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Art, Architecture, and Philosophy in Aesthetics Equals Politics Edited by Mark Foster Gage

This book looks at how aesthetics—understood as a more encompassing framework for human activity—might become the primary discourse for political and social engagement.

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Exploring the Cultural and Philosophical History of Neon in Luis De Miranda’s Being and Neonness

The book looks at a cultural and philosophical history of neon, from Paris in the twentieth century to the perpetually switched-on present day.

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Plastic Capitalism by Amanda Boetzkes Examines Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste

The book links the increasing visualization of waste in contemporary art to the rise of the global oil economy and the emergence of ecological thinking.

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An Autobiography in Pictures, Ai Weiwei: Beijing Photographs 1993–2003

The book contains more than 600 carefully sequenced images culled from an archive of more than 40,000 photographs taken by the artist.

Artwork from Butch Heroes by Ria Brodell.

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Ria Brodell’s Butch Heroes Recovers Forgotten Queer History

Katherina Hetzeldorfer was tried and then drowned in the Rhine, for a crime that didn’t have a name in 1477.

Andy Warhol U.S.A., 1928–1987. Contact Sheet, [Andy Warhol photo shoot with Liza Minnelli and Victor Hugo, John Lennon], 1978

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Andy Warhol’s Photography During the Last Decade of His Life, Examined for the First Time

In Contact Warhol, Peggy Phelan and Richard Meyer analyze never seen before contact sheets calling it Warhol's final body of work.