Exhibition catalogues and specific collections Books
Cannibal/Hannibal Publishers Strook: Portraits
Book SynopsisThis is the first monograph on contemporary Belgian artist Stefaan De Croock (b.1982), alias Strook. He became well known for his ‘heads’ made of scrap wood. The key theme of his layered collages, sculptures and installations is, in a word, time, and is visible in every piece of the rough, patinated raw material he chooses to compose his works. Most frequently this is wood. “Old, weathered materials have something magical for me. They emanate a certain spontaneity that is impossible to recreate. The colours, the paint, the relief… they form an imprint of everything the material ever experienced. You can truly see time.” - Strook As part of the Mind the Artist project by Musea Brugge, work by Strook will be on show from 30 October 2021 to 6 March 2022 at various historic locations throughout the city. Text in English and Dutch.
£44.00
Cannibal/Hannibal Publishers KMSKA – The Finest Museum
Book SynopsisThe Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) has undergone an 11-year renovation period resulting in a total makeover. The museum as it stands today is in all respects new: there is an entirely new museum volume, the monumental museum building has been restored to its historic magnificence, the exterior has been conserved and the garden newly landscaped. KMSKA – The Finest Museum showcases this enormous renovation and also highlights a second innovation of equally massive scale: the entire operation of the museum has been brought up to date. In this book you can find the answers to questions such as, how did the collection reach its current incarnation? And, how does the KMSKA make its decisions about what to display? How do you appeal to as diverse an audience as possible? How does the museum present itself to the world? What expectations are museums faced with in our 21st century? Discover the vibrant history of this modern and perpetually evolving museum. With images by photographer Karin Borghouts. This publication is issued on the occasion of the reopening of the KMSKA in September 2022.
£37.50
Cannibal/Hannibal Publishers Werner Mantz: The Perfect Eye
Book SynopsisWerner Mantz (1901-1983) was a prominent architectural and industrial photographer who began his career in the 1920s. His work occupies a unique historical position thanks to his visual language, technical prowess and use of natural light. As one of the most important photographers of the New Building movement, Mantz’s oeuvre bridges the gap between the often-anonymous nature of commissioned photography and the modernist, artistic avant-garde movements of the interwar years, such as the Bauhaus. In the 1970s, Mantz was even hailed as the ‘missing link’ in the history of international photography. To date, only thematic selections from Mantz’s wide-ranging oeuvre have been exhibited. This monograph sets the record straight by showcasing, for the very first time, his immense versatility. Werner Mantz – The Perfect Eye contains over 300 predominantly vintage images, ranging from architectural photography, advertising shots and portraits of adults and children, to views of industry and mines, religious subjects, shops, restaurants and interiors, as well as roads, public spaces, landscapes and travel photographs. That Mantz’s oeuvre belongs to the canon of international photography is indisputable. With text contributions by Frits Gierstberg, Stijn Huijts, Huub Smeets, Charlotte Mantz and Clément Mantz. Werner Mantz – The Perfect Eye is the publication accompanying the retrospective exhibition of Werner Mantz at the Bonnefanten in Maastricht from 25 September 2022 to 26 February 2023.
£47.20
Cannibal/Hannibal Publishers A Story of Encounters
Book SynopsisThanks to its location between two continents, Georgia has traditionally formed a bridge between East and West. A Story of Encounters reflects the exceptional art, culture, and history of the country from the Neolithic to the 18th century. Especially in the golden age of united Georgia, between the 11th and 13th centuries, the country experienced an unprecedented cultural and economic boom.This book shows how the turbulent history and the many exchanges along the major trade and silk routes at this crossroads of Europe and Asia resulted in an unimaginably rich heritage, which has remained largely unexposed until now. Refined goldsmith's art from the Bronze Age, wine the country's oldest cultural asset and original visual arts: Georgia offers many unexpected treasures, which are shown in detail for the first time.
£32.00
Cannibal/Hannibal Publishers Reflections
Book SynopsisOf the more than 40,000 pieces that make up the Collection Flemish Community, only a small portion hangs in the halls of major museums. Most of the collection is out of sight of the general public.Reflections Views on the Collection Flemish Community reveals for the first time the result of years of collecting and unveils the diversity of art in Flanders. Masterpieces are placed alongside unknown treasures. Present and past are interwoven in marvellous combinations. The result is not only a feast for the eyes, but also offers a surprising insight into the multitude of ways in which one can look at art and demonstrates how unique the collection is.
£36.00
MER Paper Kunsthalle Performance as Archive: Archive as Performance
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£13.50
MER Paper Kunsthalle Alain Arais-Misson: From the Cutting-Floor of the
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£23.75
MER Paper Kunsthalle Instant Ruins
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£15.00
MER Paper Kunsthalle The Causes of Things: L'origine Des Choses - De
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£23.75
MER Paper Kunsthalle Epilogue: Postcards from the Future
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£19.00
MER Paper Kunsthalle Kurt Ryslavy: Flemish Art Assets
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£19.00
MER Paper Kunsthalle Zien, Doen, Denken: Jacques Ranciere en de
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£28.02
MER Paper Kunsthalle Mots et les Monnaies: De la Grece Ancienne a
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£53.55
Onomatopee Who Told You So?!
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£28.50
Onomatopee How to Act?
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£23.75
Onomatopee Let's Start Playing the Game!
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£15.00
MER Paper Kunsthalle Time Space Poker Face
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£19.00
MER Paper Kunsthalle The Making of Meeting
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£23.75
MER Paper Kunsthalle The Star Alphabet by E.L.T. Mesens: Dada and
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£37.05
MER Paper Kunsthalle L'alphabet d'Etoiles d' E.L.T. Mesens: Dada et le
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£58.50
MER Paper Kunsthalle More Light: The Fifth Moscow Biennale of
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£37.52
MER Paper Kunsthalle In Memory of the Exhibition: Published by: Mer.
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£11.78
MER Paper Kunsthalle Hommage
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£62.10
MER Paper Kunsthalle The Hooft Collection
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£28.02
MER Paper Kunsthalle Update 5: Technology as Context
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£27.55
MER Paper Kunsthalle Personally, I'm Most Interested in the Shapes and
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£23.75
Valiz The Painted Bird: Dreams and Nightmares of Europe
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£23.75
MER Paper Kunsthalle Museum
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£37.05
MER Paper Kunsthalle The Department of Subterranea
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£33.25
MER Paper Kunsthalle Fooling Utopia: Contour 7
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£19.00
Valiz Queer Exhibition Histories
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£23.75
Kontejner Touch Me Festival: Outinopen
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£19.00
Kontejner Device Art: 3.009
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£15.00
Kontejner Extravagant Bodies: Extravagant Minds
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£15.00
Kontejner Touch Me Festival: Energy Ab/Use
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£19.00
Kontejner Device Art: 4.012
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£19.00
Oxford University Press The Hunterian Museum University of Glasgow Part I
£109.25
British Academy Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Great Britain Aberdeen University Marischal Museum Collection
Book SynopsisThis volume makes available the fascinating yet under-publicised vases in the Marischal museum, University of Aberdeen. The range includes Attic black and red figure of extremely high quality, Etruscan bucchero, and South Italian red figure. A detailed introduction discusses the history of the acquisition of the collections, collection management and display.Trade Review[An] excellent addition to the series * K.W. Arafat, The Classical Review *...the CVA is an all important guide. * Michael M. Eisman and Keri Ecker, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
£65.00
Oxford University Press Grosvenor Museum Chester. Part II
£60.00
The University of Chicago Press The Way of the Shovel On the Archaeological
Book SynopsisA catalog that accompanies an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in the fall of 2013, in which, the author gathers a diverse range of international artists to explore the theme of melding archival and experiential modes of storytelling - what he calls "the archaeological imaginary" - particularly in the wake of 9/11.
£32.30
The University of Chicago Press 1971
Book SynopsisArt historian Darby English is celebrated for working against the grain and plumbing gaps in historical narratives. In this book, he explores the year 1971, when two exhibitions opened that brought modernist painting and sculpture into the burning heart of black cultural politics: Contemporary Black Artists in America, shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and The DeLuxe Show, an integrated abstract art exhibition presented in a renovated movie theater in a Houston ghetto.1971 takes an insightful look at many black artists' desire to gain freedom from overt racial representation, as well as their and their advocates' efforts to further that aim through public exhibitions. Amid calls to define a black aesthetic or otherwise settle the race question, these experiments with modernist art favored cultural interaction and instability. Contemporary Black Artists in America highlighted abstraction as a stance against normative approaches, while The DeLuxe Show positioned abstraction in
£33.25
The University of Chicago Press Outliers and American Vanguard Art
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£53.20
The University of Chicago Press Paris Primitive
Book SynopsisRecounts the massive reconfiguration of Paris' museum world that resulted from Jacques Chirac's dream, set against a backdrop of personal and national politics, intellectual life, and the role of culture in French society.Trade Review"Sally Price has a gift for capturing the tone and spirit with which people choose to represent themselves. This is a well-told story that represents a major contribution to the field and offers an accessible introduction to some key issues in museum politics." - Christopher B. Steiner, author of African Art in Transit"
£24.00
University of Illinois Press From Myth to Creation
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£21.59
University of Illinois Press Chicago New Media 19731992
Book SynopsisChicago New Media, 1973-1992 chronicles the unrecognized story of Chicago's contributions to new media art by artists at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Electronic Visualization Laboratory, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and at Midway and Bally games. It includes original scholarship of the prehistory, communities, and legacy of the city's new media output in the latter half of the twentieth century along with color plate images of video game artifacts, new media technologies, historical photographs, game stills, playable video game consoles, and virtual reality modules. The featured essay focuses on the career of programmer and artist Jamie Fenton, a key figure from the era, who connected new media, academia, and industry. This catalog is a companion to the exhibition Chicago New Media 1973-1992, curated by Jon Cates, and organized by Video Game Art Gallery in partnership with Gallery 400 and the Electronic Visualization Laboratory. It is part of Art Design Chicag
£15.19
Indiana University Press Frankenstein 200
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword: Cavendish's Daughters: Speculative Fiction and Women's History by Jonathan KearnsStitched and Bound by Love and Fear: Books, Monsters, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Rebecca BaumannCase 1: Mary Shelley and the Birth of FrankensteinCase 2: Mary and PercyCase 3: Mary Beyond FrankensteinCase 4: Mary's Father, William GodwinCase 5: Mary's Mother, Mary WollstonecraftCase 6: Mad ScienceCase 7: The GothicCase 8: The Monster's BooksCase 9: Victor Frankenstein's BooksCase 10: Frankenstein in Popular CultureCase 11: The UndeadCase 12: Artificial LifeCase 13: Adapting FrankensteinCase 14: Illustrating FrankensteinCase 15: Outsiders and OthersCase 16: More MonstersCase 17 and Case 18: Weird WomenBibliography
£17.99
University of Notre Dame Press SeventeenthCentury European Drawings in
Book SynopsisSeventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections: The Age of Bernini, Rembrandt, and Poussin brings together nearly two hundred treasures of the Baroque age from museum collections throughout the Midwest. The volume presents a fascinating and representative selection of Italian, Dutch, Flemish, and French drawings in Midwestern repositories, offering new insights on many of these works of art. Many are relatively unknown, and some have never before been published. Authored by major scholars in the field, the catalogue presents each drawing along with a concise description with full scholarly apparatus. Four essays, written by Babette Bohn, George S. Keyes, Kristi A. Nelson, and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., respectively, introduce the Italian, Dutch, Flemish, and French schools. The catalogue''s introductory essay, by Shelley Perlove, places these works within the historical, iconographic, and stylistic currents of seventeenth-century art. The catalogue is designed to hTrade Review"An energetic and talented team of the foremost American scholars of seventeenth-century European drawings have combined forces to produce a fascinating compendium for the Midwest Art History Society. In a breathtaking sweep through an abundance of Italian and Dutch drawings, to a more succinct representation of Flemish and French masterpieces, this volume offers a remarkable range of material and subjects from this dramatic era in European history. Interesting works of high quality capture the magic and energy of the Baroque, whether acknowledged gems or lesser-known treasures. In addition to the highly readable entries, there is a fascinating Introduction and overview by Shelley Perlove and rich and rewarding essays on the various schools by Babette Bohn (Italian), George Keyes (Dutch), Kristen Nelson (Flemish) and Alvin Clark (French). There are certain to be delightful surprises for even the most seasoned connoisseur." —Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Anne Vogt Fuller and Marion Titus Searle Chair and Curator, Department of Prints and Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago"This stunning book brings together more than one hundred drawings by major seventeenth-century artists selected from eighteen municipal and university museums in Midwestern collections. It shows how these museums contribute so much to the wealth of old master drawings in American collections. The Dutch, Flemish, French, and Italian drawings are discussed by seven well-known art historians and museum curators, illustrated in color, with additional text figures. The editors visited more than forty Midwestern collections to make their careful selections for this beautifully produced volume." —Anne-Marie Logan, independent scholar and specialist in northern European drawings“This catalogue . . . distills the Midwest’s surprisingly vast and varied inventory down to a manageable 109 drawings . . . this handsomely illustrated and thoroughly researched catalogue does these drawings justice.” —Sixteenth Century Journal“Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections: The Age of Bernini, Rembrandt, and Poussin highlights the surprising number of institutions throughout the Midwest that have acquired distinguished European drawings from the seventeenth-century worthy of full recognition by collectors and connoisseurs.”—The New York Review of Books.
£56.10
Yale University Press Stuart Davis
Book SynopsisStuart Davis (1892-1964) made a mark on the art world early in his career, first with his Ashcan works and then with his highly personal version of Cubism. This is a chronology of Davis' life, as well as a discussion of the compositional relationship between certain works spanning his oeuvre.
£999.99
