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Long Suffering: American Endurance Art as Prophetic Witness

Artist/Author: Karen Gonzalez Rice | Reference: P3230 | ISBN: 978-047205324 | Type: Publication

Links avant-garde performance practices with religious histories in the United States, setting contemporary performances of endurance art within a broader context of prophetic, religious discourse in the United States

Pussy Riot Unmasked

Artist/Author: Bert Verwelius | Reference: P3234 | ISBN: 978-3832798512 | Type: Publication

Immediately after Nadezda Tolokonnikova and  Maria Alekhina were released, Verwelius contacted the two, setting into motion an extraordinary photo shoot: using the activists’ stories and sketches of the prison camp, he depicted their living and working conditions there as an impressive picture series. In English and Dutch.

Feminism and Humour in Contemporary Art

Artist/Author: Laura Castagnini, Jo Anna Isaak, Vikki McInnes | Reference: P3224 | ISBN: 978-0-9872268-6-0 | Type: Publication

Feminism and Humour in Contemporary Art exhibition catalogue. Margaret Lawrence Gallery – Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Melbourne. 27 April to 25 May 2013

Pentagon Petal programme

Reference: P3243 | Type: Publication

Programme for the installation project by artist Fran Cottell and architect Marianne Mueller, reflecting on the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground as the dream site for Jeremy Bentham's experimental panopticon, the real Millbank Penitentiary, a military parade ground and now university campus, outdoor gallery and thoroughfare to Tate Britain. 
 

Delirium and Resistance: Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism

Artist/Author: Gregory Sholette | Reference: P3217 | ISBN: 978-0745336848 | Type: Publication

In this follow-up to his influential 2010 book, Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture, Sholette engages in critical dialogue with artists’ collectives, counter-institutions, and activist groups to offer an insightful, firsthand account of the relationship between politics and art in neoliberal society.

Tell Them I Said No

Artist/Author: Martin Herbert | Reference: P3210 | ISBN: 978-3956792007 | Type: Publication

This collection of essays considers various artists who have withdrawn from the art world or adopted an antagonistic position toward its mechanisms.

Art AIDS America

Editor: Jonathan David Katz, Rock Hushka | Reference: P3220 | ISBN: 978-0295994949 | Type: Publication

The first comprehensive overview and reconsideration of 30 years of art made in response to the AIDS epidemic in the United States. This book foregrounds the role of HIV/AIDS in shifting the development of American art away from the cool conceptual foundations of postmodernism and toward a new, more insistently political and autobiographical voice.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Tacoma Art Museum (October 2015 – January 2016)

Yoko Ono: Half a Wind Show - a Retrospective

Editor: Ingrid Pfeiffer and Max Hollein | Reference: P3218 | ISBN: 978-3791352831 | Type: Publication

Named after her renowned exhibition at London's Lisson gallery in 1967, this volume features Ono's most important works. It also includes photographs of Ono surrounded by her art, her billboards, “instructions,” letters, invitations to her performances, and exhibition posters.

Published on the occasion of exhibitions at Schirn Kunstahlle Frankfurt (February-May 2013), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek (June-September 2013) and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (March-September 2014)

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