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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...

The Caribbean has been traditionally associated with externally devised mappings and categories, thus appearing as a passive entity to be consumed and categorized. Challenging these forces and representations, Carlos Garrido Castellano argues that...

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

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 first major publication in more than thirty years on contemporary artist Chryssa, an innovator of light art Chryssa & New York offers a timely reassessment of Greek-born artist Chryssa (Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali, 1933-2013). Chryssa was a leading...

Alchemy in Contemporary Art analyzes the manner in which twentieth-century artists, beginning with French Surrealists of the 1920s, have appropriated concepts and imagery from the western alchemical tradition. This study examines artistic production from...

Perhaps nowhere else is Andrew Wyeth s highly distinctive style more palpable, or moving, than in Snow Hill. His masterful tempera painting of 1989 provides a visual and poetic summary of the Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, residents who had provided artistic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543521Author Claire GraceFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Collaborative and collective art practices have proliferated around the world over the past fifteen years. In The One and the Many, Grant H. Kester provides an overview of the broader continuum of collaborative art, ranging from the work of artists and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861714121Author William MalpasFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Crescent Moon PublishingPublisher Crescent Moon PublishingWeight(grams) 440g

Alongside 40 Vettriano paintings are stories, poems, dialogue from plays, an other fine examples of Scottish writing. Smith has woven an anthology of new and old writing round the painter''s images, complementing and extending them.'Book InformationISBN...

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 9781906593964Author Paul GoughFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Redcliffe Press LtdPublisher Redcliffe Press Ltd

Critic Nicholas Usherwood has described the painting of Clive Hicks-Jenkins (b.1951) as 'reflective, expressive painting of the highest order'. From a background as a choreographer and theatre director, Hicks-Jenkins has since the 1990s become...

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...

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 9780755216161Author Teresa Vanneck-SurpliceFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation Publishing

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...

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

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

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 9781904048244Author Andrew M. ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Kamera BooksPublisher Kamera BooksWeight(grams) 60g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783865607010Author Tom HolertFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Buchhandlung Walther Konig GmbH & Co. KG. Abt. VerlagPublisher Buchhandlung Walther...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783836560412Author Claire ZimmermanFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Taschen GmbHPublisher Taschen GmbHWeight(grams) 567g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910089514Author Jody ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Tangent BooksPublisher Tangent BooksWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 260mm * 260mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991213207Author Dawud KnucklesFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Art on DekzPublisher Art on DekzWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 213mm * 20mm