
Cezanne: A Life
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Today we view Cezanne as a monumental figure, but during his lifetime (1839-1906), many did not...

Feeling Beauty: The Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience
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In Feeling Beauty, G. Gabrielle Starr argues that understanding the neural underpinnings of...

Nowherelands: An Atlas of Vanished Countries
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These are the stories of fifty countries that once existed but have now have been erased from the...

Photography and Failure: One Medium's Entanglement with Flops, Underdogs and Disappointments
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Throughout photography's history, failure has played an essential, recurring part in the development...

Richard Prince: Untitled (Couple)
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In Richard Prince's 1977 work Untitled (couple), difference mixes uncannily with sameness. We can't...

Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art
Timothy Clark, C. Andrew Gerstle and Aki Ishigami
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You can discover Japanese art like no other. Originally created by the artists of the ukiyo-e school...

The Invisible Kingdom
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Gorgeous words and stunning illustrations combine in a book for anyone aged 8-80, by internationally...

The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials: Spectacles of Critique, Theory and Art
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Contemporary art biennials are sites of prestige, innovation and experimentation, where the category...
The Politics of Water in the Art and Festivals of Medici Florence: From Neptune Fountain to Naumachia
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The first book to tell the dynamic story of one dynasty's struggle with water, to control its flow...

William Morris: A Life for Our Time
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Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, this is the essential biography of the father of the Arts and...