Mies van der Rohe once commented, "Only skyscrapers under construction reveal their bold constructive thoughts, and then the impression made by their soaring skeletal frames is overwhelming". Never has this statement resonated more than in recent yea...

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Since the collapse of the Iron Curtain in 1991, Prague has become one of Europe's – and the world's – most popular tourist destinations. As in London, Paris, and Rome, visitors flock to th...

Throughout the vast interior of the United States, contemporary artists are responding to the world around them and reshaping it in unexpected ways. Published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name that first appeared last year in the Nether...

Who gets to say what counts as contemporary art? Artists, critics, curators, gallerists, auctioneers, collectors, or the public? Revealing how all of these groups have shaped today's multifaceted definition, Terry Smith brilliantly shows that an hist...

"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...

This book is a window to the daily life and the environment of the Tikigaq, the Inupiaq people of "Point Hope, Alaska", as seen in photographs taken by young Norwegian artist Berit Arnestad Foote from 1959 to 1962. In Berit Foote's days in Point Hope...

Masks are an ancient tradition of the Alutiiq people on the southern coast of Alaska. Alutiiq artists carved the masks from wood or bark into images of ancestors, animal spirits, and other mythological forces; these extraordinary creations have been...

Sight is central to the medium of photography. But what happens when the subjects of photographic portraits cannot look back at the photographer or even see their own image? An in-depth pictorial study of blind schoolchildren in Mexico, "Look at me"...

Katharina Grosse's painting practice is a phoenix from the ashes of late Modernism, appending themselves to the Greenbergian cul de sac in an uncanny manner. Since 1998 Grosse has been using a compressed-air spray gun to apply garish swaths and splas...

What is it about etching that renders it – according to both the poet-critic Charles Baudelaire and the visionary artist Samuel Palmer – a medium of writing? And, moreover, what makes etching equally adaptable to the expression of both memory and mod...