A personal encounter with 50 of the world's most significant contemporary artists, this book draws together the full texts of the complete Phaidon interviews. From highly ...

Twenty five short essays, collected posthumously, demonstrate the beauty of style, the wit, and the sensibility for which Virginia Woolf is justly admired.

‘a game-changer, a must-read for scholars, students and artists alike’ – Tom Finkelpearl At a time when art world critics and curators heavily debate the social, and when ...

"This issue of 'Open' addresses precariousness in a cultural and social context and deals with such matters as the functioning of the art scene and the conditions of the ...

Bringing together an immense range of presentations -museum displays, stories, paintings, postcards, and philosophyMieke Bal offers fresh insights into showing and telling ...

Paratexts are those liminal devices and conventions, both within and outside the book, that form part of the complex mediation between book, author, publisher and reader ...

Systems theory emerged in the mid-20th century along with related theories such as Cybernetics and Information Theory. Recently it has included Complexity Theory, Chaos Theory ...

Texts and interviews with key contemporary artists

Noted and notorious for his conceptually based body art and performance pieces of the late 1960s and early 1970s, Vito Acconci has uniquely invigorated the American art scene ...