This book presents an overview of the development of sculpture by artists who were inspired by the goals and methods of Surrealism. Surrealist Sculpture delineates a dialogue between the two dominant modes of sculpture that evolved in tandem within the...

Book by Hunter, Sam

Fifty contemporary Cuban artists offer a plethora of depictions of the island's cultural landscape in this book highlighting the best current Cuban art. America's complicated relationship with Cuba has engendered a deep curiosity about the country and...

This book traces the phenomenon of ecstasy in art and cultural history.Accompanying an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart and Zentrum Paul Klee, this book illuminates the various spiritual, political, psychological, social, sexual, and aesthetic...

A companion to an exhibition inspired by the work of celebrated American painter and critic Manny Farber, this book explores Farber's concept of "Termite Art," an argument for the vital importance of art drawn from the everyday. "Termite Art," in...

This collection of sixteen large-scale paintings, commissioned 1975 by the East German government, holds a mirror up to the social and political aims of former East Germany before the onset of reunification.The Palace of the Republic was opened in 1976...

Tracing a remarkably varied career, this monograph on the painter David Diao follows his stylistic evolution--from abstraction to genre-defying and candid self-exploration. This book accompanies the first full-scale retrospective of David Diao's entire...

This richly illustrated book accompanies the first major museum survey of R. H. Quaytman's paintings. R. H. Quaytman's paintings are celebrated for their sumptuous beauty, complexity, and rigor. This book, the first museum publication to provide a...

In After the Revolution, the authors concluded that "The battles may not all have been won ...but barricades are gradually coming down, and work proceeds on all fronts in glorious profusion." Now, with The Reckoning, authors Eleanor Heartney, Helaine...

Art History & Studies, Italian Art & Studies, Medieval Studies

This expansive book commemorates the twentieth anniversary of the Neue Galerie New York and includes highlights of the museum’s collection.The Neue Galerie New York opened in November 2001, showcasing its collection of Austrian and German art from 1890...

The Situationist International were a group of anti-authoritarian, highly cultured, revolutionary artists whose energy and enragement fundamentally shaped the revolutions of the late 1960’s, most famously in Paris in May ‘68. They took on their shoulders...

Deconstruction and the Visual Arts brings together a series of new essays by scholars of aesthetics, art history and criticism, film, television and architecture. Working with the ideas of French philosopher Jacques Derrida, the essays explore the full...

In 1913, outraged by Henri Matisse's painterly violations of the female body, students of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago found him guilty of "artistic murder" and "rapine" and proceeded to burn in effigy three of his works, including the Blue...

A unique insight into South Africa’s history, from iconic pre-colonial artifacts to the country’s vibrant contemporary art sceneSouth African archaeology preserves some of the earliest evidence of artistic thought and production anywhere in the world...

The newest development in alternative art: the use of salvaged and repurposed materials by contemporary artists.Tristan Manco reveals how artists of all kinds are bringing creativity to basic, often unglamorous materials—from broken bottles, old...