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Still is a sequence of poems written by poet laureate Simon Armaitage in response to panoramic photographs of battlefields associated with the Battle of the Somme. Chosen from archives at Imperial War Museum, these astonishingly clear photographic images were ahead of their time. Still was published...

Rare & Collectible This book was published as part of project the project PSYOP - Capture their minds and their hearts and souls will follow by artists Christoph Büchel & Giovanni Carmine highlighting the US Army’s psychological-warfare operations.  The book collects over 120 propaganda leaflets that...

Laura Poitras invited authors ranging from artists and novelists to technologists and academics to respond to the modern-day state of mass surveillance. Among them are the acclaimed author Dave Eggers, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, theblogger, journalist, and science fiction author Cory Doctorow, the...

Wirephoto is the sending of photographs by telegraph, telephone or radio. David Pace and Stephen Wirtz manipulate and transform wirephotos transmitted during World War II. Beginning with an extensive collection of originals assembled by Wirtz over a period of many years, they scan the...

This book presents a fundamental reevaluation of pivotal developments in postwar German art and architecture against the backdrop of contentious contemporary debates over the Nazi past and the difficulty of determining who was or was not a Nazi perpetrator. Like their fellow Germans, postwar artists...

The work of Martha Rosler is perennially incisive, provocative, political, and timely, exploring a range of issues from everyday life and the media to architecture and the built environment, especially as they affect women. Over her prolific career, Rosler has returned to themes of social...

The story of some of the paintings rescued by the the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives (MFAA) organisation, the so-called "Monuments Men." In December 1945, 202 paintings, found in German salt mines 2,100 feet underground, where they had been hidden to escape the allied...

A project in association with the National Maritime Museum Message, a semaphore message of remembrance, was transmitted along the River Thames on Remembrance Sunday, 2005: War turns us to stone. In remembrance we shine and rise to new days. This profusely illustrated book tells...

Featuring four films by the young Irish filmmaker Kevin Gaffney, Unseen By My Open Eyes is the first publication on the artist's work, exploring the psychological landscapes he devises to explore the construction, projection and manipulation of identity. Within the book, Gaffney s films...

INDIA: Contemporary Photographic and New Media Art presents 46 contemporary artists and collectives working in dialogue with the long history and emergent future of India and its people. The book focuses on the contemporary moment, and a range of approaches are included, including art...

Since 1996, with contributions by noted scholars, the peer-reviewed journal Études Photographiques, has been leading the way in providing academics and the arts community access to the most current research on photography, the history of photography and visual culture. CONTENTS: The ‘Greatest of War...

Christian Boltanski's votive installations, archives and objects, revolving around the fragile polarities of memory and amnesia, identity and anonymity, have made him one of the world's most renowned contemporary artists. And yet, despite the centrality of biography and testimony to his work, Boltanski's own...

For his installation Terminus, the British artist Darren Almond relocated 14 socialist-era bus stops from the Polish town of Oswiecim to a gallery space in Berlin, activating a force field between the Auschwitz concentration camp, everyday life in Oswiecim and the way we experience historical...

The western is America's definitive contribution to cinema, a bullet-spattered blueprint for the nation's image of itself and its place in the world. To watch a western is to witness the birth of a nation, overseen by square-jawed sheriffs and steel-nerved gunfighters, armed with...

Eighty-five percent of photojournalists are men. That means almost everything that is reported in the world is seen through men’s eyes. Similarly, spaces and communities men don’t have access to are left undocumented and forgotten. With the camera limited to the hands of one gender, photographic ‘truth’ is...

In 1982, East Germany's fearsome secret police - convinced that writers were embedding subversive messages in their work - decided to train their own writers, weaponising poetry in the struggle against the class enemy. The Stasi Poetry Circle reveals how a group of soldiers and border guards gathered for...

Insiders/Outsiders, published to accompany a UK-wide arts festival of the same name in 2019, examines the extraordinarily rich and pervasive contribution of refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe to the visual culture, art education and art-world structures of the United Kingdom. In every field, émigrés arriving...

  This Daggers Drawn! special issue features highlights from the Commando Comics archives including cover art and interiors from World War II stories.  Features  In-depth features on Ian Kennedy, Ken Barr, and the history of Commando Unique in-depth interview with legendary Commando artist Gordon...