Acclaimed art scholar Jonathan Harris here tackles this question by assembling a rich body of essays, along with an extended interview with renowned feminist art scholar Amelia Jones, that tracks the movements in and issues central to contemporary art practice since this pivotal decade.
This book looks at what motivates us to take photographs and at some of the methods of using the camera to do so successfully. Illustrated throughout with examples of good and bad practice, this book sets out techniques and strategies in a simple and straightforward way for those who want to make their photographs of buildings truly effective.
From the comic book's humble beginnings, through the golden and silver ages, all the way to Hollywood blockbuster comic-based movies, this guide gives readers of various levels things they want to know.
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was one of the most important artists of the late 19th century, and one whose work was to have a profound influence on the development of art in the 20th century. This title collects some of the most important works by Gauguin.
The artist Dan Graham (b 1942) has a wide-ranging practice that encompasses writing, performance art, installation, video, photography and architecture. This title includes an interview with the artist and focuses not only on Graham's latest commission but also on his previous landscape-oriented installations.
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Named the Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year for 2013, Imran Qureshi will create a rooftop installation for the Metropolitan Museum. This slim volume discusses the specific interplay between the artist's vision and the particulars of the space for which the work was created. It also includes an interview with Qureshi.
From the author of If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This (a finalist for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Prize), Life Drawing is a fierce, honest and moving story of married life - its betrayals, intimacies, and secrets.
John McAndrew's Modernist Vision tells the compelling story of the architect, scholar, and curator John McAndrew, who played a key role in redefining modernism in the United States from the 1930s onward. The designer of the Vassar College Art Library-arguably the first modern interior on a college campus-and ...
Tells the various stories behind the conception, development, realisation and construction of the capital's newest landmark, including personal and political dramas, corporate conflicts, doubts, risks, obstacles and accidents.
Takes a fresh look at the questions of why humans need to sleep and dream, and what happens to our brain and body during sleep. This work covers subjects such as the relationship between dream frequency and memory, the interpretation of dreams, and the causes and effects of sleep deprivation.
Artist Bob and Roberta Smith was recently appointed to oversee a project in which five artists were commissioned to create site-specific projects to transform open spaces. This title presents an intimate account of this project, written in diary form.
Unseen By My Open Eyes is the first publication on the work Kevin Gaffney and the psychological landscapes that the artist devises to explore identity. Within the book, Gaffney's films are presented through a series of richly illustrated sections, providing an excellent insight into the artist's methodologies.
Caravaggio was the most revolutionary artist of the Italian Baroque. The intensity and drama of his chiaroscuro style is matched only by his life. Outlaw, heretic, murderer and sensualist are some of the charges brought against him by his contemporaries.
This exhibition catalogue documents not only Shehab's striking artwork itself, but also the stories of the people she meets along the way, and her observations from the streets of each new city she visits. It is her artists manifesto, a cry for freedom and dignity, and a call to never stop dreaming.
For the past 16 years Andrew Rogers has been building enormous stone structures called geoglyphs on all seven continents around the world. Designed to be seen from above, these magnificent creations have a global purpose to form a set of connected drawings on Earth visible from space, embracing the cultural ...
