Tom Burrows
Scott Watson and Ian Wallace, Tom Burrows. Vancouver, BC: Figure 1 Publishing, 2018 Book information: Tom Burrows, and the exhibition that preceded the book, presents work by the artist from his early career to the present. The book is a timely refocusing of attention on an artist who has made an immense contribution to the development […]
Graphic Culture, Illustration, and Artistic Enterprise in Paris, 1830-1848
Nineteenth-century Paris is often celebrated as the capital of modernity. However, this story is about cultural producers who were among the first to popularize and profit from that idea. Graphic Culture investigates the graphic artists and publishers who positioned themselves as connoisseurs of Parisian modernity in order to market new print publications that would amplify […]
From Carnival to Lucha Libre: Mexican Masks and Devotions / Do Carnaval à Luta Libre: Máscaras e Devoções Mexicanas
Lavell, Nicola and Anthony Alan Shelton, From Carnival to Lucha Libre: Mexican Masks and Devotions / Do Carnaval à Luta Libre: Máscaras e Devoções Mexicanas. Lisbon: Museu Nacional de Lisboa, 2017 Book information: From Carnival to Lucha Libre: Mexican Masks and Devotions offers a series of glimpses into some of the most ingenious expressions of Mexico’s […]
Migrations
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Foucault on Painting
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“Texture” in Textile Terms: A Glossary
T’ai Smith, “Texture” in Textile Terms: A Glossary, edited by Anike Reineke, Anne Röhl, Mateusz Kapustka, and Tristan Weddigen. Berlin: Emsdetten, 2017 Book information: The glossary explores and presents seventy essential and critical terms that define the textile medium as a specific form, material, technique and metaphor from antiquity to the present. It collects contributions of […]
Marshall Plan Modernism
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Heaven, Hell and Somewhere in Between: Portuguese Popular Art
Heaven, Hell and Somewhere In Between combines an in-depth analysis of Portuguese popular art and culture with stunning photographs of forty artworks—ceramics, masks, puppets—and another sixty supporting images, from medieval frescoes and roadside icons to graffiti and images of carnival performers and artisans at work in their studios. Complex, contemporary, theatrical, political, and often controversial, […]
Camera Atomica
A unique and engaging exploration of how the camera lens has shaped public perceptions of the atomic age and its legacy of anxiety. The images featured are extremely vivid and were taken by famed photographers including Weegee, Barbara Kruger, Sandy Skoglund and Garry Winogrand from some of the nuclear events from 1945 onwards. Wherever there […]
Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories
Edited by Amelia Jones and Erin Silver Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories is the first publication to address queer feminist politics, methods and theories in relation to the visual arts, including new media, installation and performance art. Despite the crucial contribution of considerations of “queer” to feminism in other disciplines of the humanities, and […]