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The Interventionists: Users' Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life
by Nato Thompson  Publisher Comments Art made to attach to buildings or to be given away? Wearable art for street demonstrations or art that sets up a booth at a trade show? This is the art of the interventionists, who trespass into the everyday world to raise our awareness of injustice and...
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Art Now : Artists At the Rise of the New Millennium (05 Edition)
by Uta Grosenick Synopsis Contemporary art in a nutshell (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) This Art Now 25th anniversary special edition brings together recent work and biographical information for over 80 of today's most influential artists, forming a broad and...
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Big Eye Art: Resurrected and Transformed
by Toni Boozer Synopsis In the late 1950s, throughout the 1960s and into the 1970s, such artists as Margaret Keane. Gig and Maio created a new kind of mass-produced art known as 'big eye'. Now big-eye art has undergone a major revival, but with a twist the wide-eyed, endearing...
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Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories with CD (Audio)
by Alan Licht Publisher Comments Over the past century, an art form has emerged that draws from the worlds of visual art and music. Sound art's roots can be found in the experimental work of Italian Futurism, Dada, and later the Fluxus group and the pioneering efforts of the American...
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Contemporary Gothic (Reaktion Books - Focus on Contemporary Issues)
by Catherine Spooner Publisher Comments Modern Gothic culture alternately fascinates, horrifies, or bewilders many of us. We cringe at pictures of Marilyn Manson, cheer for Buffy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and try not to stare at the pierced and tattooed teens we pass on the streets. But...
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Land Art (Basic Art)
by Michael Lailach Synopsis The earth as canvas In the mid-60s, artists in the USA and Europe began planning works for sites outside the narrow boundaries of galleries and museums. It began with ephemeral enhancements or traces left in deserted landscapes, in the deserts of America,...
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New Art in the 60s and 70s: Redefining Reality
by Anne Rorimer Publisher Comments A detailed account of the conceptual art movement. New in paperback....
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Natural Architecture
by Alessandro Rocca Publisher Comments Never has the relationship between art and nature been more complicated and more fragile, but also richer and more fascinating. The artists and architects in Natural Architecture have transformed the act of building into an art form capable of sparking...
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Drawing Now: Eight Propositions
by Laura Hoptman Synopsis From John Currin's old-master-style Playboy bunnies to Elizabeth Peyton's finde-siecle portraits; from Julie Mehretu's dizzying, multilayered architectural landscapes to Shahzia Sikander's multipatterned miniature ones; from Yoshitomo Nara's angry and...
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Digital Art (03 Edition)
by Christiane Paul Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 219) and index....
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Illustration Now, Vol. 2
by Julius Wiedemann Synopsis Spanking new: A freshly-picked selection of today's hottest illustrators Following the success of Illustration Now!, this installment presents a completely new selection of 150 illustrators from all around the world. Whereas the first volume brought...
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New Material as New Media
by Marion Boult Stroud Publisher Comments From constructivist textile and clothing designs by Aleksandr Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova to the soft sculptures of Claes Oldenburg and Louise Bourgeois, twentieth century artists have looked to fabric and other materials to push artistic production...
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Eretica: The Transcendent and the Profane in Contemporary Art
by Demetrio Paparoni Synopsis Focusing on concepts of spirituality, "Heretics" looks at themes such as the contrast between good and evil, sacredness, and the relationship between eroticism, sex, and death in the production of forty contemporary artists, including Marina Abramovic...
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Modern Contemporary: Art at Moma Since 1980
by Kirk Varnedoe Synopsis In a lively panorama of stimulating juxtapositions, sequences, and cross references, this new edition of "Modern Contemporary provides a cornucopia of 590 works of key contemporary art (37 more than in the original edition). Thought-provoking page...
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Design and Art (Documents of Contemporary Art)
by Alex Coles Publisher Comments This reader in Whitechapel's Documents of Contemporary Art series investigates the interchange between art and design. Since the the Pop and Minimalist eras--as the work of artists ranging from Andy Warhol to Dan Graham demonstrates--the traditional...
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Plasticland
by Frank Jozik Publisher Comments The man credited with single-handedly reviving the concept of rock posters as an art form, Kozik was first exposed to the counterculture world of designer art toys on a trip to Japan in 1996. His collecting hobby soon mutated into a new profession, and...
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Blinking Out of Existence
by Yasmil Raymond Publisher Comments The Chicago-based artist Inigo Manglano-Ovalle is immersed in an ongoing, critical investigation of the diverse conditions, systems and histories that define and describe our existence. He digs deep, often collaborating with specialists in such fields as...
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Jackson 500 Volume 2
by Tim Biskup Synopsis With a fondness for mid-century graphic design, Japanese monsters, chaos and smoking dinosaurs, Tim Biskup has honed an infectious style. His surreal, dense, colorful paintings evoke Paul Klee, James Flora and Hieronymus Bosch, as well as animation...
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Art in the Twenty-First Century #04: Art: 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century 4
by Susan Sollins Publisher Comments Who are today's artists? Why do they do what they do? How do they describe their work? These are some of the questions addressed in this companion volume to the fourth season of the Emmy-nominated PBS series. Using the artists' own words, together with...
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Installations, Mattress Factory, 1990-1999
by Michael Olijnyk Publisher Comments Located on Pittsburgh's North Side, and internationally recognized for the quality of its artistic and educational programs, the Mattress Factory is one of the few museums in the world that focuses exclusively on installation art. Installations is an...
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