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The Look of Things

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:50:44 +0000

A brilliant collection of Berger's early works including the essential essay on the relationship of drawing and the artist.

This anthology of some of John Berger’s most incisive and brilliant essays and articles, written throughout the 1960s, is one of his most celebrated books. The ..

Price: $19.95

Painting and Poetic Meaning

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:09:03 +0000

In the dialogue between painter and beholder, one spirit communicates something deeply felt about our common world; another takes it up and makes it part of their own understanding. Elegant in both style and insight, Painting and Poetic Meaning asks how meaning arises in art, how a viewe..

Price: $29.95

When I Was That Age Did Art Exist? (Essays)

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:08:44 +0000

This is a big bundle of essays and written talks, put down over a long number of years: Kelman hopes some of them make you smile.

James Kelman began as a writer of fiction and became a writer of nonfiction in the bargain. He had a short story set for his first ever publication tha..

Price: $49.95

When I Was That Age Did Art Exist? (Essays)

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:08:30 +0000

This is a big bundle of essays and written talks, put down over a long number of years: Kelman hopes some of them make you smile.

James Kelman began as a writer of fiction and became a writer of nonfiction in the bargain. He had a short story set for his first ever publication tha..

Price: $25.95

Genres High and Low (Writings on Art)

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:03:01 +0000

A landmark collection of essays exploring contemporary art, criticism, and curatorial practice from one of Canada’s most influential art writers.

Genres High and Low brings together three decades of Philip Monk’s writing on international contemporary art, tracing t..

Price: $45.00

How Color Became a Technology (The Making of Chromatic Capitalism)

Sat, 11 Jul 2026 01:48:41 +0000

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Price: $35.00

Beautiful Ugliness (Christianity, Modernity, and the Arts)

Sat, 11 Jul 2026 01:46:11 +0000

This book probes the intersection of the beautiful and the ugly, offering a systematic framework to understand, interpret, and evaluate how ugliness can contribute to beautiful art.

Many great artworks include elements of ugliness: repugnant content, disproportionate form..

Price: $50.00

Surrealist women artists and mental illness

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:46:57 +0000

Female mental illness has been a prominent and complicated theme in surrealist cultural traditions, including the idealization of women with mental illness in works such as André Breton’s Nadja (1928). Art historians have examined this tendency before, but to date there has been no comprehensive s..

Price: $36.95

Artists and Radicalism in Germany, 1890-1933 (Reform, Politics and the Paradoxes of the Avant-Garde)

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:34:12 +0000

Artists and Radicalism in Germany, 1890-1933 traces the evolution of the German applied arts movement from 1890 through the interwar period, offering a fresh perspective on the role of radicalism and avant-garde labor in the history of modern a..

Price: $25.00

Truth

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 01:35:48 +0000

Ecologies of truth in a post-truth era. The problem with Neo-Nazis is not that they don't trust the media but that they trust them too much. White supremacists are absolutely convinced by their supremacy. They distrust technologies and climate change as much as the global poor because, as white E..
Price: $34.95