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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

This book is a retrospective volume on Latin American new media arts, arising from the Cities in Dialogue exhibition that was held in in FACT in conjunction with the University of Liverpool and the Liverpool Independents Biennial in 2014. There is also...

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...

Art and Social Movements offers a comparative, cross-border analysis of the role of visual artists in three social movements from the late 1960s through the early 1990s: the 1968 student movement and related activist art collectives in Mexico City, a...

Domesticating the Invisible examines how postwar notions of form developed in response to newly perceived environmental threats, in turn inspiring artists to model plastic composition on natural systems often invisible to the human eye. Melissa S. Ragain...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907317927Author Barber SwindellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Black Dog Publishing London UKPublisher Black Dog PressWeight(grams) 467g

This groundbreaking collection from scholars and artists on the legacy of Beckett in contemporary art provides readers with a unique view of this important writer for page, stage, and screen. The volume argues that Beckett is more than an influence on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935677727Author Uma NairFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Grantha CorporationPublisher Grantha CorporationWeight(grams) 662gDimensions(mm) 240mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781889282237Author Terry D. AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Florida State University, Museum of Fine ArtsPublisher Florida State University,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783947563562Author Hans NeuendorfFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Dr. Cantz'sche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KGPublisher Dr. Cantz'sche...

IHME, the Finnish word for "miracle" or "wonder", describes something strange or weird, something that wakens curiosity. The annual IHME Contemporary Art Festival (2009-2018), produced by Pro Arte Foundation Finland, aims to enhance the status,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783205210658Author Ole FrahmFormat HardbackPage Count 420Imprint Bohlau VerlagPublisher Bohlau VerlagWeight(grams) 866g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780642334213Author Carly LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint National Gallery of AustraliaPublisher National Gallery of Australia

Featuring dozens of compelling images, this transformative reading of borderland and Mexican cultural production-from body art to theater, photography, and architecture-draws on extensive primary research to trace more than two decades of social and...

Mathematicians with special interest in biology, physics, geography, astronomy, architecture, design, etc., and being prepared to take pictures at any time, might try to answer unusual questions like the followings: What do a zebra, a tiger shark, and a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262037495Author Jeffrey LieberFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 22mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857240350Author Francesco BonamiFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 910g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857240275Author Dmitry OzerkovFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1700g

Vision and Difference, published in 1988, is one of the most significant works in feminist visual culture arguing that feminist art history of is a political as well as academic endeavour. Pollock expresses how images are key to the construction of...

Digitization is the animating force of everyday life. Rather than defining it as a technology or a medium, Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life argues that digitization is a socio-historical process that is contributing to the erosion...

Artist Philip Reeves (b.1931, Cheltenham) has lived and worked in Glasgow since the mid-1950s. Landscape and cityscape underpin his artistic vision, which has explored varying degrees of representation and realism, as well as an ever-evolving abstraction...

An exploration of the personal and artistic connections between two icons of twentieth-century art Keith Haring (1958-1990) and Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) changed the art world of the 1980s through their idiosyncratic imagery, radical ideas, and...

Modernism on Stage restores Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes to its central role in the Parisian art world of the 1910s and 1920s. During those years, the Ballets Russes' stage served as a dynamic forum for the interaction of artistic genres - dance,...

This tapestry of primary sources is an essential primer on sculpture and its makers. Modern Sculpture presents a selection of manifestos, documents, statements, articles, and interviews from more than ninety sculptors, including a diverse selection of...

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...