Bruce Cook of the Washington Post Book World has written that: Bohemia has become an acceptable, even desirable lifestyle all around America, and indeed the world over. But to understand how this happened, how an alternative lifestyle became so mainstream,...

Outsider Art is a name for the often mesmerizing creations of those who live and work at a distance from prevailing notions about mainstream artistic trends, individuals who are frequently unaware of themselves as artists or their works as art....

Art today is in deep crisis. Criticism seems to have abandoned any notion of evaluation, the public has been denied the possibility of understanding, and aesthetics have lost all legitimacy. Formerly, artists claimed their right to decide for themselves what...

A revolutionary account of abstraction in the visual arts since the decline of the formalist paradigms....

This book provides a veritable array of scholarly research prompted by Indigenous artworks in the Collection....

The subject matter of Subjects and Objects is the limits of Abstraction in art. The notion of Abstraction, its development in art history, and the relation of art and philosophy regarding Abstraction are considered in addition to identifying and examining...

Edited by Ralph Rugoff. Essays by Douglas Coupland, Lisa Robertson and Matthew Stadler....

Art in the age of digital communication Artists have always been early adopters of emerging media technologies, from Albrecht D?rer and his use of the printing press in the 16th century to Nam June Paik's experiments with video in the...

A consideration of the relationship between Conceptual art and the context of the 1960s and 1970s....

Essays by Toby Kamps. Introduction by Hugh M. Davies....