Contemporary

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...

"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...

A selection of fifteen well-established artists from across the Maghreb, Levant, and Gulf in conversations moderated by experts on contemporary Middle Eastern art. Historically, artists have been known for their ability to understand emerging trends of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857236261Author Germano CelantFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1830g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857226064Author Francesca PolaFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1360g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857240985Author Rosa Maria FalvoFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1320g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857226842Author Gao MingluFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 2600g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857237305Author Adriano BerengoFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 2050g

Citrus fruits with empty oyster shells, chicken eggs stamped with best-before dates and unmoving nudes in empty spaces: Inspired by seventeenth-century painting, Pavel Feinstein transposes artistic traditions to the present day, toys with the viewer's...

Over the course of the past years, painting has undergone a spectacular renaissance in the arts capital of New York at the hands of a generation of artists who will no longer be told how art should and should not be made. Eleven positions reveal the...

A sweeping overview of the work of a prominent Belgian visual artist This handsome volume traces the work and career of Belgian visual artist Johan Muyle (b. 1956) from his early assemblages of found materials to his monumental paintings and recent...

Otherwise: Imagining queer feminist art histories is the first book to address queer feminist politics, methods and theories in relation to the visual arts, including new media, installation and performance art. Despite the crucial contribution of...

In 1970, Judy Chicago and fifteen students founded the groundbreaking Feminist Art Program (FAP) at Fresno State. Drawing upon the consciousness-raising techniques of the women's liberation movement, they created shocking new art forms depicting female...

During the mid-twentieth century, Latin American artists working in several different cities radically altered the nature of modern art. Reimagining the relationship of art to its public, these artists granted the spectator a greater role than ever...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857230108Author Serenella CiclitiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1380g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857241180Author Hamid KeshmirshekanFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1290g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782851171764Author Hans-Ulrich ObristFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Cahiers d'artPublisher Cahiers d'artWeight(grams) 1240g

This book analyses how three artists - Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero and Mary Kelly - worked with the visual dimensions of language in the 1960s and 1970s. These artists used text and images of writing to challenge female stereotypes, addressing viewers and...

The work of 38 established and emerging artists explore the creative potential of risk-taking and transgression in contemporary life The unconventional theme underlying the art featured in this book is the struggle between risk-taking and the prediction...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846382550Author Amanda CarneiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 175Imprint Afterall PublishingPublisher Afterall PublishingDimensions(mm) 298mm * 191mm * 15mm

This book examines artists' engagements with design and architecture since the 1980s, and asks what they reveal about contemporary capitalist production and social life. Setting recent practices in historical relief, and exploring the work of Dan Graham,...

Providing a lively snapshot of the state of art and social justice today on a global level, Entry Points accompanies the inaugural Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics, launched at The New School on the occasion of the center's twentieth...

Is there such a thing as contemporary art history? The contemporary, after all-as much as we may want to consider it otherwise-is being made history as it happens. By what means do we examine this moving target? These questions lie at the center of Jane...

A revealing look at the irrevocable change in art during the 1960s and its relationship to the modern culture of fact This refreshing and erudite book offers a new understanding of the transformation of photography and the visual arts around 1968. Author...

Modernist design, that radical and iconoclastic break with the past, is now itself a thing of the past. Perhaps sufficiently so that over the last few years, artists have been treating modernist designs as icons themselves, and incorporating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857240756Author Francesca PolaFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 960g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857232973Author Kjetil RoedFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 620g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857242620Author Serenella CiclitiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1940g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868282122Author Heinz KroehlFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer VerlagWeight(grams) 2097g

Rivera, Kahlo, Tamayo, Covarrubias, Weston, Modotti, Bravo, Spratling - names which are closely linked with the internationally celebrated art, photography and design scene of the 1920s and 1930s in the United States and Mexico. This lavishly illustrated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782851171818Author Alexander S. C. RowerFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Cahiers d'artPublisher Cahiers d'artWeight(grams) 1270g

Cinema mon amour focuses on the mutual fascination that art and film have for one another. It features work by international artists, including Martin Arnold, John Baldessari, Fiona Banner, Marc Bauer, Pierre Bismuth, Candice Breitz, Janet Cardiff &...

The Artangel Trust has been credited with providing artists with all the money and logistics they need to create one-off dream projects. An independent art commissioning agency based in London, it has operated since 1985 and is responsible for producing...

During the 1960s a group of young artists in Japan challenged official forms of politics and daily life through interventionist art practices. William Marotti situates this phenomenon in the historical and political contexts of Japan after the Second...