Konst- & designstilar: postmodernism

An illustrated examination of Mark Leckey's celebrated video montage.In 1999, the British artist Mark Leckey released his video-montage Fiorucci made me Hardcore, a dreamscape …

The first sustained examination of a canonical and widely exhibited work by a leading artist of the former Yugoslavia. In Sanja Ivekovic's Triangle (Trokut, 1979), four …

An illustrated exploration of Girlfriends (1965/66), one of Sigmar Polke's important early paintings.The artist Sigmar Polke (1941-2010) worked across a broad range of …

A book without words, recounting a day in the life of an office worker, told completely in the symbols, icons, and logos of modern life. Twenty years ago I made Book from the Sky, …

Manifestos and immodest proposals from China's most famous artist and activist, culled from his popular blog, shut down by Chinese authorities in 2009.In 2006, even though he could …

Winner of the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize 2023“I am Jugoslovenka” argues that queer-feminist artistic and political resistance were paradoxically enabled by socialist Yugoslavia’s …

Close readings of ostensibly "blank" works-from unprinted pages to silent music-that point to a new understanding of media.In No Medium, Craig Dworkin looks at works that are …

Drawing on unpublished documents and oral histories, an illustrated examination of an iconic artwork of an artist who has made a lifework of tactical evasion.One wintry day in …

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARCHITECTURAL BOOK AWARDS 2026 A major new photographic survey of Scotland’s post-war architecture by acclaimed photographer of Modernist buildings, Simon …

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 …