Category - Art
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The Tradition Of The New
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Harold Rosenberg was undoubtedly the most important American art critic of the twentieth century. It was he who first coined the term "Action Pai...
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Figure It Out
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“Whatever his subject―favorites include porn, punctuation and the poetry of Frank O’Hara―the goal is always to jigger logic and language free of ...
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Pretentiousness: Why It Matters
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Pretentiousness is for anyone who has braved being different, whether that's making a stand against artistic consensus or running the gauntlet of...
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On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Named a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month by: NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture * Women's Wear Daily * Bustle * LitHub * The...
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How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and Other Parents)
HardcoverOriginal price $34.99Original price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /For too long, artists have been told that they can't have both motherhood and a successful career. In this polemical volume, critic and campaigner ...
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Affinities: On Art and Fascination
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A meditation on the power and pleasures of the image, from paintings to photographs to migraine auras, by one of Britain's finest literary minds. I...
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A Wild Promise: An Illustrated Celebration of the Endangered Species ACT
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /For the past fifty years, this promise, the Endangered Species Act, has ensured that the most threatened and vulnerable species and their habitats ...
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Perpetual Slavery
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /In Perpetual Slavery, Ciar√°n Finlayson investigates the relationship of art to freedom in the work of Cameron Rowland and Ralph Lemon, who both ut...
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We The Parasites
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In her debut book, A. V. Marraccini explores how we inhabit works of art, and how our sense of longing informs and changes our relationship to them...
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Cataract
HardcoverOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The great art critic and writer John Berger joined forces again with Turkish writer and illustrator Selçuk Demirel in this unexpected pictorial e...
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Earthly Delights: A History of the Renaissance
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Written by one of the UK’s foremost art critics, this new narrative history of the Renaissance takes in the whole of Europe and its global contex...
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Materials, Practices, and Politics of Shine in Modern Art and Popular Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Shine allures and awakens desire. As a phenomenon of perception shiny things and materials fascinate and tantalize. They are a formative element ...
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Artful
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Ali Smith melds the tale and the essay into a magical hybrid form, a song of praise to the power of stories in our livesIn February 2012, the nov...
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Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! “Savagery appeased can only grow. Once you give in to it, it must escalate, like a fire searching for air.” The man wh...
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Kenya Hara: Designing Japan: A Future Built on Aesthetics
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The story of Japan's design ethos, by Muji's celebrated art directorAs Art Director for Muji since 2002, Japanese graphic designer Kenya Hara (born...
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Just Enough Design: Reflections on the Japanese Philosophy of Hodo-Hodo
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A Japanese designer offers a compelling alternative way to engage with our possessions, our history, our environment, and each other. The Japanese ...
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Wabi-Sabi: Further Thoughts
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Twenty-plus years after the initial publication of Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers, Leonard Koren is back with furthe...
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Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship to our bodies? T Fleischmann uses Felix Gonzá...
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The Black Joy Project
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Featuring 117 full-color photos and eight breathtaking essays on a force that fuels Black life all around the globe, this is Humans of New York mee...
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The Memory Palace of Isabella Stewart Gardner
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /“A searching, sensitive, and engagingly witty meditation.” —Lyndall Gordon “What a great pleasure this gorgeous little book has given me! It shou...
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Homo Irrealis: The Would-Be Man Who Might Have Been: Essays
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The New York Times–bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with his collection of thoughts on time, the ...
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Black Avatar: And Other Essays
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The first nonfiction collection by internationally acclaimed writer and translator Amit Majmudar, Black Avatar combines elements of memoir, biograp...
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