Product Description: Born in New York in 1936, Joan Jonas has been a towering figure in postwar Conceptual and experimental Performance art since the 1960s, when she began her pioneering exploration of gender and identity through a combination of myth, choreography and new media...read more

Product Description: This evaluation of recent artistic practice connected to the moving image uses 15 emblematic international artists--and Steve McQueen--to understand where this kind of work stands and what's next. The selected pieces confront myths and traditions in "cult" cinema, experimental cinema, video art and installation...read more

Product Description: Principally working with salvaged materials, Cherokee Jimmie Durham--poet, writer and visual artist--makes tongue-in-cheek assaults on the enduring colonial foundations which are firmly anchored to the base of Western culture. Durham, an activist in the American Indian movement in the 1970s, can sum up his artistic and political process in his will to "be so surgically specific it becomes universal...read more

Product Description: A trained anthropologist, Richard Nonas has spent long periods among the Canadian Inuit and in the deserts of Mexico. An environmental sculptor, Nonas returned to Italy after an almost 30-year absence; there he worked with natural materials such as wood, stone and metal, and taught 24 young international artists...read more