BOOKSTORE | Visual Arts
Sticker Nation : The Big Book of Subversive Stickers (Paperback)
Kumar, SriniReleased 2006-05-01
This big book of subversive stickers now makes cult favorite slogans available to the general public in a collectible format-use them, save them, give them away-they are so cheap you can buy multiple copies of the book and still be spending less than buying just a few stickers on their own.
Cuba : By Korda (Paperback)
Korda, AlbertoReleased 2006-04-01
This book, originally published in France, gives an overview of Korda's extraordinary camerawork, from his first work as a fashion photographer to "The Quixote of the Lamp Post," a Cuban peasant sitting on a lamp post above a sea of people during a mass rally. It includes other somewhat quirky and less well-known photographs, such as Castro warily eyeing a tiger at the Bronx zoo and Che Guevara playing golf.
Photography and Writing in Latin America : Double Exposures (Paperback)
Schwartz, Marcy E. and TierReleased 2006-04-01
This is the first book to document the extensive collaboration between writers and photographers in Latin America from the Mexican Revolution through the twentieth century.
Sex Objects : Art and the Dialectics of Desire (Paperback)
Doyle, JenniferReleased 2006-02-01
Moving beyond debates about pornography and censorship, Jennifer Doyle shows us that sex in art is as diverse as sex in everyday life: exciting, ordinary, emotional, traumatic, embarrassing, funny, even profoundly boring.
Colored Pictures : Race and Visual Representation (Paperback)
Harris, Michael D. and Okediji, MReleased 2006-02-01
In this book, artist and art historian Michael Harris investigates the role of visual representation in the construction of black identities, both real and imagined, in the United States.
Poetry of the Revolution : Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes (Paperback)
Puchner, MartinReleased 2006-01-01
Poetry of the Revolution tells the story of political and artistic upheavals through the manifestos of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Giorgio Palmera: The Wall : Al-Jidar (Paperback)
Palmera, Giorgio and Anselmino, AReleased 2005-11-01
Giorgio Palmera's panoramic images of the wall being built through the West Bank show a grey, impenetrable presence that palls the horizons, fences in spaces, and consciences.
Elizabeth Catlett : In the Image of the People (Paperback)
Herzog, Melanie AnneReleased 2005-11-01
Focusing on Catlett’s evocative Negro Woman series from 1946–47, this book reveals Catlett’s commitment to social and political issues.
Art of Engagement : Visual Politics in California and Beyond (Paperback)
Selz, PeterReleased 2005-10-01
Selz considers the work of artists such as Robert Arneson, Hans Burkhardt, Jerome (Caja), Enrique Chagoya, Judy Chicago, Llyn Foulkes, Rupert Garcia, Helen and Newton Harrison, Wally Hedrick, Suzanne Lacy, Hung Liu, Peter Saul, Miriam Schapiro.
Graffiti Brasil (Paperback)
Manco, TristanReleased 2005-09-01
From the startlingly distinctive achievements of the internationally renowned twin-brother painters Os Gemeos to the visual powers of the ubiquitous daredevil Pichadores, Brazil's graffiti captivates with entirely fresh ideas, techniques, and messages.
Diary of Frida Kahlo : An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
Kahlo, Frida and Fuentes, CarlosReleased 2005-08-01
The 170-page journal contains the artist's thoughts, poems, and dreams-many reflecting her stormy relationship with her husband, artist Diego Rivera-along with 70 mesmerizing watercolor illustrations.