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        Huguette Caland

        Huguette Caland

        Huguette Caland

        by Omar Kholeif

        Afterword by Brigitte Caland

        ISBN: 9781915609724

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: December 2, 2025

        An enchanting convening of texts and images, diaries and epistles celebrating a unique voice and ongoing dialogue around the erotics of art.
        Monumental

        Monumental

        Monumental

        How a New Generation of Artists Is Shaping the Memorial Landscape

        by Cat Dawson

        ISBN: 9780262049757

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 5, 2025

        How recent shifts in social politics have dramatically changed our relationship to monuments.
        More Butch Heroes

        More Butch Heroes

        More Butch Heroes

        by Ria Brodell

        Foreword by Chris E. Vargas

        With S. E. Fleenor

        ISBN: 9780262049870

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 29, 2025

        The much-anticipated sequel to Butch Heroes, an ingenious retelling of history that combines portraits and texts to recover—and celebrate—queer subjects from around the world.
        Picturing Aura

        Picturing Aura

        Picturing Aura

        A Visual Biography

        by Jeremy Stolow

        ISBN: 9780262551748

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 1, 2025

        The remarkable history of efforts to visualize the human aura and the lives of its pictures in religion, science, art, and culture.
        Lalitha Lajmi

        Lalitha Lajmi

        Lalitha Lajmi

        by Skye Arundhati-Thomas

        ISBN: 9781915609342

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: March 4, 2025

        The first published monograph on the late Indian artist Lalitha Lajmi and her captivating self-portraits.
        Time Machines

        Time Machines

        Time Machines

        Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France

        by Richard Taws

        ISBN: 9780262049184

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 21, 2025

        A riveting exploration of the relationship between art and telegraphy, and its implications for understanding time and history in nineteenth-century France.
        Ines Doujak

        Ines Doujak

        Ines Doujak

        Twisted Language

        Edited by Ines Doujak

        Foreword by What, How & for Whom/WHW

        ISBN: 9781915609328

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: October 22, 2024

        A close examination of the realities of the current economic, microbiological, and ecological crises through political and aesthetic strategies.
        Magda Stawarska

        Magda Stawarska

        Magda Stawarska

        by Omar Kholeif

        Afterword by Lubaina Himid

        ISBN: 9781915609298

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: August 20, 2024

        A critical biography of artist Magda Stawarska via a series of journeys—from the streets of Istanbul to the canals of Venice and across the waters of Zanzibar.
        Things That Move

        Things That Move

        Things That Move

        A Hinterland in Architectural History

        by Tim Anstey

        ISBN: 9780262547505

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 23, 2024

        A history of architecture, not as the art of what stays but of what changes and moves.
        Origins, Imitation, Conventions

        Origins, Imitation, Conventions

        Origins, Imitation, Conventions

        Representation in the Visual Arts

        by James S. Ackerman

        ISBN: 9780262551519

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 19, 2024

        Twelve studies by eminent art historian James S. Ackerman.
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