Art & Politics
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What Art Can Tell Us about Love
$24.99 Add to cartDiscover the love affairs that inspired art’s greatest masterpieces.
Whether in the throes of passion, enduring the pain of unrequited love, or basking in the joy of a wonderfully supportive friends- Author: Trend, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1399620967
- Language: English
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Evergreen Review: Dispatches from the Literary Underground: Covers & Essays 1957-1973
$34.99 Add to cartFrom the late 1950s to the mid-70s, work by contributors like Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Amiri Baraka, Eldridge Cleaver, Tim Leary, Dennis Hopper, Jean Genet, Jerry Rubin, Bernadette Devlin, a… [more below]
- Author: Thomas, Pat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 9798875000676
- Language: English
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Medium Hot: Images in the Age of Heat
$24.95 Add to cartWHAT IS THE FUTURE OF THE IMAGE IN THE AGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?
Hito Steyerl is one of the most celebrated artists of our time. Her work, both as an artist and a writer, has- Author: Steyerl, Hito
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1804298026
- Language: English
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Those Passions: On Art and Politics
$50.00 Add to cartThose Passions unpicks the nature of capitalist societies since the fifteenth century and the art produced within them. It evaluates the central politics of appearance–the building of “consumerism,”
- Author: Clark, T. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0500025266
- Language: English
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What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory
$19.95 Read moreWhy do we need art?
What Art Does is an invitation to explore this vital question. It is a chance to understand how art is made by all of us. How it creates communities, opens our worlds, and can tra- Author: Eno, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0571395511
- Language: English
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Gran Fury: Art Is Not Enough
$39.95 Add to cartA sweeping look at the history of the artist collective whose graphic poster designs helped define the visual culture of AIDS activism
Gran Fury (1988-95) was a New York-based activist artist collectiv
- Author: Pedrosa, Adriano
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 6557770500
- Language: English
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#Bidenwon: The Art of Recovery
$35.00 Add to cart#BIDENWON: The Art of Recovery depicts the political landscape that shaped the presidency of President Joseph R. Biden.
With tongue planted firmly in cheek, award-winning author illustrator Cathy Hull- Author: Hull, Cathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 196185645X
- Language: English
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Frieze Frame: How Poets, Painters, and Their Friends Framed the Debate Around Elgin and the Marbles of the Parthenon
$17.95 Add to cart“Frieze Frame is a lucidly brilliant, learned read that wears its learning lightly, inviting the reader into a coterie of artists and intellectuals, traced and uncovered with a poet’s touch.”
–Times L- Author: Stallings, A. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 235
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1589882008
- Language: English
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The War of Art: A History of Artists’ Protest in America
$29.95 Add to cartHow artists have changed America through direct action
Artists in America have long battled against injustices, believing that art can in fact “do more.” The War of Art tells this history of artist-le- Author: O’Neill-Butler, Lauren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1804296333
- Language: English
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The Disenlightenment: Politics, Horror, and Entertainment
$32.99 Add to cartOne of America’s greatest living literary legends invites you think for yourself in this compelling narrative of manipulation, power, and the human condition.
“Government, like Circe, turns men into s
- Author: Mamet, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 63455099
- Language: English
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Art on My Mind: Visual Politics
$18.99 Add to cartThe canonical work of cultural criticism by the “profoundly influential critic” (Artnet), in a beautiful thirtieth-anniversary edition, featuring a new foreword by esteemed visual artist Mickalene Tho
- Author: Hooks, Bell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1620979268
- Language: English
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But: Life Isn’t Like That, Is It?
$19.95 Add to cartLife’s stories are always prone to disruption and digression, thwarting the neat storybook narrative we love so much.
Almost all of our stories follow the same basic pattern: beginning, middle, end: e
- Author: Whalley, Boff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9798887440897
- Language: English
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Art in a State of Siege
$37.00 Add to cartAn art historical epic for dangerous times
What do artworks look like in extreme cases of collective experience? What signals do artists send when enemies are at the city walls and the rule of law bre- Author: Koerner, Joseph Leo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0691267219
- Language: English
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Picturing the Border
$40.00 Add to cartA compilation of Latinx photography from the US-Mexico border that foregrounds the complexity and struggle of Latinx borderland communities in the face of widespread fearmongering
The US-Mexico borde- Author: Rivera Fellah, Nadiah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0300278764
- Language: English
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Naked City: A Graphic Novel
$29.99 Read moreIn this long-awaited graphic comedy from an esteemed illustrator and storyteller, three bohemians struggle to answer the question: “Is it possible for an artist to survive in the 21st Century?”
A youn- Author: Drooker, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1506743501
- Language: English
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Tomas Van Houtryve: 36 Views of Notre Dame
$60.00 Add to cartSpecial insider access to the rebuilding process at Notre Dame after the 2019 fire, shot with a historic wet-plate collodion photographic process.
In Tomas van Houtryve: 36 Views of Notre Dame, the vi
- Author: Van Houtryve, Tomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Kinky Quilts: Patchwork Designs for Gay Men
$49.95 Add to cartSince patchwork quilts are usually displayed in bedrooms where couples engage in sex, why are there so few quilt designs for folks who want a bit of sexual energy in these intimate spaces?
The original… [more below]
- Author: Townsend, Johnny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 386
- Publish Date: May 12 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988084761
- Language: English
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The Politics of Design: A (Not So) Global Design Manual for Visual Communication
$16.99 Read moreMany designs that appear in today’s society will circulate and encounter audiences of many different cultures and languages. With communication comes responsibility; are designers aware of the meaning… [more below]
- Author: Pater, Ruben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: July 07 2016
- ISBN10: 9063694229
- Language: English
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Poor Artists: A Quest Into the Art World
$24.99 Add to cartThis debut book by the popular collaborative team–heralded as one of the first truly new critical voices of the 21st century– blends real-world experience and poignant storytelling into a provocativ… [more below]
- Author: Puente, Gabrielle de la
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 3791380214
- Language: English
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Protest Art (Art Essentials)
$18.95 Add to cartA well-researched, concise guide to protest art, exploring what happens when artists join forces with radical political movements to foster change. The works and movements discussed in this book emerg
- Series: Art Essentials #20
- Author: Lack, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0500296685
- Language: English
