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This publication accompanies a major new exhibition of Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates (b. 1973), focussing on his clay-based work, collaborative projects and large scale sculptures and installations since 2005. Gates' interdisciplinary practice draws on his training in both urban planning and pottery, resulting in work which aims to instigate the creation of cultural communities and the recirculation of art-world capital, all the time con...

The first accessible reader on magic's generative relationship with contemporary art practice.

Stephen Johnstone is a London-based artist and filmmaker and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Art at Goldsmiths College, London. Since 1993, he has worked collaboratively with Graham Ellard, and their film and video work has been exhibited in museums and galleries including the Centre Pompidou, Tate Liverpool, the Museum of Modern Art, Sydney, and the National Film Theatre, London

Charts the historical and theoretical evolution of the contemporary studio from a site for fabrication to a situation for thought and diverse forms of creativity.

Antony Hudek is Senior Lecturer at Liverpool School of Art and Design, Liverpool John Moores University. He is a translator of works by Jean-Fran¿s Lyotard, a writer on contemporary art, independent curator and co-publisher of Occasional Papers.

This is the first anthology to bring together key statements, dialogues and debates by artists and writers on art that have been building blocks of the latest era in painting's history.

Published to accompany the exhibition Miraculous beginnings held at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, October 16th 2010-January 6th 2011.

Considers how the rise of transdisciplinary practices in the postwar era allowed for new kinds of artistic engagement with nature.

Part of the acclaimed series of anthologies which document major themes and ideas in contemporary art. Indispensible guide to the art history and theoretical framework of art-as-practice, clarifying the complex issues at stake in thinking about and enacting practice.

Lucy Steeds is an editor of the Exhibition Histories series for Afterall Books and pathway leader in Exhibition Studies at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London.

Sexuality, edited by Amelia Jones critically surveys art's identification with desire, self-performance and self-representation via key texts by artists and theorists from the mid 20th century to the present.

Caleb Kelly is a New Zealand-born writer, curator and producer in the fields of experimental music, sound arts and performance. A lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, he is the author of Cracked Media: The Sound of Malfunction (The MIT Press, 2009).

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

In his introduction to this fascinating and timely anthology, Dave Beech tackles the politics of beauty, arguing with characteristic clarity that beauty is neither purely individual and subjective, nor is it entirely socially inscribed, rather it exists at the point of tension between the individual and society. It is thus political in the true sense because we can bring about changes in our perception of beauty. If, back in 1993, Dave Hickey ...

Part of the acclaimed series of anthologies which document major themes and ideas in contemporary art. This anthology explores the ethical, aesthetic and political significance of practices, positions and theories connected to health in contemporary art.

A brand new publication presenting a career of work by the respected British artist and film-maker John Akomfrah.This major new catalogue will document the exhibition of new and previous work by the acclaimed artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah (b. 1957, Accra, Ghana). Deftly layering archival and newly-filmed footage and sound, Akomfrah's ambitious, multi-channel installations investigate themes of post-colonialism, ecology, memory and history...

To celebrate its fiftieth birthday, this comprehensive new catalogue records the breadth of art held in the international Hiscox Collection, as seen through the eyes of two celebrated contemporary artists. Edited by Whitney Hintz and Laura Smith.Global insurer Hiscox have been collecting modern and contemporary art for fifty years, and their significant collection comprises 1000 works by international artists at the forefront of contemporary p...

Accompanying his first major retrospective in the UK, this beautifully-produced catalogue documents recent and new work by German-born artist Kai Althoff presented together with ceramics by Bernard Leach, selected by Althoff.

The last of four special publications to accompany a year-long display of works from Barcelona's "la Caixa" Collection at Whitechapel Gallery, selected by and featuring newly-commissioned fictional works by some of the most original English and Spanish-language writers working today. Established in Barcelona in 1985 by "la Caixa" Banking Foundation, the "la Caixa" Collection features over 1, 000 works of international contemporary art from the...

This timely publication, accompanying a brand new survey exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery, presents key works by some of the most exciting practitioners in current figurative painting.After a long period dominated by abstraction and conceptual approaches, painting saw a revival of figuration in the 1990s by artists whose work updated portraiture and history painting but remained rooted in the conventions of realism. However a new generation, ...