This book is the first monograph devoted exclusively to Warhol's self-portraits.

Gilbert & George's art is for everyone - in their own words, an 'art for all'. Their sculptures, photographic works, drawings and photographic pieces address fundamental human issues and concerns: sex, death, violence, religion, alcoholism, fear and racial tension.

Accompanying an exhibition of seven large-scale paintings commissioned for the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, this volume explores Koons's recent work - a hybrid of fun and fantasy that simultaneously celebrates childhood pleasures and adult sexual desire.

John Currin's work sits at the crossroads where Old Master painting technique and 20th-century kitsch collide. His figurative paintings have earned him comparisons with artists ranging from Breugel to Rockwell. This monograph is a major survey of Currin's career, featuring his work since 1989.

Presents an overview of Andy Warhol's portraits. This book features more than 300 portraits made from the early 1960s until his death in 1987. It also contains essays that offer details into of one of the most popular aspects of his work.

Based on an exhibition that was organized by the Tony Shafrazi Gallery, where Shafrazi paid homage to a seminal display of Warhol's portraits that took place at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in 1979-80. This book includes an essay by Robert Rosenblum, who also contributed to the Whitney's original exhibition catalogue.

A view of artistic development which argues that the Paris-orientated orthodoxy of modern art does not allow for achievements which, in the eyes of the author, can be fairly called major. Other work by the author includes The Romantic Child , and The Jeff Koons Handbook .

Portraits in the age of enlightenment.

The Australian-born artist, Ron Mueck, created a distinctive body of hyper-real sculpture whose startling power and strangeness give a fresh impulse to modern sculpture. This catalogue accompanies the show at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain.

Appropriate for Art majors, this book surveys Western painting and sculpture presented in four historical parts, between 1776 and the dawn of the new century. It draws on the documentation of the period, tracing the dynamics of the making and viewing of art, and examining the influences of art and technology, art and politics and others.