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  • If These Apples Should Fall (Cézanne and the Present) by T. J. Clark, 9780500025284
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  • How Art Can Change Your Life by Susie Hodge, 9780500024935
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  • Creating the Future (Art & Los Angeles in the 1970s) by Michael Fallon, 9781619025776
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  • Hotel Theory by Wayne Koestenbaum, 9781933368696
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  • This Great Allegory (On World-Decay and World-Opening in the Work of Art) by Gerhard Richter, 9780262544146
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  • Culture Strike (Art and Museums in an Age of Protest) - 9781839767838 by Laura Raicovich, 9781839767838
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  • The Exceptionally Simple Theory of Sketching (Extended Edition) by George Hlavács, 9789063696405
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  • Strange Impressions by Romaine Brooks, Lauren O'Neill-Butler, 9781644230824
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  • Kandinsky: Incarnating Beauty by Alexandre Kojeve, 9781644230817
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  • Art Is Life (Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night) by Jerry Saltz, 9780593086490
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  • Last Light (How Six Great Artists Made Old Age a Time of Triumph) by Richard Lacayo, 9781501146589
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  • Painting Dublin, 1886-1949 (Visualising a changing city) - 9781526161185 by Kathryn Milligan, 9781526161185
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  • Incompatible Ballerina and Other Essays by Charles William Johns, 9781782798750
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  • Politics by Other Means (Selected Criticism from Review 31) by Houman Barekat, Alison Hugill, 9781782791232
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  • The Changing Constitution of the Present (Essays on the Work of Art in Times of Contemporaneity) by Jacob Lund, 9783956796401
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  • The Cute by Sianne Ngai, 9780262544658
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  • Solitary by Tyler Coburn, 9783956796395
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  • Artistic Ecologies (New Compasses and Tools) by Emily Pethick, Pablo Martinez, What, How & For Whom/WHW, 9783956796333
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  • Out of the Sun (On Race and Storytelling) by Esi Edugyan, 9781487009861
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  • Publishing Manifestos (An International Anthology from Artists and Writers) - 9780262544924 by Michalis Pichler, 9780262544924
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  • Crisis as Form by Peter Osborne, 9781839763625
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  • Uncommon Sense (Aesthetics after Marcuse) by Craig Leonard, Nathifa Greene, 9780262544467
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  • Trap Door (Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility) - 9780262544894 by Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley, Johanna Burton, 9780262544894
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  • Images of Class (Operaismo, Autonomia and the Visual Arts (1962-1988)) by Jacopo Galimberti, 9781839765292
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  • Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism - 9780262544887 by Lauren Fournier, 9780262544887
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  • On Freedom (Four Songs of Care and Constraint) - 9781644452028 by Maggie Nelson, 9781644452028
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  • Oh, to Be a Painter! by Virginia Woolf, Claudia Tobin, 9781644230589
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  • Vox Populi (The Perils and Promises of Populism) by Roger Kimball, 9781594039577
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  • Curating Art Now by Lilian Cameron, Lilian Cameron, 9781848224834
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  • Relative Intimacies (Intersubjectivity, Volume 3) by Lou Cantor, Emily Watlington, 9783956796258
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  • Donald Rodney (Autoicon) by Richard Birkett, 9781846382574
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  • Maus Now (Selected Writing) by Hillary Chute, 9780593315774
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  • Something Close to Music: Late Art Writings, Poems, and Playlists by John Ashbery, 9781644230701
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  • The Ends of Art Criticism by Patricia Bickers, 9781848224261
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  • Image-Thinking (Artmaking as Cultural Analysis) - 9781474494236 by Mieke Bal
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  • Fierce Poise (Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York) - 9780525560203 by Alexander Nemerov, 9780525560203
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  • Gerhard Richter (Painting after the Subject of History) by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, 9780262543538
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  • Midnight in the Kant Hotel (Art in Present Times) by Rod Mengham, 9781800171473
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  • Pulcinellopaedia Seraphiniana by Luigi Serafini, 9780847849642
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  • We Can't Do This Alone (Jefferson Hack the System) by Jefferson Hack, Ferdinando Verderi, John Paul Pryor, Felicity Shaw, Tilda Swinton, 9780847847433
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  • We Are FriendsWithYou by FriendsWithYou, Pharrell Williams, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Peter Doroshenko, 9780847842377
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  • How to Read Art (A Crash Course in Understanding and Interpreting Paintings) by Liz Rideal, 9780789329165
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  • Art (From Cave Painting to Street Art- 40,000 Years of Creativity) by Stephen Farthing, 9780789318336
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  • ...isms: Understanding Art by Stephen Little, 9780789312099
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  • Dix Portraits by Gertrude Stein, Lynne Tillman, 9781644230541
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  • Michelangelo (The Complete Sculpture, Painting, Architecture) by William E. Wallace, 9780789318879
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  • A Preface to Paradise Lost by C. S. Lewis, 9780063222137
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  • Clinic of Phantasms (Writings 1994-2002) by Giovanni Intra, Robert Leonard, Chris Kraus, Mark Von Schlegell, Andrew Berardini, 9781635901658
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  • A New Way of Seeing (The History of Art in 57 Works) by Kelly Grovier, 9780500295564
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  • Making It Modern (Essays on the Art of the Now) by Linda Nochlin, Aruna D'Souza, 9780500293706
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  • Tropisms by Nathalie Sarraute, Maria Jolas, 9780811222761
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  • Paper Revolutions (An Invisible Avant-Garde) by Sarah E. James, 9780262046565
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  • Stealing the Mona Lisa (What Art Stops Us From Seeing) by Darian Leader, 9781593760397
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  • Seeing Differently (The Phillips Collects for a New Century) by David C. Driskell, Mary Jane Jacob, Dorothy Kosinski, Elsa Smithgall, 9781911282761
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  • Climates. Habitats. Environments. by Ute Meta Bauer, 9780262046817
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  • (How) do we by Jesko Fezer, Studio Experimentelles Design, Jesko Fezer, Claudia Banz, 9783956796043
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  • Hertzian Tales (Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, and Critical Design) by Anthony Dunne, 9780262541992
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  • Culture Class by Martha Rosler, Stephen Squibb, 9781934105818
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  • Theater, Garden, Bestiary (A Materialist History of Exhibitions) by Tristan Garcia, Vincent Normand, 9783956794551
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  • Militant Eroticism (The ART+Positive Archives) by Dr. Daniel S. Berger, John Neff, 9783956793653
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  • Solution 275-294 (Communists Anonymous) by Ingo Niermann, Joshua Simon, 9783956793493
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  • Aesthetics of Standstill by Reinhold Gorling, Barbara Gronau, Ludger Schwarte, 9783956794674
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  • Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul? (Essays) - 9781324091479 by Jesse McCarthy, 9781324091479
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  • Assuming Asymmetries (Conversations on Curating Public Art Projects in the 1980s and 1990s) by CuratorLab, 9783956796128
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  • Curating Beyond the Mainstream (The Practices of Carlos Capelán, Elisabet Haglund, Gunilla Lundahl, and Jan-Erik Lundström) by CuratorLab, 9783956796135
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  • Between the Material and the Possible (Infrastructural Re-examination and Speculation in Art) by Bassam El Baroni, 9783956796005
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  • An Oblique Autobiography by Yve-Alain Bois, 9781949484083
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  • Takedown (Art and Power in the Digital Age) by Farah Nayeri, 9781662600555
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  • All the King's Horses by Michele Bernstein, John Kelsey, 9781584350651
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  • The Death of the Artist (How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech) - 9781250798794 by William Deresiewicz, 9781250798794
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  • Authority and Freedom (A Defense of the Arts) by Jed Perl, 9780593320051
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  • Ilana Halperin (Felt Events) by Catriona McAra, 9781913689346
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  • How To Understand Art (Art Essentials) by Janetta Rebold Benton, 9780500295830
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  • Portraits (John Berger on Artists) - 9781839764158 by John Berger, Tom Overton, 9781839764158
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  • Seven Years (The Rematerialisation of Art From 2011-2017) by Maria Lind, 9783956794636
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  • Sandfuture by Justin Beal, 9780262543095
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  • Florine Stettheimer (New Directions in Multimodal Modernism) by Irene Gammel, Suzanne Zelazo, 9781771665018
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  • In Search of The Third Bird (Exemplary Essays from The Proceedings of ESTAR(SER), 2001-2021) by D. Graham Burnett, Catherine L. Hansen, Justin E. H. Smith, 9781913689360
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  • The Salon of 1846 by Charles Baudelaire, Michael Fried, 9781644230534
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  • de Young 125 by Ann Heath Karlstrom, Devorah Major, Kim Shuck, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 9781951836306
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  • The Rise (Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery) by Sarah Lewis, 9781451629248
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  • Nothing If Not Critical (Selected Essays on Art and Artists) by Robert Hughes, 9780140165241
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  • Landscapes (John Berger on Art) - 9781784785857 by John Berger, Tom Overton, 9781784785857
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  • Medium Design (Knowing How to Work on the World) by Keller Easterling, 9781788739320
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  • Visual Culture by Alexis L. Boylan, 9780262539364
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  • Testaments Betrayed (Essay in Nine Parts, An) by Milan Kundera, 9780060927516
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  • No Dandy, No Fun (Looking Good as Things Fall Apart) by Hans-Christian Dany, Valerie Knoll, Valerie Knoll, Hannes Loichinger, 9783956795619
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  • Artists on Art (How They See, Think & Create) by Holly Black, 9781786278852
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  • Believing Is Seeing (Creating the Culture of Art) by Mary Anne Staniszewski, 9780140168242
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  • Three Cases of Value Reflection (Ponge, Whitten, Banksy) by Isabelle Graw, 9783956795251
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  • Paper Graveyards by Eduardo Cadava, 9780262046046
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  • Social Forms: A Short History of Political Art by Christian Viveros-Faune, 9781941701904
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  • What it Means to Write About Art (Interviews with art critics) by Jarrett Earnest, 9781941701898
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  • On Contemporary Art by Cesar Aira, Katherine Silver, Will Chancellor, Alexandra Kleeman, 9781941701867
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  • Giotto and His Works in Padua by John Ruskin, 9781941701799
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  • The Psychology of an Art Writer by Vernon Lee, Dylan Kenny, 9781941701782
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  • Summoning Pearl Harbor by Alexander Nemerov, 9781941701652
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  • Degas and His Model by Alice Michel, Jeff Nagy, 9781941701553
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  • Pissing Figures 1280-2014 by Jean-Claude Lebensztejn, Jeff Nagy, 9781941701546
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  • ArtCenter Talks: The First Decade by Stan Douglas, Jason E. Smith, Diana Thater, 9781941701522
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