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Air Guitar Text by Dave Hickey. The 23 essays (or "love songs") that make up the now classic volume Air Guitar trawl a "vast, invisible underground empire" of pleasure, through record stores, honky-tonks, art galleries, jazz clubs, cocktail lounges, surf shops >>more
Art Issues Press
ISBN 9780963726452
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 208 pgs / 1 color / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/02/1997 Active/In stock

In the Making By Linda Weintraub. From the first page to the last, from Thomas Kinkaid (really!) to Matthew Barney, this book serves as a launching pad. Conclusions are perpetually delayed. Resolutions are continually postponed. The text is written for takeoff, >>more
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 9781891024597
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Paperback, 8 x 10 in. / 415 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 07/02/2003 Active/In stock

Art On the Edge...and Over In this highly accessible introduction to American art since the 1970s, Linda Weintraub offers art lovers a readable exploration of some of the most important artists and movements of the past three decades. Today artists >>more
Art Insights,Inc.
ISBN 9780965198813
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9 in. / 264 pgs / 114 b&w / 28 color.
Pub Date: 01/02/1997 Active/In stock

Owning Art: The Contemporary Art Collector's Handbook By Louisa Buck, Judith Greer. This sharp, practical look at the contemporary art market declares its irreverence early with a full-page, large print citation of Jenny Holzer's truism, "Money creates taste." Louisa Buck and Judith Greer's analyses of buyers' interests >>more
Cultureshock Media
ISBN 9780954699918
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Clothbound, 6 x 8 in. / 276 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/01/2007 Active/Awaiting stock

Making History: Wu Hung on Contemporary Art Making History collects the most provocative and insightful essays of Wu Hung, the esteemed scholar and critic of Chinese contemporary art and culture. Written in clear and readable prose, this volume contains detailed analyses of >>more
Timezone 8
ISBN 9789889961701
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Hbk, 8 x 11 in. / 278 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 02/01/2009 Active/In stock

Arts of Japan Edited by Anne Nishimura Morse. The MFA's holdings of Japanese art make up the finest and most comprehensive collection outside of Japan. This stunning overview features many of the collection's best-known and most beloved works, including such rare paintings as >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878467143
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Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 320 pgs / 175 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/01/2008 Active/In stock

Art in Its Own Terms Edited by Rackstraw Downes. According to the important American poet John Ashbery, “To read Fairfield Porter is to rediscover art through the eyes of someone whose intuitive love and understanding of it has been matched by few contemporaries,” while >>more
MFA Publications/artWorks
ISBN 9780878467433
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Paperback, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 288 pgs / 46 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/01/2008 Active/In stock

The Blaue Reiter Almanac Edited by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. Introduction by Klaus Lankheit. The Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) art movement was founded in 1911 by the young painters Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, and was active in Europe until 1914. Originally published in Munich in 1912 and edited >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878467006
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Hardcover, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 296 pgs / 150 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/15/2005 Active/In stock

The Making of Art Edited by Martina Weinhart. Text by Max Hollein. The mechanisms, rhetoric and strategies of today's art world are probably closer to popular conceptions of the film industry than to the romantic image of the solitary studio-bound artist--so byzantine are the relations between artists, >>more
Walther König
ISBN 9783865605863
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Pbk, 8.25 x 10.75 in. / 240 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Active/In stock

Questioning History: Imagining the Past in Contemporary Art Text by Frank van der Stok, Frits Gierstberg, Flip Bool. During the past several decades, contemporary artists have asked critical questions about the way in which history is constructed through images, particularly those that are disseminated by the mass media. As the media has increasingly >>more
NAi Publishers
ISBN 9789056626594
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Pbk, 5.75 x 9 in. / 180 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 03/01/2009 Active/In stock

Wu Hung on Contemporary Chinese Artists Edited by Wu Hung. The companion volume to Making History: Wu Hung on Contemporary Art, this selection of essays on Chinese contemporary artists and their work brings to bear the critical acumen of one of China's leading commentators on >>more
Timezone 8
ISBN 9789881803436
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Hbk, 8.25 x 11.25 in. / 268 pgs / 200 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2009 Active/Awaiting stock

Institutional Critique and After Edited by John C. Welchman. Essays by Alexander Alberro, Jens Hoffmann, Andrea Fraser, Renee Green, Isabelle Graw and Lauri Firstenberg, et. al. This contemporary reassessment of the Institutional Critique movement, launched in the late 1960s by artists including Michael Asher and Hans Haacke, grew out of a symposium held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905701654
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 400 pgs / 76 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/15/2006 Active/Awaiting stock

Rembrandt's Nose: Of Flesh and Spirit in the Master’s Portraits By Michael Taylor. The year 2006 marked the 400th anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest portrait painters that ever lived, the Dutch seventeenth-century master, Rembrandt. Although Rembrandt is among the most important artists in western >>more
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 9781933045443
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Hardcover, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 168 pgs/ 49 duotone.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Active/In stock

On Per Kirkeby Edited by Bo Bjerggaard. This illustrated volume of essays, penned by Siegfried Gohr, is published in honor of Per Kirkeby's seventieth birthday. A writer and curator, Gohr is a professor at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf and has been acquainted >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775723213
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Hbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 128 pgs / 48 color.
Pub Date: 02/01/2009 Active/In stock

Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art No. 4 Edited by Lynne Cooke, Karen Kelly and Barbara Schröder. Essays by Dave Hickey, Rosalind Krauss, Ulrich Loock, Alexander Alberro, Jan Avgikos, Richard Shiff, Dirk Snauwaert, Miwon Kwon, Colin Gardner. Foreword by Philippe Vergne. Since 1992, the Dia Center for the Arts has presented the Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art—an example of Dia's ongoing commitment to cross-disciplinary critical discourse. This fourth volume of collected theoretical and critical essays >>more
Dia Art Foundation
ISBN 9780944521793
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 200 pgs / 14 color / 88 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2009 Active/In stock

Variantology 3 Edited by Eckhard Fürlus. Text by Siegfried Zielinski, Arianna Borrelli, Francesca Bray, Chen Cheng-Yi. The editors of this newest installation of the challenging international art-meets-science-meets-technology journal Variantology endeavor to explain the overlapping and independent histories of European and Chinese media, moving from reflections a >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865603661
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Pbk, 6.25 x 9.25 in. / 478 pgs / 88 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/01/2008 Active/In stock

Political, Minimal Edited by Klaus Biesenbach. Text by Jenny Schlenzka, Michael Archer. Political, Minimal surveys works of art from the past 40 years that use a strongly reduced, geometrical formal vocabulary, but which nonethless manage to retain slim narrative clues, through a repertoire of shapes such as >>more
Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg
ISBN 9783941185074
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Pbk, 9 x 9 in. / 148 pgs / 44 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2009 Active/Awaiting stock

Modernism And Modernity Edited by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Serge Guilbauta and David Solkin. Essays by T.J. Clark, Hollis Clayson, Nicole Dubreuil-Blondin, Thomas Crow, Clement Greenberg, John Wilson Foster, Allan Sekula, Henri Lefebvre, Marcelin Pleynet, Paul Hayes Tucker, et al. Modernism and Modernity: The Vancouver Conference Papers, was originally published as the proceedings from a conference held in Vancouver, in 1983. Due to its popularity, this reprint is being issued with the same insightful and >>more
The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
ISBN 9780919616417
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 296 pgs / 43 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/15/2005 Active/In stock

Warren Neidich: Blow-Up Introduction by Norman Bryson. In Blow-Up, a collection of essays that tackle aesthetics from the angle of neuroscience, Warren Neidich proposes a different and wholly original paradigm for thinking through cultural history and the philosophy of the human subject. >>more
D.A.P./UCR/California Museum of Photography
ISBN 9781891024801
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 192 pgs / 22 color.
Pub Date: 10/02/2003 Active/In stock

Interact or Die: There Is Drama In The Networks Text by Brian Massumi, Detlef Mertins, Lars Spuybroek, Moortje Marres, Christian Hübler. The 1990s dream of cyberspace and its immaterial possibilities seems now to belong to the distant past: our future will be material for some time to come. And yet, modern biology has shown that matter >>more
NAi Publishers
ISBN 9789056625771
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 208 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Active/In stock

Rem Koolhaas & Hans Ulrich Obrist: The Conversation Series In this traditional paperback, renowned critic and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist teams up with Dutch avant-garde architect and paradigm-shifting intellectual, Rem Koolhaas, for a discussion of Koolhaas's work in China, his designs for Prada, architecture >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865600776
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Paperback, 5.5 x 8 in. / 68 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Active/In stock

Robert Lehman Lectures On Contemporary Art No. 2 Edited by Lynne Cooke, Karen Kelly Bettina Funcke. Essays by Beatriz Colomina, Juan Maidagan, Dave Hickey, Michael Newman, Robert Farris Thompson, David Sylvester and Marina Warner. Foreword by Michael Govan. Finally Available Since 1992, Dia has presented the Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art. Like the Foundation's “Discussions in Contemporary Culture” symposia series, the Lehman lectures are an example of Dia's ongoing commitment to cross-disciplin >>more
Dia Art Foundation
ISBN 9780944521786
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Paperback, 5.5 x 8 in. / 200 pgs / 18 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/02/2004 Active/In stock

Delusive Spaces Text by Eric Kluitenberg. In 2006, NBC posted clips from its fall lineup on YouTube, and the government produced antidrug spots. As new media is gaining not only street cred but real market share, traditional media outlets are increasingly >>more
NAi Publishers
ISBN 9789056626174
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Paperback, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 391 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/01/2008 Active/In stock

A Question of Evidence Inspired by visits to Asian countries under dictatorship, A Question of Evidence examines the inroads artists can make into the status of political documents. Most of the contributing artists collaborate with grassroots collectives that manage >>more
Walther König
ISBN 9783865605696
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Pbk, 5.75 x 9.5 in. / 190 pgs / 23 color / 65 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Active/In stock

Interviews Volume 1 By Gerald Matt Text by Gerald Matt. Contributions by Matthew Barney, Anri Sala, Tony Matelli, Tracey Moffatt, Shirin Neshat. During his long and illustrious career as a curator, Gerald Matt, the current Director of Kunsthalle Vienna, had many insightful conversations with the top artists of the day. Gathered here are 40 interviews with contemporary >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865601889
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 360 pgs / 103 color / 21 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Active/In stock

Varieties of Audio Mimesis By Allen S. Weiss. This investigation of the metaphoric relationship between music and landscape is also a study of the poetics of onomatopoeia and a theory of sound in the arts. The history of European musicology is perennially revised >>more
Errant Bodies Press
ISBN 9780977259441
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Paperback, 5.5 x 7.75 in. / 109 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/01/2007 Active/In stock

Theft Is Vision By Bob Nickas. Theft is Vision gathers essays and interviews from the past ten years by the influential New York critic and curator Bob Nickas, offering a personal, shoot-from-the-hip take on the American art scene. More of a >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905770360
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 160 pgs / 24 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/01/2007 Active/In stock

Listen Here Now! Argentine Art of the 1960s Edited by Ines Katzenstein and Andrea Giunta. Essays by Ana Longoni, Mariano Mestman, Marcelo E. Pacheco and Oscar Tern. In recent writings and exhibitions on postwar art, the avant-garde of 1960s Argentina has emerged as one of the most vital and original of that extraordinarily dynamic period. Although these artists were as radical as >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870703669
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Paperback, 6 x 9.25 in. / 304 pgs / 95 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/02/2004 Active/In stock

Artists Talk: 1969-1977 Edited by Peggy Gale. Foreword by Paul Greenhalgh. An essay by Peggy Gale introduces this transcription of historic talks by internationally known artists, recorded some 30 years ago at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Included are >>more
The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
ISBN 9780919616400
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 423 pgs / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/15/2005 Active/In stock

David Robbins: The Velvet Grind Edited by Lionel Bovier, Fabrice Stroun. Asked to contribute to Artforum's “Top Ten” column, David Robbins used one of his entries for “Electricity: That we don't annually celebrate Electricity Day is unfathomable.” That sense of whimsy, even amid an advanced critical >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905701029
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Paperback, 6 x 8.5 in. / 320 pgs / 16 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/15/2006 Active/In stock

Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide To Video Art Edited and introduction by by Doug Hall and Sally Jo Fifer. Foreword by David Ross. Preface by David Bolt. This book is an insightful evaluation of video art since its early beginnings, examining its theoretical, aesthetic and social implications. >>more
Aperture
ISBN 9780893813901
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 568 pgs / 145 reproductions throughout.
Pub Date: 06/15/2005 Active/Not available

Imaginary Economics Edited by Olav Velthuis. A British artist who destroys all of his belongings, a Dutch artist's initiative that charts organization cultures, a Swiss artist who sells his right to participate in an exhibition via an online auction, an American >>more
NAi Publishers
ISBN 9789056624019
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Paperback, 4.75 x 7.75 in. / 128 pgs / 16 color.
Pub Date: 05/15/2005 Active/In stock

Variantology 1: On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies Edited by Siegfried Zielinski, Silvia Wagnermaier. On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies--this new journal's subtitle sounds intense, but its simple mandate is to study inexact copies wherever they appear--twins, photographs, memories, Warhol silkscreens, forwarded e-mails: wha >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783883759142
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Paperback, 6.25 x 9.25 in. / 384 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Active/In stock

The Aesthetics of Risk: SoCCAS Symposium Vol. III Edited by John C. Welchman. Text by Jane Blocker, Douglas Crimp, Rachel Greene, Richard Shiff, et. al. This anthology of essays, images and dialogues exploring contemporary art's engagements with risk--physical, social, political and aesthetic--brings readers into the conference from which the book takes its title, a third annual collaboration between the >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905770551
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 416 pgs / 16 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/01/2008 Active/In stock

Secret Publicity By Sven Lütticken. These thought-provoking essays from the first laureate of the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture's Prize for Art Criticism consider the central role of publicity as both a subject of and a power >>more
NAi Publishers
ISBN 9789056624675
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Paperback, 5.25 x 7.75 in. / 208 pgs / 38 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2006 Active/In stock

9 Evenings Reconsidered Edited by Catherine Morris. Essays by Clarisse Bardiot and Michelle Kuo. Texts by Lucy Lippard and Brian O'Doherty. Introduction by Jane Farver. In 1966, a Bell Laboratories physicist brought a group of avant-garde artists together with 10 open-minded members of the science and technology fields for 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering, a series of investigatory Happenings which >>more
MIT List Visual Arts Center
ISBN 9780938437697
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Paperback, 8.25 x 13 in. / 88 pgs / 4 color and 60 duotones.
Pub Date: 08/15/2006 Active/In stock

Vortex Of Silence By Doris von Drathen. German art historian and critic Doris von Drathen has here produced a collection of 24 texts on 24 of the world's famous contemporary artists. In it, she proposes nothing less than a new method of >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881584475
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 304 pgs / 80 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/02/2004 Active/In stock

Variantology 2: On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies Edited by Siegfried Zielinski, David Link, Eckhard Fuerlus, Nadine Minkwitz. Text by Amir Alexander, Peter Blegvad, Oksana Bulgakova, Andrea Hacker. What does a thirteenth-century Majorcan missionary have to do with logical machines? Were the astrolabes of the late Middle Ages really only used to calculate the orbits of stars and planets, or were they philosophical >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865600509
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Paperback, 6.25 x 9.25 in. / 350 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Active/In stock

Art&D Edited by Joke Brouwer, Arjen Mulder, and Anne Nigten. Art&D considers changes in art practice due to media, to that new branch of art making known primarily as electronic art. Use of radio and video came first, about 25 years ago, but over the >>more
NAi Publishers/V2-Organization
ISBN 9789056623890
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 256 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 01/02/2005 Active/Awaiting stock

Art Czar: The Rise and Fall of Clement Greenberg By Alice Goldfarb Marquis. In the years of his greatest dominance, Clement Greenberg almost single-handedly established Jackson Pollock and the New York School at the center of the American art world. His work set the tone for art criticism >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878467013
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Clothbound, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 336 pgs / 35 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/01/2006 Active/In stock

Hans Ulrich Obrist & Thomas Demand: The Conversation Series Volume number 10 in the Conversation Series with the influential museum director, curator, writer and conversationalist Hans Ulrich Obrist, is given over to an intensive talk with the important German conceptual artist, Thomas Demand, who >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865602046
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Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 174 pgs / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Active/In stock

Thomas Lawson: Mining For Gold By Thomas Lawson. Edited by Lionel Bovier and Fabrice Stroun. More than any artist-writer of his generation, Thomas Lawson has the makeup of a true journalist. He is an embedded correspondent, a polemical editorialist, sending his first-person dispatches from the front lines. He knows the >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9782940271221
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Paperback, 6 x 8.5 in. / 240 pgs.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Active/In stock

Manet and the Execution of Emperor Maximillian Essay by John Elderfield. The execution of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, in 1867, was the subject of a quartet of paintings by the French Impressionist and early Modernist Edouard Manet. These works are rarely shown together, and in fact >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870704239
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Paperback, 7.5 x 9.25 in. / 200 pgs / 112 illustrations.
Pub Date: 11/15/2006 Active/Awaiting stock

Warhol's Dream By Saul Anton. "12 February 1972--I had slept badly. I decided to go out for breakfast, but when I got down to the street, there was no one there, and I thought, Andy, you must be still dreaming. >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905770353
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 120 pgs / 16 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/01/2007 Active/In stock

Universal Experience: Art, Life, And The Tourist'S Eye Essays by Francesco Bonami, Carol Becker, Alain de Boton, Lucy Lippard, Susan Sontag and Nancy Spector. Foreword by Robert Fitzpatrick. Drawing from such disciplines as anthropology, sociology, economics, art criticism and travel writing, Universal Experience is both a sizeable illustrated catalogue of the exhibition at the MCA, Chicago and a companion to the experience of >>more
D.A.P./MCA, Chicago
ISBN 9781933045023
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 272 pgs / 170 color.
Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Active/In stock

Collection Diary By Bob Nickas. For one year, respected critic and curator Bob Nickas put his money where his eyes are: he decided to become a collector, someone who takes art off gallery walls instead of hanging it there. His >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9782940271689
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Paperback, 4.5 x 6.5 in. / 64 pgs / 20 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Active/In stock

Hans Ulrich Obrist & Yona Friedman: The Conversation Series "People make too much of architecture. I have a running quarrel with architects who overestimate architecture. Reality is at eye-level with people walking down the street." Born in 1923 in Budapest, Hungary, Yona Friedman is >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865601711
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Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 126 pgs / 29 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Active/In stock

The Secret Files of Gilbert & George Edited by Nicolas Tremblay. By Hans Ulrich Obrist. For the last 40 years Gilbert & George have united and divided the international art scene with equal parts insolence and elegance. Their oeuvre, with its repeating figures and reprising themes of shit, piss, blood, >>more
JRP|Ringier/ BDV Bureau des videos
ISBN 9783905770582
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DVD video, PAL Multizone, 5.5 x 7.5 in.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Active/In stock

Hou Hanru: On The Mid-Ground Edited by Yu Hsiao-Hwei. Essay by Hou Hanru. Hou Hanru is undoubtedly one of the most dynamic and innovative curators and critics on the contemporary art scene today. Known for such ground-breaking exhibitions as Cities on the Move (co-curated with Hans Ulrich Obrist), >>more
Timezone 8
ISBN 9789628638826
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Paperback, 6.5 x 8.75 in. / 281 pgs / 120 color / 194 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/02/2003 Active/In stock

Museums Of Tomorrow Edited by Maurice Berger. Introduction by Barbara Buhler-Lynes. Conversations with Alexander Alberro, Maxwell Anderson, George Baker, Stefano Basilico, Jonathan Binstock, Dan Cameron, Donna de Salvo and Olu Oguibe. What is the future of the art museum? Should artists and critics have greater say in museum programming? What role can new museum technologies play in the future of the art museum? How should art >>more
Center for Art and Visual Culture, UMBC/Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
ISBN 9781890761073
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 234 pgs.
Pub Date: 05/15/2005 Active/In stock

White: Whiteness And Race In Contemporary Art Edited by Maurice Berger Essays by Maurice Berger, David Roediger and Patricia Williams. Over the past 20 years, the cultural and scholarly discourse around race has exploded to include the study of whiteness and white privilege, representing a radical shift in the way we think and talk about >>more
Center for Art and Visual Culture, UMBC
ISBN 9781890761066
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 90 pgs / 12 color.
Pub Date: 11/02/2003 Active/In stock

The Eighth Day: The Transgenic Art Of Eduardo Kac Artwork by Eduardo Kac. Edited by Sheilah Britton, Dan Collins. Contributions by Edward Lucie-Smith. Text by Steve Baker, Carol Becker, N. Katherine Hayles, Arlindo Machado, Gunalan Nadarajan, Alan Rawls, William Rawls, Jeanne Wilson-Rawls. If there is no eighth day in the biblical account of things, perhaps it's time to add another, now that we have the means. The transgenic art of Eduardo Kac does just that, raising often >>more
The Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona State University
ISBN 9780972429108
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 180 pgs / 32 color.
Pub Date: 06/02/2003 Active/In stock

Roger Shattuck: The Innocent Eye By Roger Shattuck. In this volume, one of the great polymaths of our time focuses on the often disputed contributions of modern, primarily French, art and literature to contemporary culture. Emphasizing individual works and artists over theory and >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878466542
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 368 pgs / 9 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/02/2003 Active/In stock

Kahnweiler: My Galleries And Painters Interviews with Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler by Francis Cr»mieux. Introduction by John Russell. Picasso's lifelong dealer and one of the major gallery owners of the twentieth century, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler is a key figure in the development of modern art. He opened his first Paris gallery in 1907, then >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878466528
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Paperback, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 176 pgs / 27 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/02/2003 Active/In stock

Joseph Beuys: The Felt Hat Artwork by Joseph Beuys. The Felt Hat provides a much-needed and accessible introduction to the work of this seminal twentieth-century artist. The book traces Beuys' life from his birth in Krefels Germany in 1921 through his early studies in >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881580651
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Paperback, 6 x 8.5 in. / 240 pgs / 39 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/02/1997 Active/In stock

John Miller: The Price Club By John Miller. Edited by Lionel Bovier. For writer, critic and artist John Miller, the issue of the production-reception of a work of art is a genuine dialectic. He argues that the artist has no choice but to address the sociopolitical questions >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9782940271054
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Paperback, 6 x 8.5 in. / 192 pgs.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Active/In stock

Open 8: (In)Visibility Edited by Liesbeth Melis and Jorinde Sijdel. In today's hypervisualized culture, has every message or social agenda been usurped by styling, commerc, and fashion? What position does art occupy in conveying the meanings of everyday design? What position should it occupy? And >>more
NAi Publishers/SKOR
ISBN 9789056624330
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 90 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Active/In stock

That Bodies Speak Has Been Known For A Long Time Edited by Sabine Breitwieser, Hemma Schmutz and Tanja Widmann. Essays by Dietrich Kamer, Ursula Biemann, Sigrid Adorf, Giorgio Agamben, Anja Streither and Jutta Koether. Taking its title from Deleuze, this exhibition and catalogue consider the body linguistically. In what sense do bodies produce language, how are they themselves grasped and defined by it, and what spaces for action are >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783883758022
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Paperback, 6.25 x 8.25 in. / 154 pgs / 30 color / 45 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/02/2004 Active/Awaiting stock

Postmodernism: A Virtual Discussion Edited by Maurice Berger. Contributions by Robert Rosenblum, Michelle Wallace, Maxwell Anderson, Catherine Lord, Jonathan Weinberg, Olu Oguibe, Michael Leja, Dan Cameron, Yvonne Rainer, Donna deSalvo, Simon Leung, Chrissie Iles, Jennifer Gonzalez, Wendy Ewald, Kellie Jones, David Ross, and Jerry Saltz. What is Postmodernism, and is it a useful concept for understanding American art and visual culture of the past 40 years? When and to what extent did Modernism wane as a phenomenon in American art? >>more
The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum/The Center for Art and Visual Culture, UMBC
ISBN 9781890761059
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Paperback, 9 x 6 in. / 150 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/02/2003 Active/In stock

Exile of the Imaginary: Politics Aesthetics Love Edited by Juli Carson. Text by Parveen Adams, Juli Carson, Gregory Ulmer. This collection of art-historic, psychoanalytic and linguistic essays ponders the relationship between post-conceptual art practice and the legacy of Roland Barthes's famed A Lover's Discourse: Fragments--specifically, Barthes's assertion that lov >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865602114
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Paperback / 9.5 x 6.75 in / 184 pgs/ illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Active/In stock

Robert Lehman Lectures On Contemporary Art No.3 Edited by Lynne Cooke, Karen Kelly, Bettina Funcke. Essays by Lynne Cooke, Jonathan Crary, Russel Fergusson, Boris Groys, Pamela Kort, Bérènice Reynaud, Victor Stoichita, Elaine Showalter, Jan Tumlir and Peter Wollen. Foreword by Michael Govan. This third volume of collected theoretical and critical essays focuses on Dia's exhibitions from 1998 through 2000. As in the first two volumes, nine diverse contributors are included, ranging from art historian Jonathan Crary and >>more
Dia Art Foundation
ISBN 9780944521779
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Paperback, 5.5 x 8 in. / 200 pgs / 18 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/02/2004 Active/In stock

The Regime of Visibility By Camiel van Winkel. Camiel van Winkel, the longtime editor of Archis: Magazine for Architecture, the City and Visual Culture, examines and interprets key interfaces between visual art and other forms of culture, and argues that our continuously expanding >>more
NAi Publishers
ISBN 9789056624255
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 224 pgs / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2006 Active/In stock

The 1980s: An Internet Conference Edited and with an introduction by Maurice Berger. Foreword by Barbara Buhler Lynes. In his introduction to The 1980s: An Internet Conference, moderator Maurice Berger writes, "As Fredric Jameson reminds us in his essay "Periodizing the 1960s," decades are never neat, clearly defined episodes. Their boundaries are porous, >>more
Center for Art and Visual Culture, UMBC/Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
ISBN 9781890761097
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 240 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/15/2006 Active/In stock

Net.Art.2.0 Edited by Tilman Baumgärtel. This follow-up to the first very successful net-art book documents developments in net art from 1999 to the present. A large portion of the thematically-designed book consists of interviews with artists such as Julia Scher, >>more
Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst Nurnberg
ISBN 9783933096661
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Paperback, 8.25 x 9.5 in. / 264 pgs / 97 color / 39 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Active/In stock

Under Construction: Perspectives on Institutional Practice Edited by Vanessa Joan Müller, Nicolaus Schafhausen. Museums, galleries, foundations, collectors, artists, viewers--how do they all come together? How is that changing? This collection of essays and some photographs from a Cologne working group called European Kunsthalle tackles the fundamental issues faci >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865601193
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Paperback, 7.75 x 9.5 in. / 250 pgs / 36 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Active/Awaiting stock

All that Dutch: International Cultural Politics Edited by Ben Hurkmans, Gitta Luiten, Taco de Neef, Henk Pröpper and Femke van Woerden-Tausk. Essays by George Lawson, Aaron Betsky, Catherine David, Chris Dercon and Els Van Der Plas. Dutch international cultural policy is unusually generous, an international exemplar. And it has recently become the subject of heated debate at home. Though there are no plans to cut back, there are questions: the government's >>more
NAi Publishers
ISBN 9789056624637
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Paperback, 6.25 x 8.75 in. / 118 pgs / 26 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2006 Active/In stock

Benjamin's Blind Spot Edited by Lise Patt.Contributors include Vance Bell, David Brottman, Martin Gantman, David Gross, Erich Hertz, Petra Kuppers, Rajeev S. Patke, Colin Rhodes, Gerhard Richter, Marquard Smith, Carsten Strathausen. Walter Benjamin's 1936 essay ''The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'' revolutionized the way we look at the social function of the work of art, and the paradigms through which we appreciate >>more
Institute of Cultural Inquiry
ISBN 9781889917047
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Paperback, 7.5 x 9 in. / 128 pgs / 200 b&w / 1 duotone.
Pub Date: 07/02/2001 Active/Awaiting stock

The Image Society Edited by Warna Oosterbaan, Frits Gierstberg, Mariåtte Haveman. Text by Jose van Dijck, Frank van Vree, Kitty Zijlmans, Pauline Terreehorst. We live in an age in which text is gradually losing ground to the image. People read less and spend ever more time in front of the computer screen or the TV. Events and personal >>more
NAi Publishers
ISBN 9789056622848
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 96 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/02/2003 Active/In stock

Beyond Preconceptions By Lawrence Rinder. Contributions by Milena Kalinovska, Jiri and Jana Sevcik. Text by Paulo Herkenhoff, Michael Newman. Bold and necessary in both critical approach and geographical range, Beyond Preconceptions: The Sixties Experiment provides a look at parallel art developments in Eastern and Western Europe and in North and South America in the >>more
Independent Curators International, New York
ISBN 9780916365585
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Hardcover, 9 x 11 in. / 128 pgs / 40 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/02/2000 Active/In stock

JFL: What Does Why Mean? >>more
J&L Books
ISBN 9780974690841
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Paperback, 5.25 x 7.75 in. / 200 pgs
Pub Date: 06/01/2007 Active/In stock

Open 10: (In)tolerance Edited by Jorinde Seijdel and Liesbeth Melis. Essays by Max Bruinsma, Jeroen Boomgaard, Lonnie van Brummelen, Martijn Engelbrecht, Siebren de Haan, Marion Hamm, Joke Hermes, Maurice Nio, Paul Gerry, Gijs Van Oenen, The Buggers, et al. Open is a notebook on art and the public domain, published twice a year. Open considers the interaction between art, commissioner, place and public in relation to developments within new media, architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture >>more
NAi Publishers
ISBN 9789056624934
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Paperback, 6.25 x 9.25 in. / 160 pgs / 60 color and 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/15/2006 Active/Not available

Shifting Map Edited by Edith Rijnja. Essays by Reinaldo Laddaga and Charles Esche. Introduction by Gertrude Flentge. The phenomenon of artists' platforms and artists' initiatives have been gaining in popularity and strength over recent years, in the Netherlands and beyond. Artists form groups and organize themselves in order to change something in >>more
NAi Publishers/Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten/Rain Artists' Initiatives Net
ISBN 9789056623685
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Paperback, 6.75 x 10 in. / 216 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 08/02/2004 Active/In stock

Open 6 Essays by Lieven de Cauter, Sven Lütticken, Thomas Y. Levin, Gijs Van Oenen, Guus Beumer, Jouke Kleerebezem, Q.S. Serafijn, and Willem van Weelden. Post 9-11, post Iraqi invasion, post (we wish) the War on Terrorism, there is a great deal of interest in safety in the public domain, both in the political realm and among the general public. >>more
NAi Publishers/SKOR
ISBN 9789056623821
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 90 color.
Pub Date: 08/02/2004 Active/In stock

Inclinations: Further Writing and Interviews By Stuart Morgan By Stuart Morgan. Edited by Ian Hunt. When Stuart Morgan died at age 54 in 2002, London's Guardian newspaper wrote, "Stuart Morgan became known during the 1980s in Europe and the United States as the most significant British writer on contemporary art. >>more
Frieze
ISBN 9780952741480
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Paperback, 6 x 9.25 in. / 448 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Active/In stock

Sound And The Visual Arts By Jean-Yves Bosseur. Text by Luca Beatrice. Musician and musicologist Jean-Yves Bosseur explores the growing relationship between the plastic arts and music in the world of contemporary art. This trend is shown in its aesthetic and historical context through interviews with Iannis >>more
Dis Voir
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Paperback, 6.5 x 8.5 / 160 pgs / 14 color / 14 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/1993 Active/In stock

Gerhard Richter: Doubt And Belief In Painting By Robert Storr. Robert Storr's is one of the sharpest minds in American art museums. --The New York Review of Books
[Gerhard Richter is] Europe's most challenging modern painter. --Michael Kimmelman
Gerhard Richter is widely recognized as one of >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870703553
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.75 in. / 336 pgs / 198 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/02/2003 Active/Not available

Open 7: (No) Memory Edited by Liesbeth Melis and Jorinde Seijdel. Essays by Wolfgang Ernst, Jouke Kleerebezem, Geert Lovink, Sven Lütticken, Rudi Laermans, Paul Meurs, Frank van Vree and Cor Wagenaar. How can cultural heritage be made accessible without resisting new developments, or turning city and countryside into a museum? What is the impact of the media and digital storage techniques on the social and historic >>more
NAi Publishers
ISBN 9789056623937
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Active/Awaiting stock

Contemporary Practices Text by Ackbar Abbas. >>more
Dis Voir
ISBN 9782906571921
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Pub Date: 10/02/1999 Active/In stock

In Favor Of Today's Art By Francois Dagognet. French philosopher Francois Dagognet explores the transition from image to environment to installation in the history of art and the history of domestic objects. An important contribution to the ongoing debate of modernism. >>more
Dis Voir
ISBN 9782906571259
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Pub Date: 02/02/1993 Active/In stock

Frieze Projects: Artists Commissions and Talks Organized by Polly Staple. Edited by Melissa Gronlund. Since the inaugural Frieze Art Fair in 2003, Frieze Projects, an off-shoot of London's frieze magazine, has pursued an ambitious curatorial program, inviting a selection of emerging and established artists to realize work responding specifically >>more
Frieze
ISBN 9780955320101
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Paperback, 7.75 x 10.2 in. / 320 pgs / 160 color / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/01/2007 Active/In stock

Room 5: Arcade Edited by Nina Pearlman. Essays by Kathy Battista, Robert Clough, Pierandrea Gebbia, Francis Gooding, Lorens Holm, Catherine James, Mark Morris, Toby Newton, Barbara Penner, Weizman & Herz Architects Segal, John Tercier, Fabrizio Trifiro and Bernard Vere, et al. The second issue in the series Room 5, Arcade features reflections on female urinals and edible architecture; a consideration of scatalogical elements in the work of Kurt Schwitters; an analysis of hypothermia as a primary >>more
The London Consortium
ISBN 9780853159506
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 224 pgs / 35 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/02/2002 Active/In stock

Technology: Art, Fairs And Theatre Essay by Petran Kockelkoren. Throughout history, developments in technology have impacted and transformed the limits of the human sensorium, from the camera obscura to the stereoscope to the multimedia apparatuses of today. In the perspective paintings of the Renaissance, >>more
NAi Publishers
ISBN 9789056622350
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Paperback, 7.75 x 4.75 in. / 92 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 06/02/2003 Active/Awaiting stock

Art On the Edge...and Over In this highly accessible introduction to American art since the 1970s, Linda Weintraub offers art lovers a readable exploration of some of the most important artists and movements of the past three decades. Today artists >>more
Art Insights,Inc.
ISBN 9780965198806
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Hardcover, 6.75 x 9 in. / 164 pgs / 114 b&w / 28 color.
Pub Date: 02/02/1997 Active/Awaiting stock

Looking through Duchamp’s Door By Hans Belting. In this new book by Hans Belting, three essays are united by one theme—the persistence of perspective after its supposed demise in the hands of modernism. Belting addresses perspective in the works of Marcel Duchamp, >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865606051
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Pbk, 6 x 9.25 in. / 192 pgs / 35 color / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/28/2010 Active/Awaiting stock

Courage To Be Alone Artwork by Michelangelo Pistoletto, Anne Poirier, Patrick Poirier, Sarkis, Nahum Tevet, Ilya Kabakov, Giulio Paolini, Franz West, Gilbert & George. Edited by Lóránd Hegyi. The essays gathered in this book are the result of an historical-anthropological observation: after the crisis in narration, carefully analyzed in the recent past by François Lyotard, we confront ourselves today with the tendency, in >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881585076
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 96 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Active/In stock

Expressive Edge By Margaret Sheffield Analyzing the history of sculpture from an unusual angle, Margaret Sheffield tackles the character and function of "edge" in sculptural line, from classical Greece to the present. She identifies three kinds of sculptural edge: the >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881587377
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 120 pgs / 10 color / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/31/2010 Active/In stock

Utopics: Systems and Landmarks Edited by Simon Lamunière. Text by Nicolas Bourriaud, Fabienne Bideau, Philippe Cuenat, Ildiko Dao. A superbly selected A–Z glossary of utopian structures, zones and acts in art and beyond, Utopics is a guide to artistically “living otherwise”—whether through imaginative design solutions (Andrea Zittel, Lang & Baumann), artist republics (Ian >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783037640562
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Clth, 6.5 x 9 in. / 162 pgs / 80 color / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/In stock

John Updike: Just Looking Artwork by John Updike. >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878465774
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Paperback, 8 x 10 in. / 224 pgs / 117 color / 77 b&w
Pub Date: 12/02/2000 Active/Not available

The Pop Revolution By Alice Goldfarb Marquis. “This book is a social history of Pop art, a group portrait of both the artists and the people who made some of them rich and famous in just a few years, while setting in >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878467440
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Clth, 6 x 9.25 in. / 222 pgs / 16 color / 18 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2010 Active/In stock

Arts in Society Edited by Pascal Gielen, Paul de Bruyne. In an essay included in this volume, the Italian philosopher Paolo Virno argues that the arts have become a component of what he calls the post-Fordist production process, and have consequently sacrificed what little autonomy >>more
NAi Publishers
ISBN 9789056627119
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 206 pgs / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/In stock

Difference on Display Text by Ine Gevers, Renu Addlahka, Michel Callon, Johnson Cheu, Amade M'Charek. In society, what passes for normal, and who gets to decide? Who “looks” normal, and where do we draw the line? At a facial wrinkle, at a visible prosthesis, pills to increase intelligence, drastic cosmetic >>more
NAi Publishers
ISBN 9789056627157
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 384 pgs / 280 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/In stock

Now is the Time Edited by Margriet Schavemaker, Christel Vesters, Ingrid Commandeur, Jelle Bouwhuis, Gijs Frieling. The twentieth century was brought to a definitive conclusion by the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. What developments has art undergone since this violent end to an era, and what significance >>more
NAi Publishers
ISBN 9789056627218
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 192 pgs / 35 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/In stock

Rethinking the Contemporary Art School Edited by Brad Buckley, John Conomos. With great timeliness, Rethinking the Contemporary Art School examines the very basis of the art school and its role in society. The book considers various art-school models—innovative graduate programs, independent stand-alone schools and art sch >>more
The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
ISBN 9780919616493
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 237 pgs.
Pub Date: 05/31/2010 Active/In stock

The Wild, Wild East: An American Art Critic's Adventures in China By Barbara Pollack. A lively and opinionated romp through China's contemporary art scene, Wild, Wild East is based on firsthand encounters with the artists, dealers, collectors, curators and auction specialists who have made Chinese contemporary art the fastest >>more
Timezone 8
ISBN 9789881803498
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 208 pgs / 20 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/31/2010 Active/In stock

The Murmuring of the Artistic Multitude By Pascal Gielen. Here, art sociologist Pascal Gielen examines the notion that the global art economy—with its ever-renewable youth quota, its gender imbalance, flexible working hours and short-term contracts (or lack of contracts)—is wholly congruent with the worst >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789078088349
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Pbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 264 pgs / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/In stock

The Gift: Generous Offerings, Threatening Hospitality Edited by Gianfranco Maraniello, Sergio Risaliti, and Antonio Somaini. Essays by Jean Baudrillard, Dan Cameron, Jean-Luc Nancy, Harald Szeemann. Hovering potentially between generosity and insult, seduction and trap, homage and defiance, the gift is a gesture with which relations are established and desires intertwined. In a world in which personal interactions are more and >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881583331
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 520 pgs / 120 color / 126 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2002 Out of print/Not available

Who Cares Foreword and essay by Doug Ashford. Introduction by Anne Pasternak. In 2005, the great New York cultural arts organization Creative Time brought together 39 artists, educators and thinkers over a series of intimate dinner parties. Critical conversations were initiated, ideas were discussed and challenged, and >>more
Creative Time Books
ISBN 9781928570028
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 160 pgs / 40 color.
Pub Date: 10/15/2006 Out of print/Not available

Witness to Her Art Edited by Rhea Anastas, Michael Brenson. Foreword by Tom Eccles. Text by Adrian Piper, Kara Walker, Daniela Rossell, Mona Hatoum, Cady Noland, Jenny Holzer, Monika Sprüth, Rhea Anastas, Michael Brenson, Norton Batkin, Johanna Burton, Aruna D'Souza, Pamela Franks, Janet Kraynak, David Levi Strauss, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Ann Reynolds, Hamza Walker. This radical new study aims to change the way that some of the most influential artists of the past 40 years are seen--all of them women. Emphasizing questions of autonomy, critical intelligence and artistic intention, >>more
Bard College
ISBN 9781931493550
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Paperback, 8 x 10 in. / 336 pgs / 240 color / 76 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Out of print/Not available

Clement Greenberg: Between The Lines By Thierry de Duve. The late critic Clement Greenberg remains best known as the man who almost single-handedly put Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman and Clyfford Still on the map of modern art. His formalist conception of art was violently >>more
Dis Voir
ISBN 9782906571532
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Paperback, 4.75 x 6.25 in. / 160 pgs.
Pub Date: 05/02/1996 Out of print/Not available

Science + Fiction, Volume 2 Edited by Stefan Iglhaut and Thomas Spring. Essays by Homi Bhabha, Wilhelm Krull, Ulrich Beck, Thomas Beth, Wolf Singer, Lydia Haustein, Helga Nowotny, Lorraine Daston, Rudolf Stichweh, Peter Weingart, Roslynn Haynes, Christina von Braun, et al. A play of combinations, Science + Fiction confronts modern science with its artistic reflection. On the top half of each page runs a panorama of fantastic pictures, while below appear essays and interviews on image >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783936314267
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Hardcover, 12 x 6.25 in. / 252 pgs / 170 color.
Pub Date: 08/02/2004 Out of print/Not available

Brands & Desires By Bernd Kreutz. Brands identify products and services. Yet a brand is much more than a “brand name” or a “brand logo” on a “brand-name product.” Brands reflect individual and collective desires that go far beyond a product's >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775791588
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Paperback, 7.25 x 9.5 in. / 104 pgs / 44 color.
Pub Date: 02/02/2004 Out of print/Not available

Great Bear Edited by Dick Higgins. Introduction by Alison Knowles, Hannah Higgins. Texts by John Cage, Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg. During the glory days of Something Else Press (1964-1974), its founder, the poet, editor and scholar Dick Higgins created the Great Bear imprint to publish pamphlets that were quickly printed and easily disseminated, guaranteeing wide >>more
Primary Information
ISBN 9780978869717
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Boxed, 5.75 x 8.75 in. / 20 Pamphlets.
Pub Date: 10/01/2007 Out of print/Not available

Raw Among the Ruins Edited by Lisette Smits, Alexis Vaillant. Text by Phillip van den Bossche, Brian Dillon, Raimundas Malasauskas, Raymond Roussel. This small, poetic exhibition catalogue features work by Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Jason Fox, Richard Hawkins, Jonathan Horowitz, Neck Relph and Oliver Payne, Re-magazine, and T.J. Wilcox, among others. In the words of Robert Smithson, "The >>more
Veenman Publishers
ISBN 9789086900671
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Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 86 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Out of print/Not available

The New Gatekeepers Edited by Christopher W. Hawthorne, Mark Schapiro and András Szántó. Essays by Amy Adler, Carol Becker, Louis Menand, Roger Newman, Rochelle Gurstein, Charles Mann, Cass R. Sunstein, et al. Disputes over free expression in the arts have always loomed as struggles between creativity and repression, transgression and outrage, candor and hypocrisy. But while high-profile shootouts at art museums and less visible skirmishes at schools, >>more
National Arts Journalism Program
ISBN 9780974638300
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Paperback, 7.25 x 9.25 in. / 200 pgs / 33 color / 32 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/02/2004 Out of print/Not available

Critique/Kritik Edited by Nina Roos, Anders Kreuger. Text by Rita Roos. Critic and theorist Rita Roos (1956-1996) grew up a member of Finland's indigenous Swedish-speaking minority, a population of 350,000 with a strong writing culture. When she died in her fortieth year, she left behind the >>more
Veenman Publishers
ISBN 9789086900398
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Clothbound, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 296 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Out of print/Not available

Last Chance For Eden Text by Christopher Knight. >>more
ART ISSUES PRESS
ISBN 9780963726421
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Hardcover, 6 x 9 / 448 pgs / 21 b&w
Pub Date: 04/02/1995 Out of print/Not available

New Histories >>more
ICA Boston
ISBN 9780910663519
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Paperback, 7.5 x 10 in. / 208 pgs / 36 color / 81 b&w
Pub Date: 01/02/1997 Out of print/Not available

Conflicts With Modernism Or The Absence Of Kurt Schwitters Contributions by Rudi Fuchs. >>more
GACHNANG & SPRINGER
ISBN 9783906127347
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Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5 / 50 pgs.
Pub Date: 05/02/1992 Out of print/Not available

Last Chance For Eden Edited by MaLin Wilson. Text by Dave Hickey, Christopher Knight. Introduction by Dave Hickey. 130 collected essays by Los Angeles Times art critic Christipher Knight, five time winner of the Chemical Bank Award for distinguished newspaper criticism. Jargon-free morally serious tone. >>more
Art Issues Press
ISBN 9780963726445
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 448 pgs / 1 color / 75 b&w
Pub Date: 09/02/1996 Out of print/Not available

Mythomania Contributions by Bernard Welt. This important book is a dissection of contemporary culture's dominant myths and icons. Welt's essays explore topics such as Michael Jackson, Dr. Seuss, Star Trek, and television game shows. >>more
Art Issues Press
ISBN 9780963726438
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Paperback, 6 X 9 in. / 128 pgs / 25 b&w
Pub Date: 08/02/1996 Out of print/Not available

The World Of Jeffrey Vallance Artwork by Jeffrey Vallance. Text by Dave Hickey. Inventive, witty, and full of pointed insights, Jeffrey Vallance will startle you with his most outrageous fictions, proposals, and artistic anecdotes. >>more
Art Issues Press
ISBN 9780963726414
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 80 pgs / 20 b&w
Pub Date: 10/02/1994 Out of print/Not available

Joseph Beuys: Mapping The Legacy Edited by Gene Ray. Essays by Lukas Beckmann, Benjamin Buchloch, Mel Chin, Pamela Kort, Kim Levin, Peter Nisbet, Gene Ray, Max Reithmann and Joan Rothfuss. A distinguished group of critics, art historians and artists gathered at the Ringling Museum to take part in an international symposium on the legacy of Joseph Beuys. The papers presented here examine the artist's various >>more
D.A.P./Ringling Museum
ISBN 9781891024030
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Paperback, 7.5 x 10 in. / 224 pgs / 20 color / b&w / 70 duotone.
Pub Date: 11/02/2001 Out of print/Not available

Interaction Edited by Jordan Crandall, Amy Scholder, Foreword by John S. Johnson. INTERACTION began as online forum, hosted by Eyebeam Atelier, featuring an international group of artists, scholars, critics, architects, students, technicians, and curators. Discussing the transformations wrought by the Internet--particularly the >>more
D.A.P./EYEBEAM ATELIER
ISBN 9781891024245
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 168 pgs / 34 b&w
Pub Date: 04/02/2001 Out of print/Not available

Think Art Contributions by Andreas Broeckmann, Nathalie Heinich, Catherine Ingraham, Felix Janssen, Jean-Marie Schaeffer. >>more
Witte de With
ISBN 9789073362413
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.75 in. / 184 pgs / 2 b&w
Pub Date: 08/02/1999 Out of print/Not available

Stimuli Contributions by Bartomeu Mari. Text by Georg Stimmel, Jos ten Berge. >>more
Witte de With
ISBN 9789073362451
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 48 pgs / 6 b&w
Pub Date: 08/02/2000 Out of print/Not available

Let's Entertain Contributors include Philippe Vergne, Dike Blair, Akiko Busch, Susan Davis, Emma Duncan, Joshua Gamson. "Let's Entertain: Life's Guilty Pleasures examines th[e] 'spectacularization' of everyday experience through the twin lenses of contemporary art practice and cultural criticism.... [and] challenge[s] us not to simply renounce entertainment per se, but to >>more
Walker Art Center
ISBN 9780935640663
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Hardcover, 6.5 x 9 in. / 320 pgs / 150 color / 75 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/02/2000 Out of print/Not available

Making Art Of Databases Edited by Joke Brouwer and Arjen Mulder. Essays by Lev Manovich, Brian Massumi, Rafael Lazano-Hemmer, Scott Lash, Sher Doruff and Joel Ryan. In recent centuries a whole range of exact systems has been developed in order to describe and categorize spoken and written communication: phonologically, morphologically, syntactically, semantically, pragmatically, stylistically. But there is nothing s >>more
NAi Publishers
ISBN 9789056623098
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 112 pgs / 112 color.
Pub Date: 08/02/2003 Out of print/Not available

Information Is Alive Edited by Joke Brouwer and Arjen Mulder. Essays by Manuel de Landa, Boris Groys, Winy Maas, Brian Massumi, Sadie Plant, Arjun Appadurai, Scott Lash, Simon Conway Morris, Antonio Damasio, George Dyson, Ryszard Kapuscinski and Ingo Günter. The archive has of late proven to be a powerful metaphor: history is viewed as an archive of facts from which one can draw at will; our bodies have become a genetic archive since being >>more
NAi Publishers
ISBN 9789056623104
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 192 pgs / 192 color.
Pub Date: 07/02/2003 Out of print/Not available

Open 9: Sound Edited by Jorinde Seijdel, Liesbeth Melis. Essays by Jonathan Sterne, Dirk van Weelden, Edwin Carels, Moniek Toebosch and Suzanne van de Ven. In recent years both art and architecture have looked anew at the element of sound, and that interest has led to increased study of sound's potential to lend social or spatial meaning. What are the >>more
NAi Publishers
ISBN 9789056624576
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.25 in. / 160 pgs / 60 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2006 Out of print/Not available

New Commitment: In Architecture, Art And Design Essays by Hans Aarsman, Aaron Betsky, René Boomkens, Jeroen Boomgaard, Ole Bouman, Lieven de Cauter, Chris Dercon, Bas Heijne, Hilde Heynen, Hans Ibelings, Rutger Pontzen, Arnold Reijndorp, Janny Rodermond, et al. Of late, the disciplines of art, design, and architecture have been called upon to engage in current social issues--a development which surely has some connection with recent international political and economic trends. If the 1990s >>more
NAi Publishers
ISBN 9789056623470
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Hardcover, 5.5 x 8.75 in. / 160 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/02/2004 Out of print/Not available

Deep Design By Libby Lumpkin. >>more
Art Issues Press/Foundation for Advanced Critical
ISBN 9780963726469
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 128 pgs / 30 color
Pub Date: 10/02/1999 Out of print/Not available

Science & Fiction Edited by Stefan Iglhaut, Thomas Spring. The worlds of science and fiction were once strictly separated. Increasingly, however, they interfere with one another: science becomes an object of art and art gives fresh impetus to scientific research. Science + Fiction explores >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783936314229
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Paperback, 11.75 x 6.25 in. / 96 pgs / 50 color
Pub Date: 10/02/2003 Out of print/Not available

The Art Of Branding By Bernd Kreutz. As advertising genius Bernd Kreutz tells us, when Picasso first launched his marketing campaign to establish himself as a brand, “marketing” as we know it did not exist. Yet he recognized its potentials, and, by >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775791571
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Paperback, 7.25 x 9.5 in. / 48 pgs / 51 color / 24 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2004 Out of print/Not available

The Invisible Dragon Text by Dave Hickey. An intellectual tour-de-force, this collection of essays asks one of the key questions of our time: Why has talk about art so conspicuously avoided the subject of beauty in recent years? A classic in contemporary >>more
Art Issues Press/Foundation for Advanced Critical Studies
ISBN 9780963726407
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 64 pgs / 7 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/02/1993 Out of print/Not available

Branding From A To Z By Bernd Kreutz. We live in a world of brands. Brands play a crucial role in business competition, but have also become an important social phenomenon. Brands are represented by signs and symbols, gestures and images. They stand >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775791595
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Paperback, 7.25 x 9.5 in. / 64 pgs / 37 color / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2004 Out of print/Not available

Public Art Edited by Florian Matzner. Now in Paperback Everyone is an artist....I am really convinced that humankind will not survive without having realized the social body, the social order, into an artwork. --Joseph Beuys

Few topics in the visual >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775791489
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 400 pgs / 255 color
Pub Date: 04/02/2004 Out of print/Not available

Public Art Edited by Florian Matzner. Includes by Vito Acconci, Daniel Buren, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Ilya Kabakov, Joseph Kosuth, and Lawrence Weiner. Few topics in the visual arts in recent years have created such controversy as the debate surrounding the significance and potential of public art. In this massive book-the first of its kind-over 50 authors take >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775790734
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 748 pgs / 250 b&w
Pub Date: 09/02/2001 Out of print/Not available

Art & Economy Edited by Zdenek Felix and Beate Hentschel, Dirk Luckow. Essays by Konstantin Adamopoulos, Gerard A. Goodrow, Susan Hapgood, Michael Hutter, Helene Karmasin, Michael Muller, Andreas Spiegel, Wolfgang Ullrich. Globalization expands and contracts daily, as art and artists cross and recross borders. Motorcycles, fashion houses, and vacuum cleaners find themselves exhibited in art museums, complete with their corporate identities intact. Corporate collections gro >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775711265
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Hardcover, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 256 pgs / 120 color
Pub Date: 05/02/2002 Out of print/Not available

Site Of Sound Edited by Brandon LaBelle. Contributions by Steve Roden. >>more
Errant Bodies Press
ISBN 9780965557023
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Paperback, 7 x 7 in. / 96 pgs / 20 b&w
Pub Date: 06/02/1999 Out of print/Not available

Robert Lehman Lectures On Contemporary Art Artwork by Brice Marden, Lawrence Weiner. Photographs by Stephen Bann. Contributions by John Vinci. Text by Anne Rorimer. These are the first six provocative lectures on contemporary art initiated by the Dia Center. Artists discussed include Lawrence Weiner, Ketherina Fritsch, Robert Gober and Joseph Beuys. >>more
Dia Art Foundation
ISBN 9780944521755
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Paperback, 5.25 x 8 in. / 208 pgs
Pub Date: 06/02/1997 Out of print/Not available

P0Es1S: The Aesthetics Of Digital Poetry Edited by Christiane Heibach and Karin Wenz. Essays by Mark Amerika, Giselle Beiguelman, Friedrich W. Block, Mark Bernstein, Nika Bertram, Simon Biggs, Philippe Bootz, John Cayley, Florian Cramer, Eduardo Kac, Bill Seaman, et al. Digital poetry is a rapidly developing genre in the arts, marked by the most recent developments in media technology. Illustrating and reflecting the use of languages and sign systems in the symbol machine computer and >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775713450
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Paperback, 7 x 11.5 in. / 432 pgs / 70 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/02/2004 Out of print/Not available

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