Art & Photography Books
Primary Information A Something Else Reader
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£25.65
Primary Information Primetime Contemporary Art: Art by the Gala
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£16.15
Overlapse Meat Fish Aubergine Caviar
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£28.35
Idler Books Idler 97 Richard Hawley
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£9.02
Idler Books Idler 99
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£10.26
Idler Books Idler
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£9.02
Idler Books Idler
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£9.02
Idler Books Idler Be More Cat
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£9.02
Idler Books XXX Thirty Years of the Idler
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£39.96
Idler Books The Idler 105
£9.49
Isola Press Fruit Machine
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£16.15
Foolscap Editions PARALLAX: Conspiracy Theories, Details and the
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£27.00
Foolscap Editions Building Futures
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£19.00
£27.00
Liss Llewellyn Albert de Belleroche Master of Belle Epoque
Book SynopsisFor more than fifty years, George Kenney has dedicated himself to the study of European art, demonstrating a profound passion for works on paper, including etchings, drypoints, and lithographs. George authored a Catalogue Raisonné titled ''The Illustrated Bartsch, Vol. 51'' for Abaris Books in 2017. This comprehensive work explores the etchings of Ferdinand Bol, a prominent 17th-century artist and student of Rembrandt. In 1990, George embarked on a 35-year journey, passionately studying and cataloging Belleroche''s captivating lithographs, many of which were unpublished. In 2001, he collaborated with Steven Kern, curator of European art, to facilitate a significant exhibition of Belleroche's lithographs at the San Diego Museum of Art, where he concurrently held a position as a Trustee. Additionally, George has a keen interest in 17th century English clocks and has contributed articles to Antiquarian Horology on Daniel Quare, a renowned clockmaker of that era. George attributes his earl
£999.99
Idler Books The Idler 86: The Art of Living Punkily
Book SynopsisThe inspiring life of punk priestess Gina Birch, shocking tales from the Cynics of ancient Athens, Arthur Smith's best benches, joys of the e-bike, astrology in Middle Ages, plus sheds, beer, beekeeping and Stewart Lee's pop picks
£8.55
Idler Books Idler 89: Lawrence, Pop's Man of Mystery
Book SynopsisIdler 89 features pop's never-quite-made-it, the enigmatic Lawrence, in conversation with Will Hodgkinson. Plus David Graeber on pirate politics, world's best job survey, problems with Virginia Ironside, recipes with Lindey Bareham and music with Stewart Lee
£9.02
Idler Books The Idler 91: Irvine Welsh
Book SynopsisIrvine Welsh reveals his writing secrets, Lewis Carroll on why he hates the sea, slow train to Stockholm, the busy world of Richard Scarry, lazy heroes of fairy tales plus Stewart Lee, Virginia Ironside and Mark Vernon.
£11.37
Idler Books The Idler: 92, August/September 2023: How to
Book SynopsisLearn how to smash big tech with Cory Doctorow, plus why you don't need to worry about AI, Cath Kidston's new venture, Stewart Lee's music picks, Murray Lachlan Young and more
£9.02
Idler Books The Idler 93, Rupert Sheldrake
Book SynopsisMeet Rupert Sheldrake, how to free your time, medieval carvings, Stewart Lee, sheds, beer and more
£9.02
Conker Editions Ltd Get Shirty: The Rise & Fall of Admiral Sportswear
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£15.20
Flying Camera Publishing Thompson E Welcome To Dungeness
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£40.12
White Lane Press LENKIEWICZ - THE LIFE: Volume II (1980–2002):
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£15.00
FUEL Publishing Chess Players
Book SynopsisAn incredible collection of images of chess players from the last 130 years, showcasing the unique relationship between chess and culture, featuring world famous actors, artists, politicians and musicians. You don't have to play chess to appreciate Chess Players: from Charlie Chaplin to Wu-Tang Clan, but as Martin Amis asks in his illuminating essay: What are they playing at?'These evocative photographs transcend the chessboard, spanning 130 years from a steamship crossing the Atlantic in 1888, to the zero-gravity of space showcasing the diverse range of individuals who have embraced the game across continents and eras. Marcel Duchamp's iconic quote, All chess players are artists,' resonates through these pages. David Hockney likened the games strategic thinking to that of making art 'Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.''Chess is war over the board', said Bobby Fischer (grand master and world chess champion) but here
£23.96
Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd Wear Next: Fashioning the future
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£16.19
Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd Big Garden Design
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£36.00
Hardie Grant Media Total Ethics Fashion: People, our fellow animals
Book SynopsisTotal Ethics Fashion: People, our fellow animals and the planet before profit is a deep dive into supply chain issues associated with fashion around the globe. 'Sustainable' and 'ethical' fashion have a problem: they've become marketing buzzwords rather than meaningful commitments for a better fashion industry. In the midst of a global environmental crisis interwoven with serious ethical conundrums, it's time for fashion to look more holistically at both its problems and its solutions. Exploring how the fashion industry is set up today, Collective Fashion Justice's founding director Emma Hakansson offers a path forward. Looking back at what we've lost from fashion – as the industry's race to the bottom consumes the creativity and culture of clothing – and forward to the future of it, this book is all at once hard hitting, contemplative and hopeful. A manifesto for a total ethics fashion system, this book is for those who work in fashion, who love fashion, who love the planet, or who simply get dressed each day.
£8.54
Drawn and Quarterly CoMix
Book SynopsisDesigned with Mr. Spiegelman''s help, [Co-Mix] has the tall, narrow proportions of Raw...its images form a chronological sampling of Mr. Spiegelman''s extraordinary imagination, including his precocious early work, underground comics, preparatory notes and sketches for Maus, indelible covers for The New Yorker, lithographic efforts and much else.New York TimesIn an art career that now spans six decades, Art Spiegelman has been a groundbreaking and influential figure with a global impact. His Pulitzer Prize-winning holocaust memoir Maus established the graphic novel as a legitimate form and inspired countless cartoonists while his shorter works have enormously expanded the expressive range of comics.Co-Mix: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps is a comprehensive career overview of the output of this legendary cartoonist, showing for the first time the full range of a half-century of relentless experimentat
£26.40
Drawn and Quarterly Constitution Illustrated
Book SynopsisR. Sikoryak is the master of the pop culture pastiche. In Masterpiece Comics, he interpreted classic literature with defining twentieth-century comics. With Terms and Conditions, he made the unreadable contract that everyone signs, and no one reads, readable. He employs his magic yet again to investigate the very framework of the country with Constitution Illustrated. By visually interpreting the complete text of the supreme law of the land with more than a century of American pop culture icons, Sikoryak distills the very essence of the government legalese from the abstract to the tangible, the historical to the contemporary. Among Sikoryak s spot-on unions of government articles and amendments with famous comic-book characters: the Eighteenth Amendment that instituted prohibition is articulated with Homer Simpson running from Chief Wiggum; the Fourteenth Amendment that solidifies citizenship to all people born and naturalized in the United States is personified by Ms. Marvel; and, of course, the Nineteenth Amendment offering women the right to vote is a glorious depiction of Wonder Woman breaking free from her chains. American artists from George Herriman (Krazy Kat) and Charles Schulz (Peanuts) to Raina Telgemeier (Sisters) and Alison Bechdel (Dykes to Watch Out For) are homaged, with their characters reimagined in historical costumes and situations. We the People has never been more apt.
£11.04
Drawn and Quarterly Library
Book SynopsisTwo of Canada's most famous visual artists take on the book medium in their own hilarious wayLibrary is a collection of paintings by two of Canada's most influential contemporary artists, Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber. From the simple premise of the book title comes a series of images that are laugh-out-loud funny. A collection of book covers adorned with titles painted in simple handwritten fonts are displayed on brightly colored hardboard. Each book forms part of an ongoing series Dumontier and Farber started in 2009.In Dumontier and Farber's Library, titles like I Lost the Human Race, Change Your Relationship to Your Unchangeable Past, and I Have a Medical Condition That Makes It So I Don't Have to Talk to You offer surprising and astute observations, all in the duo's characteristic deadpan style. The simplicity of the shapes and text evokes an immediate but lasting profundity, with each piece causing one to wonder about the
£15.29
Drawn and Quarterly Yokai
Book SynopsisManga's most beloved creator ventures into Japan's mythical past and emerges with a menagerie unlike any otherShigeru Mizuki is no stranger to the supernatural and its portents. Kitaro and Tono Monogatari reimagined the obscure folktales of his youth, bringing them to life with whimsy. Mizuki the cartoonist certainly left an indelible mark on comics as world literature. Mizuki the fine artist, on the other hand, rounds out the full scope of his fascination with the otherworldly and fantastic, bringing these worlds to life in robust color.Yokai: The Art of Shigeru Mizuki showcases his expertise of not only folklore, but celebrates him as a naturalist. Elements of Mizuki's lush compositionsflora, fauna, and everything in betweenshowcase his mastery of form and love for nature. These popular renderings of a disappearing, rural Japan are his contribution to the preservation of a cultural heritage that would have otherwise been forgotten. The grotesque realism cent
£28.50
Firefly Books Ltd 1000 Ideas for Color Schemes: The Ultimate Guide
Book SynopsisInspiring colour palettes to help mix and match. This handsome book is about choosing colour combinations not necessarily for a specific use. Each spread contains about seven photographs and a colour palette, like paint chips. The colour palettes provide inspiration and reliable combinations for use in any number of projects: home décor, fashion; wedding celebrations, table settings, cake decorating, garden design — imagination and circumstance are the only limit. It almost makes the difficult decision for you before you spend money. No more returned clothing, unused paint, or discarded drapery! The book’s features include: Divided into major colour groups, each section explores a range of hues, from primary brights to subtle pastels; Beautifully illustrated and easy to navigate; Selected colour choices are composed by experts for success every time; Includes examples from fashion, décor (living rooms, dining rooms, bedrooms, kitchens, bathrooms, exteriors), garden (especially flowers), nature (including animals), cosmetics, food (including wedding cakes), fabrics (often luxurious), jewellery, and much more. 1000 Ideas for Colour Schemes presents surprising and inspiring colour combinations for any use. For home decorators, designers, sewers, painters and anyone using colour, it is a keeper for the coffee table and the bookshelf.
£14.95
Rocky Mountain Books Tones of Grace
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£34.19
Figure 1 Publishing A Very Sacred Experience: Eli Bornstein's Arctic
Book SynopsisA tribute to the Canadian North, a meditation on artistic creation, and a window onto the ideological musings of Canada’s greatest Structurist artist.In celebration of his 100th birthday, Eli Bornstein, in collaboration with author and curator Roald Nasgaard, has published a stunning work of personal reflection on a most transformative time in his life and career. Eli Bornstein: Arctic Journals, 1986 and 1987 is a tribute to the Canadian North, a meditation on artistic creation, and a window onto the ideological musings of Canada’s greatest Structurist artist.Devoid of the mythologizing other artists have given their writing on the North, Bornstein’s journals are introspective, insightful, and sometimes funny. Comprised of personal journal entries from two northern trips he took with photographer Hans Dommasch—along with watercolour studies, Structurist reliefs, and a personal collection of poems—Bornstein’s work is a vital reminder of our outsized influence over the natural world and an invitation to recognize our need for nature in our life and in our art.Bornstein's publication is the culmination of a life’s work on reconciling himself with nature and the understanding our very existence.
£22.49
Figure 1 Publishing Charles Gagnon
Book SynopsisA personal and intimate perspective on one of Canada''s most prominent 20th century multidisciplinary artists, who was once described as "abstraction’s poet-philosopher."Charles Gagnon (1934-2003) was a painter, photographer and filmmaker considered by many to be an important figure in Quebec and Canadian art in the 20th century.His early career emerged alongside the American Abstract Expressionists and his growing multidisciplinary practice broke away from the singularity of painting shared by his Montreal contemporaries of the Automatistes and the Plasticiens. The complexity and depth of his work as a painter, photographer, and filmmaker was distinguished by a probing, introspective quality. His paintings were simultaneously rigid and free-flowing, with self-imposed rules and structure contrasted by rich fracture and gestural brush work. Across all disciplines he played with multiple levels of perception, and many works evoke the liminal space of the threshold, or multi-plane spaces.In Charles Gagnon: The Colour of Time, the Sound of Space, this long-standing multidisciplinary work is brought into full view with texts that explore Gagnon’s various practices, from painting to photography to film. An English-language essay by art historian and curator Roald Nasgaard chronicles Gagnon’s artistic evolution from his early years in New York in the 1950s to his final productive years in the late 1990s in Quebec, and situates him within an expanded international historical context of artists, artworks, and art movements. Filmmaker and professor Olivier Asselin’s French-language essay engages Gagnon’s use of different media, including the role of sound and music in his artworks. Michiko Yajima Gagnon, the wife of the late artist, gives insight into the inseparability of everyday life and Charles’s creative undertakings: his friendships with other artists (Tōru Takemitsu, Lee Friedlander), travel (to New York, Japan, and, particularly, the American Southwest), and the relationship between the landscapes surrounding his studios and his artwork.Featuring more than 250 art reproductions and archival images, Charles Gagnon is an intimate portrait of an artist and the celebration of a life’s work.
£37.50
Figure 1 Publishing Women Carvers of the Northwest Coast
Book SynopsisAn eighty-year overview of wood and argillite carving by Indigenous women artists on the Northwest Coast.Though women of the Northwest Coast have long carved poles, canoes, panels, and masks, many of these artists have not become as well known outside their communities as their male counterparts. These artists are cherished within their communities for helping to keep traditional carving practices alive, and for maintaining the dances, songs, and ceremonies that are intertwined with visual art production. This book, and an associated exhibition at the Audain Art Museum, gathers a range of sculptural formats by Indigenous women in order to expand the discourse of carving in the region. Both the exhibition and publication are co-curated by Dana Claxton, artist, filmmaker and head of the University of British Columbia’s Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory; and Dr. Curtis Collins, the AAM’s Director & Chief Curator. Commentaries by Skeena Reece, Claxton, and Marika Swan, and interviews with artists Dale Campbell and Mary Anne Barkhouse are presented alongside more than one hundred artworks from public and private collections across North America, including several newly commissioned pieces.Featured artists include: Ellen Neel (Kwakwaka''wakw, 1916-1966) Freda Diesing (Haida, 1925-2002) Doreen Jensen (Gitxsan, 1933-2009) Susan Point (Musqueam, b. 1952) Dale Campbell (Tahltan, b. 1954) Marianne Nicolson (Kwakwaka’wakw, b. 1969) Arlene Ness (Gitxsan, b. 1970s) Melanie Russ (Haida, b. 1977) Marika Swan (Nuu-chah-nulth, b. 1982) Morgan Asoyuf (Ts’msyen, b. 1984) Cori Savard (Haida, b. 1985) Cherish Alexander (Gitwangak, b. 1987) Stephanie Anderson (Wetsuwet’en, b. 1991) Veronica Waechter (Gitxsan, b. 1995)
£26.06
Figure 1 Publishing Dreaming Forward
Book SynopsisA testament to the impacts of colonization and a record of adaptation and resourcefulness, Worlds on Paper presents never-before-published drawings from artists in Kinngait (Cape Dorset) made between 1957 and 1990. These works lie outside of the artistic norms typically associated with Inuit art of the era, revealing a community in a time of transformation.Inuit works on paper have long been renowned for scenes of wildlife, hunting and camping, as well as depictions of animistic spirituality and transformation. Historically, drawings were selected from the Kinngait Drawing Archive to be made into prints at the discretion of tastemakers from the South. The recently digitized 90,000-item drawings archive (1957-1990) from the celebrated printmaking studio in Kinngait is an unparalleled cultural and social document. Housing scores of fascinating and revealing drawings of community, family, contact with newcomers, and life on the land, as well as seldom seen portraits and examples of Inuit Futurism, Worlds on Paper presents a vivid record of lived experience and personal stories long buried.This groundbreaking publication and exhibition, led by Inuit curator Emily Laurent Henderson and staged by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, animates the legacy of Kinngait Studio and its role in generating, nurturing, and promoting artists who continue to challenge expectations and provoke fresh understandings. With essays by Susan Aglukark, Kyle Aleekuk, Mark Bennett, Napatsi Folger, Jamesie Fournier, Janice Grey, Jonas Laurent Henderson, Jessica Kotierk, Nicole Luke, Malayah Maloney, Jocelyn Piirainen, Krista Ulujuk Zawadski, and others, Worlds on Paper explores cultural transformation through the lens of art.
£34.20
Figure 1 Publishing The Place of Objects
Book SynopsisAn eclectically curated collection reveals a kaleidoscopic portrait of the many and diverse talents working in and around BC’s art scene over the past forty years.As a musician, performer, activist, collector, John David Lawrence has long held an important, if underrecognized, position in Vancouver’s creative community. After settling in the city in the mid-1980s he participated in and advocated for performance spaces and artist-run centres, building deep roots in the community, and since 2000 he has been the proprietor of DoDa Antiques. Over several decades, Lawrence amassed an idiosyncratic personal collection that includes ceramics, Indigenous art, jewelry, folk art, photography, and plant life. Through the stories of some of these pieces and of Lawrence himself, as well as extensive new photography of his holdings, The Place of Objects illuminates the rich cultural production that is often overlooked by Vancouver’s established artistic community.Released to coincide with a Vancouver Art Gallery exhibition of 300 ceramic works from Lawrence’s collection, The Place of Objects opens with an engrossing conversation between scholar Dr. Michael J. Prokopow and Lawrence that uses specific objects and the diverse areas of his collections to reveal Lawrence’s enigmatic biography and ponder the broader cultural obsession with things. The second half of the book features texts by artists, scholars, friends, and curators who highlight objects of art with historical, cultural, or personal significance. The publication also includes a visual index—a two-dimensional genogram of the objects in his collection—to map the tentacular threads that have informed Lawrence’s collecting practices over the decades.Contributors:Glenn Alteen, Daina Augaitis, Nicholas Bell, Allan Collier, Diana Freundl, Donna Hagerman, Richard Hill, Mandy Ginson, Jenn Jackson, Diane Jillings, Hilary Letwin, Carol Mayer, Siobhan McCracken Nixon, Edmond Melnychuk, Michael J. Prokopow, Esther Rausenberg, Stephanie Rebick, among others.Artists:Mollie Carter, John Charnetski, Stanley Clarke, Hans Coper, Olea Davis, Walter Dexter, Beau Dick, Denny Dixon, Pat Dixon, Sandra Dolph, Axel Ebring, Gathie Falk, Ken Foster, Ken Gerberick, Herta Gerz, Kathleen Hamilton, Frances Hatfield, Richard Hawbolt, Michael Henry, Gillian Hodge, Robin Hopper, Ben Houstie, Henry Hunt, Gordon Hutchens, Avery Huyghe, Tam Irving, Elsie John, Charmian Johnson, Thomas Kakinuma, Bob Kingsmill, Zoltan Kiss, Roy Kiyooka, Zeljko Kujundzic, Sam Kwan, Corey Larocque, Heinz Laffin, David Lambert, Laura Wee Láy Láq, Bernard Leach, Janet Leach, Glenn Lewis, Luke Lindoe, Des Loan, Brian Lynch, Mad Dog, Edmond Melnychuk, Grace Melvyn, Joseph Mihalic, Santo Mignosa, Carel Moiseiwitsch, Ellen Neel, Gailan Ngan, Wayne Ngan, Oraf, Leonard Osborne, Mary Osborne, Davide Pan, Randy Pandora, Bill Reid, John Reeve, Bill Rennie, Hilda Ross, Debra Sloan, Russell Smith, Ian Steele, Roger Stribley, Gordon Thorlaksson, Ron Tribe, Hiro Urakami, Jan Wade, Jean Marie Weakland, among others.
£30.00
Figure 1 Publishing Enemy Alien
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£27.20
Reaktion Books Playing at Home: The House in Contemporary Art
Book Synopsis'There's no place like home'; 'safe as houses'; 'home is where the heart is': ideas of the house and home are rich in cultural cliches and contradictory meanings. Playing at Home explores the different ways in which artists have engaged with this popular everyday theme - from 'broken homes' to haunted houses, doll's houses, mobile homes and greenhouses. The book considers how issues of gender, identity, class and place can overlap and interact in our relationships with 'home', and how certain artworks disturb our comfortable ideas of what it means to be 'at home'. While other books have touched on examples of the 'uncanny' and surreal presentation of houses in art, this one argues that an understanding of the role of irony and play, and the critical potential of the 'everyday', are equally important in our interpretations of these intriguing works. The author draws on the work of philosophers, cultural theorists and art critics to enrich our understanding of this genre. Covering the work of well-known artists, including Tracey Emin, Gordon Matta-Clark, Rachel Whiteread, Cornelia Parker, Vito Acconci, Michael Landy, Richard Wilson, Mike Kelley and Louise Bourgeois, the book also looks at artists who travel across continents, for whom home is a shifting notion, such as Do-Ho Suh and Pascale Marthine Tayou. Discussing a wide range of media, including installation and film, and richly illustrated, Playing at Home is a compelling survey of one of contemporary art's popular themes.
£18.95
Reaktion Books The Luminous and the Grey
Book SynopsisColour is a given of most people's everyday lives, but at the same time it lies at the limits of language and understanding. David Batchelor's previous book for Reaktion, Chromophobia, addressed the extremes of love and loathing that colour has provoked since antiquity. This book charts more ambiguous terrain. The Luminous and the Grey is a study of the places where colour comes into being and where it fades away, an inquiry into when colour begins and when it ends, both in the material world and in the imagination. Batchelor draws on a wide range of material, including neuroscience, philosophy, literature, film and the writings of artists; and makes use of his own experience as an artist who has worked with colour for more than twenty years. After considering the place of colour in some creation myths, in industrial chemistry, in recent thinking on optics and in the specific forms of luminosity that saturate the modern city, the book culminates in a meditation on the unique colour that is also a non-colour, a mood, a feeling, an existential condition and even an insult: grey.
£18.13
Reaktion Books Yves Klein
Book SynopsisAmong his many captivating exploits, the French artist Yves Klein (1928 - 1962) invented his own brand of colour: the inimitable International Klein Blue. Denounced as a charlatan and feted as a mystic, Klein scandalized the art world with his enthusiastic embrace of the highs and lows of post-war mass culture and his exploitation of controversial publicity tactics. Today it is clear that Klein was not only one of the most radical artists of the post-war period but an iconic role model for contemporary practices: he reinvented abstract painting, conceived new horizons for performance art and was a trailblazer in the interdisciplinary realm of land, body and conceptual art. Nuit Banai examines the relationship between Klein's brief but incandescent life and his wide repertoire of artistic practices. The book establishes that Klein's brilliance was above all performative, as he created and inhabited a cast of public identities: avant-garde artist, bourgeois, judo expert, painter, charlatan, collaborator, politician, middle-class mystic, fascist and showman.With each persona, Klein invented new ways to communicate his paradoxical message of spiritual enlightenment and Dada iconoclasm to an unsuspecting, bemused and entranced audience. This new critical biography illuminates Klein's influential and multifaceted artistic career. Alongside contemporaries like Andy Warhol and Joseph Beuys and postmodern chameleons like Cindy Sherman, Klein's protean performance of multiple roles stands as a landmark example of the artist's transformational status. An invaluable introduction to the life and work of this flamboyant individual, Yves Klein will appeal to students and scholars of Klein as well as those interested in contemporary art and twentieth-century culture.
£12.34
Reaktion Books Staging the Archive: Art and Photography in the
Book SynopsisDedicated to art practices that mobilize the model of the archive, this book demonstrates the ways in which such 'archival artworks' probe the possibilities of what art is and what it can do. Through a variety of media, methodologies and perspectives, the artists surveyed here also challenge the principles on which the notions of organization, evidence and documentation are built. The earliest examples of the modern archival artwork were made in the 1930s, but it is since the 1960s that archival principles have increasingly been used by artists to inform, structure and shape their works. This includes practices that consist of archive construction, archaeological investigation, record keeping or the use of archived materials; however, they also interrogate the principles, claims and effects of the archive. Staging the Archive shows how artists read the concept of the archive against the grain, questioning not only what the archive is and can be but what materials, images or ideas can be archived. In this book Ernst van Alphen examines these archival artists and artworks in detail, setting them within their social, political and aesthetic contexts. Exploring the work of Marcel Duchamp, Marcel Broodthaers, Christian Boltanski, Annette Messager, Fiona Tan and Sophie Calle, among others, this book reveals how modern and contemporary artists have used and contested the notion of the archive to establish new relationships to history, information and data.
£25.00
Reaktion Books Photography and Tibet
Book SynopsisMysterious and often inaccessible, Tibet has been a source of fascination to outsiders for centuries and a troublesome and resistant subject for photographers. Even today, photography of Tibet often remains embroiled in debates about Tibet's past, present and future. This book is the first historical survey of photography in Tibet and the Himalayas. It offers a remarkable new insight into the attempts of foreign and Tibetan photographers to document the country from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Leading Tibetologist Clare Harris combines the results of extensive research in museums and archives with fieldwork in Tibetan communities to present material that has never been seen or discussed before. Images featured in this book include the earliest photographs taken in Tibet in1863, the experimental camerawork of senior Tibetan monks, including that of the thirteenth Dalai Lama, and the creations of contemporary Tibetan photographers and artists
£21.38
Reaktion Books The Modern Art Cookbook
Food has always been a favourite subject of the world’s artists, from still-lifes by Matisse and Picasso to the works of Claes Oldenberg and Andy Warhol. But how do artists eat? The Modern Art Cookbook provides a window into how both great and lesser-known modern artists, writers and poets ate, cooked, depicted and wrote about food. A cornucopia of life in the kitchen and in the studio throughout the twentieth century and beyond, the book explores a wide-ranging panoply of artworks of food, cooking and eating from Europe and the Americas – from the early moderns through the Impressionists, Symbolists, Cubists, Futurists and Surrealists up to today’s art – as well as writing about food from contemporary novelists, writers and poets. Beautifully illustrated and often surprising, this new paperback edition is a joyous guide to the art of food.
£18.00
New Internationalist Publications Ltd Women of the World Calendar 2023
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£10.39
Birlinn General Dublin: Mapping the City
Book SynopsisHodges Figgis Book of the Year 2023 Maps are essential tools in finding our way around, but they also tell stories and are great depositories of information. Until the twentieth century and the arrival of aerial images, a map was the best way of getting a sense of what a city looked like on the ground. Through a carefully chosen selection of maps, the book traces the growth and development of Dublin from the early seventeenth century to the present day, offering a fascinating snap-shot of how the city has changed over time. Whilst the maps recount the big stories – the impact of major forces such as the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 or the effects of the Easter Rising in 1916 and the Civil War in 1922 – they also tell the smaller tales such as the creation of a colony of Irish speakers in the late 1920s and the arrival of parking meters and how they changed how people could use the city centre. Together with maps that reveal much about the famous buildings, transport, health, trade, life and work of the city, this book is a fascinating portrait of Dublin through the ages which offers many new perspectives on one of Europe’s great cities.Trade Review'An absolutely fascinating and beautiful book using maps to help us understand the growth and development of Dublin over time… I can’t emphasise enough how gorgeous the book is' -- Dr. Miranda Melcher * New Books Network *'A fascinating new book... an eclectic, illuminating cornucopia of unusual maps ... judiciously selected and explained by Brady and Ferguson' * Irish Independent *'A fine, solid, beautifully produced book ... wonderfully filled with information, written with a crisp clarity' * The Irish Catholic *'an eclectic, illuminating cornucopia of unusual maps, stretching back to 17th century charts to help sea captains approach the narrow entry into Dublin Bay . . . You may never have thought that a city planner once contemplated using gondolas to ease traffic congestion, or another felt that the solution lay in using flying boats, but you would be wrong' * Irish Independent *
£25.50
Birlinn General My First Colouring Book Scottish Animals
Book SynopsisYoung children will love these colouring books featuring simple illustrations of a variety of Scottish animals.Contents feature:Puffin * Ducks * Garden birds * Hedgehog * Hare * Owls * Capercaillie * Wildcat *Geese * Eagle * Scottie Dog * Pine marten * Squirrel * Badgers * Deer * Butterflies * Salmon * Highland Cow * Sheep * Farm animals * Clydesdale horse * Otters * Beavers * Seals * Seagulls * Dolphins * Haggis
£6.50
