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Art Theory & Essays

Art Theory & Essays

  • Why the Museum Matters (Paperback) Why the Museum Matters (Paperback)

    Why the Museum Matters (Paperback)

    $18.00
    Art museums have played a vital role in our culture, drawing on Enlightenment ideals in shaping ideas, advancing learning, fostering community, and providing spaces of beauty and permanence. In this thoughtful and often personal volume, Daniel H. Weiss...
    $18.00
  • Hebdomeros : A Novel - Ekphrasis Series Hebdomeros : A Novel - Ekphrasis Series

    Hebdomeros : A Novel - Ekphrasis Series

    $15.00
    This seminal 1929 surrealist novel by the painter Giorgio de Chirico merges the realms of dream and reality. In the artist’s only novel, de Chirico invites the reader into a world where language, time, space, and meaning are fluid, highlighting...
    $15.00
  • COLLAB Award-Winning Author
    Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary

    Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary

    $28.00
    A window into the world of functional everyday design The designers Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa have compiled 204 everyday objects in search of “super normal design”: alongside examples of anonymous design like the Swiss Rex vegetable...
    $28.00
  • Pissing Figures 1280 - 2014 - Ekphrasis Series Pissing Figures 1280 - 2014 - Ekphrasis Series

    Pissing Figures 1280 - 2014 - Ekphrasis Series

    $15.00
    Jean-Claude Lebensztejn’s history of the urinating figure in art, Pissing Figures 1280–2014, is at once a scholarly inquiry into an important visual motif, and a ribald statement on transgression and limits in works of art in general...
    $15.00
  • Salon of 1846 by Charles Baudelaire - Ekphrasis Series Salon of 1846 by Charles Baudelaire - Ekphrasis Series

    Salon of 1846 by Charles Baudelaire - Ekphrasis Series

    $15.00
    Charles Baudelaire, considered a father of modern poetry, wrote some of the most daring and influential prose of the nineteenth century. Prior to publishing the international bestseller Les Fleurs du mal (1857), he was already notable as a forthright...
    $15.00
  • Dix Portraits by Gertrude Stein - Ekphrasis Series Dix Portraits by Gertrude Stein - Ekphrasis Series

    Dix Portraits by Gertrude Stein - Ekphrasis Series

    $15.00
    Written between 1913 and 1929, revolutionary years in art history, Dix Portraits conveys the deep human engagement between an artist and her subject. The artist book unites Stein’s ten portraits in prose with sketches by five artists: Pablo...
    $15.00
  • Blue by Derek Jarman - Ekphrasis Series Blue by Derek Jarman - Ekphrasis Series

    Blue by Derek Jarman - Ekphrasis Series

    $15.00
    Derek Jarman's Blue weaves a sensory tapestry that serves as both a political call to action and a meditation on illness, dying, and love.   “For Blue there are no boundaries or solutions.” —Derek Jarman   Originally...
    $15.00
  • An Opinionated Guide to Women Painters An Opinionated Guide to Women Painters

    An Opinionated Guide to Women Painters

    $20.00
    For as long as there’s been paint, there have been women painters – these are the painters you may not have heard of who have shaped the way we see. From artists at the forefront of the Dutch Golden Age to avant-garde radicals in Soviet Russia and...
    $20.00
  • Lucy R. Lippard on Pop Art Lucy R. Lippard on Pop Art

    Lucy R. Lippard on Pop Art

    $16.95
     Explore the dynamic world of 1960s pop art through Lucy Lippard's insightful analysis of this groundbreaking international art movement. Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series presents timeless works by...
    $16.95
  • Degas and His Model - Ekphrasis Series Degas and His Model - Ekphrasis Series

    Degas and His Model - Ekphrasis Series

    $15.00
    There are many myths about the artist Edgar Degas—from Degas the misanthrope to Degas the deviant, to Degas the obsessive. But there is no single text that better stokes the fire than Degas and His Model, a short memoir published by Alice...
    $15.00
  • Kandinsky: Incarnating Beauty - Ekphrasis Series Kandinsky: Incarnating Beauty - Ekphrasis Series

    Kandinsky: Incarnating Beauty - Ekphrasis Series

    $15.00
    A compilation of esoteric musings, Kandinsky: Incarnating Beauty explores Alexandre Kojève’s philosophical approach to the relationship between art and beauty.   A teacher to Jacques Lacan, André Breton, and Albert Camus,...
    $15.00
  • Cathedral is Dying by Rodin - Ekphrasis Series Cathedral is Dying by Rodin - Ekphrasis Series

    Cathedral is Dying by Rodin - Ekphrasis Series

    $15.00
    Master sculptor Auguste Rodin’s illuminating writings on cathedrals in France are especially relevant and significant following the recent fire at Notre Dame.    In this volume, the writer and Rodin scholar Rachel Corbett selects...
    $15.00
  • Story of Art Without Men Story of Art Without Men

    Story of Art Without Men

    $45.00
    The story of art as it’s never been told before, from the Renaissance to the present day, with more than 300 works of art. How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what...
    $45.00
  • Just Enough Design Just Enough Design

    Just Enough Design

    $16.95
    A Japanese designer offers a compelling alternative way to engage with our possessions, our history, our environment, and each other. The Japanese phrase "hodo-hodo" originates in ancient times. When contemporary designer Taku Satoh applies it to his...
    $16.95
  • Psychology of an Art Writer - Ekphrasis Series Psychology of an Art Writer - Ekphrasis Series

    Psychology of an Art Writer - Ekphrasis Series

    $15.00
    Though she was widely known for her supernatural fictions, Lee hasn’t gained the recognition she so clearly deserves for her contributions in the fields of aesthetics, philosophy of empathy, and art criticism. An early follower of Walter Pater, her...
    $15.00
  • Artists on Art Artists on Art

    Artists on Art

    $17.99
    Through a carefully curated selection of quotations, images and interviews, Artists on Art  reveals what matters most to the masters. You'll discover how the  giants of the different artistic genres developed their distinctive  visual...
    $17.99
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art Funny Weather Art in an Emergency Philadelphia Museum of Art Funny Weather Art in an Emergency

    Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

    $16.95
    In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty-first century. Funny Weather brings together a career’s...
    $16.95