Contemporary

Examining radical reinventions of traditional practices, ranging from a queer reclamation of the Jewish festival of Purim to an Indigenous remixing of musical traditions. Supposedly outmoded modes of doing and making-from music and religious rituals to...

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...

Challenging cliches of Japanism as a feminine taste, Bachelor Japanists argues that Japanese aesthetics were central to contests over the meanings of masculinity in the West. Christopher Reed draws attention to the queerness of Japanist communities of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788897503798Author Roman StanczakFormat HardbackPage Count 126Imprint Produzioni NeroPublisher Produzioni Nero

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492321008Author Eneman LambrechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint MER Paper KunsthallePublisher MER Paper Kunsthalle

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789490693886Author Peter RogiersFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint MER Paper KunsthallePublisher MER Paper Kunsthalle

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789490693534Author Peter RogiersFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint MER Paper KunsthallePublisher MER Paper Kunsthalle

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789491775949Author Diego TonusFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint MER Paper KunsthallePublisher MER Paper Kunsthalle

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788799214785Author Claus BrusenFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Fantasmus ArtPublisher Fantasmus ArtWeight(grams) 1405g

Expanding the horizon of accounts of art under communism, The Green Bloc uncovers the history of artistic engagement with the natural environment in the Eastern Bloc. The book focusses on artists including the Pecs Workshop from Hungary, OHO in Slovenia,...

Mel Katz is a highly regarded Portland sculptor and teacher whose work is firmly rooted in the principles of geometric abstraction. He moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1964 to teach at Portland State University, where he taught for the next thirty-two years...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925643992Author Felix HernandesFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint ATF PressPublisher ATF PressWeight(grams) 0g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478013457Author Jason A. HoelscherFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Duke University PressPublisher Duke University PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906441197Author John TimberlakeFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint Artwords PressPublisher Artwords Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906463106Author J. J. CharlesworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 47Imprint Alexia Goethe GalleryPublisher Alexia Goethe Gallery

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906463113Author Peter NagyFormat PaperbackPage Count 27Imprint Alexia Goethe GalleryPublisher Alexia Goethe Gallery

In the twenty-first century, we are continually confronted with the existential side of technology-the relationships between identity and the mechanizations that have become extensions of the self. Focusing on one of humanity's most ubiquitous machines,...

In Beyond the World's End T. J. Demos explores cultural practices that provide radical propositions for living in a world beset by environmental and political crises. Rethinking relationships between aesthetics and an expanded political ecology that...

The Romare Bearden Reader brings together a collection of new essays and canonical writings by novelists, poets, historians, critics, and playwrights. The contributors, who include Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison, August Wilson, Farah Jasmine Griffin, and...

Drawing on thousands of historical documents from Polish and Dutch archives, this book explores Cold War cultural exchange between so-called ‘smaller powers’ of this global conflict, which thus far has been predominately explored from the perspective of...

Over the years, Kobena Mercer has critically illuminated the visual innovations of African American and black British artists. In Travel & See he presents a diasporic model of criticism that gives close attention to aesthetic strategies while tracing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927575901Author Sheryl SalloumFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 416g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927575192Author Julie FowlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 394g

This book is published on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of The Paragon Press. It offers a survey of the publications of the last five years. The range of artists Charles Booth-Clibborn works with stretches across generations from Alan Davie...

Brazil has long been called the "country of the future." This book documents an exhibition that examines Brazil from the perspective of blindness as a critical category, a metaphor for the way in which the obstruction of perception can illuminate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783796538117Author Roland PulferFormat PaperbackPage Count 81Imprint Schwabe VerlagPublisher Schwabe VerlagWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807615744Author Anselm KieferFormat HardbackPage Count 85Imprint George BrazillerPublisher George BrazillerWeight(grams) 934gDimensions(mm) 302mm * 248mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788891304896Author Henri De RiedmattenFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint L'Erma Di BretschneiderPublisher L'Erma Di BretschneiderWeight(grams) 154g

This stunning exhibition catalog visualizes what freedom looks like for Black Americans today and the legacy of the Civil War in 2023 and beyond. Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation sits at the intersection of history and contemporary...

This volume focuses on Jewish American identity within the context of Pop art in New York City during the sixties to reveal the multivalent identities and selves often ignored in Pop scholarship. Melissa L. Mednicov establishes her study within the...

"In the Space Age," wrote Italian artist Lucio Fontana, "spatial art." Fontana's desire to create art in space came in response to unprecedented technological advances and contemporary fantasies of space travel. Fifteen years before...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949484045Author Amy FranceschiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint No Place PressPublisher No Place Press

Pamela M. Lee's New Games revisits postmodernism in light of art history's more recent embrace of "the contemporary." What can the theories and practices associated with postmodernism tell us about the obsession with the contemporary in both...

Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination explores the role of art in conceiving and reconfiguring the political, ethical and social landscape of our time. Understanding art as a vital form of articulation, Meskimmon argues that artworks do more...

This book analyzes practices of collecting in European art museums from 1989 to the present, arguing that museums actualize absence both consciously and unconsciously, while misrepresentation is an outcome of the absent perspectives and voices of...

Contemporary art biennials are sites of prestige, innovation and experimentation, where the category of art is meant to be in perpetual motion, rearranged and redefined, opening itself to the world and its contradictions. They are sites of a seemingly...

By uniquely treating Gerhard Richter's entire oeuvre as a single subject, Darryn Ansted combines research into Richter's first art career as a socialist realist with study of his subsequent decisions as a significant contemporary artist. Analysis of...

The rise of proxy wars, the Space Race, and cybernetics during the Cold War marked science and technology as vital sites of social and political power. Women artists, historically excluded from these domains, responded critically, while simultaneously...

An exploration of recent work by the award-winning Dutch visual artist Berend Strik Berend Strik (b. 1960) is an internationally acclaimed Dutch visual artist whose oeuvre ranges from two-dimensional works to sculpture and architecture. He is best...

"Best in Show" - 2014 AAM Museum Publications Design Competition Between 1950 and 1975, some of the postwar era's most innovative artists flocked to a very unexpected place: New Jersey. Appreciating what others tended to ignore or mock, they...