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How aesthetics-understood as a more encompassing framework for human activity-might become the primary discourse for political and social engagement.These essays make the case for …

An illustrated examination of Philip Guston's comic and complex painting The Studio.Throughout his career, Philip Guston's work metamorphosed from figural to abstract and back to …

Focusing on the Anglophone Caribbean, The Making of a Caribbean Avant-Garde describes the rise and gradual consolidation of the visual arts avant-garde, which came to local and …

The first English-language monograph devoted to the full oeuvre of Alexander Kluge, the prolific German filmmaker, television producer, digital entrepreneur, author, thinker, and …

This book explores the complex and enigmatic motif of hair in the work of five contemporary women artists, Chrystl Rijkeboer, Alice Maher, Annegret Soltau, Kathy Prendergast and …

Selections from Gabriel Orozco's notebooks: sketches, photographs, and texts that offer a rare look inside his art-making process.Written Matter presents selections from the …

Drawing on unpublished documents and oral histories, an illustrated examination of an iconic artwork of an artist who has made a lifework of tactical evasion.One wintry day in …

Essays, an interview, and a roundtable discussion on the work of one of the most influential American artists of the postwar period.This October Files volume gathers essays, an …

Regarding the Popular charts the complex relationship between the avant-gardes and modernisms on the one hand and popular culture on the other. Covering (neo-)avant-gardists and …

The rise of the exhibition as critical form and artistic medium, from Robert Smithson's antimodernist non-sites in 1968 to today's institutional gravitation toward the …