Over the past two decades, the Chinese conceptual artist, activist, and exile Ai Weiwei has created art that addresses complex and sensitive themes of political, ethical, and social urgency. His artworks, which call upon both Western and Chinese cult...

"Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break III" is the third volume in a series examining the work of acclaimed video artist and photographer Sharon Lockhart. Known for collaborating with remote or marginal communities such as blue collar workers of the twenty-fi...

The history of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries is one that is scarred by incomprehensibly violent events with far-reaching effects. It is an era of world wars, totalitarian mass terror, social and ethnic cleansing, revolutions, civil w...

Spanning a decade of its subject's multifaceted career, "Cosima von Bonin: Character Appropriation" features the Kenya-born, Germany-based artist's signature textile paintings, architectural sculptures, and absurdly outsized stuffed animals. In addit...

Taking as its impetus a group of important new acquisitions at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, "Precarious Worlds" explores thematic connections between some of the most influential artists working in Germany today. Works by Franz Ackermann, Cosi...

This book evolved from an archive of images collected by artist Sharon Lockhart while researching her project "Lunch Break" – a series of films and photographs she produced from a long-term collaboration with the workers of Bath Iron Works in Maine,...

Contemporary artist Allison Smith's diverse creative practice critically engages with popular forms of historical reenactment through a variety of media, including sculpture, textiles, ceramics, and photography. Focusing on the handmade and performat...

"Chance Aesthetics" embraces the role played by chance in modernist art from the beginning of the twentieth century through the early 1970s. Published to accompany a major exhibition at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, this volume brings together...

Thaddeus Strode's vibrant large-scale paintings are universes unto themselves: wild mash-ups of California surf and skateboard culture, Zen philosophy, rock music, literature, film, and comic books".Absolutes and Nothings" marks the artist's first ma...

The iconography of war and disaster have shaped the first years of the twenty-first century, both in the United States and throughout the world".On the Margins" brings together a culturally diverse group of international artists whose work engages th...