Product Description: This book critically examines the rhetoric surrounding current trends in the adoption of tropes of interactivity in marketing communication. Concepts such as viral advertising, customer-generated content, brand communities and the whole panoply of Web 2...read more

Product Description: "Colorful, figurative, funny, and abstract; Thing uncovers the most innovative contemporary sculpture from the up-and-coming generation of 20 Los Angeles based artists. The book includes a broad selection of works and adresses a wide range of sculptural pratices, probing the formal and conceptual trajectories of sculpture...read more

Product Description: Haunting and provocative, Dinh Q. Lê's billboard-scale works interweave stills from Vietnamese films with war pictures, news photographs and archival documentary images. This interweaving is literal--the artist slices giant appropriated pictures into strips and then intermingles them as if they were the wicker used to make a basket or the rags used to make a rug, a reworking of traditional weaving techniques taught to him by his grandmother...read more

Product Description: art book

In a companion book to the three-part A&E television series, the concept of love in the ancient world is examined, from prehistoric cavemen to the Roman empire, showing that sensuous, steamy, and romantic feelings have existed for thousands of years. TV tie-in. (view table of contents)