Destruction Rites

Mona Hadler

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art
• In the early sixties, crowds gathered to watch rites of destruction - from the demolition derby where makeshift cars crashed into each other for sport... Lees meer

After Modernist Painting

Craig Staff

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art | nr. 3
• Painting has often been declared dead since the 1960s and yet it refuses to die. Even the status and continued legitimacy of the medium has been repea... Lees meer

Art and the Home

Imogen Racz

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art
• Our homes contain us, but they are also within us. They can represent places to be ourselves, to recollect childhood memories, or to withdraw into adu... Lees meer

Interactive Contemporary Art

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art
• Audience participation has polarized recent debates about contemporary art. This collection of essays sheds new light on the political, ethical and ae... Lees meer

3D Warhol

Thomas Morgan Evans

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art
• Rain machines; alarmed kosher pickle jars filled with gemstones; replica corn flakes boxes; 'disco decor'; time capsules; art bombs; birthday presents... Lees meer

Art and the Home

Imogen Racz

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art
• Our homes contain us, but they are also within us. They can represent places to be ourselves, to recollect childhood memories, or to withdraw into adu... Lees meer

Art and Emergency

Emilia Terracciano

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art
• During states of emergency, normal rules and rights are suspended, and force can often prevail. In these precarious intervals, when the human potentia... Lees meer

Art as Enterprise

Grace McQuilten, Anthony White

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art
• Art is produced, circulated, consumed and disseminated within an economic system - it depends on money for its creation, for the livelihood of its mak... Lees meer

New York New Wave

Kathy Battista

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art
• New York is a centre of creative production for an exciting, emerging generation of women artists. Their work investigates themes such as the body as ... Lees meer

Space and Time in Artistic Practice and Aesthetics

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art
• When the Enlightenment thinker Gotthold Ephraim Lessing wrote his treatise Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry in 1766, he outlined... Lees meer

Socially Engaged Art After Socialism

Izabel Galliera

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art
• Reclaiming public life from the ideologies of both communist regimes and neoliberalism, their projects have harnessed the politically subversive poten... Lees meer

Visions of the Human

Tom Slevin

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art
• In what ways do the artistic avant-garde's representations of the human body reflect the catastrophe of World War I? The European modernists were insp... Lees meer

Feminism and Art History Now

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art
• To what extent have developments in global politics, artworld institutions, and local cultures reshaped the critical directions of feminist art histor... Lees meer

Monochrome

Craig Staff

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art
• The monochrome - a single colour of paint applied over the entirety of a canvas - remains one of the more contentious modernist artistic inventions. B... Lees meer

Queering Post-Black Art

Derek Conrad Murray

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art
• What impact do sexual politics and queer identities have on the understanding of 'blackness' as a set of visual, cultural and intellectual concerns? I... Lees meer

Time to Play

Katarzyna Zimna

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art
• Play art' or interactive art is becoming a central concept in the contemporary art world, disrupting the traditional role of passive observance usuall... Lees meer

Touching and Imagining An Introduction to Tactile Art

Jan Svankmajer

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art | nr. 1
• Jan Svankmajer wrote this remarkable book on tactile art when he stopped directing films and experimented intensively with tactile art after repeated ... Lees meer

Sabotage Art

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art
• Sabotage is the deliberate disruption of a dominant system, be it political, military or economic. Yet in recent decades, sabotage has also become an ... Lees meer

Contemporary Art from the Middle East

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art
• How is home-grown contemporary art viewed within the Middle East? And is it understood differently outside the region? What is liable to be lost when ... Lees meer

The Participator in Contemporary Art

Kaija Kaitavuori

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art
• The early twenty-first century has seen contemporary art make continued use of audience participation, in which the spectator becomes part of the artw... Lees meer

Material Inventions

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art
• The measurement of the significance and 'impact' of research is absolutely paramount in today's academic world - as evidenced by the recent introducti... Lees meer

New York New Wave

Kathy Battista

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art
• New York is a centre of creative production for an exciting, emerging generation of women artists. Their work investigates themes such as the body as ... Lees meer

Inside the Freud Museums

Joanne Morra

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art
• Sigmund Freud spent the final year of his life at 20 Maresfield Gardens, London, surrounded by all his possessions, in exile from the Nazis. The long-... Lees meer

Encounters Beyond the Gallery

Renate Dohmen

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art
• Encounters Beyond the Gallery challenges the terms of their exclusion, looking to relational art, Deleuze-Guattarean aesthetics and notions of percept... Lees meer