Contemporary

This book addresses late-Soviet and post-Soviet art in Armenia in the context of turbulent transformations from the late 1980s to 2004. It explores the emergence of 'contemporary art' in Armenia from within and in opposition to the practices, aesthetics...

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...

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...

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...

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 *...

An exploration of transformations in the nature of the art object and artistic authorship in the last four decades. In this book, Martha Buskirk addresses the interesting fact that since the early 1960s, almost anything can and has been called art. Among...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228863571Author Fran WickesFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 299g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262551984Author Luis De MirandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262516938Author Nadja RottnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 431g

'Creative License' describes what happened next and the continuum leading up to this moment. In this ground-breaking study, James Charnley reveals the personalities and events that ignited an explosion of radical creativity such that a contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780755216161Author Teresa Vanneck-SurpliceFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation Publishing

A critical study of the use of language and the proliferation of text in 1960s art and experimental music, with close examinations of works by Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, John Cage, Douglas Huebler, Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner, La Monte Young, and others...

Scholars from science, art, and humanities explore the meaning of our new image worlds and offer new strategies for visual analysis. We are surrounded by images as never before: on Flickr, Facebook, and YouTube; on thousands of television channels; in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228821441Author Jacqueline RubyFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 404g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692943151Author Ben Alden WatfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Greater Good GalleryPublisher Greater Good GalleryWeight(grams) 590g

Modernism's Other Work challenges deeply held critical beliefs about the meaning-in particular the political meaning-of modernism's commitment to the work of art as an object detached from the world. Ranging over works of poetry, fiction, painting,...

Viewers of contemporary art are often invited to involve themselves actively in artworks, by entering installations, touching objects, performing instructions or clicking on interactive websites. Why have artists sought to engage spectators in these new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906690083Author David WestonFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HalstarPublisher Halsgrove

This standard work on the arts since World War II has been substantially revised, expanded and redesigned. Eight new chapters and a new introduction cover and illustrate all the most recent international trends and artists: art in the USA from the 1970s;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981326368Author Michael MarandaFormat PaperbackImprint Parasitic Ventures PressPublisher Parasitic Ventures PressWeight(grams) 222g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988630802Author Carlton Morris DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Carlton DavisPublisher Carlton DavisWeight(grams) 592g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228860594Author Tariq KhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 463g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544108Author Sergio B MartinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT PressWeight(grams) 178g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228847397Author Gloria ListFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 127g

Through hundreds of eye-popping reproductions, "All Wrapped Up!" celebrates gift wrapthat most ephemeral of paper productsfrom the groovy 1960s. The modest palette and conventional patterns of the previous decade eventually yielded to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478026280Author Paloma Checa-GismeroFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Duke University PressPublisher Duke University PressWeight(grams) 572g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992717162Author Joana VasconcelosFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Albion Barn PublishingPublisher Albion Barn Publishing

The World Goes Pop explores the contemporaneous engagements with a spirit of pop throughout the globe, concentrating not only on the relatively well-covered activity in the US, UK and France but also on developments throughout Central and Eastern Europe,...

Authors Sandy Nairne and Sarah Howgate select over fifty contemporary works from the Gallery's collection, including images of David Beckham, Zaha Hadid, J.K. Rowling and Akram Kahn, and portraits by leading British artists Tracey Emin, David Hockney,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783907582497Author Mark BradfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Parkett VerlagPublisher Parkett VerlagWeight(grams) 1134gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 213mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907533952Author Michael Craig-MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Royal Academy of ArtsPublisher Royal Academy of Arts

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904048244Author Andrew M. ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Kamera BooksPublisher Kamera BooksWeight(grams) 60g

This is the first comprehensive survey of Modernist graphic design as it emerged in America in the period from 1920 and 1960 in various media - advertising, information design, brand identity, magazine design, book design and posters. It examines the...

Featuring works from an international list of artists, the BP Portrait Award highlights the vitality of portrait painting today. This book presents the diverse range of styles in contemporary portraiture and the variety of techniques used by artists...

With roots in early Cubism and Futurism and reaching maturity in Op art and Minimalism, "Abstract Art" encompasses all forms of non-figurative expression. This book explores the diverse ways artists from the early 20th century, beginning with...

The Royal Academy's popular Summer Exhibition has been an annual event since 1769. Today, around a thousand works are selected each year from over 10,000 entries. The exhibition includes paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, architectural design and...

The BP Portrait Award, now in its thirty-sixth year, is one of Britains most prestigious art prizes, and is the leading showcase for artists throughout the world specialising in portraiture. In 2014 more than 280,000 people visited the exhibition based...