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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...

This generously illustrated volume surveys a new chapter in the history of environmental art, one in which space, geopolitics, human relations, urbanism, and utopian dreamwork play as important a role as, if not more than, raw earth. Discussed are case...

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...

The book moves in a nonreductive way between literary and theological criticism to show how drama and religious thought discern the experience of evil. "Tragic method" refers to how tragic art functions as inquiry; "tragic theology"...

Scholarly 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...

Through my work I return to my native roots, my youth, and the transitory world of innocence...The role of memory in art is a recognised fact, but in my case, as a painter living in a foreign city for so many years, my memories are doubly potent in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857233574Author Danilo EccherFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 2040g

'Behind the Wall' emerged in 2012 as part of the official exhibition of the 11th Havana Biennial. For the 13th edition of this important event, 'Detras del Muro' is presented as part of the official exhibition, but also as a sociocultural project that...

Chuck Close immediately liked the idea of a book without words. As a child, his severe dyslexia stood in the way of reading, making images all the more important. To this day, he remembers a visual encyclopedia from his early years and the feeling of...

Jonathan Monk (*1969) is known for his witty appropriation of art history, his re-staging of conceptual and minimalist art works, his critique of both the exhibition circus and the aesthetic category of originality. Exhibit Model is an...