Set up in 1984, The Turner Prize remains one of the best-known visual arts prizes. The prize is awarded to an artist for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the preceding year.
An accessible introduction to the work of one of the most controversial contemporary art duos. Includes over 100 illustrations and new interviews with the artists, and is the first book to examine the Chapmans' career in its entirety. They have frequently challenged the boundaries of taste, and have often caused controversy.
Pablo Ruiz Picasso was the most prolific artist in the history of Western art. Born in 1881 in Malaga, southern Spain, he spent almost all of his productive life in France, dying in Mougins in 1973. This guide provides the essential information on the artist's work and career.
Accessible guide to contemporary sculpture, placing it in an art historical context. Looks at the possibilities of the medium and the way it is being explored by international artists today, discussing the work of over 200 artists and illustrated throughout.
With 100 colour illustrations, this is an extensive overview of the American artist's career, from the 1950s onwards. Includes a new interview with Ruscha.
First reader to gather together critical reactions to the moving image in contemporary art. Includes seminal historical texts as well as newly commissioned essays.
A celebration of the rich diversity of queer visual culture from 1900 to the present day. Includes a range of artists from Egon Schiele and Romaine Brooks to Allyson Mitchell.
This Way, That Way is an endlessly inventive and interactive flip-and fold book, sure to entertain and intrigue. Simple smiling circles, rectangles and triangles explode into a riot of colour and shape as each page is folded or flipped. As you fold, unfold, flip, twist and layer the pages, colour and shape come together in striking and unexpected ways, creating cheeky, cheerful characters. Young hands will delight in transforming flat pages an...
Offering coverage ranging from Impressionism to the Harlem Renaissance, from Cezanne to Post modernism, this book presents an introduction to modern art.
Best known for designing the cover of The Beatles' album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, " British artist Blake now turns his attention to the alphabet in this clever ABC illustrated with found objects and ephemera collected over his long career. Full color.
Through the detailed analysis of the materials, techniques and working practices of the artists, this illustrated book examines how Pre-Rapharlite pictures compel the viewer to see more than traditional painting styles.
Ever since Dick Bruna created Miffy in 1955, she has endeared herself to generations of young children and has become one of the best-loved childrens book characters of all time. In this charming new addition to the Miffy story, Miffy takes inspiration from a visit to an art museum and decides to become an artist herself. Looking at the colors and shapes of the world around her she discovers what fun it can be to make pictures of the things sh...
Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) is one of the most influential artists at work today. His painting "September, " a response to the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, was made some four years after the event. The eminent American critic and curator Robert Storr, who has had a long working relationship with Richter, explores both the painting and the event itself, through a very personal account of his experience in New York on t...
Through an array of posters, photographs, paintings, magazines, book jackets, advertisements, pamphlets and other rare ephemera, this book tells the story of the Soviet Union, from the Russian Revolution to the death of Stalin
Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Nam June Paik, held at the Museum Kunst Palast, D'usseldorf, Sept. 11-November 21, 2010 and the Tate Liverpool, Dec. 17, 2010-March 13, 2011.
Soccer is the most popular sport in the world. Deep down, do you have that dream that maybe one day your child could be a champion? Whether you're a veteran soccer parent, well versed in the rules and regulations of the world's sport, or a rookie just trying to survive, David Novis's helpful guide, How to Succeed as a Soccer Parent, will answer all your questions and even help you relearn what you think you already know. This instruction manua...
This work examines the ways in which the term "Postmodernism" has been used and abused within the contemporary art world. It explores the paradox at the heart of Postmodernism and considers some of the texts that were integral in its development.