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A critical reader on art, democracy and resistance today
This volume of essays by leading international philosophers, cultural theoreticians and art historians offers new ideas and practices for resistance today…
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Isabelle Graw
A study of how the rhetoric of painting remains omnipresent in the field of art.
Today, the art world is not dominated by a small group of insiders. According to Graw, the art economy has been transformed from a retail business into an industry that…
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I Stand, I Fall, a survey of the work of John Miller (born 1954), is published to coincide with the first US museum exhibition dedicated to the influential conceptual artist.
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Examinations of Francis Ponge’s texts on Jean Fautrier’s Hostage Paintings, Jack Whitten’s Memorial Paintings, and Banksy’s auction stunt Love is in the Bin.This book contains three case studies on very…
A diaristic novel on contemporary friendship and its importance.
Isabelle Graw’s latest book reflects on the purposes and struggles of friendship in competitive social milieus. By focusing on her own…
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A critical investigation of Adam Pendleton's deep engagement with abstraction.
Adam Pendleton's exploration of abstraction-through painting, drawing, screen printing, sculpture, language, book arts, and film-over the past five years constitutes…
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Christian Rattemeyer,Isabelle Graw
Formed by Harvey S Shipley Miller, trustee of the Judith Rothschild Foundation, and given to MoMA in 2005, The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection was conceived to be a…
This is the first monograph on the work of Michele Abeles (born 1977), an artist based in New York who works primarily with photographic imagery. Through numerous color images and…
Blending memoir and social critique, elegantly written essays explore a world that feels different, from Brexit and Trump to #MeToo and the death of parents.This book merges memoir and social…
The Value of Critique casts its gaze on the two dominant modes of passing judgment in art-critique and value (or evaluation). The act of critique has long held sway in…
Painting has demonstrated remarkable perseverance in the expanding field of contemporary art and the surrounding ecology of media images. It appears, however, to have dispelled its own once-uncontested material basis…
Daniel Birnbaum,Isabelle Graw,George Baker,Andre Rottmann,Johanna Burton
Canvases and Careers Today brings together contributions from the eponymous conference organized by the Institut f r Kunstkritik, Frankfurt am Main. Its goal is to provide deeper insights and more…
Exploring the resurgent interest in painting and the proliferation of new digital media in recent years, this generously illustrated book explores how painting has been influenced by new media.
Isabelle Graw,Ewa Lajer-burcharth,David Joselit,Jutta Koether,Jacqueline Lichtenstein
In response to recent developments in pictorial practice and critical discourse, Painting beyond Itself- The Medium in the Post-medium Condition seeks new ways to approach and historicize the question of…
Nancy Spector,Nat Trotman
Paying tribute to an artistic partnership of more than 30 years, this richly illustrated book explores Peter Fischli and David Weiss’s acclaimed and influential body of work, known for its…
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Scott Rothkopf
A fresh and engaging look at the controversial work of Jeff Koons, with insightful analyses and illustrations of all of his iconic pieces alongside preparatory works and historical photographs
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Edited by Christian Rattemeyer. Text by Conne Butler, Gary Garrels, Scott Gerson, Isabelle Graw, Martin Herbert, Manfred Hermes, Harvey S. Shipley Miller, Christian Rattemeyer, Brian Sholis, Jan Tumlir..
Well-known art historians from Europe and the Americas discuss the influence of conceptualism on art since the 1970s.
Roberto Conduru,Katja Gentric,Isabelle Graw,El Hadji Malick Ndiaye,Kathleen Rahn
A groundswell of complex events around the globe have made discussion surrounding the Western Eurocentric, often prejudiced notion of ‘Blackness’ even more relevant and controversial in recent years. This publication…
