This book explores German and European exile visual artists, designers and film practitioners in the United States such as Max Beckmann, George Grosz, Hans Richter, Peter Lorre, and Edgar Ulmer and examines how American artists including Walter Quirt, Jackson Pollock, and Robert Motherwell responded to the Europeanization of American culture.

Thaddeus Strode s vibrant large-scale paintings are universes unto themselves: wild mash-ups of California surf and skateboard culture, Zen philosophy, rock music, literature, film, and comic books. "Absolutes and Nothings" marks the artist s first major museum show, presented as part of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum s Contemporary Projects series.
Strode s images draw on a wealth of motifs inspired by a broad range of sources in popular culture, freely combined with the artist s own creations. The strength and visual pleasure of Strode s aesthetic come from his self-reflexive...

"Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break III "is the third volume in a series examining the work of acclaimed video artist and photographer Sharon Lockhart. Known for collaborating with remote or marginal communities such as blue collar workers of the twenty-first century, as she did in "Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break I," the artist also blurs the line between photography, video art, and documentary. The results are simultaneously staged and artificial, yet at the same time intimate and deeply human. Her newest museum installations also incorporate artworks and utilitarian objects made by others,...