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Liv Blavarp: Jewellery. Structures in Wood Cecilie Skeide 9783897904972
RRP: €46.41€29.57Maple, 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... -
Samuel Beckett and Contemporary Art by David Houston Jones 9783838208497
RRP: €40.46€33.34This 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... -
The Flag Art Foundation: 2008a-2018 2008a-2018 by Glenn Furhman 9781941366219
RRP: €59.50€40.92Apologies 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 -
The Berlin Masterpieces in America: Paintings, Politics and the Monuments Men by Peter J Bell 9781911282631
RRP: €47.54€35.44This 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 and the Art of the Impossible by Jade Dellinger 9781907804359
RRP: €35.64€27.36Graphicstudio: 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... -
Ding Yi by Tony Godfrey 9781848223790
RRP: €59.49€25.64This 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... -
Jim Shaw by David Pagel 9781848223288
RRP: €59.49€42.45Blending 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: British Art and Germanism, 1850-1939 Matthew Potter 9781784993757
RRP: €29.75€21.80The 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... -
Above Sea: Contemporary Art, Urban Culture, and the Fashioning of Global Shanghai by Jenny Lin 9781526132604
RRP: €101.15€71.60Shanghai, 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... -
Transitional Moments: Marcel Breuer, W.C. Vaughan & Co. and the Bauhaus in America Robert Wiesenberger 9780985995867
RRP: €47.60€33.24Architect 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,... -
The Art Book Tradition in Twentieth-Century Europe by Kathryn Brown 9781138548220
RRP: €57.11€49.75Investigating 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... -
The Age of the Avant-garde: 1956-1972 by Hilton Kramer 9781138534155
RRP: €160.65€140.75Hilton 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 by Jeffrey Say 9789811269141
RRP: €95.20€82.87Histories, 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... -
The TV Detective: Voices of Dissent in Contemporary Television Helen Piper 9781780762944
€135.87What 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... -
Anna K.E. & Florian Meisenberg: Complimentary Blue by Milena Mercer 9783735606525
RRP: €45.22€28.85In 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... -
Käthe Kollwitz by Josephine Gabler 9783777441375
RRP: €14.28€8.15“I want to have an effect at this time, in which people are at such a loss and so much in need of help.” Käthe Kollwitz is the woman artist from 20th-century Germany whose works are best-known internationally. She also enjoys the highest esteem beyond... -
Contemporary Approaches to Translation Theory and Practice by Roberto A. Valdeon 9780367664138
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book gathers together for the first time the editors of some of the most prestigious Translation Studies journals, and serves as a showcase of the academic and geographical diversity of the discipline. The collection includes a discussion on the... -
Fringe of the Fringe: Queering Punk Media History by Kathrin Dreckmann 9783775753883
RRP: €47.60€31.12Since its beginnings in the nineteen-seventies, the medium of video has been closely linked to the subcultural and countercultural movements of its time, both in art and in everyday culture in Germany. Art and music videos in particular demonstrate great... -
A History of Solar Power Art and Design by Alex Nathanson 9781032042848
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book examines the history of creative applications of photovoltaic (PV) solar power, including sound art, wearable technology, public art, industrial design, digital media, building integrated design, and many others.The growth in artists and... -
Transnational Perspectives on Feminism and Art, 1960-1985 by Jen Kennedy 9780367558581
RRP: €47.59€41.72Transnational Perspecives on Feminism and Art, 1960–1985 is a collection of essential essays that bring transnational feminist praxis into conversation with histories of feminist art in the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s. The artistic practices and... -
Monika Huber: Archive OneThirty by Monika Huber 9783422800854
RRP: €49.39€44.47One minute and thirty seconds is the average length allotted to a news feature. For more than ten years, artist Monika Huber has been photograph- ing images from daily news reports that bear witness to protest, riots, war and violence, as well as their... -
Memory, Trauma, Asia: Recall, Affect, and Orientalism in Contemporary Narratives Rahul K. Gairola (Murdoch University, Australia) 9780367645014
RRP: €47.59€41.72The contributors to this volume re-think established insights of memory and trauma theory and enrich those studies with diverse Asian texts, critically analyzing literary and cultural representations of Asia and its global diasporas. They broaden the... -
Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art Jennie Hirsh 9781032304762
RRP: €42.83€37.71Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within contemporary art.Engaging with issues of voice, embodiment, power, and projection, the case studies... -
Seeing Rothko Glenn Phillips 9780892367344
RRP: €53.55€45.26"I am interested only in expressing basic human emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom," - Mark Rothko (1903 - 1970) said of his paintings. "If you are moved only by their colour relationships, then you miss the point." Throughout his career, Rothko was... -
Julio Galan: A Rabbit Split In Half by Magalí Arriola 9788419233578
RRP: €47.60€35.46The catalog “Julio Galán: A rabbit split in half ” is edited by the Tamayo Museum and published by Editorial RM. It not only documents the homonymous exhibition presented at the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, curated by Magalí Arriola, but also offers a... -
Mixed Forms of Visual Culture: From the Cabinet of Curiosities to Digital Diversity by Mary Anne Francis 9781350211414
€39.58This book celebrates and seeks to understand the overlooked appearances of hybrid forms in visual culture; artefacts and practices that meld or interweave incongruous elements in innovative ways. And with an emphasis on the material aspects of such... -
Between the Black Box and the White Cube: Expanded Cinema and Postwar Art Andrew V. Uroskie 9780226842981
RRP: €99.96€96.10Today, the moving image is ubiquitous in global contemporary art. The first book to tell the story of the postwar expanded cinema that inspired this omnipresence, Between the Black Box and the White Cube travels back to the 1950s and 1960s when the rise... -
Up Against the Real: Black Mask from Art to Action by Nadja Millner-Larsen 9780226820682
RRP: €101.15€97.22A history of 1960s activist art group Black Mask. With Up Against the Real, Nadja Millner-Larsen offers the first comprehensive study of the group Black Mask and its acrimonious relationship to the New York art world of the 1960s. Cited as pioneers of... -
Art and Street Politics in the Global 1960s: Yoshio Nakajima and the Global Avant-Garde by William Marotti 9780367710675
RRP: €154.70€133.41Anarchic street performances in late-1950s Japan; inauguration of the first Happenings in Antwerp and charging of the "magic circle" in Amsterdam; Bauhaus Situationiste and anti-national art exchanges, networks and communes. As "Happener" and "Art... -
A Companion to Contemporary Art since 1945 by Jones 9781405107945
RRP: €145.12€126.46A Companion to Contemporary Art is a major survey covering the major works and movements, the most important theoretical developments, and the historical, social, political, and aesthetic issues in contemporary art since 1945, primarily in the... -
Socially Engaged Art after Socialism: Art and Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe by Izabel Galliera 9781350276680
€35.07The post-1989 period has seen artists in Central and Eastern Europe embrace socially engaged practices. Reclaiming public life from the ideologies of both communist regimes and neoliberalism, their projects have harnessed the politically subversive... -
Grace Pailthorpe's Writings on Psychoanalysis and Surrealism by Alberto Stefana 9781032366463
RRP: €142.80€123.30Pailthorpe's important contributions to the development of psychoanalysis are largely overlooked now * Many of her key writings are published here for the first time * Her work ties into the contemporary interest in links between psychoanalysis and... -
Meanings of Modern Art, Revised by John Russell 9780367002695
RRP: €142.80€124.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780367002695Author John RussellFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd -
50 Moons of Saturn: T2 Torino Triennale 2008 by Daniel Birnbaum 9788861302679
RRP: €41.65€27.1750 Moons of Saturn is the catalog of the exhibition curated by Daniel Birnbaum for T2 - the second Torino Triennale. It brings together works by fifty young international artists and presents two special projects by Paul Chan and Olafur Eliasson... -
Tomas Esson: THE GOAT by Gean Moreno 9783777438085
RRP: €47.54€30.26Tomas Esson: The GOAT is the first monograph of Afro-Cuban artist Tomas Esson. It features paintings created over a span of thirty-five years and showcases a distinct style that overflows with energy, biting humor, and suggestive narratives that often... -
Abstract Painting and the Minimalist Critiques: Robert Mangold, David Novros, and Jo Baer in the 1960s by Matthew L. Levy 9781032178097
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book undertakes a critical reappraisal of Minimalism through an examination of three key painters: Robert Mangold, David Novros, and Jo Baer. By establishing their substantive engagements with Minimalist discourse, as well as their often overlooked... -
Like Andy Warhol by Jonathan Flatley 9780226823942
RRP: €33.32€32.59Scholarly considerations of Andy Warhol abound, including very fine catalogues raisonne, notable biographies, and essays in various exhibition catalogues and anthologies. But nowhere is there an in-depth scholarly examination of Warhol's oeuvre as a... -
Art, Agency and the Continued Assault on Authorship by Simon Blond 9780367643638
RRP: €148.75€128.35This book presents a counter-history to the relentless critique of the humanist subject and authorial agency that has taken place over the last fifty years. It is both an interrogation of that critique and the tracing of an alternative narrative from... -
Catching the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons Collection by Elizabeth Wyckoff 9783777438436
RRP: €45.22€28.85The exhibition catalogue highlights the diversity and relevance of the exceptional collection acquired from St. Louis collectors Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons. The artworks address a broad array of contemporary cultural issues and participate in... -
Creative Chicago by Hans Ulrich Obrist 9780932171672
RRP: €17.85€15.53On September 29, 2018, before a live audience at Navy Pier in Chicago, international curator Hans Ulrich Obrist conducted his first US Marathon interview session as part of Art Design Chicago, a yearlong celebration of Chicago's art and design legacy...