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  • Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity

    by Laura Katzman, Beatriz Cordero Martín, Christof Decker, John Fagg ...
    A richly illustrated new exploration of the painting, photography, and illustration of the politically progressive American artistBen Shahn, On Nonconformity offers a fresh and wide-ranging account of the work of Ben Shahn (1898–1969), a Jewish immigrant from Russian-controlled Lithuania who became one of America’s most prominent and prolific “social viewpoint” artists from the Great Depression ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

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  • The Free World

    Art and Thought in the Cold War

    by Louis Menand ...
    "An engrossing and impossibly wide-ranging project . . . In The Free World, every seat is a good one." —Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post**"The Free World sparkles. Fully original, beautifully written . . . One hopes Menand has a sequel in mind. The bar is set very high." —David Oshinsky, The New York Times Book Review | Editors' ChoiceOne of The New York Times's 100 best books of 2021 | One of ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • The Torchlight List

    Around the World in 200 Books

    by Jim Flynn ...
    In today’s world it seems that everywhere we turn we are saturated with book recommendations from talk shows, magazines, radio shows, friends, and top ten lists. But which books are really the best, and what effects do the books we read have on our intelligence? The Torchlight List has the answers. A professor for over forty years, Jim Flynn was concerned when he saw that his students were reading ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Photography Fifth Edition

    A Cultural History

    by Mary Warner Marien ...
    The fifth edition of this indispensable history of photography spans the history of the medium, from its early development to current practice, and providing a focused understanding of the cultural contexts in which photographers have lived and worked throughout, this remains an all-encompassing survey.Mary Warner Marien discusses photography from around the world and through the lenses of art, ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Visual Shock

    A History of Art Controversies in American Culture

    by Michael Kammen ...
    In this lively narrative, award-winning author Michael Kammen presents a fascinating analysis of cutting-edge art and artists and their unique ability to both delight and provoke us. He illuminates America’s obsession with public memorials and the changing role of art and museums in our society. From Thomas Eakins’s 1875 masterpiece The Gross Clinic, (considered “too big, bold, and gory” when ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

  • Fascism Comes to America

    A Century of Obsession in Politics and Culture

    by Bruce Kuklick ...
    "Demonstrates successfully how the concept of fascism has changed its meaning and its place in American political discourse." ― The NationFrom the time Mussolini took power in Italy in 1922, Americans have been obsessed with the meaning of fascism and how it might migrate to the United States. Fascism Comes to America examines how we have viewed fascism overseas and its implications for our own ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hermit in Paris

    by Italo Calvino ...
    This collection of journals, interviews and travelogues by the author of Invisible Cities has "something fascinating on every page" ( The Guardian, UK).This posthumously published collection offers a unique, puzzle-like portrait of one of the postwar era's most inventive and mercurial writers. In letters and journals, occasional pieces and interviews, Italo Calvino recalls growing up in seaside ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mark Rothko

    Toward the Light in the Chapel

    by Annie Cohen-Solal ...
    Series series Jewish Lives
    Mark Rothko, one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, was born in the Jewish Pale of Settlement in 1903. He immigrated to the United States at age ten, taking with him his Talmudic education and his memories of pogroms and persecutions in Russia. His integration into American society began with a series of painful experiences, especially as a student at Yale, where he felt ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Gotham at War

    A History of New York City from 1933 to 1945

    by Mike Wallace ...
    The culminating volume in the acclaimed Gotham series, Gotham at War delivers an unforgettable portrait of America's greatest city during history's most catastrophic conflict. Gotham at War unveils the history of New York and the Second World War, from isolationism and factionalism to crucible of the American effort and the Allied Cause in a total and global war. Kaleidoscopic and immersive, ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Shores of Bohemia

    A Cape Cod Story

    by John Williams ...
    An intimate portrait of a legendary generation of artists, writers, activists, and dreamers who created a utopia on the shores of Cape Cod during the first half of the twentieth century.Their names are iconic: Eugene O'Neill, Willem de Kooning, Josef and Anni Albers, Emma Goldman, Mary McCarthy, Edward Hopper, Walter Gropius—the list goes on and on. Scorning the devastation that industrialization ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Not Like Us

    How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, And Transformed American Culture Since World War II

    by Richard Pells ...
    Debunking the myth of the "Americanization" of Europe, a noted historian presents an authoritative and engrossing cultural history of how America tried to remake Europe in its own image, and how the Europeans successfully retained their identity in the face of American mass culture. Pells provides a new paradigm for understanding the survival of local and national cultures in a global setting. ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • ArtSpeak

    A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1945 to the Present

    by Robert Atkins ...
    The leading lexicon of contemporary art returns in an expanded, full-color third edition.An indispensable guide for art-world neophytes and seasoned professionals alike, the best-selling ArtSpeak returns in a revised and expanded third edition, illustrated in full color. Nearly 150 alphabetical entries—30 of them new to this edition—explain the who, what, where, and when of postwar and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD