Modern Art Books

New and Published Books

1. Live Art in LA

   Performance in Southern California, 1970 - 1983

   Edited by Peggy Phelan

   Live Art in LA: Performance Art in Southern California , 1970-1983 documents and critically examines one of the most fecund periods in the history of live art. The book forms part of the Getty Institute’s Pacific Standard Time initiative – a series of exhibitions, performance re-enactments and...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. ORLAN

   A Hybrid Body of Artworks

   Edited by Simon Donger, Simon Shepherd

   ORLAN: A Hybrid Body of Artworks is an in-depth academic account of ORLAN's pioneering art in its entirety. The book covers her career in performance and a range of other art forms. This single accessible overview of ORLAN's practices describes and analyses her various innovative...

   Published May 19th 2010 by Routledge
3. Legislating Creativity

   The Intersections of Art and Politics

   By Dustin Kidd

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   How does political policy-making shape the creative activities of artists? Do the political interests of artists influence actual political practices in any way? Legislating Creativity examines the relationship between art and politics through an analysis of controversial art projects tied to the...

   Published November 17th 2009 by Routledge
4. Pictorial Narrative in the Nazi Period

   Felix Nussbaum, Charlotte Salomon and Arnold Daghani

   By Deborah Schultz, Edward Timms

   This book investigates creative responses to the Nazi period in the work of three artists, Felix Nussbaum, Charlotte Salomon and Arnold Daghani, focusing on their use of pictorial narrative. It analyses their contrasting aesthetic strategies and their innovative forms of artistic production. In...

   Published April 22nd 2009 by Routledge
5. Modern Art Culture

   A Reader

   Edited by Francis Frascina

   Modern Art Culture: A Reader provides an essential resource for understanding the culture of modern art since the 1960s. In recent years, media theorists and historians have asked whether works of imaginative art can have any impact in our image-saturated culture. Given the power of institutions,...

   Published December 11th 2008 by Routledge
6. Modern Art: A Critical Introduction

   2nd Edition

   By Pam Meecham, Julie Sheldon

   Modern Art: A Critical Introduction traces the historical and contemporary contexts for understanding modern art movements, and the theories that influenced and attempted to explain them. Its radical approach foregoes the chronological approach to art movements in favour of looking at the ways in...

   Published November 24th 2004 by Routledge
7. The New York Schools of Music and the Visual Arts

   Edited by Steven Johnson

   Series: Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture

   Published November 4th 2001 by Routledge
8. Art After Appropriation

   Essays on Art in the 1990s

   By John Welchman

   Beginning with the first comprehensive account of the discourse of appropriation that dominated the art world in the late 1970s and 1980s, Art After Appropriation suggests a matrix of inflections and refusals around the culture of taking or citation, each chapter loosely correlated with one year of...

   Published September 19th 2001 by Routledge
9. Schonberg and Kandinsky

   An Historic Encounter

   Edited by Konrad Boehmer

   Series: Contemporary Music Studies

   Published May 5th 1998 by Routledge
10. J.P. Ball

    Daguerrean and Studio Photographer

    Edited by Deborah Willis

    Published February 28th 1993 by Routledge