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Do Ho Suh: Portal by Do Ho Suh
RRP: £37.50Booksplease Price: £26.54The extraordinary journey of an "impossible" sculpture made from the negative form of an ancient Korean gate In 2006, London-based Korean artist Do Ho Suh (born 1962) began work on a seemingly... -
Anatomy by Do Ho Suh 9781915743671
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.82Over a career spanning more than thirty years and a vast array of mediums, Korean-born artist Do Ho Suh's work has circled around a constellation of recurring themes: memory, belonging, domesticity,... -
Do Ho Suh Nabila Abdel Nabi 9781849769679
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.98Enter the captivating world of leading contemporary artist Do Ho Suh. "I see life as a passageway, with no fixed beginning or destination." Korean-born, London-based artist Do Ho Suh invites us to... -
Women, Making, and Everyday Value in Contemporary Installation Art: Jessica Stockholder, Liza Lou, and Sarah Sze by Elyse Speaks 9781350497764
Booksplease Price: £93.74What can art offer as it extends beyond aesthetic categories and their boundaries? Examining the work of three major American contemporary artists, Jessica Stockholder, Liza Lou, and Sarah Sze, this... -
Playing at Home: The House in Contemporary Art by Gill Perry
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £17.96'There's no place like home'; 'safe as houses'; 'home is where the heart is': ideas of the house and home are rich in cultural cliches and contradictory meanings. Playing at Home explores the... -
How It Feels to Be Alive: Encounters with Art and Our Selves Megan O'Grady 9780374613327
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £17.43Barbara Kruger once defined art as "the ability to show and tell, through a kind of eloquent shorthand, how it feels to be alive." Testing that claim, How It Feels to Be Alive braids criticism with... -
Documenting the Visual Arts Roger Hallas 9781138565982
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Bringing together an international range of scholars, as well as filmmakers and curators, this book explores the rich variety in form and content of the contemporary art documentary.Since their... -
The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989 by Elisabeth Agro 9780876333020
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.16A lavishly illustrated overview of contemporary Korean art that offers new insight into the country's tumultuous modern history and its multifaceted and vibrant art scene Focusing on the work of 33... -
Where Art Meets Nature: The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden Monacelli Editors 9781580936491
RRP: £49.95Booksplease Price: £34.34An up-to-date survey of the stunning sculpture collection at the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) Situated on twelve lush, landscaped acres, the New... -
Korean Art: The Power of Now Hossein Amirsadeghi 9780956794246
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £35.04Korea's transformation over the last thirty years has been unique in the world and this is the most comprehensive English language survey of contemporary art from Korea ever published120 artists,... -
What is art for?: Contemporary artists on their influences, inspirations and disciplines Ben Luke 9781911736172
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £21.76Drawing on over 25 years' experience talking to artists, Ben Luke conceived and launched the A brush with... podcast in 2020 to explore the influences, rituals and disciplines of artists working... -
When Home Won't Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art by Eva Respini
RRP: £42.50Booksplease Price: £38.43Insightful and interdisciplinary, this book considers the movement of people around the world and how contemporary artists contribute to our understanding of it In this timely volume, artists and... -
Strange Pilgrims by The Contemporary Austin
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £43.82In the past fifty years, contemporary artistic practice has witnessed a surge in phenomenological types of artistic intent and methodology, represented by divergent impulses sharing a desire to... -
Scale in Contemporary Sculpture: Enlargement, Miniaturisation and the Life-Size Rachel Wells 9781138270695
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44The first book to devote serious attention to questions of scale in contemporary sculpture, this study considers the phenomenon within the interlinked cultural and socio-historical framework of the... -
Site-Writing: The Architecture of Art Criticism by Professor Jane Rendell 9781845119997
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.21The prominent cultural critic Mieke Bal defines the new discipline of 'art writing' as a fresh mode of criticism, which aims to 'put the art first'. Following this definition, "Site-Writing: The...