Boredom

Sven Spieker

• Paperback | Engels | Documents of Contemporary Art
• Without boredom, arguably there is no modernity: the current sense of the word emerged simultaneously with industrialisation, mass politics and consu... Lees meer

Speculation

Marina Vishmidt

• Paperback | Engels | Documents of Contemporary Art
• Engaging with the question of speculation in ways that encompass the artistic, the economic and the philosophical, with excursions into the literary a... Lees meer

Destruction

Sven Spieker

• Paperback | Engels | Documents of Contemporary Art
• Part of the acclaimed series of anthologies which document major themes and ideas in contemporary art. Explores the processes and techniques which fu... Lees meer

The Cute

Sianne Ngai

• Paperback | Engels | Documents of Contemporary Art
• The Cute tracks the astonishing impact of a single aesthetic category on post-war and contemporary art, and on the vast range of cultural practices an... Lees meer

The Sublime

Simon Morley

• Paperback | Engels | Documents of Contemporary Art
• In a world where technology, spectacle and excess seem to eclipse former concepts of nature, the individual and society, what might be the characteris... Lees meer

Ethics

Walead Beshty

• Paperback | Engels | Documents of Contemporary Art
• The boundary of a contemporary art object or project is no longer thought of solely in physical terms but rather in relation to the specific social f... Lees meer

Nature

• Paperback | Engels | Documents of Contemporary Art
• Contemporary artists' radical investigations of nature, juxtaposed with the eclectic scientific and philosophical sources that inform their art. Natur... Lees meer

Beauty

Dave Beech

• Paperback | Engels | Documents of Contemporary Art
• Key texts on the notion of ''situation'' in art and theory that consider site, place, and context, temporary interventions, remedial actions, place-ma... Lees meer

Documents of Contemporary Art: Magic

Jamie Sutcliffe

• Paperback | Engels | Documents of Contemporary Art
• From the hexing of presidents to a renewed interest in herbalism and atavistic forms of self-care, magic has furnished the contemporary imagination wi... Lees meer

The Archive

• Paperback | Engels | Documents of Contemporary Art
• The significance of the archive in modernity and in contemporary art; writings by Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, Hal Foster, and others, and essays o... Lees meer

The Magazine

Gwen Allen

• Paperback | Engels | Documents of Contemporary Art
• The multiple platforms of the digital era have not diminished the role of the magazine for artists as an alternative medium and experimental space. I... Lees meer

Appropriation

• Paperback | Engels | Documents of Contemporary Art
• Important documents and appraisals of appropriation art from Duchamp's readymades to feminist and postcolonial critique. Scavenging, replicating, or r... Lees meer

Chance

• Paperback | Engels | Documents of Contemporary Art
• Why chance remains a key strategy in artists' investigations into the contemporary world. The chance situation or random event--whether as a strategy ... Lees meer

Failure

Lisa Le Feuvre

• Paperback | Engels | Documents of Contemporary Art
• Amidst current global uncertainty failure has become a central subject of investigation in recent art. Artists have actively claimed the space of fail... Lees meer

The Everyday

• Paperback | Engels | Documents of Contemporary Art
• Writings on the "turn to the ordinary" in contemporary art examine the various ways artists have engaged with the everyday since 1945. Numerous intern... Lees meer

Colour

• Paperback | Engels | Documents of Contemporary Art
• Writings on color from modernism to the present, by writers from Baudelaire to Baudrillard, surveying art from Paul Gauguin to Rachel Whiteread. Wheth... Lees meer

Activism

Afonso Dias Ramos, Tom Snow

• Paperback | Engels | Documents of Contemporary Art
• Activism is a critical point of contention for institutions and genealogies of contemporary art around the world. Yet artists have consistently engage... Lees meer

Abstraction

Maria Lind

• Paperback | Engels | Documents of Contemporary Art
• This anthology reconsiders crucial aspects of abstraction's resurgence in contemporary art, exploring three equally significant modes or strategies ex... Lees meer

The Market

Natasha Degen

• Paperback | Engels | Documents of Contemporary Art
• Surveys contemporary artists' critical and creative responses to the global art market's influence on issues of value, patronage, institutional power ... Lees meer

Utopias

Richard Noble

• Paperback | Engels | Documents of Contemporary Art
• This anthology contextualizes art's current engagement with the utopian in relation to political thought, viewing the utopian as a key term in the art... Lees meer

Documentary

Julian Stallabrass

• Paperback | Engels | Documents of Contemporary Art
• Documentary has undergone a marked revival in recent art, following a long period in which it was a denigrated and unfashionable practice. This has in... Lees meer

Moving Image

Omar Kholeif

• Paperback | Engels | Documents of Contemporary Art
• This anthology examines the expanded field of the moving image in recent art, tracing the genealogies of contemporary moving image work in performance... Lees meer

The Rural

• Paperback | Engels | Documents of Contemporary Art
• Part of the acclaimed series of anthologies which document major themes and ideas in contemporary art. A timely collection of texts, interviews and do... Lees meer

Networks

Lars Bang Larsen

• Paperback | Engels | Documents of Contemporary Art
• The dawn of the electronic media age in the 1960s initiated a cultural shift from the modernist grid's determination of projection and representation ... Lees meer