American eagle

A bold expression of a fledgling republic’s aspirations and bravado, the American bald eagle has been designed, drawn, illustrated, stamped, engraved, painted, sculpted, carved, photographed, and etched by thousands of artists and artisans since 1782, when it first appeared as the central figure ...

The eye

An art adventure story that exposes readers to a secret, high-stakes profession involving masterpieces, massive amounts of money and an intense love of painting.

Shapes of apocalypse

This collective volume aims to highlight the philosophical and literary idea of apocalypse within key examples in the Slavic world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From Russian realism to avant-garde painting, from the classic fiction of the nineteenth century to twentieth-century p...

If venice dies

A passionate, eloquent plea to save the soul of the world's greatest architectural treasures.

Take care of your self

Artist Sundus Abdul Hadi’s reflections on self-care as a community act depicts care as crucial to creating a just society.

Confronting catastrophes

This exhibition catalog presents a collaborative work of Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, scholar and artist, and the key Ukrainian and Jewish writers, art scholars, politicians, educators, journalists, and poets.

Eternal

Following the worldwide success of Momentary, we are proud to present this second illustration artwork collection from Ilya Kuvshinov.This book collects over 300 new artworks that the artist posted on social media, which were created after Momentary was published. This collection book also includ...

Palette perfect for graphic designers and illustrators

The second book in the best-selling Palette Perfect series focuses on the inventive use of color in design and illustration, and is both a practical guide and an inspirational book that proposes a reflection on the universe of color combinations, organized by colors and moods associated with the ...

Future tempos

Under the banner of concern

An introspective collection of drawings and poems from artist and musician Tim Presley.

Decorative japanese painting

Geometry, simplicity, play

Human flow

A powerful portrait of the greatest humanitarian emergency of our time, from the director of Human FlowIn the course of making Human Flow, his epic feature documentary about the global refugee crisis, the artist Ai Weiwei and his collaborators interviewed more than 600 refugees, aid workers, poli...

Vivan sundaram is not a photographer

Belonging to a generation of figurative artists that emerged from the Baroda School in the early 1960s, Vivan Sundaram has consistently and passionately engaged with the historical and political particularities of his own position as a subject in India and in the world at large. Ruth Rosengarten ...

K.b. goel

The Delhi-based art critic K. B. Goel (1930–2018) wrote on art from the late 1950s to the 90s, his career broadly coinciding with the modernist period. This annotated volume seeks to bring together Goel’s major writings, accompanied by a critical introduction that draws attention to his framework...

A cry of despair

This book showcases and provides context for Danylo Movchan’s art in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The cultures of entanglement

This book examines the symbolic meaning of plants, their relevance and how culture and they are something more than passive objects.

Everyday architecture in context

Everyday Architecture in Context goes through the growth and governance of colonial Hong Kong by tracing the past and present of public markets as a study of extensive first-hand historical materials.

Caring infrastructures

Theories and methods for transforming the arts through feminist care ethics, fostering support and equity for art workers and caregivers.

Maria lassnig

Maria Lassnig (1919–2014) is internationally recognized as one of the most important painters of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This publication provides the first comprehensive index of Lassnig’s film works, offering insight into the filmmaker’s world of ideas through a wide selection...

Perpetual slavery

This essay investigates the relationship of art to freedom in two bodies of work by contemporary artists working in the United States, Cameron Rowland and Ralph Lemon.

Grain & noise – artists in synthetic biology labs

Collaboration between scientists and artists in the form of Artist-in-Lab residencies may not only cause a productive disturbance for a day's work in the laboratory, but also reveal new ways of understanding.

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.

Vivan sundaram: history project

This book is an intensive reconsideration of the very first site-specific installation staged in India. Vivan Sundaram, one of India's most innovative artists, located his History Project, marking fifty years of Indian independence, in a hugely visited and popular public institution, the Victoria...

Presence, process, and the pictorial real

Today, painting has lost its dominant position and has become one artistic medium among others. This book offers a variety of perspectives on the role of painting in the twenty-first century, discussing whether and how painting is still pertinent to contemporary image production.

Dimensions. journal of architectural knowledge

The contributors to this issue show how making architecture may be understood as a way of thinking.

Pictorial appearing

The proliferation of digital technology has changed our visual perception and the way we interpret terms such as 'representation', 'immersion', and 'virtuality'.Kresimir Purgar examines some of the topics fundamental to an understanding of the contemporary culture of images. The principal thesis ...

Listen up!

Listen Up is the first publication to consider American radio art as a distinct sound art practice. Analytical essays by leading media historians and practitioners discuss how the field took shape in the context of changing broadcast environments, while manifestos and other documents provide glim...

Ways of knowing cities

Ways of Knowing Cities considers the role of technology in generating, materializing, and contesting urban epistemologies—from ubiquitous sites of “smart” urbanism to discrete struggles over infrastructural governance to forgotten histories of segregation now naturalized in urban algorithms to ex...

I must have a great inner life

This book will prove an indispensable companion to a major figure in the cultural life of the last century.

Icons on ammo boxes

This book has come out of the art project "Icons on Lids of Ammunition Boxes", initiated and led by Sofiia (Sonya) Atlantova and Oleksandr Klymenko.

Creative resistance

During the uprisings of the Arab Spring, oppositional movements used political humor to criticize political leaders or to expose the absurdities of sociopolitical conditions. This comprehensive study of political humor in the uprisings explores the varieties and functions of humor as a creative t...

The darkest corners

The Darkest Corners documents and explores sculptures by Lena Marie Emrich and an eponymous exhibition.

Salon salon

Salon, Salon explores Beijing’s art scene in the decade from the late Cultural Revolution to the beginning of the Reform and Opening-up period. It focuses on the continuous influence of the ideological structure of socialist realism on the practice and discourse of contemporary Chinese art.

Form follows fever

Form Follows Fever is the first in-depth account of the turbulent years of initial urban settlement and growth of colonial Hong Kong across the 1840s.

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.

The ordinary

Organized around conversations with the authors of three seminal texts that document the city—Rem Koolhaas on Delirious New York, Denise Scott Brown on Learning from Las Vegas, and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto on Made in Tokyo—this volume traces the history of “books on cities.”

Scratches and glitches

Scratches and Glitches is a collection of essays that attempt to make sense of the changes-in-progress in the domain of preserving and exhibiting film in the early the twenty-first century in the wider context of cultural history, focusing on the responsibility of film archives and museums as gua...

Design with nature now

In 1969, Ian McHarg’s seminal book Design with Nature set forth a new vision for regional planning using natural systems. To celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, a team of landscape architects and planners from PennDesign have showcased some of the most advanced ecological design projects in the w...

Nostalgia for the future

Demonizing modernist art as a symptom of the corruption of German culture was a standard trope in National Socialist propaganda. Gregory Maertz’s pioneering research unearths the persistence of recognizable modernist styles in painting and sculpture produced under the patronage of the Nazi Party,...

Preservation and social inclusion

The field of historic preservation is becoming more socially and culturally inclusive, through more diversity in the profession and enhanced community engagement. Bringing together a broad range of practitioners, this book documents historic preservation’s progress toward inclusivity and explores...

Bio-art

The book discusses the divide between human and non-human animals, between culture and nature.

Aeropolis

Aeropolis proposes that air is thought of as a city, to center its social, cultural, political, ecological entanglements.

Superpowers of scale

Andrés Jaque and the Office for Political Innovation bring new subjects into the fold of architecture. Documenting a series of performances, research projects, installations, films, characters, and exhibitions, Superpowers of Scale demonstrates the breadth of architectural knowledge and its possi...

When was modernism

A commitment to modernity is the underlying theme of this volume. Through interpretive and theoretical essays, Geeta Kapur seeks to situate the modern in contemporary cultural practice. The essays here propose resistance to the depoliticization of narratives and affirm an open-ended engagement wi...