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Doing Research in Design
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Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour
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Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?
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Why You Like This Photo: The science of perception
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The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art
What does the breathtakingly beautiful art depicted on the walls of caves such as Lascaux, Chauvet and Altamira, tell us about the nature of the ancestral mind? How did these...
Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
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Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?
'Funny, lively and convivial... how rare and nourishing this sort of roaming thought is and what a joy to read' MEGAN NOLAN, SUNDAY TIMES'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous...
Skin in the Game: Conversations on Risk and Contention
No Going BackSkin in the Game follows on from the acclaimed fieldwork diary, The Metabolic Museum. In this new book written in a conversational style, Clementine Deliss expands on how...
Oh, To Be a Painter!
Virgina Woolf's collection of writings on visual arts offer a whole new perspective on the revolutionary author.Despite wide interest in Woolf's writings, her circle, and her relationship with the visual...
Kandinsky: Incarnating Beauty
A teacher to Jacques Lacan, Andre Breton, and Albert Camus, Kojeve defined art as the act of extracting the beautiful from objective reality. His poetic text, "The Concrete Paintings of...
The Cute
The Cute tracks the astonishing impact of a single aesthetic category on post-war and contemporary art, and on the vast range of cultural practices and discourses on which artists draw....
Amy Goldin: Art in a Hairshirt
Amy Goldin's critical writing inspired many artists of the 1960s and '70s. Her unconventional acceptance of the new art forms emerging during the time and her challenge to the traditional...
The Seductions of Darwin: Art, Evolution, Neuroscience
The surge of evolutionary and neurological analyses of art and its effects raises questions of how art, culture, and the biological sciences influence one another, and what we gain in...
Paper Revolutions: An Invisible Avant-Garde
The experimental practices of a group of artists in the former East Germany upends assumptions underpinning Western art's postwar histories. The experimental practices of a group of artists in the...
Oh, To Be a Painter!
Author: Virginia WoolfFormat: Paperback, 108mm x 178mm, 80g, 144 pagesPublished: David Zwirner, United States, 2021Virgina Woolf's collection of writings on visual arts offer a whole new perspective on the revolutionary...
ReNew Marxist Art History
Author: Warren CarterFormat: Paperback, 170mm x 240mm, 1310g, 520 pagesPublished: Art / Books, United Kingdom, 2014From the early decades of the 20th century until the 1980s, Marxist art history was...
Lucid Knowledge: The Currency of the Photographic Image
Author: Nancy AdajaniaFormat: Paperback, 170mm x 220mm, 620g, 280 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Using the theme of Currency to invite reflection on the contemporary power of the photograph to relay...
Jari Silomaki: Atlas of Emotions
Author: Asia Zak PersonsFormat: Hardback, 195mm x 265mm, 1260g, 240 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Jari Silomaki's Atlas of Emotions is the result of an elaborate research process. For this, the...
Amitie et creativites collectives (French edition)
Author: Blandine ChavanneFormat: Hardback, 190mm x 260mm, 1040g, 304 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022A characteristic of 20th- and 21st-century artistic production is that casual acquaintances and close intimates, friends, lovers,...
Eduardo Terrazas (Spanish Edition): Cosmos
Author: Marcus Du SautoyFormat: Hardback, 280mm x 280mm, 2340g, 336 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022"Cosmos" offers new approaches on the stunning art works of Eduardo Terrazas (* 1936). Four well...
Majalah Lumbung (Bilingual edition): A Magazine on Harvesting and Sharing
Author: ruangrupaFormat: Paperback, 200mm x 260mm, 620g, 320 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022As part of documenta fifteen, ruangrupa publishes two issues of a magazine, "majalah," in Indonesia exploring the exhibition's...
Eric Alliez: Diagramm 3000 [Worte]
Author: Eric AlliezFormat: Paperback, 150mm x 211mm, 60g, 32 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2012In his contribution, philosopher Eric Alliez visually translates his planned book on diagrammatic thought and its implications...
Like This (Bilingual edition): Natural Intelligence As Seen by Art
Format: Paperback, 210mm x 260mm, 520g, 200 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022LIKE THIS. Natural Intelligence As Seen by Art brings together a series of specific commissions by ten internationally renowned...
Tense Conditions (Bilingual edition): A Presentation of the Contemporary Art Collection
Author: Alessandra NappoFormat: Paperback, 210mm x 270mm, 840g, 184 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022In its new presentation of the collection, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart establishes a dialogue between works from the...
Health
Author: Barbara Rodriguez MunozFormat: Paperback, 145mm x 210mm, 560g, 240 pagesPublished: Whitechapel Gallery, United Kingdom, 2020Part of the acclaimed series of anthologies which document major themes and ideas in contemporary...
HA! HA! HA!: The Humour of Art
Author: Nicolas Liucci-GoutnikovFormat: Paperback, 230mm x 310mm, 1260g, 208 pagesPublished: Editions Skira Paris, France, 2021From the caricatures of Honore Daumier, to the ready-mades of Marcel Duchamp, the puns of the...
Camille Henrot: Milkyways
Author: Camille HenrotFormat: Paperback, 120mm x 190mm, 120g, 132 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2023Milkyways is a collection of essays by artist Camille Henrot, exploring the ambivalence of motherhood and the...
Camille Henrot: Milkyways
Author: Camille HenrotFormat: Paperback, 120mm x 190mm, 120g, 132 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2023Milkyways is a collection of essays by artist Camille Henrot, exploring the ambivalence of motherhood and the...
Art is Life: Icons & Iconoclasts, Visionaries & Vigilantes, & Flashes of Hope in the Night
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Author: Jerry Saltz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "We benefit from Saltz's rare ability to articulate the mysterious alchemy of great art." - New York Times "An entertaining, informative,...
Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?
Author: Claire Dederer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'Funny, lively and convivial... how rare and nourishing this sort of roaming thought is and what a joy to read' MEGAN...
Living the Artist's Way: An Intuitive Path to Creativity
Author: Julia Cameron Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'Without The Artist's Way, there would be no Eat, Pray, Love' - ELIZABETH GILBERT WATKINS TOP 100 MOST SPIRITUALLY INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE...
See What You're Missing: 31 Ways Artists Notice the World - and How You Can Too
Author: Will Gompertz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 The internationally bestselling author on how art can help us appreciate life in all its strange and exhilarating beauty Artists have...
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
Author: Lauren ElkinFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 197mm, 321g, 368 pagesPublished: Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom, 2024A landmark feminist intervention- a dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and...
Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
Author: David Bayles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Art & Fear is about the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of...
Art History Before English: Negotiating a European Lingua Franca from Vasari to the Present
Author: Robert Brennan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR This book addresses a phenomenon that pervades the field of art history: the fact that English has become a...
The Big Anxiety: Taking Care of Mental Health in Times of Crisis
Author: Jill Bennett (University of New South Wales, Australia) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 This book takes a creative approach in examining one of the biggest crises of our...
Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
Author: David Bayles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Art & Fear is about the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of...