Contemporary

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780500294291Author Claudia WaldeFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Thames & HudsonPublisher Thames & HudsonWeight(grams) 1338gDimensions(mm) 274mm *...

Collecting the New is the first book on the questions and challenges that museums face in acquiring and preserving contemporary art. Because such art has not yet withstood the test of time, it defies the traditional understanding of the art museum as an...

Numerous contemporary artists, particularly female artists, have chosen to examine the idealization of the female body. In this crucial book, Emily L. Newman focuses on a number of key themes including obesity, anorexia, bulimia, dieting, self-harm, and...

Structured around sexual desire as the central analytical category, this monograph systematically approaches a heterogeneous array of artworks to purposefully examine the entanglements of art, feminist theory, gender, and sexuality. This book considers...

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...

In Consuming Stories, Rebecca Peabody uses the work of contemporary American artist Kara Walker to investigate a range of popular storytelling traditions with roots in the nineteenth century and ramifications in the present. Focusing on a few key pieces...

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...

Memory Art in the Contemporary World deals with the ever-expanding field of transnational memory art, which has emerged from a political need to come to terms with traumatic historical pasts, from the Holocaust to apartheid, colonialism, state terror and...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939994622Author Richard KlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878467440Author Alice G. MarquisFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Museum of Fine Arts,BostonPublisher Museum of Fine Arts,Boston

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...

As climate change, economic recession, war, and mass migration destabilize the world and create a less certain future, notions of home and shelter loom large. Breaking and Entering considers how contemporary artists and filmmakers address anxieties and...

Johanna Drucker's "sweet dream" is for a new and more positive approach to contemporary art. Calling for a revamping of the academic critical vocabulary used to discuss art into one more befitting current creative practices, Drucker argues that...

In 2011, the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt invited the young international group of artists et al* to create an installation as an introduction to the exhibition "Surreale Dinge (Surreal Things)". The resulting work, which fills an entire room, offers a...

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