In 2006 London's famous Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press formed an editorial alliance to produce a new series of books. Documents of Contemporary Art combines several features that do not often coincide in publishing: affordable paperback prices, good design, and impeccable editorial content. Each volume in the series is a definitive anthology on a particular theme, practice, or concern that is of central significance to contemporary visual culture. The artists and writers included in these books, like the guest editors who conceive them, represent the diversity of perspectives, generations, and voices defining art today.

	Appropriation Edited by David Evans Important documents and appraisals of appropriation art from Duchamp's readymades to feminist and postcolonial critique. Paper / April 2009 Price $24.95 | ADD TO CART
	The Archive Edited by Charles Merewether The significance of the archive in modernity and in contemporary art; writings by Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, Hal Foster, and others, and essays on the archival practice of such artists as Gerhard Richter, Christian Boltanski, Renée Green, and The Atlas Group. Paper / November 2006 Price $24.95 | ADD TO CART
	The Artist's Joke Edited by Jennifer Higgie Jokes and humor in avant-garde and contemporary art, as discussed by writers and artists ranging from Freud and Picasso to Andrea Fraser, Guerilla Girls, and Slavoj Zizek. Paper / October 2007 Price $24.95 | ADD TO CART
	Beauty Edited by Dave Beech Key texts on beauty and its revival in contemporary art. Paper / April 2009 Price $24.95 | ADD TO CART
	Chance Edited by Margaret Iversen Why chance remains a key strategy in artists' investigations into the contemporary world. Paper / March 2010 Price $24.95 | NOT YET AVAILABLE FOR ORDERING
	The Cinematic Edited by David Campany Key writings by artists and theorists chart the shifting relationship between film and photography and how the rise of cinema forced photography to make a virtue of its stillness. Paper / May 2007 Price $24.95 | ADD TO CART
	Colour Edited by David Batchelor Writings on color from modernism to the present, with contributions writers from Baudelaire to Baudrillard, surveying art from Paul Gauguin to Rachel Whiteread. Paper / March 2008 Price $24.95 | ADD TO CART
	Design and Art Edited by Alex Coles The first anthology to address the rise of the "design-art" phenomenon—the breakdown of boundaries between art and architectural, graphic, or product design begun in the Pop and Minimalist eras. Paper / May 2007 Price $24.95 | ADD TO CART
	The Everyday Edited by Stephen Johnstone Writings on the "turn to the ordinary" in contemporary art examine the various ways artists have engaged with the everyday since 1945. Paper / March 2008 Price $24.95 | ADD TO CART
	The Gothic Edited by Gilda Williams This comprehensive survey of the Gothic in contemporary visual culture explores the work of artists ranging from Andy Warhol to Cindy Sherman to Matthew Barney, with texts by Julia Kristeva, Marina Warner, Jeff Wall, and many others. Paper / October 2007 Price $24.95 | ADD TO CART
	Participation Edited by Claire Bishop Art that seeks to produce situations in which relations are formed among viewers is placed in historical and theoretical context in key writings by critics and artists. Paper / November 2006 Price $24.95 | ADD TO CART
	Situation Edited by Claire Doherty Key texts on the notion of "situation" in art and theory that consider site, place, and context, temporary interventions, remedial actions, place-making, and public space. Paper / October 2009 Price $24.95 | ADD TO CART
	The Sublime Edited by Simon Morley The continuing relevance and constant reinvention of the sublime—the transcendent, the awe-inspiring, the unpresentable—in art and culture since 1945. Paper / March 2010 Price $24.95 | NOT YET AVAILABLE FOR ORDERING
	Utopias Edited by Richard Noble Utopian strategies in contemporary art seen in the context of the histories of utopian thinking and avant-garde art. Paper / October 2009 Price $24.95 | ADD TO CART