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Isaac Julien: True North Fantome Afrique

Artist/Author: Anthony Appiah, et al. | Reference: P2568 | ISBN: 978-3775718677 | Type: Publication

This book documents the two most recent works by the British artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien.

Real Conversations, No.1

Editor: V. Vale | Reference: P2540 | ISBN: 978-1889307091 | Type: Publication

A collection of lengthy interviews with indie-media luminaries Henry Rollins, Billy Childish, Jello Biafra and Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Will/Power

Artist/Author: Papo Colo, et al. | Reference: P2560 | ISBN: 1881390039 | Type: Publication

Exhibition catalogue documenting artorks by Papo Colo, Jimmie Durham, David Hammons, Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds, Adrian Piper, Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson. 

Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer

Artist/Author: Peter Turchi | Reference: P2513 | ISBN: 978-1595340412 | Type: Publication

Using the map as a metaphor, the author explores how writers and cartographers use many of the same devices for plotting and executing their work. This item is part of the Study Room Guide to Remoteness (P2600).

The Wild Places

Artist/Author: Robert Macfarlane | Reference: P2507 | ISBN: 978-1847080189 | Type: Publication

An account of visits to various remote places in order to evoke their spirit of wildness punctuated with reflections on climate change, on destruction of habitat, and on the matters of time and belonging. This item is part of the Study Room Guide to Remoteness (P2600).

Lament

Artist/Author: Richard Ashrowan | Reference: P2492 | ISBN: 978056172808 | Type: Publication

Richard Ashrowan considers the geopoetics of the Anglo/Scots borderline, travelling to several points on the border and beginning a meditation into the meanings that might be revealed within its landscape

Tania Bruguera

Artist/Author: Lucrezia Cippitelli and Domenico Scudero | Reference: P2483 | ISBN: 9788874900510 | Type: Publication

A collection of essays on the installation and performance work of Cuban artist Tania Bruguera. Contributors: Domenico Scudero, Lucrezia Cippitelli, Irma Arestizabal, Roberto Pinto, Simonetta Lux

The Clandestine Histories of the OHO Group

Artist/Author: Misko Suvakovic | Reference: P2482 | ISBN: 9789616807012 | Type: Publication

The book exposes the activity of the OHO Group (1966-1971) and of the movement OHO-Catalogue (1966-1970) in the context of Slovene national culture, Yugoslavian socialistic culture and international youth culture of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The Fun: The Social Practice of Nightlife in NYC

Editor: Jake Yuzna | Reference: P2460 | ISBN: 9781576876596 | Type: Publication

Surveys the evolving and diverse nature of nightlife in New York profiling over 30 artists

Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties

Artist/Author: Teresa A. Carbone, Kellie Jones et al | Reference: P2444 | ISBN: 9781580933902 | Type: Publication

How 1960s African American artists and many of their sympathetic peers addressed the struggle for racial justice in powerful works of art is examined across a pivotal decade.

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