Criticism & Theory
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On Painting: Courses, March-June 1981
$34.95 Add to cartAvailable for the first time in English: the complete and annotated transcripts of Deleuze’s 1981 seminars on painting
From 1970 until 1987, Gilles Deleuze held a weekly seminar at the Experimental Un
- Series: Univocal
- Author: Deleuze, Gilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1517918405
- Language: English
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Beauty and Imitation: A Philosophical Reflection on the Arts
$34.95 Add to cartThe human person is a truth seeker, and one of the most compelling ways human beings pursue truth is through the arts. In Beauty and Imitation: A Philosophical Reflection on the Arts, Daniel McInerny
- Author: McInerny, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1685789854
- Language: English
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Believing Is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art
$25.00 Add to cartWhy are the paleolithic Venus of Willendorf, Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescoes, and Marcel Duchamp’s ready-made urinal all considered works of art? Why, strictly speaking, is a Cindy Sherman phot… [more below]
- Author: Staniszewski, Mary Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0140168249
- Language: English
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The Foreign Invention of British Art
$39.95 Add to cartTo truly understand British art is to recognize the pivotal contributions of the many foreign artists who have called Britain home. Traditional narratives have long obscured foreign influence, but thi
- Author: Primo, Leslie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0500024014
- Language: English
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E Is for Edward: A Centennial Celebration of the Mischievous Mind of Edward Gorey
$60.00 Add to cartA sweeping, gorgeously produced celebration of beloved American writer, artist, and illustrator Edward Gorey on his 100th birthday. Issued by the Edward Gorey Charitable Trust and produced in creative… [more below]
- Author: The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 0762489553
- Language: English
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art
$16.00 Add to cartA treatise on the spiritual in contemporary painting to adopt new, metaphysical ways of conceiving of and creating art, by one of the most impactful and recognized artists of the twentieth century, in… [more below]
- Author: Kandinsky, Wassily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 024138480X
- Language: English
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The Artist’s Palette
$39.95 Add to cartA beautifully illustrated look at the paints and palettes used by many of the world’s greatest artists from the sixteenth century to today
What can the palette an artist used or depicted tell us about- Author: Loske, Alexandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0691263965
- Language: English
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Dancing on My Own: Essays on Art, Collectivity, and Joy
$27.99 Add to cartA Literary Hub Most Noteworthy Nonfiction Book of 2024 – A Brooklyn Rail Best Art Book of 2024 – A The Millions and Hyperallergic Most Anticipated Book of 2024 – A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Pick
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- Author: Wu, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 006331620X
- Language: English
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The Art of Dying: Writings, 2019-2022
$30.00 Read moreNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by the New Yorker.
The complete last essays of acclaimed writer Peter Schjeldahl, the great New Yorker art critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist.
“Sensitive and m… [more below]- Author: Schjeldahl, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1419773240
- Language: English
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Token Supremacy: The Art of Finance, the Finance of Art, and the Great Crypto Crash of 2022
$32.00 Read moreA New York Times investigative reporter wades into the murky, pixelated waters of the multibillion-dollar NFT market–the virtual casino that sprang up overnight in 2020 and came crashing down, with a… [more below]
- Author: Small, Zachary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0593536754
- Language: English
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A Little Book about Art: Quotes for the Aesthete in Your Life
$8.95 Add to cart“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable…” – Cesar A. Cruz
Across the centuries, art has held up a mirror to humanity’s evolving culture and creativity. Ancient civilizations lef- Author: Orange Hippo!
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1800693842
- Language: English
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The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity 1869-1939
$74.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking, global survey of queer art, featuring more than 300 artworks made following the introduction of the term ‘homosexual’ in 1869
An unprecedented and historic new book, The First Homosex
- Author: Katz, Jonathan D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1580936938
- Language: English
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Nouvelles Femmes: Modern Women of the French New Wave and Their Enduring Contribution to Cinema
$35.00 Add to cartCelebrate the iconic female actors and filmmakers of the French New Wave with a compelling examination of their role as a vital part of cinema history, as well as their influence on attitudes and styl… [more below]
- Author: Knudson, Ericka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1797228900
- Language: English
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Johannes Vermeer-Provocateur: Risk and Courage in Dissent
$36.99 Add to cartThe 17th century. Delft. Working within the mythic “Dutch Golden Age,” Johannes Vermeer mastered light, color, and intimate settings. Award-winning author Neil Thomas Proto throws off that limiting ma… [more below]
- Author: Proto, Neil Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1038343445
- 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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Emerald Drifters
$59.95 Add to cartPhotographer and writer Cig Harvey’s new work is a poetic, richly saturated exploration of life through pigment
Following her celebrated monograph Blue Violet (Monacelli, 2021), photographer Cig Harvey
- Author: Harvey, Cig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1580936873
- 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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The Society of the Spectacle
$19.95 Add to cartThe Society of the Spectacle is a carefully considered effort to clarify the most fundamental tendencies and contradictions of the society in which we find ourselves–in order to facilitate its overth
- Author: Debord, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 9798887440569
- Language: English
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The Coit Tower Murals: New Deal Art and Political Controversy in San Francisco
$22.95 Add to cartCreated in 1934, the Coit Tower murals were sponsored by the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), the first of the New Deal art programs. Twenty-five master artists and their assistants worked there,
- Author: Cherny, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0252088352
- Language: English
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The Lies of the Artists: Essays on Italian Art, 1450-1750
$39.95 Read moreLuminous essays on artists of the Italian Renaissance by one of our most inspired writers on the history and making of art.
In the three centuries from 1450 to 1750 painters, sculptors, and architects
- Author: Rowland, Ingrid D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: December 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0262549093
- Language: English
