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Jeff Wall by Thierry de Duve
85.00 AUD
Category: Photography | Series: Contemporary Artists Series
Jeff Wall (b.1946) adopts the nineteenth-century poet Baudelaire's famous description of one of his contemporaries as 'a painter of modern life' to describe his own very different work: huge transparencies mounted on to light boxes that diffuse a brilliant glow of white light evenly through his photogra ...Show more
Jessica Stockholder - Revised and Expanded Edition by Lynne Tillman, et al
89.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Contemporary Artists
The definitive book on a creative force who continues to influence sculpture and installation art Jessica Stockholder has long broken down the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and architecture to explore the body in social and cultural space - using found objects intertwined with profusions of v ...Show more
Jim Hodges by Jane M. Saks; Robert Hobbs; Julie Ault
69.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Phaidon Contemporary Artists Ser.
The first in-depth survey of the life and work of one of America's most celebrated contemporary artists Jim Hodges is an artist who addresses issues such as memory, love, and existential struggles through a multifaceted practice that includes photography, screen printing, and sculpture. His use of found ...Show more
Jonas Wood by Ian Alteveer; Helen Molesworth; Mark Grotjahn
69.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Phaidon Contemporary Artists Ser.
The first monograph on one of contemporary art's most exciting, illustrious, and sought-after rising starsLos Angeles-based Jonas Wood creates vivid images, where overlapping textures and interior spaces are rendered with compression and dazzling bright hues. This monograph - the first on the artist's w ...Show more
Kerry James Marshall by Kerry James (CON) Laurence; Marshall Charles; Rassel Gaines
59.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Contemporary Artists | Reading Level: General Adult
The most comprehensive book yet on this inspired, inventive chronicler of the African-American experience Alabama-born, Chicago-based Kerry James Marshall is one of the most exciting artists working today. Critically and commercially acclaimed, the painter is known for his representation of the history ...Show more
Louise Bourgeois by Paulo Herkenhoff
55.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Contemporary Artists
One of this UK's pre-eminent artists, Louise Bourgeois is a unique figure in contemporary art. Born in Paris in 1911, Bourgeois spent most of her career receiving little recognition from the art community. She has worked closely to many of the century's key artistic moments, from Surrealism to Abstract ...Show more
Lynda Benglis by Andrew Bonacina; Bibiana Obler; Nora Lawrence
79.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Phaidon Contemporary Artists Ser.
The definitive monograph on American sculptor and visual artist Lynda Benglis, one of the most important living artists today Since her arrival in New York from her native Louisiana in the late 1960s, Lynda Benglis gained recognition for creating a groundbreaking body of work that challenged sculpture ...Show more
Marina Abramovic by Kristine Stiles
55.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Contemporary Artists
Since the beginning of her career in Belgrade during the early 1970s, Marina Abramovic has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form. The body has always been both her subject and her medium, and she has withstood pain, exhaustion and danger in her ongoing quest for emotional and spiritual t ...Show more
Mark Bradford by Mark Bradford
65.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Contemporary Artists
The first comprehensive study of the work of one of the most significant abstract painters of his generation.This timely entry in the Contemporary Artists series focuses on Mark Bradford, the Los Angeles-based artist best known for his large-scale abstract paintings that examine the class, race, and gen ...Show more
Monica Bonvicini by Monica Bonvicini
59.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Contemporary Artists Series
The most comprehensive monograph on the work of Monica Bonvicini
Nicolas Party by Stéphane Aquin; Stefan Banz; Ali Subotnick; Melissa Hyde
69.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Phaidon Contemporary Artists Ser.
The first and highly-anticipated monograph on one of the most successful, collected, and exciting painters today Swiss-born Nicolas Party, one of the most successful and critically acclaimed artists working today, is known for his color-saturated paintings of everyday objects, with distinctly personal y ...Show more
Nigel Cooke by Marie Darrieussecq
65.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Contemporary Artists Series
An in-depth look at the work and career of this fascinating artist, who is having a profound impact on contemporary painting Nigel Cooke is known for his complex paintings, which thematically explore the meeting point between creative labour, consciousness, art history, consumer culture, and nature. Pri ...Show more