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  • The Art Instinct

    Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution

    by Denis Dutton ...
    The Art Instinct combines two of the most fascinating and contentious disciplines, art and evolutionary science, in a provocative new work that will revolutionize the way art itself is perceived. Aesthetic taste, argues Denis Dutton, is an evolutionary trait, and is shaped by natural selection. It's not, as almost all contemporary art criticism and academic theory would have it, "socially ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Victor Hugo Collection

    Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame & More Timeless Masterpieces

    by Victor Hugo ...
    Step into the powerful world of one of literature's greatest visionaries. The Victor Hugo Collection brings together the monumental works of the legendary French author whose novels shaped modern storytelling. From the heartbreaking redemption of Les Misérables to the haunting beauty of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Hugo's unforgettable tales of justice, love, and revolution continue to move ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel (Great Discoveries)

    The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel

    by Rebecca Goldstein ...
    Series series Great Discoveries
    "A gem. . . . An unforgettable account of one of the great moments in the history of human thought." —Steven PinkerProbing the life and work of Kurt Gödel, Incompleteness indelibly portrays the tortured genius whose vision rocked the stability of mathematical reasoning— and brought him to the edge of madness. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • What Art Is

    by Arthur C. Danto ...
    What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex question. Part philosophical monograph and part memoiristic meditation, What Art Is challenges the popular interpretation that art is an indefinable concept, instead bringing to light the properties that constitute universal meaning. Danto argues that despite varied approaches, a work of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Art of Cruelty

    A Reckoning

    by Maggie Nelson ...
    "This is criticism at its best." —Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles TimesWriting in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Elaine Scarry, Maggie Nelson has emerged as one of our foremost cultural critics with this landmark work about representations of cruelty and violence in art. From Sylvia Plath’s poetry to Francis Bacon’s paintings, from the Saw franchise to Yoko Ono’s performance art, Nelson’s nuanced ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • A Beautiful Anarchy

    When the Life Creative Becomes the Life Created

    by David duChemin ...
    A Beautiful Anarchy is a vulnerable, honest, and insightful book about the human longing to create, whether you’re creating a family, a business, a book, or a photograph. Your greatest creation can be an intentional life lived on your own terms. What is our life but a chance to make the greatest art of all?If you already identify as a creative person, this book is an invitation to more ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Nothing that Is

    A Natural History of Zero

    by Robert Kaplan ...
    A symbol for what is not there, an emptiness that increases any number it's added to, an inexhaustible and indispensable paradox. As we enter the year 2000, zero is once again making its presence felt. Nothing itself, it makes possible a myriad of calculations. Indeed, without zero mathematics as we know it would not exist. And without mathematics our understanding of the universe would be vastly ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Conceptual Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Art

    by David W. Galenson ...
    From Picasso's Cubism and Duchamp's readymades to Warhol's silkscreens and Smithson's earthworks, the art of the twentieth century broke completely with earlier artistic traditions. A basic change in the market for advanced art produced a heightened demand for innovation, and young conceptual innovators – from Picasso and Duchamp to Rauschenberg and Warhol to Cindy Sherman and Damien Hirst – ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Cold War Expressionism: Perverting the Politics of Perception/Bombast, Blacklists and Blockades in the Postwar Art World

    by Dennis Broe ...
    Cold War Expressionism is an expose of the art world after World War II where a new triumphalism and a growing conservatism on the part of the US helped bring to power a depoliticized art which went under the rubric of Abstract Expressionism and which functioned as an advertisement for American capitalism while erasing the social impulses of prior European Modernisms and the American Social ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Constructed Situations

    A New History of the Situationist International

    by Frances Stracey ...
    Series series Marxism and Culture
    The Situationist International were a group of anti-authoritarian, highly cultured, revolutionary artists whose energy and enragement fundamentally shaped the revolutions of the late 1960's, most famously in Paris in May '68. They took on their shoulders the history of the workers' struggle, saw that it had been corrupted by authoritarianism and transformed it, with influences incorporating the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Chronicle of Permutation Statistical Methods

    1920–2000, and Beyond

    by Kenneth J. Berry, Janis E. Johnston, Paul W. Mielke Jr. ...
    The focus of this book is on the birth and historical development of permutation statistical methods from the early 1920s to the near present. Beginning with the seminal contributions of R.A. Fisher, E.J.G. Pitman, and others in the 1920s and 1930s, permutation statistical methods were initially introduced to validate the assumptions of classical statistical methods.Permutation methods have ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Making Sense

    Art Practice and Transformative Therapeutics

    by Lorna Collins ...
    Making Sense utilises art practice as a pro-active way of thinking that helps us to make sense of the world. It does this by developing an applied understanding of how we can use art as a method of healing and as a critical method of research. Drawing from poststructuralist philosophy, psychoanalysis, arts therapies, and the creative processes of a range of contemporary artists, the book appeals ... Read more

    $42.89 USD