Contemporary

In the early 1950s, Willem de Kooning's Woman I and subsequent paintings established him as a leading member of the abstract expressionist movement. His wildly impacted brushstrokes and heavily encrusted surfaces baffled most critics, who saw de...

This book examines contemporary feminist visual activism(s) through the lens of embodiment(s). The contributors explore how the arts articulate and engage with the current sense of crisis and political concerns (e.g. equality, decolonisation, social...

Told in classic comic-book form, this graphic biography invites a new audience to learn about Banksy-and uses a pitch-perfect medium to convey the artist's message that art is for the people. Banksy is arguably the most well-known street artist of all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262018708Author Craig DworkinFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

The director of twenty-five films, including My Night at Maud's (1969), which was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award, and the editor in chief of Cahiers du cinema from 1957 to 1963, Eric Rohmer set the terms by which people watched, made, and...

Basil Gogos changed the face of classic horror with his film monster portrait art. Like a bizarro-world Norman Rockwell, he created magazine covers of Frankenstein, the Creature from the Black Lagoon. the Phantom of the Opera, and countless others in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867198607Author Annie OwensFormat HardbackPage Count 316Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.

Savage Messiah collects the entire set of Laura Grace Ford's fanzine to date. Part graphic novel, part artwork, the book is both an angry polemic against the marginalization of the city's working class and an exploration of the cracks that open up in...

The remarkable plein air paintings of Liu Xiaodong (b.1963), which chronicle everyday lives within our diverse modern world, are the focus of this first monograph of his career to date. Immersing himself in communities around the globe, Xiaodong seeks...

Figuration is one of the oldest art forms, but it continually evolves, along with our changing understanding of human identity. The artists featured here often source imagery from the Internet, and draw on aesthetics developed in Internet-first channels...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846382130Author Mark LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Afterall PublishingPublisher Afterall Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262527620Author Devin ForeFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913029531Author Yves MettlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Urbanomic Media LtdPublisher Urbanomic Media Ltd

Winner, 2022 Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show in the Scholarly Illustrated Category A significant contribution on the development and aftermath of post-World War II Concretism in Brazil Form and Feeling features a...

In 1965, British artist and university lecturer John Jones left the UK with his wife and daughters to live in the US for a year and interview some 100 artists. There the family lived in Greenwich Village, and spent three months on a road trip west to...

In May 1950 Isamu Noguchi (1904-88) returned to Japan for his first visit in 20 years. He was, Noguchi said, seeking models for evolving the relationship between sculpture and society-having emerged from the war years with a profound desire to reorient...

Andy Warhol, the iconic Pop artist, presented himself as the vacuous, dumb kid, famously saying, 'If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings ... and there I am. There's nothing behind it.' This book penetrates the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539456Author Annie OchmanekFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

In Art as Information Ecology, Jason A. Hoelscher offers not only an information theory of art but an aesthetic theory of information. Applying close readings of the information theories of Claude Shannon and Gilbert Simondon to 1960s American art,...

Ellen Gallagher (b.1965) is one of the most celebrated painters of her generation, coming to prominence in the mid-1990s in the wake of the so-called 'culture wars' and the art world's controversial embrace of identity-politics and multiculturalism.In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546638Author Armin MedoschFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 178g

Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) was a breaker of boundaries and a consummate collaborator. He used silk-screen prints to reflect on American promise and failure, melded sculpture and painting in works called combines, and collaborated with engineers and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262538879Author Gabriel OrozcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

A unique collection of brilliant quotations from the legendary Pop artistOne of the most influential artists of his time and ours, Andy Warhol is nearly as renowned for what he said as for what he did. Indeed, he is so quotable that things he never said...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954452353Author Michael ParaskosFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Orage PressPublisher Orage PressWeight(grams) 102g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857235639Author Ashraf JamalFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1480g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578595825Author Josephine S WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Lowbrow Literati PressPublisher Lowbrow Literati PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262038997Author Peggy PhelanFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Through a close look at the history of the modernist hooked rug, this book raises important questions about the broader history of American modernism in the first half of the twentieth century. Although hooked rugs are not generally associated with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789385360992Author X WaswoFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Mapin Publishing Pvt.LtdPublisher Mapin Publishing Pvt.LtdWeight(grams) 28g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262043274Author Stefanie HesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648727620Author Lyn MerringtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Are PressPublisher Are PressWeight(grams) 129g

In ""Paint Made Flesh"", expressive figuration is considered as a reflection of artists' responses to such topics as identity, sexuality, and mortality, and as a symptom of a broader spectrum of social and political attitudes shaping Western culture...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262548939Author Meredith MorseFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g

Chibuike Uzoma (b. 1992, Port Harcourt, Nigeria), is a multidisciplinary artist working with painting, photography, drawing, text and video, living and working in New Haven, Connecticut.Documented here are sixteen of the artist's large paintings rendered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992903930Author Ivor DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Occasional PapersPublisher Occasional Papers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262029261Author Lauren CornellFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 241mm * 171mm * 43mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957626201Author Jade FrenchFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Rough TradePublisher Rough Trade

The Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig celebrates a quarter of a century this year and marks this important milestone with the launch of a beautiful volume, 'Annaghmakerrig'. The Centre is an artists' retreat set amid the lakes and drumlins of...

Here Now: Indigenous Arts of North America at the Denver Art Museum features 200 of the museum's most notable Indigenous artworks. It reinterprets the collection and reveals new insights into the historic and contemporary work of Indigenous artists...