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Becoming Past: History in Contemporary Art by Jane Blocker
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Is 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... -
What The Body Cost: Desire, History, And Performance by Jane Blocker
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Reexamines rebelliousness and desire in the history of performance artBecause performance is by its very nature ephemeral, it elicits a desire for what is lost more than any other form of art making... -
Seeing Witness: Visuality and the Ethics of Testimony by Jane Blocker 9780816654772
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Unearthing the meaning of witnessing in contemporary art and politicsThe act of bearing witness can reveal much, but what about the figure of the witness itself? As contemporary culture is... -
Where Is Ana Mendieta?: Identity, Performativity, and Exile by Jane Blocker
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.22Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-born artist who lived in exile in the United States, was one of the most provocative and complex personalities of the 1970s' artworld. In Where Is Ana Mendieta? art historian... -
Where Is Ana Mendieta?: Identity, Performativity, and Exile by Jane Blocker 9780822323044
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-born artist who lived in exile in the United States, was one of the most provocative and complex personalities of the 1970s' artworld. In Where Is Ana Mendieta? art historian... -
Latina/o Midwest Reader by Omar Valerio-Jimenez 9780252041211
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.82From 2000 to 2010, the Latino population increased by more than 73 percent across eight midwestern states. These interdisciplinary essays explore issues of history, education, literature, art, and... -
The Unmaking of Home in Contemporary Art by Claudette Lauzon 9781442649828
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £40.68In a world where the notion of home is more traumatizing than it is comforting, artists are using this literal and figurative space to reframe human responses to trauma. Building on the scholarship... -
Schizogenesis: The Art of Rosemarie Trockel by Katherine Guinness 9781517905583
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36A deep analysis of an enigmatic artist whose oeuvre opens new spaces for understanding feminism, the body, and identity Popular and pioneering as a conceptual artist, Rosemarie Trockel has never... -
Latina/o Midwest Reader by Omar Valerio-Jimenez
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24From 2000 to 2010, the Latino population increased by more than 73 percent across eight midwestern states. These interdisciplinary essays explore issues of history, education, literature, art, and... -
Perform, Repeat, Record: Live Art in History by Amelia Jones
RRP: £58.95Booksplease Price: £56.64Bringing together contributors from dance, theatre, visual studies and art history, Perform, Repeat, Record addresses the conundrum of how live art is positioned within history. Set apart from other... -
Disability and Art History Ann Millett-Gallant (University of North Carolina, USA) 9780815392132
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80This is the first book of its kind to feature interdisciplinary art history and disability studies scholarship. Art historians have traditionally written about images of figures with impairments and... -
Black and Blue: The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jete, Sans soleil, and Hiroshima mon amour by Carol Mavor
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Audacious and genre-defying, Black and Blue is steeped in melancholy, in the feeling of being blue, or, rather, black and blue, with all the literality of bruised flesh. Roland Barthes and Marcel...