Art & design styles: Postmodernism books

Examining radical reinventions of traditional practices, ranging from a queer reclamation of the Jewish festival...  Read More >>

Set within the broader context of post-war Austria and the re-education initiatives set up there by the Allied forces,...  Read More >>

How global contemporary art reanimates the past as a resource for the present, combating modern art's legacy of...  Read More >>

The first major anthology to focus on relationships between science fiction and contemporary art, with topics ranging...  Read More >>

Helmut Middendorf (*1953) is one of the most renowned German painters. Since the 1990s, he lives in Athens/Greece,...  Read More >>

In this book, a contemporary archaeologist critically examines designs experts advising the US government suggested...  Read More >>

Investigating the entanglement of industry, politics, culture, and economics at the frontier of ocean excavations...  Read More >>

Die Unterhaltungsschriftstellerin Luise Mühlbach (1814 - 1873) gewährt im vorliegenden historischen Roman einen...  Read More >>

Die Unterhaltungsschriftstellerin Luise Muhlbach (1814 - 1873) gewahrt im vorliegenden historischen Roman einen...  Read More >>

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Essential texts on the work of the influential artist Michael Snow: essays and interviews spanning more than four...  Read More >>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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An autobiography in pictures: photographs taken by Ai Weiwei that capture his emergence as the uniquely provocative...  Read More >>