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Dance - Whitechapel Series by Andre Lepecki
41.95 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art
This collection surveys the choreographic turn in the artistic imagination from the 1950s onwards, and in doing so outlines the philosophies of movement instrumental to the development of experimental dance. By introducing and discussing the concepts of embodiment and corporeality, choreopolitics, and t ...Show more
Hans Ulrich Obrist - A Brief History of New Music by Lionel Bovier
24.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Documents
Following the success of Hans Ulrich Obrist's "A Brief History of Curating," this publication gathers the influential curator's interviews with some of the foremost musicians and composers of the 1950s-1990s. It brings together leading avant-garde composers of the early postwar period such as Elliot Car ...Show more
Magic - Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art by Jamie Sutcliffe
35.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Documents of Contemporary Art Ser.
From the hexing of presidents to a renewed interest in herbalism and atavistic forms of self-care, magic has furnished the contemporary imagination with mysterious and complex bodies of arcane thought and practice. This volume brings together writings by artists, magicians, historians, and theorists tha ...Show more
Memory - Whitechapel Series by Ian Farr
59.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art
This anthology investigates the turn in art not only towards archives and histories, the relics of modernities past, but toward the phenomena, in themselves, of "haunting" and the activation of memory. It looks at a wide array of artistic relationships to memory association, repetition and reappearance, ...Show more
Modern Sculpture - Artists in Their Own Words by Douglas Dreishpoon (Editor)
57.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Documents of Twentieth-Century Art Ser.
This tapestry of primary sources is an essential primer on sculpture and its makers. Modern Sculpture presents a selection of manifestos, documents, statements, articles, and interviews from more than ninety sculptors, including a diverse selection of contemporary sculptors. With this book, editor Dougl ...Show more
Oceans - Whitechapel Series by Pandora Syperek (Editor); Sarah Wade (Editor)
39.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Documents of Contemporary Art Ser.
OCEANS attends to the inextricable human and nonhuman agencies that affect and are affected by the oceans and their running currents within contemporary art and visual culture. Oceans cover more than 70 percent of the Earth's surface, dividing and connecting humans, who carry saltwater in their blood, s ...Show more
Philip Guston by Philip Guston
53.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Documents of Twentieth-Century Art
This is the premier collection of dialogues, talks, and writings by Philip Guston (1913-1980), one of the most intellectually adventurous and poetically gifted of modern painters. Over the course of his life, Guston's wide reading in literature and philosophy deepened his commitment to his art - from hi ...Show more
Pocket Philadelphia 1 by Lonely Planet Publications Staff; Simon Richmond
19.99 AUD
Category: Guidebooks | Series: New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity Ser.
Lonely Planet: The world's number one travel guide publisher* Lonely Planet's Pocket Philadelphiais your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Peruse masterpieces at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, discover ingenious inventions ...Show more
The Cinematic by David Campany
36.95 AUD
Category: Film Theatre | Series: Documents of Contemporary Art | Reading Level: very good
Key writings by artists and theorists chart the shifting relationship between film and photography and how the rise of cinema forced photography to make a virtue of its stillness.
The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader - Writings, Interviews, and Critical Responses by Jordana Moore Saggese (Editor)
57.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Documents of Twentieth-Century Art Ser.
The first comprehensive collection of the words and works of a movement-defining artist. Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) burst onto the art scene in the summer of 1980 as one of approximately one hundred artists exhibiting at the 1980 Times Square Show in New York City. By 1982, at the age of twenty-o ...Show more
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