Fine Art & Art History (£5 or Less)

From a Nation Torn provides a powerful critique of art history's understanding of French modernism and the historical circumstances that shaped its production and reception. Within art history, the aesthetic practices and theories that emerged in France from the late 1940s into the 1960s are...

Incorporating research in the fields of psychical research, psychology, physiology, photography and optical viewing, Susan MacWilliam's work explores ideas about the visible and the invisible, about vision and perception, reality and illusion. Through the use of video, photography and sculptural installation, MacWilliam has created...

Published in conjunction with a 2009 Hayward Gallery exhibition, Magic Show demonstrates how visual artists adopt the perception-shifting tactics of the theatrical magician to explore questions of creative agency, the power of suggestion, and the fragility of belief. Artists, like magicians, manipulate and mystify...

Laughing in a Foreign Language explores the role of laughter and humour in contemporary art through the work of over 30 international artists working in a range of media, including video, photography and interactive installation. In an era of globalisation, this book asks whether...

Rare & Collectible Martí Guixé tackles a serious subject with his trademark light-heartedness and humour, providing us with a handbook that shows you how to create them by hand with coat-hanger wires! Part of Guixé's conceptual approach is his interest in design as a...

This book peers into Troubleyn / Laboratorium, the workspace, collective art space, and creative incubator of Belgian multidisciplinary artist Jan Fabre (b. 1958), whose performances, staged since the 1980s, have brought him international acclaim and recognition.  Expressing the collective aims of Fabre’s theatre company,...

Since the early 1990s, Sean Landers' oeuvre has proven to be one of the most fascinating and repeatedly irritating in contemporary art. Over the years, he has become known as the artist who - with confessional and stream-of-consciousness texts and videos - presents himself...

Rare & Collectible Color Coordinated Interiors catalogues a little known but characteristic and illuminating early project of Laurie Simmons's from 1983, just a few years after her first solo show in New York. Simmons is best known for her chilling and sophisticated photographs of...

Rare & Collectible In 2006, the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas, invited Michael Somoroff to place his majestic sculptural installation, Illumination I on the campus grounds. It was the first such invitation ever made by the Chapel, and the only addition to it since Barnet Newman's Broken...

Linking two influential figures in American art, this fascinating catalogue explores the intersection between works by modern master Robert Rauschenberg (1925­–2008) and innovative contemporary artist Rachel Harrison (b. 1966). Taking its name from Gloria, an iconic Rauschenberg work in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of...

Contains explicit sexual images Disorder in the House was the first presentation of the collection of contemporary art that Walter Vanhaerents has assembled across thirty years. The Vanhaerents Art Collection is housed in a former sanitary equipment warehouse in the heart of Brussels dating...

Electronic communications have had a transformative effect on the public discourse on contemporary art by removing temporal and geographical barriers to the flow of information and, for the first time, putting local exhibition makers and institutions in contact with an international art public unmediated...

In the early 1980s, the artist Tim Rollins initiated a curriculum for high schoolers in the South Bronx to engage their creativity with art and literature activities, embarking on what proved to be an enduring collaborative venture. The initial group of students - who...

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. Highlighted in this...

95 sheet-fed gravure plates Contains sexually explicit images Ross Bleckner’s deeply personal camera work travels over the intimate contours of a lover’s body and the pages of his daily newspaper. The enigmatic and absurd landslide of images that inundate our daily lives falls across...

The Berlin painter Christopher Lehmpfuhl (b. 1972) has been occupied with the urban transformation at Berlin's Schlossplatz for over a decade. His 126 portraits of this historic Mitte district make the city's dynamic changes visible - from the removalof the Palast der Republik (Palace...

Challenging European cultural conventions, the work of Swiss-Bolivian artist Carmen Perrin (b.1953) is infused with fine undertones and references to her Latin American roots. In her preference for industrial mass-produced materials she transposes electric wire, cables and building materials into a subtle, ambiguous imagery...

Text in German and English Beuys dog food, Goya Vienna sausages, Rembrandt tooth paste, Vermeer woodchippers, Leonardo adhesive tape, Michelangelo knives, Klein bikes, Duchamp wine, Lichtenstein vitamins, Fontana juice, Richter spicy fish rolls, Manet scooters, and Raffaello confectionery. In ArtBrands, artist and art historian Michael...

The artwork of Robert Therrien (1947-2019) makes reference to commonplace, even cliched motifs - a snowman, a cloud, a Dutch door, a bird in flight, a stack of plates. In the perfection of their proportions and the simplicity of their forms these works -...

An alluring glimpse into magnificent Cornell-like boxes created by some of the world's leading architects and designers Inspired by the idea of the wunderkammer - "wonder-room" or "cabinet of curiosities" - that originated during the Renaissance. World-renowned architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien invited...