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In the Flow by Boris Groys
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $28.48In the early 20th century, art and its institutions came under critique from a new democratic and egalitarian spirit. In an age of secularism and materialism, artworks would be understood as merely... -
On the New by Boris Groys 9781781682920
Booksplease Price: $27.06On the New looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern culture's key sites: the intellectual marketplace and the archive. As ideas move from one context to another, newness is... -
Philosophy of Care by Boris Groys
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.76Our current culture is dominated by the ideology of creativity. One is supposed to create the new and not to care about the things as they are. This ideology legitimises the domination of the... -
The Communist Postscript by Boris Groys
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.76Since Plato, philosophers have dreamed of establishing a rational state ruled through the power of language. In this radical and disturbing account of Soviet philosophy, Boris Groys argues that... -
Alexandre Kojève: An Intellectual Biography by Boris Groys 9781804296820
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $23.41Boris Groys's new book is an intellectual biography of the fascinating and mysterious figure of Alexandre Kojève, discussing his involvement with Hegel's dialectics, his idea of communism and his... -
The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond by Boris Groys
Booksplease Price: $28.39From the ruins of communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. Interpreting totalitarian art and... -
Kandinsky: Incarnating Beauty Alexandre Kojeve 9781644230817
RRP: $20.81Booksplease Price: $15.20A teacher to Jacques Lacan, Andre Breton, and Albert Camus, Kojeve defined art as the act of extracting the beautiful from objective reality. His poetic text, "The Concrete Paintings of Kandinsky,"... -
After Art by David Joselit 9780691150444
RRP: $53.20Booksplease Price: $47.90Art as we know it is dramatically changing, but popular and critical responses lag behind. In this trenchant illustrated essay, David Joselit describes how art and architecture are being transformed... -
The Books that Shaped Art History: From Gombrich and Greenberg to Alpers and Krauss by Richard Shone
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $28.03The Books That Shaped Art History provides an invaluable roadmap of the field by reassessing the impact of the most important texts of art history published during the 20th century. Each of the... -
Superhumanity: Design of the Self by Nick Axel 9781517905217
RRP: $51.28Booksplease Price: $44.67A wide-ranging and challenging exploration of design and how it engages with the self The field of design has radically expanded. As a practice, design is no longer limited to the world of material... -
Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship by Claire Bishop
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $28.27The award-winning, highly acclaimed Artificial Hells is the first historical and theoretical overview of socially engaged participatory art, known in the US as "social practice." In recent decades,... -
Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War by Hito Steyerl 9781786632449
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $14.97In Duty Free Art, filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl wonders how we can appreciate, or even make art, in the present age. What can we do when arms manufacturers sponsor museums, and some of the... -
Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality Federico Campagna (Independent Scholar, UK) 9781350044029
RRP: $51.28Booksplease Price: $42.92We take for granted that only certain kind of things exist - electrons but not angels, passports but not nymphs. This is what we understand as 'reality'. But in fact, 'reality' varies with each era... -
Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today by Claire Bishop 9781804296738
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.39The reception of art and performance is changing. Smartphones and social media have troubled the old model of individual appreciation and close looking, giving rise to new forms of mediated...