The work of German sculptor Isa Genzken is brilliantly receptive to the ever-shifting conditions of modern life. In this first book devoted to the artist, Lisa Lee reflects on Genzken’s tendency to think across media, attending to sculptures, photographs, drawings, and films from the entire span of her four-decade career, from student projects in the mid-1970s to recent works seen in Genzken’s studio. Through penetrating analyses of individual works as well as archival and interview material from the artist herself, Lee establishes four major themes in Genzken’s oeuvre: embodied perception, architecture and built space, the commodity, and the body. Contextualizing the sculptor’s engagement with fellow artists, such as Joseph Beuys and Bruce Nauman, Lee situates Genzken within a critical and historical framework that begins in politically fraught 1960s West Germany and extends to the globalized present. Here we see how Genzken tests the relevance of the utopian aspirations and formal innovations of the early twentieth century by submitting them to homage and travesty. Sure to set the standard for future studies of Genzken’s work, Isa Genzken is essential for anyone interested in contemporary art.

Isa Genzken: Sculpture as World Receiver

Arts & Photography

Lee, Lisa

History & Criticism

University of Chicago Press

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Computers & Technology

Lewis, Rita

Software

Sams.

The first monograph of Chicago-based Theaster Gates, one of the most exciting and highly regarded contemporary artists at work today.
Theaster Gates has developed an expanded artistic practice that includes space development, object making, performance and critical engagement with many publics. Gates transforms spaces, institutions, traditions, and perceptions.
Gates's training as an urban planner and sculptor, and subsequent time spent studying clay, has given him keen awareness of the poetics of production and systems of organizing. Playing with these poetic and systematic interests, Gates has assembled gospel choirs, formed temporary unions, and used systems of mass production as a way of underscoring the need that industry has for the body.
Gates refers to his working method as 'critique through collaboration' and his projects often stretch the form of what we usually understand visual art to be. His focus is also on the availability of information and the cross-fertilization of ideas. His multi-faceted exhibitions investigate themes of race and history through sculpture, installation, performance and two-dimensional works, furthering the artist's interest in a critique of social practice, shared economies and the question of objects in relation to political and cultural thought.
Gates' recent exhibition and performance venues include the Seattle Art Museum, Art Basel Miami Beach, Milwaukee Art Museum, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and the Whitney Biennial in New York. Gates was a participating artist in Documenta 13 in Kassel (2012) with his total-living installation 12 Ballads for Huguenot House. Other notable solo exhibitions include An Epitaph for Civil Rights at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (2011) and My Labor Is My Protest, at White Cube Bermondsey, London (2012). Parallel to his artist career, Gates is also Director of Arts and Public Life Initiative at the University of Chicago and a board member of the city's South Side Community Center.
Recently commissioned as the 2012 Armory Show Artist and a Loeb Fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2011, Gates has received awards and grants from Creative Capital, the Joyce Foundation, Graham Foundation, and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art.

Theaster Gates (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

Borchardt-Hume, Achim

Becker, Carol

Phaidon Press

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Macromedia Fireworks Fast & Easy Web Development

Web Development & Design

Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade

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Macromedia Fireworks 4 Fast & Easy Web Development w/CD

Introducing Adobe  Photoshop  Elements

Pearson/Education

A task-based tutorial that gives a new iMac buyer the full color, step-by-step tasks they are most interested in. Topics include: Getting Started; Sending E-Mail; Using Applications; Working with Disks, Folders, and Files; Printing with Mac OS; Personalizing Mac OS; Setting up Applications; Using Mac OS Application Accessories (Including Sherlock, Movie Player, Playing Games, and Other Fun Stuff); Maintaining Your System; Connecting to Online Services and the Internet; and iMac Hardware Features and Accessories. 
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Que Pub

A task-based tutorial presents a step-by-step introduction to the Linux operating system, covering installation, networking, Internet accessibility, working with files and folders, personalizing the system, setting up applications, and maintaining the system. Original. (Beginner).

Easy Linux: See It Done Do It Yourself

Operating Systems

A task-based tutorial that gives iMac buyers the full color, step-by-step tasks they are most interested in. Topics include getting started with your new machine, sending e-mail, setting up applications, working with disks, folders and files, using Mac OS 9 features, finding information on the Internet using Sherlock 2, making movies with iMovie, using AirPort wireless networking, maintaining your system and connecting to online services.

Easy Imac: See It Done, Do It Yourself

Hardware & DIY

Introducing Photoshop Elements will gently but thoroughly explain all aspects of the software, including 
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Introducing Adobe (R) Photoshop (R) Elements

Photography & Video

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