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9.5 theses on art and class
Ben Davis draws the curtain back on the contemporary art world to assail its commodified roots.
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A general theory of visual culture
What is cultural about vision--or visual about culture? In this ambitious book, Whitney Davis provides new answers to these difficult and important questions by presenting an original framework for understanding visual culture. Grounded in the theoretical traditions of art history, A General Theo...
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After art
How digital networks are transforming art and architectureArt as we know it is dramatically changing, but popular and critical responses lag behind. In this trenchant illustrated essay, David Joselit describes how art and architecture are being transformed in the age of Google. Under the dual pre...
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After the end of art
The classic and provocative account of how art changed irrevocably with pop art and why traditional aesthetics can’t make sense of contemporary artA classic of art criticism and philosophy, After the End of Art continues to generate heated debate for its radical and famous assertion that art ende...
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An anthropology of images
A compelling theory that places the origin of human picture making in the bodyIn this groundbreaking book, renowned art historian Hans Belting proposes a new anthropological theory for interpreting human picture making. Rather than focus exclusively on pictures as they are embodied in various med...
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Art and labour
Deutscher Prize winning artist and writer Dave Beech turns his attention to what it means to view Art as work.
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Art and value
Art and Value is the first comprehensive analysis of art's political economy throughout classical, neoclassical and Marxist economics.
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Art history as social praxis
The key writings of one of the most important and unorthodox Marxists to study modern art.
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Art in the after-culture
Essential essays on art in our current era from one of the most important art critics writing today.
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Black
The story of the color black in art, fashion, and culture—from the beginning of history to the twenty-first centuryBlack—favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists—has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and hol...
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Blue
A beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color blue throughout the agesBlue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. The ancient Greeks scorned it as ugly and barbaric, but most Americans and Europeans now cite it as their favorite color. In this fascinatin...
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Communards and other cultural histories
A wide-ranging collection of essays from Adrian Rifkin, covering cultural production, urbanism, and social conflict from a critical Marxist perspective.
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Creativitry
THE CLASSIC BOOK ON CREATIVITY BY ASIA’S GREATEST LIVING PLAYWRIGHT; OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD IN THE CHINESE VERSION. Stan Lai has written one of the unique works of our time, explaining that the mysterious act of creativity is actually a traceable function of mind, and there is a path to lea...
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Curves for the mathematically curious
Ten amazing curves personally selected by one of today's most important math writersCurves for the Mathematically Curious is a thoughtfully curated collection of ten mathematical curves, selected by Julian Havil for their significance, mathematical interest, and beauty. Each chapter gives an acco...
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Degeneration and revolution
An important reexamination of the cultural left in Germany during the Weimer period.
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Entitled
An in-depth look at how democratic values have widened the American arts scene, even as it remains elite and cosmopolitanTwo centuries ago, wealthy entrepreneurs founded the American cathedrals of culture—museums, theater companies, and symphony orchestras—to mirror European art. But today’s Amer...
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Essays on art and literature
Authoritative English translations of Goethe’s most illuminating essays on art and literatureGoethe’s lifelong reflections on art and literature serve as the foundation of his work as a poet, novelist, and man of science. Anyone interested in the history of European literary criticism, art, archa...
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Even the river starts small
Even the River Starts Small is a collection of stories from the movement to stop construction of the Line 3 pipeline through northern Minnesota. The collection features anonymous writing, art, and photos spanning nearly a decade, and includes reflections on many of the diverse experiences that m...
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Exploring the invisible
How science changed the way artists understand realityExploring the Invisible shows how modern art expresses the first secular, scientific worldview in human history. Now fully revised and expanded, this richly illustrated book describes two hundred years of scientific discoveries that inspired F...
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Human flow
A powerful portrait of the greatest humanitarian emergency of our time, from the director of Human FlowIn the course of making Human Flow, his epic feature documentary about the global refugee crisis, the artist Ai Weiwei and his collaborators interviewed more than 600 refugees, aid workers, poli...
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Humanity
Writings on human life and the refugee crisis by the most important political artist of our timeAi Weiwei (b. 1957) is widely known as an artist across media: sculpture, installation, photography, performance, and architecture. He is also one of the world's most important artist-activists and a p...
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Landscape between ideology and the aesthetic
An extraordinary collection of pieces from the three plus decade career of one of Britain’s most important Marxist art-historians.
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Mirror nation
***Winner of the 2025 CLMP Firecracker Award for Poetry***Elegiac and haunting, Mirror Nation by Don Mee Choi completes the KOR-US trilogy, along with Hardly War (Wave Books, 2016) and the National Book Award–winning DMZ Colony (Wave Books, 2020).Much like Proust's madeleine, a spinning Mercedez ...
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Music and soviet power, 1917-1932
The book offers unprecedented access to primary sources that have been unavailable in English, or which lay unknown on archival shelves. Music and Soviet Power offers cultural history told through documents - both colourfuland representative - with an extensive commentary and annotation throughou...
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Only a promise of happiness
Neither art nor philosophy was kind to beauty during the twentieth century. Much modern art disdains beauty, and many philosophers deeply suspect that beauty merely paints over or distracts us from horrors. Intellectuals consigned the passions of beauty to the margins, replacing them with the ane...
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Perception
Tired of reading negative and disparaging remarks directed at Indigenous people of Winnipeg in the press and social media, artist KC Adams created a photo series that presented another perspective. Called “Perception Photo Series,” it confronted common stereotypes of First Nation, Inuit and Métis...
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Picture perfect
We say the camera doesn't lie, but we also know that pictures distort and deceive. In Picture Perfect, Kiku Adatto brilliantly examines the use and abuse of images today. Ranging from family albums to Facebook, political campaigns to popular movies, images of war to pictures of protest. Adatto re...
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Proses
In the grand tradition of poet’s fiction, Proses: Incomparable Parables! Fabulous Fables! Cruel Tales! is a collection of nine phantasmagorical stories by beloved poet and City Lights editor, Garrett Caples.Resolutely turning its back on the ethos of traditional narrative, Proses draws on Marcel ...
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Scale and the incas
A groundbreaking work on how the topic of scale provides an entirely new understanding of Inca material cultureAlthough questions of form and style are fundamental to art history, the issue of scale has been surprisingly neglected. Yet, scale and scaled relationships are essential to the visual c...
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Speculation as a mode of production
An essential and detailed theorisation of capital's drive to self-expansion and the role of speculation in the shaping of subjectivity by value relations.
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The art of identity and memory
Demonstrates how the experience of East-Central and Eastern Europe needs to be integrated into evolving scholarship on the world wars. Universal themes and subjects of art find specific expression. The case of Lithuania is revealed in its full significance for a modern European history of the imp...
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The conspiracy of modern art
Internationally renowned Brazilian critic and art-historian Luiz Renato Martins presents an innovative new account of modern art from David to Abstract Expressionism.
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The crisis of ugliness
An essential text in the history of Marxist art theory, available in English for the first time
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The cultural dimensions of peacebuilding
The Cultural Dimensions of Peacebuilding details aspects of cultures, including language, films, journalism, political economics, museums, education, parenting, gender, artistic activism, and spirituality, which can contribute to either more violent societies or more peaceful ones. Solutions-orie...
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The culture of people's democracy
The first volume in an effort to make available to an english speaking audience the full breadth of Luckács work
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The dialectics of art
In a sweeping survey of art from the dawn of the bourgeois era to the present day, John Molyneux explains what makes artistic production under capitalism unique, moving, and possibly revolutionary.
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The human reimagined
The articles featured in The Human Reimagined examine the ways in which literary and artistic representations of the body, selfhood, subjectivity, and consciousness illuminate late- and post-Soviet ideas about the changing relationships among the individual, the environment, technology, and socie...
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The nude
A landmark study of the nude in art—from the ancient Greeks to Henry Moore—by a towering figure in art historyIn this classic book, Kenneth Clark, one of the most eminent art historians of the twentieth century, examines the ever-changing fashion in what constitutes the ideal nude as a basis of h...
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This is modern art
A glimpse into the lives of anonymous graffiti artists that asks us to question the true purpose of art.
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Who owns antiquity?
Whether antiquities should be returned to the countries where they were found is one of the most urgent and controversial issues in the art world today, and it has pitted museums, private collectors, and dealers against source countries, archaeologists, and academics. Maintaining that the acquisi...
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Whose culture?
The international controversy over who "owns" antiquities has pitted museums against archaeologists and source countries where ancient artifacts are found. In his book Who Owns Antiquity?, James Cuno argued that antiquities are the cultural property of humankind, not of the countries that lay exc...
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