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The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture

The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture

by Hal Foster

A handsome new edition of the seminal collection of late-twentieth-century cultural criticism. Named a Best Book of the Year by the Village Voice and considered a bible of contemporary cultural criticism, The Anti-Aesthetic is reissued now in a handsome new paperback edition. For the past twenty years, Hal Foster has pushed the boundaries of cultural criticism, establishing a vantage point from which the... (more)

Double Game

by Sophie Calle, Paul Auster

This is the first major publication in English on the work of French artist Sophie Calle, yet this volume is in no way an ordinary monograph. In fact, it takes the form of a "double jeu", a "double game," between the work of Sophie Calle and the fiction of Paul Auster. Representing an imaginative interplay of fact and fiction, "Double Game" creates a publication of endless intrigue and layers: part novel, part... (more)

Nothing Ever Happens

by Yoshitomo Nara

Featuring essays and short fiction by a range of contemporary writers, punk musicians and cultural critics, as well as writings by Yoshitomo Nara himself, the cult artist's book Nothing Ever Happens --available through D.A.P. for the first time--examines both Nara's work and the subject it addresses. Readers are invited into a fantastic world where emotions are not expected to be filtered, make-believe is not... (more)

Eva Hesse

by Lucy R. Lippard

As Lippard points out, Hesse’s use of obsessive repetition in her works served to increase and exaggerate the absurdity she saw in her life. In many ways, her works were ”psychic models,” as Robert Smithson has said, of ”a very interior person.” In pioneering the use of ”soft” materials, her sculptures betrayed her awareness of the manner in which her experience as a woman altered her art and career. Although she... (more)

Art on the Edge and Over:Searching for Art's Meaning in Contemporary Society 1970s-1990s

Art on the Edge and Over:Searching for Art's Meaning in Contemporary Society 1970s-1990s

by Linda Weintraub

Linda Weintraub recognizes that art at the end of the 20th century changes too quickly and is too multifaceted to be quickly and easily understood. Here she explains the intractably avant-garde art of the 1970s, 80s, and 90s by searching for art's meaning within the context of popular culture and the common trends that have led to new forms of artistic expression.

Art and Feminism (Themes and Movements)

The First Volume to Present the Rich Diversity of Art Informed by Feminism; New Affordable Format. As part of its critically-acclaimed "Themes and Movements" series Phaidon Press is pleased to announce the new edition of ART & FEMINISM, edited by Peggy Phelan and Helena Reckitt, a brilliant look at the complicated, contested and inspirational relationship between women's art and politics from... (more)

The Invention of Art: A Cultural History

The Invention of Art: A Cultural History

by L. E. Shiner

"A lucid book . . . it should be a must-read for anyone active in the arts."-Marc Spiegler, Chicago Tribune Books With The Invention of Art , Larry Shiner challenges our conventional understandings of art and asks us to reconsider its history entirely, arguing that the category of fine art is a modern invention—that the lines drawn between art and craft resulted from key social transformations in Europe during... (more)

Seven Days in the Art World

by Sarah Thornton

A fly-on-the-wall account of the smart and strange subcultures that make, trade, curate, collect, and hype contemporary art. The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More people than ever call themselves artists. Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description, and, for some, a kind of alternative religion. In a series of beautifully paced... (more)

God in the Gallery: A Christian Embrace of Modern Art (Cultural Exegesis)

God in the Gallery: A Christian Embrace of Modern Art (Cultural Exegesis)

by Daniel A. Siedell

Is contemporary art a friend or foe of Christianity? Art historian, critic, and curator Daniel Siedell, addresses this question and presents a framework for interpreting art from a Christian worldview in God in the Gallery: A Christian Embrace of Modern Art. As such, it is an excellent companion to Francis Schaeffer's classic Art and the Bible. Divided into three parts--"Theology," "History," and "Practice"--God... (more)

On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton (Writing Art)

On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton (Writing Art)

by Hollis Frampton

As Hollis Frampton's photographs and celebrated experimental films were testing the boundaries of the camera arts in the 1960s and 1970s, his provocative and highly literate writings were attempting to establish an intellectually resonant form of discourse for these critically underexplored fields. It was a time when artists working in diverse disciplines were beginning to pick up cameras and produce films and... (more)

Jasper Johns: A RetrospectiveKirk Varnedoe; With An Essay By Roberta Bernstein

Jasper Johns: A Retrospective

by Kirk Varnedoe; With An Essay By Roberta Bernstein

Bruce Nauman: Selected worksJohn Yau

Bruce Nauman: Selected works

by John Yau

Mark Manders

by Mark Manders

Robert Rauschenberg : combines

by Robert Rauschenberg

Poetic and lush, Robert Rauschenberg's Combines present layers of complex and sometimes conflicting information. This approach, first explored by Rauschenberg in the early 1950s, proved prescient and has become increasingly relevant in the current age of cascading information, when even the most ground-breaking artists are referencing and sampling disparate elements to create new forms. The Combines suggest... (more)

Tobias Rehberger : deaddies

by Tobias Rehberger

Deaddies : a sarcastic-sounding neologism that can be found in no dictionary, but is by now well established in American slang. Its lexicographic roots stem from both the father and death, thereby providing a convenient shorthand for the Oedipal complex, while at the same time sounding cute when spoken out loud. Tobias Rehberger took this word as the name for his exhibition in Turin, and he takes it again as the... (more)

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اوج و افول مدرنیسم

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مجموعه ی"تاریخ هنر معاصر جهان"به بررسی تحلیلی تحولات هنری در پهنهء تاریخ معاصر و تحت حاکمیت گفتمان هنری پست مدرن اختصاص دارد.لذا بر اساس روش همه ی پژوهش ها و تالیفات مشابه,معرفی و تحلیل جریان های هنری را که از دهه ی شصت به بعد به ظهور رسیده اند,در بر می گیرد.اما به دلیل اهمیت زمینه ها و شرایط شکل گیری"هنر معاصر"در پیامد افول هنر مدرنیستی,ضروری است ابتدا جنبش هنر مدرن در سال های واپسین اوج و گسترش جهانی آن,مورد... (more)

The Dono Code: Installations, Scupltures, Paintings

The Dono Code: Installations, Scupltures, Paintings

by Wouter Welling, Helena Spanjaard

Bomb after Bomb: A Violent Cartography

by Elin O'Hara Slavick

Bomb After Bomb , by Elin O'Hara Slavick, with a foreword by radical historian Howard Zinn, includes 48 color plates of Slavick's drawing series Protesting Cartography: Places The United States Has Bombed. Working from military surveillance imagery, aerial photographs, battle plans, maps and mass media sources, using gouache, ink, watercolor, graphite and other media on paper, Slavick renders bombed sites as... (more)

The Saints of Modern Art: The Ascetic Ideal in Contemporary Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Music, Dance, Literature, and Philosophy

The Saints of Modern Art: The Ascetic Ideal in Contemporary Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Music, Dance, Literature, and Philosophy

by Charles A. Riley

Asceticism seen as a powerful force in the art and thought of our time.

too Jewish? Challenging Traditional IdentitiesNorman L. Kleeblatt

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