Criticism
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The Decay of Lying: And Other Essays
$13.00 Add to cartA selection of Oscar Wilde’s writings that underscore his notion that “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life”
The Decay of Lying includes two of Wilde’s most comprehensive–and witty–expl- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0241472458
- Language: English
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The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
$19.95 Add to cartA highly acclaimed collection of twenty-eight essays, sketches, and short stories presenting nearly every facet of the author’s work. “Up to the author’s highest standard in a literary form that was m… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book, Hb 294
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 23 1974
- ISBN10: 0156252341
- Language: English
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Sanditon
$5.95 Add to cart‘no person could be really well . . . without spending at least six weeks by the sea every year’
In Sanditon, Jane Austen writes what may well be the first seaside novel: a novel, that is, that explor- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198840837
- Language: English
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From Bauhaus to Our House
$17.00 Add to cartAfter critiquing–and infuriating–the art world with The Painted Word, award-winning author Tom Wolfe shared his less than favorable thoughts about modern architecture in From Bauhaus to Our House.
- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0312429142
- Language: English
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Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
$27.95 Add to cartThis classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewe
- Series: Princeton Classics #3
- Author: Kaufmann, Walter A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 20 2013
- ISBN10: 0691160260
- Language: English
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Why Grow Up?
$19.99 Add to cartOur culture is obsessed with youth–and why not? What’s the appeal of growing old, of gaining responsibilities and giving up on dreams, of steadily trading possibility for experience?
The philosopher- Author: Neiman, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 0374536147
- Language: English
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Frank Lloyd Wright and Ralph Waldo Emerson: Transforming the American Mind
$49.95 Add to cartFrank Lloyd Wright and Ralph Waldo Emerson: Transforming the American Mind is an interdisciplinary volume of literary and cultural scholarship that examines the link between two pivotal intellectual a
- Author: Rahmani, Ayad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179809
- Language: English
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The Photograph as Contemporary Art
$24.95 Add to cartIn the twenty-first century, photography has come of age as a contemporary art form. Almost two centuries after photographic technology was first invented, the art world has fully embraced it as a leg
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Cotton, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0500204489
- Language: English
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Ethics for Capitalists: A Systematic Approach to Business Ethics, Competition, and Market Failure
$44.99 Add to cartEthics for Capitalists offers a powerful new statement of the Market Failures Approach to business ethics. While the competitive context of the market economy provides economic actors greater freedom … [more below]
- Author: Heath, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: March 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1039173993
- Language: English
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Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays
$22.95 Add to cartA landmark work of literary criticism
Northrop Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism is the magnum opus of one of the most important and influential literary theorists of the twentieth century. Breaking with th- Series: Princeton Classics #69
- Author: Frye, Northrop
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: May 19 2020
- ISBN10: 0691202567
- Language: English
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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built
$45.00 Add to cartA captivating exploration of the ever-evolving world of architecture and the untold stories buildings tell.
When a building is finished being built, that isn’t the end of its story. More than any othe- Author: Brand, Stewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0140139966
- Language: English
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Critique of Pure Reason
$24.95 Add to cartIn his monumental Critique of Pure Reason, German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) argues that human knowledge is limited by the capacity for perception. He attempts a logical designation of two… [more below]
- Series: Dover Philosophical Classics
- Author: Kant, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0486432548
- Language: English
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Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings
$19.99 Add to cart“This book is just that: reflections of a highly polished mind that uncannily approximate the century’s fragments of shattered traditions.” — Time
A companion volume to Illuminations, the first coll- Author: Benjamin, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1328470229
- Language: English
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Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists
$29.95 Add to cartIn her collection Strange Hours, the writer Rebecca Bengal considers over a century of photography that has defined our relationship to the medium. Through generous and in-depth essays, profiles, revi… [more below]
- Series: Aperture Ideas
- Author: Bengal, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1597115541
- Language: English
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Who Is the City For?: Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago
$29.00 Read moreA vividly illustrated collaboration between two of Chicago’s most celebrated architecture critics casts a wise and unsparing eye on inequities in the built environment and attempts to rectify them.
- Author: Kamin, Blair
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 21, 2022
- ISBN10: 0226822737
- Language: English
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Experiential Design Schemas
$49.95 Add to cartExperiential Design Schemas presents a new theoretical and practical framework for designing architectural experiences developed by two seasoned researchers, an architect, and a building scientist.
The… [more below]- Author: Dekay, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 195718373X
- Language: English
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An Experiment in Criticism (Canto Classics)
$19.99 Add to cartC. S. Lewis’s wisdom is valuably down-to-earth, refreshing and stimulating in the questions it raises about the experience of reading.
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1107604729
- Language: English
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Critique Is Creative: The Critical Response Process(r) in Theory and Action
$26.95 Read moreA thorough introduction and lively exploration of a widely recognized method for giving and getting useful feedback
Devised by choreographer Liz Lerman in 1990, Critical Response Process(R) (CRP) is an
- Author: Lerman, Liz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0819577189
- Language: English
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The Photographer’s Eye
$35.00 Add to cartA bestselling and indispensable introduction to the visual language of photography, from the legendary MoMA director and curator John Szarkowski
The Photographer’s Eye by John Szarkowski is a twentieth… [more below]
- Author: Szarkowski, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 087070527X
- Language: English
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Photography Changes Everything
$39.95 Add to cartPhotography Changes Everything offers a provocative rethinking of photography’s impact on our culture and our daily lives. Compiling hundreds of images and responses from leading authorities on photog… [more below]
- Author: Heiferman, Marvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 263
- Publish Date: June 30 2012
- ISBN10: 1597111996
- Language: English
