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The Wapsipinicon Almanac: Selections from Thirty Years

The Wapsipinicon Almanac: Selections from Thirty Years...

Author: Timothy Fay
ISBN: 9781609388874
Format: Paperback
$72.60

For thirty years, the annual Wapsipinicon Almanac entertained midwestern readers with timely essays, works of fiction,...  Read More >>

Robert Rauschenberg and Surrealism: Art, 'Sensibility' and War

Robert Rauschenberg and Surrealism: Art, 'Sensibility'...

Author: Dr Gavin Parkinson
ISBN: 9781501358296
Format: Hardback
$180.00

The art of Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) is usually viewed as quite distinct from Surrealism, a movement which...  Read More >>

H(a)untings / Heim-Suchungen

H(a)untings / Heim-Suchungen

Author: Belinda Kazeem-Kaminski
ISBN: 9781915609120
Format: Hardback
$57.95

"To challenge hegemonic archives and with them the representations of Blackness inhabiting these very spaces, is...  Read More >>

The Artist Speaks: Kim Lim

The Artist Speaks: Kim Lim

Author: Joleen Loh
ISBN: 9789811451782
Format: Paperback
$49.99

The Artist Speaks series presents an intimate look at artists through their words and workings, tracing the ideas,...  Read More >>

Composition: Uncover the ideas behind great works of modern art

Composition: Uncover the ideas behind great works of...

Author: Michael Archer
ISBN: 9781781578612
Format: Hardback
$65.00

A comprehensive and contemporary guide to every decision an artist or creative makes.  Read More >>

Michael Müller & Lukas Töpfer: Am Abgrund der Bilder – „Birkenau“

Michael Müller & Lukas Töpfer: Am Abgrund der Bilder...

Author: Michael Müller ,  Lukas Töpfer
ISBN: 9783422801264
Format: Hardback
$72.45

"This book is dedicated to works by Michael Müller (*1970) commenting on four paintings by Gerhard Richter (*1932)...  Read More >>

The World According to Colour: A Cultural History

The World According to Colour: A Cultural History

Author: James Fox
ISBN: 9780141976655
Format: Paperback
$26.99

A beguiling, human history of colour by one of art history's most exciting voices The world comes to us in colour....  Read More >>

Timelines of Art

Timelines of Art

Author: DK ,  Phonic Books
ISBN: 9780241601594
Format: Hardback
$55.00

Keynote A breathtaking visual tour of world art - fully revised...  Read More >>

Inclusions: Aesthetics of the Capitalocene

Inclusions: Aesthetics of the Capitalocene

Author: Nicolas Bourriaud ,  Denyse Beaulieu
ISBN: 9783956795862
Format: Paperback
$69.99

"A proposal that artists are the anthropologists of our new era or ecological crisis. A proposal that artists are...  Read More >>

Barbis Ruder. Werk – Zyklus – Körper / Work – Cycle – Body

Barbis Ruder. Werk – Zyklus – Körper / Work – Cycle...

Author: Madeleine Frey
ISBN: 9783111061467
Format: Paperback
$110.00

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Machine Room of the Gods: How Our Future Was Invented

Machine Room of the Gods: How Our Future Was Invented...

Author: Vinzenz Brinkmann
ISBN: 9783422996366
Format: Hardback
$99.50

The ancient cultures of East Asia, the Near and Middle East and the Mediterranean were characterised by spectacular...  Read More >>

Treasure Found: An Art Journey

Treasure Found: An Art Journey

Author: Cinthia James
ISBN: 9783000744297
Format: Paperback
$68.61

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Swedish Art Historiography: Institutionalization, identity, and practice

Swedish Art Historiography: Institutionalization, identity,...

Author: Britt-Inger Johansson ,  Ludwig Qvarnström
ISBN: 9789189361171
Format: Hardback
$162.88

Constant change and expansion have been the hallmarks of Swedish art history as an academic discipline since the...  Read More >>

Bohemia: History of an Idea, 1950 – 2000

Bohemia: History of an Idea, 1950 – 2000

Author: Russell Ferguson ,  Kunsthalle Praha
ISBN: 9783775754668
Format: Hardback
$124.20

Against the Grain Since its beginnings in Paris in the mid-19th century, the idea of bohemia, an urban community...  Read More >>

Flowering Under Stress

Flowering Under Stress

Author: Ana Prvacki ,  Zadie Smith
ISBN: 9781915609267
Format: Paperback
$73.92

Flowering Under Stress presents a wide selection of works from Ana Prvački's daily watercolor practice that began...  Read More >>

Thus Waves Come in Pairs: Thinking with the Mediterraneans

Thus Waves Come in Pairs: Thinking with the Mediterraneans...

Author: Barbara Casavecchia
ISBN: 9781915609229
Format: Paperback
$60.72

"In 2021, Etel Adnan and Simone Fattal recorded an intimate conversation about the Mediterranean at their Parisian...  Read More >>

Colourworks: Chromatic Innovation in Modern French Poetry and Art Writing

Colourworks: Chromatic Innovation in Modern French Poetry...

Author: Professor Susan Harrow (University of Bristol, UK)
ISBN: 9781526637758
Format: Paperback
$49.99

As joint winner of the Gapper Book Prize, 2021, this new edition of Susan Harrow's award-winning study of modern...  Read More >>

Georges Rouault and Material Imagining

Georges Rouault and Material Imagining

Author: Dr. Jennifer Johnson (University of Oxford, UK) ,  Michael Yonan (University of California at Davis USA)
ISBN: 9781350213814
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oxford, 2014, under the title: Georges Rouault's modernism...  Read More >>

Constructing Race on the Borders of Europe: Ethnography, Anthropology, and Visual Culture, 1850-1930

Constructing Race on the Borders of Europe: Ethnography,...

Author: Marsha Morton (Pratt Institute, USA) ,  Barbara Larson (University of West Florida, USA)
ISBN: 9781350233058
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Constructing Race on the Borders of Europe investigates the visual imagery of race construction in Scandinavia,...  Read More >>

steirischer herbst '22 A War in the Distance (Reader): Ukraine and the Return of History

steirischer herbst '22 A War in the Distance (Reader):...

Author:
ISBN: 9783775754972
Format: Paperback
$62.10

The full-fledged Russian invasion of Ukraine is a wake-up call. There is no way to ignore the deep seismic waves...  Read More >>

Candida Höfer: Liechtenstein

Candida Höfer: Liechtenstein

Author: Christiane Meyer-Stoll ,  Letizia Ragaglia
ISBN: 9783775754866
Format: Hardback
$129.38

Quiet Spaces In the absence of people, the interiors Candida Hofer photographs in her characteristically austere...  Read More >>

Can Art History be Made Global?: Meditations from the Periphery

Can Art History be Made Global?: Meditations from the...

Author: Monica Juneja
ISBN: 9783110716290
Format: Paperback
$115.00

The book responds to the challenge of the global turn in the humanities from the perspective of art history. A global...  Read More >>

Objects and Organisms: Vivification - Reification - Transformation

Objects and Organisms: Vivification - Reification -...

Author: Ella Beaucamp ,  Romana Kaske
ISBN: 9783110694154
Format: Hardback
$135.00

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Private & Public: Finding the Modern British Garden

Private & Public: Finding the Modern British Garden...

Author: Paul Liss ,  George Richards
ISBN: 9781739603304
Format: Paperback
$38.81

This catalogue examines the ways in which Modern British artists of the interwar period engaged with private and...  Read More >>

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