Art & Politics

What is a 'symbolic revolution'? What happens when a symbolic revolutions occurs, how can it succeed and prevail and why is it so difficult to understand? Using the exemplary case of Edouard Manet, Pierre Bourdieu began to ponder these questions as early...

A Telegraph Book of the YearA Guardian Book of the YearA Shindig Book of the Year A Virgin Radio Book of the YearAwarded the certificate of merit in the 2023 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for ExcellenceIn 1970, pop was in trouble. The...

Keith Haring (1958 -1990) is widely recognised for his colourful paintings, drawings, sculptures and murals. Haring exploded onto the early 1980s New York art scene with his vivid graffiti-inspired drawings, many of which found exposure in the public...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909829077Author See Red MembersFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Four Corners BooksPublisher Four Corners Books

One of the key figures in the New York art world of the 1980s, Keith Haring (1958-1990) created a signature style that blended street art, graffiti, a Pop sensibility, and cartoon elements to unique, memorable effect. With thick black outlines, bright...

'Intensely moving, vital and artful' - Guardian'A dizzying ride . . . both timely and beguiling' - Sunday TimesFrom the award-winning author of Crudo, this is an exhilarating and eminently readable study of the long struggle for bodily freedom - from gay...

In BLACK MEME, Legacy Russell, awardwinning author of the groundbreaking GLITCH FEMINISM, explores the "meme" as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to the present, mining both archival and contemporary media.Russell argues that without the...

**Available to pre-order: The ground-breaking memoir by acclaimed rapper and podcast host, George the Poet**__________By telling my story, I've laid out my predicament: I'm a Black entertainer on the frontline of the War on Blackness, but it's not always...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935965770Author Jonathan Et BowdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Counter-Currents PublishingPublisher Counter-Currents PublishingWeight(grams)...

A Telegraph Book of the YearA Guardian Book of the YearA Shindig Book of the Year A Virgin Radio Book of the YearAwarded the certificate of merit in the 2023 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for ExcellenceIn 1970, pop was in trouble. The...

Through 140 drawings, thought experiments, recipes, activist instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, artists who spend their lives thinking outside the box guide you to a new worldview; where you and the planet are one...

In 2013 Georg Baselitz declared that 'women don't paint very well'. Whilst shocking, his comments reveal what Helen Gorrill argues is prolific discrimination in the artworld. In a groundbreaking study of gender and value, Gorrill proves that there are...

Joe Strummer was one of the twentieth century's iconic rock'n'roll rebels. As frontperson, spokesperson and chief lyricist for The Clash, he played a major role in politicising a generation through some of the most powerful protest songs of the era,...

When was art's first kiss? Who painted the first ever smile and the first self-portrait? When did Western art first depict a Black person or approach feminism? And why were each of these firsts so important? This book answers all these fascinating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999439203Author Creative Collective DesignFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Creative CollectivePublisher Creative CollectiveWeight(grams)...

In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art. Highlights from her collection appeared in three large-format volumes that quickly became...

A groundbreaking method for writing art history, using the language of geometry. How do we embark on a history of art from the assumption of a global majority, outside of essentializing categories like race or hollow proclamations of solidarity? With...

New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting by Robert Zeller offers a sweeping exposition of both historical Surrealism and its legacy in the world of contemporary art. It demonstrates the many ways in which the most significant art movement of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783967040111Author GestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

'Matt is an Adorable Genius' Jilly CooperThe last twelve months seen through the eyes of the brilliantly funny cartoonist Matt - the perfect Christmas gift.'No one can be funny every time - except Matt' John Humphrys'So much greater than his nearest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954502522Author Julie AultFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Four Corners BooksPublisher Four Corners Books

Censored Art Today is an accessible, informed analysis of the debates raging around censorship of art and so-called 'cancel culture', focusing on who the censors are and why they are clamping down on forms of artistic expression worldwide. Art...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956790942Author Thomas J. DemosFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 666g

Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objects are all...

Reimagining: New Perspectives features more than 120 of the latest acquisitions by the UBS Art Collection, one of the largest and most important corporate collections in the world Inspired by a recent UBS Art Gallery exhibition of the same title, this...

This comprehensive sourcebook is destined to become a lasting and definitive resource on the art and aesthetic philosophy of the American artist David Smith (1906-1965). A pioneer of twentieth-century modernism, Smith was renowned for the expansive...

Long-time art critic Richard Dorment reveals the corruption and lies of the art world and its mystifying authentication process.Late one afternoon in the winter of 2003 art critic Richard Dorment answered a telephone call from a stranger. The caller was...

The reader Art and its global histories represents an invaluable teaching tool, offering content ranging from academic essays and excerpts, new translations, interviews with curators and artists, to art criticism. The introduction sets out the state of...

An introduction to the feminist art movement: one of the most ambitious, influential and enduring artistic movements of the twentieth century. Emerging in the late 1960s as women artists struggled to `de-gender' their work to compete in a...

This book aims to redefine Australia's earliest art history by chronicling for the first time the birth of the category "Aboriginal art," tracing the term's use through published literature in the late eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789171266088Author Jessica HallbackFormat HardbackPage Count 44Imprint Bokforlaget Max StromPublisher Bokforlaget Max StromWeight(grams) 580g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783943365979Author Tom HolertFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 142mm *...

Shepard Fairey s first comprehensive monograph brought back into print, which chronicles his early art school days, his viral Andre the Giant has a Posse sticker campaign in the 1990s, the creation of his enormously successful OBEY apparel brand, and his...

What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? Through an exhilarating mix of philosophical and psychoanalytical theory and reportage - from the suicide epidemic in Korea to the wave of American mass murders - the prominent Italian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525508984Author Emily NussbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995354937Author Ron WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Boom BooksPublisher Boom Books

How did a bunch of unelected, unaccountable admen end up running British politics?What happened when a rag-tag band of scruffs and smart-arses invaded Westminster, sprinkling creative fairy dust over earnest politicians? How much did snappy slogans and...

Criticism of contemporary art is split by an opposition between activism and the critical function of form. Yet the deeper, more subterranean terms of art-judgment are largely neglected on both sides. These essays combine a re-examination of the terms of...

When it comes to historical violence and contemporary inequality, none of us are completely innocent. We may not be direct agents of harm, but we may still contribute to, inhabit, or benefit from regimes of domination that we neither set up nor control...

Finalist, National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalist, National Book Award in NonfictionA New York Times Book Review "The Year in Reading" SelectionAll wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author...