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How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness
  • critical theory
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 22.8 x 15.2 cm.
  • 356 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 9780262514934

How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness

[Paperback]

Darby English, Kara Walker, Fred Wilson, Isaac Julien, Glenn Ligon, William Pope.L

"Work by black artists today is almost uniformly understood in terms of its "blackness," with audiences often expecting or requiring it to "represent" the race. In How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness, Darby English shows how severely such expectations limit the scope of our knowledge about this work and how different it looks when approached on its own terms. ... [details]

Cambridge / London, MA / United Kingdom: The MIT Press,
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Institutional Critique : An Anthology of Artists' Writings
  • critical theory
  • cloth boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white
  • 23.5 x 18.5 cm.
  • 440 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0262013169

Institutional Critique : An Anthology of Artists' Writings

Alexander Alberro, Blake Stimson, Wieslaw Borowski, Daniel Buren, Marcel Broodthaers, Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel, Hans Haacke, Robert Smithson, John Knight, Graciela Carnevale, Osvaldo Mateo Boglione, Guerrilla Art Action Group, Art Workers Coalition, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Michael Asher, Mel Ramsden, Adrian Piper, The Guerrilla Girls, Laibach, Silvia Kolbowski, Andrea Fraser, Fred Wilson, Mark Dion, Maria Eichhorn, Critical Art Ensemble, Bureau d’Études, WochenKlausur, The Yes Men, Hito Steyerl, Andreas Siekmann

"Institutional Critique" is an artistic practice that reflects critically on its own housing in galleries and museums and on the concept and social function of art itself. Such concerns have always been a part of modern art but took on new urgency at the end of the 1960s, when—driven by the social upheaval of the time and enabled by the tools and techniques of conceptual art—institutional critique emerged as a genre. ... [details]

Cambridge / London, MA / United Kingdom: The MIT Press,
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$179.00
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  • monograph
  • cloth boards without dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white
  • 25 x 32 cm.
  • [unpaginated]
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0262025019

Karl Blossfeldt : Working Collages

Karl Blossfeldt, Ann Wilde, Jürgen Wilde, Ulrike Meyer Stump

Book of photography by Karl Blossfeldt. Edited by Ann and Jürgen Wilde. Introduction by Ulrike Meyer Stump. Includes notes, bibliography, and list of plates. Printed in black-and-white and color. [details]

Cambridge / London / München, MA / England / Germany: The MIT Press / Schirmer / Mosel,
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  • critical theory
  • cloth boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white
  • 23.5 x 16 cm.
  • 379 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Le Corbusier : Elements of a Synthesis

Le Corbusier, Stanislaus von Moos

"This is the first scholarly and critical study of Le Corbusier's work as a whole. It organizes his ideas in terms of the basic themes - intellectual, artistic, and ideological - that characterize his contribution to modern art and architecture and illustrates these with over 200 line drawings and halftones. ... [details]

Cambridge / London, MA / United Kingdom: The MIT Press,
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  • critical theory
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white
  • 23 x 15 cm.
  • 214 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0262620553

Le Corbusier : The Decorative Art of Today

Le Corbusier, James Dunnett

Critical text by Le Corbusier, translated into English by James Dunnett. "Among the most famous of Le Corbusier's works, this book first came out in 1925 as a companion volume to Towards a New Architecture and The City of Tomorrow, two of the most influential writings on architecture and town planning Le Corbusier produced. ... [details]

Cambridge / London, MA / United Kingdom: The MIT Press,
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  • monograph
  • paper boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 26 x 27 cm.
  • 451 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0262030780

Le Corbusier Sketchbooks

Vol. 1, 1914 - 1948

Le Corbusier, André Wogenscky, Maurice Besset, Françoise de Franclieu

First volume in a four volume series highlighting the collected sketches of the Swiss-French architect, Le Corbusier. Preface by André Wogenscky, introduction by Maurice Besset, and notes by Françoise de Franclieu. ... [details]

New York / Cambridge / London, NY / MA / United Kingdom: The Architectural History Foundation / The MIT Press,
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$350.00
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  • monograph
  • paper boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 26 x 27 cm.
  • 541 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0262120909

Le Corbusier Sketchbooks

Vol. 2, 1950 - 1954

Le Corbusier, Françoise de Franclieu

Second volume in a four volume series highlighting the collected sketches of the Swiss-French architect, Le Corbusier. Notes by Françoise de Franclieu. "Second in the four-volume series of Le Corbusier Sketchbooks, this book contains notes and sketches Le Corbusier made in the 1950s, a particularly rich period in his career. ... [details]

New York / Cambridge / London, NY / MA / United Kingdom: The Architectural History Foundation / The MIT Press,
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  • monograph
  • paper boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 26 x 27 cm.
  • [unpaginated]
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0262120925

Le Corbusier Sketchbooks

Vol. 3, 1954 - 1957

Le Corbusier, Françoise de Franclieu

Third volume in a four volume series highlighting the collected sketches of the Swiss-French architect, Le Corbusier. Notes by Françoise de Franclieu. "Unlike the carefully-edited books Le Corbusier published on his works, the sketchbooks reveal a man more interested in nature than in mechanization or functionalism, a human being capable of profound religious feelings despite his dry profession of agnosticism - in short, a more intuitive, sensuous personality than is usually assumed. ... [details]

New York / Cambridge / London, NY / MA / United Kingdom: The Architectural History Foundation / The MIT Press,
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$150.95
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$275.00
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  • monograph
  • paper boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 26 x 27 cm.
  • 576 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0262120933

Le Corbusier Sketchbooks

Vol. 4, 1957 - 1964

Le Corbusier, Françoise de Franclieu

Fifth volume in a four volume series highlighting the collected sketches of the Swiss-French architect, Le Corbusier. Notes by Françoise de Franclieu. "In these last sketchbooks the government complex at the new capital, Chandigarh, nears completion. ... [details]

New York / Cambridge / London, NY / MA / United Kingdom: The Architectural History Foundation / The MIT Press,
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  • critical theory
  • cloth boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white
  • 23.5 x 15.6 cm.
  • 270 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0252111365

Marcel Duchamp : Artist of the Century

[Hardcover Edition]

Marcel Duchamp, Rudolf E. Keunzli, Francis M. Naumann, Beatrice Wood, Arturo Schwarz, Thierry de Duve, William A. Camfield, Peter Read, Carol P. James, George H. Bauer, Craig Adcock, Hellmut Wohl, Dalia Judovitz, Timothy Shipe, Louise Arensberg, Walter Arensberg

Collection of critical essays on Marcel Duchamp. Introduction by Rudolf E. Kuenzli, with texts by Beatrice Wood, Arturo Schwarz, Francis M. Naumann, Thierry de Duve, William A. Camfield, Peter Read, Carol P. ... [details]

Cambridge / London, MA / United Kingdom: The MIT Press,
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