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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...
Strange Impressions
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...
Pissing Figures
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
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...
Create Dangerously
Author: Albert CamusFormat: Paperback, 111mm x 161mm, 46g, 64 pagesPublished: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics...
The Magazine
Author: Gwen AllenFormat: Paperback, 148mm x 210mm, 560g, 240 pagesPublished: Whitechapel Gallery, United Kingdom, 2016 Part of the acclaimed 'Documents of Contemporary Art' series of anthologies . Intrinsically collaborative, the...
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...
The Flemish Masters From Van Eyck to Bruegel
Author: Matthias DepoorterFormat: Hardback, 235mm x 290mm, 1740g, 280 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2023Occasionally, when something seems very familiar you lose sight of what makes it so special: Flemish Masters....
Donald Judd: Complete Writings 1959-1975: Gallery Reviews * Book Reviews * Articles * Letters to the Editor * Reports * Statements * Complaints
Author: Donald JuddFormat: Paperback, 216mm x 279mm, 890g, 240 pagesPublished: Distributed Art Publishers, United States, 2016Originally published in 1975, reprinted in 2005 and out of print for many years, this...
Destruction
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Author: Sven SpiekerFormat: Paperback, 148mm x 210mm, 560g, 240 pagesPublished: Whitechapel Gallery, United Kingdom, 2017
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...
Andras Szanto: Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects
Author: Andras SzantoFormat: Paperback, 120mm x 190mm, 320g, 288 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2023Following on the widely-read The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues, which explored how museums are changing...
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...
Colour and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction
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...
Boredom
Author: Tom McDonoughFormat: Paperback, 148mm x 210mm, 550g, 240 pagesPublished: Whitechapel Gallery, United Kingdom, 2017Without boredom, arguably there is no modernity: the current sense of the word emerged simultaneously with...
Art in the Making: Artists and their Materials from the Studio to Crowdsourcing
Author: Glenn AdamsonFormat: Hardback, 172mm x 231mm, 920g, 248 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2016From painting to digital technologies to crowdsourcing, over the last few decades the means...
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...
Painting
Author: Terry R. MyersFormat: Paperback, 145mm x 210mm, 550g, 240 pagesPublished: Whitechapel Gallery, United Kingdom, 2011The 'death of painting' and its subsequent resurrection in transformed conditions is an oft-rehearsed leitmotif...
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...
The Cute
Author: Sianne NgaiFormat: Paperback, 145mm x 210mm, 560g, 240 pagesPublished: Whitechapel Gallery, United Kingdom, 2022The Cute tracks the astonishing impact of a single aesthetic category on post-war and contemporary art,...
Colour in Art
Author: John GageFormat: Paperback, 150mm x 210mm, 500g, 232 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023A wide-ranging and engaging introduction to the place and power of colour in life...
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...
Painting
Author: Terry R. MyersFormat: Paperback, 145mm x 210mm, 550g, 240 pagesPublished: Whitechapel Gallery, United Kingdom, 2011The 'death of painting' and its subsequent resurrection in transformed conditions is an oft-rehearsed leitmotif...
Tell Me About Yesterday Tomorrow: About the Future of the Past
Author: Miriam Zadoff, NS-DokumentationFormat: Paperback, 170mm x 240mm, 720g, 300 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022Historical events and our knowledge of them mould our understanding of today's world. The interdisciplinary authorship...
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...
Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts
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
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 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 is Life: Icons & Iconoclasts, Visionaries & Vigilantes, & Flashes of Hope in the Night
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,...