New and classic books

Contemporary art's engagement with three modes of abstraction.

The vital intersection of contemporary art and activism.

The emergence of contemporary art, engaging widely with other disciplines, as a platform for exploring animal nature.

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

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

Jokes and humor in avant-garde and contemporary art.

Key texts on beauty and its revival in contemporary art.

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

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

The shifting relationship between film and photography.

Writings on color from modernism to the present.

Through craft, materials, techniques, and tools are investigated and their histories explored.

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

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

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

Contemporary artists' engagement with destruction, and how it has disrupted the perceived integrity of built structures and institutions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The ethical, aesthetic and political significance of practices, positions and theories connected to health in contemporary art.

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

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

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

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

Recent artistic and critical approaches to materiality.

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

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

Contemporary artists' radical investigations of nature.

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.

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

The inextricable human and nonhuman agencies that affect and are affected by the sea and its running currents within contemporary art and visual culture.

The diverse meanings of contemporary painting since its postconceptual revival.

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

What contemporary notions of practice mean for art

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

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

Vast parts of our lives are still connected and dependent on rural geographies.

Relationships between science fiction and contemporary art, with topics ranging from accelerating technological change to global urbanization.

Tracing the identification of art with sexual expression or repression.

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

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

A wide-ranging investigation of what speculation is, and what is at stake for artistic, curatorial, critical, and institutional practices in relating to their own speculative character.

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

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

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

The cultural and political complexities of translation in global contemporary artistic practices.

Utopian strategies in contemporary art.

Across the world, walking is a vital way to assert one's presence in public space and discourse.

Work's meaning both within art and in its wider economic and social context.