This title summarises the major art movements since the beginning of the 20th century. It considers contemporary art movements, to explore whether they...
Revised and restructured, this second edition of Modern Art traces the historical and contemporary contexts for understanding modern art movements, and...
What do new technologies taste like? A growing number of contemporary artists are working with food, live materials and scientific processes, in order...
An integrated account of today's contemporary art world that features original articles by leading international art historians, critics, curators, and...
Contemporary art is incresingly concerned with swaying the opinions of its viewier. To do so, the art employs various strategies to convey a political...
This book explores the fusion of myth, history and geography which leads to ideas of primitivism, and looks at their construction, interpretation and...
Video art dominates the international art world to such an extent that its heady days on the radical fringes are sometimes overlooked often unknown. Video...
Psychoanalysis and the Image brings together an influential team of international scholars who demonstrate innovative ways to apply psychoanalytical resources...
This text looks closely at the way contemporary Western artists negotiate death, both as personal experience and in the wider community. Townsend discusses...
Where, how, by whom and for what were the first museums of contemporary art created? These are the key questions addressed by J. Pedro Lorente in this...