The Arts: General & Reference books

TERADA KATSUYA'S THIS AND THAT Covering a 42-year career as an artist, this collection features recent illustrations...  Read More >>

In On Discourse and the Curatorial, Mick Wilson draws out the link between the imperative to generate discourse...  Read More >>

This collection of poems is the record of a descent into the neurotic maelstroms and infernal abysms of neoliberal...  Read More >>

What is art and how does it work? These questions are the subject of Art Inside and Out. Art has an important and...  Read More >>

Die Einführung der in Europa entwickelten Fotografie führte im Iran rasch zur Entstehung einer eigenständigen fotografischen...  Read More >>

An Introduction to Design and Culture provides a comprehensive guide to the changing relationships between design...  Read More >>

Every book, treaty, and patent hides a secret identity: the bibliographic code. The Bibliographic Layer unveils...  Read More >>

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For many years we have collected and cataloged noisy media detritus. Garbage, one might say. For this project, the...  Read More >>

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The story starts in totalitarian darkness (Czechoslovakia before 1989) and gradually lays out a groundwork for how...  Read More >>

A Washington Post Notable Book of 2023 Plunged into a strange land at twenty-five, Benjamin Moser began an obsessive,...  Read More >>

An Introduction to Design and Culture provides a comprehensive guide to the changing relationships between design...  Read More >>

This open access handbook explores the increasingly cross-disciplinary nature of cultural work and assesses how...  Read More >>

Engaging with contemporary debates about the political role of art in an era of total market subsumption, this book...  Read More >>

Ce livre constitue l'aboutissement des journées d'études internationales intitulées Regards sur le Congo: art, culture...  Read More >>

2025: la culture est en danger. Cela n'est plus une menace, c'est un projet politique. La question de l'utilité...  Read More >>

Itinéraire mouvementé n'est pas un simple livre, mais une traversée. Valérie Galeno-Delogu y ouvre un espace sensible...  Read More >>

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The first English translation of a radical and influential theory of art by a leader of Poland’s avant-garde After...  Read More >>

This book shows how photographs of the past can be mobilised as a critical tool for understanding the ongoing effects...  Read More >>

The story starts in totalitarian darkness (Czechoslovakia before 1989) and gradually lays out a groundwork for how...  Read More >>

Explores the visual representation of masculinity in the work of Larry Clark, using this to prompt a wider conversation...  Read More >>

ART SHIBUYA 2025 celebrates the vibrant intersection of contemporary...  Read More >>

This book explores the widespread fascination with world creation among early twentieth century artists, and examines...  Read More >>