History / Modern / 20th Century / General
Showing results 1-9 of 16
Filter Results OPEN +
Erik Satie Three Piece Suite
ISBN: 9781635902532
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Pub Date: April 22, 2025
A masterful study of the elusive French composer, on the centenary of his death.
Dissonant Waves
Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the 20th century
ISBN: 9781913380564
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
Pub Date: September 19, 2023
An investigation of the cultures and technologies of early radio and how a generation of cultural operators—with Schoen at the center—addressed crisis and adversity.
Facing Black Star
ISBN: 9780262047845
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 13, 2023
The Black Star Collection at The Image Centre: the expectations, challenges, and results of a decade of research in a key photo agency's print collection.
Making Art Work
How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture
ISBN: 9780262044257
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 20, 2020
The creative collaborations of engineers, artists, scientists, and curators over the past fifty years.
Deserting from the Culture Wars
ISBN: 9780262539432
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 6, 2020
Artists and writers consider a tactical desertion from the “culture wars”—a refusal to be distracted, an embrace of the emancipatory understanding of culture.
Think Tank Aesthetics
Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present
ISBN: 9780262043526
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 17, 2020
How the approaches and methods of think tanks—including systems theory, operational research, and cybernetics—paved the way for a peculiar genre of midcentury modernism.
Mission Moon 3-D
A New Perspective on the Space Race
ISBN: 9780262039451
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 23, 2018
The story of the lunar landing and the events that led up to it, told in text and visually stunning 3-D images.
Tales from the Embassy
Communiqués from the Guild of Transcultural Studies, 1976-1991
ISBN: 9781907222566
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: September 8, 2017
Vignettes of a peculiar occupation: the Guild of Transcultural Studies in the abandoned Cambodian embassy.
The Unreliable Nation
Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War
ISBN: 9780262036511
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 28, 2017
An examination of how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada.
Erik Satie Three Piece Suite
ISBN: 9781635902532
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Pub Date: April 22, 2025
A masterful study of the elusive French composer, on the centenary of his death.
Dissonant Waves
Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the 20th century
ISBN: 9781913380564
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
Pub Date: September 19, 2023
An investigation of the cultures and technologies of early radio and how a generation of cultural operators—with Schoen at the center—addressed crisis and adversity.
Facing Black Star
ISBN: 9780262047845
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 13, 2023
The Black Star Collection at The Image Centre: the expectations, challenges, and results of a decade of research in a key photo agency's print collection.
Making Art Work
How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture
ISBN: 9780262044257
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 20, 2020
The creative collaborations of engineers, artists, scientists, and curators over the past fifty years.
Deserting from the Culture Wars
ISBN: 9780262539432
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 6, 2020
Artists and writers consider a tactical desertion from the “culture wars”—a refusal to be distracted, an embrace of the emancipatory understanding of culture.
Think Tank Aesthetics
Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present
ISBN: 9780262043526
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 17, 2020
How the approaches and methods of think tanks—including systems theory, operational research, and cybernetics—paved the way for a peculiar genre of midcentury modernism.
Mission Moon 3-D
A New Perspective on the Space Race
ISBN: 9780262039451
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 23, 2018
The story of the lunar landing and the events that led up to it, told in text and visually stunning 3-D images.
Tales from the Embassy
Communiqués from the Guild of Transcultural Studies, 1976-1991
ISBN: 9781907222566
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: September 8, 2017
Vignettes of a peculiar occupation: the Guild of Transcultural Studies in the abandoned Cambodian embassy.
The Unreliable Nation
Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War
ISBN: 9780262036511
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 28, 2017
An examination of how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada.