The Postsocialist Contemporary

Octavian Esanu

• Hardcover | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• The postsocialist contemporary joins a growing body of scholarship debating the definition and nature of contemporary art. It comes to these debates f... Lees meer

Colouring the Caribbean

Mia L Bagneris

• Paperback | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• Colouring the Caribbean offers the first comprehensive study of Agostino Brunias's intriguing pictures of colonial West Indians of colour - so called ... Lees meer

The 'Do-It-Yourself' Artwork

• Paperback | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• Viewers of contemporary art are often invited to involve themselves actively in artworks, by entering installations, touching objects, performing inst... Lees meer

Otherwise

• Paperback | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• Otherwise: Imagining queer feminist art histories is the first book to address queer feminist politics, methods and theories in relation to the visual... Lees meer

Transmodern

Christian Kravagna

• Hardcover | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• How can we reconfigure our picture of modern art after the postcolonial turn without simply adding regional art histories to the Eurocentric canon? Tr... 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 volume presents the first comprehensive academic study of the history and development of performance art in the former communist countries of Cen... Lees meer

Transcultural Things and the Spectre of Orientalism in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania

Tomasz Grusiecki

• Hardcover | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• Transcultural things examines four sets of artefacts from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: maps pointing to Poland-Lithuania's roots in the suppose... 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

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

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, 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

There Is No Soundtrack

Ming-Yuen S Ma

• Paperback | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• There is no soundtrack is a study of how sound and image produce meaning in contemporary experimental media art by artists ranging from Chantal Akerma... Lees meer

Staging Art and Chineseness

Jane Chin Davidson

• Paperback | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• This book addresses the politics of borders in the era of global art by exploring the identification of Chinese artists by location and exhibition. Fo... Lees meer

Women, the Arts and Globalization

• Hardcover | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• Women, the arts and globalization: Eccentric experience is the first anthology to bring transnational feminist theory and criticism together with wome... Lees meer

Productive Failure

Alpesh Kantilal Patel

• Paperback | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• This title sets out to write new transnational South Asian art histories - to make visible histories of artworks that remain marginalised within the d... 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 Political Aesthetics of the Armenian Avant-Garde

Angela Harutyunyan

• Paperback | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• This book addresses late-Soviet and post-Soviet art in Armenia in the context of turbulent transformations from the late 1980s to 2004. It explores th... 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 Ecological Eye

Andrew Patrizio

• Hardcover | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• In the popular imagination, art history remains steeped in outmoded notions of tradition, material value and elitism. How can we awaken, define and or... Lees meer

Fleshing Out Surfaces

Mechthild Fend

• Hardcover | Engels | Rethinking Art's Histories
• Fleshing out surfaces is the first English-language book on skin and flesh tones in art. It considers flesh and skin in art theory, image making and m... 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
• Shanghai, long known as mainland China's most cosmopolitan city, is today a global cultural capital. This book offers the first in-depth examination o... 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