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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...

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