Contemporary

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993522802Author William VarleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint MHW PublicationsPublisher MHW Publications

In Return Engagements artist and critic Viet Le examines contemporary art in Cambodia and Viet Nam to rethink the entwinement of militarization, trauma, diaspora, and modernity in Southeast Asian art. Highlighting artists tied to Phnom Penh and Sai Gon...

Cosmos: Silence and Infinite offers new approaches on the stunning art works of Eduardo Terrazas's (1936) art works. Four well known authors present a multidisciplinary vision on the artists ongoing series Possibilities of a Structure. Which suggests at...

In this first major study of the work of the painter John Wonnacott (b.1940), Charles Saumarez Smith has surveyed a body of work produced at a tangent to the orthodoxies of modernism. Exploring the artist's formative experiences at the Slade, which...

"Superb...Gopnik persuasively assembles his case over the course of this mesmerising book, which is as much art history and philosophy as it is biography" Kathryn Hughes, The GuardianWhen critics attacked Andy Warhol's Marilyn paintings as shallow, the ...

This book focuses on the iconic Umber Paintings of Lee Krasner (1908-84), which consist of only 24 paintings. Painted between 1959 and 1962, the Umber Paintings were realized during one of Krasner's most ambitious periods of cproduction following the...

Merchants of Style explores the accelerating convergence of art and fashion, looking at the interplay of artists and designers - and the role of institutions, both public and commercial - that has brought about this marriage of aesthetic industries...

A richly illustrated exploration of Mina Loy's art and writingsMina Loy (1882-1966) was one of the most iconoclastic figures in modernism. A groundbreaking poet, she also left an indelible mark in painting, drawing, prose, art criticism, and fashion...

A timely and expansive survey of a groundbreaking American art movement that overturned aesthetic hierarchies in a riot of color and ornamentation The Pattern and Decoration movement emerged in the 1970s as an embrace of long-dismissed art forms...

The first publication devoted to the textile designs of one of the twentieth century's greatest artists, showcasing a rarely discussed aspect of the Pop Art superstar's career Andy Warhol (1928-1987), a giant of twentieth century art, is known to most...

This comprehensive monograph offers a detailed examination of the paintings of the acclaimed German painter Neo Rauch (b.1960). Rauch's paintings deftly blend the iconography of Socialist Realism from his upbringing and art-school training in GDR-era...

The first major publication devoted to weaver and designer Dorothy Liebes, reinstating her as one of the most influential American designers of the twentieth century At the time of her death, Dorothy Liebes (1897-1972) was called "the greatest modern...

Abundantly illustrated with frames and sequences, Video Art offers a history of the medium seen through the perspectives of its early practitioners, through the vast array of conceptual, political, personal and lyrical installations of the 80s and 90s to...

An intimate study of the friendship and creative dialogue between two artists, offering an in-depth understanding of their work and the upheavals of 1960s New YorkIrrational Judgments examines the close friendship and significant exchange of ideas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262538596Author Sarah LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Russian-born conceptual artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov are among the most celebrated artists of their generation. Known for their pioneering large-scale environments and installations, the artists' work fuses the everyday with the conceptual. Deeply...

Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters is an exciting volume featuring the work of four New York based artists, each presenting a single new work in conversation with celebrated paintings in The Frick Collection, with particular emphasis on issues...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756247131Author PIE BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint PIE BooksPublisher PIE Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312425852Author Calvin TompkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

Providing a thematic overview of the multifarious work produced by Derek Boshier (b.1937) from the post-war period to the digital age, this fascinating publication reveals how Boshier’s deceptively playful imagery offers analytical commentaries on...

Fahrelnissa Zeid (1901-1991) was one of the most influential Turkish artists, best known for her large-scale abstract paintings. Marrying influences from Islamic, Byzantine and Eastern art with the bold colour of the Fauvists, the geometrical dissonance...

What is the relevance of Dada and its artistic strategies in our current moment, one marked by post-truth politics, information floods and big data? How can contemporary art highlight the neglected nuances of cultural representation in the present day?...

After the Crisis offers a platform for discussions between some of today's leading artists, writers, theorists, curators, and historians aimed at questioning the very status of photography today. Contributors come from the realms of critical theory,...

The Sculpture of Kenneth Armitage, which is being published to coincide with the artist's centenary in 2016, is the first book to feature a fully illustrated inventory of all of Armitage's known sculptures. It will be the only available illustrated...

This book is the first full-length assessment of the paintings of Tal R (b. 1967), an Israeli-born Danish artist whose enigmatic work offers intersections of personal experience and wider history through a visual jigsaw, finely balanced between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262529327Author Mignon NixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870709760Author Kynaston McShineFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 600g

The work of German sculptor Isa Genzken is brilliantly receptive to the ever-shifting conditions of modern life. In this first book devoted to the artist, Lisa Lee reflects on Genzken's tendency to think across media, attending to sculptures,...

This book examines contemporary feminist visual activism(s) through the lens of embodiment(s). The contributors explore how the arts articulate and engage with the current sense of crisis and political concerns (e.g. equality, decolonisation, social...

Postmodernism was the defining look of the 1980s. Originating as a rebellious movement in philosophy and literature, and spearheaded by Michael Graves, Robert Venturi, Ettore Sottsass and Alessandro Mendini, Postmodernism proclaimed the death of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780672809Author Peter R. KalbFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams) 10g

International in scope, this volume brings together leading and emerging voices working at the intersection of contemporary art, visual culture, activism, and climate change, and addresses key questions, such as: why and how do art and visual culture,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947830656Author Lee UfanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Lisson GalleryPublisher Lisson GalleryWeight(grams) 500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262028523Author Benjamin H. D. BuchlohFormat HardbackPage Count 592Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 35mm

This artist s book presents 84 reproductions of sketches taken from a notebook made by Gerhard Richter between 2004 and 2009. Some sketches feature figurative motifs, human forms and faces, while others appear as purely abstract shapes, configurations...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307278029Author Camille PagliaFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 607gDimensions(mm) 236mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857247908Author Iftikhar DadiFormat PaperbackPage Count 532Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1440g

Diagnosed with schizophrenia in the 1950s, writer and artist Unica Zurn produced a wealth of remarkable textual and visual material while in psychiatric institutions across Germany and France. While Zurn is often discussed in relation to her partner, the...

Elvis Presley and Karlheinz Stockhausen. The Beatles and Andy Warhol. Terry Riley and Ken Kesey. What all these artists have in common is that loops have played a significant role in their work. The short sequences of sounds or images repeated using...

This book completes the survey of the Indian scene, begun by the various exhibitions held in Paris, London, New York and Tokyo, which were devoted to contemporary urban art and its world renowned stars, such as Subodh Gupta and Bharti Kher. The Indian...