Criticism & Theory
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How to Understand Art (Art Essentials)
$16.95 Add to cartThe visual arts enrich our lives in so many ways, presenting beauty, emotion, and ideas–but sometimes looking at art is confusing and challenging. This new volume in the Art Essentials series, How to
- Series: Art Essentials #15
- Author: Benton, Janetta Rebold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0500295832
- Language: English
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Slow Spatial Reader: Chronicles of Radical Affection
$29.95 Read moreHow to dissent from enforced temporalities: essays from artists, theorists and more
The essays in this volume chronicle projects and ideas that analyze the nuances of spatial experience: reaching into
- Author: Strauss, Carolyn F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 9492095971
- Language: English
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How to Not Fuck Up Your Art-World Happiness
$14.95 Read moreA light-hearted effort to make the art world a little bit happier, from the cofounder of Larry’s List
After living and working in the art world for the past 15 years, Christoph Noe brought pen to paper
- Author: Noe, Christoph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 3903439703
- Language: English
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Marcel Duchamp
$125.00 Read moreDuchamp’s historic 1959 catalogue raisonn?-cum-artist’s book now back in print in a facsimile edition
A New York Times critics’ pick Best Art Books 2021
Marcel Duchamp, the artist’s first legendary mon- Author: Duchamp, Marcel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 3906915514
- Language: English
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So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch
$19.00 Add to cartA brilliant and personal examination by sensational and bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard of his Norwegian compatriot Edvard Munch, the famed artist best known for his iconic painting The Scream … [more below]
- Author: Knausgaard, Karl Ove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 26 2019
- ISBN10: 0143133136
- Language: English
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Curating Capitalism: How Art Impacts Business, Management, and Economy
$24.95 Add to cartHow art impacts management, drawing from stories told by internationally known contemporary curators, artists, critics, and philosophers.
Curating has evolved into much more than creating interesting- Series: Munich Lectures in Economics
- Author: Guillet De Monthoux, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1915609194
- Language: English
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Monumental Shadows: On Museums, Memory and the Making of History
$45.00 Read moreA critical investigation into the material heritage and entangled histories of Western encyclopedic museums
This volume gathers commissioned essays, interviews and visual contributions from artists and
- Author: Razian, Nora
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 6148035456
- Language: English
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Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science
$27.95 Read moreImagine a world without things. There would be nothing to describe, explain, remark on, interpret, or complain about. Without things, we would, in short, stop speaking; we would become as mute as obje
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Daston, Lorraine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 13 2007
- ISBN10: 1890951447
- Language: English
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Living with Ghosts: A Reader: Writings on Coloniality, Decoloniality, Hauntology and Contemporary Art
$40.00 Read moreNew and classic texts on Africa’s unfulfilled project of decolonization
Featuring republished texts by seminal theorists of the 20th and 21st centuries and newly commissioned essays by some of today’s
- Author: Abudu, Kj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1948701596
- Language: English
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How Art Can Make You Happy: (Art Therapy Books, Art Books, Books about Happiness)
$14.95 Read moreWhy is art magical? How can it make us happy? How Art Can Make You Happy offers the keys to unlocking a rich and rewarding source of joy in life. This easy, breezy handbook is full of insight that wil… [more below]
- Series: How
- Author: Payne, Bridget Watson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1452153221
- Language: English
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Navigation Beyond Vision
$24.00 Read moreHow the shift from montage to navigation alters the way images–and art–operate as models of political action and modes of political intervention.
Navigation begins where the map becomes indecipherab- Series: Sternberg Press / E-Flux Journal
- Author: E-Flux Journal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 3956795652
- Language: English
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A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics
$9.95 Add to cartSure to be a classic, Donald Richie’s concise, profound insights into the mysteries of Japanese
- Author: Richie, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: July 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1933330236
- Language: English
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Artists on Art: How They See, Think & Create
$17.99 Read moreThrough a carefully curated selection of quotations, images and interviews, Artists on Art reveals what matters most to the masters. You’ll discover how the giants of the different artistic genres dev… [more below]
- Author: Black, Holly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1786278855
- Language: English
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Bad Infinity: Selected Writings
$23.00 Read moreThe most significant critical, theoretical, and art historical texts by the artist, writer, and filmmaker Aria Dean.
Compiled here for the first time, the selected writings of Aria Dean (b. 1993, Los- Author: Dean, Aria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 3956796470
- Language: English
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Whitewalling: Art, Race & Protest in 3 Acts
$19.99 Read more“An exploratory case study in institutional racism as it has manifested in the New York City art world” —Brooklyn Rail
In 2017, the Whitney Biennial included a painting by a white artist, Dana Schutz,
- Author: D’Souza, Aruna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 22 2018
- ISBN10: 1943263140
- Language: English
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Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest
$19.95 Read more- Author: Raicovich, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1839767839
- Language: English
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The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues
$25.00 Read moreThe world’s leading museum directors discuss the future of museums in the wake of 2020’s pandemic and social upheavals
2020 ushered in a new decade and with it a series of unforeseen events that have r
- Author: Szántó, András
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 377574827X
- Language: English
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The Visual Arts: A History: Revised 7th Edition
$80.00 Add to cartSince its first publication this book has been hailed as the most comprehensive history of art ever published in a single volume. Presenting art history as an essential part of the development of huma… [more below]
- Author: Fleming, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1529432669
- Language: English
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Something Close to Music: Late Art Writings, Poems, and Playlists
$15.00 Read moreAn intimate and unique collection of the work of John Ashbery–a prolific poet and art critic–pairing poetry and art writings with playlists of music from his personal library.
This book places poetr- Series: Ekphrasis
- Author: Ashbery, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1644230704
- Language: English
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Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018
$20.00 Read moreHot, Cold, Heavy, Light collects 100 writings from 1988-2018–some long, some short–that taken together form a group portrait of many of the world’s most significant and interesting artists.
Introdu- Author: Schjeldahl, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1419735268
- Language: English
