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In Return Engagements artist and critic Viet Le examines contemporary art in Cambodia and Viet Nam to rethink the entwinement of militarization, trauma, diaspora, and modernity in Southeast Asian art. Highlighting artists tied to Phnom Penh and Sai Gon...

This book on Stephen Willats pulls together key strands of his practice and threads them through histories of British cybernetics, experimental art, and urban design. For Willats, a cluster of concepts about control and feedback within living and machine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909051706Author Xavier TapiesFormat PaperbackImprint Graffito Books LtdPublisher Graffito Books Ltd

When the mind turns more than one would wish towards questions of – as W.G. Sebald puts it – the “natural history of destruction”, comparative consideration by artists and interdisciplinary scholars is directed to the interstices between images, novel,...

Future Bodies from a Recent Past brings to life a hitherto little-noticed phenomenon in art and sculpture in particular: the reciprocal interpenetration of bodies and technology. With 120 works by 59 artists-primarily from Europe, the USA and Japan-the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857229843Author David AdjayeFormat HardbackPage Count 412Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 2500g

In this book, Dan Adler addresses recent tendencies in contemporary art toward assemblage sculpture and how these works incorporate tainted materials - often things left on the side of the road, according to the logic and progress of the capitalist...

The Vietnam War (1964-1975) divided American society like no other war of the twentieth century, and some of the most memorable American art and art-related activism of the last fifty years protested U.S. involvement. At a time when Pop Art, Minimalism,...

Donna and Howard Stone, two of Chicago's premier art patrons, have collected works of art in all media for more than 30 years, building one of the most distinguished private collections of contemporary art in the country. Much of what they have acquired...

Calling on the image of the Midwest's vanished inland sea, Susan Neville has written a compelling collection of essays that ponder writing and the "landlocked imagination." The essays range from interviews with Indiana writers Kurt Vonnegut,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857240633Author Alex BaconFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 900g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949484038Author Anne WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint No Place PressPublisher No Place Press

Atomic postcards played an important role in creating and disseminating a public image of nuclear power. Presenting small-scale images of test explosions, power plants, fallout shelters, and long-range missiles, the cards were produced for mass...

Slant Steps explores the vital role of the semi-periphery-artistic communities working between the provinces and the metropole. Premised on the collective fascination with the found object Slant Step, the book details a history of encounters among...

Charles Le Brun's drawing manual on human emotions has been used for centuries by artists and students as a model for depicting facial expressions. In David Schutter's work, Le Brun's manual is set to a different direction--a series of abstract drawings...

Video art emerged as an art form that from the 1960s and onwards challenged the concept of art - hence, art historical practices. From the perspective of artists, critics, and scholars engaged with this new medium, art was seen as too limiting a notion...

Over the past decade, German artist Michael Riedel has incorporated a wide range of media into his practice, including large-scale works on canvas, fabric works, film and video, audio recordings, installations, and events. A central focus of his work is...

How is it that one can be connected to a vast worldwide network of other people and places via digital technologies and yet also be completely alone? Kris Cohen tackles this philosophical question in Never Alone, Except for Now by exploring how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733628129Author Pieter SchoolwerthFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Sequence PressPublisher Sequence Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867197761Author Elizabeth McGrathFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 1324g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner, Scholarly Illustrated Category, 2009 AAUP Book, Journal, and Jacket Show 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780262533577Author Sven SpiekerFormat PaperbackPage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048798Author Garrett BradleyFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

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

Examining the Italian artist’s career-long exploration of the human figure, this book offers new perspectives on the history of postwar and contemporary art Widely regarded as the central protagonist of the twentieth-century Italian art movement Arte...

Visual Culture of Post-Industrial Europe investigates visual cultural projects in Europe from the 1970s onwards in response to industrial closures, resultant unemployment, diminished social services and shattered identities. Typically, art and visual...

'Looking to Sea is a remarkable and compelling book... I loved it.' Edmund de WaalAn alternative history of modern Britain, Looking to Sea is an exquisite work of cultural, artistic and philosophical storytelling.Looking to Sea considers ten pivotal...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032258522Author Menene GrasImprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

In Artist, Audience, Accomplice, Sydney Stutterheim introduces a new figure into the history of performance art and related practices of the 1970s and 1980s: the accomplice. Occupying roles including eyewitness, romantic partner, studio assistant, and...

Horizontal together tells the story of 1960s art and queer culture in New York through the overlapping circles of Andy Warhol, underground filmmaker Jack Smith and experimental dance star Fred Herko. Taking a pioneering approach to this intersecting...

Gestures: A body of work is a cross-disciplinary collection of feminist approaches to ‘gesture’ that considers the term’s complex registers across embodied, aesthetic and political scenes. Attending to gestural movements, languages, feelings and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633451650Author Lanka TattersallFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern Art

Sydney Stutterheim introduces a new figure into histories of Western performance art during the 1970s and 1980s: the accomplice, whose unseen and unacknowledged role questions notions of artistic agency, intellectual property, and authorship.

Haplomatics is an animated techno-fantasy that combines original text and music by the American composer James Sellars with xerographs by the British artist David Hockney. Their collaboration has not previously been detailed and the unique combination of...

Geometric abstraction as a worldview: artists like Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Sonia Delaunay played an essential part in the development of non-representational art. The volume presents an overview of the evolution of geometric abstract art and takes into...

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An appealing picture book of cats depicted by John Craxton, one of the major figures of modern British painting, with an introduction and commentary by Andrew Lambirth, who knew Craxton well. By concentrating on a single subject very dear to John...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782869251878Author Alain Dominique PerrinFormat HardbackPage Count 436Imprint Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporainPublisher Fondation Cartier pour...

This edited volume is the first internationally available English translation of key lectures and essays delivered at Beijing’s Inside Out Art Museum over the past decade. The book elevates a chorus of voices from domestic and international...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262049344Author Amanda WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd