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There is widespread agreement that art is “very important”, but it can be remarkably hard to say quite why. Yet if art is to enjoy its privileges, it has to be able to demonstrate its relevance in understandable ways to the widest possible audience. Alain de Botton and John Armstrong …
“Art in Time” by Phaidon Publications, presents artists and their work in relation to the times that inspired them, around the world …
When we talk about the most important Avant-Garde Movements of the 20th Century, an important spot is taken by Arte Povera, which …
Kerry James Marshall uses painting, sculptural installations, collage, video, and photography to comment on the history of black identity both in the …
Zhang Huan has emerged as a key figure in the flourishing Chinese art scene, an explorer of the limits of the human …
Since the early ‘70s, Marina Abramovic has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form, exploring her physical and emotional …
“Mona Hatoum” is a revised and expanded edition of one the most popular monographs of Phaidon Publications. In the 240 pages of …
The book “Sarah Sze” form Phaidon Publications with essays by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Okwui Enwezor andLaura Hoptman is the first significant …
The skylines of modern China are punctuated by architecture that amazes, inspires, and awes. Many of these structures are the work of …
Paul McCarthy creates installations, sculptures of animal/vegetable/human hybrids and slapstick performances in a purge of a national subconscious. The psycho-sexual desires and …
There have been many books that attempt to capture and analyse the depth and breadth of photography over a given period. The …
The importance of American artists in the history of Modern Art is well-known and well-documented, from Jackson Pollock to Mark Rothko and …
“Art and Electronic Media” by Edward Shanken is the newest title in the Themes and Movements series published by Phaidon, is a …
The book “30,000 Years of Art” is an accessible, chronological introduction to art history from 28,000 BC to the present day, is …
The book Art and Photography by David Campany survey the major presence of photography at the artistic practice from the ‘60s onwards. …
Due to the limited flat area and thousands of people who want to live there, land is very precious in the big …
This book presents the ways, provocative in many cases, that the artists have represented, scrutinized and utilized the body over centuries. Examines …
