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Liza Lou by Julia Bryan Wilson
RRP: $82.88Booksplease Price: $64.16Liza Lou first gained attention in 1996 when her room-sized sculpture Kitchen was shown at the New Museum in New York. Representing five years of individual labour, this groundbreaking work subverted... -
Sharon Hayes by Julia Bryan-Wilson
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $47.46The first comprehensive publication to capture Hayes's unique blend of performance and social engagement which has been at the forefront of questions of feminist history, queer time, and protest... -
Fray: Art and Textile Politics, 1970s-1990s by Julia Bryan-Wilson
RRP: $99.45Booksplease Price: $99.29In 1974, women in a feminist consciousness-raising group in Eugene, Oregon, formed a mock organization called the Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society. Emblazoning its logo onto t-shirts, the... -
Louise Nevelson's Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face by Julia Bryan-Wilson
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $78.92A daring reassessment of Louise Nevelson, an icon of twentieth-century art whose innovative procedures relate to gendered, classed, and racialized forms of making "Here is a book that is not only a... -
Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era by Julia Bryan-Wilson 9780520269750
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $56.26During the late 1960s and early 1970s, in response to the political turbulence generated by the Vietnam War, an important group of American artists and critics sought to expand the definition of... -
Collective Threads: Anna Andreeva at the Red Rose Silk Factory Christina Kiaer 9783039422494
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $47.15Anna Andreeva (1917-2008) was a Russian textile designer and leading artist at the famous Red Rose Silk Factory in Moscow 1946-84. Named after the Polish-German socialist revolutionary Rosa... -
Art in the Making: Artists and their Materials from the Studio to Crowdsourcing by Glenn Adamson
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $35.88Today's artists have an unprecedented level of choice with regard to materials and methods available to them, yet the processes involved in making artworks are rarely addressed in books or... -
The Double: Identity and Difference in Art since 1900 by James Meyer
RRP: $113.10Booksplease Price: $92.31A groundbreaking examination of the "double" in modern and contemporary artFrom ancient mythology to contemporary cinema, the motif of the double-which repeats, duplicates, mirrors, inverts, splits,... -
Mika Rottenberg - the Production of Luck by Mika Rottenberg 9781941366004
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $72.68This volume offers a comprehensive look at the career of Mika Rottenberg (born 1976). Each chapter is devoted to one of the major videos/installations for which Rottenberg has become known, with an... -
Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade Robert S. Nelson 9780226571584
Booksplease Price: $65.73How do some monuments become so socially powerful that people seek to destroy them? After ignoring monuments for years, why must we now commemorate public trauma, but not triumph, with a monument? To... -
Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines by Branden W. Joseph 9781838667085
RRP: $68.15Booksplease Price: $47.40'Excellent.' - The New Yorker The first publication dedicated to artists' zines in North America, a revelatory exploration of an unexamined but thriving aesthetic practice Copy Machine Manifestos... -
Bizarre Beauty: The Art of William Harper by Glenn Adamson 9783897907164
RRP: $105.30Booksplease Price: $73.42Over the course of six decades, the American artist William Harper (b. 1944) has conjured a body of work unique in the realm of jewellery. Masterfully crafted in enamel and gold, his pieces explore... -
Performative Monuments: The Rematerialisation of Public Art by Mechtild Widrich
Booksplease Price: $39.88This book answers one of the most puzzling questions in contemporary art: how did performance artists of the '60s and '70s, famous for their opposition both to lasting art and the political... -
Elevated: Art on the High Line Cecilia Alemani 9781580936439
RRP: $77.90Booksplease Price: $53.41The most comprehensive and up-to-date book about the vibrant public art program of New York's global destination, the High Line The High Line, New York City's famed elevated rail... -
Let's Have a Talk: Conversations with Women on Art and Culture by Lauren O'Neill-Butler
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $30.23Conversations with leading women artists, composers and writers from Judy Chicago, Anohni and Lynne Tillman to Ellie Ga, Tauba Auerbach and Renee Green This massive volume comprises over 80... -
Coco Fusco: Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island by Coco Fusco 9780500024928
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $49.24The first monograph on the influential contemporary Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist and writer Coco Fusco. Tomorrow, I will become an island is the first in-depth study of the performances,... -
Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture Gregory Sholette 9780745327525
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $38.69Art is big business, with some artists able to command huge sums of money for their works, while the vast majority are ignored or dismissed by critics. This book shows that these marginalised... -
Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture by Gregory Sholette 9780745327532
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $135.60Art is big business, with some artists able to command huge sums of money for their works, while the vast majority are ignored or dismissed by critics. This book shows that these marginalised... -
Feminism and Art in Postwar Italy: The Legacy of Carla Lonzi by Francesco Ventrella 9781350187160
Booksplease Price: $65.99A renowned art critic of the 1960s, Carla Lonzi abandoned the art world in 1970 to found Rivolta Femminile, a pioneering feminist collective in Italy. Rather than separating the art world luminary... -
Beyond the World's End: Arts of Living at the Crossing by T. J. Demos
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $35.12In Beyond the World's End T. J. Demos explores cultural practices that provide radical propositions for living in a world beset by environmental and political crises. Rethinking relationships between... -
Beyond the World's End: Arts of Living at the Crossing by T. J. Demos 9781478008668
RRP: $159.90Booksplease Price: $129.60In Beyond the World's End T. J. Demos explores cultural practices that provide radical propositions for living in a world beset by environmental and political crises. Rethinking relationships between... -
Working Aesthetics by Danielle Child
Booksplease Price: $61.05Working Aesthetics is about the relationship between art and work under contemporary capitalism. Whilst labour used to be regarded as an unattractive subject for art, the proximity of work to... -
Wendy Red Star: Delegation by Wendy Red Star
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $66.98Delegation is the first comprehensive monograph by Apsaalooke/Crow artist Wendy Red Star, whose photography recasts historical narratives with wit, candor, and a feminist, Indigenous perspective. ... -
Fewer, Better Things: The Hidden Wisdom of Objects by Glenn Adamson
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.58Things matter. So why are we losing touch with them? From the former director of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York comes a timely and passionate case for the role of the well-designed... -
Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today by Claire Bishop 9781804292884
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $34.38The ways we encounter contemporary art and performance is changing. Installations brim with archival documents. Dances stretch for weeks. Performances last a minute. Exhibitions are spread out over... -
Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art by Maria Elena Buszek
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.91Contemporary artists such as Ghada Amer and Clare Twomey have gained international reputations for work that transforms ordinary craft media and processes into extraordinary conceptual art, from... -
Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power by Susan E. Cahan 9780822371458
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $40.29Prior to 1967 fewer than a dozen museum exhibitions had featured the work of African American artists. And by the time the civil rights movement reached the American art museum, it had already... -
Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future by Tracey Bashkoff
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $62.63A groundbreaking study of visionary artist Hilma af Klint. When Swedish artist Hilma af Klint died in 1944 at the age of 81, she left behind more than a thousand paintings and works on paper that... -
Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power by Susan E. Cahan
RRP: $76.05Booksplease Price: $65.64Prior to 1967 fewer than a dozen museum exhibitions had featured the work of African American artists. And by the time the civil rights movement reached the American art museum, it had already...