Most popular Art & design styles: Postmodernism books

Examines many of Basquiat's individual works in detail, with particular reference to his working methods and techniques. This unabridged compact edition of a critically acclaimed book, features spectacular reproductions of Basquiat's work.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

The first digital turn in architecture changed our ways of making; the second changes our ways of thinking.

A comprehensive and authoritative publication on one of the most popular periods of international design and decorative arts.

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 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 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.

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.

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

Alfred Neumann is regarded as one of Israel's most significant architects, and this is the first comprehensive critical overview of his built and unbuilt work, his theories and methodology.

How the couch became an icon of self-knowledge and self-reflection as well as a site for pleasure, transgression, and healing.