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Bruce Nauman: Contrapposto Studies by Bruce Nauman
RRP: £57.00Booksplease Price: £39.17The witty American conceptualist offers a fresh twist on his classic 1960s walking piece "Contrapposto" refers to a pose in which the human subject is turned slightly so that the bust is... -
Artists on Bruce Nauman by Bruce Nauman 9780944521878
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.95In the late 1960s, while still a recent graduate with scant means, artist Bruce Nauman (born 1941) explored a trio of interwoven subjects: the studio, the daily practice of making art and the role of... -
Bruce Nauman by 9782869251175
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.90A highly acclaimed and extremely prolific artist, Bruce Nauman (b. 1941) has been active since the early 1970s. Working in mediums such as sculpture, video, film, installation, performance, and... -
ON/WITH by Bruce Nauman 9783954766475
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £24.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783954766475Author Bruce NaumanFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint DistanzPublisher... -
Bruce Nauman by Andrea Lissoni
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38A journey through the groundbreaking works of Bruce Nauman, one of the most restlessly inventive contemporary artists of today. Since the late 1960s Bruce Nauman has established a completely new... -
Please Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman's Words: Writings and Interviews by Bruce Nauman 9780262640602
Booksplease Price: £46.39The most comprehensive collection to date of the artist Bruce Nauman's writings plus all of his major interviews from 1965 to 2001. Since the 1960s, the artist Bruce Nauman has developed a highly... -
Bruce Nauman: The True Artist by Peter Plagens
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £50.54The most comprehensive overview of the art of Bruce NaumanAbout the AuthorPeter Plagens is best known to the general public for his work as Senior Writer and staff art critic at Newsweek (1989-2003),... -
Bruce Nauman: Volume 22 by Taylor Walsh 9780262535670
Booksplease Price: £27.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262535670Author Taylor WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Focal Points: Bruce Nauman by Robert Storr 9781912122707
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.56How can we interpret the work of contemporary artists? Focal Points is a new book series of essays, articles and reviews by acclaimed curator and critic Robert Storr. Expertly edited by art historian... -
Bruce Nauman: Spatial Encounters by Constance M. Lewallen 9780520296053
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £44.20The first book devoted solely to Bruce Nauman's corridors and other architectural installations, Bruce Nauman: Spatial Encounters deftly explores the significance of these works in the development of... -
Unconcealed: The International Network of Conceptual Artists, 1967-77: Dealers, Exhibitions and Public Collections Sophie Richard 9781905464173
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £31.55"The book is an impressive work of scholarship" - Studio International "Richard set about to produce a study of distribution networks, and achieved this through immaculate and thorough research. It... -
UCI Critical Theory and Contemporary Art Practice: Jacques Derrida, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Bruce Nauman, and Others: With a Prologue by Georges Van Den Abbeele by Ewa Bobrowska 9783631792148
RRP: £54.65Booksplease Price: £49.07This book is unique in both its subject matter and its approach. It focuses on the collaboration of J. Derrida, J.-F. Lyotard, J. Hillis Miller, D. Carroll, F. Jameson and others at the Critical... -
Future Bodies from a Recent Past: Sculpture, Technology, and the Body since the 1950s Patrizia Dander 9783422990241
RRP: £42.50Booksplease Price: £37.83Future 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... -
Drawing Is Everything: Founding Gifts of the Menil Drawing Institute Edouard Kopp 9780300247121
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £43.73A celebration of the stunning collection of artworks donated in honor of the creation of The Menil Drawing Institute Featuring outstanding 20th-century drawings promised or bequeathed to the Menil... -
ISA Genzken: Sculpture as World Receiver by Lisa Lee 9780226409979
Booksplease Price: £35.42The work of German sculptor Isa Genzken is brilliantly receptive to the ever-shifting conditions of modern life. In this first book devoted to the artist, Lisa Lee reflects on Genzken's tendency to... -
Documents of Doubt: The Photographic Conditions of Conceptual Art by Heather Diack
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66A major reassessment of photography's pivotal role in 1960s conceptual artWhy do we continue to look to photographs for evidence despite our awareness of photography's potential for duplicity?... -
Can We Stop Killing Each Other? Tafadzwa Nomphanelo Makwabarara 9781836360148
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.45Can We Stop Killing Each Other? wrestles with the darkest side of humanity. It explores the fundamental question of why humans are led to kill, examining the artworks, films, video games and... -
Confessional Video Art and Subjectivity: Private Experiences in Public Spaces Jaye Early 9781350400207
Booksplease Price: £97.84This is the first book of its kind to examine the development of the confessional subject in video art and demonstrate how it can provide a vital platform for navigating the politics of self,... -
Harald Szeemann - Selected Writings Harald Szeemann 9781606065549
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.67Born in Bern, Switzerland in 1933, Harald Szeemann was a crucial force in identifying, exhibiting, and writing about the important new movements in postwar contemporary art. This collection of... -
Conceptual Performance: Enacting Conceptual Art Nick Kaye 9781138907652
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £34.95Conceptual Performance explores how the radical visual art that challenged material aesthetics in the 1960s and 1970s tested and extended the limits, character and concept of performance.Conceptual... -
Harald Szeemann - Museum of Obsessions Glenn Phillips 9781606065594
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £53.45Harald Szeemann is associated with some of the most important artistic developments of the postwar era. A passionate advocate of avant-garde movements like conceptualism and post minimalism, he... -
Hirst-isms by Damien Hirst
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.22A revealing collection of quotations from world-renowned artist Damien HirstHirst-isms is a collection of quotations-bold, surprising, often humorous, and always insightful-from celebrated artist... -
Georgia O'Keeffe by Maria Herreros
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.32Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), the American artist known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes, was one of the most significant artists of the 20th... -
Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975 by Melissa Ho 9780691191188
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £56.37How the Vietnam War changed American artBy the late 1960s, the United States was in a pitched conflict in Vietnam, against a foreign enemy, and at home-between Americans for and against the war and... -
Collecting the New: Museums and Contemporary Art by Bruce Altshuler
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.86Collecting the New is the first book on the questions and challenges that museums face in acquiring and preserving contemporary art. Because such art has not yet withstood the test of time, it defies... -
For What It’s Worth: Value Systems in Art since 1960 by Thomas Feulmer 9781580936583
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £28.21A collection of work by 80 artists who explore the contemporary art world’s fundamental concerns of value, markets, and the business of art Grounded in the global, conceptual art tendencies that... -
California Video - Artists and Histories by . Phillips 9780892369225
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £34.86Published to accompany a landmark exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from March 15 through June 18, 2008, California Video presents the first comprehensive survey of the history of video... -
Barry Le Va: The Aesthetic Aftermath by Michael Maizels 9780816694693
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Of the conceptual artists who began their careers in the 1960s and 1970s-Bruce Nauman, Chris Burden, Vito Acconci, and Mel Bochner among them-Barry Le Va may be the most elusive. As this first study... -
Monica Bonvicini by Monica Bonvicini
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £21.24The most comprehensive monograph on the work of Monica BonviciniAbout the AuthorJanet Kraynak is a New York-based art historian, curator, and Visual Arts Program Coordinator at the Eugene Lang... -
Nauman Reiterated by Janet Kraynak
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Bruce Nauman has been a force in the art world since the early 1960s with his challenging audio and video installations, photographic art, neon art, and sculptures. However, until now there has been... -
S.M.A.K. Highlights for a Future: The Collection Philippe Van Cauteren 9780300248012
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.54A stunning tour through the renowned, wide-ranging collection of contemporary art at Ghent's Municipal Museum for Contemporary Art (S.M.A.K.) The Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (translated as... -
Damien Hirst: Freedom Not Genius: Works from Damien Hirst's Murderme Collection Damien Hirst 9781906967567
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £65.54Hirst began his collection in the late 1980s by exchanging his own works with those of his contemporaries and artist friends. It has grown to include works by many international artists of earlier... -
Light, Space, Surface: Art from Southern California by Carol S Eliel
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £28.88A definitive resource on California's Light and Space and Finish Fetish movements of the 1960s and '70s This volume explores the art of Light and Space and related "finish fetish" pieces with... -
Psychic Wounds by Gavin Delahunty
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £46.79How art has addressed and transmuted trauma over the past half-century, from Louise Bourgeois to Glenn Ligon Trauma in all its forms-internal and external, individual and collective-has been an... -
After Cinema: Storytelling in Contemporary Media Art Heinz Peter Schwerfel 9783775757843
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £27.60Discovering the potential of video and film artAn informative, inspiring, richly illustrated book on contemporary moving-image art. This book sets out to use the latest technologies to short-circuit... -
The Morning News 9789490800000
RRP: £13.50Booksplease Price: £9.15Artists: Anne Collier (USA), Brian Clifton (USA), Hanne Darboven (D), Masashi Echigo (JP), Jef Geys (B), On Kawara (JP), Elizabeth McAlpine (UK), Matt Mullican (USA), Bruce Nauman (USA), Cady Noland... -
Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life by Janet Kraynak
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £47.46Digitization is the animating force of everyday life. Rather than defining it as a technology or a medium, Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life argues that digitization is a... -
New Mexico Art Through Time: Prehistory to the Present by Joseph Traugott 9780890135457
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £37.83This book considers 250 works of art from across a vast timeline of 14,000 years, expanding the definition of what constitutes art to include aestheticised cultural objects extending back to the... -
Luther!: 95 Treasures - 95 People Mirko Gutjahr 9783777428048
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.05Martin Luther changed the world. He inspired and provoked people, and he moved them and repulsed them - but he left no one cold. The volume invites the reader to study Luther at close quarters,... -
Out of Bounds - The Collected Writings of Marcia Tucker Lisa Phillips 9781606065969
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.04Jointly published by the Getty Research Institute and the New Museum. The first anthology to assemble the writings of the groundbreaking art historian, critic, and curator Marcia Tucker. These...