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Book Cover for: Dirty Works: Obscenity on Trial in America's First Sexual Revolution, Brett Gary

Dirty Works: Obscenity on Trial in America's First Sexual Revolution

Brett Gary
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Congratulations to Prof. Brett Gary, whose new book "Dirty Works" won GOLD in the U.S. History category! @IPPYmag https://t.co/V30GP6bU8f https://t.co/R5XemRE584

Hardcover, 2021

$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Legal Spectatorship: Slavery and the Visual Culture of Domestic Violence, Kelli Moore

Legal Spectatorship: Slavery and the Visual Culture of Domestic Violence

Kelli Moore
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With Legal Spectatorship, Prof. Kelli Moore positions domestic violence prosecution within the archive of slavery and black freedom. https://t.co/Ns3BxkYDpR

Paperback, 2022

$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture Volume 18, Alexander R. Galloway

Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture Volume 18

Alexander R. Galloway
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"Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture by Alexander Galloway [...] has become one of the foundational academic texts for gaming studies, and does an eloquent job of trying to pin down some of the basic ideas around what games are and how they work." https://t.co/6aaoZw1J0r

Paperback, 2006

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, Nicole R. Fleetwood

Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Nicole R. Fleetwood
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"When Nicole Fleetwood’s exhibition “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration”opened in 2020 at MoMA PS1 in New York, the show seemed to be all that anyone was talking about."

Hardcover, 2020

$39.95$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: More than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art, Kleege

More than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art

Kleege
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Kleege’s most recent book, More than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art, explores how blindness is represented in art, how it affects the lives of visual artists, and how museums can make visual art more accessible.

Paperback, 2018

$45.99$23.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: 2020 this year is best year: 2020, New Art

2020 this year is best year: 2020

New Art
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"When Nicole Fleetwood’s exhibition “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration”opened in 2020 at MoMA PS1 in New York, the show seemed to be all that anyone was talking about."

Paperback, 2019

$8.00$4.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness, Nicholas Mirzoeff

White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness

Nicholas Mirzoeff
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In his latest book White Sight (@mitpress), @nickmirzoeff reads art and visuality as both a colonizing force and as a site for imagining radical transformation. https://t.co/JPz8Dc5H85 https://t.co/Cy0o9vXzqX

Hardcover, 2023

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Media Hot and Cold, Nicole Starosielski

Media Hot and Cold

Nicole Starosielski
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Just out from @DukePress Prof Nicole Starosielski's Media Hot and Cold! 🔥 https://t.co/TX6Q2qHyyi

Paperback, 2021

$28.95$14.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era, Marita Sturken

Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era

Marita Sturken
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TODAY 4/13 @ 5PM ET Join @MaritaSturken & @nyu_ipk for a conversation about her latest book Terrorism in American Memory https://ipk.nyu.edu/events/10638/ in person + zoom!

Paperback, 2022

$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Problem of the Fetish, William Pietz

The Problem of the Fetish

William Pietz
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William Pietz's The Problem of the Fetish is collected for the 1st time in a new @UChicagoPress volume edited by MCC's Ben Kafka + Francesco Pellizzi and Stefanos Geroulanos https://t.co/Ax7xQhmXCx https://t.co/rpYtfI7U6T

Hardcover, 2022

$95.00$70.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)