An essential handbook for students and professionals on writing eloquently, accurately, and originally about contemporary artHow to Write About Contemporary Art is the definitive guide to writing engagingly about the art of our time. Invaluable for students, arts professionals and other aspiring writers, the book first navigates readers through the key elements of style and content, from the aims and structure of a piece to its tone and language. Brimming with practical tips that range across the complete spectrum of art-writing, the second part of the book is organized around its specific forms, including academic essays; press releases and news articles; texts for auction and exhibition catalogues, gallery guides and wall labels; op-ed journalism and exhibition reviews; and writing for websites and blogs. In counseling the reader against common pitfalls―such as jargon and poor structure―Gilda Williams points instead to the power of close looking and research, showing how to deploy language effectively; how to develop new ideas; and how to construct compelling texts. More than 30 illustrations throughout support closely analysed case studies of the best writing, in Source Texts by 64 authors, including Claire Bishop, Thomas Crow, T.J. Demos, Okwui Enwezor, Dave Hickey, John Kelsey, Chris Kraus, Rosalind Krauss, Stuart Morgan, Hito Steyerl, and Adam Szymczyk. Supplemented by a general bibliography, advice on the use and misuse of grammar, and tips on how to construct your own contemporary art library, How to Write About Contemporary Art is the essential handbook for all those interested in communicating about the art of today. 34 illustrations and 64 Source Texts

How to Write About Contemporary Art

Arts & Photography

Williams, Gilda

History & Criticism

Thames&Hudson

Boris Mikhailov (b.1938) is the former Soviet Union's most influential living photographer. His varied photographic strategies reveal not only a rich imagination but also practical solutions for survival. His work questions how an artist can position himself in a defeated, dying world. 
Other artists in this series include: Eugene Atget, Mathew Brady, Wynn Bullock, Julia Margaret Cameron, Joan Fontcuberta, David Goldblatt, Nan Goldin, Graciela Iturbide, Andre Kertesz, Dorothea Lange, Mary Ellen Mark, Joel Meyerowitz, Lisette Model, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Eadweard Muybridge, Eugene Richards, W. Eugene Smith, Shomei Tomatsu, Joel-Peter Witkin

Boris Mikhailov (Phaidon 55S)

Individual Artists

Phaidon Press

Descendiente de uno de los libros de arte más vendidos que jamás se hayan publicado.
30 de los artistas más destacados y sugerentes de todas las épocas enseñan a los niños a entender y disfrutar el arte.
Desde Leonardo con su Gioconda hasta Warhol con Marilyn, cada artista está representado por una obra, acompañada de un texto claro y conciso, que invita al lector a contemplar la pieza con detenimiento y a hacer una valoración personal.
Ordenado alfabéticamente por artistas, el libro ayuda a los jóvenes lectores a entender el significado de cada obra.
Pensado para niños a partir de 7 años en adelante, la autora comparte su entusiasmo por el arte con los más pequeños y contribuye a estimular su imaginación.
Concebido para que jóvenes y adultos compartan su lectura, este libro incluye datos y anécdotas sobre los artistas y su obra, así como ingeniosas asociaciones de ideas que conducirán al lector de una pieza a otra.

El ABC del Arte para Niños - Blanco (Art Book for Children) (Spanish Edition)

History

This collection of writings examines the pervasive and influential role of "the Gothic" in contemporary visual culture. The contemporary Gothic in art is informed as much by the stock themes of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic novel as it is by more recent permutations of the Gothic in horror film theory, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and Goth subcultures. This reader from London's Whitechapel Gallery brings together artists as different as Matthew Barney, Gregor Schneider, Louise Bourgeois, and Douglas Gordon; its intent is not to use "the Gothic" to group together dissimilar artists but rather to shed light on a particular understanding of their practice. Anthony Vidler looks at ideas of the uncanny to explore Rachel Whiteread's House, and Jeff Wall uses the motif of vampirism to analyze fellow artist Dan Graham's Kammerspell; Hal Foster considers Robert Gober's recent work--laden with Christian symbolism, criticism of America as a nexus of power, and fragmented bodies--as an updated American Gothic, and Kobena Mercer examines the Gothic's depiction of the Other in relation to Michael Jackson's pop video Thriller.

THE GOTHIC /ANGLAIS (DOCUMENTS OF CO)

WHITECHAPEL GAL

This publication focuses on five major works by the American conceptual artist Mark Dion (born 1961).
Since the late 1980s Dion has been delving into the tropes and research methods of scientists, explorers, museum curators and archaeologists. He has created a body of work that playfully presents art as scientific inquiry or field work, questioning how knowledge is gathered, classified and displayed.
The five installations documented here incorporate diverse subjects: a scholar’s study invites us to unravel intricate drawings and models; a curator’s office displays the strange magic of obsolete things; the muddy banks of the Thames have also yielded their treasures for poetic display in a gigantic cabinet; while a Dickensian Curiosity Shop tempts us with the bizarre aura of American bric-a-brac. Each immersive environment is also a habitat, evoking the characters that observe, conserve or exploit the natural world.
The catalogue features new short essays on each of the exhibited works, an interview between the artist and Iwona Blazwick and a reprint of a short story by National Book Award for Fiction winner Andrea Barrett.

Mark Dion: Theatre of the Natural World

BARRETT, Andrea

Blazwick, Iwona

Endt-Jones, Marion

LANGE-BERNDT PETRA

Luke, Ben

Kinchin-Smith, Chelsea

Petersens, Magnus

Stobbs, Candy

Whitechapel Gallery

The Art Book for Children

GIPSON, Ferren

Renshaw, Amanda

Featuring interviews with, and artwork by, such hot British artists as Mona Hatoum, Sam Taylor-Wood, Rachel Whiteread, Willie Doherty, Tracey Emin, Douglas Gordon, Abigail Lane, Angela Bulloch and Sarah Lucas, Art from the UK documents an exhibition at the Goetz Collection in Munich. The Goetz Collection is one of the most important collections devoted solely to contemporary art, and is housed in its own small private museum, designed by renowned Swiss architects Herzog &amp; de Meuron. The works presented here exemplify the Goetz Collection's dedication to innovative art--from Mona Hatoum's surprising and complex mixture of media, to Rachel Whiteread's inverted spaces, to Sam Taylor-Wood's explorations of the erotic entanglements of people in closed spaces. The interviews offer a tremendous insight into the changing creative processes and aesthetic philosophies of this new wave of British artists.

Art From The Uk: Angela Bulloch, Willie Doherty, Tracey Emin, Douglas Gordon, Mona Hatoum, Abigail Lane, Sarah Lucas, Sam Taylor-Wood, Rachel Whitread

Emin, Tracey

Gordon, Douglas

Bussel, David

Snauwaert, Dirk

Bulloch, Angela

Hatoum, Mona

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Sammlung Goetz

British photography surveyed through the eyes of 15 internationally acclaimed photographers.

Strange Days: British Contemporary Photography

Photography & Video

Charta

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