Brian E Dillon

For the Love of Mike

Brian Dillon has fashioned a most lovable abuse victim into a ten-year-old Indy Jones. But in 1950’s Irish Catholic Boston the enemies aren’t Nazis but constant temptation, penalties for succumbing, and those waging war on sin to conceal their own. “For the Love of Mike” is a vivid account of Cathol...

Ruin Lust

Ruin Lust offers a guide to the mournful, thrilling, comic, and perverse uses of ruins in art from the 17th century to the present day. This book, which accompanied a major Tate Britain exhibition, includes more than 100 works by artists such as J. M. W Turner, John Constable, John Martin, Eduardo P...

Ruins (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)

The "ruins" of the modern era are the landmarks of recent art's turn toward site and situation, history and memory. The abiding interest of artists in ruination and decay has led in particular to the concept of the modern ruin--an ambiguous site of artistic and architectural modernism, personal and ...

Practical Archaeology: Field and laboratory techniques and logistics (ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH TOOLS)

Useful and instructive papers advocating the value of practical considerations in the field, addressing common problems from the real world of archaeology and proposing real solutions that have proven successful through trial and error. Includes papers on the chemical reduction of clay matrices, met...

The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives

Charlotte Brontë found in her illnesses, real and imagined, an escape from familial and social duties, and the perfect conditions for writing. The German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber believed his body was being colonized and transformed at the hands of God and doctors alike. Andy Warhol was terrified...

Sorted Books

Delighting in the look and feel of books, conceptual artist Nina Katchadourian's playful photographic series proves that books' covers—or more specifically, their spines—can speak volumes. Over the past two decades, Katchadourian has perused libraries across the globe, selecting, stacking, and photo...

Brian Eno: Visual Music

This comprehensive monograph celebrates the visual art of renowned musician Brian Eno. Spanning more than 40 years, Brian Eno: Visual Music weaves a dialogue between Eno's museum and gallery installations and his musical endeavors—all illustrated with never-before-published archival materials such a...

I Am Sitting in a Room (Twenty-Four Hour Books)

The inaugural volume in Cabinet’s new 24-Hour Book series, I Am Sitting in a Room―written and designed in one day―explores the scenography and architecture of writing itself. Inspired in part by Georges Perec’s short fragment in Species of Spaces on Antonello da Messina’s painting of St. Jerome in h...

Central European Industry in the Information Age

Salinas De Los Nueve Cerros Guatemala

Cabinet: Ruins

Cabinet 26: Magic

Raw Among the Ruins

The Student's Guide to Archaeological Illustrating

Archaeology of the Three Springs Valley California: A Study in Functional Culture History

The Student's Guide to Archaeological Illustrating