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  • What Comes After Farce?

    Art and Criticism at a Time of Debacle

    by Hal Foster ...
    Surveying the artistic and cultural scene in the era of TrumpIn a world where truth is cast in doubt and shame has gone missing, what are artists and critics on the left to do? How to demystify a political order that laughs away its own contradictions? How to mock leaders who thrive on the absurd? And why, in any event, offer more outrage to a media economy that feeds on the same?Such questions ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Fail Better

    Reckonings with Artists and Critics

    by Hal Foster ...
    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.“Serious art anticipates the future as much as it reflects the present,” Hal Foster remarked in a 2015 interview. “By the same token serious art history is driven by the present as much as it is informed by the past.” In Fail Better, ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Brutal Aesthetics

    Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg

    by Hal Foster ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    How artists created an aesthetic of “positive barbarism” in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bombIn Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian Hal Foster explores how postwar artists and writers searched for a new foundation of culture after the massive devastation of World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb. Inspired by the notion that modernist art can ... Read more

    $58.29 CAD

  • Bad New Days

    Art, Criticism, Emergency

    by Hal Foster ...
    One of the world’s leading art theorists dissects a quarter century of artistic practiceBad New Days examines the evolution of art and criticism in Western Europe and North America over the last twenty-five years, exploring their dynamic relation to the general condition of emergency instilled by neoliberalism and the war on terror.Considering the work of artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Tacita ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Art-Architecture Complex

    by Hal Foster ...
    Hal Foster, author of the acclaimed Design and Crime, argues that a fusion of architecture and art is a defining feature of contemporary culture. He identifies a “global style” of architecture—as practiced by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano—analogous to the international style of Le Corbusier, Gropius and Mies.More than any art, today’s global style conveys both the dreams and ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Junkspace with Running Room

    by Rem Koolhaas, Hal Foster ...
    Junkspace first appeared in the Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping (2001), a vast compendium of text, images, and data concerning the consumerist transformation of city and suburb from the first department store to the latest mega mall. The architect Rem Koolhaas itemized in delirious detail how our cities are being overwhelmed. His celebrated jeremiad is updated here and twinned with Running ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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    Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat

    Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals

    by Hal Herzog ...
    Narrated by James Anderson Foster ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 23 min

    “A fascinating, thoughtful, and thoroughly enjoyable exploration of a major dimension of human experience.”— Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind WorksA maverick scientist reveals the inconsistent and often paradoxical ways humans think, feel, and behave towards animals in this engaging, informative, and though-provoking book, now newly revised.Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat is a highly ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • An Unsung Cat

    The Life and Music of Warne Marsh

    by Safford Chamberlain, Hal Leonard Publications ...
    Series series Studies in Jazz
    An Unsung Cat explores the life and music of jazz saxophonist, Warne Marsh. Safford Chamberlain follows the artist from his start in youth bands like the Hollywood Canteen Kids and The Teen-Agers through his studies under Lennie Tristano, his brilliant playing of the 1950s, his disappearance from public view in the 1960s, his re-emergence in the 1970s, and his belated recognition in the 1980s as ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

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    From an historian who advised on the BBC's Wolf Hall, an erudite romp through the intimate details of life in Tudor England. ... Read more

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    Homewreckers

    How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream

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    In the spirit of Evicted, Bait and Switch, and The Big Short, a shocking, heart-wrenching investigation into America’s housing crisis and the modern-day robber barons who are making a fortune off the backs of the disenfranchised working and middle class—among them, Donald Trump and his inner circle.Two years before the housing market collapsed in 2008, Donald Trump looked forward to a crash: “I ... Read more

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    The Age of Caesar

    Five Roman Lives

    by Plutarch ...
    Narrated by Michael Page ...

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    Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Antony: the names still resonate across thousands of years. Major figures in the civil wars that brutally ended the Roman republic, their lives pose a question that haunts us still: how to safeguard a republic from the flaws of its leaders.This edition of Plutarch delivers a fresh translation of notable clarity, explanatory notes, and ample historical context. ... Read more

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    Clutter

    An Untidy History

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    "I'm sitting on the floor in my mother's house, surrounded by stuff."So begins Jennifer Howard's Clutter, an expansive assessment of our relationship to the things that share and shape our lives. Sparked by the painful two-year process of cleaning out her mother's house in the wake of a devastating physical and emotional collapse, Howard sets her own personal struggle with clutter against a ... Read more

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