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        Relational Aesthetics

        Relational Aesthetics

        by Nicolas Bourriaud

        Foreword by Nicolas Bourriaud

        Translated by Denyse Beaulieu

        ISBN: 9783956795879

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: November 7, 2023

        A new translation, with a new foreword, of Nicolas Bourriaud's landmark 1998 work of art theory.
        Dis…Miss Gender?

        Dis…Miss Gender?

        Edited by Anne Bray

        ISBN: 9780262546447

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 24, 2023

        A bold mix of photographs and short essays in which artists, writers, and theorists investigate and celebrate the rapidly evolving world of gender.
        Activism

        Activism

        Edited by Tom Snow and Afonso Ramos

        ISBN: 9780262546560

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 10, 2023

        An edited collection that addresses the vital intersection of contemporary art and activism in this watershed cultural moment.
        Very Fantastically Arranged

        Very Fantastically Arranged

        by Caragh Thuring

        ISBN: 9780262048453

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 19, 2023

        A richly illustrated first monograph of artist Caragh Thuring, whose unique and layered paintings invite a boundless reimagining of her subjects.
        Shadows of Reality

        Shadows of Reality

        A Catalogue of W.G. Sebald's Photographic Materials

        Edited by Clive Scott and Nick Warr

        ISBN: 9781911343660

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 19, 2023

        The first-ever volume of the photographs of German writer W.G. Sebald, exquisitely designed to shed new light on his creative process, as it chronicles the images and encounters that shaped his writing life.
        Alfredo Jaar

        Alfredo Jaar

        Studies on Happiness

        by Edward A. Vazquez

        ISBN: 9781846382598

        Publisher: Afterall Books

        Pub Date: August 29, 2023

        A richly illustrated survey of Alfredo Jaar's Studies on Happiness (1979–1981) and its deep political stakes in the historical context of Chile's neoliberal transition.
        Curating Capitalism

        Curating Capitalism

        How Art Impacts Business, Management, and Economy

        by Pierre Guillet de Monthoux

        ISBN: 9781915609199

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: August 8, 2023

        How art and the artist inspire business: an examination of the origins of this relationship from Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol.
        Kathrin Böhm

        Kathrin Böhm

        Art on the Scale of Life

        Edited by Paul O'Neill and Mick Wilson

        ISBN: 9783956796265

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: August 8, 2023

        A comprehensive overview of artist Kathrin Böhm's multifaceted, deeply collaborative, and durational practice and networks.
        MAGIC FECES

        MAGIC FECES

        or Cream Psychosis

        by Mary Walling Blackburn

        ISBN: 9781915609045

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: August 8, 2023

        Over a decade's worth of essays: movies of America in parallax view.
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