Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art Series

49 primary works • 49 total works
An editorial alliance between London's Whitechapel Gallery and The MIT Press. Each volume in the series is a definitive anthology on a particular theme, practice, or concern that is of central significance to contemporary visual culture. The artists and writers included in these books, like the guest editors who conceive them, represent the diversi…
Participation
3.95
· 356 Ratings · 19 Reviews · published 2006 · 4 editions
Art that seeks to produce situations in which rela…
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The Archive
3.90
· 124 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2006 · 5 editions
The significance of the archive in modernity and i…
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Design and Art
4.05
· 42 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2007 · 8 editions
The first anthology to address the rise of the "de…
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The Cinematic
3.81
· 91 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 2007 · 4 editions
Key writings by artists and theorists chart the sh…
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The Artist's Joke
3.79
· 87 Ratings · 11 Reviews · published 2007 · 6 editions
Jokes and humor in avant-garde and contemporary ar…
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The Gothic
3.95
· 73 Ratings · 8 Reviews · 5 editions
The first comprehensive survey of the Gothic in co…
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Colour
3.74
· 65 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2006 · 3 editions
Writings on color from modernism to the present, b…
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The Everyday
4.14
· 105 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2008 · 4 editions
Writings on the “turn to the ordinary” in contempo…
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Beauty
3.96
· 52 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2009 · 4 editions
Key texts on beauty and its revival in contemporar…
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Appropriation
3.96
· 80 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2009 · 3 editions
Important documents and appraisals of appropriatio…
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Utopias
3.93
· 55 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2009 · 2 editions
Utopian strategies in contemporary art seen in the…
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Situation
3.60
· 45 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2009 · 7 editions
Key texts on the notion of “situation” in art and …
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Chance
4.48
· 40 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2010 · 5 editions
The chance situation or random event--whether as a…
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The Sublime
3.99
· 104 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2010 · 7 editions
The continuing relevance and constant reinvention …
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Failure
3.99
· 89 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2010 · 2 editions
Amid the global uncertainties of our times, failur…
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Sound
3.96
· 54 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2011 · 3 editions
The "sonic turn" in recent art reflects a wider cu…
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Painting
3.97
· 69 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2011 · 2 editions
Essential writings that consider the diverse meani…
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Ruins
4.05
· 78 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2011 · 7 editions
A comprehensive examination of "ruins" of the mode…
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Education
3.95
· 19 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2011 · 4 editions
Art's recent “educational turn” is viewed within a…
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The Studio
3.70
· 10 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2012 · 1 edition
The evolution of studio—and “post-studio”—practice…
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Nature
4.10
· 49 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2012 · 2 editions
Contemporary artists' radical investigations of na…
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Dance
4.53
· 34 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2011 · 2 editions
Dance's galvanizing and transformative presence in…
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Memory
4.22
· 78 Ratings · published 2011 · 4 editions
Investigations into the wide array of artistic rel…
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Abstraction
4.06
· 34 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2013 · 4 editions
An examination of contemporary art's engagement wi…
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Documentary
4.15
· 34 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2013 · 2 editions
The revival of documentary in art, considered in h…
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The Market
3.71
· 17 Ratings · published 2013 · 5 editions
Critical and creative responses to the global art …
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Time
4.25
· 48 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2013 · 2 editions
What does 'contemporary' actually mean? This is am…
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The Object
4.19
· 32 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2014 · 5 editions
Discussions of the object as a key to understandin…
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Networks
3.71
· 21 Ratings · published 2014 · 4 editions
Considering art at the center of network theory, f…
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Exhibition
4.05
· 21 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2014 · 4 editions
A multivocal critique that emphasizes the crucial …
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Sexuality
4.31
· 29 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2014 · 2 editions
Tracing the identification of art with sexual expr…
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Ethics
4.06
· 17 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2015 · 3 editions
The boundary of a contemporary art object or proje…
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Systems
3.79
· 38 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2015 · 3 editions
In the late 1950s, experiments such as the cyberne…
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Moving Image
3.90
· 20 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2015 · 3 editions
This anthology examines the expanded field of the …
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Materiality
4.22
· 54 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2015 · 4 editions
Materiality has reappeared as a highly contested t…
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Queer
4.28
· 72 Ratings · 6 Reviews · 2 editions
Key artists' writings that have influenced and cat…
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The Magazine
3.62
· 8 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 2 editions
The multiple platforms of the digital era have not…
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Animals
4.57
· 21 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2016 · 2 editions
The emergence of contemporary art, engaging widely…
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Information
3.55
· 11 Ratings · 4 Reviews · 1 edition
An art-historical reassessment of information-base…
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Boredom
4.28
· 25 Ratings · 2 editions
Boredom in modern and contemporary art: as somethi…
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Destruction
4.27
· 11 Ratings · 2 editions
Essays explore contemporary artists' engagement wi…
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Work
4.07
· 14 Ratings · 2 editions
Work's meaning both within art and in its wider ec…
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Practice
3.89
· 18 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 2 editions
The first anthology to investigate what contempora…
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Craft
4.30
· 23 Ratings · 4 Reviews · 2 editions
Part of the acclaimed series of anthologies which …
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The Rural
3.73
· 11 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 2 editions
An investigation through texts, interviews, and do…
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Translation /anglais
Reflections on the cultural and political complexi…
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Science Fiction
3.55
· 20 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 2 editions
The first major anthology to focus on relationship…
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Health
4.17
· 12 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 1 edition
The ethical, aesthetic and political significance …
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Magic
4.28
· 18 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 1 edition
The first accessible reader on magic’s generative …
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