Contemporary

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Drawing on thousands of historical documents from Polish and Dutch archives, this book explores Cold War cultural exchange between so-called ‘smaller powers’ of this global conflict, which thus far has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

"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...

In 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...

Apologies 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

The 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...

This 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

As 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...

Born 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...

In 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 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...

In 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...

"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 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 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...

Apologies 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