About Looking
By: John Berger
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence an…
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1. Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
By: Jean Baudrillard , Sheila Faria Glaser
4.00
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
The publication of Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step t… read more
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- art
- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
"The balance of terror is the terror of balance."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
"Forgetting extermination is part of extermination."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
"But when everything is repressed, nothing is anymore."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
"Nada llegó ni llegará ahora al término de su historia."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
2. The Society of the Spectacle
By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord
4.02
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more
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- art
- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
3. Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
By: William Carlos Williams , Charles Tomlinson
4.16
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
Opening with Professor Tomlinson's superbly clear and helpful introduction this selection reflects … read more
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"they are mystified by certain instances."-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
"Sun benches at the curb bespeak another season, truncated poplars that having served for shade served also later for the fire."-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
"I have found that Lost World in the Lost and Found Columns whose gray illegible advertisements My soul has memorized world after world: LOST - NOTHING. STRAYED FROM NOWHERE. NO REWARD."-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
"When I was young and miserable and pretty And poor, I'd wish What all girls wish: to have a husband, A house and children. Now that I'm old, my wish Is womanish: That the boy putting groceries in my …"-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
4. The Famished Road
By: Ben Okri
3.73
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • A modern classic that reveals the tension between the land of the living, wit… read more
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"He danced there like an overturned centipede."-Ben Okri, The Famished Road
"It is not death that human beings are most afraid of, it is love."-Ben Okri, The Famished Road
"We must take an interest in politics. We must become spies on behalf of justice."-Ben Okri, The Famished Road
"I noticed that in a corner, across from where they ate with such innocent relish, sitting forlorn and abandoned, was the ghost of their son. He had lost both of his arms, one side of his face was squ…"-Ben Okri, The Famished Road
5. The Finkler Question
By: Howard Jacobson
2.83
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a pop… read more
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"It's never over till it's over with a friend."-Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question
"So many unhappy women out there. Such a sea of female misery."-Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question
"At a certain age men began to shrink, and yet it was precisely at that age that their trousers became too short for them."-Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question
"At any age there is future one doesn't have. Never enough life when you are happy, that was the thing. Never so much bliss that you can't take a little more."-Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question
6. Diane Arbus: Monograph
By: Diane Arbus , Doon Arbus , None , Marvin Israel
4.04
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
New technology has made possible this lustrous new printing from all new film. These landmark image… read more
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- art
- art history
- photography
- nonfiction
"what is ceremonious and curious and commonplace will be legendary."-Diane Arbus, Diane Arbus: Monograph
"The birthday party was me and her, a whore friend of hers and her pimp, and the cake."-Diane Arbus, Diane Arbus: Monograph
"I used to have a theory about photographing. It was a sense of getting in between two actions, or in between acton and repose."-Diane Arbus, Diane Arbus: Monograph
"She lives always dressed as a woman and she whores as a woman. I would never think she was a man. I can't really see the man in her. Most of the time I absolutely know but she has none of the qualiti…"-Diane Arbus, Diane Arbus: Monograph
7. Oscar and Lucinda
By: Peter Carey
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel imagines Australia's youth, before its dynamic passions be… read more
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8. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
By: Walter Benjamin , Rodney Livingstone , Michael W. Jennings , Brigid Doherty , None , Howard Eiland , Thomas Y. Levin
4.02
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
Benjamin's famous 'Work of Art' essay sets out his boldest thoughts--on media and on culture in gen… read more
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- art
- art history
- theory
- photography
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
9. Zen of Seeing: Seeing/Drawing as Meditation
By: Frederick Franck
3.26
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
A Dutch artist offers his concept of seeing and drawing as a discipline by which the world may be r… read more
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- art
- philosophy
- nonfiction
10. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
By: Roddy Doyle
3.50
Format: 0 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"Sometimes when nothing happened it was really getting ready to happen." Irish Paddy rampages throu… read more
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11. Moon Tiger
By: Penelope Lively
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history, lies alone in a London hospi… read more
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"We all act as hinges - fortuitous links between other people."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"God," she says, 'is an unprincipled bastard, wouldn't you agree?"-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"I've grown old with this century; there's not much left of either of us."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
12. Anatomy for the Artist
By: Sarah Simblet
3.77
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Specially taken photographs show the construction of the human body while underlying anatomical str… read more
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- art
- photography
- nonfiction
13. About Looking
By: John Berger
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence an… read more
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- art
- art history
- theory
- photography
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
14. The Last Nude
By: Ellis Avery
3.79
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
A stunning story of love, sexual obsession, treachery, and tragedy, about an artist and her most fa… read more
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15. Chopsticks
By: Rodrigo Corral , None
3.19
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
After her mother died, Glory retreated into herself and her music. Her single father raised her as … read more
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16. The Medium is the Massage
By: Marshall McLuhan , Quentin Fiore , Jerome Agel
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Medium is the Massageis Marshall McLuhan's most condensed, and perhaps most effective, presenta… read more
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17. Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
By: Hannah Arendt , Walter Benjamin , Harry Zohn
3.89
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds … read more
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18. The Ghost Road (Regeneration, #3)
By: Pat Barker
4.24
Format: 200 pages,
Winner of the Booker Prize, The Ghost Roadis the brilliant conclusion to Pat Barker's World War I f… read more
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19. On Photography
By: Susan Sontag
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually … read more
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- art
- art history
- theory
- photography
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Cameras miniaturize experience, transform history into spectacle."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Una fotografía es a la vez una pseudopresencia y un signo de ausencia."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
20. Mythologies
By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… read more
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21. Last Orders
By: Graham Swift
3.82
Format: 287 pages,
Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to h… read more
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