Product Description: In modern, spare and elegant portraiture, artist Cindy Hwang (CYJO) highlights the diversity, identity, and immigration of the global kyopo, those of Korean descent that reside outside of the Korean Peninsula. CYJO decontextualizes her subjects to emphasize a sense of forced unity, allowing their spectrum of experience to contradict the apparent sameness of identity...read more

Product Description: Fig. features over 80 still lives, portraits and landscapes by London-based photographers Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin. Tracing connections between photography and British colonial acquisitiveness, they unearth and document weird arcana from Victorian collections in various public museums...read more

Product Description: Contemporary art has never been so popular - but what is 'contemporary' about contemporary art? What is its role today, and who is controlling its future? Bloody toy soldiers, gilded shopping carts, and embroidered tents. Contemporary art is supposed to be a realm of freedom where artists shock, break taboos, flout generally received ideas, and switch between confronting viewers with works of great emotional profundity and jaw-dropping triviality...read more

Explores the rapidly evolving world of Internet technology on the world of art, discussing the character of this online art, the environment in which it exists, the impact of the Internet on how artists work, the frequently hostile relationship between the art world and online art, and the potential implications of technology for how we view art. Original.

Published to coincide with the exhibition 'Paris: Capital of the Arts, 1900-1968' at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, this work examines the growth and development of photography in these decades, through the changing character of Paris.

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Product Description: This volume is made up of a series of studies examining the changes taking place in the contemporary art world, such as the politicization of art practices and the increasing commodification of art objects. The contributors take up various themes within essays combining artists' and curators' statements, political comment, analytic and thematic writings...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The works of Henry Moore, so often placed outside government buildings and industrial corporations, have almost the air of official monuments. Following the war, he established an unrivalled reputation as the quasi-official voice of British sculpture...read more