Art & Aesthetics

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  Quasi Una Fantasia

  by Theodor Adorno
  Adorno’s own selection of his essays and journalism from more than three decades of music writing.

  3 posts

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  In Search of Wagner

  by Theodor Adorno
  Adorno explodes the frontiers of musical and cultural analysis, with a foreword by Slavoj Žižek.

  1 post

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  Aesthetics and Politics

  by Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, et al.
  The most remarkable aesthetic debates in European cultural history, with an afterword by Fredric Jameson. 

  1 post

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  A Child in Palestine

  by Naji al-Ali
  The first collection by the leading Palestinian political cartoonist, introduced by the author of Palestine.

  2 posts

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  Civil Imagination

  by Ariella Azoulay
  The “Copernican Revolution” in studying photography brings to light how images can both reinforce and resist power regimes.

  5 posts

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  Drawing the Line

  by Oriana Baddeley and Valerie Fraser
  The most comprehensive account of contemporary Latin American art ever to appear in English.
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  Five Lessons on Wagner

  by Alain Badiou
  A leading radical intellectual tackles the many controversial interpretations of Wagner’s work.

  1 post

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  Music Quickens Time

  by Daniel Barenboim
  The maestro’s acclaimed examination of music's power to transform society.

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  The Absence of Myths

  by Georges Bataille
  One of the most provocative and controversial writers of his time, these essays comprise George Bataille's most incisive study of surrealism.

  1 post

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  All That Is Solid Melts Into Air

  by Marshall Berman
  A kaleidoscopic journey into the experience of modernization. 

  1 post

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  A Short History of Cahiers du Cinéma

  by Emilie Bickerton
  An unique account of cinema's most influential journal.
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  Artificial Hells

  by Claire Bishop
  A searing critique of participatory art by an iconoclastic historian.

  5 posts

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  An Argentine Passion

  Edited by Rosa Bosch, John King, et al.
  The first major study of Maria Luisa Bemberg’s work. 
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  Secular Devotion

  by Timothy Brennan
  Illuminating exploration of Afro-Latin music’s challenge to Western cultural imperialism.
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  Atlas of Emotion

  by Giuliana Bruno
  An award-winning and highly original endeavor to map a cultural history of spatio-visual art.
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  Repeated Takes

  by Michael Chanan
  How the record changed music, and the way we listen to it.