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The Additional Element in Architecture
The Additional Element in Architecture
On Kazimir Malevich’s Arkhitektons and Planits
ISBN: 9780262548908
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 13, 2025
An ingenious reconstruction—and revealing analysis through “visual archaeology”—of avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich's lost arkhitektons.
Against Reason
Tony Smith, Architecture, and Other Modernisms
ISBN: 9780262551380
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 29, 2025
Original essays and visual arts projects that explore the understudied breadth and richness of American artist Tony Smith's work in architecture.
Tony Smith Sculpture
Catalogue Raisonné Volume 1
ISBN: 9780262049122
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 8, 2024
Documenting the extraordinary breadth of sculptural production by American artist Tony Smith (1912–1980), this comprehensive book reveals the depth and complexity of Smith's oeuvre as well as the vast range of his intellectual pursuits.
Russian Cosmism
ISBN: 9780262552882
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 20, 2024
Crucial texts, many available in English for the first time, written before and during the Bolshevik Revolution by the radical biopolitical utopianists of Russian Cosmism.
Cabarets of Death
Death, Dance and Dining in Early Twentieth-Century Paris
ISBN: 9781907222269
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: February 13, 2024
Three idiosyncratically macabre cabaret-restaurants in Monmartre, each with its own grotesque portrayal of the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness.
Emergency Money
Notgeld in the Image Economy of the German Inflation, 1914–1923
ISBN: 9780262546805
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 23, 2024
A landmark art historical study of German Notgeld, the emergency money produced during World War I, and the hyperinflation that followed.
Austin Osman Spare, revised edition
Austin Osman Spare
The Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist
ISBN: 9781913689650
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: November 21, 2023
A revised edition of Phil Baker's critically lauded biography of artist and occultist, Austin Osman Spare.
Mondrian’s Dress
Yves Saint Laurent, Piet Mondrian, and Pop Art
ISBN: 9780262048354
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 24, 2023
An extraordinary look at how the style of Piet Mondrian's abstract paintings was posthumously appropriated by 1960s fashion, Pop art, and consumer culture.
Narrating the Globe
The Emergence of World Histories of Architecture
ISBN: 9780262047975
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 24, 2023
How notions of progress, beauty, and cultural superiority structured the genre of nineteenth-century world histories of architecture—and shaped the discipline as we know it today.
Catalog Design Progress, facsimile edition
Catalog Design Progress
Advancing Standards in Visual Communication
ISBN: 9780262049061
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 22, 2023
A meticulously created facsimile edition of a classic work on design by the progenitor of today's information design.
The Additional Element in Architecture
The Additional Element in Architecture
On Kazimir Malevich’s Arkhitektons and Planits
ISBN: 9780262548908
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 13, 2025
Against Reason
Tony Smith, Architecture, and Other Modernisms
ISBN: 9780262551380
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 29, 2025
Tony Smith Sculpture
Catalogue Raisonné Volume 1
ISBN: 9780262049122
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 8, 2024
Russian Cosmism
ISBN: 9780262552882
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 20, 2024
Cabarets of Death
Death, Dance and Dining in Early Twentieth-Century Paris
ISBN: 9781907222269
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: February 13, 2024
Emergency Money
Notgeld in the Image Economy of the German Inflation, 1914–1923
ISBN: 9780262546805
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 23, 2024
Austin Osman Spare, revised edition
Austin Osman Spare
The Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist
ISBN: 9781913689650
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: November 21, 2023
Mondrian’s Dress
Yves Saint Laurent, Piet Mondrian, and Pop Art
ISBN: 9780262048354
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 24, 2023
Narrating the Globe
The Emergence of World Histories of Architecture
ISBN: 9780262047975
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 24, 2023
Catalog Design Progress, facsimile edition
Catalog Design Progress
Advancing Standards in Visual Communication
ISBN: 9780262049061
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 22, 2023