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'Funny, merciless, brilliant... I loved it' CURTIS SITTENFELD, bestselling author of ROMANTIC COMEDY Seamus, Fyodor, Ivan, Noah and Fatima are running out of time to decide on their futures. In a university town in the American Midwest, this circle of lovers and friends ask themselves: what is the right thing to stake a life on? Work, love, money, dance, poetry? Is love possible without harm? And what does true connection look like in an age of precarity? The author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Real Life returns with a deeply involving new novel of young men and women trying to work out what they want, and who they are. 'Taylor is a sharp chronicler' RAVEN LEILANI, author of LUSTER 'Assures Taylor's position as one of the most important novelists of his generation' GUARDIAN 'Remarkable' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Elegant... Taylor has a Chekhovian generosity' CLAIRE MESSUD, author of THE EMPEROR'S CHILDREN

A fascinating journey through Western art from the 1910s to the 1960s, charting how artists wrestled with the headlong changes of a turbulent and conflict-ridden world

A hotly charged new work of fiction from the Booker Prize shortlisted author of Real Life.

What is form in modern art? How could a work of art achieve its organic life in a world increasingly dominated by mechanism, by new technology? In this new book, Brandon Taylor proposes that biology and the life sciences themselves supplied many of the analogies and metaphors by which modern artists were guided. For the creative giants of the period - Picasso, Miró, Kandinsky, Strzeminski, Dalí, Arp, Motherwell and Pollock, as well as less-known figures such as Taeuber, Erni and Kobro - questions of 'living' form loomed large in studio conversation, in the press, and in the writings of the artists themselves.In a book rich in new research and fresh thinking, a well-known art historian proposes six modalities of organic and vital life that pervade the radical experiments of modern the organic , the biomorphic , the ambiguous , the monstrous , the dialectical , and the liquid .

Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. An introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer, he has left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends--some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness. But over the course of a late summer weekend, a series of confrontations with colleagues and an unexpected encounter with an ostensibly straight, white classmate conspire to fracture his defenses while exposing long-hidden currents of hostility and desire within their community. Real Life is a novel of profound and lacerating power, a story that asks if it's every really possible to overcome our private wounds, and at what cost. -- From dust jacket

When Constructivism emerged shortly after the Russian Revolution, its central principles concerned structure and efficiency in the work of art and the nature and properties of materials. In this book, the author examines the origins of these principles and their extraordinary consequences for the rest of modern art.

Exploring the intersection of psychoanalysis and modern sculpture, this collection of essays delves into how Freudian and Kleinian concepts, such as splitting and sublimation, alongside Lacanian ideas like the stade du miroir, illuminate the understanding of three-dimensional art. Covering movements from Surrealism to contemporary works, the essays reveal the profound connections between psychological theories and artistic expression, offering fresh insights into the interpretation of modern sculptures.

A comprehensive history of collage theory and practice describes Picasso's formation of the modern art form in 1908, its applications by progressive artists, its variations, and numerous significant pieces that marked the genre's evolution throughout the twentieth century.

This is an international survey of contemporary art, taking a critical look at the work of established artists and exploring broad international trends and movements. The book takes the impact of feminist, structuralist and postmodern theories on the visual arts as a central theme. The dominance of New York as a centre of the art market is discussed and the work of lesser-known artists from around the world is acknowledged. In addition, there are features on contemporary art in France, Britain and Russia.

Brandon Taylor aims to provide a full picture of Soviet culture during the years 1917 and 1932, a time when different movements in the art world vied with each other in claiming to represent the true art of the people.