BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers
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Under Blue Cup
ISBN: 9780262551236
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 6, 2024
A personal journey leads a celebrated critic to discover “knights of the medium,” contemporary artists who battle the aesthetic meaninglessness of the post-medium condition.
Melancholy Wedgwood
ISBN: 9780262546348
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 23, 2024
An experimental biography of the ceramics entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood that reveals the tenuous relationship of eighteenth-century England to late-capitalist modernity.
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.
Sandfuture
ISBN: 9780262543095
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 14, 2021
An account of the life and work of the architect Minoru Yamasaki that leads the author to consider how (and for whom) architectural history is written.
Doomed and Famous
Selected Obituaries
ISBN: 9780997567472
Publisher: Sequence Press
Pub Date: February 2, 2021
An obituarist opens his archive to celebrate the obscure and the eccentric.
Konrad Wachsmann's Television
Post-architectural Transmissions
ISBN: 9783956795350
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: February 2, 2021
A novel reading of the work of one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century.
Ithell Colquhoun
Genius of The Fern Loved Gully
ISBN: 9781907222863
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: November 24, 2020
The first in-depth biographical study of the British surrealist and occultist Ithell Colquhoun,
Murderous Passions, revised and expanded edition
Murderous Passions
The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco
ISBN: 9781907222917
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: February 4, 2020
Extensive coverage of film guru Jesús Franco's kinky horror films and career from 1953 to 1974.
Richard Roe
A Memoir of a Legal Person
ISBN: 9783956794643
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: June 18, 2019
The fictional memoir of a legal person—potentially everyone and actually no one.
Under Blue Cup
ISBN: 9780262551236
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 6, 2024
A personal journey leads a celebrated critic to discover “knights of the medium,” contemporary artists who battle the aesthetic meaninglessness of the post-medium condition.
Melancholy Wedgwood
ISBN: 9780262546348
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 23, 2024
An experimental biography of the ceramics entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood that reveals the tenuous relationship of eighteenth-century England to late-capitalist modernity.
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.
Sandfuture
ISBN: 9780262543095
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 14, 2021
An account of the life and work of the architect Minoru Yamasaki that leads the author to consider how (and for whom) architectural history is written.
Doomed and Famous
Selected Obituaries
ISBN: 9780997567472
Publisher: Sequence Press
Pub Date: February 2, 2021
An obituarist opens his archive to celebrate the obscure and the eccentric.
Konrad Wachsmann's Television
Post-architectural Transmissions
ISBN: 9783956795350
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: February 2, 2021
A novel reading of the work of one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century.
Ithell Colquhoun
Genius of The Fern Loved Gully
ISBN: 9781907222863
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: November 24, 2020
The first in-depth biographical study of the British surrealist and occultist Ithell Colquhoun,
Murderous Passions, revised and expanded edition
Murderous Passions
The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco
ISBN: 9781907222917
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: February 4, 2020
Extensive coverage of film guru Jesús Franco's kinky horror films and career from 1953 to 1974.
Richard Roe
A Memoir of a Legal Person
ISBN: 9783956794643
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: June 18, 2019
The fictional memoir of a legal person—potentially everyone and actually no one.