The American avant-garde since 1970.

Laurie Anderson is regarded as one of the most innovative performance artists and musicians working today. Published to coincide with a major show at London's Barbican, this lavishly illustrated book explores every aspect of Anderson's work over three decades.

A study of the surrealist movement which traces its development and examines the work and thoughts of its major artists.

Featuring the work of American and European artists, this book traces the history of conceptual art from its origins in the Dada movement through to its current practitioners. It offers an accessible explanation of the phenomenon rooted in a social context. Aimed at A level and undergraduate students, as well as the general reader.

This text is an interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts, that reads the 20th century by listening to it - to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism. It explores aural activities in literature, music, visual arts, theatre and film.