Art & design styles: Postmodernism books

288 books were found.

Sound Art: Sound as a Medium of Art

Sound Art: Sound as a Medium of Art

Author: Peter Weibel (ZKM/Center for Art and Media Technology)
ISBN: 9780262029667
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Essays and images that map art's new sonic cosmos, illustrated in color throughout.  Read More >>

Radical Virtuosity: Ana Mendieta and the Black Atlantic

Radical Virtuosity: Ana Mendieta and the Black Atlantic...

Author: Genevieve Hyacinthe (Assisstant Professor, California College of the Arts)
ISBN: 9780262042703
Format: Hardback
$95.00

Reclaiming the artist Ana Mendieta as a formally innovative maker of performative art who forged connections to...  Read More >>

Inside the invisible: Memorialising Slavery and Freedom in the Life and Works of Lubaina Himid

Inside the invisible: Memorialising Slavery and Freedom...

Author: Celeste-Marie Bernier (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)) ,  Alan Rice (Department of Humanities, University of Central Lancashire (United Kingdom))
ISBN: 9781789620948
Format: Paperback
$71.13

Inside the Invisible investigates the life and works of Turner Prize-winning Black British artist and curator Lubaina...  Read More >>

Inside the invisible: Memorialising Slavery and Freedom in the Life and Works of Lubaina Himid

Inside the invisible: Memorialising Slavery and Freedom...

Author: Celeste-Marie Bernier (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)) ,  Alan Rice (Department of Humanities, University of Central Lancashire (United Kingdom))
ISBN: 9781789620856
Format: Hardback
$283.33

Inside the Invisible investigates the life and works of Turner Prize-winning Black British artist and curator Lubaina...  Read More >>

Public Knowledge: Selected Writings by Michael Asher

Public Knowledge: Selected Writings by Michael Asher...

Author: Michael Asher ,  Kirsi Peltomäki (Assistant Professor of Art History, Oregon State University)
ISBN: 9780262042673
Format: Hardback
$59.99

Writings by the conceptual artist Michael Asher—including notes, proposals, exhibition statements, and letters to...  Read More >>

The Architectural Model: Histories of the Miniature and the Prototype, the Exemplar and the Muse

The Architectural Model: Histories of the Miniature...

Author: Matthew Mindrup (Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney)
ISBN: 9780262042758
Format: Hardback
$110.00

An investigation of different uses for the architectural model through history—as sign, souvenir, funerary object,...  Read More >>

We Are in Open Circuits: Writings by Nam June Paik

We Are in Open Circuits: Writings by Nam June Paik

Author: Nam June Paik (Artist) ,  John G. Hanhardt (Consulting Senior Curator of Film and Media Arts, Smithsonian American Art Museum)
ISBN: 9780262039802
Format: Hardback
$100.00

Essays, project plans, and correspondence from across Nam Jun Paik's career, much of it previously out of print...  Read More >>

Design by Accident – For a New History of Design

Design by Accident – For a New History of Design

Author: Alexandra Midal ,  Michelle Millar Fisher
ISBN: 9783956791437
Format: Paperback
$49.99

A counterhistory and new historiography of design.  Read More >>

Model as Painting

Model as Painting

Author: Pieter Schoolwerth ,  Molly Warnock (Assisstant Professor, Johns Hopkins University)
ISBN: 9781733628129
Format: Paperback
$95.00

The first in-depth publication on the artist Pieter Schoolwerth's practice.  Read More >>

Gyorgy Kepes: Undreaming the Bauhaus

Gyorgy Kepes: Undreaming the Bauhaus

Author: John R. Blakinger (Terra Visiting Professor of American Art, 2018-2019, Oxford University)
ISBN: 9780262039864
Format: Hardback
$110.00

How Gyorgy Kepes, the last disciple of Bauhaus modernism, became the single most significant artist within a network...  Read More >>

Hello Leonora, Soy Anne Walsh

Hello Leonora, Soy Anne Walsh

Author: Anne Walsh (Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley) ,  Dodie Bellamy
ISBN: 9781949484038
Format: Paperback
$105.60

Video and performance artist Anne Walsh's encounter with and multipart response to surrealist painter Leonora Carrington's...  Read More >>

Energies in the Arts

Energies in the Arts

Author: Douglas Kahn (Professor of Media and Innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney)
ISBN: 9780262039383
Format: Hardback
$100.00

Investigating the concepts and material realities of energy coursing through the arts: a foundational text.  Read More >>

Plastic Capitalism: Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste

Plastic Capitalism: Contemporary Art and the Drive to...

Author: Amanda Boetzkes (Associate Professor, Contemporary Art History and Theory, University of Guelph)
ISBN: 9780262039338
Format: Hardback
$59.99

An argument for the centrality of the visual culture of waste—as seen in works by international contemporary artists—to...  Read More >>

The Rural

The Rural

Author: Myvillages ,  Iwona Blazwick
ISBN: 9780262537162
Format: Paperback
$59.99

An investigation through texts, interviews, and documentation of the complex relationship between the urban, the...  Read More >>

Ai Weiwei: Beijing Photographs, 1993-2003

Ai Weiwei: Beijing Photographs, 1993-2003

Author: Weiwei Ai (Artist) ,  John Tancock
ISBN: 9780262039154
Format: Hardback
$130.00

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For Want of a Nail

For Want of a Nail

Author: Amy Franceschini ,  Michael Swaine
ISBN: 9781949484045
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Three nails for J. Robert Oppenheimer, more than half a century after the Manhattan Project.  Read More >>

Invisible Colors: The Arts of the Atomic Age

Invisible Colors: The Arts of the Atomic Age

Author: Gabrielle Decamous (Associate Professor, Kyushu University) ,  Roger F. Malina (Leonardo Executive Editor, Leonardo/ISAST)
ISBN: 9780262038546
Format: Hardback
$65.00

How art makes visible what had been invisible—the effects of radiation, the lives of atomic bomb survivors, and...  Read More >>

Virginia Woolf's Portraits of Russian Writers: Creating the Literary Other

Virginia Woolf's Portraits of Russian Writers: Creating...

Author: Darya Protopopova
ISBN: 9781527527539
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Virginia Woolf always stayed ahead of her time. Championing gender equality when women could not vote; publishing...  Read More >>

Authenticity on the Postmodern Stage: Betrayal, The Real Thing and Closer

Authenticity on the Postmodern Stage: Betrayal, The...

Author: Lida Krüger
ISBN: 9781776150175
Format: Paperback
$40.70

Authenticity has become increasingly fetishised since the advent of postmodernity, especially when considered in...  Read More >>

Book from the Ground: from point to point

Book from the Ground: from point to point

Author: Bing Xu (Xu Bing Studio)
ISBN: 9780262536226
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Designed for Hi-Fi Living: The Vinyl LP in Midcentury America

Designed for Hi-Fi Living: The Vinyl LP in Midcentury...

Author: Janet Borgerson ,  Jonathan Schroeder (Rochester Institute of Technology)
ISBN: 9780262536011
Format: Paperback
$39.99

How record albums and their covers delivered mood music, lifestyle advice, global sounds, and travel tips to midcentury...  Read More >>

Contact Warhol: Photography without End

Contact Warhol: Photography without End

Author: Peggy Phelan (Ann O'Day Maples Professor of the Arts/Professor of English, Stanford University) ,  Richard Meyer (Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History, Stanford University)
ISBN: 9780262038997
Format: Hardback
$69.99

Andy Warhol's daily practice of photography during the last decade of his life, examined and documented for the...  Read More >>

Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman

Author: Taylor Walsh (Curatorial Assistant, MoMA) ,  Charles F. Stevens (Salk Institute for Biological Studies)
ISBN: 9780262535670
Format: Paperback
$45.00

Essential texts on the work of Bruce Nauman, spanning the five decades of the artist's career.  Read More >>

The Jean Freeman Gallery Does Not Exist

The Jean Freeman Gallery Does Not Exist

Author: Christopher Howard (Critic, editor, and curator)
ISBN: 9780262038461
Format: Hardback
$47.99

An examination of a 1970s Conceptual art project—advertisements for fictional shows by fictional artists in a fictional...  Read More >>

Geneses of Postmodern Art: Technology As Iconology

Geneses of Postmodern Art: Technology As Iconology

Author: Paul Crowther
ISBN: 9781138605749
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Postmodernism in the visual arts is not just another 'ism.' To explain why, Paul Crowther investigates topics such...  Read More >>

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