Matisse and Decoration by John Klein
$89.99 AUD
Category: Art & Photography
A brand new look at the extremely beautiful, if underappreciated, later works of one of the most inventive artists of the 20th centuryBetween 1935 and his death at midcentury, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) undertook many decorative projects and commissions. These include mural paintings, stained glass, cera ...Show more
The Unicorn Tapestries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Adolfo Salvatore Cavallo
$43.99 AUD
Category: Art & Photography
The unicorn tapestries are one of the most popular attractions at The Cloisters, the medieval branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Traditionally known as The Hunt of the Unicorn, this set of seven exquisite and enigmatic tapestries was likely completed between 1495 and 1505. The imaginatively conc ...Show more
Surveying the Avant-Garde - Questions on Modernism, Art, and the Americas in Transatlantic Magazines by Lori Cole
$78.00 AUD
Category: Art & Photography | Series: Refiguring Modernism Ser.
Surveying the Avant-Garde examines the art and literature of the Americas in the early twentieth century through the lens of the questionnaire, a genre as central as the manifesto to the history of the avant-garde. Questions such as "How do you imagine Latin America?" and "What should American art be?" ...Show more
The Rural by Myvillages Myvillages
$74.99 AUD
Category: Art & Photography
An investigation through texts, interviews, and documentation of the complex relationship between the urban, the rural, and contemporary cultural production. What, and where, is "the Rural"? From the rocks that break a farmer's plough on a field in Japan to digital infrastructures that organize geograph ...Show more
Why Photography Matters by Jerry L. Thompson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art & Photography
Photography matters, writes Jerry Thompson, because of how it works -- not only as an artistic medium but also as a way of knowing. With this provocative observation, Thompson begins a wide-ranging and lucid meditation on why photography is unique among the picture-making arts. He constructs an argument ...Show more
Absence of Clutter - Minimal Writing As Art and Literature by Paul Stephens
$69.99 AUD
Category: Art & Photography
An exploration of minimal writing--texts generally shorter than a sentence--as complex, powerful literary and visual works. In the 1960s and 70s, minimal and conceptual artists stripped language down to its most basic components: the word and the letter. Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Carl Andre, Lawren ...Show more
Antonin Artaud - Drawings and Portraits by Paule Thévenin, Jacques Derrida
$102.99 AUD
Category: Art & Photography
Philosophical and biographical accounts of Antonin Artaud's late visual work, with many artworks reproduced in color.Antonin Artaud (1896-1948)--stage and film actor, director, writer, and visual artist--was a man of rage and genius. Expelled from the Surrealist movement for his refusal to renounce the ...Show more
Performing Image by Isobel Harbison
$76.00 AUD
Category: Art & Photography
An examination of how artists have combined performance and moving image for decades, anticipating our changing relation to images in the internet era. In Performing Image, Isobel Harbison examines how artists have combined performance and moving image in their work since the 1960s, and how this work a ...Show more
Working Conditions: The Writings of Hans Haacke by Hans Haacke
$79.00 AUD
Category: Art & Photography | Series: Writing Art
Hans Haacke's art articulates the interdependence of multiple elements. An artwork is not merely an object but is also its context -- the economic, social, and political conditions of the art world and the world at large. Among his best-known works are MoMA-Poll (1970), which polled museumgoers on their ...Show more
On the Eve of the Future - Selected Writings on Film by Annette Michelson by Annette Michelson; Rachel Churner
$79.99 AUD
$84.99 (5% off)
Category: Art & Photography | Series: October Bks.
The first collection of Annette Michelson's influential writings on film, with essays on work by Marcel Duchamp, Maya Deren, Hollis Frampton, Martha Rosler, and others. The celebrated critic and film scholar Annette Michelson saw the avant-garde filmmakers of the 1950s and 1960s as radically redefining ...Show more
Under Blue Cup by Rosalind E. Krauss
$59.99 AUD
Category: Art & Photography
In Under Blue Cup, Rosalind Krauss explores the relation of aesthetic mediums to memory--her own memory having been severely tested by a ruptured aneurysm that temporarily washed away much of her short-term memory. (The title, Under Blue Cup, comes from the legend on a flash card she used as a mnemonic ...Show more
Sound Art - Sound as a Medium of Art by Peter Weibel
$145.00 AUD
Category: Art & Photography
This milestone volume maps fifty years of artists' engagement with sound. Since the beginning of the new millennium, numerous historical and critical works have established Sound Art as an artistic genre in its own right, with an accepted genealogy that begins with Futurism, Dada, and Fluxus, as well as ...Show more