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Narrating the Globe

Narrating the Globe

Narrating the Globe

The Emergence of World Histories of Architecture

Edited by Petra Brouwer, Martin Bressani and Christopher Drew Armstrong

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

Austin Osman Spare, revised edition

Austin Osman Spare

The Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist

by Phil Baker

Foreword by Alan Moore

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

Cabarets of Death

Cabarets of Death

Death, Dance and Dining in Early Twentieth-Century Paris

by Mel Gordon

Edited by Joanna Ebenstein

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

The Culture of the Case

The Culture of the Case

Madness, Crime, and Justice in Modern German Art

by Frederic J. Schwartz

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

Catalog Design Progress, facsimile edition

Catalog Design Progress

Advancing Standards in Visual Communication

by Ladislav Sutnar and K. Lonberg-Holm

With Steven Heller

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

Master of the Two Left Feet

Master of the Two Left Feet

Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered

by Richard Meyer

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

Negative Space

Negative Space

Trajectories of Sculpture in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Edited by Peter Weibel

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.
Migration

Migration

Migration

Traces in an Art Collection / Spår i en konstsamling

Edited by Maria Lind and Cecilia Widenheim

ISBN: 9783956795473

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Pub Date: May 25, 2021

A survey and exhibition catalog looking at a century of the migrant experience as realized and expressed through art.
Infrastructural Brutalism

Infrastructural Brutalism

Infrastructural Brutalism

Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure

by Michael Truscello

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

Total Expansion of the Letter

Total Expansion of the Letter

Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé

by Trevor Stark

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.
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