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Sheila Whitaker

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The Absence of Myth

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.
3 posts
Aisthesis

by Jacques Rancière

Rancière’s magnum opus on the aesthetic

18 posts
Alien Zone

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

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

All Over the Map

by Michael Sorkin

The celebrated radical architect returns with an anthology on the politics and culture of architecture.

10 posts
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air

by Marshall Berman
A kaleidoscopic journey into the experience of modernization.
9 posts
The Ancients and the Postmoderns

by Fredric Jameson

Fredric Jameson sweeps from the Renaissance to The Wire

15 posts
Anywhere or Not at All

by Peter Osborne
A new reading of the philosophy of contemporary art by the author of The Politics of Time
5 posts

An Argentine Passion

Edited by Rosa Bosch, John King, et al.
The first major study of Maria Luisa Bemberg’s work.
Art Has No History!

Edited by John Roberts
Lively essays on the role of intention and agency in understanding art.
The Art of Cloning

by Pang Laikwan

Cultural production under Mao, and how artists and thinkers found autonomy in a culture of conformity

4 posts
The Art-Architecture Complex

by Hal Foster

A leading art theorist analyses the global style in art and architecture

7 posts

Artificial Hells

by Claire Bishop
A searing critique of participatory art by an iconoclastic historian.
13 posts
Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film

by Giuliana Bruno

An award-winning cultural history of how we experience the world through art, film and architecture

10 posts
Bad New Days

by Hal Foster

One of the world’s leading art theorists dissects a quarter century of artistic practice

5 posts
Bento's Sketchbook

by John Berger

A meditation, in words and images, on the practice of drawing, by the author of Ways of Seeing

27 posts

Brecht and Method

by Fredric Jameson
“Elegant dissection of Brecht’s method, from estrangements to allegory and beyond.”—Modern Drama
11 posts
Building the New World

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

by Kenneth Goldsmith
Acclaimed artist Kenneth Goldsmith’s thousand-page beautiful homage to New York City.
17 posts
Capitalism and the Camera

Edited by Kevin Coleman and Daniel James

A provocative exploration of photography’s relationship to capitalism, from leading theorists of visual culture

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