Contemporary

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783947563487Author Galia Bar-OrFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint DCVPublisher DCV

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782370741516Author Nicolas Liucci-GoutnikovFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Editions Skira ParisPublisher Editions Skira ParisWeight(grams) 230g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646995325Author Eric ShanesFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, LimitedWeight(grams) 216g

The Caribbean has been traditionally associated with externally devised mappings and categories, thus appearing as a passive entity to be consumed and categorized. Challenging these forces and representations, Carlos Garrido Castellano argues that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857233505Author Peres ProjectsFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1040g

Harry Widman: Image, Myth, and Modernism chronicles the life and times of the highly regarded Portland painter and teacher, who taught for 36 years at the Pacific Northwest College of Art (formerly the Portland Art Museum School) and served as interim...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551646985Author K. John GrandeFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose BooksWeight(grams) 446g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857240046Author Vasily KlyukinFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 2020g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783947563678Author Thyra SchmidtFormat HardbackPage Count 84Imprint DCVPublisher DCV

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857228662Author Demetrio PaparoniFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 2590g

Korea is still a divided country that apparently never found its way out of the Cold War. The differences between the socialist North, which follows a dynastic leadership cult, and the capitalist South, with its developed democracy, could hardly be...

In this volume Renato Bergamin talks about a very personal approach to the two great artists Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Alberto Giacometti. By chance, he met the art patron and gallery owner Eberhard W. Kornfeld in 1984, and twelve years later he got to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857245393Author Luca BeatriceFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 120g

Out of My Great Sorrows is the story of Philadelphia artist Mary Zakarian, whose life and work were shaped by the experiences of her mother, a survivor of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Written by Mary Zakarian's niece and nephew, the narrative examines the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857241067Author Vincenzo De BellisFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1120g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262534970Author Mark W. ScalaFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

An account of the theory and practice of practitioners of the so-called second or younger Viennese school, associated with Hans Sedlmayr and Otto Pacht, demonstrating the strong dependence of these writers on the work of Gestalt psychology.Book...

Jan-Ole Schiemann (*1983) belongs to a young artist generation, subjecting painting to a critical actualisation. On the fringes of figuration and abstraction, he extracts fragments of advertisement, comics, and architecture from their original context...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857234403Author Lu PengFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1150g

This book documents a mammoth two-part installation and related drawings, videos, and sculpture by Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo. Their work After transformed the Boise Art Museum’s Sculpture Court and Garden into a construction / deconstruction zone. The...

Ventriloquism, 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...

The 1950s and early 1960s in Brazil gave birth to a period of incredible optimism and economic development. In The Affinity of Neoconcretism, Mariola V. Alvarez argues that the Neoconcretists-a group of artists and poets working together in Rio de...

These 15 essays engage topics from architecture to politics and from fast food to film, aiming to reveal the problems and potential of postmodern cultural criticism. It looks at the value and limits of postmodernist approaches to present-day society and...

In the course of its long and tumultuous history the sublime has alternated between spatial and temporal definitions, from its conceptualization in terms of the grandeur and infinity of Nature (spatial), to its postmodern redefinition as an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781887883085Author Emily StameyFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Wichita State UniversityPublisher Wichita State UniversityWeight(grams) 544g

This Is Not a Hoax shows how the work of some contemporary artists and writers intentionally disrupts the curatorial and authorial practices of the country's most respected cultural institutions: art galleries, museums, and book publishers. This...

The definitive history of a cherished East Los Angeles institution over five decades of art making and community building.  Self Help Graphics at Fifty celebrates the ongoing legacy of an institution that has had profound aesthetic, economic, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517910518Author Rachel McGarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783777439143Author Adolf Luther StiftungFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Hirmer VerlagPublisher Hirmer VerlagWeight(grams) 280g

This volume accompanies the international traveling exhibition FOOD, that focuses on the preservation of Earth and food choices, as well as the effects of climate change, the poisoning of agricultural products, the food distribution gap, famine and other...

The exhibition Swiss Pop Art at Aargauer Kunsthaus in spring 2017 is the first-ever comprehensive overview of Pop Art in Switzerland. For the Swiss art scene in the 1960s and early 1970s, this international movement was of pivotal importance. Artists...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543521Author Claire GraceFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

"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...

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...

For almost two decades of its history (1975-90), Lebanon was besieged by sectarian fighting, foreign invasions, and complicated proxy wars. In Posthumous Images, Chad Elias analyzes a generation of contemporary artists who have sought, in different ways,...

This long-awaited "little sibling" of Abbeville's bestselling How Artists See series shows preschoolers the varied and beautiful ways in which artists see the world around them. In How Artists See Jr.: Babies children will encounter pictures...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692963180Author Yesomi UmoluFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Logan Center ExhibitionsPublisher Logan Center ExhibitionsWeight(grams) 218g

The last few decades have been among the most dynamic within recent British cultural history. Artists across all genres and media have developed and re-fashioned their practice against a radically changing social and cultural landscape - both national...

Offering historical, social, and artistic context for some of the most influential artists and filmmakers from the 1960s to the present day, this timely book looks at three filmic techniques-appropriation, documentary film, and montage-and how they...

The essays in this collection explore the extraordinarily rich networks of international artists and art practices that emerged in and around London during the 1960s and '70s, a period that saw an explosion of new media and fresh attitudes and approaches...