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Apocalyptic absurdism: films, photographs, text and installation works by Egyptian artist Basim MagdyThis book--published in conjunction with Egyptian artist Basim Magdy's (born 1977) solo exhibition at Illinois State University--documents six films, a photographic installation and a newly commissioned text-based work.

Siebren Versteeg creates computer-driven video installations that situate the viewer in paradoxical realms where the real and the virtual seem to interconnect. At once humorous and unsettling, his works feed real-time online data culled from CNN, the AP, and Internet diaries into video animations with digitally produced sound. This full-color monograph, which comes with a DVD, is the first devoted to Versteeg's work.

This publication explores the relationships between works by 21 contemporary women artists and the women writers they acknowledge and reference, from Mary Wollstonecraft to Octavia Butler. Includes works by Anne Collier, Moyra Davey, Coco Fusco, Xaviera Simmons and Carrie Mae Weems, among many others.

In photographs characterized by subtle geometries and penetrating natural light, Los Angeles-based artist Melanie Schiff (born 1977) achieves dramatic effects with everyday objects, found landscapes and interiors. This is the first survey of Schiff's photographs including work from 2002-2012.

TASK" documents a burgeoning phenomenon begun in 2002 by artist Oliver Herring. Herring developed TASK as a self-generating, improvisational gathering in which a community engages in a collaborative art-making event. Using cardboard, tape, aluminum foil, pipe cleaners, markers and other materials, participants follow a simple set of rules: write a task for someone to perform, then randomly select a task to perform yourself (e.g. "Use cardboard...

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Chicago-based photographer Jason Lazarus (born 1975) is known for using both traditionally developed photography as well as found and solicited images and texts in collaborative installations. Among the projects examined is Too Hard to Keep, an ongoing archive through which Lazarus preserves photographs too emotionally charged to keep yet too meaningful to destroy.

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By 1980 Walter Robinson (born 1950) had established himself as a critic for Art in America and member of the New York artists' collective Collaborative Projects. He became notable for paintings of square-jawed detective-hero types and swooning vixens based on pulp romance covers. Employing what critic Carlo McCormick termed a "devious sense of irony done with incredible sincerity, " he examined painting's relationship to mass-culture images of...

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Featuring photographs and films made between 2006 and 2015, Nine Trips around the Sun offers a survey of what Carrie Schneider (born 1979) describes as "documents of something performed for the camera, " and demonstrates the range of lens-based processes she has employed. Included is Schneider's entrancing recent series Reading Women, for which the artist photographed and filmed 100 individual female artists, curators, writers and musicians in...

The House of the Seven Gables is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1851 novel. Serving as a repository of memory and atonement, the titular mansion itself functions as a portrait of the family's collective trauma. This publication features 27 works by 22 contemporary artists who explore themes of haunting, portraiture and the architectural uncanny. In acknowledgement of its direct relationship to an existing book, The House of the Seven Gables...

The first survey of videos by multimedia artist and musician Terry Adkins (1953-2014), this catalog features 12 videos created between 1998 and 2013, with installation views, stills and interviews.

In the typology of fairy tales, women are routinely reduced to caricatures of innocence or evil, either impossibly saintly and self-sacrificing or malevolent in ways that only the male sex would project. That said, fairy tales also provide a wealth of inspiration for art, and the work in Pixerina Witcherina transforms these polarities into whimsically abstracted visual yarns (the title is taken from an invented language used by Virginia Woolf ...

To say that UFOs have captured the popular imagination of contemporary America would be an understatement -- while appearances of blinking ellipsoids, whirling orbs, and have been reported throughout history, nowhere has the idea of contact with extraterrestrials taken hold so much as in the postwar United States. The UFO Show presents these phenomena in an unexpected way -- as inspiration and subject matter for contemporary visual art. Creati...

Four women artists create works addressing ecological issues, the unsettling interface between biology and technology, and humanist cultural concerns.