Art & Photography Books
JRP Ringier Reconstructing Swiss Video Art: from the 1970s
Book SynopsisSurveying some 20 years of Swiss video art, this book includes works by Alexander Hahn, Klara Kuchta, Eric Lanz, Jean Otth, Pipilotti Rist, Alex Silber and Hannes Vogel, it reviews discussion surrounding the exhibiting of video art and the problems associated with long-term conservation.
£26.10
JRP Ringier Valentin Carron: Learning from Martigny
Book SynopsisNeither authentic nor kitsch, readymade nor traditional craft, the works of Swiss artist Valentin Carron (born 1975) play with material ambiguity--fake wood, fake concrete, fake bronze--to unpack the iconography of power and authority. Learning from Martigny offers photographic source material intertwined with images of his sculptures and paintings.
£20.70
JRP Ringier Valerie Belin: Black Eyed Susan
Book SynopsisIt is unsurprising that French photographer Valérie Belin (born 1964) should so plainly declare: I come from painting. Although she uses a photographer''s equipment, her images are far removed from realism. Whether responding to a still life by Édouard Manet or exploring societal constructions of female beauty, Belin emphasizes textural artifice and molded color, even when working in black and white.
£37.80
JRP Ringier Allan McCollum
Book SynopsisSince the late 1970s, Allan McCollum (born 1944) has addressed the anthropology of art: its distribution, acquisition, display and interpretation. From his first Surrogate Paintings (1978-82) to his Individual Works (1987-89) or recent Shapes Project(since 2005), through his famous series of Plaster Surrogates (begun in 1982), Perpetual Photos (since 1981) and Perfect Vehicles (since 1986), McCollum has revealed art''s mechanisms as a status-generating economy. In the 1990s, his art objects were replaced by found objects belonging to a situated context and community, in an effort to explore local micro-politics and to develop projects with specific milieus. His use of multiples, of museums and display aesthetics as compositional elements, all stem from this displacement of context. Working with regional museums, heterogeneous audiences, and references going from paleontology to mineralogy, McCollum today has built a truly unique and intriguing body of work that receives its first comprehensive overview in this monograph.
£36.00
JRP Ringier Ai Weiwei: Fairytale: A Reader
Book SynopsisIn 2007, Ai Weiwei (born 1957) presented a surprising new project titled Fairytale at Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany. He invited 1001 Chinese citizens of different ages and from various backgrounds to travel to Germany, all expenses paid, to experience their own fairytale holiday for 28 days. The logistics for this project were complex and entailed a hefty budget, as the artist later recalled, enumerating the considerations: to design the trip and activities for the tourists, to hope to get their passports, their visas, their insurance and air tickets, to organize the place where they can live in Kassel, to hire cooks, make products which are connected to the journey and would be needed for it... Happily, Fairytale was a runaway success for the artist, the participants and for Documenta. It was judged by critics to be one of the most sensational artworks at Documenta that year, and led to an acclaimed documentary and global media coverage. This publication offers critical analyses of the project from Roger M. Buergel, Daniel Birnbaum, Christian Höller, Raphael Gygax and Ai Weiwei himself.
£17.10
JRP Ringier Kerstin Bratsch/Adele Roder: DAS INSTITUT
Book SynopsisDas Institut was founded in New York in 2007 by Kerstin Brätsch and Adele Röder as space for collaborative possibilities that allowed them to leave their respective practices at the door. This artist's book offers a fully illustrated review of Das Institut's projects over the past three years, presented in the style of a business report.
£34.20
JRP Ringier L'Internationale: Post-War Avant-Gardes Between
Book SynopsisL'Internationale is a trans-institutional network of five major European museums and artists' archives: Moderna Galerija Ljublana, Július Koller Society Bratislava/Vienna, MACBA Barcelona, Van Abbemusuem Eindhoven and MHKA Antwerp. With these five museums and their respective collections as a starting point, L'Internationale: Post-War Avant-Gardes Between 1957 and 1986 presents a range of case studies and historiographical and theoretical essays that reconsider a period in art history that was dominated by the art of Western Europe and North America. The publication instead portrays a more dispersed, multi-polar and interconnected neo-avant-garde, one that existed long before it became common to think in terms of globalization or trans-nationalism. In the process, this book questions how local narratives can be brought together in a new rhizomatic way, one that works to reshape our ideas of translocalism and internationalism.
£999.99
JRP Ringier The Swiss Institute Experience
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£32.40
JRP Ringier Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho: News from Nowhere
Book SynopsisThe Korean artists Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho (both born 1969) make work that addresses elemental questions concerning contemporary civilization in light of political, socioeconomic and ecological changes. The exhibition project News from Nowhere that they initiated jointly in 2012 is premised on a postapocalyptic scenario: humanity has been almost entirely wiped out and is forced to reconsider long-held convictions that may no longer be tenable. The project premiered at Documenta 13 and is designed as a steadily evolving ensemble. Moon and Jeon have established an interdisciplinary and participatory platform where renowned experts from the fields of product and fashion design, architecture, urban planning, and medical and biotechnology research discuss the urgent issues of our time with the audience. The thematic focus is on the constitution and construction of communities.This monographic publication accompanies an exhibition and delivers an in-depth exploration of Moon and Jeon's project News from Nowhere. The book presents a comprehensive overview of the former exhibition stations in Kassel and Chicago alongside documentation of the project's realization in Zurich. In addition the book contains discussions about the role and function of art in our contemporary world, ranging from cultural to economical questions.
£27.00
JRP Ringier Shirana Shahbazi: Tehran North
Book SynopsisIn this publication, Iranian-born artist Shirana Shahbazi (born 1974) captures the city of Tehran by night through the window of a moving car. Shahbazi is known for using her photographs as source material for other artistic forms, such as paintings, billboards and handmade carpets.
£18.05
JRP Ringier Teresa Burga: Aleatory Structures
Book SynopsisEncompassing paintings and environments in the vein of pop art, as well as conceptual drawings and cybernetic installations, the oeuvre of Peruvian artist Teresa Burga (born 1935) highlights the individual''s ability to influence social conditions. Her early attraction to conceptual art led her to become a founding member of the Peruvian avant-garde movement Grupo Arte Nuevo (196668). In 1968, as a Fulbright scholar, Burga left Peru to study at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she developed her mature pop-conceptual practice, moving away from painting to produce installations, research-based projects and happenings. This volume provides an overview of her work from the 1960s to the present, reflecting on Burga''s strategies and themes.
£33.30
JRP Ringier Mungo Thomson
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£27.00
Jrp Ringier Emma Reyes
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£12.35
JRP Ringier Sheree Hovsepian
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£27.00
Braun Publishing AG all about CHALETS: Contemporary Mountain
Book SynopsisExclusive living retreats set against the backdrop of majestic peaks, steep slopes and picturesque valleysThe chalet is a building style that enjoys lasting popularity all over the world. Dating back to the herdsman?s hut in the Alpine region, it became a longed-for destination and the most preferred holiday domicile in the 19th century with the emerging fascination with the Alps. Today, architects and designers are primarily inspired by the constantly redefined interplay of sublime nature, traditional architecture, regional building typologies, individual design, and modern formal language that pushes them to reach magnificent creative peaks. The projects selected for this volume are diverse and remarkably multifaceted: From a traditional construction with a flat gable roof, wide roof overhang, and robust timber façade, to contemporary, thoroughly idiosyncratic interpretations with clear lines, creative choice of materials, and fine details. However, the artful staging of the imposing mountain world in the interior design plays a decisive role among all presented chalets.
£39.96
Braun Publishing AG Inside Nordic Homes: Inspiring Scandinavian
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£31.96
Braun Publishing AG Apartment Building Architecture
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£36.00
Lars Muller Publishers Between Land and Sea: Works of Kiyonori Kikutake
Book SynopsisThis volume, the first comprehensive assessment of the work of the Metabolic architect Kiyonori Kikutake (1928 - 2011) in the English language, highlights his lifelong creation of a constantly evolving platform for living, floating above land and sea hrough pivotal works, from the late 1950s to today. Abundantly illustrated, the publication situates Kikutake's work within an international context and as a vital inspiration for Japanese architectural practice today.
£33.30
Lars Muller Publishers Hard Life
Book SynopsisBy what means did so much beauty and ingenuity appears in articles of everyday rural life in Portugal? How did the shape of these objects balance necessity and formal perfection so skillfully? This book explores the effect that generations of trial and error, individual craftsmanship, and an instinct to carve out the essential with the slenderest of means brought to objects that made life both livable and meaningful to a pre-industrial society. The objects photographed and described by designer Jasper Morrison may be appreciated both for their beauty and for the example they set of design at its purest.
£31.50
Birkhauser Verlag AG Louis Kahn: The Importance of a Drawing
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£60.00
Lars Muller Publishers Yes! No! Swiss Posters for Democracy: Poster
Book SynopsisThe Swiss population is called upon to participate actively in political decision-making processes through regular campaigns. These campaigns are often concerned with issues that heat up the emotions and lead to ideological battles. Swiss campaign posters, which have influenced opinion making since the beginning of the 20th century, bear testimony to direct democracy. This special form of political propaganda—prominently associated with Switzerland—is a sensitive indicator of socio-political moods and reflects both national mentalities and global tendencies. Yes! No! Posters for Democracy reveals the visual argumentation strategies and rhetorical approaches that have shaped the Swiss campaign poster from 1918 to the present. Clichéd exaggerations, undifferentiated simplifications, a repertoire of drastic motifs and abridged slo- gans correspond to the laws of the medium, which is oriented towards a manipulative appeal to the masses. Appeals to a sense of unity focus primarily on emotionalization, hardly on rational enlightenment. Subtly condensed messages or a graphically innovative language are hardly to be found in Swiss campaign posters. And yet many renowned designers created works that have inscribed themselves in the collective visual memory of the Swiss population and became icons of Swiss poster design.
£18.00
Lars Muller Publishers Kandinsky: Point and Line to Plane: Bauhausbucher
Book SynopsisPoint and Line to Plane can be seen as a continuation of Wassily Kandinsky’s seminal treatise On the Spiritual in Art. Kandinsky’s thesis is that different constellations of point, line and surface have different emotional effects on the viewer. Starting from the point (which represents the most concentrated and minimal graphic form), he understands all painterly forms as being a play of forces and counterforces: of contrasts.
£32.00
Birkhauser Verlag AG Architectures of Dismantling and Restructuring:
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£31.50
Lars Muller Publishers Brasilia - Chandigarh: Living With Modernity
Book SynopsisIn 1960, Brasilia was celebrated as the realization of an urban planning vision based on designs by Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer. At the same time, the sectoral city of Chandigarh was rising according to plans by Le Corbusier. The “test tube city” arose as an export of modernity from a Western planning euphoria that displayed utopian traits. In both cities, foreign architecture entered into a harmonious relationship with indigenous culture, forming new and independent identities. This publication addresses the question of how modernism has been appropriated in both cities, and how the people who live in them deal with it. Commonalities and differences are identified and images of everyday urban life showcased. On the initiative of the publisher, the young photographer Iwan Baan has taken stock of contemporary life in both cities.
£28.00
Birkhauser Verlag AG House Steiger Doldertal Zurich 1959 Flora
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£32.00
Lars Müller Publishers Architecture Connecting Memoryscapes
£24.00
Park Books Verify in Field: Projects and Coversations
Book SynopsisHöweler + Yoon Architecture, founded in 2001 and based in Boston, gained early praise for ephemeral and interactive public projects and is recognised today for striking works that combine conceptual speculation and technological sophistication. The firm’s impressive body of work has expanded the scope of design beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries and has won them numerous national and international awards. Verify in Field is Höweler + Yoon Architecture’s second book. Its title derives from a notational convention on architectural drawings to indicate that the information is subject to unknown conditions in the field. The book highlights verification as an intergral part of the design process and demonstrates it as a productive tool to test ideas and act on the world. For both disciplinary and contractual reasons, the instruments of design - drawings, models, and prototypes - operate on the world at a distance. Techniques of prototyping, measurement, feedback, negotiation, and intervention inform the diverse output of the studio. Verify in Field features recent designs by Höweler + Yoon architecture, including such projects as the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia; a floating outdoor classroom in Philadelphia; the MIT Museum; and a pedestrian bridge in Shanghai’s Expo Park. The book also examines the discipline’s pressing questions, as they relate to verification, uncertainty, and design agency, in a series of essays by Eric Höweler and J. Meejin Yoon on topics that include means and methods, the public realm, energy and environments, the construction detail, and social media. These themes are echoed in conversations with collaborators, historians, and theorists: Adam Greenfield, Nader Tehrani, Kate Orff, Daniel Barber, and Ana Miljacki.
£999.99
Park Books Living Cities
Book SynopsisThe creation of park systems is a historically proven method for communities to stabilise and cultivate healthy ecological habitats in country dwellings as well as in dense urban areas. Park systems ensure clean soil, water, and air for all. Moreover, they offer inter-generational and inclusive recreational opportunities along ecological corridors. Between 1900 and 1950, civic design a practice in urban and landscape planning explicitly oriented towards the common good experienced a heyday. Park systems were successfully used as green armatures hosting public facilities such as playgrounds, schools, administrative buildings, hospitals, and gardens.Living Cities offers a chronological survey of civic design based on more than 30 park systems on five continents. The examples range from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe''s Park an der Ilm in Weimar (1778) and John Nash's Regent Street in London (1806) to Chicago's park system (1850), Albert Bodmer and Maurice Braillard's plans for Geneva (1936), and Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Valley (1947), as well as to contemporary and future projects in Addis Ababa, Madrid, Medellín, New York, and Seoul. Matthew Skjonsberg's book demonstrates the ecological and social impact of park systems and highlights the diverse challenges that communities face when implementing such projects. At the same time, it encourages a re-evaluation of civic design as an inter-generational practice of urban design.
£45.00
Park Books Blanking
Book SynopsisIn this first monographic book on the work and vision of Houston-based architecture firm Schaum/Shieh, founders Troy Schaum and Rosalyne Shieh invite their readers into the studio. It is a real and conceptual space where they work on recurring themes: operating within the city at the scale of building (urbanism); the interrelation of materiality, units of form, and building products (tectonics); and, ways to collaborate with the life of a building in its context (preservation), among others. In addition to visual material at all stages of figuring and finality, equally important and less documented is what is said and what can be heard in the studio. So much of architectural thinking and knowledge is presented, formulated, and traded in spoken words: the pinup, the meeting, the walk-through. This material is the medium within which projects are formulated.That pedagogy of the studio informs this book, in which the information and knowledge usually only spoken is written down and made accessible to a reader. Organised into ten chapters led by ten thematic questions, formed by a process that Schaum and Shieh borrow from metal fabrication: Blanking. In the context of their practice, the term describes the collaborative formulation of ideas around a collection of terms and images that make up a conceptual lexicon for practice. In this book, it takes the form of material, projects, and buildings drawn from 15 years of collaboration set within a wide range of textual material, reframing practice away from individual works and toward the navigation of values, questions, and propositions as knowledge formed in the studio.
£31.50
Park Books Architecture by Peter Celsing Photographed by John Hakansson
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£38.25
Scheidegger & Spiess Liz Craft
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£30.40
Springer International Publishing AG Embodying Language in Action: The Artistry of
Book SynopsisThis book explores embodiment in second language education, sociocultural theory and research. It focuses on process drama, an embodied approach that engages learners’ imagination, body and voice to create a felt-experience of the second language and culture. Divided into three parts, it begins by examining the aesthetic and intercultural dimension of performative language teaching, the elements of drama and knowing-in-action. The central part of the book examines issues related to play, emotions, classroom discourse and assessment when learning a language through process drama, in a sociocultural perspective. The third part is an analysis of the author’s qualitative research, which informs a subtle discussion on reflective practitioner methodology, learner engagement and teacher artistry. Each chapter includes a drama workshop, illustrating in practice what embodying language in action can look like when working with asylum seekers, adult learners with intellectual disabilities, pre-service teachers, international students and children involved in a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) programme. A unique combination of theory, research and reflective practice, this book provides valuable insights for teacher/artists, teacher educators and researchers in the fields of performative and sociocultural language learning.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: What is ‘Artistry’ and Why Do we Need it in Second Language Education?.- PART I.- Chapter 2: Drama as Process in L2 Education.- Chapter 3: Aesthetic and Intercultural Engagement.- Chapter 4: The Elements of Drama: An Intercultural Perspective.- Chapter 5: Knowing-in-Action.- PART II.- Chapter 6: Play as Mediation in L2/Process Drama.- Chapter 7: Classroom Discourse in L2/Process Drama.- Chapter 8: Language Assessment and L2/Process Drama.- PART III.- Chapter 9: Performative Research: Methodology and Methods.- Chapter 10: Learner Engagement in L2/process drama.- Chapter 11: Teacher Artistry.- Chapter 12: Conclusion.
£89.99
De Gruyter In Motion
Book SynopsisEnglish edition This catalogue provides a spectacular overview of painting on the theme of football in European artistic modernism. Here, painting gets to the bottom of football's mystique. And vice versa, since football with its aesthetics, dynamics, rites, and contradictions inspires artists and reveals innovative, surprising perspectives and artistic possibilities. This culminates in impressive interplay between the two worlds. Accessing 20th-century European art through football and deciphering the fascinating as well as contradictory game of football as a European phenomenon through the perspective of modernist painting uncovers new knowledge in both fields. More than 100 works of art from national and international collections are examined. The catalogue is designed along the same conceptual lines as the European Championship itself: each nation participating in the EURO 2024 is represented by at least one artist, so underlining the fundamen
£37.80
De Gruyter Future Bodies from a Recent Past: Sculpture,
Book SynopsisFuture Bodies from a Recent Past brings to life a hitherto little-noticed phenomenon in art and sculpture in particular: the reciprocal interpenetration of bodies and technology. With 120 works by 59 artists—primarily from Europe, the USA and Japan—the exhibition is dedicated to the major technological changes since the post-war period and examines their influence on our notions of bodies. With contributions on topics such as the influence of changing production technologies, materialities, and concepts of the body, but also interdisciplinary considerations of body-technology relations, a multi-perspective history of contemporary sculpture will be outlined. English Edition! Exhibition Museum Brandhorst Munich2 June 2022 until 15 January 2023
£38.25
De Gruyter Naga Land: Voices from Northeast India
Book SynopsisThe Naga form a minority in Northeast India and the northwest of Myanmar — and consist at the same time of thirty different ethnicities: three to four million people, with numerous languages. How do they manage to preserve their traditional history and integrate into altered ways of life? How do fit that together with modern tattoos, fashion, and social media? What role does Christianity play? Authors among others from Naga Land describe various facets of their contemporary and current culture and make the Naga collection of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin appear in a new light, supplemented with contemporary objects. The artist Zubeni Lotha shows the life of the Naga today in impressive photographs.
£15.20
Benteli Verlag Tropic Ice Bilingual edition
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£45.00
Niggli Verlag The Graphic Artist and his Design Problems
Book SynopsisMüller-Brockmann’s book aimed to solve the graphic designer’s problem of finding the appropriate contemporary form. It became a standard work that still serves as a historic practical guide well beyond the boundaries of Switzerland. This edition is an unabbreviated reconstruction of the original edition of 1961, as a hardcover with jacket. It includes the additions made by Josef Müller-Brockmann himself for the paperback edition of 1983. In the first part, the path from illustrative to functional graphic design is traced, as well as the meaning of design elements, their use and effect in every area of advertising: business printed matter, advertisements, brochures, books, posters, and exhibitions. The middle section of the book contains fundamental thoughts concerning the work of the graphic designer. The chapter “Science and Visual Communication” covers the area of semiotics and communications research. In the last part, the systematic education of the graphic designer is presented by means of a comprehensive documentation. Thus, the book offers graphic designers a valuable survey of the fundamental tasks of design.
£36.00
Niggli Verlag Guidelines and Standards for the Visual Design:
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£51.75
Niggli Verlag Airport Wayfinding: A Wayfinding Journey
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£31.96
Niggli Verlag Manhole Covers of the World
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£23.96
Niggli Verlag Mono is the new Black: Monospace Fontionary
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£28.00
Kerber Verlag The Videoart at Midnight Artists’ Cookbook:
Book SynopsisHave you ever watched Douglas Gordon cook? Do you know Harun Farocki’s favourite dal? Would you like to nibble straight from the pot with Keren Cytter or recreate Agnieszka Polska’s pirogi with trumpets of death? Cookbooks are a dime a dozen. And there’s even a certain tradition of artists’ cookbooks. But there is only the one Videoart at Midnight Artists’ Cookbook: 80 of the most renown video artists of our time reveal their favourite recipes. Some simple, others elaborate, yet all to be recreated. And the best thing about this book is that each and every single recipe tells its own personal story. Artists Monira Al Qadiri, Ulf Aminde, Julieta Aranda, Marc Aschenbrenner, Ed Atkins, Yael Bartana, Lucy Beech, Bigert & Bergström, John Bock, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Erik Bünger, Martin Brand, Ulu Braun, Klaus vom Bruch, Filipa César, Creischer & Siekmann, Keren Cytter, Chto Delat, Christoph Draeger, Antje Engelmann, Shahram Entekhabi, Köken Ergun, Theo Eshetu, Simon Faithfull, Christian Falsnaes, Harun Farocki, Omer Fast, Fischer & el Sani, Dani Gal, Delia Gonzalez, Douglas Gordon, Andy Graydon, Assaf Gruber, Mathilde ter Heijne, Isabell Heimerdinger, Benjamin Heisenberg, Kerstin Honeit, Christian Jankowski, Anja Kirschner, Knut Klaßen, Korpys/Löffler, Zhenhua Li, Joep van Liefland, Melissa Logan, Dafna Maimon, Antje Majewski, Melanie Manchot, Lynne Marsh, Bjørn Melhus, Almagul Menlibayeva, Ari Benjamin Meyers, Eléonore de Montesquiou, Matthias Müller, Bettina Nürnberg & Dirk Peuker, Marcel Odenbach, Stefan Panhans, Mario Pfeifer, Agnieszka Polska, Ulrich Polster, Mario Rizzi, Julian Rosefeldt, Willem de Rooij, Safy Sniper, Anri Sala, Erik Schmidt, Sandra Schäfer, Amie Siegel, Pola Sieverding, Martin Skauen, Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag, Vibeke Tandberg, Rebecca Ann Tess, Guido van der Werve, Gernot Wieland, Ming Wong, Ina Wudtke, Shingo Yoshida, Katarina Zdjelar, Stefan Zeyen, Tobias Zielony
£34.20
Kerber Christof Verlag Nevin Aladag
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£34.20
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,Germany Daniel Buren. CRISS-CROSS
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Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Aline Bouvy: Cruising Bye
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£28.50
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig 2G 91 adamofaiden
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Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,Germany Helen Levitt / Henri Cartier-Bresson. Mexico
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£41.60
Walther & Franz König Arpita Singh Remembering
Book SynopsisArpita Singh, *1937 in Baranagar, Indien. Malerin, lebt und arbeitet in Neu-Delhi. Biennale Havanna, Kuba, 1986; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Neu-Delhi, 2019; Gwangju Biennale, Südkorea, 2021. Includes texts by Geetanjali Shree, Geeta Kapur, Nilima Sheikh, Devika Singh, Nikita Gill and an artist interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist.
£28.00
