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After the red army faction
Analyzing the afterimage of revolutionary violence in contemporary culture and politics.Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany’s 1968 Generation and the Holocaust
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After uniqueness
A historical-conceptual perspective on the concept of "the political"
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Agnes martin – transcultural translations
How is Agnes Martin’s work shaped by Asianist aesthetics? Redefining Postwar American Art through transcultural translation.
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Art and posthistory
From the 1990s until just before his death, the legendary art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto carried out extended conversations about contemporary art with the prominent Italian critic Demetrio Paparoni. Art and Posthistory presents these rich dialogues and correspondence, testifying to t...
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Art intelligence
Jan Svenungsson investigates what AI might do for art, and what it might change, circling the core issue of what it is in human art-making that cannot be replaced.
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Assemblages of belonging
Showing the ways in which Ndebele women in South Africa engage tradition-based art to navigate identity, history and the present.
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Audiovisual disruption
Pedro Ferreira examines aesthetics in contemporary audiovisual arts as reactions to our post-digital condition.
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Bachelor japanists
Challenging clichés of Japanism as a feminine taste, Bachelor Japanists argues that Japanese aesthetics were central to contests over the meanings of masculinity in the West. Christopher Reed draws attention to the queerness of Japanist communities of writers, collectors, curators, and artists be...
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Black lives under nazism
This groundbreaking book explores a range of largely overlooked literary and artistic works that challenge the invisibility of Black wartime history.
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Chinese thirdspace
This wide-ranging and theoretically rich book examines how a diverse set of Chinese intellectuals carved out in-between spaces beyond the poles of competing ideologies for greater openness, multiplicity, and pluralism.
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Collected writings
This collection brings together three interrelated volumes by Michael Fried, one of the most influential and distinguished scholars currently at work in the humanities
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Conversations
Ai Weiwei is one of the world’s most acclaimed artists and dissidents. This book presents him in conversation with theorists, critics, journalists, and curators about key moments in his life and career.These wide-ranging conversations flow between topics such as his relationship with China, the m...
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De-globalizing the art world
This book examines documenta fifteen (2022) as a turning point in global art politics, from ruangrupa’s Indonesian lumbung model to Palestinian cultural infrastructures. It traces how debates over collectivity, decolonization, and memory politics reveal the contradictions of globalization, financ...
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Dreaming of cinema
Video games, YouTube channels, Blu-ray discs, and other forms of "new" media have made theatrical cinema seem "old." A sense of "cinema lost" has accompanied the ascent of digital media, and many worry film's capacity to record the real is fundamentally changing. Yet the Surrealist movement never...
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Empty action
Marina Gerber analyzes Collective Actions, one of the most significant artistic practices to emerge from Moscow Conceptualism, in relation to labor in the late Soviet Union. She explores the relations among their jobs, their individual art practices, and their contributions in the context of post...
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Éric rohmer
Éric Rohmer set the terms by which people watched, made, and thought about cinema for decades. This definitive biography vividly captures Rohmer’s life and achievements. Antoine de Baecque and Noël Herpe detail Rohmer’s close communication with his contemporaries and competitors as well as his vo...
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Essays on art and science
This book presents essays by Eric R. Kandel. They vary widely in subject matter, but each essay focuses on the interaction of art and science.
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Form and feeling
Winner, 2022 Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show in the Scholarly Illustrated CategoryA significant contribution on the development and aftermath of post–World War II Concretism in BrazilForm and Feeling features a collection of essays by noted scholars exploring the ...
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Hardware and eco-feminist art
A venture to build feminist hardware art made from unconventional materials according to ecofeminist principles of care and consent.
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Images and objects of russia's war against ukraine
How do art, infrastructures, material culture, and media respond to and contest the Russo-Ukrainian War?
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Imperfect solidarities
Aruna D’Souza draws from current events and contemporary art to suggest that a feeling of understanding or closeness based on emotional attachment fails to generate solidarity.
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In the maze of media
Internationally renowned scholars, curators, and artists gathered in the present volume map and interrogate this intimate nexus by forging diverse pathways through the political force fields, technological milieus, and ecological environments in which both art and media are situated and interwove...
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Industry and intelligence
The conceptual artist Liam Gillick writes a genealogy of contemporary art, arguing that we need to appreciate its engagement with history. He takes a broad view of artistic creation from 1820 to today, underscoring the industry and intelligence of artists as they have responded to incremental dev...
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Lasting impressions
Jesse Matz considers its two legacies—positive and negative—to explain impressionism’s true contemporary significance.
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Left bank of the hudson
In the late 1980s, a handful of artists priced out of Manhattan and desperately needing affordable studio space discovered 111 1st Street, a former P. Lorillard Tobacco Company warehouse. Over the next two decades, an eclectic collection of painters, sculptors, musicians, photographers, filmmaker...
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Love, joe
This book presents a selection of Joe Brainard’s letters stretching from 1959 to 1993, offering an intimate view of his personal and artistic life.
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Many-valued aesthetics
Hauke Ohls brings Mary Bauermeister's central groups of works in context with each other as well as with the neo-avant-garde of the post-war period in Europe and the USA.
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Maya deren
Maya Deren (1917–1961) was a Russian-born American filmmaker, theorist, poet, and photographer working at the forefront of the American avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Influenced by Jean Cocteau and Marcel Duchamp, she is best known for her seminal film Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), a dream...
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On slowness
A counterintuitive take on the deceleration of time and its function in contemporary art and culture.
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Oswald mathias ungers and rem koolhaas
Lara Schrijver examines the work of Oswald Mathias Ungers and Rem Koolhaas as an intellectual legacy of the 1970s that can provide a foundation for recalibrating architecture today.for architecture today. Their work provides room for interpreting social conditions and disciplinary formal developm...
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Politics of visual arts in a changing world
Bringing together artists, scholars, activists, and museum professionals from varied fields and backgrounds, this book explores the intersections between visual art and social movements during the last tumultuous decade.
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Reductionism in art and brain science
The Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel shows how science can inform the way we experience a work of art and seek to understand its meaning. He illustrates how reductionism—distillation of larger scientific or aesthetic concepts into smaller components—has been used by scientists an...
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Refiguring the spiritual
Mark C. Taylor provocatively claims that contemporary art has lost its way. With the art market now mirroring the art of finance, many artists create works solely for the purpose of luring investors and inspiring trade among hedge funds and private equity firms. When art is commodified, corporati...
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Robert rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg is a work of collaborative oral biography that tells the story of one of the twentieth century’s great artists through a series of interviews with key figures in his life—family, friends, former lovers, professional associates, studio assistants, and collaborators.
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Signs of our times
Signs of Our Times: From Calligraphy to Calligraffiti covers six decades of an art trend led by artists from the Arab world and Iran. Starting in the early 1950s, this alternative and original approach to modernism began with artists who took inspiration from their own cultural sources and combin...
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The crisis of ugliness
An essential text in the history of Marxist art theory, available in English for the first time
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The long roots of formalism in brazil
The present studies on Brazilian modern art seek to specify some of the dominant contradictions of capitalism’s combined but uneven development as these appear from the global ‘periphery’.
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The melville effect
Charting how a vast variety of writers, filmmakers, and artists channel Herman Melville, Joseph Allen Boone offers new insights into the author, his works, and his many legacies.
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The met
New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s greatest cultural institutions. Its holdings encompass a vast range—including paintings, sculptures, costumes, instruments, and arms and armor—and span millennia, from ancient Egypt and Greece to Islamic art to European Old Masters ...
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The politics and poetics of cinematic realism
Casts the evolution of cinema as an ongoing struggle to relate audiences to their historical moment.
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Transitional territories
Ayse Güngör investigates art practices between art and anthropology in Turkey, as well as the implications of contemporary art for those disciplines.
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What will be already exists
How do artist archives survive and stay authentic in radically changed contexts? The volume addresses the challenge of continuity, sustainability, and institutionalization of archives established by Eastern European artists. At its center is the Artpool Art Research Center founded in 1979 in Buda...
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