Art & Politics
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Track Changes: A Handbook for Art Criticism
$19.00 Read moreCollecting case studies, conversations, manifestos, and reflections on the technical and ethical choices that writers and editors face, Track Changes is a rigorous, practical, and supportive guide to … [more below]
- Author: Dayal, Mira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1736507915
- Language: English
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The Obama Portraits
$27.95 Add to cartA richly illustrated celebration of the paintings of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama
From the moment of their unveiling at the National Portrait Gallery in early 2018, the portra- Author: Caragol, Taína
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0691203288
- Language: English
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Sweet France: The 100 Best Recipes from the Greatest French Pastry Chefs
$40.00 Read moreJournalist Fran?ois Blanc‘sSweet France isa collection of dessert recipes from the world’s best French pastry chefs.
France has a rich history of sweet traditions and talented p?tissiers, and with Sw- Author: Blanc, François
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 2379450862
- Language: English
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Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
$39.95 Add to cartWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
A Smithsonian Book of the Year
A New York Review of Books “Best of 2020” Selection
A New York Times Best Art Book of the Year
An Art Newspaper Book of the- Author: Fleetwood, Nicole R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 28 2020
- ISBN10: 067491922X
- Language: English
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Heads Together: Weed and the Underground Press Syndicate, 1965-1973
$45.00 Add to cartA glorious design herbarium of marijuana spot illustrations, drawings, writing, ads and ephemera from the great underground magazines of the 1960s and ’70s
The youth uprising now simply known as the Si
- Author: Kramer, David Jacob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 566
- Publish Date: April 20, 2023
- ISBN10: 3907236548
- Language: English
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It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
$35.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1645036588
- Language: English
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Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s
$50.00 Read moreReveals how American art in the 1930s–intertwined with the political, social, and economic tumult of an era not so unlike our own–engaged with the public amid global upheaval
This publication exami- Author: Rudnick, Allison
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1588397696
- Language: English
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Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest
$45.00 Add to cartA powerful new exploration of the uses of lettering, type and design to amplify resistance and inspire change–from 19th-century antislavery broadsides to the “Silence = Death” graphics of the AIDS ep
- Author: Munro, Silas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 1736863304
- Language: English
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The Principles of Uncertainty
$26.00 Add to cart“Sublime . . . Kalman’s elegantly witty and at times melancholy narrative runs arm in arm with her unmistakable paintings on a serendipitous romp through the history of the world.” —Vanity Fair
“Wild- Author: Kalman, Maira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 01, 2009
- ISBN10: 0143116460
- Language: English
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The Power of Art: A Human History of Art: From Babylon to New York City
$39.95 Add to cartAn epic work of art history that will transform our understanding of the world by unlocking the human stories behind millennia of art.
Taking readers from ancient Babylon to contemporary Pyongyang, t- Author: Campbell, Caroline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 02, 2024
- ISBN10: 1639365494
- Language: English
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Caps Lock: How Capitalism Took Hold of Graphic Design, and How to Escape from It
$27.50 Add to cartOn design’s complicity in systems of oppression: critique and exit strategies from the author of The Politics of Design
Our current economic system could not exist without the number systems, coins, ba
- Author: Pater, Ruben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 02, 2021
- ISBN10: 9492095815
- Language: English
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Walk With Us: How “The West Wing” Changed Our Lives
$8.49 Add to cartThe West Wing premiered in 1999. That’s a long time ago. Back then, we were worrying about the Millennium Bug, paying $700 for DVD players, and using pagers. 1999: a century ago.
And yet, the show co
- Author: Handscombe, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: May 14, 2016
- ISBN10: 099755231X
- Language: English
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Art Works: How Organizers and Artists Are Creating a Better World Together
$31.48 Add to cartNamed one of The Progressive magazine’s Favorite Books of the Year
“Ken [Grossinger] is one o
An inside look at the organizers and artists on the front lines of political mobilization and social change- Author: Grossinger, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1620976722
- Language: English
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Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
$32.00 Add to cartFrom the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of How to Be an Artist a deliciously readable survey of the art world in turbulent times
Jerry Saltz is one of our most-watched writers about art- Author: Saltz, Jerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 059308649X
- Language: English
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Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
$17.99 Add to cartIn this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty-fir
- Author: Laing, Olivia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0393867390
- Language: English
