Product Description: In honor of the fortieth anniversary of the Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University, The Alumni Show II looks back at four decades of Wesleyan artists. Building on the first Alumni Show held in November/December 2003 in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the CFA, this exhibition (September 6 – December 8, 2013) features an entirely new selection of seventeen alumni artists...read more

Product Description: Born in Chongqing, China, in 1955, Xu Bing is considered one of the most important artists of his generation. Between 1977 and 1987, he studied and taught at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. He moved to the United States in 1990 and in 1999 received a MacArthur Fellowship, the celebrated "genius grant," in recognition of his "capacity to contribute importantly to society, particularly in printmaking and calligraphy...read more

Product Description: This book explores the resurgence of interest among younger artists in working with light as a material. With sixty-three color illustrations, Artificial Light features new sculpture and installations by the international artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Spencer Finch, Ceal Floyer, Iván Navarro, Nathaniel Rackowe, and Douglas Ross...read more

Product Description: Containing 114 reproductions of works ranging from Jackson Pollock’s dynamic 1948 drip painting to Kehinde Wiley’s 2006 hip-hop-meets-Old-Master portrait, Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is a handsome collection that offers art enthusiasts a chance to recall old favorites and discover hidden treasures and new acquisitions...read more

Product Description: Already familiar to viewers of the 2002 Whitney Museum Biennial, Robert Lazzarini is an American sculptor whose work combines extreme realism with extreme distortion. Combining advanced digital technology with traditional sculpting methods, Lazzarini recreates familiar objects to scale out of their original materials, while deforming them in seemingly impossible ways...read more

Product Description: Borrowing from the title of Andy Warhol's 1965 double-screen film, "Outer and Inner Space", this book explores how video art addresses the interplay between external reality and internal states of mind. Three recent video installations - by Pipilotti Rist, Shirin Seshat and Jane and Louise Wilson - are placed in the context of 40 influential early works from the late 1960s to mid-1980s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: With references to the Bible and 17th-century Dutch still-life painting, Vanitas links the works of fourteen contemporary artists to the age-old theme of life's transience. At the same time, it presents these artists in their 20th-century context while exploring the related themes of beauty and death, pleasure and fear, love and loss...read more

Product Description: Book by Ravenal, John B., Jacobson, Thora, Challenge (Exhibition) (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: art book