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Cosmos: from romanticism to the avantgarde, 1801-2001
Hardback. English.
Published
Munich; London: Prestel, 1999
Cosmos emphasises the need for artists to interpret the realm of outer space as photography depicts the farthest objects visible to man. The book celebrates...
The artist's joke
Paperback. English.
Published
London: Whitechapel, 2007
'The Artist's Joke' surveys the use of humour in art, from the early 20th-century avant garde to the present, and features writings by and interviews...
After modern art, 1945-2000
Paperback. English.
Published
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000
This title sets out to provide a concise interpretation of the period 1945 to 2000. Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, and Damien Hirst are...
New media art
Paperback. English.
Published
Köln; London: Taschen, c2006
The authors address new media art as a specific art historical movement, focusing on technologies and forms, plus thematic content and conceptual strategies...
Art and death
Paperback. English.
Published
London: I. B. Tauris, 2008
This text looks closely at the way contemporary Western artists negotiate death, both as personal experience and in the wider community. Townsend discusses...
Art and sex
Paperback. English.
Published
London: I. B. Tauris, 2008
This 'no-holds barred' book surveys the vast array of images of sex and sexuality in contemporary art, finding sex in some surprising places and drawing...
Art today
Hardback. English.
Published
London: Phaidon, 1995
This is a lucid, authoritative and richly illustrated survey of movements in world art since 1960. The author's central argument is that the art world...
The story of contemporary art
Hardback. English.
Published
London: Thames and Hudson, 2020
A lively introduction to and history of international contemporary art from 1960 to the present
Art and obscenity
Paperback. English.
Published
London: I. B. Tauris, 2007
Explicit material is more widely available in the internet age, yet the concept of 'obscenity' remains as difficult to pin down as it is to approach without...
Contemporary art and memory: images of recollection and remembrance
Paperback. English.
Published
London: I. B. Tauris, 2007
Joan Gibbons explores the subject of memory as it appears in its many guises in contemporary art. Looking at both personal and public memory, Gibbons...
