1,050円 Partez à la découverte de l'avant-garde avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! Fermement opposée à tout statisme, la notion d'avant-garde se veut dynamique et de combat, presque ontologiquement vouée à son propre dépérissement. Un ouvrage spécialement conçu pour le numérique afin d’en savoir plus su...

1,400円 Publié en partenariat avec l'association "Solidarité laïque". Avec 100 portraits d’enfants de tous les horizons, l’infatigable voyageuse Françoise Caillette-Deneubourg illustre la très mal connue « Déclaration des droits de l’enfant » adoptée par l’Assemblée générale de l’ONU en novembre 1959. Où...

2,786円 An entirely new perspective on Churchill and his paintings told in his own words and including material never before published, edited and introduced by David Cannadine. Across almost 50 years, Winston Churchill produced more than 500 paintings. His subjects included his family homes at Blenheim ...

4,333円 Arriving in New York City in the first decade of the twentieth century, six painters-Robert Henri, John Sloan, Everett Shinn, Glackens, George Luks, and George Bellows, subsequently known as the Ashcan Circle-faced a visual culture that depicted the urban man as a diseased body under assault. Ash...

2,647円 Wafaa Bilal's childhood in Iraq was defined by the horrific rule of Saddam Hussein, two wars, a bloody uprising and time spent interned in chaotic refugee camps in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Bilal eventually made it to the United States to become a professor and a successful artist, but when his br...

9,616円 From the late nineteenth century onwards the concept of Mother India assumed political significance in colonial Bengal. Reacting against British rule, Bengali writers and artists gendered the nation in literature and visual culture in order to inspire patriotism amongst the indigenous population....

1,989円 Graffiti crews are willing to risk anything for their art. Called vandals, criminals, even creative terrorists, graffiti artists set out to make their voices heard and alter the way people view the world. But when one crew finishes the biggest graffiti bomb of their careers, the consequences get ...

2,387円 9.5 Theses on Art and Class seeks to show how a clear understanding of class makes sense of what is at stake in a broad number of contemporary art's most persistent debates, from definitions of political art to the troubled status of "outsider" and street art to the question of how we maintain fa...

1,850円 "World music" is an awkward phrase. Used to describe the hugely multifaceted nature of a range of typically non-English-language popular music from the world over, it's a tag that throws up as many problems as it does solutions. Louise Gray's The No-Nonsense Guide to World Music attempts to go be...

0円 Contemporary art biennials are sites of prestige, innovation and experimentation, where the category of art is meant to be in perpetual motion, rearranged and redefined, opening itself to the world and its contradictions. They are sites of a seemingly peaceful cohabitation between the elitist and...

1,400円 Si spengono le luci, cala il silenzio, si apre il sipario. Entra in scena una donna: ha il passo stanco, il corpo scarnificato, lo sguardo arreso. È il nostro paese. È Italia. Nessuna tunica, nessuna cornucopia, nessuna corona turrita. L'occhio di bue, impietoso, la rivela, scioglie lo spesso str...

5,300円 The Sixties, Center Stage offers rich insights into the innovative and provocative political underpinnings of mainstream and popular performances in the 1960s. While much critical attention has been focused on experimental and radical theater of the period, the essays confirm that mainstream perf...