Exhibition catalogues and specific collections Books
Karma The De Luxe Show
Book SynopsisA 50th-anniversary tribute to one of America’s first racially integrated exhibitions In August 1971 Peter Bradley mounted the landmark exhibition The De Luxe Show at the legendary DeLUXE theater in Houston's Fifth Ward. The De Luxe Show was a milestone in civil rights history, as one of the first racially integrated shows in the United States. Curated by Bradley with the backing of collector and philanthropist John de Menil, the exhibition featured emerging and established abstract modern painters and sculptors of the time, including Darby Bannard, Peter Bradley, Anthony Caro, Dan Christensen, Ed Clark, Frank Davis, Sam Gilliam, Robert Gordon, Richard Hunt, Virginia Jaramillo, Daniel Johnson, Craig Kauffman, Alvin Loving, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons, Michael Steiner, William T. Williams and James Wolfe. In August 2021, for its 50th anniversary, Karma and Parker Gallery staged a contemporary bicoastal tribute to The De Luxe Show. The tribute honors the long, pioneering legacies of the artists of The De Luxe Show, and continues the dialogue between these innovators in the field of abstraction that began 50 years ago. This fully illustrated catalog includes texts and installation images from the original 1971 catalog, as well as a newly commissioned text by Amber Jamilla Musser and a text by Bridget R. Cooks that expands upon her 2013 essay in Gulf Coast.
£30.40
Elena Pankey Learn Tango Secrets: Tango Destiny
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£26.99
Oro Editions Think Before You Shoot: The Art of Taking
Book Synopsis"It's about the underlying impulse that goes into perceiving a photographic moment and the techniques that support both this perception and the process of capturing these instances in a manner that is not just technically adept, but creatively original." —D. Donovan, Midwest Book Review This book is a visual feast, an offering both for those who love fine art and those who recognise the thought behind its creation. It is in addition, a book for photographers seeking to learn how to make their own photographs more artistic. The goal of this book is to offer readers a guide for those seeking to take fine, interpretive photographs and a joyful thought-provoking journey that the photographs in this book will inspire. Trade Review"It's about the underlying impulse that goes into perceiving a photographic moment and the techniques that support both this perception and the process of capturing these instances in a manner that is not just technically adept, but creatively original." - D. Donovan, Midwest Book Review"He [photographer Santino Zafarana] offers an illuminating guide to understanding the art of seeing, with 21 techniques to make taking photographs a conscious act." - Late night Health Radio
£49.50
Trope Publishing Co. 2wenty5ive
Book SynopsisEstablished in 2000, Arts of Life is a progressive art studio that puts inclusivity and creativity first in support of adult artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The community is committed to crafting a space where each artist feels genuine respect, trust, and, most importantly, that their voice is welcome and heard.Arts of Life?s debut publication celebrates 25 years of community building and art making. The organization supports a growing cohort of 80+ artists across the metro Chicago area. This book details the nonprofit?s first quarter century as an artist collective and working gallery and highlights a select group of artists that exemplify Arts of Life?s core values.Featured artists include: Veronica Cuculich, Marcus Imani Kennedy, Renata Berdes, Alex Scott, Noel Herrera, Maria Vanik, David Krueger + Ben Marcus, Mike Marino, Stefan Harhaj, Brian Reed, Hubert Posey, Chris Austin, Jean Wilson, Ted Gram Boarini, Christina Zion, Chris Viau, Isamu Guy Conners, Lawrence M, Kelly Stone, Nik Heusman, Tim Stone, Susan Pasowicz + Allison Wade, Ariée, Raina CarterContributors include: Amber Renaye, Andreana Donahue, Anne Cauley, Annie Soler, Cindy Shanker, Cody Tumblin, Damon McLeese, Dana Bassett, Debra Kerr, Denise Fisher, Eric Rushman, Gareth Thomas Kaye, Heather Hubbs, Hilary Marshall, Jess Bond, Joshua With, Karim Shuquem, Kate Sierzputowski, Leonardo Kaplan, Lisa Slominski, Matt Morris, Megan Foy, Nick Schutzenhofer, Payton Harris-Woodard, Scott Speh, Tim Ortiz
£28.79
Jean Boite editions The Imaginary Sea
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£31.50
CFC Les collections du Art et marges musée:
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£28.50
Clementine de La Feronniere JR: Chronicles
Book SynopsisA comprehensive overview on the French artist who has transformed cities worldwide with his epic portraits of their inhabitants Over the past two decades, French artist JR has massively expanded the impact of public art through his ambitious projects that give visibility and agency to people around the world. Showcasing the full scope of the artist's career, JR: Chronicles accompanies the first major exhibition in North America of works by the French-born artist. Working at the intersections of photography, social engagement and street art, JR collaborates with communities by taking individual portraits, reproducing them at a monumental scale and wheat pasting them—sometimes illegally—in nearby public spaces. This superbly produced volume traces JR's career from his early documentation of graffiti artists as a teenager in Paris to his large-scale architectural interventions in cities worldwide, to his more recent digitally collaged murals that create collective portraits of diverse publics. The centerpiece of the accompanying exhibition is The Chronicles of New York City, a new epic mural of more than 1,000 New Yorkers. Also included are previously unseen murals set in Brooklyn; Face 2 Face, diptychs of Israelis and Palestinians in Palestinian and Israeli cities; Women Are Heroes, featuring images of the eyes of women gazing back at their communities in numerous countries; The Gun Chronicles: A Story of America, JR's complex work on guns in America; and other equally famous works. JR (born 1983) is best known for his monumental, wheat-pasted street portraiture projects. JR has carried out projects across the globe. He has shown in museums worldwide and has created site specific works for the Louvre, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics and the Centre Pompidou.Trade ReviewJR’s primary mode [is] capturing the overlooked and forcing people to gaze upon them. It is, without doubt, noble. In JR’s projects, which take place around the world, he is both interloper and collaborator... -- John Caramanica * New York Times *“JR: Chronicles” tracks his by now well-documented actions from the Gaza Strip and the slums of Southern Sudan and Sierra Leone, to more recent work in the United States. Because his art is centered on portraiture and involves wheat-pasting oversize prints on building exteriors, JR is usually categorized as a photographer or a street artist, but neither really gets at his abiding interest, which is people, and connecting them. -- Max Lakin * New York Times *“JR: Chronicles” tracks his by now well-documented actions from the Gaza Strip and the slums of Southern Sudan and Sierra Leone, to more recent work in the United States. Because his art is centered on portraiture and involves wheat-pasting oversize prints on building exteriors, JR is usually categorized as a photographer or a street artist, but neither really gets at his abiding interest, which is people, and connecting them. -- Max Lakin * The New York Times *Altogether, the pieces on display at [Brooklyn Museum] expand upon the artist’s practice of merging photography with social engagement while gleaning methodical approaches from graffiti. * Hypebeast *An enormous new interactive photo installation documents the joy and beauty of everyday life in the Big Apple. -- Aidan Graham * Brooklyn Paper *Through his powerful storytelling abilities and willingness to question traditional power structures, JR breaks boundaries and re-invents the medium of photography. -- Bryan Shim * Design Boom *The artist is known for his monumental public projects that rely on participation from his subjects, and for tackling hot-button social issues — immigration, women’s rights and gun control, for a few — through his art. -- Alex Williamson * Brooklyn Eagle *The retrospective’s focal point is The Chronicles of New York City, 2018–19, a new mural about New York’s five boroughs, capturing more than 1,000 New Yorkers and featuring audio of subjects talking about their lives. -- Raymond Ang * Wall Street Journal *The streets have been at the heart of JR’s practice, the place where the French artist finds his subjects, where he photographs them, and where he displays his work, wheatpasting enlarged images on buildings around the world... -- Sarah Cascone * Artnet *[JR's photographs] challenge stereotypes by highlighting humanity through specificity... -- Kristen Tauer * WWD *
£999.99
JRP Ringier Of Bridges & Borders: Vol. II
Book SynopsisAnthropologists, writers, philosophers, artists, sociologists and architects from around the world gather in this second Of Bridges & Borders volume to voice their views of the challenges facing society today. The content ranges from anecdotes to complex research projects.
£19.80
JRP Ringier Kader Attia
Book SynopsisThis monograph gives a comprehensive overview of the variety and scope of the research carried out by Kader Attia (born 1970) over the past 15 years, using media as varied as installation, video, photography and collage. The book highlights the ways in which Attia addresses the global entanglement of culture, politics and identity.
£27.00
JRP Ringier Art Basel / Year 47
Book SynopsisArt Basel's official annual publication documents the exhibitions in Basel, Miami Beach and Hong Kong, and goes beyond them, featuring interviews, portfolios, essays and personal highlights from artists, curators, collectors and museum directors.With its A-to-Z format, this year's publication maps the world of Art Basel alongside profiles spotlighting each of the 500-plus galleries that participated across the three shows in 2016. Designed by Gavillet & Cie (Geneva), it features all the different sectors of the fair and highlights events, talks, new initiatives and retrospective insights into the first years of the fair. Interviewees and contributors include Brooke Alexander, Defne Ayas, Iwona Blazwick, Giovanni Carmine, Aaron Cezar, David Diao, Yilmaz Dziewior, Elvira Gonzalez, Erling Kagge, Rachel Kent, Samuel Leuenberger, Christina Li, Tatsuo Miyajima, Joanna Mytkowska, Hammad Nasar, Yana Peel, Oscar Tuazon and many others.
£999.99
JRP Ringier Richard Hamilton & Siegfried Giedion: Reaper
Book SynopsisThe starting point of this publication is the conceptual encounter between English Pop artist Richard Hamilton (19222011) and Swiss historian and architecture critic Sigfried Giedion (18881968), famous for his landmark 1941 book, Space, Time & Architecture.In 1949 Richard Hamilton created the Reaper print series as a reaction to Giedion's 1948 book Mechanization Takes Command, in which he describes the mechanization of everyday life. Reproducing Hamilton's complete Reaper series alongside illustrations created by Giedion plus related images, this publication brings together seven essays by renowned international scholars. Among the many topics discussed are Hamilton's early works and exhibition installation practice, postwar British biotechnology and architecture, Hippie Modernism and the visual strategy of Giedion's books.
£25.20
De Gruyter Against the Current: The Omaha. Francis La
Book SynopsisFrancis La Flesche (1857–1932) lived between two worlds: as an Umoⁿhoⁿ (Omaha), he fought for their rights, and as a scholar he researched his own culture. He is regarded as the first indigenous ethnologist of North America and stands representatively for the many indigenous protagonists without whom ethnological collections would never have come into being. We are no longer familiar with most of these individuals, since the focus until today has been on European and North American collectors. Francis La Flesche is an exception: his work provides insights into indigenous agency and their resistance to racism and colonialism as well as their active participation in the trade with objects. The book presents La Flesche’s records of the objects, the collection of which he contributed to what is today the Ethnological Museum in Berlin in 1894—an impressive testimony to his successful efforts to preserve the culture of the Omaha for future generations.
£15.20
Kerber Verlag Constructing the World: Art and the Economy 1919
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£41.25
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Museum in Progress: Art in public spaces and in
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£55.10
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Face to Face: Marc Quinn meets Franz Xaver
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£28.50
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Tacita Dean: One Hundred and Fifty Years of
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£20.00
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Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Mulheimer Freiheit [made in Cologne]: Adamski -
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£36.10
Hatje Cantz Esch2022 (Bilingual edition): Earthbound: In
Book SynopsisEarthbound – In Dialogue with Nature gathers forward-thinking works proposing alternative ways of shaping the complex relationship between human activities and the ecosystem—visionary approaches that emphasize the need for dialogue through new forms of interaction and that consciously, by challenging political and geographical boundaries, intervene in the current debate to initiate change. Created in collaboration HEK, Haus der elektronischen Künste, a young institution from Basel, dedicated to digital culture and its new art forms, and curated by Sabine Himmelsbach, Director HEK, and Boris Magrini, Head of Program HEK, this exhibition demonstrates that precisely where other strategies fail, art can open up new perspectives.
£23.80
Hatje Cantz Radio Art Zone
Book SynopsisThis book explores the central themes and techniques of artist-made radio, emerging from over 20 years of practice by a multitude of artists in the field. It brings to the page excerpts of long-form radio works from the world’s largest exhibition of radio art, Radio Art Zone, a joint project by the artist duo Mobile Radio (Sarah Washington & Knut Aufermann) and the Luxembourg community station Radio ARA, which was broadcast for 100 days as part of the programme of the European Capital of Culture Esch2022. Interspersed with newly commissioned works ranging from micro-essays and texts on radio form, practice and poetics, to radio plays and illustrations, it is full of unique images which allow the imagination to expand outward into radio space. Radio Art Zone performs an exquisite transformation from airwaves to paper, providing a treasury of ideas and reflections about radio as art.
£30.40
Hatje Cantz Tapta
Book SynopsisSupple sculptures This book is a comprehensive tribute to the Polish-Belgian artist Tapta (Maria Wierusz-Kowalska). Her work transcends traditional artistic boundaries, captivating audiences with her innovative exploration of fluid spaces and dynamic interactions. Her work, an important contribution to twentieth century sculpture, is essentially divided into two major sections: the textile works of the 1960s to 1980s and the subsequent neoprene works of the last years of her life. Her practice moved away from traditional weaving through experimental techniques and evolved into three-dimensional worksfirst made of cords, then of neoprene sheetsthat interacted with the space and the viewer.
£38.40
Hatje Cantz Martin Bodilsen Kaldahl
Book SynopsisExperimental ceramic sculpturesThis monograph presents Kaldahl's experimental work in clay sculpture. His compositions and materializations are the result of intuitive improvisations and a direct yet subtle response to material and spatial qualities. Kaldahl has worked with a myriad of spatial themes and ornaments that frequently reappear in his formal vocabulary, and which arise out of a methodical, gradual, and experimental process. This catalogue includes an introductory essay by Brooklyn-based curator, writer, and historian Glenn Adamson. Copenhagen-based writer and curator Jorunn Veiteberg draws connections to contemporary and historical developments with ceramic practices in fine art and craft. Further, Kaldahl's own voice is present in the publication in a number of highly engaging statements.
£35.20
Hatje Cantz Verlag Yayoi Kusama
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£43.50
Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH The China Moment
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£23.80
Hirmer Verlag Hin Bredendieck: From Aurich to Atlanta
Book SynopsisHin Bredendieck (1904–1995) graduated from the Bauhaus and was a versatile designer and pioneering teacher of design. His outstanding oeuvre and his worldwide network testify to the international significance of his work and ideas. This lavishly illustrated, high-qualitymonograph introduces in detail the life and work of Hin Bredendieck.Hin Bredendieck’s life and work are an example of success, emigration and the international propagation of the design ideas developed at the Bauhaus. A native of Aurich in East Friesland, he was a student at the Bauhaus in Dessau from 1927 to 1930. In 1937 he emigrated to the United States, where he was appointed as a teacher at the New Bauhaus Chicago. As the founding director of the Institute for Industrial Design at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, he became one of the most influential mediators of Bauhaus ideas in America in the post-war years.
£37.42
Hirmer Verlag Picasso & Les Femmes D'Alger (Multi-lingual
Book SynopsisThis volume collects the fifteen oil paintings in Picasso's "Les Femmes d'Alger" series, which are scattered in museums around the world.Picasso’s study of the old masters forms an impressive focus of his late work. At the beginning of this new interest stood the works series Les Femmes d’Alger, which was on view in Paris, Munich, Cologne and Hamburg in 1955 and which today is scattered across several continents. The volume presents the series within the context of its reference works by Delacroix and Matisse. Pablo Picasso was 73 years of age during that winter when he created the unique ensemble of fifteen oil paintings, over 100 drawings and lithographs during his study of Eugene Delacroix’ The Women of Algiers in their Apartment (1834, 1849) and works by Henri Matisse like Odalisque with Red Trousers (1924/25) within the space of just three months. In addition to the cycle, this lavishly illustrated volume will also present the reference works and their reception. Two Algerian writers introduce a modern aspect with their contributions to the catalogue.
£31.96
Hirmer Verlag Global Groove: Art, Dance, Performance, and
Book SynopsisDance is communication. From contemporary collaborations or the first happenings of the Japanese Butoh dancers and the pioneers of Modern dance, Global Groove explores the cultural history of contact between the West and the Far East. Global Groove is going back even to the early performances by Asian dancers in Europe around 1900. Photographs, paintings, sculptures, films and live actions reveal the role played by the language of dance in the political and cultural transformation of societies.
£36.00
Hirmer Verlag Art for No One (Bilingual edition): 1933–1945
Book SynopsisBetween 1933 and 1945, artistic creativity within the German Reich was almost totally under the control of the National Socialist state. Many artists emigrated. But what about the ones who remained in Germany? Under what social and economic conditions did they focus on their art and what options for activity were open to them? For artists who did not conform to the system, the years of National Socialism were an era of standstill and isolation. This volume questions this blanket judgement through 15 artist personalities and shows how differently they dealt with ostracism, the lack of audience and the absence of exchange, what possibilities they had for selling and exhibiting their works and to what extent they adapted to the requirements of the Nazi regime. Some 150 paintings, sculptures, drawings and photographs reflect graphically the contradictions of this time.
£33.60
Hirmer Verlag René Myrha (Multi-lingual edition): A Singular
Book SynopsisAt the centre of René Myrha’s (*1939) expressive oeuvre lie landscapes and rigorous compositional room perspectives which are transformed into stage-like settings. They form the scenery for the choreography of his figures. Myrha examines them through specific media in drawings, oil, acrylic, sculpture and reliefs. Born in Delsberg in Switzerland, the painter encountered the contemporary movements of art and design during the 1960s in Paris and Milan. In the foreground of his activities lie forms and volumes which combine and breakthrough constructed and organically created spaces. In his later works they are animated by a surreal figural universe. The publication shows a representative cross-section of Myrha‘s oeuvre, from Pop Art to an obsessive preoccupation with a mysterious and dramatic world of figures.
£22.46
Hirmer Verlag Magyar Modern: Hungarian Art in Berlin 1910–1933
Book SynopsisImportant artists of Hungarian Classical Modernism lived and worked temporarily on the Spree and were present in the Berlin avant-garde. The publication presents a brilliant overview of the close links between the culture of the Weimar Republic and the creative powers of Hungary, which ended with the seizure of power by the National Socialists. The city of Berlin has played a very special role in the history of Hungarian art and culture. Even before the First World War, the expanding metropolis provided artists with a stage for exhibitions in which they could present themselves within an international context. After the end of the political reshaping of Hungary through the Hungarian Soviet Republic and the victory of reactionary forces, from 1919 cosmopolitan Berlin became a place of creative freedom for Hungarian artists in exile. The result was a display of artistic fireworks that can now be explored in texts and images.
£38.40
Hirmer Verlag Art and Activism at Tougaloo College
Book SynopsisThis book spotlights a complex art collection established at the intersection of modern art and social justice. In 1963, as civil rights protests swirled across the fiercely segregated state, this historically Black college became an unlikely hub in Mississippi envisioned as “an interracial oasis in which the fine arts are the focus and magnet.” Since its founding in 1869 by the abolitionist-led American Missionary Association, Tougaloo College has made the fight for equality central to its mission. In 1963, Tougaloo became the nexus for modern art in Mississippi, when leaders of the New York art world began a rich program of art acquisitions. This publication features two essays and approximately thirty-five selections from this distinctive collection by diverse artists such as Francis Picabia, Jacob Lawrence, and Alma Thomas.
£22.46
Prestel UH-OH: Frances Stark, 1991-2015
Book SynopsisFrances Stark deftly deploys text, image and literary sources in her drawings, collages, paintings and video works that reflect on her roles as artist, mother, woman and teacher. Throughout her career she has experimented with alternative modes of expression, as in her critically acclaimed video, My Best Thing; her PowerPoint work Structures that fit my opening (and other parts considered in relation to their whole); and the performance Put a Song in Your Thing. Companion to an exhibition that documents Stark's 25-year long career, this book contains 125 works in which Stark employs words and images to create provocative and self-referential works that speak to the complexities of daily life. This book includes full-page detailed images that provide an insight into the highly tactile and complex nature of Stark's work. Also included are newly commissioned essays and a collection of brief reflections by a variety of prominent artists and writers whom Stark asked to revisit specific topics they've discussed or written about previously.Filled with high-quality reproductions and thoughtful commentary, this book is the definitive resource on Stark's accomplished, varied and affecting body of work. Published in association with Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
£28.00
Prestel Michelangelo and Beyond
Book SynopsisMichelangelo’s nude drawings are celebrated for their depiction of the heroic figure. Emanating exceptional strength, monumentality, and vigorous emotions, his nudes became the standard bearers for centuries of figure drawing. This book examines the legacy of that ideal, through highly engaging texts and luminous reproductions of drawings, prints, and sculptures. In addition to key works by Michelangelo—including drawings for the Sistine Chapel, the unfinished fresco of the Battle of Cascina, and the tomb of Pope Julius II—readers will discover works by Raphael, Dürer, Rembrandt, Rubens, Klimt, and Schiele. Each chapter highlights a significant aspect of Michelangelo’s ideal of the human body and investigates its influence and adaptation by his contemporaries and subsequent artists. Topics such as depictions of Adam and Eve, the Crucifixion and the Pietà, and motifs from mythology such as the Labors of Hercules; how Michelangelo’s methods were taught in art schools from the 17th to the 19th century; the emergence of woman as subject; and the decline of the idealized human figure during modernism. These side-by-side comparisons provide generous insights into how artists portrayed the human body—as a model of virtue and heroism, and as a conveyor of vice and fragility. Together these texts and examples provide the perfect resource for students of the human form and of the history of western art.
£36.00
Prestel Impressionism: The Hasso Plattner Collection
Book SynopsisDuring the 1860s, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley joined forces to revolutionize art with light- flooded landscapes that dispensed with the conventional imagery of the time. In 1874, with their penchant for working out of doors in order to capture fleeting sensory impressions directly on the canvas, they came to be known as the “Impressionists.” Berthe Morisot, Paul Cézanne, and Gustave Caillebotte became affiliated with the new tendency as well. More than a decade later, artists such as Paul Signac and Henri-Edmond Cross developed their pioneering ideas further, and in 1901, during his first year in Paris, the young Pablo Picasso too drew inspiration from the Impressionist style. No comparable collection provides such a comprehensive overview of Impressionist landscape painting and its development as the one assembled in recent decades by Hasso Plattner, founder of the Museum Barberini. On its basis, Ortrud Westheider, the director of the Museum Barberini, presents the history of French Impressionism. With its focus on the transitory moment, the artistry of the Impressionists continues to exert a powerful fascination. Guided by the interplay between light and atmosphere, they created exquisite and timeless images whose innovative spirit and vitality continue to delight viewers today.
£999.99
Prestel Munch in Dialogue
Book SynopsisWhile Munch's pessimistic, melancholy world view crucially defines our understanding of his work, many important postwar and contemporary artists have drawn inspiration from several aspects of his oeuvre. This richly illustrated book explores how seven such artists- Georg Baselitz, Miriam Cahn, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Tracey Emin, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol-engaged with Munch's work at different points in, or throughout, their careers. It features elaborate reproductions of sixty works by Munch juxtaposed with those inspired by him. Readers discover how Baselitz cunningly pays tribute to his artistic hero how Tracey Emin's practice, like Munch's, is autobiographical, both drawing from their personal torment to create their unnerving works ; how Marlene Dumas was drawn to the expressiveness of Munch's portraits; and how Peter Doig draws on Munch's radical treatment of pigments and materiality. Essays by leading scholars detail each artist's unique preoccupation with Munch and offer a focused exploration of the ways women artists in particular were inspired by his examinations of loneliness, fear, and trauma.
£38.25
Taschen GmbH Fashion History from the 18th to the 20th Century
Book SynopsisClothes define people. A person’s attire, whether it be a sari, kimono, or business suit, is an essential code to his or her culture, class, personality, even faith. Indeed, clothing has the power to define people and their generation. Recognizing this sartorial significance is the Kyoto Costume Institute, whose team of curators examine fashion through sociological, historical, and artistic perspectives. With one of the world’s most extensive clothing collections, the KCI has amassed a wide range of historical garments, including underwear, shoes, and fashion accessories dating from the 18th century to the present day. Showcasing the Institute’s vast collection, Fashion History is a fascinating excursion through clothing trends from the 18th to the 20th century. With photographs of clothing displayed on custom-made mannequins and commentary from some of the sharpest minds in fashion studies, the book is a testimony to attire as “an essential manifestation of our very being” and to the Institute’s passion for fashion as a complex and intricate art form.
£54.00
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Surrounded by Art: The Julius Baer Art Collection
Book SynopsisJulius Baer, established in Zurich in 1890, is the leading Swiss wealth management group and an icon of Swiss banking tradition. For nearly as long, the founder family has been engaged in supporting visual and performing arts and in 1981, on the initiative of Hans J. Bär (1927-2011), the company began to build its own collection of contemporary art, guided by a firm belief that art in a business environment enhances the culture of discussion and is inspirational to employees and clients alike. Today, the Julius Baer Art Collection comprises more than 5,000 works in a range of media painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and video-by Swiss artists, internationally renowned ones as well as emerging talents. This book offers a survey of the collection that is on rotating display at the bank's offices around the world and highlights its origins and development over the past four decades. Artistic positions of 35 contemporary Swiss artists, such as John M Armleder, Silvia Bächli, Miriam Cahn, Lutz & Guggisberg, Markus Raetz, Shirana Shahbazi, and Roman Signer, are introduced through brief texts and illustrated with some 300 works from the collection.Trade ReviewWon -- Most Beautiful German Books 2021 * Stiftung Buchkunst *
£999.99
Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Time Machine Malthus: A Berlin Collection
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£21.38
Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Austin Eddy: Immutable Traveller: Cat. Knust Kunz
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£19.88
Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Dagmar Varady: Expanded Studio
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£33.00
Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Josef Zekoff: Paradise: Cat. Cfa Contemporary
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£14.80
JRP Ringier A C.I.: Art Catalogue Index: Catalogues Raisonnes
Book SynopsisAn indispensable art historical reference in an easy-to-manage pocket-sized volume, Art Catalogue Index (A.C.I.) provides a comprehensive list of catalogues raisonn?s and information on artists born from 1780 to the present. Beginning in 1780--with the birth of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, who would be appointed, in 1834, as Director of the French Academy in Rome, in the wake of political turmoil resulting from the French Revolution of 1789 abolished the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, helping to usher in the Modern period--this concise and well-designed volume presents works in alphabetical order by artist and then by medium, facilitating clear and rapid access to information. The book is published by the independent Geneva consultants Blondeau Fine Art Services, which has a reference library of more than 10,000 titles, including over 500 catalogues raisonn?s, monographs and auction catalogues, and the French bookseller Thierry Meaudre.
£49.50
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig The New Infinity: Visuelle Kunst und Musik in
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£22.66
Seigensha Art Publishing Yokai Manga 1 - Parade of Monstrous Creatures
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£17.00
Rialta Ediciones Cuquita, la Muñeca Cubana
£22.50
Museum of Fine Art, Budapest / Hungarian National Gallery Munkacsy 180
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£35.00
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw Points of Convergence – Alternative Views on
Book SynopsisThanks to its very nature, performance enters into natural dialogue with art, new media, politics, and the social sphere as a whole. Always happening in the here and now, and with a unique freedom and openness to the unknown, performance is a medium with a special ability to question its own subjects, materials, and languages. As a result, it is often best reflected in the dynamic character of contemporary art and contemporaneity in the broadest sense of the word. Points of Convergence explores these ideas and investigates critical approaches to performance, ultimately aiming to stimulate new discussion between theorists and practitioners. With twelve essays by leading figures in the field of performance arts, this illustrated volume is structured in two parts. The first, authored by academics in the discipline, features an introduction to key areas of scholastic research. The second part, authored by curators and other researchers, then focuses on an account of individual traditions of performance. Taken together, the contributions identify new possibilities for interaction between the theoretical aspects of performance art and the ways performance plays out within local contexts.
£999.99
Turner Publicaciones, S.L. 100 Years Spanish Pavilion Venice Biennale,
Book Synopsis2022 marks the 100th anniversary of the construction of the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The work carried out in these hundred years has contributed to the construction and consolidation of the image of Spain as a cultural power in the international arena, projecting, in one of the best world artistic showcases, the excellence of Spanish contemporary art. In this first century of history, the Spanish Pavilion has seen different styles, evolutions and artistic changes pass through its walls, whose dynamics have been possible thanks to the work of the curators who promoted and continue to promote a “pluralism of voices” that characterises the essence of the Biennale. This book includes extensive graphic documentation that is the result of exhaustive research work. Never before has so much documentation of interest on the history of the building and the exhibitions that took place within its walls over these years been jointly published. Text in English and Spanish.Table of Contents Atxu Amann & Andrés Cánovas, One hundred years of the Spanish pavilion in Giardini di Venezia, just like that / Alberto Ruiz de Samaniego, Stones of Venice / Martí Manen, Exercises of balance. A pavilion in democracy / Rosa Martínez, In this city, incredible things happen / Cronology 1992-2022 / Catalogues / List of participants
£30.60
Louisiana The Moon: From Inner Worlds to Outer Space
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£25.20
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