Art & design styles: Postmodernism books

262 books were found.

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
$69.99

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
$55.00

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Ai Weiwei: Beijing Photographs, 1993-2003

Ai Weiwei: Beijing Photographs, 1993-2003

Author: Weiwei Ai (Artist) ,  John Tancock
ISBN: 9780262039154
Format: Hardback
$160.00

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

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

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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
$39.99

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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
$49.99

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 >>

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 >>

Sherrie Levine

Sherrie Levine

Author: Howard Singerman (Phyllis and Joseph Caroff Chair, Hunter College of the City University of New York) ,  Charles F. Stevens (Salk Institute for Biological Studies)
ISBN: 9780262535724
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Texts—including essays, reviews, and statements by the artist—on the work of Sherrie Levine.  Read More >>

""Pour une définition de l'architecture au Québec"" et autres essais de Melvin Charney

""Pour une définition de l'architecture au Québec""...

Author: Louis Martin ,  Melvin Charney
ISBN: 9781988962009
Format: Paperback
$145.20

De 1964 à 1989, l'architecte et artiste montréalais Melvin Charney (1935-2012) publie une quarantaine d'essais traitant...  Read More >>

The Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz

The Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David...

Author: David Wojnarowicz ,  Lisa Darms
ISBN: 9781635900170
Format: Paperback
$41.37

Audio journals that document Wojnarowicz's turbulent attempts to understand his anxieties and passions, and tracking...  Read More >>

The Svetlana Boym Reader

The Svetlana Boym Reader

Author: Svetlana Boym (Harvard University, USA) ,  Prof Cristina Vatulescu (New York University, USA)
ISBN: 9781501337499
Format: Paperback
$74.99

""The Svetlana Boym Reader presents a comprehensive view of Boym's singularly creative work in all its aspects....  Read More >>

The Svetlana Boym Reader

The Svetlana Boym Reader

Author: Svetlana Boym (Harvard University, USA) ,  Prof Cristina Vatulescu (New York University, USA)
ISBN: 9781501337505
Format: Hardback
$280.00

""The Svetlana Boym Reader presents a comprehensive view of Boym's singularly creative work in all its aspects....  Read More >>

Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century

Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century

Author: Mark W. Scala (Chief Curator, Frist Center for the Visual Arts) ,  Media Farzin (Art historian, curator, School of Visual Arts)
ISBN: 9780262534970
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Fifty paintings, reproduced in color, by an international array of contemporary artists, show the aptness and relevance...  Read More >>

Flintstone Modernism: or The Crisis in Postwar American Culture

Flintstone Modernism: or The Crisis in Postwar American...

Author: Jeffrey Lieber (Assistant Professor of Design History, Texas State University)
ISBN: 9780262037495
Format: Hardback
$69.99

Ancient history, midcentury modernism, Cinemascope, humanism and monumentality, totalitarianism and democracy: transformations...  Read More >>

Space Packed: The Architecture of Alfred Newmann

Space Packed: The Architecture of Alfred Newmann

Author: Rafi Segal
ISBN: 9783038600558
Format: Hardback
$99.00

Alfred Neumann is regarded as one of Israel's most significant architects, and this is the first comprehensive critical...  Read More >>

Postmodern Design Complete

Postmodern Design Complete

Author: Judith Gura ,  Charles Jencks
ISBN: 9780500519141
Format: Hardback
$145.00

A comprehensive and authoritative publication on one of the most popular periods of international design and decorative...  Read More >>

Muriel Cooper

Muriel Cooper

Author: David Reinfurt ,  Robert Wiesenberger (Critic, Yale School of Art)
ISBN: 9780262036504
Format: Hardback
$130.00

The career of the pioneering designer Muriel Cooper, whose work spanned media from printed book to software interface;...  Read More >>

Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967–2017

Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967–2017

Author: Rachel Adams (Curator, University of Buffalo, State University of New York)
ISBN: 9780262037051
Format: Hardback
$59.99

Artists as voyagers who leave their studios to make art, including Nancy Holt, Vito Acconci, Sophie Calle, and Richard...  Read More >>

David Hammons: Bliz-aard Ball Sale

David Hammons: Bliz-aard Ball Sale

Author: Elena Filipovic (Director, Kunsthalle Basel)
ISBN: 9781846381867
Format: Paperback
$46.55

Drawing on unpublished documents and oral histories, an illustrated examination of an iconic artwork of an artist...  Read More >>

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