Contemporary

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

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

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983121770Author Roger ManleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint NC State University Gregg Museum of Art and DesignPublisher NC State University Gregg...

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

Spanning four decades of radical political and social change in Italy, this interdisciplinary study explores photography's relationship with Italian painting, film, literature, anthropological research and international photography. Evocative and...

Monumental cares rethinks monument debates, site specificity and art activism in light of problems that strike us as monumental or overwhelming, such as war, migration and the climate crisis. The book shows how artists address these issues, from Chicago...

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

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 9780648727620Author Lyn MerringtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Are PressPublisher Are PressWeight(grams) 129g

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 9780262538879Author Gabriel OrozcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

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

Audible Presence explores the time-based procedures employed by three influential 20th-century artists: Italian Lucio Fontana, French Yves Klein and American Cy Twombly. With historical texts, photographs and ephemera, it relates their work to music,...

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

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 9780262039383Author Douglas KahnFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 241mm * 171mm * 30mm

We are just completing a thirty- year arc of digitization. Now we are beginning a thirty-year arc of tokenization. ---Kevin McCoy, artist and Erst person to make an NFT Since the NFT craze began in the art world, the information one can find for the...

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...

The essays in this collection explore the extraordinarily rich networks of international artists and art practices that emerged in and around London during the 1960s and '70s, a period that saw an explosion of new media and fresh attitudes and approaches...

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...

Focus at Infinity is the catalogue of the first major institutional exhibition of the New York artist Rosemarie Castoro (1939-2015) focused on the period 1964-79. The publication draws together an extensive selection of images concerning her paintings,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262529747Author Paul O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544474Author Vanina GereFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

The second book in a three-volume series on Black American artists, featuring work from the 1950s to the 1970s that responded to the cultural, political, and social concerns of the era During the turbulent 1950s to 1970s, Black American artists,...

Haunted by a secret knowledge and a repressed enchantment, Western rationality is not what it seems. Rembrandt's famous painting of an anatomy lesson, the shrunken head of an Australian indigenous leader, an aerial view of Paris from a balloon: all are...

Thomas Hirschhorn is a leading installation artist whose work is owned and exhibited by modern art museums throughout Europe and the United States. Known for his compelling, often site-specific and activated environments which tackle issues of critical...

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...

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...

In April of 1950, about two dozen of the artists who came to be known as the Abstract Expressionists met for a series of discussions about their own work as well as about the modern scene. Nearly 60 years after the actual meetings took place, the...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262034838Author Hans HaackeFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 24mm

This generously illustrated volume surveys a new chapter in the history of environmental art, one in which space, geopolitics, human relations, urbanism, and utopian dreamwork play as important a role as, if not more than, raw earth. Discussed are case...

In this book, Claire Reddleman introduces her theoretical innovation "cartographic abstraction" - a material modality of thought and experience that is produced through cartographic techniques of depiction. Reddleman closely engages with selected...

Having forged his graphic style painting subways in New York in the late 1970s, Futura was among the first graffiti artists to be shown in contemporary galleries in the early 1980s, where his paintings shared space with works by Keith Haring, Jean-Michel...

Chile stands out for its thriving contemporary art scene, which has yet to be discovered in Europe. Twenty years after the end of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, Chilean artists are confronting their legacy and the fortified excesses of neoliberal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955266768Author Alexandra FieldingFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint White Lane PressPublisher White Lane PressWeight(grams) 1310g

This book investigates Jimmie Durham’s community-building process of making and display in four of his projects in Europe: Something … Perhaps a Fugue or an Elegy (2005); two Neapolitan nativities (2016 and ongoing); The Middle Earth (with Maria Thereza...