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Ai Wei Wei by Karen Smith
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Contemporary Artists
Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) is truly an artist for the twenty-first century. In his sculptures he refashions artefacts and antiques into surprising, sometimes monumental constructions such as Template (2007): hundreds of wooden doors and windows taken from demolished Ming and Qing dynasty temples and arranged i ...Show more
Anri Sala by Mark Godfrey
$69.95 AUD
Category: Photography | Series: Contemporary Artists
Anri Sala's video "Intervista" (1998) begins with the artist moving house and finding an old 16 mm film in a box. On it he can see an interview with a young woman, whom he recognizes as his mother, being interviewed for state television in their native Albania. Without the sound reel the sense of the in ...Show more
Cerith Wyn Evans by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Nancy Spector, Daniel Birnbaum
$79.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Phaidon Contemporary Artists Ser.
A definitive and timely monograph celebrating the work of ground-breaking conceptual artist Cerith Wyn EvansCerith Wyn Evans is one of today's most respected and acclaimed sculptors. Born in Wales and educated through his first language of Welsgh, his work reflects his fascination with literature, film, ...Show more
Chris Johanson by Jens Hoffmann
$59.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Contemporary Artists Series
A comprehensive look at the thought-provoking, eye-catching and mind-expanding work of this visionary West Coast artist.
Christian Marclay by Kim Gordon
$69.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Contemporary Artists
A respected musician who has collaborated with John Zorn, Elliot Sharp, and others, Marclay has presented his unique sound-and-vision at the Whitney Biennial, New York, 1991 and 2002; the Venice Biennale, 1995 and 1999, among many key international exhibitions.
Jeff Wall by Thierry de Duve
$95.00 AUD
Category: Photography | Series: Contemporary Artists Series
Jeff Wall (b.1946) adopts the nineteenth-century poet Baudelaire's famous description of one of his contemporaries as 'a painter of modern life' to describe his own very different work: huge transparencies mounted on to light boxes that diffuse a brilliant glow of white light evenly through his photogra ...Show more
Jorge Pardo Contemporary Artists by Christina Vegh
$69.95 AUD
Category: Photography | Series: Contemporary Artists Series
Jorge Pardo (b. 1963, Havana, Cuba) is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work trespasses the boundaries of sculpture to explore art-related disciplines such as architecture and design. His work employs a range of media to revisit the aesthetics of modernism and put it in a new light. Traditional and radi ...Show more
Louise Bourgeois by Paulo Herkenhoff
$69.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Contemporary Artists
One of this UK's pre-eminent artists, Louise Bourgeois is a unique figure in contemporary art. Born in Paris in 1911, Bourgeois spent most of her career receiving little recognition from the art community. She has worked closely to many of the century's key artistic moments, from Surrealism to Abstract ...Show more
Nigel Cooke by Marie Darrieussecq
$65.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Contemporary Artists Series
An in-depth look at the work and career of this fascinating artist, who is having a profound impact on contemporary painting Nigel Cooke is known for his complex paintings, which thematically explore the meeting point between creative labour, consciousness, art history, consumer culture, and nature. Pri ...Show more
Richard Prince by Jeff Rian
$69.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Contemporary Artists
Richard Prince is one of America's best-known artists internationally. Part of the 1980s generation of innovative, New York-based American artists, Prince combines the media of painting, artist's books and photography to offer peculiar views into the margins of American culture.
Sarah Sze by Benjamin H D Buchloh
$59.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Contemporary Artists Series
The first substantial monograph on an artist whose sculptures capture the proliferation of information and objects in contemporary life.
Shilpa Gupta by Alexandra Munroe; Nav Haq; Elvira Dyangani Ose
$79.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Phaidon Contemporary Artists Ser.
The first monograph dedicated to one of today's leading and thought-provoking Indian visual artistsShilpa Gupta is internationally known for her profound and socially engaged multi-faceted practice. Her work is an ongoing exploration of how human actions and interactions are subjected to a range of exte ...Show more