Showing posts with label Visual Arts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Visual Arts. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

New Titles in Visual Arts

Feast your eyes on several new books on photography, painting, drawing, graffit, and graphic design:

Graphic Design: Now In Production Andrew Blauvelt & Ellen Lupton. Walker Art Center. 2011.
In conjunction with an exhibition at Walker Art Center and other institutions, Oct. 22, 2011, and Jan. 2014
Graphic Design: A New History Stephen Eskilson. Yale U. Press. 2012.
Covers Bauhaus, American modern, Postmodernism and more
Graffiti and Street Art Anna Waclawek. Thames & Hudson. 2011.
Graffiti's genealogy; urban visual culture; tags, throwies
Extra/ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art Maria Elena Buszek, ed. 2011.
Explores craftivist history; queer theory; letterpress printing
Explores the work of artists and groups such as Superflux, Francis Alys, Santiago Sierra; looks at the parallels of the work of these artists with that of NGOs, urban planners, activists.
Keith Edmier and Farrah Fawcett: Recasting Pygmalion: a Collaborative Art Project Essay by Lynn Zelevansky. Rizzoli. 2002. From an exhibition at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2002.