A study of video artist Pipilotti Rist. It features a discussion of Rist's work in relation to notions of Utopia; an examination of her innovation in video technology in the creation of a female image; an exploration of the video work, Absolutions ; Rist's descriptions of her dreams; and more.

A young man, Jacob, consistently yearns for something greater and, in an attempt to resuscitate his love of the classics, he embarks on a voyage to the Mediterranean before the war begins and his fate is forever altered.

Some of the most significant in modern intellectual and cultural history pass by way of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818). This title includes essays by Elisabeth Bronfen, Crosbie Smith, Ludmilla Jordanova, Louis James, Michael Fried, Michael Grant, Jasia Reichardt, Robert Olorenshaw and Jean-Louis Schefer.

In 1960 Eva Hesse (1936-1970) created an unusual group of oil paintings. Contrary to scholarship, which suggests that these works represent a form of self-deprecation, this book seeks to consider these 'spectre' paintings as manifestations of a private, haunted interiority in the context of the artist's burgeoning maturity.

These essays trace the multifarious ways in which death is both unknowable and repeatedly constructed. All the contributions combine theory with textual readings - whether of literature, paintings, or historical sources.

Published to accompany a major survey exhibition at London's Hayward Gallery, 28 September 2011 - 8 January 2012.