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        What Black Is This You Say?

        What Black Is This You Say?

        What Black Is This You Say?

        Edited by Amanda Williams

        ISBN: 9780262049344

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 15, 2025

        An illustrated anthology of texts on artist Amanda Williams, edited in collaboration with Camille Bacon.
        Fail Better

        Fail Better

        Fail Better

        Reckonings with Artists and Critics

        by Hal Foster

        ISBN: 9780262552356

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 25, 2025

        From the distinguished art critic and historian, vital essays on key artists and critics, revealing how they redefined art and criticism over the last six decades.
        Sanya Kantarovsky

        Sanya Kantarovsky

        Sanya Kantarovsky

        Selected Works 2010–2024

        by George Baker, Isabelle Graw, Sanya Kantarovsky and Jamieson Webster

        ISBN: 9780262048729

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 29, 2024

        An arresting and visually rich monograph of the work of contemporary artist Sanya Kantarovsky.
        A Book about Ray

        A Book about Ray

        A Book about Ray

        by Ellen Levy

        ISBN: 9780262048743

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 15, 2024

        The first full-career survey of the idiosyncratic life and work of Ray Johnson, a collagist, performance artist, and pioneer of mail art.
        Cheyney Thompson

        Cheyney Thompson

        Cheyney Thompson

        Passages

        by Christian Schaernack

        Translated by Ben Caton

        ISBN: 9780262047272

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 23, 2023

        One of the first book-length publications on contemporary artist Cheyney Thompson, whose work is known for its radically forward-looking intellectualism and formal rigor.
        Sol LeWitt’s Studio Drawings in the Vecchia Torre

        Sol LeWitt’s Studio Drawings in the Vecchia Torre

        Sol LeWitt’s Studio Drawings in the Vecchia Torre

        by Rye Dag Holmboe

        Photographs by Joschi Herczeg

        ISBN: 9780262047623

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 25, 2023

        An intimate look at American artist Sol LeWitt's masterpiece of conceptual art, drawn on the walls of a medieval tower in Italy.
        Helen Chadwick

        Helen Chadwick

        Helen Chadwick

        The Oval Court

        by Marina Warner

        ISBN: 9781846382512

        Publisher: Afterall Books

        Pub Date: September 13, 2022

        An illustrated exploration of Helen Chadwick's erotic, playful, and fierce 1986 installation.
        Donald Judd

        Donald Judd

        Donald Judd

        Edited by Annie Ochmanek and Alex Kitnick

        ISBN: 9780262539456

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 2, 2021

        Artists, architects, art historians, critics, and curators explore the work of Donald Judd as both artist and critic in essays spanning all of Judd's career.
        Visionary New England

        Visionary New England

        Visionary New England

        Edited by Sarah J. Montross

        ISBN: 9780262043984

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: June 2, 2020

        Connecting New England's historical spiritualist and utopian traditions—from Brook Farm to Harvard's LSD research—to work by contemporary artists with regional ties.
        Sharon Lockhart

        Sharon Lockhart

        Sharon Lockhart

        Pine Flat

        by Howard Singerman

        ISBN: 9781846382031

        Publisher: Afterall Books

        Pub Date: February 18, 2020

        A nuanced reading of an artwork that explores a place, transitory and pastoral, where childhood might be lived and imagined differently
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