Including an introduction with approximately 30 photographs, plus a timeline of the most important events that took place during the time period, this book contains 35 of the most important works of the epoch presented on a two-page spread with a full page image, a description of the work and a portrait of the artist.

Presents major members of the New York School.

Addresses new media art as a specific art historical movement, focusing not only on technologies and forms, but also on thematic content and conceptual strategies. New media art often involves appropriation, collaboration, and the free sharing of ideas and expressions, and frequently addresses the political ramifications of technology.

Each book in the Basic Art movement and genre series includes a detailed illustrated introduction, and a timeline of the most important events that took place during the time period. The body of the book contains a selection of the most important works of the epoch with an image, description/interpretation, artist biography.

Product Description: Chinese art has never been so prominent and ubiquitous as in recent years, and in China Art Book we have the definitive guide to the country's leading lights. Massive in size and thorough in its analysis, this essential volume disentangles the complexities of the Chinese art scene by focusing on the work of 80 contemporary artists...read more

Product Description: Art galleries have been, and continue to be, enormously influential in aesthetic discourse. They have launched the world's most celebrated artists and nurtured its key movements. Where would Pop Art be without Leo Castelli? The New York School without the Guggenheim Jeune? And what would Fluxus have become without Ren» Block's commitment? International Art Galleries is a star-studded, photo-filled look at the art world's star-makers, the first book to examine the modern gallery phenomenon, offering over 75 profiles of galleries from around the world, and portraits of their key players arranged by decade...read more

Product Description: After this young Berlin painter digitally alters his source images, he decorates or recreates that final altered surface using classical painting techniques--thin layers of delicate overlapping acrylic and oil glazes whose intensity and luminescence put old-world craftsmanship to wavy, wiggly new uses...read more

Tracing the issues and concerns of the first generation of artists involved in the foundation of the movement, this guide to conceptual art, includes an essay exploring the historical basis of conceptual art, and its relationship to the dominant aesthetics of the 1960s, namely the modernist theory of Clement Greenberg and his disciples.

Features over 130 artists in A-Z entries with biographical information and exhibition history as well as images of important work - plus an illustrated index of auction prices. This is a guide to what's happening and who's who in contemporary art.

Product Description: It's a women's world (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) Many of the century's greatest artistic talents grace the pages of this tome, each artist represented by six pages of illustrations and photographs covering the various phases of her life and work, including biographical portraits and text...read more

It's a women's world (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) Many of the century's greatest artistic talents grace the pages of this tome, each artist represented by six pages of illustrations and photographs covering the various phases of her life and work, including biographical portraits and text.

Contemporary art in a nutshell (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) This Art Now 25th anniversary special edition brings together recent work and biographical information for over 80 of today's most influential artists, forming a broad and vibrant spectrum of the work that has shaped the art world in recent years.

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Product Description: Comment comprendre l'art des années 1980 et 1990 ? Cet ouvrage bilingue anglais/français offre une vaste vue d'ensemble de la scène artistique internationale (principalement occidentale) en cette fin de siècle. L'objectif des auteurs est de souligner les dernières tendances de l'art à l'aube du troisième millénaire et de donner une idée de ce que sera l'art du XXIe siècle...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)