The Arts Books
Film & Video Umbrella Pidgin Erika Tan
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£9.95
Journal of Jewish Studies The Image and Its Prohibition in Jewish Antiquity
Book SynopsisAgainst the commonly held opinion that ancient Judaism was an artless culture, this sumptuously illustrated book offers new ways of looking at art in Jewish antiquity. Leading experts, under the editorship of Sarah Pearce, skilfully explore different functions of images in relation to their prohibition by the Second of the Ten Commandments.Trade ReviewThe contributors are all specialist scholars, in a range of fields, and their essays represent the latest scholarship in English on this tantalising and complex subject. -- Standpoint Standpoint
£49.50
Kingfisher Reach Publishing My North East by its Famous Sons and Daughters
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£17.09
Arcadia Missa Publications Ecology of Secrets
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£10.91
Taylor & Francis Social Media and the Cultural Politics of Korean
Book SynopsisThis volume examines international engagement with Korean popular culture in East Asian online spaces, and how Asian identities are formed and perceived between nations within the region.In the context of global diversification and growing public participation in global issues, it builds up a new theoretical perspective in order to explain the emerging power of Asia in the global mediascape. With a focus on Korean media, touching upon K-pop and the phenomenon of Hallyu and anti-Hallyu, the author also looks at Japan, China, and Taiwan in this regional study. Combining theory with ethnographic audience studies in East Asian countries, the book elucidates East Asian media in a larger context of the changing global structure and media technology.This book will interest academics and students working on Asian popular culture and media, new media, East Asian studies, participatory media, and digital communication.
£37.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Dreaming a way of Life
Book SynopsisSince his debut in the 1980s, Lewis Klahr has built a mesmerizing and influential body of work, establishing himself as one of the foremost collage animatorsor, as he prefers, a re-animator. His films explore themes of identity, childhood, sexuality, Greek mythology, and capitalism.
£49.99
Taylor & Francis Now Media
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£68.39
Taylor & Francis The Audio Circuits Cookbook
Book SynopsisThe Audio Circuits Cookbook is a comprehensive collection of high-quality audio circuit modules - âœbuilding blocksâ - that readers can arrange to create complete audio devices. More than 80 featured circuits cover every aspect of audio, from basics such as active rectifiers, peak followers, and oscillators, to complete professional quality devices including compressors, equalizers, preamps and an analog synthesizer.Offering a range of tutorial advice that covers capacitor selection, multi-layer PC Board design, and more, each circuit in this book is also provided as an LTspice file, ready to be copied into your projects. It includes detailed explanations of every type of active filter commonly used for audio, along with a spreadsheet that calculates their component values, as well as Ohmâs Law and Decibels spreadsheets.Providing practical explanations of both simple and sophisticated audio circuits using minimal math and theory, this is an ideal manual for inte
£43.99
Taylor & Francis The Audio Expert
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£52.99
CRC Press Raw Outrage
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£49.39
Taylor & Francis Revisiting Peace Journalism in the Kenyan News
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£47.49
CRC Press Game Design Deep Dive
Book SynopsisGame Design Critic and expert Josh Bycer is back with another entry in the Game Design Deep Dive series for a look at one of the most popular, and confusing, genres out there. Metroidvania is a genre of high-highs and low-lows, and Josh is taking up the task to explain what a metroidvania is, the very long history and variety of it, and what you need to do to create one yourself. A look at the history of metroidvania design A primer on 2D platforming UI/UX Explaining the design and specific elements that make a metroidvania, or could be applied to other genres Perfect for designers and students alike
£48.99
£51.29
CRC Press How Video Games Made the Metaverse
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£47.49
Taylor & Francis Societies at an AI Crossroads
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£50.34
Indy Pub Growing Fruit
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£26.60
Indy Pub Where the Wild Blueberries Grow
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£14.96
Indy Pub Sleepy Sloth Journal
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£11.12
Palgrave Macmillan Masculinity Class and Music Education Boys
Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction: Making Masculinities Through Music.- Chapter 2. Gendering the Boy Voice.- Chapter 3. Venerating Angels.- Chapter 4. Thinking about Masculinity, Class and Music with Bordieu.- Chapter 5. Capitalising on Musical Mothering.- Chapter 6. Becoming Choirboys.- Chapter 7. Vocalising Gender and Class.- Chapter 8. Practising Virtuosity.- Chapter 9. Conclusion.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Making Masculinities Through Music Chapter 2. Gendering the Boy Voice Chapter 3. Venerating Angels Chapter 4. Thinking about Masculinity, Class and Music with Bordieu Chapter 5. Capitalising on Musical Mothering Chapter 6. Becoming Choirboys Chapter 7. Vocalising Gender and Class Chapter 8. Practising Virtuosity Chapter 9. Conclusion
£98.99
Palgrave Macmillan Creativity and Education
Book SynopsisThis book advances an environmental approach to enhancing creativity in schools, by interweaving educational creativity theory with creative industries environmental approaches.Table of ContentsPreface.- Chapter 1. Research.- Chapter 2. Find Patterns.- Chapter 3. Ideate.- Chapter 4. Prototype.- Chapter 5. Iterate.
£74.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bringing Forth the New
Book SynopsisBringing Forth the New provides a headlong introduction into the world of Chinese contemporary visual art, opening from the art world onto the political, technological and economic vectors of recent Chinese history. Each chapter reads an important facet of recent Chinese history through the work of a significant artist. From examining trade war and intellectual property through the work of political pop painters such as Yu Youhan, to the development of gendered constructs in China through the work of Cui Xuiwen.Trade ReviewIn a series of dazzling close readings, Bringing Forth The New offers a non-stop stream of brilliant insights and historical elaborations. It is comparative scholarship of the best kind—moving with grace and trenchant analysis across vast realms of visual experience. Forging connections at every turn, Maizels turns what might at first seem like an arbitrary series of visual examples into an impressive dance of analytic virtuosity, articulating the complexities of “East” and “West” as remediated in Chinese art during the past several decades. No matter where one is situated in relation to its many themes, one will inevitably learn a great deal from this book. * R. John Williams, Yale University, USA *Table of Contents1. Our Own Arrows 2. One Way Glass 3. Half of Heaven 4. Degrees of Separation 5. Muted Situations 6. Survival Robot
£18.99
Manchester University Press Creative Approaches to Wellbeing
Book SynopsisA compilation of case studies illustrating how arts, culture and other community assets were used by individuals and communities to cope during the Covid-19 pandemic. Focusing on experiences and voices of those marginalised during the pandemic, vital lessons are drawn out for policy and practice in the arts and provision of health and care. -- .
£38.00
Vintage Publishing Nightshade
Book Synopsis'Engrossing...I loved each and every brushstroke' Ian Rankin'Nightshade is a glorious novel... full of twisted sexuality, art and power' ObserverCould the creative urge be the most destructive - even the deadliest - impulse of all? Could it end in death?Eve Laing, once the muse of an infamous painter, is now - forty years later - an artist herself. But she has sacrificed her career for her family. She resents the global success of her old college roommate. She is slowly unravelling.When Eve embarks on her most ambitious work yet, she takes a wrecking ball to her comfortable life, jettisoning her marriage for a beautiful young lover who seems to share her single-minded creative vision. This timely novel explores sexual politics, asking if the true artist must relinquish the ordinary human need for love and connection to pave the way for desire and ambition, leading to a fatal awakening...Trade ReviewNightshade is a glorious novel... full of twisted sexuality, art and power, about what it means to commit yourself entirely to the artistic life. The book's ending is unforgettable. -- Alex Preston * Observer *Brilliant and biting. -- Harriet Fitch Little * Financial Times *The drama of creation, of impending triumph or failure, and the expert rendering of the artistic process, all lift the novel to a new level...McAfee’s prose is lyrical yet sharp… the novel fascinates…and Nightshade’s questions continue to intrigue. -- Joanna Briscoe * Guardian *McAfee’s engaging novel combines a dark plot with a zestful skewering of the contemporary art world. -- Anthony Gardner * Mail on Sunday *Eve is a fascinating, plausible creation, both alluring and monstrous in her all-consuming self-regard. * Metro *
£8.54
Bellissima Publishing What You See Is What You'll Get!
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£9.60
Bellissima Publishing You'll Never Know . . . If You Don't Try!
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£9.60
Cambria Press A History of Taiwan Literature
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£86.39
Buckman Publishing LLC The Right Tool: and Other Poor Choices
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£13.30
Books by Chris M. Balz Burning The May Tree: The Sacrifice of Jim
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£19.65
Idler Books The Idler 87: Graham Coxon on the disappointments
Book SynopsisHere is issue 87 of Tom Hodgkinson's essential magazine for good living. Meet Blur guitarist Graham Coxon, discover why Socrates was cynical about politics, and learn about the idling academies of 17th century Naples.
£8.55
Idler Books The Idler: 88, feat. Richard Coles
Book SynopsisThe cheering journal of merry philosophy, featuring Richard Coles on his new life by the sea, plus Virginia Ironside, Stewart Lee, Ukrainian fashion, Modern Toss and more
£8.55
Fig Studio The Waiting List
£10.00
Intellect Books Lessons from a Multispecies Studio: Uncovering
Book SynopsisA highly original book in which the author proposes an expanded field of aesthetics, guided by her philosophy and approach to working, through the ways that philosophy can be manifested in art. She demonstrates the depth and complexity that she brings to her work through a sustained and committed relationship to working with animals across multiple projects. The book tells real-world stories about the author’s creative encounters – with animals, plant life, mineral beings and forest ecosystems – in her Vancouver-based interspecies art practice, Animal Lover, and how they shifted her outlook on the Earth and all of life. Each chapter presents a weaving together of personal reflection, interdisciplinary research, critical thought and art methods. The threads converge on this main point: the need to move away from anthropocentrism and towards ecological understanding, reciprocity and biophilia. The local journeys in each chapter are guided by more-than-human ways of knowing which provide an expanded sense of the world and an understanding of the imperative for action. This book is an invitation to readers to step into more-than-human worlds, re-sense life and re-think their relationship with the planet and all its inhabitants. It asks readers to slow down, look around and listen – and feel. Love for life is practised by all beings in their lively projects. It is what joins us together in the relational flourishing that is the vital wondrous complexity of the Earth. The Anthropocene is a term used to describe the geological era in which we live, marking the realization that humans have become such a force that we are affecting the Earth’s air, lands, oceans, climate. At its core, in the modern Eurocentric societies that typify this era, is an entrenched worldview of nature as a means to fuel global capitalist-colonial systems. This anthropocentric worldview justifies the colonization and exploitation of ecosystems and nonhuman life, seen as ‘resources’ available for human expansion and prosperity, and readily available as free labour. The consequential outcomes are manifest in today’s climate emergency and ecological degradations including animal slavery, industrial farming, over-fishing, deforestation and habitat loss, and the coming environmental collapse with its sixth mass extinction. Within recent decades, the sustainability of anthropocentric views have been called into question across disciplines. Lessons from a Multispecies Art Studio joins with these movements, and offers new applied approaches – from interspecies art – to help shape and evolve human outlooks, emotions and actions. Primary readership will be research-creation academic artists working with animals, and researchers working around animals; more-than-human-animal activists; artists and emerging artists, as well as to art theorists and to those with a strong interest in environmental values.Table of ContentsIntroduction Dogs Dog lessons Early days Dog communications Communication ethics Transformation EPIC_Tom Crows and Stones A gift from a crow Good neighbours Crow mind and narrative ethics Stone communications Stone aesthetics Ruins Other gifts Crow Stone Tone Poem New gift, new art Salmon and River Salmon lesson River The Adams River spawning grounds Salmon migration projects Fish ways of knowing Salmon People Forest Dawn The forest Life’s beginnings Phyto-fungal-communications Interspecies indeterminacy and biophilic attention Anthrophony Old trees Biophilia Afterword Acknowledgements
£28.02
Intellect Books Let's Talk about Critique: Reimagining Art and
Book SynopsisThis book explores the tradition of critique in art and design education. It examines how critique, as a signature pedagogy in the field, has evolved, how it falls short, and what else it can be. Current practices are contextualized and suggestions are made for ways to have more open, inclusive and dynamic classroom conversations about art and design. Included is a discussion of the history of critique, grounding current practice in the discipline’s history, the field of education, and characteristics of contemporary students. The book is designed to be useful, with an array of critique methods, written by experienced arts educators. Each one guides the reader through a method, describing “why you might do it this way” and “for what group, purpose, or type of assignment”. The text explores what the art critique is, and what it can be, offering practical, updated approaches for faculty and students seeking more educationally beneficial and nuanced critiqueTrade Review"Let’s Talk about Critique includes a variety of ways to look at and talk about work, pushing beyond the stale traditions and enlivening the possibilities for what can happen in discussing art. Armstrong and Doren provide a very thorough history and critique of the critique, as well as solutions to the inadequacies of the past traditions. The book meets an important need, evolving the critique from an authority/judgment model to a dialogue where all voices are respected and content meaning is addressed." -- Susan Waters-Eller, Maryland Institute College of Art“In Let’s Talk about Critique, Armstrong and Doren make a compelling case for the necessity of different studio critiques within contemporary higher education. This book is an extensive and diverse catalogue of innovative studio critiques, explores the history of the studio critique, and discusses recent studies on Generation Z.” -- Roger Rothman, Bucknell UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction 1. What Is a Critique? 2. The Critique’s History: How the Contemporary Critique Evolved 3. The Contemporary Student and the Critique 4. Critique And Assessment 5. Critique Methods Collection I: Non-verbal critiques Yun Shin and Emily Stokes Elissa Armstrong Nida Abdullah and Denise Gonzales Crisp Chelsea Coon Mariah Doren Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard II: Play and improvisation critiques Carol Elkovich Nida Abdullah and Denise Gonzales Crisp Jonathon Russell Laurie Gatlin Tyrus Clutter Jonathon Russell III: Pre-, mid-, post- and extended critiques Ane Gonzalez Lara Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard Leslie Bellavance Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard Elissa Armstrong Hannah Barnes IV: Student-centered critiques Gaia Scagnetti and T. Camille Martin-Thomsen Denielle J. Emans and Kelly M. Murdoch-Kitt April Friges Andrea Marpillero-Colomina Kristina Bivona nicole killian Hande Sever and Alexandre Saden melissa m button, Matt Nock, and Phil Stoesz V: Critique of critiques Mariah Doren Maya Krinsky Andy Broadey and Richard Hudson-Miles Matt King Morgan Alford, Alia Ali, Naama Attias, Julia Chai, Casey Chan, Jiayun Chen, Yingtong He, Ashley Hunt, Kaidi Jiu, Keunjae Kwon, Michael Mendoza, Oscar Ochoa, Alexeis Reyes, Ruoyi Shi, Estela Ana Silva, Allison Yasukawa, and Hanzhu Zhang Conclusion References Notes on Contributors
£23.70
Arcadia Missa Publications Gravity Road: A Rollercoaster Reader
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£11.78
Emerald Publishing Limited Music
Book SynopsisMusic is an art form but also a social activity. It is a part of every human society, contributing to community, culture, and a sense of group identity. It is also fundamental to individual identity and personal well-being. In Music, Eugene Beresin traces the possible applications of musical expression for human health and happiness. At the heart of Music are powerful examples from the lives of real individuals, families, and populations. These stories cover a myriad of ages, instruments, situations, and purposes, to convey the universal power of music to help us all get more out of life. Offering practical ideas for integrating musical practice into a wide range of settings from the medical to the personal, Beresin provides a compelling evocation of the healing power of music. It is a must-read for practitioners, teachers, counsellors, and lovers of the art form.Trade ReviewMusic and the arts reach around all corners of the world and into all corners of our life and Dr. Eugene Beresin details many aspects of their purpose and importance in his book Arts For Health: Music. I think this is important information to share and it reinforces what all of us musicians and artists already know…that the arts (regardless of their type), when done with the right intention, are healing arts. -- Jeff Coffin, 3x Grammy winning saxophonist, composer, educator, author. Dave Matthews Band, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Ear Up Records founder, The Mu’tet.Music is certainly a pleasurable and universal part of the human experience, but is it really possible that harms could be assuaged through harmonies, symptoms soothed by symphonies, remedies found in rhythm? As an expert Harvard physician, healer, and musician, Dr. Gene Beresin makes a forceful and persuasive case that the answer is a resounding, “yes” - scientifically elucidating and affirming music’s psycho-biological therapeutic effects and uncovering its power to heal. Informative, instructive, inspirational, students, clinicians, patients, and family members, will find solace and joy here. -- John F. Kelly, PhD, ABPP Elizabeth R. Spallin Professor of Psychiatry in Addiction Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Director of the Recovery Research Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA USA. Award-winning songwriter, singer, musician, and producer.If you are in the group of people that think music is ancillary to your life - or extracurricular or non-essential - but have been waiting for someone to prove you wrong, look no further! Dr. Eugene Beresin has comprehensively, and in simple language, dispelled any hypothesis of the kind in his book, Arts For Health: Music. From heartfelt personal testimonies to factual medical data, this book beautifully explains the effect music universally has on humanity and why it’s important for individual well-being. It is a must have for all music teachers, students and professionals, as it gives language to what we innately already know. -- Terri Lyne Carrington - Grammy Award winning, drummer/composer/producer/activist, who is played with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Stan Getz, Al Jarreau and many others.Music has a visceral, transcendent power that cuts across language, culture and age, and it can help us connect to each other, as well as to our innermost selves. In Arts For Health: Music, Gene Beresin has created a fantastic reminder of and argument for music’s power to lead us to healthier, more connected, and more fulfilling lives. -- Chris Eldridge - Grammy winning acoustic guitarist with Punch Brothers, Julian Lage. Americana Music Association Instrumentalist of the Year. Visiting Assistant Professor of Contemporary Acoustic Music, Oberlin Conservatory.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Why Music? The Universality of Music Chapter 2. How Music Improves Well-being Chapter 3. Who Benefits? Stories Of Music Enhancing Personal and Professional Well-Being Chapter 4. Ways To Engage With Music Chapter 5. How Professionals Can Use Music to Improve Well-being Chapter 6. Challenges for Engagement In Music Chapter 7. Overcoming Challenges and Future Directions
£15.19
Eyewear Publishing Holding The Line: Art Celebrating Frontline
Book SynopsisSince the start of the global pandemic of2020-2021 the comic book art of M.J. Hiblen hastouched hearts across the world his more than325,000 followers on social media include fans likeMark Hamill and Chris Hemsworth. Hiblen hashighlighted, in epic illustrations, just howimportant and heroic our brave Frontlineworkers have been in this time of Covid-19.Now, here, is the expanded and revised 2021paperback of the 2020 limited edition FrontlineHeroes to mark this unprecedented, terrible, sadyear of the everyday heroes, who changed ourway of seeing the world of work forever apicture book without words, timeless, universal,and finally, both heart-breaking and ennobling.Holding the Line is the book to give to anyonewho has known and appreciated these heroes,or who wants to recall the best part of ourselves,in the worst of times, now including drawings ofCaptain Tom, and the vaccine rollout.
£15.29
Veneficia Publications Dialectic
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£6.64
DIRTYillness Habitat
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£18.00
Unicorn Publishing Group Being a Painter
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£24.00
Unicorn Publishing Group Xu Xiaowei
Book SynopsisThe book features dream-space photo collages created by Xu Xiaowei. By combining visual representations of objects and places with ready-made images that randomly appear and disappear in contemporary Chinese society, the artist reinvents his memories. The artwork reflects the personal turmoil experienced in the face of rapid changes in Chinese society. Through non-linear and fragmentary stories that unfold in a dystopian fantasy world that is both pre-modern and post-industrial, the artist tries to convey this agitation. Using reconstructed photographs, the artist constructs a space of memory that lies somewhere between the tangible and the absurd.
£24.00
Unicorn Publishing Group Christina Tung Wai Breath of the Universe
Book SynopsisThis book showcases the work of contemporary ink artist Christina Tung Wai. Feathers and Taoist philosophy have been recurring subjects in her paintings; for her the feather symbolises her aspirations for freedom following a previous career in the finance sector. Initially working on Chinese rice paper and Japanese linen paper, she has recently chosen to explore more innovative materials such as tissue paper and leather, turning ordinary things into extraordinary art.
£28.00
Smith Street Books Snow Be It
Book SynopsisLearn how to make the perfect holiday wreath and plenty more festive fun activities! Halloween has been and gone, and Thanksgiving is over it's time to prepare for the most festive holiday of all Christmas! Learn how to make the perfect holiday wreath to adorn your front door with a step-by-step guide that even the littlest elf can follow. Then move onto some other holiday activities, like making an advent calendar so you can count down the days to the 25th; preparing a custom snack tray to leave out for Santa and the reindeer; building a sturdy snowman; and how to trim a tree to perfection. Then turn your attention to crafting the perfect festive table, whipping up some steaming mulled wine, eggnog or a fizzy festive cocktail to entertain your guests, before impressing them all with a showstopping feast with all the trimmings. Transform your festive fun with 29 ideas that will have you saying, Snow be it!
£13.50
Woodslane Pty Ltd When We Was Fab
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£27.99
Hendrik Varju Mexican Dinner Parties: Complete Menus for
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£30.35
Headbangers Publishing After Party
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£35.10
EAR (EDITIONS ANTOINE ROUX) FLOWERS
Book SynopsisFLOWERS doesn't represent flowers.They are explicitly flowers, as per the title, but flowers reduced to the mere forms, on which spray paint and kid's glue can be dumped.They stand reconfigured, their stems artificially grafted together via Serflex, blu-tack or wires.They are an aggregation of materials, textures and colors, a composite greater than the sum of its parts.These (mostly supermarket) flowers end up being transformed into a pile of stuff to disarm the immediate perception of their very nature.Forms are made difficult to increase the length of perception, to delay the understanding of what is seen.It's a stratagem to create a thin breach, through which can arise a visual pleasure unrelated to any what' of any object. It is a loose approach on a constantly evolving, reconfigured, half intentionally and half accidentally produced image, where instability is designed from the start.All these forms are improvised, transient, and modifiable.The structures always collapse, but ins
£49.50
JRP Ringier Walead Beshty: 33 Texts: 93,614 Words: 581,035
Book SynopsisLos Angelesbased artist Walead Beshty (born 1976) has long maintained an active writing career alongside his work in the visual arts. Writing on a variety of media, including essays on cinema, painting, sculpture and photography, and texts on artists such as Jay DeFeo, Sharon Lockhart, Kelley Walker, Luisa Lambri, Annette Kelm and Michael Asher, among others, Beshty has been widely published in both books and magazines. This book, the latest in JRPRingier's Positions series copublished with Les presses du réel, gathers together a selection of these essays, often hard to find, in partially reedited forms. Together these texts appear as a parallel production to Beshty's artistic work: they reflect on the conditions of the realization and circulation of images, undermining distinctions between media, abstraction and figuration, and proposing new aesthetic criteria for the works examined.
£15.20
JRP Ringier Andro Wekua
Book SynopsisGeorgian artist Andro Wekua (born 1977) uses painting, collage, drawing, installation, sculpture and film to reflect on childhood, memory and political history in his depictions of fictional and dream-like realities, documented in this first comprehensive publication.
£41.40
