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Narrating the Globe
The Emergence of World Histories of Architecture
ISBN: 9780262047975
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 12, 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.
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: June 13, 2023
A revised edition of Phil Baker's critically lauded biography of artist and occultist, Austin Osman Spare.
Cabarets of Death
Death, Dance and Dining in Early Twentieth-Century Paris
ISBN: 9781907222269
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: May 30, 2023
Three idiosyncratically macabre cabaret-restaurants in Monmartre, each with its own grotesque portrayal of the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness.
The Culture of the Case
Madness, Crime, and Justice in Modern German Art
ISBN: 9780262047708
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 9, 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.
Catalog Design Progress, facsimile edition
Catalog Design Progress
Advancing Standards in Visual Communication
ISBN: 9780262544023
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 15, 2022
A meticulously created facsimile edition of a classic work on design by the progenitor of today's information design.
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.
Infrastructural Brutalism
Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure
ISBN: 9780262539043
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 1, 2020
How “drowned town” literature, road movies, energy landscape photography, and “death train” narratives represent the brutality of industrial infrastructures.
Total Expansion of the Letter
Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé
ISBN: 9780262043717
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 26, 2020
How cubism and Dada radically reimagined the social nature of language, following the utopian poetic vision of Stéphane Mallarmé.
Narrating the Globe
The Emergence of World Histories of Architecture
ISBN: 9780262047975
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 12, 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.
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: June 13, 2023
A revised edition of Phil Baker's critically lauded biography of artist and occultist, Austin Osman Spare.
Cabarets of Death
Death, Dance and Dining in Early Twentieth-Century Paris
ISBN: 9781907222269
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: May 30, 2023
Three idiosyncratically macabre cabaret-restaurants in Monmartre, each with its own grotesque portrayal of the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness.
The Culture of the Case
Madness, Crime, and Justice in Modern German Art
ISBN: 9780262047708
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 9, 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.
Catalog Design Progress, facsimile edition
Catalog Design Progress
Advancing Standards in Visual Communication
ISBN: 9780262544023
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 15, 2022
A meticulously created facsimile edition of a classic work on design by the progenitor of today's information design.
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.
Infrastructural Brutalism
Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure
ISBN: 9780262539043
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 1, 2020
How “drowned town” literature, road movies, energy landscape photography, and “death train” narratives represent the brutality of industrial infrastructures.
Total Expansion of the Letter
Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé
ISBN: 9780262043717
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 26, 2020
How cubism and Dada radically reimagined the social nature of language, following the utopian poetic vision of Stéphane Mallarmé.