Art & Photography Books
Editions Skira Paris Louvre Abu Dhabi: The Complete Guide. Arabic
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£23.80
Editions Skira Paris A Roof for Silence (Bilingual edition): Lebanese
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£24.00
Editions Skira Paris Fairmont: Grand by Nature
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£59.25
Editions Skira Paris Jacques Cordier: Catalogue Raisonné
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£48.75
Editions Skira Paris Hermann Nitsch
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£15.30
Editions Skira Paris OXO Architecture Nature
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£27.20
Editions Skira Paris Khalif Tahir Thompson
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£28.80
Editions Skira Paris Silver Haikus
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£24.00
Editions Skira Paris The Musee dOrsay in 365 Works
Book SynopsisSylvain Amic is the Director of the Musée d'Orsay and the Orangerie.
£17.00
Editions Norma Francois Pompon
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£63.75
Editions Norma Oriental Dreams
Book SynopsisThis beautifully illustrated book, with over 300 colour reproductions, showcases many of the greatest masterpieces of 19th century Orientalist art. During this period, colonization, and a revolution in means of transportation allowed artists to visit countries from North Africa to the Middle East that had previously been relatively inaccessible. The patterns, colours, and light of this region influenced artists such as Delacroix, Decamps, Berchère, Bridgman, Ziem, Gérôme, Corrodi, Dinet, Matisse, Majorelle and many others. Upon returning to Europe, these artists captured the atmosphere of these distant and exotic lands in painted scenes of daily life and wrote memoirs of their travels. Some returned to settle there, including painters like Dinet, who spent a large part of his life in Algeria, and Majorelle, known as the “painter of Marrakech.” This book offers insight into the Orientalist aesthetic that inspired the movement, and lays the groundwork for a deeper understanding of these vibrant works of art. Text in English and French.
£63.75
Editions Norma JeanLouis Avril
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£45.00
Editions Norma Joan Mitchell and Her Dogs
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£22.50
Poursuite editions The Third Atlas
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£31.50
Poursuite editions Le Jardin dHannibal
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£21.60
Caryatide Lorem Ipsum
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£25.50
Poursuite editions Blitz Club Blitz Kids
£19.00
Florentin Best of Brittany
£85.00
Poursuite editions A Matter of Chance
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£27.00
Poursuite editions Kirsten Yasse
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£27.00
Masala Noir Matchboxes
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£20.42
Editions Milan Mes p'tits docs/Mes docs animes: L'histoire de
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£10.75
Citadelles & Mazenod Solaire Culture: 250 Years of an Iconic Champagne
Book SynopsisThe iconic champagne house guides readers through the fascinating history of Maison Veuve Clicquot, its heritage, savoir-faire and cultural imprint through iconic objects, advertising, music, literature, and movies. On the occasion of its 250th anniversary, Veuve Clicquot imagined Solaire Culture, its first traveling exhibition on a global scale. This non-museal, immersive and 100% feminine exhibition aims to establish a compelling dialogue between past and present, interpreted through the eyes of internationally renowned women artists such as Yayoi Kusama, Sheila Hicks, Monique Frydman and Tacita Dean. It also showcases the striking contemporary artwork specially commissioned for the occasion as well as documents from the House''s archives. Author Monica Sabolo retraces the life of Madame Clicquot - Barbe Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin, a tireless optimist and an audacious trailblazer who revolutionized the world of champagne with three major inventions still in use today. English edition.
£45.00
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain Ron Mueck
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£42.50
Beta-Plus World's Best: 50 Interiors from Around the Globe
Book SynopsisFifty internationally renowned interior designers and architects share their best residential design projects in this lavishly presented coffee table book. This must have collection of interior design projects includes over 300 photographs of the most remarkable houses from more than 30 countries all over the world.
£62.90
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain Bernie Krause and United Visual Artists, The
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£15.26
Beta-Plus Anne Derasse
Book SynopsisBelgian interior architect and art historian Anne Derasse, renowned for her prestigious projects in Belgium and abroad, reveals the philosophy of her creations. Her companion, the photographer and artist Jörg Bräuer, captures the atmosphere emanating from these architectures through his superb images. The highly regarded wine château of Calon Ségur in the Médoc, the Delvaux flagship store in Brussels, the Ancienne Nonciature, her base, and the castle of Montmoreau, their lair in the South Charente, reveal her style combining history and contemporaneity, in a refinement and sophistication imbued with sobriety. The choice of works of art completes her artistic approach. I seek to capture and preserve the soul of places, this intangible anchor point between human history and the passage of time. I wish to magnify the worlds of life and re-enchant everyday life to bring well-being, tranquility, and felicity to the people who entrust their projects to me.Text in English and French
£73.95
Cahiers d'art Ellsworth Kelly – Windows / Fenêtres
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£25.60
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain Raymond Depardon, Communes
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£32.00
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain Luiz Zerbini: Botanica, Monotypes 2016-2020
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£63.75
Palais de Tokyo P L S 38 â ancestries
Book SynopsisIssue 38 of P L S magazine calls upon ancestries, be they intimate or political, transgenerational and historical, human or more-than-human, symbolic or material. Its contributions invite us to communicate with the invisible, in the words of Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé in her novel I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem. It is a matter of conjuring away oblivion and erasure: to revive connections and lineage, something both familiar and held in common, so as to find strength, protection, guidance and, perhaps, healing. With texts and visual contributions by: Malala Andrialavidrazana, Yasmine Belhadi, Massabielle Brun, Neringa Bumbliene, Miryam Charles, Barbara Chase Riboud, Guillaume Désanges, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Rebecca Hall & Hugo Martínez, Liz Johnson Artur, Isis Labeau Caberia, Simone Lagrand, LeRhonda S. Manigault Bryant, Myriam Mihindou, Dorothée Munyaneza, Amandine Nana, Deimantas Narkevicius, Naudline Pierre, Anastasia Sosunova, Émilie Villez, Claire ZanioloThis issue is published on the occasion of a new season of exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo (17.10 2024 05.01 2025), and in particular: Tituba, Who Protects Us?, a group show which invites artists with Carribean and African diasporic trajectories to come together around a meditation on the relationships between grief, memory, migration and ancestrality; Barbara Chase-Riboud's exhibition Everytime A Knot is Undone A God is Released; Myriam Mihindou's exhibition Praesentia; Malala Andrialavidrazana's exhibition Figures; the group show Borders Are Nocturnal Animals / Sienos yra naktiniai gyvunai, organized on the occasion of the Season of Lithuania in France.
£8.60
Cahiers d'art Calder Chess Knightmares
£66.74
Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes New Brutalism: The Invention of a Style
Book SynopsisThis book reveals the origin, definition, and evolution of New Brutalism in architecture. The New Brutalism movement in architecture addressed a new way of understanding the urban dimension in the post-war period, and in particular the role of the architect in an insecure society. But the original definition was manipulated, diluted, and fragmented as the concept spread from Europe to the United States, Japan, and South America. New Brutalism follows its contributions on a global scale, as it challenged the ambivalent collaboration between critics and architects and opened a controversial debate over a new “international style.” Disruptive, revolutionary, and at times even Dadaist, New Brutalism steered the cultural trajectory of the Modern Movement. A corrective to the many myths and misinterpretations of the style, this book reasserts the foundations of New Brutalism and offers a close examination of its international influence and variations.Table of ContentsA GAME OF PATIENCE FOR A NEW ART HISTORY – ROBERTO GARGIANI1. THE BRITISH DEBATE IN SEARCH OF A NEW-ISM1.1. Reactions to the International Style and the Myth of the Pioneers of the Modern Movement1.2. Principles of Truth: The Revival of Pugin, Ruskin and Morris 1.3. Roughness, Accident and Irregularity for a New Picturesque 1.4. New Humanism, New Empiricism, New Monumentality1.5. The Functional Tradition for National Unification 1.6. The Neo-Palladianism of Wittkower and Rowe2. LE CORBUSIER AND BÉTON BRUT2.1. From ‘Béton Armé’ to ‘Béton Brut’ at the Unité in Marseille2.2. Architecture d’Aujourd’hui and Art Brut 2.3. Le Point and the Concept of Béton Brut2.4. The Humanism of Béton Brut3. THE INVENTION OF A DEFINITION: FROM ASPLUND TO THE SMITHSONS3.1. The First Brutalist Building: Villa Göth3.2. The Unité as a Model for English Reconstruction 3.3. New Movement-Classical-Complex-Human3.4. The Smithsons’ New Brutalism3.5. Early Definitions of New Brutalism: Segal and the English Magazines3.6. Johnson’s Anti-Design3.7. Banham’s Radical Philosophy3.8. Formalism, Roughness and Brutality3.9. Smithsons’ Anti-Art Architecture for a New Aesthetic3.10. New Brutalism Will Take Many Forms3.11. The Case of the School at Hunstanton 3.12. Piranesi and Mies in Blake’s New Brutalism3.13. Futuristic Connections for a ‘Mechanistic Brutalism’3.14. Stirling and the Primitive Aesthetic, or the Maisons Jaoul Model 4. BANHAM’S MEMORABLE ARTICLE4.1. A Category of the New Art History4.2. The Origins in Le Corbusier’s Béton Brut4.3. Early Brutalism 4.4. Anti-art and As Found: For ‘une Architecture Autre’4.5. Wittkower, Rowe and the Anti-Brutalists4.6. The Role of the Yale Art Gallery 4.7. Image, ‘Quod Visum Perturbat’5. CRITICAL PRECISIONS: FROM SUMMERSON TO LASDUN5.1. The Old Rigour according to Summerson5.2. Le Corbusier’s Brutal Concrete, from Zevi to Scully 5.3. The Strict-Brutalists5.4. Thoughts in Progress on the Brutalist Canon5.5. The Smithsons’ Ethics 5.6. Style and Attitude6. INTERNATIONAL BRUTALISM: FROM ZEVI TO JOEDICKE6.1. Zevi and the First Italian Brutalist6.2. Romantic, Informal, Naturalistic: Italian Variations 6.3. Premises for American Brutalism6.4. The Carnegie Institute Student Questionnaire6.5. Kallmann’s Action Architecture 6.6. Directions and Dilemmas beyond the International Style6.7. Pevsner and Stirling vs. the Brutalist Aesthetics6.8. The Essential Ethic of Brutalism Is in Town Building6.9. Anti-Miesian Brutalism by Pehnt and Joedicke 7. THE NEW BRUTALISM: ETHIC OR AESTHETIC? BY JOEDICKE AND BANHAM7.1. Joedicke’s Proposal for a Monograph on New Brutalism 7.2. Towards the Final Structure of the Book 7.3. Banham’s New Brutalism: From Materials to Ethics7.4. Beyond Brutalism: ‘The Total Environment’ 7.5. Brutalist Style7.6. The Economist Building vs. Leicester University8. THE SAD END OF NEW BRUTALISM8.1. Pevsner and the Anti-Pioneers8.2. New Brutalism’s Obituary 8.3. The Old Brutalism 8.4. The Smithsons’ Answer to Banham: Robin Hood Gardens
£57.00
Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes Teaching the Preservation
Book SynopsisA book that brings awareness to preservation in architecture. This third TSAM volume presents content from teaching courses that have been developed at the EPFL for fifteen years. The aim is to promote preservation as a discipline, one of the main branches in the emerging field of socioecological transition. This book also demonstrates how the educational potential of preservation can be harnessed, uniting many social and scientific disciplines, the history of architecture and architects, materiality and its constructed expression, the theory of architecture and design, and the examination—both abstract and concrete—of what surrounds us in every sense, from the teaspoon to the territory. In short, what a minority of responsible architects has always concerned itself with: a silent and sometimes fragile architecture. These qualities should enable preservation to reform and reconstruct a new design process for architecture, which will in turn lead to a new kind of practice. Table of ContentsForewordThe teaching of the laboratory of techniques and the preservation of modern architecture1. THEORETICAL COURSES2. THE PRESERVATION WORKSHOP3. THE PROJECT IN THE PRESERVATION ORIENTATION4. THE MASTER PROJECTEpilogue
£57.00
Esmod Editions Focus on Fashion Details 1: Women-Men-Children
Book SynopsisThese detailed pages give the necessary patterns for tracing and show how to make them step-by-step. Written in simple language for universal comprehension, each step is easy to follow with sketches. Simplified secrets and tricks from the ready-to-wear industry for home sewing An overview of machine sewing, vocabulary and sewing sketches, different types of yokes, tabs, buttoned plackets and different methods for assembling garments : unlined skirt, lined skirt, men's and women's city and sportswear pants, men's shirts, women's shirts, women's jackets and men's blazers.
£999.99
JRP Editions Nikas Bob - Collection Diary
Book SynopsisFor one year, respected critic and curator Bob Nickas put his money where his eyes are: he decided to become a collector, someone who takes art off gallery walls instead of hanging it there. His ground rules dictated that he would buy one work per month from an artist he had never written about or exhibited before. In this fascinating diary of his year on the market, he tracks the changes in his relation to art, when the commitment becomes one of the wallet and not just the mind and words. It has affected the way I look at art, he writes. On the one hand, if I am unwilling to part with my hard-earned money, how worthy can the art really be? On the other, there are certainly works far above my humble means... For this project, I have had to pay to have my say.
£8.22
Galerie Mingei Toshimasa Kikuchi: Mathematical Objects
Book SynopsisThe work of the Japanese sculptor Toshimasa Kikuchi (born in 1979) is somehow bewilderingly obvious. Trained in the restoration of Buddhist statues, mastering to perfection the techniques of classical Japanese statuary, he carves pure forms in wood - geometric, hydrodynamic or figurative. His scientific repertory is of all time (mathematics, engineering, natural history), but his preferred materials and techniques are firmly grounded in tradition (Japanese hinoki cypress, urushi lacquer, kinpaku gold leaf). The installation he presents for his Carte Blanche at the musee Guimet in Paris, brings together a series of slender sculptures in lacquered wood of mathematical objects, in the tradition of the celebrated photographs that Man Ray took of them. These abstract forms, hanging from the ceiling like mobiles or laid on the floor like devotional objects, take shape through a virtuosity and craftsmanship seldom found in contemporary art. The book is lavishly illustrated by the Japanese photographer Tadayuki Minamoto, who was able to capture the magnificence of the mathematical abstraction of the works of Kikuchi; by photographs and paintings by Man Ray; and with fascinating mathematical objects from the Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, photographed by the French photographer Bertrand Michau. It is essential reading for lovers of surrealism and of the early years of twentieth-century abstraction as well as for all who are intrigued by the close relationship between art and mathematics.Table of ContentsForeword by Sophie Makariou; Lustrous Abstractions: The Sculpture of Kikuchi Toshimasa by Kei Osawa; Needles : Works by Kikuchi Toshimasa, photographs by Minamoto Tadayuki; Human Equations: Man Ray's Photographs of Mathematical Models, by Edouard Sebline; Mathematical Objects - Works by Man Ray; The Collection of Mathematical Objects at the Institut Henri Poincare (IHP), by Sylvie Benzoni-Gavage; The Music of Surfaces, by Sylvie Benzoni-Gavage; Mathematical Models from the Collection of the Institut Henri Poincare, photographs by Bertrand Michau; Acknowledgements; Picture Credits
£27.00
Diaphanes AG NO Rhetoric(s) – Versions and Subversions of
Book SynopsisAn incisive examination of the intersection of global art and political resistance.NO Rhetoric(s) examines a subject intensely debated during the last three decades but rarely a topic of its own: art as an agent of resistance, whether as a rhetorical stance or critical strategy. In the face of today’s discourse on revolt and insurrection, it is necessary to ask whether the gesture of “negation” still has an emancipatory potential. NO Rhetoric(s) contributes a deeper understanding of the different logics of resistance at play between art and politics. Showcasing a diverse array of voices, this volume presents contributions on topics as varied as sexual dissidence, ecology, and geopolitics in the digital age. Through this interdisciplinary show of force, the collected authors, artists, and scholars shed light on how art approaches the most urgent issues facing today’s society.
£34.20
Diaphanes AG Exotic Switzerland? – Looking Outward in the Age
Book SynopsisDuring the 17th and 18th centuries, foreign material culture was introduced into France and Switzerland and integrated into European interiors and decorative arts. Scholars have emphasized this era’s emerging taste for the exotic in order to explain the unprecedented craze for lacquer, porcelain, and textiles that imitated non-Western techniques and iconography. Yet what constituted the exotic during the age of Enlightenment? How was the place of foreign material culture negotiated? And how did it impact European identities? Exotic Switzerland? moves from questions about the nature of exoticism to explore exoticism in practice. The physical relocation of material fragments in European interiors is the core of this volume. Finally, the contributors also explore the rise of disciplines such as anthropology and ethnology through collection, publication, and print culture.
£38.00
Diaphanes AG Liquidity, Flows, Circulation – The Cultural
Book SynopsisInterdisciplinary studies that combine the current of materialist thinking with discussions of ecologies and environmentalization. Placed at the intersection of art, media, and cultural studies as well as economic theory, Liquidity, Flows, Circulation investigates the cultural logic of environmentalization. As flows, circulations, and liquidity resurface in all aspects of recent culture and contemporary art, this volume investigates the hypothesis of a genuine cultural logic of environmentalization through these three concepts. It thus brings together two areas of research that have been largely separate. On the one hand, this volume takes up discussions about ecologies with and without nature and environmentalization as a contemporary form of power and capital. On the other hand, it takes its cue from Fredric Jameson’s notion that each stage of capitalism is accompanied by a genuine cultural logic. The volume introduces this current of materialist thinking into the ongoing discussions of ecologies and environmentalization. By analyzing contemporary art, architecture, theater, films, and literature, the fifteen contributions by scholars and artists explore different fields where liquid forms, semantics flow, or processes of circulation emerge as a contemporary cultural logic.
£21.60
JRP Ringier Carlo Scarpa: L'Art D'Exposer
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£16.15
JRP Ringier To the Moon via the Beach
Book SynopsisThis book documents a performance event in the Amphitheater in Arles, France, with artists Uri Aran, Daniel Buren, Fischli & Weiss, Jef Geys, Douglas Gordon, Oscar Murillo and Lawrence Weiner, among others. Using imported sand, the space was transformed into a beach and a moonscape.
£27.00
JRP Editions Sylvie Fleury: Double Positive
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£18.00
JRP Ringier Francois Ristori
Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive monograph on French artist François Ristori (19362015), a lesser-known artist of the French postwar abstraction generation. He was known for employing a systematic motif of blue, red and white hexagon-like shapes he named Trace-Forme across painting, drawing and public interventions.
£31.50
JRP Ringier Carroll Dunham: Green Period.
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£31.50
Lars Muller Publishers Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions
Book SynopsisMarcel Breuer (1902-1981) is celebrated as a furniture designer, teacher, and architect who changed the American house after his emigration from Hungary to the U.S.A. in 1937. More recently historians, architects, and-with the reopening in New York of the great megalith of his Whitney Museum as the Met Breuer-a larger public are gaining new insights into the cities and large-scale buildings Breuer planned. Often seen as a pioneer of a "Brutalist modernism" of reinforced concrete, Breuer might best be understood through the lens of the changing institutional structures in and for which he worked, a vantage developed in the fresh approaches gathered here in essays by a group of younger scholars. These essays draw on an abundance of newly available documents held in the Breuer Archive at Syracuse University, now accessible online.
£26.10
Lars Muller Publishers Embodied Energy and Design: Making Architecture
Book SynopsisArchitecture is increasingly understood as a field of practice that is inextricably embedded in ecologies and energy systems, and yet embodied energy-the various forms of energy required to ex- tract raw matter, to produce and transport building materials, and to assemble a given building- remains largely under-explored in its ramifications for both design and environment. As operational energy has declined as a proportion of buildings' total energy consumption, embodied energy has become an essential site for further speculation and innovation. Embodied Energy and Design: Making Architecture between Metrics and Narratives asks questions about the varying scales, methods of analysis, and opportunities through which we might reconsider the making of architecture in the context of global flows of energy and resources.
£28.80
De Gruyter Francis Bacon – In the Mirror of Photography:
Book SynopsisThe British painter Francis Bacon (1909–1992) is famed for his idiosyncratic mode of depicting the human figure. Thirty years after his death, his working methods remain underexplored. New research on the Francis Bacon Studio Archive at Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, sheds light on the genesis of his works, namely the photographic source material he collected in his studios, on which he consistently based his paintings. The book brings together the artist’s pictorial springboards for the first time, delineating and interpreting recurring patterns and methods in his preparatory work and adoption of photographic material. In addition, it correctly locates ‘chance’ as a driving force in Bacon’s working method and qualifies the significance of photography for the painter. German Photo Book Award 23/24, Gold in the category Text Volume Photo Theory
£46.80
