Criticism & Theory
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Art in Detail: 100 Masterpieces
$34.95 Read moreGreat paintings cannot be fully understood in a single encounter; there is always more to be derived from them. Art lovers may revisit and reconsider the masterpieces throughout their lives, but a dee
- Author: Hodge, Susie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0500296413
- Language: English
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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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The Emancipated Spectator
$19.95 Add to cartThe theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, both artists and thinkers have sought to transform the spectator into an active… [more below]
- Author: Ranciere, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1788739647
- Language: English
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The Female Body in Art
$40.00 Add to cartFrom the Renaissance to the present day, this is the history of art told through the female form, with over 80 works of art.
A cultural mirror of the times, the female body has captivated both artists- Author: Dempsey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1399626736
- Language: English
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Dream Facades: Dream Facades: The Cruel Architecture of Reality TV
$28.00 Add to cartFor fans of Jia Tolentino and Amanda Montell, a probing and lively exploration of the unlikely dwellings we regard on reality TV — and what they say about American history, modern life, and the archi… [more below]
- Author: Morley, Jack Balderrama
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1662602928
- 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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Exhibiting for Multiple Senses: Art and Curating for Sensory-Diverse Bodies
$35.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking study of the practices and implications of multisensory art and curation
Published with PLURAL Series.
Artists and curators have long moved beyond the primacy of the visual in art exhi- Author: Fotiadi, Eva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 9493246485
- 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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Surrealism and Anti-Fascism: Anthology
$70.00 Read moreA detailed and intellectually invigorating collection that places Surrealism in the thick of the battle for political emancipation
The Surrealist movement famously initiated a revolution in visual and
- Author: Muhling, Matthias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 680
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 3775758771
- 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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Do Ho Suh
$45.00 Add to cartEnter the captivating world of leading contemporary artist Do Ho Suh
Korean-born, London-based artist Do Ho Suh invites us to explore his large-scale installations, sculptures, videos, and drawings in
- Author: Abdel Nabi, Nabila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1849769672
- Language: English
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Press Start: The History of Video Gaming
$39.99 Add to cartA visually stunning, up-to-date book that chronicles the history of video games from their earliest roots in 1958 to the present day, showcasing the unforgettable artwork, stories, and characters that… [more below]
- Author: Cario, Erwan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1840918853
- 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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Eternal Current Events: Early Writings
$19.95 Add to cartThe first English translation of Chris Marker’s early writings on film, religion, philosophy, politics, and art.
Before making his first films in the 1950s, Chris Marker was a regular contributor to t- Series: Inpatient Press / Mercurial Editions
- Author: Marker, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1965874002
- Language: English
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Art and Faith: A Theology of Making
$17.00 Add to cartFrom a world-renowned painter, an exploration of creativity’s quintessential–and often overlooked–role in the spiritual life
“Makoto Fujimura’s art and writings have been a true inspiration to me. I- Author: Fujimura, Makoto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0300285485
- Language: English
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Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
$18.00 Add to cartIn these ten intertwined essays, one of our most provocative young novelists proves that she is just as stylish and outrageous an art critic. For when Jeanette Winterson looks at works as diverse as t… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Winterson, Jeanette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 04 1997
- ISBN10: 0679768203
- Language: English
