RB Kitaj started painting The Architects in August of 1979 to celebrate the remodelling of his home by MJ Long. Painted largely without the models themselves present, this portrait of his friends aga
Presents details of basic and advanced general knowledge with easy-to-identify illustrations, including how to build a fire, the world's longest rivers, common cooking herbs, and how to cure a hangove
Dogs may be man's best friend, but there is no stronger bond than that which exists between a pup and his pals. Whether they are sharing their bowls, playing with their favorite toy, or are snuggl
Posing questions about memory, the body, folklore and rituals, Jumana Emil Abboud's artistic practice confronts the telling and retelling of history and the impacts of language and the fragmentation o
Drawing Projects combines a review of contemporary artists with a 'how to draw' guide, celebrating drawing as the process of seeing made visible.Drawing Projects profiles ten key artists, revealing th
I Should be in Charge is the first book covering the complete work of the colorful and explosive British artist Patrick Brill, aka Bob and Roberta Smith.Working through the conviction that art is a ne
Did you know that we can see with our tongue? Or that we can plug our nervous system directly into a computer? With cybernetics, prosthetics, robotics, nanotechnology and neuroscience altering the way
Guatemala from 33,000 km: Contemporary Art, 1960—Present features artists, works, and themes that have defined Guatemala's contemporary art scene since the 1960s. The book brings together works that h
Necropolitics and its Discontents addresses the relationship between the contemporary political production of death and the way mortality is figured in contemporary visual practices. This unique volu
'Matrix and metaphor', 'emptiness and volume', 'overlayering and penetration', ‘system and syntax’ and ‘form and structure’ are terms Hartmut Böhm offers to his audience in exploring his work. Known f
Shelf Obsession presents the work of ground-breaking British digital-printmaker Phil Shaw. His distinctive ‘bookshelf’ prints interrogate the changing place of the printed word in a digital age, and t
Fragments of Wilderness City reviews the work of renowned architect Brian Avery. Avery Associates Architects have worked in close collaboration with a diverse range of clients, including universities,
The Book of Neoism brings together the collected writings of Hungarian-Canadian artist Istvan Kantor, one of the early members of the Neoism artistic and subcultural movement that revolved around arti
Marking the artist’s first major publication in his 30-year-plus career, Mel Kendrick: Woodblocks presents a collection of the American artist’s wood block prints and water drawings. Produced over a p
Reflecting ideas ranging from humanity’s diverse cultural history to contemporary society and a future world that is conscious of its place in the cosmos, CTRLZAK’s projects draw on tradition and cult
Who Cares?, the fourth in the Inquiries into Contemporary Sculpture series, examines issues of reception and care in contemporary sculpture. The book is a provocation into the complex conditions of ca
Saturated with rhythm-generating patterns and inherently directional shapes, the work of British abstract painter Jeremy Moon (1934-1973) subverts the static quality of painting with its formations of
Known for exploring and experimenting with the integration and reproduction of digital and analogue imagery, American artist Jeff Elrod combines digital design and printing techniques with traditional
After the Educational Turn explores the condition and critical potential of contemporary art education with a particular focus on the question of decolonialism. In the era of the globalised art world,
Since 2009, Iris Häussler has produced the complete oeuvre of unknown and fictitious French painter Sophie La Rosière, who died in 1948. Furthermore, she has created an artistic persona—a heteronym—th
Krzysztof Wodiczko’s artistic projects stage a dynamic and vivid encounter between aesthetics, ethics and technology. For almost 40 years, the artist’s powerful and extensive body of work
