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Artist's Joke - Whitechapel Series by Jennifer Higgie
$35.95 AUD
Category: Photography | Series: Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art
Ever since Freud's Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious appeared in 1905, humor both light and dark has frequently surfaced as a subversive, troubling, or liberating element in art. The Artist's Joke surveys the rich and diverse uses of humor by avant-garde and contemporary artists. The texts col ...Show more
Documentary - Whitechapel Series by Julian Stallabrass
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Category: Art and Design | Series: Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art
After a long period in eclipse, documentary has undergone a marked revival in recent art. This has been spurred by two phenomena: the exhibition of photographic and video work on political issues at Documenta and numerous biennials; and increasing attention to issues of injustice, violence, and trauma i ...Show more
Ruins - Documents of contemporary art by Brian Dillon (editor)
$45.95 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art
The "ruins" of the modern era are the landmarks of recent art's turn toward site and situation, history and memory. The abiding interest of artists in ruination and decay has led in particular to the concept of the modern ruin--an ambiguous site of artistic and architectural modernism, personal and coll ...Show more
Work by Friederike Sigler
$54.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art Ser.
Work's meaning both within art and in its wider economic and social context: the complexities of being an art worker in the new economy.Warhol's Factory of the 1960s, Minimalism's assembly-line aesthetics, conceptual and feminist concern with workers' conditions in the 1970s--these are among the anteced ...Show more
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