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Anthroposophic Press Inc The Arts and Their Mission
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Rudolf Steiner Press Spirit and Art
Book SynopsisAs an art student in the late sixties, I recall how painfully dry and intellectual my art history classes were. I thought to myself, or rather felt to myself, 'There must be something more' (Van James). Artist Van James offers that something more. This is a richly readable and lavishly illustrated text that reveals how, at every stage, human consciousness has evolved through the medium of art. It makes the case for a hidden stream that has put forth art works and art movements throughout history, in an ongoing visible revelation of invisible spiritual currents. Art, originally a part of the secret Mystery cults of the ancient world, has become an expression of the individual creative intuition. At every stage, Albert Einstein's comment applies: The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.Trade ReviewThis coffee-table book on sacred art has a rather unique twist: It concentrates on art that reveals "the transformation of consciousness," narrowing in particularly on images from ancient mystery cults and cave drawings from Paleolithic times. James has selected art from ancient Greece, Egypt, Africa, and parts of Asia, explicating what he sees as its spiritual themes. This is in some ways a personal book, as its selections are eclectic and highly individual, but the text is also rigorous, informed by theorists such as Mircea Eliade, Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell and especially Rudolf Steiner. One wishes that the 300-plus illustrations were larger and in color, but an eight-page color tip-in helps to stimulate visual interest.
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Anthroposophic Press Inc Conversations About Painting with Rudolf Steiner
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New England Historic Genealogical Society A British Country House Alphabet
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Museum of New Mexico Press Valles Caldera
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Museum of New Mexico Press Cultural Convergence in New Mexico
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Museum of New Mexico Press Virgil Ortiz
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Museum of New Mexico Press Seasons of Ceremonies
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Museum of New Mexico Press Old Santa Fe Today
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Museum of New Mexico Press Preternatural
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Museum of New Mexico Press Harwood Centennial
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Museum of New Mexico Press Horizons Weaving Between the Lines with Diné
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Museum of New Mexico Press The New Mexicans 198183
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Guggenheim Museum Publications,U.S. Maurizio Cattelan All
Book SynopsisAn updated edition of the definitive monograph on Maurizio Cattelan--provocateur, prankster and tragic poet of our timesThe Guggenheim Museum’s sold-out publication Maurizio Cattelan: All is returning to print. Hailed as a provocateur, prankster and tragic poet of our times, Maurizio Cattelan (born 1960) has created some of the most unforgettable images in contemporary art--most notoriously “The Ninth Hour” (1999), a sculpture of Pope John Paul II struck by a meteorite. Derived from popular culture, history and organized religion, Cattelan’s subjects range widely, and his work, while bold and irreverent, is deadly serious in its scathing cultural critiques.The second edition of All updates the catalogue that accompanied the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s 2011–12 retrospective survey of the artist. For this exhibition, Cattelan sidestepped the totalizing effect of a retrospective by devising a site-specific installation in which his entire oeuvre was suspended from the oculus of the museum’s iconic rotunda. This book offers an equally unique response to the conventions of the catalogue. It is a faux-leatherbound hardcover with gold stamping and thin paper that is designed to resemble an old textbook or bible. The volume details almost every work of Cattelan’s from the late ’80s to the present within a double-column page format, featuring full-color reproductions and accompanying entries.The revised edition describes the artist’s return to art making after a five-year “retirement” with a special, ongoing project opening at the Guggenheim in May 2016. It also features a redesigned cover and installation images of the exhibition All. Nancy Spector has augmented her critical overview of Cattelan--which documents not only his artistic output but also his ongoing activities as a curator, editor and publisher--with a new coda. Since its original publication, All has become the Cattelan bible, and this revised edition exploring the latest chapter of the artist’s influential career ensures it will remain the definitive source on his work for years to come.
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Guggenheim Museum Publications,U.S. Basquiats Defacement The Untold Story
Book SynopsisPolice brutality, racism, graffiti and the art world of the early-1980s Lower East Side converge in one painting by Jean-Michel BasquiatJean-Michel Basquiat painted Defacement (The Death of Michael Stewart) on the wall of Keith Haring's studio in 1983 to commemorate the death of a young black artist who died from injuries sustained while in police custody after being arrested for allegedly tagging a New York City subway station. Defacement is the starting point for the present volume, which focuses on Basquiat's response to anti-black racism and police brutality. Basquiat's Defacement: The Untold Story explores this chapter in the artist's career through both the lens of his identity and the Lower East Side as a nexus of activism in the early 1980s, an era marked by the rise of the art market, the AIDS crisis and ongoing racial tensions in the city. Texts by Chaédria LaBouvier, Nancy Spector, J. Faith Almiron and Greg Tate are supplemented by commentary from artists and activists such as Luc Sante, Carlo McCormick, Jeffrey Deitch, Kenny Scharf, Fred Braithwaite and Michelle Shocked, who were part of this episode in New York City's history, which parallels today's urgent conversations about state-sanctioned racism. Basquiat's painting is contextualized by ephemera related to Stewart's death, including newspaper clippings and protest posters, samples of artwork from Stewart's estate and work made by other artists in response to Stewart's death and the subsequent trial, including pieces by Haring, Andy Warhol, David Hammons, George Condo and Lyle Ashton Harris.Trade ReviewThe book examines Basquiat’s exploration of black identity, his protest against police brutality, and his singular language of empowerment—and is an urgent reminder of the work that must be done to banish state-sanctioned racism. -- Lucy Rees * Galerie *Deeply moving [...] Takes Jean-Michel Basquiat's deeply personal and rarely exhibited painting made the week of Stewart’s death as its starting point, opening a conversation about police brutality that transcends the time in which the work was made. -- Miss Rosen * Vice *Basquiat’s pieces [demonstrate] a particular violence against black lives that is at once structural, historical, ongoing, and futuristic. -- Johanna Almiron * Lit Hub *{...] does exactly what art should do: tell us a story we don’t want to hear but need to, about the racist brutality so prevalent in American life. -- Sam Ben-Meir * Jacobin *[“Basquiat’s ‘Defacement’: The Untold Story”] argues for a fresh look at the impact of the racial tension of the 1980s on Basquiat and his peers. -- Siddhartha Mitter * New York Times *[“Basquiat’s ‘Defacement’: The Untold Story”] brilliantly portrays the artist's response to police brutality. * Financial Times *[Basquiat’s ‘Defacement’: The Untold Story] is a small but timely and often surprising powerhouse of a historical show. -- Peter Schjeldahl * New Yorker *
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Guggenheim Museum Publications,U.S. Vasily Kandinsky Around the Circle
Book SynopsisTwenty-first-century Kandinsky: a reappraisal of the Russian abstractionist's art, life and thought through the extraordinary collection of the iconic museumOne of the foremost artistic innovators of abstraction in the 20th century, Vasily Kandinsky sought to liberate painting from its ties to the natural world and promote the spiritual in art. This richly illustrated publication looks at Kandinsky anew, through a critical lens, reframing our understanding of this vital figure of European modernism, who was also a prolific aesthetic theorist and writer.A series of thematic essays considers his engagement with avant-garde artistic communities including the Bauhaus, his relationship to improvisation and music, his travels in Europe and Russia, and the influences behind his self-declared anarchist mode of abstraction, among other topics. Tracing Kandinsky's life and work through his years in Moscow, several cities in Germany, and Paris, the texts offer strik
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Guggenheim Museum Publications,U.S. Only the Young Experimental Art in Korea
Book SynopsisA pioneering survey of Korea's dynamic postwar avant-garde, with new translations of manifestos, articles and primary sourcesThe 1960s and 1970s marked a period of exceptional change in Korea, propelled by rapid urbanization and modernization, and influenced by an authoritarian state at home and a globalizing world beyond. Young artists of the era were not immune to these unprecedented socioeconomic, political and material conditions, responding with a groundbreaking and genre-defying body of avant-garde art known broadly as Experimental art (silheom misul). Both as individuals and in collectives, these artists broke definitively with their predecessors, redefining the boundaries of traditional painting and sculpture while embracing innovativeand often provocativeapproaches to materials and process through performance, installation, photography and video.Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s1970s accompanies the first exhibition i
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Guggenheim Museum Publications,U.S. Harmony and Dissonance Orphism in Paris 19101930
Book SynopsisThe first publication of its kind, connecting a constellation of artists working at the forefront of abstraction in the early 20th centuryOrphism emerged among a cosmopolitan group of artists active in Paris in the early 1910s, as the innovations of modern life radically altered conceptions of time and space. Engaged with ideas of simultaneity in kaleidoscopic compositions, these artists investigated the transformative possibilities of color, form and motion. Often featuring disks of brilliant color, their work evoked multisensory experiences. When pushed to its limits, Orphism signaled total abstraction. The poet Guillaume Apollinaire, a contemporary, coined the term Orphism to describe this move away from Cubism, toward a physically and spiritually transcendent art. His concept referred back to the Greek mythological poet and lyre player Orpheus, whose music thwarted death.The first in-depth examination of the Orphist avant-garde, this revelatory exhibition catalog contextualizes Orphism, tracing its roots, exploring its cross-disciplinary reach and considering its transnational reverberations across 16 illustrated texts by a multigenerational group of authors from different fields. Incisive essays offer new perspectives, delineating Orphism's connection to music, dance and poetry, and investigating the historical and cultural circumstances that shaped its ethos. More than 90 artworks in multiple mediums are punctuated by micro-narratives that view select artists through the Orphist lens, presenting original scholarship on well-known figures such as Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, František Kupka and Francis Picabia while also illuminating lesser-known ones such as Mainie Jellett, Morgan Russell and Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso.
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Guggenheim Museum Jenny Holzer Trace
Book SynopsisA collection of Jenny Holzer's texts, presented as layout drawings for stone benches, that trace and illuminate our complex worldPublished on the occasion of the exhibition Jenny Holzer: Light Line, a reimagining of the artist's landmark 1989 installation at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, this artist's book will provoke and inspire. Each page features a phrase chosen by Holzer from three of her text seriesTruisms, Living and Survivalin the form of drawings she has used for many years to create her iconic stone benches. All interior pages are vellum, a physical and conceptual layering that invites novel readings of Holzer's work. This unique volume extends her practice with a material presentation of real and imagined works that weaves new connections through its pages.Holzer harnesses the power of words to convey joy, sorrow, contemplation, rage and everything in between. Her work presents writingboth her own and that of othersin an array of mediums, including electronic signs, plaques, paintings and stonework. Starting in the 1970s with her New York City street posters, and continuing through her more recent light projections, mobile LED signs and experiments with artificial intelligence, her practice rivals ignorance and violence with humor, kindness and courage. The public dimension is integral, and the surprising sites where her work appears range from city streets to stadium scoreboards, memorials, T-shirts and condom wrappers. The thought-provoking and indelible words she chooses highlight the pressing issues of our time.For over 40 years, Jenny Holzer (born 1950) has presented her work in public places and international exhibitions, including Times Square, the Venice Biennale and the Guggenheim Museums. She received the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 1990, the US State Department's International Medal of Arts in 2017 and the Wall Street Journal's Art Innovator Award in 2022. She lives and works in New York.
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Distributed Art Pub Rashid Johnson A Poem for Deep Thinkers
Book SynopsisFrom his early self-portraits to his site-specific installations, this volume underscores Rashid Johnson''s fearless engagement with the central themes, questions and aesthetics of the contemporary eraCo-organized by the Guggenheim New York and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, A Poem for Deep Thinkers is a three-decade survey of Rashid Johnson's artistic career. It situates the artist within three interconnected spheres: as a scholar of art history; as a mediator of Black popular culture and its widespread commodification; and as an artist engaged with the globalization of contemporary art. The exhibition and accompanying catalog feature nearly 90 artworks, including early photographs, Cosmic Slops, spray-painted text works, collage paintings, Broken Men mosaics, film projects, and key sculptures and installations that incorporate materials such as shea butter, black soap, plants, ceramic vessels and wax. These explorations demonstrate Johnson's uncommon fluency with multiple materials and forms as well as a nuanced ability to synthesize the condition of the human psyche.Lavishly produced with gold block edges and illustrated with more than 200 images, the publication offers creative meditations on excerpts by literary icons Toni Morrison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jean Genet, Paul Beatty and Amiri Baraka, interspersed among insightful essays and an interview that further illuminate Johnson's work.Born and raised in Chicago, Rashid Johnson (born 1977) received fine arts degrees from Columbia College Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. At the age of 24, his work was included in Thelma Golden's 2001 exhibition Freestyle at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Johnson made his directorial debut with his 2019 adaptation of Richard Wright's Native Son.
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Getty Trust Publications Nature Illuminated
Book SynopsisBeautifully illustrated gift book featuring over 40 reproductions of "Mira calligraphiae monumenta", one of the most precious books of the European Renaissance.
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Getty Trust Publications Angels and Demons in Art
Book SynopsisAnalyzing artists' representations of angels and demons and heaven and hell from the Judeo-Christian tradition, this volume describes how they evolved over time. Divided into chapters, it looks at these images, and how they came to be portrayed with the physical attributes - wings, halos, horns, and cloven hooves.
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Getty Trust Publications Gardens in Art
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Getty Publications Astrology Magic and Alchemy in Art
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Getty Trust Publications Insects and Flowers The Art of Maria Sibylla
Book SynopsisBetween 1699-1701, Maria Sibylla Merian travelled to the Dutch colony of Suriname in South America to study the area's unique flora and fauna. Many of the drawings and painting she produced on this trip were published in her "Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname" (1705). This volume reproduces details of sixteen plates from that volume.
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Inner Traditions Bear and Company The Temple in Man
Book SynopsisThis book contains the first published results of Schwaller''s 12 years of research at the temple of Luxor and its implications for interpreting the symbolic and mathematical processes of the Egyptians through their sacred architecture.Table of ContentsThe Temple in Man Sacred Architecture and the Perfect Man Translator's Foreword Preface Introduction Definitions Chapter I. A Hypothesis and It's Evolution Chapter II. Significance of the Crown of the Skull Chapter III. Reflections on a Philosophy of Measure Chapter IV. The Plan Chapter V. Orientation Chapter VI. The Temple in Man Chapter VII. The Crossing: Egyptian Mentality Chapter VIII. The Egyptian Canon for a Standing Man Conclusions
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Printed Matter, Incorporated A Book About Colab and Related Activities
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Blitzkrieg in the West Then and Now After the
Book SynopsisThis work offers an account of the 45 days, from May 10 to June 24, 1940, that made up the Battle of France. Battles great and small are described and Pallud's camera records the scenes today where 50 years ago, soldiers from six nations were locked in mortal combat of Hitler's victorious campaign.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Dieppe Through the Lens of the German War
Book SynopsisThe 14th Canadian Army Tank Regiment, one of the first Canadian armoured regiments to be formed, was the first to be committed to battle. Every one of the regiment's tanks that landed at Dieppe is described and annotated aerial photographs identify vehicle postitions together with full crew lists.
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Glasgow Museums Publishing Introducing The Glasgow Boys
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Richard Dennis The Martin Brothers Potters
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Richard Dennis Elton Ware The Pottery of Sir Edward Elton
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Richard Dennis Golden Hours The Paintings of Arthur J Elsley
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Richard Dennis Peynet Collections
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Richard Dennis Gilbert Bayes Sculptor 18721953
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Richard Dennis The Designs of Kathie Winkle for James Broadhurst
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Richard Dennis Goldscheider A Catalogue of Selected Models
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Hurtwood Press Rachel Jones
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Hurtwood Press Nikita Gale
Book SynopsisChisenhale Gallery launches the second title in its Chisenhale Books series, Nikita Gale: IN A DREAM YOU CLIMB THE STAIRS. Marking the finale of Gale's Chisenhale exhibition, her first artist's book contains an intergenerational conversation with conceptual artist Barbara Kruger and a short meditation by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Hilton Als. These feature alongside contributions by artist and Chisenhale Gallery alum P. Staff and Dr. Bénédicte Boisseron, author of Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question. Through the lens of a multifaceted practice, Gale examines themes of invisibility and audibility, interrogating the dynamic between performer and spectator, structure, and decay. Produced with great care, this extraordinary book is reflective of the artist's practice. Four visual essays, hand-annotated by Gale Absence', Ruin', Silence', Dog' explore themes central to the work. Nikita Gale: IN A DREAM YOU CLIMB THE STAIRS deploys throw-outs, gatefolds, five different types of pTrade Review''A meaningful reflection on 21st century artmaking with some of the most pre-eminent thinkers on the theme. The conversations that arrive with Gale's work at Chisenhale and beyond are essential landmarks in how we discuss contemporary art practices today. Altogether these conversations – alongside Gale's visual interludes – are formatted into a beautiful publication.'' - Katy Hessel''The catalog is truly a terrific project. Wow. I've spent so much time with the texts and images. Such an evocative gathering of ideas, picturings, poetics, commentary and a whole lot more. I'm so happy to have been included.' ' - Barbara Kruger
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Hurtwood Press Katherine Preston Inn of the Few
Book SynopsisInn of the Few is a tale of the White Hart inn, which became a home to the brave fighter pilots of WWII who battled over the skies of Southern England. In the dark days of 1940, when Britain stood alone, Churchill's Few', the brave fighter pilots who battled over the skies of Southern England, found a haven in the White Hart inn in Brasted, where they could escape the traumas of war for a few hours. The landlords Kath and Teddy Preston were there to share in the hopes and fears, the elation and sorrow of the men who lived their lives on the edge daily. Inn of the Few is a tale of those precarious days, an insight into life at the White Hart and its famous visitors. The book includes fascinating anecdotes and archive photographs and documents of a momentous time in history, in which local lives gained national significance.
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Hurtwood Press Gilbert George Dark Shadow
Book SynopsisGilbert & George created Dark Shadow in 1974 as a 'living sculpture book', featuring original text and artwork by the pair. Hurtwood's limited re-edition celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. Gilbert & George created Dark Shadow in 1974 as a living sculpture book', the result of our past three years of earnest daily thoughts, shadows, deeds, cares and pleasures.' Hurtwood's limited re-edition of 2,000 marks its fiftieth anniversary. Featuring original text and artwork by Gilbert & George, the publication offers an unparalleled perspective on the early career of one of the twentieth century's most significant artistic duos. Like their art, Gilbert & George's writing is irreverent, rebellious, fantastical, often funny and deeply poetic. The book includes a letter to their readers and original photographs by the artists of themselves, their famous home in Spitalfields in East London and their pictures. Dark Shadow is structured into eight chapters, which elaborate on the inspirations b
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Hurtwood Press Stacey Gillian Abe Shrublet of Old Ayivu
Book SynopsisThe debut monograph of Stacey Gillian Abe's work is created to accompany her first London solo show at Unit London. Featuring works spanning her career to date, the book explores the key themes from Abe's work and delves deep into her expressive and symbolic indigo portraits. Shrub-let of Old Ayivu includes insightful written contributions from Flavia Frigeri, art historian, lecturer and the Chanel Curator at the National Portrait Gallery and Serubiri Moses, renowned writer and curator, alongside a conversation between the artist and Catherine McKinley, curator and author of the critically acclaimed Indigo: In Search of the Color that Seduced the World and The Book of Sarahs: A Family in Parts. Abe's work reflects her past and her memories, highlighting her personal experiences and her relationships to her community. Renowned for her indigo skin-tone paintings, the colour has become crucial in reshaping narratives surrounding the black body.
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Hurtwood Press Ptolemy Mann Thread Painting
Book SynopsisThe first monograph on British artist Ptolemy Mann is a celebration of her unique weaving and painting practice and extraordinary use of colour. British artist Ptolemy Mann's studio practice bridges weaving and painting, creating distinctive, refined and radiant wall-based work, often on a large scale. Her early work was focused on weaving, and she then turned to painting on paper, later combining the two to paint directly onto her hand-woven artworks. Focusing on the past decade, Thread Painting features over 140 stunning, full-colour images of these three phases in Mann's artistic career, and is her first published monograph. Thread Painting includes written contributions from Ann Coxon, curator of international art at Tate Modern, and Chloë Ashby, arts critic and author. A conversation between Mann and childhood friend, artist and stage designer Es Devlin sheds light on Mann's early influences and her meticulous process. Thread Painting is a celebration of Mann's unique work d
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Hurtwood Press Jacqueline Poncelet
Book SynopsisLondon- and South Wales-based Jacqueline Poncelet was born in Belgium and moved to England as a child. She has exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Whitechapel Art Gallery and Camden Art Centre, London, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Arnolfini, Bristol, Swansea Museum and Art Gallery, and New Art Centre, Roche Court, Wiltshire. In 2021 Poncelet was awarded the prestigious Freelands Award and in 2024 presented a survey of fifty years of work alongside new commissions at MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK. Renowned for public realm artworks, Poncelet's best-known public work, Wrapper (2012), is at London's Edgware Road tube station.
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Hurtwood Press Moholinushk
Book SynopsisA monograph on the work of Annick Tonti (19512023), known by her alias moholinushk, featuring refined and singular drawings that observe the world around her through circles and balanced geometric compositions made across her eight years as a practising artist. Annick Tonti (19512023), known by her alias moholinushk, produced an incredibly refined and singular body of work in her eight years as a practising artist. Her drawings reveal keen observation of the world around her, expressed through circles and balanced geometric compositions. Later collections saw her language expand to include looser, organic forms, underpinned by a meticulous choice of materials. The publication features 163 drawings by Annick Tonti, along with a foreword by her husband, Matti Weinberg, a biography by Bettina Diem and an essay by Rebecca Alcaraz. Born in Tours, France, with Tunisian and French roots, Annick Tonti made drawings throughout the last eight years of her life, from 201523, following her retirement in 2013. The artist's practice was shaped by her career as a diplomat, leading on social, economic and political development in Palestine, Jordan and Bangladesh among other locations, and her discipline and sensitivity played vital roles in all aspects of her work. As Weinberg notes: In this way, her art reflects not just a section of her life but the whole of her person.' In addition to past interviews with the artist, the publication includes letters and notes written by Annick Tonti. These reflect on connections to Islamic geometry, Japanese graphic art and the Bauhaus, evidencing the research and careful thought that went into each of her smallscale abstract drawings, typically made with combinations of coloured pencil, chalk pastel, ink and watercolour on paper. New photography of the artist's studio near Zurich, taken by Zoe Tempest, further illuminates her practice in this calm and creative space.
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Hove Books Leica R6
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Hove Books Asahi Pentax and Pentax SLR 35mm Cameras 195289
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