Art : History

This is a study devoted to a generation of Mexican artists who have had enormous international success. It focuses on "tendencies" in their work that Ruben Gallo has identified as being prominent: orientalism, perversion and a fascination with urban culture. more...

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From Purism to Postmodernism, from Glasgow Boys to Guerilla Girls, and from David Hockney to Damien Hirst, this is the most useful reference work on twentieth-century art ever published in a single volume. Authoritative and accessible, it makes generous use of anecdotes and has clear explanations of many potentially confusing terms. more...

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This ground-breaking work draws upon the authors interviews with leading postmodern artists, including Baudrillard, Beckett, Cage and Glass. It offers a challenging and positive view of postmodern culture. more...

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Performance artist Linda Montano, curious about the influence childhood experience has on adult work, invited other performance artists to consider how early events associated with sex, food, money/fame, or death/ritual resurfaced in their later work. more...

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Beginning in 1912 when Marcel Duchamp wrote in a note to himself, “No more painting, get a job,” Thierry de Duve reviews the implications of the readymade for art. Arguing that the readymade belongs to that moment in the history of painting when both figuration and the practice of painting become “impossible,” de Duve presents a psychoanalytically informed account of the birth of abstraction. more...

Price: $69.00