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Alan Dunn
The Cartoonist as Architectural Critic
ISBN: 9780262052597
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 28, 2026
The first in-depth study of American artist Alan Dunn (1900–1974), whose incisive cartoons mocked twentieth-century architecture and urban environments, expanding the field of architectural criticism.
Glenn Ligon
ISBN: 9780262052627
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 21, 2026
How contemporary artist Glenn Ligon’s expansive body of work mines American history and literature to ask critical questions about modern culture.
Pierre Huyghe
ISBN: 9780262052658
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 14, 2026
The first collection of critical writings on the work of the influential contemporary French artist Pierre Huyghe.
Exposing Violence
Media Practices and Aesthetics of Radical Truth
ISBN: 9780262053464
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 31, 2026
How small groups and grassroots collectives can act for justice and leverage contemporary media to document violence.
The Society of the Screen
Vilém Flusser’s Radical Prescience
ISBN: 9780262051224
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 17, 2026
How a lifelong engagement with experimental art informed the brilliant Czech-Brazilian philosopher Vilém Flusser’s early vision of a world dominated by glowing screens.
Compression
ISBN: 9781915609793
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: February 3, 2026
Artmaking since the turn of the millennium, using compression algorithms as a descriptive tool.
Cream Psychosis
ISBN: 9781915609045
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: December 2, 2025
When an empire is lurching to a halt at its very end, it might be the moment when it begins, or is forced, to re-imagine its relationship to a national insanity.
Standpoint Autotheory
Writing Embodied Experiences and Relational Artistic Practice
ISBN: 9781915609649
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: December 2, 2025
Twelve artists explore radically self-reflexive research attitudes integrating embodied experiences within the production of theory.
The Cory Arcangel Hack
Digital Culture and Aesthetic Practice
ISBN: 9780262552547
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 4, 2025
The first in-depth exploration of the work of artist Cory Arcangel, a pioneer of DIY-new media art whose influential “hacks” subvert the confines of Big Tech.
Sensual Laboratories
Light Shows, Experimental Film, and Psychedelic Art
ISBN: 9781913689872
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: October 28, 2025
An innovative counter-history that places the liquid light show at the heart of a new understanding of experimental audio-visual art in the 1960s.
Alan Dunn
The Cartoonist as Architectural Critic
ISBN: 9780262052597
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 28, 2026
The first in-depth study of American artist Alan Dunn (1900–1974), whose incisive cartoons mocked twentieth-century architecture and urban environments, expanding the field of architectural criticism.
Glenn Ligon
ISBN: 9780262052627
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 21, 2026
How contemporary artist Glenn Ligon’s expansive body of work mines American history and literature to ask critical questions about modern culture.
Pierre Huyghe
ISBN: 9780262052658
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 14, 2026
The first collection of critical writings on the work of the influential contemporary French artist Pierre Huyghe.
Exposing Violence
Media Practices and Aesthetics of Radical Truth
ISBN: 9780262053464
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 31, 2026
How small groups and grassroots collectives can act for justice and leverage contemporary media to document violence.
The Society of the Screen
Vilém Flusser’s Radical Prescience
ISBN: 9780262051224
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 17, 2026
How a lifelong engagement with experimental art informed the brilliant Czech-Brazilian philosopher Vilém Flusser’s early vision of a world dominated by glowing screens.
Compression
ISBN: 9781915609793
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: February 3, 2026
Artmaking since the turn of the millennium, using compression algorithms as a descriptive tool.
Cream Psychosis
ISBN: 9781915609045
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: December 2, 2025
When an empire is lurching to a halt at its very end, it might be the moment when it begins, or is forced, to re-imagine its relationship to a national insanity.
Standpoint Autotheory
Writing Embodied Experiences and Relational Artistic Practice
ISBN: 9781915609649
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: December 2, 2025
Twelve artists explore radically self-reflexive research attitudes integrating embodied experiences within the production of theory.
The Cory Arcangel Hack
Digital Culture and Aesthetic Practice
ISBN: 9780262552547
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 4, 2025
The first in-depth exploration of the work of artist Cory Arcangel, a pioneer of DIY-new media art whose influential “hacks” subvert the confines of Big Tech.
Sensual Laboratories
Light Shows, Experimental Film, and Psychedelic Art
ISBN: 9781913689872
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: October 28, 2025
An innovative counter-history that places the liquid light show at the heart of a new understanding of experimental audio-visual art in the 1960s.