Contemporary

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...

This new survey covers the rich and varied history of participatory art, from early happenings and performances to current practices that demand audience interaction. As the internet mindset - browsing, sharing, collecting, producing - increasingly...

Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was an English surrealist artist and writer who emigrated to Mexico after the Second World War. This volume approaches Carrington as a major international figure in modern and contemporary art, literature and thought. It...

Art historian Darby English is celebrated for working against the grain and plumbing gaps in historical narratives. In this book, he explores the year 1971, when two exhibitions opened that brought modernist painting and sculpture into the burning heart...

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

A groundbreaking survey of contemporary Indigenous art and its enduring connections to the landThe Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans brings together works by many of today's most boldly innovative Native American artists...

The first in a two-volume survey, readers are invited to reexamine the history of the West and its art through a multifaceted modern lens. More than 40 artists are included who reflect the tremendous diversity, depth, and breadth of a field steeped in...

We are just completing a thirty- year arc of digitization. Now we are beginning a thirty-year arc of tokenization. ---Kevin McCoy, artist and Erst person to make an NFT Since the NFT craze began in the art world, the information one can find for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543538Author Benjamin H. D. BuchlohFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

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

To what extent have developments in global politics, artworld institutions and local cultures reshaped the critical directions of feminist art historians? The significant research gathered in Feminism and Art History Now engages with the rich inheritance...

Perhaps nowhere else is Andrew Wyeth s highly distinctive style more palpable, or moving, than in Snow Hill. His masterful tempera painting of 1989 provides a visual and poetic summary of the Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, residents who had provided artistic...

This book examines how contemporary artists have engaged with histories of nature, geology, and extinction within the context of the changing planet. Susan Ballard describes how artists challenge the categories of animal, mineral, and vegetable-turning...

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

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...

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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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783863353339Author Eckart GillenFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

Artist Jane Dickson is a deep-rooted and central voice in New York City's complex creative history. In the late 1970s and early '80s, she was part of the movement joining the legacies of downtown art, punk rock, and hip hop through her involvement with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977368013Author Shelly BancroftFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Darte Publishing LLCPublisher Darte Publishing LLC

Le Cabinet de Curiosites de Mademoiselle Clouette is an exhibition of Shelagh Cluett's collection and work. This publication guides the viewer through the artefacts and ephemera collected on her epic travels over 25 years in Asia. Taking an...

Among the buildings on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., only the Pan American Union (PAU) houses an international organization. The first of many anticipated “peace palaces”constructed in the early twentieth century, the PAU began with a mission of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915609212Author Carla ChammasFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 777g

The definitive history of a cherished East Los Angeles institution over five decades of art making and community building.  Self Help Graphics at Fifty celebrates the ongoing legacy of an institution that has had profound aesthetic, economic, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890136553Author Patrick FrankFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Museum of New Mexico PressPublisher Museum of New Mexico Press

One of the most influential choreographers of the twentieth century, Merce Cunningham is known for introducing chance to dance. Far too often, however, accounts of Cunningham's work have neglected its full scope, focusing on his collaborations with the...

Gathering works by Lucio Fontana, Fausto Melotti, Emilio Vedova, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Enrico Castellani, Bruno Munari, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jannis Kounellis and many others, Italia Moderna reconstructs the complex artistic fabric of Italy during one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783944669540Author Andreas FogarasiFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783907582497Author Mark BradfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Parkett VerlagPublisher Parkett VerlagWeight(grams) 1134gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 213mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226753317Author Alex KitnickFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher University of Chicago PressWeight(grams) 140g

2017: 80 years of the New Bauhaus in Chicago - 2019: 100 years of the Bauhaus in Germany. In connection with these two anniversaries, the Goethe-Institut in Chicago organised a series of exhibitions from 2016 to 2018. Starting from the interdisciplinary...

Egyptian street artist Bahia Shehab began taking to the streets using lines from Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish during the Egyptian revolution of 2011. Since then, she has taken her peaceful resistance to the streets of the world, from New York to...

The 1960s were heady years in Argentina. Visual artists, curators, and critics sought to fuse art and politics; to broaden the definition of art to encompass happenings and assemblages; and, above all, to achieve international recognition for new,...

Masterminded by women, the Red Army Faction (RAF) terrorized West Germany from the 1970s to the 1990s. Afterimages of its leaders persist in the works of pivotal artists and writers, including Gerhard Richter, Elfriede Jelinek, and Slavoj Zizek. Why were...

This volume is the first publication to examine in detail the phenomenon of collective art practice in the continental Western Europe of the late 1950s and of the 1960s. The book elaborates a comparative perspective, engaging with a cultural history of...