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Artistic License: The Philosophical Problems of Copyright and Appropriation by
Contents:
Culture clashes -- Ontology, copyright, and artistic practice -- The myth of unoriginality -- Authorship, power, and responsibility -- Toward an ontology of authored works -- The rights of authors -- The rights of others -- Appropriation and transformation -- Afterword
Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World by
"Six sections lay out and analyze common themes: "Toward Abstraction," "Disrupted Bodies," "Emotions and Identities," "Myths and Visions," "Patterns, Planes, and Formations," and "Between Painting and Photography." Interviews with each artist offer additional insight into some of the most incisive and relevant painting being created today." -- Publisher's description
Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry by 
Howardena Pindell: What Remains To Be Seen by
Contents: ... Opening thoughts / Naomi Beckwith, Valerie Cassel Oliver -- Clearly seen : a chronology / Sarah Cowan -- Synthesis and integration in the work of Howardena Pindell, 1972-1992 : a (re)consideration / Lowery Stokes Sims -- Body optics, or Howardena Pindell's ways of seeing / Naomi Beckwith -- The tao of abstraction : Pindell's meditations on drawing / Valerie Cassell Oliver -- Howardena Pindell : negociating abstraction / Charles Gaines -- Interrupting the broadcast : Howardena Pindell's video drawings / Grace Deveney -- Coming to Voice : Howardena Pindell's free, white and 21 / Brian Wallis -- Roundtable discussion on the work of Howardena Pindell / Naomi beckwith, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Marilyn Minter, Lorna Simpson, Molly Zuckerman-Hartung -- The Howardena Pindell Papers : -- Kellie Jones : Howardena Pindell interview -- On making a video -- On planning an exhibition -- Review of an exhibition -- Who do you think you are? One of us? -- Biography -- Exhibition checklist -- Exhibition lenders and sponsors -- Catalogue contributors.
Jack Whitten: Five Decades of Painting by 
Janaina Tschäpe by
The paintings, drawings, photographs and video installations of Janaina Tschäpe are inspired by the female body. The artist's subject complexes are landscape, death, renewal and transformation. Viewers of her multi-layered works feel as if they have been transported into a dream world of primeval landscapes, ambiguous signs and exotic vegetation.
Lois Dodd by
"This book is the first monograph on the paintings of Lois Dodd. It provides invaluable analysis and contextualisation of her work alongside such New York City contemporaries as Alex Katz, Philip Pearlstein and other denizens of the Tenth Street milieu of the 1950s. Emerging from the shadow of Abstract Expressionism, Dodd and this circle cleaved to an observational painting based in the early modernist tradition."
The Love of Painting: Genealogy of a Success Medium by 
Mark Bradford: Tomorrow Is Another Day by
The official U.S. presentation at the 57th Venice Biennale. Contents: Introduction: tomorrow is another day / Christopher Bedford and Katy Siegel -- Architecture and Black autonomy / Peter James Hudson -- Speaking truth / Anita F. Hill -- Biography of a painting / Katy Siegel -- The art of productive dissent / Sarah Lewis -- Niagara / Zadie Smith -- Like a loose shawl / Christopher Bedford and Mark Bradford -- Black reconstruction in America / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Go tell it on the mountain / James Baldwin -- Works.
Owens, Laura by
A richly illustrated, expansive mid-career survey of the stand-out American artist's pioneering and influential work. Since the early 1990s, Laura Owens (b. 1970) has challenged traditional assumptions about figuration and abstraction in her pioneering-and at times controversial-approach to painting.
Shiva Ahmadi by
Growing up in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the artist Shiva Ahmadi recalls, she knew more about Jackson Pollock than Behzad, the master miniature painter of the Safavid court. Indeed, Ahmadi's distinct painterly style seems to combine the detailed precision of Behzad's hand with the fluid action painting of Pollock. What emerges is part miniature, part abstract expressionism--a decidedly 21st century art form that is both bold and contemporary.
The Truth Is Always Grey by
"Frances Guerin argues that painters select grey to respond to a key question of modernist art: What is painting? Presenting an impressive range of canonical paintings across centuries, this book is a treatise on color that allows us to see something entirely new in familiar paintings and encourages our appreciation for the innovation and dynamism of the color grey"
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