to cart“For all those who want to understand American art and the art world, written by the best person to tell the story.”–Dr. Kathleen Foster, Curator, Philadelphia Museum of Art
A sweeping history of ch- Author: Stebbins Jr, Theodore E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 156792834X
- Language: English
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I Don’t Think about Being Great: Selected Writings
$45.00 Add to cartThis collection of 100 writings by Robert Rauschenberg reveals the artist’s gift for prose and the importance of his relationship to language
The American artist Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) won a- Author: Rauschenberg, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0300282567
- Language: English
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Derrick Adams
$79.95 Add to cartThe highly anticipated first monograph on one of the most celebrated American contemporary artists
Through portraits, social scenes, photographs, sculptures, and immersive installations, Derrick Adams
- Author: Ringle, Hallie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1580937012
- Language: English
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Pervert or Detective?
$19.95 Add to cartA provocative conversation on the erotic, appropriation, power, and sex.
In Pervert or Detective?, artists Reba Maybury and Lucy McKenzie dissect power, desire, and subversion in a provocative convers- Author: Maybury, Reba
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1949484122
- Language: English
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Textile Protest: Artists, Activism, and the Historical Power of Resistance in Cloth
$50.00 Add to cartArtists, activism, and the historical power of cloth in protest.
A landmark survey of how textiles have been used for political protest in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including banners,- Author: Triston, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1849949077
- Language: English
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Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream…
$50.00 Read moreThrough his work across many media, Houston and Los Angeles-based artist Vincent Valdez bears witness to the world around him, chronicling an America at the margins. Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream… fe
- Author: Valdez, Vincent
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 12 2024
- ISBN10: 9798990698505
- Language: English
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Diversity of Aesthetics
$20.00 Add to cartCritical conversations and reflections about lessons learned at the intersection of social movements and artist production.
Diversity of Aesthetics collects powerful and timely conversations among lead
- Author: Petrossiants, Andreas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1945335319
- Language: English
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The Library of Lost Maps: An Archive of a World in Progress
$40.00 Add to cartJoin renowned geographer James Cheshire on a tour through a forgotten collection of maps that shaped over 200 years of Western history.
Tucked just beyond offices and a lecture hall in the heart of Lo- Author: Cheshire, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1639734287
- Language: English
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The End Is Near, Here
$52.50 Read moreMichael Dressel, born in East Berlin in 1958, is a wanderer between American and German culture. His regular journeys between his home towns on the American West Coast and Berlin have sensitized him t… [more below]
- Author: Dressel, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 31 2024
- ISBN10: 3960701160
- Language: English
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It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
$23.99 Add to cartShortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize
The story of art collective Gran Fury–which fought back during the AIDS crisis through direct action and community-made propaganda–offers lessons in love a- Author: Lowery, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 164503660X
- Language: English
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Mark Twain’s War Prayer
$22.99 Add to cartWritten in 1910 in his 70th year, Mark Twain, having lived through 14 wars waged just by his own country on others, declined to publish this poetic despairing reproof against patriotism. His regular i… [more below]
- Author: Chwast, Seymour
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1683969596
- Language: English
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Permanent Red: Essays in Seeing
$19.95 Add to cartWhy should an artist’s way of looking at the world have any meaning for us? Any artwork reflects the artist’s intentions, but also its times: therefore all art is political
In Permanent Red, John Berg- Series: The Essential John Berger
- Author: Berger, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1804298476
- Language: English
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