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Art and Series
Contemporary art can be difficult. Reading about it doesn’t need to be. Books in the Art and... series do two things. Firstly, they connect art back to the real stuff of life – from those perennial issues like sex and death that trouble generation after generation to those that concern today’s world: the proliferation of obscene imagery in the digital age; our daily bombardment by advertising; dubious and disturbing scientific advances. Secondly, Art and… provides accessible theme-based surveys which energetically explore the best of contemporary art. Art and... avoids rarefied discourse. In its place, it offers intelligent overviews of art – and the subjects of art – that really matter.
- Author: Joan Gibbons
- 27 May 2005
- Paperback
- Price: £14.99
She discusses too the various collaborations and crossovers between art and advertising: the work of artist, director and creative Tony Kaye; adman turned collector Charles Saatchi and the issues of celebrity and branding that surround him; and the endorsement of art by highly branded products such as Absolut Vodka, to show that art.
- Author: Giovanni Aloi
- 30 Nov 2011
- Hardback | Paperback
- Price: £42.00 | £14.99
Art and Animals challenges ideas of identity, 'otherness' and civilisation by explaining the role animals have occupied in our cultural development and illustrating their presence in the visual arts today.
- Author: Chris Townsend
- 30 Jul 2008
- Hardback | Paperback
- Price: £52.50 | £14.99
Looks at the way contemporary Western artists negotiate death, both as personal experience and in the wider community. This book discusses and moves beyond the 'spectacle of death' in work by artists such as Damien Hirst to see how mortality brings us face to face with profound ethical issues.
- Author: Sheri Klein
- 24 Nov 2006
- Hardback | Paperback
- Price: £52.50 | £14.99
Looks back to comic masters such as Hogarth and Daumier and to Dada, Surrealism and Pop Art, asking what makes us laugh and why. This book explores the use of comedy in art from satire and irony to pun, parody and black and bawdy humour. It seeks out those rare smiles in art - from the Mona Lisa onwards.
- Author: Kerstin Mey
- 24 Nov 2006
- Hardback | Paperback
- Price: £52.50 | £14.99
Talks about the work of 20th-century artists, from Hans Bellmer through to Nobuyoshi Araki, from Robert Mapplethorpe to Annie Sprinkle, and from Hermann Nitsch to Paul McCarthy. Here, the author argues that some works, regardless of their 'high art' context, remain deeply problematic, whilst others are both groundbreaking and liberating.
- Author: Maria Walsh
- 30 Nov 2012
- Hardback | Paperback
- Price: £49.50 | £14.99
- Author: Sian Ede
- 20 Jul 2005
- Paperback
- Price: £14.99
Featuring the work of artists such as Damien Hirst, Christine Borland, Bill Viola and Helen Chadwick, and art-science collaborative ventures involving Dorothy Cross, Eduardo Kac and Stelarc, it looks at the way new scientific explanations for the nature of human consciousness can influence our interpretation of art, at the.
- Author: Gray Watson
- 30 Jul 2008
- Hardback | Paperback
- Price: £52.50 | £14.99
Surveys the vast array of images of sex and sexuality in contemporary art. The author uncovers sex in the city, sex in nature, and the intimate relationship between sex and the sacred. His initial consideration of contemporary art's focus on the body leads to an exploration of the important contributions made by the feminist and queer movements.
- Author: Laura Brandon
- 24 Nov 2006
- Hardback | Paperback
- Price: £52.50 | £14.99
An encyclopedic survey of artists' responses - both 'official' and personal - to 'the horrors of war'. This work reveals the diversity of artists' portrayals of this most devastating aspect of the human condition - from the 'heroic' paintings of Benjamin West and John Singer Sargent to brutal and iconic works by artists from Goya to Picasso.