Criticism & Theory
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The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
$17.99 Add to cartWriting in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Elaine Scarry, Maggie Nelson has emerged as one of our foremost cultural critics with this landmark work about representations of cruelty and violence in a
- Author: Nelson, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 13, 2012
- ISBN10: 0393343146
- Language: English
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A Little History of Art
$25.00 Read moreA thrilling journey through 100,000 years of art, from the first artworks ever made to art’s central role in culture today
“This lively volume is ideal for the precocious high-schooler, the lazy colle- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Mullins, Charlotte
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0300253664
- 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
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Like Love: Essays and Conversations
$32.00 Read moreA career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists
Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson’s brilliant work. These- Author: Nelson, Maggie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1644452812
- Language: English
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Affinities: On Art and Fascination
$18.95 Add to cartA meditation on the power and pleasures of the image, from paintings to photographs to migraine auras, by one of Britain’s finest literary minds.
In Affinities, Brian Dillon, who Joyce Carol Oates has- Author: Dillon, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1681377268
- Language: English
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Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST – NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – ONE OF TIME‘S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE – A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly orig… [more below]
- Author: Hong, Cathy Park
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1984820389
- Language: English
