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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...

Inspired by the distinguished painter Paul- mile Borduas, this collective manifesto serves as an invaluable introduction to the major figures of the Canadian avant-garde scene in the 1970s. Generously illustrated with photographs from the period, this...

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...

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,...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046244Author Carol DiehlFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

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...

An important examination of how artists have grappled with anti-Black violence and its representations from the late nineteenth century to the presentFrom the horrors of slavery and lynching to the violent suppression of civil rights struggles and recent...

In Curating the Moving Image, influential curator and theorist Mark Nash draws on his work at Documenta11, the Venice Biennale, and elsewhere to explore the possibilities of contemporary curation. Constructing this richly illustrated book as a curatorial...

This is the first full-length monograph on the paintings of Bernard Frize (b.1949), an artist whose work straddles movements and styles from Colour Field to Minimalism, Fluxus, and Conceptual Art. Frize's works utilise a carefully constructed range of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846382079Author Mitch SpeedFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Afterall PublishingPublisher Afterall Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584350224Author Chris KrausFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm

Robert Irwin began his career in the 1950s as an abstract painter. As a pioneer of the Light and Space movement in Los Angeles in the 1970s and early '80s, Irwin focused on exploring aesthetic perception as the fundamental feature of art, culminating in...

This is the most comprehensive monograph to-date on the innovative abstract site-related installations of German artist Katharina Grosse (b.1961). Grosse's daring move from the canvas into both architectural space and the landscape, with her signature...

Nick Hornby (b. 1980, London) is one of the leading sculptors of his generation in Britain today, creating works on both intimate and monumental scales, and at the intersection of art history and contemporary technology. Hornby's practice uses software...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262026703Author James NisbetFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 16mm

As one of the first academic monographs on Keith Haring, this book uses the Pop Shop, a previously overlooked enterprise, and artist merchandising as tools to reconsider the significance and legacy of Haring's career as a whole.Haring developed an...

Between Art and Anthropology provides new and challenging arguments for considering contemporary art and anthropology in terms of fieldwork practice. Artists and anthropologists share a set of common practices that raise similar ethical issues, which the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647220525Author Joel SelvinFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908211316Author Marc LevertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Carpet Bombing CulturePublisher Carpet Bombing CultureWeight(grams) 108gDimensions(mm)...

In Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics, Lisa E. Bloom considers the ways artists, filmmakers, and activists engaged with the Arctic and Antarctic to represent our current environmental crises and reconstruct public understandings of them. Bloom...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949484083Author Yve-Alain BoisFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint No Place PressPublisher No Place Press

Elaborate costumes, intricate patterns, and striking figural forms fill the work of Yinka Shonibare, a world-renowned artist who has roots in both London and Lagos, Nigeria. Shonibare's works reflect aesthetic features of the Victorian age, while...

Pop art is one of the most pivotal movements in modern art. It challenged the conventional idea of fine art and recognised the pervasive nature of materialism and consumerism that had taken over 20th-century society. This beautifully illustrated book...

Speed is an obvious facet of contemporary society, whereas slowness has often been dismissed as conservative and antimodern. Challenging a long tradition of thought, Lutz Koepnick instead proposes we understand slowness as a strategy of the...