Art & design styles: Postmodernism books

An illustrated exploration of Girlfriends (1965/66), one of Sigmar Polke's important early paintings.  Read More >>

Drawing on unpublished documents and oral histories, an illustrated examination of an iconic artwork of an artist...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

How the couch became an icon of self-knowledge and self-reflection as well as a site for pleasure, transgression,...  Read More >>

Madness and Modernism provides a phenomenological study of schizophrenic disorders, criticizing some standard conceptions...  Read More >>

A new approach to theory development for practice-driven research, proposing that theory is something made in and...  Read More >>

The novel that made a cult icon of Kathy Acker, whose work is ""like reading William S. Burroughs while watching...  Read More >>

The work of art's mattering and materialization in a globalized world, with close readings of works by Takahashi...  Read More >>

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Work's meaning both within art and in its wider economic and social context: the complexities of being an art worker...  Read More >>

This generously illustrated book is the first comprehensive monograph on the contemporary artist Nairy Baghramian,...  Read More >>

"""The Off-Modern charts a fresh path beyond the categories of modernism and postmodernism, center and periphery,...  Read More >>

How product design criticism has rescued some products from the trash and consigned others to the landfill.  Read More >>

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The interplay of the local and the global in contemporary Thai art, as artists strive for international recognition...  Read More >>

Twentieth-century architect Frederick Kiesler's innovative multidisciplinary practice responded to the ever-changing...  Read More >>

The archive as a crucible of twentieth-century modernism and key for understanding contemporary art.  Read More >>

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An examination of telepresence technologies through the lens of contemporary artistic experiments, from early video...  Read More >>

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Boredom in modern and contemporary art: as something to be struggled against, embraced as an experience, or explored...  Read More >>

Matters of Life and Death is a limited-edition publication documenting the recent paintings of celebrated Dallas-based...  Read More >>

First published in 1988, this book attempts to tackle the problem of how to write about art, culture, and the issues...  Read More >>

Pravoslav Sovak (1926) is one of the most important graphic artists of our time. With his drawing skills and delight...  Read More >>

Like spiral galaxies composed of millions of orbiting stars, the works of New York State-based artist Shinique Smith...  Read More >>

Texts by Hans Haacke that range from straightforward descriptions of his artworks to wide-ranging reflections on...  Read More >>