This striking, oversized book, designed to evoke encyclopaedias, is a highly creative amalgam of collage with a political bent and poetry. From 2011 to 2012, American artist Mel Chin (b. 1951) extracted all of the images from a twenty-five-volume set...

In a world saturated with polychrome printed media and ephemeral digital images, painting has a particular power. It requires a direct experience of the work as a physical object; it offers an encounter with the scale of the canvas and the texture of...

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Czech action art – a medium similar to performance art that does not require an audience – emerged out of the political and social turmoil of the 1960s. This movement has received little c...

Since its launching in 1999, "Afterall", a journal of art, context and enquiry, has offered in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Published three times a yea...

Not for sale in Poland! Following an international conference organized at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw in 2013, "Oskar Hansen – Opening Modernism" analyzes diverse aspects of the architectural, theoretical, and didactical oeuvre of Oskar Han...

For sale in CIS only! Written in the wake of the widely publicised attacks by Hindu nationalist activists on the late M. F. Husain, India's most famous artist and a prominent Muslim, The Art of Secularism addresses the entanglement of visual art wit...

For the past thirteen years, Autocenter has put its stamp on Berlin's contemporary arts scene. Founded in 2001 by Maik Schierloh and Joep van Liefland in a former auto body shop in Berlin-Friedrichshain, Autocenter has become an indispensable fixture...

The Paris-born, Venezuelan artist Marisol (b.1930) burst on to the 1960s New York art scene with large figural sculptures in a wild amalgam of mixed-media. Often satirical, Marisol's art is inspired by sources as diverse as Pre-Columbian art, folk ar...

"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...

Published for the first time in a single volume, this definitive collection of original posters produced by Andy Warhol reveals the artist's remarkable contribution to the art of poster design. Throughout his career, Andy Warhol easily crossed the b...