Theory of Art
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Avant-garde'' Art Groups in China: 1979-1989
Paul GladstonCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Avant-garde' Art Groups in China 1979-1989 gives a critical polylogic (multi-voiced) account of four of the most significant Chinese avant-garde ar...
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Embattled Avant-Gardes: Modernism''s Resistance to Commodity Culture in Europe
Walter L. AdamsonCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50This sweeping work, at once a panoramic overview and an ambitious critical reinterpretation of European modernism, provides a bold new perspective ...
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Voiceless Vanguard: The Infantilist Aesthetic of the Russian Avant-Garde
Sara Pankenier WeldCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Voiceless Vanguard: The Infantilist Aesthetic of the Russian Avant-Garde offers a new approach to the Russian avant-garde. It argues that central w...
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Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World
Keller EasterlingCurrent price €18.99Original price €19.99Everyone is a designer. But while many practitioners may be looking for solutions or ideological certainties, Easterling argues that solutions are ...
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Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth
Eyal WeizmanCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Today, artists are engaged in investigation. They probe corruption, state violence, environmental destruction and repressive technologies. At the s...
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Feminist Antifascism: Counterpublics of the Common
Ewa MajewskaCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99In this exciting, innovative work, Polish feminist philosopher Ewa Majewska maps the creation of feminist counterpublics around the world-spaces of...
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Capitalism and the Camera: Essays on Photography and Extraction
Daniel JamesCurrent price €22.09Original price €25.99Photography was invented between the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Karl Marx and Frederick Engels's The Communist Manifesto...
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How I Became A Socialist
William MorrisCurrent price €16.19Original price €17.99William Morris is famous as a designer, poet and artist, but his work as a political thinker and activist is less well known. This collection, the ...
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The Tomb of Oedipus: Why Greek Tragedies Were not Tragic
William MarxCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99If Greek tragedies are meant to be so tragic, why do they so often end so well? Here starts the story of a long and incredible misunderstanding. Ou...
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Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto
Legacy RussellCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99The divide between the digital and the real world no longer exists: we are connected all the time. How do we find out who we are within this digita...
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Critical Landscapes: Art, Space, Politics
University of California PressCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99From Francis Alys and Ursula Biemann to Vivan Sundaram, Allora & Calzadilla, and the Center for Urban Pedagogy, some of the most compelling art...
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Art And Value: Art''s Economic Exceptionalism In Classical, Neoclassical And Marxist Economics: Historical Materialism, Volume 94
Dave BeechCurrent price €41.39Original price €44.99Art and Value is the first comprehensive analysis of art's political economy throughout classical, neoclassical and Marxist economics. It provides ...
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9.5 Theses On Art And Class: And Other Writings
Ben DavisCurrent price €20.89Original price €21.99Ben Davis is the editor of Artinfo, one of the world's most popular resources for information and discussion on arts and culture. As a critic, he h...
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Kilobase Bucharest A-Z
Sandra (Ed.)Current price €27.08Original price €28.50Kilobase Bucharest A-Z is a publication aimed at describing Bucharest through a sort of experimental primer: for each letter of the english alphabe...
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Modernist Avant-Garde Aesthetics and Contemporary Military Technology: Technicities of Perception
John PhillipsCurrent price €98.09Original price €108.99This book analyses the operation of current state-of-the-art military technology and the experimental art, music and writing of the late nineteenth...
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Amitié et créativités collectives (French edition)
Hatje CantzCurrent price €58.43Original price €61.50A characteristic of 20th- and 21st-century artistic production is that casual acquaintances and close intimates, friends, lovers, or sometimes even...
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Lost and Found: Assemblage Artists of Northern California
Harmony GaitsCurrent price €58.87Original price €63.99The artists featured in this book have embarked on the strange and risky path where they never quite know what they are making until it is finished...
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AZ Kunst in NRW 20002023: Sammlung Kunsthaus NRW
De GruyterCurrent price €29.44Original price €30.99Kunsthaus NRW in Aachen-Kornelimünster houses around 5,000 works of art by artists with a link to North Rhine-Westphalia - an outstanding collectio...
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Fast Forward: The Aesthetics and Ideology of Speed in Russian Avant-Garde Culture, 1910-1930
Timothy HarteCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Life in the modernist era not only moved, it sped. As automobiles, airplanes, and motion pictures, among other technological advances, proliferated...
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Art''S Realism in the Post-Truth Era
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €98.09Original price €108.99Arguing for the necessity of taking arts contribution to contemporary realism seriously, this edited collection intervenes in contemporary debates ...
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Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?
Claire DedererCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50The must-read book for fans everywhere 'How rare and nourishing this sort of roaming thought is and what a joy to read' MEGAN NOLAN, Sunday Times'...
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The Art of Dying: Writings, 2019-2022
Peter SchjeldahlCurrent price €26.13Original price €27.50Sensitive and moving. Schjeldahl wrote until the end. We can be grateful for that because we have this book. (Dwight Garner, New York Times)The com...
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The Story of Original Loss: Grieving Existential Trauma in the Arts and the Art of Psychoanalysis
Malcolm Owen SlavinCurrent price €132.47Original price €143.99This book explores the universal human existential trauma of original loss, a trauma the author describes as arising from our primal, human evoluti...
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The Royal Inca Tunic: A Biography of an Andean Masterpiece
Andrew James HamiltonCurrent price €51.29Original price €56.99The hidden life of the greatest surviving work of Inca artThe most celebrated Andean artwork in the world is a five-hundred-year-old Inca tunic mad...
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Lebanon and the Split of Life: Bearing Witness through the Art of Nabil Kanso
Meriam SoltanCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50This scholarly biography traces the life and art of Lebanese-American neo-expressionist, Nabil Kanso (19402019). It explores key moments across the...
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Contact: Art and the Pull of Print
Jennifer L. RobertsCurrent price €41.39Original price €44.99A leading art historian presents a new grammar for understanding the meaning and significance of printIn process and technique, printmaking is an a...
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New Perspectives: Contemporary Art from Ghana
NUVO PUBLISHING LIMITEDCurrent price €68.07Original price €73.99Current price €68.07Original price €73.99Save 8% -
Globalizing the Avant-Garde
De GruyterCurrent price €129.71Original price €140.99How has the process of globalization shaped artistic practices on the one hand, and art history and theory on the other? The contributions in this...
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The Art of Gerhard Richter: Hermeneutics, Images, Meaning
Dr Christian LotzCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99The Art of Gerhard Richter: Hermeneutics, Images, Meaning presents the first philosophical investigation of, arguably, one of the most popular and ...
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Beyond the Feminine: The Politics of Skin Colour and Gender in Visual Culture
Ope LoriCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99How can current image makers challenge representations of race and gender in visual culture and produce alternate visions? At once delving into t...
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Artists'' Master Series: Perspective & Depth
3DTotal Publishing LtdCurrent price €38.63Original price €41.99This third title in the highly popular Artist Master Series from 3dtotal Publishing offers a comprehensive guide to using perspective and depth suc...
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what looks good today may not look good tomorrow: The Legacy of Michel Majerus
Sternberg PressCurrent price €18.39Original price €19.99Current price €18.39Original price €19.99Save 8% -
Queer Art: From Canvas to Club, and the Spaces Between
Gemma Rolls-BentleyCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50We love and strongly recommend this beautifully curated book. Celebrating the massive and lasting global impact of LGBTQI+ artists, a book like thi...
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Bordered Lives: Immigration Detention Archive
Christoph BalzarCurrent price €18.04Original price €18.99Current price €18.04Original price €18.99Save 5% -
Abstraction & Economy: Myths of Growth
De GruyterCurrent price €46.79Original price €51.99Opposing a regime of accumulation and abstraction This anthology explores the tension between abstraction and economics from the perspectives of ...
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For What Its Worth: Value Systems in Art since 1960
Lisa Le FeuvreCurrent price €52.43Original price €56.99A collection of work by 80 artists who explore the contemporary art worlds fundamental concerns of value, markets, and the business of art Grounded...
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Wahrnehmungskräfte - Kräfte wahrnehmen: Dynamiken der Sinne in Wissenschaft, Kunst und Literatur
De GruyterCurrent price €85.49Original price €94.99Forces elude perception. Since antiquity, however, perception itself (aisthesis) has been considered a force (dynamis). Thinking about perception m...
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Construction Site for Possible Worlds
Amanda BeechCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Perspectives from philosophy, aesthetics, and art on how to envisage the construction site of possible worlds. Given the highly coercive and hea...
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Liquidation World: On the Art of Living Absently
Alexi KukuljevicCurrent price €17.02Original price €18.50An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; from Baudelaire to Broodtha...
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Les Cahiers Du Mnam 138 - Cy Twombly
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The Place Is Here: The Work of Black Artists in 1980s Britain
Nick AikensCurrent price €32.29Original price €33.99Current price €32.29Original price €33.99Save 5% -
The Love of Painting Genealogy of a Success Medium
Isabelle GrawCurrent price €27.08Original price €28.50Current price €27.08Original price €28.50Save 5%