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How to Use Your Eyes
James Elkins's How to Use Your Eyes invites us to look at--and maybe to see for the first time--the world around us, with breathtaking results.… read more2000 | Hardback: 978-0-415-92254-8 (Routledge)
Pregnant Pictures
In this dazzling collection of over 200 photos of pregnant women taken from art libraries, childbirth manuals, maternity ads, contemporary art, and personal albums, the… read more2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92120-6 (Routledge)
Adult Manga
Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society
First detailed analysis of the phenomenon in English. Describes and analyses the complex new attitudes to manga since the 1980s. Provocative and timely, the book… read more2000 | Paperback: 978-0-7007-1004-1 (Routledge)
Looking Back to the Future
1990-1970
In this selection of recent essays, Pollock insightfully engages all major areas of contemporary theory, especially focusing on sexed subjectivities, post-colonialism and Marxist-informed history. In… read more2000 | Paperback: 978-9057011320 (Routledge)
Practice
Architecture, Technique and Representation
This is a book of theoretical essays by architect Stan Allen, which examine the ways in which the modes of representation and techniques of realization… read more2000 | Paperback: 978-9057010729 (Routledge)
What Painting Is
Unlike many books on painting that usually talk about art or painters, James Elkins’ compelling and original work focuses on alchemy, for like the alchemist,…
read more2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92662-1 (Routledge)
Our Beautiful, Dry and Distant Texts
Art History as Writing
Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts examines art historical writing as an expressive medium, capable of emotion and reflection - and therefore deserving of serious… read more2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92663-8 (Routledge)
Critical Vices
The Myths of Postmodern Theory
This book of Nicholas Zurbrugg's challenging and provocative essays charts the most exciting developments in late 20th-century multimedia art.Zurbrugg challenges Jean Baudrillard's, Fredric Jameson's,… read more
2000 | Paperback: 978-9057010620 (Routledge)
Michaelangelo: Selected Readings
1999 | Paperback: 978-0-8153-3795-9 (Routledge)
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Forthcoming Titles:
Sublime Economy: On the intersection of art and economics
Edited by Jack Amariglio, Joseph W. Childers, Stephen E. Cullenberg
To be published November 25th 2008
History Beyond the Text: A Student’s Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources
Edited by Sarah Barber, Corinna Peniston-Bird
To be published November 26th 2008
Vermeer's Family Secrets: Genius, Discovery, and the Unknown Apprentice
By Benjamin Binstock
To be published December 5th 2008
Directory of Museums, Galleries and Buildings of Historic Interest in the United Kingdom
To be published December 12th 2008
Photography: Theoretical Snapshots
Edited by Jonathan Long, Andrea Noble, Edward Welch
To be published December 12th 2008