Art today may seem perplexing at first with its divergent styles, forms, practices, media, and agendas. Michael Archer's intelligently argued survey is unique in revealing and making coherent sense of art practice from the past forty years―Pop, Minimal, Conceptual, Land, Performance, Body, and Installation―and myriad developments in the work of Warhol, Beuys, Bourgeois, and the many other artists whose works are discussed and illustrated here. The underlying themes that run through contemporary art, irrespective of styles and techniques, reveal the complex relationship between art and everyday life worldwide. This revised and expanded edition is brought up to date with discussions on the more comprehensive globalization of art since the mid-1990s, which can be seen in the growth of the exhibition calendar and the number of new contemporary art museums opening around the world. With over thirty additional illustrations and an updated timeline and bibliography, this book will prove indispensable to anyone interested in the evolution of modern art. 225 (97 in color)

Art Since 1960 (World of Art)

Arts & Photography

michael-archer

History & Criticism

Thames&Hudson

Mona Hatoum is an internationally renowned Lebanese-born, British-based Palestinian artist whose work is both deeply personal and quietly political. Inspired by her familial connections to war-torn Beirut as well as her sensitivity to contemporary racial and gender-based injustice, she transgresses the boundaries of performance, video, and sculpture while strategically reworking minimalism from a vantage point grounded in a feminist and cross-cultural sensibility.

Mona Hatoum (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

Guy Brett

Mona Hatoum

Catherine de Zegher

Phaidon Press

Riversleigh

Science & Math

Suzanne Hand

Henk Godthelp

Earth Sciences

Reed

The Evolution of Australia: 110 Million Years of Change

Australian Museum

Beautifully illustrated. Photography by Sonia Halliday and Laura Lushington. 28p. Includes history, Bible stories, masterpieces, styles, and more.

Stained Glass (Pitkin Guides)

Pitkin Guides

A comprehensive reference to the extinct mammals of ancient Australia and New Guinea, including carnivorous kangaroos, the first koalas, huge Diprotodons, bizarre thingadontans, marsupial lions, ancient bats and rats, and marine mammals.

Fossil Mammals of Australian and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution

TIM FLANNERY

John A. Long

Biological Sciences

UNSW Press

Fair As China Dishes: English Delftware - From the Collection of Mrs. Marion Morgan and Brian Morgan

Brian Morgan

International Exhibitions Foundation

Published on the occasion of an exhibition, "Your Plinth is My Lap," at Dundee Contemporary Arts and the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein.

Fiona Banner - 'BANNER'

Patricia Ellis

Dundee Contemporary Arts

Installation is arguably the most original, vigorous, and fertile form of art today. This book sets out to describe the tradition and explore the achievements and ambitions of the installation artist. Michael Archer's illuminating introduction traces the history of installation art from Duchamp's first readymade through the Pop tableaux of Kienholz, Oldenburg, Kaprow, and Dine to more recent developments such as Land Art and Process Art. Installation is a rich art form, often heroic in scale, sometimes witty and subversive, usually impermanent. This pioneering volume captures fully the variety and scale of these many-layered works—the essential contemporary record.

Installation Art

Nicolas De Oliveira

Nicola Oxley

Michael Petry

Smithsonian Institution Press

English Heritage in Stained Glass: Oxford

Trans Atlantic Investments Limited

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