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Out of print for more than 25 years, this classic parable by Bishop and McCloskey is back. When a man discovers he has lost his head, he tries several substitutions, including a pumpkin, a parsnip, and a piece of wood. Illustrations.

How technology and the attention economy has impacted contemporary art

The award-winning, highly acclaimed Artificial Hells is the first historical and theoretical overview of socially engaged participatory art, known in the US as "social practice." In recent decades, the art gallery and the museum have become a place for participatory art, where an audience is encouraged to take part in the artwork. This has been heralded as a revolutionary practise that can promote new emancipatory social relations. What was it...

This title explores the desire to move viewers out of the role of passive observers and into the role of producers.

L'avvenire del museo pubblico non è mai parso più a rischio: più che rappresentare gli interessi diversificati della collettività, nella maggior parte dei casi esso è ridotto a veicolo di promozione per eventi blockbuster e di tutela dei privilegi dei privati, dando vita a templi dello svago e dell'evasione incapaci di cogliere l'attuale momento storico nella sua globalità. Salvo qualche felice quanto rara eccezione. In questo breve saggio, Cl...

Empty Zones: Andrei Monastyrski and 'Collective Actions' is the first book to document the work of Russian Conceptual artist Andrei Monastyrski and his collaborative practice since the 1970s.

Twenty school children hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis occupying France during World War II.

The classic story about five clever brothers, each with a different extraordinary ability is "a dramatic retelling of an old Chinese tale." (The New York Public Library)." . . . when Bishop makes the tall brother stretch, the sea-swallower work, or the robust one hold his breath, young children will laugh and laugh."--"New York Herald Tribune Books." Full color.

A searing critique of participatory art by an iconoclastic art historian.

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It's bad news when you wake up in the morning and find you've lost your head, especially if it's an especially agreeable and handsome head, but there you go, such things happen. In any case, the man who loses his head in The Man Who Lost His Head isn't about to grin (that is, if he could grin) and bear it. No, he'll make himself a new one, and starting with a pumpkin and moving on to a parsnip and finally picking up a block of wood, he sets ab...

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Provides an essential overview of this important, often misunderstood strand of contemporary art. It discusses the history and key artists.

A powerful look at an unforgettable era in history"If we take these children, we can never betray them, no matter what the Nazis do." During the German occupation of France, twenty French children were brought to a refuge in the mountains. One day a young man came to their school with a request: Could they take in, and hide, ten Jewish refugee children? Sister Gabriel spoke up. "The Nazis are looking for those children. If we take them we must...

The classic picture book about five clever brothers, each with a different extraordinary ability, has been in print for almost 80 years. "An original nonsense tale told with...spirit and gusto." -- The Horn Book

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