Contemporary

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861714381Author William MalpasFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Crescent Moon PublishingPublisher Crescent Moon PublishingWeight(grams) 583g

Awarded an Honourable Mention by the Association for Israeli Studies. Exploring the politics of the image in the context of Israeli militarized visual culture, Civic Aesthetics examines both the omnipresence of militarism in Israeli culture and society...

Chinese Calligraphy Meets Western Performance In his paintings the Taiwanese artist Yahon Chang brings together traditional Chinese ink-wash painting and Western forms of artistic expression to produce a synthesis of East and West. Typically standing on...

What is air? You don't think about air or even perceive it unless it has changed from its usual state. Air, that most ubiquitous of the four elements, was long the most inexplicable enigma, peopled by gods and their messengers, venerated as the abode of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047197Author Briana J. SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

We live in an era of abundant photography. Is it then counterintuitive to study photographs that disappear or are difficult to discern? Kate Palmer Albers argues that it is precisely this current cultural moment that allows us to recognize what has...

Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) is best known as a media theorist-many consider him the founder of media studies-but he was also an important theorist of art. Though a near-household name for decades due to magazine interviews and TV specials, McLuhan...

This engaging publication explores the artistic practices that employ evocation-the calling forth of past emotions, desires, frustrations, and memories into the present-as a mode of connecting past and present. Featuring the work of emerging artists...

In Art Work, Katja Praznik counters the Western understanding of art - as an activity done out of love, a passion for self-expression, and without any concern for financial aspects - and instead builds a case for understanding art as a form of invisible...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857240381Author Guri SkuggenFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1420g

In 1978, Zofia Rydet (1911 97) began work on a monumental project that would come to be known as her "Sociological Record": photographing the people of Poland at their homes, she produced an extraordinary archive of around twenty thousand negatives. The...

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) is undoubtedly one of the most significant and influential architects ever. To the present day, his designs and realised buildings, as well as his thinking and writings, continue to initiate many controversial debates...

An expansive collection catalogue that offers a multiplicity of fresh perspectives on recent modern and contemporary art acquisitions in The Phillips Collection. Planned to coincide with The Phillips Collection's centennial and exhibition, this...

An exploration of the radical artists who transformed the ways art is conceived, exhibited, and collected, through the Dada, Surrealist, and Fluxus collections of Jean and Leonard Brown. Throughout the 1960s, Jean and Leonard Brown used their radical...

The first monograph on the architectural sculptor and installation artist and long-time collaborator with the New York School poets Best known for creating large-scale installation work inspired by American vernacular architecture, Dennis finds beauty in...

This groundbreaking book examines how the notion of "the object" was transformed in Japanese experimental art during a time of rapid social, economic, and environmental change.Reviving the legacies of the historical avant-garde, Japanese artists and...

If participation has been an ideal in politics since ancient democracy, in art it became central only with the avant-gardes emerging from WWI and the Russian Revolution. Politics and aesthetics are still catching up with each other. In the 21st century,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995455085Author Robin MackayFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Urbanomic Media LtdPublisher Urbanomic Media Ltd

This book focuses on the artistic process, creativity and collaboration, and personal approaches to creation and ideation, in making digital and electronic technology-based art. Less interested in the outcome itself - the artefact, artwork or performance...

A fascinating gathering of modern and contemporary art that considers artworks from different media as material objects This book features 31 objects from Constance R. Caplan's noted collection of 20th- and 21st-century art, including works in a...

This is an original and incisive contribution to the discussion of modern and postmodern art and of the theories by which it has been influenced and explained, from someone who has been closely involved in the art of this period as practitioner, teacher,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner of the 2019 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show in the Trade Illustrated category. 2019.Book InformationISBN 9780262038461Author Christopher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262039864Author John R. BlakingerFormat HardbackPage Count 504Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 32mm

Challenging cliches of Japanism as a feminine taste, Bachelor Japanists argues that Japanese aesthetics were central to contests over the meanings of masculinity in the West. Christopher Reed draws attention to the queerness of Japanist communities of...

Stretching lengths of yarn across interior spaces, American artist Fred Sandback (1943 2003) created expansive works that underscore the physical presence of the viewer. This book, the first major study of Sandback, explores the full range of his art,...

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...

The exhibition A Fact Has No Appearance explores the impact of new ideas on art in Southeast Asia during the 1970s through the case studies of three artists: Johnny Manahan, Redza Piyadasa, and Tan Teng-Kee, all of whom have been recognised for breaking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857229829Author Serenella CiclitiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1960g

Contemporary art is more than just simple contemporaneity. It is a new way of seeing and making things seen. The radical change that helped to reinvent Romanian art in the past decade is committed to this idea. This is not only thanks to established...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905464487Author Robert KudielkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint RidinghousePublisher Ridinghouse

The world of work is tightly entwined with the world of things. Hot metal illuminates connections between design, material culture and labour between the 1960s and the 1980s, when the traditional crafts of hot-metal typesetting and letterpress were...

This collection sets out a range of perspectives on the challenges that the Caribbean is facing today, showing how the arts hold a crucial role in forging a more sustainable Caribbean community. It forcefully attests to the view that visual art in...

In the thirty years since his death, Keith Haring-a central presence on the New York downtown scene of the 1980s-has remained one of the most popular figures in contemporary American art. In one of the first book-length treatments of Haring's artistry,...