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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 >>

Do Your Own Thing - Richard Phoenix

Do Your Own Thing - Richard Phoenix

Author: Richard Phoenix
ISBN: 9781914236310
Format: Paperback
$33.61

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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 >>

Avant-garde' Art Groups in China: 1979-1989

Avant-garde' Art Groups in China: 1979-1989

Author: Paul Gladston ,  Kirill Batygin
ISBN: 9798887191966
Format: Hardback
$54.99

Avant-garde' Art Groups in China 1979-1989 gives a critical polylogic (multi-voiced) account of four of the most...  Read More >>

How Documentaries Work

How Documentaries Work

Author: Jacob Bricca (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, University of Arizona's School of Theatre, Film and Television)
ISBN: 9780197554111
Format: Paperback
$46.95

"How Documentaries Work breaks down the hidden conventions of documentaries in clear and accessible language for...  Read More >>

Objections, Volume 1: Forms of Abstraction

Objections, Volume 1: Forms of Abstraction

Author: Sven Lütticken
ISBN: 9783956795305
Format: Paperback
$49.99

"Artists engage with materiality and value, with subatomic particles and radiation, as well as with the objectification...  Read More >>

Vittoria Martini: Thomas Hirschhorn: The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival, The Ambassador's Diary

Vittoria Martini: Thomas Hirschhorn: The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival,...

Author: Claire Bishop ,  Vittoria Martini
ISBN: 9783775752626
Format: Paperback
$49.99

"The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival is an artwork, a sculpture, created by Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn in a peripheral...  Read More >>

Dada Data: Contemporary Art Practice in the Era of Post-Truth Politics

Dada Data: Contemporary Art Practice in the Era of Post-Truth...

Author: Sarah Hegenbart (Technical University Munich, Germany) ,  Mara-Johanna Kölmel (Central Institute of Art History, Germany)
ISBN: 9781350227613
Format: Hardback
$180.00

What is the relevance of Dada and its artistic strategies in our current moment, one marked by post-truth politics,...  Read More >>

Maschinenraum der Götter: Wie unsere Zukunft erfunden wurde

Maschinenraum der Götter: Wie unsere Zukunft erfunden...

Author: Vinzenz Brinkmann
ISBN: 9783422996342
Format: Hardback
$100.91

Die alten Kulturen Ostasiens, des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens und des Mittelmeerraumes zeichnen sich durch spektakuläre...  Read More >>

Handbuch Werkverzeichnis - Œuvrekatalog - Catalogue raisonné

Handbuch Werkverzeichnis - Œuvrekatalog - Catalogue...

Author: Ingrid Pérez de Laborda ,  Aya Soika
ISBN: 9783110738872
Format: Hardback
$187.59

The catalogue of works, also known as the oeuvre catalogue or catalogue raisonné, is considered a fundamental reference...  Read More >>

Iris Murdoch and Harry Weinberger: Imaginations and Images

Iris Murdoch and Harry Weinberger: Imaginations and...

Author: Rebecca Moden
ISBN: 9783031179440
Format: Hardback
$284.60

The novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch and the painter Harry Weinberger engaged in over twenty years of close...  Read More >>

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