Art & Photography Books
Rizzoli International Publications Investigations Selected Works by Belzberg
Book SynopsisThe first book to celebrate the work of Belzberg Architects, anaward-winning architecture and interior design firm based in Southern California, which is at the forefront of architecture today. Investigations shows how their unconventional designs have become iconic. Investigations presents a selection of the firm’s projects, identifying a specific architectural element, material, or design process to reveal the unique character of the built results. Projects include the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust of sculpted concrete that enables the building to be located predominantly underneath a park; the folded surfaces of the Skyline Residence perched atop the Hollywood Hills; and Apertures, a mid-rise of hospitality and commercial uses in Mexico City for which a seismically-sound breeze-block system was developed. Each project is illustrated with photographs, drawings, and diagrams, and insightful essays speak to the firm’s developm
£38.36
Rizzoli International Publications Shigeru Ban Timber in Architecture
Book SynopsisThe recipient of the 2014 Pritzker Prize in architecture, Shigeru Ban remains one of the most innovative of architects. A pioneer in the use of sustainable materials, Ban is the most visible proponent of wood and bamboo in contemporary architecture, and especially mass timber, a fireproof, composite material, and nearly 50 new buildings and projects are featured in this latest volume on his work.Trade Review"As the world and the design industry grapples with how to lessen our impact on the planet and its resources, the work of Pritzker Prize–winning architect Shigeru Ban, a proponent of the use of humble materials like wood and cardboard in architecture, has never felt more relevant or necessary. This book features more than 50 important projects of Ban’s design." —ELLE DECOR."The Japanese master of innovation and sustainable architecture, Toyko-based Shigeru Ban has pioneered working with timber, and this book celebrates just that. Employing wood and bamboo in his designs, materials with proven positive effect in health and wellness, both physical and emotional, Ban is behind projects such as the headquarters of Swatch and Omega, as well as the Aspen Museum, the Pompidou Metz, the Mount Fuji World Heritage Center, and La Seine Musicale Performance Hall in Paris. This lavish publication studies them all, delving deeper into the art of designing and building with timber, from private projects to emergency shelters and anything in between." —WALLPAPER*"Pritzker-winning architect Shigeru Ban has designed everything from museums and private homes to churches and emergency shelters. In his latest book, he flaunts his incredible portfolio of projects that use timber in extraordinary ways." —THE GRAND TOURIST
£44.00
Rizzoli International Publications Stephen Antonakos
Book SynopsisA retrospective of the preeminent Greek-born American artist, who was a pioneer in the use of neon in the realm of fine art.Prolific multimedia artist Stephen Antonakos (1926–2013) is best known for his resplendent abstract neon sculptures—instantly recognizable for their vibrant colors and crisp geometry. Along with well-known artists Lucio Fontana, Bruce Nauman, Keith Sonnier, and his compatriot Chryssa, Antonakos brought new perceptual and formal possibilities to the medium of neon.This comprehensive book comprises Antonakos’s diverse output of neon, canvases, drawings, travel collages, chapels, and gold works, all of which reflect an abiding concern with illumination, incomplete geometric shapes, and an almost mystical spirituality that is manifest throughout his oeuvre, from his overtly religious pieces to his playful assembled collages from his trips to Greece. His later works feature neon lights placed behind painted or gold-leaf panels,
£40.00
Rizzoli International Publications Tadao Ando Spirit
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£75.00
Rizzoli International Publications LL Cool J Presents the Streets Win
Book SynopsisA celebration of 50 years of Hip Hopâ??s vibrant history, and its transformative influence not just on American music and culture, but across the world. This vivid chronicle of the rhythm, rhyme, and reason of Hip Hop is told through intimate narratives, over 150 iconic images, and the voices of Hip Hop's founding artists. Co-authored by the legendary LL COOL J, celebrated journalist Vikki Tobak, and Rock The Bellsâ?? editorial director Alec Banks, this unparalleled collection is a must-have for music fans.â?Personal Stories from Hip Hop Luminaries: Firsthand accounts from the likes of DJ Kool Herc, Salt-N-Pepa, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, Snoop Dogg and many more. â?Insights from Hip Hop Royalty: Written contributions from an A-list roster including Rakim, MC Lyte, Jay-Z, and many more. â?Iconic Shots from Photographic Legends: Contributions from Joe Conzo Jr., Ernie Paniccioli, Jonathan Mannion, and others who chronicled Trade Review"A beautifully illustrated homage to 50 years of hip-hop in the words of the icons who were there at the beginning. Includes rarely seen images and recollections from Salt-N-Pepa, Public Enemy, Run-D.M.C., Mary J. Blige and more. Peep Ludacris as a cutie child on page 288." — ASSOCIATED PRESS"Celebrate half a century of a revolutionary musical movement with “The Streets Win: 50 Years of Hip-Hop Greatness,” an LL COOL J joint that brings together stunning photography, illuminating artifacts and intimate testimonials from many of the people who took rap music from a Bronx block party to the world stage." — THE NEW YORK TIMES"And finally, equally as epic is LL Cool J Presents: The Streets Win, 50 Years of Hip-Hop Greatness, a photographic encyclopedia of the art form and the legends who birthed it, like DJ Kool Herc, to today’s titans, like Jay-Z." —Neil Patrick Harris, WONDERCADE"For the culture! On the 50th anniversary of the birth of Hip-Hop, rap statesman and entertainer LL COOL J adds to the celebration with this book that traces the journey of the genre that shaped music, fashion and culture. It’s filled with icon stories from all the greats, as well as photos from back-in-the-day block parties, street scenes, album covers, graffiti art and music videos." —MANSION GLOBAL"Presented under the auspices of rap’s first G.O.A.T., LL COOL J, and his Rock The Bells enterprise, [The Streets Win] is part coffee-table book—replete with both rare and truly iconic imagery of hip-hop’s elder luminaries—and part Who’s Who reference book with contextualizing entries for each person pictured. Through a focus on the individual players and participants who gave shape to what we know today as hip-hop, it lovingly tracks hip-hop’s beginnings and development through the early 2000s. Oversize and weighty, it reflects the culture’s bombast with its scale." — AIRMAIL "...this glossy Rizzoli book chronicles [hip-hop] history in photos, interviews and essays." — WSJ. MAGAZINE"In their new book, LL COOL J Presents The Streets Win: 50 Years of Hip-Hop Greatness, author, journalist, and music photography curator Vikki Tobak and the editorial director of LL Cool J's Rock The Bells Alec Banks celebrate hip-hop's 50th birthday by highlighting the culture, sound, and voices that created the genre." — COMPLEX "Through the eyes of two-time Grammy award-winning artist LL Cool J, and co-authored by Vikki Tobak and Alec Banks, this commemorates half a century of hip hop with more than 150 images from the genre’s most celebrated photographers." — FINANCIAL TIMES, HOW TO SPEND IT "Grammy Award–winning Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee LL COOL J, journalist/music-photography curator Vikki Tobak (Ice Cold: A Hip-Hop Jewelry History), and journalist/Rock the Bells editorial director Alec Banks use vibrant imagery and firsthand accounts to tell the story of how some of hip-hop’s prominent voices first came to know the genre in this eye-catching photobook. Most of the pictures are a mixture of energetic action shots during performances; portraits of the subjects also loom large in one- or two-page spreads. Readers will learn that Pepa of Salt-N-Pepa was inspired by Run DMC and that Ludacris fell in love with hip-hop after performing an LL COOL J song during a talent show in fourth grade. In other stories, performers and DJs discuss their childhoods, what keeps them going, and their perspectives on the culture. Refreshingly, there are also recollections either from or about graffiti artists, album-cover designers, clothing designers, and studio owners. VERDICT - A treat for hip-hop fans of all ages." — LIBRARY JOURNAL "In his new book The Streets Win: 50 Years of Hip-Hop Greatness, rapper and actor [LL COOL J] celebrates the history of the genre, which, he says ‘facilitated all my dreams.’” — PEOPLE MAGAZINE "This eye-catching survey…spotlights important players in hip-hop history, from the 1970s, when skeptics believed the genre “had the same shelf life of a carton of milk,” to the moneymaking phenomenon enmeshed in today’s popular culture. [The book's] all-star lineup and the treasure trove of photos...bring to vivid life the energy and history of hip-hop." — PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
£34.00
Rizzoli International Publications Ebony G. Patterson
Book SynopsisThe artist''s deceptively beautiful work--colorful tapestries and garden-inspired installations created out of faux flowers, glitter, sequins, fabric, toys, beads, jewelry, and other embellishments--comes to life at The New York Botanical Garden, where she employs the beauty and symbolism of living plants to unearth the complex entanglements of race, gender and colonialism.Accompanying a major site-specific exhibition of sculptural and horticultural installations by artist Ebony G. Patterson at The New York Botanical Garden, this volume provides deeper insights into Patterson’s multilayered practice. The artist’s work has long examined and experimented with the concept of the garden through a practice that uses beauty as an invitation to confront larger societal questions and concerns.
£28.00
Rizzoli International Publications The Private House
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£34.00
Rizzoli International Publications Stetson
£60.00
Rizzoli International Publications The Legendary Estates of Beverly Hills
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£60.00
Rizzoli International Publications I Know Nigo
Book SynopsisThis volume documents the collaborations between famed fashion designer Nigo and many recording artists (including Pharrell, A$AP Rocky, and Tyler, the Creator), presenting a trove of limited-edition apparel, sneakers, accessories, album covers, and collectibles and an archive of trademark graphics and patterns.
£36.00
Rizzoli International Publications I Heard There Were No Waves in New Jersey
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£34.00
Rizzoli Tasaki
Book SynopsisEstablished in the early 1950s by a pioneer in both natural and cultured pearls, Tasaki is now Japan’s leading luxury jeweler; the brand’s first book documents over 70 years of innovation.This book is a celebration of over half a century of jewelry design and savoir-faire, creating a book for Tasaki’s many fans as it introduces itself to a new and growing audience.One of the venerable names in pearls and gemstones in Asia, Tasaki grew out of a humble family of pearl farmers and is now synonymous with Japanese luxury. Seventy years on, the company he founded is now one of the major producers of Akoya pearls in the world.Forever innovating, Tasaki is now known for its fresh approach to high jewelry. Taking pride of place in the book are trademark settings, such as the sequence of pearls and diamonds balanced on a bar of precious metals that are applied to a range of accessories. From rings to luxury timepieces—often conc
£48.75
Rizzoli International Publications Beautiful Bacteria
Book SynopsisA leading bacteria scientist combines unique photographic techniques and accessible text to reveal the microbial world within and around us.Beautiful Bacteria merges stunning imagery with a new way of looking at something we interact with every day. Each chapter introduces the different types of bacteria around us, illustrated with singularly beautiful photographs of these minute life forms and an approachable text that explains where the bacteria is located and what it does. Much as New York Times bestseller I Contain Multitudes did, Beautiful Bacteria brings the invisible world that has shaped our species to life.While we know microbes in our world are relevant, the focus of this book is what the invisible, microbial world looks like, where it comes from, and where new discoveries and biotechnology are taking us. Looking at the microbial world reveals countless questions about life and connects with the personal realm of bacteria in
£30.80
Rizzoli International Publications Luncheons on the Grass
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£23.96
Whitechapel Gallery Walid Raad Miraculous Beginnings French edition
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£21.21
Whitechapel Gallery The Magazine
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£15.26
Whitechapel Gallery Work
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£15.26
Whitechapel Gallery Dominique White Deadweight
Book SynopsisDominique White (b.1993, UK) is the 9th winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women. White's recent solo exhibitions include: Destruction of Order, VEDA (Florence, Italy, 2024); Dominique White and Alberta Whittle: Sargasso Sea, ICA Philadelphia (Philadelphia, USA 2024); When Disaster Strikes…, Kunsthalle Münster (Münster, Germany 2023-4), May You Break Free and Outlive Your Enemy, La Casa Encendida (Madrid, Spain, 2023) and Statements, Art Basel (Basel, Switzerland, 2022). White was awarded the Foundwork Artist Prize of 2022 (US), has received awards from Artangel (UK), the Henry Moore Foundation (UK) in 2020 and the Roger Pailhas Prize (Art-O-Rama, FR) in conjunction with her solo presentation with VEDA in 2019. White was in residency at Sagrada Mercancía (Chile), Triangle France Astéride (France) and La Becque (Switzerland) in 2020 and 2021.
£23.80
Halsgrove Yorkshire Heritage Steam Railways
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£14.24
Anness Publishing Digital Cartooning A StepbyStep Guide with 200
Book SynopsisThis inspiring book provides a detailed guide to drawing,painting and manipulating your own digital cartoons. It ispacked full with professional advice, fantastic examplesand practical step-by-step techniques showing how tocreate amazing characters and worlds. The book beginsby introducing the essential equipment and types ofcomputer software needed. A useful guide to digitaltechniques follows, which explains how to develop ascanned image, how to combine different media, addspeech bubbles and much more. The main sectionfeatures a range of projects for practising the techniques,and producing a variety of cartoon styles.• A teach-yourself practical guide to drawing cartoons onyour computer, suitable for beginners as well as moreexperienced artists.• Introduces all the essential computer software andequipment, such as Adobe Illustrator and Corel Painterand the animation programs Flash and ImageReady.
£6.99
Seagull Books London Ltd Correspondence
Book SynopsisPablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein. Few can be said to have had as broad an impact on European art in the twentieth century as these two cultural giants. Pablo Picasso, a pioneering visual artist, created a prolific and widely influential body of work. Gertrude Stein, an intellectual tastemaker, hosted the leading salon for artists and writers between the wars in her Paris apartment, welcoming Henri Matisse, Ernest Hemingway, and Ezra Pound to weekly events at her home to discuss art and literature. It comes as no surprise, then, that Picasso and Stein were fast friends and frequent confidantes. Through Picasso and Stein's casual notes and reflective letters, this volume of correspondence between the two captures Paris both in the golden age of the early twentieth century and in one of its darkest hours, the Nazi occupation through mentions of dinner parties, lovers, work, and the crises of the two world wars. Illustrated with photographs and postcards, as well as drawings and paintings
£19.00
Transworld Publishers Ltd Mythotopia
Book SynopsisFrom renowned YouTube and Instagram artist Vexx, a follow-up to his bestselling CreatopiaVexx is back with another incredible collection of critters to colour, drawn in his signature street-art doodle style. In Mythotopia, you''ll find entirely new line art depicting magical creatures from griffins and mermaids to krakens and yetis, as well as a few guest-doodle-artists pages and a call from Vexx for you to submit your artwork via Instagram for possible inclusion in his next book.Go crazy with colour and ink in the intricate linework paired with bubbly characters, all on single-sided pages for minimum bleed-through. Both relaxing and challenging, this book is sure to inspire your inner artist.
£11.69
Canongate Books How Are You Feeling
Book SynopsisHow are you feeling? Are you alright?If you could open your mind like a handbag and show us what was inside, what would we see?A bit of a mess?Don''t worry. This is a self-help book.You''ll feel better very soon.Trade ReviewFunny and profound and surprising all at the same time -- Harry HillDavid Shrigley is probably the funniest gallery-type artist who ever lives -- Dave EggersOn the kink of his line Shrigley can shift effortlessly from pathos to paranoia. And his work is funny - very funny; his timing devastatingly effective -- Will SelfExcellent . . . There's more to Shrigley than his knowing nods to high art * * Guardian, on Brain Activity, at the Hayward Gallery * *Shrigley deserves his immense popularity. For almost 20 years he has produced a ceaseless stream of ideas, observations, jokes and strange insights in the form of left-field drawings that have appeared in broadsheet newspapers, books and magazines as well as galleries. Deadpan, escapist and distinctively cack-handed, they make up a little world in themselves * * Observer * *Simultaneously unsettling and humorous * * Designboom, on Brain Activity, at the Hayward Gallery * *Shrigley mines a mordant, scatological seam, conjuring up the dark tradition of British humour that threw up Tony Hancock and Chris Morris. * * The Times * *[A] master of modern surrealism. * * Evening Standard * *With a casual gesture Shrigley points to that hideous shape whose name I've never known - and then he names it. And the name is profoundly, embarrassingly familiar. I'm laughing while frantically searching for a pen, so desperate to capture the feeling he has unearthed in me. -- Miranda JulyA must for fans of the absurd. * * ES magazine * *Half man, half legend. * * The Skinny * *An artist touched by comic genius and something like full-blown lunacy. * * The Lady * *David Shrigley messes with my head. -- Moira Jeffreys * * Scotland on Sunday * *One of the most successful contemporary artists of his generation . . . Sketchy, darkly humorous, occasionally violent and always arch, his drawings and animations are stylistically naïve, and his sculptures are intentionally awkward * * CityLife * *
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British Museum Press The Snettisham Hoards
Book SynopsisFirst complete publication of one of the most important Iron Age sites in Europe at Snettisham, Norfolk. It will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in Iron Age cultureTable of ContentsPart I: The site Chapter 1: Introduction (Julia Farley and Jody Joy) Chapter 2: A History of discoveries at the site (Jody Joy) Part II: The British Museum excavations at Snettisham Chapter 3: Excavating at Snettisham (Ian Stead) Chapter 4: The results of the 1990-1992 excavations (Julia Farley) Part III: Material Culture Chapter 5: Metalwork (Julia Farley, Jody Joy, Ian Stead, John Davies) Chapter 6: Coins (Eleanor Ghey, John Davies and Julia Farley) Chapter 7: Summary of finds by hoard (Julia Farley and Jody Joy) Chapter 8: Prehistoric Pottery (Sarah Percival) Chapter 9: Roman Pottery (Alice Lyons) Chapter 10: Roman CBM (Alice Lyons) Chapter 11: Furnace debris (Paul Craddock and Janet Lang) Chapter 12: Flint (Peter Makey) Chapter 13: Other stone objects (Peter Makey and Julia Farley) Chapter 14: Animal bone (Alan Pipe) Part IV: Conservation and analysis Chapter 15: The Conservation campaign (Fleur Shearman and Marilyn Hockey) Chapter 16: Technology and manufacture (Nigel Meeks, Aude Mongiatti, Daniel O'Flynn, Duncan Hook, and Caroline Cartwright, with contributions from John Fenn) Chapter 17: Compositional analysis (Peter Northover) Chapter 18: Seeing the wood for the trees; evaluating the woody resources of Snettisham (Caroline Cartwright) Chapter 19: Decoration of the Snettisham torcs (Jody Joy) Chapter 20: Torc biographies (Jody Joy, Nigel Meeks and Julia Farley) Part V: Discussion Chapter 21: Torcs and bodily adornment in Iron Age Britain (Jody Joy and Julia Farley) Chapter 22: Snettisham in its social and landscape context (Jody Joy and Julia Farley) Chapter 23: Conclusions (Julia Farley and Jody Joy) Part VI: Appendices Appendix 1: Other torcs from Great Britain (Julia Farley, Jody Joy and Ian Stead) Appendix 2: The radiocarbon dating programme (Julia Farley) Appendix 3: Analysis of Iron Age gold alloy coins from Snettisham (Matt Ponting) Appendix 4: Surface XRF analyses of selected objects from NCM (Peter Northover), the BM (Duncan Hook), and comparative material (Peter Northover) Appendix 5: Phosphate Survey (Mike Cowell) Appendix 6: The excavation methodology for the 1990-1992 excavations (Tony Spence) Appendix 7: Geophysical survey of the hoard field (Michael de Bootman) Bibliography Index
£38.00
Floris Books Making Geometry Exploring ThreeDimensional Forms
Book SynopsisTeaches professionals how to make three-dimensional models of all the Platonic and Archimedian solids in step-by-step instructions.Trade Review"This beautifully presented book...gives practical instructions on how to make the five Platonic regular solids and thirteen semi-regular Archimedean solids."--David Heaf, Science Group of the Anthroposophical Society in Great Britain'The instructions and illustrations are very clear and could be used in the classroom.'-- Network Review
£11.69
Vendome Press Ballerina
Book Synopsis A gorgeously illustrated look at the profound influence that classical ballet and the ballerina have had on high fashionBallerina: Fashion’s Modern Muse is a revelatory, irresistible treat for dance aficionados and fashionistas alike. Couturiers such as Balmain, Balenciaga, Chanel, Schiaparelli, Charles James, Dior, and Yves Saint Laurent designed ballet-inspired dresses and gowns, many featuring the boned bodices and voluminous tulle skirts of classical tutus. And ready-to-wear designers such as Claire McCardell found inspiration in ballet leotards and other practice clothing, creating knitted separates, bathing suits, and wrap dresses. Written by fashion and ballet experts, the book is illustrated with archival photography by such masters as Richard Avedon, Edward Steichen, Irving Penn, Man Ray, and Cecil Beaton, along with newly commissioned photography of contemporary ballerinas wearing ballet-influenced couture.
£40.00
Vendome Press Country Life
Book SynopsisA celebrated photographer focuses his lens on distinctive period and contemporary residences amid the natural beauty of New York’s Catskill Mountains and Hudson River Valley. The majestic panoramas, lush vegetation, and bucolic vibe of the Catskill Mountains and Hudson River Valley in upstate New York have long proved irresistible for city dwellers seeking respite from urban life and inveterate country lovers alike. These homes, whether hundreds of years old or brand new, all resonate with their natural surroundings, as each of the 20 houses that photographer William Abranowicz captured for this volume attests. They range from the historic houses of Thomas Cole and Frederic Edwin Church, quintessential landscape painters of the Hudson River School, to the rustic wood-and-stone house of a dealer of mid-century furniture, art, and jewelry, in which the clean lines of Frank Lloyd Wright side tables and other mid-century furnishings are exuberantly cont
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Vendome Press Island Dreaming
Book SynopsisAmanda Lindroth, a graduate of Wellesley College, went from writing about fashion for Women's Wear Daily's Eye column in New York to heading up Gucci's public relations department in London before moving to Nassau, where she opened her design firm in 2010. Since then, she has opened a second studio and a shop in Palm Beach, launched the Amanda Lindroth Home Collection, and began teaching an online interior design course for Creative Academy. She lives in Lyford Cay, Nassau. Dylan Chandler was born and raised, and still lives in, the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including Better Homes & Gardens and the New York Times. This is his first book. Carlisle Burch is a versatile illustrator whose clients are as varied as Serena and Lily, Urban Electric Company, New England Home magazine, and Chateau Miami restaurant. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
£48.75
Museum of Modern Art Talk to Me Design and the Communication between
Book SynopsisPublished in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this title thrives on an important late 20th-century cultural development in design: a shift from the centrality of function to that of meaning.
£21.25
Museum of Modern Art Rousseau The Dream
Book SynopsisDelves into various aspects of the artist Henri Rousseau's oeuvre and places the work in a broader social and art-historical context.
£12.28
Museum of Fine Arts,Boston Strong Women in Renaissance Italy
Book SynopsisThe lives, works and imagery of women artists, patrons and icons in Renaissance ItalyThe story of the Renaissance in Italy is often told through the work of great male artists such as Michelangelo, Raphael, Donatello and Leonardo. But what about the female half of the population? By exploring works made by, for, or about women, this book aims to reconsider a period of creative ingenuity and artistic excellence from their often-overlooked perspective.Drawing on the rich collection of paintings, ceramics, textiles, illustrated books and prints at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this publication focuses on images of feminine power, both sacred and secular, telling the stories of saints such as Mary Magdalen as examples of strength and ascetic devotion, Biblical heroines such as Judith as civic and domestic role models, and the mythical sorceress Medea as the ideal of a heroic nude. Women also asserted their presence as artists, artisans and patrons: Sofonis
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SteinerBooks, Inc Art History as a Reflection of Inner Spiritual
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£33.75
Carnegie Museum of Art,U.S. William Henry Fox Talbot and the Promise of
Book SynopsisWith rarely seen images, this handsome, affordable volume shows Talbot''s wide-ranging interestsThis beautiful publication serves as a primer on the work of William Henry Fox Talbot, a true interdisciplinary innovator who drew on his knowledge of art, botany, chemistry and optics to become one of the inventors of photography in 1839. Talbot's photogenic drawings (photograms), calotypes and salted paper prints are some of the first-ever examples of images captured on paper.Accompanying an exhibition at Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh opening in November 2017, this book brings together more than 30 photographs by Talbot that demonstrate his wide-ranging interests, including nature, still-life, portraiture, architecture and landscape. Some of these images are previously unpublished. Through thematic groupings elucidated by noted Talbot scholar Larry Schaaf, the book reveals the photographer's early striving to test the boundaries of his medium at a h
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Carnegie Museum of Art,U.S. Is It Morning for You Yet 58th Carnegie
Book SynopsisAn expansive dialogue between old and new forms of emancipatory artThe 58th Carnegie International traces the geopolitical footprint of the US since 1945 to suggest a historical ground for the images, ideas, objects and people that shape and desire emancipatory expressions and artworks, contextualizing conversations around migration, representation, appropriation and decolonization. This 424-page publication features two dialogical tracks: a historical current that comprises existing works borrowed from institutions, estates and artists, which are placed in dialogue with recent works and new commissions.Artists include: Abdul Hay Mossallam Zarara, Ali Eyal, Võ An Khánh, Andy Robert, Angel Velasco Shaw, Anh Tran, Antonio Martorell, Aziz Hazara, Banu Cennetoglu, Carlos Cañas, Carlos Motta, Christian Nyampeta, Claes Oldenburg, Colectivo 3, Dala Nasser, Daniel Lie, Denzil Forrester, Dia al-Azzawi, Diane Severin Nguyen, Doan Ket, Dogma Collection, Édgar
£42.30
Museum of New Mexico Press Woven Identities Basketry Art of Western North
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Guggenheim Museum Publications,U.S. Josef Albers in Mexico
Book SynopsisAlbers in the promised land of abstract art: the little-known influence of MexicoMexico is truly the promised land of abstract art, Josef Albers wrote to his former Bauhaus colleague Vasily Kandinsky in 1936. Josef Albers in Mexico reveals the profound link between the art and architecture of ancient Mesoamerica and Albers' abstract works on canvas and paper. With his wife, the artist Anni Albers, Albers toured pre-Columbian archeological sites and monuments during his 12 or more trips to Mexico and other Latin American countries between 1935 and 1968. On each visit, Albers took black-and-white photographs of pyramids, shrines, sanctuaries and landscapes, which he later assembled into rarely seen photo collages. The resulting works demonstrate Albers' continued formal experimentation with geometry, this time accentuating a pre-Columbian aesthetic.Josef Albers in Mexico brings together photographs, photo collages, prints and significant paTrade ReviewA necessary corrective to Albers’s reputation as more pedagogue than painter and the misconception that abstraction can ever be free of outside influence. -- Dennis Zhou * Hyperallergic *"Josef Albers in Mexico” has an energetic syncopation generated by the paintings’ singing colors, which alternate with the silvery sepia of the photographs. -- Roberta Smith * The New York Times *the architecture and sculpture of ancient Mexico were vital to [Albers'] art, not only as a database of motifs for his paintings but also as a kind of secular church where his faith in abstract art for the modern age was renewed. -- Richard Woodward * Wall Street Journal *
£38.00
Guggenheim Museum Gabriele Münter
£43.20
Getty Trust Publications History of the Art of Antiquity
Book SynopsisInvestigates the idea of beauty over time and space. This book offers a chronological account whose conceptual and historical paradigms have been reiterated and contested into the twentieth century. It not only sketches the circumstances that shaped Winckelmann's project but also assesses this scholar's influence on European intellectual life.
£57.00
Richard Dennis William Morris Tiles
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£34.20
Hurtwood Press Dear Ana
Book SynopsisDear Ana is about Leticia's journey back to her grandmother's motherland, Portugal.It is a collaborative project with the people she encountered in her village of Mundão who were invited to write a postcard to her now dead grandmother. In doing this they became the fictional friends she believed she had whilst dying with Alzheimer's in Brazil.
£36.00
Hurtwood Press The Meaning of the Earth
Book SynopsisThe Meaning of the Earth offers a retrospective on the work and lives of the relentlessly controversial artists Gilbert & George, connecting their beginnings as Living Sculptures to their pictorial work of today. ---------- 'The Meaning of the Earth, Wolf Jahn's new book, explores the vision of our Art like no one has ever done before. Congratulations Wolf! Everyone loves this amazing and beautiful book. It is a masterpiece.' - Gilbert & George ---------- The Meaning of the Earth offers a retrospective on the lives and work of the relentlessly controversial artists Gilbert & George, placing them within the context of twentieth-century British culture. Wolf Jahn tells the story of how Gilbert & George found their identity in opposition to pervasive ideas around social conformity and religion after meeting in 1967. The artists staged an internal revolution, mining their psyches to create visionary and unwaveringly modern art. The two people but one artist' ask the questions that gnaw
£28.00
Historic New Orleans Collection,U.S. John Clemmer
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£30.00
Art Gallery of York University,Canada The Films of Barbara Wagner Benjamin De Burca
Book SynopsisThe Brazilian German artist duo of Bárbara Wagner (born 1980) and Benjamin de Burca (born 1975), formed in 2011, counter the impulse to categorize culture in terms that are fixedor deemed folk by organizations such as UNESCOby exploring cultural change across generations and geographies. Their work celebrates and reframes vernacular cultural forms as they have manifested through time; as popular traditions become pop culture, for instance. Through their films, the artists examine a space in between, where cultural forms of the past adapt in response to changing economic conditionsparticularly in emerging economies or postcolonial geographical contextsand where popular genres persist through cultural mixing and diasporic refashioning. The artists look to how performative forms of colonial cultural resistance in Brazil's northeast, in particular, continue today but in revised expression. This book, designed by Lisa Kiss, leads a discussion about their films, including the work slated
£31.50
Blast Books,U.S. Mtter Museum Historic Medical Photographs
Book SynopsisThe first book on the Mütter Museum contain artful images of the museum''s fascinating exhibits shot by contemporary fine art photographers. Here, the focus is on the museum’s archive of rare historic photographs, most of which have never been seen by the public. Featured are poignant, aesthetically accomplished works ranging from Civil War photographs showing injury and recovery, to the ravages of diseases not yet conquered in the 19th century, to pathological anomalies, to psychological disorders. Many were taken by talented photographers between the 1860s and the 1940s as records for physicians to share among colleagues and to track patients’ conditions, and demonstrate various techniques used in medical photography including the daguerreotype, micrography, X ray, and traditional portrait-style photography. As visual documents of what humans endured in the face of limited medical knowledge, these extraordinary and haunting photographs demonstrate how far medicine has advanced.
£35.99
Dia Art Foundation,U.S. Joan Jonas Next Move in a Mirror World
Book SynopsisA conceptually innovative take on Jonas' performances and installationsPublished in conjunction with the first major US museum show of Joan Jonas' art in nearly 15 years, this volume breaks new ground by contextualizing and expanding understandings of Jonas' body of work through three thematic approaches: the critical notions of gender, being and otherness; the politics of landscape and ecology; and new conceptions of medium specificity and un-specificity. These themes serve as a framework through which to address the rich vocabulary of Jonas' performances, sculptures, drawings and installations from the early 1970s until today.Inspired by the format of a reader, the monograph presents new writing and scholarship, excerpts from Douglas Crimp''s final interview, as well as a selection of drawings and sketches from Jonas' notebooks, including never-before-published drawings created during the coronavirus lockdown.Born and based in New York, Joan Jona
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Rebel Press,London Leaving the 20th Century Incomplete Work of the
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Trustees of the Royal Armouries Dangerous Arts Arms as Art
Book SynopsisDangerous Arts portrays a world that combines art with conflict, death with beauty. Replete with gorgeous photography, it showcases works of art that adorned the great palaces of the world. These are objects made to kill but also to impress: a magnificent testament to craftsmanship, engineering and high fashion.
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Oxgarth Press The Pocket Guide to Oxford
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