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A Concrete Alliance - Vanessa Grossman

The compelling story of the significant relationship between communism and modern architecture in postwar France   The massive reshaping of French cities that took place between…

1 650 Kč
Radical Form - Megan A. Sullivan

A timely look into how abstract art in South America aimed to envision a better society

1 650 Kč
Three Powers in Heaven - Emanuel Fiano

A fresh look at how Christianity and Judaism became two distinct religions through the parting of their intellectual traditions

1 980 Kč
Boundary Trouble in American Vanguard Art, 1920-2020

A profound examination of the complex constructs that have kept “outsider” and self-taught artists on the margins of the mainstream

1 815 Kč
Humane Ecology

A presentation of eight contemporary artists whose work considers environmental questions in terms of their social and political implications

William Edmondson

A reassessment of self-taught artist William Edmondson, exploring the enduring relevance of his work

1 320 Kč
Seeing and Not Believing - Monika Sziladi

An introduction to the postmodern photographs of Allan Chasanoff, whose work interrogates and subverts the notion of photography as a truthful record of the real

Paul Transformed - Adela Yarbro Collins

A fascinating reception history of the theological, ethical, and social themes in the letters of Paul In the first decades after the death of Jesus, the letters of the apostle…

1 650 Kč
The Guitar in Georgian England - Christopher Page

A fascinating social history of the guitar, reasserting its long-forgotten importance in Romantic England

1 073 Kč
Practical Form - Abigail Zitin

A groundbreaking study of the development of form in eighteenth-century aesthetics

1 898 Kč
Indispensable Nation - Robert J. Lieber

A clear-eyed analysis of the role the United States should play in the world as it exists today

Revolutionary Things - Ashli White

How objects associated with the American, French, and Haitian revolutions drew diverse people throughout the Atlantic world into debates over revolutionary ideals  “By…

1 320 Kč
A Movement in Every Direction

Contemporary artists and writers reflect on the Great Migration and the ways that it continues to inform the Black experience in America

Personhood - Mary Ziegler

The next phase of the war over reproduction in America  “Personhood is a field guide to the seemingly boundless tactical resourcefulness of the anti-abortion movement…

The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn - Robert Watson

The most horrific struggle of the American Revolution occurred just 100 yards off New York, where more men died aboard a rotting prison ship than were lost to combat during the…

1 056 Kč