Published: February 2009
Publisher: Prestel
Robert Mapplethorpe’s Polaroids—taken 1970-75, when the artist was 23 to 29 years old—document his emerging identity, both artistic and sexual. The book Polaroids: Mapplethorpe, published to accompany an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, reveals a photographer determined to bring formal rigor to the medium’s intimacy.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
James Cuno’s passionate, finely reasoned new book, Who Owns Antiquity? Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage, is a fresh salvo in the ongoing battle between museums that collect antiquities and modern states that claim to be the legal heirs of ancient societies and cultures.
Publisher: MIT Press
Seemingly all that new media art lacked was validation by the academy. Now three related books from MIT Press and the announcement by Danube University in Krems, Austria, of the November 2008 start-up of the first degree-granting Masters of Media Art Histories program (featuring user-friendly rolling admission and low residency requirements) suggest that perhaps this development is already under way.
Published: February 2009
Publisher: University of California Press
An appealing hybrid of autobiography and cultural history, this broad-strokes memoir describes the life of the New Museum’s founding director and the tumultuous art worlds in which it transpired.
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