Product Description: The boundaries between skin and clothing are as fluid as they are between art and fashion. This volume explores this surrealistic interzone in which shoes sprout hair and people become sculptures, in works by artists and designers such as Louise Bourgeois, Nick Cave, Helen Chadwick, Hussein Chalayan, Comme des Garçons/Rei Kawakubo, Salvador Dalí and Robert Gober...read more

Product Description: James Turrell (born 1943) has been working with light in all its manifestations since the 1960s. Moving beyond the purely scientific investigation of optical phenomena, his works are designed to induce extraordinary experiences for the viewer, through the manipulation of light and color...read more

Product Description: Contemporary artist Andrea Zittel's A-Z Enterprise is an investigation into all aspects of daily life--including shelter, furniture and clothing, which she designs. Architect Marcel Breuer said of his 1966 Modern design for New York's Whitney Museum, "It should transform the vitality of the street into the sincerity and profundity of art...read more

Product Description: In Japanese culture, emptiness and simplicity have long been the central principles of design, and are allied closely to Zen Buddhism, which places an emphasis on spirituality. This fascinating book explores Western Minimalism and the concept of ‘meaningful emptiness’ in Zen art, examining their differences and similarities...read more

Product Description: The presence of contemporary Chinese artists on the international art market has steadily increased in recent years: China made a major presentation at the Venice Biennale in 1990, and Chinese artists have been celebrated at numerous exhibitions in their own country and abroad since then...read more

Product Description: For some years now, painting has been the subject of renewed interest in the art world, taking prime place in such international exhibitions as Pittura Immedia, Troublespot Painting, Painting at the Edge of the World, and Urgent Painting...read more

Product Description: Photographs by Collier Schorr. Contributions by Annelie Lutgens. Text by Helen Molesworth, Wolfgang Tillmans. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)