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A brilliant and refreshing plea for the enduring relevance of a modernist ideal The idea of the autonomy of the...  Read More >>

Bestelling author and art critic Jerry Saltz is back, with an ambitious and enlightening survey of the art world...  Read More >>

Focusing contextually on the initial lockdowns of the pandemic in 2020, this book proposes that art-based research...  Read More >>

A landmark contribution to British art history, bringing together overlooked and marginalised perspectives from...  Read More >>

The book is structured into twenty-nine essays, each dedicated to a pair of urbanistic concepts. Discussing historical...  Read More >>

"""Uncommon Sense reinvigorates Herbert Marcuse and places his aesthetic theory into practice in relation to contemporary...  Read More >>

How does contemporary art best respond to social crisis? Through reflection on its own crisis of form  Read More >>

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On the tenth anniversary of its publication, this updated edition of a work ARTNews hailed as “one of the best books...  Read More >>

Moving to an upscale retirement community is daunting enough but when local residents find out that Adelia is not...  Read More >>

In-depth study of Stephen Willats' practice, contextualised through histories of British cybernetics, experimental...  Read More >>

Using Cyprus as a case study, this edited volume explores notions of the global and the local, identity, and regionalism...  Read More >>

The Present Prospects of Social Art History represents a major reconsideration of how art historians analyze works...  Read More >>

Moving to an upscale retirement community is daunting enough but when local residents find out that Adelia is not...  Read More >>

Das innovative Kulturprojekt LOVE STORM verbindet zeitgenössische Kunst mit klassischer Musik und ist dem 50-jährigen...  Read More >>

Franz Lenk (1898–1968) war einer der bekanntesten Maler der Neuen Sachlichkeit. Die Publikation bietet eine aktuelle...  Read More >>

Ancient Art Revisited develops new perspectives on ancient art by weaving together diverse strands within archaeology...  Read More >>

An innovative study of contemporary photography in France  Read More >>

Este libro no tiene principio ni fin. Puede empezar a leer por cualquier página y terminar, si le parece, en cualquier...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics provides the most comprehensive coverage of the domain of empirical...  Read More >>

The Social Lives of Chinese Objects is the first anthology of texts to apply Arjun Appadurai’s well-known argument...  Read More >>

The publication Zusammen / Together is a comprehensive recollection of the exhibition highlights of the years 2015...  Read More >>

Victor Burgin revisits Walter Benjamin's essay 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' to argue...  Read More >>

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