The Postsocialist Contemporary

Octavian Esanu

• Hardcover | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• This book engages with the historical paradigm of 'contemporary art' by examining a programme initiated in Eastern Europe by the Hungarian-American bi... Lees meer

Colouring the Caribbean

Mia L Bagneris

• Paperback | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• The first monographic study of the painter Agostino Brunias, this book offers a compelling, original analysis of his representation of race in the Bri... Lees meer

The 'Do-It-Yourself' Artwork

• Paperback | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• Spanning a range of practices including kinetic art, happenings, environments, performance, installations, relational and new media art from the 1950s... Lees meer

Otherwise

• Paperback | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• A crucial resource for specialists and students seeking to enrich their understanding of the relationship between gender politics and visual culture. Lees meer

Transmodern

Christian Kravagna

• Hardcover | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• Transmodern examines the global dimension of modern art by tracing the crossroads of modernisms in Asia, Europe and the Americas. It explores path-bre... Lees meer

Counterpractice

Rakhee Balaram

• Hardcover | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• Counterpractice highlights a generation of women who used art to define a culture of experimental thought and practice during the period of the French... Lees meer

Performance Art in Eastern Europe Since 1960

Amy Bryzgel

• Paperback | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• This is the first comprehensive academic study of the history of performance art in Eastern Europe. It is a comparative study that covers twenty-one c... Lees meer

After-Affects After-Images

Griselda Pollock

• Paperback | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• In closely-read case studies, we encounter artworks by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Ana Mendieta, Louise Bourgeois, Alina Szapocznikow, Anna Maria Maiolino, ... Lees meer

Engendering an Avant-Garde

Leah Modigliani

• Hardcover | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• Engendering an avant-garde is the first book to comprehensively examine the origins of Vancouver photo-conceptualism in its regional context between 1... Lees meer

Art and Migration

• Hardcover | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• This collection offers a response to the view that migration disrupts national heritage. Investigating the mediation provided by migrant art, it asks ... Lees meer

Art, museums and touch

Fiona Candlin

• Hardcover | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• Art, museums and touch' examines conceptions and uses of touch within arts museums and art history. Candlin deftly weaves archival material and contem... Lees meer

Staging Art and Chineseness

Jane Chin Davidson

• Paperback | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• Questioning what the term 'Chinese art' means in the era of global art, this book situates Chinese contemporary art in the matrix of global exposition... Lees meer

Productive Failure

Alpesh Kantilal Patel

• Paperback | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• This monograph provides novel methods for writing transnational South Asian art history outside of genealogy. Lees meer

Women, the Arts and Globalization

• Hardcover | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• This book brings transnational feminist theory and criticism together with women's art practices to discuss the connections between aesthetics, gender... Lees meer

There Is No Soundtrack

Ming-Yuen S Ma

• Paperback | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• There is no soundtrack amplifies new and radical audio-visual relationships in experimental media art. It addresses the lack of diversity in the study... Lees meer

"I Am Jugoslovenka!"

Jasmina Tumbas

• Paperback | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• Winner of the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize 2023 "I am Jugoslovenka" argues that queer-feminist artistic and political resistance were paradoxically ena... Lees meer

The Political Aesthetics of the Armenian Avant-Garde

Angela Harutyunyan

• Paperback | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• Sheds light on artistic production and the emergence of contemporary art in Armenia from the ruins of the socialist utopian project and the failure to... Lees meer

Bound Together

Andy Campbell

• Paperback | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• What are the archives of gay and lesbian leather histories, and how have contemporary artists mined these archives to create a queer politics of the p... Lees meer

The Ecological Eye

Andrew Patrizio

• Hardcover | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• This book synthesises a variety of approaches to the visual, drawn from politics, theory, feminism and activism, in order to provide the blueprint for... Lees meer

Fleshing Out Surfaces

Mechthild Fend

• Hardcover | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• A strong and insightful work which argues that skin is not just any surface an artist can represent, but a highly overdetermined one. Focusing on five... Lees meer

Addressing the Other Woman

Kimberly Lamm

• Hardcover | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• This book analyses how three artists - Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero and Mary Kelly - worked with the visual dimensions of language in the 1960s and 1970s... Lees meer

Above Sea

Jenny Lin

• Hardcover | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• A counter-touristic guide to one of the world's fastest developing megacities, this book intervenes in global contemporary art discourse by exploring ... Lees meer

The 'do-It-Yourself' Artwork

• Hardcover | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• What happens when you touch or enter an artwork instead of looking at it? As artists since the 1950s have increasingly sought to involve viewers more ... Lees meer

Art + Archive

Sara Callahan

• Hardcover | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• Art + Archive examines how and why the archive became a hot topic in the artworld at the turn of the twenty-first century. The book connects the artwo... Lees meer