Exhibition catalogues and specific collections Books
Oratia Media Te Ara: Maori Pathways of Leadership
Book SynopsisFrom one of the leading Māori scholars of his generation and one of our greatest photographers comes this beautifully illustrated work that serves as a fine overview of leadership and challenges for Māori today. After a general introduction to Māori history, Te Ara focuses on the stories of iwi in five regions -- Hokianga, Peowhairangi (Bay of Islands) Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland), Waiariki (Rotorua-Taupo) and Murihiku (Otago-Southland). This trilingual publication -- in Māori, English and German -- will be of value for general readers, visitors, students of Māori and exhibition goers.
£14.39
Art Gallery of Ontario House Guests: The Grange, 1817 to Today
Book SynopsisBuilt by the Boulton family between 1817 and 1820, the Grange is Toronto''s oldest remaining brick house. During the nineteenth century, the Grange was at the centre of the city''s social and political activity. Today, with its collection of furniture, artifacts, and art, it is an historic house museum and part of the Art Gallery of Ontario. In her fascinating essay, award-winning Canadian historian Charlotte Gray brings to life the saga of the Grange, the home of the Boultons and of Goldwin Smith in the 19th century. Devoting as much attention to the formidable women who ran the household as to the men who were key figures in the development of the city, she offers a fascinating portrait of a place and a time. Complementing Gray''s essay are shorter essays and reproductions of works commissioned from artists Rebecca Belmore, Luis Jacob, Elizabeth LeMoine, Josiah McElheny, Elaine Reichek, and Christy Thompson that offer inventive responses to a complicated past.
£21.59
Art Gallery of Ontario Julian Schnabel: Art and Film
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£24.29
Art Gallery of Ontario Sorel Etrog: Five Decades
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£22.94
Art Gallery of Ontario Every. Now. Then.: Reframing Nationhood
Book SynopsisEvery. Now. Then: Rethinking Nationhood embraces the fundamental belief that Canada is a dynamic work-in-progress that has, is, and will continue to be defined by movements and migrations across shifting terrain and within a variable, often unstable, environment. As cultural space, political state, ecosystem, and geography, the space of Canada (even over its short history) has been a place of shifting borders and boundaries; a place constantly being reimagined and redefined. Every. Now. Then. starts from the position that the land known as Canada is Indigenous territory. It emphasizes Indigenous perspectives along with Black viewpoints and a diversity of voices offering distinct approaches to history, time, and narrative. It includes reproductions of extraordinary works by more than two dozen talented artists as well as writings by Quill Christie-Peters, Rachelle Dickenson, Anique Jordan, Srimoyee Mitra, Charmaine A. Nelson, and Rosie Spooner that consider a past we cannot lose, of a present we must comprehend, and of a future to which we must be accountable.
£17.99
Black Dog Press Introducing Suzy Lake
Book SynopsisSuzy Lake has been examining and critiquing ideals of the body, gender, and identity since the late 1960s. In her photographs, videos, and performances, she draws attention to social norms and constraints and aims to diminish the barrier between the viewer and the artwork. Introducing Suzy Lake follows the artist in images across five decades, as her political ideals are forged in Detroit’s civil rights movement in the late 1960s; as she realizes her first successes in Montreal’s artist-led cultural boom of the 1970s in the post-Expo 67, post-Duplessis era; and since 1978 in Toronto, as she finds her home and hones her artistic vision. Influenced by artists such as Cindy Sherman, Lake’s work demonstrates the innovation and continued influence of the “Feminist Avant-Garde” on contemporary art. Introducing Suzy Lake features almost 100 reproductions of Lake’s photographs, some drawn from celebrated installations, others from newly commissioned series. Complemented by essays by Allyson Mitchell, Robert Longo, Elizabeth Smith, Michelle Jacques, and Sara Angel, Introducing Suzy Lake reveals the richness and originality of Lake’s work and her stature as one of North America’s most influential contemporary artists.
£22.46
Sansom & Co Air: Visualising the Invisible in British Art 1768-2017
Book SynopsisAir explores the tradition in British art of finding inspiration in the air around us and skies above us. The book weaves its way through British art. Contemporary work introduces new environmental issues to the narrative.
£22.50
MACK Face to Face: Portraits of Artists by Tacita
Book SynopsisFace to Face presents a selection of portraits of artists by three of the most prominent portrait artists of our time. Bringing together the diverse and distinctive work of Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe, and Catherine Opie, this book forms an investigation into the charged genre of portraiture and its various approaches, navigating tensions between intimacy and publicity. While the three artists collected here share a wide set of historical touchstones, each deploys the camera differently: Dean exploits cinema's capacity for duration; Lacombe takes her cameras out on assignment; Opie works in the tradition of the studio photograph. Often overlapping in the subjects depicted, Face to Face offers an opportunity to look closely at bracing, intimate, and resonant portraits of the seminal thinkers and makers that these artists have encountered across the fields of music, painting, photography, film, and literature, among them Hilton Als, Maya Angelou, Richard Avedon, Joan Didion, David Hockney, Joan Jonas, Fran Lebowitz Patti Smith, Kara Walker, and many others. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the International Center of Photography (ICP), New York, the book includes essays by the exhibition's curator, Helen Molesworth, and the artist and writer Jarrett Earnest
£33.25
Pariah Press Gods Fox II
£26.99
Monash University Publishing Thin Skin
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£29.69
Glitterati Inc ARTfolio2020: A Curated Collection of the World's
Book SynopsisArtfolio2020 is a publication of the best in abstract and contemporary work as decided by a jury of distinguished professional artists, museum curators, gallery owners, art consultants and collectors. Editor Douglas King, as a gallery-represented artist himself, has a deep desire to see the work of talented artists receive the attention they deserve. He knows the struggle of breaking into the 'art world' of galleries, exhibits, juried shows, and the popular art scene. With the mission in mind to provide exposure for artists to an international audience, King has created this premier annual, Artfolio2020, to provide for the art community a publication that can finally shine a light and acknowledge artists whose work is unique and deserves to be recognised and rewarded. For the first time, in some cases, the work of these talents will be in the hands of hundreds of gallery owners, art curators, and the art-loving public.
£34.50
Jean Boite editions New Art Scales: Rethinking Local in a Global Art
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£33.25
Kerber Verlag Creatures Made to Measure: Animals and
Book Synopsis'Real' animals are increasingly disappearing. Today, animals are 'optimised' almost entirely based on the ideas of people: they are created in the laboratory, bred as organ donors, and their flesh is grown in petri dishes. How are common perceptions of animals changing as a result? The designers and artists in the publication go on a search for the 'right degree' in designing such creatures. They delve through the possibilities of the human-animal relationship and design scenarios for a different future. Artists: Martin Avila, BLESS, Melanie Bonajo, The Center for Genomic Gastronomy, Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell, Center for PostNatural History, Marcus Coates, Thalia de Jong, Aleksandra Domanovic, Konstantin Grcic, Christine Herdin/Katharina Wahl, Max Kosoric/Sanne Pawelzyk, Silvia Knüppel, Dietrich Luft, Christien Meindertsma, Next Nature Network, Ana Rajcevic, Veronica Ranner, Peter Schäfer, Johanna Schmeer, Susana Soares, Sputniko, ThreeASFOUR, Thomas Thwaites, Marije Vogelzang, Pinar Yoldas. Text in English and German.
£11.25
Hatje Cantz ESCH 2022 Ars Electronica: IN TRANSFER: A New
Book SynopsisFocussing on the potentials of creative and artistic thinking in scientific research as well as industrial production, the exhibition shows how collaborations between art and science can substantially support the creation of innovative, sustainable and ethical solutions to the struggles and issues of contemporary societies. Conceived in collaboration with Ars Electronica, international platform and eponymous festival pioneering in the development of strategies and competencies for the Digital Transformation, the exhibition is curated by Martin Honzik, chief curator at Ars Electronica and Laura Welzenbach, Head of Ars Electronica Export.
£22.40
Hatje Cantz Gormley / Lehmbruck (Bilingual editon): Calling
Book SynopsisInternationally renowned as one of the most significant and influential sculptors working today, Gormley has long expressed his admiration and interest in the works of German sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck for their inwardness, sense of poise and calm, and their reflexive potential. Calling on the Body has been conceived as a dialog between the two artists, showcasing key works created almost a century apart. It includes a selection of works spanning the breadth of Gormley’s practice: from his seminal early lead works, to Drift VI, a seemingly weightless bundle of nothing, abandoning mass and dissolving surface, and his more recent Slabwork series that despite its abstraction conveys a sense of vulnerability and exposure. This richly illustrated catalogue illuminates Gormley’s working process and his models. A conversation with the artist offers insights into his way of thinking and working as well as the value of sculpture in our society.
£999.99
DOM Publishers Imprint of the Future: Destiny of Piranesi's City
Book SynopsisRussian architect and draughtsman Sergei Tchoban has always striven to understand the laws which govern the development of cities such as his native St Petersburg and the great prototypes in whose image it was created. But is it possible to preserve such cities’ outstanding quality today? Can we pursue this quality now, at the current stage of development of architecture? This catalogue poses these central questions. It accompanies an exhibition of Tchoban’s work at the Istituto Centrale per la Grafica in Rome, scheduled to take place from October 2020 to January 2021. It also marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Tschoban inserts emphatically futuristic structures into the Italian artist’s eighteenth-century Roman street scenes. Do such works constitute ruined masterpieces or imprints of the future? Is harmony being destroyed or is a fundamentally new type of harmony being created? Tchoban believes that a similar transformation of the European city has been happening for at least a century and that society must finally work out how to relate to this process. Essentially, Piranesi’s true legacy is a call to an honest conversation regarding the layers and parts that constitute the European city as both a highly important piece of our heritage and a space for future development.
£38.00
Edition Axel Menges Dear Diary / Liebes Tagebuch
Book SynopsisText in English and German. The narrowest building in Cologne is the office of the advertising agency rendel & spitz. Once a year, during the 'Passagen', the offsite- programme of the international furniture fair in Cologne, the office is turned into an exhibition space: It serves as a stage for an installation of a chosen designer. In 2005 there was no exhibition. The accompanying book to the exhibition that never took place contained only empty pages. Just as in previous years, the book was sent out to designers, architects, artists, journalists and friends. One of the recipients then asked rendel & spitz whether he was supposed to fill the empty pages and sent the book back. An idea was born: each recipient was asked to lend his (used) book for the 2006 exhibition 'Dear Diary / Liebes Tagebuch'. The result is a collection of private notes, sketches, photographs, collages, and objects. The accompanying book shows a synopsis of the contributions, which in some cases are very personal. In addition to the book, there is a CD-ROM with the complete contents of each book that was contributed.
£12.26
State Hermitage Museum Publications Netsuke: A miniature sculpture of Japan from
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£49.50
Dirimart Peter Zimmermann: Next of Kin and Chrome
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£17.10
Dirimart Herman Nitsch
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£17.10
Dirimart Ozcan Kaplan: Chats With Mouth Shut...
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£17.10
Dirimart Mirror
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£20.90
Dirimart Come On!: Franz Ackermann
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£20.90
Dirimart Abidin Elderoglu in the Adventure of Turkish
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£81.00
Dirimart Bernard Frize: Togetherless
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£17.10
Dirimart Nasan Tur: Splinter In My Eye No Surrender
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£22.80
Dirimart Jorinde Voigt: Infinite Rhythm
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£19.00
Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Jewels on the Crescent the Chatrapati Shivaji
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£39.90
Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Treasures of the Albert Hall Museum, Jaipur
Book SynopsisSome of the best artworks and architectural features of the museum are produced in this book along with concise text.
£21.85
Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Mastering the Lens Before & After Cartier-Bresson
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£23.75
Museu D'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) Joan Jonas Timelines
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£19.76
Museu D'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) Asier Mendizabal
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£25.16
Museu D'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) Lothar Baumgarten Autofocus retina
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£34.20
Museu D'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) Alice Creischer
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£24.26
Museu D'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) THOMAS BAYRLE LVE A FEELING RERE NOT IN KANSAS
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£24.26
Museu D'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) Public Photographic Spaces
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£45.86
Museu D'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) RELATIONAL OBJECTS
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£23.40
STAR BOOK SALES Sous nos yeux
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£18.00
Museu D'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) Hard Gelatin: Hidden Stories From the 80's
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£15.20
Museu D'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) Akram Zaatari: Against Photography
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£29.66
Museu D'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) Domènec: Not Here , Not Anywhere
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£20.25
Museu D'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) Melanie Smith: Farce and Artifice
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£29.25
Museum Tusculanum Press Chachapoya Textiles: The Laguna de los Cndores
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£36.54
ListLab In Balance: Taiwan - Sicilia
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£18.05
Mousse Publishing Tom Wesselmann: La Promesse Du Bonheur
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£45.00
Mousse Publishing Uncombed, Unforeseen, Unconstrained
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£28.50
Mousse Publishing Penumbra: Fondazione in Between Art Film
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£28.50
Mousse Publishing Afterimage
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£21.85
