Art & Photography Books
Edition Reuss Hairy Pussy Next Door
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£50.24
Edition Reuss Super Sweet Girls 2
Book SynopsisText in English, French and German. Each photo shoot has the value of a unique journey. It is the art of photographer Mikhail Paramonov to take the portraits just in that moment when the young women start to discover sexual lust. Before his lens, they leave all prudishness behind and feel free. A bra strap is taken off, panties are sliding down. Their faces become hot and their cheeks turn red. Paramonovs pictures are less about the nudity of the models than that key moment, making the images so powerful. The symbolic phase of transition and recognising -- to love and to be loved. In this album, this border takes many invisible shapes. The beautiful pictures of Mikhail Paramonov are like a strip-tease show: they get their intensity from the way the young women preserve their mystery until the very last moment. Then, they pull back the curtain, open their legs and feel the new world, proud of their own power.
£60.29
Edition Reuss Couples and Girls Love Sex
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£50.24
Slanted Publishers UG Tender Digitality
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£22.10
Slanted Publishers UG Yearbook of Lettering 2
£30.40
Steidl Publishers Angela Grauerholz La femme 100 tetes The Hundred Headless Woman
£999.99
Hartmann Books After Nature. Ulrike Crespo Photography Prize
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£30.00
Gestalten Masters of Street Art
£93.75
Verlag Kettler Becoming Parents
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£33.75
BIS Publishers B.V. Type Tricks: User Design: Your Personal Guide to
Book SynopsisType Tricks: User Design is a dissemination of the author's research into typeface legibility. What to consider when choosing fonts in difficult reading situations including signage, small point sizes, glance-like reading or scanning? But also what to look out for when designing for struggling readers, for example people with low-vision, elderly, children and people with dyslexia. This kind of research is normally communicated in scientific papers, which takes a long time to read and understand. In this book, all findings are presented in an illustrative and easily accessible way. The book has a small amount of text and lots of illustrations presenting more than 140 tips from evidence-based research.
£15.19
Hannibal Books Joelle Dubois
Book SynopsisA heartfelt exploration of the nurturing yet complex bond between mother and daughter, capturing love, challenges, and the profound depth of this unique relationship.
£42.90
Insights Elf Santas Coming Holiday Kit
£22.49
Insights 12 Days of Arcane
£31.49
Insight Editions DC Flip Pop: Batman
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£21.11
Insights Harry Potter Marauders Map Glow in the Dark
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£17.99
Insight Editions The Lord of the Rings Memory Journal
Book SynopsisGo There and Back Again by recording three years' worth of memories with this deluxe one-line-a-day memory journal designed to resemble Bilbo Baggins's legendary Red Book of Westmarch.
£12.95
IDW Publishing DC Covers Volume One Artists Edition
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£102.00
Primary Information Martin Wong: Footprints, Poems, and Leaves
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£15.20
Hanuman Editions The Kuruntokai and Its Mirror
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£11.39
Columbia University Press The Sustainable City
Book SynopsisSteven Cohen presents an approachable and applicable guide to urban sustainability that highlights how new, greener trends in city development touch our lives on a daily basis. Replete with recommendations and insights, The Sustainable City has invaluable lessons for anyone seeking to link public policy to promoting a sustainable lifestyle.Trade ReviewAt the city level, the question of how to handle water resources, energy use, and transportation is not abstract but concrete. Citizens, planners, business people, and policy makers can easily see the problems and how a sustainable approach would be beneficial. Steven Cohen draws on his extensive teaching and public management experience in documenting the kinds of sustainability measures that have been successful in major cities around the world, and he points to what other cities realistically can do in the future. -- Michael E. Kraft, coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Environmental PolicyTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments Part I: Concepts1. Defining the Sustainable City2. Sustainable Urban Systems: Defined and Explained3. The Sustainable Lifestyle: Defined and Explained4. The Transition to Sustainably Managed Organizations5. The Role of Politics and Public Policy in Building Sustainable CitiesPart II: Cases in Urban Sustainability6. Waste Management in New York City, Hong Kong and Beijing7. Mass and Personal Transit8. The Building of the Smartgrid: Cases of Microgrid Development9. Parks and Public Space10. Sustainable Urban LivingPart III: Conclusions11. Toward the Sustainable CityWorks CitedIndex
£20.90
Columbia University Press History of Art in Japan
Book SynopsisIn this book the leading authority on Japanese art history sheds light on how Japan has nurtured distinctive aesthetics, prominent artists, and movements that have achieved global influence and popularity. The History of Art in Japan discusses works ranging from earthenware figurines in 13,000 BCE to manga, anime, and modern subcultures.Trade ReviewTsuji Nobuo’s encyclopedic, authoritative, and insightful survey of the history of Japanese art—informed by over six decades of groundbreaking research—is presented in a lively and eminently readable translation by Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, his trusted colleague and an expert on Japanese culture in her own right. -- John T. Carpenter, Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese Art, Metropolitan Museum of ArtThe appearance of Professor Tsuji Nobuo’s history of Japanese art in an English edition is a watershed moment both for the field and for the discipline of art history as a whole. The most important Japanese art historian of his generation, Tsuji weaves a narrative covering millennia of art in the archipelago by intertwining themes and concepts he has long championed, such as the roles of the decorative, playfulness, and eccentricity, all of which serve to liberate the arts of Japan from standard tropes of style, form, and iconography that have dominated western art historical discourse. Balanced, extensive attention devoted both to the prehistoric Jōmon, Yayoi, and Kofun periods as well as to the modern era take his book far beyond the parameters of previous survey texts, and highlights the dynamism, imagination, and visual spectacle of Japanese art. In this beautifully illustrated volume Professor Tsuji brings home the point that from wooden Buddhist sculptures to “Superflat,” it is in the startling visual impact of Japanese art that its greatest pleasures can be discovered. -- Matthew McKelway, Columbia UniversityTsuji has earned recognition for combining authority and accuracy with interesting and imaginative insights. In every chapter, History of Art in Japan provides a thorough and engaging account of individual works in their social context while maintaining an international frame of reference. It is an immense gift to readers of all levels. -- Chelsea Foxwell, University of ChicagoReaders will likely close this book satisfied and inspired to search out monographs on certain artists and periods. * Alexanderadamsart *Tsuji does this for Japanese art with ease, elegance, humor and consummate erudition in an attractive volume. * Asian Review of Books *Table of ContentsPreface to the English EditionTranslator’s PrefaceNengō Era ChartMap of Archaeological SitesTimelinesIntroduction1. Jōmon: The Force of Primal Imagination2. Yayoi and Kofun: Influences from the Continent3. Asuka and Hakuhō: The Sphere of East Asian Buddhist Arts4. Nara: The Spread of the Tang International Style5. Heian: Jōgan, Fujiwara, and Insei Art6. Kamakura Period: Aristocratic Aesthetics in Flux7. Nanbokuchō and Muromachi: Zen Buddhism and Chinese Art8. Azuchi-Momoyama: The Flowering of Kazari9. Edo: Townspeople and the Rise of Urban Culture10. Meiji to Heisei: Modern and Contemporary ArtNotesRecommended Reading for Further StudyImage CreditsIndex
£27.00
Columbia University Press The Met
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£19.80
Pennsylvania State University Press Hagia Sophia
Book SynopsisExamines the aesthetic principles and spiritual operations at work in Hagia Sophia. Drawing on art and architectural history, liturgy, musicology, and acoustics, explores the Byzantine paradigm of animation.Trade Review“The interdisciplinary methods of exploration and the development of digital technology in the cultural heritage preservation of the Hagia Sophia’s aural and visual environment in Pentcheva’s book are intriguing, well-researched, and rich to a depth previously unexplored. Hagia Sophia: Sound, Space, and Spirit in Byzantium is worth adding to any collection exploring new innovations in archeoacoustical, art historical, and architectural research in Byzantine or medieval periods.”—Marianne R. Williams ARLIS/NA Reviews“Evocatively rendered in careful prose, new photography, and recorded sound, this synthetic account breathes new life into a remarkable, elusive monument. Highly recommended.”—M. Rautman Choice“Reminds us not only how much the study of aurality in Byzantine studies has yet to offer but also what the hidden aspects of Hagia Sophia might still yield.”—Mati Meyer caa.reviews“Pentcheva’s book is a bold and at times thrilling attempt to decipher the building as living architecture.”—Amy Papalexandrou Speculum“This handsome volume reflects the author’s deep and sustained engagement of more than a decade with the sensory world of Byzantine worshippers as they experienced objects, ritual performance, and Hagia Sophia’s architectural setting.”—Nina Macaraig Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians“In this forceful study we come to understand how sound and image come alive in architecture. Hagia Sophia does important work in paving the way towards a multisensorial analysis of architecture that does not prioritize or privilege one sense over another nor flatten distinctions between the senses.”—Emanuela Vai Art History“This erudite, highly original book explores the ways in which the sixth-century church of Hagia Sophia engaged all the senses in a rich and dynamic exchange of air, sound, fragrance, movement, and light between heaven and earth to create an all-enveloping spiritual experience for the worshipper. Using sources ranging from modern acoustic science to sixth-century poetry, Pentcheva establishes a fluid, multisensory, kinetic interpretive model that will transform our understanding of Byzantine sacred space.”—Deborah Howard,coauthor of Sound and Space in Renaissance Venice“Pentcheva’s Hagia Sophia dares us to think creatively about the materials we study and all those things that we cannot definitively prove or validate within conventional art historical frameworks. It is a book that glimmers and murmurs to us about the past, densely filling in our mental images of these spaces and rituals with smells and sounds.”—Roland Betancourt Art Bulletin“Hagia Sophia: Sound, Space, and Spirit in Byzantium is, simply put, an extraordinary achievement, an unprecedented exploration of the liturgical experience afforded by the Great Church of Constantinople in its nine-century career (532-1453 CE) as a Christian holy place.”—Brian A. Butcher Reading ReligionTable of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Sophia and Choros: The Making of Sacred Space in Byzantium2 Inspiriting in the Byzantine Consecration (Kathierōsis) Rite3 Icons of Breath4 Aural Architecture5 Material Flux: Marble, Water, and Chant 6 The Horizontal Mirror and the Poetics of the Imaginary7 Empathy and the Making of Art in ByzantiumConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
£31.46
Yale University Press Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting
Book SynopsisAn illustrated and comprehensive account of the history of Chinese painting from prehistoric times to the 21st century. It should be of interest to students and general readers who wish to gain an in-depth knowledge of Chinese painting.Trade Review"An astonishing feat with much new to say to novice and specialist alike. . . . Broad surveys in the area have, of course, appeared many times before, but this one outclasses them on virtually every count."—Alan G. Artner, Chicago Tribune"Exotic, beautiful, beguiling, and so luxuriously fat that you need four hands to hold it."—Financial Times & Weekend"It is a daunting task to contain this vast subject within the covers of one volume, but the six authors of this Sino-American venture succeed in doing just that. They rewrite the history of Chinese painting wherever it is found—in caves, temples, or museum collections—from Neolithic times to the present day."—Caroline Blunden, The Art Newspaper"A team of scholars has produced the essential guide to one of the world's greatest painting traditions, from ancient petroglyphs to handscrolls made in modern times."—Boston Sunday Globe"A comprehensive history and reference that not only presents the best of Chinese painting but also explains its conventions and traditions. It includes a glossary of terms and a list of major painters by dynasty. In short, it's the best starting point for anyone who wants to learn about Chinese art."—Philadelphia Inquirer"This is an extraordinary book and, given the West's limited acquaintance with the art it contains, a vitally necessary one."—Wan-Go Weng, Wall Street Journal"One of the most complete and best-illustrated works on the topic of Chinese pictorial art available to both general readers and scholars."—Library Journal"[A] magnificent book. . . . Accessible to the general reader and revelatory for the scholar, it provides the most up-to-date and detailed history of China's pictorial art available today."—ApolloWinner of the 1997 Hawkins Award from the Arts Category given by the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers"This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume account of Chinese painting from prehistoric times to the present. For some time to come, it will be an indispensable work for students and the general reader who wishes to gain an in-depth knowledge of Chinese painting. Not least among the merits of the book are the numerous illustrations and discussions of important paintings in Chinese museums hitherto little known outside China. This book, which is the first in the Culture and Civilization of China series, augurs well for the success of this significant and far reaching collaborative effort between scholars in and outside China. It is indeed a welcome development."—James Watt
£42.75
Yale University Press Mrs Delany
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive biography of Mary Granville Delany—the artist and court insider whose wide-ranging legacy still reverberates todayTrade Review“Biographer Clarissa Campbell Orr immerses you in the minutiae of Mary’s life.”—Constance Craig-Smith, Daily Mail“The whole work resonates with the sound of not only Delany’s voice in quotations from her letters and occasional poems but also those of many of her contemporaries, which generates a highly pleasurable and instructive image of eighteenth-century sociability.”—Alain Kerherve, Burlington Magazine“This sensitively-written book immerses the reader in the world of a cultivated and artistic eighteenth-century gentlewoman. Through a fully-researched and fascinating exploration of the familial correspondence of Mary Delany, Orr throws new and original light on the attitudes of the eighteenth-century elite to marriage, family life and the education and status of women.”—Jane Rendall, author of The Origins of Modern Feminism“Mrs Delany’s love of gardens and natural history, combined with the dexterity of a craftswoman, led her, at over seventy, to an astonishing project: the wonderful cut-paper flower pictures for which she is now remembered. Orr gives us the Christian gentlewoman rather than the artist, in a panorama of gentry life with its many duties and constraints as well as privileges. One feels that Mrs Delany would give her blessing to the portrait.”—Norma Clarke, author of Queen of the Wits“How was it that Mary Delany so skillfully combined a high-profile social circle, copious letter-writing and attendance at the royal court with gardening, botanical enquiry and prolific and innovative artistic endeavour? This fascinating life is both timely and revelatory.”—James Raven, What Is the History of the Book?“Through a deep study of kinship, friendship and a large cast of characters, Orr skilfully crafts the story behind Mary Delany’s creation of nearly one thousand botanical collages as an album amicorum. With great clarity and verve, the author proves a most faithful companion to Delany and her life’s ‘work.’”—Mark Laird, author of A Natural History of English Gardening
£33.25
Yale University Press The Artist as Economist
Book SynopsisTrade Review“[A] singular and substantive contribution to the study of the dematerialization of art in a moment when both the capitalist world and its enemies were at a point of inflection, much as we are now.”—Marina Vishmidt, caa.reviews“Artist as Economist, in its exemplary equilibrium of specificity and breadth, is one of a number of recent publications that suggest the persistent virtue of thinking between and across contexts, not least when analysing the relationship between capitalism and culture.”—Niko Vicario, Art History“The Artist as Economist makes a vital contribution to the study of 1960s art, offering fascinating insights into the complex intersection of art and money, in all its material as well as abstract forms.”—Jo Applin, author of Lee Lozano: Not Working
£49.50
Yale University Press Alain Locke and the Visual Arts
Book SynopsisA fresh perspective on the influential critic, offering new ways of understanding the art of the Harlem RenaissanceTrade Review“Reflecting on works by Palmer Hayden, Malvin Gray Johnson, Loïs Mailou Jones, and others, Mercer demonstrates that mourning was central to Harlem Renaissance Africanism. . . . In a striking interpretation of Jones’s celebrated painting Les Fétiches (1938), which depicts an ensemble of African statuary swirling in a charged darkness, he writes that the work embodies not a straightforward reclamation of roots but the tragedy and the promise of diaspora.”—Julian Lucas, New Yorker“Mercer’s sumptuously illustrated study . . . succeeds in positioning Locke as an important philosophical voice in the ‘not yet finalized story of Afro-modern art and culture.’”—Douglas Field, Times Literary SupplementShortlisted for the MSA Book Prize2024 recipient of CAA's Frank Jewitt Mather Award for Criticism2023 Josephine Miles Award Winner, sponsored by PEN Oakland“In this brilliantly argued book, Kobena Mercer convinces us that it was the visual art of Africa and the New Negro Renaissance that fashioned the queer international modernity we love today.”—Jeffrey C. Stewart, author of The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, winner of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, and editor of The New Negro Aesthetic: Selected Writings by Alain Locke“Kobena Mercer’s highly original work virtually defines the field of Locke’s views concerning the visual arts and will be indispensable to Locke studies in the future.”—Charles Molesworth, Queens College, CUNY“A meticulous, complex, and poignant account of the profound entanglements that condition Modernist aesthetics as we know it today. Through the key figure of Alain Locke, Mercer traces how African American artists of the Harlem Renaissance confronted, negotiated, trafficked, reimagined, and ultimately re-valued the objects of their ‘ancestral origins.’”—Anne Anlin Cheng, author of Second Skin: Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface“This masterful and indispensable reassessment upends Locke’s persistent caricature as a dogmatic ancestralist and synthesizes the complexities of his sprawling oeuvre and his sexuality into a fresh, compelling account of his Afromodern aesthetic philosophy.”—John Ott, James Madison University
£33.25
Yale University Press Art Graphic Design
Book SynopsisAn innovative exploration of the intersection of graphic design and American art of the 1960s and 1970sTrade Review"Informed by deep archival research, interviews with artists, historical context, and theoretical analysis, this book offers a truly original and riveting analysis of the intersection of graphic design and visual art."—Cécile Whiting, author of Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s
£35.62
Yale University Press Vittore Carpaccio
Book SynopsisAn authoritative and comprehensive celebration of the life and work of one of the most prominent artists of the Venetian Renaissance
£45.00
Yale University Press Electrifying Design
Book SynopsisAn unprecedented survey of modern lighting design foregrounding its materials, innovators, and far-reaching influenceTrade Review“A user-friendly and thought-provoking volume thanks to its easy-to-navigate structure and carefully considered themes, which are explored in a series of wide-ranging essays...An excellent introduction.”—Charlotte Fiell, World of InteriorsCHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2022
£35.62
Yale University Press Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s
Book SynopsisA timely reassessment of the artist’s early performances and feminist sculptures, affirming their radical engagements and art historical significance
£38.00
Yale University Press Alberto Giacometti
Book SynopsisA comprehensive survey of the work of the legendary Swiss artist, this book illustrates and examines more than 100 of his sculptures, paintings, drawings, and prints
£38.00
Yale University Press Pattern and Flow
Book SynopsisShowcasing marbled paper, paste paper, fold-and-dye papers, and more, this book reveals a little-known arts phenomenon from its grass roots in the 1960s to artistic heights in the following decadesTrade Review“Brilliantly illustrated, based on an encyclopedic archive, it is an eloquent history of this colorful counterculture movement.”—John Bidwell, curator emeritus, The Morgan Library and Museum
£45.00
Yale University Press Jan Van Imschoot
Book SynopsisA comprehensive overview of the oeuvre of Belgian painter Jan Van Imschoot
£49.50
Yale University Press American Watercolors 18801990
Book SynopsisA celebration of the diverse world of American watercolors from the late nineteenth through the twentieth century, featuring works from the Harvard Art Museums’ collection
£33.25
Art Institute of Chicago Lygia Pape
Book SynopsisAn engaging investigation of contemporary Brazilian artist Lygia Pape’s early body of woodblock prints, which profoundly influenced the trajectory of her oeuvre
£38.00
Yale University Press A Window Suddenly Opens
Book SynopsisA lively tour through experimental Chinese photography from the early 1990s to today
£38.00
Yale University Press Monets Minutes
Book SynopsisA stunning exploration of the vital links between Claude Monet’s Impressionism and the time technologies that helped define modernity in the nineteenth centuryTrade Review“Monet’s Minutes is unrelievedly and impressively original. It should be hailed as a milestone in both Monet and Impressionist studies, and it will be admired as a new form of ‘contextualist’ art history, not to mention histories of urban modernity. Even for non-art historians, Dombrowski’s discussions will be consumed with gusto and admiration.”—Hollis Clayson, Northwestern University“This is a genuinely important and original study. While easily being the most perceptive recent monograph on Monet’s art, it also makes a very significant contribution to understandings of Impressionism and of late nineteenth-century art more generally. Particularly valuable are the new insights it offers into the impact that changing conceptions and measures of time had on the distinctive temporalities shaping Impressionist art and early critical responses to it.”—Alex Potts, University of Michigan
£45.00
Yale University Press The Academia Belgica in Rome
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£42.75
Yale University Press Rodins Dancers
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£42.75
Yale University Press Nordic Art and Way of Life
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£54.00
Yale University Press Draw Them In Paint Them Out
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£33.25
Yale University Press Jacopo Bassano
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£42.75
Yale University Press American Born Hungary
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£38.00
Yale University Press Fortune of the Spirit Robert Bergman
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£45.00
Yale University Press Ali Banisadr The Alchemist
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£47.50
University of California Press Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One
Book SynopsisChronicles three decades of conversation between Lawrence Weschler and light and space master Robert Irwin. This book surveys many of Irwin's site-conditioned projects - in particular the Central Gardens at the Getty Museum and the design that transformed an abandoned Hudson Valley factory into Dia's new Beacon campus.Trade Review"A magnetic (now expanded) biography." -- Robert L. Pincus San Diego Union-Tribune "Seeing is Forgetting may not be just the best biography of an artist out there but also one of the best books on contemporary art-making." -- Eugenia Bell FriezeTable of ContentsA Note on the Illustrations A Further Note on the Drifting Present in the Narrative That Follows Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees (1982) Introduction Lifesource 1. High School (1943-1946) 2. Childhood (1928-1943) 3. Army, Schooling, Europe, and Early Work (1946-1957) The Narrows (Part 1) 4. Ferus (Los Angeles/ New York) 5. The Early Ferus Years From Abstract Expressionism through the Early Lines (1957-1962) 6. The Late Ferus Years: The Late Lines (1962-1964) The Narrows (Part 2) 7. The Dots (1964-1967) 8. The Discs (1967-1969) 9. Post-disc Experiments and Columns (1968-1970) Delta Prelude 10. Teaching 11. Art and Science (1968-1970) 12. Playing the Horses 13. The Room at the Museum of Modern Art (1970) Debouchement Oceanic 14. The Desert 15. Being Available in Response 16. Some Situations (1970-1976) 17. Reading and Writing 18. The Whitney Retrospective Down to Point Zero (1977) 19. Since the Whitney: Return to the World (1977-1981) Present All Around 20. Seeing Isn't Doing (1985) 21. Play It as It Lays and Keep it in Play The Irwin Retrospective at MOCA in Los Angeles(1993) 22. When Fountainheads Collide: Robert Irwin at Richard Meier's Getty (1997) 23. Heaven: Irwin and Meyerowitz at the Dia (2000) 24. Irwin in his Seventies (2007-2008) Afterword: On Robert Irwin and David Hockney Acknowledgements Bibliographic notes Index
£25.20
University of California Press Covered in Time and History
Book SynopsisBorn to a prominent family in Havana but exiled to the United States as a girl, Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) is regarded as one of the most significant artists of the postwar era. This illustrated catalogue presents a series of color stills from each of twenty-one original Super 8 films that have been preserved and digitized for the 2015 exhibition.Table of ContentsForeword Howard Oransky Eros, Death, and Life: The Films of Ana Mendieta Michael Rush Ana Mendieta: The Politics of Spirituality John Perreault Difficult Times: Watching Mendieta's Films Rachel Weiss Forever Young: Five Lessons from the Creative Life of Ana Mendieta Lynn Lukkas Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta Howard Oransky Uncovering Ana: The Rebirth of Mendieta's Filmworks Raquel Cecilia Mendieta Unfinished Processes: Going Back and Reeling Forward in Ana Mendieta's Films Laura Wertheim Joseph Filmography Laura Wertheim Joseph Exhibition Checklist Contributors Acknowledgments Photography Credits Index
£46.75
