New and classic books

Investigations of failure as a key concern--as theme, strategy, and world view--of recent art.

The vital intersection of contemporary art and activism.

Contemporary artists' radical investigations of nature.

How ethics and aesthetics have become central to the contested space of much recent art.

Writings on color from modernism to the present.

Art that seeks to produce situations in which relations are formed among viewers.

An art-historical reassessment of information-based art and exhibition curation.

Scavenging, replicating, or remixing, many influential artists today reinvent a legacy of "stealing" images and forms from other makers.

Discussions of the object as a key to understanding central aspects of modern and contemporary art.

Surveys system-based art, from its origins in the 1950s to its twenty-first century resurgence in works that draw on cutting-edge science.

A definitive guide to the rising status of sound in art.

Contemporary art's engagement with three modes of abstraction.

A survey of contemporary art and theory that proposes alternatives to outdated linear models of time.

Key texts on beauty and its revival in contemporary art.

Investigations into the wide array of artistic relationships to memory, repetition and reappearance, and forgetting.

The crucial role of artists in questioning and shaping the phenomenon of the exhibition.

The notion of "situation" in art and theory that consider site, place, and context, temporary interventions, remedial actions, place-making, and public space.

The first anthology to address the rise of the "design-art" phenomenon.

The dawn of the electronic media age initiated a cultural shift from the modernist grid's determination of projection and representation to the fluid structures and circuits of the network.

Jokes and humor in avant-garde and contemporary art.

Why chance remains a key strategy in artists' investigations into the contemporary world.

The first comprehensive survey of the Gothic in contemporary visual culture.

The significance of the archive in modernity and in contemporary art.

The evolution of studio-and "post-studio"-practice over the last half century.

Tracing the identification of art with sexual expression or repression, from the era of the rights movements to the present.

The diverse meanings of contemporary painting since its postconceptual revival.

The revival of documentary in art, considered in historical, theoretical, and contemporary contexts.

Moving image-based art that has emerged alongside digital media.

The sublime-the transcendent, the awe- inspiring, the unpresentable-in art and culture.

Key artists' writings that have influenced and catalyzed contemporary queer artistic practice.

Writings on the "turn to the ordinary" in contemporary art.

Utopian strategies in contemporary art.

Recent artistic and critical approaches to materiality.

The shifting relationship between film and photography.

What contemporary notions of practice mean for art

The astonishing impact of a single aesthetic category on post-war and contemporary art.

Magical critical -- Shadow modern -- Ritual media -- Psychic self-defence.

"Ruins" of the modern era in contemporary art and cultural theory.

The artist's magazine as a place where new ideas and forms can be imagined and created.

Boredom in modern and contemporary art- as something to be struggled against, embraced as an experience, or explored.

Art's recent "educational turn" is viewed within a wider-ranging narrative of alternative ideas of education through art.

Responses to the global art market's influence on issues of value, patronage, institutional power, and public agency.

Dance's galvanizing and transformative presence in art and theory over the last decade.