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Permission to Laugh: Humor and Politics in Contemporary German Art Gregory H. Williams 9780226898957
RRP: $70.95$69.03"Permission to Laugh" explores the work of three generations of German artists who, beginning in the 1960s, turned to jokes and wit in an effort to confront complex questions regarding German politics and history. Gregory H. Williams highlights six of... -
Cruising the Dead River: David Wojnarowicz and New York's Ruined Waterfront by Fiona Anderson 9780226603612
RRP: $108.36$103.66In the 1970s, Manhattan's west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers. Though many saw only blight, the derelict neighborhood was alive with queer people forging new intimacies through cruising. Alongside the piers' sexual... -
Joanna Rytel Art Video: Sex, Abortion, Racism Joanna Rytel 9789185639373
RRP: $25.79$17.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789185639373Author Joanna RytelPage Count 16Imprint Dokument PressPublisher Dokument ForlagWeight(grams) 183g -
Ytalia: Energy Thought Beauty. All is connected. Sergio Risaliti 9788899534363
RRP: $64.50$41.73The Belvedere Fortress is the main location for this exhibition involving the whole city and including the Uffizi Gallery, Boboli Gardens, Palazzo Vecchio, Palazzo Pitti, Basilica of Santa Croce, Museo Novecento, and Museo Marino Marini. Each location... -
START: Young Galleries. New Artists. by Serenella Ciclitira 9788857224794
RRP: $45.09$28.90This catalogue was published for the inaugural START art fair, held at the Saatchi Gallery in London in June 2014. It offers information on over forty exhibiting galleries and their artists, as well as twenty artists appearing in "Eye Zone," an... -
Let Me See: A Guide on Guided Tours by Edina Deme 9786155304453
RRP: $12.26$8.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786155304453Author Edina DemeFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Szepmuveszeti MuzeumPublisher Szepmuveszeti Muzeum -
Extended by Lutz Caspar 9783868280654
RRP: $33.53$23.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868280654Author Lutz CasparFormat HardbackPage Count 307Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer VerlagWeight(grams) 1313g -
The Present of the Future by Susanne Witzgall 9783037349861
RRP: $38.70$38.25As the world teeters on the brink of crisis and potentially catastrophic change, outlooks for the future have come to be characterized by anxiety. The skepticism that meets utopian visions of the future has given rise to collective nostalgia for... -
Bai: The New Language of Porcelain in China Bai Ming 9781851499090
RRP: $38.70$25.54Born in Yugan, near Jingdezhen, the birthplace of porcelain, Bai Ming has contributed to the revival of contemporary Chinese ceramics and introduced it to a new worldwide audience through numerous exhibitions. Today he is arguably China's greatest... -
TransVisuality: The Cultural Dimension of Visuality (Vol 2): Volume 2: Visual Organisations by Tore Kristensen 9781800348967
$73.40In contemporary society, 'the visual' becomes a traversing denominator passing through the most diverse articulations: from new media, branding, drone vision and robot culture to cityscapes, design and art. The transvisuality project in three volumes... -
The Present Prospects of Social Art History by Prof. Robert Slifkin 9781501341564
$139.72The Present Prospects of Social Art History represents a major reconsideration of how art historians analyze works of art and the role that historical factors, both those at the moment when the work was created and when the historian addresses the... -
Disordering the Establishment: Participatory Art and Institutional Critique in France, 1958-1981 by Lily Woodruff 9781478007920
RRP: $114.81$100.13In the decades following World War II, France experienced both a period of affluence and a wave of political, artistic, and philosophical discontent that culminated in the country-wide protests of 1968. In Disordering the Establishment Lily Woodruff... -
Religion and Art in the Heart of Modern Manhattan: St. Peter's Church and the Louise Nevelson Chapel Aaron Rosen 9781472424730
RRP: $174.15$151.81"When you're in New York" the sculptor Louise Nevelson once said, "you're in perpetual resurrection." She might have said the same thing about St. Peter's Lutheran Church, set in the heart of midtown Manhattan. In the 1970s the church made a radical... -
Italian and American Art: An Interaction 1930s-1980s by Renato Miracco 9791254600535
RRP: $38.70$25.54Italian and American Art focuses on the period between 1930 and 1980 in particular. By comparing artworks and examining exhibition and gallery policies, political meddling, and figures linking Italy to the United States, a common thread emerges which... -
The Grid by Alexander Streitberger 9782390252535
RRP: $35.48$23.08The Grid examines the multiple uses of the grid in contemporary art. Textile weaves, graphic grids, framework for materials, typological systems, spatio-temporal frameworks, computer matrix, narratives and documentary devices. The Grid presents works by... -
Dis...Miss Gender? Anne Bray 9780262546447
RRP: $46.44$29.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546447Author Anne BrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 255mm * 205mm * 18mm -
Contemporary Art and Capitalist Modernization: A Transregional Perspective Octavian Esanu 9780367550943
RRP: $51.59$45.74This book addresses the art historical category of "contemporary art" from a transregional perspective, but unlike other volumes of its kind, it focuses in on non-Western instantiations of "the contemporary." The book concerns itself with the historical... -
Visual Culture Approaches to the Selfie by Derek Conrad Murray 9781032132662
RRP: $51.59$45.23This collection explores the cultural fascination with social media forms of self-portraiture, "selfies," with a specific interest in online self-imaging strategies in a Western context.This book examines the selfie as a social and technological... -
Contemporary Artists Working Outside the City: Creative Retreat Sarah Lowndes 9781138712607
RRP: $174.15$151.81This book reflects on the motivations of creative practitioners who have moved out of cities from the mid-1960s onwards to establish creative homesteads. The book focuses on desert exile painter Agnes Martin, radical filmmaker and gardener Derek Jarman,... -
Art in Consumer Culture: Mis-Design Grace McQuilten 9781138261198
RRP: $51.59$45.23Written with beautiful clarity, Art in Consumer Culture: Mis-Design asks the contemporary art world to be honest about the pervasive effects of commodification and the difficulty of staging critique. The book examines the collusion of 'art' and 'design'... -
Eye hEar The Visual in Music by Simon Shaw-Miller 9781138245693
RRP: $64.49$56.12'Eye hEar The Visual in Music' employs the concept of the visual in proximate relation to music, producing a tension: 'is it not the case that there is a gulf between painting and music, between the visible and the audible? One is full of colour and... -
Migrations, Arts and Postcoloniality in the Mediterranean Celeste Ianniciello 9781138479609
RRP: $70.94$61.56This book is focused on the transcultural memory of the Mediterranean region and the different ways it is articulated by contemporary art practices and museum projects linked to migrations, exile, diaspora and transnationality. The artistic and... -
Contemporary Sculpture and the Critique of Display Cultures: Tainted Goods Dan Adler (York University) 9781138479623
RRP: $70.94$61.56In this book, Dan Adler addresses recent tendencies in contemporary art toward assemblage sculpture and how these works incorporate tainted materials - often things left on the side of the road, according to the logic and progress of the capitalist... -
My Parents are Not My Real Parents: 2017 by Rachel Karafistan 9780993395178
RRP: $19.35$12.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993395178Author Rachel KarafistanFormat HardbackPage Count 60Imprint Centrala LtdPublisher Centrala Ltd -
Alex Hartley - Nowhereisland by Tim Cresswell 9780993179839
$46.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993179839Author Tim CresswellFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Victoria Miro GalleryPublisher Victoria Miro Gallery -
David Korty: Blue Shelves Suzanne Hudson 9780992655624
RRP: $32.25$20.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992655624Author Suzanne HudsonFormat HardbackPage Count 92Imprint Sadie Coles HQPublisher Sadie Coles HQ -
Learning by Doing at the Farm: Craft, Science and Counterculture in Modern California by Robert Kett 9780982409077
RRP: $22.58$15.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982409077Author Robert KettFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Soberscove PressPublisher Soberscove PressWeight(grams) 318g -
Contemporary Art and Philanthropy: Private Foundations Asia-Pacific Focus by Nicholas Jose 9780957738232
RRP: $23.22$15.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957738232Author Nicholas JoseFormat HardbackPage Count 119Imprint Sherman Contemporary Art FoundationPublisher Sherman Contemporary Art... -
MATERIALpoetry by Simon Cutts 9780906630433
$15.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906630433Author Simon CuttsFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Coracle PressPublisher Coracle Press -
Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break III Sabine Eckmann 9780936316376
RRP: $29.03$27.97Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break III is the third volume in a series examining the work of acclaimed video artist and photographer Sharon Lockhart. Known for collaborating with remote or marginal communities such as blue-collar workers of the twenty-first... -
From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945-1962 by Hannah Feldman 9780822353560
RRP: $114.81$100.13From a Nation Torn provides a powerful critique of art history's understanding of French modernism and the historical circumstances that shaped its production and reception. Within art history, the aesthetic practices and theories that emerged in France... -
ARTtitude by Frederic Claquin 9780764346286
RRP: $47.72$30.93Representing countries as far-reaching and distinct as Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, Austria, Guatemala, and the United States (to name a few), the 34 international artists featured in this collection reveal the richness and diversity of contemporary... -
Simulating the Marvellous: Psychology - Surrealism - Postmodernism David Lomas 9780719088827
RRP: $109.65$78.91Simulating the marvellous presents important new research on Surrealism and the culture from which it arose. Offering fresh interpretations of Surrealist art and literature based around the theme of simulation, the book shows, in the late nineteenth and... -
Transcultural Encounters: Visualising France and the Maghreb in Contemporary Art by Siobhan Shilton 9780719087103
RRP: $109.65$77.62Art since the 1980s reveals a striking proliferation of works exploring the complex cross-cultural identities that have resulted from a long history of exchange between France and the Maghreb. This adventurous study examines distinctively visual means of... -
Gender, Artwork and the Global Imperative: A Materialist Feminist Critique by Angela Dimitrakaki 9780719083594
RRP: $109.65$77.62Is gender implicated in how art does its work in the world created by global capital? Is a global imperative exclusive to capital's planetary expansion or also witnessed in oppositional practices in art and curating? And what is new in the gendered... -
Uncanny Congruencies: Penn State School of Visual Arts Alumni by Micaela Amateau Amato 9780615512228
RRP: $28.32$24.51The power of art has always been found in those uncanny spaces between formal abstraction and the narratives of representation. Inseparable parts of a more complex whole, they are the collaborative symbiotic conditions that have created the most... -
The Housing Project: Discourses, Ideals, Models and Politics in 20th-Century Exhibitions by Gaia Caramellino 9789462701823
RRP: $68.37$56.10Throughout the twentieth century housing displays have proven to be a singular genre of architectural and design exhibitions. By crossing geographies and adopting multiple scales of observation - from domestic space to urban visions - this volume... -
Imagine: Italian Art 1959-1969 Luca Massimo Barbero 9788831723787
RRP: $50.30$35.18A seminal experience on the Italian art scene of the 1960s. At the height of the economic miracle of the 1960s, artistic experiments in Italy kept following one another, mixed and merged with an extraordinary speed and intensity.The common aim was to... -
Dancing with Myself by Martin Bethenod 9788831729048
RRP: $58.04$39.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788831729048Author Martin BethenodFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint MarsilioPublisher Marsilio -
The Ordinary And The Odd by S. Swenson 9789187815362
RRP: $18.06$14.00"The Ordinary and The Odd" is the first book from artist and graphic designer, Swen Swenson. Swenson's use of simple and minimilst illustrations, evoking playful and sometimes odd encounters is a pleasure for any viewer of his work. His style is...