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  • Playing at Home

    The House in Contemporary Art

    by Gill Perry ...
    Series series Art since the 80s
    ‘There’s no place like home’; ‘safe as houses’; ‘home is where the heart is’: ideas of the house and home are rich in cultural clichés and contradictory meanings. Playing at Home explores the different ways in which artists have engaged with this popular everyday theme – from ‘broken homes’ to haunted houses, doll’s houses, mobile homes and greenhouses. The book considers how issues of gender, ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

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  • Modern Art

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Cottington ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    As public interest in modern art continues to grow, as witnessed by the spectacular success of Tate Modern and the Bilbao Guggenheim, there is a real need for a book that will engage general readers, offering them not only information and ideas about modern art, but also explaining its contemporary relevance and history. This book achieves all this and focuses on interrogating the idea of 'modern' ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Yayoi Kusama

    Infinity Mirror Room - Phalli's Field

    by Jo Applin ...
    Series series Afterall Books / One Work
    A study of Kusama's era-defining work, a “sublime, miraculous field of phalluses,” against the background of abstraction, eroticism, sexuality, and softness.Almost a half-century after Yayoi Kusama debuted her landmark installation Infinity Mirror Room—Phalli's Field (1965) in New York, the work remains challenging and unclassifiable. Shifting between the Pop-like and the Surreal, the Minimal and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Story of Post-Modernism

    Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture

    by Charles Jencks ...
    In The Story of Post-Modernism, Charles Jencks, the authority on Post-Modern architecture and culture, provides the defining account of Post-Modern architecture from its earliest roots in the early 60s to the present day. By breaking the narrative into seven distinct chapters, which are both chronological and overlapping, Jencks charts the ebb and flow of the movement, the peaks and troughs of ... Read more

    $35.00 USD

  • Landscape Theory

    Edited by Rachel DeLue, James Elkins ...
    Series series The Art Seminar
    Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology, yet there has been little consensus about how to understand the relationship between landscape and art. This book brings together more than fifty scholars from these multiple disciplines to establish new ways of thinking about landscape in art. ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Representing Landscape Architecture

    Edited by Marc Treib ...
    Representing Landscape Architecture offers a broad investigation of how the designed landscape is and has been represented: for design study, for criticism and even for its realization.It has been said that we can only realize what we can imagine. But in order to realize we must convey ideas to others as well as to ourselves. Representation is by no means neutral and the process of communication, ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Critical Architecture

    Edited by Jane Rendell, Jonathan Hill, Mark Dorrian, Murray Fraser ...
    Series series Critiques
    Critical Architecture examines the relationship between critical practice in architecture and architectural criticism. Placing architecture in an interdisciplinary context, the book explores architectural criticism with reference to modes of criticism in other disciplines - specifically art criticism - and considers how critical practice in architecture operates through a number of different modes ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Contemporary Art and Memory

    Images of Recollection and Remembrance

    by Joan Gibbons ...
    Whether exploring the intimate recollections which make up the artist's own life history or questioning the way the gallery and museum present public memory, contemporary art, it would seem, is haunted by the past. "Contemporary Art and Memory" is the first accessible survey book to explore the subject of memory as it appears in its many guises in contemporary art. Looking at both personal and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Drawing

    The Motive Force of Architecture

    by Sir Peter Cook ...
    Series series Architectural Design Primer
    DrawingThe Motive Force of ArchitectureFocusing on the creative and inventive significance of drawing for architecture, this book by one of its greatest proponents, Peter Cook, is an established classic. It exudes Cook’s delight and his wide-ranging, catholic tastes for the architectural. Readers are provided with perceptive insights at every turn. The book features some of the greatest and most ... Read more

    $36.00 USD

  • After Modern Art

    1945-2017

    by David Hopkins ...
    Series series Oxford History of Art
    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 challenges previously held views about the origins of some of the most innovative ideas in art of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • To Design Landscape

    Art, Nature & Utility

    by Catherine Dee ...
    To Design Landscape sets out a distinctively practical philosophy of design, in accessible format. Based on the notion that landscape design is a form-based craft addressing environmental processes and utility, Dee establishes a framework for approaching such craft with modesty and ingenuity, using the concept of "aesthetics of thrift".Employing numerous case studies-as diverse as Hellerup Rose ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Doing Museology Differently

    by Duncan Grewcock ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Museum Studies
    One might believe that museum studies is a stable field of academic inquiry based on a set of familiar institutional forms and functions. But as institutions museums have never been stable or singular, and neither has the discipline of museum studies. Museum studies as a field of academic inquiry has received little critical attention. One result of this neglect has arguably been a lack of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD