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  • Entering the Picture

    Judy Chicago, The Fresno Feminist Art Program, and the Collective Visions of Women Artists

    Edited by Jill Fields ...
    Series series New Directions in American History
    In 1970, Judy Chicago and fifteen students founded the groundbreaking Feminist Art Program (FAP) at Fresno State. Drawing upon the consciousness-raising techniques of the women's liberation movement, they created shocking new art forms depicting female experiences. Collaborative work and performance art – including the famous "Cunt Cheerleaders" – were program hallmarks. Moving to Los Angeles, the ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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  • New Art City

    Manhattan at Mid-Century

    by Jed Perl ...
    In this landmark work, Jed Perl captures the excitement of a generation of legendary artists–Jackson Pollack, Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauschenberg, and Ellsworth Kelly among them–who came to New York, mingled in its lofts and bars, and revolutionized American art. In a continuously arresting narrative, Perl also portrays such less well known figures as the galvanic teacher Hans Hofmann, the lyric ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard

    by Joe Brainard ...
    Discover the works of Joe Brainard, whose quirky style earned him a reputation as a “recognizable American phenomenon” and “oddball classicist”—with a foreword by 4321 author Paul Auster (John Ashbery)An artist associated with the New York School of poets, Joe Brainard (1942-1994) was a wonderful writer whose one-of-a-kind autobiographical work I Remember has had a wide and growing influence. It ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Art Prophets

    The Artists, Dealers, and Tastemakers Who Shook the Art World

    by Richard Polsky ...
    In The Art Prophets, Richard Polsky introduces us to influential late twentieth-century dealers and tastemakers in the art world. These risk takers opened doors for artists, identified new movements, and resurrected art forms that had fallen into obscurity. In this distinctive tour, Polsky offers an insightful and engaging dialog between artists and the visionaries who paved their way.Table of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Hélène Cixous, Rootprints

    Memory and Life Writing

    by Mireille Calle-Gruber, Hélène Cixous ...
    Helene Cixous is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant and innovative contemporary thinkers. Published here in English for the first time Helene Cixous, Rootprints is an ideal introduction to Cixous's theory and her fiction, tracing her development as a writer and intellectual whose remarkable prespicacity and electrifying poetic force are known world-wide.Unprecedented in its form and content ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Art Since 1989 (World of Art)

    by Kelly Grovier ...
    Series Book 0 - World of Art
    An extensive, accessible guide to the most groundbreaking and influential art from 1989 to the presentThe years since the collapse of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 have seen the rise of a new freedom to define art—Who makes it? Where can it be found? What is its commercial value?—and, consequently, the reevaluation of art’s place in society.Kelly Grovier surveys the dynamic developments in art ... Read more

    $13.89 USD

  • Seeing Power

    Art and Activism in the Twenty-first Century

    by Nato Thompson ...
    In our chaotic world of co-opted imagery, does art still have power?A fog of images andinformation permeates the world nowadays: from advertising, television, radio, and film to the glut produced by the new economy and the rise of social media . . . where even our friends suddenly seem to be selling us the ultimate product: themselves.Here, Nato Thompson—one of the country’s most celebrated young ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Playing to the Gallery

    Helping Contemporary Art in Its Struggle to Be Understood

    by Grayson Perry ...
    Grayson Perry’s book will overturn everything you thought you knew about “art”Now Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art (after all, there is a reason he’s called this book Playing to the Gallery and not Sucking Up to the Academic Elite). This funny, personal journey through the art world answers the basic questions that ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Imagining Resistance

    Visual Culture and Activism in Canada

    Edited by J. Keri Cronin, Kirsty Robertson ...
    Series series Cultural Studies
    Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada offers two separate but interconnected strategies for reading alternative culture in Canada from the 1940s through to the present: first, a history of radical artistic practice in Canada and, second, a collection of eleven essays that focus on a range of institutions, artists, events, and actions. The history of radical practice is spread ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Art in America 1945-1970 (LOA #259)

    Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism

    by Various ...
    Experience the creative explosion that transformed American art—in the words of the artists, writers, and critics who were thereIn the quarter century after the end of World War II, a new generation of painters, sculptors, and photographers transformed the face of American art and shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New York. Signaled by the triumph of abstraction and the ascendancy ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Taste of Art

    Cooking, Food, and Counterculture in Contemporary Practices

    Edited by Silvia Bottinelli, Margherita d’Ayala Valva ...
    Series series Food and Foodways
    The Taste of Art offers a sample of scholarly essays that examine the role of food in Western contemporary art practices. The contributors are scholars from a range of disciplines, including art history, philosophy, film studies, and history. As a whole, the volume illustrates how artists engage with food as matter and process in order to explore alternative aesthetic strategies and indicate ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Dream Colony

    A Life in Art

    by Mr. Walter Hopps, Deborah Treisman, Anne Doran ...
    Art Forum's Best of the Year ListA panoramic look at art in America in the second half of the twentieth century, through the eyes of the visionary curator who helped shape it.An innovative, iconoclastic curator of contemporary art, Walter Hopps founded his first gallery in L.A. at the age of twenty-one. At twenty-four, he opened the Ferus Gallery with then-unknown artist Edward Kienholz, where he ... Read more

    $14.49 USD