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  • Brand New

    Rizzoli International Publications Brand New

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    Book SynopsisAn eye-opening book about the 1980s New York art scene, its far-reaching effects on contemporary art, and the rise of some of the biggest names in the art world today. This groundbreaking book, accompanying a major exhibition at the Hirshhorn, tells the story of the evolution of New York’s downtown art scene in the 1980s—from a DIY counterculture in the East Village to a legitimate gallery business in SoHo. Coinciding with the rise of modern branding and the onset of the information age, artists’ focus on commodities and consumerism began as satire but came to be much more complex: commodities and associated phenomena, such as advertising, now served as vessels for ideas, politics, and personal relationships in “brand-new” types of painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and performance. In a book full of visual surprises, newly commissioned essays shed new light on this pivotal period: curator Gianni Jetzer provides a compre

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    £34.00

  • Black Refractions

    Rizzoli International Publications Black Refractions

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisAn authoritative guide to one of the world's most important collections of African-American art, with works by artists from Romare Bearden to Kehinde Wiley.The artists featured in Black Refractions, including Kerry James Marshall, Faith Ringgold, Nari Ward, Norman Lewis, Wangechi Mutu, and Lorna Simpson, are drawn from the renowned collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem. Through exhibitions, public programs, artist residencies, and bold acquisitions, this pioneering institution has served as a nexus for artists of African descent locally, nationally, and internationally since its founding in 1968. Rather than aim to construct a single history of black art, Black Refractions emphasizes a plurality of narratives and approaches, traced through 125 works in all media from the 1930s to the present.An essay by Connie Choi and entries by Eliza A. Butler, Akili Tommasino, Taylor Aldridge, Larry Ossei Mensah, Daniela Fifi , and other luminaries contextualTrade Review"Comprised of over one hundred works by nearly eighty artists across all media dating from the 1920s to the present, Black Refractions surverys close to a century of creative achievements by artists of African descent and is the first traveling exhibition in twenty-five years to reveal the breadth and expansive growth of the Studio Museum's permanent collection." — ARTFIXDAILY.com"The richly illustrated volume includes essays by Connie H. Choi and Kellie Jones; entries by a range of writers, curators and scholars (among them Lauren Haynes, Ashley James, Oluremi C. Onabanjo, Larry Ossei-Mensah and Hallie Ringle) who contextualize the works and provide detailed commentary; and a conversation among Choi, Thelma Golden, and Jones that draws out themes and challenges in collecting and exhibiting modern and contemporary art by artists of African descent." —CHARLESTON CHRONICLE"The touring exhibition Black Refractions is a comprehensive introduction into the broad repertoire of the collection at the Studio Museum of Harlem. From Malick Sidibe to Kerry James Marshall to the exquisite Barkley Hendrick’s Lawdy Mama featured on the book cover, the scale of the show is vast, yet not unwieldy. The accompanying book published by Rizzoli offers a notable dive into the museum’s history and status as one of the most exciting museums in today’s American artistic landscape." —TEETH MAGAZINE

    10 in stock

    £30.88

  • Jennifer Guidi Heliocentric

    Rizzoli Jennifer Guidi Heliocentric

    5 in stock

    Book SynopsisThis vibrant monograph commemorates Jennifer Guidi's first exhibition with Gagosian and her first in Asia.Jennifer Guidi's sand paintings mix oil paint with sand to create surfaces of color and texture. Evolving from her earlier figurative works, these abstract sand paintings evoke the traditions of landscape and naturalist painting. Accomplished by applying a thick layer of sand to the painted ground and then making precise marks while the sand is still wet, the paintings' luminous qualities and their textured relief register and generate minute shifts in perception, creating their own sense of ambient light. These physical and tactile emanations are based on her observations of light in Los Angeles, where she lives and works, and where hazy skies caused by the atmospheric conditions of the West Coast, as well as the city's man-made pollution, make for extra-brilliant sunsets.The fourteen paintings in the exhibition also include Guidi's first triangular-shaped c

    5 in stock

    £32.00

  • Prospect.5 New Orleans Yesterday we said tomorrow

    Rizzoli International Publications Prospect.5 New Orleans Yesterday we said tomorrow

    5 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe catalog accompanying the must-see triennial exhibition based in New Orleans—opening in October 2021—that art-world insiders consider an essential platform to see the pressing art of our moment. Prospect New Orleans is a citywide contemporary art triennial that was conceived in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Emphasizing collaborative partnerships and site-specificity, Prospect presents artwork by local, national, and international artists in both traditional and highly unexpected environments. In the 2021 iteration of this major exhibition, artistic directors Naima J. Keith and Diana Nawi bring together 51 artists to engage New Orleans as context as they reconsider the concept of history, both global and local. Through many artistic strategies, architectural interventions, and public activations, the exhibition explores current social and political conditions that ask for a reconsideration of the past.  The accompanying catalTrade Review"Best Design Books of Fall: Prospect.5, the New Orleans contemporary art triennial conceived in response to Hurricane Katrina, is celebrated in this catalog with essays by Naima J. Keith, Diana Nawi, and more." —ELLE DECOR

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    £36.00

  • Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg Florida

    Rizzoli International Publications Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg Florida

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    Book SynopsisHighlights from this small but exceedingly well-curated museum on the Gulf Coast of Florida, which boasts a world-class encyclopedic art and photography collection. The Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida, is a hidden gem, housing a well-respected and comprehensive art collection with more than 18,000 objects—a place where visitors can see a Monet, Vigée Le Brun, and a Tibetan Buddha from the fourteenth century all in one place. Founded by Margaret Acheson Stuart (1896–1980), the museum reflects her vision of providing outstanding examples of world art in an inviting, elegant setting. More than 200 works of art from all areas of the permanent collection are highlighted here, including examples by Morisot, Rodin, O’Keeffe, Kehinde Wiley, and Edward Steichen, as well as ancient Greek and Roman, Asian, African, Mesoamerican, and self-taught art, and decorative arts, including Tiffany glass. A special section is devot

    1 in stock

    £28.00

  • The Queens Pictures

    Rizzoli The Queens Pictures

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisThis tour-de-force of Britain’s Royal Collection provides a very rare opportunity to see an art trove not readily accessible to the world at large—most of the paintings are not normally available for public viewing, including several that have never been publicly exhibited since entering the collection.While it is known that the Crown has one of the world’s great collections of Leonardo’s, visitors to the Royal Academy’s recent Charles I exhibition were amazed by the richness of the Royal Collection and its many unseen works. This extraordinary volume reveals more of the unparalleled collection that is housed in thirteen historic royal residences, from Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, where the Royal Family regularly reside, to spaces specifically devoted to the public display of art, the Queen’s Gallery and Hampton Court Palace.It comprises more than a million objects, including 7,000 painting and 180,000 watercolors, draTrade Review"Even at 500 pages, the new illustrated book “The Queen’s Pictures” (Rizzoli Electa) can cover only a fraction of the million-plus artworks in Britain’s Royal Collection. (The book kept its planned title after the death of Elizabeth II last September.) “The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew” (circa 1602-4). . .has a Cinderella story. Acquired in the 17th century, it was long thought to be a copy of a lost original by Caravaggio. In 2006, scholars determined that it was the original, transforming it into a star of the collection." —WALL STREET JOURNAL

    15 in stock

    £52.50

  • Cocktails with a Curator

    Rizzoli International Publications Cocktails with a Curator

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisJoin the curators of the Frick as they present engaging histories of works of art paired with creatively inspired cocktails—a crash course in art history and a delightful introduction to the treasures of the esteemed New York collection.Based on the critically acclaimed video series of the same name, Cocktails with a Curator is a collection of lively and informative essays. Paintings, sculpture, furniture, and porcelain—from medieval times through the glorious Renaissance to the early twentieth century—are discussed for their exemplary status. The creators are some of the greatest artists and include Rembrandt, Vermeer, Whistler, Manet, Velázquez, and Veronese, and the stories (of both artists and subjects) are tantalizing. Cocktails, with recipes, are thematically paired with the works: a Jaded Countess (absinthe, vodka, lemon juice, and simple syrup) with Ingres’s portrait Comtesse d’Haussonville; a classic Pimm’

    15 in stock

    £23.96

  • Walter De Maria

    Rizzoli Walter De Maria

    5 in stock

    Book SynopsisThis landmark monograph is the first comprehensive survey of Walter De Maria’s exceptionally diverse and visionary art practice, providing an in-depth look at more than 200 works and presenting the first detailed chronology ever published.Although best known as a creator of seminal works of Land art, Walter De Maria also maintained an extensive and highly original practice as a sculptor, painter, draftsman, writer, filmmaker, and composer. This expansive publication presents more than 200 works created or envisioned by the artist from 1960 until his death in 2013. Each work is fully illustrated and accompanied by detailed text entries written by Elizabeth and Michael Childress, supplemented by archival images, many of which have never been published before.Essays by Michael Govan, Christine Mehring, and Lars Nittve provide detailed overviews and analyses of the early, middle, and later periods of De Maria’s production. The monograph also includes an i

    5 in stock

    £123.75

  • Diane Von Furstenberg Woman Before Fashion

    Rizzoli International Publications Diane Von Furstenberg Woman Before Fashion

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisA tribute to the creative vision and feminist philosophy of Diane Von Furstenberg and her eponymous brand, whose iconic wrap dress, created fifty years ago, remains a conduit of personal expression and self-empowerment for women across the globe.In 1972, Diane von Furstenberg created a chic and universally flattering ready-to-wear jersey wrap dress that launched her career and would forever change the landscape of women’s fashion. Since then DVF, the woman and the brand, have created designs that empower and promote a woman’s sense of self, weaving feminism and activism into the brand’s DNA.This visually vibrant tome, which accompanies an exhibition held in von Furstenberg’s hometown of Brussels, features nostalgic and contemporary photographs of her journey as a designer. Printed with three different luxe paper stocks withvarying inserts in each chapter, this book features beautiful graphicfabrics flooding each page, alongside numerous imTrade Review"The book features nostalgic and contemporary photographs of DVF's journey as a designer, featuring original essays discussing the intersection of DVF and her designs with feminism, gender politics and entrepreneurship. It also shows the wrap dress worn by DVF, and models such as Jerry Hall, Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford." —WOMEN'S WEAR DAILY"Fashion folklore credits the jersey wrap dress with freeing the modern woman from the ever-restrictive grasp of her assigned garb. Pulling the strings of that revolutionary style statement was none other than Diane von Furstenberg. DVF—both the woman and the brand—has always made a point to put women before fashion. It’s with that unique philosophy in mind that fellow Belgian Nicolas Lor, Head of Exhibitions and Publications at the Brussels Fashion & Lace Museum, has whipped up this effervescent tribute to the feminist tour de force that forever changed the landscape of women’s fashion. A celebration of craft or a retrospective on reform? Call it what you may. Diane Von Furstenberg: Woman Before Fashion is a lesson in fashion history." —V MAGAZINE

    15 in stock

    £44.00

  • Mirror Mirror

    Rizzoli International Publications Mirror Mirror

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe world’s most important contemporary designers showcase their work within the historic setting of Chatsworth House to shine light and spark conversation on the intriguing juxtaposition of the old and the new, the past and the future, and the evolution of design histories and practices.Chatsworth is an extraordinary environment to experience design: a repository for great works of fine and decorative art commissioned by generations of the Cavendish family for over four centuries. Expanding on the eponymous 2023 exhibition at Chatsworth, Mirror Mirror features the works of sixteen contemporary artists through captivating in-situ photography with accompanying artist biographies and essays that unearth how historic artifacts and environments inform and inspire modern artists'' practices today. This diverse group of artists includes Michael Anastassiades, Ini Archibong, Wendell Castle, Andile Dyalvane, Ndidi Ekubia, Najla El Zein, Formafantasma, Joris Laarman,

    15 in stock

    £34.00

  • Centenary Review

    Whitechapel Gallery Centenary Review

    5 in stock

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    5 in stock

    £6.05

  • Tobias Rehberger

    Whitechapel Gallery Tobias Rehberger

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    Book Synopsis

    5 in stock

    £16.99

  • Josiah McElheny The Past Was a Mirage Id Left Far

    Whitechapel Gallery Josiah McElheny The Past Was a Mirage Id Left Far

    5 in stock

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    5 in stock

    £16.96

  • Think Twice Twenty Years of Contemporary Art from

    Whitechapel Gallery Think Twice Twenty Years of Contemporary Art from

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    Book Synopsis

    5 in stock

    £16.11

  • Gerard Byrne A State of Neutral Pleasure

    Whitechapel Gallery Gerard Byrne A State of Neutral Pleasure

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    £32.13

  • Jasper Johns Shadow and Substance

    Whitechapel Gallery Jasper Johns Shadow and Substance

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    5 in stock

    £16.96

  • The Best is Not Too Good for You

    Whitechapel Gallery The Best is Not Too Good for You

    5 in stock

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    5 in stock

    £13.46

  • Mary Heilmann Looking at Pictures

    Whitechapel Gallery Mary Heilmann Looking at Pictures

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    £28.00

  • Ulla von Brandenburg Sweets Quilts Sun Works

    Whitechapel Gallery Ulla von Brandenburg Sweets Quilts Sun Works

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    Book SynopsisUlla von Brandenburg, who lives and works in Paris, is one of the most innovative contemporary artists in France, whose multifaceted practice includes black-and-white film, installation, performance, drawing and painting. Her work explores approaches to theatre and the stage, and uses rules of performance to engage with moments in history through stories, rituals and symbols.

    1 in stock

    £22.40

  • Is This Tomorrow

    Whitechapel Gallery Is This Tomorrow

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    Book Synopsis

    5 in stock

    £19.99

  • Enrique VilaMatas Cabinet dAmateur an Oblique

    Whitechapel Gallery Enrique VilaMatas Cabinet dAmateur an Oblique

    15 in stock

    Book Synopsis

    15 in stock

    £13.49

  • Maria Fusco Nine Qwerty Bells Fiction for Live

    Whitechapel Gallery Maria Fusco Nine Qwerty Bells Fiction for Live

    5 in stock

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    5 in stock

    £13.49

  • Tom McCarthy Empty House of the Stare

    Whitechapel Gallery Tom McCarthy Empty House of the Stare

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    5 in stock

    £13.49

  • In the Eye of Bambi

    Whitechapel Gallery In the Eye of Bambi

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    Book SynopsisValeria Luiselli (b. Mexico City, 1983) lives in New York. She has written for The New York Times, McSweeney's, Dazed & Confused and Granta, and her published books include the novels Faces in the Crowd (2012), The Story of My Teeth (2015) and Lost Children Archive (2019), and a collection of essays: Sidewalks (2013). Luiselli received a National Book Foundation 5 under 35' award in 2014, and teaches literature and creative writing at Hofstra University, New York.

    5 in stock

    £13.49

  • Fifty Years of Art The Hiscox Collection 19702020

    Whitechapel Gallery Fifty Years of Art The Hiscox Collection 19702020

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisWhitney Hintz is Curator of the Hiscox Collection. Laura Smith is Curator at Whitechapel Gallery

    15 in stock

    £28.00

  • Theaster Gates A Clay Sermon

    Whitechapel Gallery Theaster Gates A Clay Sermon

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe artist as activist, archivist, pedagogue, urban planner and maker: on the multifarious activities of Theaster Gates This publication accompanies a major new Theaster Gates exhibition at London?s Whitechapel Gallery, focusing on his clay-based work.The transformation of clay?from geological substance into utilitarian and artistic material?is the basis for much of Gates'' art and a powerful metaphor for his socially engaged work. Using his hands and his imagination, Gates reworks and revitalizes found objects, musical traditions, archive and library holdings and derelict buildings, giving them new form, meaning and purpose.Fully illustrated with examples of pottery, sculptures, installations, films and archive materials, the book also documents a new film by Gates and features essays from leading craft historians and writers. This in-depth exploration of Gates'' work is especially timely as a new generation seeks to synthesize making, identity and activism.Theaster Gates (born 1973) lives and works in Chicago, and is a professor at the University of Chicago. He has had solo shows at Gagosian (2020) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2013). His work can be found in public collections worldwide, including the Menil Collection, Houston; the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; the National Gallery of Canada, Ontario; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Tate, London; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

    15 in stock

    £36.00

  • A Century of the Artists Studio 19202020

    Whitechapel Gallery A Century of the Artists Studio 19202020

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    £22.50

  • The Travel Bureau Paulina Olowska selects from

    Whitechapel Gallery The Travel Bureau Paulina Olowska selects from

    5 in stock

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    5 in stock

    £11.69

  • The Unseen Hurvin Anderson selects from the

    Whitechapel Gallery The Unseen Hurvin Anderson selects from the

    1 in stock

    Book Synopsis

    1 in stock

    £11.69

  • Zadie Xa House Gods Animals Guides and Five Ways

    Whitechapel Gallery Zadie Xa House Gods Animals Guides and Five Ways

    5 in stock

    Book SynopsisZadie Xa (b.1983) is a Korean-Canadian artist whose work investigates issues of belonging and identity, drawing influence from both the fantasy and the lived experience within the Korean diaspora through film and performance, sculptural installation, textiles and painting. Xa's brand new commission for Whitechapel Gallery will be an immersive experience informed by her ongoing engagement with indigenous histories and oral histories of the spirit world, and particularly those of local East London legends of apparitions and spectres.

    5 in stock

    £19.99

  • Moving Bodies Moving Images

    Whitechapel Gallery Moving Bodies Moving Images

    15 in stock

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    15 in stock

    £19.99

  • Life Is More Important Than Art

    Whitechapel Gallery Life Is More Important Than Art

    5 in stock

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    5 in stock

    £13.50

  • Andrew Pierre Hart BioData Flows and Other

    Whitechapel Gallery Andrew Pierre Hart BioData Flows and Other

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisHart uses musical techniques to create a multimedia ambient environment evoking the history of Whitechapel Both a visual artist and an electronic music producer, Andrew Pierre Hart explores the interrelationship between sound and painting. His latest installation at London?s Whitechapel Gallery features colorful paintings, a collaborative mural, a bamboo sculpture and video of a dance performance.

    15 in stock

    £13.50

  • Whitechapel Gallery Lygia Clark x Sonia Boyce

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    15 in stock

    £23.99

  • Art of the Renaissance Bronze 15001650 The Robert

    Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd Art of the Renaissance Bronze 15001650 The Robert

    5 in stock

    Book SynopsisThis new and extended version of the first edition retains the entries written by Anthony Radcliffe with a few additions or corrections, and an entry that he drafted on the miniature cannon signed by Orazio Antonio Alberghetti has also been incorporated.Trade ReviewAntiques Magazine, 11th June 2005: 'Those who own the first edition will be itching to get their hands on this update.' 'This far reaching and comprehensive survey.' 'Perhaps the highpoint for catalogues of private collections of paintings and works of art was reached in the decades around the turn of the twentieth century... although a very different sort of book, this new catalogue... sits firmly within that tradition.' - Burlington MagazineTable of ContentsForeword Preface Introduction Acknowledgements Part One: Bronze Objects Made for Use Part Two: The Revival of the Antique Bronze Statuette Part Three: New Developments in Venice Part Four: New Developments in Florence and North of the Alps Part Five: Small Bronzes By and After Giambologna Part Six: Barthélemy Prieur Part Seven: Florentine Seventeenth-Century Bronzes Interpreting the Bronzes: A Technical View by Shelley Sturman Bibliography Abbreviations

    5 in stock

    £71.25

  • Kandinsky Drawings Catalogue Raisonnesketchbooks

    Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd Kandinsky Drawings Catalogue Raisonnesketchbooks

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisVasily Kandinsky was born in Moscow in 1866 and, at the age of thirty, decided to study painting in Munich. He moved to Paris in 1934 and continued to draw and paint until his death in 1944. This volume catalogue raisonne of Kandinsky's drawings publishes many drawings and presents insights into the artist's creative process.Trade Review'If writing art history can be scientific, this is an excellent model... It is an achievement which sponsors, museums, collectors, salerooms and scholars will celebrate.' John Milner, The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPreface Personal Perspectives: Kandinsky's Sketchbooks, 1889-1943 Brief Biography Explanatory Notes CATALOGUE RAISONNE Addendum Appendix I Decorative Arts Appendix II Works included but not illustrated in the Kandinsky Catalogues Raisonnes of Oil Paintings and Watercolors Select Bibliography Kandinsky Exhibitions Photographic Acknowledgements Index

    1 in stock

    £150.00

  • A Rothschild Renaissance

    British Museum Press A Rothschild Renaissance

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    Book SynopsisPresents the findings from new specialist studies of the Waddesdon Bequest, a collection of nearly 300 objects from the New Smoking Room at Waddesdon Manor, bequeathed to the British Museum in 1898 by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild.

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    £63.04

  • Charles Masson Collections from Begram and Kabul

    British Museum Press Charles Masson Collections from Begram and Kabul

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    Book SynopsisThe book discusses and catalogues Charles Masson's 18338 collections from the urban site of Begram and Kabul bazaar now in the British Museum, supplemented by illustrated coins recorded in Masson's archival manuscripts and in H.H. Wilson, but no longer in the collection.

    1 in stock

    £36.00

  • Rembrandt Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age

    Saqi Books Rembrandt Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisA beautifully produced catalogue of the Louvre Abu Dhabi exhibition, it includes over 100 artworks by Rembrandt and other key Dutch artists, and texts by key curators in the field

    15 in stock

    £26.25

  • Rembrandt Vermeer et le siecle dor hollandais

    Saqi Books Rembrandt Vermeer et le siecle dor hollandais

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisA beautifully produced catalogue of the Louvre Abu Dhabi exhibition, it includes over 100 artworks by Rembrandt and other key Dutch artists, and texts by key curators in the field.

    15 in stock

    £26.25

  • Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery

    Goose Lane Editions Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery

    1 in stock

    Book Synopsis

    1 in stock

    £144.74

  • Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery

    Goose Lane Editions Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisTrade Review"Masterworks is a long overdue tribute to the incredible range and depth of Lord Beaverbrook's collection, amassed over his lifetime in England and worldwide." -- John K. Grande * Vie des Arts *

    2 in stock

    £40.00

  • John Greer

    Goose Lane Editions John Greer

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisA man in a darkened workshop, surrounded and obscured by dust clouds. A pair of larger-than-life hands, holding a mallet, ready to strike. Spectacles that play with the idea of turning lies into truth and cynics into believers. A cinder block, precariously suspended above a fragile glass, held in place by a single line of tension. Welcome to John Greer: retroActive.Sculptor, conceptual artist, and unconventional art maker John Greer has been telling stories through his work for more than fifty years. Drawing on his present and past experiences, his travels and exploits, and his anxieties and fears, his work offers poignant meditations on the human environment, all the while challenging the viewer''s perspective with humour, intelligence, and a trail of narrative.RetroActive offers a comprehensive view of Greer''s work and his commitment to the discourse of sculpture. Stunningly designed by Susanne Schaal and featuring the photographs of Raoul Manuel Schnell, the book contains more than three hundred representations of Greer and his work - in situ, in galleries, in process - bringing into focus Greer''s significant contributions to the world of art and ideas. Also included in the book are essays by Ray Cronin, Andria Minicucci, Dennis Reid, Ron Shuebrook, David Diviney, Sarah Fillmore, and Vanessa Paschakarnis.John Greer taught at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design for almost three decades, where his thinking and teaching helped shape contemporary sculpture in Canada. His work has been included in more than fifty solo and sixty group exhibitions and is held in public and private collections around the globe. In 2009 Greer was the recipient of the Governor General''s Award in Visual and Media Arts, Canada''s highest distinction in the field of art and culture.

    2 in stock

    £40.00

  • Lucy Jarvis Even Stones Have Life

    Goose Lane Editions Lucy Jarvis Even Stones Have Life

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisTrade Review"Jarvis’s willingness to push her art, to seek out new experiences and challenges even well into her 80s, is inspirational. Her full-hearted embrace of life, and of its often stony paths, is perhaps the thing one takes awake most clearly from Rosenfeld’s book." -- Ray Cronin * Atlantic Books Today *"There are those rare, impressive individuals who give both time and passion to encouraging society’s appreciation of the arts. Lucy Jarvis was one such person. Author Roslyn Rosenfeld’s smooth, readable prose perfectly accompanies Jarvis’ luminous art pieces, which imbue their subjects with intensity and a rugged, tangible presence." * Scene *

    1 in stock

    £29.74

  • Mary Pratt

    Goose Lane Editions Mary Pratt

    3 in stock

    Book SynopsisTrade Review"The light in Pratt's paintings seems sentient, a living thing, a pulsation or emission, imbuing the paintings with an erotic and almost mystical desire." -- Canadian Art

    3 in stock

    £24.79

  • Higher States

    Goose Lane Editions Higher States

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisLawren S. Harris is best known for his iconic landscape paintings that declare a sense of cool Canadian resilience. Yet, in the 1920s, an audacious and more colourful interior world began to emerge in his work, and by 1934, the patriotic landscape painter had taken a seemingly unexpected turn toward a transnational career in abstract painting. The social, intellectual, and aesthetic milieu of American transcendentalism shaped a movement of abstract art across North America, seen in the paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, Katherine Dreier, Raymond Jonson, and Lawren Harris. Harris, in particular, made an impact on both sides of the border. Inspired by the ideas of Kandinsky and informed by the writings of Emerson and Whitman, Harris and his contemporaries turned to abstraction to express higher states of consciousness, creating work that was the very embodiment of the modern spirit. As Harris's career progressed, as he ascended from mountaintops to innerTrade Review"Sets Harris within the fuller North American story, teasing out further complexities. ... This move is all to the good; the argument has now been irrefutably made regarding Harris’s connection to the abstract trends of his time on both sides of the border." * Literary Review of Canada *"An extraordinary, comprehensive, and beautifully illustrated history of a major Canadian painter and unreservedly recommended." * Midwest Book Review *"Higher States is about Harris, but it’s also about us: A selective myth countered by a fuller version of perhaps our best-loved artistic icon, whose complications are often left in the margins in the service of promoting simplified patriotism." * Toronto Star *

    2 in stock

    £33.14

  • Sakkijâjuk

    Goose Lane Editions Sakkijâjuk

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisWinner, 2018 Canadian Museums Association Award of Outstanding Achievement in EducationShortlisted, 2018 Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association Best Atlantic Published Book AwardNunatsiavut, the Inuit region of Canada that achieved self-government in 2005, produces art that is distinct within the world of Canadian and circumpolar Inuit art. The world''s most southerly population of Inuit, the coastal people of Nunatsiavut have always lived both above and below the tree line, and Inuit artists and craftspeople from Nunatsiavut have had access to a diverse range of Arctic and Subarctic flora and fauna, from which they have produced a stunningly diverse range of work. Artists from the territory have traditionally used stone and woods for carving; fur, hide, and sealskin for wearable art; and saltwater seagrass for basketry, as well as wool, metal, cloth, beads, and paper. In recent decades, they have produced work in a variety of contemporary art mTrade Review"SakKijâjuk marks a major historical moment in which we have the privilege of participating, should we have the ability to see and to recognize it." * Border Crossings *

    2 in stock

    £29.74

  • SakKijjuk Art et artisanat du Nunatsiavut

    Goose Lane Editions SakKijjuk Art et artisanat du Nunatsiavut

    2 in stock

    Book Synopsis

    2 in stock

    £29.74

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