bookshop
specialist publications

The John Hansard Gallery boasts one of the best specialist arts bookshops in the region with an impressive range of texts on, amongst other things, art history, art theory, architecture and design, film studies, cultural studies and museum studies. The shop also stocks a number of artist’s monographs, exhibition catalogues, specialist magazines, cards and postcards.

art history

titles include:-

A Concise History of Modern Painting by Herbert Read (Thames & Hudson) £6.95
British Art Since 1900 by Francis Spalding (Thames & Hudson) £7.99
Movements in Art Since 1945 by Edward Lucie-Smith (Thames & Hudson) £6.95
The Story of Modern Art by Lynton (Phaidon Press) £14.95


art theory

titles include:-

Conceptual Modern Art: a critical anthology by Alberro & Stimson (MIT Press) £20.50
Interpreting Contemporary Art by Bann & Allen (Reaktion Press) £9.95
Six Years — the dematerialisation of the art object by Lucy Lippard (Wiley) £12.50
Women, Art and Society by Whitney Chadwick (Thames and Hudson) £9.95


cultural theory

titles include:-

Intellectuals and Global Culture (Angelaki) £7.95
The Complicities of Culture: hybridity and the ‘new internationalism’ (Cornerhouse) £2.50
Mirage: enigmas of race, difference and desire (ICA & inIVA) £8.99
Risk and Blame: essays in Cultural Theory (Routledge) £15.99


architecture and design

titles include:-

Architects in Cyberspace (Academy Group Ltd.) £14.95
Park Life: urban parks and social renewal (Comedia & Demos) £15.00


film studies

titles include:-

A History of Experimental Film and Video (British Film Institute) £14.95
Experimental Cinema in the Digital Age (British Film Institute) £17.95
Shocking Entertainment: viewer response to violent movies (University of Luton Press) £15.00
Video Critical: children, the environment and media power (University of Luton Press) £18.00


museum studies

titles include:-

Beyond the Museum: art, institutions, people (MOMA) £12.00
Curating the Contemporary Art Museum and Beyond (Academy Group Ltd.) £19.95
How to Visit a Museum (Abrams) £7.95
On Museum’s Ruins (MIT Press) £16.95


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