Art & Photography Books
Ashmolean Museum Ali Kazim: Suspended in Time
Book SynopsisIn 2019 Ali Kazim, one of the most exciting contemporary artists working in Pakistan today, became the first South Asian artist-in-residence at the Ashmolean Museum. Drawing inspiration from the objects in the Eastern Art collections, and their contextual history, he saw his time in the Museum as an opportunity to reimagine the objects in his own work and practise. Thus, the exhibition and accompanying catalogue will focus mainly on Kazim’s engagement with the Ashmolean collections and the works created between 2019 and 2021. Widely exhibited and collected internationally (including the British Museum, V&A, Metropolitan Museum, Queensland Art Gallery, etc.), Kazim lives and works in Pakistan. The exhibition and book provide the Museum an opportunity to engage wider diverse audiences, while also presenting the works of a contemporary multidisciplinary artist who reflects and draws strength from the Ashmolean collections.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements In conversation with Ali Kazim South Asia: Opening our eyes to ourselves Tim Hitchens The museum is open Faisal Devji Ali Kazim’s series Ruins Emilia Terracciano Ali Kazim and archaeology Peter Stewart ALI KAZIM SUSPENDED IN TIME Portraits beyond space and time Chaitanya Sambrani and Mallica Kumbera Landrus The Conference of the Birds and its artistic legacy Francesca Leoni and Mallica Kumbera Landrus The Conference of the Birds and people in tropical cities Nishant Kumar Chronology Compiled by Lauren Winch Contributors References
£13.50
Unicorn Publishing Group Looking for Something: Selected Paintings
Book SynopsisA retrospective look at the work of the artist Brian Kershisnik through his first three prolific decades. The book will contain as many pictures as is reasonable to include as well as several essays that put his work into the larger context of his age. Kershisnik is a puzzling and puzzled explorer; both a part of, and separate from his contemporaries. He is an enthusiastic, and optimistic examiner of triumphs and tragedies. He exposes the common in the hero and the heroic in the quotidian. He aspires more to the fantastic and rich human warmth of Giotto rather than the cold and distant impressive brilliance of the otherworldly high renaissance. His work is made by his life and is meant to be lived with.
£28.50
Siglio Press What Is Now Known Was Once Only Imagined: An
Book SynopsisA biography by Nicole Rudick told in Saint Phalle's own words, assembled from rare and unseen materials Known best for her exuberant, often large-scale sculptural works that celebrate the abundance and complexity of female desire, imagination and creativity, Niki de Saint Phalle viewed making art as a ritual, a performance—a process connecting life to art. This unconventional, illuminated biography, told in the first person in Saint Phalle's voice and her own hand, dilates large and small moments in Saint Phalle's life which she sometimes reveals with great candor, at other times carefully unwinding her secrets. Nicole Rudick, in a kind of collaboration with the artist, has assembled a gorgeous and detailed mosaic of Saint Phalle's visual and textual works from a trove of paintings, drawings, sketches and writings, many previously unpublished or long unavailable, that trace her mistakes and successes, her passions and her radical sense of joy. Saint Phalle's invocation—her "bringing to life"—writes Rudick, "is an apt summation of the overlap of Saint Phalle’s life and art: both a bringing into existence and a bringing to bear. These are visions from the frontiers of consciousness." Born in France, Niki de Saint Phalle (1930–2002) was raised in New York and began making art at age 23, pursuing a revelatory vision informed both by the monumental works of Antonin Gaudí and the Facteur Cheval, and by aspects of her own life. In addition to her Tirs (“shooting paintings”) and Nanas and her celebrated large-scale projects—including the Stravinsky Fountain at the Centre Pompidou, Golem in Jerusalem and the Tarot Garden in Tuscany—Saint Phalle produced writing and works on paper that delve into her own biography: childhood and her break with her family, marriage to Harry Mathews, motherhood, a long collaborative relationship with Jean Tinguely, numerous health crises and her late, productive years in Southern California. Saint Phalle has most recently been the subject of retrospectives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, in 2015, and at MoMA P.S.1, in 2021. Nicole Rudick is a critic and an editor. Her writing on art, literature and comics has been published in the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, the New Yorker, Artforum and elsewhere. She was managing editor of the Paris Review for nearly a decade. She is the editor, most recently, of a new edition of Gary Panter’s legendary comic Jimbo: Adventures in Paradise (New York Review Comics, 2021).Trade ReviewTracking Saint Phalle’s creative, personal, and professional odyssey from childhood to old age, with an emphasis on persistent themes of feminism, abuse, and illness, the book is just as much a testament to the willful production of artistic subjectivity as it is to the manifold powers of art as an instrument of therapy, education, and activism. -- Jackson Davidow * Los Angeles Review of Books *As readers, we inhabit her consciousness—we grow and process with her...This is the greatest strength of What Is Now Known: It offers an intimate emotional portrait—an experiential biography, you might say—of Saint Phalle. -- Jillian Steinhauer * The Nation *What Is Now Known also clarifies editing as a creative act rather than a definitive one. Saint Phalle wrote nothing for this book, and yet this book is written by her. Embracing that contradiction, Rudick enables the artist to speak for herself, as herself, once again. -- Jennifer Krasinski * Bookforum *The book follows her international journey weathering the highs and lows of being an artist, woman, friend, daughter, lover, and mother. The person who emerges is open, driven, and often remarkably perceptive about who she is and why. -- Lauren Moya Ford * Hyperallergic *
£31.50
Siglio Press Sophie Calle: The Hotel
Book SynopsisA forensic conceptualist's inventory of the ordinary and extraordinary lives in a Venetian hotel In 1981 Sophie Calle took a job as a chambermaid for the Hotel C in Venice, Italy. Stashing her camera and tape recorder in her mop bucket, she not only cleans and tidies, but sorts through the evidence of the hotel guests' lives. Assigned 12 rooms on the fourth floor, she surveys the state of the guests' bedding, their books, newspapers and postcards, perfumes and cologne, traveling clothes and costumes for Carnival. She methodically photographs the contents of closets and suitcases, examining the detritus in the rubbish bin and the toiletries arranged on the washbasin. She discovers their birth dates and blood types, diary entries, letters from and photographs of lovers and family. She eavesdrops on arguments and love-making. She retrieves a pair of shoes from the wastebasket and takes two chocolates from a neglected box of sweets, while leaving behind stashes of money, pills and jewelry. Her thievery is the eye of the camera, observing the details that were not meant for her, or us, to see. The Hotel now manifests as a book for the first time in English (it was previously included in the book Double Game). Collaborating with the artist on a new design that features enhanced and larger photographs, and pays specific attention to the beauty of the book as an object, Siglio is releasing its third book authored by Calle, after The Address Book (2012) and Suite Vénitienne (2015). Sophie Calle (born 1953) is an internationally renowned artist whose controversial works often fuse conceptual art and Oulipo-like constraints, investigatory methods and the plundering of autobiography. The Whitechapel Gallery in London organized a retrospective in 2009, and her work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Hayward Gallery and Serpentine, London; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, among others. She lives and works in Paris.Trade ReviewThese clinical yet intimate observations (and sometimes judgements) expose innumerable contradictions within this finite space, and within the thoughts of the artist herself. -- Madison Reid * Vanity Fair *Like many of Calle’s projects, the work of art is in her act of intrusion; the resulting photographs are merely the eerily beautiful evidence. -- Baya Simons * Financial Times: How To Spend It *A provocative examination of privacy, lack thereof, and what fragmented possessions might reveal about our lives -- Harriet Lloyd-Smith * Wallpaper* *A stand-alone book with a fresh redesign—the pages are edged in gold—and a selection of previously unpublished images. Playing with voyeuristic curiosity (and destroying any naive belief in privacy), Calle compiled a vast collection of color and black-and-white images along with written observations -- Sarah Moroz * Bookforum *A stunningly produced new book in English made from Calle’s 1981 project is a perfect opportunity to revisit—or introduce yourself to—the irresistible photographs derived from her masterful snooping. -- Johanna Fateman * Artforum *This book-cum-quest strikes the quintessential Calle-chord: its through line is the longing to know the lives of strangers. * Elephant *The Hotel, as a book-object, is meticulous. It presents, in size and weight, like a good quality bible kept in the bedside top drawer. -- Odette England * Photo Eye *Together they ask what our habits and possessions might reveal about us and whetherour curiosity about the private lives of others is normal or shameful. Like many of Calle’s projects, the work of art is in her act of intrusion; the resulting photographs are merely the eerily beautiful evidence. -- Baya Simons * Financial Times: Weekend *
£28.79
Steidl Publishers David Goldblatt: In Boksburg
Book SynopsisDavid Goldblatt, born in Randfontein in 1930, is a definitive photographer of his generation, esteemed for his engaged depiction of life in South Africa over a period of more than fifty years. Goldblatt took up photography full time in 1963. His work concerns above all human values and is a unique document of life during and after apartheid. Goldblatt received the Hasselblad Award in 2006. His photographs are held in major international collections, and his solo exhibitions include those at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1998, and the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris in 2011. In 1989 Goldblatt founded the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg to teach visual literacy and photography especially to those disadvantaged by apartheid.
£28.50
Arnoldsche Small China: Early Chinese Miniatures
Book SynopsisSmall China presents Chinese miniatures from 5,000 BCE up to the 15th century. The pocketsize representations of supernatural beings, people, animals, or everyday objects are virtually uncharted in East Asian crafts — even in China, these objects in jade, bronze, ivory, and porcelain are little known. Koos de Jong explores their arcane meanings and traces their production and the market for such treasures, which, contrary to official secular and religious art, include those devoted to taboo subjects such as erotica or humour. The miniatures had many different functions, from insignia, fetishes and devotional objects to burial gifts or toys. They could express good wishes or even serve as bribes. A rare glimpse into the everyday life of ordinary people and into Chinese handicrafts from thousands of years ago!
£48.00
Edition Patrick Frey Monster Chetwynd: The Supreme Deluxe Essential
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£54.00
Seltmann Publishers GmbH The Art of Soundtrack Covers
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£18.08
teNeues Publishing UK Ltd The Watch Book: More than Time Volume II
Book SynopsisVolume II of The Watch Book follows on the successful and comprehensive earlier volume with a magnificently illustrated book about the additional functions and refinements of wristwatches. For centuries, so-called "complications" - any feature of a mechanical timepiece beyond the display of hours, minutes and seconds - have embodied the crowning glory of fine mechanical watchmaking. Among the earliest of these are alarm clocks and calendar movements. Moon phase displays have also been known for several centuries. Striking movements can be considered among the most complex and technically elaborate additional functions, while finishing techniques such as skeletonising, which is mainly done by hand, also characterise the high art of watchmaking. This superbly illustrated volume by watch expert and historian Gisbert L. Brunner is dedicated to advanced functions of mechanical timepieces, their historical development and special technical features. Topics covered in this book include: Hands and numerals; Spring; Astronomical display (moon phases etc.); Tides; Double balance; Alarm clock; Altitude/depth measurement; Skeletonisation. Text in English and German.Table of Contents4 Thoughts on Timepieces and Time ⋅ Gedanken zur Uhr und Zeit 10 Dial ⋅ Zifferblatt Faces of Time ⋅ Zeit-Gesichter 40 Escapement ⋅ Hemmung The Great Escape ⋅ Andersartig gehemmt 62 Mainspring ⋅ Zugfeder The Power of the Spring ⋅ In der Feder steckt die Kraft 80 Phases of the Moon & Astronomy ⋅ Mondphasen & Astronomie Sun, Moon and Stars ⋅ Sonne, Mond und Sterne 100 Tides ⋅ Gezeiten Ebb and Flow ⋅ Von Ebbe und Flut 114 Double Balance ⋅ Doppelunruh Two Better than One ⋅ Ein Fall für zwei 124 Alarm ⋅ Wecker Time Signals ⋅ Zeit-Signale 154 Mechanical Spectacles · Mechanische Schauspiele 164 Altimeter & Depth Gauge · Höhen- & Tiefenmesser Flying High … ⋅ Hoch hinaus … 178 Skeletons · Skelette Ticking Skeletons ⋅ Tickende Skelette 198 Superlatives · Superlative Small, Flat and Pretty Complicated ⋅ Klein, flach und ganz schön kompliziert 214 Credits & Glossary ⋅ Bildnachweise & Glossar
£50.96
Arquine The Architecture of Augusto Quijano
Book SynopsisPublic and residential works from the acclaimed Mexican firmThis book is a compilation of the work of the renowned Mexican architect Augusto Quijano (born 1955), whose work has been developed mainly in the rainforests of the Yucatan peninsula. This publication presents more than 30 emblematic projects from throughout his career, projects for which he has received numerous awards and honorific mentions. The projects are presented with sketches, plans, sections and exclusive photographs of the studio.Among the projects featured in this publication are the Universidad del Mayab, Torre Asemex, Rectory of the Universidad Anáhuac, Parish of the Risen Christ, Casa Angosta, Universidad del Caribe and the Cultural Center of Mérida El Olimp.
£25.50
Fantasmus-Art Imaginaire VI
Book SynopsisThe 6th book in the IMAGINAIRE series. Micha Lobi from Russia is the guest of honour. A variety of many internationally known artists in the genre Magic Realism is showing their own especially, selected work. Among those are David M. Bowers, Claude Verlinde, Claus Brusen, Steven Kenny, Michael Hiep, Patrick Woodroffe, Gabriel Gressie, Tim Roosen, Jean Thomassen, Igor Grechanyk, Gil Bruvel and many more.
£18.71
Terra Uitgeverij Landscape Photography
Book SynopsisThe dramatic landscape photographs of Saskia Boelsums manifest a strong connection to the Dutch tradition of landscape paintings. She is inspired by nature, weather, and the seasons, with clouds and skies characterised by moody chiaroscuro and painterly monumentality. The reality of the changing climate, and what this will mean for the future, is a theme that runs throughout her work. She captures not only the beauty of the landscape, but also a vague sense of uncertainty and threat. As she says: "It looks like the classic historical Dutch landscapes and skies are being pushed out by landscapes and skies that are the result of climate change. I am very aware of that tension." "I am photographing when most people think the weather is too bad to go outside. By exploring different landscapes in all four seasons, I feel strongly connected to the universe. That feeling I'm trying to pass on through my landscape photos." - Saskia Boelsums.
£45.00
Onomatopee Into Longing, Vast Rock: A Staying at Age: Taking
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£22.50
Insight Editions The Art of the National Parks
Book SynopsisExplore the majesty of the National Parks through the eyes of contemporary artists.ART OF THE NATIONAL PARKS is a beautiful art book that displays the unique beauty of each U.S. National Park, as captured by the Fifty-Nine Parks Print Series. Fifty-Nine Parks collaborated with some of the world’s foremost contemporary artists and designers to create original posters that celebrate the unique beauty of the U.S. National Park system. The wildly popular poster art that resulted is now available as a collection for the first time in this gorgeous art book. A contemporary take on the W.P.A. posters of the 1930s, each poster is a unique and original reflection of the talent and perspective of the contemporary artist who created it, resulting in a one-of-a-kind tribute to the majesty of the national parks. Includes art of the Top Ten Most Visited National Parks as rated by the National Park Service: (1) Great Smoky Mountains, (2) Grand Canyon, (3) Rocky Mountain, (4) Zion, (5) Yosemite, (6) Yellowstone, (7) Acadia, (8) Grand Teton, (9) Olympic, and (10) Glacier. Filled with Facts: Includes a comprehensive history and overview of the flora, fauna, and best sights in each park. Travel Guide: With seasonality and travel tips, Our National Treasure: The Art of the National Parks can also be used as a guide for visiting the national parks. Gift for Nature Lovers: An ideal gift gift for armchair travelers, national park enthusiasts, and anyone who appreciates contemporary art and design. Each Book Gives Back: Sales benefit the National Park Service. “Highlights the unique beauty of each national park” –SierraClub.com
£30.40
The New York Review of Books, Inc The Labyrinth
Book SynopsisA seminal work by an artist whose drawings in The New Yorker, LIFE, Harper''s Bazaar, and many other publications influenced an entire generation of American artists and writers.Saul Steinberg’s The Labyrinth, first published in 1960 and long out of print, is more than a simple catalog or collection of drawings. These carefully arranged pages record a brilliant, constantly evolving imagination confronting modern life. Here is Steinberg, as he put it at the time, discovering and inventing a great variety of events: "Illusion, talks, music, women, cats, dogs, birds, the cube, the crocodile, the museum, Moscow and Samarkand (winter, 1956), other Eastern countries, America, motels, baseball, horse racing, bullfights, art, frozen music, words, geometry, heroes, harpies, etc.” This edition, featuring a new introduction by Nicholson Baker, an afterword by Harold Rosenberg, and new notes on the artwork, will allow readers to discover this unique and wondrous book all over again.
£39.41
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Giovanni Segantini
Book SynopsisGiovanni Segantini (1858-1899) is revered as one of the most eminent exponents of symbolism and an inventive painter of alpine motifs of the fin de siecle. More recently, he has also been acknowledged as a leading early modernist. Exhibitions of his work regularly attract vast audiences. Yet a number of Segantini's key works have not been on public display for many years and none of the recent books on him really covers the entirety of his oeuvre. This new monograph fills this gap. An introductory essay on Segantini's life and work also investigates the reception of his work over more than a century and looks at his role as paragon, for example for the Futurists or for Joseph Beuys. The core of the book form sixty paintings from all stages of Segantini's career in full-page plates, with descriptive texts and comments illustrated with details and additional images. The easy-to-read texts offer latest findings on aspects such as topography, iconography, the importance of light, on the modern style of divisionism in Segantini's later work and, on his biography.
£28.00
Steidl Publishers Robert Frank: Peru
Book SynopsisWriting from New York in March 1949, Robert Frank sent home to his mother in Switzerland a birthday gift of a book maquette of a series of photographs he had made during a visit to Peru. Frank made an identical book for himself and one of each of these two dummies now resides in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and National Gallery of Art, Washington. A few of these images are well-known in Frank’s oeuvre but previously the entire series had only ever been seen by a small number of people. This book presents for the first time the complete sequence of images, based on the original book Frank had conceived and realised under his direction. Peru is a work of major historical significance in both the artist’s history and the history of photography.
£17.00
Marsilio Arte Anselm Kiefer
Book SynopsisA painterly dialogue with humanist values at the Doge's Palace in VeniceCan there be such a thing as a public art founded on universal values? This was the question that the German artist Anselm Kiefer (born 1945) tackled while conceiving his installation for the Doge's Palace in Venice. Invited to participate in the celebration of the city's 1600th anniversary, Kiefer developed a project specifically for the Chamber of the Ballot, an immense room inside the Gothic palace: a series of paintings in dialogue with the heroic values inscribed in the chamber's 33 artworks by the Italian masters Tintoretto, Andrea Vicentino and Palma the Giovane. The series, These writings, when burned, will finally cast a little light, takes its title from the writings of the Venetian philosopher Andrea Emo.This volume gathers a series of philosophical and art historical responses to Kiefer's installation, featuring essays by Janne Sirén, Gabriella Belli and Hans Ulrich
£33.75
George Braziller Inc The Tres Riches Heures of Jean Duke of Berry
Book SynopsisThe Très Riches Heures is the most luxurious and most famous examples of manuscript illumination in late medieval Europe. Commissioned by the influential patron, Jean de Berry, in the early years of the fifteenth century, this masterpiece was executed by the three Limbourg brothers, the greatest miniaturists of the time. Their beautifully presented texts are accompanied by lush illustrations, in which the artists'' imaginative and decorative genius are fully revealed. Their elegant images influenced the course of painting in France and all of Northern Europe; but, as Millard Meiss comments, ''no painter could match the smooth perfection of their surface, their limpid colour and complex simplicity. Their art could capture the delicate transitory beauty of a newly opened flower.'' This edition reproduces each of the miniatures in The Très Riches Heures to scale and in full colour, capturing both the subtle colour and minute detail of these historic images.
£65.00
Rizzoli International Publications Tom Ford 002
Book SynopsisA fashion icon, provocative American designer Tom Ford brings us his highly anticipated second book, which takes readers through the illustrious trajectory of his billion-dollar luxury empire established in 2005. Synonymous with high-octane glamour, opulent sexuality, and fearless fashion, Tom Ford is an iconic designer whose namesake label has devout followers across the globe, from Milan and New Delhi to Shanghai and New York. Seventeen years after his best-selling debut book Tom Ford (2004), which detailed his time as creative director for the Italian label Gucci, this second volume is a visual ode to Ford’s eponymous brand created in 2005 and encompasses cosmetics, eyewear, menswear, and his critically acclaimed womenswear line. The revered designer not only catapulted his brand to the highest echelons of the fashion world—receiving accolades from the Council of Fashion Designers of America and Time magazine’s BesTrade Review"Starting in the early ’90s, Tom Ford spent a decade working tirelessly to bring a new level of glamour and success to Yves Saint Laurent and then Gucci; that time was caught in Ford’s first eponymous 416-page keepsake, Tom Ford, published in 2004. As a follow up to that tome, Ford announced today that he will be releasing a second hardcover, this time focusing on his post-Gucci years. Tom Ford 002 will cover everything that’s happened in the designer’s life since he left the Milan-based brand, including launching his namesake label, building up his beauty and fragrance lines, his decision to become a director, and receiving Oscar nods. Now nearing his 60th birthday and with almost 40 years in fashion under his bespoke belt, Ford enlisted Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour to pen the 002’s forward, as well as AirMail founder and former Vanity Fair head Graydon Carter, to write the introduction. Friends in high places, eh?" —DAILY FRONT ROW"Tom Ford will release his second book, Tom Ford 002, in November. Published by Rizzoli New York, it features a foreword by Anna Wintour, an introduction by Graydon Carter and a conversation with Bridget Foley. Ford released his first book, Tom Ford, 17 years ago (Rizzoli, 2004), which explored his time as creative director of Gucci. The second book is a visual compilation of Ford’s own brand, which he founded in 2005." —WOMEN'S WEAR DAILY"TOM FORD 002 reflects the designer’s taste and unapologetic sensual aesthetic and is a true collector’s item for connoisseurs of unabashed style, design, and of Tom Ford the man." —MR MAGAZINE"The special collection of photographs comes just in time for the holidays, as the perfect gift for any synonymous fashion lover and Ford fan." CRFASHIONBOOK.COM"It’s a visual ode to Ford’s eponymous brand created in 2005 and encompasses cosmetics, eyewear, menswear, and his critically acclaimed womenswear line." —PROVOKR.COM
£76.00
Edition Reuss Latino Art Collection: Tattoo-Inspired Chicano,
Book SynopsisText in English, French, Spanish & German. Edgar Hoill, the co-author of the much-praised tattoo trilogy Black & Grey Tattoo 1-3 presents this globally unique compilation of motifs from the ambience of Latin American culture. This lavishly illustrated large-format volume features the work of artists and tattooists who rank among the best that the scene has to offer. They come from the Chicano scene in Los Angeles and elsewhere in California, as well as from Mexico and Europe. Their sketches and pictures are an impressive compendium and source of inspiration, a captivating mixture of Chicano styles, inspired by Aztec imagery and Mayan art, along with contemporary Mexican motifs that have never before been shown in this way. This weighty photobook is the ideal work for tattooists who are searching for new visual inspirations and ideas. Creative individuals from the genres of art, fashion and design will likewise find diverse and stimulating ideas and inspiration here. Life and death are the leitmotifs of these powerful Latino-inspired pictorial creations: art from Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life) to the Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), plus low-riders and religious iconography.
£66.74
Edition Reuss Erotic Domination
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£25.49
Buddhist Publication Society,Sri Lanka The Noble Eightfold Path: Way to the End of
Book SynopsisThis book explains the Eightfold Path to end suffering by cultivating wisdom through mental training. It emphasizes a balanced middle path and covers aspects like right view, intention, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, and concentration with practical examples. The final chapter discusses enlightenment in the Buddhist path.
£17.55
Princeton Architectural Press Wild Sea Notecards
Book SynopsisThis handsome boxed set of notecards features art based on the wild and edible seaweeds of Ireland. The set contains six stunning designs, two of each. Rich colors and bold graphic shapes give a modern edge to a classic subject with timeless naturalist appeal. The box top is textured to evoke the printmaking paper of the original art.Trade Review"Nestled on the west coast of Ireland you’ll find a colourful design studio called Superfolk, headed up by wife-and-husband team Jo Anne Butler and Gearoid Muldowney. The duo’s designs are inspired by their love of the great outdoors, and all of the artwork that comes out of their Clew Bay headquarters is based on their local environment – be that beautiful paper prints, wooden trivets or metal candle holders in the shape of a meandering river. We’re obsessing over these wild sea notecards, a collection of 12 which are sploshed with different types of beautiful seaweed. The set of illustrations features six vivid designs, from bladderwrack, sea spaghetti and Atlantic wakame to kombu kelp. All of which sound like things the BFG might grow in his allotment." Emerald Street "Send the beautiful designs of Mayo printmakers Superfolk with their new set of notecards. The rich colours and graphic shapes of these Irish seaweeds mean you can send art, as well as good wishes." Garden Heaven, the annual magazine from IMAGE Publications
£15.29
Penguin Putnam Inc The Secret Lives of Color
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£19.55
Penguin Books Ltd Dainty Desserts for Dainty People Knox Gelatine
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSeth Godin may be the ultimate entrepreneur for the information age * BusinessWeek *It's easy to see why people pay to hear what he has to say * Time *Godin...is uniquely respected for his understanding of the Internet, and his essays and opinions are widely read and quoted on and off * Forbes *If Seth Godin didn't exist we'd need to invent him * Alan Webber, founder, Fast Company *If your idea, or issue, or candidate, or product isn't catching on, you haven't been reading Seth Godin * Micah Sifry, cofounder, Personal Democracy Forum *Thousands of authors write business books every year, but only a handful reach star status and the A-list lecture circuit. Fewer still-one, to be exact-can boast his own action figure. . . . Godin delivers his combination of counterintuitive thinking and a great sense of fun * BusinessWeek *This is the book I need right now. It's an extraordinary and electrifying call to action for writers, artists and creators in every walk of life. I re-read passages and felt as if my own secret creed was being explained back to me, in words I hadn't yet found * Rosanne Cash, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter *The Practice is a user's manual for finding your calling and an alchemist's handbook for pursuing your dream * Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art *Seth's book is a skeleton key specially molded to unlock the most creative version of you. Read it, and find yourself free to be who you know you really are * Brian Koppelman, co-producer and co-creator of Billions *With surgical precision, The Practice attacks our predictable misconceptions about the creative process and replaces them with better ideas, one by one. This book will inspire you to make things, hone your craft, and nudge you to ship things you are proud of. Read it * Tobi Lutke, CEO, Shopify *The Practice explains that what looks like a barrier is often a catalyst in disguise. Magic may not come from what we can see on the stage but from behind it, where the wood chopping happens * Peter Gabriel, Musician *
£13.49
Thames & Hudson Ltd Out of the Cage The Art of Isabel Rawsthorne
Book SynopsisThe first definitive illustrated biography of this key figure in mid 20th-century British art.Trade Review'Highlights how talented women have often missed out on the recognition they deserved' - Observer'I love this book! Brilliant biography of the…utterly fascinating artist Isabel Rawsthorne' - Jennifer Higgie, editor-in-chief, Frieze'Jacobi ‘reimagine[s] what an artist biography – notably one of a woman artist whose work is largely forgotten – can be … Jacobi treats Rawsthorne’s art with the intellectual seriousness of purpose with which it was conceived. She does not “reduce” Rawsthorne’s art making to self-reflexive illustrations of her life; rather, she addresses the two as richly intertwined' - The Art Newspaper
£25.50
University of California Press The Gothic Enterprise
Book SynopsisThe great Gothic cathedrals of Europe are among the most astonishing achievements of Western culture. This title explores why medieval people built Gothic cathedrals, how they built them, what conception of the divine lay behind their creation, and how religious and secular leaders used cathedrals for social and political purposes.Table of ContentsPreface to the 2011 Edition Acknowledgments Introduction: A Personal Journey Part I: A Grand Undertaking 1 What Is the Gothic Enterprise? 2 How Were the Cathedrals Built? Part II: History 3 Kings, Feudal Lords, and Great Monasteries 4 The Age of Cathedral-Building 5 The Initial Vision 6 “The Cathedral Crusade” Part III: The Gothic Look 7 What Is the Gothic Look? 8 An Image of Heaven 9 A Pragmatic View of Cathedral-Building Part IV: The Religious Experience 10 Sacred Force and Sacred Space 11 Imagining the Cathedral 12 Honoring the Dead Part V: The Gothic Community 13 Medieval Living Conditions 14 The Spiritual Brokers—Priests and Monarchs 15 Cathedrals and Community Conclusion: Learning from Stonehenge Appendix: Terminology Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations and Credits Index
£20.70
University of California Press Chiura Obata An American Modern
Book SynopsisChiura Obata (1885-1975) was one of the most significant Japanese American artists working on the West Coast in the last century. Born in Okayama, Japan, Obata emigrated to the United States in 1903 and embarked on a seven-decade career that saw the enactment of anti-immigration laws and the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. But Obata emerged as a leading figure in the Northern California artistic communities, serving not only as an influential art professor at UC Berkeley for nearly twenty years, but also as a founding director of art schools in the internment camps. With a prodigious and expansive oeuvre, Obata's seemingly effortless mastery of, and productive engagement with, diverse techniques, styles, and traditions defy the dichotomous categorizations of American/European and Japanese/Asian art. His faith in the power of art, his devotion to preserving the myriad grandeur of what he called Great Nature, and his compelling personal story as an immigrant and an American are all as relevant to our contemporary moment as ever. This catalogue is the first book surveying Chiura Obata's rich and varied body of work that include over 100 beautiful images, many of which have never been published. It also showcases a selection of Obata's writings and a rare 1965 interview with the artist. The scholarly essays by ShiPu Wang and the other contributors illuminate the intense and productive cross-cultural negotiations that Obata's life and work exemplify, in the context of both American modernism and the early twentieth-century U.S. racio-ethnic relations-a still-understudied area in American art historical scholarship. Published in association with the Art, Design and Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara. Exhibition dates: Art, Design and Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara: January 13-April 29, 2018 Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City: May 25-September 2, 2018 Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan: January 18-March 10, 2019 Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento: June 23-September 29, 2019Trade Review“The exhibition catalog fairly glows with transcendent images, many of which are nominally landscapes that are less descriptive than visionary reactions to the natural world.” -- Charles Desmarais, * San Francisco Chronicle *"Obata’s work, a marvel of invention, nuance and emotional resilience, is the subject of a SmithsonianAmerican Art Museum exhibition . . . it’s worth looking up his work online or purchasing the catalogue for the exhibition, and reveling in the poetic economy of Obata’s painting, and his deft distillation of this country’s natural and urban wonders into masterful watercolors and pen and ink drawings." * Washington Post *"...a quietly revolutionary exhibition . . . . Chiura Obata’s massive body of work is rarely exhibited and, until now, has never had a major retrospective. . . . the opportunity to consider Obata as a major artist within the canon of American art, and more widely within the dominant canon of Western art and art history, and therefore deserving of a traditional retrospective, is what makes this exhibition revolutionary." * Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art *"The catalogue is the first book to survey Chiura Obata's rich and varied works from his seven-decade career, and includes more than 100 images, many of which have never been published before." * ArtDaily.org *"The exhibition mixes beautiful images with documentary history, iconic American landscapes with incredible American failure. It highlights immigrants’ important contributions while not shying away from the realities of the experience. And it contests the notion of the American canon of art even as it seeks to broaden it." * The Washington Diplomat *"Looking at this retrospective exhibit, it’s hard to believe it all came from the same artist. Obata’s skillset was vast, as were his subjects. Traditional Japanese ink paintings rest along innovative woodblock pieces and large paintings of Yosemite National Park. Obata also combined these techniques in ways that are equal parts inspiring and confounding. It’s made Obata a difficult artist to classify. It’s also what made him so good." * Deseret News *"An American Modern has a lot of firsts. It’s the first touring exhibition of Obata’s work that includes work from all decades of his working life. It’s also the first time his works have been presented as a collective retrospective in Japan, since they’ve only shown in fragments before and not always translated. But perhaps most importantly, one of the next stops for this exhibition will be the Smithsonian, which marks Obata as an American Modernist in the larger artistic canon, a place he has every right to be, recognition long overdue." * Slug Magazine *
£35.70
The Natural History Museum Wildlife Photographer of the Year Portfolio 29
Book SynopsisEach year the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition is seen by millions through a global tour and international media coverage. Portfolio 29 displays the full collection of 100 images awarded in the 2018 competition. Selected by an international jury for their artistic merit and originality from more than 40,000 entries, they represent the work of almost 100 nationalities. Displaying different styles, techniques, and ways of seeing, the collection is both a showcase for photographers who specialize in documenting the natural world and a celebration of nature.
£20.00
Faber & Faber Pedagogical Sketchbook
Book Synopsis''One of the most famous of modern art documents - a poetic primer, prepared by the artist for his Bauhaus pupils, which has deeply affected modern thinking about art . . . This little handbook leads us into the mysterious world where science and imagination fuse.'' Observer
£11.69
Princeton University Press The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer
Book SynopsisPresents the life, times, and works of Albrecht Durer. This book covers Durer's career. With multiple indexes and more than three hundred illustrations, it is meant as a reference to understand the work of the great artist and printmaker, the greatest exponent of northern European Renaissance art.Trade ReviewPraise for Princeton's previous editions: "Whatever was immortal of Albrecht Durer is covered by this book."--Wolfgang Stechow, Art Bulletin "Panofsky'sDurer--the result of a lifetime of looking, thinking, reading and making connections--belongs in the library of anyone who takes art seriously. Everything we could want to know about one of history's stellar artists is here."--Victor M. Cassidy, ArtNet.com "The Life and Art of Albrecht Durer may be mandatory reading for students and scholars alike, but it is also one of the more enjoyable reading assignments out there, one that can be mined for material again and again... Smith's concise and well-paced introduction adds another layer to the history of the life of the book itself within the context of twentieth-century historiography."--Susan Maxwell, Sixteenth Century Journal
£42.50
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S. The Copan Sculpture Museum
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£25.46
Counter-Print Book Cover Design from East Asia
Book SynopsisBook Cover Design from East Asia is a compendium of more than 100 book covers from China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. The book features the work of Wang Zhi-Hong, Nakano Design Office, The Simple Society, UMA/design farm, Hayashi Takuma Design Office and many, many more.
£7.50
Chronicle Books This Book Is a Planetarium And Other
Book SynopsisThis is a book that pushes the boundaries of what it means to be a book!
£36.00
Dark Horse Comics,U.S. The Art Of Anthem
Book SynopsisOfficial art and developer commentary from BioWare's groundbreaking new videogame epic.
£30.39
Pan Macmillan XS All Areas
Book SynopsisQuo are the most successful band in British history after the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. From 1973 to the mid-80s they had a string of hits, including 'Down, Down', 'Rockin' All Over the World', 'Again and Again', 'What You're Proposing' - all classic rock anthems. When the band imploded, and the other members left, Rossi and Parfitt reinvented Quo for the 90s and kept going, touring constantly and winning new fans. The story of Status Quo is essentially the story of two people: Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt. It is the story of two outwardly very different characters - Rossi, the moody insecure one, Parfitt, the smiling, permanantly at ease golden boy - who against the odds forged an unlikely yet enduring bond that would see them through the dizzying highs and terrifying lows of a forty-year career. Rossi and Parfitt admit that in the past they've hidden some of the truth about their lives, unable to admit how out of control things were even to themselves. Now they tell it all - the drug-taking, the marriage breakdowns, Parfitt's brush with death when he was forced to undergo by-pass surgery. From their early days as a sixties 'boy band' through the massive international success of the seventies to the present day, this is an explosive no-holds-barred autobiography from two of Britain's most enduring rock stars.
£9.89
Design Originals Zentangle 10: Dimensional Tangle Projects
Book SynopsisThe design possibilities of Zentangle extend in many dimensions! Combine the art forms of paper crafts and tangling to create memorable 3D keepsakes and one-of-a-kind gifts for every season. Inside you'll discover wonderful paper projects for booklets, greeting cards, angels, ornaments, beads, boxes, accordion folds and more. Dimensional paper crafts with tangles add range and depth to your Zentangle art. Try a Zentangle twist on traditional origami. You can enjoy being creative with 30 all-new tangles. You can use the bonus workbook section to play, experiment, and create. You'll love these inspirational ideas and simple techniques.
£5.69
Getty Trust Publications Herb Ritts – L.A Style
Book SynopsisThis is a stunning collection of photographs - many never before published - celebrating the remarkable talent of Herb Ritts. "Herb Ritts" traces the life and career of the iconic photographer through a compelling selection of both renowned and previously unpublished, photographs and two insightful essays. Herb Ritts (1952-2002) was a Los Angeles-based photographer who established an international reputation for distinctive images of fashion models, nudes, and celebrity portraits. During the 1980s and 1990s, Ritts was sought out by leading fashion designers such as Armani, Gianfranco Ferre, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Valentino, and Versace, as well as magazine editors from "GQ", "Rolling Stone", and "Vanity Fair", among others, to lend glamour to their products and layouts. Largely self-taught, Ritts developed his own style, one that often made use of the California light and landscape and helped to separate his work from his New York-based peers. From the late 1970s until his untimely death from AIDS in 2002, Ritts' ability to create photographs that successfully bridged the gap between art and commerce was not only a testament to the power of his imagination and technical skill, but also marked the synergistic union between art, popular culture, and business that followed in the wake of the Pop Art movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
£49.50
Museum of Modern Art Ibrahim El-Salahi: Prison Notebook
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£22.46
Sixth & Spring Books Figure It Out! Simple Lessons, Quick Results:
Book SynopsisThe addition to bestselling author Christopher Hart’s Figure It Out! series offers essential tips and tricks that simplify the basics of drawing people. This is the easy way to learn how to draw people! Chris Hart offers straightforward instruction designed to solve common figure-drawing problems that aspiring artists encounter. His accessible, practical techniques include focusing on the body’s natural curves, as opposed to drawing muscles, and breaking the torso down into three distinct, understandable areas. With this book, anyone can immediately grasp the basics—and create the art to prove it!
£14.44
dPICTUS Picturebook Makers
Book SynopsisWhat exists in the space between the words and the pictures? How do the stories unfold? What happens between the first sketch and finished picturebook? Twelve of the world’s finest contemporary picturebook makers generously share their experiences, challenges, doubts, sketches, illustrations, and invaluable insights into their creation process. They reveal the complex and time-consuming work that happens behind the scenes, in service of their stories and their readers. An inspiring collection of picturebook knowledge for anyone interested in this unique and dynamic art form. The editor of the book is Sam McCullen, who runs the Picturebook Makers blog and the picturebook platform dPICTUS. PICTUREBOOK MAKERS reveals the picturebook’s immense creative potential, and celebrates outstanding international picturebooks and their creators. Featuring Jon Klassen, Kitty Crowther, Beatrice Alemagna, Shaun Tan, Eva Lindström, Blexbolex, Chris Haughton, Suzy Lee, Bernardo P. Carvalho, Isol, Manuel Marsol, and Johanna Schaible.Table of ContentsFeatured picturebook makers: Jon Klassen Kitty Crowther Beatrice Alemagna Shaun Tan Eva Lindström Blexbolex Chris Haughton Suzy Lee Bernardo P. Carvalho Isol Manuel Marsol Johanna Schaible
£19.20
Profile Books Ltd Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the
Book SynopsisA SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A triumph' Guardian 'Glorious ... makes the past at once familiar, exotic and thrilling.' Dominic Sandbrook 'A brilliant book' Mail on Sunday Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love and had children. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experiences radically different to our own, unfolding in a world where deadly wounds might be healed overnight by divine intervention, or the heart of a king, plucked from his corpse, could be held aloft as a powerful symbol of political rule. In this richly-illustrated and unusual history, Jack Hartnell uncovers the fascinating ways in which people thought about, explored and experienced their physical selves in the Middle Ages, from Constantinople to Cairo and Canterbury. Unfolding like a medieval pageant, and filled with saints, soldiers, caliphs, queens, monks and monstrous beasts, it throws light on the medieval body from head to toe - revealing the surprisingly sophisticated medical knowledge of the time in the process. Bringing together medicine, art, music, politics, philosophy and social history, there is no better guide to what life was really like for the men and women who lived and died in the Middle Ages. Medieval Bodies is published in association with Wellcome Collection.Trade ReviewA brilliant book ... beautifully illustrated ... A triumphant piece of historical writing -- Kathryn Hughes * Mail on Sunday *An extraordinary story and a wonderfully rich study of the Middle Ages ... Hartnell's idea of approaching the medieval worldview through the body is inspired ... This beautifully illustrated book succeeds brilliantly in bringing this much maligned period to life ... A triumph of scholarship. -- PD Smith * Guardian *One of the achievements of this splendid book is to make our world view seem more narrow and fragmented than that of the extensive period we place somewhere between the Dark Ages and the Renaissance ... at every point you'll encounter wit, learning and riveting stories. A wonderful read. -- Melanie McDonagh * Evening Standard *An erudite, wide-ranging, thoughtfully illustrated book -- Laura Freeman * The Times *'Glorious ... makes the past at once familiar, exotic and thrilling.' Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times *A thick, spicy plum pudding of a book * London Review of Books *
£12.34
Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd Edward Bawden
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive survey of the career of Edward Bawden (1903-89) accompanies a major exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery and brings together his most significant work in watercolour, printmaking, design and illustration. Bawden began his career in the 1920s as a precociously talented designer and illustrator, and he successfully reinvented himself time and again as the decades passed while always retaining a distinctive freshness, humour and humanity in his work. The book explores in depth the most significant creative periods of Bawden’s life and is fully illustrated throughout.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTORY ESSAY/PREFACE: Peyton Skipwith MAIN ESSAY: James Russell CATALOGUE SECTIONS: Section: 1 World off Duty 17 artworks full page + 13 display case material Section 2: Gardening 17 artworks full page + 10 display case material Section 3: Spirit of Place 12 artworks full page Section 4: Portraits 21 artworks Section 5: Architecture 10 artworks full page + 9 display case material Section 6: Fable & Fantasy 31 artworks full page + 12 display case material
£21.25
Canongate Books The Story of Looking
Book SynopsisSHORTLISTED FOR THE SALTIRE SOCIETY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDLooking can be an act of empathy or aggression. It can provoke desire or express it. And from the blurry, edgeless world we inhabit as infants to the landscape of screens we grow into, looking can define us.In The Story of Looking, filmmaker and writer Mark Cousins takes us on a lightning-bright tour - in words and images - through how our looking selves develop over the course of a lifetime, and the ways that looking has changed through the centuries. From great works of art to tourist photographs, from cityscapes to cinema, through science and protest, propaganda and refusals to look, the false mirrors and great visionaries of looking, this book illuminates how we construct as well as receive the things we see.Brilliant and eclectic, The Story of Looking is a photo album and an art gallery, a road movie and a visual grammar: once you've read it, you'll never see things the same way again.Trade ReviewA wide-ranging history of looking, you will gaze at it in wonder -- Ian Sansom * * Guardian * *A history of the human gaze . . . Illuminating . . . Roams freely across history, art, film, photography, science and technology . . . Indispensable as a reference book * * Observer * *Bloody genius -- CHRISTOPHER DOYLEIntriguing and beautiful . . . [A] gloriously haphazard intellectual scrapbook . . . Wide-ranging, deep-seeing and clever * * Scotland on Sunday * *An attempt to catalogue how and why we look, what we look at and how our social and cultural surroundings shape what we see . . . the result is, by turns, learned, often surprising . . . Fascinating * * Glasgow Sunday Herald, Arts Books of the Year * *Brilliant . . . His taste is eclectic and his judgments precise and persuasive * * New York Times * *Extraordinary . . . Visually ensnaring and intellectually lithe * * Telegraph on The Story of Film * *Dazzling in its breadth and intelligence . . . A hugely impressive work by a uniquely talented storyteller * * Guardian on A Story of Children and Film * *
£22.50
Titan Books Ltd On Set with John Carpenter
Book SynopsisJohn Carpenter's producing partner Debra Hill hired photographer Kim Gottlieb-Walker to be the unit photographer on Halloween, and Kim soon became part of Carpenter's filmmaking family, shooting stills on the sets of some of his most iconic films: Halloween, The Fog, Escape from New York, Halloween II, Christine. Collected here for the first time is the best of that on-set photography, with iconic, rare, and previously unseen images.Trade Review"Absolutely gorgeous...an excellent visual memoir." - Project Fandom "Gottlieb-Walker has an amazing eye and the best compliment I can give to her is that there are at least 10 images in this book I'd buy large prints of if I could." - Aint it Cool "Whilst On Set with John Carpenter can be appreciated on an aesthetic level, if one so chooses to look a little deeper, then this collection can offer a deeper discussion and appreciation of the still image; it’s relationship to the moving image and the triangular collaborative relationship of artist, subject and audience." - Pop Matters"You can have your blu-ray box sets; this is the HALLOWEEN collectible of the year." - Badassdigest.com
£25.49
Titan Books Ltd Shadow of the Tomb Raider The Official Art Book
Book SynopsisExperience Lara Croft's defining moment as she becomes the Tomb Raider. In Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Lara must master a deadly jungle, overcome terrifying tombs, and persevere through her darkest hour. As she races to save the world from a Maya apocalypse, Lara will ultimately be forged into the Tomb Raider she is destined to be. The Shadow of The Tomb Raider Official Art Book features exclusive concept art and developer interviews detailing the climactic conclusion of Lara Croft's origin story where she will experience her defining moment in becoming the Tomb Raider.Trade Review“The artifact designs pictured are fantastic, the Maya ruins seem to come to life, and Lara Croft brings the tension of a skilled survivor on a perilous quest” - Borg.com “an excellent coffee table book with tons of great information” - Adventures in Poor Taste
£28.49
Titan Books Ltd Gamma Draconis
Book SynopsisAiko Moriyama studied religious art at the Sorbonne, but her research in occultism quickly led her down a dangerous path. When several experts around her come under attack from a mysterious entity rising from the depths of the web, she finds herself embroiled in a police investigation involving the sinister leader of an international organization. From London to Tokyo, between transhumanism and black magic, Aiko is determined to solve the enigma of Gamma Draconis and to discover how exactly her family is involved...Trade Review“Occultist history, dark conspiracies, and dramatic fight sequences intertwine in this multinational thriller-manga” - Publishers Weekly "Thrilling pace...energetic page compositions" -Library Journal “a masterful blend of manga and western aesthetics that is entertaining and thought-provoking.” - Samarchar Central “It has intrigue, corruption, mystery, black magic and a search for eternal life.” - Comic Buzz
£11.69
