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About Looking
John Berger
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Affect/Marcel
Marcel Duchamp et al.
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Ai Weiwei’s Blog: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006–2009
Ai Weiwei
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Air Guitar
Dave Hickey
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American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life
Carrie Barratt et al.
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American Visions
Robert Hughes
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Ant Farm
Felicity Scott
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The Anti-Aesthetic
Hal Foster, ed.
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The Arcades Project
Walter Benjamin
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Are Clothes Modern?
Bernard Rudofsky
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Art & Fear
David Bayles et al.
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Art and Politics in the Weimar Period
John Willett
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Art and Visual Perception
Rudolf Arnheim
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The Art of Florence
Glenn M. Andres et al.
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Art of the Natural World
Robert Rosenblum
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Artists at Work: Inside the Studios of Today’s Most Celebrated Artists
David Seidner
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Arts & Architecture: The Entenza Years
Barbara Goldstein, ed.
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At the Edge of History
William Irwin Thompson
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
Benvenuto Cellini
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Barcelona
Robert Hughes
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Bart van der Leck
Toos van Kooten
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Basquiat
Marc Mayer, ed.
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The Bauhaus Reassessed: Sources and Design Theory
Gillian Naylor
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Brice Marden: A Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings
Gary Garrels, et al.
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The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even
Marcel Duchamp et al.
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Brunelleschi (Masters of Italian Art)
Peter Gartner
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Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi: Best of Friends
Shoji Sadao
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Cent ans d’histoire de France
Emmanuel Berl
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China Diary
David Hockney et al.
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Churches in Rock
Georg Gerster
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Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills
Cindy Sherman
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Cinema 1: The Movement-Image
Gilles Deleuze
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Cinema 2: The Time-Image
Gilles Deleuze
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The Classic
Frank Kermode
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Cleopatra’s Nose
Daniel J. Boorstin
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The Clock
Christian Marclay
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Conformismo e Trasgressione
Annamaria Andreoli
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The Culture of the Copy
Hillel Schwartz
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The Cut-Outs of Henri Matisse
John Elderfield
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Cy Twombly: Zeichnungen 1953–1973
Cy Twombly et al.
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