Contemporary

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

This 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...

This 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...

This 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,...

Written 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' 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...

This 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...

In 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

Apologies 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...

Apologies 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 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 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...

Representing 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 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...

Art 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...

Is 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...

The 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...

Throughout 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...

A 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...

Apologies 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" 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...

Maple, birch, walnut, lemonwood and palisander are just a few of the woods from which Liv Blavarp (b. 1956) creates exceptional one-off jewellery pieces. The rigidity or softness of the wood plays just as much of an important role in the selection...

This groundbreaking collection from scholars and artists on the legacy of Beckett in contemporary art provides readers with a unique view of this important writer for page, stage, and screen. The volume argues that Beckett is more than an influence on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941366219Author Glenn FurhmanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Gregory Miller & CompanyPublisher Gregory Miller & CompanyWeight(grams) 216g

This new volume tells the story of some of the paintings rescued by the the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives (MFAA) organization, the so-called "Monuments Men." In December 1945, 202 paintings, found in German salt mines 2,100 feet underground, where...

Graphicstudio: Uncommon Practice at USF explores the incredible body of art from Graphicstudio, the print atelier at the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida that has hosted artists including Louise Bourgeois, Jim Dine, Alex Katz, and Roy...

This is the first monograph to give an overview of the entire career to date of artist Ding Yi (b. 1962), whose work, unlike most other well-known Chinese painters, is wholly abstract. Large in scale, and extraordinary in detail, Ding Yi's paintings...

Blending the reflected cultural climate of his adopted home, Los Angeles, with the multi-layered world of American popular culture, Jim Shaw (b.1952) creates rich, dream-like worlds within distinct bodies of work. Addressing, for the first time, how the...

The inspirational genius of Germany explores the neglected issue of the cultural influence of Germany upon Britain between 1850 and 1939. While the impact on Britain of German Romanticism has been extensively mapped, the reception of the more...

Shanghai, long known as mainland China's most cosmopolitan city, is today a global cultural capital. This book offers the first in-depth examination of contemporary Shanghai-based art and design - from state-sponsored exhibitions to fashionable cultural...

Architect Marcel Breuer's House in the Museum Garden, now considered one of the most influential architecture exhibitions of the 20th century, was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art and built in their garden in 1949. Exhibited to record attendance,...

Investigating the complex history of visual art's engagement with literature, this collection demonstrates that the art of the book is a fully interdisciplinary and distinctly modern form. The essays in the collection develop new critical approaches to...

Hilton Kramer, well known as perhaps the most perceptive, courageous, and influential art critic in America, is also the founder and co-editor (with Roger Kimball) of The New Criterion. This comprehensive book collects a sizable selection of his early...

Histories, Practices, Interventions: A Reader in Singapore Contemporary Art brings together key writings about ideas, practices, issues and art institutions that shape the understanding of contemporary art in Singapore. This reader is conceived as an...

What makes British television crime drama so perennially popular, both in the UK and abroad? The TV Detective addresses this question, examining a range of series; including A Touch of Frost, Lewis, Life on Mars and the more recent Luther in the context...

In the digital age, reality itself faces profound revolutions. The everyday, cohabitation, labour, our perception, and our senses radically shift into virtuality. In images and displays, installations, performances, and films, Anna K.E. (*1986) and...