Arabicity: Contemporary Arab Art (Issa Rose)(Paperback)

Arabicity: Contemporary Arab Art (Issa Rose)(Paperback)

Beautifully produced volume, including over 200 artworks by more than 35 contemporary Arab artists, whose ground-breaking works reflect the pulse of

Understanding Arabs, 6th Edition: A Contemporary Guide to Arab Society (Nydell Margaret K.)(Paperback)

The definitive guide to understanding Arab culture for three decades. For nearly three decades, diplomats, students, business people and governments have relied on Dr. Margaret Nydell's seminal work as the essential guide to comprehending an immensely varied culture. Covering all aspects of Arab

Samuel Beckett and Contemporary Art(Paperback / softback)

How to Write about Contemporary Art (Williams Gilda)(Paperback)

How to Write About Contemporary Art is the definitive guide to writing engagingly about the art of our time. Invaluable for students, arts professionals and other aspiring writers, the book first navigates readers through the key elements of style and content, from the aims and structure of a piece

A History of Arab Graphic Design (Shehab Bahia)(Paperback)

PROSE Award Winner, Art History & Criticism The first-ever book-length history of Arab graphic design Arab graphic design emerged in the early twentieth century out of a need to influence, and give expression to, the far-reaching economic, social, and political changes that were taking place in

Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction (Stallabrass Julian)(Paperback)

Contemporary art has never been so popular - but the art world is changing. In a landscape of increasing globalization there is growing interest in questions over the nature of contemporary art today, and the identity of who is controlling its future. In the midst of this, contemporary art

Interactive Contemporary Art: Participation in Practice (Brown Kathryn)(Paperback)

Audience participation has polarized recent debates about contemporary art. This collection of essays sheds new light on the political, ethical and aesthetic potential of participatory artworks and tests the very latest theoretical approaches to this subject. Internationally renowned art

What's Next?: Eco Materialism and Contemporary Art (Weintraub Linda)(Paperback)

By paying tribute to matter, materiality and materialisation, the examples of contemporary art assembled in What's Next? Eco Materialism and Contemporary Art challenge the social, cultural and ethical norms that prevailed in the twentieth century. This significant frontier of contemporary culture

Weapons of the Viking Warrior (Williams Gareth)(Paperback)

Drawing upon contemporary literary and historical accounts from the North Atlantic to the Arab world, surviving examples of weapons and armor, and practical experimentation and reconstructions by modern weapon-smiths and re-enactors, Weapons of the Viking Warrior casts new light on how Viking

Plays from the Arab World (Dodgson Elyse)(Paperback)

A collection of five extraordinary plays exploring and reflecting contemporary life across the Near East and North Africa. Includes Withdrawal by Mohammad Al Attar (Syria), 603 by Imad Farajin (Palestine), Damage by Kamal Khalladi (Morocco), The House by Arz Khodr (Lebanon), and Egyptian Products

Contemporary African Art: Second Edition (Kasfir Sidney Littlefield)(Paperback)

Contemporary African art has grown out of the diverse histories and cultural heritage of the African continent and its diaspora. It is not characterized by one particular style, technique, or theme, but by a bricolage-like attitude toward art making, incorporating and building upon the structures

The Photograph as Contemporary Art (Cotton Charlotte)(Paperback)

In the twenty-first century, photography has come of age as a contemporary art form. Almost two centuries after photographic technology was first invented, the art world has fully embraced it as a legitimate medium, equal in status to painting and sculpture. The Photograph as Contemporary Art

Arab-Islamic Philosophy: A Contemporary Critique (Al-Jabri)(Paperback)

The distinguished Moroccan philosopher Mohammed Abed al-Jabri, in this summary of his own work, examines the status of Arab thought in the late twentieth century. Al-Jabri rejects what he calls the current polarization of Arab thought between an imported modernism that disregards Arab tradition and

Rosa Luxemburg (Frlich Paul)(Paperback)

The definitive partisan biography of Rosa Luxemburg, as only a contemporary and comrade could know

Art/Commons: Anthropology Beyond Capitalism (Mollona Massimiliano)(Paperback)

Art/Commons is the first book to theorise the commons from the perspectives of contemporary art history and anthropology, focusing on the ongoing tensions between art and capitalism. This study is grounded in an analysis of contemporary artistic and curatorial practices, which the author describes

Contemporary Cinema and the Philosophy of Iris Murdoch (Bolton Lucy)(Paperback)

Opens a dialogue between contemporary film and Iris Murdoch's thinking on art, goodness and existentialism Iris Murdoch was not only one of post-war Britain's most celebrated and prolific novelists - she was also an influential philosopher, whose work was concerned with the question of the good and

An Arab Melancholia (Taia Abdellah)(Paperback)

After Modern Art: 1945-2017 (Hopkins David)(Paperback)

Contemporary art can be baffling and beautiful, provocative and disturbing. This pioneering book presents a new look at the controversial period between 1945 and 2015, when art and its traditional forms were called into question. It focuses on the relationship between American and European art, and

Bound Together: Leather, sex, archives, and contemporary art (Campbell Andy)(Paperback)

This book examines US gay and lesbian leather archives alongside contemporary artistic practices that reframe and renegotiate historical source material, creating a queer politics of the

Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art (Buszek Maria Elena)(Paperback)

Contemporary artists such as Ghada Amer and Clare Twomey have gained international reputations for work that transforms ordinary craft media and processes into extraordinary conceptual art, from Amer's monumental stitched paintings to Twomey's large, ceramics-based installations. Despite the amount

The Posthuman (Braidotti Rosi)(Paperback)

The Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman. Digital 'second life', genetically modified food, advanced prosthetics, robotics and reproductive technologies are familiar facets of our globally linked and technologically mediated

Korean Eye 2020: Contemporary Korean Art (Ciclitira Serenella)(Paperback)

Emerging Korean artists featured in the 2020 annual Korean Eye exhibitionFounded by art historian Serenella Ciclitira in 2008, Korean Eye internationally promotes Korean contemporary art through a series of exhibitions. The catalog for the 2020 traveling exhibition presents works by emerging Korean

Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life (Kaprow Allan)(Paperback)

Allan Kaprow's 'happenings' and 'environments' were the precursors to contemporary performance art, and his essays are some of the most thoughtful, provocative, and influential of his generation. His sustained inquiry into the paradoxical relationship of art to life and into the nature of meaning

Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction (Carroll Nol)(Paperback)

Philosophy of Art is a textbook for undergraduate students interested in the topic of philosophical aesthetics.It introduces the techniques of analytic philosophy as well as key topics such as the representational theory of art, formalism, neo-formalism, aesthetic theories of art,