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Everything is Happening: Journey into a Painting

Everything is Happening: Journey into a Painting

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Michael Jacobs was haunted by Velazquez's enigmatic masterpiece Las Meninas from first encountering it in the Prado as a teenager. In Everything is Happening Jacobs searches for the ultimate significance...
The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art

The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art

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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

Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?

Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?

$55.00 AUD$25.00 AUD
'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

Skin in the Game: Conversations on Risk and Contention

$49.99 AUD$17.00 AUD
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!

Oh, To Be a Painter!

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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

Kandinsky: Incarnating Beauty

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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

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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....
Types and Shadows: Diaries 2004-2015

Types and Shadows: Diaries 2004-2015

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'Roy Strong's diaries are a treasure . . . magnificently readable' THE TIMES'Essential reading' TATLER'When it comes to viperish high-society gossip, Roy Strong is in a class of his own'...
Amy Goldin: Art in a Hairshirt

Amy Goldin: Art in a Hairshirt

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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 Seductions of Darwin: Art, Evolution, Neuroscience

$90.99 AUD$45.50 AUD
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

Paper Revolutions: An Invisible Avant-Garde

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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...
Strange Impressions

Strange Impressions

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Author: Romaine BrooksFormat: Paperback, 108mm x 178mm, 150g, 144 pagesPublished: David Zwirner, United States, 2022Most known for her bold and darkly painted portraits, Brooks was revolutionary in her feminist renderings...
Oh, To Be a Painter!

Oh, To Be a Painter!

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
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...
Pissing Figures

Pissing Figures

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Format: Paperback, 105mm x 177mm, 190g, 192 pagesPublished: David Zwirner, United States, 2017Lebensztejn is one of France's best - kept secrets. A world - class art historian who has lectured...
ReNew Marxist Art History

ReNew Marxist Art History

$75.00 AUD$60.00 AUD
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

Lucid Knowledge: The Currency of the Photographic Image

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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

Jari Silomaki: Atlas of Emotions

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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)

Amitie et creativites collectives (French edition)

$95.00 AUD$76.00 AUD
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

Eduardo Terrazas (Spanish Edition): Cosmos

$85.00 AUD$40.00 AUD
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

Majalah Lumbung (Bilingual edition): A Magazine on Harvesting and Sharing

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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...
Colour and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction

Colour and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction

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Author: John GageFormat: Paperback, 250mm x 279mm, 2030g, 336 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 1995Colour is fundamental to life and art: yet so diverse is it that it...
Eric Alliez: Diagramm 3000 [Worte]

Eric Alliez: Diagramm 3000 [Worte]

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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

Like This (Bilingual edition): Natural Intelligence As Seen by Art

$70.00 AUD$59.50 AUD
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

Tense Conditions (Bilingual edition): A Presentation of the Contemporary Art Collection

$65.00 AUD$55.25 AUD
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

Health

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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

HA! HA! HA!: The Humour of Art

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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

Camille Henrot: Milkyways

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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

Camille Henrot: Milkyways

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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

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?

Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?

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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...
Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts

Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts

$59.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
See What You're Missing: 31 Ways Artists Notice the World - and How You Can Too

See What You're Missing: 31 Ways Artists Notice the World - and How You Can Too

$49.99 AUD$39.99 AUD
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

Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

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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 History Before English: Negotiating a European Lingua Franca from Vasari to the Present

Art History Before English: Negotiating a European Lingua Franca from Vasari to the Present

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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

The Big Anxiety: Taking Care of Mental Health in Times of Crisis

$46.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
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...