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Cabarets of Death
Death, Dance and Dining in Early Twentieth-Century Paris
ISBN: 9781907222269
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: February 13, 2024
Three idiosyncratically macabre cabaret-restaurants in Monmartre, each with its own grotesque portrayal of the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness.
Emergency Money
Notgeld in the Image Economy of the German Inflation, 1914–1923
ISBN: 9780262546805
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 9, 2024
A landmark art historical study of German Notgeld, the emergency money produced during World War I, and the hyperinflation that followed.
Austin Osman Spare, revised edition
Austin Osman Spare
The Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist
ISBN: 9781913689650
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: November 21, 2023
A revised edition of Phil Baker's critically lauded biography of artist and occultist, Austin Osman Spare.
Mondrian's Dress
Yves Saint Laurent, Piet Mondrian, and Pop Art
ISBN: 9780262048354
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 24, 2023
An extraordinary look at how the style of Piet Mondrian's abstract paintings was posthumously appropriated by 1960s fashion, Pop art, and consumer culture.
Narrating the Globe
The Emergence of World Histories of Architecture
ISBN: 9780262047975
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 24, 2023
How notions of progress, beauty, and cultural superiority structured the genre of nineteenth-century world histories of architecture—and shaped the discipline as we know it today.
Catalog Design Progress, facsimile edition
Catalog Design Progress
Advancing Standards in Visual Communication
ISBN: 9780262049061
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 22, 2023
A meticulously created facsimile edition of a classic work on design by the progenitor of today's information design.
The Culture of the Case
Madness, Crime, and Justice in Modern German Art
ISBN: 9780262047708
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 13, 2023
How artists in twentieth-century Germany adapted the idea of the medical or legal case as an artistic strategy to push to the fore sexualities, scandals, and crimes that were otherwise concealed.
Master of the Two Left Feet
Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered
ISBN: 9780262047289
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 13, 2022
An account of the life and work of a once-famous self-taught American artist of the 1940s, and a study of how artists go missing from public memory.
Negative Space
Trajectories of Sculpture in the 20th and 21st Centuries
ISBN: 9780262044868
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 28, 2021
A bold new spatial perspective on modern sculpture, with 800 color images of work by artists including Henry Moore, Lygia Clark, Anish Kapoor, and Ana Mendieta.
Cabarets of Death
Death, Dance and Dining in Early Twentieth-Century Paris
ISBN: 9781907222269
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: February 13, 2024
Three idiosyncratically macabre cabaret-restaurants in Monmartre, each with its own grotesque portrayal of the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness.
Emergency Money
Notgeld in the Image Economy of the German Inflation, 1914–1923
ISBN: 9780262546805
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 9, 2024
A landmark art historical study of German Notgeld, the emergency money produced during World War I, and the hyperinflation that followed.
Austin Osman Spare, revised edition
Austin Osman Spare
The Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist
ISBN: 9781913689650
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: November 21, 2023
A revised edition of Phil Baker's critically lauded biography of artist and occultist, Austin Osman Spare.
Mondrian's Dress
Yves Saint Laurent, Piet Mondrian, and Pop Art
ISBN: 9780262048354
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 24, 2023
An extraordinary look at how the style of Piet Mondrian's abstract paintings was posthumously appropriated by 1960s fashion, Pop art, and consumer culture.
Narrating the Globe
The Emergence of World Histories of Architecture
ISBN: 9780262047975
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 24, 2023
How notions of progress, beauty, and cultural superiority structured the genre of nineteenth-century world histories of architecture—and shaped the discipline as we know it today.
Catalog Design Progress, facsimile edition
Catalog Design Progress
Advancing Standards in Visual Communication
ISBN: 9780262049061
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 22, 2023
A meticulously created facsimile edition of a classic work on design by the progenitor of today's information design.
The Culture of the Case
Madness, Crime, and Justice in Modern German Art
ISBN: 9780262047708
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 13, 2023
How artists in twentieth-century Germany adapted the idea of the medical or legal case as an artistic strategy to push to the fore sexualities, scandals, and crimes that were otherwise concealed.
Master of the Two Left Feet
Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered
ISBN: 9780262047289
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 13, 2022
An account of the life and work of a once-famous self-taught American artist of the 1940s, and a study of how artists go missing from public memory.
Negative Space
Trajectories of Sculpture in the 20th and 21st Centuries
ISBN: 9780262044868
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 28, 2021
A bold new spatial perspective on modern sculpture, with 800 color images of work by artists including Henry Moore, Lygia Clark, Anish Kapoor, and Ana Mendieta.
