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Temporary Monuments: Art, Land, and America's Racial Enterprise

Temporary Monuments: Art, Land, and America's Racial...

Author: Rebecca Zorach
ISBN: 9780226826875
Format: Hardback
$163.95

How art played a central role in the design of America's racial enterprise—and how contemporary artists resist it....  Read More >>

Historic Avant-Garde Work on Paper

Historic Avant-Garde Work on Paper

Author: Sascha Bru (University of Leuven, Belgium)
ISBN: 9781032537351
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book examines the many functions of paper in the fine art and aesthetics of the early twentieth-century modernist...  Read More >>

Heilende Kunst: Wege zu einem besseren Leben

Heilende Kunst: Wege zu einem besseren Leben

Author: Sabine Becker ,  Ksenija Chochkova Giese
ISBN: 9783422802261
Format: Paperback
$54.34

The hype surrounding alternative medicine, the widespread goal of healthy eating and sport, the tendency to flee...  Read More >>

See What You're Missing: 31 Ways Artists Notice the World – and How You Can Too

See What You're Missing: 31 Ways Artists Notice the...

Author: Will Gompertz
ISBN: 9780241315484
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The internationally bestselling author 'offers a tidy lesson in not just getting more from art, but more from life...  Read More >>

Temporary Monuments: Art, Land, and America's Racial Enterprise

Temporary Monuments: Art, Land, and America's Racial...

Author: Rebecca Zorach
ISBN: 9780226831015
Format: Paperback
$49.95

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Das französische Thesenblatt im 17. Jahrhundert: Drei Studien zur allegorischen Gattungsgenese

Das französische Thesenblatt im 17. Jahrhundert: Drei...

Author: Konrad Krčal
ISBN: 9783111100623
Format: Hardback
$186.30

This publication is dedicated to 17th-century illustrated French thesis prints from a historical and theoretical...  Read More >>

Bare Bodies – Thresholding Life

Bare Bodies – Thresholding Life

Author: Mariella Greil
ISBN: 9783111341378
Format: Paperback
$95.00

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An Ontology of Multiple Artworks

An Ontology of Multiple Artworks

Author: David Davies (McGill University)
ISBN: 9780192848864
Format: Hardback
$164.95

David Davies examines the ontology of multiple artworks, such as books and musical performances. He argues against...  Read More >>

Iris Murdoch and Harry Weinberger: Imaginations and Images

Iris Murdoch and Harry Weinberger: Imaginations and...

Author: Rebecca Moden
ISBN: 9783031179471
Format: Paperback
$343.17

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

Globalizing the Avant-garde

Globalizing the Avant-garde

Author: Joana Cunha Leal ,  Margarida Brito Alves
ISBN: 9783111317533
Format: Hardback
$377.49

How has the process of globalization shaped artistic practices on the one hand, and art history and theory on the...  Read More >>

Manifesta, Art, Society and Politics: Creating a New Europe through Contemporary Art

Manifesta, Art, Society and Politics: Creating a New...

Author: Erdem Çolak
ISBN: 9781350375802
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This is the first monograph fully dedicated to critically investigating the political, economic, artistic, urban,...  Read More >>

Jewish American Identity and Erasure in Pop Art

Jewish American Identity and Erasure in Pop Art

Author: Melissa L. Mednicov (Sam Houston State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032317991
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This volume focuses on Jewish American identity within the context of Pop art in New York City during the 1960s...  Read More >>

Art In America

Art In America

Author: Aleister Crowley
ISBN: 9781869928049
Format: Paperback
$7.74

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Nick Mauss - Dispersed Events. Selected Writings

Nick Mauss - Dispersed Events. Selected Writings

Author: Nick Mauss ,  Antonia Carrara
ISBN: 9782492650093
Format: Paperback
$65.87

"Reevaluating experiments in fashion and decorative arts, Mauss shows how art takes shape in open-ended conversation--""between...  Read More >>

24! / Fragen an die Konkrete Gegenwart

24! / Fragen an die Konkrete Gegenwart

Author: Mathias Listl ,  Henrike Holsing
ISBN: 9783422802223
Format: Paperback
$77.63

Deutsch-englische Ausgabe So präzise sich die Konkrete Kunst auch gibt, über die genaue Geburtsstunde ihrer Namensgebung...  Read More >>

Criticism, Art and Theory in 1970s Britain: The Critical War

Criticism, Art and Theory in 1970s Britain: The Critical...

Author: JJ Charlesworth
ISBN: 9781138480803
Format: Hardback
$273.00

A critical study of the life of art criticism in the 1970s, this volume traces the evolution of art and art criticism...  Read More >>

Transmodern: An Art History of Contact, 1920–60

Transmodern: An Art History of Contact, 1920–60

Author: Christian Kravagna ,  in2words
ISBN: 9781526176585
Format: Paperback
$68.99

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Inner Visions: Explorations in magical consciousness

Inner Visions: Explorations in magical consciousness...

Author: Nevill Drury
ISBN: 9781032248844
Format: Paperback
$58.99

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Art in a Machine Age: A Critique of Contemporary Life through the Medium of Architecture

Art in a Machine Age: A Critique of Contemporary Life...

Author: Maxwell Fry
ISBN: 9781032618937
Format: Hardback
$189.00

First published in 1969 Art in a Machine Age is based on four lectures given by Maxwell Fry at the Royal Academy...  Read More >>

Jung’s Reception of Picasso and Abstract Art

Jung’s Reception of Picasso and Abstract Art

Author: Lucinda Hill
ISBN: 9781032120348
Format: Paperback
$81.99

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