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Contemporary Art
All titles (1998 to the present) in Recent Books in the Arts.
Barbara Kruger.
New York:
Rizzoli International Publications,
2010.
250 color ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780847833252)
Agnes Martin.
Beacon: NY:
Dia:Beacon,
2004.
Daniel Buren: Le Musée qui n’existait pas Mot à Mot.
Paris:
Centre Pompidou et du Musée National d’Art Moderne in association with Editions de la Martinière,
2001.
576 pp.; 900 ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(2732429023)
Einhundertjähriges Jubiläum des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 1897-1997.
Firenze:
Edizioni Tassinari,
1998.
183 pp.; 23 color ills.; 36 b/w ills.
Paper
Kurt Delbanco.
Amos Eno Gallery,
2000.
20 pp.; 18 color ills.; 1 b/w ills.
Paper
Mapping Sitting: On Portraiture and Photography.
Exh. cat.
Beirut:
The Arab Image Foundation,
2001.
250 pp.; 840 ills.
$35.00
(9953000581)
Masterworks of American Sculpture: Selections from the Members of the National Scultpure Society, 1875-1999.
Exh. cat.
Scottsdale, AZ:
FFCA Publishing Company in association with Fleischer Museum,
1998.
144 pp.; many b/w ills.
(0961788283)
Plastic Economies: Dan Peterman.
Exh. cat.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in association with University of Illinois Press,
2003.
96 pp.
$29.95
(0922856814)
Work Ethic.
Exh. cat.
Baltimore and University Park:
Baltimore Museum of Art in association with Pennsylvania State University Press,
2002.
248 pp.; 114 color ills.
$29.95
(0271023341)
Abt, Jeffrey.
A Museum on the Verge: A Socioeconomic History of the Detroit Institute of Arts 1882 to 2000.
Detroit:
Wayne State University Press,
2000.
315 pp.; 0 color ills.; 27 b/w ills.; 0 ills.
Cloth
$29.95
(0814328415)
Accame, Giovanni Maria, David Carrier, Sue Hubbard, Gavin Morrison, Jasper Sharp, and Lilly Wei.
Unique Act: Five Abstract Painters; Frederic Matys Thursz, Sean Scully, Carmengloria Morales, Seán Shanahan, Ruth Root.
Exh. cat.
Dublin:
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane in association with Lund Humphries,
2008.
152 pp.; 80 color ills.
Paper
$40.00
(9781848220027)
Acton, David.
60 Years of North American Prints.
Boston:
Boston Printmakers,
2009.
200 pp.; Many color ills.
Cloth
$42.50
(9780615312361)
Adams, Robert.
Along Some Rivers: Photographs and Conversations.
Aperture Foundation,
2005.
112 pp.; 28 b/w ills.
Cloth
$24.95
(1597110043)
Adams, Pat.
Zabriskie: Fifty Years.
Ruder Finn Press,
2003.
208 pp.; 200 color ills.; 200 b/w ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(1932646159)
Ades, Dawn.
Peter Blake: About Collage.
University of Washington Press in association with Tate Publishing,
2000.
60 pp.; 90 color ills.
Paper
$19.95
(1854373234)
Adler, Dan.
Hanne Darboven: Cultural History 1880–1983.
London:
Afterall Books,
2009.
112 pp.; 32 color ills.
Paper
$16.00
(9781846380501)
Aitken, Doug.
Doug Aitken A-Z Book (Fractals).
Intro. Michael Speaks.
Philadelphia and Zürich:
Hatje Cantz Verlag in association with Kunsthalle Zürich,
2002.
128 pp.; 110 color ills.
Cloth
$39.95
(3775712917)
Albee, Edward, and Harry Rand.
From Idea to Matter: Nine Sculptors.
Exh. cat.
University of Washington Press in association with Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University,
2000.
64 pp.; 20 color ills.
$20.00
(0935519238)
Alberro, Alexander, and Blake Stimson.
Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology.
MIT Press,
1998.
569 pp.; 36 b/w ills.
Paper
$29.95
(0262511177)
Alberro, Alexander, Alice Zimmerman, and Benjamin H.D. Buchloh.
Lawrence Weiner.
Phaidon,
1997.
160 pp.; many color ills.; many b/w ills.
Paper
$35.00
(0714837555)
Alberro, Alexander, and Patricia Norvell, eds.
Recording Conceptual Art: Early Interviews with Barry, Huebler, Kaltenbach, LeWitt, Morris, Oppenheim, Siegelaub, Smithson, and Weiner by Patricia Norvell.
Berkeley:
University of California Press,
2000.
162 pp.; 39 b/w ills.
Paper
$19.95
(0520220110)
Alexander, Darsie, ed.
Franz West, To Build a House You Start with the Roof: Work 1972–2008.
Exh. cat.
Baltimore and Cambridge, Mass.:
Baltimore Museum of Art and MIT Press,
2009.
288 pp.; 160 color ills.
Cloth
$44.95
(9780262012508)
Lane, Anthony, and Richard Morphet.
Howard Hodgkin: Paintings 1992–2007.
Eds. Julia Marciari Alexander and David Scrase.
New Haven:
Yale Center for British Art and Yale University Press,
2007.
192 pp.; 100 color ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(9780300123203)
Allara, Pamela.
Pictures of People: Alice Neel’s American Portrait Gallery.
University Press of New England,
1999.
374 pp.; 18 color ills.; 183 b/w ills.
Paper
$22.95
(1584650362)
Allen, Terry.
Dugout.
Austin:
University of Texas Press,
2004.
290 pp.; 157 color ills.
Cloth
$29.95
(0292706863)
Allen, Traudi.
Homesickness: Nationalism in Australian Visual Culture.
South Yarra, Victoria, Australia:
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
230 pp.; many color ills.
Paper
$60.00
(9781921394010)
Allen, Terry.
Terry Allen.
Series in Contemporary Art. Edited by M. Georgia Hegarty Dunkerley.
Austin:
University of Texas,
2010.
334 ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780292722460)
Allthorpe-Guyton, Marjorie, Michael Tucker, and Catherine Lampert.
Ian McKeever: Paintings.
Burlington, VT:
Lund Humphries,
2009.
208 pp.; 110 color ills.; 45 b/w ills.
Cloth
$70.00
(9781848220379)
Altshuler, Bruce, ed.
Collecting the New: Museums and Contemporary Art.
Princeton:
Princeton University Press,
2005.
208 pp.; 38 b/w ills.
Paperback
$35.00
(9780691119403)
Alys, Francis, Cuauhtemoc Medina, Russell Ferguson, Jean Fisher, and Augusto Monterroso.
Francis Alys.
London:
Phaidon,
2007.
160 pp.; 250 color ills.; 50 b/w ills.
Paper
$39.95
(9780714843216)
Ambrose, Gavin, and Paul Harris.
Basics Design: Design Thinking.
Lausanne, Switzerland:
AVA Publishing,
2010.
184 pp.; 200 color ills.
Paper
$29.95
(9782940411177)
Amick, Alison B., Linda Chase, Susan P. Casteras, and Hardy S. George.
Shining Spirit: Westheimer Family Collection.
Oklahoma City:
Oklahoma City Museum of Art,
2008.
140 pp.; 87 color ills.
Paper
$25.00
(9780911919073)
Anderberg, Birgitte, ed.
Bjorn Norgaard: Re-Modelling the World.
Exh. cat.
Copenhagen:
Statens Museum for Kunst,
2010.
Many color ills.
Cloth
DKK 198.00
(9788792023445)
Andreae, Christopher.
Mary Newcomb.
Aldershot, UK and London:
Lund Humphries in association with Crane Kalman Gallery,
2007.
200 pp.; 150 color ills.; 40 b/w ills.
Cloth
$90.00
(9780853319597)
Andrews, Max, ed.
Land, Art: A Cultural Ecology Handbook.
London:
Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts,
2009.
280 pp.
Cloth
£20.00
(9780901469571)
Andrews, Richard, and John Beardsley.
Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes.
Intro. Lawrence Weschler.
Exh. cat.
Henry Art Gallery in association with Yale University Press,
2005.
112 pp.; 108 color ills.; 4 b/w ills.
$40.00
(0300121202)
Ankori, Gannit.
Palestinian Art.
Reaktion Books,
2005.
248 pp.; 60 color ills.; 100 b/w ills.
Paper
(1861892594)
Antonelli, Paola.
Safe: Design Takes On Risk.
Museum of Modern Art,
2004.
216 pp.; 325 color ills.
Paper
(0870705806)
Arceneaux, Edgar.
The Alchemy of Comedy...Stupid.
Chicago:
WhiteWalls and Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago,
2007.
96 pp.; 74 color ills.
Paper
$20.00
(0945323115)
Archer, Michael, Simon Morrissey, and Harry Stocks.
Richard Wilson.
Merrell Publishers,
2000.
224 pp.; 500+ color ills.; few b/w ills.; 0 ills.
Paper
$39.95
(1858941555)
Ardenne, Paul.
Patrick Mimran: Babel.TV.
Paris:
Editions du Regard,
2000.
80 pp.; many color ills.
Cloth
Argos, Collectif.
Climate Refugees.
Cambridge:
The MIT Press,
2010.
171 color ills.
Cloth
$29.95
(9780262514392 )
Armstrong, Philip, Laura Lisbon, and Stephen Melville, eds.
As Painting: Division and Displacement.
MIT Press in association with Wexner Center for the Arts,
2000.
257 pp.; 35 color ills.; 117 b/w ills.
Cloth
$39.95
(0262011832)
Armstrong, Elizabeth, Johanna Burton, and Dave Hickey.
Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone.
Exh. cat.
Newport Beach, Calif.:
Orange County Museum of Art,
2007.
192 pp.; 100 color ills.; 30 b/w ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(3791338218)
Armstrong, Carol, and Catherine de Zegher, eds.
Women Artists at the Millennium.
MIT Press,
2005.
408 pp.; 200 color ills.
Cloth
$40.00
(026201226X)
Arnheim, Rudolf.
Simon Dinnerstein: Paintings and Drawings.
Hudson Hills Press,
1999.
126 pp.; 81 color ills.; 20 b/w ills.
Paper
$35.00
(0965048543)
Arthurs, Alberta, and Glenn Wallach, eds.
Crossroads: Art and Religion in American Life.
The New Press,
2000.
304 pp.; 7 color ills.
Cloth
$25.00
(1565846605)
Ashman, Stuart, Suzanne Deats, and Robert Ewing.
Abstract Art.
Albuquerque:
Fresco Fine Art Publications,
2003.
254 pp.; 212 color ills.
Paper
$45.00
(0974102318)
Ashton, Dore.
Cecily Brown.
New York:
Rizzoli and Gagosian Gallery,
2009.
264 pp.; 125 color ills.
Cloth
$85.00
(9780847830923)
Asselin, Olivier, Johanne Lamoureux, and Christine Ross.
Precarious Visualities: New Perspectives on Identification in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture.
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2008.
448 pp.; 51 b/w ills.
Cloth
$95.00
(9780773533851)
Associació Cultural Inout Produccions.
Ciclops '05: 3era mostra de creadors visuals.
Tarragona, Spain:
Associació Cultural Inout Produccions,
2004.
DVD
Ater, Renée.
The David C. Driskell Series of African American Art: Volume V.
Pomegranate Communications,
2004.
128 pp.; 60+ color ills.
Cloth
$35.00
(0764931539)
Attfield, Judy.
Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life.
Berg Publishers in association with New York University Press,
1999.
224 pp.; 30 b/w ills.
Paper
$22.50
(1859733697)
Aulich, James, and Marta Sylvestrová.
Political Posters in Central and Eastern Europe 1945-95.
St. Martin’s Press,
1999.
228 pp.; many b/w ills.
Cloth
$69.95
(0719054184)
Ault, Julie, ed.
Show and Tell: A Chronicle of Group Material.
London:
Four Corners Books,
2010.
272 pp.; 180 color ills.; 50 b/w ills.
Paper
$35.00
(9780956192813)
Auping, Michael, ed.
Philip Guston: Retrospective.
Exh. cat.
Fort Worth, Tex.:
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in association with Thames & Hudson,
2005.
272 pp.; 158 color ills.; 39 b/w ills.
$29.95
(0500284229)
Ausoni, Alberto.
Music in Art.
Trans. Stephen Sartarelli.
Los Angeles:
J. Paul Getty Museum,
2009.
384 pp.; 400 color ills.
Paper
$24.95
(9780892369652)
Aynsley, Jeremy, and Charlotte Grant, eds.
Imagined Interiors: Representing the Domestic Interior Since the Renaissance.
New York:
Harry N. Abrams,
2006.
304 pp.; 260 color ills.
Cloth
$85.00
(9781851774920)
Azuma, Hiroki.
Otaku: Japan's Database Animals.
Trans. Jonathan E. Abel and Shion Kono.
Minneapolis:
2009.
200 pp.; 29 b/w ills.
Paper
$17.95
(9780816653522)
Åhlvik, Clara Skoog.
VISION Art Exhibitions at Bo01 City of Tomorrow, Malmö, Sweden.
Malmö, Sweden:
Bo01 City of Tomorrow,
2000.
180 pp.; many color ills.
Paper
$13.49
(9163109808)
Baas, Jacquelynn, and Mary Jane Jacob, eds.
Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art.
Berkeley:
University of California Press,
2004.
264 pp.; 121 color ills.; 15 b/w ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(0520243463)
Badovinac, Zdenka, ed.
Body and the East From the 1960s to the Present.
MIT Press in association with Moderna galerija Ljubljana,
1998.
192 pp.; 200 b/w ills.
Paper
$25.00
(0262522640)
Baert, Barbara, ed.
Fluid Flesh: The Body, Religion and the Visal Arts.
Leuven, Belgium:
Leuven University Press,
2009.
160 pp.; 20 ills.
Paper
$39.50
(9789058677167)
Baerwaldt, Wayne, and Thelma Golden, eds.
Glenn Ligon: Some Changes.
Exh. cat.
The Power Plant,
2004.
204 pp.; many color ills.
(1894212061)
Baetens, Jan, and Hilde Van Gelder, eds.
Critical Realism in Contemporary Art: Around Allan Sekula's Photography.
Leuven, Belgium:
Leuven University Press,
2006.
207 pp.
Paper
$22.50
(9789058675637)
Bailey, David A., Ian Baucom, and Sonia Boyce, eds.
Shades of Black: Assembling Black Arts in 1980s Britain.
Duke University Press in association with Institute of International Visual Arts & African and Asian Visual Artists’ Archive,
2004.
368 pp.; 31 color ills.; 85 b/w ills.
Paper
$29.95
(0822334208)
Baker, Kenneth.
Wall: Andy Goldsworthy.
Exh. cat.
Harry N. Abrams,
1999.
96 pp.; 60 color ills.
$35.00
(0810945592)
Bal, Mieke.
A Mieke Bal Reader.
University of Chicago Press,
2005.
496 pp.; 40 b/w ills.
Paper
(0226035859)
Bal, Mieke.
Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art, Preposterous History.
University of California Press,
2000.
321 pp.; 65 color ills.; 24 b/w ills.
Paper
$27.50
(0226035573)
Bal, Meike.
World Rush_4 Artists: Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Doug Aitken, Lee Bul, Sarah Sze.
Exh. cat.
Melbourne:
National Gallery of Victoria,
2002.
190 pp.; many color ills.; few b/w ills.
Cloth
$19.95
(0724102272)
Bala, Iwan.
Certain Welsh Artists: Custodial Aesthetics in Contemporary Welsh Art.
Chester Springs:
Dufour Editions,
1998.
200 pp.
Cloth
$54.95
(1854112511)
Baldwin, Gordon.
A Place in the Sun: Photographs of Los Angeles by John Humble.
Exh. cat.
Los Angeles:
J. Paul Getty Museum,
2007.
88 pp.; 45 color ills.
Cloth
$39.95
(9780892368815)
Balkema, Annette W., and Henk Slager, eds.
Exploding Aesthetics (Lier en Boog).
Atlanta:
Rodopi,
2000.
188 pp.; few b/w ills.
Paper
$17.00
(904201315x)
Balken, Debra Bricker.
Ellen Lanyon: Transformations, Selected Works from 1971-1999.
National Museum of Women in the Arts,
1998.
64 pp.; 31 color ills.; 9 b/w ills.
Paper
$19.95
(094097942x)
Bansky.
Wall and Piece.
Trafalgar Square Publishing,
2005.
208 pp.; many color ills.
Cloth
(1844137864)
Barker, Emma.
Contemporary Cultures of Display.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
1998.
272 pp.; 60 color ills.; 120 b/w ills.
Paper
$27.50
(0300077831)
Barker, Kathy.
Drawing and Painting the Clothed Figure.
Ramsbury, UK:
Crowood Press,
2005.
192 pp.; many color ills.; many b/w ills.
Paper
(1861267754)
Barker, David.
Traditional Techniques in Contemporary Chinese Printmaking.
University of Hawai'i Press,
2004.
128 pp.; 131 color ills.; 90 b/w ills.
Paper
$20.00
(0824829913)
Barlow, Melinda, ed.
Mary Lucier.
Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press,
1999.
280 pp.; 21 b/w ills.
Paper
$19.95
(0801863805)
Barreneche, Raul.
Modern House Three.
London:
Phaidon,
2006.
240 pp.; 390 ills.
Cloth
$59.95
(9780714898520)
Barron, Stephanie, Sheri Bernstein, and Ilene Susan Fort, eds.
Reading California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000.
Berkeley:
University of California Press in association with Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
1999.
350 pp.; 140 b/w ills.
Paper
$24.95
(0520227670)
Grenville, Bruce, Tim Johnson, Seth Spiegelman, Art Spiegelman, Will Wright, Toshiya Ueno, and Kiyoshi Kusumi.
KRAZY: The Delirious World of Anime + Comics + Video Games + Art.
Exh. cat.
Berkeley:
University of California Press and Douglas & McIntyre Publishing Group,
2008.
276 pp.; 200 color ills.
Paper
$34.95
(9780520257849)
Basa, Lynn.
The Artists' Guide to Public Art: How to Find and Win Commissions.
New York:
Allworth,
2008.
256 pp.
Paper
$19.95
(9781581155013)
Bashkoff, Tracey, and Nancy Spector, eds.
Sugimoto Portraits.
Harry N. Abrams in association with Guggenheim Museum,
1999.
170 pp.; 75 b/w ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(0810969289)
Bastian, M.S., and Isabelle L.
Bastokalypse.
Zurich:
Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess,
2010.
72 b/w ills.
Cloth
$49.00
(9783858812964)
Basualdo, Carlos, ed.
Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens.
Exh. cat.
New Haven and Philadelphia :
Yale University Press in association with Philadelphia Museum of Art,
2009.
240 pp.; 120 color ills.; 40 b/w ills.
Cloth
$40.00
(9780300149814)
Batchelor, David.
Chromophobia.
Reaktion Books,
1999.
192 pp.; 6 color ills.
Paper
$19.95
Battenfield, Jackie.
The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love.
Cambridge, Mass.:
Da Capo Press,
2009.
380 pp.; many b/w ills.
Paper
$17.95
(9780306816529)
Baume, Nicholas, ed.
Sol LeWitt: Incomplete Open Cubes.
MIT Press,
2000.
112 pp.; 40 color ills.; 40 b/w ills.
Paper
$22.95
(0262523116)
Baume, Nicholas, ed.
Super Vision.
Exh. cat.
Boston:
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston in association with MIT Press,
2005.
196 pp.; 90 color ills.
$34.95
(0262026090)
Bazzano-Nelson, Florencia.
Liliana Porter and the Art of Simulation.
Hampshire, England:
Ashgate Publishing Ltd.,
2009.
184 pp.; 4 color ills.; 37 b/w ills.
Cloth
$99.95
(9780754664659)
Büling-Schultz, Christiane, and Martin Hellmold.
Cornelia Schleime: Love Affairs.
New York:
Prestel,
2008.
144 pp.; 60 color ills.
Cloth
$49.95
(9783791340654)
Bee, Susan, and Mira Schor, eds.
M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artists’ Writings, Theory, and Criticism.
Duke University Press,
1999.
467 pp.
Paper
$22.95
(0822325667)
Beech, Dave, ed.
Beauty: Documents of Contemporary Art.
Cambridge, Mass.:
2009.
240 pp.
Paper
$24.95
(9780262512381)
Behrstock, Barry.
The Way of the Artist: Reflections on Creativity and the Life, Home, Art, and Collections of Richard Marquis.
Exh. cat.
Fullerton:
California State University, Fullerton,
2007.
192 pp.; 158 color ills.
Cloth
$29.95
(978095314700)
Belgin, Tayfun.
Jörg Immendorff.
Exh. cat.
Munich:
Prestel,
2008.
128 pp.; 100 color ills.
Cloth
$55.00
(9783791341118)
Bell, Roanne, and Mark Sinclair.
Pictures and Words: New Comic Art and Narrative Illustration.
New Haven and London:
Yale University Press,
2005.
144 pp.; 300 color ills.
Paper
$26.95
(9780300111460)
Benezra, Neal, Staci Boris, and Lynne Cooke.
William Kentridge.
Harry N. Abrams, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and New Museum of Contemporary Art,
2000.
160 pp.; many color ills.; many b/w ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(0810942283)
Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna, Trish Cashen, and Hazel Gardiner, eds.
Futures Past: Thirty Years of Arts Computing.
Chicago, IL:
University of Chicago Press,
2008.
128 pp.; 25 b/w ills.
Paper
$40.00
(1841501689)
Berger, Maurice.
Adrian Piper: A Retrospective.
Exh. cat.
D.A.P. in association with Center for Art and Visual Culture, UMBC,
1998.
218 pp.
(1890761028)