Vitamin 3-D : New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation

Giovanni Carmine (text)

2009 |Hardcover| ISBN 071484974X (Phaidon) | 352 pages

Vitamin 3-D follows the success of Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting,Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing and Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography, presenting a cross-generational survey of contemporary artists from 27 countries. Chosen from more than 500 nominations by significant international critics, curators, art historians and creative writers, Vitamin 3-D’s 117 established and emerging artists were selected on the basis that they have made a significant contribution to sculpture and installation (in their broadest sense) in the last five years.

The Handbook for Museums

Gary Edson and David Dean

1996 |Paperback| ISBN 0-415-09953-6 (Routledge) | 320 pages

Handbook for Museums provides basic information for people working in the museum world. Formed around a commitment to professionalism in museum practice, the sections provide basic information on management, security, conservation and education, and include technical notes and international reading lists. The book is intended as a manual for managing and training, and provides a field-tested guide to `best practice.'

ARTODAY

Edward Lucie-Smith

1995 |Hardcover| ISBN 978-0714832012 (Phaidon) | 512 pages, 536 colour illustration

This book is the definitive overview of the richest, most controversial and perhaps most thoroughly confusing epoch in the whole history of the visual arts: the period from 1960 to the present. Although the modern movement - unchallenged for the last six decades - has lost its dominance, it has been replaced by no single new orthodoxy. Artists, critics and the public alike are now confronted by a situation of unprecedented variety and complexity.

Art Today provides a map of an unstable world. With unfailing passion and acute aesthetic sensitivity, the author charts the progress of contemporary developments to elucidate their sources and interrelationships, many of them breathtakingly unexpected. This volume embodies a magnum opus in itself, as it brings to life the work of over 500 outstanding contemporary artists, all analysed in detail and illustrated in stunning colour.

Seni Rupa, Perubahan, Politik

FX Harsono

2009 |Paperback| ISBN 978-979-97501-4-3 (Galeri Langgeng) | 267 pages

Ada dua pokok utama yang nyaris selalu dilansir oleh Harsono pada hampir seluruh tulisannya di buku ini. Yang pertama adalah keniscayaan mengenai apa yang disebutnya sebagai perubahan kebudayaan, hampir niscaya juga disebut Gerakan Seni Rupa Baru (GSRB). Ini keniscayaan kedua. Dalam pandangannya faktor-faktor politik atau kekuasaan tampak sangat berperan dalam mendorong terjadinya perubahan.

Beyond The Dutch: Indonesia, the Netherlands and the Visual Arts, from 1900 until now

Editor : Meta Knol, Remco Raben, Kitty Zijlmans

2009 | Hardcover | ISBN 978-94 6022 059 3 (Kit Publishers) | 199 pages

'We are beyond the Dutch,' declared an Indonesian artist recently, stating that they have outgrown the influence of the Netherlands. Modern Indonesian art arose during the colonial period, but has since gradually wrested itself free.

Beyond the Dutch gives a colourful picture of that struggle. Leading artists, curators and historians from Indonesia and the Netherlands have pored over a series of questions posed by the history of art in the Dutch East Indies/Indonesia. What was and still is Dutch about Indonesian art? What relationship does it have with Western techniques and views on art? How does contemporary art in Indonesia and the Netherlands allow for the links between the two countries? And how do we actually perceive Indonesian art?