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  • Window Shopping with Helen Keller

    Architecture and Disability in Modern Culture

    by David Serlin ...
    A particular history of how encounters between architects and people with disabilities transformed modern culture.Window Shopping with Helen Keller recovers a series of influential moments when architects and designers engaged the embodied experiences of people with disabilities. David Serlin reveals how people with sensory and physical impairments navigated urban spaces and helped to shape modern ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Artificial Parts, Practical Lives

    Modern Histories of Prosthetics

    Edited by Katherine Ott, David Serlin, Stephen Mihm ...
    From the wooden teeth of George Washington to the Bly prosthesis, popular in the 1860s and boasting easy uniform motions of the limb, to today's lifelike approximations, prosthetic devices reveal the extent to which the evolution and design of technologies of the body are intertwined with both the practical and subjective needs of human beings.The peculiar history of prosthetic devices sheds light ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Routledge History of American Sexuality

    Edited by Jason Ruiz, David Serlin, Kevin Murphy ...
    Series series Routledge Histories
    The Routledge History of American Sexuality brings together contributions from leading scholars in history and related fields to provide a far-reaching but concrete history of sexuality in the United States.This interdisciplinary group of authors explores a wide variety of case studies and concepts to provide an innovative approach to the history of sexual practices and identities over several ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Baby Monkey, Private Eye

    by Brian Selznick, Brian Selznick, Mr. David Serlin ...
    Illustrated by Brian Selznick ...
    Caldecott Medalist Brian Selznick and debut children's book author David Serlin create a dazzling new format especially for young children!A New York Times Bestselling BookAn Amazon Best Book of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearParents Magazine Best Early Reader of the Year"A marvel." --The New York Times... ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Keywords for Disability Studies

    Edited by Rachel Adams, Benjamin Reiss, David Serlin ...
    Series Book 7 - Keywords
    Introduces key terms, concepts, debates, and histories for Disability StudiesKeywords for Disability Studies aims to broaden and define the conceptual framework of disability studies for readers and practitioners in the field and beyond. The volume engages some of the most pressing debates of our time, such as prenatal testing, euthanasia, accessibility in public transportation and the workplace, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • Thinking Contemporary Curating

    by Terry Smith ...
    What is contemporary curatorial thought? Current discourse on the topic is heating up with a new cocktail of bold ideas and ethical imperatives. these include: cooperative curating, especially with artists; the reimagination of museums; curating as knowledge production; the historicization of exhibitionmaking; and commitment to extra-artworld participatory activism. Less obvious, but increasingly ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Modern Art

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Cottington ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    As public interest in modern art continues to grow, as witnessed by the spectacular success of Tate Modern and the Bilbao Guggenheim, there is a real need for a book that will engage general readers, offering them not only information and ideas about modern art, but also explaining its contemporary relevance and history. This book achieves all this and focuses on interrogating the idea of 'modern' ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Architectural Theory

    1968 to the Present

    by Harry Francis Mallgrave, David J. Goodman ...
    A sharp and lively text that covers issues in depth but not to the point that they become inaccessible to beginning students, An Introduction to Architectural Theory is the first narrative history of this period, charting the veritable revolution in architectural thinking that has taken place, as well as the implications of this intellectual upheaval.The first comprehensive and critical history of ... Read more

    $37.00 USD

  • Depicting Canada’s Children

    Edited by Loren Lerner ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
    Depicting Canada’s Children is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Recognizing the importance of methodological diversity, these essays discuss understandings of children and childhood derived from depictions across a wide range of media and contexts. But rather than simply examine images in formal settings, the authors ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Contemporary Art and Memory

    Images of Recollection and Remembrance

    by Joan Gibbons ...
    Whether exploring the intimate recollections which make up the artist's own life history or questioning the way the gallery and museum present public memory, contemporary art, it would seem, is haunted by the past. "Contemporary Art and Memory" is the first accessible survey book to explore the subject of memory as it appears in its many guises in contemporary art. Looking at both personal and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • USA

    Modern Architectures in History

    by Gwendolyn Wright ...
    Series series RB-Modern Architectures in History
    From the Reliance Building and Coney Island to the Kimbell Museum and Disney Hall, the United States has been at the forefront of modern architecture. American life has generated many of the quintessential images of modern life, both generic types and particular buildings. Gwendolyn Wright’s USA is an engaging account of this evolution from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Upending ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • After Modern Art

    1945-2017

    by David Hopkins ...
    Series series Oxford History of Art
    Contemporary art can be baffling and beautiful, provocative and disturbing. This pioneering book presents a new look at the controversial period between 1945 and 2015, when art and its traditional forms were called into question. It focuses on the relationship between American and European art, and challenges previously held views about the origins of some of the most innovative ideas in art of ... Read more

    $18.09 USD