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The Next Thing: Art in the Twenty-first Century is a highly visual collection of essays about the future of art and the art of the future. This anthology brings together writings by world-renown theorists, artists, critics, novelists and philosophers,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351221Author Bruce HainleyFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 894g

Tracing the evolution of the Italian avant-garde's pioneering experiments with art and technology and their subversion of freedom and control In postwar Italy, a group of visionary artists used emergent computer technologies as both tools of artistic...

In Dragging Away Lex Morgan Lancaster traces the formal and material innovations of contemporary queer and feminist artists, showing how they use abstraction as a queering tactic for social and political ends. Through a process Lancaster theorizes as a...

The contributors to Nervous Systems reassess contemporary artists' and critics' engagement with social, political, biological, and other systems as a set of complex and relational parts: an approach commonly known as systems thinking. Demonstrating the...

In the thirty years since his death, Keith Haring-a central presence on the New York downtown scene of the 1980s-has remained one of the most popular figures in contemporary American art. In one of the first book-length treatments of Haring's artistry,...

Pop art was essential to the Americanization of global art in the 1960s, yet it engendered resistance and adaptation abroad in equal measure, especially in Paris. From the end of the Algerian War of Independence and the opening of Ileana Sonnabend's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992903985Author Paul HendrikseFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Occasional PapersPublisher Occasional Papers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974613741Author Joe Ashbrook NickellFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint Missoula Art MuseumPublisher Missoula Art MuseumWeight(grams) 1134g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957164475Author Daniel LehanFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Dark Windows PressPublisher Dark Windows PressWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955761003Author Hayley NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Milton Keynes GalleryPublisher Milton Keynes Gallery

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955741104Author Paul McAreeFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint COLONYPublisher COLONY

Textile artist Takaku Kuboku (1908-1993) is a paragon among modern artists of Japan, fusing rural and urban, traditional and innovative, and Asian and European influences in his life and work. This volume introduces his aesthetic ideas and artistic...

Anxiety Aesthetics is the first book to consider a prehistory of contemporaneity in China through the emergent creative practices in the aftermath of the Mao era. Arguing that socialist residues underwrite contemporary Chinese art, complicating its...

Anxiety Aesthetics is the first book to consider a prehistory of contemporaneity in China through the emergent creative practices in the aftermath of the Mao era. Arguing that socialist residues underwrite contemporary Chinese art, complicating its...

In 1959, the very year the Cuban Revolution amplified Cold War tensions in the Americas, museumgoers in the United States witnessed a sudden surge in major exhibitions of Latin American art. Surveying the 1960s boom of such exhibits, this book documents...

Surrealism is widely thought of as an artistic movement that flourished in Europe between the two world wars. However, during the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, diverse radical affinity groups, underground subcultures, and student protest movements proclaimed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262037051Author Rachel AdamsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910010204Author Ross HairFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint UniformbooksPublisher Uniformbooks

American Moderns on Paper presents a selection of approximately 100 of the finest watercolors, pastels, and drawings by leading American modernists from the Wadsworth Atheneum's renowned collection of American art. Works by Sloan, O'Keeffe, Hopper,...

In Passionate Pursuit: The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Collection and Legacy is the first comprehensive publication to document the richly diverse collecting activity and profound impact of the cultural patronage of Portland's most distinguished post-war...

Los Angeles' art of the past is a treasure trove, awaiting full excavation. Hiding in plain sight have been offbeat and lyrical works by an ethnically diverse group of artists who exhibited with a 1960s gallery with an alternative take on the mainstream:...

A unique survey of 350 artworks by a global and diverse array of LGBTQ+ artists – many underrecognized and overlooked – from the last 50 years Though the Stonewall Riots might now be shorthand for the start of the gay rights movement, so much of art and...

Using close visual analysis of drawings, artist interviews, critical analysis and exegesis, Drawing Investigations examines how artists use drawing as an investigative tool to reveal information that would otherwise remain unseen and unnoticed. How...

In a series of newly commissioned essays by both established and emerging scholars, Globalization and Contemporary Art probes the effects of internationalist culture and politics on art across a variety of media. Globalization and Contemporary Art is...

The term Neo-Dada surfaced in New York in the late 1950s and was used to characterize young artists like Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns whose art appeared at odds with the serious emotional and painterly interests of the then-dominant movement,...

Artists play a fundamental role as mirrors of society and can, in particular, give expression to specific corners of the world in our global economy. Timer 1 presents the work of eighty international artists from all generations. The overarching theme of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042918443Author L GeysenFormat HardbackPage Count 93Imprint PeetersPublisher PeetersWeight(grams) 576g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992903992Author Juan CruzFormat PaperbackImprint Occasional PapersPublisher Occasional Papers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955267277Author Jenny DiskiPage Count 96Imprint Michael ButterworthPublisher Michael ButterworthWeight(grams) 179g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955267260Author Robert ClarkPage Count 96Imprint Michael ButterworthPublisher Michael Butterworth

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955267239Author Iain SinclairPage Count 296Imprint Michael ButterworthPublisher Michael Butterworth

Throughout her six-decade career, Camille Patha's painting has oscillated between the figurative and the abstract. Patha began painting gestural abstraction in the 1960s then deliberately explored various painting styles, including hard-edged abstraction...

In Collective Situations scholars, artists, and art collectives present a range of socially engaged art practices that emerged in Latin America during the Pink Tide period, between 1995 and 2010. This volume's essays, interviews, and artist's...

Taking 1959-1960 as a pivotal cultural and political moment, the contributors to Breathless Days reframe postwar Western art history, examining the aesthetic and ideological alliances and tensions in art throughout Western Europe and the Americas. The...

In Jamaican dancehalls competition for the video camera's light is stiff, so much so that dancers sometimes bleach their skin to enhance their visibility. In the Bahamas, tuxedoed students roll into prom in tricked-out sedans, staging grand red-carpet...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692269954Author David F. MartinFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Northwest Watercolor SocietyPublisher Northwest Watercolor SocietyWeight(grams) 885g

Toward the middle of the 1950s, abstract art became a dominant trend in the Latin American cultural scene. Many artists incorporated elements of abstraction into their rigorous artistic vocabularies, while at the same time, the representation of...

Circa 1960, artists working at the margins of the international art world breached the frame of canvas painting and ruptured the institutional frame of art. Members of the Brazilian Neoconcrete group, such as Helio Oiticica and Lygia Clark, and their...