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Sheila Whitaker

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Readings and Writings

by Peter Wollen
Essays and fiction on oppositional art, 1968-1982.
4 posts
Imaginary Relations

by Michael Sprinker
A cogently argued attempt to shift the terrain of Marxist theorizing about art from ideology to a concept of aesthetic texts as sources of empirical data about the real, historical world.
Drawing the Line

by Oriana Baddeley and Valerie Fraser
The most comprehensive account of contemporary Latin American art ever to appear in English.
1 post
Alien Zone

Edited by Annette Kuhn
Perhaps because of its popularity, science fiction has long suffered from critical neglect.
7 posts

Critique of Taste

by Galvano Della Volpe
A classic work of twentieth-century aesthetics.
4 posts
Shades of Noir

Edited by Joan Copjec

Paris, summer 1946: this moment marks an important event in cinema history, not of production but of exhibition.
Art Has No History!

Edited by John Roberts
Lively essays on the role of intention and agency in understanding art.
Exquisite Corpse

by Michael Sorkin
A collection of daring, often devastating, observations about the creation of buildings and the institutions and personalities who have dominated the profession.
3 posts

Women's Pictures

by Annette Kuhn

This pioneering and influential work of feminist theory has been extensively updated by the author to chart the changes in feminist film theory and...

7 posts
Musica Practica

by Michael Chanan
Exploring musical tradition, technology and the soundtrack of the modern world.
2 posts
They Must Be Represented

by Paula Rabinowitz

A challenging and original study of gender and truth in documentary media.

1 post
Repeated Takes

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

Circus Americanus

by Ralph Rugoff
“A carnival of New World wonders.”—Jon Savage
Refusal of the Shadow

Edited by Michael Richardson
“Will transform how surrealism is understood.”—Professor Paul Gilroy
1 post
Seven Minutes

by Norman M. Klein
“An important contribution to the history of American popular culture.”—American Historical Review
Dangerous Crossroads

by George Lipsitz
“Astonishing.”—Jazz Times
1 post

Alien Zone II

Edited by Annette Kuhn
New ways of thinking about the science fiction genre.
9 posts
An Argentine Passion

Edited by Rosa Bosch, John King, et al.
The first major study of Maria Luisa Bemberg’s work.
Building the New World

by Valerie Fraser
The progressive architecture of Brasilia, Caracas, Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro.
The Countess of Stanlein Restored

by Nicholas Delbanco

A history of the Paganini Stradivarius Cello of 1707.

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