Most popular Art & design styles: Postmodernism books

Writings by the conceptual artist Michael Asher-including notes, proposals, exhibition statements, and letters to curators and critics-most published here for the first time.

Video and performance artist Anne Walsh's encounter with and multipart response to surrealist painter Leonora Carrington's novel The Hearing Trumpet.

An investigation of different uses for the architectural model through history-as sign, souvenir, funerary object, didactic tool, medium for design, and architect's muse.

Essays, project plans, and correspondence from across Nam Jun Paik's career, much of it previously out of print or unpublished.

An illustrated examination of Mark Leckey's celebrated video montage.

Investigating the entanglement of industry, politics, culture, and economics at the frontier of ocean excavations through an innovative union of art and science.

As public interest in modern art continues to grow, 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 its history. This book does just that.

Essential texts on the work of the influential artist Michael Snow: essays and interviews spanning more than four decades.

Reclaiming the artist Ana Mendieta as a formally innovative maker of performative art who forged connections to the marginalized around the world.

The first in-depth publication on the artist Pieter Schoolwerth's practice.

An argument for the centrality of the visual culture of waste-as seen in works by international contemporary artists-to the study of our ecological condition.

Three nails for J. Robert Oppenheimer, more than half a century after the Manhattan Project.

This generously illustrated book is the first comprehensive monograph on the contemporary artist Nairy Baghramian, whose work focuses on interior design.

An illustrated examination of Glenn Ligon's iconic Untitled (I Am a Man) (1988)-a quotation, an appropriated text turned into an artifact.

How art makes visible what had been invisible-the effects of radiation, the lives of atomic bomb survivors, and the politics of the atomic age.

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

This book will transform the way you think about design by showing how integral it is to our daily lives, from the spoon we use to eat our breakfast cereal to the medical equipment used to save lives. John Heskett goes beyond style and taste to look at how different cultures and individuals personalise objects.

An examination of a 1970s Conceptual art project-advertisements for fictional shows by fictional artists in a fictional gallery-that hoodwinked the New York art world.

Essential texts on the work of Bruce Nauman, spanning the five decades of the artist's career.

Texts and images document the disconnection between modernity and ecological crisis: do we need to reset modernity's operating system?

Artists, filmmakers, art historians, poets, literary critics, anthropologists, theorists, and others, investigate one of the most vital areas of cultural practice: documentary.

An art-historical reassessment of information-based art and exhibition curation, from 1960s conceptualism to current digital and network-based practices.

The emergence of contemporary art, engaging widely with other disciplines, as a platform for exploring animal nature.

Twentieth-century architect Frederick Kiesler's innovative multidisciplinary practice responded to the ever-changing needs of the body in motion, anticipating the research-oriented practices of contemporary art and architecture.

How product design criticism has rescued some products from the trash and consigned others to the landfill.

"The Off-Modern charts a fresh path beyond the categories of modernism and postmodernism, center and periphery, artistic theory and practice"--

An illustrated exploration of Girlfriends (1965/66), one of Sigmar Polke's important early paintings.

An examination of telepresence technologies through the lens of contemporary artistic experiments, from early video art through current "drone vision" works.

This first book from the Marciano Art Foundation offers an in-depth look at one of the world's premier private collections of contemporary art and celebrates its dynamic new public home in Los Angeles.

Essays, research, and art projects that formulate a Tidalectic worldview, addressing our most threatened ecosystem: the oceans.

Essential texts on the work of Bruce Nauman, spanning the five decades of the artist's career.

Texts-including essays, reviews, and statements by the artist-on the work of Sherrie Levine.

Andy Warhol's daily practice of photography during the last decade of his life, examined and documented for the first time.

An autobiography in pictures: photographs taken by Ai Weiwei that capture his emergence as the uniquely provocative artist that he is today.

How record albums and their covers delivered mood music, lifestyle advice, global sounds, and travel tips to midcentury Americans who longed to be modern.

A cultural and philosophical history of neon, from Paris in the twentieth century to the perpetually switched-on present day.

Working through the issue of representation, in art forms from fiction to photography, Linda Hutcheon sets out postmodernism's highly political challenge to the dominant ideologies of the western world.

Examines the career of New York-based artist Sherrie Levine, whose 1981 series of photographs "after Walker Evans" - taken from Evans' famous depression-era documents of rural Alabama - became central examples in theorizing postmodernism in the visual arts in the 1980s.

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.

A theoretically informed investigation that relates the philosophies of aesthetics and imagination to understanding design practice.

Essays and interviews that examine the work of an artist whose witty, poignant, and trenchant photographs investigate the life cycle of art objects.

Madness and Modernism provides a phenomenological study of schizophrenic disorders, criticizing some standard conceptions of these disorders. Sass argues that many aspects of this group of disorders can actually involve more sophisticated (albeit dysfunctional) forms of mind and experience.

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.

A beautiful, new, luxurious notebook from Flame Tree. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, the covers are printed on foil in five colours, embossed then foil stamped. And they're powerfully practical: a pocket at the back for receipts and scraps, two bookmarks and a solid magnetic side flap.

An unprecedented meeting of philosophical thought, financial markets, and the art world.

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 participatory.

The role of design in the formation of the Silicon Valley ecosystem of innovation.