Film, Video, Light & Sound Art

Published to accompany a landmark exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum in 2008, California Video presents the first comprehensive survey of the history of video art in California. Since the late 1960s, California artists have been at the forefront of an international movement...

Rare & Collectible The Centre for International Light Art is based in the former Linden beer brewery in Unna, Germany. It is the first and only museum that focuses exclusively on the presentation of light art. The encounter between avant-garde light art and historic building...

Susan Hiller was born in the United States in 1940, and studied and worked as an anthropologist before becoming an artist and settling in London in the early 1970s. Hiller's startlingly original works are inspired by overlooked and unnoticed aspects of our culture, including...

Rare & Collectible 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,...

Nam June Paik (1932-2006) was a visionary artist who foresaw the importance of mass media and new technology, and its impact on visual culture. His cutting-edge, innovative yet playfully entertaining work continues to be a major influence on art and culture to this day....

 Rare & Collectible For more than 30 years, the artist Sigmar Polke not only painted and photographed, but also filmed many scenes of his everyday life: work, travel, meeting friends. Very few of these films were shown in public during his lifetime. Here for...

Offering historical, social, and artistic context for some of the most influential artists and filmmakers from the 1960s to the present day, this timely book looks at three filmic techniques―appropriation, documentary film, and montage―and how they confront the viewer with pieces of reality within...

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...

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...

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...

This beautifully produced book accompanied Bruce Nauman’s major exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain (Paris, 2015). Developed in close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition brought together a range of works including sculpture, video, sound works and drawings which are fully documented...

Since the rise of film and television, radio has continued to evolve, with satellite radio and podcasts as its latest incarnations. Any understanding of the development of radio, like its visual counterparts, depends on closely examining the artistic ventures that preceded commercial acceptance. In Pieces...

Rare & Collectible Robin Minard (b.1953) is a Canadian composer and installation artist belonging to the first generation of sound artists. With his permanent and temporary installations, he transforms public spaces, museums and galleries all over the world. Although working with high-tech equipment, his...

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...

An updated edition of the first - and still most authoritative - book on the legendary American iconoclast. This edition brought this important book up to date, tracing Durham's remarkable life from his experiences in the US, Mexico, and Europe - including his early...

Anabases is a project initiated by the artist Éric Baudelaire. It was conceived as a conversation between his own practice and the research of the philosopher, Pierre Zaoui and the cinema theorist, Jean-Pierre Rehm. It revolves around the notion of ‘anabasis’, a term used to...

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...

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...

A lavishly illustrated book on the acclaimed visual artist, videographer, and filmmaker Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, whose exceptionally diverse body of work explores her haunting visions of the past, present and future.. Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster calls herself "a prisoner of literature." Through her work in spatial installations,...

The artist Dan Graham (b. 1942) has a wide-ranging practice that encompasses writing, performance art, installation, video, photography, and architecture. Throughout his career, Graham has examined the symbiosis between architectural environments and their inhabitants, particularly in his pavilions made of glass and mirrors. His...