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How Our Relationship to Books Has Changed Throughout History

Avatar photo by Megan N. Liberty May 21, 2019May 21, 2019

Amaranth Borsuk’s The Book traces how the nature of reading changed from an activity practiced by a small number of scholars to a pastime of the masses.

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

MIT Press logo by MIT Press April 11, 2019April 12, 2019

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

MIT Press logo by MIT Press April 3, 2019April 3, 2019

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

MIT Press logo by MIT Press March 20, 2019March 20, 2019

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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Nerd Out with This Encyclopedia of Architects’ Scale Figures

by Sarah Rose Sharp February 11, 2019

The encyclopedia, which considers architecture’s relationship to people, includes some 1,000 images of figures produced by more than 250 architects.

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

MIT Press logo by MIT Press January 10, 2019

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

MIT Press logo by MIT Press October 29, 2018October 29, 2018

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

MIT Press logo by MIT Press October 24, 2018October 25, 2018

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

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The Inner Life of David Wojnarowicz Through His Words

by Michael Valinsky October 20, 2018October 28, 2018

A new transcription of the artist’s recorded journals offers readers a unique perspective on his inner life and the daily realities of individuals living with the threat of AIDS.

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Aleksandra Mir Delves into the Mysteries of the Universe

by Elena Goukassian November 24, 2017March 11, 2018

Mir shares the interviews she conducted with 16 space scientists and academics, many of whom helped to inform her series of black-and-white drawings of space travel.

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The Aspirational Living and Jet-Setting of Midcentury Vinyl LPs

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 13, 2017November 13, 2017

Designed for Hi-Fi Living delves beyond the kitsch of midcentury album art to explore the aspirational lifestyles, and travel destinations, in its visuals.

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Object Permanence: The Role of Curators and Cultural Institutions

by Frances Richard July 23, 2017July 21, 2017

Voorhies’s book is partly a series of case studies on watershed shows of the last fifty years — shows that, in his view, “relie[d] upon and utilize[d] the exhibition form and art’s critical potential within that form.”

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