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Modernity and Modernism(1st Edition)
French Painting in the Nineteenth Century (Modern Art Practices and Debates)
by Professor Francis Frascina, Ms. Tamar Garb, Briony Fer, Nigel P. Blake, Dr. Charles Harrison, Francis Franscina
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1993 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-05514-6, ISBN: 0-300-05514-5

"This volume is part of a four-volume series about art and its interpretation in the 19th and 20th centuries. The books provide an introduction to modern European and American art and criticism that should be valuable both to students and to the general reader. This first volume focuses on aspects of Realism, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in Paris between 1848 and 1900. Discussing works by Courbet, Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Cezanne, ..."

Realism, Rationalism, Surrealism
Art Between the Wars (Modern Art Practices and Debates)
by David Batchelor, Briony Fer, Paul Wood, Francis Haskell
Paperback, 371 Pages, Published 1993 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-05519-1, ISBN: 0-300-05519-6

"This is the third in a series of four books about art and its interpretation from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. The books seek to explain the most important issues confronting any study of modern art, without attempting exhaustive coverage. They present a range of approaches characteristic of current art-historical debates. The authors of the present book address debates in, and about, the avant-garde in the ye ..."

Louise Bourgeois
Paintings (Hardback)
by Clare Davies, Briony Fer
Paperback, 172 Pages, Published 2022 by Metropolitan Museum Of Art, United States, New York
ISBN-13: 978-1-58839-748-5, ISBN: 1-58839-748-3

"Informed by new archival research and the artist's extensive diaries, Louise Bourgeois: Paintings explores Bourgeois's relationship to the New York art world of the 1940s and her development of a unique pictorial language, adding a key ..."

Dan Flavin(1st Edition)
New Light
by Briony Fer, Jeffrey S. Weiss, Mr. Jeffrey Weiss, Dan Flavin, Hal Foster, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Alex Potts, Ms. Anne Wagner
Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2006 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-11409-6, ISBN: 0-300-11409-5

"In making light his primary medium, Dan Flavin (19331996) established himself as one of the most innovative and significant artists of the minimalist movement. A new generation encountered Flavin’s work through the critically acclaimed exhibition Dan Flavin: A Retrospective, which opened in October 2004 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Dan Flavin: New Light includes essays that respond to this exhibition and to the renewed i ..."

Here & There
Lisa Milroy
by Briony Fer, Ziba Ardalan, Hanneke Grootenboer, Lisa Milroy, Et Al.
Paperback, 87 Pages, Published 2018 by Parasol Unit Foundation For Contemporary Art
ISBN-13: 978-0-9573518-7-5, ISBN: 0-9573518-7-9

"The term ?still life? signals the fundamental experience of painting for Milroy, encapsulating her fascination with the relation between stillness and movement, contemplation and action.0In 'Here & There', motifs of clothing and shoes are ..."

Agnes Martin HC(1st Edition)
by Tiffany Bell, Frances Morris, Briony Fer, Maria Muller-Scharek, Lena Fritsch, Agnes Martin
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2015 by Tate
ISBN-13: 978-1-84976-268-7, ISBN: 1-84976-268-6

"Canadian-born Agnes Martin was one of the pre-eminent painters of the second half of the twentieth century, whose work has had a significant influence both on artists of her own time and for subsequent generations. A contemporary of the abstract expressionists though often identified with minimalism, Martin was of the few woman artists who came to prominence in the predominately masculine art world of the late 1950s and 1960s, and becam ..."

Alison Turnbull
Exercise Book
by Briony Fer, Alison Turnbull
Paperback, 84 Pages, Published 2013 by De La Warr Pavilion
ISBN-13: 978-0-9562866-4-2, ISBN: 0-9562866-4-X

"Recent exhibitions include: Alison Turnbull, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh; Galápagos, Gulbenkian Galapagos Artists Residency Programme, and Observatory, Matt's Gallery, London.Published to accompany the exhibition at De La Warr Pavilion, ..."

On Abstract Art(Updated)
by Briony Fer, John Ashbery
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2000 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-08735-2, ISBN: 0-300-08735-7

"In Freud's terms, whilst mourning involves the loss of an actual object, melancholia involves some kind of loss of the self, or a part of one's self, which can result in a kind of narcissistic injury. Distinct in important ways, then, both mourning and melancholia involve the loss of an object, and for Kristeva, in Black Sun, loss is the founding fact of psychic life.50 Death cannot be represented in Freud's unconscious, but imprin ..."

Alison Turnbull(1st Edition)
Houses into Flats
by Deyan Sudjic, Briony Fer, Stephen Snoddy, Alison Turnbull
Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 1999 by Milton Keynes Gallery
ISBN-13: 978-0-9536755-3-1, ISBN: 0-9536755-3-X

"This volume contains plans and paintings relating to such buildings as a library, lighthouse, prison, and apartment. The paintings take on a symbolic quality with the forms. Free-floating, they fuse the representational with the abstract."

Liz Rideal(1st Edition)
New Work
by Briony Fer, Anna Moszynska, Liz Rideal, Helen Lessore
Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 1998 by Nottinghamshire County Council
ISBN-13: 978-0-902751-24-8, ISBN: 0-902751-24-7

"Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Angel Row Gallery, which traveled to other venues."

Modern Art and Modernism
Manet to Pollock. Block VIII [Units 17-18]. Russian Art and the Revolution (Modern Art and Modernism: Manet to Pollock.)
by Briony Fer
Paperback, 83 Pages, Published 1983 by The Open University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-335-11112-1, ISBN: 0-335-11112-2

Anni Albers(1st Edition)
by Ann Coxon, Maria Muller-Schareck, Tate Publishing, Anni Albers, Briony Fer, Aa.Vv.
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2018 by Tate Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-84976-568-8, ISBN: 1-84976-568-5

"Anni Albers (1899-1994) was a textile designer, weaver, writer and printmaker, who was among the leading pioneers of twentieth-century modernism. Throughout her fruitful career she inspired a reconsideration of fabrics, both in their functional roles and as wall hangings, truly establishing thread and weaving as a valid medium for art. In her later years, Albers took up print-making, translating many of her persistent themes and ideas i ..."

Sleep in Sculpture
Babies from the Bowes
by Briony Fer, Fiona Russell, Alison Yarrington
Paperback, 8 Pages, Published 1996 by Centre For The Study Of Sculpture
ISBN-13: 978-1-900081-80-1, ISBN: 1-900081-80-6

Possibilities of the Object - Experiments in Modern and Contemporary Brazilian Art
(Paperback)
by Briony Fer, Paulo Venacio Filho, Paulo Venancio Filho, Artur Barrio
Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 2015 by Fruitmarket Gallery
ISBN-13: 978-1-908612-32-8, ISBN: 1-908612-32-0

""This book examines the pioneering role Brazilian artists played in the innovative international art scene of the 1950s to 1970s."

Rachel Whiteread(1st Edition)
by Ann Gallagher, Molly Donovan, Brian Dillon, Mark Godfrey, Briony Fer, Harald Krejci, James Lingwood, Linsey Young, Lynn Zelevansky, Gallagher A/Donovan
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2017 by Tate Publishing
Ilustrado
ISBN-13: 978-1-84976-464-3, ISBN: 1-84976-464-6

"Born in London in 1963, Rachel Whiteread is one of Britain's most exciting contemporary artists. Her work is characterised by its use of industrial materials such as plaster, concrete, resin, rubber and metal. With these she casts the surfaces and volume in and around everyday objects and architectural space, creating evocative sculptures that range from the intimate to the monumental. Whiteread came to prominence in 1990 with her work ..."

AGNES MARTIN
by Frances Morris, Tiffany Bell, Marion Ackermann, Rachel Barker, Jacquelynn Baas, Christina Bryan Rosenberger, Briony Fer, Lena Fritsch, Anna Lovatt, Maria Muller-Schareck, Richard Tobin, Rosemarie Trockel, Agnes Martin
Paperback, Published 2015 by Tate Publishing Ltd./ Guggenheim
ISBN-13: 978-0-89207-532-4, ISBN: 0-89207-532-5

ROTATING OBJECTS. GABRIEL OROZCO
by Briony Fer
Paperback, Published 2014 by Marian Goodman Gallery
ISBN-13: 978-0-944219-32-4, ISBN: 0-944219-32-2

Sontag Montag(1st Edition)
by Susan Morris, Deirdre O'dwyer, Briony Fer, Ed Krcma, Margaret Iversen
Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2009 by Five Years
Special Limited Edition
ISBN-13: 978-1-903724-03-3, ISBN: 1-903724-03-1

"Drawings, recordings and diagrams by Susan Morris. Exhibition 26/9/09 - 04/10/09. Launch of a publication with essays by Ed Krcma, Margaret Iversen and Briony Fer"

Rothko(1st Edition)
by Achim Borchardt-Hume, Mark Rothko, Borachim Borchardt-Hume, Briony Fer, London. Tate Modern, Borchadt-Hume Achim
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2008 by Tate Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-85437-737-1, ISBN: 1-85437-737-X

"Mark Rothko (1903-70) is widely seen as one of the greatest painters of the 20th century and was a leading figure in the Abstract Expressionist movement. In the late 1960s, he donated nine large-scale paintings to Tate on the condition that henceforward these would be shown as a unified immersive environment never to be mixed with work by other artists. The Rothko Room in its various incarnations has been one of the highlights of Tate's ..."

Gordon Matta-Clark(1st Edition)
"You Are the Measure" (Whitney Museum of American Art)
by Ms. Elisabeth Sussman, Gordon Matta-Clark, Tina Kukielski, Spyros Papapetros, Briony Fer, Gwendolyn Owens, Christian Scheidemann, Joan Simon, Elizabeth Sussman
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2007 by The Whitney Museum Of American Art
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-12395-1, ISBN: 0-300-12395-7

"Qualifying the ancient Greek saying Man is the measure,” Gordon Matta-Clark (19431978) asserted instead You are the measure,” conveying the defining theme in an oeuvre that would exert a powerful influence on fellow artists and architects. In artworks that combined minimalist, conceptual, and performative practices, Matta-Clark gave primary importance to the individual and considerations of everyday life. This comprehensive book inco ..."