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Bill Arning
New York-based artist Paul Ram rez Jonas (born 1965) investigates how publics are constituted and convened through the exploration of public forms like the equestrian statue, the bronze plaque and…
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Ian Berry,Bill Arning
This career-spanning volume documents the first museum retrospective devoted to the work of Mary Weatherford, a daring practitioner of American abstraction and a leading painter of her generation.
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Dr Jamieson C Keister
Dr. Keister taught calculus for many years at college, and designed the textbook around how students learn, as well as the logical progression of math within calculus, and including multiple…
Houston-based artist Thedra Cullar-Ledford (born 1970) pairs humor with feminist statements, exploring mastectomy as an area in which women’s bodies are modified by men. This book collects her paintings concerning…
Dissent and Desire presents a series of photographs by London- and Delhi-based photographers Sunil Gupta (born 1953) and Charan Singh (born 1978) that document quotidian moments of the LGBTQ+ community…
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Arne Naess
Modern environmentalism owes a great debt to philosopher, professor, and writer Arne Naess, cofounder of the Deep Ecology movement. Here, editors Alan Drengson and Bill Devall provide a comprehensive yet…
Valerie Cassel Oliver
Published on the occasion of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston’s 65th anniversary, Outside the Lines documents the conceptual framework of the institution’s ability to act and think outside the norm…
In 1914, Marcel Duchamp purchased a bottle rack, called it a sculpture, put his name to it and the readymade artwork was born. It Is What It Is. Or Is…
Mark Flood: Gratest Hits is the first survey of the work of Houston-based artist Mark Flood (born 1957) dating from the 1970s to 2016. Described by The New York Times…
Catalog of an exhibition held at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, August 19-November 26, 2017, and at Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, November 16, 2018-March 10, 2019.
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, October 6, 2013-January 12, 2014, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 15-May 11, 2014, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, June 6-September 1, 2014…
The volume documents the progress of Arne Naess’s ecophilosophy from its inception to the present. It includes Naess’s polemics with leading thinkers, drawn from sources as diverse as scholarly articles…
The work of Jennie C. Jones (born 1968) spans multiple mediums, from paintings, sculptures and works on paper to audio collages and immersive sound installations. Jones employs the visual languages…
American independent filmmaker Stan VanDerBeek (1927-1984) was one of the first to extend film projection into multimedia spectacle and to embrace video and computer technology: a supreme instance of what…
Artists and writers reconsider the relationship between the body and electronic technology in the twenty-first century through essays, artworks, and an encyclopedic Abecedarius of the New Sensorium.
Offers a bold perspective on the power of feelings to move us away from ecological and cultural degradation toward sound, future-focused policy and action. This book acknowledges the powerlessness of…
Published by Gregory R. Miller & Co. … on the occasion of the exhibition Marilyn Minter: pretty/dirty. Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, April 17-August 2, 2015; Museum of Contemporary Art Denver…
Walls Turned Sideways accompanies the largest museum presentation to investigate the criminal justice system in the US. What is the social role and responsibility of the artist in times of…
The role of government, particularly at the state and local levels, has evolved dramatically. In this bipartisan collection, some of the nation’s governors and mayors describe how they aim to…
