Criticism & Theory
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Please Wait by the Coatroom: Reconsidering Race and Identity in American Art
$28.95 Add to cartFar-ranging and thought-provoking essays on the relation of art and ethnic identity.
This first collection by award-winning author John Yau, drawn from decades of work, includes essays about Black, As- Author: Yau, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1574232614
- Language: English
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New Essential Guide to Hong Kong Movies
$29.99 Add to cartExtensively revised and expanded, The New Essential Guide to Hong Kong Movies includes over 670 film reviews, a poster gallery, and a look at the key studios that made Hong Kong cinema so amazing, alo… [more below]
- Author: Baker, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1648210163
- Language: English
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Art as Experience
$19.00 Add to cartBased on John Dewey’s lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1932, Art as Experience has grown to be considered internationally as the most distinguished wo… [more below]
- Author: Dewey, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 05 2005
- ISBN10: 0399531971
- Language: English
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Red: The History of a Color
$42.00 Add to cartA beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color red throughout the ages
The color red has represented many things, from the life force and the divine to love, lust, and anger. Up th- Author: Pastoureau, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0691172773
- Language: English
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Impressionism
$20.00 Read moreDiscover how scenes of daily life and delicate dabs of color shocked the art world establishment. In this TASCHEN Basic Art introduction to Impressionism, we explore the artists, subjects, and techniq
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Grimme, Karin H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 18 2017
- ISBN10: 3836536978
- Language: English
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Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art
$24.95 Add to cartOver the course of a career that spanned fifty years, Agnes Martin’s austere, serene work anticipated and helped to define Minimalism, even as she battled psychological crises and carved out a solitar
- Author: Princenthal, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 0500294550
- Language: English
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Pretentiousness: Why It Matters
$18.00 Add to cartPretentiousness is the engine oil of culture; the essential lubricant in the development of all arts, high, low, or middle.
- Author: Fox, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 156689428X
- Language: English
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Leonardo’s Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master
$23.99 Add to cartLeonardo’s Notebooks is a biography of the genius in his own words, connecting moments of his life to artistic accomplishments through his writings, drawings, and intimate thoughts.
Leonardo da Vinci- Series: Notebook
- Author: Da Vinci, Leonardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 1579129463
- Language: English
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On Alchemy: Essential Practices and Making Art as Alchemy
$16.95 Add to cart“There’s no sounder or more sage guide to alchemy – the practice and the philosophy – than Brian Cotnoir. This wise, lucidly-written book … offers explanations and exercises that will be of immeasur… [more below]
- Author: Cotnoir, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1786787709
- Language: English
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Wicked Arts Assignments: Practising Creativity in Contemporary Arts Education
$25.00 Add to cartFun, poetical and inspiring challenges for teaching the arts–for students of all ages and teachers of all disciplines
The almost 100 arts assignments compiled in this instructive new volume are design
- Author: Heijnen, Emiel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 02, 2021
- ISBN10: 9492095750
- Language: English
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Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAbout the Series: Oxford’s Very Short Introductions offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects–from Islam to Sociology, Politics to Classics, and Literary Theory to Histor… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Freeland, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: December 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0192804634
- Language: English
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The Artist’s Reality: Philosophies of Art
$22.00 Add to cartMark Rothko’s classic book on artistic practice, ideals, and philosophy, now with an expanded introduction and an afterword by Makoto Fujimura
Stored in a New York City warehouse for many years after- Author: Rothko, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0300269870
- Language: English
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Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto
$14.95 Read moreA New York Times Best Art Book of 2020
A new manifesto for cyberfeminism: finding liberation in the glitch between body, gender, and technology The divide between the digital and the real world no l- Author: Russell, Legacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1786632667
- Language: English
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On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
$17.00 Add to cartNamed a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month by: NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture * Women’s Wear Daily * Bustle * LitHub * The Millions * Vogue * Nylon * Shondaland * Chicago Revi
- Author: Nelson, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1644452022
- Language: English
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Ways of Seeing
$21.00 Add to cart“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled” — so opens John Berger’s revolutionary million-copy bestseller on how to look at art
John Berger’s Ways of Seeing is one of the mo- Author: Berger, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0140135154
- Language: English
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Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
$12.95 Add to cartThis is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all art not made by Mozart. After all, art is rarely made by Mozart-like people; essentially–statistically speaking–
- Author: Bayles, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0961454733
- Language: English
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Nature’s Palette: A Color Reference System from the Natural World
$42.00 Add to cartA gorgeous expanded edition of Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours, a landmark reference book on color and its origins in nature
First published in 1814, Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours is a taxonomical- Author: Baty, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0691217041
- Language: English
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Art and Faith: A Theology of Making
$28.00 Read moreFrom 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0300254148
- Language: English
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The Society of the Spectacle
$9.99 Add to cart‘The Debordian analysis of modern life resonates more deeply and darkly than perhaps even its creator thought possible…’ – The New Yorker
‘Never before has Debord’s work seemed quite as relevant as i
- Series: Critical Editions
- Author: Debord, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 01, 2021
- ISBN10: 1922491284
- Language: English
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How to Be an Artist
$24.00 Add to cartInstant New York Times Bestseller
“Inspiration leaps off the pages from Jerry Saltz’s new book on creativity. . . . This book is for the artist or non-artist, for the person who gets plain English, fo- Author: Saltz, Jerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0593086465
- Language: English
