Contemporary

Experimental artists and musicians thrived in New York, Los Angeles, and other creative hotspots in the 1960s, and those who would become major figures in the visual arts often worked closely with those who became the most recognized composers and...

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 9780936316475Author Meredith MaloneFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art MuseumPublisher Washington University,...

Kristine Stiles has played a vital role in establishing trauma studies within the humanities. A formidable force in the art world, Stiles examines the significance of traumatic experiences both in the individual lives and works of artists and in...

Accompanying an exhibition at the University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art, this book is the definitive introduction to Chicago's first artistic movement, the Monster Roster. The volume includes an overview of the artists involved, such as Leon Golub,...

For over a century, the idea of primitivism has motivated artistic modernism. Focusing on the three decades after World War II, known in France as "les trentes glorieuses" despite the loss of most of the country's colonial empire, this probing and...

One of the most important avant-garde movements of postwar Paris was Lettrism, which crucially built an interest in the relationship between writing and image into projects in poetry, painting, and especially cinema. Highly influential, the Lettrists...

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 291Imprint Parkett VerlagPublisher Parkett VerlagWeight(grams) 1134g

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...

The abundance of images in our everyday lives-and the speed at which they are consumed-seems to have left us unable to critique them. To rectify this situation, artists such as Daniel Richter, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, and Artur Zmijewski have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783940822000Author Alex HermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 175Imprint Jeske, Otger, u. Matthias Mader. I.P. VerlagPublisher Jeske, Otger, u. Matthias Mader. I...

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...

Pictures of poetic power and joie-de-vivre and characters, syllables of words and digits hidden in layers of painting: Maria Beykirch fires the imagination more vividly than most other artists with her drawings and paintings and conjures up in the eyes...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941789056Author Marc-Olivier WahlerFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Msu BroadPublisher Msu BroadWeight(grams) 680g

In this third volume of the series Junctures: Case Studies in Women's Leadership, Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin profile female leaders in music, theater, dance, and visual art. The diverse women included in Junctures in Women's Leadership: The Arts...

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,...

In the year of the soccer World Cup in South Africa, the country's cultural development is the focus of attention with an exhibition of international contemporary South African art in Berlin. The presentation of some 50 works embraces photography and...

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 9788857229836Author Dina Nasser-KhadiviFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 3770g

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

In May 2011, the duo of artists Thomas Huber and Wolfgang Aichner pulled a self-made boat across the main ridge of the Zillertal Alps. This endeavour was part of an expedition that went on for several weeks. Destination: the world's most important art...

Honorable Mention, Humanities Book Prize, Mexico Section of the Latin American Studies Association, 2018 Honorable Mention, Arvey Foundation Book Award, Association for Latin American Art, 2019 REMEX presents the first comprehensive examination of...

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...