(Paperback)

Explores ambiguity in modern art, considering images that rely to a very particular degree on an imaginative or a projected response from the viewer to achieve their effect.

(Paperback, New edition)

A compelling and thought-provoking study, now available in B-format paperback, The Destruction of Art investigates the destruction of architecture and art around the globe, uncovering a surprisingly widespread phenomenon.

(Paperback)

In January 2006, a man tried to break Marcel Duchamp's Fountain sculpture with a small hammer. The sculpted foot of Michelangelo's "David" was damaged in 1991 by a purportedly mentally-ill artist. The author tackles this weighty issue in depth, exploring spectres of censorship, iconoclasm and vandalism that surround such acts.