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eBooks can be found in the Decker Library catalog and read online. Search for books and select "Available Online." If you're off-campus, you'll need to sign in for access.
eBooks can be read online using a laptop, phone, or tablet -- or, they can be downloaded to read offline using this guide.
Black Art in Brazil: Expressions of Identify by 
Inspiring Writing in Art and Design: Taking a Line for a Write by 
Installation and the Moving Image by 
Life and Death: Art and the Body in Contemporary China by 
Miranda July's Intermedial Art: The Creative Class Between Self-Help and Individualism by
This first in-depth study of Miranda July's work reveals some of its major motives and consequently provides fascinating insights into the lifestyle of the contemporary white Californian middle class. Through an analysis of July's award-winning intermedial work, the author lays open how July takes individualism and self-help as constitutive for the creative class.
Practising with Deleuze: Design, Dance, Art, Writing, Philosophy by 
Writing On Drawing: Essays On Drawing Practice and Research by 
Allora & Calzadilla: Puerto Rican Light by
Introduction / Jessica Morgan -- In the light of art history / Yasmil Raymond -- Cave art and climate debt : the geopolitics of Puerto Rican light / Yates McKee -- All together now / Molly Nesbit -- The portable cave / Spyros Papapetros -- Becoming parasite / Manuel Cirauqui -- Ecosemiotics of art : whether nature may be beautified / Kalevi Kull -- Lighting up the dark : the impact of lighting on bats / Emma Stone -- Who's got the power? / Sharon Beder -- Spectral causality / Timothy Morton -- The operators call them angels / Michael Taussig -- Psycho-architecture of light and darkness / Franco "Bifo" Berardi -- The intolerable dictatorship of matter
Artistic License: The Philosophical Problems of Copyright and Appropriation by
Contents:
Culture clashes -- Ontology, copyright, and artistic practice -- The myth of unoriginality -- Authorship, power, and responsibility -- Toward an ontology of authored works -- The rights of authors -- The rights of others -- Appropriation and transformation -- Afterword
Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952-1982 by 
Experience: Culture, Cognition, and the Common Sense by 
Homemade Academic Circus: Idiosyncratically Embodied Explorations Into Research in the Arts and Circus by
What happens if, rather than going from art to academia, one would go from academia to art? Which cultural and paradigmatic shocks would that produce, and how would that influence the researcher's understanding of knowledge and thinking?
Howardena Pindell: What Remains To Be Seen by
This monograph ... highlights Pindell's work with photography, film, and performance. Excerpts from the artist's writing, in particular her critique of the art world and her responses to feminism and racial politics, provide prescient commentary in light of conversations around equality and inclusion today.
Lee Jin Woo by
Korean-born, Paris-based painter Lee Jin Woo takes an unusual approach, superimposing layer upon layer of traditional Korean paper, hanji, with figures in ink, natural pigments or coarsely crushed charcoal in between. This monograph presents his hybrids of tableau and sculpture.
The milk of dreams = Il latte dei sogni: Biennale arte 2022 by 
Otobong Nkanga: Luster and Lucre
Published following the exhibitions "Crumbling through powdery air" held at the Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, July 16 - September 6, 2015; "Comot your eyes make I borrow you mine", KADIST, Paris, September 27 - December 20, 2015 ; "Bruises and Lustre", M HKA, Antwerpen, October 16, 2015 - January 17, 2016.
Queering the Subversive Stitch: Men and the Culture of Needlework by If we don't have a book or video you need, we can usually borrow it from another library. We also get articles this way. This is known as Interlibrary Loan. For questions about interlibrary loan, contact ill@mica.edu. To place an ILL request, use the form below.
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