In "The Museological Unconscious", Victor Tupitsyn views the history of Russian contemporary art through a distinctly Russian lens, a 'communal optic' that registers the ...
Buckminster Fuller's fame reached its peak in the 1960s and 1970s, when his visionary experiments struck a chord with the counterculture and his charismatic ...
This volume, which accompanies a major retrospective organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, offers the first comprehensive survey of Graham's work. ...
Sherry Turkle´s examination of simulation over the past twenty years is followed by four in-depth investigations of contemporany simulation culture: space exploration, oceanography, architecture ...
Eyeglasses have been transformed from medical necessity to fashion accessory. This revolution has come about through embracing the design culture of the fashion industry. ...
In this first book-length study of Robert Ryman, Suzanne Hudson traces the artist's production from his first paintings in the early 1950s, many of ...
Emblematic of modernity, the grid gives form to everything from skyscrapers and office cubicles to Mondrian paintings and bits of computer code. And yet, ...
Roy Lichtenstein's popular appeal'and his influence on pop culture, seen in everything from greeting cards to sitcoms'at times overshadows his importance to contemporary art. ...
In the vibrant downtown Manhattan art scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Taiwanese-American artist Tehching Hsieh made an exceptional series of ...
In re: skin, scholars, essayists and short story writers offer their perspectives on skin'as boundary and surface, as metaphor and physical reality. The twenty-first ...
Birksted's "Le Corbusier and the Occult" traces the structure of Le Corbusier's brand of modernist spatial and architectural ideas based on startling new documents ...
This volume traces the dynamic first years of the Situationist International movement'a cultural avant-garde that continues to inspire new generations of artists, theorists, and ...
In her expressionistic drawings and paintings of the last three decades, acclaimed South African artist Marlene Dumas has focused on the human figure, probing ...
