General Art
GOD IS THE LIGHT OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH: LIGHT IN ISLAMIC ART AND CULTURE
The Qur'an makes rich references to light, tying it to revelation, and light consequently permeates the culture and visual arts of the Islamic lands.
THEATRUM ORBIS MMXVII: 57TH VENICE BIENNALE. RUSSIAN PAVILION
A complete account of the continually evolving Russian art scene, one of the liveliest in the world.
ARTISTS ON BRUCE NAUMAN
In the late 1960s, while still a recent graduate with scant means, artist Bruce Nauman (born 1941) explored a trio of interwoven subjects: the studio, the daily practice of making art and the role of the artist. He outlined the latter, for example, in a memorable neon sign, alongside more commercial counterparts affixed to the exterior of his building.
CHINESE WALLPAPER IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND
Chinese wallpaper has been an important element of European interior decoration for three hundred years. As trade between Europe and China flourished in the seventeenth century, Europeans developed a strong taste for Chinese art and design. The stunningly beautiful wall coverings now known as 'Chinese wallpaper' were developed by Chinese painting workshops in response to western demand.
DAVID HAMMONS/YVES KLEIN YVES KLEIN/DAVID HAMMONS
This volume offers a compelling examination of the surprising conceptual and visual correspondences between the works of these two pivotal artists known for their innovative practices. Klein (1928-1962) was a major figure in postwar art who opened up new possibilities for material, conceptual and performative expression, often touching on the metaphysical.
FRAGILE BEASTS COLORING BOOK
Discover hidden monsters, serpents and other beasts in this coloring book based on historical prints
KRZYSZTOF WODICZKO
Krzysztof Wodiczko's artistic projects stage a dynamic and vivid encounter between aesthetics, ethics and technology. For almost 40 years, the artist's powerful and extensive body of work has deployed contemporary technologies to engage with the problematics of alterity, social responsibility and urban experience.
ACTS OF ENGAGEMENT: WRITINGS ON ART, CRITICISM, AND INSTITUTIONS, 1993-2002
Acts of Engagement brings together writings spanning the extraordinarily eventful ten-year after the author left The New York Times, where he had been an art critic from 1982 to 1991. The writings fall into three broad areas: art, art criticism, and arts and cultural institutions.
VISIONARIES AND OUTCASTS: THE NEA, CONGRESS, AND THE PLACE OF THE VISUAL ARTIST IN AMERICA
Visionaries and Outcasts documents and analyzes, from hopeful creation to bitter end, the most ambitious experiment in artistic funding in American history. Through the creation of the National Endowment for the Arts in 1965, this country provided financial support for visual artists without exerting the stringent controls that patronage in the past required.
IK-00: THE SPACE OF CONFINEMENT
When art takes its inspiration from correctional facilities. This book is the result of an international collective project in which the artists were asked to reflect on the architecture of seclusion, in search of different ways of documenting the institutional spaces intended to punish and, at times, to improve the individuals by their separation from the rest of society.
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