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Art and Aesthetics: Verso Student Reading

Our art and aesthetics reading for the academic year ahead, up to 40% off as part of our student reading sale.

Verso Books28 August 2022

Art and Aesthetics: Verso Student Reading

Make your Art and Aesthetics bookshelf as exciting as ours, with books from James Bridle, John Berger, Hito Steyerl, Jacques Rancière, Frederic Jameson, and more.

Student reading sale: ends September 30
30% off if you buy 3 or more titles
40% off if you buy 4 or more titles
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  • Bad New Days

    Bad New Days

    by Hal Foster

    Bad New Days examines the evolution of art and criticism in Western Europe and North America over the last twenty-five years, exploring their dynamic relation to the general condition of emergency ...
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  • Atlas of Emotion

    Atlas of Emotion

    by Giuliana Bruno

    Atlas of Emotion is a highly original endeavour to map a cultural history of spatio-visual arts. In an evocative montage of words and pictures, emphasises that “sight” and “site” but also “motion” ...
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  • The Emancipated Spectator

    The Emancipated Spectator

    by Jacques Rancière

    Translated by Gregory Elliott

    The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, both artists and thinkers have sought to transform the spectator into an act...
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  • All That Is Solid Melts Into Air

    All That Is Solid Melts Into Air

    by Marshall Berman

    All That Is Solid Melts Into Air is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest books on modernity. A kaleidoscopic journey into the experience of modernization, it captures the dizzying social changes...
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  • Postmodernism

    Postmodernism

    by Fredric Jameson

    In his most wide-ranging and accessible work, Fredric Jameson argues that postmodernism is the cultural response to the latest systemic change in world capitalism. He seeks here to crystallize a de...
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  • The Ancients and the Postmoderns

    The Ancients and the Postmoderns

    by Fredric Jameson

    High modernism is now as far from us as antiquity was for the Renaissance. Such is the premise of Fredric Jameson’s major new work in which modernist works, this time in painting (Rubens) and music...
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  • The Antinomies of Realism

    The Antinomies of Realism

    by Fredric Jameson

    The Antinomies of Realism is a history of the nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achievements that the movement of history makes it imp...
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  • The Intervals of Cinema

    The Intervals of Cinema

    by Jacques Rancière

    Translated by John Howe

    The cinema, like language, can be said to exist as a system of differences. In his latest book the acclaimed philosopher Jacques Rancière relates cinema to literature and theatre. With literature, ...
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  • Aisthesis

    Aisthesis

    by Jacques Rancière

    Translated by Zakir Paul

    The definitive statement on aesthetics and the history of modernism from one of France's most renowned philosophers. Composed of a series of scenes that defined modernism, Aisthesis takes its reade...
  • Savage Messiah

    Savage Messiah

    by Laura Grace Ford

    Preface by Greil Marcus

    Introduction by Mark Fisher

    Savage Messiah collects the entire set of Laura Grace Ford’s fanzine to date. Part graphic novel, part artwork, the book is both an angry polemic against the marginalization of the city’s working c...
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  • In the Flow

    In the Flow

    by Boris Groys

    In the early 20th century, art and its institutions came under critique from a new democratic and egalitarian spirit. In an age of secularism and materialism, artworks would be understood as merely...
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  • Supercommunity

    Supercommunity

    by E-Flux

    “I am the supercommunity, and you are only starting to recognize me. I grew out of something that used to be humanity. Some have compared me to angry crowds in public squares; others compare me to ...
  • The Perpetual Guest

    The Perpetual Guest

    by Barry Schwabsky

    The idea of contemporary art sometimes allows us to pretend we have made a clean break with the past. In The Perpetual Guest, poet and critic Barry Schwabsky demonstrates that any robust understand...
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  • Sensoria

    Sensoria

    by McKenzie Wark

    As we face the compounded crises of late capitalism, environmental catastrophe and technological transformation, who are the thinkers and the ideas who will allow us to understand the world we live...
  • Monumental Lies

    Monumental Lies

    by Robert Bevan

    How the past is memorialized can have a dangerous influence on the future. Monumental Lies exposes the truths buried at contested heritage sites and demands that we safeguard the material evidence ...
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