Visual Art

This book explores the variety of ways in which contemporary artists from around the world have come to approach drawing as the primary, sometimes the sole, element of their practice, and one which is autonomous: an end in itself rather than a means to an end in another, more substantial medium. Richly illustrated and up-to-the-minute.

The first publication dedicated to artists' zines in North America and a revelatory exploration of an unexamined but thriving aesthetic practice, Copy Machine Manifestos captures the rich history of artists' zines, placing them in the lineage of the visual arts and exploring their vibrant growth over the past five decades. Fully illustrated with hundreds of zine covers and interiors, the book also features brief biographies for more than 100 zine-makers. This expansive book focuses on zines from North America, celebrating how artists have harnessed the medium's essential role in community building and transforming material and conceptual approaches to making art across all media since 1970.

Learn how to draw the human body in this beautifully illustrated art book by celebrated artist and teacher Sarah Simblet. This visually striking guide includes a combination of innovative photography and drawings, practical life-drawing lessons, and in-depth explorations of the body's surface and underlying structure.

The essential survey showcasing the work of more than 300 modern and contemporary artists born or based in Latin America. Latin American artists have gained increasing international prominence as the art world awakens to the area's extraordinary art scenes and histories. In an accessible A-Z format, this volume introduces key artworks by 308 artists who together demonstrate the variety and vitality of artwork being made.

A colossal, panoramic, much-needed appraisal of the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories across six centuries. Afro-Atlantic Histories brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries that express and analyze the ebbs and flows between Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe.