Product Description: New York-based conceptual photographer Anne Collier (born 1970) creates neutral images of objects that already exist in the world, often charged with undercurrents of emotional complexity and vulnerability. Her work deftly addresses subjects inherent to both the act and industry of photography while simultaneously lampooning clichés and uncovering hidden truths...read more

Product Description: One of the most prominent Portuguese artists of his generation, Julião Sarmento (born 1948) began exhibiting film, video, sound, painting, sculpture, installation and multimedia works in the 1970s, developing various site-specific projects and becoming famed for his silhouettes of female figures...read more

Product Description: In her performances, videos, and installations, Sharon Hayes (b. 1970) explores the nexus between politics, history, speech, and desire. Her works modify or appropriate the language and tools of political dissent, creating unexpected affinities between important historical events and the present...read more

Product Description: Axial Age is the title of a series of seven paintings completed by the influential German artist Sigmar Polke between 2005 and 2007. With his camera, Polke created a fascinating photo documentary of the painting process, including 187 images specially selected by the artist to be featured in this book...read more

Product Description: Dan Graham is one of the most significant figures to emerge from the 1960s moment of Conceptual art, with a practice that pioneered a range of art forms, modes, and ideas that are now fundamental to contemporary art. The thrust of his practice has always pointed beyond: beyond the art object, beyond the studio, beyond the medium, beyond the gallery, beyond the self...read more

Product Description: This is the first publication to explore the role of mirrors, spinning, and “neurotic” architecture––a feeling of psychological breakdown––in the work of one of America’s most important contemporary artists, Paul McCarthy (b...read more

Product Description: In Hole in the Wall, his first video installation, created in 1974, we watch on a monitor screen inserted at eye level into a wall as Gary Hill removes, layer for layer, a rectangular section of that same wall in order to create the very hole in which the monitor is about to be positioned...read more

Product Description: To overcome the strictures of his early academic training in art, Paolo Canevari turned to Arte Povera as a place to start afresh, and as an antidote to the "high rhetoric" of conventional materials. Canevari bring a minimalist's restraint to his materials--which include rubber tires and inner tubes--and also a more explicit political commentary on their ramifications in the world...read more

Product Description: The incorporation of large-scale moving images into art installations has a rich history, this text accompanies the exhibition exploring this theme. It reconstructs 19 classic works in film, video and slide installations from the mid-1960s through the mid-1970s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Abramovic, Marina, Goldberg, Roselee, McEvilley, Thomas, Elliott, David