Over the past twenty-five years Julie Mehretu has emerged as a major force in American art. Known mostly for her enormous abstract paintings, she also produces exquisite drawings, often created as studies for larger works. This sumptuous volume accom...

In the late 18th century, British artists embraced the medium of aquatint for its ability to produce prints with rich and varied tones that became even more stunning with the addition of color. At the same time, the expanding purview of the British e...

In the late medieval and Renaissance period, paper transformed society – not only through its role in the invention of print but also in the way it influenced artistic production. "The Art of Paper" tells the history of this medium in the context of...

Bearing witness to the changing economic landscape amid the Cold War, artists in the 1960s created works that critiqued, reshaped, and sometimes reinforced the spirit of capitalism. At a time when currency and finance were becoming ever more abstract...

Drawing mainly on advertisements and comics in Chinese newspapers, Singaporean scholar and educator Yeo Mang Thong demonstrates how Singapore was an important hub for artists who travelled to and lived in Singapore. Yeo's research features amongst ot...

Pablo Picasso always maintained a complex and intense relationship with photography and with the photographers in his milieu, something that could be seen when he pretended to be a reporter one summer, when he used his image as an icon, or when he to...

From his sublime abstract paintings to his soft sculpture "vampires" comprising American flags, Sterling Ruby is "one of the most interesting artists to emerge in this century", according to The New York Times. Accompanying Ruby's first US museum sur...

Graffiti written in storm drain tunnels, on neighborhood walls, and under bridges tells an underground and, until now, untold history of Los Angeles. Drawing on extensive research within the city's urban landscape, Susan A. Phillips traces the hidden...

In 2002, as part of Draft – an initiative for exploring the critical possibilities of contemporary art – the experimental theatre group Teatro Ojo was founded. The group produced a symposium and short ads for public television and Youtube, aiming to...

Universos is an exploration of the photographer's visual universe, constructed around the resonances generated by phenomena and expressed through a dialogue of images. The book traces the development of the creative processes through which Jimenez ha...