Contemporary

Gerhard Richter is one of the most important and popular artists of the postwar era. For decades he has sought innovative ways to make painting more relevant, often through a multifaceted dialogue with photography. Today Richter is most widely recognized...

A fascinating look at Keith Haring's New York City subway artwork from the 1980sCelebrated artist Keith Haring (1958-1990) has been embraced by popular culture for his signature bold graphic line drawings of figures and forms. Like other graffiti artists...

Pamela M. Lee's New Games revisits postmodernism in light of art history's more recent embrace of "the contemporary." What can the theories and practices associated with postmodernism tell us about the obsession with the contemporary in both the academy...

'Ours is music with built-in hatred.' Pete Townshend A Band with Built-In Hate pictures The Who through the prism of pop art and the levelling of high and low culture it brought about. Peter Stanfield guides us through the British pop revolution as it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857227580Author Danilo EccherFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1090g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544481Author Caroline A. JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

This visually stunning survey provides an in-depth look at Eileen Hogan's (b. 1946) working methods. Covering her entire career, it focuses particularly on two dominant themes in the artist's oeuvre-enclosed gardens and portraiture. Her depictions of...

One of the most important and underappreciated visual artists of the twentieth century, Romare Bearden started as a cartoonist during his college years and emerged as a painter during the 1930s, at the tail end of the Harlem Renaissance and in time to be...

Original and idealistic, Mary Wykeham (1909-1996), to date neglected in the histories of surrealism, is brought centre stage in this first study of her remarkable pursuit of art - a creative impulse that witnessed her crossing Europe and finding success...

Gerhard Richter is one of the most influential artists of modern times. His painting "September" is a response to the bombing of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, made some four years after the event. The eminent American critic and curator...

A sophisticated examination of today's contemporary art market from an art dealer's point of view, this new book focuses on recent changes in the quickly evolving market. With an emphasis on how the market responded to the global recession that began in...

From the late 1950s to the late 1960s the word Pop described art, film, photography and architectural design which engaged with the new realities of mass production and the mass media. Unlike books which present Pop art in isolation, this is a...

Contemporary art is a vast and complex field representing artists, ideas, and trends from every imaginable cultural and geographical background. This book introduces the art of our times by taking the reader through a tour of some seventy examples from...

The first major book on OSGEMEOS (Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo) follows the twins from their origins in 1970s Sao Paulo to the height of world graffiti fame. Combining folkloric and contemporary elements of Brazilian society with graffiti, hip-hop, and...

Otherwise: Imagining queer feminist art histories is the first book to address queer feminist politics, methods and theories in relation to the visual arts, including new media, installation and performance art. Despite the crucial contribution of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756243768Author PIE BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint PIE BooksPublisher PIE Books

In 2018, London's Hyde Park was home to Christo and Jeanne-Claude's latest installation: The Mastaba (Project for London, Hyde Park, Serpentine Lake). The temporary sculpture took cues from mastabas of the first urban civilizations of Mesopotamia, which...

Philippe Apeloig's design career began in 1985 at the Musee d'Orsay when he designed the poster for the Museum's first exhibition, 'Chicago, Birth of a Metropolis'. He is noted for his posters, many of which are in the collection of MoMA, and his...

In Dragging Away Lex Morgan Lancaster traces the formal and material innovations of contemporary queer and feminist artists, showing how they use abstraction as a queering tactic for social and political ends. Through a process Lancaster theorizes as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner, Trade Typographic Category, 2010 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show. 2010.Book InformationISBN 9780262134934Author Steven Henry MadoffFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789774168918Author Bahia ShehabFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint The American University in Cairo PressPublisher The American University in Cairo...

A leading female sculptor and figure in Chinese contemporary art, Yin Xiuzhen (b. 1963, Beijing, China) began her career in the early 1990s following her graduation from Capital Normal University in Beijing where she received a B.A. from the Fine Arts...

In My View is a collection of reflections by 78 contemporary artists in which each artist reveals the influence and inspiration he or she has found in a particular artwork or artist. Among the artists are John Baldessari, Daniel Buren, Chuck Close,...

A new creative sizzle is in the air, establishing the backdrop for a major revival across all of London's creative sectors. Having invented the Swinging '60s, punk rock in the '70s and Cool Britannia in the '90s, London in the 2010s is firing up the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992930929Author Martin HerbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Timothy Taylor GalleryPublisher Timothy TaylorWeight(grams) 665g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783943196313Author Stine Marie JacobsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Broken Dimanche PressPublisher Broken Dimanche PressWeight(grams) 138g

This book gathers the published and unpublished writings of Dr Grace Pailthorpe (1883-1971), English surgeon, specialist in psychological medicine and surrealist artist to provide an in-depth study of her work and legacy.Pailthorpe's theoretical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130505Author Romy GolanFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 668gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 159mm * 27mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228848769Author Anthony JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 871g

How does cultural context affect the interpretation of art? What makes artists' work transnational or national in character, and how will their visibility be impacted by either label? Art and the Politics of Visibility questions these dynamics, asking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262549486Author Daniela Lieja QuintanarFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Surveying three decades of the British painter Cecily Brown’s career, with its vibrant mixture of gestural expression, canonical and pop references, and subversive themes This stunning volume surveys the pioneering career of Cecily Brown (b. 1969), one...

In Heavyweight, Jordana Moore Saggese examines images of Black heavyweight boxers to map the visual terrain of racist ideology in the United States, paying particular attention to the intersecting discourses of Blackness, masculinity, and sport. Looking...

Curator Marc Donnadieu turns his critical gaze on Tornabuoni Art gallery’s post-war masterpieces and proposes a project based around the notion of creative destruction; a way of making that led to a total renewal of art in the aftermath of the Second...

Aline Guillermet uncovers Gerhard Richter's appropriation of science and technology from 1960 to the present and shows how this has shaped the artist's well-documented engagement with the canon of Western painting. Through a study of Richter's portraits,...

This is the first edited collection to critically address in its entirety questions related to the displaying of Chinese contemporary art. It includes chapters by scholars and cultural workers from diverse backgrounds involved in the interpretation of...

In Heavyweight, Jordana Moore Saggese examines images of Black heavyweight boxers to map the visual terrain of racist ideology in the United States, paying particular attention to the intersecting discourses of Blackness, masculinity, and sport. Looking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783907582190Author Francis AlysFormat PaperbackPage Count 209Imprint Parkett VerlagPublisher Parkett VerlagWeight(grams) 857gDimensions(mm) 260mm * 207mm *...

This visually exciting book presents a selection of signature works by European and American artists of the postwar generations, drawn from the UBS Art Collection, one of the richest and most varied holdings of international contemporary art in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789073362659Author Jordan CrandallFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Witte de With Centre for Contemporary ArtPublisher Witte de With Centre for...